skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of the last few C# compiler versions have been about "boiler-plate" reduction. Namespaces don't need curly braces any more and are just a single line at the top. You can write some top-level code inside a namespace without it needing to be in a class. More of the properties and method bodies that are simple can also be written entirely with arrows without curly braces.

Delegates and Events were a mistake, but that's a low-level .NET mistake that a lot of modern code can easily ignore, with Action<> and Func<> now reliably almost everywhere and WinForms easy to write off as "dead". (You can especially eliminate the need for the ugliness of Delegates and Events with System.Reactive.Linq.)

Records and Primary Constructors remove a ton of the boiler-plate of writing basic "DTOs" and/or dependency injection.

C# is pretty elegant, and a nicely evolving language. Microsoft isn't any longer trying to bet on C# as a "systems programming language" because too many people see JIT support and VMs as "not low level enough" (including apparently also Anders Hejlsberg), but that doesn't mean C# isn't "future proof".
Reversing Samsung's H-Arx Hypervisor Framework – Part 1
> No. Post-WWII America experienced a period of economic tailwinds that will likely never exist again.

The UK didn't get bombed nearly to the extent of continental Europe, and it was a mature industrialized society - the first one in fact - yet it also experienced the post WW2 growth. Same for the the bombed-out countries like Germany and France.

> As we reached the 70's - 90's, we started to outsource. Our labor had become more expensive, but we offset this with cheap imported goods. We were still extremely and unilaterally wealthy.

The US GDP didn't stop growing then, but wealth inequality vastly increased up to the present. The growth in inequality is the change, not the growing GDP.

> Post China WTO, the wealth of America has been spent and "averaged out" over dozens of post-industrial economies

Again, US GDP has effectively increased super-linearly since the 90s, even with China in the WTO. The problem is the benefits - even after the cheap consumer goods - have largely been realized by the wealthiest while the working class have been left out to dry. If the US hadn't gutted the working/middle class's jobs, assets and the public infrastructure they depend on during this period, perhaps we wouldn't have the instability we face now.

> So the wealth of the Baby Boomers and their incredible economic tailwinds will not be felt again unless there's some wildly new disruption to the economic order. (AGI and automated manufacturing, maybe?)

Wealth will continue to explode as technology allows ever greater efficiency and exploitation of resources.

> The reality is that the American middle class will shrink and people will have to work harder. The American market doesn't have magical superiority anymore.

Not if they stop fighting each other and instead fight for their piece of the productivity growth.
Owl: An Open-Source Multi-Agent AI Framework (OS Alternative to Manus)
Manus sparked excitement, but the open-source community moved fast.

In just a few hours, CAMEL-AI’s OWL was released—fully open-source, with no invites or restrictions.

It’s incredible to see how quickly the community comes together to build accessible alternatives.
OWL enables multi-agent collaboration for research, browsing, document parsing, and code execution.

Supports GPT-4o, Claude 3.5, DeepSeek, Qwen
Runs locally with Ollama, vLLM, and SGLang
Currently ranked #1 on the GAIA benchmark for open-source agent frameworks.

Check it out → https://github.com/camel-ai/owl
best comment i've ever seen. i am serious.
China unveils nuclear-powered battery with millennium-long lifespan
Mercedes Unveils Entry-Level Electric Sedan in Swipe at Tesla
Yes, or go up and hit "next", but I don't normally have to on HN.

With the mouse-over-to-and-click-on-tiny-gray-link UI, it's usually faster to autoscroll/scrollwheel or hit PgDn.

So if you start doing the usual way, and it's not working, that's frustration with the post.

And is it worth your time to figure out where to prune/skip within the tree, when you have to go navigate to the tree links. And probably have hide/next/prev multiple times, to get past the entire tree from where you realize.

If people had more UI-efficient tree operations (like in past threading newsreaders), and knew how to use them, then it would be easier.

But with what we have, we can get important posts where important comments are effectively suppressed, for many readers, just by putting a dozen pages of frustrating distraction in front of them.
Idk if this will replace the good ol' snapdrop / pairdrop
There's also one in Germany that's been burning since the 17th century, Goethe even visited and wrote about it, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brennender_Berg
This is like old-reddit vs. reddit. Sorry, but the original is far superior.
i'll try to improve. thanks for comment. cheers
Awesome to see great work from AI2 continuing. They are the only competitive fully open source model as far as I know - they share the training data and code as well. They also recently released an open source app that does on device AI on your phone!
Show HN: Codemcp – Claude Code for Claude Pro subscribers – ditch API bills
Hi all! I normally work on the PyTorch project but I've been on baby leave for the past month, so I've been playing around with AI as a user rather than a framework implementor. I really liked the agent experience with Claude Code, but I couldn't really justify spending so many dollars on API costs for random side projects. I already pay for a Claude Pro subscription though, and it turns out you can simulate many of Claude Code's features with an MCP. If you have a Pro subscription, check this out! I think it really captures the Claude Code experience quite well, without forcing you to pay for API tokens.
You've gotta move your mouse at least 36 pixels within the first ~200 ms. You might be pulling it too slowly.
Do you mean something for data visualization, or tricks condensing large data sets with cursors?

https://d3js.org/

Best of luck =3
Damn. I feel kinda physically unstable watching this. Mesmerizing indeed
It was bad because they did research studies about the UI and then lied about the results of those studies so they could push the terrible Win8 UI forward.

I had friends who worked on the UX team for 8 and they reported general malfeasance all around. Microsoft was very scarred that tabled were going to take over the world (that was common wisdom in the trade presses at the time) and iPad sales used to be absurdly high. Win8 was the result of a scared company that needed to release something.
Hrm "unlimited IOPS"? I suppose contrasted against the abysmal IOPS available to Cloud block devs. A good modern NVMe enterprise drive is specced for (order of magnitude) 10^6 to 10^7 IOPS. If you can saturate that from database code, then you've got some interesting problems, but it's definitely not unlimited.
What Is an AI Application?
For this particular one I used d3.js, but honestly this isn't really the type of thing it's designed for. I've also used GSAP for this type of thing on this article I wrote about database sharding.

https://planetscale.com/blog/database-sharding
Every time I've tried it, adding GC to a C program makes it faster. It will increase the RAM usage by a bit, and exactly when pauses happen is less predictable (unless you explicitly trigger a GC in e.g. your main loop), and possibly individual pauses larger, but overall program execution time -- throughput -- increases.

Malloc() and free() aren't free, and in particular free() does a lot more bookkeeping and takes more time than people realise.
> How can this ever be acceptable?

Because the only people capable of holding him accountable won't do it.

The system is broken. The US Government/Constitution depends too much on the assumption that people will do the right thing.
> Because anecdote

I don’t think anyone could have said something more rude or ignorant if they tried.

> designed as an experiment

Ha. As if you could design such an experiment. What, you’ll place two rats at a keyboard and ask them to implement grep? Bffr.

I’m pointing out the obvious - no one has actually written these mythical C programs that outperform Rust, to say nothing about security and reliability. You’ve deluded yourself into thinking that all it needs is “an experiment”. lol.
You don't have to add it to your resume, right? If you want to mention the work in future interviews, you can easily talk about it as short-term contracting work.

I'm not sure what's wrong ethically about it though? Is it that you wouldn't have provided enough value to the firm in 9 months?
I'm not sure how you are going to judge that one.
But making copies for yourself, without distributing them, is different than making copies for others. Google is downloading copyrighted content from everywhere online, but they don't redistribute their scraped content.

Even web browsing implies making copies of copyrighted pages, we can't tell the copyright status of a page without loading it, at which point a copy has been made in memory.
> then the manufacturer of that device is a fraud who is deliberately trying to spite me

That's a weird conclusion, even for a sarcastic remark.

Is it a fraud - is the marketing deceptive? Possibly, yes, I personally believe it can be said so. I think it could be the case because it fails to mention the nuance that iPads aren't a good device for certain tasks. If an ad says "for everyone" without any asterisks and small print to it, it's valid to complain that this is not true. It could be the norm, but it doesn't change the fact that there's a gap that may affect uninformed person's decision making towards purchasing the device that is not a good fit for them. I mean, anecdotally that's what happened to the author after all.

Is it a deliberate fraud, though? I haven't been in a room when that ad was discussed, so I cannot possibly tell. I'm not versed in marketing, but I believe I've heard that it's quite a common practice to not include any negativity (aka "when or why you wouldn't want our product?") from marketing materials, for the money doesn't smell. I have respect to the people and companies that do so, for I perceive it as a signal they respect me (aka not wasting my time researching). But whenever it was actually discussed and dismissed ("Should we mention if developers should rather get a Mac? Nah, we want them to buy an iPad too, even if it's useless to them!") or if the idea haven't even been mentioned (e.g. if it's simply not a thing in Apple culture) is unknown to me.

Are they trying to spite anyone? I don't have any evidence that suggests so, so I find it highly unlikely. While Apple has different system of beliefs and values, drastically different from some freedom-loving software crowds, I don't think I've seen signs of any significant deliberate hatred towards those who don't share their values, or willingness to make their lives worse somehow. There could've been some less than great attitudes (but my memory fails me here, I only have a vague idea that I might've possibly heard or read something that didn't resonate well with me), but I don't recall anything seriously hateful.

All this said, I would love for us all have more discussion about ethics in marketing. Honest, open, and ideally without any sarcastic remarks (for they rarely help and frequently discourage civilized discussion).
Monopolies, oligopolies and cartels. These are the end-game of any capitalist system where the overriding priority is profit. I am not even going to morally fault any of the individual decisions-makers here. They are playing the game within the system that exists, not as one would like it to be. Step zero in changing this situation is helping people understand that capitalism is designed to maximize profits, not cost or supply. That this happens at all is a temporary side-effect of competition, which itself is an inefficiency when optimizing for profits. Proponents of capitalism will focus on competition as if it were some kind of natural condition that keeps everyone honest. Instead, competition leads to collusion, consolidation, and regulation (regulatory capture) to create as high a barrier as possible to enter the market.
The internal struggle of this project is that it's most likely to attract people interested in history, and these are exactly the people who are most likely to spot inconsistencies and dislike the experience.

Having said that, it's a first occurrence when I see AI-generated videos that provide something of a value.
What's going on with Sublime Text? Is it dead?
There are so many developers still using Sublime Text, but I'm really surprised by their lack of communication. Package Control’s been down for about a month, package updates have stopped, and we're seeing performance issues with LSP and a pretty mediocre sidebar. Sure, there are some dev updates, but in my opinion, nothing's significantly improved the user experience in years.
Xata Agent: AI agent expert in PostgreSQL
When you're driving through North Dakota and see the red clinker in the cliffs along the highway...

https://www.dmr.nd.gov/ndgs/ndnotes/ndn13_h.htm and https://www.dmr.nd.gov/ndgs/documents/newsletter/2013Winter/...

> Several early explorers reported coal fires in the northern Great Plains region. Over the years, range fires have ignited lignite beds many times. In two places in western North Dakota, in Theodore Roosevelt National Park and near Amidon, lignite seams were recently burning for many years. A seam of lignite at Buck Hill in the park burned from 1951-1977.

And that's the modern history.

> Years ago, during fieldwork on the major buttes of western North Dakota, John Hoganson and I discovered clinker pebbles in the Arikaree Formation indicating that coals had been burning prior to when these rocks were deposited some 25 million years ago. Probably as far back as 40 million years ago, when grasslands were first established, fires have swept across the plains of North Dakota igniting coal seams.
> a close look at used cars, from before 2010

You’re potentially losing side airbags, collision avoidance and other safety features that became relatively universal since 2010.

The better option is to just steer to brands that take privacy and security at least a little seriously [1].

[1] https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/article...
It seems reasonably within the bounds described by fair use, but nobody's ever tested that particular constellation of factors in a lawsuit, so there's no precedent - hand copying a book, that is.

17 U.S.C. § 107 is the fair use carveout.

Interestingly, digitizing and copying a book on your own, for your own private use, has also not been brought to court. Major rights holders seem to not want this particular fair use precedent to be established, which it likely would be, and might then invalidate crucial standing for other cases in which certain interpretations of fair use are preferred.

Digitally copying media you own is fair use. I'll die on that hill.
It doesn't grant commercial rights, you can't resell a copy as if it were the original, and so on, and so forth.

There's even a good case to be made that sharing a digitally copied work purchased legally, even to millions of people, 5 years after a book is first sold - for a vast majority of books, after 5 years, they've sold about 99.99% of the copies they're going to sell.

By sharing after the ~5 year mark, you're arguably doing marketing for the book, and if we cultivated a culture of direct donation to authors and content creators, it invalidates any of the reasons piracy is made illegal in the first place.

Right now publishers, studios, and platforms have a stranglehold on content markets, and the law serves them almost exclusively. It is exceedingly rare for the law to be invoked in defending or supporting an author or artist directly. It's very common for groups of wealthy lawyers LARPing as protectors of authors and artists to exploit the law and steal money from regular people.

Exclusively digital content should have a 3 year protected period, while physical works should get 5, whether it's text, audio, image, or video.

Once something is outside the protected period, it should be considered fair game for sharing until 20 years have passed, at which point it should enter public domain.

Copyright law serves two purposes - protecting and incentivizing content creators, and serving the interests of the public. Situations where a bunch of lawyers get rich by suing the pants off of regular people over technicalities is a despicable outcome.
Token-saving updates on the Anthropic API
Community moves fasssst!
One problem with feminism as a movement is that it is very broad: it is one thing to be Hillary Clinton and to be able to afford to pay a woman to take care of your kids, it is another thing to be the woman who takes care of Hillary's kids. As a broad population they have the problems of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Logic_of_Collective_Action

probably more than any group other than "workers" or "white people".

An individual may or may not be "incoherent" but a group certainly will be, see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theore...
Driver Quality: Mediocre
Anybody has insight why ATI has been unable to fix their drivers?

- Is it that they are not really interested in improving (no SWEs are on it).

- Is it that they are dealing with poor code that is very hard to fix?

- Is it the hardware that is designed in a way the drivers cannot be good?
Be cautious with this, as the newest iteration of the flag, the "Progress Pride" design, is considered by some in the community to represent misogyny and homophobia.

If you are going to add a Pride flag to your logo, the traditional rainbow one would be less controversial.
Really, really great article. The visualization of random writes is very nicely done.

On:

> Another issue with network-attached storage in the cloud comes in the form of limiting IOPS. Many cloud providers that use this model, including AWS and Google Cloud, limit the amount of IO operations you can send over the wire. [...]

> If instead you have your storage attached directly to your compute instance, there are no artificial limits placed on IO operations. You can read and write as fast as the hardware will allow for.

I feel like this might be a dumb series of questions, but:

1. The ratelimit on "IOPS" is precisely a ratelimit on a particular kind of network traffic, right? Namely traffic to/from an EBS volume? "IOPS" really means "EBS volume network traffic"?

2. Does this save me money? And if yes, is from some weird AWS arbitrage? Or is it more because of an efficiency win from doing less EBS networking?

I see pretty clearly putting storage and compute on the same machine strictly a latency win, because you structurally have one less hop every time. But is it also a throughput-per-dollar win too?
Maybe this just makes your point, but solar panels being 20% efficient is about "how efficiently it converts energy from the sun into usable electricity"

All that matters is the actual power generation since there's no marginal utility of "what else we would use that space for" (unless you're consuming farmland etc for the solar panels)
Because the climate is global.
We are down in working hours per year from 3.500h in 1870 to around 1400h now.
I think I avoid imposter syndrome in some areas, but Not Enough Real Math is definitely a weak spot.

When people start talking about eigenvalues, I'm just a business-rule caveman with a little discrete-math unga bunga.

This kind of statistical stuff falls somewhere in-between.
They had humans turn the pages of intact books in scanning machines. The books mostly came from the shelves of academic libraries and were returned to the shelves after scanning. You can see some incidental captures of hands/fingers in the scans on Google Books or HathiTrust (the academic home of the Google Books scans). There are some examples collected here:

https://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com/
On the contrary, even telling people which billboards are posted about what, and how to get to them to look at them, is "how it works".

But the courts will get to clarify (in today's news):

https://www.reuters.com/legal/news-corp-sued-by-brave-softwa...
No, we don't.

>> We are down in working hours per year from 3.500h in 1870 to around 1400h now.
> there's no precedent - hand copying a book, that is

Thank you! I had looked this up myself last week, so I knew this. I had long believed, as GP does, that copying anything you own without distribution is either allowed or fair use. I wanted GP to learn as I did.
Gas prices and insane taxes based on car’s weight (as a proxy for its toll on the road).
No cap
The failure relative to the original expectations seems to be that the other branches of government aren't fighting to retain their authority because the things they're being overridden to do align too well with what they would do themselves.
It wouldn't be wise for me to further engage with people who's defense to all arguments they don't agree with is accusing people of being pro-Russian[1] or victims of Russian propaganda[1] without any evidence, and then later try to frame it as some form of curiosity on their part in order to absolve themselves of bad faith argumentation and move the accusations towards the other party, a well known technique tabloid reporters use to get a soundbite. It's fine by me if you think whoever you want as pro-Russian, I just don't want to be dragged into it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43295033
Artificial photosynthesis directed toward organic synthesis
In many places in the world people don't live on ranches or in 1000 m² houses, but in 80-150 m² twin houses or even flats.

In such tighter conditions, you can easily have enough inhabitants per km² that it would justify building small mobile nuclear reactors.

Who would like to live next to a reactor if it can melt down? Well, you have reactors using fuel pellets locked in marbles that due to their diameter can never meltdown.
Fun fact: it's not just small grids that run on steam - Munich's steam heating dates back to 1908 and since 2022 it's being reworked at massive expense to hot water to better accommodate geothermal and other renewable forms of heatpump based generation because these sources cannot get hot enough to produce supercritical steam [1].

[1] https://www.swm.de/dam/doc/geschaeftskunden/fernwaerme/flyer...
If you're interested in this sort of stuff I highly recommend Stillwell's "Mathematics and it's History" (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4419-6053-5) - it's a wonderful mix of quite low level explicit mathematics with contextual history; along with Stewarts "Concept of Mathematics" (https://archive.org/details/ConceptsofmodernmathematicsStewa...).

When you first study mathematics at undergraduate and early post-grad level there is a sense of being overwhelmed with how on earth anyone figured this out. When you read the messy history of maths, and understand it is an organic, growing field, you feel a little less like an imposter struggling to understand how anyone could've come up with this.

Reading these books (primarily as a software engineer), made me feel better about not immediately getting certain concepts, because it's likely the people these theorems are named after didn't get it either, to begin with. They refined it, they collaborated (like a pull request almost) and eventually everything got very neatly packaged up into a set of theorems. Mathematics is rarely taught in that way, I wish more of the "human" aspect was part of the pedagogical process. I think it might temper some of the fear people have.
> Ottoman architecture

Constantinople wasn't captured by the Ottomans until almost 1,000 years after the events depicted in the quiz
Thanks. I looked at that but I believe it solves a different problem.
Why would ISP provided email be any more private than Gmail? If anything, I expect ISP provided email to be more compromised.