skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not so much a hoby in countries where being gay for instance gets you into jail...

Or in countries where people criticizing the government policy disappear.

Yet it's a reality for Billions of people in Russia, china, India until not so long ago.

I mean, the world isn't just limited to the west where, at worst, you will get personalized advertisement and in very rare occasion something worst.
I’ve taken three years off. I’ve spent the majority of my time trying to improve my health and looks while living in a new city. All in the pursuit of finding a partner.

It has not been successful but a lot of people say that I need to do a few more surgeries and bulking and cutting cycles. Is what it is - dating is extremely superficial and only gets more so as time goes on.
Maybe SMSes, emails too
That’s the thing about the GP. In a sense, this poster is actually hallucinating. We are having to “correct” their hallucination that they use an LLM deeply.
This gets a favourite and a bookmark. If only the HN formatting could format them correctly or maybe I'm doing it wrong.
It seems to be gone from the front page now. Must've been a joke entry. The job posting itself is still up though.
https://archive.today/1gEe0
I wonder how different history might have been if Intel had chose to design something more workable instead of Itanium. We're just now ending the x86-64 transition (no more 32 bit Windows, most all software x86 software is 64 bit native nowadays) and maybe that would never have happened, we'd have just went to 64 bit other-thing.

Either way there is definitely room for multiple architectures for a long while. Even if one believes ARM or RISC-V or whatever will be the end of x86 it would still take a decade to stop seeing new x86 CPU designs come out just from the momentum.
Bound to happen. No other tool can usefully produce a statistical number of spontaneous confessions, evidence of preparing to interfere with the investigation, or evidence of complicity, without needing any truthful inputs at all.

It would be so much more interesting if interframe video analysis could label microexpressions of liars, graphing a level alongside. Preferably, slightly less accurate than the marketing statistics of the American Polygraph Association.
There's little reason in 2025 the government should be supporting Sesame Street
The article doesn't actually address whether or not "vibe coding" is being significantly adopted.

I don't personally know any devs who are doing "vibe coding" in any real way. Honestly, the only times I've heard of people doing it has been on HN. That implies that the people doing it are pretty limited to the HN demographic, but I don't actually know. What I do know is that it's not common enough to have become a thing in my personal and professional circles.
Goodness what a nightmare. I'll have to start microwaving my clothes
First sentence from wikipedia says:

Casey Means is an American functional medicine/holistic medicine physician, entrepreneur and author.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Means
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> so your claim is that rust compiler knows in advance which will be used by the target and adjusts its softfloat accordingly?

Rust performs FP operations using the precision of the underlying type. For compile time evaluation this is enforced by Miri, and for runtime evaluation this is enforced by carefully emitting the appropriate LLVM IR.

> IIRC there are cases for SIMD where there is only a 2 ULP guarantee and some tryhard silicon gives you 1 ULP for the same opcode.

Rust only permits operations in constant contexts when it's confident that it can make useful guarantees about their behavior. In particular, FP ops in const contexts are currently limited as follows:

"This RFC specifies the behavior of +, - (unary and binary), *, /, %, abs, copysign, mul_add, sqrt, as-casts that involve floating-point types, and all comparison operations on floating-point types."

https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/3514-floa...
So the real metric is the manager who knows their team and what each member brings in.
Bacterial, fungal and parasitic load has lessened, for sure, due to sterility of the environment, because many of those come from exposure to animals and plants. But viral load from viruses that spread from human-to-human and live exclusively in humans has increased because there are more humans and they spread the diseases around the world more effectively than before.

Yes, we probably get way less pathogens overall than we used to, but at the same time we get more pathogens that live exclusively on humans (such as respiratory viruses).
Building and Publishing Games to Steam Directly from GitHub Actions
GPU Networking Basics, Part 1
Not my views. It does not work without JS, the BBC does.
This is truly the way. If we are to beat them we need to play their game, blending in 99% of the time and then subverting them at the most prime opportunities. USA #1!
For shopping suggestions, I've had the best experience with Perplexity.
I had to take a number of "communication" courses to get my undergraduate degree. One of the tactics covered during that course was to avoid relying on facts to convince people of an argument, as they are unlikely to be persuaded by them.
Frankly speaking, labeling MCP as "USB-C for AI" is an exaggerated metaphor. USB-C is a universal standard driven by IEEE and the open-source community, while MCP is fundamentally an ecosystem tightly controlled by Anthropic itself. Despite adopting the MIT license, MCP is far from the spirit of genuine openness. For instance, the official examples exclusively utilize Anthropic’s own API, and the system prompt of LLM requests is hidden within their SDK—precisely the part that's crucial for openness.

Anthropic has historically been cautious, even conservative, regarding open source. They refuse to open-source Claude's CLI and the underlying model code, which makes their sudden enthusiasm for launching MCP, presented as an "open platform," rather puzzling. Is this openness genuinely for the community, or merely an attempt to benefit their own ecosystem and interests?

In reality, MCP is more like a clunky dongle that awkwardly connects HDMI or TF card readers specifically to their own models, rather than establishing a genuinely universal standard. It's nearly impossible for MCP to change the conventional methods of using APIs and authentication into an "AI-native" approach. Due to security considerations, this design inherently caps the potential of both agents and MCP itself.

For developers, MCP imposes high environmental prerequisites, like Python, Node, or Docker, virtually excluding non-technical users. The installation process is the opposite of elegant.

In the long run, this superficially open yet fundamentally closed approach is unlikely to win sustained community trust or long-term success. Security concerns, the allocation of community benefits, and the inherently closed mindset of the corporation are critical issues that will inevitably haunt MCP’s future development.

Calling MCP "USB-C for AI" feels more like marketing hype than technological reality.
This is ridiculously cool hardware! Are there images somewhere?
What Rules Prohibit Us from Building a Warp Drive? – Universe Today
Breaking the Serverless Ceiling: Building a Durable AI Pipeline
There are researchers out there investigating a potential link from CWD tainted meat consumption to CJD clusters. From what I've read it's a tenuous correlation at best. I really hope they don't find anything. If CWD jumps to either humans or cattle it's going to call for some really tough decisions on what to do with these deer populations.
Used to be bitten by stuff like this until I figured out something Tim and this author apparently didn’t - the problem is trivially fixed by management by attaching tim’s name to any tickets he may have helped out on. he can ask his teammates to do this and they gladly will, or, nice teammates will usually throw a “figured this out with the help of @Tim” in the ticket. goes a long way to keep “tim” on your team against obtuse velocity metrics like this.

productivity metrics aren’t entirely worthless. if I come into a team, for instance, and I see they have 1 PR mapped to roughly every 1 jira ticket, and I see a guy on a 3 person team that’s got 70% of the PR’s in a year, that isn’t a clueless piece of info. he’s probably the lead. not always, and people game stuff like this, but it is a data point you can make note of.
I would agree, but the manager probably should be in touch enough that they could see the teaming behaviour themselves.
As someone whose customers do this stuff, I'm 100% for most academics chasing harder and more important problems

Most of these papers are specialized increments on high baselines for a primarily commercial problem. Likewise, they focus on optimizing phenomena that occur in their product, which may not occur in others. Eg, Netflix sliding window is neato to see the result of, but I rather students user their freedom to explore bigger ideas like mamba, and leave sliding windows to a masters student who is experimenting with intentionally narrowly scoped tweaks.
Physical activity gives an outlet to stress, and people used to get way more of it. Stress and physical effort are supposed to go hand-in-hand; you feel stressed, which gives you a boost of adrenaline, which you need to physically fight back whatever caused the stress. When the physical component is missing, the stress just lingers and wreaks havoc on your body.
Poor sleep may fuel conspiracy beliefs, research suggests
Canada does not have the 100 mile constitution exclusion zone that the US has. It only exists at the border itself. This is something the RCMP regularly complains about.
>No real human would go four links deep into a maze of AI-generated nonsense

Rude. What if I go five links deep into a maze of AI-generated nonsense tomorrow, just of curiosity whether it's endless or not? Cloudflare will declare me not real?

There might even be some people who are in a mental state to hook on this, and this company just called them bots lol

Besides, if 47% of medium is AI-generated, then any of us could potentially go through four links of AI-generated nonsense? Are yall real?
In the context of a discussion where the two propositions are "they take bad decisions because they don't understand" or "they take those decisions by malice", I think the parent is trying to say "they most probably don't understand cryptography, given that most tech workers don't either and those politicians are less into tech than tech workers".
"Modeling the real world" only makes sense when you're building a simulator of some kind.

Another similar approach is building a "digital twin" of something that is happening in the real world.

But very often the software is the only implementation, there's nothing to simulate.
It's getting easier to fill AI-related roles
Types are sets e.g. the Integer type is the set of all the integer values.
If there used to be 10 engineers in a team, and with LLM they only need eight because LLM help the team achieve the same workload, then two of them have been "replaced", even though the LLM can't do everything an engineer does.

I haven't heard of any prediction that AI will completely replace all programmers.
They did… that’s the whole premise of the article
Boston Dynamics robot can Walk, Run, Crawl [video]
If that's comforting, in EU it doesn't go any better.
I liked when you could make a playlist radio and do that manually. That's been removed now of course.
In some rare cases you can get an exclusive lock when you asked for a shared lock, most code won't care and will still work correctly, but sometimes people do weird shit that they probably should have used a different construct for, and run into this.
Slaves were more on control of their own destinys than someone working an entry job today?
Sorry just sent one to the original, will send one to this as well.
Impossible Loves, Then and Now. What Would Emma Bovary Have Done with Tinder?
well, you may read & discuss this one? :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions_...
An NA contest would be a nearer match to this - this is a European contest, not any one country or the EU.

Is the US had its own contest they would probably call it the "world tree contest".
You're absolutely right, but some people just refuse to play silly games. It's odd that the manager isn't ever in the room with the team and doesn't understand his team's dynamics. Giving the benefit of the doubt, he must have been new, but any manager worth his salt will ask people on their team what the team dynamics are.
These sort of stories seem to be dime a dozen and weirdly celebrated around HN and the software engineering community.

We’re told of the hero, who goes against their managers and executives and doesn’t deliver any stories as agreed in sprints.

We’re told of the engineer who isn’t hired by Google because he can’t invert a binary tree. Everyone else piles on and decree that, yes indeed, you cannot measure developer efficiency with a Leetcode or whiteboard problem. We’re too good for that. Another engineer chimes in: “I don’t test my candidates. The best people I worked with were hired over a beer and a chat at the local pub”

We’re told of the MBAs who destroy the organisation, by introducing evil metrics, and how that the work we do are immeasurable and that the PHBs don’t understand how great we are. 10x engineers aren’t a real thing, everyone is equally productive in our digital utopia.

Meanwhile in the real world, hordes of awful engineers deliver no story points, because they in fact, do nothing and only waste time and lowers morale.

Meanwhile in the real world, each job opportunity has thousands of applicants who can barely write a for loop. Leetcode and whiteboards filter these people out effectively every day.

Meanwhile in the real world, metrics on delivery, features and bugs drive company growth and success for those companies that employ them.

To me, all these heroes, and above process people, just strike me as difficult to work with narcissists who are poor at communication. We are not special, and we do not sit above every other department in our organisation.
How Linux is built with Greg Kroah-Hartman [video]
Obama joins Bluesky
The runtime of `isOutputSane` is unbounded
You can get by with 3 or four people. A few can be kids! It is intended to be played in person, but we started playing it remotely for "team building" in mid 2020. It works great over the internet, if everyone is technical enough to run two clients: one for your station and one for the "main" screen. If you have multiple monitors it works well. We've found all remote or all in person work well, and mixed makes comms frustrating.
I'm in Canada so the fee is a lot more manageable, but I absolutely have no time.

TBH I don't think going back to the school is a good idea. They have weird rules that you have to follow as a customer; You have to take a ton of BS courses to make the degree. It's just BS considering that they just have a monopoly of degrees and you have to go through one of them.

If you want to go into EE, maybe try finding some embedded job?
Wasnt that number wholly debunked? I can only find fraud numbers like 100 million. Also, social security savings would only impact the social security budget. Those program funds don't go anywhere else.

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/20/doge-social-security-deposi...
The idea of SRWLock is, as its name might suggest, it's a Simple Reader Writer Lock.

This makes it in theory excellent for implementing this precise feature which you will see in for example C++ (the MSVC implementation is, in fact, just an SRWLock) or Rust

So immediately it's over-complicated for a mutex because we don't need it to handle multiple readers, we're never taking its shareable reader lock, we (as you see in Raymond's example code) just rely entirely on the exclusive lock which is about 10% of its function.

SRWLock is the size of a pointer - because of course in fact it is a pointer, to a lazily allocated structure - with some flag bits squirrelled away at the bottom of the pointer.

The exciting bug is that at some point whoever was implementing this for Windows screwed up while implementing the (necessary for performance) unfair lock stealing strategy.

Brief aside about "lock stealing": If I want to take a lock, and I notice that somebody else just released that lock, I can just take it and we're done - this is unfair because there may be a queue of waiters, and I cut in ahead of them, but it has better performance. This is a simple and common feature for a mutex - fair locks are sometimes useful but definitely should not be the default.

Now, in SRWLock the lock stealing code doesn't remember whether you're trying to take the shared reader lock or the exclusive writer lock. So, it just always steals the exclusive lock - even when that's not what you wanted. As a result in code relying on SRWLock if you take the reader lock and then wait on somebody else to also get that lock (which they should be able to because it's a shared lock) this sometimes deadlocks. Oops.
Perplexity Pro suggested several portable car battery chargers, which led me to search online reviews, whose consensus (five or so review sites) highest-rated chargers were the first two on Perplexity's recommendation list. In other words, the AI was an helpful guide to focused deeper search.
Night of Camp David by Fletcher Knebel, 1965. U.S. president's cabinet realized he was insane because of his obsession to annex Canada.

I've wondered for some time what most explains people's willingness to hand over nuclear codes to an obviously insane man, for a second time, knowing he's a rapist, a felon, and a vile insurrectionist. He's a persistently untrustworthy liar, and support for this nonsense keeps growing rather than being rejected.

Is it something like mass hysteria? Is his malignant narcissism somehow contagious and becomes collective narcissism?

A war with Canada tells me there's not much, if any, humanity left to save in the United States. Therefore I sooner believe it's a trap.
All of the people advancing those claims also think they have a lot to gain, too. Those claims are hard to evaluate because humans are famously subjective and prone to misattribution, which is why we invented the scientific method. Every high-quality investigation has been unable to find support for them.
> if a large part of our job is purely mechanical, then there is a bigger problem with our engineering processes and AI can't fix that.

It is! And AI is fixing precisely that. What businesses actually care about (well, 99% of them where code is written) is shipping fast and solving the immediate problem, NOT code quality and craft. It goes against what I want to believe as an engineer. Most problems are not new, they are not hard, they are not sensitive. You will need to start with a good understanding of the business need. It's not that the AI can't code to this. I will often stub out an abstraction, explain inputs/outputs in detail, provide sample data etc. That's all. There are frighteningly few showstopper problems with AI coding at this point, and it's moving so quickly.

We're not at the point where non-engineers are capable engineers with AI, but if you are an engineer not using AI extensively, you are being lapped.
Yes, NASA released a composite to show where the body of the planet would be because it's not well illuminated in UV.

But here's a guide to show how the aurora animation can be made from real data taken by Hubble:
https://www.planetarylightshow.com/aurora_processing.html
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The Beech.
Right but you would expect an administration of the party which likes to yell about free speech to come out and try to reduce the concerns about free speech restrictions. As a self labeled free speech crusader Musk should be absolutely distraught that the administration is considering protests against Tesla terrorism. The comments above boil down to: when someone shows you who they are believe them.
Registration as an expat in the Netherlands is much smoother than in France, for things like taxes, health, pension stuff, municipality stuff, etc. (not to mention at the time I did in NL I did not know the language and I know well French). You basically register in one place and lots of things are pulled from there when needed by other branch of government.

In France at almost each new authority I interacted with I needed to provide again the same information, while for all intents and purposes the government has it already (just that in another database).

My impression is that lot of effort is wasted due to duplication (including verification, updating, lack of cross referencing) and not sure why (if the case is that "we have N databases because people can't get together to agree on one", that would make some sense ...)
I wrote an article about that the other day: https://omarabid.com/gpt3-now

Essentially, for "real-life work scenarios", the performance is not that great comparing to gpt-3.5 with the exception of Claude 3.7 and GPT-4.5. Bear in mind, the question was not "challenging" in a "genius thinking required" way.

That being said, I use LLM regularly for discovery. They do waste some of your time because of hallucinations but you can call their bullshit most of the time and if not, it is still faster than Googling.
The Coming Wave of AI Agency: A Security Perspective
I think it is a valid point: politicians try to please their voters, and the voters don't know anything about how encryption works.

If you tell your voters: "I will force those tech people to develop encryption that can be accessed by the good guys but not by the bad guys", the average voter will say "yeah, that sounds reasonable".

I am frustrated that the politicians don't understand that they are making it worse for everybody, but that's probably a consequence of their voters not understanding it either. That's always the problem with complicated issues (e.g. climate change or covid). Voters typically vote without having a basic understanding of the topic.
As someone whose customers do this stuff, I'm 100% for most academics chasing harder and more important problems.

Most of these papers are specialized increments on high baselines for a primarily commercial problem. Likewise, they focus on optimizing phenomena that occur in their product, which may not occur in others. Eg, Netflix sliding window is neato to see the result of, but I rather students user their freedom to explore bigger ideas like mamba, and leave sliding windows to a masters student who is experimenting with intentionally narrowly scoped tweaks. At that point, to top PhD grads at industrial labs will probably win.

That said, recsys is a general formulation with applications beyond shopping carts and social feeds, and bigger ideas do come out, where I'd expect competitive labs to do projects on. GNN for recsys was a big bet a couple years ago, and LLMs now, and it is curious to me those bigger shifts are industrial labs papers as you say. Maybe the statement there is recsys is one of the areas that industry hires a lot of PhDs on, as it is so core to revenue lift: academia has regular representation, while industry is overrepresented.
Sources:

https://archive.ph/zNMKP (NY Times)
https://apnews.com/article/border-tourists-german-canadian-d...

Better to give always links to (reliable) sources to keep noise from shills and deniers low.
Only a matter of time before the age of robots is upon us and every home has one
That and the infinite-scroll wheel bearing fails. I’ve probably gone through 5-10 g502 mice in the past decade. I usually buy them 2-3 at a time when they are on sale.