skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Under the revised proposal, the U.S. government could own up to half of the new structure once it IPOs at least $300 billion, according to the source."

Does anybody want the USG running and owning a social media company?

Are we going to nationalize any other industries? Isn't that Communism?
Last I checked npm packages were full of garbage including non-source code. There's no reason for node_modules to be as big as it usually is, text compresses extremely well. It's just general sloppiness endemic to the JavaScript ecosystem.
Dumb question: does modern stack layout randomization affect the efficiency of recursion? On first glance I would be worried about cache misses.
Seems strange that's the only photo. They never made test flights in pairs to monitor each other? And during these tests they didn't take any photos?
How to Prove False Statements: Practical Attacks on Fiat-Shamir
The easy solution is to just not load external scripts. Done.
Not really. Pointers from different allocations are guaranteed to never alias. If they do, it is UB.
Yes! I’ve dabbled in digital electronics and never managed to form an intuitive understanding on ‘impedance’ in signal wires despite reading quite a few ‘basics’ texts about it. I’d ended up accepting that I wouldn’t really understand its basis without learning a lot more about analog electronics, but this explanation really worked for me.
People in a few decades may have too much microplastics in their brain for such thoughts
By who? They say there doesn't exist a database tracking things like this:

>“This incident, along with previous NEOCP postings of the WMAP spacecraft, highlights the deplorable state of availability of positional information on distant artificial objects,” the MPC fumed when it retracted 2007 VN84. “A single source for information on all distant artificial objects would be very desirable.”
In South Africa the "big" (historically incumbent) banks were indeed disrupted by a "startup" bank relatively recently (in the last 20 years) - and this startup bank went on to in turn become one of the big banks.

There is an excellent book called "Stalking Giants" [1] that covers this story nicely. It's a fun read (especially for South Africans) and was published recently.

[1] https://www.amazon.co.za/Capitec-Stalking-Giants-T-J-Strydom...
That is the problem with presentations of all sides - doesn't matter if it is power point, a blog post, a NYC article, government report, a documentary, or something else. Whoever writes it gets to choose what arguments and facts to bring out. However listens to it is generally primed to think it is correct and not ask hard questions - often they don't even know what the hard questions would be. And so garbage gets approved all the time because it looks good.
We are apparently going through a "year of efficiency" and most of us know what it means. After "more with less" round come layoffs so one might as well do some basic prep work, dust off resume, reach out to your support network.. just saying.
I'm genuinely surprised no one has mentioned mxroute[1]. Thier pricing normally is pretty decent, but they keep the BF deals going pretty much all year [2].

I've been using them for 6 years with no issues. I use it now with all my domains and never have any deliverability issues.

The owner (Jar - one person shop again) is passionate about their email reputation for deliverability and is active on both lowendtalk and the dedicated sub Reddit.

I ended up comparing purleymail and mxroute - tested mxroute and stayed with them.

[1] https://mxroute.com/
[2] https://mxroute.blackfriday/
Most of the people in charge of making these kinds of decisions are not that smart.
Show HN: I made a speech generator for all occasions
Hey everyone,

I am releasing ReadyMadeSpeech https://readymadespeech.com/, a speech generator, that will generate a speech for every occasion in just a few minutes.

There are 600K searches related to wedding speeches and vows in English-speaking countries. Other verticals where I plan to offer speech generation include memorial speeches (170K searches) and special occasion speeches (150K searches). So, I believe it can be useful for many people.

To bring this to the market, I had to deal with the hard part: learning how to code. I knew some basic PHP in the 2000s, so I wasn’t starting from scratch, but there was a lot of catching up to do.

I am proud that I was able to finish and publish this project after many doubts and problems to overcome. Thanks for the feedback and support!
Physics Rediscovered #6: My trebuchet is bigger than yours
31 Laws of Fun (2009)
Creative Scala
This is not "just fine" in my book: https://lobste.rs/s/oxtwre/hard_numbers_wayland_vs_x11_input...
There is admittedly a difference between staff augmentation and McKinsey style strategic “consulting”. The distinction is usually who owns the project?

If the client company owns the project and you are just coming in as a warm body, that’s staff augmentation.

But if the client company is putting out Requests for Comments to different companies and they sign a Statement of Work and your consulting company comes in and does the work, that’s “consulting”. In the latter case, you don’t usually get let go as soon as there is no work for you - ie when you are “on the bench”.

Even if you are a more junior employee at the latter company where you are more hands on keyboard than flying out to meet customers and sometimes you might even be doing staff augmentation for the client, it still feels differently.

My consulting company has internal employee events, is responsible for my pay, performance, etc - not the client.
I suppose you'd use __old__ vessels for this purpose. Ones you'd bring to the ship-scrapyard anyway.
In my experience, the consultants likely recommend the layoffs, probably even helping select who to let go.

If they cut more than five $40k employees, they've made their $200k back.
Don't take this as a touche, but are you suggesting that full compliance is the rule and that the vast majority completes the course as prescribed?

Again, this isn't some passive aggressive challenge. But I will be genuinely surprised to see this is indeed the case, which very well may be. I certainly know people who'd follow the course with perfection, and some who absolutely wouldn't.
Give Wayland a bit more time and it will also ossify to the point where it becomes unviable to create competing implementations. Most of the smaller compositors are already there.
> It doesn't work when you're required to submit MS Office documents to people who pay you.

Microsoft office supports ODT these days... you can tell them to "just open it in Office" and it will work.

Also, the LibreOffice DOCX export filter is pretty good. Not perfect, but then, if you need that perfection, why not submit a PDF?

---

And finally: To help LibreOffice (and its filters) improve, we need to contribute either money or development time: www.libreoffice.org/donate
HuggingFace/open-r1: open reproduction of DeepSeek-R1
This guy was awesome! He innovated ways to solve DEs with Laplace operator for inputs with discontinuities eg, what is now called, the Dirac delta function. Years before the math for generalized functions was developed by mathematicians. When asked about the theory behind the method he happily announced that he doesn’t k ow but that it just worked!
What accountability does Elon Reeve Musk, richest grifter on the planet and CEO of half a dozen companies ever face?
An AI can be turned off and replaced at any time.
That’s a strange idea. I am depriving businesses of sales worth millions every day. Just this morning, I did not buy a single sports car.
It does make me wonder how many strokes or aneurysms in otherwise healthy people can be attributed to plastics. We don't have the data for that but maybe random aneurysms aren't so random after all?
Show HN: Effortless Chart Creation for Figma Designs
I built a chart creation tool for Figma because I wasn’t happy with the existing options. As a UX designer who codes, I wanted something simple yet powerful. With this tool, you can easily create and customize charts, copy them, and paste them directly into Figma—keeping everything editable. The charts are Recharts-compatible, so if you use recharts in your project you can be sure they can be replicated. I'd love your feedback! Try it out and let me know what you think.
Funny seing as X.Org is still being maintained and still works to this day.
> The trickery starts when dragging windows or icons around

Cool. Never really thought about why they don't exactly keep up with the cursor.
I'm not sure I'd describe Helm as "less complexity" than Terraform. HCL is much easier to read, write and template than YAML. Helm also cannot tell you exactly what changed/will change (tf plan). It also cannot use dynamic data (e.g. check how many availability zones there are in the region and use that for the number of Pods).
I remember reading about the first cable that was laid across the Atlantic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_telegraph_cable

They didn't know much about transmission line theory, and even burned out the cable at one point. Heaviside was only about 8 years old when the first cable was laid down.
Hey, you can assert cops are the real criminals all you want - but one of them is thrown in jail, and the other (typically) isn’t.
This. I've began to roll out prometheus counters to some of our internal services to have some visibility on them.
There is nothing fancy about our Prometheus config, its the absolute bare minimum required running in a docker container (One of 3 docker containers in the entire business) on the same box as the Grafana panel.

Its not going to win any awards but it works well enough for our needs, while requiring 0 maintenance whatsoever.
In C++ there is the align_alloc specificier. https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/memory/aligned_alloc

Not sure for C
HuggingFace open reproduction of R1 data and training pipeline
Totally agree with you. I wish npm did a better job of filtering the crap files out of packages.
The ocean teems with networks of interconnected bacteria
What explains the "ambition gap" among Africa's (ruling) elites?
That's not actually so straightforward. You pay the 10-100x slowdown once on the compressing side, to save 4-5% on every download - which for a popular package one would expect downloads to be in the millions.
Bad bot. Go get a proper account and upgrade your ChatGPT membership.
It's a common misconception that they don't care about legitimacy. I believe this is what is delaying any negotiations to end the conflict. Just as ridiculous is the story of the conquest, the one my teachers used to scare me with in school, and my parents their teachers, and probably my grandparents their teachers too.
Tired of being constantly nudged toward "more relevant content", I built a script to break free from commercial or closed-source podcast apps. I just wanted a tool that quietly grabs my favorite shows—no fuss, no tracking, no extras. Read this link to learn more; it's free/libre software under GPLv3.
> picked up a few low hanging projects

In what industry does a new hire just not have someone telling them what to do?
> a pretty recent state of affairs. A quarter century at most

When I started programming in 1980 there wasn't even a hint that anyone used anything other than English. The first non-English thing I saw was a message from a Prolog compiler (in perhaps 1983) telling me that I had an "erreur syntactique", IIRC.

More significantly, from 1988 to 1991 I worked on a EU Esprit research project, with Dutch, Italian and French partners. They all coded exclusively in English, even the French partners.

YMMV.
I agree. The surface of the moon is 4E7KM^2. Assuming you paint only one side it's slightly bigger than the surface of Russia.

It's silly to paint near the border of the visible side because the surface is almost tangent to the line of sight. It's better to paint the central part and keep the border white. (It's also better if you want contrast with the background or your logo has a withe circle around it.)

Anyway, painting only the central half of the visible surface, it's 1E7Km^2 that's slightly larger than the surface of Canada=China=USA.
I don't think entire GPU is specialised nor a singular token will use the same expert. I think about it as a gather-scatter operation at each layer.

Let's say you have an inference batch of 128 chats, at layer `i` you take the hidden states, compute their routing, scatter them along with the KV for those layers among GPUs (each one handling different experts), the attention and FF happens on these GPUs (as model params are there) and they get gathered again.

You might be able to avoid the gather by performing the routing on each of the GPUs, but I'm generally guessing here.
State health agencies exist, yes.

Coordinating between them is the CDC's job. Having them all individually coordinate with everyone else would be wasteful and silly.
I only started using MS cloud stuff last year. This whole Onedrive/SharePoint split confuses the hell out of me.

I don't really know what SharePoint is. It seems like kind of an online site builder/file sharing platform? I'm not sure why those would go together. In any case, I get the impression it's kind of deprecated and Onedrive seems much easier to understand.
This appears to be a whole new approach to AI, requiring far less power. That's the sell and why this could potentially be so disruptive. But if it's open source, then doesn't that mean anybody can see how they did it and adjust their solution accordingly? Or is it the case that since it's been open-sourced Big Tech is at risk of being able to monopolize their AI developments? The payoff may not be as big as once believed?
Since it's backwards compatible, individual maintainers could enable it in their own pipeline if they don't have issues with the slowdown. It sounds like it could be a single flag in the publish command.
Wolfi, the Linux undistro for secure container images
Indeed,though it is a popular way that a lot of discussions around US regulation of monopolies seem to derail
Come to think of it, this is what our management seems to be trying to do now. If true, that is mildly amusing given that we just managed to avoid major pain resulting from all those helping hands.
>It is completely unsafe because there's no rhyme or reason to its demand, people just following whichever way the crowd goes, in whichever direction, and variously hoping it continues or reverses.

How is this any different to any other security? There's speculation in all markets.
> If somebody hasn't been following this, it's one person's passion project, and it doesn't aim to compete with Google/Bing/DDG.

That is correct.

But I used[1] to find that in certain niches (Linux and open source software, history) I'd often get significantly better results with Marginalia than with Google or DDG.

This seems to be related both to

- the input stupidifier that seems to be in use with mainstream search engines (if I search for anything unusual it assumes I misspelled or mis-remembered and replace my search with something I didn't search for before sending it to the backend)

- and mainstream engines going out of their way to prefer corporate media over original, authorative content

> It's more of a way to find interesting things on the "small web".

Yes, he keeps saying that, but it was[2] still not just interesting but useful for me.

[1][2]: past tense because I switched to Kagi almost 3 years ago and now I don't have to maintain all the hacks (like separate search engines for separate niche topics) that I used to have. Full disclaimer: I know certain other people frequently want to contest this, saying they get great results with Google or bad results with Kagi, to which all I have to say is I have documented history of Google consistently failing even simple queries going more than a decade back and if Google works for you, more power to you, but it hasn't work reliably for me for over a decade and I am fed up.
It is not always perfectly matched, because the mismatches can actually have a "computational" purpose, but e.g. the typical branching pattern of dendrites is pretty close to being matched . There is a chapter on this in the Dayan and Abbot textbook.
I forgot that pensions are still a thing in some places.

But when you calculate the the present value of the pension (ie discounted future cash flows), is the difference between staying and going and making more money elsewhere worth it? (serious question, not trying to be combative)
>Microsoft is halfway through its 2026 fiscal year. It's almost like someone was given instructions at the end of the calendar year to bump up that revenue line for the Office Consumer division.

2026?
We didn't. The experts did.
That statement is, at best, misleading.

The vast majority of what the US government has tried to ban was export of cryptography tools. However, as your own link makes clear, they stopped doing that in 2000.

Furthermore, what was restricted was not "open source cryptography"; it was cryptography that they could not break. The only way that open source comes into it is that that is what made it abundantly clear that the cat was out of the bag and there was no going back.

Hm. Kind of like this situation.
Reason I suggest AI is more related to him as a Technology enthusiast who has had enough money to have private technology available to him to experiment with.
Just for completions sake, IVPN takes cash too

https://www.ivpn.net/en/pricing/
Looks cool!

Did not really manage to get very far yet, but maybe I will revisit later. I was very confused by frequently going to that landing page, which is still WIP, but I guess it will make more sense to me if I spend some more time.
In general I was missing a bit of intro, but I assume that is part of the experience
Datascript is very similar to Datomic, except that it runs in ClojureScript and is an in-memory datastore with no concept of history or point-in-time queries. The schemas are also much looser than Datomic.

Otherwise, many syntax and semantics are similar.

No dependency on Datomic as Datomic is Java and DataScript is JavaScript.
These leave-on-the-day layoffs are really strange to me. Unless there was a bankruptcy or something, I'd most likely be convinced by management to stay my entire period of notice (3 months) because the company would need to PAY me 100% my salary for that period anyway. If they thought I was a risk to keep around, or they had no work for me at all, then they could just give me paid leave for 3 months. But more likely I'd be doing handovers and documentation and whatnot for the 3 months. But like, closing down accounts immediately? Do companies really think any laid off employee is an immediate security risk to the extent they need to lock them out as soon as they lay them off?
The Meta Rayban glasses have "bone induction headphones", but no screen; so it should be doable
I think my Polestar 2 does this too. If I haven't driven it recently, I can hear the brakes cleaning the rust off the disks the first time I brake. After that, I think it's using regen most of the time.
You stated that there aren't many profitable lifestyle companies. And the insinuation put forth is that they are very rare to the point of almost nonexistent.

This comes off as rather reductionist and absolute to me; tech is a massive industry, do you know every sector within and adjacent to tech to have reached this conclusion?
I see. But then that wrapper is actually semantic and thus is eligible for the appropriate element.
> Dirac delta function

and the Heaviside Step function looks like Heaviside's head lol.
A mix of capitalism, socialism and communism is the key, they complement and balance each other

Trying to ostracize one model to favor the other is the recipe for a collapse

Perhaps that's what the USA is, a disposable Empire
Is there a viable way to actually avoid microplastics?
This is killing my DeepSeek My User Agent article. Only like 3 minutes out of the last 30 had any successful requests and it has been that way for some time. I suppose they are prioritizing the new iOS app and chat over API users.
There is one other thing you can sometimes pull off: tell your boss you could work for a different division. Often (but not always, perhaps not even the majority of times) when layoffs happen there are also moves to a different division that is hiring people. So you want to make sure you are on the list of people to recommend to the other division. (this sometimes means getting skills the other wants before the layoffs)
Even into the early 90s a lot of codebases had their comments in other languages. Less common for variable/class names to be in other languages, but there is a reason that Java et al adopted unicode identifiers in the 90's (albeit with fairly little uptake).
256F ╯ Box Drawings Light Arc Up And Left

https://www.unicode.org/charts/nameslist/n_2500.html
This theory feels like it’s making tons of assumptions and leans heavily on semantics.

In a factory you have many components operating near or at capacity. In a high growth environment you want all of your components working at capacity to explore the problem space and optimize.
This may not be that much of a moat, as Trump seems committed to turning US current allies into former allies.
User agent strings are fundamentally a hack though. They all identify themselves as Mozilla!
I am honestly confused by how much people are willing to sacrifice for the false sense of security of a big company job. Folks seem to see employment as something akin to marriage, while I'm completely unable to see it as anything other than a transaction.
I think a fundamental reason is that some people build their identity around the only community they are a part of -- their job.

Like, book clubs, political parties, community centres, sport associations etc used to be the place for that. And work was also a place for that. My parent generation worked at like 3 different employees in their whole career.
A lot of family lived in Howard Beach, NYC just off the edge of JFK right under the flight path for the main runway. I have distinct memories of being in my grandmothers yard and hearing the Concords piercing roar as they passed for landing. I also remember being at a block party further south directly under the flight path and it was so horrifically loud I had to cover my ears from the ringing pain. They were absurdly loud vs the standard passenger jets. When the Concord was finally retired there were parties thrown all over that neighborhood. I lived not much further north and could hear them distinctly from my house as well but they were not disruptive. My uncle still lives in HB and the aircraft of today are much quieter and even my uncle recognizes that fact and appreciates it.
Yeah I recently spun up a rails project
Complexity: The Factor at the Heart of Poor Customer Experience
This came up at pretty much the perfect time for me to try out.

I started learning OpenSCAD over the weekend to try out an idea to 3d print a 70" dome to make my own Star Wars Battlepod after seeing that video on making the replica Space War cabinet.

One guy got an acrylic forming shop to make him one about 10 years ago for $700, but I was calculating in how much it would cost to 3d print and stich a dome screen together. My test sample that I started used a sort of ribbed dome that I was trying to figure out how to split the file and bolt it together - https://www.reddit.com/r/openscad/comments/1i922ed/trying_to...

I started playing around with thickness because at 1/2 inch, it was looking like about $200 in filament. But if I can reduce the thickness because of having the jigsaw edging to make it easier to align, it might get cheaper.

Currently tried running this in Windows and it isn't happy. I'll make a Linux VM and give it a go again.

>>WARNING: Too many unnamed arguments supplied in file in.scad, line 6
Geometries in cache: 20
Geometry cache size in bytes: 3802608
CGAL Polyhedrons in cache: 182
CGAL cache size in bytes: 0
Total rendering time: 0:00:01.063
Top level object is a 3D object (manifold):
Status: NoError
Genus: 1
Vertices: 39078
Facets: 78156
Num. beds: 0