skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are no bad languages. Only bad engineers.

An engineer should be able to solve any problem given any tool. Unlike other disciplines, when we are given a hammer everything does become a nail.

But a bad engineer will strike the hammer poorly and bend the nail, and blame the hammer.
Depends on where you live. Where I'm at it's one of the job boards.
What are you talking about? Isn't it Russia that's pushing for a continental war, not Europe?
...dating?
I mean--it's iconic. And that's fun. But I'd prefer a natural view rather than a gangly steep thing jutting into the sky. I also don't like the Hollywood sign for the same reason. shrug
China recently moved that direction.
That would be nice collaboration to see between EU and China.

China to publish policy to boost RISC-V chip use nationwide, sources say
https://www.reuters.com/technology/china-publish-policy-boos...
Rust signals fast, modern, and correct. It's absolutely a badge.

You should give the language a try when you've got a spare weekend.
The problem right now isn’t the rich. The problem is that half of the electorate is on board with this stuff. You can’t rally the people against this when half the population is in favor of it.

I’m sure there’s a good argument that wealthy people and a broadening wealth divide are responsible for this, but it’s too late to attack that now. We need a huge shift in public sentiment if this is going to change now.

Even if the outcome had been different in November. We’d still be in deep trouble. A lot less, but still a lot. The fundamental problem we have right now isn’t that Trump is President, it’s that about 50% of those who bother to vote think he’s worthy of it.
Many of the founders of the US wrote about the importance of an educated populace and feared that an uneducated voting public would ruin the system.

What you describe are both results of an uneducated voting public in my opinion. At least as I see it, those are two important effects with the root cause being a lack of education and critical thinking.

If people were better educated on how our systems work and issues that impact them directly, and willing to think critically and listen to, or engage in, reasoned debates we wouldn't have to worry about what shit they may hear or see in the media, or from politicians, lobbyists, etc.
Well, then you have to fall back on whether one of them is at least better at it than the other, and it’s hard to believe that would be a difficult decision at the moment.
Mmm maybe they shouldn't have hired them in the first place then. Ever think of that, you miserable waste?
Getting out of the need for continuous news is a necessary but not sufficient step. As is putting up barriers to keep out the news drone just from what you overhear.

After that you at least have sufficient breathing room to at least attempt to make your own predictions.
> if you're a government official in the UK, Poland or Germany, would you be recommending AWS as your cloud provider?

They don't. Sovereign cloud in EU has been progressing for a few years now.

Such that some of your mentioned "unbeatable" hyperscalers have already been positioning (e.g. ceasable infrastructure), and some interesting new players on the block. As well as old benefiting from the related market positions: https://www.oracle.com/cloud/eu-sovereign-cloud/
I see, thanks!

I didn't intend to say that workers were experiencing alienation from the means of production or that Marx thought so. Rather, what you say in that paragraph is exactly what I thought Marx thought. And I agree with him on those points. So probably my comment was poorly expressed.
N is the way.
It's not just some govt. form. It's literally about using it as a reason to ban the world's largest news agency from govt. press briefings.
I just installed Claude code today, and while it can get a bit pricey, its ability to find relevant code and then make changes based on 1-2 sentence descriptions is really damn good.

Next week I am going to try it out on a contract job to see if it can handle their ~1M loc code base while not bankrupting me.
This is excellent I loved this so much. I cant stop laughing.
I can zoom out.
I like your analysis, but wonder about this line:

>> The only viable business model for a web browser is to accept money from a search engine (Google, specifically) to be make them the default.

Mostly, it's just that giving away browsers for free as a source of garnering search traffic distorts the market.
I have only ever quit jobs in response to layoffs. Layoffs demonstrate to me that the company is apparently low on cash if they need to fire people to make ends meet. If they are not low on cash, it means that they will arbitrarily fire anyone in order to pump up their stock.

Though I've never personally been laid off, it's a black mark on the company that I think you can never recover from. It means I will never trust anything said at a quarterly all-hands. The projections they give us employees are spun to be more positive than they really are.

During COVID, my company told us that we were going to be able to save money by breaking the lease on our office building and stop paying for amenities like the snacks in the break room and catered lunches (since nobody could use them anyways). This, they said, should save us enough money that we don't need to lay anyone off!

10% of the company was laid off a week later. The next day, I would later discover, the company applied for a PPP loan: they had laid people off pre-emptively so that they wouldn't be penalized for it next year when they sought to have their PPP loan forgiven.

It illustrated to me that you can't trust leadership, ever. Once a company initiates a layoff, it's a permanent black mark on that company
Larrabee influenced ispc but was dead by that time. https://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/04/18/ispc-origins
The idea that we (Canada, any EU country, etc) can "easily nationalize" data centers running on bespoke hardware that we do not have a supply chain for, bespoke software which we do not control or have the source to, running workloads for customers as dictated by business relationships with a (now hostile) foreign company, with the descriptions of those workloads almost certainly stored in said hostile foreign companies local (i.e. foreign to us) servers... is absurd.

It's even more absurd to suggest that this can be done in response to the US becoming more hostile than they are today. By the time they are more hostile, we're talking about open hostilities. It's only safe to assume that they will have exfiltrated all the data they are interested in, and then sabotaged or destroy as much of the hardware as possible (as can be done remotely), making the data center next to worthless. And prior to nationalization it was "their data-center", they were entirely within their "rights" to sabotage and destroy it.

The time to migrate away from data-centers to minimize geo political risk is now, not when the current data centers operators are actively trying to deal damage.
Since the article explains how they "process" the news, i'll anecdote for a moment.

Prior to 2001, i watched maybe 15 minutes of news a day, like while making lunch, or just KNX 1070 in the car. September 11th, i began watching 2+ screens of news, recording it, analyzing it. This went on until at least 2002.

Something "snapped" and i got rid of my TV. a few years later, i still had no TV, no cable, etc. I just didn't "watch" news. Professor Naji Dahi said i was the first person in his class to ever answer "0 TVs" when he polled the class about how many screens were in their house, around 2004-2005.

I still don't have a "TV". And 50% of my news is "social media", and the other 50% of "real news" comes from a news analysis podcast that i won't evangelize. I've linked to archival news clips hosted by the showrunners, here, though. THe podcast is ~5 hours a week, and i spend about 5 hours actually researching and analyzing news i see on social media, usually so i have an understanding if someone mentions the news story later in the week (or whatever).

The news stresses me out. It makes me angry - but approaching it from an analysis standpoint makes it less so. It makes it funny in a "tragedy" sort of way.

Just as an example, i look outside every day and it's the exact same. regardless of what the news says is going on. This might not hold true for everyone.

I don't have some deep philosophical wisdom to share, here. No matter what you ingest and process, if you talk about it in public, someone will disagree with you.
It's not about the article, but the comment from u/12101111:

> It's a cheaper Spacemit K1.

> The CPU spec from dtb:

> compatible = "ky,x60", "riscv"; model = "Ky(R) X60"; riscv,isa = "rv64imafdcv"; riscv,isa-extensions = "i", "m", "a", "f", "d", "c", "v", "zicbom", "zicboz", "zicntr", "zicond", "zicsr", "zifencei", "zihintpause", "zihpm", "zfh", "zfhmin", "zba", "zbb", "zbc", "zbs", "zkt", "zvfh", "zvfhmin", "zvkt", "sscofpmf", "sstc", "svinval", "svnapot", "svpbmt";

> It also have a ARM China Linlon v5 VPU and Imagination IMG GPU. The PMIC and UART is same as K1.

> And the ubuntu image from orangepi just use the same BSP kernel/uboot/opensbi from Spacemit's linux-bianbu.
This has been slowly coming so now they are offering the entire data center stack to be operated by European companies in European owned datacenters
At this point very little code is "novel". Everyone is simply rewriting code that has already been written in a similar form. The LLM isn't slurping up and restating code verbatim. It is taking code that it has seen thousands of times and generating a customized version for your needs. It's hubris to think that anyone here is generating "novel" code.
Nationalization of foreign assets occurs at an extreme level of hostility that stable European governments would have no chance of doing, unless it had been done first by the other side. It is the kind of thing that happened in Venezuela.
Do you have sources that don't take funding from US Intel (USAID)?
Errors do not only happen because of code defects, they are often a response to bad data. And even if there were fewer defects, that could be because of other features of Go, not the error handling.

So that doesn't seem like a good metric to determine if Go's error handling is "better" (in some dimension) than other techniques.
You're right, people submitting for academic publications will still need to use LaTeX until those institutions change their practices.

If that group comprises the vast majority of people who might have a use for a programmatic typesetting environment, and if the use of LaTeX by academic institutions represents current, expert insight about LaTeX's continued superiority and not simply organizational inertia, then Typst is irrelevant and pointless.

Big "if"s, though.
I don’t know enough about Gleam’s implementation to say how applicable this is, but from a more general language design perspective… a keyword isn’t inherently imbued with special capabilities that a function call wouldn’t be. They’re semantically interchangeable for this use case, if the function can access requisite information about the underlying stack.

I’m not sure it’s possible to extrapolate any lessons for Python from this Gleam language feature or the chosen syntax.
Vlad Tenev, CEO of Robinhood, quote tweeted, which was pretty cool
no the depth of graphics API's in latex is really something, and an area that is underdeveloped in typst. it'll take a considerable time for typst to be on par.
this is the same tired argument as to why conventional forces are redundant if you have nuclear weapons, due to MAD

the enemy will never put you into a position where the rational thing to do is to launch your nukes (nationalise their data centres)

but they will push and push up against that line

the way to deal with this is gradual decoupling, ideally backed up by legislation and government subsidy
Citing an airline for longevity is a bit disingenuous.

I’m not sure how it works with support staff, but aircraft crew have contract structures that so heavily favor seniority that most pilots and FAs will never leave a major willingly during their career.

Your observation, to me, seems more like: tech companies reward new employees over old, airlines do the extreme opposite.
I mean, being homeless kinda sucks.
That's a pretty weird and heartless thing to say. Having children is not a vice that deserves to be judged anymore than not having kids is. I could enumerate why fewer kids is bad for our collective future as a whole, but I won't, because the decision to have kids is a personal choice.

Also, having kids is generally not the difference between having to work or not—most people have to work for a living regardless of family status. It's just that the stakes are higher when you have dependents.
The next war could be a EU-Russia war though.
Former Nintendo CEO Iwata said something similar:

“If we reduce the number of employees for better short-term financial results, employee morale will decrease,” he said. “I sincerely doubt employees who fear that they may be laid off will be able to develop software titles that could impress people around the world.”
Other nations have adjacency.

Taiwan makes some of the most complex devices humans have ever constructed! They can figure out the almost 100 year old technology to make a gun bomb nuke.
> For example, I do not think you'd see a Democrat outside of a swing district publicly say, "It's very important that we protect female-only spaces," as Keir Starmer has.

Maybe a year or two ago…the political landscape has shifted drastically in recent years and months.

California governor Gavin Newsom has a new podcast, and recently told Charlie Kirk (yes, he invited Kirk to pander to the young white male voters) something along the lines of “trans people shouldn’t play sports”.
good catch, actually increased to 1mb, I struggled at the beginning with the 20mb limit for inline data. But will look into the resized versions because i realized sometime is missed great images because of the limit. Thanks for the feedback!
If I was a defense minister in Western Europe right now I'd go looking at whatever the Dassault, Saab or other European based defense tech can provide. I'd also immediately halt any pilot training in the US. I can see shares in Raytheon, Lockheed, etc. taking losses in the next couple of quarters, I mean here we have a president that won't even spend money on its own defense tech for export, and is now actively shutting down that export market.
I guess it comes down to subjective definitions and semantics.

I get that DNS works by converting domains to ips, I've implemented DNS server protocol in C.

Whenever you 'hack' something, you can always frame it in terms of its intended purpose. You are not hacking the ping binary to ddos a website, you are merely configuring it to send ICMP packets of 1TB of size at a very high frequency.

In this case DNS is originally a mechanism to convert hierarchical numerical ip adresses with geographical info, to human memorable textual names. It serves a role of helping humans memorize, of providing textual names to servers.

When you use it as a firewall tool, it is not its intended purpose, I'm not against it, in fact I think dns based firewalls are great, especially at the state level. But they are strictly a creative usage of a protocol that was not designed for that purpose, and its an additive modification, you add a blacklist to a DNS that has all of the addresses and you filter some out. Therefore, it is two things, a DNS and a firewall. The firewall is not a DNS, it's a domain based blacklist something else.
Wow, I couldn't disagree more. My personal life is what I enjoy, the random people I work with to make money and will be gone as soon as I quit or get laid off, well... I just don't want them to be toxic. I already have a ton of friends, I don't need to convert work people into my social life. Skiing for a few months sounds super amazing though!
Ukraine already surrendered chunk of its territory few years ago. You think this time it will be different and Russia won't try to take Ukraine again once it rebuilds its military potential?
Encourage people to go offline more.
only if such assets have very low / no vol. With any level of leverage such a strategy brings along a significant risk of gambler's ruin.
I wonder if F35s will be like HP printers and refuse to start unless they phone home?
Your point was the irrelevance of LaTeX which has the momentum of a neutron star.
It was idiotically unbelievable fiction until literally the day before Trump took office, even with project 2025 readable on the internet.

In fact, we discussed how the whole idea of an USA ex-president calling up a personal militia, trying a coup that could reboot a civil war, giving up half way, and not ending up in jail or even politically castrated was garbage fiction until 5 jan 2021.
Honest question (including that since its sometimes hard to tell when written) -

What additional authority doss the US legislative branch need? They have pretty wide authority to create any laws that don't violate our constitutional rights, I don't know how we could really expand that further (but my view is definitely biased since I grew up here).

I think congress would be well within its rights to change their own rules to add time limits on legislation or required expiration on proposed bills, for example.
The lines of code isn’t the point. Op claimed they asked Claude to recreate Claude code and it was successful. This is obviously an extreme exaggeration. I think this is the crux of a lot of these posts. This code generator output a very basic utility. To some this is a revelation, but it leaves others wondering what all the fuss is about.

It seems to me people’s perspective on code gen has largely to do with their experience level of actually writing code.
If you think the rich people haven't invented a way around those pesky "rules"...
I don't think i understand this:

> Intersections here cancel the speed limit signs that are before them

does this mean that the flow of traffic is constantly slowing down as it approaches intersections, even if the light is "green"?
RISC-V is an open standard. ARM still needs to be licensed.

The world is abandoning rent seekers.
What is really crazy about this though is that sometimes it really is the interview setting, as people unused to interviews can, at times, emotionally collapse. I have seen people who are actually good programmers get wrecked by simple questions because of their inability to handle stress, and how the lack of interview practice turns a simple exercise into a hellscape.

It's not as if testing for performance under stress is useless: Tough on call rotations happen, and you might need someone that does well under pressure at 3 am in the morning. But the picture you get on a screening isn't as clear as it appears.
On a side note, I'm getting whiplash by how fast we go from

It's your fault for having children [overpop, resource exhaustion]
to
It's your fault for not having children [low-birthrates]
back to
It's your fault for having children [whatever this is]
The present administration isn't really planning to cut military spending, they just want to redirect it. $4B of military aid was recently approved for another country.

Here's the budgetary outlook: You'll notice that defense spending is projected to have a slight increase in real terms, or a slight (0.1%) decrease in terms of fraction of GDP.

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61172
What I want is one of these bundlers and typescript compilers that are written in Rust to be runnable programmatically from e.g. a Cargo build.rs or within a web server in Rust.

I don't want to install your binary separately, and I don't want to use NPM for my project. I want to use my existing build system, and if you wrote it in Rust, it should be made to fit nicely into the Rust ecosystem.
Got news for you, too: it's both. It's the useless management, it's the "developers" who send me screenshots of stack traces while they cry and soil themselves because they have no clue what they're doing.
There are so many solid web bundlers that all offer a similar feature set, I am pretty skeptical that another entry is all that beneficial. It's good to have choices, but it's become difficult to keep up with such a fragmented ecosystem. I also admit that I am biased. I started using vite a couple years ago and since then have never run into any serious issues with my frontend builds/developer experience. If the main benefit of another tool is marginal performance gains, I am thoroughly uninterested.
Are you the mythical "ethical consumer under capitalism" I've heard so many legends about?

addendum: sibling comment's point is more relevant
Yes, by "should" they mean "the site author should have made it work that way."
An experienced manager would know that is how the game is played and act accordingly. Don't get emotionally attached to any work relationships. It's transactional, keep that in mind.
That's one hell of a term to mean being afraid of being alone.
It's definitely hard going, which is why I haven't read much of it myself. Part of that is that old Karl wanted to make his argument as convincing as he could, and that trades off against making it easy to read. They say the Grundrisse https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/grundrisse/ is more readable, but I haven't tried it myself. I guess I'd better, since I'm being told I'm getting some of Marx's points wrong!
Aside from Vivaldi, I also use Firefox. Get the “login with Google” on both. Maybe Google has fingerprinted my laptop?

But that’s the point, the image in that pop-up / mini-modal is a tracking device. The minute the browser requests it, Google knows where I’ve been. F** that
As a person who drinks tea for 30+ year old in a country which is top 3 in world tea consumption, I can say that theanine works. The biggest advantage of it when compared to caffeine, it doesn't create that tension in the body. You just work and concentrate. While it's not as powerful as caffeine, it allows one to work very efficiently and for long hours, if they choose to do so.

Also, against the popular myth, black tea / theanine doesn't affect iron absorption that much (if any), if it was, the whole country would be anemic, and we are not.
I posted this link to HN not very long ago: https://liliputing.com/orange-pi-rv2-is-a-single-board-pc-wi...

Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43309376
This will seem like a nit at first but it's really a key driver to why you'd look at other shapes: a hexagon is more comparable to a quadrangle, a square is more comparable to what is called "a regular hexagon". Regular meaning the sides and angles which make up the shape are all equal. In the 2D world, such as on board games, equilateral triangles, squares, and regular hexagons can all tile a plane perfectly. This is not the case for the surface of a sphere, there is no tiling regular polygon in that case.

From there you're just trying to optimize uniformity in distance to neighbors, how big the adjustments to the irregular polygons need to be to get them to tile on the surface are, how easy the polygon is to split up into smaller similarly shaped variants of itself as sub tiles, and trying to be somewhat close to a circle in shape as that means the average distance to the center of the area defined by the index is as close to as it can be.

If you chunk through those you'll find quadrangles aren't attractively simple anymore and hexagons tend to optimize the parameters very well. H3 actually uses both hexagons and the occasional pentagon (12 total, no matter the zoom level). It all comes down to "tiling isn't going to be perfect - what is the most optimal answer for the purpose of the tiling".
> same quality of life

What is your bill when an ambulance brings you in? When you have a legal problem at your workplace? What will be your pension? How is the mass transit system? What do you pay for child care, how is your school, how safe is your neighborhood, how do the number of murders in your area compare?