skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i sort of agree wit your sentiment, although probably would use more nuanced language about it.

i’ve had this exact conversation with my 70+ still working father so many times now. i’ve heard the rant in the article over and over again. and, like, he blames remote work too. “its the fucking zoom bullshit”.

but then i explain to him how i do remote work and suddenly gets it. like, remote working means you are required to work in a more direct and efficient way. you have to work hard at comms. you have to write everything with purpose. no “oh hey did you look at X”. instead “hey we need X done by T because otherwise Y. if you need to speak to P about it, they’re available this afternoon. contact me if anything is unclear and i’ll explain it to you on a call asap. let me know when you’ve read this please.”. like, i’ve debugged a production outage on my phone with other devs while in a doctors waiting room.

the problem is, yeah, a lot of people do treat it like a chance to sit at home doing the bare minimum.

and i think you kind of hit the nail on the head for something i hadn’t clocked. they can get away with it because “management” utterly suck at their jobs and haven’t adapted. like, i hear about people stuck in zoom meetings all the time… WHY?!? you don’t need face to face comms to work remotely. at all. it’s clinging on to the old ways of doing things!

up until now i’d been putting it down to a purely generational “can’t teach old dogs new tricks” thing. maybe it kind of is, just not in a way i’d seen before.
Vast has a datacenter H200 for less than what their A100 goes for.
You're telling on yourself and you can't tell.

Edit after reading about Trump firing the people administering our nuclear weapons: God damn Donald Trump, and God damn the people who are so foolish to believe the the disinformation networks that tell them Donald Trump isn't working to destroy this country.
Ah that’s good you don’t get the cheap thin version brakes on the ultra version.
No, I'm not making moral judgment here, I'm searching for explanation.
Canada would never have an insurgency, because it would not be needed. 40 million socialist Canadians voting in American elections would give Democrats a forever advantage in all national politics.
Whoa, I've been using Kagi for two years and didn't realize the summarizer could do videos!
I'm pretty convinced that he's running a SQL query like `select * from transactions where recipient like '%gaza%'`, grabbing the first item that looks suspicious, doing absolutely no research on what that item actually was, and then typing out the first thoughts he could about it on twitter.

Frankly, something DOGE has shown me is how lazy Musk is. I know he's the CEO of like twenty companies, but if what he's doing with DOGE is any indication, he has absolutely no attention to detail and is completely averse to actually learning or understanding what he's talking about. Like, every effort in DOGE is coming off as decidedly half-assed.

It makes me glad I don't own a Tesla, because I would be terrified to see what kind of corners they cut, and how much of it would end up being completely half-baked and not ready to actually be used. I'm not completely convinced that NASA contracting out to SpaceX is a good idea anymore either.
And this is why I hate AI so strongly (I... debated several less charitable wordings of this opening).

I read, because I want to know what people think. What people thought, decades, centuries ago. Writing, and reading, are about the only mechanism we know to really get inside someone else's brain. To see how, and what, they think, in what they've chosen to communicate. I used to write more for a technical audience - I've got a blog, it's got 9 years of content, a lot of words. Lately, I've been writing more for myself, but also expecting that, at some point, I'll share some of this with other people. I've read things I wrote months back, and I'd forgotten a lot of what I put in there. It's a time machine, to see myself as I was last summer.

Or, a time machine, to understand someone's thinking in the early 1900s. Or older. We have writings that are thousands of years old. The grief of loss is something that's as old as human history, and there's no shortage of older writings on the matter - Psalms has no shortage of things to say.

I don't want to read "Machine, please generate me a chunk of text as would be written by someone who lost their daughter ten years ago, when they were turning six." There's no human behind it. I'm sure you'd get something that pulled the proper strings, but it would be empty. It would be hollow. Because there is no human behind it, with their own sufferings, dreams, hopes, grief. I'm sure it would be polished and bland and SEO optimized, but it wouldn't be real.

But, hey, maybe someone could make a buck off generating it!
Why would I want to cease reading the guardian or did you mean the story least likely to be one they want to read?

Also this is graun content will be visible in GPT not GPT results will be published in the grauniad. And, you'd expect the trust demanded they get recognition when their content feeds out.
Not them, but Runpod and Vast are my gotos. Runpod cost slightly more, but is in turn more reliable, so for "hobby pro" I'd go with them, otherwise Vast.

Salad Cloud is also very interesting if your models can fit on a consumer GPU, but it's a different model than typical GPU providers.
Neutrino with trillion times more energy than medical X-rays detected
Maybe once, but today's industries will have a total power factor pretty damn close to 1.0
Agreed. I have been amazed at how Little most developers seem to know docker now. It seemed like more people understood docker 5 to 10 years ago than they do now. I'm not sure why this regression, but it is definitely been my experience
I bought a Kobo ereader, because I figured that being the same company as Libby, it would be really easy to use with library books and audio books.

It's not at all.

I should have known better, because the interface on Libby itself is almost unusable. There's no way to search books at a specific library. You have to search their store, open a book, click on a menu, then see if it's available in your library. It also works with audio books, but that functionality doesn't work at all with audio books borrowed through Libby.

I'd have been better off buying a generic Android ereader and running Libby on it, than to use their own product, with their own service.
Shadcdn – An Update on Tailwind v4
“Banking” being the operative concept here, I think, moreso than “creativity”
If people are checked out during meetings, maybe they don't really have to be there. When I set up a meeting I try to ensure only people who really, really need to be there are invited. Way too many meetings are like: "1. Eng Lead Presenter, 2. VP who's receiving the update, and 3-10. Team members involved in the project." If 3-10 are not expected to speak/contribute and already know what 1 is presenting, why the fuck are they there? To sit there and pick their noses? They could be a lot more focused and productive back at their desks (or not connected to video conference). I don't invite them, and if I invite them by mistake and they know they aren't contributing, I expect them to decline and not show up! I don’t want tourists at my meetings.

Companies where non-contributors and non-receivers feel pressured to come to meetings just to show their faces are Doing It Wrong.
I said "every 30 minutes" as a piece of hyperbole, in my original comment.

I'm not really sure why everyone is focusing on that phrase, though. I think it's pretty clear if you read any of the source material, as said, that that is not an accurate representation of what was going on, and I would have also expected "every 30 minutes" to be a pretty clearly hyperbolic expectation for anyone to process updates after.
Industrial power consumers are billed differently - so it could be more or could be less. The bills are more complicated - industrial customers will generally pay for things like power factor, capacity, demand, time-of-use rates, tiered rates, etc. On a per kWh basis it would depend from customer to customer. If you had a factory that operated overnight for whatever reason, their electricity would be very cheap.
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fewer, more purposeful meetings usually helps (not saying you do too many useless meetings, but it’s the general sentiment on here and with people i know IRL about why they slack off - cis the meetings they’re in are usually a waste of time)

see latter part of other comment in the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43056026

edit — was also going to suggest, at the start of the meeting politely but assertively request everyone turns their phone off at the start.

if it looks like someone is fucking around with their phone, pause the meeting. remind everyone about the request at the start of the meeting. resume the meeting. don’t drag it out and turn it into a rant. don’t call the individual out. just make it known that the behaviour is not okay. get back on with things. do it each time it happens.

do that for every meeting for a few weeks. some people will hopefully get the message. some people might not. hopefully enough people get the message to make a difference.

they might think you’re a dick for it, at least to begin with (it’s enforced change from an authority), but up to you to decide whether it’s valuable enough to see through.
Was it running locally and using your IP to access the content?
I’ve never laid bricks but in other trades I’ve worked in, well, a lot of people understood basics of the chemistry of the products we used. It’s useful to understand how they work together safely, if they can be exposed to different environments, if they’re heat-safe, cold-safe, do they off-gas, etc.

Paints, wood finishes, adhesives, oils, abrasives, you name it. You generally know at least a bit about what’s in it. I can’t say everyone I’ve worked with wanted to know, but it’s often intrinsic to what you’re doing and why. You don’t just pull a random product off a shelf and use it. You choose it, quite often, because of its chemical composition. I suspect it’s not always thought of this way, though.

This is the same with a lot of artistic mediums as well. Ceramicists often know a lot more than you’d expect about what’s in their clay and glazes. It’s really cool.

I’m not trying to be contrarian here. I know some people don’t care at all, and some people use products because it’s what they were told to do and they just go with it. But that wasn’t my experience most of the time. Maybe I got lucky, haha.
> “The big question is always the mechanism,” Goforth said. “What’s the mechanism and what is the sensor? We know that for the visual sense, you have eyes; for the sense of smell, you have a nose; and for hearing, you have ears. But no receptor like that has been identified for the magnetic sense, and the mechanism remains unknown.”

Interesting, I just barely listened to a Radiolab episode about magnetoreception in birds today [1]. The mechanism is thought to be cryptochrome, a type of protein that exhibits quantum effects when exposed to blue light [2]. The RadioLab story mentioned this mechanism was first proposed in the 70s (I think?) and it was heresy at the time a didn’t get published. Now there’s a SciAm article about it [3], and lots of blog posts. I wonder why this isn’t mentioned? Isn’t there a pretty good chance the mechanism is the same?

* edit: BTW while listening to the podcast I was reminded of Haidinger’s Brush [4] - the fact that many humans can see polarization, once they know what to look for. I wonder if it’s potentially related to navigation since the polarization effect is strongest at 90 degrees from the sun… i.e., generally north and south, in the morning and evening, for much of the earth.

[1] https://radiolab.org/podcast/quantum-birds

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptochrome#Magnetoreception

[3] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-migrating-bir...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haidinger's_brush
Why can we not use AI to audit agent systems instead of human in the loop?
Might be naive on my part to ask this question but can't we use AI to supervise other AI systems? What will be the limitations with it?
This feels like the inevitable outcome of the youtube algorithm favouring longer videos.
In the right circumstances, Wipeout Pure also was a decent web browser.
I think they’re too early for their core market. It’s taking indie and 0-1 devs awhile to dig into ML because it’s a huge complex space. But some of us are starting to put together interesting little pipelines with real, solid applications.
It's a comfortable, feature-rich interactive shell like bash, but with a relatively clean and small codebase, and the binary is only a third of bash's size. It's also much easier to build from source. Sort of a suckless bash replacement. Not compatible to most bash features though, focus is on POSIX compatibility.
> Sometimes it helps to contemplate the nature of remote possibilities. Most times, it does not.

That's very true. And for a lot of people, and I'd guess HN has a very dense concentration of them, that's very hard to not do, because we've been trained to do exactly that, for professional work.

Cybersecurity is exactly that. What are all the remote possibilities you can come up with, and how do you defend them? Then reality hits, and it's so much worse than you ever feared, because you didn't think that Intel would release chips that couldn't keep secrets if you asked in the proper way. "I speculate, with my little gadget, the contents of all of physical memory..."

What's SRE, ops, any of those fields, but trying to imagine the remote possibilities of how things go down, and how you can mitigate it, or at least fail cleanly? And then, of course, reality hits, and you end up with someone shutting down a datacenter edge router with a dial up modem, because they'd been sufficiently paranoid about things to insist that there would still be a POTS route in, for when everything else went wrong and in-band signaling no longer worked. Which, of course, happened.

The high reliability hardware sorts, I expect, deal with something similar. "But what if a super high energy cosmic ray flipped this bit?"

I don't know how to turn this off when it's not helpful. I've done it too long. :/
Somehow it doesn’t sit well with me the fact that it’s still quite a complicated shape. I accept that it’s the best one, but I would have expected a simpler shape to be the solution.
It would be nice if it also gave the videos better titles. Then make it an extension to replace the titles automatically.
I asked my neighbor (USA) if I could borrow his brad nailer to put up some trim board, and he didn't understand what I wanted to do until I explained it to him and he said "Oh, you mean mop board."
Not using React anymore, but it's generally not an easy decision whether to use a framework for a SPA or not. Currently I'm torn between Nuxt and Vue with Vue Router. Nuxt has many fun QoL features, but adds a significant layer of potential issues (bugs, maintainability, leaky abstractions over the core library).

My tendency is to have an easier life in the future. So I'd probably prefer not using an universal rendering framework like Next, Nuxt, SvelteKit or SolidStart in client side mode and just use the core SPA framework. In case of Vue, it's even easier (but without those QoL features Nuxt provides).
It reminds me of the "treadmills for shrimp" thing that people used to say that research money was being wasted on about 14 years ago. Every intellectually lazy politician acted like we were spending all our research money on making sure that shrimp were exercising.

The "treadmills" were used to measure the effects of bacteria on shrimp metabolism. Understanding how bacteria affects metabolism, at least to me, sounds like a perfectly valid thing to research. Most people, if they knew the context around that would probably agree, but people are extremely lazy with this stuff, and are really susceptible to stupid catchphrases, so people thought it was a huge waste of money.

ETA:

https://www.npr.org/2011/08/23/139852035/shrimp-on-a-treadmi...
Phones are an addiction. I know executives who have a box outside the conference room and everyone has to put their phone in the box as they enter the meeting. They pick up their phone on the way out.
I don't doubt the autopsy but i find this framing a bit weird

> In the absence of an official autopsy, a coalition of right-wing pundits, conspiracy-minded journalists, crypto enthusiasts, and even Democratic politicians have questioned the circumstances of his death — and, at times, amplified misinformation about the case.

How is this a left/right/crypto issue? Also, before official information is released, i would not consider speculations "misinformation"
Does your service respect robots.txt of the sites it crawls?
You say, “The system does not meet its purpose.” They respond, “The purpose of the system is what it does.”

In other words, there’s no point in arguing about the purpose. If you want the system to do something else, you have to change the system.
It seems in the last three years only Poland is building an Army (1000 tanks, 500 himars launchers WTF thats more than US operates, 100 apaches etc). There was report from Germany that they actually went from 65% to 50% battle readiness since the war started https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/50-battle-ready-germany...
They are because they have an interest in keeping tax filing difficult and unapproachable, to keep public animus against taxes at its maximum. Coincidentally this is 100% in alignment with the tax prep industry whose entire existence is based on products which solve and handle the complicated tax situation.
Sick, I still have mine and now I won't have to turn off security on my hotspot for the PSP to connect. Last year I spot welded a panasonic prismatic cell from a toughbook onto the original psp batt board to get a decent batt. The chinesium ones wouldn't last and my original was long dead.
That's awesome. Wishing you the best!
The level of taxation is not the most relevant thing, even though it attracts the most attention. There are countless socially valuable things that they can be spent on.

The core issue is that Americans don't get back much for their level of taxation. The USA is a fundamentally dog-eat-dog place. Given that, working Americans pay an absurd amount of taxes.

I pay over 40% of my income in local, state, and federal taxes. Despite that, it's not hard to imagine being thrown onto the streets to die after experiencing a single issue. Where is it going? Not to me, and not to any services I'll be able to access in times of difficulty.
I wonder what Erik Prince is up to these days. Been awfully quiet in the media world. What was Blackwater called last check? Xe or something?
Reminds me of turntable.fm. It was all the rage in my friend group a long time ago.
Definitely wasn't talking about climate scientists. Many policy makers, voters, the lay-person. People want a silver bullet solution that is convenient.
Justa hunch, but my guess is that GP is referring to the fact that the Trump administration and Project 2025 is the most blatant and detrimental manifestation of evil and corruption that the modern western world has seen since WW2, they outline their plans to completely destroy all semblance of justice and public protection from the wealthiest country in the world while ensuring that a free and fair democratic election never takes place again (in our lifetimes at least), and it’s somewhat poetic that people were duped by propaganda into giving them the power they needed to bring an end to the United States of America as it has existed since it was founded because they were tired of being taken advantage of by the system as it was.

It wasn’t perfect, but it’s going to look like a Utopia after these guys are done with us.
hmmm, seems odd. Also, can't pass this.
No need to break them up, just ship them to the universe's most efficient storage mechanism - a black hole!
I have lost both a daughter and a dog.

I believe your intentions here are good, but I don't recommend trying to rank various types of grief.

Past a certain threshold, all kinds are both the same and incomparable.
Nice blog, short and concise. While it can be hard for developers to think about the interface exposed in the glue code as it requires more analysis and experience on the business logic
It’s possible that a major shakeup adjacent to one’s org and uncertainty about the future could affect sleep and concentration. So while it may not be directly causal, it may not entirely be a coincidence either.
Wow hxdos[0] looks like msdos extender nirvana

0, https://www.japheth.de/HX.html
> people are distracted during meetings

It feels like he's just old and pining for days gone by - in person meetings have people staring at their laptops and phones too. I dislike that as well, but that's not a WFH issue.
Do they make their employees ask for the hall pass to go to the bathroom as well?
Facism has entered the chat…
It's not gone. It's just less common, and, at least in my experience, hidden inside churches where people are open about this sort of thing, and where, in a lot of them, miscarriages are treated as much the same thing, to be grieved over, as loss. Sometimes in private, but it's better when it's shared, because others have gone through the same thing, suffering silently.

But you're right, it's far harder to go through an experience alone, and loss of a child has certainly become far, far less common than it used to be. At least, if you limit it to the born.

In the US, in 2023, 1 in 3 never made it to birth.
That 2.0 update was mind-blowing on its own. Smallest device you could browse the web with, I think? Pretty sure it was still the time of PDAs, before smartphones.

EDIT: Yeah, July 2005, 2 years before the iPhone came out.

https://forums.digitalspy.com/discussion/254588/psp-2-0-upda...
* unsafe blocks for unsafe code

* Memory safety in safe code

* Fearless concurrency.

* match operator and destructuring
> I can see the argument that young people aren’t being exposed to older peers the same way and their learning may be stunted.

I agree with this, but I didn't grow up with a phone in my hand. I didn't have a mobile phone until I was about 30 years old and I didn't have a smartphone until I was in my 40s. I can't work well with people over remote calls, I hate Zoom and desktop sharing, don't like slack or teams. I find it so much more efficient to sit with another person or small group if there is a group task to be completed or a group decision to be made.

That said, unnecessary meetings are a real thing, have been a problem in large orgs forever, and Zoom doesn't fix that. Might make it worse, as invites are not limited by the physical size of the room.
For specific questions I get the transcript from https://tactiq.io/tools/youtube-transcript then copy paste to a LLM and append my question
I think it's just time for you to stop digging. Every post is more inane than the last, and the last was you posting a link to a scam site and claiming it's an official government outlet. Just consider that if you can't tell the difference in that, you might be in over your head here.
Do they have any revenue or anything? They seem to have products but I haven't heard of anyone using them. Does anyone have experience with Grok or Aurora etc?
Not that I've experienced, I guess that isn't as big a problem as people being distracted by their phones.
Server hardware is reliable. For connectivity price-wise I think the sweet spot presently is to host own hardware in the data center and have a system administrator that lives not far away. I worked before for a company that was doing things like that while having millions of active users. It costed them at least 5 times less then it would be with a cloud provider. And then when they got a better deal with another data center the migration was not much more complex then moving server boxes in a van and changing ip addresses for load balancers.