skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had to deal with too many Eloi that are in desperate need of learning about the benefits of a solid, wired connection. If this story moves the needle on that while neglecting Ethernet's long history of mediums, it's fine with me.

If any of those are reading this: Your WiFi makes you sound bad in conference calls and video meetings, and people think you're a low status worker that can't afford a good laptop or internet. Hurry up and get a Ethernet thingy.
Show HN: View Raycast Extension by Downloads
When I started using Raycast, I found that it was difficult to discover extensions, so I spent some time this weekend making this site to help you search extensions and have a peek at trending extensions too!

I only have data for the last 2 days so the best I can do is to show trending downloads from the last day / week :)
> is considered to be supporting Hamas.

No it is not. Even if it almost certainly is. These protests used to run almost daily, and were often allowed to proceed even if actual calls for genocide were included.

And of course you are also wrong on the content: those accusations are largely untrue, and Israel is an absolute leader in avoiding civilian casualties in urban combat, achieving a 1:1 ratio of civilian to combatant deaths, whereas the world average is 10:1. And this despite Hamas's openly stated and obviously carried out policy of creating as many civilian casualties in their own population as possible.

And no, calling for genocide does not become legal if it rhymes.
It's certainly not the only evidence of problems at NPR. For example, they managed to basically accuse Trump Jr of lying to Congress in a story that should not have survived basic fact checking: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/npr-issues-correction-after...

That Fox News piece actually understates how big of a screw-up this was. The key quote that supposedly showed Trump Jr claiming his dad's possible real estate deal in Russia had faded away by 2016, the one that was supposedly contradicted by Cohen's court testimony about ongoing negotiations, was in response to questioning about any possible deals other than the one Cohen was involved in - and in particular one specific potential deal with a different group of people. It's not just that it was brought up elsewhere in other answers that NPR missed. Merely looking at the immediate context of that key quote, the most basic thing we should expect of old-fashioned fact checking, should've been enough to flag the problem. The fact those other negotiations had in fact been brought up was literally the whole basis for that line of questioning.
christ man lighten the fuck up. there's zero need to be _so_ god damn patronizing and disrespectful.
There were around 51000 deaths in New York from March 2020 to March 2021. For a population of 8.258 million that gives a rate of one death per day per 59101 people. The largest apartment building I found in NYC is London Terrace with 1700 apartments which would need 35 people per apartment to give 59101 people. Deaths were presumably skewed towards the oldest and sickest, and probably correlated with poverty, so if you stayed in a lower-income apartment building with a lot of old people who were likely close to death, then it could be 1 or 2 ambulances per day to take people away "never to be seen again", but it seems improbable.

I stay in a European country which isn't particularly known for being healthy, and I don't know anyone who died of or even with covid.

I felt that there was some terrible science coming from all directions in the pandemic years, but to me some of the worst propaganda-fu was coming from the government and traditional media.
I don't have any particularly strong stance on provenance. But I've yet to see a strong argument for it in C.

There is not much of a guide I'm afraid. I translated some of the raylib examples to C3: https://github.com/c3lang/c3c/tree/master/resources/examples...

But those are straight up conversions of the original C code.

I think any C tutorial on gamedev would work fine to follow in C3, and then one can leverage features of C3 as desired.
Related: it's like the "Everything is fine" meme cartoon picture, except the people seeing the scene unfold are forbidden from talking about fire.
I understand why this sort of article is informative and useful these days but damn I feel old!
Trump has turned his back on the foundation of US economic might
You implement the From trait, something like this transforms an io::Error into your own type:

impl From<io::Error> for MyError {
fn from(_err: io::Error) -> MyError {
MyError::IOError
}
}
(2022)

Ethernet might be one of the longest-lived backwards-compatible standards in the computer industry; you can plug one end of a cable into a PC from 2025 and the other into one from 1990, and they will communicate perfectly.
That's a fair point. Much like the original article, I don't have a very good idea of where to draw the lines
> Same goes if you just roughly mathed it out yourself.

How? It's a question like how you can control wolf population by shooting penguins. No reasonable human would attempt an answer. Only LLMs would make something up.
all this and they can't launch Apple intelligence on schedule :(
They can definitely gather and analyze all sorts of data proactively. I'm guessing you haven't used o3 Deep Research?
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That was fun, thank you!
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In my 40s and I’ve recently been diagnosed with inattentive adhd. TFA makes a lot of sense to me given I’m one of the rare people at my company who commutes to the office every day even though we are an in-person optional workplace. Whenever I’ve had to WFH, I’ve struggled massively to gain an initial focus. Although medication has helped tremendously, I still feel much more productive in an office setting.
No. You dont. The feedback cadence is then wildly stretched out.

Instead of getting notification that you made a mistake within a few seconds of making it you are told at, say, 4pm, 45 minutes after you raised the PR, 4 hours after you made the mistake and in time for you to maybe fix it tomorrow. Also, if it was a rabbit hole mistake thats a whole lot of wasted work.

With PRs I find reviewers tend to miss more stuff (especially forest-not-trees stuff) because there are usually a lot of changes all going on at the same time and because the mental tax of trying to grasp all of the necessary context is higher.

The pre-coding discussions also do NOT provide the same value because many problems only become apparent after you've started coding. Only correctly anticipated problems are caught at that stage.

Code reviews and pre coding discussions are still good practices and add value of their own (especially because for some issues you do benefit from > 2 sets of eyes), but not as substitutes for pairing.

Pairing is also effective at training juniors and onboarding, but not only.
> It's such a wild idea that I've never heard it in the public discourse.

IIRC there is a Dilbert comic strip about that.

> Clickbait [...] would become worthless overnight

Advertisement is not the only incentive. E.g., the Veritasium YouTube channel's host explicitly switched to clickbait, explaining it by his intent to reach a wider audience. Another example is clickbait submission titles on HN, not all of which are for the sake of advertisement (unless you count HN submissions in general as advertisements themselves, of course).

> When I say advertising, I also mean propaganda. Propaganda is advertising for the state

Not necessarily for the state, the usual definition includes furthering of ideas in general. In more oppressive regimes, propaganda of certain ideas is actually banned, as it used to be in even more places ("heresy" and suchlike). Combined with selective enforcement, it is as good as banning all propaganda. It may be a particularly bad example of such a ban, but still an illustration of the dangers around it.

I think a better path towards the world without (or almost without) commercial advertising is not via coercion, but as kaponkotrok mentioned in another comment, via education and public discussion (which may also be called "propaganda"), shifting social norms to make such advertisement less acceptable. People can make advertisements unprofitable if they will choose to: not just by ignoring them (including setting ad blockers), but also by intentionally preferring products not connected to unpleasant and shady tactics, including those beyond advertisement: slave labor and other human rights violations, unsustainable energy sources, global warming, animal cruelty, monopolies, proprietary or bloated software and hardware are some of the common examples. Social norms and such enforcement seem to be less brittle than laws are, and harder to turn into an oppression mechanism.

Although, since I brought up monopolies and other issues, perhaps state agencies may also usefully assist with restriction of advertisement, as they do with those. Social norms and laws are not mutually exclusive, after all.
I’ve found the template system starts to have shortcomings if you need differences between different classes of systems within your fleet (eg VDIs for data scientists vs nodes in a ML pipeline pool)

Yeah a good templating language will allow you to apply conditionals but honestly, it’s just generally easier to have different files inside a config directory than have to manage all these different use cases in a single monolithic template or multiple different templates in which you need to remember to keep shared components in sync.

At the end of the day, we aren’t talking about solving problems that were impossible before but rather solving problems that were just annoying. It’s more a quality of life improvement than something that couldn’t be otherwise solved with enough time and effort.
But how do you define advertising. What about social media influencers? How to prevent someone from paying people to promote stuff? What if it is forbidden and then only a bad government can promote their agenda, but anyone else cannot.
This begs for a laser pointer! Although that might not be such a great idea….
> as any other bureaucracy

It is not bureaucracy vs magical efficiency. There is the same issue in any large organisation, even corporations. In practice I don’t think it would be as bad as you suggest. Having an agency focused on providing support instead of sending money to shareholders also limits other kinds of inefficiencies.

> Again, there's a risk that it will start charging the highest possible price for its services.

That is exactly the situation we’re in, where governments are tied and dependent on single providers (be it Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, or others). This solution would create competition opportunities by opening a market, it does not need to be a monopoly.
Never trained a model, but the precision confused me as I've never considered how many bits should be reserved for exponent/mentisa.
Has anyone architected a model(somehow) such that it has a free hand at using the give bits / choosing the type, or changed types from layer to layer, I mean surely when training for example vision models the first layers deal with the "big(yet simpler) picture"(light/dark, lines etc) where as the last layers are with the fine details etc.

Even though it may not suitable for (existing) hardware impl, it may be advantageous in other place for example in learning rate speed.
I think it's fair to give it first if you're a Senior engineer and are able to receive offers quickly.

If you were looking for a $150k salary, you could drop an extreme anchor at $200k and they might even give you $180k.
Looks related to XP (Extreme Programming), but the problem is that you get tired and stressed way too fast to reap the benefits.
Given that the internet has almost completely supplanted the public square, I wouldn't say that putting it all under corporate control ("regulated, commercial services") would have no impact on real life.
> They said that if we don't continue licensing through them and "build a relationship," they'll have to charge us retroactively for our us

Maybe I misunderstood this but does this mean they are threatening if they stopped using the font/s and just move in they will come after them for the charges they think they owe them in the past?
When I first heard about an Ethernet cable, it was a thick and stiff pipe-like thing.
> FreeBSD has committed the original sin of UNIX by deliberately dropping support for all non-Intel architectures, intending to focus on optimising FreeBSD for the Intel ISA and platforms.

FreeBSD supports amd64 and aarch64 as Tier 1 platforms and a number of others (RiscV, PowerPC, Arm7) as Tier 2

https://www.freebsd.org/platforms/
Keyword: compute-in-network
I thought this was way too hard. I didn't figure out a single word and even failed the tutorial. Seeing everyone loving it makes me feel really stupid.
This style is mainly used by black metal and death metal bands, not every heavy metal one.
> Lane feels firefighters were left in the dark

That kind of thing happens a lot (see “9/11 Syndrome”).

Kind of a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” situation.

One of the things about fire, is that it alters chemistry. Perfectly safe materials, can turn into highly toxic gas, when heated. In many cases, this cannot be anticipated, or realistically prevented. There are also firefighting foams and whatnot. I think some of the foams contain fairly significant quantities of questionable chemicals. They are pretty much required, for Li-ion battery fires.

Firemen kinda take the brunt of that. I know a number of retired firefighters, and they all have health issues.
Most computers from 1990 didn’t have built-in ethernet or native support for TCP/IP, though, so you would have to buy and install both of them.
>I'm not worried
>I'm sad

Looks like you already know what you want to do and how you want to do it; obsessing over assholes won't do anything for you, right? I'm only saying this to provide perspective
Gemini 2.5 Pro is another game changing moment
> Importantly, the Golden Record was carefully designed using universal scientific principles—binary notation, hydrogen atom properties, and pulsar maps—ensuring that any intelligent civilization might realistically decode it. The instructions etched onto its cover rely on fundamental concepts universally understandable across the cosmos.

You're describing the Pioneer Plaque, not the Golden Record: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque
There are remarkable parallels to the Relotius scandal that took place at the German magazine Der Spiegel a few years ago (although in a bigger and more systematic way):
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claas_Relotius#Fabrication_o...
You missed one: hire one of the many existing providers of Postgres support services. Postgres have a big list of these providers. [0]

I can't comment on how well they perform in practice compared to the conventional monopolised support model that closed-source software tends to offer - perhaps better, perhaps worse - but at least in principle, the solution is there.

[0] https://www.postgresql.org/support/professional_support/
Llama 4 performs worse than Llama 3 at translation
I get the same feeling that I'm "not being productive" while playing video games, watching tv, etc that seems to kill any enjoyment from doing these things.

For me learning piano has been a great alternative to programming in the off hours (typing is quite transferrable too!). Highly recommend if you're like me on screens all day.
Unfortunately, I think ads is the most realistic way to go.

Sponsorships and/or donations would be a nice “beer money” bonus.

Subscriptions are PITA and too much hassle unless you’re doing them via some third party and they won’t bring a good amount of money at the “online daily puzzle in a browser” scale.

There are more exotic ways like licensing your puzzles to other sites, like online newspaper puzzle pages, Puzzmo is going in this direction IIRC.
The nurses did not have cancer. They had benign tumors.
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There is no such thing as "pressing charges" in the UK. Especially in cases of online comments the evidence is basically available online so once it is reported it is for the police to decide on arrests then for the Crown Prosecution Service to decide whether to charge.

My feeling is that the police has become quick to arrest.
It was fun. Couple of suggestions:

- It gave me “TCAAN” which stumped me. Afterwards I pasted it into the Internet Anagram Server, which failed to find any acronyms for it. So I can say with some confidence I don’t think it’s a valid word. Suggest making sure you’re using a dictionary similar to Wordle’s one.

- The game should reveal the solution at the end if the player fails to guess any words.
Honestly, this seems like enabling work. Even the iPhone 16 Pro Max only seems to have 8GB RAM. If Apple Intelligence plans to do anything useful on-device, they need work like this.
>to beat back foreign countries’ efforts to tax and regulate American tech firms

Now more than ever or replace them completely as soon as possible.
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"Made with Emacs 28.1 - Org mode 9.5.2"
Can you explain a bit how working with JPG format was different than working on PNG format?
How did you achieve significant savings for both formats, given that many clever people have worked on this before?
A lot of people in the tech industry in the U.S. are on visas. Including a lot of the YC co-founders.

Not only is this relevant to Tech, it’s relevant to YC tech.

At the very least it’s as relevant as the regular immigration lawyer AMAs.
Could you explain how you arrived at the $3.50/month figure?

The model I understand you're suggesting is individual pricing based on usage and value as an ad target. A lot more complex and opaque than a straightforward fixed fee for all users.

Also, it's worth noting that YouTube Premium includes YouTube Music, which serves as your Spotify replacement. You might not need this, but the subscription fee covers more than just the lost ad revenue on YouTube.
Is the right to pay others for speech necessary for free speech to exist? If so it is already non-existent. No functioning democracy allows judges or politicians to sell their speech to the highest bidder for example.

Why should advertisement be different?
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>Knowing what you need is not magic

Knowing what you need is easy. Knowing what you might want is far harder.
Deleting multiplayer from the Unreal engine can save memory
It sounds like they basically find part of a pseudo-random sequence that is closest to the desired data, then store the random seed and corrections (which are small so take less space).
It's interesting that you leave out Google (and similar search engines).

We would lose one of the most useful tools introduced to mankind in the last 3 decades.
TinyWall is a free, feature-rich, and lightweight firewall for Windows
The scans can have a different copyright date than the book itself.
If readability was the only criteria perhaps YAML deserves to win. For some data XML is more readable, its complexity is the bigger problem.

People went all in with things like XSLT and namespaces, Java became the "language that transforms XML into stack traces" for no good reason and complex XML monstrosities were considered normal so when something simple came along it was a much needed breath of fresh air (we were even prepared to overlook its lack of comments). If it wasn't JSON it would have been something else, I'm sure.
If you really were serious about privacy, you wouldn't put yourself at disadvantage with a locked-down six-year out of date card. Tenstorrent Blackhole exists now, btw.
At a glance, all the companies in the referenced list are AI companies, so by definition very green. That doesn't really tell you much anything about the general trend, all companies started out small.
What do we call this? Oh right group punishment.
Ahhh. Proper noun though right? I would suggest excluding proper nouns.
Silly idea. Some advertising is bad. Some is really bad. Other advertising is useful. I wouldn't know about half the gigs or exhibitions I go to and enjoy if it weren't for the advertisements throughout the city. There are many small local businesses I wouldn't know about (to my detriment) if it weren't for advertising. The internet as we know it never would have been built if it weren't for advertising.

But there is a certain kind of advertising that is detrimental. My first thought is Amazon 'sponsored' products. Allowing companies to pay money to put inferior products at the top of search results is bad for society. Same goes for Google sponsored search results. Sponsored content in general is terrible. People that have gained your trust selling you things and not actually telling you they are being paid to do so. There are many many digital ads that would not be allowed IRL because they would be stopped for false advertising by regulators.

Like most things in life these days, the problem is not the thing itself. The problem is the Wild West that is the internet where there is minimal regulation allowing people to lie, cheat and get away with it.
There was an interesting story with the LiMux[1] ( Linux & Munich) project. The local government in Munich used it for quite some time. But than Microsoft came and installed there German Headquarters in Munich. With that new headquarter and enough lobbying, LiMux was forced out by the then new government just the moment it got "successful".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux
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I found it a bit concerning that this doesnt talk about safe dosages of any of the heavy metals.
So the wall has been really been hit already for now, ouch. It was to be expected with gpt-“4.5”, but still, the realization now really feels grounded.
Respectfully, many of those things aren't a concern from Python's point of view. And why should they be? If your program runs imperceptibly slower, or using an insignificant amount of extra memory, any attempts to fix this are considered a premature optimization that gets in the way of what is more important to pythonistas - developer experience and high level abstractions.

Frankly, the comparison with Rust doesn't even really make sense. They are different tools for very different problems.
I’ve been taught through years of people closing the lid of my laptop that “do nothing” is the right setting to use.
That which is good and right is built on deep foundations which are often forgotten or neglected in favor of surface level activity.
I remember when Google announced Geminis theoretical limit of 10M tokens context window, I was impressed. But it seems like that theoretical limit stayed as theoretical and they just pushed up to 2M. Which is still impressive.

Today, it seems Meta has crushed that wall with truly 10M tokens, wow.

I was also curious to how well Llama would be able to utilize the whole context window, it kinda pointless to have a large window if you can't recall most, if not all of it. The needle in the haystack test showed this is not the case, I wonder how they achieved this.
Pretty fascinating from an information theory point of view. Surprising that it works at all. Is this, like, the JPEG of uniformly distributed, uncorrelated data?
It's a bad time to be a tech exec. Or a farmer. Or any kind of American, really.

But damn the leopards are eating good right now.
That would be great. I’ve been hacking at ROCm and using Ryzen iGPUs for industrial scenarios, and the HX chipsets look like a massive improvement over what you’d get from folk like AsRock Industrial.