skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not true

The idea that meaning is not impacted by language yet is somehow exclusively captured by language is just absolutely absurd

Like saying X+Y=Z but changing X or Y won’t affect Z
Not at all a silly argument. The human species is extremely bad at understanding the delicate balance the nature is in and extremely bad at estimating how much we know about nature. We don’t even know all the insect species that exist, yet we are comfortable telling others that they will find other similar food.

It’s the kind of confidence aliens would have observing humans eating lettuce and assuming we’d be fine with grazing grass if they take all the leafy vegetables away.
You’re ignoring half of the argument. I have given some examples of branding and some examples of real use. “Legibility, and understanding” aren’t branding. “Dyslexia” isn’t branding. Typography is a branch of graphic design with a lot of study behind it. Just like subtle uses of colour and element positioning can change how you interact with, perceive, and feel about an interface, so can typefaces.

Again, just because you’re unable to notice how exactly you’re being affected does not mean you aren’t. You also don’t notice all the ways you’re affected by advertising, but they still work on you.

Yes, of course not every single subtle change to a font makes a huge impact. Just like a single subtle change to a colour’s hue doesn’t. But pronounced changes do, even when you’re unable to put your finger on it.
You seem to have missed the lesson completely:

> But it's not without cause or just doing it out of the kindness of his heart... As it turns out ultimately this regression was inadvertently introduced by the [nVidia] engineer.

And it's not even responsibility really. If an engineer from company A had introduced a regression that impacts company A's direct competitor (company B)... That's borderline sabotage.

It's not sabotage only because the engineer from company A (nVidia) fixed the regression.
Nobody should be teaching anyone things that is not factual. That is detrimental to society and definitely affects everyone.
> you won't miss that right at all.

Until the day the goons break down your door and drag you away. Then you'll wish you had a fair trial. "It'll never happen to me if I keep may head down" will ensure no one will feel safe about publicly opposing the president on any issue.

Your dictator is not special, most of them concentrate their power by claiming to address an issue that's legitimately concerns a lot of citizens; Idi Amin expelled Asians under cover of addressing inequality.
I didn't make much progress on my own languages until I discovered Forth, always seemed to get stuck and lose motivation in the parser.

Writing the parser is the least interesting part of building a language imo.
I just got over writing 2 (well 2.5) toy compilers and I think a lot of the material in the compiler-teaching space lack some subtle developmental aspects.

I wish there was a course designed somewhere which talked about more ingrained issues: how to structure/design the AST[0], buffer based vs noncontextual tokenization/parser design, index handling and error sync in the parser, supporting multiple codegen architectures, handling FFI, exposing the compiler as an API for external tooling, namespaces and linkage handling etc. etc. etc.

It is refreshing to see how Carbon designed some of its components (majorly the frontend, yet to take a look at the backend) as it touches on some of the subtleties I mentioned. If someone is starting out on writing one, I would recommend taking a look at it or any of the talks.

Always nice to see new material coming up. A few resources that I would like to mention would be dabaez's compiler course, Khoury college's compiler course (in Rust, previously i think and Ocaml), Nora Sandler's book as well as http://compilerbook.org; Which I consider to be the best guide out there for writing small learning compilers, the videos are good as well.

[0]: Some related content that I enjoyed reading: https://lesleylai.info/en/ast-in-cpp-part-1-variant/
Well, I don't have one, so I can't say with great certainty. I did, however, have a Pinephone Pro, and the experience wasn't great for a few different reasons. The Librem 5 is apparently faster, but it seems like it's not that much faster, so even if the experience is better I'd suspect it's not ready for most people. I think that's a real shame because it feels close and the target they're chasing (usable daily driver) isn't really moving as fast as it once was, but compared to a very cheap Android phone, the relatively-expensive Librem 5 is weak in almost every dimension. I considered buying it anyways... but I know damn well I can't daily drive it yet.
I don't aliens that could come here would recognize profit as something real. They would see us destroying the world to eat meat. To pointlessly travel at high speeds. To drive cars around in pointless errands. To collect pointless knick knacks for social stature.

The penguin gives a stone to his mate. The human buys an F150 to attract social attention and a mate. To a hypothetical alien species, the gap between the intelligence of these two species is not large.

Collectively, we act in accordance with our biology.
Protein is being added to yoghurt, bread, coffee – is it beneficial?
wingspan is on my wishlist.

I played this computer game "eliza" by zachtronics and it had this very interesting solitaire mini-game inside it. I liked it so much I bought the zachtronics solitaire collection. And wow, I would launch it "between things" for a moment and it could easily spin the clock forward an hour or more.

I had to delete it from my computer.

I think there are some things you have to just say no to and go through the pain of making yourself bored so something better will fill in.

I think wingspan may remain on my wishlist :)
> The hardest part of writing a compiler is designing a language.

That's a completely separate field. If you want to learn about language design you should study that, though it helps if you have some background on both to get started with either one.
Going full circle on the clock looks like achieving full inner-platform effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect. In short - we make our application so configurable that the "configuration" language mimics the platform our application is wrote in, albeit poorly.
"Things we do with animals"

You don't want to call the Mammoth effort 'ecological', then compare it to other such animal impacts we've engineered. Like cattle.
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I doubt that, what graphics mod did you use?
cycomanic says>"Europeans seem to be much more susceptible to an "if you don't want it to be done to you don't do it to others" argument"<

While they may "talk the talk", Europe doesn't "Walk the walk"! Europe has strong tariffs on imports. The USA is now simply equalizing the situation. Here's an example:

Automobile Tariffs by Country 2025: put your cursor on a country to see its automobile tariff. European tariffs on autos are roughly four times those of the USA. While you're there you can look up the "sales tax" too!

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/automobil...

European companies have had tariffs on USA products for decades. Those tariffs protect and maintain industries within a country. The USA failed to maintain that protection: the USA lost jobs and harmed industry which guts an economy. Meanwhile, for example, Germany protected it's auto industry with tariffs on cars from abroad.

My feeling is that "What's good for the goose is good for the gander."

There's no doubt that the "Law of Comparative Advantage"(LCA) in economics is a valid argument for trade. However, the LCA is almost always argued in the absence of externalities: costs generated by use of the LCA are usually not taken into account when examining a full economy: job losses, industry shrinkage and failure, etc.
But it possibly did lower our ability to memorize? We may be didn't need that ability to be so high to go to Mars or whatever.

I'm just saying, it's possible that reliving our minds of various tasks worked incrementally each time until a point it didn't anymore. Same way our liberal and egalitarian progress as a society worked great until all our countries started having birth rate problems? I mean, not trying to start another argument. The point is. Something (technological progress, social progress, even financial progress) can be great until we hit a point of no return where things collapse.
What precludes pattern matching from understanding the physical laws?
You see a ball hit a wall, and it bounces back. Congratulations, you learned the abstract pattern:

x->|

x|

x<-|
I think there's something like a dual of the uncanny valley when it comes to protocol complexity vs adoption. Really simple like UART, I2C, or SPI, and engineers will adopt it on their own. But once you start wanting to add some higher level features, engineers would just as soon reinvent their own proprietary schemes for their own specific needs (the "valley"), and the network effects go away. So to create a more popular protocol you end up with a design committee where everyone piles in their own bespoke feature requests and the thing ends up being an ugly complex standard that nobody really likes. But at least it gives it a shot at wider adoption to prime the pump of network effects. (Or maybe it's more akin to how Java beats the Lisp Curse by using the social effect of having to raise an army to do anything?)
Hard disagree. There are a lot of implementation "details" that, if you want to do properly, are a lot of hard work and very much nontrivial. For example, do try to write a compiler with efficient incremental compilation, and especially one that does so while also having optimization passes. And that's just one example, most things in compiler implementations actually turn out to be fairly complex. And lots of features that modern languages support e.g. more powerful typesystems, trait/typeclass systems, etc. are also very very tricky.

While designing a language is by no means trivial, it generally really occupies just a very small fraction of the language/compiler developer's time. And, in most cases, the two things (language design + implementation details) have to walk hand-in-hand, since small changes to the language design can vastly improve the implementation end.
This is possible if you disregarded compiler warnings and assigned null to a non-nullable location.
Last year I ported Loader's construction to Haskell [2] in order to better understand it, and managed to shrink the code down to under 232 bytes [1]. That work was also featured in a video that youtuber CodeParade made about the Quest To Find The Largest Number and its followup [3].

[1] https://github.com/tromp/AIT/blob/master/fast_growing_and_co...

[2] https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/176966/golf-a-n...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQLcoSuMKHg&t=10s
This makes sense. If one bad thing several decades ago wasn’t that bad, an unrelated bad thing cannot be bad in an entirely different way now
Existence of 'CIA Tokyo Station' revealed in new JFK files release
He hasn't fundamentally changed his mind. What he's doing is taking what he fundamentally believes and finding more and more elaborate ways of justifying it.
You are correct -- the (bid,ask) price can change with no trades taking place.

GP is hinting at a common fallacy -- I call it the "strong hands fallacy." It's common in crypto: "Every time the price of $fartcoin goes down, it's moving from weak hands to strong hands. Price drops are just more reason to be bullish!"
Outside of moving bits around, computers have not delivered any significant value.
I made no extrapolation. I said that we haven't measured the reliability of the earlier stories. Instead of having a reliable measurement, we're going with our much-less-reliable assumptions (prior beliefs).

The interesting thing, I think, is those prior beliefs. Your prior beliefs, it would seem, include the belief TAL's stories are generally reliable. You believe it strongly enough that you write that doubting the reliability of earlier TAL stories is an "over correction in the wrong direction."

I don't think it's an overcorrection. When we find evidence of one fabrication from a trusted source, that source ought to lose trust. If we want to know how much trust it should lose, we have to measure. When we don't measure, when we don't take seriously the responsibility to ground our beliefs, that's how we end up with things like the replication crisis in psychology.
Completely agreed. All the nonsense about getting just exactly the right soil composition, letting the soil "age", and what-not, seems bizarre and silly. If an animal needs to use the bridge, it'll learn to use the bridge. Spending so much extra money and time to get the vegetation just right is a waste of taxpayer dollars.
I am sure that some people would still want to live on the surface of that beautiful, untouched planet. And I am sure this could be arranged, for the right price of course. And as the extra bonus, all those rich surface-dwellers would not need to see the common folks and other riff-raff, who would be be living under the ground. Hey, even under ground could use the same system: top levels for more well-off folks, and lower levels for poorer folks.

I think I've read a book about this. Or ten.
Solo founder developing a social platform for action-oriented collaboration
Hey everyone! I am a 19 y/o founder taking a gap year to build Airdel - a social media platform startup that transforms how people accomplish meaningful goals together.

I've noticed many of today's social media platforms aren't action-oriented nor optimized for real-time collaboration. This gap affects people across numerous scenarios:

- Emergency responders coordinating resources during California wildfires
- Healthcare teams arranging critical medical deliveries
- Adventure seekers finding partners and sponsors for climbing Everest
- Scientists collaborating on research across institutional boundaries
- Filmmakers assembling crews and equipment for independent productions
- Engineers seeking specialized expertise for challenging technical projects

That's why I'm building a social media platform that connects your needs with people who can help — whether it's industry stakeholders, professionals, or individuals with a common solution to your problem.
How Airdel Works:

- Mission Feed: Post updates, progress, and achievements related to your goals
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- Trust Network: Collaborators can be anonymously reviewed, allowing others to judge trustworthiness

What makes Airdel different is that resource matching is built directly into conversation flows. When someone needs specialized equipment, expertise, or support, our system identifies who can help and facilitates the connection - turning communication into coordinated action.
We've seen an 87% completion rate for missions on the platform vs. 34% with traditional methods. Early adopters span humanitarian organizations, healthcare providers, adventure groups, creative professionals, and tech startups.

I'd love feedback from the HN community - what features would make this most valuable for your personal or professional missions?
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"Coding" != Software Engineering

Also:

> Around 2012 or 2013, my former employer went on a hiring spree for software developers. The criteria to qualify for a role were owning a computer and convincingly stating you wanted to learn programming. The bar was low. We had the budget and patience to train people in basic front-end coding, and we needed warm bodies, so we hired everyone, some unqualified.

This is the original sin.
A naive question: why is global warming bad for the earth, especially for the environmentalists? I mean I get it that it will be bad for human, but the biosphere thrived in much warmer pre-historical ages, right? Or rain forests still have the highest biodiversity nowadays, right? For people who hate human activities to preserve a thriving earth, wouldn't they welcome global warming?
Touchlessly moving cells: Biotech automation
This should accelerate the process of screening new drugs.
> Now—the snare. This one was tough. I spent a long time trying to recreate it, convinced it was a processed acoustic snare layered with something synthetic. After too many failed attempts, I caved and sampled the original. Yes, the snare is the only part I couldn’t fully replicate.

which seems so weird to me, because when you listen to the isolated sample, it sounds like a fairly standard Lindrum fare, a snare hit plus some kind of other perc sample, maybe a wood block or one of those 'congo' bell samples or something.
The whole "bright guy writes like he's an idiot" schtick attracted an element that wasn't going to parse sarcasm. Seanbaby's entire oeuvre assumes you went to high school with a bunch of racist assholes and hated them. It was safe for him to do that at the time because the internet was still mostly cool people.
If you have a trade defect with everyone, like the US does, you have a current accounts deficit: https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/010715/what-differe.... It means you’re perpetually borrowing to finance consumption.

That’s why the Madagascar example misses the point. There’s a handful of large trading partners that account for our overall trade deficit. Everyone else is just being swept in.
French Court Orders Cloudflare to 'Dynamically' Block MotoGP Streaming Piracy
Are there any other large open-source (not necessarily free) rails codebases?
I think the argument is that even very disordered and disregulated consumption of porn doesn't resemble what we typically define to be an "addiction". There's a meaningful difference of degree and of kind between a bad habit that's difficult to shake, even a deeply entrenched one, and medical/psychological addiction, and researchers have repeatedly concluded that porn consumption never reaches the standard of the second.
Regarding the language design part, many universities I know of offer a {Advanced} Programming Languages class later on after a Compilers 101 class and that is where many of the topics like EBNF, Grammar Design along with different constructs are done.

Besides, for someone learning it for the first time I think designing a new language seems a bit difficult.
yes, but that only lasts until the rest of the world can sell you stuff.
This project is amazing! I been messing with it all day today, I'm in love.

Thank you to the developers, you really have a keen eye for detail.
It's annoying. They use side-scrolling for prev/next navigation, and I've discovered I drag down on my touchpad at an angle.
I would like to protest my assignment to this timeline.
Of the ones I've heard about - those were already underway pre-trump (e.g, Apple, Stargate), and they're inflated headline numbers. What is less illusionary are the immediate pain that will be inflicted by suddenly increasing the price of inputs. Small businesses can't sustain that. Consumers can't sustain that. Multinationals can maybe fly to mar-a-largo to try and get a carve out if they can drum up an announcement but they are quietly cutting spending and laying off workers. Even if it made sense to build these inputs in the US, it takes half a decade to build this kind of infrastructure - there is no explanation for how we get from X to Y or even what Y looks like. That is why it is (IMO) an unconvincing argument.
This is true for most alternatives, but not for Coolify.
I am the second maintainer of Coolify and Andras and I maintain most of Core Coolify while we have 4 other maintainers helping with support and the docs and a few other maintainers who help with CLI and some other stuff.
so exeter co-op is a grocery store?
I agree and it worked as long as that carve-out were permitted. But if we want to make that stuff here, we certainly can and every community targeted for such a factory would welcome it.

Working class Americans lived their highest standard of living when more physical things were made here. We still have that option.
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There is a log message that won't be output in that case: whether getting a full, "native" FileNotFound exception is better is beside the point, since the goal of the code was obviously to print a custom error message.

And it's trivial to achieve the desired effect sanely:

try:
with open(...) ...

except FileNotFound:
logger.error(...)
raise

It'd even be fewer lines of code.
I am glad you like it. If you have any problems or questions, just let me know.
In that thread, I see for example, another challenge linked on that page:

> Write the shortest possible program (length measured in bytes) satisfying the following requirements:

> infinite memory and runtime

> no input

> output is to stdout

> execution eventually terminates

> total number of output bytes exceeds Graham's number

This sounds like a loop and that's it ?

I'm struggling to see the challenge or discovery there ?
I think that'd be far less prolific than third party advertising currently is. And it'd be worth it to get rid of the big pile of perverse incentives, manipulation, and surveillance that is the current ad industry.
One version of that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP-7GNoDJ5c

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellerman
What's the meaning of this? Be spontaneous and give up on contriving so much
That's the trouble with "barrier" tariffs and weighted tariff calculations. E.g. a lot of US agricultural products are subject to up to 50% tariff in the EU, so the US is simply unable to sell them there in significant quantity. What do you get as a result of a weighted tariff calculation? That's right, you get "low tariff". Japan is also interesting. It imposes insane tariffs (several hundred percent) on some US agricultural goods, but 0% on US cars. Why 0% on cars? Because they are able to basically disallow import of US cars through regulation.

There's also another aspect, beyond tariffs. In a very real sense, we're paying for the security of EU, Japan, and Canada. Why aren't they buying more of our goods or energy? How long can we foot the bill of over 2/3rds of NATO defense spending, _and_ run $900B+ trade deficits? To what end are we funding the security of developed countries, most of which are half across the world, who could fund it on their own? Why are they _still_ buying Russian oil and gas while we do all that? The whole situation is idiotic.

Trump basically has two levers when it comes to trade deficits: boost exports, and reduce imports. Of these he only directly controls the latter, but he's trying to pull both. And crash the treasury yields at the same time.
I think he's focusing on the distinction between facts and output for humans and drawing a parallel to LLMs.

If I ask you something that you know the answer to, the words you use and that fact iself are distinct entities. You're just giving me a presentation layer for fact #74719.

But LLMs lack any comparable pool to draw from, and so their words and their answer are essentially the same thing.
Related:

The Leader of the LeetCode Rebellion: An Interview with Roy Lee (70 points, 9 days ago, 44 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43497848

I got kicked out of Columbia for taking a stand against LeetCode interviews (20 points, 9 days ago, 18 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43497652
Yea I'm lost there. If we took n bodies of text x_1 ... x_n, and k different summaries each y_1i ...y_kn , there are many statistical and computational treatments with which you would be able to find extremely strong correlations between y and x...
Right, there's a difference between replacing your memory versus replacing your goal-setting.