skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being that we've not taken any steps toward the 15 minute city in the US, solar or not, I don't think that's much of a measuring stick.
I'd give it a few months.

Both laptops (sans Apple) and desktop PCs (even USFFs) tend to use the NGFF M2.2230 form factor cards, typically with two antenna connectors.

Yes, even your super fancy high-end desktop PC motherboard ultimately has an NGFF M2.2230 WiFi and BlueTooth combo card plugged in somewhere. It might be ultimately buried under a large VRM or other heatsink, but it's there nonetheless. Granted, replacing these sometimes necessitates entirely removing the motherboard from the case.

Note for desktop PCs that you'll likely hook up an actual antennas to the RP-SMA connectors on the rear IO panel. Especially so if you're looking to take advantage of 6GHz spectrum. These antennas are a far less popular include with motherboards (even high end ones) than years ago, but they're generally only about $15-20 to purchase if you need better signal and range.
Or reward states that have lower taxes.
In practical applications, you pretty much always have synthetic row IDs in cases where there aren't any natural ones.

I think it would be more helpful if you could give a specific example of a simple SQL query that does not map nicely to a relational expression, since it's kind of hard to discuss the specifics in these vague terms.
No need.

https://layoffs.fyi
The absolute minimum of safety for a car that's legal to sell in USA or EU today is greater than the maximum of car safety any money could buy in 1990s, and we're not even speaking about 1970s or earlier.

Of course they will build a safe car, because they definitely will be required to do so; the law is there, and the local car industry are sufficiently powerful and capable to act as an effective watchdog ensuring that all the requirements are enforced for their Chinese competitors.
And you believe these were hard decisions? That's exactly the point everyone besides the stubborn ceo before would have made them.
> third, not every employee is exchangeable, you cant just shuffle everyone around the company. You cant just take someone from the google maps team and have them start working on nexus phones.

True, but even so, you can train the employee for the new role. You need to do the same anyway for a new, external candidate (and it's even worse because they will need to familiarise themselves with internal tools and processes that the Maps employee would already be familiar with).
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> The author posits that these features should be in the spec

Does he? The author pretends that his library is what hypertext and hypermedia are as envisioned by Time Berners-Lee and Roy Fielding, and that his approach is the only true representation of both. And that's about it. Nothing about "this should be in the spec"
I really don't think it's realisitic that we will maintain intellectual superiority in the long-term.

So a more realistic hope would be: we're the horses, and the drivers are driving us to our carrots.
So basically Goodhart's law in action then?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
I think I roughly guess if you're using electrolyticly generated hydrogen to make ammonia it'd take about 10kwh/kg of electricity. If you can get wholesale renuabes at $0.05/kwh that'd be about $0.50/kg energy cost.

Wholesale ammonia prices are about $0.30/kg.

A lot of that wholesale price is natural gas. You can see the relation here.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=52358

If you dig at industry press releases you see a lot of interest in using renewables to generate hydrogen to make ammonia. Which says the above is on track that it's economic. And also shields manufacturers from natural gas price swings. Not to mention you can locate plants anywhere.
My takeaway is a bit different. My takeaway is that the system has been killing researchers' passion for research for decades (I think it's only gotten worse) and turns them into less effective researchers. That the solution here is to make a system that encourages the things that got people so passionate in their field in the first place. At some point, nearly everyone that does a PhD is doing it out of passion (I say nearly because money, jobs, and immigration are certainly other important influences). Those big advancements often come out of that love and play. Which should make sense that when you're trying to create or discover something that no one else has ever done before that you have to... explore. You have to play, you have to question, you have to push the bounds and reject established beliefs and do things that might not even make sense. Because if you did do the status quo, then we'd have figured out those things previously. Clearly to advance we have to do something different. But I think very few people want to be open about the absurdity of the system that we have. I think part of this is due to the fact that it is easier to place blame for lack of success on yourself when you see others succeeding around you (I certainly know I do. I just don't think that I'm the only thing that is a failure).

My literal solution is to just say fuck it to the journal/publishing system and to the publish or perish paradigm. Papers are simply a means to communicate to other researchers, and we already know how to find one another on arxiv, semantic/google scholar, and so many other platforms. Research is ambiguous and you never know where leaps and bounds are going to come out of, even if you know the general direction. The devil is in the details because nuance is the essence of what makes things work, especially as we've advanced. We have all these admins at universities, why are they not doing all the bureaucratic bullshit that is draining to researchers and let the researchers focus on what they love and do best?

What Feynman is saying is that researchers are the other side of "fuck around and find out." So you want effective researchers? Let them fuck around and they will find things out.
Good stuff, I'm a little obsessed with Postgres replication and the WAL (write ahead log).

If you're an Elixir user, you might find my library for subscribing to Postgres WAL events useful: https://github.com/cpursley/walex

It's a lot easier to operate than the typical debezium setup (which is what I think Airbyte uses behind the scenes).

I need to write a guide on how to use WalEx with Neon.
That does always seem to work in the movies
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WFH is a benefit when you and your boss don't care about the company and are just on the mindset of doing the minimum hours to get your salary, and your boss is just trying to cover his own ass. And would prefer to just get the money for doing nothing while sitting home. And care more about benefits than if the thing you're working on even ever ships.

It is sad such jobs exist, I would never work in such a job and think that HN readers as an average also would not prefer that over working on something worth their time.

When seeking for jobs I always prioritize for companies where most if not all work in-office after seeing how bad remote work can for wasting those hours of your life.
5 years is the shortest, 15 is the longest. Their assumption is that 5 years is the minimum time that it provides value.

I don't think there's any real logic to it, it's just a way to balance the tax budget.

For 1, presuming that all software engineering is "research or experimental" is faulty. The vast majority of software engineers are implementing known things, and the "experimental" status reflects its reliability. Most "experimental" software isn't really doing experiments to answer questions, it's just checking whether an approach works correctly. I don't think anyone could honestly call writing an Okta integration for a SaaS app "experimental". You know that it will work ahead of time, you just aren't sure if your pass implements it correctly.

For 2, this would imply insane things if applied to other fields. What is the correct period to amortize a bridge engineer's salary over? 50 years? 100? We still have some Roman bridges around, maybe we need to look in the thousands of years. Patents are good for 20 years, so any salaries that lead to a patent clearly need to be 20 year amortization. Copyright is life + 70 years, so graphical designer salaries should be amortized over at least 100 years.

I don't think there's any real logic here, it's just a way to balance the tax budget.
It's a knock on effect. Most software companies sell to other software companies and VC funded startups
I won't mock you, I get where you're coming from, but I think you're forgetting just how revolutionary many aspects of the internet have been. The ability to publish to a potentially global audience without a corporate mediator. Do commerce without physically going to a store or ordering over a phone. Access to information, culture and education beyond what can fit in one's local library. Bank without an ATM. Even just being able to communicate worldwide without long-distance charges (remember those) or an envelope and stamp. Even social media, which everyone hates, was a revolution in that it got people easily using the web to network and communicate en masse, whereas prior it was just people behind pseudonyms on niche forums. There is a real and tacit improvement in the quality of life for at least millions of people behind each of those.

Reducing the internet to only world-destroying negatives and writing off its positives as "snake oil" seems unnecessarily hyperbolic, as obvious as the negatives are. Although I suppose it's easier to accept the destruction of the internet if you believe that it was never worth anything to begin with. But I disagree that nothing of value is being lost. Much of value is being lost. That's what's tragic.
All the more reason to not need oil anymore.
They are most definitely correct. If, right now, all oil stopped flowing, many people would die. Oil is needed for bulk transport across the seas, in the air, and over land. It is needed for agricultural production, and a decent amount of electrical generation. Adding to that, almost all war machinery requires it in rather large quantities.

Then, there's plastic. I hate the use of plastics for many things, but there are some things for which it is absolutely essential. For example, there are many medical uses of plastics that save lives and restore bodily function.
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> How do the best integrated graphics compare performance-wise though

A bunch of handhelds (Steam Deck , Asus ROG Ally) that can comfortably run even AAA games with 30fps+ on small screens (as an example Red Dead Redemption 2 runs with 50fps on my LCD Deck) with battery and thermal limitations would imply that desktop versions would be totally acceptable, unless you're looking at 4K on the latest big titles.
> One concerning thing that I haven't seen reported is that my leadership chain is almost entirely Indian,

Yup, that's a very visible pattern at this point.

The other one is when entire reporting chains are mainland Chinese (or in the process of being converted to via "reorgs" such as this one).

And before anyone calls racism into the discussion, it's fairly easy to objectively check that it is the case in the internal eng. org chart if you work there.
I think they were hinting at the fact that the iGPU is more interesting to users of the mobile CPU (Steamdeck/Laptops), since this is a desktop CPU, which usually have dedicated graphics.
Dynamo 8B: multilingual LLM for global enterprises
Dynamo 8B outperforms Mistral 7B, Llama2 13B, Bloom 7B, and PolyLM 13B on most multilingual benchmarks we tested (i.e. PAWS and XCOPA).

Dynamo 8B has not been instruction fine-tuned and has not undergone alignment using techniques like reinforcement learning from human feedback. The intention behind crafting this model is to provide the research community with a model to explore vital multilingual capabilities that enable widespread use of LLMs globally.
Is there a terminal only chat app with chat rooms?

I would love to use something like that.
In what way is Airbus different? (Honest question of someone who has no knowledge about this industry.)
The UAE has the potential to become another Singapore if they want to. But to make that work they'll have to reach a mutual accommodation with Iran while also not pissing off their other allies too much. It's going to be difficult to thread that needle.
Intel PCI-e cards are some of the best and quite reasonably priced (~$35 for 6E), unfortunately their Wi-Fi 7 card is only compatible with Intel motherboards so far.
Seems similar to Feynman's classic problem solving technique:

1. Write down the problem
2. Think very hard
3. Write down the solution

https://wiki.c2.com/?FeynmanAlgorithm
That severance package is quite generous. "Why can't everyone have a cusshion" = because someone has to pay for it.
They’re not wrong and it’s a timing thing. It isn’t as if this is a new message for them. But a big ad spend reinforcing their talking points during an election year is how they try to move the needle to protect their interests politically.
>> The press release has a strange title for new chips targeted at lower-end PCs

It's a pretty high-end CPU though, and the graphics support AV1 encode/decode. This would be perfect for software development, video production, or pretty much anything but high-end gaming.
Don’t be so sure about that… rates will fall sharply in a recession, otherwise inflation will run hot (see today’s print!) Rates market prices in the average outcome, but the distribution isn’t uniform nor Gaussian.
I am teetering on the decision myself. Have you enjoyed it?
Show HN: Total Compensation Dashboard Workers Paid with RSUs (Via Googlesheets)
Often in tech a significant portion of your comp will come from RSUs (restricted stock units). This means that as your company's stock moves, the income you can expect also changes.

I created this dashboard in Google Sheets to help make it easy to understand your total compensation. This is important to help plan your financial life.

Google employee's have an awesome internal tool that does this for them. Now the rest of us have access to the same understanding.
Clear violation, yet so many online "newspapers" do it.
Pay or get tracked and have ads shown.
Despite a ruling that it's unlawful.
And you never will!
Hertz is selling 20k used EVs due to high repair costs
Imagine you're a small business that makes $1m ARR and you employ 5 software engineers at $200k per year. Your net income is 0.

Prior to this change in the tax code, your software labor costs for that year would all count against your income so you'd be taxed on $0 in profit.

With this tax code, you can only amortize 10% of software labor in the first year so now your business just had $900k in profit as far as the IRS is concerned. You now have to pay ~200k in taxes. You have to come up with that money somehow, and for most businesses the only short-term option is a combo of reducing costs (layoffs) and loans.
I upgraded my previous laptop from an older intel ac wifi chip to a ax210 chip (6E). It really helped reduce latency and reliability especially on the 5G band. A good upgrade, it cost like $20 at the time.

You can often find these mini m2 board to full size pci-e adapter cards or find these adapters pre-mounted on a board for sale.
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Yeah but those aren't reeeeeeaaally ads they're just "promotions" (according to the Amazon lawyers).
Is it WiFi 7 certified? Or at least can I trust that it will be? I don't have experience with Intel wifi cards
I love CRIU and think it's way under appreciated. Both Node and JVM have some cool snapshotting of their stdlibs too that is somewhat similar, and if you really want to optimize your load times, you can go bundle more stuff into these ready to go snapshots, which is so super cool to me. Checkpoint Restore In Vm-space! The patterns here rock.

I do think though that these patterns of having file descriptors of stuff that can be passed around, and having semi-seamless "just map in the object whole" have a ton of super powered ultra-high performance wins to it that deserve a lot of exploration & effort that justify their pursuit.

But Checkpoint Restore in Userspace/criu just works & is great for fast loading a thing. Still, we need at least some fd passing for apps like no-downtime-restart (or smart draining + SO_REUSEPORT); that's a real need. Going further and passing around memfd's is cool.

It's gotten dropped, but for example Apache Arrow had a Plasma object store for this stuff for a while, that I wish was still on the scene (or something like it). Arrow is a particular data-format with it's own libraries, versus what we have here which is coding-as-usual(-ish); 1/2 patterns. The second might be harder but I still think it has potential.
Oil wouldn't be so vital if we had massive numbers of nuclear power plants generating excess energy that could be used to form long carbon chain materials for plastics etc.
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Very cool. I have been trying to do something similar with tilings, but there is more information to be encoded. I am targeting something similar to the ability to render the tessellation catalog [1] and perform searches. Turns out there are multiple notations, and most of them use some level of implied knowledge. Also seems like rendering of knots is more open ended, while tilings are essentially their rendering. But they all do use a similar approach of Notation > Half Edge Data Structure > Render.

[1] https://zenorogue.github.io/tes-catalog/?c=
The use is terrorism, of course. Breaking the will of the population is very much a war strategy, and it has been tried before (notably in WW2). If you believe that it is effective, there's no reason why precision weapons can't be used for that purpose if that's the only thing you have that can reach and hit.

And, sure, the Ukrainian attack on Belgorod is similarly problematic. But if you're willing to go there, how many attacks have Russia carried in the same time period?
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Why would I do it? You compared C to asm, not rust.
I've been surprised that Apple hasn't done more to keep pushing beyond the app boundary. The primary pitch for Rabbit from the keynote is basically "it's a layer that sits atop the broken model of modern phones." I think we all agree that the 'evolved state' of phones and apps is disappointing compared to where it could be / where we expected it would go.

They (Apple) are now in the position of being seen as laggards, caught with their pants down by companies releasing products whose core conceits are built atop inefficiency of their "core" models.

For both Humane and Rabbit, it's hard for me to imagine that there's enough "there" there for these to be beyond niche products that don't get starved out by the border-expansion of Apple / Android over the next few years … but I would have also guessed that A+A would have been further out front of this.
That is the point? They don’t have any means how to pay.
You will need to wait another 10-15 years before they overcome the issues that they caused for themselves (while twisting and contorting the platform in unpredictable ways): https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1717580502280867847
I was thinking that, but on the map at least there's the possibility of Turkmenistan-Caspian-Azerbaijan.

I know almost nothing about these places, despite an Azerbaijani coworker, so this may be unrealistic for other reasons.
This is one of the reasons I stopped informally mentoring postdocs. It was an exercise in frustration. It was like telling someone who had only had one husband/wife/boyfriend/girlfriend in their life (and now has left or is leaving) that there were many other people in the world with whom they could have been as happy as they were with their ex (willy-nilly), and even much happier, if only they had allowed themselves to experience their new world.

"They (the research/partner) are all I have loved in my life," "I can't imagine myself with anyone else/with any other job." The arguments were remarkably similar and equally frustrating to deal with.
I we replace the Nobel prize part with some sort of accomplishment, this is largely the pattern that lead up to my own building an internet search engine.

Though I think it's pretty dodgy career advice. Existential crises are harrowing. It's a dark pit you fumble through for years. 1/5 stars on trip advisor.
The way out is authenticity.

My impression of Flat Earthers, is that a lot of them are indeed authentic.
Sometimes HN gets pretty thoughtless posts, which can make it hard to realize when a post contains dry humor.
It makes sense that it was expected to be repealed, it’s a cash grab from small to medium businesses (SMEs) who are growing and are at least making some money. Traditionally tax law would provide breaks for this category as an ‘investment’ because they would get more tax later out of the bigger company these SMEs would turn into. It’s a major drag at already the most difficulty time for a fledging company and would have hit me badly had I stayed in the US.
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All other factors being the same year to year, this accounting change will suddenly show the company making a sizable profit. Because the R&D cost (engineer salaries) can no longer be expensed.
Read the comment before reading the article...but it wasn't that bad. It's not a technical deep dive but more a short commentary post as a heads-up that it's available now even if not everyone is talking about.

It also lists the biggest benefit for gamers (It's posted in the "gaming" section of Verge) in the second paragraph.

You are exaggerating a bit.
A lot of the motherboard ones do turn out to be upgradeable, basically just laptop m.2 cards in a custom built portion of the board. That said, if you want a low-touch option a PCIe form factor adaptor is generally the best bet. You can get them for ~10 dollars on Amazon. If the back of your case is a bad position you can get combo RP-SMA cable extenders/antenna mounts for about $20 (that'd be like the little antenna pair on a wire most motherboard options come with). For the actual Wi-Fi card you can use a standard m.2 2232 laptop card at that point.
It didn't take very long for the first lawyers to get sanctioned for using ChatGPT-made-up cases in legal briefs. https://www.reuters.com/legal/new-york-lawyers-sanctioned-us...

It would be hilarious if the end result of all this would be to go back to a 1990s-2000s Yahoo style of web portal where all the links are curated by hand by reputable organizations.
I think what you're describing ("the long tail") has been a phenomenon for a decade or so - tons of youtubers, tons of bloggers, tons of twitter personalities, etc. I see it as a good thing, people definitely want to consume it.

What's been bothering is the layers of skimmers that are dominating all those mediums - the top youtube channels now are repeaters, the top tiktok channels are fake accounts copying the content, there's layers of "reactors" (they call themselves that) that add absolutely no value, but polute the whole timeline, and so on. This is mostly a newer phenomenon - as if the internet is quickly turning into a multimedia version of the mail system - it'll snuff out actual creativity/usefulness and slowly decay into spam spam spam spam.