skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without oil and gas and coal (meaning - if they all disappear today), modern world as it looks today ceases to exist. The death toll would probably be in the billions, and standard of living for people who survive could be potentially worse than in middle ages. So yeah, fossil fuels are essential to our security.
This is only if you don't have a paid account though. I have office 365 for business and I don't get these popups.

Not that it justifies the behaviour of course but it's not always the case.
Instead we'll have the company going bust for constantly having to replace critical machinery in the name of "security". Sometimes it is necessary to keep old equipment around and it can be secured using physical methods (an air-gap).
Automate what? What's n8n? And how no-code/ effortless is it if I'm deciding between base64 encoded images vs url images, REST vs GraphQL API, etc. in the first few paragraphs with no background info on how to make those choices?
That's pretty screwed up to kill an asset like that. I doubt Iran could have unraveled the plot so quickly and I'm not sure how they could benefit from killing him.
There are chrome/firefox extensions that turn shorts into normal videos. I also block the shorts shelf with ublock.
top down coordination doesn’t scale to $2T companies, at some point you’re basically a government
Microsoft's recent stock gains are obviously due to AI hype and the expected returns from it, but does the company actually have obvious lines of revenue from AI to that degree? Looking at the numbers investors are expecting them to make more from LLMs than they do from products like Windows and Office.

I don't want to use the "bubble" word, but...
Supposedly Google only hires the best of the best. Now it appears they hired a lot of mediocrity? So much for their lauded hiring process.
> What were they thinking?

"Tech companies, specifically, have lots of money. How can we get some of it?"
Phone theft is gonna be wild again without part pairing.
I think it's kind of a combination - not having the tools pulled from under you, but also the device to device portability he mentions, and having all your content in text (or whatever) in a directory structure you control.

And yes, it's exactly the same feeling when using Neovim, which has it's own web browser plugins.

(He wrote the post in 2015. Wonder if he's still using Emacs now.)
You're writing this comment in response to an article by a company that only exists because people want to pay for email.
On Windows, Vivaldi (https://vivaldi.com/features/mail/) is a surprisingly good option. You can just ignore the browser part, and even set up all the toolbars so that only stuff that is relevant to mail is there.
> Ok, so one of those technologies potentially saves people time and levels the playing field by enabling the use of computers with less special training to achieve equivalent results.

Did you forget allowing the sum total of human knowledge to be swamped by dogshit, because it allows for the creation of dogshit at scale more cheaply than ever before?
docker-in-docker doesn't run a docker daemon in the container, it just bind-mounts the host's docker socket inside the container, and the docker client talks to that. Any containers you launch from within docker-in-docker are siblings, not nested.
93% of U.S. households' stock market wealth is held by the top 10%
Not that account, but its obvious a settler society such as America has little unity compared to other societies such as Mestizo or East Asian Societies. A lack of religion, social harmony and cohesion, as well as a typical "American" upbringing leaves many feeling alone and without purpose or family. Combined with the growth of the internet, and you have many people who take up horrid ideologies typically at the far ends of the spectrum to fill the void of not having a loving family or a stable friend group.

Its even worse now that the Russians have funded both the NRA and the BLM movement to radicalize both ends of the spectrum.

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/27/765037952/senate-report-revea...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7144436/

https://www.axios.com/2020/06/10/russian-interference-2020-e...

you fell for the Russian Identity politics campaign
About 4 years ago I think, they were paying people to answer assessments for the sake of answering, so my guess they were collecting data to do machine validation of actual applicants.
I live in a high COL area and groceries are expensive, even at the stores that have had traditionally lower price points. Also, as long as I can afford it, I'm not eating ground beef that costs $5.97 or eggs with yolks that are barely a pale yellow in color. The quality of the your food matters a lot.
This is a Trump admin thing, with a delayed fuse so his successor gets blamed
New Outlook described in article is not PWA Outlook you have with "New Outlook for O365". PWA Outlook for 365 is different from this.

Part of Microsoft Problem here is they have 4 things they call "Outlook". Outlook the Consumer Desktop Application which is privacy nightmare referenced in this article. Outlook the personal free email hosting service (old Hotmail), Outlook the Business Desktop Application most people know. New New 365 Outlook which is just WebView2 Outlook.
Well a lot of them didn't fall out of the sky and were used like millions of times, and the reason a few of them did was ostensibly fixed so now the chances of them falling out of the sky is even less than when most of them already weren't.
This is apparently a direct result of the "Gmail and Yahoo’s 2024 inbox protections" [1] [2].

I didn't see much comments regarding how "Mandatory DMARC basically breaks all e-mail forwarding services" [3] for everyone, even those who are using alumni or other legitimate forwarding services.

For the full email to alumni, see here: https://www.sfu.ca/alumni/stay-connected/email-forwarding-se...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38935048

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38074992

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38940999
Neon is only scale-to-zero from the point of view of the tenants; whoever runs the software, must keep nodes running, including triple-replicated WAL storage.
> VS Code is not an IDE, it's more like the evolved GUI-Version of Emacs.

"We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp."

Interesting way to get an acknowledgement that IDEs aren't as advanced as Emacs, I suppose, and that VSCode (as in Man Vs Code, one of the Basic Plots) is only partway to being Emacs, being a GUI version (simplification) of the core concept, as if Emacs didn't already have a GUI.

(Having a GUI being different from depending on a GUI, but baby steps... )

> And it's now 9 years old, so I would think it has established itself well for this decade.

But no guarantees about the next decade.
This idea has been talked about enough that we call it "Habsburg AI". OpenAI is already aware of it and it's the reason why they stopped web scraping in 2021.
I believe it's only five months of health insurance since it says "Five months of benefit continuation". It does also say "Continued access to Modern Health through the end of 2024", but Modern Health is a mental health platform.
Politically it’s a master piece. Take the credit and move blame to the next guy.
The interesting thing was that in testing it turned out that having 3D cache for all cores didn't increase performance. The sweet spot for heat/performance was for half.

Granted, I don't think I'm running anything so CPU intensive that I'll be able to tell. For gaming, I was more interested in the DDR5 memory than in worrying about the L3 cache. For everything else I do (including running LLMs and compilers) it's beyond adequate.

For a mere $20K I could have had an overall slower gaming experience but be able to locally run things like the Goliath 120B model, but that seemed like a poor trade-off.
Passed by the Trump administration to help make the long term CBO math work on cutting taxes for the wealthy.
I think it is, especially as a response to the idea that the internet is starting to lack substance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAiPcPRZlBk

The main character is nicknamed "Big Head", just referencing his big ol' dome.
The US/Israel benefits because he's no longer around to talk about it.
Is an generator already too much overhead? Just a small function with an double for loop that yields the data. Easier readable and also bugfree.
The change went into effect in July 2022--and failed to be reversed in December 2022.

https://layoffs.fyi/ shows a sizeable uptick in the number of companies with layoffs since mid 2022, with more of an uptick in early 2023.
This is the only debt I have, because hospital payment systems are fucking impossible to navigate. Thankfully, the Biden administration is drafting plans to make it unlawful to report that debt to credit reporting agencies, so I anticipate soon giving even less of a shit about it than I do now. Figure it out with my insurer, or bill me at the time of service. I'm sure as shit not responding to an invoice.
Or, act as if you're excited about it, how visionary you are.
Or maybe they just need to survive long enough to see what is actually valuable in AI and not going to damn their company.
Yes, and if you don't have friends go to a library or a known subreddit (for now) or forum (for now).

Also, stop using Amazon for delivery of said content as they are part of the issue.
There's enough people paying for email that there is not one, but several farly large providers of such services - Proton Mail among them, but also e.g. Fastmail.
Ah, that's great, thanks!

I tried finding his Mastodon but only saw dead accounts on inactive instances, that kind of thing.
I basically live on Discord these days. Love it. It's one of the best pieces of technology I have ever used. I hope they figure it out.
Termium: AI Autocomplete in Terminal
App stores are literally where you go to install third party apps. Meanwhile, people don't expect crucial system UI to push ads. It's not even comparable in terms of user hostility. Even more so when dark patterns are used to effectively conceal that it's an ad.
Precisely. This is for when used hardware is not an option.
63 fps on Cyberpunk 2077 which when it came out was "unplayable but on the most powerful PCs" is incredibly impressive without a GPU.

This is pretty close to my 2070 GPU does, which cost me $400+ a couple years ago and uses 215W. My CPU also uses 100W, so about 300W compared to 65W for very roughly similar performance (in some games) is still pretty incredible.

Now GPUs are almost twice that for that xx70's and xx80's cards. I don't know what market this is aimed at, but this is very impressive for an APU. There's a pretty strong budget PC gamer community that could benefit from this. There are a lot of people who can't afford gaming PCs anymore and this could be a big seller to the budget community. Also at 65TDP power supply and fans and ventilation costs will be low, so they can be sold in cheap and modest cases and ps's.

I'm not sure if these chips translate into laptops, but a laptop that games well is always desirable in the gaming market.
Actually, yeah, I fully expect them to be running it inside WASM, so 32 bit...
Yes, very good point. However...

The linked report states:

> And as sudden operational cost pressures (including nursing shortages and higher wages) frustrate hospital financial leaders, an inability to collect all expected revenue further challenges razor-thin operating margins.

> This increase creates new challenges for providers to collect higher balances that are more difficult for patients to pay either prior to services or during the typical 120-day collection window after the insurance balance has been resolved.

I think they are being intentionally vague here. Are they saying they're having trouble collecting the money within the 120-day window (so their quarterly reports aren't screwed), or ever? I feel like they want you to believe that it is the latter, when in fact it is the former.
A used graphics card good enough to play 1080p games on low settings would not be very expensive at all.
Show HN: NextJS starter to build apps with image / text gen / vector search
Hi HN! I'm Aryan, the maker of TemplateAI. I tinkered with a bunch of AI side projects in 2023 and realized I'm repeating a lot of the same stuff: calling text and image gen models, setting up vector search and generating embeddings, storing everything, building components for chats and generated content. Plus dozens of hours spent building the rest of stack – auth, payments, dashboard and landing etc.

I packaged it all into one NextJS template so others can skip past the boilerplate and go straight to the AI features.

The template is designed for three big use cases: image generation, text generation, and vector search / retrieval. It uses a slightly opinionated stack: TypeScript-first with NextJS (App router), Supabase as the database layer, OpenAI's LLMs for text generation, Replicate API for image generation, and tools like LangChain and Vercel ai sdk to simplify RAG and response streaming.

For authentication and vector databases, I stuck with Supabase Auth and pgvector to avoid adding yet another piece to an already-complicated stack. (There's certainly other vectorstores out there that would speed up retrieval that I'm considering adding to the template.) Also wanted to make sure everything's launch-friendly, so I added in landing page components, a Stripe integration, and more.

Please check out TemplateAI and share your thoughts and feedback, thanks!
Yep, the perfect way to dispatch him without raising too much suspicion.
> world class research arm

Honest question: does Wall Street care? In my experience, this is the kind of thing that’s (rightly or wrongly) considered a “cost center”, not a “profit center”.
Microsoft is one of the most diversified companies in existence. Pretty much every business, every government and most consumers around the world are directly or indirectly paying them money for something, whether software, devices, consulting, cloud, data. On the other hand Apple's success for the last 15 years has relied on a single device. Now that the device is running into some issues (dropping sales in China, general stall in innovation, regulatory hurdles) their stock price is reacting accordingly.

Of course investors aren't rewarding them for an upcoming VR headset which is yet to be proven. Why would they?
Oh yes, my other favorite quote:

> Jeff Kingston, the director of Asian studies at the Japan Campus of Temple University, said, "It is a humanising phenomenon—the Japanese are traditionally seen as sober, law-abiding people—when they are in fact scamsters like the rest of us. [The story of the missing centenarians] holds up a mirror to society and reflects realities that many in Japan do not want to accept."
Oh, really? Even more opaque. You don’t need to be of voting age (??) in order to be an activist or political in some sort of way. I’m pretty sure that Greta Thunberg wasn’t when she became famous.
Japan has proven for 3 decades the exact opposite. They live on deficit and borrowing and still were just able to be on top of the deflation.
Thanks for the feedback. I was not sure in what detail I should go, but decided to name the options and make an easy choice to go for if you follow along the tutorial. If you then decide you want to dive deeper, you can dig into the documentation of e.g. OpenAI.
I definitely should link to for example the article where I go into detail about HTTP Requests and what they are, but I could not fit it into the article itself.
>When has an arms race ever gone well against people making money off that arms race?

Technically, there are two sides to that equation making money. I get what you're saying, though.
I reject the premise. Men and women have egos. Men and women overexplain and fail to listen when somebody says “yeah, I’m well aware of the basics, let’s talk specifics”.
There's a term for this: an inconvenient truth.

Cheap and abundant energy is strongly correlated with prosperity. Every barrel of oil produces roughly 1,700 kWh of thermal energy. In countries with low cost of oil production like Saudi Arabia and Iran, that means electricity generation for less than $0.01/kWh. The only viable technology to compete with oil and gas over the long term is Nuclear.
The way I read the incident post, it almost feels like they aren't talking about the actual `postgres://` uri but some other secret that provides database access indirectly, maybe a backend API that uses a single secret key. I could be wrong, but you'd think the incident report would just say "we leaked the connection string for our internet-reachable database" if that were the case.
There’s a lot of software being written in these big companies that never ship due to politics, deprioritization, product mismanagement, change in company directions etc.
It takes them multiple hours more to finish the same amount of work, not finishing multiple hours more of work.
But why is done that way? Lots of freelance chefs move between restaurants but the bill is always between the restaurant and the people who dine there.
Agree with everything you're saying.

Watching the keynote, I found myself thinking how unhappy Uber would be with skipping over interacting with them entirely: there's no "Uber experience" you have when you're in the car, so what do you get from Uber that any random company with a tie in to Rabbit can't get you?

Option 1: a shift in devices/model like Rabbit pull the magic carpet out from under companies like Uber, and everything becomes purely transactional.

Option 2: rabbit-like market creates exclusivity-based need, to ensure Uber is the number-one (or only) rideshare choice, so it doesn't matter that customers aren't "experiencing" Uber. Uber relinquishes the experience to the agent (unlikely).

Option 3: Uber et al wage war against agents and make their use impossible
Die Kündigungsfrist beginnt bei 3 Monaten und geht schnell auf 2 Jahre hoch. FAANGs suspendieren ihre Mitarbeiter ab dem Punkt, wo die Kündigung mitgeteilt wurde, dementsprechend bekommt man üblicherweise die Kündigungsfrist ausbezahlt.
Switching companies frequently increases comp, but it’s less safe from the point of view you brought up around starting from square one in terms of rapport and “safety.”

I think this is a normal trade off. You left a team or a company for more money. There is nothing wrong with this, but you necessarily need to start from a new context since it’s a new team. When times are tighter because of economic cycles, this means that you should be more intentional with changing a team so that you are sure you will be able to compete with Joe Google Engineer. It’s still a competition in some ways, and that’s fine.

If you find a good place, stay a while in tighter economic cycles in order to build more skills and rapport and then hopefully, and realistically based on experience, you’ll have more runway within that company even if times are bad or if your performance sometimes is low because of life events.
The world is very small, and it can't support that many companies making passenger aircraft. If you want aircraft of that size, you have to buy Boeing or Airbus. Both are sold out until the 2030s.

There's an apparent contradiction here.

China spent ~15 years developing the C919, and it's finally entering mass production. But it also appears to be sold out until the 2030s.

And here.
I have created this Kickstarter site to raise for funds for my film against the dictators.
I think my cousins and I ruined more than one kitchen table cloth with our inky leaky pens and the spirograph. The physics of the angular momentum I felt gets lost on digital solutions. Is a carnival ride for your hands and fingers.
I really would like them to compare to Gpt4 instead of claiming victory when matching 3.5. To me GPT4 is the first usable one for a lot of professional uses. 3.5 is fun and gets some stuff right but it’s like a demo.
> why use Windows at all?

I wish I had the same optimism. I have a Fedora partition that gets wiped and reinstalled every release and there's always some showstopper or things are slightly worse that make me unable to commit. I'm not settling for 'slightly worse'. The display server situation on Linux is depressing.

I don't like were Microsoft is heading, but it's way too early to claim Windows is dead.
I missed the last sentence at the end.
How is that relevant to the layoffs?
Given that your misleading post has been flagged and removed, I'll consider this matter satisfactorily resolved.

Have a nice day.
Hi. I'll just come out and say that I work for this company, and NOBODY, not a single one of us, not even managers, thought this was a good idea. My boss described it as an "extremely cringe threatening video" in our team meeting the next day.

This video was not intended for a wide audience. It was only sent to employees. The idea that the "we" was "everyone who works here" was lost on us, and it felt that "we" meant "Leadership"

I don't know why you like the flavor of boots, but it's a taste many of us have not acquired.
First, a postdoc on the way out of academia is not going to fix academia.

Second, how is the system broken? There are mismanaged resources, some nepotism (in the U.S., a lot of nepotism if we look at countries other than the U.S. or the like), some research questions that are (wrongly) favored, but it doesn't change the fact that many more PhDs with academic career ambitions are being produced than there are (and will be) positions available. And this is not just an academia problem: the same mismatch between supply and demand is found in many other creative and aspirational careers, think actors, singers, sports. Only a small percentage of those who want that life can get it, and those who are left out are often frustrated by the perceived unfairness of life. But that does not change the fact that many aspiring creatives, because of that massive mismatch between supply and demand, will not be able to pursue those careers.

Sure, more permanent research positions could be thought of instead of forcing careers through the very narrow bottleneck of tenure track positions, but the vast majority of PhDs with academic ambitions (at least 8 out 10) will not have the opportunity to make that career, and they are (or are themselves) being bread-crumbed for years and years hoping that their dreams will, one day, come true. But they won't come true. And, as soon as they find another fulfilling occupation, they will find out it was not a real dream anyway, just a dream they thought they had.
because insurance doesn't pay full amounts, and often are left with a larger bill than if you didn't have insurance due to the "insurance premiums" that are charged because they know insurance won't approve the full amount
Newly discovered cosmic megastructure challenges theories of the universe
I did check the docs. According to the search, there are like 5 references to "consistency", 4 of which are talking about how traditional databases do that poorly and the 5th one seems to suggest to use "depot partitioner" which seems very much like sharding with per-shard consistency. For "isolation" there are t2 references, for "transaction" 1, none of which explains anything.

And I'm sorry, you won't convince me something defined in Java is superior to declarative SQL. There's a lot of problems with SQL, no doubt about it.
> Developers with nothing better to do keep coming up with new abstractions trying to build for a moving target

Bullshit. React is almost 11 years old, the only other two really popular competitors are 10 and 13 and use the same paradigm.

Everything else in this area is very experimental and tentative, as it should be, but it is mostly celebrated by people who, surprise, complain that "the web is too complex".

Even "new hotness" like Tailwind is based off quite old Atomic CSS ideas that started in the late 2000s and early 2010s at Yahoo.