skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'Just' is overdoing it a tiny bit :)

Assuming everyone has a CL installed is going to limit the audience pretty drastically.

And what about dependencies? Assume they have quicklisp installed as well?

Like I said, I love Common Lisp, but every language is some kind of compromise.
I would argue that the title is misleading and overly alarmist here. This particular bug may have involved recursion and a stack overflow, but that's like saying "malloc kills" in the title of an article about a heap overflow bug. The existence of stack overflow bugs does not imply that recursion is bad any more than the existence of heap overflow bugs implies that malloc is bad. Recursion and malloc are tools that both have pretty well understood resource limitations, and one must take those limitations into account when employing those tools.
You really can over-hire and I've seen it happen in many shops

If a "10x engineer" is not given 10x problems, they will.. create some.
Increasingly, you need the internet working to access your money or pay for things. I've found you unfortunately need to pay for food.
I cannot recommend enough the podcast Opinionated History of Mathematics by Viktor Blåsjö

What's great about it is that it helps put you in the shoes of the people solving the problems at these times. So it secretly teaches you how to solve problems. He also attacks some of the claims of some historians which are a bit obtuse. The arguments are really well founded and if you're wondering how ancients solved extremely complex math while never inventing the tools you'd think are needed to solve them, then this will answer a lot of that. I think it'll make you see a lot of problems in a different light. It also is just a lot of fun and can be pretty funny.

https://intellectualmathematics.com/opinionated-history-of-m...
hey. a true personal assistant. help people save 10+ hours a week thanks to it would be very very cool.
There's something to do with the whatsapp interface. i feel like people have enough of new apps and new interfaces.
The German Empire of 1871 is just one of many. Germans have lived in those lands for quite some time. Already Julius Caesar was conducting campaigns in Magna Germania.
Using recursive techniques to parse potentially hostile inputs kills.
Can you give an example of a country where you think the population would do something violent or upending if they had an Elon?
Portuguese MoD rejects F-35 and will look for European Fighter jets
Victim blaming. "How dare you get victimized and not do more to stop it?"
Well, "everything worked out according to plan and nobody got hurt" doesn't make for a very interesting story ;)
I just see it as a "mask" you put on for a specific audience that has the potential to greatly increase your prospects and then take off everywhere else. At a certain point the prospects (not going broke) override any shame you could feel.

I don't think selling oneself is something that reflects on one's character given what's at stake. The important people who know who you really are will also treat that mask of yours as fake. But they could also play up your appeals in the LinkedIn comments section to ultimately improve your chances of... getting a job. Which is all that really matters at the end of the day.
How much it would cost to build the building and the value of the land after improvement is not the same, for instance there are plenty of properties in St. Louis, Chicago, Gary, etc where the value of the property is less than the cost of building the structure on it. Does that mean the unimproved land value is negative?
It's not that clear cut. Since they're talking about taking lossy compression to the limit, there are ways to go so lossy that you're not longer infringing even if you can point exactly at where it's stored.

Like cliff's notes.
The numbers aren't difficult to see. Biden's worst day for S&P was -5.5% from his first day in office. Today, Trump's second term is down -8.7%. He has steep ground to make up if he wants his 8 years to compare to Joe Biden's 4. Tesla's loss alone is $621 B. All Federal spending is $44,400 per taxpayer, so Tesla's capitalization leaving the market is significant at over $4000 per taxpayer.

https://www.reuters.com/data/tracking-trumps-economy-2025-01...
How Pi Almost Wasn't
Cities Aren't Back
No, but that tends to gradually happen all by itself from my experience, even in solo projects. Because it feels stupid writing something yourself when you have access to stdlib. Also, I feel rolling your own stuff in C++ is a major pita in comparison to C, too many rules to memorize for me.
nice. i joined the waitlist, will see how it does :)
Depth is easy to miss when the parser calls a lot of functions that call each other and that have vastly different stack usage.

A more reliable check is to compare an address of a thing on the stack at api boundary with the current address of things on the stack. SpiderMonkey, the JS engine in Firefox, used something like that in past to stop run-away recursion or at least to switch to slower algorithms with bounded stack usage.
I think you should reach out to science and education influencers. At very least they can give you site feedback. If they like it, you might find opportunities to promote the site. I'd be interested to see what Tom Scott says (see his RI presentation: "There is No Algorithm for Truth").

If you want to aggressively promote it, setup some bots that fact check posts from popular figures known for spreading misinformation. Lead with the credibility score for their claims, give the briefest explanation possible, and link to the full report on the site. Be prepared to be very unpopular with some groups that don't care about any kind of analysis or evidence, but trust that you'll reach others who do.

Good luck!

Some honest (if blunt) feedback:

- You need to debug your react code. Something is constantly running. Your site shouldn't hit 100% CPU usage when sitting idle. This isn't just a performance issue, it's also a credibility issue.

- Rework the floating elements on report pages ("Try Another Analysis", "Credibility Score", "Other Reports"). Depending on the dimensions of the viewport, these cover the page's content, making it unreadable. This is also a credibility issue. Credible sites don't bombard the user with popups.
Because it's rewarding in its own right. I can't imagine doing the bare minimum at work -- pretty sure I'd melt of boredom within a week. "Owning" a project/component/whatever keeps things interesting and keeps me engaged, and extrinsic rewards aren't that important if you're making a healthy salary in the first place.
Why shouldn’t there be a continuous range of skill? Why should we want normal engineers instead of you know “good” ones, or even “really good” ones?

Oh and also, it wouldn’t hurt to qualify those skills to the specific domain to which they apply. Like “he’s a really good database engineer” or “he’s a great C# guy, but terrible at DevOps”

These articles are polarizing because they take for original assumption that the real world is discontinuous. That’s stupid.

Let’s praise the engineer that’s in the 2.5x to 7x range.
It can't fall through, because the debt is on the land and not a person. The land doesn't run out of money. There will always be a buyer for the building who will then have to pay down the loan. If there isn't a buyer for the building, then the building is worth less than the loan and even in the traditional case of the banking issuing the loan to an individual, there would not be sufficient recovered capital to repay the loan.

TL;DR the lender loses money iff the value of the building is less than the money they loaned to build it (true in any system).

> whats to stop someone from taking out a huge loan and paying their own construction company to do the work at a premium?

That's called embezzling. Are you familiar with corporate law? The "limited liability" in "limited liability company" refers to the fact that the owners of a company are not liable for the debts owed by said company. One can, in principal, take out a large loan on behalf of a company you own, pay it to yourself as salary, then declare the company insolvent and pocket the cash. Laws exists to prevent this and could be extended to fraud under the new system.
Take a loot at conventions.md in aider.chat documentation
Would {word1} beat {word2} • Ranked AI game
> "Du bist so 1 Pimmel" (something like "you are such a willy")

Sure, it's something like that, but it's more like "thou beest such a willy". ;D
If a high school graduate comes in and offers the same value as the other cashiers making the same amount of money, then, yes, they should get paid the same. If the other cashiers are more valuable, then they should be paid more.

this isn't really as difficult as everyone makes it. "Minimum wage is a company's way of telling you that if it was legal to pay you less, they would."

If a company can't afford to pay cashiers at different rates based on their tenure and skill, then i guess the company will have to deploy self-checkout, and some people don't like that, so they'll take their business elsewhere. If that means that all grocery stores go "self checkout" then i suppose farmer's markets will become a lot bigger.

This is all about grocery cashiers, please do not try to extrapolate my words to anything else, i am speaking to this very narrow thing.
MLB players are giving their new robot umpire overlords a cautious welcome
For Better or for Worse, the Overload (2024)
input delay heavy on mobile browser, otherwise nice!
The article reads "some four billion human beings alive today—can trace their ancestry to the Yamnaya". It's 50%. I haven't checked the research though.

> r1b's population is only 190 million [1]

Their population likely had multiple haplogroups. R1b was the most common (5000 years ago). But, yeah, the 50% number looks too high.
“Rick Sanchez” is currently winning with 1182 rank
What do you mean to an extent? It's definitely not Romantic.
That was a fun puzzle! You should add a confirmation to the reset button - my finger slipped and accidentally hit it.
FinCEN Issues Southwest Border Geographic Targeting Order
Cognitive security is now as important as basic literacy. Here's a true story
Never bought a car, but can you request the dealer to remove SIM module from the vehicle? So you can selectively update the infotainment system only when you vetted/needed to?
And most urban population growth [1].

[1] https://www.slowboring.com/p/cities-arent-back?utm_source=po...
No, this CVE is explicitly about recursive calls overflowing the stack, not running out of memory on large inputs.

The point of tail recursion is that it can be converted into a loop instead of actually recursing.
"Salieri didn't like Beethoven's late works."

I remember that the concert introducing the fifth and sixth symphonies was widely criticized. This was mid-life, not late.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beethoven_concert_of_22_Dece...

Edit: I don't find evidence in the wiki of hostile reception, excepting this:

"The concert provoked the ire of fellow composer Antonio Salieri, who had been Beethoven's teacher. Also on 22 December, Salieri organized his annual concert to benefit widows and orphans, and he threatened to ban any Tonkünstler-Societät musicians who had played in Beethoven's concert instead of his own. However, soon after the relationship between the two composers improved."
They also had Western-style shoes, so it made me think of post-Meiji, Imperial Japan.

I was only off by 600 years.

I still enjoyed it, however.
Starlink just transmits to a ground station thats 99% of the time in the same country. Its not some magical space internet, its just regular internet bottled and delivered by satellite.

RF is really where this discussion needs to be, you and your mate jim can set up a bunch of UBNT hardware and create your own intranet really god damn easily. No reliance on some guy who signed on to all your governments internet censorship laws.
They will probably get it too :)
Must be the rumours that DeepSeek has million worths of GPU think and their claim of relatively cheap training is a psyop
Lesson series: Kubernetes fundamentals for complete beginners
An ebook about Kubernetes' essentials.
Reasonable compilers translate tail-recursive functions into loops/jumps, so the stack does not grow. Tail recursion is easier to do in a garbage collected functional language though (e.g. if you need to use continuation passing).

Even in C, the recursive solution is usually simpler, so it makes sense to use it for unit tests to validate the more manual solution.
I have to admit I have little knowledge of Swedish politics, but I read he was part of Bevara Sverige Svenskt, which went around with slogans such as "don't let your daughter become a negro toy" and "negros threaten their victims". That's just dehumanising racist nonsense.

If you want to talk about Swedish culture then sure and critique various forms of multiculturalism, then sure, that's fine. But by focusing on skin colour "white nationalism" is fundamentally racist.
Mathematicians move the needle on the Kakeya conjecture
This? https://briarproject.org/how-it-works/

Hadn’t heard of it. Thanks for bringing it up.
"Dramatically!" Therefore, old career tech advice doesn't apply anymore. Gotcha. Thanks, Captain Obvious? This blog doesn't really say anything is my point...
Two things come to mind:
- Maximum stack depth greatly varies between targets. If you wanted to support a recursion depth of, say, 50, that may already be too much for some of the hardware this library needs to be able to run on, so the original problem still exists.
- This would be add an arbitrary limit to the parsing capabilities of the library. Stack space is very limited to begin with compared to heap space, So any solution that remains recursive would probably require a limit way lower than a heap-based solution could offer.
Fascist attacks on academia are nothing new - previously, prospective hires had to demonstrate the correct ideological loyalty to be considered [1,2,3], and access to (tax-funded) data was given only if the research would not risk undermining that ideology [4].

The only difference is that this time, academia is attacked bluntly and openly, instead of subtly taken over and subverted.

[1] Arizona’s public universities now mandate diversity statements from applicants in over a quarter (28%) of job postings at the University of Arizona, nearly three-quarters (73%) of job postings at Northern Arizona University, and in more than four of five (81%) job postings at Arizona State University. - https://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/policy-report/the-new-loy...

[2] Diversity Statements Required for One-Fifth of Academic Jobs - https://www.schoolinfosystem.org/2021/11/11/study-diversity-...

[3] Berkeley Weeded Out Job Applicants Who Didn't Propose Specific Plans To Advance Diversity - https://reason.com/2020/02/03/university-of-california-diver...

[4] https://www.city-journal.org/article/dont-even-go-there
> A few years after the first battle over Taiwan has taken place.

Awful but true.

> There has been news about Broadcom and NVidia testing their designs on Intel process nodes.

Links? It makes sense to invest in second and third sources, even if it does mean handing money to a competitor. Especially given the instability of the global community right now.
Again, your competitor will get there faster and with fewer bugs. LLMs are trained on human input and humans do not do great at low level languages. They churn out better Python than C and especially when it comes to refactoring it (have observed that personally).
Cursor refuses to generate code, tells user to learn code instead
No - I mean the accessibility to the information and blatant use of power whereby we always knew it existed, but now we can tabulate and analyze it.
That idea works in general but causes false positives: No artificial limit you pick is "right" and the false positives can be avoided by getting rid of the recursion altogether.

PS: It's not one single function, not direct but indirect recursion.
Thank you. I am disappointed that almost none of the comments here discuss the OpenAI proposals on the merits. I do hope that the federal government heeds most of these ideas, particularly recognizing that training a model should be fair use.
Hiring in 2025 vs. 2021 (YouTube) [video]
I’ve hoped for this too, but as a Swede. There’s been GPT-SW3 but it was poor. We could technically have very powerful, small language specific models. I think its unfortunately just a funding and resource issue.
reset is undoable
> Working with states and tribes to resolve massive backlog with State Implementation Plans and Tribal Implementation Plans that the Biden-Harris Administration refused to resolve (SIPs/TIPs)

What's up with that?
It's everything that throws, which covers a lot more than STL, including <algorithm>.
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> Do people really think a web server written in Go or Rust is unmaintainable?

Things are not black and white. It will be less maintainable relatively speaking, proper tool for the job and all that. That’s why you will be left in the dust.
Khan academy could get you through it, in I'd guess a month or three, depending on your time available.
AIs that eventually go insane is a sci-fi trope that it appeared in the Halo (2, 3, Reach?) videogames.
Starlink always sides with the government. ALWAYS. Starlink doesnt make anything impotent. They just retransmit to a ground station in the same country. They signed on to every anti speech law in your country. They do business. Musk does not care about you or free speech.

>Most if not all protest are sponsored by entities that are against the host country

What kind of seppocentric drool is this statement?

LoraWAN and Wifi based local chat apps are about all that works for most protesters when the internet gets axed.
Musk's 'small man' tweet at Poland's foreign minister should be an eye opener for Europe [1].

Unfortunately, while Musk is wrong about Starlink, there is no substitute for SpaceX. Particularly if Europe keeps shooting itself in the foot by sticking to Arianespace.

[1] https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1898759859459203457
This is amazing. Nice job, I'm going to have to check this out sometime.

Back around 1985 I was 15 years old and very interested in transputer processors, so much that I called up SGS Thompson, as I wanted to get the datasheets for the chip. The guy at the company was so surprised to be getting a call from a 15 year old. He didn't send me the technical info I was seeking but he did send me some brochures. That's as close as I got to a transputer :(

I daydreamed about transputers and how they could be the future of computing, while I was hacking way on assembly language on my Commodore 64. I'd draw all kinds of network topologies between transputer chips in my high school english class. I had dreams of a system where adding more computing power meant just adding some more transputer chips. In my ideas, connecting a printer would also add more computing power, because the printer would also have a transputer chip in it to control print functions, but when it wasn't printing the rest of "the system" could use the CPU. Of course none of that came to pass, but it was great to daydream about the possibilities.
The wonderful historical podcast Futility Closet did a great episode about Ruth Belville, which went some way to explaining her business model and how it still worked with technological advancements. https://www.futilitycloset.com/2016/06/06/podcast-episode-10...

I found it initially while looking for the Citation Needed episode from The Technical Difficulties, which is less informed, but quite fun. https://youtu.be/RzfiF9ccZvQ
Citigroup plans to slash external IT contractors, hire staff to improve controls
You are very loudly and assertively wrong.
I'm not sure reaching for PHP to dunk on functional languages is the win you think it is?

> Visually, it is basically the same, with clear visual messaging of what has changed.

In order to do this you had to make edits to all but a single line of logic. Literally only one line in your implementation didn't change.

Compare, with Ruby:

# strings
uniq = strings.uniq()

# structs, if they are considered equal based on the
# field in question (strings are just structs and they
# implement equality, so of course this is the same)
uniq = structs.uniq()

# structs, if you want to unique by some mechanism
# other than natural equality
let uniq = structs.uniq(&:id)

With Rust:

# strings
let uniq = strings.unique();

# structs, if they are considered equal based on the
# field in question (strings are just structs and they
# implement equality, so of course this is the same)
let uniq = structs.unique();

# structs, if you want to unique by some mechanism
# other than natural equality
let uniq = structs.unique_by(|s| s.id);

You cannot tell me with a straight face that your version is clearer. You'll note that both languages have essentially the exact same code, which is to say: nearly none at all.
Antropic's MCP for matrix.org, beeper.com or texts.com?
building social co-pilot's module of messaging, need some aggregated messaging solution, have you seen anything like this?

I want AI read my aggregated inbox, because it has unlimited attention, and mine is limited.

Same for content inbox later.
I guess my point is that "pushed on you whether you like it or not" is just a fact of if you re interested in said topic.

Is it that you don't want an interruption? Because for the information to be out there, someone had to pay for it and at some point, it was pushed on someone who didn't care.

I don't think I understand how any sort of commerce or awareness happens without advertising.
Not really, but he does comply with every law.
What would I have to pay an unskilled version of you, both in terms if gross pay, and in required safety equipment, to get you to do the job? What would be reasonable?

Does the graph of that pay scale cross the cost graph of this robot?

Maybe just paying a living wage is a simpler answer than most AI enthusiasts want to admit.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/epa-approves-texas-clean-a...

Sounds better for the environment than I'd feared...
Curious to hear someone in favor of this. It’s sounding really bad.
I meant VTT, not TTS
> It’s a competitive advantage to build an environment where people can be hired for their unique strengths, not their lack of weaknesses; where the emphasis is on composing teams

Wise words for hiring managers.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43357995
It's important to understand who and what he is.

Too many people are unwillingly to see and would much rather look the other way.
"Beyond Vacuuming: How Can We Exploit Domestic Robots’ Idle Time?"

There are so many use cases that I hadn't thought of! This seems like something that Apple et al will be building a raft of products for or a product with multiple uses. Also a reasonable use for Generative AI.

Could also be extended to the yard if it used legs rather than wheels.

It would need to be a reasonably priced version of Spot from Boston Dynamics [1].

[1] https://bostondynamics.com/products/spot/