skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lack of baggage is definitely a huge improvement, but I believe Zig also has this advantage over C. Rust and C++ also seem to encourage a similar style of programming (particularly newer C++), and so do Zig and C. The former encourages creating a library of types with inheritance, using syntactic sugar where applicable (ie operator overloading), and a functional style, whereas the latter limits the programmer to simple compound types without inheritance (manual, explicit dispatching), obvious syntax, and an imperative style.

Both seem to have their place in the ecosystem to me, but I'm really excited to see Zig mature.
> Do you think Hacker News is failing to uphold its intellectual standards

What standards are these?
Always go for GmbH. UG will make you account for everything with your private money. If something goes wrong in your business you'll be dirt poor.
I spend maybe 5 mins a day tops on social media(1)...

I'm not particularly invested in Bluesky, but I found it to be the polar opposite of Twitter. It's like everyone who quit the twitter band wagon just went to the twitter clone, as a middle finger move. It's a ying and yang.

I'm still on Twitter, because some people just haven't moved on and I still find their content valid. I vomit a little if I happen to click the sidebar and I want to close my account nearly every visit. I honestly hang by a thread just because some accounts there don't offer an alternative (and Musk removed reading content unauthenticated).

I'm not particularly invested in Mastodon, but I must say that it is where I found the best value per minute. It feels like the natural follow up to Google+. I find it the most 'balanced' between Bluesky and Twitter.

[1] HN excluded, I spend many 5' sessions a day here...
Like, when you're retired or dead?
Thank you for the thoughtful feedback — I really appreciate it and will keep it in mind moving forward.
I feel bad to say this, but it looks like it failed already to be non toxic. It at least is a lot less toxic than X. For now.

It is X vs BlueSky. It participates in the argument between two groups of people. It does not solve anything.

X is a lot worse, but with a growing number of users, a growing number of negativity will come. It starts on the political parts of the platform, but will trickle down to other parts as well.

By Bluesky being put away as a platform for 'lefties' on X and users on Bluesky saying "Go to your fascist platform X" to other users it essentially participates in dividing people. At least, on the political parts of the platform.

It confirms what an amazing job HN did in the last decade or more. Still a nice community, nice people and quality comments. Although some people will say it is in decline, it is still quite a nice and friendly community.

I still enjoy fintwit and like bluesky for energy related things.
> That being said, I would not want this sentiment formalized in code guidelines :)

Surely. I'm all for code formatting standards as long as they're MY code formatting standards :-)

Ideally, I'd like the IDE to format the code to the user/programmer's style on open, but save the series of tokens to the code database in a formatting-agnostic fashion.

Then we could each have our own style but still have a consistent codebase.

And, I should add that my formatting conventions have gotten more extreme and persnickety over the years, and I now put spaces on both sides of my commas, because they're a separate token and are not a part of the expression on either side of it. I did this purely for readability, but I have NEVER seen anyone do that in all my decades on the internet reading code and working on large codebases. But I really like how spacing it out separates the expression information from the structural information.

It also helps me deal with my jettisoning code color formatting, as, as useful as I've found it in the past, I don't want to deal with having to import/set all that environmental stuff in new environments. So, I just use bland vi with no intelligence, pushing those UI bells and whistles out of it into my code formatting.

And, I fully endorse whatever it takes for you to deal with JS, as I have loathed it since it appeared on the scene, but that's just me being an old-school C guy.
My point isn't that this is likely to happen today with software engineers, but that companies will 100% make decisions to improve their bottom lines at the expense of the well-being of their employees in the absence of other factors preventing this. Wasting time of salaried employees on commutes is a fairly tame version of that compared to what's happened historically, and I used an extreme example because my argument is that the main difference between then and now isn't companies fundamentally caring more about their employees, but improved safeguards for workers. Outside of those safeguards, sadly I'd find it more surprising if companies _didn't_ push to the absolute limit of what they could get away with rather than actually considering whether what they were doing was reasonable.
I see it the same as serverless, which is almost-but-not-quite a backend in the same way that D1 is almost-but-not-quite a database.

Your persistent servers may have a larger fixed cost up-front, but you can save on engineering hours otherwise spent handling serverless foot-guns.

If you introduce a cartesian explosion of database queries on your persistent instance, it'll fairly quickly just crash and give you downtime. On your serverless version, it'll just keep going for as long as it can and you won't find out until an eye-watering bill lands in your inbox at the end of the month.

Hard downtime is not desirable, but that 10x initial cost can be dwarfed by an errant commit that leads to a practically endless execution loop on your API or DB.
I read that. But it would still be Goldbergs signature block. So is apple so "dumb" to just take this number and assume it belongs to the email adress contact? To be confirmed with a single touch?

That would be weird to me.
> We count about 40% of our security vulnerabilities to date to have been the direct result of us using C instead of a memory-safe language alternative. This is however a much lower number than the 60-70% that are commonly repeated, originating from a few big companies and projects. If this is because of a difference in counting or us actually having a lower amount of C problems, I cannot tell.

When I counted I got about 55% which is pretty close to the standard 2/3.

https://blog.timhutt.co.uk/curl-vulnerabilities-rust/
Senior partners are leaving their big venture capital firms in droves
At its core, this website is strictly about making money. We're not here to criticize the decisions, terrible as they may be; we're here to see if we can capitalize them. From what I understand, Reddit was spun off from this site back in the day for such discussions.
Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communication System
Ted Kaczynski argued that such a system is unsustainable long-term.
It really helps to have multiple "algorithms" AND allowing everyone to build their own.
1997 Albanian Civil Unrest
Here is another one, the company doesn't need to have an endless exponential growth to have a sustainable business.
Some still do it. And while I would never start my own company in Germany. Working at a startup in Germnay is going pretty well for me so far. 1.5 years in.
Would you call it the same when a bunch of your friends recommend you stay away from someone? Or the opposite, introduce you to someone they like?
We had a similar request for a sales team once: "If this fails we want an email".... Okay, but we never seen this fail, so you'll never get the email. As expected, they never got an email, because no failures. So instead they wanted an email every time the job ran (once every night), so they'd know that the job had failed, if they DIDN'T get the email. Only time that happened was because the email got trapped in a spamfilter I think.

There must be thousands of copies of that email sitting in inboxes say: Job X ran successfully @ 04:30.
There's too much overtly political content on HN, and it trends towards liberal, anti-Trump, etc. I agree with it about half the time. But the other half of the time it's like some mainstream leftist media stream got randomly interspersed into HN. I have a ton of places to go to find out how awful the regime is, no matter if it's 2020 or 2024 or whatever. They're all equally awful. Please get them all out of HN!
Please enlighten me, what are objects in zig? As far as i know this is not a defined concept in the language, so I'm assuming you think that structs are objects because struct namespace functions can be called with a syntactic sugar that makes it look like an object in a language that has them.

Do you mean object like object file (to be linked)? Those don't have member functions as far as I know.
Even worse there are groups of people who keep praising it and keep us curious through these years. Yet none of remarkable applications built with it except the tool itself.
It's interesting to see, but I'm not sure what we should learn from this. It may be useful for multiagent coordination, but in direct interactions... no idea.

This one did make me laugh though: 'Claude 3.5 Sonnet 2024-10-22: "Adjusts seat with a confident yet approachable demeanor"' - an AI communicating to other AIs in a descriptive version of non-verbal behaviour is hilarious.
Some mirrors are cracked, some are polished—but all of them reflect the same world.

The question is: how much can you take in?
As much as I despise the owner, it's X all day.
> A market without advertising isn't a level playing field, but a near-unbreakable oligopoly.

Why would it be an oligopoly any more than it is now? You go to a shop (in your city, or online), trust their curation, and buy something. If it's garbage, next time you will pick another shop or curator, or discuss with your friends / colleagues. Repeat until you find a place with satisfactory curation.

Why would this dynamic be bad? Why would I as a customer be better served by banners shoved in my face by the producers with the highest pockets?
If you ban politics, someone will just say you're playing politics.

I personally think the idea of creating a place that suits everyone is unrealistic. It will never happen, and there will always be something that offends one side or the other. It seems like open social networks will always be toxic (whatever that really means).
You're saying that pretty much any career officer is qualified to be secretary of defense? Even "completely incompetent" ones (your words)?

"...a ridiculous laughable argument"

Right back at you.
I don't think we need to go out of our way to exonerate any of them. "Really fucking up" isn't something exclusive.
Much out of touch with reality. That is not possible to control human nature with tech.
I don't think anyone disagrees with that, but 80 characters is clearly waaay too restrictive. I think 120 is much more reasonable.
Google team said it was outside the training window fwiw

https://x.com/jack_w_rae/status/1907454713563426883
After 30 years in Domino, it is difficult reading all thr half-knowledge here.
Actually, shared blocklists originated in the desire to avoid harassment. You can make a case for that being group think if you like, but I doubt you'll convince me.
Are any European-based social networks going to pop into existence at this opportune time to get some momentum from the current global western America-is-no-longer-our-friend sentiment?
I don't know, I think the learning curve is pretty gentle. Like all complex software, it may be difficult to master, but getting started felt easy enough as far as I remember.
I'm disappointed to learn of this editing in Standard Ebooks, having had the misfortune to buy a Barnes & Noble copy of the complete Sherlock Holmes that had a similar approach taken. Book looks lovely, but has an altered chapter order, Americanised spellings and lots of typos. There is a certain amount of editing needed to render the likes of Shakespeare and Samuel Pepys readable, as Middle/Old English is quite a different language, but slight variants from 150ish years ago, or dialects, or the correct spelling according to the Queen's English, add flavour and should not be altered.
Why would it be difficult to say what it would look like? Humans and markets exist for many thousands of years. Advertising in its current form for a couple of hundred. Just look back in time, there were markets then too :)
Since moderation of some sort is pretty essential on the open web today, you can either subscribe to the "group think" of the platform you're currently using (like X/Twitter today), or you could do it the Bluesky way, let people chose what blocklists to follow.

As someone who generally don't do blocklists/mutes/blocking much at all, I know what approach I prefer. I like that people have a choice at least, compared to the alternative approaches.
It amazes me that in the age of AI there isn't a way to utilise it to either talk users out of posting aggressive, illegal or inflammatory material or tag it as such, so you can filter out the blowhards on the platform.
what a normal thing to say
> Why not just source batteries anywhere you have to, then start launching EV models just to get the production improvement curves started on the new tech

Why give money to direct competitors like BYD or CATL? The whole reason Japan has been hesitant on traditional li-ion batteries has been because they do not own the IP, and do not want to become dependent on a competitor - Japan and China have been in a trade war since 2011-2012 when the naval showdown happened, and Japan and South Korea were in a trade war from 2019 to 2022.

METI has spent tens of billions and decades working on and subsidizing research in domestic li-s battery tech, and Japanese companies have been waiting it out as a result.

> Japan cannot afford to begin this process in 2028

They can. EV sales remain a minor fraction of the overwhelming majority of automotive sales globally.

And because the entire supply chain and IP for li-s batteries is being built out in Japan and the US, it means that Japanese battery firms like Idemetsu Kosan and Japanese automotive firms are in a unique position to become the dominant supplier.

Much of the capex for re-tooling for this already happened in the 2021-2023 period - Honda, Toyota, and Nissan's IRA benefits were directly tied to this expansion, and all these firms spent billions of their own capital expanding capacity on the assumption that they can begin production by 2028.
You should direct some of these comments to the accounts you're following on Twitter.

I assume there's some convenient way to cross-post?
For a lot of people pro Palestine views are toxic for a lot of other pro Israel is. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
"At successful tech companies, engineering work is valued in proportion to how much money it makes the company"

You would think that, but decades of experience have disproved that.

Most of management, past first-gen if the company was founded by engineers, is non-technical.

Most are (more or less) aware that somewhere technical engineering in software is needed, but they feel that as a threath rather than an asset. If engineering is not a commodity, they fear being called out for not being in touch with the grounded reality of the business, and fear the unpredictability this entails for their own operation.

So they will tend to treat engineering like a commodity, generic and interchangable at will, and even deliberatly not recognize differential contribution by engineers to the company's success.

This is also why once non-technical management has consolidated, rising from engineering into management will become very difficult, often requiring you deny your technical competences.
For all it's many faults, even C++ fstreams is not vulnerable to double freeing (and as a partial reply to @Galanwe, they way they avoid issues is runtime checking).
Why tech workers need unions too
Neither I am a sole Unix user; I have Risc OS open (Apache 2.0?) on an RPI to experiment something else beyond Unix/C.

But Windows it's too heavyweight, from 8 it has been a disaster. And the NT kernel+explorer can be really slim (look at ReactOS, or XP, or a debloated W7).

The problem it's that Apple and MS (and RedHat) are just selling shiny turds wasting tons of cycles to do trivial tasks.

Worse, you can't slim down your install so it behaves like a sane system for 1GB of RAM.

I can watch 720p@30FPS videos under a n270 netbook with MPV. Something even native players for WXP can't do with low level direct draw calls well enough.

The Windows > XP philosophy among RedHat and Apple it's: let bloat and crap out our OSes with unnecesary services and XML crap (and interpreted languages such as JS and C#) for the desktop until hardware vendors idolize US so the average user has to buy new crap to do the same task ever and ever.

Security? Why the fuck does Gnome 3 need JS at first? Where's Vala, where it could shine here and Mutter could get a big boost and memory leaks could be a thing of the past?
Ask HN: How many people are using OpenAI vs. self deployed models?
Curious to know how many people make use of OpenAI versus self deployed local models like say Gemma 2 or similar. I have a project that was using OpenAI but I hit some sort of request limit and I'm a bit jaded by that and my experiences with cloud costs over the years. I feel like Gemma 2 might serve my purpose well enough since I've already indexed the content and need it for RAG plus some summarisation. So curious to hear what others are doing.
Humans are incredibly easy to 'control' with tech. From pamphlets to books to radio and onwards through history to colour revolutions and influencing elections to getting you to buy things late at night that you won't ever use etc, its happening all the time.
Livejournal had (has?) this concept for 15-20 years.

Just saying.
It seems easy to you because you can't remember the years when you were a toddler and had to learn basic interactions with the world around you. It seems natural to an adult but it is quite complex.
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The general term for this is "Session types." The Par crate is probably the most mature attempt at this to date.

https://github.com/faiface/par
Not the governments job to address exogenous threats that could negatively impact the health and wellbeing of every American?

Are you saying the government shouldn’t have a military either?

What, pray tell, is the governments job?

By the by, avarice and cowardice ARE values. Very few people outright say “I’m a coward”, or “my wealth is more important than your life”.

Instead, when faced with a difficult choice, say for instance, have more personal disposable income or lessen the suffering of others, those values are often expressed more euphemistically, and when even that is unpalatable, then the old “it’s wasteful and inefficient” argument comes into play.

You’ll note that those who argue “waste and inefficiency!” never seem to actually attempt to address the problem that money was “wasted” trying to address. (If they did, they’d soon discover why it’s so hard, complicated, and expensive to try to actually address social issues, which is what folks who actually care about governance have known all along.)

That’s because generally speaking the “the government is wasteful and inefficient” people’s real values are greed, not frugality.
Obesity-drug pioneers and 13,508 physicists win US$3M Breakthrough Prizes
Banning politics can be truly toxic, because it turns out people don't agree on what's political and what isn't. Me, I don't think the rights of women to get healthcare is political but I'm fully aware plenty of people disagree with me on this point.
This is a perfect summation of one of the stupider internet theories I've read, thanks for the laugh
Now we're also getting into the topic of "what is waste". Because the majority of the books that are opened are rehashes of the same murder mystery over and over and over.

I'd guess that 75% of all new books sold here are variations on "Someone is murdered in a brutal fashion. A old drunken cop from somewhere in Scandinavia is assigned the case. He's helped by a young woman, who may be his daughter or who he'll a father daughter relationship to. They solve the case, maybe, the end. You just tweak the details a little, but it's the same bloody story over and over.

That seems like such a waste of paper in my mind.
Excellent inovation
There are also more than 7 billion people that aren't in the US or EU.

Text microblogging is one of the lowest-bandwidth-requirement, and therefore least-capital-intensive, internet startups.
Excellent innovation
Everyone can join BlueSky, so why wouldn't they need to confront opposing "evidence"?
> For many people, sure. I can always find exceptions to the rule. I am talking statistically. Fact of the matter is, the bottom 20% QoL has improved significantly, correct?

That's really a decision each person should make for themselves, and it was a big part of the reason Trump won the election. Most people don't think their QoL has improved.

Obviously the perspective here is different due to the success of the US software industry, but that industry only employs a tiny fraction of the population.
“There's not enough money in it for commercial labs.”

== government’s duty
Ye been working in a startup as well. I just witness all the appointments my boss has to go through and I could never do that. But I'm also the type of person not picking up their phone when it rings.
NASA rover discovers largest organic compounds yet found on Mars
How close are they to succeding? What was the population when they started and how much has it been reduced?
Yep. Any software these days can be "network accessible" if you put a server in front of it; that's usually what pumps the score up.
I suspect the only true way to keep social media non-toxic is simply keep the audience small. Plenty of lovely small subreddits out there. Since bluesky isn't at Twitter volumes yet, it's hard to know if any of their changes will matter in the slightest.
I miss when there was no algorithm and everything was a simple time series.
Yeah, Bernie Sanders has consistently staked out a number of protectionist / populist positions, but he is not representative of the Democratic party as a whole.

In case you're wondering, the resolution in question failed with large margins in both parties (although it garnered a somewhat larger share of D votes -- 23% versus 17%).

https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2005239

Outside of a few limited occurrences, from 1980 up to the early 2010s, both Republicans and Democrats generally supported free trade and lowering tariffs. (This may extend all the way back to 1934, but I haven't checked all the votes in Congress to see, for instance, if this sentiment extended beyond Eisenhower to the rest of his party in the 1950s.)
I was astonished to discover (via HN) that the pencil was invented (patented) in 1795, I has always assumed that it was from antiquity
Okay your "why not" comment is a little bit on the passive aggressive side, while my question was an actual question about the choice of tech. Happily then you found the strength to actually answer the question in a reasonable way, thanks for that. Also thanks for down-voting my sincere curiosity, helps a lot, and made me feel appreciated.
DOSBox-X's Feature Highlights
Here is a making of video from the KLM safety video:

https://youtu.be/blybdzAUG9c
That's not the takeaway here.
Demystifying the (Shebang): Kernel Adventures
Then you are free to spend your own money to hand out TB meds instead of buying mobile games. That’s your prerogative.
Reddit launched 2005, HN 2007.
the problem is both sides are so caught up in their own identity politics that they can't see the other's perspective. the same goes for right-wing and left-wing in America.
Reimplementing Mastra Workflows: Lessons Learned