skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Swift: now just as easy to understand as the less-travelled paths of C++ … The complexity of this language doesn’t seem to have any bounds. Sure, it’s the new shiny, but the cognitive load to understand what is going on is ever-increasing.

Personally I prefer Objective C instead, that’s a simple language. I can (and have) gone back to ObjC code from a decade previous and understood it straight away. I’m not sure I could say the same for Swift, it changes significantly from version to version, is not backwards compatible, and introduces new conceptual ways to do things instead of improving older ones.

I really wish Lattner hadn’t made the language, he’s done marvelous things with LLVM and Clang, but Swift has lost its way, IMHO. Unfortunately it’s now got enough momentum behind it at Apple that it’ll win out anyway, and Apple will be the poorer for it.

Thank $deity I’m leaving and I don’t have to pretend to like it any more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APyH8nAGMUg
As FreeBSD UNIX user and sysadmin for about 20 years now - FreeBSD importing some systemd(1) fork is the LAST thing I want to see in the FreeBSD land.

In other words - to make it simple - get the fuck out of my lawn with that shit.
Dated 2016.

I think the 2025 rules will be different, for most US tech job-seekers.
What if they are running the story on local ocean tides or soup kitchens? They are doing this to sell more newspapers or more airtime for advertisers.. does this mean there is an "exchange for money" under your rule?
Jumps shark at hydrogen.
Inspiring! Thanks for sharing
'THe people will own nothing and be happy about it' used to what conservatives joked socialists/communists would bring to America for 70 years and up until last month. Now you promote it's merits. Totally not a cult.
Genuinely curious—could it be for the same reason you used a keyboard to write that comment? It’s efficient, it works. What’s the actual issue with using a tool that helps convey the intended message more clearly and quickly, as long as it reflects what he wanted to say?
>video game loot boxes

Is buying packages of random baseball/pokemon/etc cards gambling then?
Why Trump's tariff chaos makes sense (big picture)
exchanged with whom? If it's a small business, it's likely the owner puts the sign out themselves.

Or is it money exchange with sign manufacturer? In this case are outdoor signs OK if owner personally made them?
There are these ones in the UK these days:

https://www.co-operative.coop/about-us/history
https://www.co-operativebank.co.uk/about-us/

When a Brit talks about "The Co-op", they (we) mean the stores. The bank always has bank appended to its name.
I don’t know if it’s America or tech people but online discourse of legal systems from American tech people seems to treat laws as code, something to interpret as written rather than the meaning. Loopholes are celebrated as being clever and are impossible to patch. This is quite alien to most of the world.
It's their movement that I find fascinating. It's like they just snap between positions [1]. They're incredibly fast.

Not to mention exceptionally beautiful (often irridescent [2]) and entirely curious.

I have thousands of happy snaps like those from around our old gaf of different pals that caught my eye or walked a web over one of us. So cool.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/kVK8z2p.mp4
[2] https://i.imgur.com/Ig3Nob5.jpeg
A start might be to enforce, or perhaps strengthen, laws against false advertising. I think most advertising is dishonest outright or at least by implication or omission. If everyone in the chain of custody of commercial speech was held liable if the speech was misleading, the world would look rather different. Compare the tone of a company's ads to the tone of its SEC filings.
> You can buy a tub of 200mg caffeine pills for $3

The vast majority of caffeine that is available to add to products is extracted from coffee arabica. Either from the creation of decaf coffee or from other plant matter. IE caffeine is a useful byproduct of coffee arabica production.

There are most definitely other sources of caffeine, but if coffee arabica is no longer grown/harvested in the quantity it is currently, you would expect the cost of caffeine to increase significantly. I doubt we’d have shortages or anything like that, but I suppose it’s possible.
> I doubt there's even the slightest difference in sports betting.

> Yeah the city is cleaner..

Cool. So it has positive effects on the city, without any negative effects on economic outcomes.

Cool. I'm in. Let's implement it everywhere
That's not the same thing at all.
So I can choose to opt into this service?
For comparison, last year I was eating a packaged slice of ham and bit something hard, a rock or bone or something. Didn't hurt me or anything, but still odd. It was small and white, but could have been anything. I threw it out.

Later that day I wrote the company just to let them know, thinking if others had similar issues they could investigate.

They wrote me back saying it's impossible their packs would have bones in them, and it's possible my own tooth broke/chipped and that's what I was biting, and attached a coupon for something like 35 cents off one pack.

I found the reply to be really bizarre - I'd probably rather they not responded at all.
Billboards being rare outside of the US seems quite incorrect. The developing world is full of billboards, and places in Europe like Milan have some wild Samsung billboards.
You argument sounds a bit like "crime exists despite laws against them also existing, therefore we should not have such laws".

What you seem to be missing is that, in the end, it's all about risks vs. potential gains.

As it stands, advertising is relatively cheap and the only risk is to lose all the money spent on it.

Once it's made illegal, that formula changes massively since now there's a much bigger risk in the form of whatever the law determines - fines, perhaps losing a professional license or the right to work on a certain field, or to found and/or direct a company, perhaps even jail time!

You're right, it will probably still exist in some ways in some contexts. I bet it wouldn't be nearly as pervasive as it is today though, and that's a win. And if it's not enough, up the stakes.
Consider it related to the Streisand effect or reverse psychology concepts.
ok, what if ABC buys a 55% stake in Bounty and puts ads for them because they are the same owner now? What if it's 10% stake? Can they claim (truthfully) they want to increase the value of their stock?
Talk about hubris. The US military is specified to fight a 2 front war, but has proved singularly unable to defeat other countries in occupation. The idea the US can just blackmail the world by force may be about to be tested, but I wouldn't be willing to bet on its success.
How I learned to stop worrying and love erasure
By the way, the reason the address->IC mapping is non-trivial is for performance reasons.

If you were, for example, iterating over a column of a 2D array with a stride equal to some power of two, you'd end up hitting the same IC repeatedly. This limits your bandwidth to that of a single IC, rather than balancing it over all of them. (I'm simplifying a little, but that's the gist)

So they try to "swizzle" things, using a formula like the one in the article.
OK, I changed my mind about ligatures; out with the fi and ffi glued together and all of it.

Concern with what text looks like is just emotional quaintness; it's not worth sacrificing security.
I haven't reade the article, but YES PLEASE.
The language looks great but I can't get over the "type first" declaration syntax.
I was referring to apps packaged for Linux which don’t work seamlessly on FreeBSD because they depend on some Linux-specific part of the systemd ecosystem.
The overwhelming majority of "knowledge produced"* is nothing more than noise. Do not for a second think you're missing out on anything valuable or substantial. Do not be (or, remain) just a consumer, thinking he's accomplishing something by slurping up the newest, coolest, dandiest "thing"

* - especially things like: "newsletters, podcasts, Youtube videos, (tech) news, articles, and (of course) books"
Impressive! I would love to learn howto implement that in Julia. Could you help me understand how you did that?

I'd love to see, if it's possible to create a libc-free, dependency-free executable without Nim (https://nim-lang.org/).
I believe it's a shame that the drippings do not create the basis of a mantle-stalagmite. That would be a neat feature to study.

'Our continent keeps on dripping, dripping, dripping, into the mantle...'

Doo-doo dah doo-doo.

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Is there currently any type of ground penetrating radar or other device which could physically confirm the model's output?
What I'd really like to see is a study on how much advertising drives consumerism and thereby eventually climate change / pollution. Maybe this could start some discussion.
I think a better thing to do would be to outlaw algorithmic feeds where monetization is via advertising. If subscription based that is fine. The incentive for sub based monetization is to keep you long enough to continue subscribing. For ads it is to keep you on as long as possible which trends towards divisive / fear / anger inducing content.
Even if the authoritarianism to enforce it weren't by itself undesirable, banning advertising creates a situation where incumbents (known names) have a significant advantage over new entrants to a market.

It's worth analyzing why a society wants that and who benefits from it.
Ah YOU are the designated speaker for the disenfranchised while all other Americans don't have the emotional intelligence/historical background needed to possibly understand. You think way too highly of yourself and your wizened worldliness and too poorly of others. You should try stopping pontificating on your inherently superior wisdom and more time conversing/engaging with others.
Well, our society defaults many people to serving money so having escaped the immediate serfdom of debt and even short term cashflow, people can make more balanced choices.
Comparing JS frameworks to LLMs is like comparing a bike to a spaceship—completely different beasts.
Faster than LuaJIT's interpreter, not the compiled code.
The definition in the second sentence would ban sponsorship of public television, among other things. I don't think that plan nets out to a positive.
Am I missing something? I turned off Dark Reader and uBlock and this site still looks totally fine — great even. I love the colors. There are like seven example banners on the entire page, three icons for navigation, and mostly text.

Or are you talking about some of the example sites the article links to like http://thombs.com/Dann_1996-06/noframes.htm in which case yeah I get it lol
This was a fascinating article and I admire the musician in question for committing to the re-Discovery (pardon the pun) of the process behind the original track. Still, I have to agree with the earlier commenter that the many hallmarks of ChatGPT's prose style (so to speak) distracted me somewhat from the story the author intended to tell. The seemingly random italicisation of phrases that couldn't possibly have required actual emphasis created a relentless subvocal choppiness. As much as I'm glad the author shared their insights, I wish the medium hadn't so overwhelmed the message. Not that I think using ChatGPT is fundamentally wrong. I suppose it's a little like cosmetic surgery: the best approach, if you're going under the knife, is to have just enough done that nobody can tell you've had anything done at all.
Sadly, it’s nothing new. We’ve always welcomed some immigrants and hated others. The specific groups have just changed throughout the years.
Kudos! I just went through a "See it in action" demo and this is pretty great for job seekers. The UI works well to track the agent's and candidate's speech modulation.

From the business side, how will you monetize given that you're catering to users that aren't the most likely to have disposable income?
Nobody is saying there wouldn't be catalogs and "new release" feeds... they would just have to be dedicated and voluntary and not polluting everything else I'm trying to do.
This struck a nerve.

I've been on both sides of this war: the test evangelist fighting for coverage and the pragmatist shipping to beat a deadline. After 20+ years in software, the truth is painfully obvious: testing is the greatest productivity hack that everyone keeps "postponing until next sprint."

The author gets the psychology exactly right. We overestimate the initial cost and drastically undervalue the compound returns. What they call "Time Technical Debt" is the perfect description for that sinking feeling when you're working on a mature codebase with spotty test coverage.

The most insightful point is how testing fundamentally changes your design for the better. When you have to make something testable, you're forced to:

- Think about clear interfaces

- Handle edge cases explicitly

- Create clean separation of concerns

- Build proper startup/shutdown sequences

These aren't "testing best practices," they're just good engineering. Testing is simply the pressure that forces you to do it right.

My experience: if your system is hard to test, it's probably hard to reason about, hard to maintain, and hard to extend. The difficulty in testing is a symptom, not the disease.

At my last company, we built a graph of when outages occurred versus test coverage by service. The correlation was so obvious it became our most effective tool for convincing management to allocate time for testing.
So this is kind of an ensemble sort of thing in ML like random forest and GBT?
Mandatory political indoctrination courses is the biggest thing. But also, having to fund left-wing events with mandatory activities fee. And it was much easier to get funding as a student group if you have the correct political opinions. Finally, if you say the wrong things, you might get reported to a political commissar (this was really rare at my uni though, there were signs everywhere saying how to make a report but in practice people didn’t do it).
One man's propaganda is another man's truth-to-power.

There are dangerous consequences to handing the government the authority to ban public communication (even about mouthwash brands) without very careful scrutiny.

Imagine if you couldn't advertise energy alternatives because oil and gas came first and, with advertising banned, we can't even talk about the relative merits of installing solar vs. buying coal-made grid electricity. The status quo will maintain until the planet cooks.
Those studies have been done, although not by me. People are really, really bad at working out how affluent other people are by inspection. That is one of the reasons I brought the topic up - the research I've seen suggests this sort of "I looked at it and it seemed ok" approach is very misleading. What people actually look at aren't things that indicate affluence.

If you look at the other comments you can see people are actually keying off how much of a sense of community and civic pride there is in an area, as well as commercial activity. Which is going to probably distinguish between upper and lower class - even that isn't certain - but that isn't actually relevant to the topic because there is always going to be an upper and lower class. It isn't going to get a great read on how affluent they are at any given moment.

> There's a reason your original post is a very light shade of gray.

In an academic sense, yes. But no-one knows what it is - some people might be in your shoes where they read "affluent", misinterpreted it and had a fear response. Or they might have other opinions as some of the other comments lay out. Or there could have been other reasons.

One of the philosophical underpinnings of HN is that downvotes don't contain a lot of information and are a poor tool for promoting discussion - it is a wonderfully mature approach to moderation.
What Science May Be
Tests can be good.
Tests can be bad.

- If you are writing a heavy algorithmic code, then write unit tests.
- If you are writing glue code joining services, then write integration tests.
- Integrating with third-party services means you prefer circuit-breakers and production monitoring over tests.

The tests should ideally be written along the axis of minimum change.
Or the test code churn alone would slow down the product.
I don't understand, is your argument that curing baldness is mostly for trans because it help men get rid of male pattern baldness?
> Any form of paid and/or third-party advertising would become illegal. Full stop.

I am currently selling my house. He's basically saying this would become impossible. This whole post has some real im14andthisisdeep energy.
Info I need to use the play store:

how many apps exist that does X thing.

Which of these apps either have zero ads and tracking, or have a pro version that removes ads and tracking.

Of those which have bad reviews in the past year, parse those reviews to see if they are device specific (doesn't work on 10 year old samsung, fine, disregard said negative) - if there are multiple bad ratings in the past 3 months put at bottom of list.

Finding the price of removing ads / tracking / unlocking features - I tend have to multi-tap to find a menu that says something unhelpful like 'in app purchases from 5.99 - $199'

give up on play store, go search fdroid

if fdroid does not have the thing, hope I can get someone to download the app, find what it costs, check if it actually removes tracking or just 'hides' the ads it downloads and reports data.

So solve the problem of searching just for free / non-ad supported apps (no way to do this in play store from what I have seen)

and transparent pricing and check for data sharing on pro versions,

I would use and promote others to use.
Also note that MoE is a decades old term, predating deep learning. It's not supposed to be interpreted literally.
Only in 2023-2024. Overall, Biden's tenure saw the largest immigration inflow in US history, and about 2/3 of it was illegal.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/briefing/us-immigration-s...
Yes. Not all business models utilize public advertising. For example, MLMs like Amway and LuLaRoe.

Advertising didn’t exist for most of history because mass media didn’t exist. Advertising is part and parcel of mass media.
When I tried llama4 scout and tried to set the max output tokens above 8192 it told me the max was 8192. Once I set it below, it worked. This was in the console
I guess I could have been more specific.

...an entity A pays some other entity B to transmit some specific content to a third party to induce the third party to take action that benefits the paying entity A.
This has been the case for a while now. 3090 hoarders were always just doing it for street cred or whatever, no way these guys are computing anything of actual value.

Tenstorrent is on fire, though. For small businesses this is what matters. If 10M context is not a scam, I think we'll see SmartNIC adoption real soon. I would literally long AMD now because their Xilinx people are probably going to own the space real soon. Infiniband is cool and all, but it's also stupid and their scale-out strategy is non-existent. This is why https://github.com/deepseek-ai/3FS came out but of course nobody had figured it out because they still think LLM's is like, chatbots, or something. I think we're getting to a point where it's a scheduling problem, basically. So you get like like lots of GDDR6 (HBM doesnn't matter anymore) as L0, DDR5 as L1, and NVMe-oF is L2. Most of the time the agents will be running the code anyway...

This is also why Google never really subscribed to "function calling" apis
> I'm a little unimpressed by its instruction following

Been trying the 109b version on Groq and it seems less capable than Gemma 3 27b
Eurocard? That’d be too obvious right? Visa, Mastercard, Eurocard?

Make a credit card, get a European bank to back you, slap a picture of some generic bridge or Romanesque building on it. No faces! Can’t offend any country in the eu by posting a face from some other country…

Sorry, just cynical. This is a great idea but would require a sort of teamwork and patriotism the eu doesn’t have in order for it to be successful.
Im sure there are a few places in India and China that still do it where alfalfa is expensive while antibiotics cost pennies. But it certainly isn't happening in the US where growing grass is as close to free as anything gets but antibiotics cost a decent amount of money. A 800 pound cow is only worth around $250 pounds to a farmer, so even a 30% increase, which is far beyond optimistic, is at best going to net you $75 extra, which is not going to cover the many months worth of antibiotics it took to dose an animal that large.
It's possible that hospitals were claiming something like a car crash victim with COVID as a COVID death for extra funding, making actual total deaths less due to COVID than reported, meaning what he said was true, even while the hospital is full of people with COVID, possibly including that very car crash victim.

Other official facts of the time period included 1. standing in a restaurant without a mask on is almost terrorism and 2. sitting at a restaurant without a mask on is fine.
The electric eraser: a surprisingly useful tool
Updating my smart On Air e-ink sign
It's funny you mention Wikipedia, I wonder if (at least since the early days when Wikipedia was the big scary thing on the block) anyone has run the same sorts of searches for plagiarized material and "hallucinations" against Wikipedia. After all, Wikipedia explicitly forbids "original" research, which means all of the output of Wikipedia is by definition a regurgitation of someone else's work. Yes you're supposed to cite everything, but between the number of things that are [Citation Needed] and the number of cites that don't seem to actually go to anything, there's almost certainly a good amount of "hallucinations" in there too (see also the effectively the entire Scots Wikipedia https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/26/scots_wikipedia_fake/). And that doesn't get into whether the factual things that are cited gave permission to the editors to use their material in the first place. Of course, I would argue Wikipedia is sufficiently transformative (and facts aren't subject to copyright anyway) and is overall a net good despite its problems. But I also argue the same of the various LLMs and their outputs too.
OK, let me restate that: there are places (even a few within the USA) that have very few or no billboards, because they are banned.
The computer that runs on human neurons
Some differences and advantages of swift are documented here: https://faultlore.com/blah/swift-abi/
Me neither. A bus? A train? A bicycle? What do you mean, don’t leave the room for interpretation.
I don't think anyone ould disagree with what you're saying here, especially LeCun.
An Open Letter to Future AI
Little too easy
I have been using ubuntu cloud image with cloud-init to achieve something similar, but will try this method as well.
SaiS would be better
At any time a coroutine switch could happen, doesn't the compiler statically know how many registers would be allocated by this anyway?

Register numbers aren't dynamically indexed, they're baked into the instruction stream, so there's not really any new information you can't get from the instruction pointer and a static (compiler-generated) lookup table?
As a fantasy it sounds nice but it immediately hits the wall of the 1st amendment.
It is not just model output. The paper uses seismic tomography to image it:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-025-01671-x
Great idea, although perhaps the use of "should" here ever so slightly carries a negative connotation that might be best avoided with alternate wording. Maybe something like:

"Alerting people to important sounds they cannot hear"?
Man Used AI avatar in court because he thought it would present an argument well