skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me start by saying that I don't think Proton is a bad company in any way, and I have no evidence of any kind of malfeasance, but I still must ask...

Do you have an exit strategy if Proton goes the way of Microsoft or Google? Those two only had apathy and inertia keeping people in their ecosystem, but Proton kind of has you locked in, because you can only use their proprietary apps to access encrypted emails. Yes, I know you can use IMAP, but my understanding is that any email sent via IMAP isn't encrypted, and any encrypted mail can't be downloaded via IMAP. Either way, just because they have IMAP turned on today, doesn't mean they won't turn it off tomorrow in the name of security.
> Don’t be so sure about that… rates will fall sharply in a recession, otherwise inflation will run hot

What? Lowering interest rates raises inflation.

> See today's print

Can you link? Not sure what your talking about
> “AMD continues to lead the AI hardware revolution by offering the broadest portfolio of processors with dedicated AI engines in the x86 market,” said Jack Huynh, senior vice president and general manager, Computing and Graphics Group at AMD.

I can't believe anyone actually said this with a straight face.
Thanks!

For future reference, direct download links can be found here: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/browse/standards/get-program/pag...

Found the direct link here: https://ieee802.org/
DSA was an alternative to RSA developed by the NSA, which used (other parts of) the US government to push for its implementation. It was never entirely clear why they were doing that, and there have always been (unproven) suspicions that the NSA wanted it adopted over RSA for underhanded reasons. Due to this history, it was never anywhere near as popular as RSA. Anyway, the US government (NIST) now recommends use of DSA be discontinued. By contrast, RSA was developed in academia and its adoption was independent of the US government’s influence (and at times even against its preference for DSA instead)
It's like Bootstrap, but different. Main difference: it's based on Web Components and Javascript, Shoelace won't render anything without Javascript, without the possibility of Server Side Rendering (Shadow DOM requires Javascript)

Bootstrap got kind of stuck in the past. Vanilla Bootstrap is only really usable without a modern frontend framework, as it comes with many Javascript snippets that make the controls interactive. But it's just not really compatible with other UI libraries like React, Vue, etc.

Also Bootstraps feels quite antiquated from a user perspective. And for theming bootstrap you need to go through Sass hell.

I still use it for server side generated HTML, because it's really easy to use and just works.
The cpus are currently significantly more expensive, yes, but is the AM5 platform that much more expensive than AM4?

On AM4, pcpartpicker says I can get an A520M board for $70, and 2x16GB DDR4-3600 CL18 for $55; total $125

On AM5, an A620M board is $75, and 2x16GB DDR5-5600 starts at $76; total $151.

The real question is where the Microcenter bundle pricing will end up, if you live near a Microcenter.
Easier upgrades from free to paid teams
Why do you keep reinstalling Fedora? It might be worth trying a different distribution, although whatever it is thats forcing you to reinstall every release might affect all distributions. Its not something I've experienced with Mandrake, Suse, Mint or Endeavour.

I agree with your point though - Windows is not dead; for me its a lot of the photo editing applications that I want to use don't run well on Linux.
Mirror from 3 years ago: https://gitlab.com/dwrodri/bash_irc_quotes
Probably to acquire the equipment that the code needs to run on.
Reminds me of YouTube Red (as it was called at the time) where they were really pushing these original premium films. But my favourite part about YouTube is that I can share the videos I watch. As a subscriber it was actually doing me a disservice to lock them up because I wanted my friends to watch them and discuss.
That's a pack of 3 high end mesh APs though, about $550 per. Each AP has 2 10G and 2 2.5G ports as well as 2 separate 4x4 6 GHz radios so you can backhaul and transmit at the same time. Little of that price has to do with Wi-Fi 7.

If you look at the price of 1x normal type AP instead of 3x BMWs the price really isn't that high. The story is the same on the client side where most any m.2 adapter should be less than $40 to upgrade to.
This seems to be a common response to people criticizing open source projects. Basically, any criticism can be dismissed by suggesting that the critic should just fix the problem instead of complaining about it. I don't see why someone shouldn't be able to point out technical flaws without spending the time and resources to fix it themselves.
Any proof he died? It's not hard for western countries to manufacture identities. Pretty common practice to given sources a form of witness protection.
Recently the only people who have been saying that it’s easy to become a programmer in a few months are the ones selling you the way to get there.
In Croatian (and possibly other related languages) the number two (dva), like one (jedan), declines according to gender and case

Jedan prozor, jedna jabuka
Dva prozora, dvije jabuke

Another unrelated quirk in Croatian (and I don't which other related language) is that with numbers 2, 3, 4 you use the genitive singular and with higher numbers the genitive plural

Tri prozora, tri jabuke, tri kune
Četri prozora, četri jabuka, četri kune
Pet prozora, pet jabuka, pet kuna (notice the -a ending)

I learned that when I wrote some software that converted numeric values in textual form. I never noticed the rule despite speaking correctly (born in a croatian family but I didn't attend school there so I only picked up the language by listening family members, reading tv subtitles and books).

I wonder if an average Croatian is aware of that plural forming rule or they just do the right thing without noticing.
This one sees!
Yeah, this "article" is terrible. "users can expect immense power and dominant performance for intensive workloads including gaming and content creation."
Time for them to cash in some more on the user data and metadata they are selling, I guess.

Why these folks don't blow the whistle is beyond me.
This was us for my wife's pregnancy and delivery. Some of the bills were denied by Cigna for things that were covered according to their book. So we had to fight that. Cigna can take months to reprocess claims, which basically puts you into default with the hospital while you wait for the insurance to pay out for services that were supposed to be covered. We've done this after every medical event because Cigna always denies something that should be covered. And their accounting system doesn't work correctly which is something that is constantly your problem because they won't accumulate your out of pocket max or coinsurance correctly, so you CONSTANTLY have to call them about everything because it's always wrong.

Cigna is the worst insurance company I've ever had the displeasure of dealing with. United Healthcare was slightly better but only slightly.

For a surprise bill, my wife got fired as a patient by the biggest clinic network in our area for a bill that she didn't know she had and that the agent she talked to wouldn't provide any evidence or itemization. The agent's response when asked was "you know what this is for you should just pay it." Sounds scammy, right? They keep buying clinics we're going to and then she stops being able to see her doctors afterward.

Private equity is destroying our healthcare system.
I think you're right, investors don't really value the research arm until something profitable comes out of it and then they only value that thing that came out of it and not research arm itself.

In some sense, that is the right move. For example, Intel was a market leader for decades while their research arm was very stagnant for many years too. Other times, it is short sighted not to price in what might be to come because you miss buying shares on the cheap before a huge technology/product leap.
I just wanted to say thank you for this comment, it helped a lot of with some general anxieties plaguing me lately.
I'm not blaming zoomers, no more than I am blaming chinese youth who have to talk about "aquatic producers" to avoid being censored for even discussing censorship.

Ironically I tried looking for a list of officially banned words on twitch. All I found was journalist spam 'summarising' and telling me how I should feel about it.

One site had a list of 50 words, all of which they censored, literally:

- N-word

- F-word

- C-word

- S-word

- T-word

When I scrolled to the end ( "A*kissing" ), I got a newsletter popup.
That's the alarm system telling you to wake up and start looking around for a change. For whatever reason, we seem to have a meta-cognitive system that watches for stagnation and creates unease when it is detected. Am convinced that you can't disable it entirely, but you can self-mediate or ignore it. Either route is not great, as you're aware on some level that you're refusing your destiny (of sorts).

I think about this quote a lot:

"i keep re-encountering with a shock the way that most people do not know, at all, that the problem the entire universe is devoted to, that it crashes us into walls, throws us off cliffs, tortures and murders us to try to solve, is that of escaping local maxima"

- https://twitter.com/chaosprime/status/1248861223501942784?re...

Thus, I'd implore you to stick with the feeling and use it as impetus to change for something new.
Thanks... What should I do with this upvote you have given me?
Fairly certain he’s referring to Dodge v. Ford Motor Company, where it was established that a company needs to operate in the best interests of shareholders above all else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.?wprov=...
I'd agree if AMD's title didn't explicitly say "Extreme PC Gaming"

Extreme PC Gaming in 2024 is not 60fps at 1080p, it wasn't even in 2018
If your income is $0 it doesn't matter if prices go down by 20%. When the "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" economy is designed to be sink or swim people are gonna drown when shit like this happens. It's not about "luddites are forcing us to do manual labor", it's "corporate greed is destroying our communities". If you want automation you should be fighting for things like Universal Healthcare and a UBI so people can survive periods of change.
The whole concept of blocking is inapplicable to packet-switched networks. The whole time I was there I never heard anyone describe any of their several different types of networks as non-blocking. Indeed, the fact that they are centrally-controlled SDNs, where the control plane can tell any participant to stop talking to any other participant, seems to be logically the opposite of "non-blocking", if that circuit-switching terms were applicable.

Your message seems to imply that these datacenter networks experience very little loss, and this is observably far from reality. In GCP you will observe levels of frame drops that a corporate datacenter architect would consider catastrophic.
Do the debts get reported to the credit bureaus if you don't pay?
Stick it on s3, tell cloudfront to serve from the bucket, and let that sucker run almost unattended till aws shuts down.
An Israeli 8200 engineer makes $350/month for 24/7 availability. Must be the Americans making all the money
That's just externalizing costs though. Instead of building a large battery at the power station, you're building lots of little batteries everywhere else.

Even demand management can be an externalized cost. If a factory shuts down half the time, then you need twice as many factories to produce the same stuff.
I’d like to know the full extent of this. I’d eat my shoe if it was more than a tenth of a percent of outstanding healthcare debt.
Someone unfamiliar with the languages might have thought that if they share the issue and even (within their phonetic limitations) pronunciation for the number 4 that this would also apply to 7, hence why I clarified that this was not the case.
That’s not clouds.
>To prevent the impending total enshittification of the Internet we'd probably need e.g. something like cryptographically signing human-generated content with some way of proving humanness.

Perhaps cryptography can be useful but already irl you can buy "hand-made" products but ofc you can not fully trust that something was really hand-made or that web content was made really by human but at the end of the day it all comes down to trust. Web sites and web publishers need to build up trust in order to gain traction among web users and web customers.
Would it help to think of it as two workflows? The first workflow ends with a human. The second workflow is triggered by the human. To build those two workflows, use whatever tools allow you to build such no-human-in-the-loop workflows.
This feature to add annotations directly onto the canvas is the main reason I've continued to use OneNote (despite its limitations like lacking the ability to 'group' items). I tried to mimic this functionality with various plugins in Obsidian in the past, but it didn't really work. I'll have to give it another look.
> Amazon in September limiting authors to uploading a maximum of three books to its store each day.

Why not 3 books a month? Or even a few a year? Even extremely prolific authors rarely write more than a few books a year. This is a ludicrous rate-limit that seems designed to not actually do much (so Amazon can still get their commission) while giving the appearance that it does. It's hard to take this in good faith.
i was just thinking i haven't paid MS anything since i got my hands on "VXKC4-2B3YF-W9MFK-QB3DB-9Y7MB"

... then i just got an email receipt from my xbox gold subscription. curses!
Actual text: Note the "be allowed" portion. From: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/174

(a) In general - In the case of a taxpayer’s specified research or experimental expenditures for any taxable year—

(1) except as provided in paragraph (2), no deduction shall be allowed for such expenditures, and

(2) the taxpayer shall—

(A) charge such expenditures to capital account, and

(B) be allowed an amortization deduction of such expenditures ratably over the 5-year period (15-year period in the case of any specified research or experimental expenditures which are attributable to foreign research (within the meaning of section 41(d)(4)(F))) beginning with the midpoint of the taxable year in which such expenditures are paid or incurred.
It's aggravating as there is a lot of value I could provide to my organization if they set me loose and gave me full autonomy. I'd also be a lot happier. But that is pretty hard to come by.
Markdown and git. Separate conceptual notes and requirements at a project level, generally allocate one repo per project or if complex, one repo per project module. Iterate on whole version numbers beneath that, ie.

<project-repo>/README.md defines problem, requirements, interfaces and any notes on structure and approach investigated or selected.

<project-repo>/<module>/v7/ alternatively <project-module-repo>/v7/x

This macro approach allows straightforward onboarding of new staff whilst effectively firewalling irrelevant/unauthorized information. This last bit is really helpful with a revolving door of engineers on a long and complex project. Use of git also allows leveraging third party dates to prove independent development in the unlikely case of IP litigation, and provides a clear design history for patent applications.

Within individual modules things like prototype images, videos, test results, any relevant supply chain information and so on are readily stored.

I tend to segregate PCBs and firmware from mechanical, so a conceptual hardware module may have one repo per board, one repo for overall mechanical design, and one repo for firmware. For the PCB repos, a lot of info is testing related, even right down to scope shots, PSU logs during bringup, state transitions, software test results, etc.

Efficacy: Current project (8 years) has dozens of modules, extreme complexity, 10,000 parts, evolving international supply chain. Using this approach, however, I have been able to manage things effectively.
In the middle of the article:

>Ralph Langner, a researcher who conducted an in-depth analysis of Stuxnet after the malware’s existence came to light, noted that “a water pump cannot carry a copy of Stuxnet”.

In his Xitter post he also says the infiltration timeline doesn't match his analysis.

https://twitter.com/langnergroup/status/1744389845638635727

who to believe ?
Anyone who lives in a dense area and held out on Wi-Fi 6E should definitely look into Wi-Fi 7 this year. The 6 GHz spectrum is a fantastic addition to Wi-Fi performance (not just throughput) and Wi-Fi 7 adds a few other tricks too.
> Is a google employee in US somehow more competent than the one in India?

It depends.

There are people in India that are brighter and more hard-working than most people in the USA, just by statistical chance. But there is something that can happen there that I don't know what it is and affects some.

In another job our company had a site in India and I remotely supported them. Most people I interacted with wanted step by step instructions and hand-holding. One day someone news enters, bright and full of energy, so we could give him the documentation, point him in the right direction and he did the job. Until he didn't and also wanted step by step directions and hand-holding.

To this day I don't know what prompted the change. My only guess is that there's something cultural going on that can make people tone themselves down and not be proactive.

Just my 2 cents.
They are especially dangerous in autocratic countries, when also co-operating with powerful intelligence agencies, trying to plant spyware in an arch-enemy's nuclear infrastructure. I hear even helmets and spine protectors have a hard time with that situation :-)

But to be serious, I meant it mostly that it's certainly one case that would warrant extra investigations. Even if it was a random accident, someone like the Iranians could have claimed that their super advanced spy hunting team got him.
‘Something something…I swear…to best of my knowledge…that the system works correctly’
> It even assists in PostgreSQL’s implementation of Multiversion Concurrency Control (MVCC) - the WAL keeps a version history of data changes,

That's not really correct - postgres' MVCC implementation doesn't read from the WAL. Sure, row changes are WAL logged, but that's not really related to MVCC.
Yes. But AFAIK, HN has never had such a policy. AFAICT this blocking was introduced very recently when HN started to use CloudFlare in order to mitigate a DDoS attack. Therefore I thought it might be a good idea to bring it to the admins’ attention.
How do you reconcile your final paragraph/sentence with your own ability to succeed[1] in both environments?

My experience is that the ability to adopt to structured/unstructured environments are not mutually-exclusive: some people may thrive in one but not the other, and others can do well in both (or none!) My motto is to make the right trade-offs in any environment - which is a universal superpower for engineers in my book; especially when coupled with curiosity and a willingness to learn.

1. I'm taking the charitable presumption.
> These accidents have a staggering 80% injury or death rate

This is not the number that really matters in this context.

Falling out of a 8 story window has an incredibly high injury/death rate. Yet those we often assume ARE the result of foul-play.

What we're really comparing here is the probability of a party either lying, or contributing (causing) the motor cycle accident. The lethality rates aren't super interesting in this case. The main difference between this and falling out of windows, is that window-falls are much more rare then motor cycle accidents.
I guess when I say car culture, I don't mean enthusiasts and tinkerers. I mean that general American culture is car-dependent. People think their car is very important and part of their identity. I see on social media all the time people say that lack of a car is a sign of struggle, that you haven't made it, that you can't be trusted. That sort of thing.
"If you refresh your page and you are still reading this, it means you're on the internet! Have fun, be safe and don't forget to bring a towel."

d'aww
Seems like it ends up with lot features that few people asked. And then another bunch that no one asked. And then outright user hostile things like reworking entire UI time and again and somehow it being worse each time...
If you wanted to tax the wealth.. have a wealth tax? It's a thing in countries including Norway and Switzerland, and similar things exist in others (e.g. Italy taxes assets in some weird non linear way).
Official USA inflation numbers ticked up slightly in December.
And all kinds of mayhem is being done in Paris these years, in the name of the next Olympic games. Also a show-off event as a pretext to accelerated large changes.
> This is pretty close to my 2070 GPU does

Not even remotely close. It's equivalent to an RX570 or 580, which is roughly 1050 territory. Your 2070 is equivalent roughly to a 1080, plus raytracing.

> Cyberpunk when it came out [..] unplayable but on the most powerful PCs is incredibly impressive without a GPU.

The game has seen numerous patches in the last three years since it was released that have significantly increased its performance.
I think biggest problem is health insurance is now more like a weird HSA where insurer owns the money and operates as cartel. It might be cheaper for some to not even have it and just go to Mexico, maybe some minimal insurance only for emergency room.

Hard to call it insurance, when so much used for known chronic ongoing costs.
I'm just waiting for Siri to reliably set timers when I'm cooking. Between my watch and my phone, it's a damn nightmare to actually do the most basic thing with what should be a ubiquitous AI platform. They've had ages to make it better and some great minds in their employ, and yet they've really not done much. That said, if and when they do, they have immediate distribution and proof points to sell oodles more of their AI-enabled products and wearables...
True, it completely relies on client side rendering, and it's impossible to render it server side. With disabled Javascript it doesn't show anything at all.

I would really like to use it, but using it feels like limiting your options much more than necessary. Even the CSS-in-JS based libraries (like React MUI) allow SSR to some extent.
It's definitely the people that keep me on it and engaged, and how easily the software makes it happen. I've made a lot of friends, and it is nice to spend time with them there.
Mergekit is the best thing since sliced bread, as the local llm community already knows.

The dev's blog is great: https://goddard.blog/posts/

...But its not what this paper is describing. They are basically alternating models, AFAIK. Also I have other nitpicks with the paper, like using extremely old/mediocre chat models as bases:

> Pygmillion 6B, Vicuna 13B, Chai Model 6B
This goes far beyond TikTok. Twitch, Youtube, the jurisdictions of Canada, the UK, Australia... this is one thing I'm not willing to blame China for, I am just noting how close it is the same thing that China does.
The idea is that you're converting some % of developers' salaries into intellectual property (i.e. code), and that intellectual property is a capital asset that depreciates over time in the same way that a tractor or a widget-making machine would.

The salary is not the asset, it's an expense that produces an asset.