skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Never hear of that person before, but before listening to anyone, I like to go through their material to see if they at least give the impression of a balanced and impartial person.

> The company made popular by making modular laptops now makes a desktop with soldered-on RAM. Bonus: They appear to support targeting children with Trans cartoons.

https://lunduke.substack.com/p/framework-unveils-2000-non-up...

> Leftist Extremists Leave Linux Kernel, Demand Conservatives Be Banned

> Leftist Linux developers demand those with wrong politics "be removed". "Right-wing people are not welcomed," says one. "You can [CENSORED] right off from my projects," the other.

https://lunduke.substack.com/p/leftist-extremists-leave-linu...

In this case, it seems they are neither balanced nor impartial, so beware people who chose to engage with that. It seems Lunduke is yet another culture-warrior masquerading like "The last bastion of truly independent Tech Journalism". I'm sure they get lots of traffic from it, but it's not really a reliable source for facts.
I've often heard embedded is a nightmare of slapdashery. Any tips for finding shops that do it right?
That's what I meant by literalism.
The only host that is centric is Scott Jennings. The other hosts are clearly far left.
Fiber. People used to go to the doctor a lot for digestive issues. "An apple a day" and all that.
Antidepressant use among teen girls and young women has skyrocketed (2024)
>In sharp contrast to female adolescents, the monthly antidepressant dispensing rate among male adolescents declined abruptly during March 2020 and did not recover afterward.

Full study: https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/153/3/e20230...
the US forest services has a budget of 9 BILLION dollars a year. in 2023 less than a billion of that was salaries. if they're understaffed it's entirely a management problem, not a funding problem. especially because in 2024 they got a $500 million increase to this, bringing it to $1.4 billion, nearly the entirety of which was justified under hiring firefighters.

the US forest services also maintains forests in over 80 countries. why are we spending money there? i don't understand why they don't focus on keeping their employees if its such a devastating loss of goodwill and loyalty and expertise.

their 10% reduction in workforce saved them 1.5% of their total budget. they really can't save 1.5% somewhere else?
> Electing an administration that is actively hostile to our government and sovereignty means you are no longer reliable as an ally.

This is total nonsense, nobody thinks they can annex Canada…
> You may not use any of Mozilla’s services to: Do anything illegal or otherwise violate applicable law,

No civil disobedience. Bad Mozilla! Bad, bad Mozilla!
This would be a really cool category of speed-running. "How fast can a model beat a game that it's never played before?"

First get the model to beat a game, then work on better decision-making, then try to speed up the decision-making. Then repeat when better models come out.
> BP faces 'existential crisis'

First world problems ... /s
This is the one I use too. I like how many variants it has as well.
Could this be of consequence to, say, a treasure hunting operation? Perhaps in the North Atlantic?
If you're focused on stuff like this you're just playing in a office politics space rather than doing anything productive.
Would you consider Germany's CDU/CSU to be close to the republicans in the US? I pegged them more as being Democrat's equivalents. Macron is also more of a US democrat then a republican.

Is an odd fit I would have him with Labour. In canada he would lead the NDP.
There's more information here: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/feb/27/gene-hackman-ca...
We've seen that suppliers do a ton of bidding and cost estimation, and are keen to be accurate (estimate too high and they lose to competitors). GCs and suppliers don't want to be too low because that potentially costs them tens of thousands of dollars.
Or, you know, when eating at home. Breakfast is the meal I'm least likely to eat out for, and I don't think I'm alone.
the average forest service salary is over $100k. salaries are barely 15% of their total budget. if they're overworked and underpaid then it's a management issue, not a funding issue.
I don't think this has been true, at least for most newspapers, for many years now. The NYTimes opinion pages are a complete echo chamber for instance, and if contrarian opinions are published, heads roll. For instance they "retired" their opinion head after he allowed the publication of an opinion piece from a Senator Tom Cotton suggesting that troops should be used to quell the violent/destructive riots in 2020.

Reading the opinion pages 30 years back everything was very different, but times have changed to where big name papers are mostly just the news shoehorned into a tidy bias confirming package. In many ways I respect what Bezos is doing because it entirely drops the farcical pretext of balance.
Why OpenAI Models Struggle with PDF Extraction(and Why Gemini Fairs Much Better)
I mean it depends what one use Vim or their editor of choice for.
For example I do think that efficiency gains when for example developing in Java are marginal if there at all.
Or for people who do not hate the mouse, or people who can't touch type and probably many more examples.
Also with how integrated vscode is these days, it is no surprise that many prefer it.
I didn't say it started then. I said that a French man said they had high taxes (in early 2000s) when I was there, for the reason I mentioned.
When it turns to beta, I'll be using this.
Or "Revert back to C++" would be funny.

Apparently no one around here has a sense of humor, though, since my original post was heavily downvoted. I greatly prefer Rust over C++, but "rewrite it in Rust" has become kind of a meme. And if you can't laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at?
My advice if you work at a place like this where taking these kind offenses is the norm is to make sure it’s not a startup and your equity is paid liquid. You can trust me on that
Hot Vesuvian ash cloud did turn a brain to glass
I believe in the idea, I just don't have the cash really. So I'm considering whether it could be an idea for later on when I have more cash.
I don't get this, can you explain?
All Meta cares about is engagement and they have a history of turning a blind eye to all kinds of bad behaviour across all of their platforms. The only way that changes is if it loses them money, which it clearly doesn’t. It’s highly unlikely that they’ll change so it may be worth reconsidering continuing to support a company that clearly doesn’t share your values and enables and monetizes the posting of horrific content.
If you spent as long reading search results for "Balatro" as you did writing this comment, you would have enough context to understand what localthunk and balatro are.

I find your musing on the topic interesting, if only as a reminder that people have largely forgotten to help themselves to the free information that surrounds us.
I'd probably take 10x 1y experience. Where I'm at now, everyone has been with the company 10-40 years. They think the way they do things is the only way because they've never seen anything else. I have many stories similar to the parent. They are a decade behind in their monitoring tooling, if it even exists at all. It's so frustrating when you know there are better ways.
There are plenty of fully remote companies that dominate their niches (Crowdstrike, Coinbase). Leadership doesn’t care.

The mistake is thinking that some leadership will change their minds when presented with evidence. That just causes most people to double down rather than admit being wrong.

You see this all the time in regards with things like politics and culture. Why would business be any different?
Thinking aloud, and this is probably a bad idea for reasons I haven’t thought of.

What if pointers were a combination of values, like a 32 bit “zone” plus a 32 bit “offset” (where 32/32 is probably really 28/36 or something that allows >4GB allocations, but let’s figure that out later). Then each malloc() could increment the zone number, or pick an unused one randomly, so that there’s enormous space between consecutive allocs and an address wouldn’t be reissued quickly. A dangling pointer would the point at an address that isn’t mapped at all until possibly 2^32 malloc()s later. It wouldn’t help with long-lived dangling pointers, but would catch accessing a pointer right after it was freed.

I guess, more generally, why are addresses reused before they absolutely must be?
Show HN: Ranked Search for Semi-Structured Data
We’ve been working on a search problem that requires querying both text and numbers simultaneously. For example, in a dataset of clothing items with descriptions and prices, a search for “slim pants for $20” should prioritize skinny jeans for $25 over slim pants for $50 because they are semantically similar and the price is closer. I’ve found that standard embedding models struggle with numerical ordering, while text-to-SQL methods rely on exact matches and often filter out too many results.

To solve this, we built a system designed specifically for structured datasets like CSVs or tables. Here’s a demo link where you can upload a small CSV to try out (no login required): https://demo.tryvoker.com.

Unlike most RAG approaches, we process each column independently, handling text with embeddings and numbers with custom scoring. When a user submits a query, we parse it into relevant fields—for instance, extracting “slim pants” as the description and “20” as the price. We then compute cosine similarity between the description embeddings and “slim pants” while also calculating the percent error between the user’s price input and the numerical field. These individual similarity scores are then combined across all columns to generate a final ranking.

Right now, our system works best with well-structured data, so some preprocessing is often needed. We’re working on improving this by detecting and restructuring messy data automatically, such as pivoting columns or extracting attributes from large text fields. We’re also adding feedback mechanisms, like a thumbs up/down system, to refine future search results based on user input.
I’d love to hear about your experiences with similar search challenges and would appreciate any feedback!
Indeed, it was updated from the time I posted my first reply and now.

At the time I copy/pasted, the answer was a single line (as shown in your archive link).
That and cut to orgs like the IRS that exist to reduce the size of the deficit
What would make it murder?

I wouldn't propose that people should be stopped from taking a vaccine if they want it.

I'm a strong supporter of informed consent. In this context that simply means that people need to know the pros and cons of a vaccine, what isn't known or scientifically studied yet, and they can make their own mind up.
This is correct.

I think it may add a bit of security, but containers are better thought of as mechanism to deploy and manage applications/services.

They can be useful as part of a security posture, but you kinda have to wrap everything up in SELinux or as part of some other system. Which is a lot easier to do with containers then it is to do with normal applications.

Also for most purposes:

If you want to integrate container applications into your desktop you'd be better off with something like Flatpak or distrobox/toolbx.

there are lots of things that these applications do to setup the environment and integrate into your home directory that isn't going to be done with simple scripts like this.

That doesn't mean that these scripts are useless, of course. I you want to run a application with more isolation and less integration then it is a lot easier to do it this way then with something like distrobox.

Like if you don't want to give a application access to your home directory. Or want to emulate a container environment for the cloud locally so you can hack on it.
“Completely whiffed” seems pretty strong for an unsubstantiated claim. All of the polls were off in 2016 but he was closer than most on predictions and in 2020 and 2024 he was pretty accurate. It would be interesting to know your criteria and who you think does meet that standard.
Just look at the evolution of the Autopilot page on Tesla.com over the years.

Talk about lies stacked upon lies.
Thanks, those are some pretty nice suggestions!
You know there are chrome extensions for this?
In 2001 I arrived in Canada having quit my US tech job, during dot-bomb, just after 9-11 with everyone waiting to see what'd happen next. Not many IT jobs out there then. Never mind, plenty hospitality jobs in Whistler :) Did couple of seasons there. Felt sorry for stressed out IT guys that came to fix the hotel's systems ;) Min wage, but tips too, and free stuff people left in rooms. Endless supply of free tea which I'm partial to ;). Lived cheaply - sardines'n'pasta, omelettes (yeah eggs were cheap then) , porridge. Had savings from tech work which was a cushion, but didn't break into them massively. In the end, returned to UK , had to be a bit sensible, got back into tech as jobs started to appear again. Was great fun working on a ski resort, albeit a bit rootless / transient too, wouldn't wanna do it for ever. Now its "been there. done that", I wouldn't return. When you've worked in tech, getting a basic job to tide you over in a "normal place" can be tricky becaue people think you're over-qualified and won't stay. At a ski hill, there are like, former lawyers as lifties. No-one cares. They're just happy if you aren't a stoner ;) People don't think beyond one season. A few people though end up managing hotels and stuff then can hop to something else. So for some its actually a good career move. For others they kept the wolf from the door with free lift pass. I'd recommend this to anyone for a season or two, if they've not already done it :)
GIL Kalai: Responses to skepticism of quantum computing feasibility
I bought my parents a few CO detectors for Christmas a few years ago. I reminded them that they don't have any gas appliances, but they do heat with wood.
Interesting project!

However, installation documentation is quite strange: it says "requires postgres and redis to run" but there is zero other information. Is there any version requirements? any configuration file to set the hosts/auth for them?

Hope this helps, keep the good work!
True. Newer ones will last ~10 years, and will shout an EOL warning when they near the end of their life. I've got hardwired combo smoke and CO detectors (AA battery backup) from Kidde at the house and they have this feature.

The nice part of having them hardwired is that the house is now like an office/other building: if one trips, they all trip, so the whole house is alerted. The newer ones have far fewer false alarms, too (pizza in the oven I am looking at you...).
The original post does not clearly specify the source of the infringement judgments. Was it a regulatory body contacting a housing provider? Was it the housing provider proactively policing content on their servers? Not clear to me.

Commenting on 230 seems reasonable, although I didn't catch what jurisdiction this hoster or site I owner are in.

Commenting on censorship power by signature l strong-arming the connoisseur that facilitate access to the internet seems reasonable too. But why reply to the 230 post with it, like you're refuting their issue. This could just be a different thread.
Original source on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43196207
> There are clearly stated guarantees, like "a pointer cannot access outside the bounds of its allocation"

But that's not a pointer in anything like the sense of a C pointer.

You'd need to reword that (as I know you've been doing with FiL-C) to be something more like: no reference to a (variable|allocation|object) may ever be used to access memory that is not a part of the object.

Pointers are not that, and the work you've done in FiL-C to make them closer to that makes them also be "not pointers" in a classic sense.

I'm OK with that, it just needs to be more clear.
My .02 is that any topic sufficiently important shouldn't be left to colleges. You can force feed a complex topic to a bunch of undergrads, but they will forget 95% of it, and 5 years later they'll say "ohhh, I think I have a textbook on that in my parents' basement."

The reality is that most of this profession is learned on the job, and college acts as a filter at the start of the funnel. If someone is not capable of picking up the Paxos paper, then having had someone tell them about it 5 years ago when they had a hangover won't help.
> The local gas provider, the New Mexico Gas Co, was involved in the investigation alongside the Santa Fe county sheriff’s department, Associated Press reported, raising speculation that carbon monoxide poisoning lay behind the deaths

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/feb/27/gene-hackman-ca...
> it had the same @#%ing pathfinding bugs - which is authentic to the original, but to me an opportunity to improve so missed it made me lose interest in continuing playing the remaster.

Remasters/Remakes are often a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation for the developers.

If they make the game function exactly like the old one, just with an updated skin, people complain that it's all they did.

If they fix bugs and update mechanics for a modern audience, people complain that it isn't the same game at all, just a similar story being told through a different game.
> The interface is clean and much nicer to use than bloated alternatives like Insomnia and Postman.

As I recall, both _used_ to be the same way.
Why so much hate for rust?
Stripe Annual Letter [pdf]
>The early calculators, which had either LED or vacuum fluorescent displays

nickel-cadmium has entered the chat, installed first in the HP-35!
>and not the raw material extraction and solar panel production

I see stuff like this often and it always leaves me wondering. Does equipment for coal power generation fall from the sky?

Raw materials need to be extracted for coal power plants too, right?
Definitely not. (He may do that, I just hadn't ever heard of that book before today.) I think it was one of Isaacs, Herstein, or Artin, but I'm a bit too lazy to dig through my old books at the moment.
The story of the Hotline Miami 2 devs comes to mind where they mentioned that they play tested the game at half speed a lot of the times, which, including many other factors, contributes to the game being way harder than the first part.

See: https://youtu.be/IcgmmBEEHsk?t=1427
This website doesn’t give the absolute percentages, nor does it give hard numbers. Very annoying.
And are you considering the risk factors and worst case scenarios when it comes to housing?

Housing is not as liquid, and prices can also go down as well as up. Often there are large transaction costs associated with buying/selling property.

What if an event happens that is not covered by insurance? Subsistence, large-scale repairs required etc. Changes in housing regulations c.f. the fallout from Grenfell in the UK.

There are risks in both, and risks from housing can also be large. The leverage offered by banks works in your favour in good times but can work against you in bad.
It's been interesting seeing several comments like this in the comments, since Laravel's docs may be one of the most highly-praised aspects of the framework. I suspect the divide may be that newer developers get everything they need explained in the docs in clear language, but the more advanced stuff requires some digging.

I use Laravel personally, and I've definitely seen both sides of this myself. For basic "happy-path" API reference, the docs are great. If I really need to understand how the framework is doing something, I pretty much always end up diving into the code. Unfortunately the heavy use of Facades can sometimes make it annoying to find the underlying code.
Mcp?
I do worry that the thought process involving feeding everything you consume into an AI powered "AI detector" is a slippery slope to a dystopian hell of one's own making.

You don't have to extrapolate too many iterations before you start arguing that you can't trust you're living in base reality.

My take on both issues is that even if you're right, the choice is whether to spend your life in a state of cynical paranoia, or not.

If you figure out the consciousness equivalent of Ctrl-Shift-Esc, please report back.
The best terrible (or worst, I guess!) idea I've ever had for a language is using fuzzy matching for variable names. No need to worry about typos, since something close enough will work, and as long as you've defined at least one variable, you'll never have an undefined error!
Eh. There's a right way and a wrong way to do what you’re talking about IMO. Being direct and honest is important and good. Attacking peoples character is not. Emotional safety is essential because if you don't have it, then folks are afraid to speak up because they might get their heads chopped off.
Yeah, I think this is one of those domains where frictions (or lack thereof) matter. It is much faster, cheaper, and easier to send out a significant volume of material on the Internet than through the mail. In theory, somebody could send a bunch of obscene trolling letters, but having to lick all those envelopes seems to deter most of the people who'd be otherwise tempted.
We know more people would die without vaccines. There is plenty of data on the classic vaccines. If you tell people something else you're lying.

And herd immunity protects those that can't be protected by vaccines, your "experiment" would put them at risk as well.
Oh there was absolutely crazy information being shared around, we definitely agree there.

I had a coworker try to explain how 5G caused covid. Granted there is no technical reason why an EMF couldn't cause similar symptoms, there just wasn't any well founded research showing that and a much more simple explanation already had better scientific support (the novel virus).

Mockery is a tricky one though. Mocking any particular idea seems reasonable enough. Most people at the time were lumping in anyone that chose not to get the vaccine as an anti-vaxxer, wacko, conspiracy theorist, etc.
Your last bullet is a good point.

When you gain experience and responsibility as a software developer and take on broader roles, the main values you've accumulated are higher level skills, like the ability to bring a project to completion (and everything that entails).

There's always a place for algorithmic hacking. But it feels like the easiest thing to hire for when you need it because it's so concrete. That's prob why it's so dominant in hiring practices: it's the only easy thing to measure.
How fast are cost per unit compute of state-of-the-art datacenters going down? There is the construction cost and the running cost.

When does it become feasible for poorer countries to start building them?
It's probably more about the size of the firm. Once a company is large enough with middle layers and silos it seems some form of KPI is inevitable. This could also explain why Deepseek doesn't mind open sourcing as they have not raised outside capital for expansion so they can't really scale rapidly on their own.
Please don’t post AI drivel on HN.