skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the article, your libertarian non-fascist, is actively calling for the implementation of the 'light fascism' of FDR

It is literally impossible to interpret the article in that way. Are you lying, or do you not read good?

> he bought a portrait of his friend Curtis Yarvin, an explicitly antidemocratic writer who calls for a strong-armed leader to govern the United States as a monarch. Thiel gave the painting to Yarvin as a gift... When I asked what he thinks of Yarvin’s autocratic agenda, Thiel offered objections [innuendo removed]...“I don’t think it’s going to work. I think it will look like Xi in China or Putin in Russia,” Thiel said, meaning a malign dictatorship. “It ultimately I don’t think will even be accelerationist on the science and technology side, to say nothing of what it will do for individual rights, civil liberties, things of that sort.” Still, Thiel considers Yarvin an “interesting and powerful” historian. “One of the big things that he always talks about is the New Deal and FDR in the 1930s and 1940s,” Thiel said. “And the heterodox take is that it was sort of a light form of fascism in the United States." Franklin D. Roosevelt, in this reading of history, used a domineering view of executive authority, a compliant Congress, and an intimidated Supreme Court to force what Thiel called “very, very drastic change in the nature of our society.” Yarvin, Thiel said, argues that “you should embrace this sort of light form of fascism, and we should have a president who’s like FDR again. It would be hard to find an academic historian to endorse the view that fascism, light or otherwise, accounted for Roosevelt’s presidential power. But I was interested in something else: Did Thiel agree with Yarvin’s vision of fascism as a desirable governing model? Again, he dodged the question. "That’s not a realistic political program,” he said, refusing to be drawn any further.

How is this endorsement of Yarvin's ideas, let alone actively calling for them to put into practice? If you remove the hack author's fumbling attempts at innuendo, all you have a Theil engaging in a good faith conversation about controversial ideas (which the author brought up, not Theil), while a hack journalist attempts conjure controversy out of thin air.
Valve has earned a lot of good will. But Steam is, in my opinion, by far the least impressive program they've released.
There needs to be a statue built for this man. My understanding of Rust and low level computing has become oceanic due this man's hours of videos and books.
> It noticeably slows down the start up

On my gaming PC I went into the Windows 10 Task Scheduler and added a task to run "steam.exe -silent" when the machine is idle for 10 minutes. That way it doesn't slow down booting but it does eventually get around to the updates if I fire it up and walk away.
Statused is crafted for app developers, project managers, and QA teams who crave efficiency and a central point of communication for their app's release cycle. The larger the team looking to streamline its process, the better.

Using the words of one of the customers I have: "it shifts the paradigm from us needing to pull information to getting it pushed to us! Really helpful!"

It frees up time of mobile developers' and democratizes the access to the information across different departments :)

Lemme know if there are other questions I can help answering! Happy to explain anything in further details
I think adhesive and screws are the only two practical options for securing a battery well enough to prevent repeated cable flexing, which is probably much more of a concern than screws coming loose.
It should be possible, but not currently. Aider would need a bit more configurability to be able to load up arbitrary tree-sitter language implementations at runtime.

There's an open issue you might want to follow for updates:

https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider/issues/321
Looks cool, gives me a slight pang of regret given the model I purchased 3 months ago is now the entry level and £120 cheaper than what I paid. But I guess I knew I was playing with fire a bit.

It’s good to see Valve is staying committed to the platform though, it’s an excellent machine and very cool to see active changes towards increased repairability.
Both zig and modern C++ have safety that is generally good and catches swathes of issues.

I’ve been writing zig for a couple months now and have only once accidentally leaked in a test, and haven’t once accidentally messed up a buffer.

Not saying you can’t, because zig definitely has escape hatches, but idiomatic zig has proven quite easy to stay safe without even thinking about it.

No. Neither is as pedantic as rust, but zig has been a joy to work in compared to either C++ or Rust in my opinion.
when building industrial tools, one builds them to do their job as painlessly as possible, so I could totally see writing a note to self that the gears should be sharpened.

Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
I used to buy games on Epic Store during sales, but don't anymore since I got Steamdeck, and I've also repurchased those games on Steam. I don't care about Steam Community points - I'd rather pay a few bucks extra for the convenience.
That's going to depend on a lot of factors, such as your country of birth and citizenship, your area of expertise, your experience and achievements, etc. It's really hard to advise in general.
I believe I have Catwatching somewhere. If I manage to dig it up I'll report back in.
This is more of a historical question. I have a green card now so this is not currently relevant to me.

I wonder about the use of H1B vs O1 in academia. When I was doing postdocs in the US, I was often told that O1 was not the best route and H1B was easier (edit: for permanent positions). I learned from older colleagues that O1 was actually more frequent in their time (probably in the 90s). This is hearsay, of course, but I heard it often enough that seems somewhat accurate. What changed and could the H1B vs O1 balance change in the future?
My opinion, Adam scammed everyone, sold them all a utopian bag of dicks, and ran away with the cash. The guy should be in prison.
What surprises me the most is how a corporation like Google is incapable of meeting temporary staffing needs internally, by shifting people already on their payroll around projects. It's as if they are just admitting that they are shit at managing projects and workloads and scoping work to the point that they need external help to plug these gaping holes in their load management.

How many people do they need to pay to manage this contractor circus? How much effort do they waste sourcing contractors, tracking work assigned to them, treat contractors differently even interns of security processes, and dealing with higher attrition levels? So much waste.
In some jurisdictions, the requirements to be a judge are lower than the requirements to be a lawyer. (Separately: in many jurisdictions, judges are elected officials.)
Implications of AI for Science: Friend or Foe?
Up to 90 Hz screen? That must mean it's variable refresh rate!
Yep. But: the upcoming eruptions could limit or destroy access routes, change geothermal patterns, create other nearby health risks – or even, as you put it, result literall in "the whole thing being swallowed by a lava fissure".
You are looking at wire bonded chips. Wire bonding is still used for chips in older process nodes and lower number of IO. This article says up to 800 IOs

https://semiengineering.com/wirebond-technology-rolls-on/

But all the high performance chips in leading edge process nodes like 3nm are flip chips. The last time I worked on a wire bond chip was in 130nm in 2004.

With a wire bond chip you can only have IO for signals and power/ground around the periphery. Some wire bond chips have 2 rings of IO pads but it makes the wire bond angles complicated. It's difficult to jump over other wire bonds to get closer to the center.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip_chip

Flip chips have a series of bumps above the top layer of the chip. These bumps are then connected to a small PCB inside a package or some other kind of interposer.

The transistors are on the bottom of the die and then up to 18 layers of metal are built on top. In a wire bond chip the heat has to go up through all that metal stackup which is usually encased in a glob top which isn't great for heat transfer.

https://www.gluespec.com/blog/glob-top-encapsulation

In contrast a flip chip has the die mounted upside with the top layer mounted to the PCB and the side with transistors is on top and can be directly mounted to a heat sink. Intel and AMD used to have bare die around 2000 but then mounted heat spreaders on top because sometimes people would mount the heat sink incorrectly and crack the corner of the die when tightening down non-uniformly.

http://mantravlsi.blogspot.com/2014/10/flip-chip-and-wire-bo...

With a flip chip we can have over 15,000 IO in the chip. The flip chip bumps can be all over the die not just the periphery. Not only can we put IO in the center but the density of the bumps can be much higher compared to the pad points where a wire bonder would attach.

As for your original question about some kind of continuous bar shaped contact we have a power grid underneath on every layer to distribute the power across the chip. This has to go from the top layer Metal18 down through vias to the transistors below Metal1.

Modern chips have multiple voltages in multiple voltage domains. The DDR and PCIE sections have their own voltage requirements. The standard cells that are the combination logic within a CPU operate on much lower voltages. We have dynamic voltage control where the voltage is lowered to save power. We have voltage islands where the USB port can be shut off if nothing is plugged in or CPU core 1 is active while cores 2-4 are off saving power. This requires dedicated power / ground bumps and head switches to disconnect power to sections of the chip.

I don't think we could manufacture your concept of a "bar shaped contact" because the process DRC (Design Rule Check) stuff is very rigid about what can be manufactured. Certain shapes, widths, and turns decrease the yield so they aren't allowed.

https://www.vlsi-expert.com/2014/12/design-rule-check.html
Are they still friends?
Not misguided when the Macintosh was initially introduced with 128K of RAM. All the articles I've read about Apple Mac software development state that 68K assembly language and Pascal were used for software development.

So the C compilers released later had bugs if they couldn't ignore/handle an UnloadSeg() call on one of their generated CODE segments.

By the time I got into Mac development, THINK C and MPW C didn't seem to have any problems with CODE segments.
Ai won't make me rich
Show HN: A custom GPT conversational language tutor that generates Anki cards
I have a prompt I've been using for a while to practice spanish conversation. I decided to play with the new, confusingly named GPTs.

The format is a language tutor that gives corrections in your L1 and a conversation partner that speaks in your L2. As an added bonus you can auto generate an anki card for the last correction by typing :anki:
Maybe in the long term view - people correctly identifying that Dropbox had no differentiator (to quote Steve "this is a feature, not a product').
Maybe take some EE courses then? They're not that hard...

From EE101: P=V * I. But power transmission losses are I^2 * R.

So one way to transmit large amounts of power with low losses is to, well, turn the voltage up and use a lower current.

And with lower current, you can use smaller cables.

And in fact, that's what we do.

That's why your power lines to your house are thousands of volts and the transformer hanging on the pole will convert it into 220V (but with higher current to run your hair dryer, say).
It's also the only social network I haven't deleted my account for yet
(re1) while ipn wasn't a law, we have to keep in mind, the lord was also the judge. so if your lord raped you, good luck finding justice.
I don't understand how such a big company can mess something so simple? like okay you don't have the features but how do you make it seem so laggy?
It's really sad seeing startups get purchased just for a core piece of tech or for one of their teams. And 90% of the time, it never goes anywhere anyway so it just ends up destroying the startup for no reason.

On the other hand, as a big company, it's really nice letting the plethora of startups try various approaches and then buying one that is working, rather than making an attempt or two in house. You usually end up with better solutions for cheaper that way.
Yup, carbon credit programs like this one look really good come annual report season because of all the double-counting we get to do: both producers and consumers of carbon get to claim reduction quantities through carbon credits. But ultimately it doesn't meaningfully reduce the amount of carbon being produced as the costs are just passed onto the customers of those carbon producers to maintain profitability.
Break that glass with Wireshark/tcpdump behind it.
They did that because a lot of the people creating and posting that Content were kids…
Should my shit ever make it to HN, I would be happy for it to get scrutinized by people smarter than me, even for basic stuff. The HN crowd is mostly polite in its criticisms and acknowledges good work. That is, unless you write something like a Rust web framework that's full in unsafes and claim it to be the fastest...
Socratic isn't available on Android? I can't install it because it was 'made for an older version of Android?'

GJ!
Thank you! I am not from a country with EB2 backlog. What do I/they need to obtain(such as Perm certification) in the EB2 application process for me to continue working past STEM OTP EAD expiration date?
>But surely that that's not something that generally happens in any frequency that companies should take measures for, any more so than any other freak occurence.

Fair. I wish HN allowed folks to delete comments, I worry about the type of person who holds things against people written in a certain state of mind... forever.
Organizing a wedding, is SO exhausting.

After it happens, you’ll have more time to play with AI :D
Revenue is not profit. They're losing money. Their bank balance is decreasing.
This is a bad idea if applied too broadly. Founders often build companies with the intention of selling them to bigger companies. Products that are intended to replace or complement one of the acquirer's products.
Nope. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/08/upshot/medicare-advantage...

> Anthem, a large insurer now called Elevance Health, paid more to doctors who said their patients were sicker. And executives at UnitedHealth Group, the country’s largest insurer, told their workers to mine old medical records for more illnesses — and when they couldn’t find enough, sent them back to try again.

> Each of the strategies — which were described by the Justice Department in lawsuits against the companies — led to diagnoses of serious diseases that might have never existed. But the diagnoses had a lucrative side effect: They let the insurers collect more money from the federal government’s Medicare Advantage program.

> Eight of the 10 biggest Medicare Advantage insurers — representing more than two-thirds of the market — have submitted inflated bills, according to the federal audits. And four of the five largest players — UnitedHealth, Humana, Elevance and Kaiser — have faced federal lawsuits alleging that efforts to overdiagnose their customers crossed the line into fraud.
My wife is a U.S. citizen. I am EU citizen. I am currently in Europe, while my wife is in the U.S.
if i swap out the print statements for ones with parens, fakeap still works
Why is efficiency more important to us than justice? – The Lab of Thought
Were your ancestors there before the immigration the parent post alludes to? Are you a Huldufólk with internet access?
5 years and it still lacks some of the basic features that steam has (some by choice, who wants to moderate forums)... They got landlorded by apple and valve and got bigmad and tried to landlord .. but their landlord game is weak.
I made a super cheesy version of BASIC you can run in a browser. It just does a search and replace from BASIC to JavaScript.

https://gabrielsroka.github.io/webpages/BASIC.html

Src

https://github.com/gabrielsroka/gabrielsroka.github.io/blob/...
Is it a case of one just being monstrously easier? Like how everyone makes an HTTP1.1 server but never a higher version.
nasm has better goto labels you can use sublabels within a block that don't need to be globally unique.

The data generation stuff is better aswell.

This was a while ago, and I could have missed these features else where, but that's why I ended up at nasm.

Yes, if youre just doing a bit of assembly, use whatever, but if you're doing a bigger project in assembly, nasm is optimised for that, rather than dealing with the output of a compiler.
1) Create an extremely long wordpad document with a whole bunch of very unrelated posts from random tech fields and sprinkle in some select words, like eg. "overton window", "kagi", "Go", "WASM", "protobuf", etc.

2) Then, for context on any type of article, open this document and glance over it until fatigue hits you....

/s

That said, I appreciate your efforts although the problem does not seem like a solvable one to me :)
2016, and the BBC article is 2018.
From a cold start, to open steam on my PC: 3 seconds for my account to connect, about 2 seconds to open and get to landing page.

From a cold start, to open Epic store on my PC: 1 minute and 19 seconds of staring at a loading bar before getting to the landing page.
Love the working demo literally above the fold.
I think this is important to prevent fragmentation -- it's too early in the steam deck product cycle for games to only run on "Steam deck OLED" if there was 10% extra performance.
When I get that feeling / I need textural healing
The anti-competitive nature is not the high prices. It's using their size to implement a total lock down on supply chains and the best chip fabs.
School, as experienced by most people, is definitely not a luxury. It's closer to an ordeal.
Yeah, Apple and AI is effectively a meme, not unlike the PlayStation 2 missile crisis: https://www.zdnet.com/article/uk-intelligence-dismisses-ps2-...
Love the lead photo. That is just Kubrick AF.
Well before Steam's latest update, it was terribad too, their web engine they used could hardly handle a simple website, but I'm pretty happy about the latest update, took them 12 years or so, so maybe Epic will get on it on 2030?
if the same invention happened at a university, no one would say MIT/Stanford invented transformer. We credit the people involved. Somehow, if it happens at a company, company gets most of the credit. Even when the papers and authors are publicly available. this is different from say iPhone which probably would not be developed at a university.
Discovery is a major reason why so many people use Steam.

That, and Steam hasn't really burned many folks, ever. They even pioneered returns after you played the game...

As a user, I've never once been mad at Steam.
The website is seriously unusable. I was genuinely interested in learning about this just because it’s novel and creative, but every time I scroll the website on my iPhone it flings past several sentences then comes to rest with half-obscured sentences. It was so frustrating compared to a bullet list or slideshow that I just gave up and left.
Could you describe how this was created? Is it a version of ChatGPT fine-tuned with Paul Graham's essays?
Me as well. I've on Linux for years, but there was a time where I was preferring GoG for their DRM-free policy. However, Valve went all in on Linux support while GoG refused to even make a Linux version of their launcher. I still occasionally buy things from them, but Steam gained my business.
The flat earth one is super annoying, because the argument against Columbus was actually correct - they didn't say he'd fall off the end of the world, they said it was way further than he thought and he'd run out of food.

They were right, he just happened to run into a giant continent instead of dying.
There is a performance improvement as per [0][1] the memory speed went up from 5500MT/s to 6400.

[0] https://www.steamdeck.com/en/tech
[1] https://www.steamdeck.com/en/tech/deck
One of the photographers shot himself riding the motorcycle with the terrorists and the journalist was holding a grenade.
Yeah plus a few millions in the bank because of the acquisition.
Annoyingly, the term "dark ages" is so vague and bandied about that it's hard to rule this statement as true or false.

The term originally refers to the idea that it's an age of ignorance by Renaissance scholars essentially having a massive Classical Antiquity appreciation binge. This gets amplified by Protestants as an attack on Catholicism. Some more modern people get even more zealously anti-religious and view it as something pushing back the industrial revolution and other things back by 1500 years or so. This especially gets intertwined with things like unilinear cultural evolution models [1], where the Middle Ages end up getting classified as going backwards in culture. Most of these beliefs are basically complete and total hogwash in terms of actual evidence.

Archaeology can trace a rough outline of the economic history of Europe. We see a peak of economic activity in the first and second centuries AD, a decline in third century, which stabilizes somewhat in the fourth and fifth century, before plunging. It hits its nadir in the eighth century, and then starts recovering, surpassing its pre-collapse highs sometime between 1000-1300, depending on which metric you're looking at. If you want to refer to the time from ~500-1000 as a "Dark Ages" on the basis of poor document preservation and general economic collapse, that's actually a reasonable, grounded definition.

But if you're trying to use the term to indicate a loss of knowledge somehow, well, it just doesn't work. Even during the absolute worst depths of the post-Roman collapse, you would still be speaking Roman, learning from Roman textbooks (if you're fortunate enough to be learning), practicing Roman religion, obeying Roman laws. And there's a decent chance you might be doing that despite your village never having once been part of the Roman Empire.

[1] Or, more simply, Civilization-style tech trees.
they haven't yet, but the technology is there and is mandatory in large parts of the world

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECall

https://www.atic-ts.com/vehicle-accident-emergency-call-glob...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_9-1-1
That is just clear fraud, and I don’t understand how that is a lawsuit instead of felony charges for everyone involved.
They weren’t temps, read the case - average tenure, 11 years. And the entire thing started because the IRS said they were dodging payroll taxes, so the common law employees sued for what they were rightfully owed. MSFT acknowledged wrongdoing and settled the case.
Yes, but they also added a larger battery.
Superfamily? they're just making up stuff so they can bundle a bunch of fonts and say people are using "theirs"

blah
You're mixing up UnitedHealthcare with it's parent publicly traded company UnitedHealth Group. They sell other services and technology products unrelated to medical insurance, and those contribute a lot of the net profit. Medical insurance is a high volume, low profit margin business.

https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0000731766/0...

It is reasonable to criticize insurer profits but overall those are only a small part of much larger systemic problems in the US healthcare system. Even if profit margins were somehow cut to zero that would have only a marginal impact.
Tim Cook sleeping like a baby tonight.
I was under the impression patreon did adults-only content that is not allowed by stripe / paypal (although now I think of it, I recall paypal loosening this a bit maybe?) -

any idea if the ones you mentioned also censor in this way?