skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But among the endless blizzard of these, this is an odd one to make your last stand for. More to the point, onto

For me it's personally not, it's mostly about how slow and bloated W11 feels. On my 9800X3D (an insanely powerful and fast chip!), explorer is slower than it was in the windows 95 days on the i386 of yore. They've converted half of everything in Windows into a web view and you can feel it, don't even get me started on the adware.

> All the examples you listed are much more significant IMO than whether the taskbar goes to the bottom or top of the screen. I imagine that MS would be less likely to remove those features.

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree here, to me the taskbar is one of the most central parts of a modern OS next to file navigation and things like the start menu. It sits on your screen, visibly and permanently, and takes up a good chunk of your screen real estate. I know for many people they prefer it vertical because otherwise they have a kilometer-wide, mostly-empty taskbar taking up ~5-10% of the bottom of their screen. For me I keep it on the top of the screen because A) It's what I'm used to since the XP days and B) I find it easier to reach for than on the bottom, because my cursor is pretty much always on the top half of the screen rather than the bottom half.

> But why isn't that the end of the issue then? The feature can be fully restored.

You could make this same argument for basically every feature though, including the ones I listed. Why not remove background images and let it be handled by some 3rd party tool as well? It's about as basic as customization can get in an OS, so it should be handled natively by the OS. Not to mention that, due to it being 3rd party, it's also prone to breaking on Windows updates, and some applications rely on the OS to handle things like where to place the application window, and having things hack around OS-imposed limits like this does lead to weird behaviors and bugs.

It shouldn't require someone download 3rd party tools for functionality this basic, especially since it's already been in there since the basically the inception of the OS. Even MacOS lets you do the vertical taskbar/Dock, and that's the epitome of closed-down customization (not that Apple doesn't have similar problems, such as requiring 3rd party tools for external mice or window tiling via Rectangle).
No. It doesn't matter, because just like with fire, with new virusses it is well known that these will happen regardless of people having bad intent.

You can't prevent someone with mental problems setting a tree on fire to smoke out the deamons in their head. It's a huge distraction and waste of energy that could be spent on the things I wrote about earlier.
I am actually willing to pay if they allow me to install multiple copies of WhatsApp on iPhone rather than Switching Account.

There is an insane amount of opportunities for Whatsapp Business that could be subscription based but Meta's product team simply have no idea, likely because they are all in US where Whatsapp isn't as prominent.
Thanks, I didn't know about this. Interesting that it seems to require fast-math.
I’d lay a bet down with good money behind it that every kid at Stanford with wealthy parents also has or had a scholarship or two.

Not sure that the presence of a scholarship, financial aid, or even a student loan necessarily proves poverty of the student’s parents.
I just checked my Samsung S21 and there's no option to disable 2G. I can choose 3G only, or if I want to use 4G/5G I need to enable 2G as well.
To be fair, I shouldn't expect anything great from insult comedy based on a user-agent string, but I have to say I'm not impressed by this word salad of "reasoning":

> Okay, let's tackle this roast based on the user's browser info. First, I need to pick the three most unusual bits. The Safari version 18.1 stands out because that's a future version not released yet. The screen resolution of 1223x772 is an odd, non-standard size. The location is $LOCATION, which isn't too common, and the referrer is empty, meaning they came directly here. Wait, the referrer is empty. That's unusual. So maybe include that they came from nowhere. Also, the Safari version is ahead of current releases. The screen resolution isn't a typical size, so that's another point. $LOCATION could be linked to the screen size, like a quirky local landmark. Need to make sure to relate location to another attribute if used. Also, roast should be three sentences, concise. Let me structure it: start with the Safari version, mention the screen resolution, tie in $LOCATION with the screen size, and the empty referrer. Make it funny and snarky.

And the result is... well, what you'd expect given that reasoning:

> Safari 18.1? Nice try, time traveler—Apple hasn’t even heard of that version yet, but enjoy your 1223x772 screen resolution, the exact dimensions of $LOCATION's least impressive corn maze. You arrived here directly like a cryptid emerging from the woods, which tracks, because only a mythical creature would still run Mac OS 10.15.7.
My company brought on consultants. They were having us do the absolute strangest things. Pointless meetings. Duplicating infrastructure. Documenting processes so deeply entrenched in what we did they'd never be forgotten. Then they hired another small team that did basically the same things we did on a much smaller scale.

Then my department got sold to another company, and it all made sense.

Looking back it's pretty obvious that they were bifurcating while duplicating important infrastructure. At the time going through it though I just thought the consultants were total morons, not understanding the business and that we'd be doing twice the work by having two of everything.

They sold it to us while it was happening that we were the domestic team and they were the "global" team, and we bought it as a concept, but we all thought it was a stupid distraction. We were absolutely certain we'd be merging our departments within a couple years.

Finding out that they had been actively lying to us about what was going on for almost a year really... Changed how I thought about companies. They had been lying to my face every single day for a very long time, that really violated my trust.
Google is silently catching up fast with Gemini. They're also pursuing next gen architectures like Titan. But most importantly, the frontier of AI capabilities is shifting towards using RL at inference (thinking) time to perform tasks. Who has more data than Google there? They have a gargantuan database of queries paired with subsequent web nav, actions, follow up queries etc. Nobody can recreate this, Bing failed to get enough marketshare. Also, when you think of RL talent, which company comes to mind? I think Google has everyone checkmated already.
This is exactly what has changed [1]: R&D costs had been an immediate tax break, but since 2022 became an expenditure requiring a 5-year amortization period.

That change had been planned to be canceled before coming into force, but it was not canceled on time.

Hence the wave of layoffs in 2022, as companies were urgently trying to improve their balance sheets, as investors and the Wall Street requested, AFAICT.

[1]: https://www.corumgroup.com/insights/major-tax-changes-us-sof...
Mmorpg still online since 1997 launches its cryptocurrency
This sounds great. In a sea of paid ad placements and algo-recommended content, it’s hard to “surf the web” like I did in the early 2000s. It was a challenge to sit on googles homepage and think to myself “Hmm, what do I want to look up today?”. It required forethought of what I wanted to be served for content, and I always received proper content back to me after a search.

Anything that gets me closer to that original intention requirement before getting served content is a must-have in my books! Sign me up!
Full quote:

> Granted, Monte had unusually legible handwriting, but even “easy” early modern paleography like this is still the sort of thing that requires days or weeks of training to get the hang of.

He isn't talking about weeks of training to learn to use OCR software, he means weeks of training to learn to read that handwriting without any assistance from software at all.
> I can’t think of one scenario where someone would be willing to take a large paper check in 2025.

You can't think very hard then?

> You would actually accept a paper check from someone over $10K?

yes. i have and will continue to do so. what, i'm going to say no to receiving money? after depositing that check, only a fraction of it was available the next day, with the remaining becoming available 3 or 4 days later.
I am confused, how is this number calculated?

Because the authors mentioned package, Helmet[1], is 103KB uncompressed and has had 132 versions in 13 years. Meaning downloading every Helmet version uncompressed would result in 132*103KB = 13.7MB.

I feel like I must be missing something really obvious.

Edit: Oh it's 2GB/year across all installations.

[1]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/helmet?activeTab=versions
That's missing the point of the article, but it's also not true, at least not at the time of C89. This can be easily verified by a Google search. As an aside, Ada also had multi-threading support before C89 was released, but this article is about SIMD, not multi-threading.
The spaceport is at the tip of Scotland on an island. That's got to be one helluva commute to transport the rocket parts up there (the article mentions they're manufactured in Germany and assembled on-site).
Putting Microsoft completely apart, what make you think that there is strong correlation between survival span and the amount of disaster that some human organization can engender?
It’s not illegal for a celebrity to launch a meme coin or collectible. It’s not as clear if the President and his direct family can do the same.

Anti-bribery/corruption is the concern with the coins (just as it was with his hotels in the first administration). Not the legality of the coin.

But it’s moot, this admin has decided that norms don’t constrain it and it will not allow investigations into itself. So it’s de facto legal.
I don't think we could comment on HN if that was not the case.
In the US I have heard it referred to as "bailing wire". Often used for an emergency or temporary fix.
my favorite quote from the article is from Lina Khan:

"we don’t need to protect our monopolies from innovation—we need to protect innovation from our monopolies. We need to choose competition over national champions"
1. Will you survive to see a new manager if you don't work on the weekend? Without that, under the given scenario you are either:

- Forcing yourself to work on Monday. Burnout ensues. Will you be able to continue while burnt out?

- Skipping Monday too, seeing you only work four days a week. Will you be able to continue under performance expectations?

2. Do you really need to worry about this hypothetical future? If the bad manager shows up, are you going to stick around even if working hours remain the same? He is still going to express his badness in many other ways. He wouldn't be bad otherwise.
This https://youtu.be/-ht7nOaIkpI?si=avIcOa76alLdbAqo ?
Another happy Purelymail customer here (5 years).

if anyone needs to move mail storage from one IMAP server to another (eg; Purelymail) I can highly recommend https://imapsync.lamiral.info/

Not for it's website graphic design, but as a CLI tool that works perfectly. "source server -->> target server" and let it run
Don’t forget I was replying to a person who is using Office 2003 and not paying as they probably paid their once 20 years ago for license and also don’t have any new features.
I've been a consultant/contractor, less than 4 months in, and I still have been invited to (great) Christmas party, and even shared paid buses that took whole company and also given free accommodation.

Human decency is human decency, nothing more to that.
It does. They have 256 experts per MLP layer, and some shared ones. The minimal deployment for decoding (aka. token generation) they recommend is 320 GPUs (H800). It is all in the DeepSeek v3 paper that everyone should read rather than speculating.
The market is panicking, but for everyone who’s a customer/reseller of AI tools this should be a boon.

If LLMs are truly useful then this just made them far more accessible and able to create far more value. The market had been pricing in insanely expensive AI that was going to bleed everyone dry.
when you observe management wasting absurd amounts of money

Working in corporate America has caused me to view layoffs as proof of managerial incompetence. I understand that the market doesn't see it that way, but that's the conclusion I've come to.
Rebooting the Rust CUDA Project
Of course. I often thank them publicly for their assistance when i ask(ed) for their help. When i started praising my colleagues i noticed two different changes.

I myself became more friendly and more sociable around my colleagues. Giving compliments feels nice. The other was that colleagues indeed became more friendly and respectful both towards me and each other. Meetings became more friendly. Getting help was easier.
Just want to say, I love the design of your website!
> which require low-latency responses, such as content moderation, fraud detection, dynamic pricing, etc.

Is it even legal to give different prices to different customers?
spoken like a person with other people in their lives that they care about. You seem good to work for. Thanks.
Launching from that high of a latitude feels like it could be a problem. Basically only the polar orbits will be available.
Right, but the compiler in general has no way to know that pointers are from different allocations - especially several function calls away from the allocations, with some pointer arithmetic in between.
This is for English content only, right? I'm trying with some specifically French queries and it only gives me (relevant, but) English results.
Not good to start an article with "J.K. Rowling".
Actually, this is sometimes done exactly as you describe. See "AMD Anti-Lag" or "Nvidia Ultra Low Latency"/"Nvidia Reflex Low Latency".
You seem confused by my frustration with tools towing the company line rather than providing reliable investment advice.

Personally, I prefer retaining the option to sue people that pull stunts. But to each their own... =3
I live in a small place that I rent so I don't have so much space for the system, but if you have the space for it I would say it's worth it! I would also love to have RO for my shower but I haven't found a solution for that.
I respectfully disagree. Parent comment is hardly over-indexing; it's a big factor. The world may be big but the communities are small.
Sure it can. Things happen in the world.

Nonetheless I do think all the American tech titans acting like they're hot shit because they can shovel billions of dollars into a fire faster than everyone else look like the overpaid, mid-wit clowns most of them are.
See:

https://xometry.pro/en-eu/articles/3d-printing-strong-parts/
Thanks! It's built with Chakra UI[1] so I can't take full credit for it.

EDIT: Oh, I just realized you might be referring to my blog, in which case I _can_ take credit for that :P. Thanks again!

[1]: https://www.chakra-ui.com/
You have missed the point of his article. These things keep getting written, by smart people, BECAUSE other smart people like you are not getting that point.

Obviously, people can still produce art. What he’s talking about is the corrosion of the fabric of culture that will serve to discourage and coopt the art-making impulse. It’s like this: When I was working on the last chapters of my book, I spent a few weeks in a cabin with no internet. Why? Certainly, the mere presence of internet wasn’t interfering with my keyboard, right? Right. But part of my brain wanted to surf and play games online, and it was dragging the rest of my brain with it.

“Art” is a cultural dynamic, not just a matter of production. It is being colonized by people who use the word and don’t care about art. And some people who might have become great artists will now become frustrated consumers and nothing more— their energies dissipated.

I don’t know how big this problem really is. But that’s his concern. At least engage with it instead of implying that this Stanford professor is a moron who doesn’t understand how computers work.
> You cannot write an algorithm on scalar, and now pass arrays instead.

It is limited to cases where you know all overloads beforehand and limited because of C’s weak type system (can’t have an overload for arrays of int and one for pointers to int, for example), but you can. https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/generic:

#include <math.h>
#include <stdio.h>

// Possible implementation of the tgmath.h macro cbrt
#define cbrt(X) _Generic((X), \
long double: cbrtl, \
default: cbrt, \
float: cbrtf \
)(X)

int main(void)
{
double x = 8.0;
const float y = 3.375;
printf("cbrt(8.0) = %f\n", cbrt(x)); // selects the default cbrt
printf("cbrtf(3.375) = %f\n", cbrt(y)); // converts const float to float,
// then selects cbrtf
}

It also, IMO, is a bit ugly, but that fits in nice with the rest of C, as seen through modern eyes.

There also is a drawback for lots of cases that you cannot overload operators. Implementing vector addition as ‘+’ isn’t possible, for example.

Many compilers partially support that as a language extension, though, see for example https://clang.llvm.org/docs/LanguageExtensions.html#vectors-....
Anger can be a strong motivator. It's a double-edged sword, you don't want to sustain it.
This is an excellent point and goal.

I've always thought that one of the better things we could do is to make programming not specialized; e.g. Excel-as-a-programming-language has arguably done more to bring programming to the masses than any other "real" language, and perhaps THAT's the goal.
I always feel like Tiger was the pinnacle of the Stevesie era
No mention of Boom's year after year after year of missed deadlines, in getting their 1/3-scale demonstrator off the ground.

The article's premise of their full-scale version being in regular commercial service in 2029 should be regarded with appropriate skepticism.

Especially if you read about its current state of development - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boom_Overture
You might be interested in e18e if you would like to see that change: https://e18e.dev/

They’ve done a lot of great work already.
Renter/homeowner insurance rarely cover precious metals unless they are in their highest premium ( read worst as store of value ) forms as jewelry or kitchenware. A vault with stronger property rights than US and insurance is probably better than your house (Singapore insured PM vault maybe) but not as good as a hole in the ground somewhere where metal detectors get a lot of false positives somewhere remote with no attachment to your identity.
Brotli and lzo1b have good compression ratios and pretty fast decompression speeds. Compression speed should not matter that much, since you only do it once.

https://quixdb.github.io/squash-benchmark/

There even more obscure options:

https://www.mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html
This is a fair point. Turns out dragging anchors are a lot more common than I expected. I guess what matters is whether these cable breaks in the Baltic are statistically significant.
It would be my pleasure :-)

Zapworks Designer - it's our no-code tool focussing on AR+VR. It's targeted at folks without scripting experience and is very much 'drag and drop'. Our customers typically use this for bringing simpler interactive content to, e.g. menus, posters and also for Learning & Development.

Mattercraft - this is our complete 3D development environment for the web. We took everything we'd learned from Studio and built MC from the ground up embracing the web ecosystem. It has a fully featured animation system, scripting, built-in bundler, live preview, collaborative editing - the works :-) Our customers use this for building high end campaigns and content for consumers.

Zapworks Studio - this is our previous generation of creative tooling. It was originally built to target native platforms but we ported its runtime to the web. Mattercraft is the 'spiritual successor' to this tool.
I'd rephrase this to: don't be loyal to work but be loyal to your coworkers. Be the person everyone wants to work with.
Hello everyone! I recently launched a mobile game called Tic! and it has no visuals or sound of any kind.
So the obvious question is.. how do you play it?

The game uses your phone’s Haptics in order to play a rhythm of “Tics” (haptic vibrations). The user then has to try and recreate the timing of the rhythm they just felt by tapping it anywhere on the screen. It sounds easy, but getting the timing right is tricky, and so it usually takes a couple tries before your able to get it right.

The inspiration for the game came from wanting something to do in a really boring presentation. It would have been disrespectful to look at my phone, but I also needed a distraction. I typically hold my phone in these kinds of scenarios, and fiddle with the case, when it occurred to me: what if there was a game I could play just holding the phone anywhere (under a desk, in my pocket, to the side, etc.). 48 hours later Tic! was born :)

I would love your feedback on it. The game is paid, but if someone would like a promo code to try it please let me know below.
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rohans.tic...
iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6720712299

(I made a similar post about the game a while back, but at that time I had only made the iOS version. Now, I have brought the game to Android as well! Thanks to everyone for their support!)
Update: a1=-1 is a bad choice of test value (0 is much better), as it won't show the issue if present! However, it doesn't change the outcome of the test on 060, but I would have noticed that 020 is affected as well (as also mentioned in the comments to the article).
I like zig, but no, what it provides pales in comparison to what intrinsics offer.
> While Google should have all the data in the world to build the best models

They do have the best models. Two models made by Google share the first place on Chatbot Arena.

[1] https://lmarena.ai/?leaderboard
So I guess it depends on your definition of "viable"
Ask HN: Building a PC for AI Tasks
I used to build PC 15 years ago for game. After having kids, I switched to a console to save time fiddling with endless Windows updates.

I wanted to get back to that hobby again. This time, it's less about gaming but more on running AI tasks such as LLM and diffusion.

Do you have any recommendations for me to get started?
Yes, that is why restrict was introduced.
Yeah, and companies pushing that angle are losing top employees because of it.

Because it's stupid.

Kissing ass and doing good work are two entirely different activities.
Anytime I hear somebody say bots/shills all imagine is the author being extremely butt hurt that their precious thing is not also everyone's favorite.
FWIW, the set of procedural languages in postgres is runtime extensible: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-createlanguage.h...
Yeah I was thinking it was extremely well written. I want to be on their side after reading it, but I've encountered enough individuals that are completely different people online than how they are in real life. Especially in the way they communicate and how they speak.

All that being said, I would not be able to take the OP's side until I heard the interviewers side of the story as well.
I just mean the format and topics. When I use o1, it's great for things like calculating square mile comparisons based on your uploaded map of tribes or translating script like the OP's example, but as far as history itself goes, like drawing inferences and making sense of primary sources-- not so much. Ask a question about anything in-depth and it feels like you're interacting with Buzzfeed and not Gibbon.
Agree, I strongly dislike the staged, hostage photos. Almost no one looks like they are having fun.