skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I built a desktop around an i7-2600 (not K) when it released in 2011. Moved it to the basement in 2017, where it's been a server ever since. The 16GB RAM that I loaded it up with is starting to look a bit restrictive, but does its job well.

I will likely replace my current desktop (Ryzen 1800X) when Zen 5 releases, and replace that 2600 with my 1800X, then find someone that would be happy with an old i7 desktop PC.
> We need a new rule for tech, that says "Any major tech conglomerate grows until their main source of revenue is tracking and telemetry."

The "Don't be evil" rule.
SPAs are here due to organisational, not technical reasons.

For large organisations it's easier to manage a team of workers with narrow specialisations than a single, but almost equally productive developer like here.

It's particularly visible in banking applications, where modules are almost completely independent and built by non-overlapping teams, so they take forever to load due to the limitation on concurrent requests in browsers.
The black desktop used to happen on every brand of GPU (I have a mix of Intel and AMD), it just had to be the third or the fourth display, something like that. Or after sleeping and waking. I used to have it a lot.

I haven’t seen it in a while, though, so it just might be they have fixed it. Fedora + zawertun COPR, for what it’s worth.
Oh, I feel ashamed, but that doesn't stop me.

I put considerable thought into the ethics of storing data and letting that data get inaccurate and harming people. Same with providing that information to people whose goals actively cause harm.

But I'm here for the war, not the individual battles. I raise objections and sometimes I can make a difference. This is one I'm going to lose most of the time. So I say my bit and do my job in a way that causes as little damage as possible because the next person won't.

Meanwhile, I get paid and live another day to make a difference somewhere else.

And yes, I know exactly where that reasoning leads. I wrote a story with an assassin justifying his actions the same way. There are limits in the amount of damage I'm willing to contribute to, telemetry doesn't cross that line.
Oil and gas gets ~$5T/year in subsidies globally. There is no "full sticker price", all scales are tipped. Similarly, it would be different if everyone consuming fossil fuels had to pay the fully loaded costs.

https://www.imf.org/en/Topics/climate-change/energy-subsidie...

https://www.budget.senate.gov/chairman/newsroom/press/sen-wh...
I'm using both and they are very similar. The free jitsi service shouldn't be really used in a comparison as self hosted works miles better (at least in my experience).
Ask HN: What is something you wish you had that would make GraphQL better?
Say you are building a website or running a company from scratch and want to use Graphql. What would be your hurdles? What are the pain points?

Is it writing authentication? Or setting up a graphql engine? or the front-end?

What do you wish you had in the GraphQL space that is not there yet. For example a user told me that there are no good solutions for integrating with brokers like Kafka. Let me know in the comments below what you guys think?
>They can afford a few programmers to maintain a codec.

This is a bad argument because with that money they can also afford to do almost anything. They could also add any random file format to the browser, but that increases costs to support the web for more than just Google. Meanwhile adding a polyfill to support the format is performant without adding complexity to the web.
What you said:

> We do not use audio, video or chat content to train AI models

<Edit: the word “currently” was edited in to the parent comment after I originally quoted it>

What your linked article says:

> When you choose to enable Zoom IQ … you will also be presented with a transparent consent process for training our AI models using your customer content.

Consent or not, these two statements seem to be at odds with each other?

There isn’t room for such ambiguity in this discussion. Details really matter here.

This community has a long memory about previous Zoom security issues and misleading statements (eg about encryption) - so it’s worth understanding that the level of scrutiny being given to this latest topic is likely elevated as a result. (In other words, I think Zoom has some extra work to do to rebuild trust among many of us here).
Title is a lot less interesting than story.
Yep, and also terms are necessary that in so many words allow the SaaS provider to read, process, copy, share, store, redistribute, etc. all your content. This is so they can provide their services, which are basically sharing video, audio, and content amongst the meeting participants, providing meeting recordings, transcriptions, etc.
Temperament and character matter, I'll give you that. But "talking points" and "policy" are miles apart.
Where do you live? I'd suggest moving to a small community and seeing what kind of impact you can have! I'm considering a "Free Apple Tree Initiative" where I am to get a shit load of apple tree planted around my small town at what I consider to be very small personal cost to myself.
WWDC23: Reduce network delays with L4S [video]
See also https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9330/ for the IETF RFC
> Nobody criticizes those who work at Google or Meta here.

What can I say? I see such criticism frequently. I even pile onto it from time to time.
> but that that public education had failed to prepare this person and apparently a whole community for higher education. He didn't know a single person who attended class after high school and the high school curriculum was so weak that he was failing out of community college.

Our education system is failing, but it's failing because it's not an education system, it's a system to monitor and contain young people for some set hours per day so their parents can theoretically work, regardless of their behavior or outcomes. The education in this country has huge cultural and community disparities that almost perfectly correlate w/ wealth disparities, racial disparities, and family life disparities. Most of these things are symptoms rather than causes, but they're symptoms that accelerate a negative feedback loop. The causes are pretty straightforward, but intractable: 1. Lack of cultural and racial integration in broader society 2. The failure of families (as a concept) in America, with this failure more heavily concentrated in lower class households with a racially disparate distribution.
From a Utilitarian approach, it makes sense to leave the economy's more critical members in their roles (rich people, kind of) and put the fungible folks out in the field.

Not moral; not gonna say it's right. But societies that did this, won more wars. So they're the ones we have around today. Cultural natural selection of a sort. Like it or not.
Over 120M people in Eastern US are at risk for severe storms
OpenSPARC seems to have had open 64-bit designs released before RISC-V was launched?

"In March 2006, the complete design of Sun Microsystems' UltraSPARC T1 microprocessor was released-in open-source form, it was named OpenSPARC T1. In early 2008, its successor, OpenSPARC T2, was also released in open-source form. These were the first (and still only) 64-bit microprocessors ever open-sourced. " -https://www.oracle.com/servers/technologies/opensparc.html
Fast company along inc.com are among the worst offenders on invasive ads. Anytime I hit a amp link I can't block ads the first thing I do is open actual url. Autoplay video should be ilegal. I get these publications (similar to Google maps) are huge costs centers but please be self aware on your criticism.

Yeah, maps is not as minimal as it used to be and maybe it will die as it is due to inexistent business model but my clutter of personal pins - at the moment - is competing with ads, so unless I zoom in I barely see any ads.
Remote detailed planning on a weekly basis is fine. Quarterly meet-ups is perfectly sufficient for setting a roadmap.

That's how my entire team operates (since before the pandemic!) and have never had an issue with it.
Yeah I used chatgpt to write the string for a cronjob yesterday, and then an awk script to parse the output.
Every single point here is wrong.

Mapping is a data collection/sanitization and content moderation problem. You need a lot of data, much of it user-submitted, and you have a lot of bad actors constantly trying to feed in bad data. I don't see where AI comes in here except maybe for route optimization, which is a tiny percentage of what a mapping app actually does. A mapping app is mostly just a huge database of incredibly useful info that needs to be true (and LLMs cannot help there, they just make shit up).
> 100 million casualties per warhead for >50 years.

How did you reach 100M?

The blast radius is huge, but not that huge.
Fair criticism. I should have been more clear.
There's a name for this phenomenon: the orphan crushing machine https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/orphan-crushing-machine
I don't understand, is this a breach in MS Azure accounts or personal accounts or both? I mean, I use Authenticator to log in from my phone and I have disabled the password as a way to log in; am I also a potential victim of this attack?
Tom Scott: This town (Zermatt) banned cars (except tiny electric ones)[video]
How does that work if voting is disabled?
Seems to be a code similarity tool being promoted (by the authors, not the frequent spin by outsiders seen on papers) as an IP violation risk tool, despite no expert in IP law being involved in developing it, and, judging from the abstract (the Github and paper links fail to resolve!) not even the slightest consideration of IP law in constructing the risk score.
I suppose you're technically correct about this being a "bad thing" for us personally in the short term. But why should there be a moat? If devs elsewhere can indeed do the same quality of work, why should our salaries be kept artificially high?

Stretching this to the limit, it would be a "good thing" for me if there was a law saying that I specifically should be paid more than all others of equal skill, but (even if I could somehow lobby to legislate that) I think I would prefer to compete on my own merits rather than artificial limitations.
At this point this just seems like one of those internet religious wars instead of anything actually tecnically usable.

I bet after (re)introduction, most of people yelling for it won't actually convert their JPEGs to XL. Just like almost noone whining about Reader actually uses or pays for any of the alternatives.
I've tried to give Amtrak a chance. But I don't live in the northeastern part of the USA. So I would have to drive a few hours to get to a train station, then spend 24 hours longer on the train than I could drive in a car. And it would cost me a lot more to ride the train than to drive myself.

I think there is more than one reason that Americans "never give it a chance".
Is there a way to render the livebook as read only until they try a change? I tried to open the link and it failed. I could download it and run it but I just want to see it as you intended.
> This is a pretty reasonable thing, you're the one who uploaded the material, you're responsible for it

Absolute BS, this isn't youtube, call it what it is... eavesdropping on two way communication for personal gain. They are misusing IP law to cover their arses for stealing information that is legal to share between the people in the call but not legal for them to steal.

Every business should be fleeing from Zoom right now. All your internal comms are going to be exposed to their LLM... if you have trade secrets discussed over zoom calls, you should assume they can be extracted by others with access to the LLM.
I think US's car fatality problem stems from the "driving classes" you take at 16 for one day to become a driver. You don't really learn to deal with all possible scenarios doing 3 left turns and parking. There's 2 other big reasons the roads are unsafe due to the states just not taking care of their own roads. The other reason is the popularity of bigger SUVs and trucks. 90% of big vehicle owners feel safer due to the weight of their vehicle as if they truly intend to total anyone else's vehicle that they hit. When I was in Europe I noticed cars are a lot more popular than SUVs or trucks. Getting in an accident with 2 cars is a lot less destructive than a 4,000 lb car hitting a 6,000 lb truck or SUV.
People are going to feel all kinds of things. Asking whether or not they should feel them is a dead end in the context of public forums, because nobody controls anybody else's feelings, or how each individual reacts to a feeling.

Sincere, productive conversations are mostly going to take place in more private forums like group chat or face to face. Public discussion threads are better suited for identifying friends and enemies, playing and joking around, and signaling status.
Testing and Shell Scripting
Do you like #testing and tdd? Do you write bash scripts in your daily work - or even just occasionally? Maybe you can be interested in this post about "Testing and shell scripting"!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STUN
well it still exists but it will be managed by another operator (Squarespace) soon.
Adding new image format support to a web browser is not a small change.
I mostly remember that generation for the corresponding chipset's failing SATA ports :(.
LA. You want an editing bay? Its for rent by the hour. Photography studio? For rent by the hour. Recording studio? For rent by the hour. Stage? For rent by the hour. There are creatives in every field here, a critical mass level that allows for an entire service economy tailored towards them to not only exist but grow.
Funnily enough, the T480 is also on the supported models list for ChromeOS Flex and supported until at least 2028 so it'd probably make a pretty good Chromebook:
https://support.google.com/chromeosflex/answer/11513094
They criticize only the companies but not the workers who choose to work there like how the original poster choose to criticize those working at Intel for implementing telemetry. That's the difference. Meta/Google workers aren't judged here for working at these un-ethical companies.
From the article, getting off Zoom due to dodgy T&C changes, to something like Jitsi.
> the current zeitgeist of HN (usually mid-to-far-left social policy)

HN has no zeitgeist, and "mid-to-far-left social policy" is not even close to my experience.

A lot of commenters seem to think that HN has some kind of consensus, but it doesn't, as dang himself (the HN moderator) can testify. A number of different factions coexist (uneasily) here.

My experience is that upvotes and downvotes are... pretty random, sometimes inexplicable. It really depends on who happens to see your comment at the moment in time.
Absolutely. And the specific example here—reminiscent of the dongle incident [0]—is definitely one of those.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/how-dongle-jokes...
Interesting article, but it's lacking a performance comparison between wasm and javascript running in workers.

JS can be largely fast enough for a lot of use cases: if I had some WebAssembly to a project I need a good reason to do so.
Only as a last resort when no alternative is available. Fortunately this is rare since we've got plenty of options available.
> unhelmeted motorcyclists contribute to the supply of organs

I don’t get the impression that neither the commenter, nor the paper cited, thinks this is a good thing.
Barcelona is a fantastic city but you could lay down this same criticism just by moving out to Castelldefels or Forum or La Floresta.

Both are conurbations (of differing size) where you can find yourself wandering various little town centres each with their own unique vibe. It just happens that London is bigger.
The Exercise Paradox – physical activity does little to control weight
Name a commercial aircraft with wifi that flies under 155MPH. Go ahead. I'll wait.
I recently fixed this issue with KDE not coming back from sleep by setting it so that the VRAM is all saved on my nvidia card: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nvidia

Trying to explain it I'm actually not sure I 100% understand the solution. It looks like it uses systemd for sleep AND saves all of the VRAM (I'm guessing into RAM if I'm using anything other than hibernate).
Google has enough moat via the Chrome, Chrome-derivative browser and Youtube client marketshare to push through a new format virtually everywhere outside the Apple ecosystem.
I'm fascinated by WebAssembly and love that it exists but if anyone tells you they need to use WebAssembly to make the UI snappy I'd advise you interrogate that assertion thoroughly.

I don't want to speak to this example too deeply because I don't know it (I see they're doing all sorts of stuff with audio so maybe they do need WebAssembly) but modern JavaScript VMs are very, very fast. 99% of webapps are absolutely fine using JavaScript.

The far more important part of making snappy UIs is the Web Worker aspect. To my mind it's one of the key reasons native apps feel so much better than web ones: it's trivial to move an operation off the main thread, do an expensive calculation and then trivial to bring it back to the main thread again. Unfortuately the API for doing so on the web is extremely clunky, passing messages back and forth between a page context and a worker context. I'd recommend anyone thinking about this stuff to take a look at Comlink:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/comlink

it lets you wrap a lot of this complication up in simple promises, though you still have to think hard about what code lives inside a worker and what does not. In my ideal world all the code would live in the same place and we'd be freely exchanging stuff like you can in Swift. "Don't do it on the main thread" feels like a mantra taught to every new native developer as soon as it can be, the same discipline simply doesn't exist on the web. But neither do the required higher level language features/APIs.
Ahhh ok, I think that's where the wires got crossed. From your original post, I got the impression that you were suggesting that somehow RedHat's existing business model could be converted to using utility tokens and allow them to freely redistribute all of their RPM sources and build scripts without having their OS distribution cloned.

I suppose my last question, having flipped around through the Qbix site a fair bit and grokking a bunch of the concepts of how it all fits together... I think I get how Qbux move around the network and get distributed to software authors, but how do I convert Qbux into food and rent? Is the expectation that there'll be some kind of exchange set up where I'd periodically auction off my accumulated Qbux?
iPhone 15 Pro’s 3 nm A17 chip will blow away competition thanks to TSMC deal
I've been evaluating some self-hosted/open source company management systems this weekend.

Most of them are classic multi-page PHP apps. It's terrible. I can't stand how it always reloads each time I click on something. I remember it didn't bother me much in the past when everything was like that, but today we have much better options.

I went for a SaaS built as a SPA. When I click on something, for example to create a new entity, I get a modal/side-panel immediately. When I want details, I get them much quicker and can return back to the listing immediately.

> It's particularly visible in banking applications, where modules are almost completely independent and built by non-overlapping teams, so they take forever to load due to the limitation on concurrent requests in browsers.

They just can't code SPAs well. It's perfectly possible to have both quick loading times and very separate modules.
I’m working on this problem (heavy user of chatgpt too). What kinds of libraries do you use it for that are out of date. I could hopefully get you into the beta with it having better responses for those libs. Please email me gaurav@gvkhna.com
What would someone trusting PayPal and complying with their terms & conditions need a stablecoin for? They can use USD.
Right. You have a LOT of captive butts in seats. During the breaks in the game, the Sports Team can sell their eyeballs to the highest bidder. In this case it was Coca Cola and Lettuce Entertain You.
Bootable snapshots are a thing, also known as boot environments. You need to use ZFS or btrfs, or possibly bcachefs or LVM offer them. And they never have seemed to have a great implementation on Linux compared FreeBSD, but they do exist.
It's a decent proxy for peak utility when enthusiast motherboards last came without lights. Miss those days.
High end TV's are filled with all the crapware and telemetry shenanigans of the low end TV's as well. Why would companies not double dip?
Can you create custom native modules without ejecting now? I see something about using Expo development builds, but that sounds worse.
Obviously the first thing to say is that logs should be structured, by design, at least for individual modules and cohesive subsystems.

So maybe that's not possible, because other modules are under 3rd party control (even within your org).

At my last job, I developed a test library implementing Regular Expressions for Events (regev). It allowed a test case to specify a regular expression grammar for the events it expected to be emitted by a test execution.

For example, it could wildcard over the unknown junk events from other nested libraries (the whitespace of the event world), and quantify over repeated emissions from loops (0,1,n,?,+,*).

My previous employer is bankrupt, so maybe it could be open sourced now, depending on who ends up with the IP.
Can we 10x Rust hashmap throughput?
Sandy Bridge was hit harder than newer generations by those mitigations. It was a factor in my decision to retire my i5-2500k 5 years ago.
Ivy Bridge and even Sandy Bridge are still in production at GCE. These things are economically viable long after the (very misguided, extremely outdated) traditional thinking of recycling hardware after 3 years.
As a practitioner in the AI space: absolutely nothing useful.
I bought myself and the kids i7-4770/4790 Haswell Dells when they were 5 years old. It’s still my casual/personal/non-work desktop and was the kids machines until this spring when I finally upgraded them so they could play Valorant (TPM-related not performance related).
It's definitely worth a whirl! Some anti-cheats are more effective at catching this than others.

I was using this as my method of 'Gaming on Linux' until Proton became a thing.

Lots of experience, indeed, though my memory hasn't aged particularly well. I even had SLi working with two RTX2080s! Hacked drivers and EFIGuard to bypass security things

Valorant was the one game I couldn't really manage.

Perhaps with more determination, but I lost interest rather quickly. Not that into the game and Proton really hurt my VFIO involvement; the timing was unfortunate.

There are some rote edits to the libvirt XML I can't recall. Both to get the nvidia driver to work (if applicable, look for 'code 43'), and to hide the VM state for anti-cheats.

You'll generally be well served by your distribution of choice with modern kernels and QEMU/libvirt.

I don't know Nix well, but from what I gather, you get to pick a lot... so it shouldn't be a problem. Arch is Arch, it'll be fine being so new!
there's a comma between "artificial intelligence" and "training" so I could read that as permission to use your data in any sort of training (e.g. training customer support staff) though I guess it doesn't rule out using it to train an artificial intelligence.
I don’t think I truly understood calculus until I TA’d it in grad school.
Agreed. A hate this trend of making supposed sequels that thake significant liberties with what kind of game they are making compared to the original. At least this one wasn't a Kickstarter.