skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What codegen is good for
+1 for Windows RDP. One thing Windows RDP excels at is working over low bandwidth connections. My remote desktop is in a rural area with very poor internet service -- uploads under 1 Mb/sec. With Win RDP I set the "Experience" to "56k Modem" (not joking) and it eliminates eye candy stuff like font smoothing and window animations, which is fine, at least I have a steady connection that works. I've tried other RDP programs and they always say "connection lost" due to insufficient bandwidth.
>That's not really about sustainability, it's just a way to drop the ones that didn't really work out

These layoffs are just a way for CEOs to improve "efficiency" AKA increase margins so they get a nice fat bonus - COVID overhiring has been a convenient excuse and every company has jumped on it.
I’ve used ranger for years, even fixed a bug I found while using it.

For my work patterns it’s too feature rich. I only use it for browsing directory structures. Everything else just gets in the way because I haven’t taken the time to learn the other features.
And yet we can't escape debating this. Each time this is posted we get sucked in.
Epic has done a poor job activating its storefront. Steam is ready for a competitor that can pull in AAA titles, but there really is no reason to use Epic if a game is also on Steam - Steam is far and away the better app.
SigNoz – open-source Datadog / New Relic alternative
Oh sure! Let me just pull up my training set of unredacted classified documents…

Wait. I’ve got a knock on the door.
>I wonder also how much of a driver new programmer productivity tools like copilot and ChatGPT are factoring into this. If your top 10% productivity workers just got a 30%+ productivity boost, that means you can easily shed the bottom 20% productive workers and still be ahead of the game.

I have been evangelizing GitHub Copilot (+ Copilot Chat) and ChatGPT Pro to my coworkers that include full-stack .Net/React devs, Python data science people, and embedded C devs.

Only the .Net/React devs have been sticking to both Copilot and ChatGPT Pro. The Python data science are using ChatGPT Pro but have dropped Copilot. The embedded C devs are using neither.
Many fancy smart fridges are already quantified shelves. I see you are still adding stuff... let's keep it going.... Rideable Boston Dynamics Spot for commuting. An smart vape-pen line of medications. Smart Wigs. Self driving strollers.
Human brains proudly present
Real poetry? Grouchy resent!
My rhyme is not gradient descent
After all, it is barely nascent
Why did you move the goalposts from "school" to "primary school"?
I've come across wifi zones which allow normal web browsing, WhatsApp messaging (including pictures), but not WhatsApp calls. I saw it first in Hollyhead Port while waiting for a ferry. WhatsApp threw up an error message saying that calls were disallowed by the wifi network.
The ieee.org source below contradict's Foreign Policy's timeline. Arikan has been a professor for Bilkent University, Ankara since 1987. The paper wasn't published until 2009. That is he had already returned to Turkey long before the paper was published.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37272793600

Erdal Arikan (S’84–M’89–SM’94–F’11) received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, in 1981, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, in 1982 and 1985, respectively. Since 1987, he has been with the Electrical-Electronics Engineering Department, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, where he is a Professor. He is also the Founder of Polaran Ltd, a company specializing in polar coding products. He was a recipient of the 2010 IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award, the 2013 IEEE W.R.G. Baker Award, the 2018 IEEE Hamming Medal, and the 2019 Claude E. Shannon Award.
It's a damn shame the only way to get a good product is to find a company that is still in hustle mode -- once its revenue/moat is secure it all goes to offshore/acquihire hell.
If another company wants to make a Steam competitor on PC, go for it. EGS isn't a competitor, it's an internet scam.
I was just thinking that you could take a picture from the window and then tie the GPS coordinates to the image with the output from that JSON. Kind of handy.
Indeed. But partially because the Lotus Elise kicked ass :P
Jamming ultimately works by known physics though, and Starlink seems like inherently an incredibly tough thing to jam (even ignoring anything in the future like optical). It's very high frequency, in LEO, using phase arrays and electronic steering. That makes for something that's highly directional, fairly tight beams, fairly strong signal, that are heading up into the sky (in a military context meaning anything trying to get between you and the sats is right above your SAMs/AA/fighter screens), moving very fast, with the built-in (needed anyway) ability to near instantly jump between satellites in different directions of the sky. That's a big list of fundamental physical challenges that omnidirectional low frequency radio or single HEO sats or the like just don't have. It will likely not even be reasonable for a long while to shoot down the constellation (retaliation aside). SpaceX's launch and mass manufacture costs are already cheaper than anyone and Starship will take that down another order of magnitude or more. Starlink sats will be cheaper than ASAT missiles, and orbiting low enough that atmospheric drag means Kessler Syndrome is not a concern either. Attacking the launch site(s) means attacking the continental USA.

It seems to add up to a pretty dang hardened looking system? Cyberattacks, sabotage and so on could be real concerns, but to jam a tight beam phased array looking at very specific spots for signal from 10-100 miles away looks hard from a physics point of view. And of course any powerful jammer will by definition be an absolute magnet for HARMs. The US takes SEAD/DEAD very seriously and is thus pretty heavily equipped for that.
Even if you agree that there was a recession the US exited it a year ago. The economy has been growing since last August.

This (and other layoffs) are a response to increased interest rates imposed to combat inflation. Companies don't have access to as cheap credit, so they're trying to appease shareholders by cutting costs to improve profitability.

This puts the brakes on the economy and may cause a recession if it goes too far. But the US economy is not currently in recession by any definition.
Hi, Igalian here. I can tell you that Wolvic does not use Servo nor are there any immediate (or even long term at this point) plans for it to. That's not to say it couldn't happen someday or that it wouldn't be interesting. We are major contributors to a lot of major projects and many of them have something to do with web engines (see https://bkardell.com/blog/2023-Mid-Season-Power-Rankings.htm...) so it's easy enough to see connections, but the connections are mainly often more generally just "we have a lot of interest in web stuff, and a great reputation for contributing".
It's not a myth, it's a basic chemistry and physics. Increase temperature enough and chemical bonds start breaking, transforming complex molecules into simpler ones. Go far enough and you will get bare ionized atoms, i.e. plasma.

But there are different forms of pyrolysis. In my understanding, the company uses lower temperatures to transform plastic into "synthetic oil" (i.e. mix of hydrocarbons instead of long polymer chains), which in theory could be used to synthesize new plastic. Only small part of plastic gets transformed into gas and burned. But this "oil" is much harder to work with than oil pumped from ground, so instead of recycling it fully, some of it gets discarded into environment, resulting in toxic hazard.
> how do these companies determine which are the unproductive devs?

The senior management delegates. At every moment your direct manager knows whom they are willing to part ways with if asked. Even if everyone on the team is great there is always some criteria (costs, impact on important project, institutional knowledge) that sets some people apart.
Also looks like PCIe is exposed via an FPC connector. You could probably come up with a scheme to have an M2 device mounted behind the board - if you really wanted.

Only having a single lane of PCIe 2.0 is a little unfortunate. I wonder if the inevitable compute module will get more or not. It seems that their IO chip is also attached via PCIe but it provides a lot of the interfaces that you’d expect to have - so my hunch is that it’ll be included on any CM5.
Question 2: Should a 16 year old be able to get a chainsaw.
> At this point the hobbyist community has moved on to other things (shout out to odroids).

Some small fraction of one percent of "the hobbyist community" has done as you've suggested. You're in some kind of odroid bubble.
But the license claims aren't bogus – or at least not all of them? For example the CDDL states that you can't add additional restrictions, but if you combine it with the GPL then the GPL also applies, so that's an "additional restriction", no?

Of course, all of this is highly legalistic and in spirit the CDDL and GPL are essentially identical, and from that perspective any lawsuit would be complete bollocks, but ... bollocks lawsuits do happen.

There's lots of claims about GPL and CDDL compatibility floating around and much of it sounds at least plausible and it's all a bit controversial. Clearing up this sort of confusion is exactly the sort of scenario where courts come in to play. So it seems to me that fears of a lawsuit are not entirely unreasonable.

Do you want to put all your money and the future development of Linux at risk? The nature of lawsuits in the US means that as soon as the lawsuit is filed you've lost already, and the ruling just decides if you've lost even harder.

Not denying Linux can have its share of NIH, but I see this mostly as a matter of risk management. e.g. Canonical has decided to take that risk, which is fair and reasonable, but Linus decided to not take that risk, which is also fair and reasonable.

Of course the entire situation is ridiculous; btrfs is partly sponsored by Oracle, and Oracle is also sitting on a perfectly functional filesystem they can just relicense like they did with dtrace. I don't know what's preventing Oracle from doing that.
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... Which is precisely the data those data loggers you plug in from insurance companies track to adjust/refine your rates .....
Ask HN: Why does ChatGPT say “fosters” so much?
The title says it all. Once you read this, you'll start seeing it in so many ChatGPT responses, and it'll stick out.

A bit of a navel-gazing question, but I'm curious where "sticky" and phrases like that come from? Are those words tuned/shaped by OpenAI? Or is there some body of text where "fosters" is over weighted? Would love for LLM experts to shed some light. Thanks!
Looks like just Python at the moment. But you could enforce it with a pre-commit hook.
I've seen this on the org I work, the whole 'engineer manager' layer was removed and replaced with wishful thinking (love that phrase!). The engineer managers had a good idea of how to manage teams and were doing team/tech lead work and coaching the team/tech leads, which didn't have much experience (mostly senior devs who didn't want to code any more).

This org in particular missed, in my eyes, where to cut. There is a number of engineers who cannot do much more than copy/paste code and the org has no wish to train them. Unfortunately, the org thinks that going wide (lots of teams, lots of people) is a good way to scale.
The speed unit looks more like knots than mph.
From the announcement: "The company also announced that it’s divesting Bandcamp, an online audio distribution platform it acquired last year"

I don't care a ton about Epic, but I love Bandcamp. It's my primary mechanism these days for discovering and acquiring music.

I was puzzled when Epic bought Bandcamp, apparently they were too. They're being kicked over to Songtradr -- I hope that's a neutral to good move, but I don't really know. Anybody know anything that could shed light on that?
Per the CDC:

>Excessive alcohol use was responsible for more than 140,000 deaths in the United States each year

Firearm deaths don't even break 5 digits.
If your bar for for "it's not easy" includes emphasizing that you have to take 2 extra taps/swipes, making it 6 not 4, your argument is weak, IMHO.

"It is very easy to switch, but most people don't give a shit, so they won't" is a more accurate headline.
The way they try to push their store is annoying, so people want them to fail outright.

I think few people will disagree that letting Valve have a de facto monopoly is a bad thing. But Epic's whole strategy around EGS seems built entirely around appealing to publishers and developers at the expense of making the platform desirable for users.

Their marquee feature is that they take a smaller cut of sales on their platform (12% vs Valve's 20-30%), but this savings never gets passed down to the customer. So from a user's perspective, this isn't a feature, it's a footnote with no real bearing on their decision making.

Where Valve has invested a lot of time and money into building out platform features that add value for the customer (Steam Play, Steam Input, Workshop, Big Picture Mode, a fairly reasonable refund system), Epic uses all their money to buy exclusivity deals. The platform itself is barebones. The client takes twice as long to load as Steam despite having 1/10th the feature set.
Unity merged with a bizarrely-managed malware company a while back and shouldn't be used as a measure of anything.
I noticed the same on Alaska flying last weekend.

As soon as I activated the "Free Messaging" service, I got a bunch of notifications from my Apple Home and Google Nest devices.
Points 1-2 make sense, although I don't believe (see no reason why, given the rest) unions would "come to the table", other than again when their demands are seen as unreasonable.

>I was attempting to provide context to your statement.

For the third, I'm not blaming. It's just interesting to me that you would provide proper context (they were trying to exclude other labor) for immigration case; but even though the motivation was the same for the racist case, you didn't say that - I assume it was not because you personally are ok with the anti-immigration case, it's just giving this "context" for racist behavior is really taboo, whereas for anti-immigration it's still ok even if you don't agree with it.

As for companies, responded here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37691256
In reality if they could replace 100% of labor with capital they'd do it.

Meanwhile it's actually an interesting paradox... I agree that in narrow circumstances unions achieved/helped achieve worker protections. However, other rules were imposed on corporations without unions, and in different contexts (e.g. environmental, consumer protection, etc.). So I'm not convinced unions were necessary, but suppose they were. Still, if the basic rules are established as laws (and I don't consider extra-legal rules, like suppressing competition for wage, as valid or necessary), a permanent union becomes unnecessary for them and its motivations become as I've described...
First drive: Navigating LA freeways with Mercedes’ hands-off, eyes-off ADS
Over the longer term that is true, but the world had gotten used to well over a decade of ZIRP or near-ZIRP after the GFC. It's an assumption that is now deeply ingrained in a lot of business models.
I recall a story I once read about an elderly woman showing her family videos from her trip to the Grand Canyon decades before. You could hear her shooing her family out of the video so she could get a good view of the Grand Canyon, and afterwards she just wished she had more video of her family, not of a landmark. There are innumerable photos of most of these places, only a few of family and friends.
Then surely there must be competition or a record for “tallest ever,” hopefully requiring each layer to be functional.
Dynamic libraries, command-line executables, …
It would be stupid to be "against" competing stores on PC. PC is an open platform anybody can write any code they want on it. It's just a fact that Steam is the only good one by a mile. As long as all the others are dogshit, games exclusive to those stores may as well not exist.
Hope it's not by fraud.
Seconding this-- and I can recommend the Merton translation. Great for late night reading, or if you are feeling especially unsettled.
Qt 6.5.3 Released
Cosmic September: New Window-Swapping Mode
A rocket builder explains why they stopped building the satellite doors on their new rocket. Building satellite doors is the number one mistake I see early stage software startups making.
It's the opposite. LLMs are good after you make your way through the bureaucracy and end up with well defined specs and a ton of boilerplate code & tests to churn out. I'd say most devs are spending 90%+ of their time on the former.
Damn, I was hoping the old PoE hats would continue to work with this one.
Looks like the PoE pins have moved around. Another 20+ USD on top of the board cost...
Kinda disappointing, but the upgraded SD speeds will be nice.
Was also hoping they'd boost the core count or memory for some models, I know it's kinda against their targeted group, but would have been nice to have the options
It is also possible that ICE engines will remain but burning climate neutral fuel. One of the approaches people are working on for carbon capture is to use CO2 from the atmosphere to make synthetic fossil fuels.

The reason fossil fuels are bad when it comes to climate change is that they are taking carbon that was sequestered long ago and putting it back into the atmosphere. Fossil fuels that are made from carbon recently removed from the atmosphere are just putting that carbon back, so cause no net change in CO2 levels.

They still have the same problem with putting things like sulfur dioxides, nitrogen oxides, and various other things into the atmosphere, so it would be best to someday move completely away from them, but that is massively less urgent than reducing CO2 emissions. They don't make those other things worse and could make reducing CO2 much less disruptive so would be a win if they ever get to the point where they can be produced economically in sufficient quantity.
I have used reddit for over a decade but I stopped recently. It's turned into a bunch of political echo chambers. I have been banned from subs just for commenting in a different sub. I have been banned for saying slightly controversial things that subs don't agree with. Not to mention literally every single time I've ever tried to post to large subs like shower thoughts or whatever, I get blocked by a bot. Some times I've seen nearly identical posts submitted after I tried to submit mine, I have wondered if they just block everything and repost for karma farming or something.

Anyway, reddit has become a toxic shithole. Better to stay away.
Remain in production could mean like the nano 2 W which is manufactured in such small numbers it’s never in stock.
I somehow feel RPi5 is getting out of my "small fanless SBC" comfort zone, for embedded projects and products, RPi4 is more than enough for my needs, though I like its RTC and power button.
Oh, you bet! Fortunately, it is not for the doctor in training to decide if these kind of surgeries are necessary. However, for smaller things in diagnostics, let's say a spinal tap or something like that, it is absolutely possible that on overeager doctor in training will do this unnecessarily, because I think they have a training quota for these as well. However, biggest risk for unnecessary surgery in Germany is still private health insurance...
This is running a 5257U which is an ancient 5th gen mobile chip and even with the Iris graphics it got (much better than the usual Intel HD) only HDMI 1.4 is supported.
Amazon Bedrock is now generally available
No way. I saw the Nice truck photos, and that is much worse.
How does an LLM help when you can't get anyone to sign off on a change, or when QA is understaffed, or when there's too many stakeholders making conflicting and sometimes nonsensical requirements?

That kind of stuff can't be solved by technology.
Can you show evidence of him "blaming" Valve? I'm not aware of that. And it appears as though you are criticizing his character based on a behavior he didn't do.

Off the top of my head I can think of him saying the Valve Steamdeck is great: https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/141575567884990054...

And him saying that Valve not demanding crossplay is bad.
If your business model isn't resilient to historically common events you might want to give it a bit more attention.
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AOL had a fun one in the instant messaging HTML interpreter: <font size=9999999999999999999999999999999999> would bring a system down instantly.
> Who was it that said "In Europe 100 miles is a long way, in America 100 years is a long time?"

In my experience, everyone on HN whenever the opportunity to quote it arises.
This collection of names does not inspire confidence, with all due respect to sir Jony for past accomplishments...
The first comment literally talks about premium features....
Hi fellow Alaska frequent flier.

So about that! There's this iOS app called Flightly that does a brilliant little hack where the app updates itself in (almost) real time on the "free messaging" plan. The way it works (according to a friend) is that their servers send your phone a push notification every couple of minutes from take-off until landing, containing some serialized info such as lat,long,alt,eta,etc. And then the app immediately swallows the notification and deserializes its content without you ever seeing it. The notification works because in order for Alaska to give you notifications at all for your messaging apps, it needs to give you access to _all_ push notifications as they all get sent over an encrypted connected through Apple's server and it can't pick and choose which apps' notifications it lets through.

I've often wondered if it'd be possible to pipe any sort of internet over notifications but I'm not sure if e.g. inline responses are viable, and also that'd probably be heavy enough usage of push notifications I'm sure it's violate someone's TOS.
> What the hell is an "AI device"?

A phrase used to extract a billion dollars from idiot investors.
Carving your name in a protected tree is an act of vandalism too, note.
Not patching swiftshader bugs in swiftshader feels inexcusable and makes that whole component look like a huge security vulnerability. It's weird that this post mentions it multiple times but never explains why it's not getting fixed.
My panniers: a PVC frame + a backpack--

1 inch PVC tubing. Shaped like an H, with the top & bottom as cross-beams as well. about 2.5 feet by 1.5 feet. With one on each side of my back bike rack, Makes it easy to hang a 60 liter backpack on one side, and 30 liter backpack on the other.
I wish they would've hacked me an upgrade to Seven Stars status at Caesars
Yes, APNs (Apple Push Notification service) has to be allowed for notifications to come through from messaging apps and the network operator can’t tell whether it’s an allowed messaging app or any other kind of notification.
There was a world before "stores", you know...
I’d love to know how these top developers are identified. What’s this mythical productivity metric? If Epic has one that accurately models productivity they should 1) share individual scores with their employees and 2) stop wasting time on games and start selling it to every other corporation.

If they really did over-hire during the pandemic and fail to plan for the future that was either 1) intentional and they lied to recruits about the duration of employment or 2) incompetence on the part of leadership and recruiting. Have heads rolled in the responsible departments?