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Well... yes. I can definitely complain about things that are a result of different philosophies or realities for a given programming environment. In fact, I'd argue the reality of using a given programming language is the only thing that actually matters; whatever is written in specs and whatever is theoretically possible is of very little interest to most developers.

The reality today is this: If I want to deploy C++ code on Windows, MSVC or possibly Clang is for sure my best choice. If I want to integrate with Linux distributions, supporting GCC is basically mandatory. And on Apple platforms, it's Clang all the way. And of course, various BSDs will either prefer GCC or Clang. (I am guessing it's mostly Clang these days. It has been a while since I have used any BSDs.)

That means that if I want to write cross-platform software for modern desktop and server operating systems, I have to keep all of this in mind.

If you couldn't complain about this, then would it be fair to go and complain about the fact that Rust has only a single compiler? I'd argue it is fair to complain that Rust only has a single compiler, and personally support having a second more-or-less complete Rust frontend. And on that note, I am looking forward to gccrs, which I hope will eventually bring Rust to some more places in addition to hopefully cutting down on the amount of Rust things that are the way they are just because rustc does them that way.
but i mean it depends on how many attempts you let it generate. the right comparison is to use the test time rl compute to just do generation and compare success rates. (if you gen for long enough you eventually will hit the answer by chance)
You act as if every experienced interviewer doesn’t know how to play the game and act like they are “passionate”.
It's worth pointing out that Walt was one of the inventors of this camera, as well as all his other roles in making the company's art. Concepts we have today like Photoshop layers and CSS stacking contexts are direct descendants of this invention.
> I just think it's a little bit ridiculous to expect purchased media to never degrade.

Nobody expects that. We just expect to not have to pay for the content again just because the media degraded and needed replacement.
Take It Down Act: A Flawed Attempt to Protect Victims That'll Lead to Censorship
Well, it depends. on some tasks, they surely are already super-intelligent.
Thanks for that recommendation. Mendell's other book is not as exciting but they both are the pinnicle of historic technical writing, and yes, this is a sharepining tool for UI, enough to make it required reading.

Of course his interactions with the Apollo engineers is priceless. I worked for one such engineer, and the strain of perfection was great discipline.
It is, though pales in comparison to the MacBook in terms of whole (working) day battery like. The real non-start is their insistence that I'm not allowed to re-image it to run Linux.
Yes, when I got to that part, I was unsure whether you actually need 350 logic gates to implement Conway's Game of Life. It feels like that cannot be the minimum number. But presumably other mechanisms already exist where we can automatically whittle down the number of logic gates necessary given a desired truth table.
I didn’t finish reading that article, but it’s inevitable every LLM will be infected with all types of propaganda, I don’t understand the focus on “Russian propaganda” when there’s no evidence it’s actually widespread.
> Your comment gave me an in on more reading

I love reading from it, but you might want to know that it's an 1842-page reference work, so reading the whole thing for fun might take a while. Mostly I use it if I want to look up how it treats some phenomenon that's caught my interest.

So far I've always been able to find a discussion of whatever it was that I wanted to look up, which is a testament to both the quality of the treatment and the quality of the index.
As a native English speaker, "I'll have a large small fries" pretty clearly means a large quantity of small type fries to me. It's the kind of thing you'd say sort of jokingly, but I don't think anyone would really struggle with understanding it.
Lol. I heard someone say that that the cloud was just someone else's data center behind an API but did people listen? Nope.
China announces retaliatory tariffs on some Canada farm, food products
Bitwarden truly doesn’t get enough credit for being completely open source and having independent implementations of the server code (Vaultwarden) with which the official clients are fully compatible, which I can run on a vm on a server under my desk.

In 50 years time, who knows if any of these companies will be around. But I’m pretty sure that my grandchildren, should they want to, will be able to open a gpg encrypted gzipped file (with the passphrase I’ll leave them) containing my passwords in a csv file.
> Worst case you just go through the account recovery process at each institution

Well, worst case is your account with Google, which you can kiss goodbye.

But as we all know, that’s security. If the account recovery is the weakest link, it gets attacked.
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> especially ibuprofen [...] wrecked her kidneys

As opposed to what? It's all metabolised by something, choose what you wreck. Take paracetamol routinely instead and you'll wreck your liver instead.
These ramp functions are actual quite powerful and beautiful sounding when implemented in analog electronic synthesizers - by controlling the ratio of the quiescent and moving phase, and by controlling the ratio of the rise and fall times in the moving phase, you can achieve all sorts of very beautiful, rich timbral modulations with interesting harmonic behavior - particularly if your pulse generator and the envelope duration are decoupled in terms of durations. Wind, brass, reedy sounds are all possible, some cool undertones can be created, etc etc.

https://github.com/whimsicalraps/Mannequins-Technical-Maps/b...
How do you sync it between devices like your phone? What about family sharing or access for emergencies or other such features?
security through obscurity just isn't. keep your shiz up to date and use proper access controls!
> Case in point: Tesla/SpaceX meets your first criteria: "I want a tech company where people are there to make good products first and get paid second

Tesla has never been a good product.

https://insideevs.com/news/731559/tesla-least-reliable-used-...

https://www.carscoops.com/2024/11/tesla-model-3-comes-bottom...

https://www.topspeed.com/tesla-reliability-and-repair-costs-...

Not to mention the infotainment system is much worse than CarPlay/Android Auto compatible cars
You use the word intuit as a verb where I would go old school and use "understands it intuitively". You slap a letter s on the end to make the word sound correct to your ear. I will eventually use the word intuits in the same way you do but it will jar for a while. However it is concise and conveys the same meaning as "understand intuitively".

As you say, language is insane.

Now, adjective ordering. I think there is an "official" order but native speakers are not formally taught it because it is largely innate for us. It is likely something taught as a very advanced language feature because you can mix up the order and it still works.

I think a few experiments are in order:

Dark satanic mills. Jolly green giant. Large blue marble. Long winding road. Darling buds of May. Big fat Greek wedding. OK it looks like:

* Emotive (jolly, happy, sad)
* Quantitative (big, small, fat, tall, short)
* Colour
* Shape (winding)
* Other adjectives - needs some work
* Noun

This is going to need more work but there is a bit of a pattern. What I've picked up as emotive probably includes other classes of adjectives
Those restrictions are pretty horrible though. Especially the every few days thing. They're not useful for practical use. I used to have iOS and I was even a developer but I left when jailbreaking became more and more difficult.

But with the EU thing apple also introduced a tax on app publishers, even FOSS ones. I imagine they'll want to do the same in Brazil.
If you’re dynamically generating the HTML it’s safest to set the CSP to disable all inline scripts; you can permit only static scripts served from known good locations with valid sub resource integrity hashes.
The cases where you can inline a virtual method seem narrow. So narrow in fact, that if it is possible then you should probably only be doing CRTP or simple static dispatch. See: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/733737/are-inline-virtua...

If you try to use CRTP + virtual on polymorphic types then one has to wonder if it will work as intended for both use cases (when used as a static object or a polymorphic one).

I'm not the absolute most expert C++ programmer, but I'm no noob. The idea of deliberately introducing dynamic polymorphism only to try to optimize it out seems like a bad idea. It's unnecessarily complicated and confusing. If you want to go fast just use CRTP straight up and forget all about dynamic dispatch and potential cute optimizations.

Edit: I think this explains my objection: https://www.codeproject.com/Tips/537606/Cplusplus-Prefer-Cur... (I found that in the StackOverflow post I linked to above.)
It looks like the MFC-3750. ref: https://old.reddit.com/r/printers/comments/s9b2eg/brother_mf...

My memory is that it was a trial for 2 or 3 similar models. There was backlash and they never pursued it further.

I saw some mentions that indicated the current uproar is old issue being revisited.
It would probably be more accurate to say that LastPass has the information to decrypt your vault if they can guess your password. By contrast 1Password would need to both guess your password and guess your personal secret key. The latter is effectively impossible assuming the key generation was well-implemented. The trade-off is that users must keep track of their own secret keys.
>But I’m pretty sure that my grandchildren, should they want to, will be able to open a gpg encrypted gzipped file (with the passphrase I’ll leave them) containing my passwords in a csv file.

technical possibilities aside, do you presume your grandchildren will be technically apt?

I am pretty sure 99% of people would halt at 'gpg' , and that's now -- not 60 years from now.
I heard that there some block chain rollback thing that may be possible. I'm with ya. I don't put my money into high risk digital collectibles.
You can’t change the seed phrase for a derived wallet. You’d have to create a new one and transfer the assets.
Show HN: Took 10 Months to Make AI Processor (Chat and Voice) Agent Thing
Never would have been possible w/o GPT4o & O1 Models (200$/month subscription is 100% worth it)

I wanted to make something that had Hotswappable Models, Databases, Tools, Integration (Chatbot or Voicebot) & I can easily setup w/ Tracking Pageviews & Revenue Attribution (via Stripe)

Its at stage Alpha 0.5.7 & the tech is basically from scratch (RAG via QDRANT, Voice is STT-LLM-TTS or Realtime API [need to add tool support for this one], etc...) & had to read some papers to make this possible

Also recently changed splash page & suddenly got 4 clients in 72hr! Design actually matters here is my old & new splash pages:
Old: /_splash
New: / (the url lol)

This is my first time posting & just wanna get opinions (I like technical detail ppl lol) + what to improve on, hoping this post doesn't blow up or Ill get huge cloud bill k thx
One of the reasons I’m using Passwoed Store: https://www.passwordstore.org/

Though the tooling isn’t great – I’ll probably switch to Vaultwarden sometime this year.
Stock buy backs
> But the solution is to learn more about the thing so it stops triggering a reptilian response.

That takes time or may never happen, even in the best cases. In the meantime, clenched teeth sounds exactly like what they should do, as they prevent subconscious bias from controlling conscious decisions.
Show HN: Open-Source DocumentAI with Ollama
How cool would it be if you could:
Generate a RAG instance with zero code
Deploy it to Google Cloud in minutes
Upload a knowledge base document effortlessly
Configure a chatbot using an npm module linked to your RAG service URL

All of this—without writing a single line of backend code?

Introducing GenR AI – an open-source project that makes deploying RAG-powered AI applications easier than ever!

No complex infra setups. No manual configurations. Just instant RAG-powered chatbots on GCP!
A molecule that is a GLP-1 mimetic that has only been tested on animals?

I’ll hold my breath.
I don't think there's any particular reason for you to jump out of boot services mode if you're just having fun. Runtime mode means the firmware gives up control of devices etc, because you're meant to take over them.

As far as the rest of the cores go, I don't think UEFI has much to say about them; you're expected to start them yourself once you've switched to runtime mode, so I expect that means they're just hanging out before then, e.g. during boot services time... you could just start them then.
After using a regex that creates AGI researcher will see the world like Neo sees the matrix.
Meta's eBPF-Powered Strobelight Software Reduced CPU Cycles by 20%
Yanis Varoufakis on German corruption: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5mMRsEKLRU
Compound mimics cannabis for pain relief without the side effects
It's such a pity that bitwarden's client doesn't work offline for modifying vaults (need to be online to be able to access the server implementation). I would switch from my old local vault 1password in an instant.
Bill could redefine self-defense in California
We "offer" deepseek in some products: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/deepseek-r1-is-now-av...
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If you look at the very successful research organizations they were basically funded by monopolies, hired a bunch of smart people, and allowed them to think long-term without quarterly or even annual pressure to produce.

Bell Labs and Xerox PARC are examples of this.
This argument doesn’t hold much water. The tariff actions will only compel oil producers to explore new markets. With the US out of the picture, there will be a significant increase in supply. A big portion of this will be due to Canadian oil finding buyers in non-US markets.
More of it yes, but the themes and extremes have been shifting over the years as well, with family fantasies and misogyny/sexual violence becoming increasingly prevalent.

This was actually on the front page recently [0], and while I'm no prude, I do think it's worth taking the trends in porn seriously when comparing the old Internet to the current day.

- [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43196585
Chances are, at least one of them will be.
Those mechanisms will abuse that power if pressured to do so. Which alternative is best depends on your threat model.
I just have KeePass in a syncthing folder with a trigger to sync on open.

Technically I think I could drop the trigger if the desktop app would open by making a temporary file copy and syncing back (ironically Keepass2Android is very good at this).
> It would absolutely be possible to implement that stuff in a fully privacy-preserving way, with nothing but basic cryptography, and the government could absolutely enforce that implementation.

Yeah, it seems like it would not be as much of a problem if you were able to have assurances that your data isn't being held onto. If I give my ID to a bouncer at a strip club, he isn't able to scan it and put it into a digital file. He just looks at it*, goes "yep this guy is of age", and gives it back. If we ensured a similar data flow for the Internet, then it wouldn't be nearly as much of a privacy issue.

*These days I doubt I would even get carded as well. Getting older and all that. IDK how you could implement a similar check for the Internet though.
Minimal launch cross sectional area. Tall and skinny. ( Please check previous documentation )

I was completely off.

“This profound opportunity to make history isn’t solely built on technology – it’s established through the relentless dedication of our people, who have turned the Company’s words about a reliable cadence of lunar missions into action.”

Looks like the company is in alignment with NASA. I am actually impressed.

I would now look for a failure in one of the leg compressors.
I've been to multiple pride events, a gay nightclub, drag shows, have gay friends, and been to the odd party that was 90+% gay. Had a great time, no problems, and liked the people. I've learned to look past the feeling, but it doesn't shut off.
Love it, maybe it is time to seriously pick up programming!
They asked a question specifically about the feelings of a "heterosexual man". Why include the sexuality of that hypothetical person in the question if their sexual preferences were not intended to be part of the answer?

I don't mean that or my previous questions rhetorically. I was less "accusing him of saying random things that aren't there" and more asking for confirmation on their answer to the reverse of their question: "what do you think an unbiased heterosexual man should feel stumbling upon [a heterosexual couple] kissing in public?"
Which is why Neocities has a free tier which doesn't even have ads.
..embrace extinguish
>The reality today is this: If I want to deploy C++ code on Windows, MSVC or possibly Clang is for sure my best choice. If I want to integrate with Linux distributions, supporting GCC is basically mandatory. And on Apple platforms, it's Clang all the way. And of course, various BSDs will either prefer GCC or Clang. (I am guessing it's mostly Clang these days. It has been a while since I have used any BSDs.)

Clang works everywhere: Mac, Windows, Linux, and even BSD. As a matter of fact so does GCC. You might complain about troubles linking, say, Windows-specific libraries without MSVC. But I know you'd have it just as bad or worse trying to link Rust code to those same libraries.

>If you couldn't complain about this, then would it be fair to go and complain about the fact that Rust has only a single compiler?

It depends on which of the several advantages of multiple compilers you actually care about. Some make faster output, some are more hackable, some have better licenses (which is subjective), and some have better commercial product support.

>And on that note, I am looking forward to gccrs, which I hope will eventually bring Rust to some more places in addition to hopefully cutting down on the amount of Rust things that are the way they are just because rustc does them that way.

So you're saying that soon you'll be able to complain about inconsistencies between Rust compilers too, lol...
Article's point is though that they shoveled useful and relevant problems at them. This is extremely clear if you spend some time reading the BSTJ or the phenomenal "The History Of Engineering and Science in the Bell System" books.

So while there were not significant pressures to produce products there was a culture of working on relevant problems or in areas connected to relevant problems. ... rather than going full open-loop gazing deep into the category theory of their navels -- which appears to be an occasional failure mode of academia.

In working with academics in niche areas there often is a thirst for applications-- like you've found some interesting idea but where to go next? What constraints need to be solved for to make this interesting property into something useful. Applications would be a good guide if anyone would provide some, but the connections often don't exist. Part of the magic sauce of Bell labs must have been this enormous science and engineering driven industrial corporation that could just flood real problems at people who needed them.
Exactly. This is why lower corporate taxes hurt the country. Badly.

With high corporate tax rates companies are incentivized to invest in tax deductible expenses like: research, employee training and retention benefits, building factories, etc.

Higher taxes are good for the country. Lower taxes are only good for wealthy individuals, and only in the short term.
So basically a precursor to Reddit
Certainly! The limit is your creativity. My first idea: generate very large scale 2D noise. Choose a threshold to divide it into regions. For each region, choose a direction of motion. Design a “mountain envelope” function that considers distance from the nearest border to create mountains/subversion zones based on the direction of each plate and the shape of the border.
Browsers still support an editing mode:

document.designMode = 'on'

But including a web server in every web browser never caught on, sadly enough.
Sounds a bit like WINE
bcachefs may use zero lock contention, but does anyone use bcachefs?

(kidding of course, i do)

edit: just realized this is _the_ Kent Overstreet!

Although my original post was in jest, thank you so much for all your hard work on bcachefs.

bcachefs has personally saved me so much time with its copy-on-write functionality, and for that i am very grateful
They are. There's no need for them. Parents should parent.
Somewhat related post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42625193

It seems like having sugary drinks is not just bad for you, but like really bad for you.
Has the dollar been hacked?
I never understand these types that are smart enough to crash an entire company, but too stupid to make it look like someone else did it.
An LLM entity named gpgchat will assist them.
I do wonder how much the corporate culture of the time - of hiring people for life - affected Bell Labs, and the mindset of today prevents Bell Labs from being replicable. In particular, the mindset of employees needing to swap employers to get ahead, and of employers not wanting to train up employees when they could instead hire someone already trained for the position.

(I know it's more than just a "mindset" and is driven by real, rational financial incentives, but nonetheless it's a cultural phenomenon.)

Even if you set up Bell2 Labs, the people you're hiring are still the standard 21st century STEM workers/academics.

Perhaps Bell2 Labs would do better if set up in Japan?
You are very fortunate: In my 20 year career, I've spent most of it surrounded by zealots, including at very well known firms. I am currently surrounded by multiple teams with extremely tight ideas of what languages they want to work in. All different ideas, yet they are working basically with the same constraints: it's not as if they ware doing very different work where another team's language would be unfit for purpose. The performance is similar, and they are basically in a culture war. They have passionate arguments listing why a different team's choice is all wrong: None hold any real water.

I am especially valuable because I am fine reading and writing any of the languages involved. The management likes that, but there's a lot of difficulties solving the tribal problem, as the leads are basically all crazy zealots, and it's not as if purging one or two factions of zealots would avoid further zealotry from the survivors. The fact that I can work across all their tech doesn't make me many friends, as my work across systems shows their arguments have little merit.

For most work, in most cases, most languages are just fine. The completely wrong tool for the job is pretty rare, and the winning argument in most places is "we have the most people that have experience with tool X, or really want to try exciting new thing Y", for whatever the problem is, and whatever X might be.