skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sir or madam, if you are defending the value of xai then I think it's incumbent on you to suggest the synergistic or other value creating aspects of xai, when other people are doubting it. Many other of these types of systems are doing these same things like creating software to do administrative tasks, summarizing the gist of an article or a series of comments. Those are the most basic things that all of the other systems are doing also.
I can’t speak for Zig, but it seems like Rust is rather awkard with imperative UI frameworks, and instead is more inclined toward declarative/reactive frameworks. That’s one area where Swift is a bit more flexible, and one reason why I like it.

While I like to write simpler bits of UI in something like SwiftUI (think small components, recycled cells, etc) I find that declarative UI gets increasingly cumbersome as projects gain more features and become complex, and that doesn’t change much with the language it’s written in. As such my projects tend to be imperative-dominant with declarative components and maybe simpler screens sprinkled throughout. UIKit and SwiftUI work together nicely for this.

The only issue is the lack of UI frameworks for non-Apple platforms. There’s decent GTK+Adwaita bindings for Swift which is pretty solid for Linux, but to my knowledge the only thing out there for Windows at the moment are WinUI bindings written by The Browser Company for Arc, but as I understand it those are still pretty incomplete.

Compile times haven’t be a problem for me, even with complex codebases. Incremental builds are fast enough and I’m not running full builds often enough for that to impact my overall evaluation of the language.
Pollution is still seen as some technical problem even in 2025 but im not convinced. I think for decades I’ve read about some miracle substance that is environmentally friendly and can replace trad plastics. Decades later still virtually no practical movement in the space can be seen.
The author actually addresses all of those points in the about page https://plainframework.com/about/
You are why I vote Republican
The aim of the worker is not usually to kill the firm, I assumed that went without saying, as that would ultimately 'minimize' their wages. But the reason to work in a society where one needs money is to receive a wage, as maximal as possible. These incentives will always contradict whatever real but necessary need there is for 'genuine interest' or 'social tendencies'. Constantly businesses attempt to harness this value, (which is the source of revolutions in productivity beyond the daily rote labor) through trying to present the relationship as anything but transactional. But as their interest in this value is ultimately a monetary interest, what the worker returns to them will be done on a transactional basis. An inhuman force rules over all.
So who is this specter that somehow and for some reason killed off all useful projects and made sure there was no way to even exploit it for unscrupulous profit?
I'm still waiting for a truly cross-platform framework using Python that builds natively and beautifully on ANY platform - from the Apple IIGS to MacOS M4 to web to Windows to Linux. With a click of a button. So I wasn't pleased to read how limited this framework is. Still waiting, I guess?
his margin call level is not public right?
There are more long form articles available than I have time to read. I hate when a juicy sounding headline grabs my attention, but I have to read for 5 minutes just to figure out what it’s actually about and if I want to keep reading. The disappointment of going from “interesting title” to “vague unimportant flashback” is immense.
Elon made a post about user growth being stagnant.
Django still lacks typing support. Does Plain improve on this at all? I didn't see typing mentioned in the docs..
Sure, but what's the end game?

Arguably, the will of the people (not the corporations) is to lower individual taxation—working class joe schmo isn't upset that companies and the wealthy have to deal with the SEC, he's upset about the income tax that he personally pays.

Ok, so, maybe you argue removing this tax will indirectly help jo schmo because corporations, banks, stockbrokers, hedge funds, and their leadership are such nice fellows who, given some extra cash flow always let it funnel back to the economy and ultimately to the actual workers and producers in the economy, who, after all, sweat for them and deserve a living wage, right?

I don't see how this form of cut and deregulation is supposed to help the majority of people unless you believe in trickle down style economics, an idea based on the moral rectitude and good will of the wealthy, which, at this point I think you have to be a complete and utter fool to believe in. Part of the entire reason the SEC exists is precisely because you cannot rely on the individual morals of financiers to protect the country from financial exploitation and overall collapse https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecora_Commission

If this is a "tax" it's one of the few taxes we actually have on the rich and on corporations, and any reductions stand to make them even more untrammeled and powerful. It's a mistake to assume this will have any positive material benefit on the average citizen.
You are correct that the interest of a business owner is not to kill their firm.
The Culture Shock of Flossing
Um…the military doesn’t work that way.
> if they stopped being used by offensive at times racist and awful, then Twitter could get more users, sell advertising and make money probably.

That's a big if, and I think most people would be pretty skeptical of the possibility of that happening. The fact that outside investors seem to value it at under $10B suggests that's a common enough opinion.
You would think the republicans did themselves in by claiming tariffs would lower prices. And not really having an economic policy, claiming to have a concept of a plan, but really not even that. The lack of substance, and the effectiveness of that lack of substance, was definitely enough to throw the Democrats off their game.

Seriously, how do you even begin to counteract whatever it was the Republicans were throwing around? Narcissistic wild claims (Gaza/Ukraine wouldn’t have been attacked if I was president!), exaggeration (Biden’s non-recession was the worst ever!), the downright bizarre (I’m prettier than Kamala). It’s like running against Bizarro, what sane person would have even considered voting for him anyways?

The American voters are definitely at fault here, not the Democrats. They were given the smelliest, harmful garbage and they actually voted for it. What consequences come from this are their fault, not the Democrats that didn’t run a crazy bizarre candidate.
Apple should have incrementally improved Objective-C. It was pretty nice to work with. Sure there were some warts, but it was quick to compile and easy to grok. Swift is a huge ball of slow complexity.

The decay in Apple software quality has neatly coincided with the adoption of Swift.
Yeah, just looked wrong, didn't check the docs
Sure, auto constexpr stuff can express some things. Not most things though, at least in my experience. Perhaps a skill issue on my part. Or things might have changed again. I'm "still" using C++20 after all.

> What does that mean

Have you ever noticed that the (compile time) "rules" for interacting with templated functions are somewhat different from those of non-templated functions? I don't know if "functions as types" is entirely fair but there is definitely some weirdness.
When I use the word maximization I am not referring to an abstract idea, I am referring to a negotiation with material necessity.
They're gonna go public and the market cap will be at ~$300B within a year or two
Have you used these tools? Your main option is NUT, and it's not a great product. It crashes, it can't tolerate one of the UPSes being down, etc.

For my homelab, I ended up connecting my UPS via a USB cable to a Synology NAS and adding automation to shut down the rest of the servers to it.
I also found this but I have to say I don’t really understand still.

I’ve used flask on projects but I’ve never started a project in flask and then migrated it to Django - I’m not really sure why you would do this. If I think a project would need admin panel or other Django features, I just make it in Django. That’s usually a pretty easy call to make when you start.

It seems like the fork is largely political? E.g. he just doesn’t like the way the mailing list is run, which is totally valid. I just don’t know what architecture he is building or what is different. I wish him well, though!

https://plainframework.com/faqs/
Extensively debunked; please stop spreading misinformation.
I don't think it's really pushing things to say that President Trump is taking actions to destroy democracy in America. Basically he's step by step attacking the institutions that might be able to stand against him or resist him. He attacks judges that rule against him, he attacks congressman on the Republican side if they look like they might go against him. That's anti-democratic
Is this the rust mascot? Should I be upvoting because of rust?

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Can you use a Langstrom 7-inch gangly wrench?
Just the title reminds me of this wonderful talk

Godzilla: History, Biology and Behavior of Hyper-Evolved Theropod Kaiju

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXgX2WErXQo
Absolutely not.

Skype figured out how to build an integrated login experience. Every morning using slack I keep having to remind myself it’s not early FOSS!
Sorry, not understanding your point. Yes, they did lose to the unprecedented level of bad, that’s what we’re talking about.
And who in your mind maintains and upholds those rights? It's state institutions.

The judiciary is a branch of government.

You can assert rights but if you don't have those rights in practice then the assertions don't help you.
> but even just the tought of becoming... irrelevant is depressing

In my opinion, there can exist no AI, person, tool, ultra-sentient omniscient being, etc. that would ever render you irrelevant. Your existence, experiences, and perception of reality are all literally irreplaceable, and (again, just my opinion) inherently meaningful. I don't think anyone's value comes from their ability to perform any particular feat to any particular degree of skill. I only say this because I had similar feelings of anxiety when considering the idea of becoming "irrelevant", and I've seen many others say similar things, but I think that fear is largely a product of misunderstanding what makes our lives meaningful.
It’s really not that hard to buy a metro ticket. But we pay/alipay will make it easier, or I could just get a couple of IC cards that have been around since forever.
They may have a moral sentiment and so too do employees - but the market is the ultimate condition for any moral sentiment to survive. You have no company, you no longer 'satisfy' customers. I am not referring to a moral idea, but a cold reality of business.
Kerala is the seventh highest in terms of population density. https://datacommons.iitm.ac.in/ranking/Count_Person_PerArea/...
I’m not sure that happens in any language, but my sense is that it probably will not happen in Python.
> a device that has so many features that it becomes "too useful."

I don't think it is the features, it is that too much information comes into the phone and then distracts us, because the senders of the information really want to you to listen to them.

If a "feature" is useful it is good to have it available when you NEED it.

Consider the feature "flashlight" on my phone. It's great to have it when you need it.

Or Clock. And Alarm. And Timer. I use them all the time.
> Except that can’t happen because there are so many Python tutorials out there already on sites that Google prefers over yours.

You could always pay Google.
Because at first you thought a person was responsible, and should have turned off the faucet, and you were indignant? Somebody elsewhere in the thread doesn't mind (in fact enjoys) the sounds that pets make when eating, which ties in: animals can't be expected to do better.

Here's a theory. Do you normally have thought processes going on that you enjoy, and that seem fragile, that is to say easily disrupted, so you have a precious attitude when somebody distracts you, like Coleridge's hated Person from Porlock (who ruined Kubla Khan)? I mean that's a shot in the dark, we all have different potential reasons to fall into the same bucket, but this is one of them. So, naturally, what I hate most is if somebody starts some kind of performance, because a performance dominates the attention by design. This could be an inane conversation near me, or at me, or it could be music. Even music I usually love can be deeply aggravating when I was hoping to maintain a different mood.

In your case I suppose you were trying to sleep, which is a similar situation of being precious about mood, detesting being disturbed.

Chatter and music are only the most obviously disruptive forms of noise, the attention-grabbing ones. So what's the connection between other people's irresponsibility, and the irritation cause by more trivial noises, ones that ought to be ignorable?

I think this is a case of feedback. The injustice, and the potential escalation, and the social difficulty in reasoning with the person, all cause cogitation. The cogitation makes the distraction worse! Now it's even more unfair! And so on.

To mention animals again, sometimes the dawn chorus aggravates me: but this is when I've been burning the candle at both ends - in which case the singing birds are reminding me that I've run out of time, and that I've been forced to accept factors in my life that put pressure on my time, and it's so unjust - a thought that irritates me, taking away even more time. And that is disgusting. Those idiot birds!
Customers care about the product, not the balance sheet. Musk could pull it off? Good for him.
The AI Software Pulling Images Out of Brains [video]
How much better is the turn taking relative to two humans, when, for example, ordering a pizza? Human to human interaction has a non-zero false turn taking false positive score in my experience.
The fact that Elon Musk panicked and sold X to xAI means that he is believes Tesla stock, which backed the original X deal, is weak and will fall. It's a very bearish signal for TSLA.
Playstation 1 didn't do perspective correct texture mapping. If you scroll way down this WebGL tutorial page a few examples are shown:

https://webglfundamentals.org/webgl/lessons/webgl-3d-perspec...
Not anymore. They have a new Nvidia App that doesn't require you to login.
Is he really rich? He started a car company, one that is known to make shit cars. All of their big bets failed. So what was supposed to be "not just a car comoany", which is what all the insane valuations were based on, is now "just a car comoany" and a shit one at that. So why is this car comoany still valuated at such insane hype levels? Is his wealth not entirely tied to the hyper-valuation of this car company?
It’s an incredibly buggy experience with a user interface that fails many basic design cues (like not hiding things until you mouse over, not making the friends list icon inexplicably identical to a server icon and also the add server icon, etc.)

It’s popular because they figured out and unbelievably low-friction method to get users into the ecosystem. Being able to do everything online without installing anything was huge at the time. You had an account in like 2 clicks. THAT was a thing of beauty.
In the context of crabs in tech, Realtek comes to mind first for me, but that might just be due to my age.
You should go check out early Sam Bankman-Fried interviews. Dude was super altruistic.
As the sibling pointed out, private companies don't have stock prices. But I've read estimates that Twitter is worth less $10B now, so less than a quarter what Musk paid for it.
The "idiots" are everyone's boss and haven't shown any restraint in firing everyone who disagrees with them.
What's dysfunctional about it?
But the difference is, Twitter users leave way too much into situational context for an LLM to comprehend, and so...
If you want strong typing in a web framework, why wouldn’t you just use a language with strong typing?
Yep, I also believe that we will have a Minsky Moment on the entire Muskonomy.

Given his political involvement, I would assume that the maximum end date for this house of cards is the date when Trump is no longer in power - which is less than 4 years away. The real date is probably much sooner, but who knows when ?
Maybe they meant free of the subscription costs mentioned in the title.
The title reminds me of the Douglas Adams quote:

"On the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much — the wheel, New York, wars and so on — whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man — for precisely the same reasons."

-- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979), Chapter 23.
I don't know about your passport, but my passport has a field for country of birth.
That only works until Trump finishes purging the upper ranks of the military, and then gets the Senate to promote Trump loyalists to take their place.
Relatedly, in case it's useful, the django-stubs package provides mypy compatible type stubs for Django:

https://github.com/typeddjango/django-stubs
I would be shocked if he's not out within 3 months. If he's not, that would mean that he was an altruist after all...
I’m baffled. Are you saying the Republicans were acting more like grownups? I think the Democrats learned too late that the voters didn’t want grownups and weren’t sure how to respond.
Has no mention of it being a fork of Django in the README. https://github.com/dropseed/plain

I guess the author didn't think credit was due: https://plainframework.com/about/#credit-where-credits-due
I appreciate your frankness, and I am not an idealist who is proposing that the market 'should' be this way or that way for purely moral reasons. But the topic at hand is unionization. An aspect you neglect in this post is that another way to raise wages (or 'total compensation') is via collective bargaining. If tech workers really do care, and have a collective interest, and are able to overcome countervailing forces, this is an inevitability. No longer will the ball be purely in your court as an employer to solely determine the value of labor.
At best -- at best -- the rhetoric about Canada and Greenland is just yet another distraction from all the other domestic crap he and Musk are pulling. At slightly less than best, he wants to scare other countries into making concessions favorable to the US (or at even less than best, favorable to Trump and his cronies).

But yes, I would not be terribly surprised if Trump were to use boots on the ground -- or at least the threat of such -- to expand the US's territory in some way.
It’s not new and only superior in a very narrow set of categories.
Wait so the 5th amendment protects diaries from snooping siblings?
Can this be used to clean podcast audio? I don't see a reason why it can't be...
> We have the world's largest dataset for EEG

How?

Similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conor_Russomanno views on the hype around using EEG. No product to show for it, as far as I know.

IMO, these guys are so far up their each others' ass that all they smell is their own excrement. Show the science. Kill the hype.
"There's also the figure dash…"

Re last paragraph: dashes, etc. are confusing for perhaps most of us who aren't, say, typesetters, myself included. I use EM dashes a lot usually without a space between words and sometimes with spaces when I think the typography calls for it—or for extra emphasis.

Essentially, most of us guess the rules and often this doesn't matter much but it can in certain circumstances.

For example, in say machine conversion/transliteration. The ASCII dash is often used as a substitute for Unicode minus sign because it's easy to select [it's my usual practice], and anyway many don't know there is an actual difference. Whilst a human will usually know the difference by its use or context a machine may take the literal interpretation which could lead to say a numerical calculation error.

This problem has annoyed me for a long while. Why is it that wordprocessors and editors do not highlight these characters and query whether the usage is correct? Surely this ought not to be that difficult.

Another example is Roman numerals. The average person will enter say an uppercase 'I' for the Roman numeral one. Here's a typical example which is incorrect:

WWII

Here I entered the normal ASCII 'I' because it was too involved to find the correct Unicode character for Roman numeral one.

I'd like to know what others who are in typography, machine learning etc. think about this, and why WP programs and editors don't have simple ergonomics that allow for easy selection of the correct character.

† On a related matter, you'll note I've used single quotes whereas mmooss uses double quotes. This tell me that mmooss is likely in the US whereas I'm not. Again, this is not really a major problem for humans but it can be in transliteration, etc. Also, it's unclear (at least to me) what the default is for quoting quotes, i.e.: "" versus "' (right, I've refrained from using triple quotes).

Again, this seems country specific with I believe the US favoring double followed by single. Even when these rules are defined do people strictly adhere to them?
> I don't think you've talked to an average person. They are quite upset.

I actually have, and essentially everyone, when pressed to give an actual, concrete example of how their life has been directly, negatively impacted by the previous admin fails to materialize one.

Instead it's all some BS fairytale narrative or outrage they have bought into through, e.g. youtube videos and podcasts hosted by people who have essential zero accreditation other than wealth, and that they continue to concoct in their nutrient impoverished brains, without evidence or reason.

Newsflash: the all-in podcast finance bros are not looking out for you or hoping you make it big time. They are literally angling to run pump and dump scams off the backs of their listeners (there is an episode in which they admit as much in relation to crypto) and continue to peddle anti labor perspectives in hopes that they can keep a grossly inequitable financial system that rewards investors and financiers more than actual producers and laborers afloat long enough to live like kings themselves—they don't give a flying fuck about you, me, or anyone else that listens to their crock. Wake up and begin to invest your time in perspectives that actually benefit you and your immediate community, don't let these clowns take you for a ride.
Trump may be Commander in Chief, but he cannot start a war without Congress' approval.

Unfortunately, they've essentially given more or less blanket approval for various wars and war-like actions since before 9/11, and that approval keeps getting renewed every year.
The saboteurs you can hire to end your relationship (2020)
The whole world is a cartel. Not because it wants to be - quite the opposite. But because it is a necessity.
Does that indicate the robots.txt is how "no crawl" is indicated? robots.txt doesn't have "no crawl", it has allow and disallow.
Every paper I have ever seen on the subject has concluded that controlling for SES explains racial variation in crime rates. This paper touched on it in one location but otherwise didn’t bring it up, so that’s the part I mentioned here. Feel free to check around and see what you can find, I’ve got better things to do on a Friday night.