skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My experience of the 4090 is similarly positive. I ended up picking one up at a discount from a MicroCenter while I was traveling because someone had purchased it, realized when trying to install it into their case that it wouldn't fit, and then returned it. Probably the best purchase I've made all year as someone who plays video games, does some moderately intensive video editing for YouTube and likes playing around with local image generation and large language models.

My advice to anyone in the market for a new graphics card is to just save until you can get a 4090.
Responding with “Yeah, nah.” or a more formal equivalent is hardly going out of your way to operate with integrity in a manner that will get you massively fucked.

Yes, ghost those who don't take “sorry, but no” (or more succinctly just “no”) for an answer, especially those who have done so repeatedly (those are a time sink and deserve ghosting), but I wouldn't take it as my default position. Try not to become what you hate.

OK, so I tell a bit of a lie: ignorance is my default and only response wrt LinkedIn these days. I see the “you have messages/requests / people are looking at you” alerts regularly by mail, but I've not logged into the site in half a decade or more which anyone looking at my profile (rather than just being a gattling-gun invite spammer or similar) could probably tell with ease (the fact they bother contacting me is a good indication that they aren't a useful lead!).
I won't belabor points I've made below, but I do want to agree with you about 3rd party doctrine in general; the modern world makes it almost impossible to live a normal life without non-consensually making your self available for full time monitoring by everyone within eyesight of you.

I think the point of this article is actually being elided over some by the conversation here though; it appears that these agencies are largely following the law. The question is, how broad should the reach of LE go given their legitimate authority?

In the current scenario, should a LEO from Idaho be allowed to see prescription records from a pharmacy in California? Should they have the right to get data from CVS about things that didn't happen in Idaho? Every prescription ever? Every doctors note?

The law as it stands allows states to determine the reproductive rights of their citizens and investigate violations thereof (note that I don't agree with the law, or the Supreme Court here). I think the question being raised by this letter is, what breadth of access should some Sheriff have over your medical records, and really, what the heck is even going on with this now?

The Dobbs case has opened up a new frontier of potential abuse, and I think the letter and article are appropriately exploring that frontier.
Microsoft disables MSIX protocol handler in Windows to thwart malware attacks
These attacks don't feel like they're being made in good faith.

1. This is patently false. If you read the article you linked you'll see that $26B is Google's total spend on being the default search engine across all platforms including Apple and Samsung devices. Apple gets $18B of that alone. Firefox is a much smaller share, and it's not clear at all why taking this money would be unethical in the first place.

2. Firefox is up-front about the fact they use Pocket to generate revenue, and make it simple to disable.

3. I agree that Firefox should have been more up-front about what gets installed when participating in studies, but it should be noted that Cliqz has since been removed, and this article is 6 years old.
How is that revenue different than the ad revenue TV networks make with the wall of toy commercials during morning cartoons?
> State A makes it illegal to leave the state with the intention of having or facilitating an abortion.

States do not have the authority to regulate travel across borders. The supreme court would strike this down 9-0, as the implications would be enormous.
Might there be a point of instability beyond which the Sun becomes eaten from within faster and faster? Would there be a way to detect that and to predict how much time was left? Good premise for an Armageddon scenario movie. Thr hero would be sent to launch a McGuffin device into the sun.
I can think of counter-examples - so your this-is-fact style of writing is wrong to start with.

What's you're best example of a government that is following your advice?

Do trolls have a right to food? I probably shouldn't be feeding you on off-topic subjects. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Is Solana that you mention this https://solana.com/ ?
If you were to search any Harry Potter book using google search I'm sure you will find the unlicensed content, served up to you by google, very quickly, with less prompt than midjourney needs. You can hand wave about how it's so different but I see the search example returning a hashed copy vs. midjourney making something you could argue in court is infringement. The thing is, both are already illegal. You don't need additional government meddling in code to make illegal something that is already illegal.

In all cases, the person committing the crime is the person to prosecute. What would happen if I used Photoshop to carefully recreate the image by hand? Or even a paint brush and canvas? It would still be illegal! What are you arguing to make illegal? The paint brush? For _some people_ making clones of copyrighted work is very easy, this tool makes is easy for more people. But for you, _it's the tool?_

And in any of these cases you're trying to protect the same IP holders that cut off access to content you purchased, so any idea of fairness in copyright is a joke at this point anyway. I work in that industry so I knew it was possible, but I never thought they would do it with a huge swath of content like what happened to play station owners. IP holders deserve no sympathy or protection under the law after that move.

You might say "but these are not the people we're trying to protect". Too bad, that's what any IP law restricting generative AI would protect. And consider the draconian means required to do so.
https://archive.md/paC4K
You can take my Mojave desert almond farm when you pry it from my cold dead fingers.
> People who have the knowledge and want to capitalise on it are highly incentivised to preparing beginner level materials and maybe a tiny bit to prepare the something for people who already have a bit of knowledge. After that, the number of people who are your potential target drops off sharply and you would have to increase the price dramatically.

I think, even aside from the incentives, its a matter of interest and time. Earlier in my career, when I was learning at a rapid pace, I also had the time and motivation to write blog posts about what I discovered, as did many of my peers. Its also easier to write about beginner concepts, because they're simpler.

As I've advanced in my career, the things I'm learning and doing are more and more complicated, and/or require much more prerequisite knowledge. Not only do I have less time, there's also a corresponding increase in difficulty in writing concisely and coherently about the more advanced concepts.

About once a week I read a blog post in a field I'm familiar with, and recognize it as something I myself would have written 10 years ago. But I also now see in it the potential problems and pitfalls, and tweaks to make to avoid them. I think to myself "I should write a blog post about that", and sometimes even jot down some notes or a draft, but the topic is just so complicated, and the potential problems so subtle, that it takes a large amount of effort just organizing it, and I get bored/distracted and move on, never finishing it.

Talking to those same peers now, they feel much the same. And even with the experts that do manage to write about expert topics, that's become their full time job. Then after a few years of full-time writing instead of full-time doing, I find when they write about a topic that I've been full-time doing while they were writing, there's gaps in their knowledge or new techniques and tradeoffs they've missed.

I don't know how to solve this problem, except maybe figure out a way to give the knowledgeable experts a sabbatical or something, where they can take a break and write. Good luck getting a startup to agree to that, though.
It has become popular to refer to it as "fossil gas".
I'm going to say it more now.
The interconnector is with Denmark, which is connected to other countries as well. Presumably it is this extra demand that could cause the price rise.
Make sure to have Intel VT-x or AMD-V enabled too.

There are now a lot of BIOS flags that you can have set to off by default that'll silently hinder performance.
I recently switched and then made an extension called FoxColorBox which allows you to change and customize browser Window colors. When you open a new window, it will have a distinct color.

This can help you differentiate between home, work, and school. It can also be useful when working in development, staging and production environments.

* https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/foxcolorbox/

* https://github.com/jftuga/foxcolorbox
I started using brave a few years ago and I just can’t really switch back tbh, but if I could I would switch back to firefox.
EU is really bent on destroying itself by any means. First AI regulation, now open source destruction, killing off any avenues for growth for the next century. It's already uncompetitive at both.
Thank you! I do believe I'm ready to switch!
we might be onto something here.
What about performance insights? Chrome is pretty good at this
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

Be evil
Author here! When I first heard about this fun fact I was pretty surprised and expected the version number to be 100s of digits long by now given how old TeX is. But the history and reasoning behind this change (made in 1992) is pretty fascinating.
Prelude to Axanar
The US government does that for security clearances.
This is asking you to make it the default browser, like every other browser does. How is that noisier?
That is news to me and interesting. Do you have a citation or link to share?
Ford and Mazda shared a ton of parts and vehicles over the years.
Yeah, and apparently Google deliberately makes their sites work worse in Firefox. So for Firefox to by default spoof their user agent to be Chrome for those sites would be great. I actually installed a user agent spoofer plugin for this, User-Agent Switcher.
What is the bandwidth requirement I wonder. Seems too cheap to be true … must have some other catch. Latency as well?
Mozilla could contribute to Blink, but that would not help it prevent Blink from adding e.g. Web Environment Integrity ("DRM for the web"), or other additions that are user-hostile. Being in control of an engine gives way more sway over that engine.
I agree with everything the Author said and I do have Firefox installed for those reasons although my main Browser is Brave (Win/Linux) and Safari (Mac). Nowadays Firefox is as good as the Chromium alternatives, there is no doubt on that.

The question is: What would it take for the majority of the Internet users (enterprise, users with low literacy, Developers, Powerusers, etc...) to switch to Firefox ?

15 years ago it was clear. Firefox was vastly superior to IE. Nowadays is not vastly superior to the competition, in fact, I cannot think of any major compelling reasons which would make all those groups of users to change.

As for me, I used Firefox before it was Firefox or Mozilla and I do plan to join the cause and use Firefox in 2024.
you ban slavery and it rebrands itself to another name
This adds no new liability for the employers you persuaded to release that code open source, only for others that choose to include it in their commercial products. Please attempt to understand things before calling them "bullshit".
I wanted to use a MacOS VM with Parallels for development. It is very easy to install and runs fast, but it's impossible to sign in with an Apple ID, which severely limits its use.
By convention, but in practice rules get ‘reinterpreted’ to punish previously at least nominally legal behavior all the time - especially when it comes to finance, business, guns, sex/porn, etc.
They’re talking about the ability to turn on ads within brave and get BAT as a reward.
consent-o-matic lets a lot of them through.... I need to find an alternative that works better
That is what new laws are for.
> I don't care about politeness I care about kindness.

Your original comment is not kind either, my friend.

Genuinely useful feedback is the best, for sure. But hearing a generic "no" still makes it easier to take a deep breath and move on as soon as they decide against you rather than weeks later when you've decided it's appropriate to give up hope.
In my experience companies with bad practices (be they recruitment, or otherwise) are named and shamed frequently - but only locally, and in-person.

I'm not going to relocate from my current city (Helsinki), though perhaps I could go back to working remotely 100% of the time in the future. So really the only companies I'm ever going to apply for are based locally.

I think via IRC, facebook, random geeky chats in pubs, and other face to face conversations I'm slightly familiar with most of the big players. There are certainly companies I've heard of that I'd never consider applying to, and would outright reject if a recruiter tried to head-hunt me for. And I think the reverse is true - some companies are well known locally for having fun challenges, awesome people, and a good environment.
I use the Apple one family plan which is 2TB of storage so I’ve likely simply never seen it.
You should probably read the article, as it doesn't say anything about what you are talking about
Having used most of those at lrast trivially. i'd have to say that HTML/CSS/JS abd frameworks on top of that are in par with the easiest of those for nontrivial cross-platform UIs, though the others may have other advantages.
The Absurd Economics of Wish, AliExpress, and Temu
Greater than zero. Julia has a CUDA compiling and I've hand crafted CUDA kernels myself.

https://cuda.juliagpu.org/stable/
Yeah but "non-conflicting features" can be at the level of an individual task. It doesn't have to be an entire component. The best projects I've worked on were ones where anyone was allowed (and encouraged!) to work on any part. It helps people learn, spread knowledge, prevents boredom, reduces the number of "critical" people.

The worst projects I've worked on (including my current one) had components where people "owned" them. They fight against outside input and treat "their" part as a little kingdom that they rule. It's worse in almost every way.

Obviously there are limits - at some point your project is big enough that you have to have some specialist individuals and teams, but it's wise to avoid that as much as possible.
Terraform Provider for Astronomer
Wanted to put this out there if anyone's using Astronomer for Apache Airflow, here's an OSS Terraform Provider for it! https://github.com/GK-Consulting/terraform-provider-astronom...
I think they’re mostly designed around wealthy contract workers vs. W2s, which has always been a “figure it out yourself” tax situation. I work for a global remote company on a W2 and looked at a few of these programs, but almost none are designed with this kind of arrangement in mind. You’d have to more or less go through the normal immigration routes as full time staff and your company comply with all the local employment and tax laws.
Windows will take care of it. It has to check for updates even in sleep. /s
I only use Firefox, and I very rarely notice any kind of broken sites. I remember one bank site last year had a minor issue.
counterpoint: those policies are not sustainable and can be easily defeated by someone simply setting up an endpoint somewhere not on any lists. if you have a security worry about devices being compromised by dint of their location, you need to control the location in some physical rather than logical way. if you have an HR worry about residency, I suspect those rules are going to slowly go the way of the dodo anyway.
if you happen to use NextDNS or an equivalent, i added reddit to my list of blocked domains so if there is something i want to read on there it has to be worth disabling my ad block temporarily.
> A lot of Windows features depend on Hyper-V, once enabled Windows is not booted directly any more, Hyper-V is started and the main Windows system runs in a privileged VM.

Got a source for this? Not that I don't believe you but other than for the Xbox I haven't seen/can't find any details about this.
For more details, see:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=biodiversity+and+human+...
Also the EU laws are read here, by people who live in countries where that would be the case, with way too much weight. People from the US putting cookie accept banners and gdpr blah on their sites while they don't have to, because they are not violating in the first place (the intent of the gdpr is very simple; don't do things you don't want to have done to you to others; tracking, collecting info you don't need to run the business etc; if you do more, you have to be able to defend that and ask for permission), but in the US they can expect a cease and desist in 2 seconds while in the EU that's not going to happen. They are going after large abusers or abusers that won't listen after a ton of warnings. Which they should.
Also worth highlighting the deep research involved in each episode and Dubner's ability to scope out different points of views from credible people.
I read the article, but it was quite ambiguous, at least to me. It isn't very well written / clear on what is actually going on.
Honestly, at this point I stopped making strong conclusions about candidates based on a single interview. I won't recommend to hire but also won't judge their abilities overall. Interviews can be very stressful, candidates overthink and often get fixated on a random solution they think the interviewer expects, etc.

I had several odd experiences myself in the past, as a candidate. The funniest one was when I interviewed at a prestigious company I thought was hiring only top talent. I spent an hour trying to come up with the most efficient Sudoku solver, got completely stuck on some arbitrary algorithm that I came up with on the spot. It wasn't a "circle pattern" but close to that. Wanted to impress the interviewer and also did not sleep the night before overthinking the process.
And you really think Apple, selling their devices with the privacy label, would leave the browser market to 100% in google's hands? This would incredibly undermine their marketing strategy.

And what makes you think Safari R&D is solely funded by the search provider deal they have with google? Safari is a product that is sold as part of the "Apple universe", there's definitely more value to it than just a place for the google search box.
That's a very recent phenomenon though right? Presumably the current rates of inflation have a big impact. It wasn't so long ago that we were seeing record low strike prices being accepted for offshore wind, down to about £40/MWh.
Absolutely. It's a given with stuff like wind.
Well at least for the first 1.4 GW, yes. Also there is some nonzero transmission loss so that needs to be taken into account.

The cable can move electricity from the UK to Denmark too btw, so some of the price surges in the Danish region could get damped because the UK will start exporting electricity and the additional supply will bring down the price again.
I have been working with a generous person who reached out to me based on my last post from earlier this month. They've been tremendously helpful, and I'm not in need of assistance otherwise. My thanks.
Ho man. Do you think the Dr’s illegible scribble on the prescription pad as it is, is because Dr’s are so great at attention to detail and learning new things that they’ll be able to do that effectively?

Without it being an even worse situation where they get a Trojan from opening random emails or surfing for porn, and then all the sudden 100k valid appearing prescriptions for controlled medications all the sudden show up in pharmacies across the country?
"screaming about government power but not caring about corporations and billionaires" - that's by design.
Anyone falls for this (worries about government power over corporations) is simply not intelligent enough to see past the corporate media's shaping of the narrative.
The US needs a massive shift of power towards the government as well as a decrease in the democratic deficit. While there are plenty of problems with unions and the government, overall the state of the US needs a change, and smashing unions was one of the worst contributors towards increasing the democratic deficit, and it would greatly help to increase the functioning of local democratic organizations to improve the national democratic deficit.
The article says it is not clear who provides relief if the user directly uses open source with no middle man. That is the most concerning part for me.
That's surely more about convience, i.e. no one in Europe wants to actually deal with Russia so will faff around pretending they don't know who did it as long as possible
They were making a comment on the general case, not your specific case
We know they know we know. Google is evil but the uproar about Mozilla is about the fifth columners trying to wreck it. Like, our last hope with a consumer facing browser that has any hope of keeping up with Google spamming disfeutures into the web space.
Publishers, already pushing back against ad blockers and now suing because their sites were scraped and incorporated into LLM weights, would love to have clients "attest" to the "humanity" of the user and "integrity" (read: no ad blockers) of the browser. It's not hard to imagine that, if given access to the feature, they'd jump on it as soon as it ways feasible and make the user experience for non-attesting browsers progressively worse to force the change.
> Another person claimed in many long posts that "never, never there will be portable ultrasounds".

I am reasonably sure I read about home made (by an engineer in a developing nation IIRC) portable ultrasound devices on Slashdot almost 2 decades ago.

Today, right now, you can go on Amazon buy an ultrasound wand that pairs to your Phone. :-D

> The guy knew its stuff, so I suppose he/she was working in the industry, and he/she saw the thread as a menace for their business.

I've worked in industries where I've said some well informed stuff that later turned out to be completely wrong, because it turns out some people working in the same industry at another company where just better, or because technology moved on.

This is why I now try to avoid speaking about fields I haven't actively been working in after 2 or 3 years.

On the HN thread yesterday or the day before about space exploration and CPUs, there was an expert in the field, in 2010, and they were arguing with someone who worked in the field right now, and eventually the two realized that both sides were speaking the truth, it was just 2010 state of the art vs now. IIRC it was about what CPUs and technology stacks were being used in the field, someone was saying the KERMIT protocol is outdated and not used and another person was saying it is in use, and it turns out they were both correct.
Analogies are the only thing that work in my family. If you can figure out a way to explain something in terms the audience already comprehends, you are on the right track.

If you have to build up "what the hell is an EUV machine?" from first principles, you are going to lose them somewhere around linear algebra.

If something seems difficult to explain, even with analogies, consider if you should abstract the concern away and say something handwavy like "that's wizard crap, don't worry about it. Just call me if this light turns red."