skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, this is interesting, but much more interesting is the langchain stuff N8N has added to their latest release. Makes it seamless to add in an army of interns to your workflow.

https://n8n.io/langchain/
> Because it seems wildly hyperbolic. We're not in the year 1995 anymore.

That's exactly what I was thinking. We're not in the 90s when people thought AOL and the internet were synonyms.
"(“Noise” is subjective of course: I don’t watch reality television but others do, for example.)"

This brings up a good sub-topic. "Noise" as I mean it is where it's something you cannot definitely validate the veracity of in short order, or you do and it's useless.

The trash TV thing is a great example: if you are watching Beavis & Butthead because you know its trash and you need to zone out, that's a conscious, active decision, and you are in effect, 'in on the joke'...if you can't discern that it's satire and find yourself relating to the characters, you might be part of the problem :)
Ask HN: IRS section 174 – cause of layoffs?
The tl;dr:

"As far as I understand it, software engineering salaries are no longer fully tax deductible in the year they are paid, instead they can only be depreciated at 20%."

Tiny part of a Trump era tax bill, that went into effect very recently.

Do you think this is what causing these recent layoffs?
Hosting from home seems absurdly viable for many. I have a systemd-timer that keeps a upnp-igd nat hole punched so I can ssh in, and that has absurdly good uptime. My fiber to the home would survive to quite a lot of use.

Past that, vps can be had so cheap. If we have good software, the computing footprint ought to be tiny.

One real challenge is scale out. Ideally, for p2p to really work, some multi-tenant systems seem required, so we can effectively co-host. I loved the sandstorm model, but didn't actually use it, and I think there's further refinement possible.

Ideally imo, I could host like 10 apps, but if you want to use one, you spin up your own tenant instance. The lambda engine/serverless/FaaS thing wouldn't actually spin up new runtimes, it'd use the same FaaS instances, but be fed your tenant context when it ran and only be able to access your tenant stuff. That way as a host, I kind of know & can manage what runs, but you can have your own freedom of configuring your own instance to a large degree.

Then we need front ends that let you traffic steer and any cast in fancy ways, so you can host your own but it falls back to me, or you have 10 peers helping you host & you can weight between them.

Operationalizing what we have already & finding efficient wins to scale is kind of cart before the horse, since fediverse &Al are so new, but I think the deployment/management model to let us scale our footprint beyond ourselves is a crucial leap. And I think we are remarkably closer than we might think, that the jump into a bigger more holistic pattern is possible if we leverage the excellent serverless runtimes & operational tools that have recently merged integratively.
That’s because it is. It is degenerate inhumane latestage capitalism garbage.
Weird, I've found hundreds of useful SO answers that worked for me.

I've also learned a lot from chatting with Bing AI. The caveat is there that you all the time have in the back of your mind that the answer might be wrong. It helps to keep asking more detailed questions and check whether the set of answers keep on making sense as a whole. That way of using it has helped me a lot. See it as getting info from a very smart friend who sometimes had too much to drink.
What features? Asking as someone who doesn't use discord much.
Between GAssistant, Alexa and Siri Speakers I bet it’s a significant chunk of the population.

Sonos now have a voice assistant (far more limited though) and many cars are rolling out some sort of assistant too.

I know plenty of people with multiple speakers and from competing brands.

Oh and obviously every iPhone in the last decade has it built in. That’s 50% of the population right there. Then there’s android phones, where I don’t know if they all have it wakeword enabled, but it’s probably another big chunk too.
Until they do 5 more rounds of layoffs over the next year.

Last startup I worked for is on round 7 of layoffs / restructuring right now.
Small startups who were not anticipating this change may not have the cash available to pay the tax bill due on that taxable income.
No, you're not.

The Republic of the Marshall Islands is the closest thing to being a US Protectorate without being a US posession.

It is officially an Associated State with a Compact of Free Association with the US. Its (non-naturalized) citizens have a right to work in and live in the US, equal access to welfare programs (that even green card holders don't have), and many US domestic agencies provide services there (the US Post office, and FEMA amongst others). And of course they have DoD protection (Edit: for Marshallese owned ships only), and use the US Dollar.

But it's even true in places which are _definitely_ not US proxies. Note that the US financial sanctions have an insanely wide reaching effect, given the need to be able to transact in US dollars.

Because of the US sanctions against Carrie Lam, the previous Chief Executive of Hong Kong, she had to withdraw her own salary from the Hong Kong SAR government in cash, because no bank in Hong Kong could deal with her and also offer US dollar denominated services.
Walmart Offers a Glimpse into the Future of Retail at Consumer Electronics Show
You want to drag OP to the Hague or something?
If you read the article, you’ll find there is zero mention of skin cancer, it’s mainly concerned with GI tract, liver and kidney cancers.
> "Buy orders are not currently accepted for this security,"

Emphasis on "currently".

Not something described as a policy, so maybe it's a little early to call in the fire brigade.
Teslas are extremely expensive to own.

BS. Cheaper by far than any gas car, in time and money! Half the cost to fuel. No more emissions check. No more oil changes. No more visits to the gas station.

As the article says, collision repairs are extremely expensive

I suspect this is also BS. That's par for the course with media outlets w/Tesla.
I wonder what the impact of 20K Teslas flooding the second-hand market would be...
> not having a concentration of wealth is a good thing for society

The US has higher income for median, for the poor. for those in poverty, for every decile, by a decent margin.

For example, US median income is around 46k. Germany is a reasonable first world country, yet median income is 33k (all in PPP dollars). This is huge. Most of the first world has similarly low income, at every level.

If your argument against income is that some people make a lot, so instead make everyone poorer, I find that a weak argument. It is a common outcome of poorly designed policies that those focusing on the rich or poor but with a bad understanding of history and econ end up making. I'd rather policymakers learn econ and history and learn that things like rent control, or various forms of taxes, have consequences that often hurt those they claim to want to help.

Here's some metrics for various ways to measure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_c...

OECD has tons more.

> I think there is wastage of allocated capital both when its done by elected officials and also with the ultra wealthy.

You think the average person would allocate capital better than those that understand investment and growth, and are willing to risk their own resources? There's a reason govt funds vastly underperform general markets - those with less to lose (i.e., those playing with other's money) likely fare worse at allocation than those that have more skin in the game. I know that most workers I tend to hang out with have a terrible understanding of how econ/macro/finance or even starting and funding businesses works.

Also those countries that tend strongly into socialism instead of capitalism have not done as well as those with strong capitalist bases (i.e., all first world countries - where people can own the means of production and operate for their own profit). If capital were allocated so much better in the places you seem to want, where is the evidence that it works? There's 200+ countries; if it worked, you'd think it would be winning somewhere....
> Phoenix Liveview or Laravel LiveWire, or even Hotwire

I want a banana and you suggest these jungles. Thanks but no thanks, I'd rather try HTMX which is a library not a framework.
"if you give people a 60 days heads up that layoffs are coming that could result in potential mayhem."

Does this mayhem actually ever happen or is it paranoia? I have seen several layoffs where people got advance warning of a few weeks up to almost a year. I have never seen people do anything bad once they got told they would be laid off.
This article doesn't mention that, apparently, Uber drivers are renting or leasing cars from Hertz. Hertz markets this to Uber drivers.[1] This is apparently terrible for Hertz. Uber drivers put a lot of miles on the vehicles. Plus, Teslas are expensive to repair. On top of that, the auto rental business is a speculation in used car futures. That's why it hurt Hertz when Tesla reduced prices.

This all reflects on Hertz's accountants, who should have seen this coming.

[1] https://www.hertz.com/rentacar/misc/index.jsp?targetPage=ube...
I'm really sorry to hear that. It's fucking rough. But I'd encourage you to speak up if you do agree about the systematic issues. I think the existing momentum is strong and because there is enough success most people do not feel the need to improve the system and failures (like me) blame it on themselves (like me). But I think I can be a failure AND the system can be bad too.
Appreciated!

Btw I know comments like that are fun when talking to friends or whatever. We just have that guideline because of how they influence discussion on a large internet forum...not for any ethical reason or anything like that.
Others and myself have been arguing against the baseload myth on HN and other places for ages, but it just persists.

The thing is, while we are still ramping up renewables wind and solar compete with the traditional "base load" large nuclear and coal plants, they are not replacing load following gas turbines until much later. Even Wikipedia says that variable supply like wind and solar are one of the sources to supply base load.
I'm interested in this too! I'm a CS student with peer anecdotes of $140k/year starting their first role this past year. Yet I was laid off in Dec 2022 and haven't had any luck even with some industry experience..

What's going on? Maybe I'm missing a public portfolio..
Discord isn't profitable
he was probably just repeating what Musk had told him to make the sale, but of course Musk speaks only in varying degrees of B.S.
Ugh. I hope there will be Wi-Fi modules available for current laptop upgrade..
Hertz is selling 20k EVs, in part because they're too expensive to repair
I own a 2017 Model S and the maintenance cost over these 6 years has been 1000 USD (change brake calipers at the end of year 6). For EV owners it’s definitely lower but damage collision repairs are probably more expensive.
Yeah, the Feynman in this book is more human, more vulnerable.
Just wanted to compliment your landing page and the intro gif. Great showcase of the app, if I wasn't hooked on LogSeq I'd give it a try!
I've rented Teslas from Hertz twice, about one year apart. The process has improved considerably in that time, so I don't think this is an indication that Hertz has turned bearish on Tesla.

The improvements include an on-display tutorial for how a Tesla differs from other models in their fleet (including door operation, use of keys and charging) and the ability to use your phone as a key. This last is very nice quality of life improvement.
Please list the oil industry tax breaks. Other than expensing certain expenses (shocking) they don’t really exist in the US
> Completion based APIs are superior IMO

Perhaps it's just that I cut my teeth on the classic Mac OS and absorbed its way of thinking, but after using its asynchronous, callback-driven IO API, the multithreaded polling/blocking approach dominant in the Unix world felt like a clunky step backward. I've been glad to see a steady shift toward asynchronous state machines as the preferred approach for IO.
Long-Context Retrieval Models with Monarch Mixer
I agree with the sentiment, but i don’t think you can go from 42% of the population to >50% of households. Especially because households probably cluster, so it’s probably strictly less than 42% of households use android.
He's one of the scientists being recruited from a university (they address him by name).

He also says something about building a cyclotron when they are constructing Los Alamos.

And he sits behind a window of a car or truck during the atomic test blast.

That's all I spotted
> number = -number

They actually point this out when introducing the code snippet in the report.

And then after the snippet:

>> Whoever wrote this code clearly has no understanding of elementary mathematics of the most basic rules of computer programming.
I’ve always said this! Make daytime energy 100x cheaper and the market will respond.

Appliances will start building in batteries, behaviors will change , and who knows what else the market will come up with.
At a previous job, we used Macs to do Java and Ruby development, and I thought that was an OK compromise to not having to maintain a bunch of Linux workstations, but still a compromise.

One time the shop took a subcontract for a bigger local shop. They were all Windows. Whenever we had to work with their devs, it seemed we fought Windows as a platform on which to run development tools as much as we did actual application problems. I know there's massive shops that live like that, but I know neither why nor how.

(n.b. this was around 2014, I don't know how Windows has changed since then)
This is true for a surprisingly large number of people. It's very easy to lose time in a post doc that's not either fun science or advancing your career in a high ROI way. Many post docs don't have the experience and diversity of perspective required to recognize this trap, and nobody around them is incentivized to help. This is true whether you're planning to stay in academia or not.
The unknot isn't a prime knot for the same reason that 1 isn't a prime number.
Amazon cuts 5% of Audible division's workforce
w3m also supports image display through the sixel, kitty, and mlterm image protocols; these should also work on wayland with terminal emulators that support them (i.e. almost any terminal except vte or alacritty).
FWIW I rented an electric volvo in november and its built in map (displayed by default even if you weren't using its nav system, which I did not) displayed charger sites. As it happened my hotel had a charger in the parking garage and the valets plugged my car in for me.

One anecdote does not data make, and I didn't know at the time of reservation that my hotel would be adequately equipped.
To add a bit more context: I remember reading somewhere (may have been in the Phoronix forum) from an official AMD engeneer that "supported" means validated and actively tested in their pipeline, while "unsupported" generally just means "we don't do any or minimal testing on these, they should work and we don't explicitly prevent them from working but we don't guarantee anything" (at least when it comes to same die/gen cards).

In the same post they also wrote that they are gonna look at integrating more of those "unsupported" cards into their suite.

Honestly, I hope they change their wording for this to something like "validated", "supported" and "unsupported" with actual explenations what each of these mean (fully tested, works theoretically, does not work even theoretically)

Edit: I actually found the post I was talking about https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/linux-graphics-x-org-d...
This is why I just hypervisor all the things. Passing through GPU, sound, and USB devices is easy.
George Carlin's daughter lambasts AI-generated video of late comedian
It’s not very classy imo to call out someone else for not being classy.
Up to that point, most Windows iterations didn't require (for the time) big upgrades to run fine. Many PCs designed for a given version could run the next, maybe with a little elbow grease, but the bottom line is: the out-of-the-box experience on new AND upgraded PCs was mostly okay.

Then it came Vista. An OS designed for at least 1Gb RAM, preinstalled on machines who stubbornly refused to sell with more than 512Mb (even 384Mb, the horror!) for a looong time. I remember that, at least where I live, RAM prices sky rocketed just months afther Vista came out, because almost all people irremediably needed the upgrade.

It also didn't help that vendors were happy to fill new systems with their auto-installing crapware. While this wasn't Microsoft fault, it certainly helped to cement Vista's reputation as a very heavy-weight OS.

Having said that. I concede the point that Vista was pretty alright, provided your PC had the grunt to run it.
This rally doesnt make a lot of sense
Teletext lives on in Sweden thanks to nostalgia and trusted content
You don't have to submit a printout of every single trade... just totals. Like the parent said, it's like 3-4 boxes you fill out/copy-paste from your exchange paperwork.

You do need to be able to provide substantiated figures if you are audited. Which is easy, you print out the paperwork from your exchange...

Not exactly worth paying for that convenience. You can still eFile too.
Based on his biographies, I think that Feynman had ADHD. He never demonstrated an ability to do things because he thought he should do them. And, as this story shows, trying just resulted in a demotivated and unproductive Feynman. On the other hand he accomplished great results when pulled by desire. Especially in the form of play.

Surely You Must Be Joking does a great job of showing how he kept coming back to play throughout his life. Everything from lock picking at Los Alamos, to playing the bongo drums.

What Do You Care What Other People Think has an extended description of the creation of Appendix F about the shuttle disaster. See https://history.nasa.gov/rogersrep/v2appf.htm for that. As someone who has been in the state, it is clear that he was in a state of hyperfocus. I've never matched what Feynman could do, but it comes as no surprise to me that he'd realize that he could get away with learning about a topic others didn't want him to learn, because he could do so quickly enough that they wouldn't believe that he'd possibly have learned it.

I highly recommend both books, Appendix F, and of course, https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm. (If psychologists had followed up what he said 50 years ago, the Replication Crisis would have been discovered 40 years earlier than it was. Oh well, missed opportunities.)
How do the best integrated graphics compare performance-wise though? If they are way behind in performance, you might be able to buy a cheap 2GB VRAM GPU for less than a cutting edge integrated graphics CPU.
You could try going on an adventure, ideally a real one that is a little bit dangerous.
Are people getting into accidents because they aren't used to teslas' acceleration

Most likely. Even the lowest end Tesla can scare the pants off of a passenger who has never been in an EV before. I know this from personal experience. An EV driver noob who stomps on the pedal has a chance of panicking and death-stomping on the pedal more.
I find the decision is usually a cost vs. benefit exercise.

Separating out business logic by making code more generic _is_ basic good practice.

There doesn't need to be a high cost once you start to do this by default, and it leaves doors open for future changes.

My general feeling is to 'leave doors open' (or allow for flexibility) if the cost of doing so is minimal.

Simple / dumb / readable is something you can achieve no matter which route you take. Comment your code. Be more verbose if it helps legibility and necessary performance won't be impacted.

Fundamentally, the only certain thing is that change _will_ be required at some point. And unfortunately, the decision as to whether something will be needed in the future is rarely something a developer has a say in.

All you can do it make your future dev life easier by leaving doors open, not closed.
Apple just has to make a Siri key on their MacBooks. They'll then be so number one they might go passed 1 into 0, and then -1, ETC. /s
I basically don't think Discord is ever going to be able to support my platform of choice properly at this point (Linux).

I hope this company crashes and burns, especially for what they've done to documentation availability across projects.
I have a similar approach to side projects. I have a day job (that is fun btw) and then I spend nights and weekends "playing" with code with no expectations. This has worked well for me and I LOVE this setup!

The alternative would be to raise VC and work full-time on a half-baked idea. :cringe:
One would like to hope that some of these companies act in a manner that when the shoe is on the other foot, and it is an employees market again, that they will be judged by their actions.
I don't think you should continue using them if paying for them still has ads. We take collective action now or we end up with cable TV all over again.
Humorous signs are far more memorable, even if you reach a smaller percentage of the population.

A generic "OBEY POSTED TRAFFIC SIGNS," while readable by 79% of the population, is barely going to mentally register for nearly all of them.

By comparison, a sign that only 40% of drivers understand the pop culture reference to might be more effective overall if they think about it for the next week.

And at least for all the examples in the article, even if you don't get a culture reference, the gist of the message is still understandable. Don't DUI, don't use your cell phone, etc.

A much worse sin for those message boards is when they use multiple pages to convey something. "ROAD CLOSURE FROM SEPT 16 UNTIL" <4 second delay> ... Well, I guess I'll never know.
Is that really a thing? I'm super paranoid when I have a rental car, the idea of taking it back and having them basically able to charge you what they like for any damage gives me the fear.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/y6p7mh/wtf_h...

Top answer here is good.

Sorry someone posting a link to the absolutely insane conspiracy-tinged 1971 site gets an auto-ignore from me. Have a good life.
Also known as the 'true lovers knot' I believe:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_lover%27s_knot

(It isn't the smallest non-alternating knot. This page says 8_19 is the smallest. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/NonalternatingKnot.html)
Your last sentence clearly shows you are not a pc gamer which is fine but you cannot use a persons opinion who is not a pc gamer about .. pc gamers.
I pay for Amazon WorkMail (through AWS) and couldn't be happier. $4 per user (50GB mailbox) per month. Gets the job done. Integrates like a charm with mail clients, lets me use multiple domains!
Opinion pieces "against AI" are getting just as boring and unimaginative as AI-generated content. I feel like all the arguments have been made at this point.