skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That wasn't a simple comment—that was clearly a flamewar comment, guaranteed to produce more of the same and likely worse.

You're not being targeted personally and we don't take ideological sides nor care what your (or anyone else's) views are. If other people are breaking the site guidelines too, and their posts don't look moderated, it doesn't follow that moderators have deemed it ok. That's a gigantic non sequitur. Far more likely is that we just didn't see it: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

> The thread got more ideological as more folks commented.

In my experience, the feeling "other people just started behaving badly for reasons that had nothing to do with my post" is generally not very reliable. It does happen sometimes of course. But it's more likely that you (I don't mean you personally—I mean any of us in this position) are underestimating the degree of provocation in what you posted.

Funnily enough I was just writing about this in a different context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40601722.
Not even surprised.

20 years ago when I worked in retail selling computers, we had moderately high end HP laptop at a great sale price with an extra RAM slot that many customers opted to get a stick for.

We started getting returns immediately and once we started inspecting the laptops, we saw that the extra DIMM slot didn't even have any lines connecting it on the motherboard.

HP tried to insist that they wouldn't credit us for the returned defective computers without us signing an NDA, which we refused but still shipped back all the units from our entire chain of retail stores. This was many thousands of units and they probably lost an assload on the returns.

Their products have been garbage for a long, long time.
Yeah, I meant the people who build the control system platform, not their operators!
Match made in heaven, not to mention perfect timing

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jun/06/mik...

"Lynch faced 15 counts of fraud over the $11.1bn purchase of his company Autonomy by HP in 2011"

HP takes $8.8 billion writedown on Autonomy https://money.cnn.com/2012/11/20/technology/enterprise/hp-ea...
Does Android app have anything missing in iOS?

I use Tailscale on iOS and it has been solid.
> I don't know that it's true that moving a lot means you work with more people.

It's generally true that you meet more people switching jobs every 2 years. You work with all the people that stayed and all the people that also left after 2 years. You end up on more total teams.

It's not universally true. If you stay in a place with higher than average turnover, constantly working with new people then you would be in an position to work with more people. Additionally, if you worked in a very centralized team in a very large software company you could end up working with more people.

Finally, the quantity of people you've worked with isn't the key metric you should maximize your professional network for. You ideally want in any 3 month period multiple people in your professional network whose recommendation will carry a lot of weight for an open position you would be interesting in taking that would give you a strong recommendation. After you've reached that level of baseline employment security then you want to maximize for people that will recommend better and better positions.
What a nightmare, for all parties involved.

As a consumer this is what must not happen, and someone at HP QA must be kicking themselves right now.
> ...games? Isn't that what we're talking about?

I'm struggling to remember when Apple last truly cared about gaming on Macs

> How Apple suffers from spurning the gaming industry

Ah yes. Apple truly deeply suffers. In which reality?

> Oh, well this is just wrong. Box86 had "solved" the x86 -> ARM translation path before Apple Silicon even existed, albeit slowly

1. No idea what Box86 is

2. Slowly means it didn't solve it

3. The actual reality and not some fantasy is that after dropping 32bit support hundreds of games otherwise supported on Macs became unavailable/unplayable on Steam.

There were literally significantly more games available for Macs than for Linux. Even after Vulkan was released. The parity changed only after Valve released Proton(2018) and MacOS dropped support for 32-bit apps (2019).

Come on, this is not some ancient history. This happened just 5 years ago. I, a gamer, lived through it. And was basically forced to go ahead and myself a Windows PC because I couldn't game on the Mac anymore. And this had nothing to do with Metal, or Apple not supporting Vulkan.

> Asahi supports Vulkan 1.3, MacOS does not.

Neither does Xbox, or Playstation, or the iPhone. Windows only has native support for DirectX and delegates Vulkan support to the GPU vendors.

There's also Android where support became mandatory in 2019, and Switch (no idea when they added support, but I've seen people mention you should go to the native SDK and skip Vulkan for performance).

Truly an amazing API that so few platforms or even developers people care about: https://carette.xyz/posts/state_of_vulkan_2024/

> Before Steam, there was no incentive to develop it.

Steam was released in September 2003

Vulkan 1.0 was released in February 2016

People going out of their way to root for Vulkan seem to have a very tenuous grasp on reality, or recent history, or both.

> And look; if Steam goes rogue and decides to drop support for all platforms but Android Wear

All this is beside the point, or is even orthogonal to the point. The only reason Proton exists, and works as well as it does, is because Valve sees business value in it. That's it.

Had Valve seen business value in having a translation layer for DX->Metal, we would've had it as well. They don't (for good business reasons), and the amazing opensource community bitches about Apple instead of doing the work that they couldn't be arsed to do in the first place.
Beehiiv also defaults to using their own address in the footer.
I'll just keep running Windows 10 until I literally can't.

Which is enough time to find a Linux distro + DE/WM/theme I can live with and get Proton/WINE setup.
I have a perfectly good gaming computer that plays every modern video game out there with quite good graphics (RTX 2070 Super), but because bought it slightly too early for it to come with their security requirements, it won't install Windows 11 on it until I buy new hardware. I bought the computer in May 2021 also, it's only three years old.

Got my laptop in November 2021 and it was able to install Windows 11 (but came with Windows 10), so my computer must have been bought just before the hardware cutoff.

That's the only reason I haven't upgraded to Windows 11 yet. For all other Windows upgrades it's only been I couldn't install it because that computer was ancient. Feels dumb that I'm going to be forced to upgrade a 4 year old computer just to get security updates.
I seem to have that reaction watching the originals. It's like watching a mix between a western and a soap opera, but set in space. Maybe it's because I watched the prequels first, then the originals.

At least we both agree that the Clone Wars (and associated material) is good.
> US rates of accidents and deaths are much much higher than anywhere in Europe.

That's actually only true per population. If you measure per miles driven the US does better then Europe (although Europe is large, and numbers vary in different countries).
The only reason I use windows is for gaming, and I’m trying to figure out how to switch away as soon as possible. Unfortunately, I do sim racing, so it’ll be hard to get the peripherals working properly. I’m really sick of Microsoft lately with this stuff, they’re definitely run by the MBAs now.
This is news to me. I knew they bricked your printer if a non-HP cartridge was found. Now they brick your computer too? I hope they don't venture in the pacemaker market any soon. Then HP may brick consumers themselves.
> Nobody ever asks if these data centers are actually providing any value to society

To society, maybe no, but to CIA/NSA (Virginia) for sure.
High-level concepts stored inside the large models (diffusion models, transformers etc) are normally hard to separate from each other, and the model is more or less a black box. A lot of research is put into obtaining the insight into what model knows. This is another advancement in this direction; it allows for easy separation of the concepts.

This can be used to analyze the knowledge inside the model, and potentially modify (add, erase, change the importance) certain concepts without affecting unrelated ones. The precision achievable with the particular technique is always in question though, and some concepts are just too close to separate from each other, so it's probably not perfect.
What a petty interview :( Does the candidate have the desire and skill to find the correct answer given access to the right resources? That's what they need to ask. Not what is in the candidate's brain on the day of the interview.

I've forgotten more than I know, but I know where to find it.
Rivian introduces second generation R1 platform
This site makes me incredibly sad.

Who is going to pick up these electronic devices and batteries after the balloons have landed? Or are they supposed to remain outside indefinitely, leaking toxic stuff? I don't get it.
Yes it is. IIRC back when OpenAI was open and they published the breakdown they were significantly overweighting wikipedia.
In general this is just copying work done by Anthropic, so there's nothing fundamentally new here.

What they have done here is to identify patterns internal to GPT-4 that correspond to specific identifiable concepts. The work was done my OpenAI's mostly dismantled safety team (it has the names of this teams recently departed co-leads Ilya & Jan Leike on it), so this is nominally being done for safety reasons to be able to boost or suppress specific concepts from being activated when the model is running, such as Anthropic's demonstration of boosting their models fixation on the Golden Gate bridge:

https://www.anthropic.com/news/golden-gate-claude

This kind of work would also seem to have potential functional uses as well as safety ones, given that it allow you to control the model in specific ways.
The investors are in charge. You will enjoy the telemetry and hamfisted AI that is Windows 11 because well no one uses Windows because they want to.
What a tarnished legacy. They used to be the model for Silicon Valley.
Pencils with or Without an Eraser? (2007)
This looks very interesting. However, how do I create a new container, to put a subset of windows in?

It's not clear to me from the example configs, either default or i3-inspired. I've never used i3, though I did use AwesomeWM extensively about a decade ago.

Edit: ah, the `join-with` command which is a superset of the `split` command. In the default config, alt-shift-semicolon to enter Service mode, then alt-shift-h/j/k/l for neighbor selection.
HP servers are complete opposite of their laptops. I today retired a 17 year old DL140 which was working fine.
> Seriously, who's in charge here anymore? Shouldn't users get to decide what software they are running on their own computers?

You make it seem like this wasn't intentional. This came from the top and I expect there were a lot of people in the implementation path that did not like it. It's a feature not a bug.

I left Windows a long, long time ago. But, I will say that I think Microsoft is following Apple more here. Apple supports (with bug/security fixes) the last 3 major releases. Yeah, you can run an unsupported macOS forever (without ads for the newer one), but they don't go as far back as Microsoft ever did.
Meanwhile my Linux machine plays all the latest games flawlessly and doesn't nag me at all.

At some point Windows users need to wake up and stop being willfully ignorant of the perfectly viable alternative.
Someone in that thread talks about the numbers of devices potentially affected versus the few complaints.

I’m not sure “potentially millions” is right; I suspect individual HP models (of which there are many) maybe sell in the tens or at most low hundreds of thousands.

But I fear the reason why there are so few complaints is easy: it’s a three-year-old HP laptop model so they are mostly already in the bin.
How the US battery boom is shifting the power mix
Be careful running this on an untrusted directory, especially with e.g. pdfs, just like anything else that parses images, especially using ImageMagick.
> A lower quality mainstream computer manufacturer does not exist.

Just wait until you heard what ASUS Support does for their customers...
> I like precise logical argumentation

That's not quite how your comments elsewhere in this thread read lol

> This is not true, many civilizations were against private property rights and private property rights were never universal

Wanna name a couple of those civilizations that didn't have property rights that managed to thrive and grow beyond a population of like 10,000? If you're going to point towards something like Greenland or China where land is owned exclusively by the state and leased out.. that's the same thing as private property rights, the people who lease that land out have rights with respect to that land. Countries literally can not exist without property rights, and if you're gonna say "yea and countries shouldn't exist it's all just made up borders anyway, mann..." then you're username is incredibly fitting lmao

I also never said that these rights were universal, just that they show up. A lot. And if you want to claim that reason is because of some oppression, go for it. I happen to think this is wrong, and the fact that basically every time these rights are revoked things go to shit tells me that's because they exist for a reason. See

> No one is coerced to join those rebels.

Brother, they showed up with guns and took over buildings by force; they destroyed the land records for everyone, not just their specific "members" - if that's not coercion, what is? Please recognize that you may just be enamored with the ideals of what the group said on paper, and are therefore rationalizing their extremist actions that end up being counterproductive to any positive goals.
> All those layers create problems. WGPU tries to support web browsers, Vulkan, Metal, DX11 (recently dropped), DX12, Android, and OpenGL. So it needs a big dev team and changes are hard. WGPU's own API is mostly like Vulkan - you still have to do your own GPU memory allocation and synchronization.

The first part is true, but the second part is not. Allocation and synchronization is automatic.
I remember not being able to get a newer video card since HP opted not to update my bios. It’s surprising that my outcome was the better one.
Failed all my maths exams all the way through school. Us kids: "Teacher when we will we ever use this crap in real life?"

Me: *becomes 3D game developer, has to write 3D entire 3D engines from scratch*

They always say school is wasted on kids :D
I've been trying to find an "outside" view of the landing, as it is usual with SpaceX' dropships. So far no luck, they just haven't showed it yet or because it was middle of the ocean they probably don't have one?
Semi-related, I have an HP envy x360 with 4500u (same one as the laptop posted) and I have to say, the way HP applies BIOS updates is reckless at best.

The battery had died and when I first plugged it in, it immediately powered up, and started installing a BIOS update. If someone tripped on the power cord, or had a power outage, it would brick the laptop. I guess it downloaded the update the last time it was powered on (months ago).

They should put a minimum battery % (could be as low as 10% I imagine), but it seems very likely to me if someone has just plugged in their laptop, there is a strong chance it may get unplugged as well.

I only use this laptop to tune my AEM ECU on my car, and it rarely gets used, but I bet I am not the only one who has a HP laptop that isn't used every week.
Eh HP will at least repair it for free under warranty, ASUS will actively try to scam you to pay extra for repairs you don't even need.
Doesn’t 7 have massive InfoSec issues? Or is that scare tactics to push through an upgrade?
[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40599933
USA Upsets Pakistan in T20 World Cup Super Over
I was trying to figure out some of the lyrics to "Harold of the Rocks" a while back, stumbled across that site and holy shit:

> The lyrics of Harold of the Rocks are metaphorical and open to interpretation. They tell the story of a character named Harold, who is portrayed as an outcast in society. He stands out from the crowd and refuses to conform to societal norms, embodying a rebellious spirit. The song challenges the idea of conformity and expresses the band’s belief in the importance of staying true to oneself, regardless of the pressures to conform.

> In a broader sense, Harold of the Rocks can be seen as a critique of a society that values conformity over individuality. It urges listeners to embrace their uniqueness and celebrate their differences instead of succumbing to societal expectations. The lyrics provoke thought and encourage listeners to question the status quo, making it a powerful anthem for those who feel like outsiders or outcasts.

It's a song about a crack addict, people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvNWhr9BmcQ
Decision Trees for UI Components
Let’s see if the mods delete this Microsoft critical post off the front page like they did with the last one
They have released the models https://huggingface.co/togethercomputer/Llama-3-8B-Dragonfly...
> The fact that one of the main characters is a "cool" girl at a time where all the characters were a bunch of nerdy guys

From what I recall seeing as a kid, and when working in my teens, that wasn't too unlikely.

There were a lot of women in computing, of various pre-Yahoo-IPO eras.

I think the relative numbers diminished dramatically with the dotcom gold rush, and the newer bro cultures, and gatekeeping.

Only in recent years have we started seeing more women in "tech" again.
> I understand where they are coming from.

I remain unconvinced.

> It's not just about violence... to track down a kidnapper

I hate to be pedantic, but I don't understand by what definition kidnapping is not violence.

> what tool, process, or policy would be able to track down a kidnapper[?]

How about some preventative measures? For context, I believe the gross bulk of kidnappings are by family members, especially estranged parents. This could be remedied by addressing the irrational fears, anxieties, insecurities, and resentments that lead to acts of domestic violence. Such remedies might take the form of mental health courses in schools, or themese incorporated into media. Imagine if, instead of quoting dumb jokes from The Office, we quoted CBT-informed triggers for coping mechanisms that could de-escalate our central nervous arousal and re-target our attention to more productive efforts such as applying for the job which might win us back legal custody.

Edit: I checked. The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention estimates that approximately 203,000 children a year are abducted by a family member, which accounts for 78% of all child kidnappings in the U.S.
> It’s more fun to imagine these people as noble warriors against an unjust society, rather than seem them as people abusing the laws for personal gain at the expense of random victims.

Allow me to present a third option: maybe these people aren't noble warriors, they're just victims of an unjust society trying to meet their basic human need for housing. People like your friend are certainly unjustly harmed in this situation, but the people who don't even have their basic needs met are far more harmed.
7 really is the last relic from a lost time. I had to use an old 7 workstation and remembered how good it feels to search for a file in the Start Menu and not get a full page of bing search results, news and ads. Modern Windows has become a bizarre homunculus of all of the tech industry's worst instincts (adtech, endless scrolling news feeds, mass surveillance)
> Social media is built on reputation, not who can write generic believable text the quickest.

This is not the whole picture at all. I’d even say mostly incorrect. You can definitely influence public opinion with a social media consisting entirely of bots, provided the public aren’t aware of it.
Yes and no.

The problem is that we(as humans) label the output of these algorithms to give them meaning.

For example if you build a resume grading AI based off historic data(as some companies have done) it's quickly realized that what's being outputted by the algorithm is typically not the same as what people label it. In this case the output is "how likely would this candidate been to have been hired using previous methods", but it's being used to try and answer "how good of a candidate is this".

IMO it's these discrepancies between what these algorithms are doing(which in more complex cases we can't know) and what we label the output that causes these issues. If we acknowledge that historic data can't be used to accurately predict future outcomes(especially a subset of historic data), we wouldn't even try to do things like profile candidates.
Why are hardware companies like this?
My progression: Ok. Oh it’s like that? I got you. Oh fuck you. Oh fuuuuck you!!

Love this. Really need a paddle input device on the iPhone.
The team captain, Saurabh Netravalkar, works fulltime at Oracle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saurabh_Netravalkar
Is their driver and firmware update section still paywalled?
it's the same in Stoicism, once you realise that you get to choose for yourself, it doesn't matter what external circumstances are, you can still be pleased with your choices within what's open to you.

your comment also reminds me of discourses by Epictetus. he sounds like an irritated teacher modelling what patience looks like.
It really bothers me that we're deprecating OpenGL and replacing it with something that's ridiculously hard to do anything simple

OpenGL is only deprecated on MacOS, AFAIK, it will exist for many years to come.

I'm sure Vulkan is better in some regards but is simply not feasible to expect someone to learn it quickly.

Vulkan is often said to be more of a “GPU API” than a high level graphics API. With that in mind, the complexity of Vulkan is not surprising. It’s just a difficult domain.

Like, imagine the newest Intel/ARM/AMD chips came along and instead of being able to write C or C++, you're being told "We are dropping support for higher level languages so you can only write assembly on this now and it'll be faster because you have more control!" It would be correctly labeled as ridiculous.

IMO, it’s more like single threaded C/C++ vs multithreaded C/C++ programming. There is a massive increase in complexity and if you don’t know what you are doing, it’ll blow up in your face and/or give you worse performance. However, it’s the only practical path forward.

Anyway, OpenGL can basically be implemented on top of Vulkan. Perhaps it is regrettable that the OpenGL standard is no longer being actively developed, but nothing lasts forever.
I think of it like the writing advice that tells you not to use words like good, bad, and nice, since they are low information density. My general feeling is you could replace the word problematic with a much more specific word in every single context where it's used, and the message would be clearer.