skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope steam machines make a comeback. Steamdeck is the best gaming platform I've ever owned, and I'd easily pay up to $2k for a box that I can just put under my 4k TV and have all my 1000+ steam games there without ever having to see the windows logo.
I've thought about this too, and given that Valve is brilliant when it comes to pricing, I suspect that they have data showing that gamers are well aware of the "Windows Tax" and expect to not have to pay it for a Linux-based device. I want to be conservative advancing that theory as confirmation bias is a real risk (since that describes me perfectly) but I do see little bits of reinforcing evidence around.
For those that didn’t get the memo: https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/06/health/children-higher-fluori...
As engineering managers, we often fall into comfortable patterns that seem to work well enough. Our one-on-ones follow the same template, our team meetings become predictable, and we handle challenges using tried-and-true methods.

But this comfort can be deceptive. Just like a mountain climber mistaking a lower peak for the summit, we might be operating well below our potential. I call this getting stuck in a "local maxima" - a comfort zone where we stop challenging our assumptions and become complacent.

Key signs you're stuck:
• Your one-on-ones follow the exact same template every time
• You always reach for the same solutions to team challenges
• Your calendar looks identical month after month
• You find yourself saying "This is just how we do things here"

Breaking free requires intentional effort. Here are proven strategies:

Reading: Don't just stick to management books. Explore psychology, philosophy, and history for fresh perspectives.

Shadowing: Observe how other leaders handle similar challenges. Be the "fly on the wall" in their meetings.

Teaching: Mentor aspiring managers. You'll discover gaps in your knowledge and gain fresh perspectives.

Replaying: Share specific situations with colleagues to understand how they would handle them differently.

The tech industry's emphasis on constant growth and innovation doesn't just apply to products – it applies to leadership too. When managers stop growing, teams stagnate, and organizations suffer.
I have a Deck and almost never use the track pads, they feel totally redundant to me. The right one is pretty good on desktop mode and in games that aren't Deck-optimized and need a mouse, though. What are you using both of them for?
Right, and even there I think we might need to get specific about categories of images. Images that are supposed to be photo realistic are far easier to spot than "battleship in outer space" generations.

Bringing it back to the topic of stock photography: A large percentage of stock photos are of real things, people, scenery. So, when someone says I'll have a hard time spotting generated stock photos, I kinda go uhh, well, no, not generally, because stock photos are very often of people and real life scenes, the thing that is the easiest to spot as a generation.
Good point, and thanks. I have to admit I don't have a good answer to this. Maybe what dang needs to assess can be better defined or qualified? Like we can't define porn but we know it when we see it? On the other hand, assessing something is offensive or is hate speech is so subjective that people simply weaponize them, intentionally or unintentionally.
Lenovo's Latest Laptop Has a Rollable OLED Screen
Isn't Russian the native language of Zelensky as well? You may be reading too much into it.
Difficult to say what the will of the people was on TARP as it changed week to week depending on what the stock market had done that day.

But three days later they were for it before they were against it:

https://www.astrid-online.it/static/upload/protected/GALL/GA...

On the draft, that wasn't a new law. Selective Service was probably a 1940s law. A majority didn't think the war was a bad idea until 1968 and a majority supported Nixon pretty much to the end regardless of the reimagining that hippies were ever a majority.

https://time.com/archive/6875220/a-time-louis-harris-poll-th...
I am not stuck in the past. I moved to Clojure and jumped to devstacks just like everyone else.

Speaking of generative AI, I use and pay for v0 for frontend generation, tried Contember to generate backends from specification (the CEO is a guy I know for almost 2 decades), I pay for Cursor, ChatGPT, Claude Sonnet. I moved from Bootstrap to TailWind (which I don't like, to be honest).

But honestly, many things are just much slower than something like Rails/Django/Laravel+Bootstrap.
One thing that I think I've learned, to my surprise, even for most people in uniform on either side, is that much of life during wartime is still mostly "business as usual."

I think we all tend to have poorly calibrated mental models of this because coverage of war tends to focus on the heaviest action and worst of the devastation.

I don't mean to downplay how awful that can be, or how far the effects can reverberate (even generations later), but like... the vast majority of people still go about their daily lives, doing their usual jobs, doing the mundane things, even having fun, supply chains and infrastructure and institutions seem to be quite resilient, etc. Locally and individually, everything can change in an instant in combat (even then, most people walk away from that and continue their lives), but nationally things can keep rolling along as war drags on much more slowly than we all might expect or hope.

So I have little doubt that the IRS would keep doing its thing, and tax returns would need to be filed (albeit maybe with extended deadlines), even in the wake of a nuclear attack. I suppose the question is how much do things unravel in a scenario of nuclear counter-attack, and counter-counter-attack, etc. for which we have no historical precedent to think about.
The idea that there exist species who are uniquely "superior" or "inferior" is an objectively incorrect belief. It is not true now, and it has never been true. Every species on Earth fulfills a purpose, and humans have no right to farm any of them. It is objectively better for humans to return to pre-agricultural levels of population and eat only what we catch with our bare hands.

Of course, I don't believe that statement. But it is as "objectively true" as yours. I just don't want to dispute yours, because I personally agree with it. But I can not call it an objectively better statement.
I suppose we have to get into the engineering thought process of these Asian cultures.

Where did the idea of fortifying Localizer (LOC) come from, was there prior art specifying any degree of fortification (or lack) ? Perhaps these kind of radar (adjacent) installations are traditionally fortified, like maybe the civil air services were influenced from militry air services were things tend to be overengineered?

Perhaps saving the LOC is more important than saving a single aircraft? Some idea like this piece of infrastructure being more important that any single aircraft's safety?

The point is we might not see the reason why fortifying the LOC was obvious or straight forward to the Korean engineers.

Also, I've seen no credible evidence to support the idea the LOC is supposed to be built on a level surface, or built in a destructable way. Addressing the first point, the LOC makes sense to be slightly elevated given how they operate with near field low power radio waves. That said, these kind of slightly elevated instrument might not require an earthen mound, sourounded by concreate walls. Which goes to the second point, I can think of reasons to have these kind of LOC runways homing antenas destructable, and I can see them being robustly durrable. This thing was way past the end of the runway, and as unpo0pular as it might seems... it's a very bad thing to run out of runway. Somebody else wrote that some airports have a lack of open field beyond the end of the runway, and so it's a persuasive argument stuff could be built out there.
Don't these devices provide 128GB each? So you'd need to price in two Macs to be a fair comparison to two Digits.
But it's not complex when you use the right tools.
I did PHP professionally for 11 years and I waa bored out my mind of it.
The repetition, the boilerplate, the stupid dogma and OO fetishism.
And everyone in their freshman year suddenly knew better and tried to preach what they learned in Uni.

"But that's not SOLID and not OOP". But it's simple and does the job.

I moved to Go and AngularJS. That was 2013.
I did full backend aka full ssr with Go, and it's a PITA.

I did try htmx with a jinja like template language in Go, with templ and in Rust and ... I forgot the library, it's the go to library in Rust for htmx.
All the annoyances are still there.

Session management, service oriented design, if else blocks between and inside html tags.
Path parsing and comparison. Template macros. And now also fragments.

Now I use a graphql backend for data, and react consumes it while the ide supports intellisense for queries. It's more simple than writing your queries by hand on the backend. You have interactivity for free. And you let the client worry about how the data is displayed.
Also you let the oidc server worry about users.

Concerns are separated. I have authz middleware on the graphql backend, easily written.
Everything has layers and there's order and a clean structure.
As a plus I don't have to annoy my users with captcha. And I have reduced infrastructure costs as well as traffic.

I'm 50. My internet journey began 1995.
I did enough of the old way to hate it and to know when something is better.
I have met my share of fanatics, of language and framework Nazis.

You have to stay curious. I have tried htmx multiple times and found it inadequate, not good enough, too limited.

Like I wrote there are no frameworks in any language for it.
It's just JS hidden behind html attributes, claiming it isn't JS.

I hate deception, the zealots are deceptive as all zealots in any language, package or framework are. Angular Nazis holy crap. Or React retards where you mention how Vue has simple SSR adaption and Rract doesn't, and are labeled as a React hater.

I'm pragmatic. I like clean structure and efficiency as well as simplicity. Sometimes you have to learn a bit of complexity to have it simple and efficient in the long run.
I have tried many things. Ruby on Rails, Elixir.
You know what, I have started programming at the age of 11 on the cpc 464 in basic, at 12 I cracked c64 games and wrote cracktros in asm. I'm one of the first cheat creators for MMORPGs ever.
I don't consider myself super smart, but I have seen a lot and tried a lot. I also struggle with learning new things. But you have to.
Htmx is not the way. It's a step back. It's only for simple things.

I do believe the hype when it's reasonable. Like with MVC. It was the natural way to write SSR websites. This is the way.
But then something better came along and it took a while to solve the inadequacies it had.
But now it's at a point where SPA + graphql + oidc = awesomeness.
And it's going to become better.
And I'm not talking about the Nextjs crap, those fake backend libraries that are hugely overcomplicated.
Everything is fake these days. We have mass psychosis...everyone is living in a collective schizophrenic delusion
In the Westminster system, being bound by tradition and being bound by law (written law that is) both have the same legal weight. Our courts can render decision on the necessity of following tradition.
The government’s definition is designed to make things look nice, not gauge the actual level of unemployment. If you’re not looking for work because you gave up trying, you’re not counted even though you’re unemployed. Retired or disabled is a different thing, and being a home maker and taking care of kids should be counted in the numbers as employment, otherwise everyone should be under unemployed.
Austin is much closer to the center of mainstream American sentiment than the SF Bay Area, but it’s still to the left of center.
Non-paywall link: https://archive.is/ucguC
Both films are quite good. They are deep, meaningful explorations of the themes presented in their respective films.

Is your issue that they reuse existing characters and locations to do so? How would using new characters and locations improve things? Inside Out 2 builds upon themes from the first film and couldn't be made without the first.

Yes, Disney dominates animation. They've done so longer than anyone on HN has been alive, because most of their animated films are extremely good.
Facebook is a corporation and can 'censor' whoever they like. They are not 'the US'.

Part of the reason why they moderate content is the same reason that a bar owner turfs out people who are rowdy and threatening the other patrons: because the normies will leave and you're left with a bunch of nasty, loud people.

That is, after all, why this site we're on right now is so heavily moderated: it makes for a better user experience.
> Facebook's fact-checkers have been that much of a product disaster.

> I've never seen a wrong Facebook fact-check

Confused between these two statements, then.
Sorry, ambiguous phrasing, I meant private not in terms of "public issue," but as opposed to quasi-governmental corporations... which I imagine in China and perhaps elsewhere (state oil companies in petrostates?) may have a greater value. Though it depends on how you compute value when there aren't shares as well!
We Must Be Wary of AI-Induced Laziness
Every language I've used in the last few years has been FOSS from the very beginning time that it was shared outside its original developers. A proprietary language is the odd exception, not the common case.

Looks like I was wrong about having to pay to use Mojo itself. It's their "MAX" product you have to pay for, at least today. The language currently free-of-charge, although proprietary.
I Was the First to Game on the RTX 5090
These are 128GB each. Also, Nvidias inference speed is much higher than Apple's.

I do appreciate that my MBP can run models though!
I love hckrnews! I even cloned it to tailor it to how I use it[1]. Still working on filters and point threshold.

[1] https://hnr.app
Reminds me of that old guy in the documentary Ren Faire who absolutely refuses to step down and pass power down to the next generation.
Because they switched from Thorpe's 1957 high-protein, high-fat and low-carbohydrate diet advice to Ancel Keys' (who had a BA in economics and a PhD in Fish Physiology) ration advice for the US forces declaring war on cholesterol and burying any discussions about sugar for years.

would you like some low fat diet coke with your high carbohydrate freedom fries?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Uqj35nHB0g
Played all of these without any major issues. I've only seen lags for the games I installed on the memory card, so I put small indie stuff on there and keep AAA on the main hard drive.
Somehow US Americans managed in about a year and some to almost singlehandedly fund complete destruction of already impoverished and entrapped society of 2.3 million people, most of them younger than 18. Nevermind the pressure or direct military attacks on other nations to not intervene.

And you wonder why you're viewed as baddies.

I'd be happy if your tax dollars stopped going outside of US, too.
You've already indicated elsewhere that in a test of images that had not been edited, or selected to minimize the risk of detection, you as someone who has spent lots of time generating AI images got 2 out of 20 wrong. So clearly it's possible to fool you.

How many more do you think would get past you if the person running the hypothetical campaign was someone with a similar experience at picking images to you spending the same amount of time they would picking stock photography on ruling out any picture that looks like it's AI-generated to them, or editing them to remove things that'd tip you off?
UTM for iOS has been basically neutered on performance so I doubt it would even run. The authors even had to rebrand it as a "retro OS emulator" because it can't run anything newer than XP.
Its more like the 20 series. Definitely faster and for me worth the upgrade. I just count the transistors for a reference. 92 and 77 billion. So yeah not that much.
I don't know the hows or whys. It's just a general feeling of unease that I have. I'm waiting for additional shoes to drop.
The work-from-home trend was never going to last. I have no problem with going to an office (especially if it was my business)

This is an employer's market and you (the employee) have no power into resisting, and if you don't like it just quit.

Not sure why this is a problem, perhaps its just complete laziness.
The PPC architecture is fine enough. The problem was their "operating system" was written as a 68k OS with no memory protection and a weird memory model generally, and for almost a decade they ran with 68k emulation in order to make it all work.

And it crashed constantly. Very unreliable machines.

They did crash here and there in the 68k days, but overall they worked pretty good. Albeit cooperative multitasking, etc.

But in the mid-90s, with System 7.6, it was like walking through landmines. e.g. I helped admin an office with a bunch of them and you couldn't run Netscape and FileMaker at the same time because they just wrote all over each other's memory and puked.

System 8 and 9 improved things markedly but the reputation was still there.

Meanwhile they had these grandiose OS rewrite projects that all failed until they ended up buying NeXT... and then spent 5 years turning NeXTstep into OS X.

In retrospect Apple could have skipped the whole PPC era and done much better for themselves by just switching to x86 (and then ARM as they've done now) after a brief foray through ColdFire.

Or just jumped straight to ARM instead -- they were an ARM pioneer with the Newton! -- rather than betting the farm on the IBM/Motorola PowerPC alliance, which ultimately ended falling badly with power hungry chips that couldn't keep up with x86.
Beautiful free math graphing calculator
I likewise hope they do, but that said once you get into the >$700 range a custom PC build starts to be a much better value. With projects like Bazzite being IMHO even better than Steam OS and having full support for desktops, I suspect a higher end box would have a lot of competition from DIY (which is still pretty popular in the gaming world).

I'd love to see them dip a toe in with an ~$700 NUC-style steam machine with higher specs than the Deck but still very affordable for most people. If that sells well then increasingly look at more premium models, though it may be in their best interest to facilitate custom builds at that point. They could possibly even sell the parts or a kit or something!
Yeah I'd like to hear this too. I use both and I love community notes. People are pretending like this is some big culture war issue and a win for the right but I've seen community notes call out Elon for retweeting bullshit more times than I count. (As well as calling Jacobin our on there's)

I also appreciate that if I liked a post that community notes called out and I'm getting a notification that was misinformation.
Oof, what an ugly issue… I kinda thought (hoped?) it'd be in-place anyway and thus not need any heap interactions, but I guess it does and they have no leeway to change the (fallback) algorithm…

It's a bit weird for the C++ standard to require behavior off C standard functions though, I gotta say… seems more sensible to use a C++ sort…
Yeah, the problem is that if one side tells 100 lies, and the other tells 1 lie, you can't correct all 100 lies, but if you only correct the most egregious lies then statistically you'll only be correcting the one side, and if you correct 1 lie from each side, then you make it seem like both sides lie equally. The Gish Gallop wins again.
Hard to know how to respond to that. This could be applied to virtually all technology changes that benefit users but also make money for someone else.

I assume you use a refrigerator and not a hole in the ground with ice. Have you been manipulated into giving money to Big Appliance?
The easiest way to save on massive AWS costs is... not to use AWS.
how often do you get to learn an unfamiliar language? is it something you need to do every day? so this use case, did it save you much time overall?
You have to obtain the Item Shop upgrade, then buy the "Sign in with Google" item from shop, then sign in, then you can save your state to your Google Drive by pressing Ctrl+/S.
1. The graph doesn't work on desktop. It keeps endlessly animating in the data values flyover at a given point.

2. Congestion pricing, more generally, is ivory tower social engineering (economic discrimination like toll lanes) and a disproportionate tax on the working poor. It would be fairer if it were progressively taxed based on income.
Maybe the outlandish future star trek etc promised will come into fruition after all
Yes, I work hard to grow my reports and get them promoted. I promoted >50% of my reports in the last 2 years.

I don't want to waste my time and effort on people who don't give a fuck.
As far as I'm aware, Hypothesis is fundamentally based around the idea of "generators are parsers of randomness" discussed in this paper; i.e. a Hypothesis "strategy" is essentially a function from bytestrings to values. To generate random values, those strategies are run on a random bytestring; to shrink a previous value, the bytestring that lead to that value is shrunk.

Haskell's "falsify" package takes a similar approach, but uses a tree of random values. This has the advantage that composite generators can run each of their parts against a different sub-tree, and hence they can be shrunk independently without interfering.
It would have been a perfect opportunity to -add- community notes and study which worked side by side and choose the better of the two, instead evidently Musk and Drump pulled Zuck aside and told him to shape up and join the billionaire oligarchs club or face the consequences of a partisan DoJ and SEC.
can you specify the algorithm in more detail?

this looks to be solving a different problem than A*, which operates over discrete graphs. this looks to be operating in 2D continuous space instead.

so, what is the algorithm for finding the optimal point on the obstacle's outline for bypass (4)? is it finding the point on the outline nearest the destination?

then, how do you subsequently "backtrack" to a different bypass point on the obstacle if the first choice of bypass point doesn't work out?

there's something interesting here for trying to directly operate on 2D space rather than discretizing it into a graph, but I'm curious how the details shake out.
My main gaming PC is one of those cheapy "mini gaming pcs" you get on Amazon for like $350. I installed NixOS on there, and have it automatically boot into GameScope with the SteamOS interface.

After I got everything set up (which wasn't hard), the amount of maintenance I've had to do on there is zero. SteamOS managed to make desktop Linux accessible to basically anyone; it was easy to build my own game console that I enjoy considerably more than my Xbox One that I never bother with.

Valve has made desktop Linux a lot more viable than I ever thought would happen.
I'm far, far more bullish on Anthropic than OpenAI at this point. It has relatively less hype and media attention but better products downstream, which in the end is what's going to be the winner in this LLM ecosystem.
oh okay, if anyone anywhere suggested otherwise in this thread I'll let them know
How much value a worker generates is of course much harder to quantify in tech, vs a finance trader, but the market forces will produce a rough equivalent result over time.

But to get back to the topic, tech wages are definitely not set by comparing with finance wages!