skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kotlin's fame is mostly due to Kotlin Virtual Machine, aka Android.

So as long Android stays around, Kotlin will keep its relevancy.

Same with Swift and iDevices, especially since Metal was the only thing that Apple still bothered to implement in Objective-C first, with Swift bindings.

Now Ruby, well outside Rails I hardly see any demand for it on the circles I move on.
Nvidia to Manufacture American-Made AI Supercomputers in US for First Time
Can you elaborate on why he's a hack and perhaps how this relates to the idea of forcing yourself to use highly constrained inefficient "safe" data structures?
Probably enough that the office couldn't afford more than 12 hours?
I’m not sure I understand your disagreement and then expressing what appears to be exactly what they said; that an appointment happens at a specific time of day, not as a recurrent datetime that needs to shift with DST.
Right, it's less about the purpose of life (which implies a directive force) and more that a characteristic of life is it's an emergent complexity that finds more efficient ways of increasing entropy.

It gets a bit blurry when you start to substitute "life" for any "complex cosmological system" though...
Yes, a definite instance of the "Seinfeld is Unfunny" Effect.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunn...
this matches my experience actually.

I thought I didn't like Apple computers, but in hindsight I remember feeling that the eMac/G5's that I was using at school were clunky and slow compared to the contemporary Windows XP machines.

This was 2005- so XP on period correct hardware was extremely lean in comparison.

I think the latency was a pretty substantial reason for this in retrospect. I did not have nearly the same experience in 2012 when I bought my first Macbook Pro. (which I purchased because it was a UNIX that could run Microsoft Office and our VPN software... and I've been a MacOS user on/off ever since).
trying to explain a vacuum cleaner to someone who has never seen one

if you don't specify that someone is actually yourself, it makes grad students seem too bourgeois.*

*Meshing Rainer Weiss' dictum[0] with Anglo-Saxon dictum [1] we have the post-PG (unintentional extremist[2]) dictum:

Make it possible or make it accessible.

In 4-letter-words

Make it real or show it's easy

Usually, both the reading and writing of papers violate these dictums. (The trying to explain to yourself in babytalk, day after day, is naturally kosher.)

[0] there are only 2 games worth playing: the opening-game and the end-game

[1] do something worth writing about or write something worth reading

[2] https://note.com/tokyojack/n/n64147f0ff2f3
Kinda late. I got an iPhone for the first time and transferred my Skype # to it. I've been wondering for years why there wasn't a consumer-friendly VoIP service.
I have a Jura automatic espresso machine that I've used every day, multiple times a day, for many years now. I bought it used and didn't really expect it to last, figuring I'd upgrade in a few months. But several years and cross country moves later, it's still as reliable as the day I got it, even with all the moving parts and built up coffee dust and moisture. I've brought it to a few workplaces and coworkers were also impressed by it and used it throughout the week.

It's an incredible piece of Swiss engineering and such a stark contrast to the world of disposable personal electronics I'm used to. Best $800 I ever spent on a machine.
"I have seen people (one was a VP of Engineering) escorted out of the building, sent in a cab to home along with a security guard (this was in India), not allowed access to computer or talk with other employees. "

Some companies are just paranoid. My company has now had several rounds of layoffs, people were kept on for a few months, got severance and everything went as harmonious as layoffs can be.

The cruelty the way some companies and now Musk with DOGE are doing it is simply not necessary and reflects a lot on the character of leadership. To me it looks like they are deeply insecure and hate their people.
So as most of you may know, Marathon started out on the Mac in November 1994. Marathon was the Mac gamer's Doom or Duke Nukem. Mac gamers buying copies of Marathon helped contribute to making Bungie the financially successful company the are today.

Sadly Bungie (game publisher) seems to have forgotten that it was Mac gamers who helped Bungie to become so popular. The new Marathon re-boot is only being released for Windows PC, XBox, and PS5. No Apple Silicon native release.

I have created a petition to send to Bungie to address their decision.

I humbly ask you please sign the petition and share it if you can.

Thank you.
Sure, and water is wet.

Yet the blog was posted in the public domain, so saying what is and isn't relevant is...irrelevant.

It's in a public forum, up for discussion. End of story.
Alright then, deleting my Lyft account.

We've always heard stories that your phone is listening to you, well, it is.
I noticed reading this and there is yet to be a study on if this affects patient outcomes, which is where the real meat is, IMO.

One of the experiments is described as: "In their first experiment, the researchers created two fictitious profiles of dermatologists and randomly varied different attributes, such as race, gender, school attended, online ratings and political affiliation. Asked which dermatologist they were more likely to visit, both Republican and Democratic respondents preferred a doctor who shared their political beliefs."

It makes sense to me that a conservative person who is anti-abortion, wary of early sexual education or birth control, concerned about their child being exposed to gender transition or whatever other politics would want to see a doctor who simply would never suggest those things. It also makes sense to me that a progressive trans/gay person or supportive parent of a transgender/gay child would seek out progressive doctors who wouldn't try to convince them to detransition/conversion therapy or something.
Ask HN: Is the Opportunity Bigger Building Core AI or with Implementing AI?
This question has occurred to me a few times.
If the language has unsafe regions, it doesn't entirely remove classes of bugs, since they can still occur in unsafe regions.

(Predictable response: "But they can only occur in unsafe regions which you can grep for" and my response to that: "so?")
The option is not retained - you will never convince bicycles to give up a path they like once they have it. Thus it becomes politically impossible to reinstate it.
Your search seems broken (maybe because of the HN hug)

Also, rename "News" to "Latest Filings" or something more direct. Generally websites use "news" to refer to news about themselves, which nobody cares about.
Hasn't Google given up on tensorflow for JAX now?

It looks like tensorflow is going down the slow legacy/sunset trajectory at this point.
The question is more so to startups looking for proper staff. I'm not really certain you're getting the best quality staff if your best offer is to pimp up options. Seems like only morons would take that, and well, isn't that a problem itself?
Pre-Christian Rome tended to burn their dead, so no such luck.
Come on Ocaml.. I believe in you!
Same faml, same.
Today, checking the time is easy. We have smartphones, watches, computers, and even ovens. Everyone understands years, time zones, and UTC. It all seems straightforward. However, time can be unexpectedly complex in IT systems, leading to rare and tricky issues.

Different systems face various time-related problems, often involving precision and synchronization. In this article, I’ll focus on one unusual case that has occurred only 27 times in history.
No, you didn't. This doesn't match the original text.

0:47 Added in text: "Okay, here's the text prepared for reading aloud."

0:58

Original: "Okay, yes, it's a dumb idea,"

Audio: "Okay, yes, it's a bit of a strange idea"

1:08

Original: "Or do you, say, list off to the left some? What I want to ask you is: Can you find out? Hell no. You can see that, sure."

Audio: "Or do you drift off to the left a bit? The question is, can you figure it out? No, you can't. You can see that."

---

It appears you are using "Variational Lossy Autoencoder (VLAE)" as the basis for your website[1], which might be good for simplifying more complex things but defeats the purpose here. It's using more than four letters in words, and censoring out "dumb" and "hell"?

Why don't you try pointing that another explanation of the theory of relativity without this limitation? Seems like that'd be a more interesting exercise.

[1a] https://www.pdftomp3.com/shared/67e178f428779824db2e06c6
[1b] https://pdf-reader-storage-f55b8c51173224-staging.s3.us-east...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0sV3m0pUoM

(The transcription of the dialogue itself contains an error, to wit, the use of "penhead" instead of "pinhead".)
A protein folding mystery solved: Study explains core packing fractions
Do you mean you will likely make an error when implementing a standard textbook linked list? Or that a standard textbook linked list has non-obvious errors in its design? If so, would be curious to learn more.
> do what you want it to do

Until a colleague or future you, or someone else calling the code, forgets.

Which leads to "I WANT TO KILL WHOEVER WROTE THIS" debugging sessions.

Encapsulation exists for a reason.
Just like with humans. And there will be no fix, there can only be guards.
There is no way that 23% of production software is written in Python. The TIOBE index, based on search engine queries, is useless.

In Python it is simply possible to create large amounts of flaky software at a rapid pace. People don't care for quality, so the amount of Python software on GitHub and PyPI explodes.

Because everything is basically buggy, people have to search constantly for solutions, which helps this bogus index.

The amount of student questions and AI promotion blogs also helps.
Lots of legacy codebases still kicking around, as well as highly mature Objective-C libraries that don’t stand to benefit a lot from being converted to Swift.

For Apple platforms I write almost entirely Swift these days but Obj-C really isn’t that bad. Every once in a while for uncomplicated personal projects I’ll use it for its simplicity and compile speed.
the point is that there should be no layout to be broken in the first place.
It’s relevant, but it’s also wrong. It doesn’t help him make the case. But sure, make sure you attribute it to the correct idiot.
> being a superset, the ability to seamlessly drop in and out of pure C within the same file is something no other language can do.

C++ and Objective C++ can do it just as well.

D and Zig have good C ABI integration.
Show HN: Bugsink – Self-Hosted Error Tracking
I built Bugsink because I wanted error tracking I could run myself, without maintaining a complex stack. It runs with pip install or a single Docker container, stores events locally (SQLite, MySQL, or Postgres), and is easy to run and keep running.

It’s API compatible with the Sentry SDKs, so you can keep your existing client setup. Bugsink focuses on error tracking only and is fast enough to process millions of events per day on modest hardware.

The 1.5 release introduces sourcemaps support: https://www.bugsink.com/blog/bugsink-1.5-introducing-sourcem...

Can't you just self-host Sentry? https://www.bugsink.com/blog/why-i-gave-up-on-self-hosted-se...
It should be unsurprising that people don't want to entrust their health to people who don't share the same values as them regardless of what those values are.

There's already a litany of incentives inherent to the modern medical workplace that ever so slightly tug doctors toward goals other than what is best for the customer, people aren't idiots, they're not going to add yet another one if they can help it. Nobody wants to have to worry about a values disagreement with their doctor on top of all the other stuff.
> It is Impossible to add an unlimited number of tools to your agents context without negatively impacting the capability of your agent.

Huh?

MCP servers aren't just for agents, they're for any/all _clients_ that can speak MCP. And capabilities provided by a given MCP server are on-demand, they only incur a cost to the client, and only impact the user context, if/when they're invoked.
They absolutely do have the funds required to sustain research. If they're spending their own money instead of the government's, then maybe they would have to be a bit selective and cut out the crap, but that wouldn't be such a bad thing anyway.
Nitpicking? Minor quibble? It was the major point that the user brought up.

> Just a good time to remember that the same guy who thinks tariffs are a good idea is the guy who stood at a podium during Covid next to the world’s leading expert and suggested injecting bleach into Covid patients was a good idea.

First sentence, right here. It's complete dishonest framing to make what Trump said seem as bad as possible. Which just goes back to the parent user's comment:

> Everyone on both sides automatically thinks the worst about everyone on the other side these days, usually just to score some internet points.
I put the term into this new invention called a search engine, and it responded with something for the United Nations. Adding "EU" to it, it replied:

> European Union laissez-passer: Travel document issued to civil servants and members of the institutions of the European Union

> A European Union laissez-passer is a travel document issued to civil servants and members of the institutions of the European Union. It is proof of privileges and immunities the holders enjoy.
It's pretty trivial to find insider trading looking activity as a human, so I doubt it would be particularly difficult to write up an algorithm to do it. Of course you wouldn't come close to catching everything but you'd catch blatant stuff.

The problem is as a private citizen/company (1) you have no idea who placed the trades and (2) even if you did, you can't enforce the law.
Intel to sell majority stake in Altera for $4.46B
Because my take doesn't conform to the group narrative.
How does income inequality affect the support for populist parties?
Presumably being healthy is a value / hope everyone has in common with their doctor.
> from your explanation of the role I'm not sure I see the value either

Google has traditionally had a fair number of developer relations engineers. Chrome team alone has several. The current devrels include Una Kravets, Bramus van Damme, Rachel Andrew, possibly Jecelyn Yeen, Oliver Dunk, Matthias Rohmer, probably some others... They help prioritise new browser features through developer feedback, document new features, maintain documentation at web.dev, spec up new features and represent Google at various standardizing bodies, write walkthroughs and tutorials, build demos to showcase new browser features, make explanatory videos, give conference talks, and generally keep us, web developers, up to date with modern browser best practices.

Their value to web developers is immense. Their value to Google is possibly in that good devrels are a living advertisement of web technologies in general, and Chromium-based web browsers in particular. The better developers know browser features, the more attractive and capable UIs they can build for the web, the more consumers will be attracted to the web (including Chrome), and the more money Google will ultimately make via advertisements.

Adam has been so great in this role that it does not make sense to me that Google decided to cut specifically his position.
What I’m saying is simple math. I would much rather make more than twice the equivalent worker in the EU and take the chance of a layoff. I can afford to have my own emergency fund to survive the gap in employment.

Every employee in the US is “at will”.
#define hc_task_yield(task)
do {
task->state = __LINE__;
return;
case __LINE__:;
} while (0)

That's just diabolical. I would not have thought to write "case __LINE__". In the case of a macro, using __LINE__ twice expands to the same value where the macro is used, even if the macro has newlines. It makes sense, but TIL.
Like I said, it requires nothing more than picking up a broom. There are many places that are quite poor, and yet instead of graffiti you'll see a little old grandma planting flowers in front of her shack. And we should be supporting her, not the people who'd escape reality in a puddle of their own making. To say otherwise is so utterly deranged that I don't know where to begin.
Nordic countries are made of homogeneous populations whose ancestors somewhat uniquely developed prosocial long term planning preferences to survive harsh winters thanks to natural selection.

Nordic equality is as natural as the inequality we see everywhere else.
Video features are manufacturer and model dependent. Nowhere in my comment did I say that they use UVC vs requiring software. My Nikon Z8 as an example can be used with OBS over USB very easily, but you must install a driver and utility.

Regarding Canon, true enough, they gimp their products to be greedy. That's why https://www.magiclantern.fm/ exists.

Your general rule of thumb is irrelevant. There are many optics tests done of available modern cameras, including phones. Phones get nowhere close to the photographic quality of a proper camera, but are totally fine for viewing on another small screen or small prints.

My wife has had prints of photos taken with her phone hanging in galleries, but even she (who prefers a phone as an artistic style preference) would never dream of printing anything larger than a 5x8 from a phone. My photography prints on the small side tend to be 12x18, and I often print as large as 40x60. A photo from a phone is simply unusable for me.
> Things like ReactNative or <insert cross-platform app dev toolkit here> miss exactly the same point that CEOs firing engineers over LLMs or vibe coders do: the code was _never_ the problem

Problems are subjective.

To the people who work on the app and actually use it as a part of their work or daily lives, you're exactly right.

To the CEO doing the firing, the problem is that he wants a bonus because the other guy who founded his startup around the same time is able to afford <insert ostentatious display of wealth here> and he cannot. And in that case, the engineers are the problem because they cost money. Worst case scenario, you fire the engineers, business goes down, and you have to exit for less money than you thought you would. Not like it matters; you were paying yourself insane amounts of money out of the seed money anyways so you have plenty of money to last until the next big idea that Marc Andreessen wants to flush money away on.

... as for the survival of Objective C, I'm willing to bet that there's an entire class of apps for iOS and iPadOS that most of us use every day but barely give any thought to; apps that are the COBOL banking backends of the mobile world. They've fulfilled a purpose at some business since 2012, they're mission-critical, and you gain zero value rewriting them in anything else, so Objective C keeps getting written to add things onto those apps as new features are needed.
They are talking about C not C++, for Microsoft C was done, it was about time to move into C++.

This was the official position in 2012,

https://herbsutter.com/2012/05/03/reader-qa-what-about-vc-an...

However after the Microsoft reboot with Satya, there was a change of heart regarding C, back in 2020, with C11 and C17 being supported,

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/c11-and-c17-standard-...

And 2022

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/c11-atomics-in-visual...

However there is no official roadmap regarding C23 support, and now with the whole safety discussion going on and Secure Future Initiative, probably will never happen.

Additionally clang is a blessed compiler at Microsoft, it is included on Visual Studio, so whatever MSVC doesn't support can be done in clang as alternative.
No amount of chest-thumping about how good of a programmer you are and telling everyone else to, "get good," has had any effect on the rate of CVE's cause by memory safety bugs that are trivial to introduce in a C program.

There are good reasons to use C. It's best to approach it with a clear mind and a practical understanding of its limitations. Be prepared to mitigate those short comings. It's no small task!
Nice one but "'cos" does not go by the rule, I feel. You can use "for" at the same spot but, well, it has a tone you did not go for in your text.
Apple Spent the past 10 years working on Swift and all of its tools and slowly rewriting Apps in Swift when they could have continue to use Objective-C.
Use a separate data structure and then index into it with a linked list like API. No need to do something so dangerous if you simply need an allocation less linked list interface.

But yes there is a place for these data structures. It just shouldn't be common.
That take is a bit reductive - it downplays the structural collapse of independent contracting in the UK post-IR35 reform. This wasn't just a "bit of market downturn" or a few companies cutting rates. People lost the ability to operate as businesses, to manage their tax affairs fairly, to invest in their own skills, and to retain profit. What they got in return was, at best, a modest day-rate bump—hardly compensation for losing all autonomy, business deductions (like training, equipment, downtime), and legal protections.

It forced highly specialised professionals into employment in all but name, just without the rights, security, or support. A square peg jammed into a round PAYE hole. And the long-term effect? Exactly what you'd expect: the best talent either left the UK, shifted to servicing overseas clients (where Chapter 10 doesn't apply), or left the field altogether. The real talent pool shrank, not because of market conditions, but because there was no longer a viable way to operate independently.

To make matters worse, the government compounded this by lowering the barriers to import cheaper labour from abroad ("Boriswave"), creating a race to the bottom on wages, with zero incentives for local upskilling or long-term investment in the domestic workforce.

So yes, the job market took a hit - but IR35 didn't just "not help" - it actively accelerated the decline by removing the last flexible, self-directed model for highly skilled work. The damage wasn't cyclical. It was engineered.
Diplomats have a diplomatic passport. Or they can have a "laissez-passer" instead.

They are asked to have the visa linked (and attached) to their diplomatic document, instead of their personal passport.