skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this guy is a little bit nuts. His premise is almost certainly true (that Greenpeace has become corrupt), but then he goes on to say that CO2 is "invisible", so we can't possibly "see" its effects, and the same for microplastics... He also references renewable companies getting rich with German "marks" (?), which I don't think exist anymore (since the Euro in 2002).
Online opt-in polls can produce misleading results
I will never have bought a console before. Know I'm gonna get Yuzu installed on my EmuDeck as a personal fuck you to Nintendo and play all the games I find interesting (mainly Zelda).
I mean with regard to the recency of posts on HN. The community sees a post, and then related posts begin to trickle in.
Given how the Brussels controls trade with China for all the member-states, the statement is accurate.The same Commission who waves human rights flags will do all kinds of energy deals with saudi& Azerbaijan for example
suggesting mustard as a cheese substitute is so profoundly, fundamentally wrong i am not convinced you are a human
Right to repair bill targeting parts pairing passes Oregon House
We can’t trust downdetector. Its just user reports. And users dont know anythig
I do something similar. I primarily use a MacBook these days and I really miss how my ThinkPad could open up to 180 degrees while using it laying down on the couch.
Bing copilot
W520 running Ubuntu is still my daily driver after 12 years. The build quality of their older models is just insane. I wish Lenovo would bring back their classic hardware.
Isn't that the broadly accepted value proposition for working at a startup?

You accept greater job insecurity than more established companies, and lower salary than more established companies, but in return you get the opportunity to receive a larger slice of the proceeds from a "good" exit. It's like buying a lottery ticket. You don't sign on with Meta expecting a great exit, but you gamble that you might see a great exit when you sign on with Series-B-R-Us.

I'm not saying I agree with the gp here that the workers were wronged, but the widespread assumption is that startups pay less than more established companies.

And I agree completely that the gamble did not pay off for anybody here. The investors lost money, the workers lost money, the founders lost money. And that's the risk you take on when you make that kind of investment.

I've definitely declined further interviews with companies with something to the effect of "I don't have the stomach to be in an early stage startup right now".
The vast majority of WAF deployments seem to be plain defense rather than defense in depth. I.e. WAFs aren't very often deployed because someone wanted an additional layer of protection on top of an already well secured system. Typically they're deployed because nobody can/will add or maintain a sensible level of security to the actual application and reverse proxy itself so the WAF gets thrown in to band-aid that.

Additionally, a significant number of enterprise WAFs are deployed just minimally enough to check an auditing/compliance checkbox rather than to solve noted actionable security concerns. As a result, they live up to the quality of implementation they were given.
If you're going to post quite sensationalist speculation please at least provide some attempt at a source or rationale. It doesn't really pass the sniff test that any goverment would bother with this banal subterfuge when they are more than capable of putting secret payloads into orbit, and have done so many times[1].

e.g. this, just the first relevant thing I could find https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/04/26/spy-satellite-successf...
If you try to court a community then it will expect more of you. Same as if you were to claim to be an environmentalist company then you would receive more scrutiny from environmentalists confirming your claims.
> For example, in a February 2022 survey experiment, we asked opt-in respondents if they were licensed to operate a class SSGN (nuclear) submarine. In the opt-in survey, 12% of adults under 30 claimed this qualification, significantly higher than the share among older respondents. In reality, the share of Americans with this type of submarine license rounds to 0%.
StarCoder 2 and the Stack v2
Nobody knows whether to trust Sam Altman when he says something. That's one of his most salient personality features and widely remarked upon.
I'm a newcomer to mustard. I discovered why I love Uno's Pizza Classic Beyond Burger so much. They put Ketchup on the top bun and Mustard on the bottom. I've now adopted that for at home when I eat Chick Burgers and it really pops. I've eaten french fries with it but I just never got the memo about how it is both a condiment and a spice before now in my fiftys.
I quickly learned to set up AWS billing alerts, is there anything else I should keep an eye on?
The "short-term" effect on warming is quite severe and very relevant. Also, while carbon atoms are conserved, methane is not. You can make a lot of methane from biomass without needing to absorb methane to produce the biomass.
The fact they're ending this makes me wonder if the rumors of Amazon fully abandoning AOSP as the basis for FireOS are true. If so, it would be ending it because there won't be an appstore with updated apps before long.
My project is similar to this and allows indexing of an external drive. Check it out https://github.com/lrnselfreliance/wrolpi
That is a really good question.
Isn't this just the standard problem of reporting useful error messages? Like, yes, there are academic situations where you can't distinguish between two possible error sources, but the vast majority of insufficiently informative error messages in the real world arise because low effort was applied to doing so.
dang, seems like they missed out on not going for "radix"
I've used a thunderbolt eGPU with a laptop before and it was good enough to put me off building a gaming rig for a few years. Most of my dev work these days has moved to a home server or codespaces, so I could see myself getting something like these. the GPU is typically the only thing I upgrade as tech evolves faster than my upgrade cycle (eg, I went straight from ddr3 to ddr5).

I could also see it being a good option for business deployments, similar to the absurdly popular Lenovo SFF PCs, especially where some but not all users might be pushing a GPU pretty hard.

IT can swap out an eGPU in no time, but lose the silicon lottery with an iGPU or a laptop GPU and the entire unit needs to go back. Likewise, there's a reason no IT dept builds their own PCs. It's not that they can't, it's that a factory in China can do it faster, better, cheaper.
Compressing CS2 Demos
> it looks like Starlink alone is up to 5,942 satellites in orbit [0] these days

Starlink operates by far the largest constellation of satellites. Definitely the largest commercial constellation. That's like saying Google "just" serves ~8.5bn search queries/day. I might be mistaking your implication tho.
Thanks for the reply. For what it's worth if you're ever in the US, Amtrak does offer very spacious seating and often enough you'll have your part of the row to yourself. Probably comparable to flying first class, I'd say.
How is it unlikely, i know plenty of people personally that had something stolen in the high speed train in Germany while they weren't looking. And he's sleeping in the train every day.
Ubisoft Director of Subscriptions really opened the floodgates of bad behavior when they came out saying "Gamers need to get comfortable with not owning their games".

I think these companies need to be reminded they do not own our PCs either.

I'm really starting to like that mantra of "If buying isn't owning then piracy isn't stealing".
But does that matter? if someone tried a software or a service and then terminated or quit that, then does that end-user agreement still applies in perpetuity? Let say I cancel a cable TV subscription or quit MySpaces, do I still really bound by their EULA?
Soft landing except for us in tech who have been unemployed for months or years
Can you provide citations demonstrating this? Because all available evidence indicates that inflation has cooled because the supply chain is no longer dysfunctional. If immigration had solved this problem, you wouldn't see this:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-05/us-immigr... | https://archive.today/eDWSt ("Immigration Rage Drowns Out the US Labor Market’s Need for Workers")

There is no labor shortage; simply a shortage of people willing to work at what is offered, from a comp and working arrangement perspective. Schools can retain teachers when they offer a 4 day week (~1000 school districts in the US have moved to a 4 day week to retain teacher). The Federal government can retain workers when they allow them to remain remote/have flexible work.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-09/another-g... | https://archive.today/5sSJD ("Another ‘Great Retirement’ Wave Hits the US After Stocks Rally")

https://www.axios.com/2024/02/19/american-retirement-boom-hi... ("Retirements spike again as stock market booms")

https://www.axios.com/2024/02/02/layoffs-chart-statistics-da... ("Why you don't need to freak out about the layoffs")

https://www.marketplace.org/2024/03/05/nursing-leaders-short... ("Nursing leaders are leaving their jobs amid broader industry shortage")

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/31/us/teachers-quitting-shortage... ("Teachers are calling it quits amid rising school violence, burnout and stagnating salaries")

https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/4495479-return-to-off... ("Return-to-office mandates will be worse for federal employment than leaders realize")
There is no such thing as dominance with trade without a navy. These two always go together and it's the reason why china is building up its navy
I am using X1s since 10 years, different generations. The only one I really disliked was the one with the F1-F12 function keys were no real buttons, more like a touchbar. That was pretty bad as a software developer! I think they introduced it because Apple MacBooks had it as well, thankfully for one generation only.
> When there's a major ISP outage, people report problems with all the major sites. When Facebook's down, people report problems with any site that has "Login with Facebook" as an option.

Yes? That's how all top-level reporting is going to work. It's not going to tell you which part of your service is inaccessible. It's just telling you that people can't access it. You obviously have to do additional investigation to figure out why people are having trouble.
Academish Voice (2022)
I found WSA kind of handy to run Pocket Casts on old Microsoft Surface Tablet. Had to jump through some hoops to install Google Play first.

What's the best alternative? Bluestacks seems very shady. Chrome OS Flex in a VM? (Scratch that. It looks like Chrome OS Flex doesn't allow Android apps)

P.S. Do we make "jokes" about Microsoft killing things off like we do with Google?
I think one thing that really killed it is that the Amazon store is very scarce. I never used it, in part because none of the "good" apps were in the store. I'm surprised Amazon still even has an Android store.
I know they raised the price recently but it seemed pretty obvious to me they were selling these at a loss to try and get people locked in by the software.
This is a good explanation. However, if you do take on liquidation prefs, you should be open with other parties (employees) who are affected. I have never, ever experienced employers who have volunteered this information. I have also been told, when I asked about liquidiation prefs, that they had no way of determining whether or not that provision existed in their investment terms (!).
When you've already got one threat on your hands you're less prepared for anything else.
Secret payloads which are impossible to track via radar or optically either from the ground or via other satellites? Really? Tell me more.
A Pen Plotter you can make yourself
Most times in history the real crash only happens a while after rate increases stop, sometimes only after the first reduction. Famous last words I guess.
Ground-based sampling has different capabilities, e.g. these days you can mount a small mass spectrometer (see the ones going to Mars, the Moon) or related devices on a drone and get data about a much wider range of particulates and compounds. e.g.

"VOC Sampler on a Drone Assisting in Tracing the Potential Sources by a Dispersion Model - Case Study of Industrial Emissions" (2023)

https://aaqr.org/articles/aaqr-23-07-tn-0169

> "Two plants which manufacture petrochemical products at an industrial complex in Kaohsiung City, southern Taiwan, were applied as the targets for VOCs sampling and further qualitative and quantitative analysis in the laboratory. Aromatic hydrocarbons, including toluene of 433 ppb, ethylbenzene and xylenes of 100–200 ppb and phenol of 111 ppb were identified."

US EPA also has a similar program.
I live in North Texas. I guarantee you we get a lot of days with intense radiant heat.

Both of my cars have glass roofs. Previously they had sunroofs. Lots of sunlight in the cabin.

I haven't had issues with automatic AC in decades in cars that aren't exactly luxury cars. It is a solved problem for at least every brand of car I've owned.
The "missing" graph datatype already exists. It was invented in the '70s
Beside formal responsibility claims I've noted few recent curious sabotages in EU:

- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-08/trains-in...

- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-05/tests-sho...

- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/internet-co...

They have in common being energy and tlc networks, unclear reasons for the sabotage and unclear actors.
Really? Because I myself asked the people who used software about Garbage Collection and they said "I mean, it's a job."

The people who use software have absolutely no idea or opinion on the topic.
The parent's comment is about how it quite literally is not a standalone headset, as is currently being demonstrated.
And don't get me started on how all new technology is inevitably used to force us all to live our lives with more intensity.
What do you think is the realistic ceiling of using an AI agent helper? Like when do you feel like you would “graduate” from the agent and just have enough skills to want to read documentation yourself, etc.? Or would you always imagine yourself using AI as a permanent coding tool?
Facebook accounts != individual humans.
Hilarious because they probably had much more than the cost of a first class business ticket in the not-even-under-lock-and-key petty cash drawer in the next room. But good for him!
A focus on intelligence as being the most salient feature of one's awareness seems like a human thing. I assume that an octopus would wonder how many arms the AI has. Maybe the AI will relate to itself first as a distributed being rather than as an intelligent being, who knows.
Having Fun with (Franken)PHP
> sometimes I would spend 10 minutes crafting a prompt, forcing me to fully understand and articulate my own line of thinking about what I was trying to achieve

Yes, usually called rubberducking. Trying to explain a problem to someone else can lead you to the answer. Many times I've found the answer to something while trying to write the question in StackOverflow.
A future version of an ebook library would be an offline large language model? So like, instead of downloading Moby Dick, you can ask for it to be generated?
I agree, the government should not have a role in influencing the content moderation policies of social media networks except for things that are strictly illegal.

It's depressing, though, because the only time people seem interested in this is when someone from the opposite political party is trying to influence content moderation policies.

If the Biden administration put undue pressure on social media companies, that's bad. If Donald Trump as president pressures Twitter to exempt him from their content moderation, that's also bad.

But you'll get very few people who will call out both things.

Sadly, almost nobody seems to care about the free speech of anyone except the people they agree with.
Hey can you expand the list please? Just the names would be more than enough :)

Anything in the vein of Miles / Coltrane / Ornette Coleman etc
Agree, freely available extensive documentation is a must. The link to Book of Shen is for UK. To find it elsewhere, search for the isbn, eg. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=1915012112

Edit: The book is available online, but is scanned in low res blurry format, very not readable.
FWIW: one of the other main issues with the project as it neared its end was the move to mandatory SSL connections. By its nature, LibraryBox has to be able to work entirely offline, and trying to sort out how to manage SSL connections in that situation without also causing potential security issues in sensitive use situations...well, we tried and couldn't come up with a reasonable, usable solution to those overlapping issues.
So, this is the second time a "run your Android apps on Windows" initiative fizzles out: before WSA (which was Amazon-centric), there was a late-2020 "Your Phone" feature that (briefly) allowed Samsung apps on Windows desktops.

Not sure if this means anything other than "phone apps run best on, well, a phone", especially since I can't think of anything from my phone that I would truly like on my desktop, other than instant messages, which are already available in various ways?
If you don't own Nvidia hardware why should download an Nvidia driver?
Thanks for the post ToB!

Ockam’s CEO here. If anyone has any questions for me… let it rip!
Only adding, since you obviously get this, yet even with what seem like expensive ticket prices, the Concorde was still a difficult economic proposition. Even if you didn't pay for crew, fuel, airport fees, ground crew, maintenance, ect...

The Wikipedia article quotes a slightly different number than the article, yet it still amounts to a $200,000,000 plane (in modern $) with only 100 seats that eats fuel. Even at $900 (modern $) you quote, it would still take 2150 full flights to recoup the roll-away cost without anything else. (Interweb says base 737 is $90 million (modern $) with ~160 seats.)

And then there's the factor of 30x development program costs to consider (bathed in by Britain/France). The expected 350 orders, got 100, built 20. The decade extended development hell. The huge fuel cost jump on release. The Concorde is neat, it's just Murphy's Law was all over that plane.
Federated is nice, but with Radicle you don't need a server with publically accessible IP, so you can pull and push with just a node running on your laptop—though I understand there still need to be some nodes with publically accessible IP due to NAT and it doesn't seem Radicle is (yet?) doing NAT punching/STUN/TURN.

Well, at least you don't need a name or a certificate for the server, I assume its id works as its cryptographic identity.
MS-DOS was inspired by CP/M to an extent, but not directly based on it. The device handling, BIOS functions, and command line were similar.

When IBM first developed the PC they needed an OS. At first they tried to license CP/M from Digital Research since it already existed with many applications available. But when DR fumbled the business negotiations, Microsoft stepped in and offered IBM favorable terms for MS-DOS. It wasn't exactly compatible with CP/M, but close enough that the transition was easy for users and developers.
Thank you! Not yet, it's definitely worth a talk or blog post IMO. I don't think it's well known how approachable learning how to code is with this kind of a tool. The way you're able to interrogate a response or ask it to clarify more simply what it is doing- I had so many 'a ha' moments with certain topics that felt overwhelming at first.
Eyyyyy. My personal site currently runs on Doks! Check it out: https://foreverliketh.is/
Also, @henk-verlinde, I'm not on the showcase :^(
I used it (Windows Subsystem for Android) to install Kindle on a Windows ARM tablet.

I really liked it, but I found the native version of Kindle ran better because there wasn't the "startup" hit.
Genuine question:

For liquidation preference >= 1x, why even call it equity instead of debt?

The point of equity is that you own a part of it, and you get a proportional share. The point of debt is that the money owed to you is preferred over other owners (i.e. equity owners). It seems to me that liquidation preferences allow investors to take the best of both worlds.
So I kind of agree with your criticism of the tone but less so after seeing this get flag-killed so quickly. A lot of us are very close to the tech and feel personally attacked by criticism but that is a fraction of the stress being experienced by victims of these attacks and since many of them are school-aged they don’t have the same level of support and self-confidence to laugh them off.

I think the real question here should be what policies would help reduce abuse without being too restrictive. Politicians are going to keep receiving calls for action from [rightfully] angry parents so efforts to not hear about it here just mean that debate is happening somewhere else.
Linking to an article written by someone whose income is dependent on these medical procedures isn't exactly a convincing argument.

Turban is infamous for being biased to the point of malpractice. Check out Jesse Singal's critiques of his research, for example.
In my experience, startup employers will never volunteer information like whether there are liquidation preferences.
Means Nvidia is even longer anti competitive than we thought.
Some people are promoting the title "AI Engineer", which I think a sensible title... kind of like "full stack developer", not defined by a single technology, but requires knowing a number of technologies (LLMs especially) and being able to put those together into a working product.

Having worked with LLMs a lot I would NOT agree with people who call them "just another tool". Some people are experts working with cryptography, or creating scalable distributed systems, or working on network protocols, etc... these are real and specialized skills. Working with LLMs is similar. Starting from a foundation of "can get stuff working" (full stack) is awfully important, and I don't think LLMs reward narrow specialization.

Also prompt engineering is real, and I don't think it's going anywhere. Working in collaboration with domain experts to do that prompting is essential, but a lot of output issues benefit from a combination of both prompting and changes to pipeline, text processing, and other code-based approaches. There's real benefit to being good with words, a close reader, able to get in the head of the LLM, learning its fixations and misconceptions, templating thought processes, etc. Ideas that prompt engineering will disappear with better models and fine tuning are, IMHO, naive and misunderstand the interplay of prompt and LLM. If you want to get something from an LLM you will still need to know how to ask!
The problem here is Google would have to agree to it and license the play store for it, which they might have wanted to.
The growth and opportunities will be at the application layer.
Training and fine-tuning LLMs doesn't really have that much value.
Closed source (OpenAI) models and Open source models will be the foundation.
As I said running some training/fine-tuning on top of these models and knowing how to do evaluations wont have that much value.
Learn how to build useful applications on top of these things instead.
Unfortunately, you should know scientific fact, that from nature, people divided to three groups:

1. Tech/scientific people (mathematics/physics/etc).

2. Art people (extraordinary good with texts and/or graphics/drawing).

3. Cognitive people or entrepreneurs (Tommy from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snatch_(film)

In your age you should already see hints, where are you mostly talent, and could choose appropriate way (yes, all ways divided to three largest groups, anywhere need tech personnel, arts and managers, but all these three learn different way).