skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a wild read for someone that has spent the bulk of their career as a "mercenary" for small to mid-size largely non-tech companies (e.g., their product wasn't purely technical) and no matter what the official company Koolaid line was, you always know you are one "restructuring" away from being made redundant, the company doesn't give a crap about you or your contributions, and you very much are a "cog." I've been blessed to work for a company or two where this was less the case than others, and more or less bought into their own culture hype, but it's still fundamentally this way, the relationship between employer and employee. It's sad and interesting to me to see what sounds like an experienced developer for such a large company coming to this realization all at once. Given what I've read and learned about Google layoffs since ~2022 this seems pretty bog standard large company stuff.

Everyone is replaceable/expendable, even if you actually aren't, it doesn't matter. It isn't worth investing so much emotional energy and your personal identity into a company unless you are a major shareholder.
They didn't advance their agenda. They simply blocked the Democrats' agenda. They could do that because the Democrats didn't have total control.

Your actual point before you moved the goalposts was that the Republicans were able to block the Democrats, so why can't the Democrats block the Republicans? I explained that in my previous two comments.
Of interest for the HN audience: the founder of grubhub has a memoir that tells the stories of biking across the country and starting grubhub in parallel. I found it an enjoyable read.
See my list of languages on a sibling thread, same applies to those, nothing special about C there.
> That’s not enough for the Sphere’s full 16K resolution,

Is this real resolution ? Or is it "youtube" resolution ?
Installing ROCm from Source with Spack
It’s like you’re mad at the house slaves because they have it so good.

That person is basically you under less dire circumstances.
Not OP, but I also went across America along the Northern Tier in 2023 with Schwalbe Marathon Plus's. I think I got 9 flats total, 7 of which were in Montana for some reason. I always tried to investigate and eliminate the source of the flat, but sometimes you are just repeatedly unlucky (in my experience).
Is this kind of research affected by the effort to reduce the use of animal testing? (if it still has funding at all in the US)
Trees and graphs serve useful roles, of course, but calling a linked list just a simpler version is a stretch. It'd be like calling an array a simplified B-tree. The simplification changes not just the implementation but also radically changes the applicability of the result.
Yeah here in Spain the taxis are great. They're plentiful, cheap and efficient. The city is kinda a mess and the rideshare drivers have to drive a route mapped out by the app which often is not optimal. The real taxis know the city well. I think this is why the rideshares are unpopular and thus there's not many of them leading to the long waiting times. They're also spread between different providers, Uber is popular with the tourists only and the locals mostly use Cabify (a local company).

However in Romania on the other hand many taxi drivers are scammers or even criminals (one of my colleagues was robbed by one of them). It's also because the maximum taxi fares are too low to actually make a wage so I can kinda understand so I always tip really well (like double the fare or more which is still nothing). Though if they try to scam me they don't get a cent of course.
Hmm, this take seems too all-or-nothing to me. (I made a similar trip with similar prep - bought the bike a month before going.)

The first chunk of the trip is very civilized, and you can use that to build skills before you get out in rural Utah.

If you have some experience with dry-country hiking, you understand about bringing water. That's the main threat. Most of the other mishaps you can think of are just inconvenient/unpleasant - "made poor time, got stuck at dusk in the middle of nowhere with only the snacks in my panniers, and had to camp by the roadside".

The author did prep for some other gotcha's, including having safety gear and doing some physical training in advance.
My favorite is one of the text files on the attacker's computer:

A file labeled "Decisions and Mistakes," in which he wrote, "Going On the run / Yes / Chance of getting caught<Payoff for not getting caught / (NA) / Risk is typically underpriced in modern world.
Which drugs are you referring to?
Is it possible to write plain C iOS app in 2025?
I know this has been lately decaying.. most referenced are very old, such as this one: https://github.com/richardjrossiii/CBasediOSApp

Hence my question: Is it possible?
Hey, as the previous person said you cannot really limit the memory, Meilisearch uses.

But your OS will share the Meilisearch memory with other process seamlessly, you don’t have anything to do.
In htop it’s the yellow bar, and it’s basically a big cache shared between all processes.
its not common but i know nothing can convince you of that
> the language server (which is included within the gleam binary) now provides the "find references" feature

This was my #1 most wanted feature, I’m so grateful to Surya for implementing it, he’s amazing!!
Lots of languages since the 1950's have pointers.
Its not something an LLM would do with simple chatGPT type prompts, but it's something I can imagine building an agentic system to do. It's not trivial but seems feasible with current day LLMs.

If you design the system to have this exact quality (among many others), where clues are dropped earlier in the quest line for later quests. It's a matter of breaking up the prompts and iteratively refining the outputs.
I'm absolutely positive that software complexity can decrease and in so far my post was not entirely serious. I have multiple instances at my hand where re-writing existing libraries with a better focus on simplicity, patterns better suited for the job, more stringent APIs and so on all contribute to produce new versions of software that are ~about as capable as the old version but internally much simpler. However I feel that when I just go on building on and on without tearing down entire edifices of code once in a while, software tends to become inscrutable, hard to maintain and hard to extend.
Look for a Flash game called Punk-o-Matic. You can make songs with it, lots of different songs.

It's essentially a sampler, locked in a single chord progression. It can be used as "an instrument". It is very simple and intuitive to use.

If it had free chord choice, it would br harder and less intuitive. However, it would make the user think about what chord progressions really are. Closer to what an estabilished instrument that stood the test of time is.

Can you have both? A simple intuitive instrument that can play all that a "hard" instrument can, requiring no practice or cognition? (rethorical)

My comment deals on this kind of treshold. An instrument that both a "born talented musician" and "someone who tried very hard" can play in equal terms is a very good sweet spot in terms of inclusion and equality.
Strong Rabois, "I'm literally saving lives by tweeting about HCQ and Covid" vibes.
> bad faith shield to justify your anti-worker viewpoint

you gotta do more to make your point here, because that's not an obvious inference from what they wrote
>/r/The_Donald used this to much success and there have been others.

I read a post from a former reddit admin a while back that was talking about they managed that. Apparently they had one sticky post each day, and sticky posts are blocked from being on the frontpage but since they'd change the main post each day, once they un-stickied it, it'd immediately get picked up by the algorithm for the frontpage, inadvertently gaming the whole system.
Depends on the hardware design.
> Eh. That's a bad way of thinking, but one that I think is tempting to software engineers.

This has nothing to do with software engineering. It's about business risk management. I'm not justifying it, just explaining the sad reality of it.

> You know, you're not required hire those kinds of people in the first place. Hire people who get along with others.

I'm glad you have a crystal ball to perfectly predict how everybody will act in future situations. But sometimes it's the people who seem the most pleasant and helpful who take layoffs the worst, because they feel the most betrayed after everything they gave emotionally in good faith. Humans are complex and they can act unpredictably.
It makes me a little sorry we (as a species) did not settle on origami as a computing platform. It would be great to see computers folding and unfolding themselves. It would likely be a little slower I suppose.
Wait, I thought cryptocurrencies aren't securities? Why are our tax dollars being spent investigating this? If they're not securities (like coinbase etc would like us to believe), then he didn't do anything wrong and there are no other rules - code is law. If they are securities, then why are there so many illegal exchanges operating in plain sight?

Once again, crypto folks are all about decentralization until someone outsmarts them, then they go crying to daddy government to bail them out.
Mandatory multiple opinions means that multiple doctors need to allocate the same amount of time for the patient as the original doctor. Then having two opinions is not enough, in case they differ you can't discern who is right. So you need three opinions for the tie breaker. So now each doctor has to see three times more patients, meaning admission wait times has now also increased three times. So the appointment in 1 week will happen in 3 weeks now, the non urgent appointment in 6 months is now 1.5 years away, and so on.
You’re always a cog. Don’t treat a job with passion unless you’re getting something more than a salary from it - e.g. more professional networking, expanded skill set for your next role, etc. This seems to happen too often. Be invested in your career not the company you work for.

All the talk about doing great things as a team is usually all b.s. It’s just excellent theater. Most of us are side actors in someone else’s script and believe we have the lead role.
Back in the day Convex Computer Corporation was laying off a large fraction of its staff.

The plan was to come into the warroom and just hang out. Your manager would come and get you and take you into a private conference room to discuss your package with an HR specialist. The packages were pretty decent, at least.

In gallows humor I drew some stick figures on a white board for each of my team with their unix logins below them. As people were RIFfed, I would go over and put a universal red circle and slash "no" symbol around the figures who were laid off.

My time came and I marked myself as a "no" and handed the red marker to a co-worker.

I remember being a little ticked off at my manager, but when I came back to say goodbye to everyone I noticed his figure / login name had been exed out. The last thing he did before metaphorically being shot in the head was to metaphorically strangle half his children.

"What was deluxe became debris, I never questioned loyalty. But this dead end demolishes the dream of an open highway."
You'll need pandoc and xelatex

$ pandoc --pdf-engine=xelatex --toc README.md {macro,fix,list,task,malloc1,vector,error,set,malloc2,dynamic,stream1,slog}/README.md -o book.pdf
Really?

How do you call Kotlin co-routines from Java code without wrapper types?
Not every company is a unicorn. For bootstrapped companies that might never sell, multiple classes of stock can be extremely useful for a variety of legitimate accounting and dividend purposes. One of the local law firm's company setup packages uses a de facto _six_ share classes.

I agree with your concerns re. transparency but I don't think eliminating share classes would fix that.
The physical universe advances from state to state, but we define still can call certain behaviors illegal.

https://xkcd.com/1494/
"The DOJ Still Wants Google to Sell Off Chrome" -Wired (March 7, 2025)
This happens when customer support spends too much time on password resets. As soon as someone in CS says "we need to hire another person, too many password resets" you get magic links. Bad number go down, good number go up.

It's really easy for us nerds to write off how confusing, cumbersome, and frustrating passwords are for most people.
In 2019 they didn’t need your $10k of funding. If you contacted them within the 6 months they were starting they would have said yes. In 2019 it was more time consuming than it was worth. So they encourage you to go through a pool of investors which you are scoffing at.

In reality, my project needs funding now. If i bootstrap and get customers, I don’t need to worry about your lunch money. I need someone (or customers) who can fund that same amount for a year.
Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes mass user cancellations
Earlier today Cursor, the magical AI-powered IDE started kicking users off when they logged in from multiple machines.

Like,you’d be working on your desktop, switch to your laptop, and all of a sudden you're forcibly logged out. No warning, no notification, just gone.

Naturally, people thought this was a new policy.

So they asked support.

And here’s where it gets batshit: Cursor has a support email, so users emailed them to find out. The support peson told everyone this was “expected behavior” under their new login policy.

One problem. There was no support team, it was an AI designed to 'mimic human responses'

That answer, totally made up by the bot, spread like wildfire.

Users assumed it was real (because why wouldn’t they? It's their own support system lol), and within hours the community was in revolt. Dozens of users publicly canceled their subscriptions, myself included. Multi-device workflows are table stakes for devs, and if you're going to pull something that disruptive, you'd at least expect a changelog entry or smth.

Nope.

And just as people started comparing notes and figuring out that the story didn’t quite add up… the main Reddit thread got locked. Then deleted. Like, no public resolution, no real response, just silence.

To be clear: this wasn’t an actual policy change, just a backend session bug, and a hallucinated excuse from a support bot that somehow did more damage than the bug itself.

But at that point, it didn’t matter. People were already gone.

Honestly one of the most surreal product screwups I’ve seen in a while. Not because they made a mistake, but because the AI support system invented a lie, and nobody caught it until the userbase imploded.
I get the impression their setup is very hard to maintain but it's worth every penny. They've done optimizations that wring incredible performance out of the hardware they have, but they also have specific machine configurations and I wouldn't be surprised if they have complicated hacks that get 100% speedups for some stuff but those speedups disappear if you have a slightly different motherboard configuration. Also there's suggestion they've made firmware hacks which are worth it at their scale, but might be very dangerous and difficult to apply especially on a small scale. (And some of their hacks might involve both firmware and cluster-level optimizations, which would be useless or counterproductive independently.)

And even if you have somewhat similar hardware, the code might not be that helpful, you might be better off with a sketch of the solution and implementing it yourself. If you've got a large enough cluster it's going to pay for itself anyway.
There's a very relevant XKCD on this, where someone discovers a clever "bug" in an insurance contract, and is then disappointed.

https://xkcd.com/1494/
Teach the meaning and understanding of 'chrome red' to a chilf blind from birth.
Ams is same or even worse than some US areas when it comes to costs of living.
>as a human there's virtually nothing I can put here that will convince you to send me your social security number,

"I'll give you chocolate if you send me this privileged information"

Works surprisingly well.
I think its possible to hold 2 conflicting views simultaneously. I put on my profit optimization hat and take it off when I leave work.

I take no satisfaction in seeing someone who has drank the kool-ade getting a wakeup call, it's just a shocking realization that there are people out there who still dont get it.
I find democrats efforts misguided, but rarely are they "my views only, exclude all others". They don't typically involve library book challenges, what appear to be ctrl+f searches for specific terms that relate to people unlike them, don't involve "report on your coworkers" type demands, and so on.

And most of all they don't seem to identify any and all differing views as "enemies" and so on.
hah! this is great. I built something similar using mcp.run and a task

- https://docs.mcp.run/tasks/tutorials/telegram-bot

for memories (still not shown in this tutorial) I have created a pantry [0]
and a servlet for it [1] and I modified the prompt so that it would first check if a conversation existed with the given chat id, and store the result there.

The cool thing is that you can add any servlets on the registry and make your bot as capable as you want.

[0] https://getpantry.cloud/
[1] https://www.mcp.run/evacchi/pantry

Disclaimer: I work at Dylibso :o)
POSIWID. Life on earth's primary "purpose" if observed from space would be to dissipate low-entropy solar radiation, using it to build temporary structures out of carbon.

It is puzzling why life isn't more common. Perhaps dissipative self-organizing structures are everywhere - stars, solar systems and galaxies themselves maintain their order by dissipating energy. They just don't look like "life" to us.
Why do people upvote this sort of lazy and shitty content marketing?
Llama 4 underperforms: a benchmark against coding-centric models
Ten to thirteen new states.
Troops arrive at the border to help with enforcement despite fewer crossings
The Supreme Court disagrees.
Was I the only one who thought it was related to dolphin uncensored models over gemma
> Nordic countries are made of homogeneous populations

Something like 25%-32% of Sweden is non-ethnic Swedish.

Maybe once upon a time they were homogeneous, but they are probably one of the most heterogeneous countries (outside of the New World countries, which are an entirely different category), though I'd wager most of Western Europe is catching up (see: UK, France, Germany, Belgium, Spain).
>In the US, a collection on your credit report can tank your FICO score by more than 100 points

True, and it sucks, but you can also keep contesting it. I got a few random things off my credit by using the tools provided by the credit agencies to contest them.
Naval Gazing Main/Military Spaceflight – Orbital Missile Defense
Any idea if this protein has any relation with seratonin? Could the effect of SSRIs be related in any way?
I've considered something like this. Log on the lee side of a mountain range, haul the logs (downhill!) to the arid plain on the lee side, stack loosely, repeat. An electrified highway could allow much of the process to be powered via nuke energy.

Basically any place where you've got high timber production within a reasonably short distance of an arid area could make for a relatively low-tech sequestration/storage pipeline.
In total, I count 14 books with titles chosen by the publisher/editor:

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Dr. Bloodmoney
The Simulacrum
Ubik
We Can Build You
Martian Time-Slip
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
The Divine Invasion
A Maze of Death
Counterclock World
Radio Free Albemuth
Solar Lottery
The Zap Gun [1]
The World Jones Made

Among his notable works, the only titles PKD came up with were The Man in the High Castle, VALIS, Flow My Tears, Palmer Eldritch, and A Scanner Darkly.

So. Yes, most.

Editors changed his shorts, too. I love the title "I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon", but PKD wanted to call it "Frozen Journey".

[1] This one was unusual in that the editor gave PKD the title and asked him to write a plot around it.
Security officials report a Beijing-linked online operation focused on Carney
Very nice summary. I did a similar cross-country trip and 100% endorse many of the conclusions at the end. (The Kansas winds and the hills of the Ozarks (central Missouri) were both surprisingly challenging and demoralizing, even after the continental divide.)
If it were that easy there would be no issue.

If I were possessed of a religious faith that considered my name to be so holy that it must not be spoken, would a law against saying my name repress others, or would lack of that law repress me?
Kīlauea volcano's ash prompted largest open ocean phytoplankton bloom
> Please just add it up and send me the bill. I don't want to pay more than what's due. And I don't want to cheat.

I have a hard time understanding this comment because this is exactly what employers do when paying out RSUs.

At the end of the year, you get a 1099 indicating the fair market value of shares you've received. There's no trickery here--this is literally the amount you owe income tax on.

I'm not sure what tax software you're using that requires you to guess inputs and numbers. TurboTax makes this trivially straightforward.
I have an AI/bridge to sell you.
Problem is nuclear reactors just don't make all that much spent fuel, so the amount of wood used to crate it up would be negligible.

Edit: I think I've thought of a good alternative though. Instead of crating up the nuclear waste, it could be randomly dispersed in forests around the world to scare people away from those forests, thereby creating nature reserves which should last for generations.
How about the treaties this would violate and what the consequences of violating them would be?
My impression it's the us-american weird mix of "think about the kids" and "purism" culture, its fine to give your 12y a gun, but got forbidden it hear a swear word
> pronounced the 'F' as a 'TH'?

That’s how I read it
Sill's Bluesky feed sponsorship boosts signups and supports a good cause
This new license makes it completely clear that LLama models are, and never have been, open source.

They are "shared source" or "open weights". There's no freedom with these models.
Meta: always found it interesting that .dev was allowed to be a TLD:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.dev

More on-topic: another online option:

* https://sqliteviewer.app

* https://inloop.github.io/sqlite-viewer/

Local app:

* https://sqlitebrowser.org
Sure, it's after red and before yellow.

https://www.quora.com/profile/Stephen-Westland
> 1. it does not enable AI agents to functionally compose tools.

Is there something about the OpenAI tool calling spec that prevents this?
Make Before Break: Kubernetes StatefulSet Semantics for ClickHouse Cloud
>And when people leave their home unlocked the thieves should get to keep their stuff.

That's not what happened here. What happened is that the crypto company said, "Follow this contract," and their customer followed the contract and took their money, and then the crypto company was like, "But not like that!"

Ostensibly, the whole point of cryptocurrencies is to decentralize financial control and not depend on governments for that service. If you then depend on governments the second you don't like what happens, there's no point to cryptocurrencies.
SeaQuest anyone? I still have the first comic.
I don't see the problem. I've just been using services with 3 - 10 verbs that the agent can use without adding any that can do harmful things. Even when they have no auth mechanism I can just put a temporary token in the URL.
Most (all?) the terrorist groups of Latin America were self-declared marxist/communist, like "Shining Part" in Peru: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shining_Path
Also discussed on /r/cpp: https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/1jy6ver/utlprofiler_si...