skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If my drill breaks, it doesn't become a way to access my financial/health/personal data possibly leading to a giant identity theft induced headache.
- Most 12VHPWR connectors are rated to 9.5-10A per pin. 600W / 12V / 6 pin pairs = 8.33A. Spec requires 10% safety factor - 9.17A.

- 12VHPWR connectors are compatible with 18ga or at best 16ga cables. For 90C rated single core copper wires I've seen max allowed amperages of at most 14A for 18ga and 18A for 16ga. Less in most sources.. Near the connectors those wires are so close they can't be considered single core for purpose of heat dissipation..
Let us know how important a business is WhatsApp. Which has made about zero revenue for Meta in 15 years and yet is utterly dominant globally.
I just today reviewed a PR with a default insecure option. But here we’re working on local networks where there’s no way to get a certificate because there’s not a domain name that points to the local IP address.

At least with HTTPS over the local network, it can frustrate attempts to break into it. That said we are sure to call it “https-insecure”.
so you don't use Linux?
> Maybe the whole DEI thing is a blessing in disguise because it points all the arbitrary rage on an abstract concept rather than specific groups of people.

They're still raging against specific groups of people, too. Immigrants and trans people have really been feeling it.
People definitely said this about SO!
I guess the most interpretable is to have as shallow a model as possible, but with longer cot.
It would be quite interesting seeing the trade-off between the two.
Though, unfortunately, deeper is probably better.
Well said. I really dislike the narrative here, that ignorance is something that leads to discovery. One, the poster gives two examples, as if there's something we should gain for such a small sample. In addition to that, one of the examples isn't valid. The student's former professor is a co-author of the "Tiny Pointers" [1] paper that he was reading and working through. And, it was a conjecture, I don't see how someone should think that it would mean it's impossible.

I would rather, instead of thinking ignorance is a key ingredient to discovery, that instead it's the willingness to try things.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.12800
"sometimes this site is like if the worst parts of linkedin and reddit had a baby"

I think that's a quality observation.

One of the helpful observations of humans I've gained from this site is that people tend to assume that their position in society is some kind of natural given. And typically the folks here are either what some folks might term "labor aristocracy" or literal aristocracy.

Hence the reason why skipping humanities classes has been so harmful- they haven't spent the effort to appreciate the vast width of human experience.

So when they are confronted with ideas about how other folks live, their inclination to see themselves as naturally in a solid position makes it difficult to see why other people make the choices they make.

Fundamentally the folks on this site have a highly chauvinistic picture of their culture and really, at their core, are "anti-democratic" because they don't feel other folks can make rational choices about life.

It's only recently that this has become an "out loud" thing to say, but I have been hearing it quite a lot lately.

This trend has been something I've been paying attention to for a long time- I've had a quicklink to search for "musk" in titles of the site since about the time he bought twitter because I could see where this is going, and I feel unfortunately validated in that feeling.

But if you want to check the pulse on the nihilistic sociopaths who are now in charge of parts of the US Gov, this site is very helpful.

Also good for finding out about running doom on various devices, but that's just a side benefit.
Even in German, mixing up o and ö or u and ü is still a spelling error. They sound very different, even if they are in some formal sense the same letter.
In my experience, I think it’s primarily a mental health issue. My passion for computers has always been rooted in a fundamental curiosity, rather than any deep reason or meaning. Simply writing code and watching software run used to excite me—it was fun, pure and simple.

There was a time, though, when it all felt utterly meaningless and made me depressed. I found myself thinking things like, “Even if I build this, it won’t make any money,” or “This job may pay, but it doesn’t solve any real, fundamental problems.” Intellectually, I knew I used to do it just because I enjoyed it, yet I couldn’t stop those thoughts.
However, as my depression went into remission, I started to feel that simple joy again (though I’m not fully recovered yet).

I suspect you’re going through something similar. While it’s important to think, I believe that rather than overthinking, focusing on your mental health first is the better approach—though of course, I understand how hard that can be.
pnpm is pretty boring at this point. Once I started using it with Turborepo my life got a lot easier compared to npm.
Brings new meaning to "Attention is all you need".
If only we had electrical and thermal fuses that could be used to protect the connectors and wires.
You are repeating FUD. There is no soy in the final plastic.

The plastic is derived from soy that serves as a cheap source of organic molecules, but it's converted into polymers no different from petroleum based plastics.

Did you know that most wall paint is made from corn? It's hyper processed into latex.
Idk about docs but my home pod has had terrible static since iOS 18
Washingtonians are from Washington .
This will probably jinx me, but I've had so many drives, many purchased on the cheap from Fry's Black Friday sales when I was a poor university student, and the two drives I've ever had fail since I started buying over twenty years ago were

1. catastrophic flood in my apartment when drive was on the ground

2. a drive in an external enclosure on the ground that I kicked by mistake while it was spinning

I'm glad I've never had y'all's problems.
And then they hugged and became lifelong friends :)
I tend to agree with you. The general pattern behind "x tool came along that made work easier" isn't to fire a bunch of folks, its to make the people that are there work whatever increment of ease of work more. ie, if the tool cuts work in half, you'd be expected to do 2x more work. Automation and tools almost never "makes our lives easier", it just removes some of the lower value added work. It would be nice to live better and work less, but our overlords won't let that happen. Same output with less work by the individual isn't as good as same or more output with the same or less people.
This is ridiculous. Copyleft is just a gimmic pun word not an actually different thing or a negation of anything. GPL and copyleft ARE copyright, exactly the same as all other copyright.

The GPL depends on the the validity of the premis that the creator of something gets to set the terms for how they give it to anyone else.

The terms just happen to be something other than the usual cash.

Anyone who doesn't think copyright should exist at all, doesn't even specify any licence or they specify public domain or mit or similar. By specifying GPL, you declare your right to set the terms of copying.
You think this like newcomers can’t use the LLM to more deeply understand these topics in addition to glue. This mindset is a fallacy as newcomers are more adept and passionate as any other generation. They have better tools and can compete just the same.
Highly multiplexed spatial transcriptomics in bacteria
I can tell you from personal experience that investors are feeling pressure to magically reduce head count with AI to keep up with the joneses. It's pretty horrifying how little understanding or information some of the folks making these decisions have. (I work in tech diligence on software M&A and talk to investment committees as part of the job)
Comically they wrote an article, then fact checked themselves in the correction basically saying they the original reporting was correct.

> Also, the $8.2 million figure cited refers to payments in the 12 months leading up to February 2025, not dating back to 2016.

Talk about lying profusely. USAID is an ARM of the CIA, why would you want that?
"That is a pervert’s question."

This whole article seems to be revolving around getting engagement and being verbose, they could have just said "rodent repelling tape exists and they put spice in it" and I would have received the same message.
That is about 2500 years after the period we're discussing, and in a region conventionally considered to be on a different continent. It isn't a mere presumption that the Kurgan culture didn't have writing; archaeologists have been looking for it diligently for more than a century and have found extensive collections of well-preserved grave goods, but no writing. Writing was invented about 1000 years later in Sumeria, probably in Egypt, and possibly in South America, but not in the Lower Volga homeland of the Proto-Indo-Europeans. (The North American and Chinese inventions of writing seem to have been independent, but were another 2000 years later still.)

The Hittites adopted the Sumerian form of writing; they did not bring a writing system with them from the Volga. Neither did other Indo-European groups have writing, which is why Hittite is, as you say, the oldest attested Indo-European language.
Being a PCI spec connector doesn't mean it isn't an Nvidia thing. It seems pretty likely at this point that Nvidia forced this through, seeing as there's zero other users of this connector. Convincing PCI spec consortium to rubber stamp it probably wasn't very hard for Nvidia to do.
i think it's neat that you can do that

i'm going to stick to C, to prevent it from compiling, though
It's not a joke. JSONB blows Mongo out of the water. I've run large production workloads on both.

> You can do actual searches inside the JSON, index the table

To be clear, you can do those things with Mongo (and the features have been available for a very long time), they just don't work as well, and are less reliable at scale.
> Or the mission critical systems powering this airplane you're flying next week... to pretend like this will all be handled by LLMs is so insanely out of touch with reality.

Found the guy who's never worked for a large publicly-traded company :) Do you know what's out of touch with reality? Thinking that $BIG_CORP execs who are compensated based on the last three months of stock performance will do anything other than take shortcuts and cut corners given the chance.
All I want is a Guernica sized borderless home art display.
A lot of commentators have pointed out that Intel is reaching nowhere near the performance/mm2 of Nvidia or AMD designs, though contrary to what I thought that might imply, it seems that power consumption is very much under control on Battlemage. So it seems the primary trade-off here is on the die cost.

Can anyone explain what might be going on here, especially as it relates to power consumption? I thought (bigger die ^ bigger wires -> more current -> higher consumption).
How frequently have we read that the reason America Can't Build Anymore is because of a hollowed-out public agency that has been captured by the private contractors that it hires? This inflection point seems like a turn in the wrong direction.
is this not a viral ad for Smartfood (tm) Flaming Hot White Cheddar flavored popcorn snacks?
Most residential wiring is 15A except for bathrooms.
For accessibility reason, this kind of features are often in opt-out.
It might be more of a case of "if you're accustomed to left-wing bias, a balanced media feels like right-wing bias..."
I recently used Bandlab when I was at my girlfriend's and the only thing I had with me was my company's laptop, which I don't install any audio software on.

I wrote and recorded a little song and published it withing three hours or so, just as an experiment.

I had to reload the UI a few times after moving too quickly and because of a janky internet connection, but other than that I thought it was a well designed tool. I think it's liberating to be shielded from the many choices you make when working in a "real" DAW, and when I don't have REAPER or Studio One around, I'll happily work with a tool like this to simply stay in the habit of producing music when on the road.
> how are we still as a species finding ways to make them shitter and more breakable?

Products when they are first introduced tend to be overengineered, since the way they will be used is not entirely known. As this knowledge accumulates the products can be optimized to be just good enough (just strong enough, just durable enough). You should expect in equilibrium that products will be optimized for minimum cost at the minimum tolerable level of quality.
I think that some engineers will still be needed to maintain old codebases for a while yes.

But it's pretty clear that the codebases of tomorrow will be leaner and mostly implemented by AI, starting with apps (web, mobile,...). It will take more time for scaling backends.

So my bet is that the need for software engineering will follow what happened for stock brokers. The ones with basic to average skills will disappear, automated away (it has already happened in some teams at my last job). Above average engineers will still be employed my comp will eventually go down. And there will be a small class of expert / smartest / most connected engineers will see their comp go up and up.

It is not the future we want but I think it what is most likely to happen.
I'll just say that AI for coding has been amazingly helpful for finding bugs and thinking things through and improving things like long functions and simplifying code.

But it can absolutely not replace entire programmers at this point, and it's a long way of being able to say create, tweak, build and deploy entire apps.

That said this could totally change in the next handful of years, and I think if someone worked just on creating a purely JS/React website at this point you could build something that does this. Or at least I think that I could build this. Where the user sort of talks to the AI and describes changes and they eventually get done. Or if not we are approaching that point.
Crazy smart meter prices in Germany: Tibber and Rabot Energy warn grid operators
Never let facts stand at the way of an already formed opinion.
Yeah but you already packed lighter and more constrained and hauled your carryon all the way to the plane, so it feels obnoxious to then have to surrender the one advantage of carryon other than price (not having to wait for your luggage at the carousel) after you've already accepted all the disadvantages.
> But it's not satisfying to stay at that level of ignorance very long

That's the difference. This is how you feel because you like programming to some extent. Having worked closely with them, I can tell you there are many people going into bootcamps that flat out dislike programming and just heard it pays well. Some of them get jobs, but they don't want to learn anything. They just want to do as much that doesn't get them fired. They are not curious even with tasks they are supposed to do.

I don't think this is inherently wrong, as I don't feel like gatekeeping the profession if their bosses feel they add value. But this is a classic case of losing the junior > expert pipeline. We could easily find ourselves in a spot in 30 years where AI coding is rampant but there's no experts to actually know what it does.
Use direct monitoring of your interface or an mixer in front of your interface. Then you can get away with 0ms (an analog mixer) or 2-4ms (interface direct monitor). Your DAW will latency compensate the "record head". It is just a matter of signal routing. It took me 20 years to get to this simple solution. :-D
I've found LTS releases of Ubuntu to be less prone to breakages when going LTS=>LTS vs LTS=>non-LTS=>LTS, but only slightly.

That being said, the one time I've had critical bootloader broken to the point of looking at GRUB code was a simple `apt dist-upgrade` on a LTS release of Ubuntu 22.04, so there's that.

These days I think my preference is for immutable core + userspace package management or going all in on something like NixOS. I'd really love to see a distro that takes this approach to its logical conclusion using OverlayFS or something (but strictly not containers)
If the above comment was interesting to you... you might really like the YouTube video "The truth about Hot Ones sauces"! It goes into this theory, along with how spice levels are measured.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dutpBSKj8JY
> Google Sheets does not support true color rendering.

True color just means you're not indexing your colors with a pallete. Aka, RGB 32 bit. So surely this isn't true?
OneDrive space (through MS365 single or family licence) works out much cheaper in my country. I'm sure in the EU it is GDPR-compliant.

YMMV but OneDrive has been improving a lot. Their web photos browsing is comparable to Google Photos these days.
It's a lot cheaper to cut the blades out of flat sheet metal and affix the injection molded plastic handles to give a nice 3d sculpted ergonomic handle than it is to cast/forge/machine the ergonomic handle out of steel. For 90 percent of users it will be just fine to use plastic, and the plastic will last for decades without issue.
> Plus, my head wouldn’t fit beneath the manifold.

I love the funny idea that they tried
Legion Health (YC S21, AI-Driven Psychiatry) Hiring Founding Back End Engineer
There's something. Little guys could have more easily chewed on the harness for my trailer hitch, for example, or the main harness - thankfully they didn't, it might have totaled the vehicle - but went for the new stuff.

There's enough anecdotal evidence to warrant a real experiment on whether rodentia prefer new plastics over old.
Funnily enough I do have a pair of exactly those from my grandmother (still very functional maybe 80 years on)! Drop-forged and everything. They were probably a week's salary or something!
hetzner storage box $4 per month for 1 TB and $13 for 5 TB.
Recently I've been formatting like this but with tabs so the first column is aligned with subsequent columns:

SELECT
a
, b
, c
FROM ...
I posted this to a gist, so it's a bit easier to find/cite: https://gist.github.com/pizlonator/79b0aa601912ff1a0eb1cb925...
That request came from the United Kingdom, which is famously NOT in the EU.
The "Dark Ages" are a complete myth and Europeans were far more technologically, culturally, and economically advanced and prolific than Native Americans in the Early Middle Ages, in spite of deurbanization and the other recessions of the time period.
I was unable to find my exact "game" in google's index.

Therefore, how does my example not qualify as this, at least:

> Analogical reasoning involves the comparison of two systems in relation to their similarity. It starts from information about one system and infers information about another system based on the resemblance between the two systems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_reasoning#Analogical
He made military spec latrine odor and didn't think it was that bad. He's built different.
We've been in this world for decades.

Most developers couldn't write an operating system to save their life. Most could not write more than a simple SQL query. They sling code in some opinionated dev stack that abstracts the database and don't think too hard about the low-level details.
I think also a critical weakness is that LLMs are trained on the code people write ... and our code doesn't annotate what was written by a human and what was suggested by a tool. In your analogy, this would be like if your sat nav system suggests that you turn right where other people have turned right ... because they were directed to turn by their sat nav.
I left a comment that was flagged for clarifying what was actually being discussed, and I'm not going to take that sitting down this time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43012859

Left and right are both off their rockers right now, and it's really frustrating for the majority of us stuck in the middle, getting shouted down and silenced from both sides.
Honestly, the smart play in that case is to buy 2 3090's and connect them with nvlink. Or...and hear me out, at this point you could probably just invest your workstation build budget and use the dividends to pay for runpod instances when you actually want to spin up and do things.

I'm sure there are some use cases for 32gb of vram but most of the cutting edge models that people are using day to day on local hardware fit in 12 or even 8gb of vram. It's been a while since I've seen anything bigger than 24gb but less than 70gb.
A large enterprise org that I am close to still has almost 600 CentOS 7 hosts. The good news is that this is a small fraction of their fleet. The bad news is that they have standardized on RHEL 8 everywhere else and there are currently no plans to upgrade to RHEL 9...
Probably reference cards, yeah? I think the common advice is to not buy the reference cards. They rarely cool enough. I made that mistake with the RX 5700 XT, and will never again.
Also because the drill is less likely to change at random.
Yes, tried that once. Just use k3s and you get the stock Kubernetes experience with less resources.
In India, there are dozens of imposter accounts on twitter that pose as a bank's or telco's official handle.

They are very often the more responsive, and very caring and polite, quick to admit they are at fault ... and lure complainers into sharing personal info on DM on promises of speedy resolution.

This was a problem before Twitter became X. The blue tick mark was the only indicator of genuine accounts. Then X started selling tick marks to whoever pasy 8 dollars.

Now it's wild west.
The 'Grand Teton' mountain in Wyoming is just a French phrase meaning 'big boob'.[1] And 'McKinley' was just some politician who had never even laid eyes on his namesake lump of rock.

[1] https://www.davehansenwhitewater.com/how-the-tetons-got-thei...
Good luck to you. Maybe you’ll be the next StatSig.
Weight-Loss Drugs Can Upend a Marriage
I have 6x 4090s in a rack with an Epyc driving them but tbh I am selling them all to get a Mac Studio. Simpler to work with I think.
Firing programmers for using AI? I do see people asking on social media how to filter out hire candidates that are using AI in interviews.

But if they had meant replacing programmers with AI (bad title), I'm much more concerned about replacing non-programmers with AI. It's gonna happen on a huge scale, and we don't yet have a regulatory regime to protect labor from capital.
The risk is not that one cannot forge correspondance in the style of another.

The risk is that any one of us peasants can do it without having to have a bunch of other people in on it
Angel Investing 101 for Engineers
Yes, they remember the concepts, mostly. Not the details. But that's often enough to help with reasoning about higher-level problems.
Should weight-loss drugs be given to children?
Wegovy and Ozempic stars dim amid overuse concerns
Depends on the content. There is a lot of long form content but yeah shorts and other types of things ("how do I do xyz", etc.) is just not the type of thing I'm looking to watch on a TV.
And if the new tech is beneficial and adds enough value that it makes it worth replacing the old tech, then by all means go for it.

However, I can't count many companies I've seen decide to get into "the cloud" only to do lift-and-shifts and are now running their stack in slower and more expensive ways.

There's a reason this youtube video exists and it's because people get into hype and then are saddled with technical debt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs

Over the last decade I worked for a fintech that did analytics for the investment banking industry and between 2016-2020 the amount of people that were shocked we weren't trying to shove blockchain somewhere was surreal.
The thing takes enormous power. Some people had trouble with the 4090s too but I haven’t and I run a shit ton of them.