skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saw IBM uproot an entire support team, persuading them to sell their homes and relocate their children to another U.S. state with more lenient layoff laws. Once the team had moved, the company made everyone redundant.

The proportion of psychopaths on the boards of most companies is off the scale:

"...Hare reports that about 1 percent of the general population meets the clinical criteria for psychopathy.[11] Hare further claims that the prevalence of psychopaths is higher in the business world than in the general population. Figures of around 3–4 percent have been cited for more senior positions in business.[6] A 2011 study of Australian white-collar managers found that 5.76 percent could be classed as psychopathic and another 10.42 percent dysfunctional with psychopathic characteristics..." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy_in_the_workplace
see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42839650
https://web.archive.org/web/20250127020059/https://distrowat...
Zero‐days are worth less if they’re for a platform so insecure that zero‐days are easy to find.
> In 1954, in the UK, the average male was 5'7" and 11 stone, 6 lbs

Yeah, that's probably down to the post-WW2 rationing rather than any kind of "people were just thinner then".
I was wondering why my whole portfolio was deeply red
This, I feel, is along the same lines as CIA suddenly preferring the lab leak argument as soon as the admin changed [0]. Clearly the cable breaks are not accidents when previously there weren't any for years and now in the last year we've had so many that I've lost count. I think we're now up to six or seven times cables have been broken with an anchor?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42823385
Standard Oil: Its monopoly was already crumbling before antitrust action. By 1911, market share had plunged from 90% to 64% as competitors like Gulf/Texaco emerged and new oil fields broke its grip.

Carnegie Steel: Government intervention. The federal government imposed steep tariffs on imported steel, shielding domestic producers like Carnegie from foreign competition. Without those tariffs, cheaper British/German steel would have kept Carnegie’s dominance in check.

Southern Pacific Railroad: Government intervention. The federal government gifted it, through the Pacific Railroad Acts, millions of acres and subsidized loans. This state-sponsored land monopoly let it block competitors from critical routes.
Well, if this generation is all like you then they’ll be replaced by the next generation of hungry graduates
The real reason wayland was done is to put proprietary applications on the desktop. That's it.
There is also the ikey ak-39.

And I think that was it (apart from custom builds). I would have imagined that you can stuff like this on Ali & Co., but no...
With diamond jewelry, you pay mostly for the manual work of jeweler since folks don't go to jewelry shops to buy a diamond stone alone. If we talk about gold bars, no sophisticated manual work involved, just pouring molten gold into some mold on semi-industrial automated scale.

If you buy sophisticated golden jewelry, you also pay ton for work that nobody else may appreciate. Sure you can get it smelted into something else, but you burn most of the original value, and some more on the change itself.
If I'm reading right, the same facebook who announced a week or so ago that they where scaling back all moderation and validation around online safety, are now putting a blanket ban on users discussing such a fundamental aspect of modern technology that facebook itself runs on it?

If this is a genuine policy, I'm at a complete loss to understand Facebook's stance on anything.
They aren't doing this because they disagree with the EU-wide consensus on general welfare / healthcare policies, though. Fico isn't Javier Milei, he is a pro-Russian populist social democrat, precisely the type of politican that promises unrealistic levels of welfare for a relatively poor state.

As it happens, almost everyone in the EU is trying to support unrealistic levels of welfare relative to their economy, but of course the weaker countries like Slovakia will feel the bite of reality first, while the richest part of the continent can continue kicking the can down the road for a decade or so if they really wish to close their eyes.

Though lately, the Germans are starting to have some really somber conversations. A sick man of Europe all again, and dragging down 10 other economically-intertwined countries with it.
Consider that the chinese might be misrepresenting their costs. A newsletter was implying that they might do it to undermine the sanctions justifications.

Agree that the AI bubble should pop though and the earlier, the better.
> but you could clearly tell something was off in meetings with management

What signs were there? Or was it simply some subconscious feeling?
Nvidia is way too overvalued regardless of deepseek or the success of AI. This is just some correction (not even too big even considering the current bubble), these traders are not stupid.
Neocities is delightful.

But, you can't run PHP on Neocities.
It's not the toolkit (as they work on X11 and other OSes with the existing toolkits), it's Wayland that's the issue (there are a series of Wayland protocols to implement this, but they are being blocked).
> I hope these security efforts don't lock legitimate owners out of access to their vehicles.

Well that's the thing with cars. Anything the legitimate owner can do because they have physical access, a thief can also do... and even if you force manufacturers to provide a "rooting mode" aka you enter some PIN that you get at purchase into the car's infotainment and it will relax restrictions on the CAN bus, now you open up the gates for thieves as well.

And on top of that come the actual reasons for the security theatre: people modifying their ECUs to tune up their engines for higher power or speed limiters in trucks than is stated in the vehicle papers (at least in Europe, if you tune your vehicle and don't have the papers updated you're in legit felony territory), doing shit mods like "rolling coal" or otherwise tampering with emission controls (say to avoid having to refill adblue)... governments really REALLY do not like this and so regulations get tightened ever closer.
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No need to implant new bugs. Having access to the source code is enough to spot bugs. Instead of reporting them to your internal Jira, you sell it on $website. The buyer can fetch the bounty and will be left with a margin.
Nah, small companies are burnout mills. Early in my career, I had explicitly worked on small companies and 4/4 times screwed over. Immediately when the big work is done and investments(or major profits) are in, suddenly the management starts replacing everyone with expensive consultants or their best chums from some failed business somewhere and starts strategic push out by stagnating.

While my experience can be rare/unique, at least at Medium/BigCo, my soul burning gets compensated, small ones are just “we are like family right?” and then push out once technical/financial growth starts rearing its head.
Finnish authorities denied those reports in Lloyds List FWIW: https://www.iltalehti.fi/kotimaa/a/3fa30bba-6925-49ac-8c49-c...

But also yeah, the opinion of authorities I see quoted in Swedish and Finnish press has been very clear they don’t think this is accidental.

I’ve lived by the Baltic for much of my life, had many many years of nothing like this, then suddenly every week Russian ships “accidentally” cuts critical cables.

No reason to spread rumours, that’s how seeds of doubt are sown; the evidence is plain as day without manufactured stories
I enjoy reading the whinging around Wayland by people who feel so entitled and so outraged. Every time they never fail to remind me of a previous coworker who was always using the same tactics: « this breaks my existing workflow, I will not adapt, I am all for trying new things but only if they are very exactly equal to what I already know and then what's the point, this is not how I have always worked the past ten years and I will not bulge ».

Not talking about the technical points of the whole X/Wayland considerations here, but a group of people in such debate is always as vocal as they'll do nothing and put unreasonably high expectations on other people to listen to them and have no choice but to agree. The fact that X.org's core team initiated Wayland and stopped X.org development is disregarded: these people Will Be Right against literally everything, they can't be reasoned.

My previous coworker was fired for gross incompetence in the end yet he never acknowledged anything wrong. He always knew better than literally the whole world that bash scripts run manually where superior to Terraform for the whole company's infrastructure. Yes, he was that stupid. I guess this is why he ended lying like hell on his LinkedIn profile, concealing he had had four employers in four years.

Seeing technical debates with such poor quality is worrying. If people with quantitative minds fail to entertain a fact-based discussion, how can we expect our political life to acknowledge there is only one reality and stop lying?

Before you voice your outrage, here are some facts that won't dis-exist just because you disagree with them:

- https://www.phoronix.com/review/x_wayland_situation

- https://ajaxnwnk.blogspot.com/2020/10/on-abandoning-x-server...
I would have agreed with your logic until a few years ago when we started seeing companies advertising inflated max bounties that they do not uphold when a critical vulnerability gets discovered.
> DeepSeek spends $6 million in old H800 hardware to develop open source model that overtakes ChatGPT.

DeepSeek claims that's what they spent. They're under a trade embargo, and if they had access to any more than that it would have been obtained illegally.

They might be telling the truth, but let's wait until someone else replicates it before we fully accept it.
Software development has its lexicon derived from English. Not learning it does exactly zero favor to kids. On the contrary: their time is wasted, they will need to learn it anyway, and it's sad that some well-intentioned people make them skip what cannot be skipped.

And the mistake seems to be repeated every 5-7 years. One can gather a whole cemetery of such initiatives, the earliest dating back to 70s I believe
I want to know more about your uncle. I'm not on Facebook, but that would make me consider joining...
Those are photographs. The other kind are portraits.

Incidentally, the word "selfie" used to be an acronym for "self-portrait." Now it refers to any kind of portrait (posed, but not necessarily of the picture-taker), so it has morphed into an acronym for just "portrait".
Germany really should have anticipated this sort of thing happening sooner or later, but German politicians chose instead to bury their heads in the sand by buying into the whole "end of history" narrative. Making their economy so dependent on buying energy from Russia is only one manifestation of this. Another has been allowing their military to atrophy, to the point where they can no longer pull their own weight in NATO to present a credible deterrence to Russian aggression. Germany is lucky to be friendly with so many other nations that aren't run by such foolish people; Poland, Sweden, etc. At the same time, Germany is now in an uncomfortable position with America because of Germany's own poor planning.
NVIDIA has a P/E ratio of 56 that’s double that of the S&P 500 but half that of AMD and the same one as Meta.

And whether it’s overvalued or not isn’t relevant that selling a stock because the product the company produces is now even more effective is mind bogglingly stupid.
But if they also wrote genetic algorithms from scratch, and understood natural selection, they would also understand the concepts of selection pressure, and use it or lose it.

If they then also understood that 90% - 95% of the population effectively has natural immunity, they would seriously question the ethics of vaccination.

Should a number of generations be allowed to profit from the benefits of vaccination at the cost of a loss of natural immunity in the group? Are future members of the group less entitled to this ~95% immunity, because the current generations prefer ( 100% minus epsilon ) artificial immunity?

Its easy to win a referendum in the advantage of the existing population at the cost of future populations, if those future populations aren't born yet to contest and vote against it.

From Wikipedia page on Tuberculosis:

> Roughly one-quarter of the world's population has been infected with M. tuberculosis,[6] with new infections occurring in about 1% of the population each year.[11] However, most infections with M. tuberculosis do not cause disease,[169] and 90–95% of infections remain asymptomatic.[87]

From the above it is clear that vaccination programs for TB should be strictly considered private healthcare since it can help specific individuals at the cost of collective fitness vis-a-vis TB. Governments collectivizing private medicine at the cost of group fitness ranks among the most populistic things in existence. Think of how communist systems justify their methods by emphasizing doctors and medical systems.

What exactly does the ethical axiomatization of a collective thought system look like when they look down on the ~95% natural immunity handed to them from the prior generations and simultaneously have no qualms to hand down a lower percentage of natural immunity to the next generations!

I believe they have this mistaken gut feeling that their decisions can be rationally axiomatized, more out of group think and delegation "others smarter than me are choosing this so it is probably rational"; and they are simply unaware of the fundamental inconsistencies they manifest.

Tax payer money ought not be spent on reducing the natural immunity of its taxated population, regardless of how confronting it may be to explain to the population how a lot of methods in medicine were started long before the consensus on natural selection as the origin of life and fitness took hold.
Whilst the blowing up of the nordstream pipelines was a very well known example, there were prior damage by ships to undersea infrastructure.

For example, on Jan 7th 2022 the undersea cable between Spitsbergen and Norway was severed. https://www.twz.com/43828/undersea-cable-connecting-norway-w... Turns out a Russian trawler had gone back and forth over the cable until it broke. This was covered in a nordic languages documentary called skuggkriget ('shadow wars') https://www.svtplay.se/uppdrag-granskning-skuggkriget

Of course history of this goes all the way back to the very first thing the British did in WW1 was to cut the telegraph cables between Europe and America https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42367551
This was my first reaction too, but it scratches an itch for me as well - I've thought about making a proper photo archival system many times and just never got around to giving it a shot.
> and harder to pwn

All it takes to pwn a Volkswagen T4 from the mid-90s is to rake the lock, pry open or smash the door, and then about half a minute to hot-wire three pins on the ignition switch (one for the main power and one for the starter motor), although I think that you should be able to motor-rake the ignition switch as well.

Source: owned and heavily worked on one for a few years. Reliable as fuck but thank god Europe doesn't have much of a "joyride" scene.
One that is functionally different but causes the same type of morale hit is managers and upward equipping themselves with fully loaded MacBooks and iPhones, but equipping rank-and-file employees with shitty Dell laptops and budget tier Android phones.

That happens more at traditional companies than tech companies, but it immediately signals that it's a crappy company steeped in "rules for thee but not for me" culture.
there is ZERO evidence on that! we have plenty of evidence of the opposite - you can immediately go and live in a country with equality and no billionaires - Cuba, for example, but no - you prefer to stay in the USA and downvote me - who lived through the socialism and saw what absolute HELL is when people like you are in charge.
No one, more than linux users, cares about privacy and freedom. What is even the point of using crapbook? Everyone in linux community is either hanging out on IRC or matrix or have self hosted forums
It is hard to deny that the EU has had a long period of stagnation and its economic power relative to other parts of the world has been rapidly shrinking.

It is hard to deny that we have a serious brain drain and a serious investition drain, too. European money regularly looks for investments in the US, to the tune of billions. The other way round? Not so much.

But people really don't want to admit that our welfare/bureaucratic systems can't be sustained with aging populations and stagnant economies.
That doesn't really make sense to me. Just because international law allows something doesn't mean it's not illegal according to German or other national laws. In this case infrastructure located in international waters and owned by various entities in various countries, including Germany, I presume, was attacked. Isn't German law applicable to that situation regardless of what international law has to say?
Their model is open and they published paper describing it https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.19437 The can't be far off, or it would be noticed.

Even if they are heavily government subsidized for energy and hardware, I don see how the cost of training in the US would be more than double.
Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) LLMs
Some aspects of the client isolation are used by default when doing X11 forwarding via SSH.
A remote keylogger will not work for instance.
Memory requirement for the 7B model with full context is 120GB, so you would need 5 3090 GPUs, not 2-4. Do you know if you can get a motherboard with space for 5 GPUs and a power supply to match?

I bet that 5 3090s will smoke a Mac Studio. Can't find anyone in Norway with any in stock though. Or any 4090s with 24GB of memory.

You can get a nVidia RTX 5000 with 32GB of memory, there are two webshops that have those in stock. You'll need to wait though, because it looks like there might be one or maybe two in stock in total. And they are 63 000 NOK, and you need 4 of them. At that price you can buy two Mac Studios though.

I see people selling 3090s with 24GB secondhand for around 10 000 NOK each, but those have been running day in and day our for 3 years and don't come with a warranty.
I've been laid off twice, and both times we were very busy. There were deadlines we were told were absolutely crucial to meet and we were burning ourselves out trying to meet them. The product we were making never saw the light of day and to this day we don't even know why.
this is very interesting, thanks for sharing it!
Are you aware of any story involving individuals fighting their case for a job in a tech company? Would love to read about it.
I simply LOVE and LOVE and LOVE marginalia.
Keep rocking mate
It's arguable how good a strategy it is to check against other P/E. During the tech bubble people would say X is cheap, because Y is trading at 100P/E instead of 200
I lost all of my photos (along with everything else) when growing up, so taking pictures and videos was important to me as I became an adult.

I'm 59 now. In the 1990s I started taking VHS videos of family events. Sometimes I would walk around "interviewing", sometimes I would walk around and try to normally talk to people while holding that huge recorder. (That didn't work). I even set it up on a tripod and just let the recorder run while my parents and others visited.

This past year I've ripped a couple of dozen DVDs out of all of those tapes. In the past two weeks I've then ffmpeg'ed them to mp4s and loaded on an SD drive and put in a e-picture frame.

Now we have 30-40 hours of "family memory TV" playing constantly in our living room. It is one of the most amazing things I've done with technology. I can't describe the feeling of looking back 30+ years to see folks who are long gone -- or now adults with their own kids!

God I'm glad I didn't record all of this on a cell phone or use social media. It would have been impossible to have the patience and time to scale all of those walled gardens for this project.

Best videos? The "family interview show", where I ask questions and everybody performs some kind of art. Wish I'd done one of those every year. Second best? Just setting the cam up and letting it run. Third place are videos of family members doing things that'll never happen again, like watching a sonogram of a new baby on the way.

Worst videos? As I know (and knew at the time!), a bunch of videos and pictures of things we were looking at that were interesting to us at the time but stuff you could find online in a couple of seconds. Unless it has audio commentary, it was a pointless exercise.
The Lloyds List article says that there had been sailings with spooks aboard (including, confusingly, Turkish intelligence agents?).

It did not say that the trip where the ship was seized was one of those sailings.
Hmm… not really, bars are high, no one is hiring fresh graduates anymore, and new generation is more detached with better sense of real world and focus on work-life balance and more personal growth, unlike previous generation who usually tied their identity to their work and gave their 500% for peanuts and glory(always fake and meaningless).
Grab for the falling knife
I've found this tool handy for faster-than-man explanations of various CLI invocations:

https://explainshell.com/

Sadly, it hasn't been updated in years.
Disease outbreaks have a tendency to not… stay local.
They were massively overhyped though, it feels more like a correction (and a partial one at that) than a fall.
Let's wait for reproduction first
If anything Meta and other foundation model companies should be dropping. What's the moat? DeepSeek is releasing stuff for free.
Updating my site: https://leftium.com

- It was just a placeholder for my domain.

- The resume is a human-readable markdown file that has been styled in a clever way: https://github.com/Leftium/leftium.com/blob/5eefe175229fdc36...

- Also plan to make the digital business card (QR code/vCard) dynamically customizable, depending on the level of contact info I want to share.
I think people will need to rethinking having their electricity grid relying on undersea cables. Like there are projects to make the UK dependent on solar energy from Morocco, and northern europe on Scandinavian dams.
Isn't that the whole point of nato? Keeping germany down and russia out?

The last time someone messed with them so hard, they elected that austrian painter dude, who then killed hitler in the end... and now EU is wondering, why the germans are turning towards AfD.
The Musk narrative on hn back then was that he’s a god like genius who cannot be criticised back then. Those who dared to question it got downvoted.

Probably due to a lot of the site holding Tesla stock.
I don't get the need for synchronous comms at all. I can book airplane tickets, food delivery, e-commerce generally, and most other things through a web interface. Not sure why I need to talk to somebody to get a mortgage aside from Know Your Customer but even then a short signing ceremony at the end would be best.
This is the fourth incident in a short period of time, so it being a deliberate act of sabotage is very likely. However it may have been done by a small number of crew, maybe just one guy, paid to do it while the rest were oblivious.
People on the internet can lie. Especially when such a lie could cause the nasdaq to dip multiple percent points.

Not saying they are lying, but there incentives.
I just posted this as I noticed my handyman was hosting his site there. I felt very very nostalgic. The text, the buttons, everything. The mention they will "soon have SSL", unmetered traffic. Just good old early 2000s web.