skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand how any value can be gained from reading RT. People often say it's a way to hear the other side but Russia doesn't have a free press so...whose side is that? It's the "side" that the Russian government wants you to believe.

> Russian journalist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dmitry Muratov believes there is neither freedom of the press nor freedom of expression in his home country. "The history of independent journalism is over, [it's] finished," the 61-year-old said on September 11 at the start of the first Hamburg Press Freedom Week. The editor in chief of the Novaya gazeta newspaper, which is banned in Russia, told Germany's NDR public broadcaster that, since he still lives in Moscow and will return there, he can only say in Hamburg what he can also say there, and "in Moscow, I can't talk about anything anymore."

I think that there are two dangerous assumptions going around:

1. That you must "dig" for good information. Meaning that all large media orgs can be dismissed out of hand for no other reason than being large. The more you dig the closer you are to the truth!

2. That Western media can never understand, study, or discuss non-western subjects.
I'm not a media outlet. Friends of mine with Teslas that have been in accidents had large bills. Auto insurance for Teslas is expensive for this reason.

As for the fuel cost, it depends where you live. In California, if you have PG&E, it's roughly a wash despite our very high gas prices (electricity is even more outrageous)
I'd like it a bit more if it referenced "Rayleigh scattering" by name, giving someone who is genuinely interested the keywords needed to dig deeper into the phenomenon.
Yeah, I went overboard with the example. The issue is that HTMX tries to take over the concept of hypermedia as if it means only HTMX and whatever HTMX is doing :)
Every night?
As a second anecdote, I also rented one from Hertz (Polestar 2) and while it could navigate me to charging stations, at least 50% of the time I was unable to charge at a given location due to technical issues. It was bad enough that I had to divert 30 minutes off my planned route to find a working charger.

I look forward to owning an EV someday but the rental experience right now and in my state was VERY stressful.
Is it a real wifi? Or is it the same old ax200 story with AP only in 2.4GHz mode?

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000...

I prefer real WiFi.
People use that kind of framing to say my highest priority isn't being addressed therefore anything else government does is wrong. I don't think this is logically sound, or a convincing argument.
>SWE no longer a safe space. Now what?

It hasn't been for 20+ years, except there was maybe a 4 year period from 2018 to 2022 where it was safe.

It was boom and bust in the dotcom era, there were tons of layoffs during the financial crisis, microsoft was always known to stack rank, IBM and Oracle do layoffs as an annual company tradition, etc.

I worked for a mega-corp in 2015 and there were constantly layoffs and reorgs and hiring sprees and divisions culled. This is all how it goes.

This was never a safe field. It was an exciting and interesting one.
It's def. gotten worse. ATM if you search for anything related to OCaml you will get links to Ocamlwiki, which is just a AI generated site filled with bullshit and inaccuracies.
Missing Profits May Be a Problem for the Green Transition
what are some useful use cases startup entrepreneurs?
TomTom study: Toronto is worst city in North America for traffic
The Belt and Road maps I've seen are pretty low resolution, are they still going through Iran? Because I'd think that counts as "middle east", even if it's not the Suez.
Parity? AMD integrated GPU's have outperformed Intel's for many years.
Waives hand in general direction of Europe
> But please don't think that nobody cares about you in your workplace and you're a completely fungible cog. It's a horrible life to live. Let's not tell the already cynical young people that this is how the world works.

I found this to be a very obvious reality in the companies in which I worked. And not in the sense of "poor me, nobody loves me": on the contrary, I found that I was more indifferent than expected even toward the departure of colleagues with whom I had a good relationship.

For example, in the current group of about 40 people in which I work, two directors who had moved up the ladder, were quite well-liked, and had a long tenure with the company, left to work for other companies. Their colleagues, including me, forgot about them within 2 weeks at most.

Another colleague was forced to retire after 40 years with the company: a month before his (forced and unexpected) retirement, he sat down with me to explain what he intended to do in the company over the next 3 years. But he was forced to retire and disappeared from people's minds within a few days.

Despite an excellent memory, I forget the names of most of my colleagues after a month's break. If I leave the company, they are never mentioned again. Apart from the usual exceptions, "standard" working relationships, especially in large companies, are tenuous, easily broken, and easily forgotten.
How does 0% interest rate actually affect this though? Are that many companies actually funded on debt now? Or are are sales down because their customers were purchasing with debt?
There's some fun stuff here (I'm reminded of the algorithms used to render planar drawings of proteins, which are similar to knots).

My real interest which I haven't seen much literature about is generating real-world knots that have good properties. For example if you look at the various knots, some knots have nice properties like "easy to untie" and "does not get tighter under load", which has huge impacts. These properties derive from the topology but also the physics of the knot. Would be nice to find a new hitch knot that worked better.
I have worked in the Bay Area for decades, and never seen 400k+. My current contract comes out at about 165k with no benefits.

The reason I work for a soul-less telco, is that it is hard (for me at least) to find a job in the first place. I've been at plenty of small companies as well. If I could have gotten in at Google I would have done it in a heart beat, not just for the money, but to have FAANG on my resume.
Does ROCm even work on XDNA? I don't think it does?
After Ubuntu began to use all those snaps I tried Debian in 2020. Switched to Debian Buster (10) and soon back to Ubuntu because it was not usable for me. In 2023 I tried again with Debian Bookworm (12) and I'm not missing anything. It's a great distro.
Apache supervises tasks in the form of threads and subprocesses, including managing memory in the form of pools, so yes, it's doing some of what an OS would do. It isn't, on the other hand, providing abstractions to hardware, and that's what I think of when I hear "OS". It's not really a cut-and-dried thing though: modern web browsers are like 90% of the way to being full-blown OS's, even down to abstracting hardware in the case of things like WebGPU, but they still rely on a host OS to bridge the connection and do the actual bit-banging required to make it work.
This forum seems swarming with people with an axe to grind against SV employees of late. As far as I can tell some people think they are well informed on the matter purely from following people on TikTok. Such as the “they only work 6 hours a week” crowd.
Coincidentally, I was rewatching the first season of True Detective last night and they were talking about this in the show. I almost turned it off because it was too real for me at the moment.
Why should I care about this person's opinion?
Windows 2000 was peak-Windows for me, for sure.

Not quite as stable as Windows NT4, but pretty close, and it benefited from added support for USB and other "modern" things.
This is what the a big part of the Inflation Reduction Act was meant to address. You can thank Biden and Manchin for taking action to address your concerns.
I knew bracket creep was going to a land mine and did figure they included others to make the numbers work out the way they did. Now the government makes more money with higher inflation which I think is a risky alignment of incentives.
AMD is fleshing out the $100 to $250 market with this announcement.

Top end $300+ chips (like 7800x3d) are safe.

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I'm seriously considering the $250 5700x3d for my nieces, or maybe something cheaper. They don't need the latest-and-greatest PC. But having something "pretty good" (and the 5700x3d will be pretty good) is surely going to be appreciated.
A lot of the switch to renewables is a shift from op ex to cap ex, which makes them a lot less profitable in the short term, if more profitable in the long term. It's not clear to me how to fix this.
It is a compelling study, but retrospective trials, in general, aren't the correct design to answer this kind of question. I am not saying the results aren't accurate - just that in medicine, there have been instances where a prospective trial offers a different conclusion that that of prior, retrospective trials.

Next, I'm no statistician, but I have never heard of this kind of trial being proof of causality (it can only provide supportive data - but as above, we know that the results may prove incorrect in a stronger study design). There are a lot of confounding factors that make causality a difficult thing to prove in humans.

There is actually a way to prove causality in humans, and I suspect someone will do this for marijuana since it is a hot-button issue: https://archive.cdc.gov/#/details?url=https://www.cdc.gov/ge...
Another example of this behavior. The war on drugs not working didn't stop alcohol companies from lobbying for it, any effect that suppresses compition is valuable and its not like OpenAI and the like will be paying for enforcement, you will be.
Discord Cuts 17% of Workers in Latest Tech Layoffs
This is the reason why I went with the 7950X and not the 3D variant. Too much additional work involved to get the other cores to play well.

Also I read that only one set of 6 cores as full access to cache while the other doesn't or has partial access.
You still haven't answered me, but I'll leave this for you consideration. Sub in racist for anti-semite. I believe this applies to you

"Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past."
Jean-Paul Sartre
Small startups almost make no profit for this to have any meaningful impact
Break big enough things and the USA will get to you.
totally— this is for integrating into custom internal tools. Consider content moderation: you wouldn't want mods getting tickets in JIRA then switching to a different tool to action them.

If switching between screens is not a problem, by all means prefer Linear/Asana/Jira/etc!
[at a FAANG] Just the other day my director chastised his directs for "letting low performers leave without getting fired," which is something I had yet to hear get broadcasted to a full room of people. The company's leaders would rather get credit for a URA target than do what's best for the company (in this case, not paying out severance). Tech is so polluted with this kind of thinking that I really can't wait to leave it.

After surviving what feels like a dozen rounds of layoffs over the past year, morale is already non-existent. You can go weeks and sometimes months without even hearing a peep from the people you once thought were the brightest and hardest working. The whole thing just feels in need of a reboot. Is this consistent across all companies at the moment or is it just time for me to leave?
People playing on laptops and the steamdeck? All legit uses for the iGPU (I have one myself)

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/
Htmx = pointless hype.
It solves no problems and makes everything more complicated.

You have to learn not 1 but 2 new "languages" hypermedia queries and htmx special html attributes.

And what do you receive in return?
Nothing that can't be done with other JS frameworks or libraries.
Yes, htmx is JS.

That HN people fall for this trick is no surprise as it's frequented mostly by booksmart idiots.
This would have to work by individuals or organizations building a good reputation over time, so their specific output is trusted. The fact that an LLM outputted the text is not nearly as relevant as whether anyone has staked their reputation on its correctness.
Nah. A Windows handheld has far less game compatibility issues than SteamOS does, which even the article admits, and can also be used as a Windows machine to run apps if docked or accessed through RDP.
I wouldn't say that people higher up can't be your friends, but when their office and them personally aren't the same thing.

I've seen family members fire other close family members, because a business is a business. Nothing special about it.

You can be friends with your colleagues, but when you understand that their role at a company is separate from your personal relationship - you may just get friends that transcend your employment.

My personal attitude towards employment - "I work for you while our goals align". Businesses most definitely treat any employee the same way.
It definitely affected hiring. I work at a startup that is self-funded, profitable, and at about 24 people. The tax change increased our tax bill by around $125k, so that's an engineer we couldn't hire.

Made me glad our founders are so fiscally conservative, as other startups around had to lay off some people to have cash on hand to pay the increased taxes.
> SEO was a thing 25 years ago. It's the same now, as it was then

SEO is the same as it was 25 years ago? Do you remember anything resembling modern content mills in 1999? It always kept on evolving, and there's vastly more money dumped into it today than the 90s could ever dream of. Algorithmically generating content became easier and it got more "believable" to a search engine bot.

Again, putting useless search results at the top doesn't benefit Google in any way, not even the short-term profits. It's the telltale sign of SEO garbage because they have an incentive to game the system, while Google has no incentive to make the system less useful. They likely made some bad choices along the way, but 80% of my issues with Google are outside actors trying to make it useless.
Neat visualization. I noticed though that the images (when enlarged) have some awkward angles etc to them, they are not super rounded and smooth shapes... maybe the width modulation could use some easing or interpolation or something?
Thanks a lot, I'm very happy to hear! Essentially, all notes are just markdown/plaintext, so it should be easy to move your data to/from LogSeq. I'm saying essentially tho cause, although the underlying data is plaintext, they are stored inside a local database rather than an arbitrary folder. But soon I'll change that.
That is why Bitcoin was first announced in a cypherpunk mailing list [0].

[0] https://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg09...
I see damn.

I spend maybe 40-70 dollars a month on supercharging, Early on I found that it was better only if I needed it. I charge at home right now for free in my building which is nice =)
They did not say which one of extremes.
The future of the Internet truly is people - the machines can no longer be trusted to perform even the basic tasks they once excelled at.

What if the AI apocalypse takes this form?

- Social Media takes over all discourse
- Regurgitated AI crap takes over all Social Media
- Intellectual level of human beings spirals downward as a result
Because engineers in america earn way, way more than european ones. Would you rather have a union or an extra $100k in salary?
Some lock you to pre-selected card models via arbitrary BIOS whitelists. (Will not even boot until you remove the card again.) Beware.
The Netflix documentary "Downfall: The Case Against Boeing" follows this line of reasoning exactly and in detail.
I’ve interviewed there multiple times over the years. It was full of typical leetcode shit. There’s a reason there’s a list of problems on leetcode tagged as Google having used them recently…
I was unaware they turned down a $12 billion acquisition. I think that is pretty insane even in the 0% interest era.
What alternative do you suggest? Everything you expose to the public internet is now feeding AI, and every interaction is more and more likely to be with an AI than a real human.

This isn't a matter of elitism, but vetting direct personal connections and gatekeeping access seems like the only way to keep AI quarantined and guarantee that real human knowledge and art don't get polluted. Every time I see someone on Twitter post something interesting, usually art, it makes me sad. I know that's now a part of the AI machine. That bit of uniqueness and creativity and humanity has been commoditized and assimilated and forever blighted from the universe. Even AI "poisoning" programs will fail over time. The only answer is to never share anything of value over the open internet.

Corporations are already pouring billions of dollars into "going all in" on AI. Video game and software companies are using AI art. Steam is allowing AI content. SAG-AFTRA has signed an agreement allowing the use of AI. Someone is trying to publish a new "tour" of George Carlin with an AI. All of our resources of "knowledge" and "expertise" have been poisoned by AI hallucinations and nonsense. Even everything we're writing here is feeding the beast.
And this time it's not only driven by larger media organizations, but also by random people who now have a chance to propagate their views from decreased barriers to entry.

I believe it wasn't only journalistic gatekeeping that prevented this for so long, but simply a lack of affordance for willing parties to do those things. High-speed Internet has made everything so much easier.

My feelings about the rise of streaming video are also conflicted. It has given us high-quality longform content on topics that hadn't been covered before, but all those other people's passions and hobbies take up way too much time if you as a consumer become deeply invested in them (not even counting the conspiracy genre and its implications). It's easy to do partially because YouTube facilitates that, but I think in the end people want to consume all this information in the end, for some definition of "want". And dozens of 6-hour streams of the latest game or another will keep being uploaded every day.

And there's this other thing that I keep coming back to. Someone I know was really into this engineer creating fake Apple product boxes that recorded thieves stealing them and being glitterbombed. They found it hilarious, but I was sort of confounded. It was the conversion of a few people's bad choices into entertainment and ad revenue, coated over with the intellectual sheen of detailed makerspace engineering diagrams and wit mixed with a moral high ground. Though what the thieves did was not right, there was something smug and passive aggressive about the entire thing that rubbed me the wrong way. And this was presented as just a humble guy with engineering experience creating his content and getting people interested in STEM. Anyone has the capability to do this sort of thing now, not just a media machine with questionable motives. It's just regular, driven people with questionable motives now.
Teams is awful on all platforms, I don't ever want to touch it again
From every report I have seen, oil extraction is at least 30% of the economy.
Are you saying censorship is fine because people can just use other words?

There really is no point engaging with you then.
Unless it's changed in the last 5 minutes, the second paragraph seems to have an explanation:

> One of the biggest benefits of Wi-Fi 7 is that it allows for one device to connect to your router on multiple bands — a feature called Multi-Link Operation — which gives your laptop options when it comes to where to funnel its packets. That means that when your 5GHz band is at capacity, it’ll just send the data down the 6GHz pipe, and vice versa. The result should be lower latency when you’re on a busy network, which is critical when you’re not able to wire up with ethernet.
Alpine is for client-powered reactivity and HTMX is for server-powered reactivity.

Think about pressing a button that opens a modal with content already delivered by the server (like a settings modal). You don't need to make a HTTP request for that, so you could use Alpine.

Let's say instead that you click a user icon and you want to render a modal that contains user info which hasn't been fetched from the server (because why waste resources loading all this data the user might not see or need?). When clicking that icon, you could use HTMX to fetch the user data from the server then display the resulting content in a modal.

Two different actions with similar visual results (from the user's perspective), but one is all client-side and one requires extra info from the server.

Alpine and HTMX are frequently confused this way, as they solve seemingly similar problems from different ends of the network.
Engineer Used Water Pump to Get $1B Stuxnet Malware into Iranian Nuclear Plant
This is very much the opposite of my experience, M.2 Wifi modules are very standard, cheap and solid. All my motherboards have one installed for the wifi and it's trivial to swap it out. I have just replaced it when it stopped working or I wanted some Wifi/Bluetooth spec it didn't support.

The Intel AX210 is the most recent one I've used, but I assume they'll release a WiFi 7 version.

M.2 is just PCI-E at the end of the day, so should be entirely viable to adapt one if something didn't have an M.2 A-key slot.
Onenote has the advantage of a canvas and taking screenshots then annotating or drawing over these. Then you can edit resize canvas drag things etc as you re-edit. Mix than in with tables, flagging, check boxes and mobile device support just works and is great.

I haven't found anything in the usual markdown, git, wiki suggestions that the tech crowd here gives that works as well. Inline images doesn't do this. Too bad because I really want a self hosted open source solution.

The best other option is a decent pdf editor because you can paste in and annotate and save without collapsing layers.

I am trying pdfxchanger viewer lately with the watermarks for free editing capabilities but might actually buy the license for the editor. This syncs via nextcloud or boox to my tablet but has limitations.
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New "M2-Bert-Retrieval" models with up to 32k context length
That's correct as I understand the tax law. The credit carries over because it's depreciating the capital investment. Net operating losses (NOLs) work in a similar fashion. You get them as a credit in later tax years.

IANAL but have filed corporate taxes many times.
If you consider "Extreme PC Gaming" to be AAA games at 1080p on low settings, sure.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/21208/amd-unveils-ryzen-8000g...
Cruise, Spotify, VMWare, and Unity were among the companies that had sizable (15%+ of a large group) layoffs before the end of last year. I don’t think it ever really stabilized.
The last several laptops I've used have had swappable WiFi modules.