skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did the creator of the site just update it? Because it definitely has instructions like that now: it told me to narrow my eyes and grimace!
> I hate that forgetting to initialize all fields of a struct does not lead to an error, but will just fill in "zero-values" for those fields. This has bitten me many times, and zero-values are almost never the behavior I want.

There's a linter for this you can easily integrate into your build or CI. Personally, having worked at a place with that as a CI rule, I'm the opposite. I felt annoyed having to explicitly set things I purposely didn't set. So I think it living as an optional linter is probably the right place.

> I've found Golang's generics to be confusing and unexpressive.

Same. Also with iterators.
Would you have some examples from modern history of power vacuum not being filled in, say, 1 year?
Similar but different https://www.zsa.io/voyager is my weapon of choice.
Hitomezashi
The title does not say that
I'm unable to support, but can you share where you'll be publishing this so I can see it when it goes up?
Dare I say “your kind of thinking is the problem.”

I’m not supporting musk here, it’s a matter of jumbling so many ideas together regarding a man’s freedom of expression.

> At what point should humanity put a limit to the power an individual can wield?

LAW is that limit. In an ideal world a person can do whatever the f she wants as long as it doesn’t actually violate the embodied right of some other, and “law” is the only f-ing thing in the entire world of humans which allows one to interfere with another’s “power.”

Read some Ayn Rand or something (on dynamics of personal power.)
I wrote something similar about this effect almost two years ago: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/27/ai-enhanced-developmen... "AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my projects"

With an extra 23 months of experience under my belt since then I'm comfortable to say that the effect has stayed steady for me over time, and even increased a bit.
>Last week it was reported by Axios that Secretary of State Marco Rubio intends to revoke visas from foreign nationals who are deemed to support Hamas or other terrorist groups, using artificial intelligence (AI) to pick out individuals [on social media]

Yikes. Once the government has built that infrastructure and pipeline from monitoring to arrest, you think they won't use it for other kinds of dissent?
The most delusional comment is quite an achievement on this goofy corner of the web.
For many Europeans that's a far easier thing to comprehend and support than what the US has done in the last few months.
1. torrenting sites

2. archival sites
This is pretty interesting:

The Architecture of Open Source Applications
https://aosabook.org/en/
I will say that, as the interviewer asking the question, I do recognize that people have anxiety, and I would prefer to nudge them out of a spiral, because a bad interview is generally not pleasant for anybody involved.

To some degree the interview is not about getting the question right but also how you respond to questions about your answers. I would rather have someone who started with a totally incorrect answer and then reason back and forth with them til they got on the right path, than someone who came up with the right answer and then clammed up and refused to explain how they got there. (I once had a candidate tell me, verbatim, "I don't think analyzing performance of an algorithm is part of an engineer's job.")

I would prefer if there were a more humane, less stressful, and scalable way to do an interview. The problem is that as a profession we lack the continued examination/licensing of other fields like engineering or medicine, so we don't have a good barometer of skills otherwise. And I often have to sift through massive numbers of people clearly overshooting their shot to get a good position.
Yeah, the difference you're seeing is likely due to the inner loop doing so few iterations, in addition to not being unrolled. A hand-rolled version doing 63 iterations of an x4 unrolled loop should be able to saturate the execution core (it'll be bottlenecked by load throughput). But it'll be tough to get the compiler to generate that without intrinsics.
Thanks I will take my time reading it, you certainly could never be criticized for thinking too small.
I admit I have not read the article yet but I have done independent research into these stats previously a few weeks ago. I found the 30m quoted number is the monthly cull amount. I have seen many references to the 115m or similar numbers but have no idea over what time period. I had my own ~120m number come up from my calculations: The industry claims it takes 4-6 months to clean, disinfect, hatch and re-grow, and get the chickens to egg-laying age. If you take the ~30m and ~4-6m period, you end up around ~120-180m "missing" egg-laying chickens in the flock at any time assuming this replacement is taking place at expected levels.
Trump will try a dictator power grab. This isn't even questionable seeing as he already tried to do this. The only question at this point is if everyone else in power goes along with it or they scoff like they did last time.

Seeing as how there are a lot less principled people involved, and the oligarchs enjoy the idea of personal techno-fiefdoms the odds are at least non-negligible that the USA as a democracy could end.
And that is enough to revoke a green card of someone married to a US citizen?
And we in the US about to embark on a similar crypto adventure with the EO for the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve [0].

This is what happens when top leadership at A16Z like Marc Andressen [1], Ben Horowitz [1], Scott Kupor [2] (first VC at A16Z and now head of OPM - the agency that gives DOGE it's teeth), and Brian Quintenz [3] (head of policy (ie. Lobbying) at A16Z as Head of the CFTC) become major backers of the current administration.

A16Z has been lobbying for deregulating the Crypto industry and defanging the CFPB for half a decade now [4][5] as they have $4.5B dedicated in crypto investments alone [6], which were largely underwater [7]

People keep talking about the Dark Enlightenment Tech Bro schpeil, and while significant, is basically a bunch of blowhards. The primary reasons you saw significant VC support for the Trump administration are

1. the proposed tax on unrealized capital gains tax for those with a net worth above $100M (heavily hits VCs like A16Z, Founders Fund, and YC)

2. the SPAC crackdown (shut down a major venue to unlock capital from zombie investments)

3. Crypto deregulation (as explained above)

[0] - https://www.reuters.com/technology/trump-signs-order-establi...

[1] - https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/16/andreessen-horowitz-co-fou...

[2] - https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/sub-...

[3] - https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-plans-pick-brian-quin...

[4] - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/29/us/politics/andreessen-ho...

[5] - https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2022/10/17/andreesse...

[6] - https://www.axios.com/2022/05/25/andreessen-horowitz-raises-...

[7] - https://www.wsj.com/articles/andreessen-horowitz-went-all-in...
I'm not overweight, but I observed the following:

- All artificial sweeteners when consumed on empty-stomach, causes very strong feelings of hunger in a short time. My guess is that this can more than cancel out the reduced calorie content.

- Sucralose gives me headaches.
This causes mold on mattresses due to humidity. I had to throw out a latex mattress.
Coke Zero
I definitely felt this. I thought "If I have to redo this in Flutter or in Swift, I can". I don't know either, so have to move with some caution (but it's all very exciting).
No idea why this was downvoted; I love your idea. After all, what are social activities but doing things, and sometimes pointless things, together?
Key points:

> Despite these profits, crypto has brought El Salvador more costs than benefits. The free publicity has been welcome, yet crypto-investment and crypto-tourism have been small beer. Gains in financial inclusion and from more efficient payments are meagre at best: the currency never really caught on. In 2022, when the hype was at its peak, a survey by CID-Gallup found that only a fifth of firms accepted bitcoin and just 5% of tax payments were in crypto.

> Moreover, the policy cost $375m in all—from the Chivo rollout, subsidised transaction fees, bitcoin ATMs and more—according to Moody’s, a rating agency. That far exceeds the profits on bitcoin holdings, which could still evaporate. By delaying an IMF deal, the crypto experiment kept El Salvador’s risk premium high.
"DSA [...] has been incredibly anti-Ukrainian and pro-Russian invasion"

wait, what?
I see the point but you really care about

- Who Owns it (Japan)
- Where is it headquartered (Cambridge)
- Where is most of the IP produced (Cambridge mostly, but the remainder is in the US)

So if we care about being fast, surely the most expedient way, complete with guaranteed success, is to simply buy out softbank and then bring any IP development that's been offshored to the US back to Europe?
I have no idea what you are talking about. The world's largest coffee chain (Starbucks) uses a single 1 oz/7 g espresso shot in their short (8oz) And tall (12oz) drink sizes. To get two shots you have to upgrade to "grande" (16oz), or specifically ask for (and pay for) an extra shot. Most coffee shops do the same for their smaller drinks.
Care to elaborate? I think the more salient issue is the contracting process, not any particular company.
“Marshaling” became pretty ubiquitous as a term in the 1990s with CORBA and Microsoft OLE/COM.
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>I haven't been following .NET lately, but AFAIK .NET works on Linux now and "Mono" is basically .NET for Linux... what even are the differences?

Mono implements the GUI stuff like WinForms
Microsoft .Net for Linux /cross platform has no GUI or maybe they added some new GUI now , I am not a .Net dev ,I know they were experimenting always with latest and greatest GUI stuff and failing to get traction.
Which is another reason it makes no sense to maintain/raise tax rates on the middle class while cutting taxes on the rich. This is burdensome for those paying while it adds very little to public coffers.
When Pro-Hamas is often being used to mean critical of Israeli policy. I find this quite concerning. Unfortunately since the two state solution is relatively pro Palestine and equating Palestine with Hamas is so common we'll just call people who want peace terrorist sympathizers I guess.
> they killed over 50 million of their own people with a man made famine

... and they learned nothing from it.
> For many Westerners, ‘totalitarian’ just means ‘a country that has something we want but won’t give it up for free.’

Source? It's obviously a ridiculous definition so I'm curious if you can find any source that supports the claim of "many" people having that viewpoint. Pretending to speak for the masses is the definition of populism
That's both not fully deployed and a political problem. Polio and Measles are "solved" except for politics. As is hunger and poverty.
Good point — my idea doesn’t really solve the “legal corruption” issue in politics today… That might just be inherent to politics unfortunately. It’s a zero sum game.

I just read The Machiavellians by James Burnam and I like how it talks about realities as opposed to ideals. I’m not sure it’s possible to create a set of rules to prevent this. Maybe eunuchs like the Ottomans?
This causes mold by trapping humidity. Had to throw out a latex mattress be careful with full plastic.
Another fake news: this technology won't ever result into real product.
"says who"

Says the likely majority of us who've only experienced WordPress.

The experience of having to fix your companies hodge podge of dubious quality plugins in an antiquated code base. Then there's the legacy PHP applications...

I'm not actually rejecting your point as such, Laravel is on my to look kick the tires list and modern PHP looks fine but I can empathise with anyone that comes out with the impression its an awful technology.

"I like other languages too (except JavaScript)."

Situation seems similar come to think of it, ~ last 5 years of tooling & language features compared to what it was 10 years ago might as well be different language & ecosystem. Not suggesting everything is fixed in JS/TS land but as long as you remain dubious of anything from Vercel or Meta things aren't that bad.
It sounds like it may be the result of standard corporate business practices. Lower prices, take on debt if necessary, until smaller players cannot compete, buy them all up for cheap, then once most of the smaller competitors are out of business (bought out or bankrupt), start pumping up the prices again and use the proceeds to pay off debts. Insiders can dump stocks based on record profit valuations.
Whether or not it's classified as legal tender going forward, Bukele has indicated that he intends to continue amassing Bitcoin as a reserve asset: https://twitter.com/nayibbukele/status/1897019629702410551
Thanks. Definitely have to read more into this.
You might argue that it is never worth it to roll anything on your own (which is already an extreme proposition), but to argue that it has no benefits (other than cost?), I think it's either bad reading comprehension or overzeal to jump into the keyboard and type dogma that you should never roll your own and that you should download 1000 dependencies and a dependency manager to manage all those version conflicts.
ADL hits the sweet spot of absolutely critical feature for C++ to be even remotely workable and a horrible anti feature that causes surprising behavior at a distance. So, critical and horrible at the same time. I think things like this are why C++ will lose over time
Sorry yeah i was wrong about Korea.
If not exactly hostile then definetly untrustworthy, they certainly show that they are willing to blackmail their partners. No one can be surprised that others want to get rid of influence over critical products. I strongly support it.

It's like with russian gas once again, even the root of the problem is the same.
One man with infinite power and no accountability for his actions.

Just for clarification. I don't blame Americans, but at least from my perspective, this electoral system is very radical and gives almost "absolute power" to a person or party that almost always has marginally more support. You do not need to compromise by creating coalitions etc.

In the end, it is the fault of us Europeans who blindly believed that any successful candidate would be in our favour and perceived as friendly. Although everyone understands how fragile elections are, this was naively ignored.
> Europe ... saw lasting peace [in] the second half of the 20th century.

Which happens to coincide with the lifetime of the majority of Europeans. War was mostly something which happened to other countries, in other places - not in 'civilised' Europe, surely?

So yes, I am being serious - deadly serious. Most European countries neglected national defence after the fall of the Soviet Union in the expectation that Fukuyama was right when he claimed we were at 'The end of History' [1]. There is a good Swedish term for this condition: fredsskadad which translates to 'peace-damaged', the opposite of 'war-damaged'. It is the condition of a people who have gotten so used to peace being the norm that they assume that everyone everywhere else also considers peace to be the goal and thus no longer need to consider the possibility of ending up in a conflict.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57981.The_End_of_History...
What statements did they make in support of Hamas or their actions? Forgive me for not taking that claim at face value given that literally any pro-Palestinian speech, no matter how measured, tends to get conflated with support for terrorism and/or anti-semitism. Even something as benign as wearing a keffiyeh in solidarity, which the ADLs CEO likened to wearing a swastika.
Yes, rolling your own X has downsides and it has upsides.

Welcome to tradeoff engineering.
Yeah. I was so sad they nobody ever made a bigger better version for the WiiU.

Wish I could emulate it on my phone with S-Pen too but audio latency killed it last time I checked.

I have been meaning to get a drawing tablet and try Osu, and I will, but the songs in it are unknown Japanese anime stuff and don't appeal to me so it's not quite the same.
The article's 115 million is over 3 years. Your 30 million monthly represents one sampling period within that same 3 year period.
Firefox has been my main driver for many years, but I still have to use Chrome from time to time
Vilhelm Hammershøi: the eminence in greys
You're right updated
The core values of the publication are not the same as directing individual stories.

YesNoError token holders getting to direct which papers get investigated would be like shareholders of the Information dictating which stories get investigated and published.
They support ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.

The original goal of the Nazi concentration camps was relocating ethnic groups to help stabilize Germany and protect its culture. Your viewpoints are indistinguishable from those of a pro-Hitler German in the lead up to world war two.
If you already have a domain and iCloud you can create an address on your domain very easily
You are right. My apology.
Gotcha, sorry. I may have overreacted over the AI-ness. Posted a comment with more proper tone and content, hope that's fine.
As a kid, I was really excited to try out binoculars, and "see for myself" the so-called "binocular shot." I was very disappointed.
Both France and the UK have floated the idea of extending their nuclear umbrella to include other European nations. Both countries operate ICBM carrying submarines so don't have to deploy nukes on anyone's territory.

I wouldn't be surprised if it happens on the fact they could share the cost between nations alone for something they've already paid for.
An undergrad using the hottest tech right of the bat? Cooked.

What if I tell you there is an undergrad that just flunked a class and is depressed and cries about it? Considers changing their major? This is pre-AI. We have a chance that undergrads will never feel that way again. Not intimidated by anything.
You have to be an American to think that, right?

Obviously many countries have bought the F-35 because of some pressure from the US or as a way to buy protection. Nobody would do that again today.
Allegedly.

The government - through the Biden and Trump admins - has been testing out the limits of student repression with pro-Palestine protestors. Think of it as a pilot program for seeing what they can get away with. As we have seen elsewhere, violent shutdown of university protests is one early step on the path towards more widespread repression.

It is fine to not care, but don’t start crying for support once your cause is on the gov’s radar.
Hong Kong still exists.
I do not know how to code, nothing beyond the simplest things but I am obsessed with AI development. Several month’s ago I decided to see if Claude could do the work for me.

My test was to create a tower defense game that would run in a web browser. It took me about eight prompts, each time refining it, including agreeing to the suggesting that Claude recommended and seeing Claude agree with me on the bugs that I pointed out.

It was mind blowing. It’s not pretty at all but is recognizable as a TD game. I thanked Claude and said that was enough and Claude signed off as well saying, well if you’re going to continue to refine it, do these four things. I was really stunned.
I have ADHD and caffeine very easily makes me jittery. Ordering my cappuccino 'half-caff' has terrifically improved my life. Stimulant medication, the kind prescribed by the doc, easily makes me jittery, too.

The narrative that 'stimulants calm down people with ADHD but make neurotypicals wired' never sat well with me. But I totally believe that it makes you and many other people calmer without any friction.

There must be a wide range of physiological causes and behavioral circumstances that lead to an ADHD diagnosis, such that people like me take a baby dose of methylphenidate or else I get paradoxically overstimulated and distractible and physically uncomfortable.

Or maybe my stimulant tolerance is unrelated to the ADHD and it's just enzymes. I think I had a flag for one of those SNPs that makes me sensitive to caffeine...
It's the same language that "marshals" and "unmarshals" JSON and "dials" sockets.
Keep components up to date & dealing with schema changes will easily take more than a half day every 3 months.
Awesome CursorRules
> The funniest part is how MAGA are literally rabid against anyone left of Bret Baier

Is this really the case in 2025? There's been more than a few self-described leftists/liberals writing about attending Trump rallies over the years and this not being their experience. One example: https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2018/09/what-i-learned...
So... do you really think you were doing it right?

Sorry this is a little harsh, but how do you get anywhere near 100 people before realizing the approach must be horribly flawed, and devising and implementing a better one? Surely it behooves you to not waste your employer's time, your own time, and the time of all those people you're interviewing (mostly pointlessly).
>People here on HN frequently make excuses for Biden's illegal student loan forgiveness program because

Biden didn't do anything you suggest. You're consuming the propaganda. George Bush made it so that Federal workers with student loans could get them discharged at X years of service. X just happened to fall into Trump's first term.

Trump broke the promise made to people doing their civic duty, Biden repaired it.

Biden never took on more authority than what was established almost two decades ago.
> It utilizes a range of Modern Fortran features, including extensive use of optional variables, function pointer passing, and a randomized test driver, among others. Successfully compiling PRIMA requires a compiler with a robust and mature backend, as well as well-developed intermediate passes and a capable parser.

I am not getting a full picture here. What's challenging about PRIMA code base? Does it use some advanced features that are difficult for a compiler to support? Are the mentioned features in the 2008 standard?

What's actually impressive is that LFortran in alpha stage is only 2x slower than GFortran, which goes back decades.
Sooner than you'd think! https://wyss.harvard.edu/technology/dna-data-storage/

(though passwords aren't a great application)
> P.S. I never understood why Go uses words like "receiver" and "marshaling" that are rarely used elsewhere

What else are you familiar with? Those are extremely common terms in the object oriented community.
I disagree.

I cannot find an objective lens that enable one to view the current administration's policy changes as beneficial to the US and it's interests. This forces ones to explore why US leadership would aggressively espouse policy changes that are almost universally assessed to be damaging to us and our interests.

Is Europe finally stumping up and spending more defence? Yes. But they are also much less likely to buy US made systems in the future, and they will ask for more in exchange for intelligence sharing, or maintaining US military infrastructure domestically. The risk of nuclear proliferation is higher than it would have been without the shift.

Trump even refused to call Russia a dictatorship, not that that is material to policy decisions, but it provides fodder to those who are skeptical of Trump's policy goals and objectives.