skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Relatively to the rest of Europe is still on the upper echelons so some of the policies do work.

The issue is: without hope for the future there's not much the State can do to push people into having kids. We live in an age of hopelessness, I don't have my parents optimism from the 80s, I'm starting to approach 40 and every 5 years something happen to chip away on the little hope I still have.
At the time it appeared, it was more powerful than BASIC or COBOL. We learned Pascal in college and even the technically less inclined colleagues were able to do the assignments pretty well. We used Turbo Pascal, which had a decent IDE, my brother also continued to use Delphi for another ~ 10 years and loved it for being so easy to do some quick and dirty things when needed. Honestly I don't remember almost any details after 30 years, other than it was simple to use and quick to learn and write something in it, while a lot more friendly than C or C++.
It is interesting to see this Great Convergence. Even PHP, which started off as a quick-and-dirty language with deliberately vague expressions, converges to the same standard.

In my 30-something years of programming (admittedly my first programs were toy-like Pascal pieces of code), I saw only one improvement in this Algol-like style that I considered major: named arguments. Their use improves code readability, at least for me.
Is this the $200K ticket to cheating death?
This is me all the time, but as I've gotten older I realized extensive note taking is extremely helpful for work. I can't recommend it enough for people like me
I think we violently agree with respect to EVs… it’s just whataboutism.

But I do think tires are a significant environmental problem, especially in urban areas and when combined with diesel soot. We’re also poisoning soil by allowing shredded tires to be used as mulch, which is gross in many levels. Shredded tires are also used as aggregate for roads, so road wear also contributes to particulate pollution from tires.
It feels like you're mixing together a lot of ideas that don't really fit together very well. In terms of syntax, only four of the languages you describe as "more or less the same" in terms of how they look use "type before identifier" like you mention. On the other hand, four of them use the ML-style syntax of identifier-colon-type, one uses identifier before type with no colon, and the final one doesn't even have type annotations. At least four of them don't require semicolons either, and I'd argue that at least in Go, having semicolons at all would probably strike people as odd. You've also left out Python, which doesn't fit any of those syntax descriptions you gave and more popular than at least half of the ones you did include.

The timeline of 70s and 80s also doesn't really seem to fit with what you're saying either. Of the languages you mention either as "more or less the same" or "refreshingly new", the ones from either the 70s or 80s are C, C++, ML, Smalltalk, Pascal, and Smalltalk; all of the other "refreshingly new" ones are from either before or after those years. Common Lisp was from the 80s, but the syntax originated with LISP in the 50s, so if you're going to go with the most common variant, I'd argue you should also remove ML from the list and replace it with OCaml, which is from the 90s.

Even more significantly, it feels like you're comparing apples and oranges with the discussion of syntax at the beginning and then talking about bringing something new to the PL design space after. I'd guess that most people involved in PL design find syntax to be the least interesting aspect of it, and I think it's hard to argue that none of the languages you described as looking similar brought anything new to the PL design space.
Pablo Picasso's Stunning Repetitions
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43655914
> These fonts — along with more than 30,000 others — are already included in your Adobe Creative Cloud membership.

For those wondering about pricing.
The introduction of The Groke absolutely terrified me when I was younger. I put it up there with the Xenomorph in terms of a mysterious, capable, superior foe.
That's not a summary. That's a number of quotes demonstrating Mr. Kernighan's judgements about PL virtues that didn't stand the test of time.
Well, the obvious answer is you turn it into an app. Why do you think there are so many web devs running around?

There are probably ways to shoehorn what you're doing into a SaaS if you're clever. Specialization of labor, baby!
Anecdotally, I've never had any success in my attempts to date ciswomen. Not tall enough, not wealthy enough, not fit enough, not educated enough. There was always some metric I failed to meet.

In contrast, dating queer folk has been a joy. They accept me for who I am.
To be fair, that's an uncannily accurate prediction of many visitors' experiences when visiting Ibiza
Coloring is a non-issue, context itself is. Newcomers find it unintuitive, and implementing a cancellable piece of work is incredibly cumbersome. One can only cancel a read/write to a channel, implementing cancellation implies a 3 line increase to every channel operation, cancelling blocking I/O defers to the catchphrase that utilises the name of the language itself.
> even if you count ncurses, the tty stuff is way, way lighter than all the rendering code, componentry, and hierarchical dispatch stuff that goes into a typical GUI toolkit

But using tty/ncurses does not avoid the costs of GUI, your terminal emulator will still need to have that. So using terminal can only add additional cost, not reduce it.
> making your own fuel (without sufficient expertise), as more than 'a little risky'

It seems like just the classic smoke bomb recipe with KNO3 and sugar. I would be comfortable preparing this even indoors, let alone outside.
My crazy plan to relieve us all from debugging frustration
because customers don't want generative AI in their products, ethical or not
Dual use!

(I looked up what dual use meant right after I posted this, and apparently it has military implications usually?)

(The thing I'm trying to point at here is that we have limited resources, and whenever we can use a single thing for more than one purpose, it's good.)

(Maybe the term I was looking for was dual-purpose? But even that doesn't really seem to map quite right.)
>But over the decades, most converged to the Algol-style (statements, curly braces, often using semicolons, type before identifier, etc.). Look at what we did to programming:

>- Java, C, C++, C#, Kotlin, Rust, Swift, Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, ... → they look more or less the same

The upside being that if you come from C or Java you will fill at home with Go.
A huge amount of BBS software from the classic pre-Internet BBS era was written in Borland Turbo Pascal.
I think it's the format combined with some particular type of demographic (I'm not entirely sure what that demographic is).

X, for example, doesn't have much of that. It has its own flavor of toxicity, which is in many ways worse, but not that particular flavor of toxic.

I also see it on Reddit in certain subreddits but not in others.
IIRC, the European Extremely Large Telescope(love the name) is using Nvidia GPUs to handle adaptive optics.
this is actually a helpful little utility for someone applying to yc, or trying to raise.

when refining a pitch, it takes a lot of, well, pitching to discover what's wrong with your message, or where it's falling flat.

the more you can simulate this pushback from different angles, the better your pitch will be when you eventually present it.
Neat.

Is this to be used in addition to the tools mentioned in this talk: https://youtube.com/watch?v=qfknfCsICUM
Tove was surely gravely insulted when somebody called her Swede. Especially after Winter War. Finland and Sweden had defense pact but Sweden choose to be neutral and promote peace. And so it deliberately hindered war effort preventing arms transport from Norway ports. Only aid was volunteers, which were mostly Finns living in Sweden.
This is firmly in "they asked whether they could but not whether they should" territory, and I love it for that.
Is it really a celebration of family life when Moominpappa uproots the whole family because of his midlife crisis and sends Moominmamma into depression?
> I do think HN is an odd place in it's intolerance of humour

I've always seen this as a counterculture to Reddit, not as intolerance of humour.
Ive been using GrapheneOS for years and was in the chat rooms a fair bit, this isnt something common. Sounds like it may be hardware failing.

Having bootloader locked you get verified boot, big security benefits and automatic healing of operating system files damaged by the drive degrading.
I think it just means it removes the distractions of the grain and shaky camera.

But really, it was always evident it was a guy in a gorilla suit.
While I started with Basic and and Turbo Pascal, I started to appreciate a lot the curly braces and semicolons because it makes a lot of sense for me (*). Therefore I see the convergence as a good thing, keeping the best parts of everything and improving with good parts from others.

* As opposed to BEGIN-END in SQL, indenting in Python or weirdness of Cobol in the 90s.
Or maybe figure out a different architecture

Either way, the end user experience would be vastly improved
I don't know enough about the republican party's campaign finances to know whether Trump controls most or all of it. Even if he does, though, it doesn't have to work that way.

Congress has a duty to uphold the constitution, not to play political money games. The fact that they aren't willing to is a large part of why we're in this mess.

What we need are leaders that actually have principles they're willing to fight for, and ultimately that still rolls further down hill to the voters who have collectively created these incentives.

When Ron Paul was still in office lobbyists learned to not even bother talking to him. Agree or disagree with him, the man had strong views of how governments should work, was clear about those views to his electorate, and stood by them consistently. We need more of that.
Yeah, it has been painful previously, but now we get conda / uv, it is in a much better condition right now.
The trend with LLMs so far has been: if you have an issue with the AI, wait 6 months for a more advanced model. Cobbling together workarounds for their deficiencies is basically a waste of effort.
The 80s war between C and Pascal, has been resolved, each side gave its arguments, the judge of history has decided that the clear winner was C.

The new battle has begun with three major contenders: C, Golang, and Rust. Which one will be chosen for the future?
They took the best available models for the architecture they chose (in two sizes), and fine tuned those models with additional training data. They don't say where they got that training data, or what combo of SFT and/or RLHF they used. It's likely that the training data was generated by larger models.
> It’s great that they’re embracing open […] data too…

It could be, but as I type this it's currently vaporware: https://huggingface.co/datasets/Skywork/Skywork-OR1-RL-Data
My C and C++ compilers (Datalight, Zortech) only required 2 passes:

1. preprocessor/parser/semantic all at once

2. optimizer (optional)

3. code generator

Later on in the 80s these were merged into one executable.
I think almost all of those criticisms are solved in newer versions of Pascal.
So, basically a longer and reworded version of "as long as they're not hurting other people"?
I'd love them to get around to attempting Ubik - it's a shame that Gondry abandoned his attempt.

In terms of ambiguity, surely Blade Runner is a prime example of ambiguity and the dichotomies between real/fake, light/dark, salvation/damnation, hunter/hunter etc. There's also the very significant portrayal of Roy Batty as both the villain and a Christ-like figure (e.g. nail in his hand, confronting his maker and both kissing and killing him).
My favorite piece of Moomin lore is that the very first proto-Moomin sketch was a caricature of Immanuel Kant Tove made to tease her sister, who was a big fan of that guy.
And that would be the point when congress impeaches the president for dereliction of duty.

The system is surprisingly simple, it just requires leaders willing to actually uphold it.
> laggy experience on a very powerful M1 Pro laptop

Apple's M series chips aren't really all that powerful, but they are very power efficient. There are far faster laptops out there than what Apple offers, though they do consume more power. My AMD-based laptop outperforms the M1 Pro by a wide margin, though it is a power hog. I had no problem viewing the Unkey website. If you're using Safari, that may also be a problem, because Safari honestly sucks.
Since this thread has already established that bias is inherent in all human endeavors, why don't you try addressing the quality of the evidence itself, instead of its source?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_fallacy
> an oblique reference to The Shamen's Ebenezer Goode

That didn’t even cross my mind and Rich West (Mr. C) is a friend of mine and I know the song well. I, of course, get the reference now it has been pointed out, but you’re right that it’s pretty damn oblique!
It doesn't directly, a small collection of functions isn't worth paying anything for. When taking money there's a lot more expectations on the author. However, as the project and author becomes more known, the author could still collect donations through sites like patreon, buy me a coffee or Github sponsorships.
And I'm of the opinion that the capitol police should be limited only to acting as a security force for the Capitol itself. They shouldn't be enforcing anything beyond building security.
So... I know that people frame these sorts of things as if it's some kind of quantization conspiracy, but as someone who started using Claude Code the _moment_ that it came out, it felt particularly strong. Then, it feels like they... tweaked something, whether in CC or Sonnet 3.7 and it went a little downhill. It's still very impressive, but something was lost.

I've found Gemini 2.5 Pro to be extremely impressive and much more able to run in an extended fashion by itself, although I've found very high variability in how well 'agent mode' works between different editors. Cursor has been very very weak in this regard for me, with Windsurf working a little better. Claude Code is excellent, but at the moment does feel let down by the model.

I've been using Aider with Gemini 2.5 Pro and found that it's very much able to 'just go' by itself. I shipped a mode for Aider that lets it do so (sibling comment here) and I've had it do some huge things that run for an hour or more, but assuredly it does get stuck and act stupidly on other tasks as well.

My point, more than anything, is that... I'd try different editors and different (stronger) models and see - and that small tweaks to prompt and tooling are making a big difference to these tools' effectiveness right now. Also, different models seem to excel at different problems, so switching models is often a good choice.
It doesn't matter you said it doesn't exist.

And what evidence is there that it is heavily subsidized? This is a company that started really small and has been growing for a while.

Its not any more subsidized then any other Chinese EV company, and less so then many others.
Hi, I am the creator of opsmate. Here are some interesting use cases of opsmate:

* write prometheus query for you - https://asciinema.org/a/715257

* troubleshoot a kubernetes production issue - https://asciinema.org/a/fNsUcClB2X1hupC8pY3Aatag1

* troubleshoot a remote vm that doesn't have opsmate installed - https://asciinema.org/a/715281

* analyse your database schema - https://asciinema.org/a/3FNuT7JdySxnAM29GUdXuqw6L
Bugs and performance mostly. The elusive database refactor might bring me back but we'll see.

I definitely have a preference for outliner, flat zk style, but I'm able to get the majority of the benefit from Obsidian while having access to a stronger ecosystem of plugins and first class publishing and syncing support. Meanwhile Logseq seems to have lost a lot of steam.
I agree with you that traditionally that is the bottleneck. Think about why poor specifications are a problem. It's a problem because software is so costly and time consuming to create. Many times the stakeholders don't know that something isn't right until they can actually use it. What if it takes 50% less time to create code? Code becomes less precious. Throwing away failed ideas isn't as big an issue. Of course it is trivially easy to think of cases where this could also lead to never shipping your code.
> almost no one uses a debugger, yet everyone, including me, goes deep into the mines, debugging with their printf pickaxe and console.log lantern, everyday, getting frustrated over it and losing everyone’s precious time, which would be better spent:

I use an actual debugger all the time, and so do many other engineers I have worked with (though a surprising number do constrain themselves to print debugging only)
I feel this. As a dev, most of my time is spent thinking and asking questions.
There’s so much projection here that basically none of this has anything to do with me, so I may as well not reply. Have fun with your Musk derangement syndrome, which btw you incorrectly identified me with
This is genuinely pretty cool. Without dynamic allocations and garbage collection, I'm not sure how much C# buys you, but it's still neat and I think further updates might end up making this much neater.
I wrote a game of Tetris in JavaScript with SVG many years ago. It had nice graphics and was smoothly animated. I hadn’t heard of anyone else using SVG like that at the time.

I also made a game called Pro Office Calculator (available on Steam), which includes a Doom-style 3D engine for which I used Inkscape as my map editor. Here’s an example of a map: https://github.com/robjinman/pro_office_calc/blob/develop/da...
How could AI not make it look more like a man? Was the AI trained on lots of bigfoot footage? Or was it trained on lots of pictures of people? Give it enough leeway and it will probably render bigfoot as a man in a Barney costume, if that better confirms to the training data.
Any specific model recommendations for running locally?

Also, what tasks are you using them for?
This could go badly if it ends up in the mass adoption-enshittification pipeline.
Ok, but (a) they won't, and (b) if they do, who carries out the actual removal of the president from power? ... oh, right, the executive branch, again. Oops.
Love this! I think SVG is super underrated, particularly in the age of diffusion based image generation. I’ve written briefly about it here: https://rorads.github.io/technical/quick-ai-reflection-on-sv...
There is a fascinating throughline between the themes of Moomin universe and Adventure Time I've been waiting to see someone much more familiar than me with both sources spool out into a 3 hour long YouTube video I can set on in the background.
OK but the article in question describes and reviews the books and illustrations by the Finnish artist Tove Jansson. It is not about a tv-show.
Infosec experts fear China could retaliate against tariffs with a Typhoon attack
ublock Origin already has a feature called "strict blocking" which does the same thing. In fact, the placeholder page that this extension takes you to looks almost exactly the same as the one that ublock origin uses.
You are comparing the max loaded weight of the polo with the unloaded weight of a dolphin.

VW Polo Mk6 is 1751mm wide, 1461mm tall, 4067mm long and has an unloaded curb weight of 1105 kg. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Polo_Mk6

The BYD Dolphin 2025 60kWh is 1770mm wide, 1570mm tall, 4290mm long, and has an unloaded curb weight of 1658 kg. https://bydautomotive.com.au/brochures/BYD-DOLPHIN-2025.pdf.

The VW Golf Mk8 might be a better comparison with an unloaded curb weight of 1255 kg, which reduces the gap from 543kg to 403kg.

(Note that for the gasoline and diesel cars, lighter trims give longer range, whereas it is opposite for electric cars, and that a fully loaded 45L tank of a polo weighs less than 40kg, especially if gasoline)
Atlas of brain reveals high cognition areas supplied with more energy
I'd recommend a re-read! There's so many layers to that story that show themselves only on subsequent readings. Much like the layered flow of PKD the author, PKD the character, and Horselover Fat.
Footnote: "Unlimited fonts, no extra charges, already licensed."
That makes me feel better about spending so much time implementing this balanced text chunker last year. https://github.com/ShelbyJenkins/llm_utils

It splits an input text into equal sized chunks using DFS and parallelization (rayon) to do so relatively quickly.

However, the goal for me is to use a n LLM to split text by topic. I’m thinking I will implement it as an API saas service on top of it being OSS. Do you think it’s a viable business? You send a library of text, and receive a library of single topic context chunks as output.
Intellectual Property in the Age of AI
You can get time with a single tower, but not location.
It is reductive, but I feel like most of her viewpoints derive from a personal hate for the experiences she had with her graduate professor. When critized, she doesn't defend well against that point, that she is disenguine in her critiques.

As some other commenters have said, her channel made more sense when her audience had been mostly domain experts.
In this article there are a few screenshots with grayscale icons:
https://9to5google.com/2024/04/16/grapheneos-review-de-googl...

Is that the default?
This is a huge point I think. I live in metro Seattle as well. I've lived in a few other American cities in my life, all bigger than Seattle, but I've never felt further away from the rest of a city than I have living here. The city is just downright terrible to navigate and the normal kind of urban sprawl that gives a city its "heart" is totally choked by the terrain. I've lived in places where I wouldn't blink at a 30 minute walk to and from a friend's house or a bar, but in Seattle that almost inevitably means hiking up at 45 degree incline for half of the route. Genuinely I don't know what could be done to solve this aside from saturating the city with transit options, but it's in the back of my head whenever I hear people complaining about problems around here. "Why is the traffic so bad?" "Why is housing so expensive?" "Why is everyone sad?" It's because the topography of the city looks like a fucking rollercoaster.
"Simpler" doesn't necessarily mean better. Next is convenient as long as you stay inside the box, but it's very limiting otherwise (that is, it doesn't adapt to a wide variety of usecases, but rather forces you to adapt to it -- that's my main gripe).
I always wonder how the licensing works with stuff like this.

Say I create a logo with one of these fonts, and immediately cancel afterword. Do I get to continue using the logo? Or is my license to the font technically revoked?

Also, font licensing elsewhere sucks for making native applications. They have this bizarre price structure where for web it's cheap, but if you want to embed it in an App it's 10x the price. It bums me out because occasionally I'd like to use/buy fonts for projects but they're out of reach. I took the first google result to test this real quick, "Web" or "Desktop" usage is $78, but "App" is $1,326 (https://www.myfonts.com/products/astros-package-83387/licens...).

And I guess they've moved to doing subscriptions for all licenses there too.. so I guess I'll never be buying a font again. Maybe that was the answer all along https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J06tluN7rtE
I don't see that as a likely outcome. I think it will make software better for consumers. There can be more bespoke interfaces instead of making consumers cram in to the solution space dictated by the expensive to change software as it is today.
Sure, it's also in whether things are still going and it's impossible to tell with the glasses.