skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who spent nearly a decade with Python, I'd say 90% of people will answer "yes", so I'd like to offer a different perspective.

IMHO if you want to pick it up for a couple toy projects just to get a feel of what coding is like, then by all means try it out. But eventually you'll benefit tremendously from exploring other languages.

Python will teach you a lot of bad habits. You will feel like you know what you're doing, but only because you don't know all of the ways in which it is handwaving a lot of complexity that is inherent to writing code which you should be very much aware of.

Knowing what I know now, I wish Rust existed when I started out so that it could have been my first language. I'm never giving up the borrow checker and the type system that come with it.

But you don't have to do Rust. It's fine to work on a couple of projects in Python, then maybe something small in C (though the tooling can feel arcane and frustrating), then maybe switch it up and go with some more functional programming (FP) flavored like Lisp or F#.

I know Rust has a lot of zealots and a lot of haters, but I'm not pushing an agenda. I just think it strikes that perfect balance between being extremely expressive, clear to read (after maybe a month of writing it daily), strong type system, lots of FP elements, no OOP clutter but super powerful traits, the borrow checker which you'll invariably learn to love, and more...

This will give you a strong foundation upon which you'll be able to continuously build knowledge. And even if you start with Rust, you should definitely explore Python, C, Lisp and F# later (or maybe Haskell instead of F#)
I think this exact phenomenon is shown pretty well in the series, Better Call Saul with Chuck McGill.
OpenXC7 – free and open source FPGA toolchain for AMD/Xilinx Series 7 chi
Let's not be hyperbolic. The US is still the second largest manufacturer in the world.
Americans are too busy going to work, with an increasing number of them needing more than one job just to get by. If people protest instead of working they will be fired which means they'll also lose their health insurance.

Since we're all sickened by the poisons corporations put into our food/water/air/products and by a sedentary lifestyle which has been strictly enforced from the age of 5 we wouldn't last long without health insurance. Almost all Americans are just one uncovered medical expense away from bankruptcy and/or homelessness.

Even still, there have been a huge amount of protests recently. There are protests nearly every weekend in and around major cities. All those fired government workers have a lot more time on their hands so I expect that will continue (until their prescription medications start running out anyway)

https://wtop.com/dc/2025/03/vets-protest-trump-doge-and-musk...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/02/17/anti-t...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/02/05/anti-t...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/thousands-across-the-u...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2025/04/04/hands-off-pro...

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/29/nx-s1-5343986/anti-musk-prote...
Ask HN: Are you working in a distributed team?
I am curious if you’re working for a tech company, if your product / engineering team is co-located I.e. same office. And if so, do you think this the optimal model. I understand the way remote companies like Gitlab are structured, so the responses I would be interested in are more for ‚established‘ companies where it’s been decided there is a return to office mandate. Do you think this is most effective when all or some of the team is located together? Do teams which split by geography e.g. same timezone split or different timezone split have advantages or disadvantages in your experience.
Question from audience:
[muffled audio which sounds like:] "...why is this culture..."

[loud noise which sounds as if it represents a point where the tape has been edited]

Rand: [mid-sentence] "...for healthy children to use handicapped materials. I quite agree with the speaker's indignation. I think it's a monstrous thing — the whole progression of everything they're doing — to feature, or answer, or favor the incompetent, the retarded, the handicapped, including, you know, the kneeling buses and all kinds of impossible expenses. I do not think that the retarded should be ~allowed~ to come ~near~ children. Children cannot deal, and should not have to deal, with the very tragic spectacle of a handicapped human being. When they grow up, they may give it some attention, if they're interested, but it should never be presented to them in childhood, and certainly not as an example of something ~they~ have to live down to."

- Ayn Rand, The Age of Mediocrity, Q & A Ford Hall Forum, April, 1981

*EDIT* Youtube video: https://youtu.be/Q1HD8KXn-kI
Depends on your goal no? If your goal is to produce nothing and import everything, then I guess your last line fits with that goal. If your goal is to make the country manufacturing independent, then that doesn't sound like a great way of achieving that.
Regarding your first paragraph, we still don't understand what the issue actually is.
The most unrealistic thing is the inclusion of Americas involvement in the five eyes alliance aspect
Her non-fiction isn't any more rigorous or convincing, incidentally.
I don't know what MCP is and at this point I'm too afraid to ask
LLMs are much better at summarizing textual content or extracting specific pieces of information from it rather than answering complicated/niche queries from their weights alone, and that's likely (part of) what is happening here (i.e. fetching Wikipedia articles and cross-checking before answering).

Arguably this is using Wikipedia exactly for what it's designed for, although in an unexpectedly resource-intensive way. I bet just adding a web query cache for most frequently visited URLs on the side of the LLM provider could mitigate most of the negative effects here.
Even at this tariff rate, it's unlikely US manufacturing will compete on price with china, etc. So likely won't help US business, and will crush lower/middle class people. This is true, imo, even after whatever long ramp up period companies need to start manufacturing here.
Can anybody explain in a rational way why the US gov would want to revert to a mercantilist trade policy in the 21st century? It seems to me that they're undoing a hundred years of international development to become the de-facto trade and security hegemony with no real upside. Why?
So you wouldn't mind if I dip my hands into the pockets of the clothing you are wearing and help myself to whatever cash bills I might find?

Also, can you wash this not-my car I'm driving, that happens to be registered in my name?

Let me know if you will be requiring compensation for not-your time and not-your effort.

You will find the needed cleaning materials at the household goods store down the street. Just walk in, grab whatever you need, and walk out.
bold of you to assume we're working.
GitHub Copilot rolls out Agent mode and MCP for VS Code
Ah yes. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-brain_interpreter for more about this.

As one neurologist put it, listening to people's explanations of how they think is entertaining, but not very informative. Virtually none of what people describe correlates in any way to what we actually know about how the brain is organized.
The mistake you seem to be making is confusing the existing product (which has been available for many years) with the upcoming new features for that product just announced at GTC, which are not addressed at all on the page for the existing product, but are addressed in the article about the GTC announcement.
This is a cynical take, but I’m increasingly becoming tired of studies like this. Is this is where our science funding is going? It’s clever, trite, and probably meaningless. I keep reading about the publish/perish problem in academia and how it encourages research that safe, slightly interesting, but not too interesting, and doesn’t move anything forward. This study seems to fit that criteria.

And since it’s behind a paywall, I can’t really determine the how the study was designed, how well powered it is, how they defined statistical significance, and exactly how they justify their conclusion. But it got clicks and comments, so I guess it served its purpose, only to be quickly forgotten in endless churn of popular science news.

I’m sad to say, I’m beginning to think that a lot of current science is bullshit. As a very pro-science person, this is very depressing.
Apple donated $43K in 2021: https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00765040/1513848/f13... I guess the price of a spirit of unity has been undergoing massive inflation.
Wow, this looks awesome. Been using Temporal, but this fits so perfectly into my stack (Postgres, Pydantic), and the first-class support for DAG workflows is chef's kiss. Going to take a stab at porting over some of my workflows.
I was careful in how I worded my statement. Clearly, "shoving infants into a meat grinder" is to the detriment of shareholders, because shareholders will lose money if the company does that.

It is also entirely true that you cannot just do whatever you personally want with shareholder money.

The truth here is in the middle.

Apple (well, Cook) certainly did not have to donate to him. But the fact of the matter is that they will have to work with this administration to run their business over the next 4 years, and I am sure that $1m is a small investment to make Cook's life easier.
> Conservative push for education elimination.

I assumed this was a reference for the conservative push to eliminate the DOE.

Or do you believe that conservatives actually want to eliminate the abstract concept of education?
'Trump talked about tariffs to Opra in the 80s because 25% of US debt would mature in 2025' isn't the 4d chess you think it is.
Not only does the article claim that when we get to self-improving ai it becomes generally intelligent, it's assuming that AI is pretty close right now:

> OpenBrain focuses on AIs that can speed up AI research. They want to win the twin arms races against China (whose leading company we’ll call “DeepCent”)16 and their US competitors. The more of their research and development (R&D) cycle they can automate, the faster they can go. So when OpenBrain finishes training Agent-1, a new model under internal development, it’s good at many things but great at helping with AI research.

> It’s good at this due to a combination of explicit focus to prioritize these skills, their own extensive codebases they can draw on as particularly relevant and high-quality training data, and coding being an easy domain for procedural feedback.

> OpenBrain continues to deploy the iteratively improving Agent-1 internally for AI R&D. Overall, they are making algorithmic progress 50% faster than they would without AI assistants—and more importantly, faster than their competitors.

> what do we mean by 50% faster algorithmic progress? We mean that OpenBrain makes as much AI research progress in 1 week with AI as they would in 1.5 weeks without AI usage.

To me, claiming today's AI IS capable of such thing is too hand-wavy. And I think that's the crux of the article.
Eh, you can prove anything but starting history at a particular point.

For instance, "GamerGate", where a bunch of anonymous people on the internet tried to get a number of women in the game industry fired, predates "cancel culture" by a year or two.

Or how the whole #MeToo movement was, you know, a response to powerful people abusing people in their power, and firing or otherwise limiting their careers if they resisted.

If <insert famous talking head from ten years ago> didn't want to be "canceled", well, he could have always just not sexually harassed his underlings.
You just have to write the prompt in a way that is not so obviously pointing to Indiana Jones, and you get something that is not Indiana Jones...

"A nerdy archaeologist adventurer in a pith helmet, with glasses and a backpack, stumbling his way through a green overgrown abandoned temple. Vines reach for his heels" (https://sora.com/g/gen_01jr0yd810e8xsenp85xy2g47f)

"A nerdy archaeologist adventurer in a pith helmet, with glasses and a backpack, nervously sneaking her way through a green overgrown abandoned temple. She is wearing pink khaki pants, and a singlet" (https://sora.com/g/gen_01jr0z837jecpa770v009bs1m3)

Is it as creative as good humans? Not at all. It definitely falls into tropes readily. But we can still inject novel ideas into our prompts for the AI, and get unique results. Especially if you draw sketches and provide those to the AI to work from.
> Your argument is that someone, somewhere, said something terrible

I think you're being a bit obtuse here. In the specific case we're discussing, the "someone, somewhere" isn't just a random internet troll. It's the president and supreme court.
i’m curious what advantage is derived from this existing independently of the PTX stack? i.e. why doesn’t cuTile produce PTX via a bundled compiler like Triton or (iirc) Warp?

Even if there is some impedance mismatch, could PTX itself not have been updated?
Ironically zero install is pretty difficult to install: https://docs.0install.net/details/macos/
I’ve always thought it was weird GPU stuff in python doesn’t use asyncio, and mostly assumed it was because python-on-GPU predates asyncio. But I was hoping a new lib like this might right that wrong, but it doesn’t. Maybe for interop reasons?

Do other languages surface the asynchronous nature of GPUs in language-level async, avoiding silly stuff like synchronize?
It’s like comparing a Ferrari to a Model T Ford.

It is a tangent (in litght of the article topic) but for most applications that I can imagine I would rather have the Model T. When I went into my flight training (just recreational) I imagined zooming around in aerobatic airplanes. When I started flying I actually much preferred "low and slow". It might not be everyone's experience but cheap and easy has since been something I enjoy more.
Might be a good startup idea.
Technically speaking, all of this exists (including the existing library integration and whatnot) through CuPy and Numba already, but the fact that it’s getting official support is cool.
Well, I found it a bit hard on my Dec10-based emulator. I never got the memory-mapped stuff to work properly - I just mocked up some of the I/O instructions. But it was actually a spare-time project, intended to let my students do stuff like sorting, searching in strings, so I didn't feel too guilty. It had an assembler, debugger and other stuff. And it was portable - completely standard FORTRAN77!
I know many people who say they can't live without music, cannot work or just be around home without listening to something. I understand their experience but I can't relate at all. It's not that I don't like music or that I'm particularly sensitive to noise but I practically never listen to music I put myself. I feel like I could just live without it completely.
Yeah. If you're a somewhat senior officer in the military, you know how to do things like budget, manage, lead, etc. that all come in handy running an organization like a campaign or Congressional office.
I think a lot of people didn't read past the first paragraph because of the paywall, but this is actually about Edmund Halley (the comet Halley), and his attempt to explain the wandering of earth's magnetic field by positing that the earth was full of rotating spheres with magnetic material in the middle, which was _wrong_, but not _that_ far off, all things considered.
The graph kinda does show that kerosene saved the sperm whale doesn't it? Whaling went down for like 60 years before spiking once cars became a thing. I imagine electric lighting also helped out.
> What’s changed is that no one cares about the public sphere anymore.

> So yes, Britain feels poor—but it’s not because the money is gone. It’s because it’s been withdrawn from the commons and buried behind closed doors.

This is not necessarily related. People don't care because the fabric of society is eroded and the essence of what makes a country and a culture is diluted to a point that it is almost non-existant. Those factors are correlated but not causally determined.
Unironically best opsec I've read about in a while.

In times of Deepfakes, people really underestimate the level of fakes they can receive. I've seen companies getting scammed with spoofed phone calls where they didn't have a policy to call back to prevent numbers being spoofed etc. Most of the private data is available online, so you always have to assume that e.g. a workflow via email or phone can be malicious by default.

In an alternate reality M$ Outlook would be a product for the receivers of email, and not a business product for spammers.
Trump to grant TikTok another extension to avoid a U.S. ban
Podcast Episode about Open Source Leadership with Bruce Momjian
It hallucinated, but we like that now!
That wasn't my reading

Indeed, it was your misreading.
The best form of encryption is a one-time pad. It is mathematically proven to be unbreakable, unlike every other form of encryption. If you can exchange a 100MiB pad file with each contact, you should be set for life if all you exchange is text messages.
There's no guarantee that a commercial license will be available at a reasonable fee, or available at all. You'll have nothing to negotiate with because the alternative is to rewrite or shut down immediately.
You're both wrong. I'm saying they're engorged AND well endowed. Many consider this a strong point.
You're not paying attention. Doesn't matter what was said before. It matters what the Trump administration is doing this time. I wasn't saying this after Trump won the election. It was everything he's done since taking office.
> Have stuff shipped to you without having to ship back anything?

This makes you completely dependent on the whims of a foreign power who might not care for your concerns as their priorities change
Ahh sounds like good old Karl Marx “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_each_according_to_his_a...
Recall that sea shanty business a few years ago with the talk of the Weller Brothers, a NZ outfit that delivered supplies to whaling vessels so they did not have to return to harbor as frequently.

The implication of the song is that the Weller Brothers would provide supplies on credit based on the progress of the whaling expedition. The sailers are singing about capturing a whale that leads to hopes of resupply coming soon.

Less time traveling back and forth to hunting grounds is more time for violence, and that’s the calculus of the whole sordid business.
Look at all those words! You sound like a really good bootlicker, I hope you're actually getting something from the people you're stanning so hard for.
Microsoft employee disrupts 50th anniversary and calls AI boss 'war profiteer'
Can mathematics be spiritual? Ask Einstein (2022)
Okay. What am I supposed to do? What are the controls?
The commons are quite variable. Around where I live in London it's quite nice. I just rode the £18.8bn liz line which in quite jolly. On the other hand out in the sticks it's often less so.
The general public's understanding of food is still stuck in 1990s "destroy all fats (and completely ignore the sugar we replaced it with)" diet culture.

The fact that people still believe in reducing fat as it's own goal (instead of being an easy way to reduce calorie content) is a testament to how bad the public is at identifying fact from fiction.

Then you have shit like the influencer foods, "Feastables" and "Hydration beverage" Prime, which is just flat soda. It's pathetic.

Or think of all the dude bros who insist on dry scooping cup fulls of protein+caffeine powder, and going home to gorge themselves on two pounds of chicken breast, and yet doing absurdly normal amounts of weightlifting or exercise that requires no modifications to their already protein overloaded American diet.

Diet culture is what is fucking American health. People read fucking tabloids that bad-faith regurgitate poorly done "science", funded by the council for selling more food, and insist that since "Woman's Health" says that scientists say chocolate both kills and saves you, scientists are dumb and know nothing, even though THE ACTUAL SCIENCE NEVER CONCLUDED ANYTHING, because the scientific paper was just an observational study!
I can only speak from my experience, and it is bad. If there are enough people that like this, then of course this should be a good library to use. but I'm just expressing my experience and feedback that I usually don't expose my gpu and cheaper hardware has less gpu power. GPU also uses a lot of energy (did everyone stop caring about that?). Browsers are already using too much power. I've seen other services like netflix vs prime as I mentioned earlier where I'm getting the same bandwidth utilization but less performance because someone at netflix decided to not care about cpu/gpu usage. I'm just asking for devs to be considerate unless the target audience is clearly people who have lots of gpu and don't care about energy usage (like graphics editors,vfx workers,etc..)
They are openly attacking university and public school educators; calling them liberal agitators with agendas which indoctrinate students to ideologies counter to Conservative values.
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCeRXQ_B5WZD3yjPly45myvg

This might be close, but I don't believe he offers a kit.
That's not really a useful way to think of it.

Javascript could not have been released perfect for all current and future uses. Thus it either needed to change or fall out of use.

It changed.

The linting is simply part of a migration mechanism that allows for the change to happen. Compatibility is maintained for existing code, while on-going and future development can avoid the bad/obsolete parts. It's not random that eslint has such fine-grained configurability -- it allows each code base to migrate at whatever rate makes sense for it.

So all this is simply a product of javascript's longevity, which itself is a testament to its utility and flexibility. You call it "weird" but it would be a damn shame if it wasn't as useful and flexible as it is.
It depends on your understanding of Article 1 Section 8:

>"The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;"

What does "general Welfare" mean in this context? Are those words just meaningless filler, or should they be interpreted to indicate that the spending must be in furtherance of another specifically enumerated power? I believe the latter (Madisonian take), but this is a contentious subject:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxing_and_Spending_Clause#Gen...
> Our forefathers would be absolutely ashamed...

Well, like half of our forefathers. Maybe 30%.

America has always been this weird combined project of Hopeless Idealists and The Worst People In The World. Our forefathers sought independence for freedom and self-determination and all sorts of other noble things, but also because many of them owned a bunch of slaves and were worried that was going to be outlawed in the near future. And then sought independence again a century later out of the same fear.
You are half-right. She did say that it should be left to charity, but that of course implies that when nobody gives the street corner beggar money they will starve.
>Do you think calling for the genocide of Jews

I'm guessing the motte associated with this particular bailey won't be nearly as clear in its violation of such codes.
gave it a shot, i like the concept, even though i suspect it'll cost like $2 a query to really get somewhere.

anyway, my test was to search for FOSS software, explicitly asking for "not big tech" and no ads. the contents of the results were fine, if repetitive - but i was a bit sad to see a lot of youtube and reddit in the results. does the " algorithm" not look at the actual domains?