skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's certainly some aspect of that going on, but I think mainly it's just notable when you write something in a programming language that is relatively new.

Does it matter? In theory no, since you can write pretty much anything in pretty much any language. In practice... It's not quite that black and white. Some programming languages have better tooling than others; like, if a project is written in pure Go, it's going to be a shitload easier to cross compile than a C++ project in most cases. A memory-safe programming language like Go or Rust will tell you about the likely characteristics of the program: the bugs are not likely to be memory or stack corruption bugs since most of the code can't really do that. A GC'd language like Go or Java will tell you that the program will not be ideal for very low latency requirements, most likely. Some languages, like Python, are languages that many would consider easy to hack on, but on the other hand a program written in Python probably doesn't have the best performance characteristics, because CPython is not the fastest interpreter. The discipline that is encouraged by some software ecosystems will also play a role in the quality of software; let's be honest, everyone knows that you CAN write quality software in PHP, but the fact that it isn't easy certainly says something. There's nothing wrong with Erlang but you may need to learn about deploying BEAM in production before actually using Erlang software, since it has its own unique quirks.

And this is all predicated on the idea that nobody ever introduces a project as being "written in C." While it's definitely less common, you definitely do see projects that do this. Generally the programming language is more of a focus for projects that are earlier in their life and not as refined as finished products. I think one reason why it was less common in the past is because writing that something is written in C would just be weird. Of course it's written in C, why would anyone assume otherwise? It would be a lot more notable, at that point, if it wasn't.

I get why people look at this in a cynical way but I think the cynical outlook is only part of the story. In actuality, you do get some useful information sometimes out of knowing what language something is written in.
This cannot work: the power balance doesn't close for a 25 MWe tokamak. Otherwise people would have made plans to build one already. Tokamaks want to be big for physics reasons, way before economics reasons. This is part of why DEMO is so big. If ARC could be any smaller it would be.
Archive.Today to the rescue: https://archive.today/IAwB0
Make sure the third party build you choose doesn't use official Firefox branding too.
> Red Hat is still quasi-independent. Still lots of changes (probably most notably because of a lot of growth) but strategic Red Hat areas still seem to be pretty independent.

Still broadly correct.
> Democratic governments start good, then, operate through the only hammer they have: legislation.

As opposed to other forms of government that somehow have other tools???

> After a few decades, there are more things one cannot do than can do without lawyers, committees and councils breathing down your neck.

1. We have more freedom now than 200 years ago.

2. "Having lawyers breathing down your neck" is invariant with respect to the amount of freedom we have.
There are a lot of non devs here ... a lot.

We just let the kiddies crack on and widdle in public but we are still here!
Maybe OP is trans
I'm not saying there's been no improvement at all. I personally wouldn't categorize it as staggering, but we can agree to disagree on that.

I find the improvements to be uneven in the sense that every time I try a new model I can find use cases where its an improvement over previous versions but I can also find use cases where it feels like a serious regression.

Our differences in how we categorize the amount of improvement over the past 2 years may be related to how much the newer models are improving vs regressing for our individual use cases.

When used as coding helpers/time accelerators, I find newer models to be better at one-shot tasks where you let the LLM loose to write or rewrite entire large systems and I find them worse at creating or maintaining small modules to fit into an existing larger system. My own use of LLMs is largely in the latter category.

To be fair I find the current peak model for coding assistant to be Claude 3.5 Sonnet which is much newer than 2 years old, but I feel like the improvements to get to that model were pretty incremental relative to the vast amount of resources poured into it and then I feel like Claude 3.7 was a pretty big back-slide for my own use case which has recently heightened my own skepticism.
Off topic but now Ars Technica has blocked my IP and gives a "403 Forbidden". Most likely another one of Cloudflare "protected site" that blanket blocks whole foreign IP ranges from legit reputable ISP. At least some site makes me go through the whole "prove you aren't a robot" song a dance but here they just outright blocked :(
I mean its also data loss if you run DROP DATABASE when you shouldn't. thats not sqls fault
Seinfeld's experience is interesting. I'll admit that the first half of season 1 was bad but, thereafter, it gained strength which lasted to the end (less the two-part finale). Of course, there were clinkers but surprisingly few, ever after Larry David left. As to the first episodes, I'll attribute that to the actors getting to know their roles, developing their styles and their quirks and how they interact with one another. The goes for the writers. Someone who bailed that first year, missed some great comedy.
This is exactly like the Juicero
Is there a limit to how big before the effect falls off, or will we see twenty gigawatt net power output mega-tokamaks with rings five stories tall?

Fission seems to like to be big too but for different mostly logistical reasons. It makes all the nasty and hard aspects a lot easier if you do a lot of it on one site rather than a little on many sites, and it avoids having to ship nasty fissile material around too much.
Yeah, it would be like saying everything I write and draw into my Acer laptop means I now give permission for Acer the company to use my content. It's bonkers.
As a current Red Hat employee, I can say that they've treated us far better than the likes of Oracle or Broadcom would have.
happy to hear the prince is wisely investing his money after decades of email donations
I think he's referring to the retirement system for federal workers, not social security.
Yes, an AI that can convincingly and successfully sell itself at those prices would be worthy of some attention.
Late last year a woman's T1D was put into remission using beta cells derived from her own stem cells: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03394-9

She was on immunosuppressants, so how long the new beta cells would last without those is still an open question. Other similar, ongoing trials are showing promising results.
It's not "just" about Finnegans Wake, but Robert Anton Wilson's Coincidance is a great companion to FW, honoring its spirit as much as its content.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62584.Coincidance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeong_Su-il
https://arstechnica.com/cdn-cgi/trace -- 404 so not Cloudflare.
Who is this meant to refer to?
I'm not diminishing them, I am in awe of their work, I'm just pointing out that sometimes people (including myself) focus on esoteric projects that might have some learning opportunities, but don't directly solve a real problem (and might just be psychological mechanisms).
Post requests!
UDP could send the packets out of order (which could be fixed maybe).
Websocket turns out to have the same speed as just a big 64kb post request!
But vault was already a pretty enterprise offering. I'd imagine most people running it had an existing contract.
Does iOS have sideloading yet?
Maybe someone can finally make a native Mac version.

It astonishes me that EA leaves obvious money on the table by not taking the 5 mins it would take to recompile it for MacOS.
speaking of search without ads, I wholeheartedly recommend https://kagi.com
> what happens if you forget to free a pointer in c?

Assuming you mean 'forget' to free malloc'd space referenced by at least one pointer, that's an easy one .. it's reclaimed by the OS when the process ends.

Whether that's a bad thing or not really depends on context - there are entire suites of interlocked processing pipelines built about the notion of allocating required resources, throughputing data, and terminating on completion - no free()'s
Well this is just patently incorrect.

> "It is the Division’s view that transactions in the types of meme coins described in this statement, do not involve the offer and sale of securities under the federal securities laws"

How is it not a security when they spend the rest of the statement describing meme coins as a security?
I'd bet that you could pick three points about any EV where the model 3 LR is only able to beat the alternative on two of the three.
The USDS had private sector experience. That’s where they hired talent from. That’s how the USDS was started.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7312442

> I've been working on healthcare.gov for the last few months alongside a bunch of other Google, Facebook, and Y Combinator alums.

> I'll always remember what Mikey told us in December, after the site was back up, could handle a non-trivial amount of traffic, and people who wanted health insurance could finally get it:
"1 in 1000 uninsured people die each year. It's not an exaggeration to say that due to the work we're doing here, 5,000-10,000 people will live to see the end of 2014. You should be proud of what you've done, but we should also all be grateful to have this opportunity."

> We're all grateful to be here, but there's a hell of a lot more work to be done.

> If any of you out there are an amazing software engineer or SRE, and want to help make our government work better, please shoot me an email.

What is taking place today isn’t about efficiency, it is about tyranny, dressed in technocratic efficiency performance art. DOGE is attempting to cut whatever can be cut to convince the bond market to push US government debt yields down, making room for tax cuts (because it’s the only place that can be cut). But Musk has met his match, he cannot bully the bond market, nor will it believe his lies.

Long term rates will remain high (because there is nothing material to cut), but the damage will be done, and no one in DOGE will be held accountable for any harm they caused. Truly in the spirit of the startup world. “Move fast, break things.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-02-24/elon-musk... | https://archive.today/i45t0
IIRC, the lifecycle hook only prevents destruction of the resource if it needs to be replaced (e.g. change an immutable field). If you outright delete the resource declaration in code then it’s destroyed. I may be misremembering though
Why not? The entire point of market economics is to make that not a problem and leave room for other potentially better companies to take the place of worse ones. He obviously is a negative influence for the business as a whole even if he stayed out of politics, just the fact that he tries to pull so much money/value out of those businesses for personal gain has a negative effect on how efficient and beneficial to consumers those businesses can be.
And then pan around and marvel at all the other weird shit out there in the desert.

Sandia National Laboratories Tech Area V: https://maps.app.goo.gl/WWjnzFfi1yLrhC4RA (which is various nuclear stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=valvf2yoVvU)

The USAF Safety Crash Lab, surrounded by bits of broken planes: https://maps.app.goo.gl/M4EUYP9syfvXw3DH6

A lot of recreational vehicles: https://maps.app.goo.gl/kFyVCbYYSSP6JL8C6

National Solar Thermal Test Facility: https://maps.app.goo.gl/14zygVRtw76VQ3QQ9

Sandia Water Impact Facility (big diving pool): https://maps.app.goo.gl/TknLAuHmkW2egnXX7

Starfire Optical Range (big lasers): https://maps.app.goo.gl/5gyXwYcHAPFBUVZM8

A long thing (rocket sled track?): https://maps.app.goo.gl/1JPXWJC1XBQtcFwv9

Definitely a rocket sled track: https://maps.app.goo.gl/nwrDBbqqy8NjRtnPA

Antenna towers?: https://maps.app.goo.gl/JXrmSBhhizGHGroJ6

Ramp down to where they keep the nukes: https://maps.app.goo.gl/R2vkRG9PWg6HE6mw8

Buried hangars (there's a large hilly area enclosed by a fence with these all over it): https://maps.app.goo.gl/sbP1C3ZgeQvFY7mk8

Burrito: https://maps.app.goo.gl/KaqonStYX37P8YLw6

No idea, but it's up a track from a live fire training range: https://maps.app.goo.gl/64RxsGgzVVaL6AsM6

Lovelace Biomedical Research (NOT AT ALL SUSPECT): https://maps.app.goo.gl/BrJRXwA6xKwi1e8v6
Since it's mostly just people who care about this privacy who still use Firefox, these changes seem particularly tin eared.
Show HN: Python micro event loop library (~250 LOC)
NT4
That’s something of a broken window fallacy here. Producing fewer parts while having more working devices is a net win for the economy.

Economies of scale don’t mean things are free. The marginal cost of each transistor is still greater than zero even though where producing what 10^20 ish of them per year.
I should point out:

Every now and then you will note a comment here that looks a bit more ... insightful than the rest - it might be bollocks or not. Search the username etc. or follow the threads and someone will eventually note who made it.

You will find some remarkable people hereabouts. The rest is the usual noise of any other social.
Well speaking for myself: the reason why I keep using Microsoft stuff is because I grew up with it. The first computer that I owned came with 98SE.
At this point in my life I do not really want to learn new programmes.

But if MS keeps changing shit I may as well move on to new horizons.
> everyone just installed chrome because the website google told them to

I believe we actually went this way because all the techies adopted it first, not because it was some evil overlord that told everyone to. As a teenager, I installed it for some of my family because it had fewer knobs to push than Firefox at the time and it was faster at the time so that was cool as well (especially because they usually had older devices). Can't install toolbars in there etc. Then came Google's cross-site tracking by tricking users into logging into the browser and such. I kept using Firefox myself because I was used to the dev tools, theme customizability, and powerful add-ons, but it's not like I didn't contribute to the problem

That said, I also still wonder how (as you hint at) them advertising a product of theirs on the search engine homepage, a legal monopoly afaik, is not abuse of market power to illegally create a second monopoly. Firefox and any legit browser vendor who asks should be able to get the same ad on there for the same duration (years iirc, perhaps on and off), prominence, freedom of wording, etc. There is certainly an advertising aspect to get the last bit of the market, create a real brand name ("oh yeah I know that icon" when it's shown in the ads, not just know that button on your screen as "the internet"), but the first >50%... I don't know
Because of this Outlook (new) non-sense, few months ago I switched to Thunderbird on desktop and mobile, and it has been quite a refreshing experience. Sure the UI need some time to get used to, but it has been my primary driver now
surely my salient point is recognized regardless of semantics, but thanks for the correction. To use another example in another post - what happens if you DROP TABLE in sql?
What may be called graphics commands in other GPU architectures are instead called graphics objects in the NV3 and all other NVIDIA architectures.

I think this choice of terminology reflects both the era in which it was chosen (OOP was a huge trend back then), and the mindset of those who worked on the architecture (software-oriented). In contrast, Intel calls them commands/instructions/opcodes, as did the old 8514/A, arguably the one that started it all.

A specialized hardware accelerator for the manner by which Windows 95’s GDI (and its DIB Engine?) renders text.

Drawing text (from bitmap font data) is a very common 2D accelerator feature.
why does this require "a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license"?
> an actual dashboard

My biggest dislike in Teslas. I won't entertain buying one until they decide that an iPad is not in fact an appropriate way to handle user interface in a car...
That's long been my favorite Android version of klondike too.

But my favorite favorite remains the old Windows 95 Solitaire. I keep a copy around even on Linux through wine to play sometimes on PC. The main reason? I still love the ending animation of all the cards springing down without clearing the background. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uev21NTzom8 I don't understand why no other version seems to want to implement this ending animation, it's the best one of all time.
This is a terribly naive comment. I'm not going to even go into the specifics.

Lets assume they click one button and it recompiles, how many people would buy it? Almost certainly wouldn't pay back the dev and qa cost.
No, that was gaming tabloids misunderstanding a sentence by EA a year ago. It was never announced.
This likely refers to Firefox-the-product, not Firefox-the-open-source-project since there's no functional way to revoke your access to a mercurial checkout on your PC.

It's not unprecedented to have an open source license with revocation or termination clauses, either. I recall seeing ones that basically say "If you file a patent suit around this open software, your rights to use it are gone".
I ran three more of my independent benchmarks:

- Improves upon GPT-4o's score on the Short Story Creative Writing Benchmark, but Claude Sonnets and DeepSeek R1 score higher. (https://github.com/lechmazur/writing/)

- Improves upon GPT-4o's score on the Confabulations/Hallucinations on Provided Documents Benchmark, nearly matching Gemini 1.5 Pro (Sept) as the best-performing non-reasoning model. (https://github.com/lechmazur/confabulations)

- Improves upon GPT-4o's score on the Thematic Generalization Benchmark, however, it doesn't match the scores of Claude 3.7 Sonnet or Gemini 2.0 Pro Exp. (https://github.com/lechmazur/generalization)

I should have the results from the multi-agent collaboration, strategy, and deception benchmarks within a couple of days. (https://github.com/lechmazur/elimination_game/, https://github.com/lechmazur/step_game and https://github.com/lechmazur/goods).
Besides all this stuff, New Mexico is just an absolutely breathtaking state in terms of its natural beauty. I highly recommend a visit!
Yeah, I was thinking something a little more balanced than building an AWS-scale datacenter with full infrastructure—capable of accommodating thousands of racks—then starting with ten 42Us.
For the past 25 years, there have been consistent small shifts towards more government deficit [1]. Aren't those the problem that has to be stopped? I don't know enough about economics but can this really continue forever or is it just exacerbating some painful problem in the future if it's not reversed now? Maybe non-essential for-the-future work like Darpa isn't the best thing to spend money on when you're trying to reduce spending as fast as you can? It can always be re-instated in more prosperous times.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-budget-deficit-tops-18...
> and that's going to cause customers to reconsider alternatives.

I'm very, very skeptical that anything short of Microsoft's bankruptcy could cause enterprises to seriously reconsider their software. It's just too convenient to pay one vendor for everything Microsoft brings to the table.
Above was talking about embedded systems, and I really don’t know if the James Webb Space Telescope counts, but…

The James Webb Space Telescope runs JavaScript, apparently [1].

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/18/23206110/james-webb-space...
I used Claude Code to understand the source code of Claude Code:

1. Tool-Based Action Framework
- Tools implement a common interface (Tool.ts) with standard methods
- Central registry in tools.ts manages tool availability and permissions
- Tools are categorized as read-only or stateful, affecting execution strategy
2. Agent Orchestration
- query.ts serves as the orchestration engine that:
- Identifies tool use requests in Claude's responses
- Manages permissions and serializes/deserializes tool data
- Schedules concurrent or serial tool execution based on tool type
- Feeds tool results back to Claude in a recursive loop
3. AgentTool Implementation
- Enables recursive agent capabilities via sub-agent spawning
- Sub-agents run with controlled permissions (typically read-only)
- Each agent invocation is stateless and returns a single result
- Implements progress streaming via async generators
4. Execution Flow
- User query → Claude response → Tool use requests → Permission checks
- Tool execution → Results normalized → Results fed back to Claude
- Process repeats with Claude potentially using additional tools
5. Architectural Patterns
- Async generators for streaming results and maintaining responsiveness
- Hierarchical permission model controlling tool access
- Normalized message formats ensuring consistent communication
- Logging chains for tracking agent activities
- Context management with optional compression (/compact)
Speculatively:

- nonexclusive, because they're not demanding exclusive rights to your content. If they did, there's no way this would fly.

- royalty free, because otherwise you could charge them money for doing anything with your data, even things you've asked them to do.

- worldwide, because you may ask them to communicate with servers in other countries. i.e. you are using Firefox Sync to sync your bookmarks and you travel overseas, your bookmarks are now traveling between two countries.

The question is "why do they need a license at all", IMO. The qualifiers on the license all make sense to me. It's possible additional qualifiers like 'short-term' could make it less scary.
Broadly independent but filled to the gills with folks who spent a decade or more at IBM before landing at Red Hat. While this has been true of rank and file for years, recently it’s true on the c-suite.
> Elon needs to take rejections way less personally.

True, but Elon needs to worry most about the fact that when all the MAGA voters who aren't independently wealthy fully realize the current administration is throwing all the poors under the bus and not just the brown ones he is the useful idiot that is going to take the public fall to try to create some distance between the political fallout and the GOP.

Its pretty obvious to anyone with any political acumen that they are allowing him to be the public facing figurehead for all of this "efficiency" specifically to allow him to fill that role when the time comes.

That said, he'll be fully deserving of everything that happens IMO. I ain't saying any of this to try to warn him, I don't think his ego would allow him to believe it in any case.
What do you expect is the reason this happens? I would suspect your skill assessment after a handful of interviews is sound and most people liked you. Do you think you just run into a person eventually that doesn't vibe?
200k weekly Waymo rides and counting
Fuck it I am going back to Internet Explorer.
+ There’s an argument against every rule of thumb.

+ For what it is worth, the just-one-percent-of-all-Chinese is historically a poor business strategy.

+ As you point out, targeting price sensitive customers puts you in competition with Walmart and Amazon. Not only that but you are competing for their worst customers.

you're not fighting every startup on the planet for the same handful of clients

Not having access to good clients/customers suggests the business idea might not be viable. Chasing money from people without the wherewithal or will to pay, does not make your business idea viable.

But again it is a rule of thumb.