skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First time you go through this kind of stuff it feels a bit crazy. There is too much daily rumor and speculation. You see good friends leaving every other day etc.

But if you have been through multiple M&A/boom bust cycles (especially with well known firms) it is not as crazy it is seems. Severance/relocation packages are really great, and HR of every other firm in the land is bombarding your inbox/linkedin. So the sky is not falling.

When the software you work on is being used all across the world, not just the US, doesn't really matter which location you are sitting in or whats happening in boardrooms. People in the boardroom get replaced. Sign boards and letterheads change. The beat goes on.
Yes, and I did mention it was updated. After 30 years of being an explicitly extremist organization, do you really think that overnight they changed ? What would be the reason for this ?
I'd assume that BO has plenty of high-res/high-contrast-range imagery - that's just too useful for engineering analysis, post-launch.

What they release to the public is a separate issue.
I'm really curious whether it exists and / or if they will ever be able to find it, it's wild to consider they can map the galaxy but can't spot something that's relatively close to us. But, detection relies on reflected sunlight or blotting out stars etc behind it, and given the supposed distance that would be minimal.

That said, if it does exist I'm sure they'll find it eventually.
How this war started: https://www.hamas-massacre.net/

"unlimited justifications". The justification is a massive assault by the Palestinians against Israeli civilians and the daily rocket attacks. They aren't justifying a Holocaust, because again, this is not only nowhere near it in scale, but they also aren't targeting civilians. You are welcome to review hundreds of videos of militants being targeted on the IDF's website or via other sources.

The rest of your post is unhinged racism and insanity and really has no place here.
They wouldn't dare speak against Hezbollah. Or they were Shias ?
There isn't anything official. Tonis maintains an "Awesome C3" repo on GitHub: https://github.com/tonis2/Awesome.c3 (curation is all done by Tonis, I don't have any say what goes into it).

Share it on the C3 discourse: https://c3lang.discourse.group or the C3 discord (but I think you already did that?)

Other than that... r/Programming, r/C3Lang and r/ProgrammingLanguages might be considered.
They are highly correlated. Most other causes are static processes which would not increase or decrease.
Nothing is going to tell you where to put your free() calls to guarantee memory safety (otherwise Rust wouldn't exist).

There are tools that will tell you they're missing, however. Read up on Valgrind and ASAN.

In C, non-global variables go out of scope when the function they are created in ends. So if you malloc() in a fn, free() at the end.

If you're doing everything with globals in a short-running program, let the OS do it if that suits you (makes me feel dirty).

This whole problem doesn't get crazy until your program gets more complicated. Once you have a lot of pointers among objects with different lifetimes. or you decide to add some concurrency (or parallelism), or when you have a lot of cooks in the kitchen.

In the applications you say you are writing, just ask yourself if you're going to use a variable again. If not, and it is using dynamically-allocated memory, free() it.

Don't psych yourself out, it's just C.

And yes, there are ref-counting libraries for C. But I wouldn't want to write my program twice, once to use the ref-counting library in debug mode and another to use malloc/free in release mode. That sounds exhausting for all but the most trivial programs.
Show HN: I made a tool to help react ecosystem devs integrate payments faster
Hello HN,

I'm a solo developer trying to ship apps from my bedroom.

I was struggling with some payment gateways' documentation because they were really hard to follow or incomplete.

So I thought that maybe other people are in the same situation, and decided to build PaidFast to help them!

So far it's only a MVP. I plan to add more features as they are requested (I wanted to launch fast).

Would love your feedback on it. Thanks already!

~ Tim
Europe had a thousand plus years of war under its belt and two World Wars very recently as that progressive democracy developed.
Next thing you know, I'll be calling Netherlands a continent and Holland a country :) Thanks for correcting the brain-fart (or future aspiration?)
There is no eye for an eye argument. The Gaza war is not about revenge, it’s about security. Israel didn’t poke out the Palestinians “eyes” because the Palestinians poked their eye first. They did it because they wanted the stop the Palestinians from poking their eye out before it happens again.

As far as justifying killing and abuse, the world is a complicated place. Personally I think killing is justified in self defense but you may not agree. Israel is certainly a bad actor but Hamas is far worse and unfortunately you do have to choose sides here.

What I think is clear is that Israel is not obligated to go easy on Hamas just because Hamas is economically and militarily weak. Being oppressed doesn’t automatically make you right.
Because Hunter S Thompson is a talented writer, and an LLM is a statistical method for generating text that looks like other text. An LLM isn't going to ingest all of Hemingway and write Hell's Angels.
Folklore.org starts off as an engaging and fascinating whistle-stop tour of a bunch of mad geniuses creating a personal computing revolution.

It ends up being a series of cautionary tales about Steve Jobs from a defeated and depressed Woz. Mostly about how he can't understand how someone can act so devoid of empathy.
LEDs last longer, but cities took the savings to add even more blue light, so the lifetime doesn’t matter.

The light pollution has absolutely increased because of the amount of LEDs that have been installed. This is well documented.

Also, the sodium line spectrum is easy to filter out for astronomy, broad spectrum blue LEDs add light pollution there.
> Mathematicians often visualize this problem in terms of spheres. You can think of each code word as a high-dimensional point at the center of a sphere. If an error-filled message (when represented as a high-dimensional point) lives inside a given sphere, you know that the code word at the sphere’s center was the intended message. You don’t want these spheres to overlap — otherwise, a received message might be interpreted in more than one way. But the spheres shouldn’t be too far apart, either. Packing the spheres tightly means you can communicate more efficiently.

I went to math prep school for 2 years, attended 12 hours of math class in agebra and analysis per week, which I think proves I've done more math than most people in the general population, and this makes no sense to me. It either lacks introduction required to understand the analogy, or I've become really dumb. I want to understand this based on what the article says, but I can't. I can't represent error-filled messages as high-dimensional points. It's easier for me to imagine what the intersection between 4D spheres would look like in geometry.

I found this for anyone interested in understanding 4D spheres without knowing too much math: https://baileysnyder.com/interactive-4d/4d-spheres/
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel Farewell Statement
Show HN: Visual 'what if' financial simulations and AI agent (human in the loop)
We’re trying to create a Financial Jarvis.

Think Excel meets decision trees - but in the Multiverse.

Here’s the thesis.

No one in their right mind would trust an LLM to drive a bunch of time-series financial calculations, years out into the future, of any real complexity. Simply too many variables, dependencies, nested calculations.

Plus their job would be on the line if it was incorrect.

Spreadsheets work - sort of - but they lack context. Each cell is just a number - no true metadata. And you can only really generate one scenario at a time.

You have outputs - but limited insights into the when, the what and the why of those outputs. At its core, spreadsheets are not designed with TIME as their primary axis.

To make this work - to provide operational context to a model - you need a different, repeatable data structure for defining time series financial calculations and the business logic. You need to be able to see each calculation and validate the inputs to trust the outputs.

whatifi is a visual, financial and strategic modeling framework that uses GPT and a node-based architecture to help you build (and audit) complex “what-if” scenarios without drowning in spreadsheets.
Thing is, they can make a predictive model based on known observations, then on this scale they will get it right or right enough plenty of times. I'm here for it. I hope long term (VERY long term) humanity will go to these stars predicted by Elite and name planets after the players that first discovered them, lol.
So what they were aiming for in the last 24 years if not to get into space?
>exposing some of the better kept secrets of some of the worst people and companies

Some of the worst could be the most likely to make you an offer you can't refuse . . .
> During a normal night, you get used to the darkness surprisingly fast,

Then a car drives past and your sight instantly adjusts to that, but takes several minutes to adjust back. Then you're stuck in subjective total darkness for a while.

Or, if you're in an area with mixed lighting (e.g. you walk past a house that incidentally lights part of the street) then your eyes can never adjust and you have to walk through pools of total darkness. I know this experience from rare situations where a few streetlights go out in a row, and it's not as easy as you just portrayed it.

> At least that's my experience growing up in the dark countryside in Sweden

That's fair enough IMO. I don't think it's feasible or helpful to plaster every centimetre of every rural road in street lighting. But the comment we're replying to suggested removing them in cities "outside of ... active center areas". That's a different matter.
> nowadays however, Hamas are hailed as resistance and freedom fighters. Only jewish hasbara still calls them terrorists, everyone else is sympathetic to Hamas, even Donald Trump, given his zionist position

I don't think this is anywhere near a mainstream position.
Israel's practices are historically so insidious. The more I learn about that state the more disturbing it is.

People have said it before but the clear internet is increasingly under Israel's influence. X's have silenced so many Palestinian accounts.

Western social media have platforms that allow states to censor content, and they have to comply. Under the guise of misinformation ofcourse.
> I've met a few people that work for municipal governments. Not politicians, just career bureaucrats deep in the system. I ask them what their favorite part of the job is. They all say "stability" or "job security" as their #1. It takes 18 months to get the city to permit your shed? They. Do. Not. Care.

This is dumb. Of course people enjoy job stability. It's irrational to draw a line from "I value being able to feed my family" to "I do not care about actually doing my job".

And beyond that, does the author actually know why it takes 18 months to get a permit? Does it actually take that long? Or is he doing a stand-up bit, and that's just a line that's designed to elicit the 2 seconds of laughter from the audience as a punchline?

> But I've come to accept that I just don't have the disposition to fight all the time. I'm not a fighter. I care a lot and I just want to live in a place where other people care.

So the author cares, but is sufficiently burned out that he's done caring. I wonder what he'd answer when he finds his magical Japan-like community - presumably one with stability - and is asked what his favorite part of living there is.
By “cheque kiting”. Trading back and forth perpetually with colluding firms to perpetually “deliver”, eventually landing these phantom shares in offshore swap agreements where reporting has conveniently been perpetually delayed.
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I guess people downvoting this didn't know - this is something that happens over and over again: https://www.reddit.com/r/CloudFlare/comments/zmx223/6_ddos_f...
Well-executed propaganda does not need to attempt direct change in thought.

It sows ideas that are net-beneficial to the propagandist. Leans into the ones that get traction. Manipulates the conversation. Provides simplistic (but advantageous) refutations of more complex (but more true) criticisms.

This is Psych 101 material here. Not at all complicated. You just need to think on a wider horizon and a longer time frame. Stereotypically, this is a cultural weakness of US Americans. Certainly of its leaders. Other cultures have contrasting reputations, some of which appears to be earned.
Tiktok is serving you better things because

1) more people post there
2) you've used it much more and given them huge amounts of data on who you are and what your like to watch, when.

I can assure you those tiktok things are not the top of everyone's feed, sounds personalized. But your list for reels, and the other one sounds like the basic things they show to new people to try to figure out what they like, possibly somewhat curated by some past swipes.

Each of these are just algorithms. They get better the more you use them because your use = your data and personality and you've just used tiktok enough that they know _exactly_ what you like and who you are. Give it time, the others will come along if people use them
Reportedly, Geoffrey Hinton said: “To deal with a 14-dimensional space, visualize a 3-D space and say 'fourteen' to yourself very loudly. Everyone does it.”
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Show HN: I made an open source directory of where to showoff your projects
I made an open source directory for sharing projects

Ever wondered how to show off that something you just built? Look no further!
Awesome Launch is meant to be a list of communities and forums you can share your projects to get feedback or your first users.

Anyone is free to contribute sites and resources. Hope you enjoy!
Very odd that an article trying to teach memory management would miss this, this should be common knowledge to anyone who used realloc, just like checking the return of any allocation call.
Stuck on GSuite Legacy (with my own domain) and Google won't let me give them money to upgrade my storage. Workspace too expensive for family purposes.

Recently got a new phone and can't use Gemini with my old GSuite Legacy account.

No migration path back to personal @gmail.com accounts for my family.

When I moved from an @fastmail.fm email to my own domain years and years ago I just gave them money and added my domain to my account. No fuss.

Google are hopeless. They have all this consumer brand recognition and just squander it on garbage.

Google One + your own personal domain name would be great but presumably they're afraid it'll dismantle Workspace for small businesses.
Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]
While thinking of making a game I’ve found these helpful:

1. The Art of Game Design, A Book of Lenses by Jesse Schell - https://schellgames.com/art-of-game-design

2. 20 Tips on Making Games by Jordan Mechner - https://www.jordanmechner.com/downloads/library/20tips.pdf

3. Liz England’s blog - https://lizengland.com/blog/
> undermining democratic structures and civil rights even inside the state

Who killed Rabin?

Israelis killed their own PM to prevent the Oslo Accords, the goal of the Oslo Accords was to provide a 2 state solution.

Don't rewrite history.
You can accomplish both with the right design.
It doesn't seem like it's going to be available soon. My old Switch is dying. If it kicks the bucket I'm not going to replace it with another old Switch. I will break down and buy a PlayStation if the Switch 2 isn't available.
The kind of intuition you gain for higher dimension tends not to be visual. It is more that you learn a bunch of tools and these in turn build intuition. For example high dimensional spheres are "pointy" and most of their volume are near their surface. These ideas can be defined rigorously and are important and useful. For medium dimension there are usually specific facts that you exploit. In my own work stuff like "How often do you expect random walks to intersect" is very important (and dependent on dimension).
I think the W3C or somebody else should make Arial and Times New Roman standard and open source.
A circle from a flat 2d manifold can be from a 3d sphere, cylinder, or other cross section.

Our mental models don't extend well beyond 3, possibly 4, dimensions, hence _all_ of our intuition starts to be doubtful after 3 dimensions.
There really should be a set of a few hundred fonts standardized by the w3c or whatwg that should come with every browser (and OS) install.

This would be like how early versions of PostScript came with about 30 standard fonts available to all PostScript printers.
Yep, right around your mid-40’s in my experience. Friends have said it started the day they woke up on their 40th birthday.
Yeah, it was kind of saddening when watching a video interview which covers the later timeframe:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42585332
Unrelated to your central point but, I suspect these types of things never really die? Where philosophy (be it social, religious or otherwise) is the driver. Al Qaeda is back on the rise in a meaningful way and it's been how long? Do we have examples from history where terrorist groups like Hamas or Al Qaeda actually fully died? Even in Japan Aum Shinrikyo converted to Aleph and I think(?) is still running. I really do pray we can one day come to a peaceful and harmonious understanding of each other, regardless of our differing perspectives, it often makes me quite sad.
I think mathematically "stiffness" is well-defined, but the interpretation varies substantially depending on the context. For example, in chemistry or plasma physics, one writes down Poisson's equation for a collection of positive and negatives charges in thermal equilibrium and linearise the Boltzmann factors. The result is called the Debye–Hückel equation and is identical to the one shown in the "with math" section.

Here the "stiffness" is interpreted as the effect of nearby charges "screening" a perturbing "bare" charge of the opposite sign. If you solve the equation you find the that effective electric field produced by the bare charge is like that of the usual point charge but with a factor exp(-r/λ). So, the effect of the "stiffness" term is reducing the range of the electric interactions to λ, which is called the Debye length. see this illustration [1].

Interestingly, if you look at EM waves propagating in this kind of system, you find some satifying the dispersion relation ω² = k²c² + ω_p² [2].
With the usual interpretation E=ℏω, p=ℏk you get E² = (pc)² + (mc²)², so in a sense the screening is resulting in "photons" gaining a mass.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Debye_screening.svg

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_electron_wave#...
Without being overly facetious, the foundations of the modern University system have a significant role to play in that; e.g. the first university in Europe was established by Arab Muslims in the year 841 in Salerno, Italy.
We essentially have a lifetime supply of LEDs because we label each one with the date and refund from Amazon when they don’t last the full warranty, which none of them do.

People assumed that LEDs would last forever because the crystals essentially do, but the encasement and all of the heat issues you have to deal with for the electronics makes that pointless.
Is x86 dead for wire powered devices?

Regardless, OSS is probably the best way to get it onto other architectures.
I have some books from my childhood still, and while I'm not really interested in reading them, my parents and others that gave them to me as gifts made sure to write a note of sorts in the cover. It's a great idea, if you give books as gifts. Make sure it's written in the book itself, not a separate (loseable) postcard or something. Add a date and the occasion.
Yeah, I have seen some pretty annoying ones (on the spaceX streams) where they really make the cheering too loud, and from these comments I expected similar, but that... Really wasn't that bad at all. Just someone being excited. C'mon guys
I agree with you 100%. I think arenas are a much lighter burden for the programmer to reason about than lifetimes & access patterns.

But arenas can have one big drawback, and that is if you do a lot of allocations and deallocations, especially in long-running routines, you can essentially leak memory, because arenas are not usually freed until they are going out of scope. This can vary depending on the language and the implementation, though.

My thought to counteract that though is you could offer a ref-counted arena just for this scenario, but I'm not sure what exactly that would look like (automatic once refs hit 0? offer a purge() function like a GC?). I haven't wrapped my head around the ergonomics yet.
You need more sensors like lidar and radar ...

Not according to Musk. This is just a minor implementation detail.

Who are you going to believe? Someone who knows that FSD is mainly a political problem or this guy?
> I suppose the patronizing attitude is the price for you sharing your wisdom with us.

Beats passive aggressiveness I suppose?

> FWIW I will also echo that webpack is very slow for me.

Judging by your description, and surely missing even more context, it sounds like individual loaders/modules are/were slow, rather than webpack itself. But since you switched webpack for rspack (with assuming, the very same loaders/modules) and it got faster, that would seem webpack being the slow part, so who knows what the core problem is/was.

Personally I haven't hit any performance issues with webpack + lots of code, but then I mainly do JavaScript and try to stay away from TypeScript, maybe this could explain the difference in experience.

In the end, we use the tools that work best, and if that happen to be Vite instead of webpack (or vice-versa) for you, then there isn't really much to discuss :)
Netsurf has no javascript but is a full CSS renderer.
the sell order flow to market makers who gobble up the other side of bad retail trades
| Does such a community really exist? Where everyone cares? Or at least a
| supermajority? Or does it need to be built?

Yeeahhhh... I'd stay as far as possible from Miami.
Huh? That is one weird take. You are entitled to unemployment insurance, because you pay into that insurance pool. You may have to fight over the grey area every so often, because life happens, but how I feel about myself have nothing to do with it.

To be frank, I am struggling to understand your perspective. Could you elaborate?
It's strange the article doesn't even mention just trying to simulate the problem computationally.

Surely it's not too difficult to repeatedly place spheres around a central sphere in 17 dimensions, maximizing how many kiss for each new sphere added, until you get a number for how many fit? And add some randomness to the choices to get a range of answers Monte Carlo-style, to then get some idea of the lower bound? [Edit: I meant upper bound, whoops.]

Obviously ideally you want to discover a mathematically regular approach if you can. But surely computation must also play a role here in narrowing down reasonable bounds for the problem?

And computation will of course be essential if the answer turns out to be chaotic for certain numbers of dimensions, if the optimal solution is just a jumble without any kind of symmetry at all.