skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which is just not true. Pascal is going strong within the Lazarus / RAD community.
Free as in beer. See what happened to Aereo.
CUDA offers grid wide cooperative groups which can synchronize pretty efficiently. And there's also graphs if you know the kernels you're launching ahead of time.
what the fuck man

what the fuck was that haha
I’ve a few time now had to explain to older people that “no, it’s not the same things you had when you were a kid” about a few different foods.

Oranges, avocados, Brussels sprouts, and more I am forgetting. I’m receive basically the same “oh it’s the same thing!”.
This is entirely accurate, but there's a legion of "real" pickup trucks roaming North American roads that exist no less for show than the Tesla. At this point, they're probably the vast majority.

In the EU no one would think twice about towing the aforementioned big bike with a cheap trailer attached to a Honda Civic. Coming from someone who's towed a lot of bikes, it's an arrangement that makes more sense than an American pickup on several levels.
> My pet theory is that someone who claims reddit is a great place for niche hobbies were never part of an old-school forum with truly passionate and engaging members.

This. On forums you recognize members by their funny avatars and the hyper specific advice that they have (useful or otherwise). Stickied posts like "timbit2's Guide to Vintage Frobulators" or "New to Frobs? Not Sure Where to Start? READ" abound. There are usually decades of easily-searchable posts accumulated. People reply to your threads helpfully. The marketplace forums are full of well-cared-for gear.

On Reddit you get a lot of beauty shots and question posts with replies like "bro just get the new Vinculum x Chadbert420 frobber. Shit is [fire emojis]". There's usually a woefully out-of-date wiki or sticky that you can only access from one interface or another. There's no sense of community, just upvotes of pictures for clout.

Of course these are contrived straw men versions of their respective communities but in my experience they're correct more often than not. I have been dipping my toe into various Discords that seem to have a better sense of community but Discord doesn't seem to lend itself to longer-form content as forums do... I wonder whether this is something the Discord platform could be augmented to facilitate.
> Is there anything even remotely comparable in quality to Monty Python right now?

I suspect that, like most things that we now recognise as classics, much of Monty Python wasn't recognized at the time as a classic. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python_and_the_Holy_Grai... suggests that, while reception was generally positive, there wasn't the sense we'd now expect of a great treasure having just been unearthed.

All of which is to say that, whatever is comparable right now, we probably think of it as so-so, and will have to await retrospective critical appreciation to find out what we should have been treasuring.
>The idea is that (completely reasonably) if you have a “single market” as you describe

I didn't really describe this though. Had I mentioned currencies or trade agreements you might have more of a point.

It's more like automatic work permits for Europeans within Europe, unlimited stays, ease of access to renting + purchasing housing.
I don't think it's outrage so much as revulsion.
That was mind-blowing
I think people are talking about immigration, though it's a thorny issue, partly because Korea has been virtually monoethnic for a very long time. But I think Korea will eventually have to open up more: the current population crisis is so dire that I don't think Korea is in a position to choose its medicine.

(I don't think immigration alone will solve the problem, BTW - Korea should obviously fix its horrendous work culture, education, and runaway housing prices.)
Exactly- the information wasn't created from whole cloth, but rather by reading (copying inside a computer from disk to ram to gpu) the copyrighted information in the first place.
It has little to do with the language itself, moreso with the tools.

One thing that very clearly distinguished (extended dialects of) Pascal from C in the era where the two were competing was that Pascal's units were self-describing. That is, when you compiled a unit, you got a single file with all the metadata for that unit as well as binary object code for linking. Then, when another unit or program did a USES declaration, that would locate the file by name and use the metadata as needed. Conversely, in C you had to deal with header files, and while on the surface it looks kinda sorta like the INTERFACE section of the Pascal unit, it's not quite that because e.g. it needs to #include things it depends on - and that is textual inclusion, not just a metadata reference.

This all meant that working with dynamically loaded type information was much easier in Pascal tooling - it just needed to parse the metadata embedded in the compiled unit files, and each file would only contain metadata for its own types and functions, without contamination from other units that it relies on. This is great for things like code completion and visual UI designers.
My favorite part of the "stochastic parrot" discourse was all the people repeating it without truly understanding what they were talking about.
It looks like you are forcing me to learn OCaml.....
I don’t love fennel, it usually dominates the whole taste of a dish for me
unlimited everything? getting rid of misery in the world is top of my list, but specifically kids getting molested is this huge generational and societal problem in the world that I have no idea on how to even begin to address,
even with infinity money and time, never mind what I can do as some programmer and definitely not a politician, other than to donate to some random organizations here and there.
on the one hand, yes ecology and math bio is cool. On the other, the demographic transition does not fall out of these models whatsoever. Humans decided to do something very weird for whatever reason.
"Wouldn't it make life easier for us at Apple if we added all of our product name capitalizations like iMac, iPod, etc. into the autocorrect dictionary? Marketing would probably love it too." -Someone at Apple, probably, circa 2006

And here we are.
The problem of the original standard Pascal is that you couldn't roll your own strings in it, because it didn't have pointer arithmetics or heap-allocated variable-length arrays, at all.
According to you, as you have chosen to argue about it.
It’s an option for payment. Detailed on the same link:

> Storj created the STORJ utility token as a medium of exchange on its decentralized cloud storage network. The STORJ utility token facilitates payments from people around the world for their use of the Storj network to store their data, and Storj uses it to pay our community of Storage Node Operators that rent their unused hard drive capacity and bandwidth to the network.
America's only current, prominent bullet train is CAHSR and the goal of that project is not to speed up passenger rail. The project has nothing whatsoever to do with making existing rail riders happier or incrementally increasing ridership. The avowed purpose of CAHSR is to enable California to grow and prosper without having to build more airports and more freeways. So it's not really worth considering it as a choice between an expensive HSR on the one hand and slightly better Amtrak San Joaquin on the other. Only one of these projects would actually be suited to purpose.
I think the author is on the right track just needs to refine the assumptions a bit. Not sure if the method actually tests whether we perceive the oranges as more orange with red bags. Things like too small of a sample size, lack of any statistical analysis, uncontrolled lighting conditions, not controlling for phone camera, and simplistic color analysis (human eye is much more complex). Also lack of applicability to color science principles
I've never understood the fetishization of long working hours. If there is a job where you can meaningfully work 80+ hours a week, the same (and often better) results can be achieved with more employees working fewer hours. If the work can't be split like that, it's probably demanding enough that you can't sustain more than 20-30 productive hours a week in the long term.

It's possible to mix reasonable hours of demanding work with additional hours of meetings, routine work, and procrastination. Maybe it's cheaper for the employer than managing the work better and hiring additional people for the routine parts. Maybe there are some social and organizational benefits to the employer when the employees have no life outside work. But long hours like that don't lead to superior outputs.
Even with 1x preferences, the company might have raised $2 billion but sells for $1 billion because the investors don't want to get any further losses.

The general rule of thumb is that acquisitions are bad for employees, and IPOs are good, especially if the share price is stable for 6 months.
The internet is not the problem, it’s the users, per usual.
Can you explain what’s odd about the ROM chips of the PET necessitating the adapters for replacement with more common parts?
yes yes and it should be like this, this is healthy competition!
There is no secret lost knowledge that enabled a steam-powered train to go from New York to Chicago in 16 hours in the 1930s. We simply do not care to run fast passenger trains anymore since they have largely been replaced by domestic air travel. The current NYC to Chicago train takes 20 hours and is routinely several hours delayed... all we have to do is invest in infrastructure and rebuild our rail system, but that won't happen unless it's "sexy" and can compete with air travel, and the best way to do that is with HSR. So while our passenger rail system _could_ be a lot faster (without true HSR) if it was run well, I don't think that's going to happen until we get the marketability/"sexiness" of HSR.
The whole "debate" around LMs being stochastic parrots is strictly a philosophical one, because the argument hinges on a very specific definition of intelligence. Thought experiments such as Chinese room make this abundantly clear.
And yet... https://uwaterloo.ca/news/media/qa-experts-why-chatgpt-strug...
I think you’re right to point out the inertia in the labor market and the structural energy required for paradigm shifts.

What worries me most, though, is that because of exactly the reasons you’ve described — and now, with the rise of GenAI that makes generating boilerplate imperative code even easier — we might be permanently missing the opportunity to invent a better, more elegant solution.

Instead of challenging the underlying paradigm, we’re accelerating its replication — just with fewer keystrokes. GenAI is helping us pave cow paths, not design highways.

My fear is that the convenience of generating "good enough" code at scale will solidify suboptimal workflows, and the space for reimagining them might quietly close forever.
and the consistent all time winner? the goddamn consumers!
Have you had a look at snakemake or nextflow?
New cars can have problems, too. Especially for an enthusiast, it's smarter to buy used rather than new. You can be sure to get a reliable vehicle, and you can put the money you save in the market. You'll come out ahead on both fronts.
Apparently, this is a game that two can play. Niklaus Wirth, the creator of Pascal, had this to say in turn:

"From the point of view of software engineering, the rapid spread of C represented a great leap backward. It revealed that the community at large had hardly grasped the true meaning of the term “high-level language” which became an ill-understood buzzword."

Source: Niklaus Wirth, A Brief History of Software Engineering, 2008 (https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/Miscellaneous/IEEE-Annals.p...)
Those equity percentages in this document are EXTREMELY FOUNDER FRIENDLY and I believe this entire document was written to anchor new employees with lowered expectations on equity. I think this entire document is a disingenuous scam to make new startup employees think that those percentages are okay.

I’ve been in Silicon Valley a long time, since the dotcom boom. My first company, the executive assistant got so rich from the pre-dotcom IPO she quit and bought a vineyard. That’s how things used to be. And we aren’t talking about some crazy ipo, it was before those times.

Fast forward to these days, the startup I worked for got acquired. I was engineer < 15. The founders got low 9 figures, I got 5 figures. Almost everyone got fucked for years of loyalty.

But that’s what YC and other accelerators teach founders. Be cheap with equity. And this document just perpetuates that.

Founders can easily make life changing money but the people that do the actual work get fucked unless it becomes a >100B company like a Facebook. That’s not realistic and they know that. Employees need a bigger piece of the pie when things go great for the company and not just when it becomes a Facebook, Uber, etc.

If you want to know how to evaluate equity, pick a total valuation of the company at exit and then multiply by your stake. If the company needs to exit at > 10B for you to make a life changing amount of money, then ask for much much more equity or don’t take the offer.
> The US cities with top highest violent crime rates are more likely to be in red states

Red states with blue cities, an important distinction. I looked it up - https://ballotpedia.org is a good place to start - and would be interested to see this disproven.

In what way is my view of the parties out of date?
"Tables (apps) are never really split up. Even in the perfect world, two apps developed by the same company will need to talk to each other"

I don't understand why this sentence appears to treat "tables" and "apps" as the same concept. Is this a use of the term "app" that I'm not familiar with?

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TLDR of this post is that it's promoting a new open source (AGPL) horizontal sharding solution for PostgreSQL called PgDog: https://github.com/pgdogdev/pgdog

Looks like the trick this one uses is to parse your SQL queries inside a custom router/load-balancer and redirect them based on introspecting the WHERE clause of a SELECT/UPDATE/DELETE or the VALUES clause of an INSERT to identify sharding keys: https://docs.pgdog.dev/features/sharding/query-routing/
I have to trace structure and data handoffs across multiple projects sometimes that span multiple teams. I'm used to rather easily being able to find all instances of something using a thing, where something is originally defined, etc. I can't do that easily in Go due to the structural typing at times without either a very powerful IDE (JetBrains is the only one I know of that does Go well via Goland) or intimate knowledge of the project. It's surprisingly painful, and our tooling while not Jetbrains level is suppose to be some of the best out there. And Yahweh help me if I actually have to refactor.

I really doubt this comes up in smaller, one-team repos. But in the coding jungle I often deal with, I spend much more time tracing code because of this issue than I'drefactoring. Make no mistake: I like Go, but this irks me.
I’m surprised there aren’t Emacs packages for the X server itself and a bootloader…
People already trust LLM's for everything. It is treated like a magic answer machine. It was even back in the le-old ChatGPT 3.5 days.
A private company called brightview (I think) built a small section of highish speed rail in Florida and is now building a line from the outskirts of LA to Vegas. I'm excited for it to open up
How refrigeration changed our food
While I'd like to think lessons are learned, they swallowed/supported outrageous claims up to this point.

Cognitive dissonance suggests they have to keep supporting the current regime and whatever it says,because to change their mind is to realise the horror of what they've done.
One thing I have noticed about many of the astroturf accounts is a long gap, like 3-5 years, in posting history.
Wow, it's quite rare to see such politically advanced content here! My most hopeful part wonders if it's because tech workers are starting to realize what side of the class war they should be on
Yea as a gardener I enjoyed the themes but the images really threw me off. They don’t add anything. I always thought that stock images in blogs seemed unnecessary but at least they didn’t have glaring errors in them.
You can't post these as submissions to HN, but we have monthly "Who Is Hiring" threads that are free to everyone. They appear on the first weekday of each month and can be found at https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring afterward. You post your job as a comment in the latest thread. Please read the instructions at the top of the thread (above the actual job posts) and take a look at some of the other posts to get an idea of the conventions. These threads become closed to new comments after two weeks.

One important point is that you have to personally be part of the hiring company in order to post. Third-party recruiters and job boards aren't allowed.
I have written channel code in the last week. It's part of the deal (especially with the context package). I'm just happy to see them restrained.
Copilot, Clippy's far more sinister cousin.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240804172211/https://www.nytim...

https://archive.ph/GNKiL
Intentional misrepresentation is fraud, but I understand pragmatically how the line could become blurred. What I object to is the idea that blurring that line is intentional, even if that is not acknowledged.
Damn, that really sucks. It really is the luck of the draw. I started at a company that just paid me an hourly rate with no promises of stock options but I could just as easily have been dragged into some kind of mess like you experienced.
You have stretched "now building" beyond the bounds of reason. But yes, Brightline has an altogether superior press secretary.
Brightline https://www.gobrightline.com/

Never had the chance to use it, but one of the more exciting US rail developments I’ve seen recently.
Oh that is bad! It is a 20k/y pay cut you weren't expecting.

If they were keen to make amends they should just bump your pay that much. Unless they are struggling.

By the way I have a similar RSU amount and schedule. So gar so good but cognizant that in the contract they can stop it at any time. I took the risk as I can also quit at any time!
https://archive.ph/NUWpl
> But should you learn integration before differentiation? I’d never considered this approach until I read David M. Bressoud’s fantastic book Calculus Reordered,

Ha, I learned calculus integration first from Ivan Niven's "CALCULUS An Introductory Approach," copyright 1961, that as a kid I found in the attic in my dads undergrad engineering books. When I got to high school and took calc, I was able to do all the stuff they were teaching, but in weird orders and methods compared to more modern books.

Now, 40+ years later, I still have that book on my bookshelf in the calculus section :)

Till now, it's it only book I've seen that teaches it this way.
For me, r/k selection applied to human behavior broke my mind.

Once you see it, you can't unsee it. Be it dating or comparing cultural approaches to relationships, etc.
> without risking/gambling your own capital by exercising them.

Many companies offer early exercise, so you can reduce the amount you gamble by a lot.

Also, you already "pay" in terms of opportunity costs by being at that startup vs something more established where you get RSUs of a public company. So using some of the money from the startup in order to exercise the shares is really useful. If the startup's cash compensation is just enough to pay your bills, then of course it's different.
My first thought when reading the title was: because you're not living in the 1980s anymore. But it's an article from 1981, so it's got to be something else.
I replied to your comment on my website, but for posterity here, yes, I do think you did a good job for the part about exiting when bestScore > 100. There's nitpicks, but this is fine! It makes sense, and nice use of a select over a send.

I did expect that this exercise would come after the first one though, and doing this on top of a solution to the first exercise is a bit harder. That said, I also don't mean to claim either are impossible. It's just tough to reason about.
All of the RSU offers I ever got stipulated the grant was "subject to the approval of the board", i.e., not guaranteed. That said, I'd be absolutely livid if something like this happened, and would be expecting my manager to either make it right, or I'd look for a new job at the first available opportunity.

You can't do good business with bad people.
Did you get my point tho?
Link to the macros: https://github.com/Grazfather/dotfiles/blob/master/nvim%2Ffn...
I think that LunarML [1] could fit this niche quite well. It's a StandardML compiler that targets Lua. I can't tell much more as I've only played with it a little and don't have much experience with ML languages in general, but it looks promising.

[1] https://github.com/minoki/LunarML
Yeah, his Channel 4 complaint was completely valid, but I feel like it would have been a better article about examples of poor implementation like that than just a blanket anti-kid statement, where most apps handle it perfectly reasonably.
There's a lot you can do with jq to transform complex json into an intermediate format designed to be input for simpler Python processing.

My experience with Dagster has made me appreciative of plain, simple Python code and highly skeptical of frameworks.

The longer you stick with Python the more elegant you'll find your code. It takes time and trial and error to go from being annoyed with your code to being more comfortable with it and not looking for a tool or framework to be the silver bullet.
If you tell me when and where, I'll put money down on brightline's completion vs california high speed rail having any functioning sections in the next 10 years

I have absolutely zero faith in california high speed rail doing anything within my lifetime while China can build hundreds of miles in a few years.
You get your score shown as damage once you beat the act 3 boss(es) and then go on to act 4 to fight the final boss if you properly collected the three keys which unlock it while climbing.
> We simply do not care to run fast passenger trains anymore since they have largely been replaced by domestic air travel.

That's a self-fulfilling prophecy. First-class passenger trains are much more comfortable, roomier, and less expensive, but as long as they're so wildly slower, they have a hard time competing with air travel.
>Does not make sense in this context, as it mainly applies to Lisp-like languages that uses parentheses heavily.

I had read, some years back, that someone did an actual calculation / demonstration that showed that the number of symbol / punctuation characters in Lisp is actually less than in C-based languages, for a block of code with equal functionality in both languages.

I don't have the reference handy. Someone here may know of it, and post it.