skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They might believe that they are, or might publicly claim that they are. That doesn't mean that they are. It should be pretty clear that, if they intend to be honest state servants just trying to make things more efficient and less expensive, they're doing a pretty bad job of it. They are already fudging their savings numbers to make it look 3+ orders of magnitude bigger than it is, and even the savings that they did find has mostly been short-term savings that have obvious, real, negative long-term consequences primarily for Americans in America and little consequence for anyone else.

What DOGE is doing is like getting up at 5 AM and sealing off the gas line to your furnace, then claiming that you saved a big chunk of your family's monthly finances, when in reality your heating bill is 1/100th the cost of your rent or mortgage, and you're going to be pretty sad that your furnace doesn't work when the winter comes, and you're going to have to pay a professional to un-break your heat, probably a lot more than you saved to begin with. And pissing off your whole family in the meantime.

Even in an alternate reality where Musk and Trump have genuinely good intentions to reform waste and corruption (narrator: they don't), it would be hard to imagine a worse way of going about it.
I was far more impatient before I deliberately practiced patience.
The sad thing is that they're being respected for that in their circles. There is no need for shame. They're proud of themselves. They don't talk to people who feel the cringe, and I guess them subconsciously knowing is a reason why they don't talk to people further below them.

Of course, those most successful are just numb due to specific psychological deviations from the academic norm.
No, Tesla has their own seperate training supercomputer called Dojo that it optimized for computer vision. Its one of the top 20 supercomputers in the world by compute.
My understanding: the US was a manufacturing center as a first mover after war economy and others being crippled and indebted by war. Then Germany and Japan caught up resulting in the collapse of the bretton woods system (1970s) which then changed the US from a manufacturing center to a financial center through the USD as a global reserve currency. The hegemony is built on top of the dollar, today. That’s the moat. (Well, and military might.)

Since then, to say China has ”caught up” with the US at peak time in the 50s-60s would be an understatement. On the contrary today US manufacturing is a nostalgic pipe dream only - not just due to labor prices but lack of institutional knowledge and experience relevant in a completely different global economy.

Another threat seems to be the financialization of the few remaining companies that are left like GE and Boeing. Even when there are giant advantages from high barrier of entry, the pressure from quarterly numbers on a graph squeezes and dilutes engineering excellence to McKinsey style accounting tricks that ultimately eats itself from the inside.

Another way of putting it is that you can’t fiscal policy yourself to the finish line – the incentives and preconditions need to be right too. The current elite (especially tech) is backed by finance and won’t even consider giving up the smallest of privileges, and as long as you need them to win elections, I don’t see it moving in the direction of less finance and more real & competitive goods and services.
Banks like to be able to reverse transactions. As do courts.
I was banking on Windows 11 being a skip version but Windows 12 will probably be just as bad. Windows 10 forever then!
An article .. about paywalls not being needed.. behind a pay wall.
> I really hope it's not primarily so that they can more effectively target your computer for ads. Or upsell some service subscriptions.

I hope you're not that naive.

Alas, smart people have been shining a light on Microsoft's path for over a decade.
If you don't use the app store, you can still install the xcode command line tools with the xcode-select command. I didn't bother signing in with an Apple account on my personal Mac.
Surely after 20 years you’ve given up on the year of Linux on the desktop.

I’ve only used it for ~15 years but long ago came to the conclusion that I really don’t care about broader adoption. Why should I? It is good if people find their way to Linux. But it isn’t a product, they can come to it and accept it as it is, or fix it for themselves. But there’s no real benefit to increasing marketshare for its own sake.
> more likely that the internal number for TSLA is not good

The external number for TSLA is not doing very good either
I'm curious: do you have any specific examples that stress this?

I'd like to see how my Wasm build fares. I assume worse, but it'd be interesting to know by how much.

I've also heard that it's allocator performance under fragmentation, lock contention on the allocator, the mutex implementation itself, etc. Without something to measure, it's hard to know.
It also pushed Japan to invade all of Asia because they were an island nation dependent on trade (and ironically had been an upstanding world citizen and significant member of the League of Nations).
I think so. He's got Trump's ear, after all.
Another stupid move by M$. No wonder the market share of Win11 is still below Win10. IMHO WinXP, 7 and 10 were the best ones. A billion dollar behemoth like M$ should know better ;-)

Windows market share:
https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desk...
Under Reagan the Republican solution to illegals was that they held an Amnesty because extradition camps aren't actually doable in any humane or financially sensible way, and removing that large of the local population destructively destabilizes the country.

Libertarians believe(d) in open borders and that there should be no such thing as a human being illegal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Reform_and_Control...
> Does it hand along an encrypted stream that it can't decode or does it decode/re-encode?

It definitely does decode/re-encode audio streams, as music playback quality suffers quite a bit (both latency and quality).
> I have Windows 10, and I was not looking forward to the "upgrade" to 11 at 10's EOL because of ...

I refused to "upgrade" past Windows 7.

When Windows 7 went EOL, I installed Linux. I've never looked back.
This is made worse by Windows 11 retail images being years behind on Wi-Fi drivers. We recommend to customers to use Rufus to create Windows USB installers to bypass the network requirements because Windows 11 doesn’t come with functioning drivers for any of the last few generations of Wi-Fi cards we use.
In similar news: my left hand acquired my right hand today in an all stock deal valuing the combined hands at $250,000. Praising the announcement my arms noted on the deal: “With these two hands now together, there’s nothing our combined fist of might can’t do.” Competitors, my left and right feet, declined to comment on the merger but are said to be in their own separate talks about a deal.
I own an xbox (which I received as a gift) and absolutely hate having to log into it any time I want to use it. MY 15 year old PS3 still delivers a far more pleasant user experience.
That's what alt+tab is for
Unfortunately I did not receive an instant webhook url... presumably the service was crushed to death.
Do you have a "switch to local account" option in Windows's accounts settings screen? That would be the cleanest option if available.
Thermal stress wears most objects.

It's hit or miss but the loss of trust and goodwill occurred and hasn't been reversed. It's safer to not buy their new stuff so to not reward them for resting on their brand laurels. There are plenty of old and other borosilicate products to avoid them.
It's so they can:

1. More effectively target you for ads

2. Upsell cloud service subscriptions

3. Cross-promote other Microsoft services, your windows account means you already have an xbox/skype/minecraft/whatever account.

4. Provide extra features, like syncing your tabs between devices and backing up your passkeys to the cloud.

5. More closely emulate Android and iOS, major and successful rivals of Windows.

6. Keep track of software licenses and suchlike. Ideally through an app store where they get a 30% cut of every purchase.

7. Avoid having their cash-cow products like MS Office out-competed by collaborative, cloud-based new entrants.
NSA F9T53 Opsec Special Bulletin: Signal Vulnerability
They are, but in the relevant Delaware law the latter point matters when there is a potential conflict of interest, so the Delaware court ruled on that.
10 was basically fine as a glorified gaming console as well.

I don’t know how people use it for, like, work stuff or whatever.
generally you use grants when there isn't money
Great write up! It isn’t free, but the price/what it offers is really great with Hetzner. I switched from digital ocean.

Did you evaluate any other TURN servers? I’m curious about your thoughts of the Elixir and Go ones. Maybe even more exist, I haven’t looked recently
Because there is no energy efficient way to do an interbank transfer right? Right?
It transfers money from xAI to himself. We are going to acquire a company that has petabytes(more?) of real content sounds a lot better to investors than, actually I will take all the money you put in this company and keep it in this pocket right here.
I suspected it was that which is why I spelled it out, but wanted to see if anyone had a more charitable explanation for it.
Prices will be lower just after Ukraine war ends in 1 day
The biggest problem is finding ergonomically low-effort, efficient storage glassware usable by elderly and disabled people. I wished OXO went away from plastic entirely.
Convenient timing!
>Rather, the point is that the state of our brain is not the same as the content of our thoughts.

Based on what exactly ? This is just an assertion. One that doesn't seem to have much in the way of evidence. 'It's not the same trust me bro' is the thesis of your argument. Not very compelling.
Without KYC or AML, no.
I'd hope "show cases for android phones on an android phone" to be something rockstar engineers at ad companies figure out rather easily.
ROCm multiplies in 4.5ms and the author multiplies in 2.8ms. The naive algorithm is 136ms. I don't think anyone at AMD is losing sleep over this; for a general purpose library this isn't horrible performance. It could be better, hand optimising to specific conditions often is. But as this blog post shows, optimising kernels is the sort of thing that people can do for fun and post blogs about if they care. They don't need AMD to be involved.

The problem with ROCm isn't that it only half-utilises the hardware, the problem was that someone trying to write this blog post in 2020 would have had (or at least the probability was rather high) a heading somewhere around implementing Kernel 0 talking about how the software crashed or the kernel panicked when they tried to run the benchmarks. That was what happened to me when I tried a conceptually similar exercise. I was wandering around HN posting comments about how there were no articles like this one to be found for AMD hardware and musing whether it was technically possible to do.

This makes me wish I'd bought an RDNA3 card instead of a Nvidia one for my last purchase. Not that I really regret the choice, AMD are going to have to show that they're interested in supporting consumer cards for a little longer to get me to trust them again although they're on the right path.
> He’s literally the richest person the earth has ever known.

That’s disputable

> He literally commands the most powerful military apparatus the world has ever seen.

That’s also disputable
There can be other systems than private subsidized insurance for that, criminal penalties are rare. It would need to be like a dui for that to work.
Yeah, that's probably smarter.

Normally we presume having a proper word for a thing is more descriptive, but in this case because people aren't used to the idea: maybe being more verbose is the answer.
I recently opined here that devs should really stop setting their blogs in monospaced fonts, and got downvoted to -4, which is very funny.

It’s TRUE!

Monospaced fonts are a thing for two reasons:

1. Historically, they were all computers did, because it is simpler to have fixed widths. (Remember Knuth's biggest contribution was typesetting -- it is complex). Do you know why the Macintosh changed this? Because Jobs was inspired by a calligraphy course he audited at college

2. Because lining up text is important for programming

Other than that, variable-width text is much easier to scan and read. Yes, even for people who spend a lot of time working with code.

You should also be setting a maximum line-width of about 40em, as it becomes hard to read text when the eye has so far to travel back to the left side.

You also shouldn't center paragraphs 99% of the time, because it’s better when your eye can 'seek' to a consistent left edge (assuming LTR languages!)

If you want to know more, please look it up or ask the nearest LLM!
As a person with 3 Puget Systems workstations in my house, always good to see our local custom computer gem mentioned. Those guys are excellent in both build and support.

I love the level, reasoned, intelligent tone. It is everything the current ignoramuses are not.
Great! For me "turn-taking" has been one of the big downfalls of the voice agents. It always seems to break in, just let the silence continue when I'm done talking or pause when it hears the slightest cough or car noise.
For sure. Personally, I avoid shortened aliases like that. I regularly need to use barebones systems so I wouldn't like something like "ll" (`ls -l`) or "gst" (`git status`) becoming muscle memory. Most of my aliases I do define are proper english words.
This is what under-regulated capitalism always leads to... unlimited greed making things worse and more expensive.
I'm a dev using Windows, tried Linux multiple times for a couple of months and it always felt like it was getting in my way in daily usage.

Dev experience is usually at worst the same as Linux when you use wsl as you don't really need more than the terminal
Unrelated but on the topic of squircles, an interesting factoid:

Among all squircles having arbitrary exponents (|x|^p + |y|^p = 1), PI (3.14159...) is the smallest value of ratio of circumference to diameter.

There is a paper on this with the pithy title "π is the Minimum Value for Pi":
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07468342.2000.11...
Something that might be useful to know with these devices is that they're quite liable to bricking during updates.

If you do install an update, make sure you reopen its' web portal and confirm the version number is different to what it was before. If it hasn't changed from before, you'll have to wait a while as its still flushing bytes to its flash memory, and if you accidentally trigger an update again here, you'll be left with a brick (speaking from experience).

Depending on the device you bought, you might also be able to flash custom firmware on it: https://github.com/ludwig-v/wireless-carplay-dongle-reverse-...
My Writing Workflow with LLMs
The Economist is pessimistic

https://archive.ph/XkmDi
I wonder what kind of accuracy could be had with a cheapie USB GPS receiver. I wouldn't use that anywhere I had Internet connectivity, but in a disconnected location I wonder if it would get within a few ms of GPS time. I have an old USB GPS that shows up as a serial device (FTDI, or more likely a counterfeit) that I used back in my wardriving days, and later for moving map navigation on a laptop on road trips (as a dedicated navigator/passenger). It might be fun to dig it up and try it out.

Since I know Jeff frequents HN I'll go meta for a second and say that I noticed the Neatpatch cable management in the rack. I've been a fan of Neatpatch for a good long time. I don't use them in racks there there will be much churn, but they're mighty nice in locations that get wired once and only touched again when switches get replaced. It really makes a rack look-- erm-- nest.
The Atmel AT90USB162 chip multiplexed the USB D+/- pins with an SDATA and SCK PS/2 port. It is possible to build a "serial" to PS/2 or USB bridge device with very few components. The part seems to still be available from Microchip.
Oh, Linux is my daily driver. Gentoo, so I am no Linux noob.

I just use Windows to build and test my FOSS on it.
I do all my development work on linux. I have a self-hosted linux server. I used ubuntu as my main desktop computer OS for a full year, and in that time I struggled with compatibility issues, games that wouldn't run as well as people said they would, driver update issues, necessary tools that simply don't exist on linux, and various configuration failures that simply don't exist on windows. Saying that you can game on linux is like saying you can host a web server on windows. Sure, it's technically possible, and for some things it works smoothly. But 99% of resources on the web assume that you're on the normal OS, and as soon as you try to do anything even slightly outside of the basics, you're going to run into trouble.
> I don't have a physical controller

There are a lot of really cheap USB based controllers on the second hand market - I've got an old Vestax USB 1.1 based controller that was state of the art in 2007 and was used by some famous DJs back in the day for 50€ and it's working perfectly fine - it's only midi - you can dump the hex values using midi tools in Linux when you turn the nobs.

Surprisingly for me latency and interactivity are no problem. Eq'ing, pitch, jogwheel feels like analog. However I'm not a professional but I didn't recognize any noticable delay.

You can even scratch using the jog. I'm sure there is a reason for the price difference to modern hardware but from a haptics and sound perspective it's perfectly fine. Mixxx is doing all the hard work.

Mixxx has a really long list of supported devices: https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/wiki/Hardware-Compatibility

You probably need another soundcard for headphones, there also exist lots of cheap old USB soundcards for that - there are also controllers with an audio interface like Vestax VCI-300.

Then it's up to you to practice. I'm also struggling to get better but it's really all you need to DJ. I'm also yt-dlp'ing my collection which feels strange but is budget friendly :)

I've used to DJ as a hobbyist using vinyl ages ago and I'm not missing anything. You can ignore the sync button, hide the bpm on the screen and mix only using your ears like you'd do with vinyl only. Matching the beat using pitch fader and gently pushing the jogwheel is very similar to like you'd do it with the platter on a turntable. Of course it's not the same but for me it's close enough.

Maybe don't tell your vinyl snob friends or other fundamentalists but it's lots of fun for little money.
There were massive bank failures during the great depression. And, no FDIC type insurance. So depositors entirely wiped out. So conservative families, not speculating in the stock market or otherwise and "safely" saving their money in banks were simply wiped out. Stock investors also wiped out due to equity market downturn. Farmers wiped out due to food/commodity prices dropping. Every single asset class took its turn. Job losses quickly followed and then fed back on the stuff above to cause even more mayhem. There is no doubt that things like bank regulation and FDIC insurance made a massive difference and at least partly kept the great recession from becoming like the great depression.
Artificial intelligence purchases the largest repository of natural stupidity.
Nothing surprising.
To pick one little item, it’s pretty basic knowledge that the left doesn’t just broadly want taxes, we want progressive taxation. Tariffs are regressive.
I bought this Windows 10 key long ago, so no license key harassment.
Ads you like vs things you'll actually buy are two very different things.

Samsung can't make money off me buying vintage tools or computer parts. I'd love to see those ads.

But Samsung can hit me with new washing machine ads, or ads for big businesses pushed thru their galaxy store.
Weights & Biases being acquired by CoreWeave
How much is SpaceX worth? How do you even calculate that, knowing that a long term plan includes Mars colonization, astroid mining, etc, with it having a near monopoly on space transport, at the moment?
And yet you're on Windows. Switch. Windows will get worse before it can get better. Try KDE on Fedora, for example.
I get what you mean, but Suitpax isn’t exactly like those companies. It’s an all-in-one SaaS powered by our own AI, not just focused on travel and bookings. It centralizes the entire business travel experience (B2B), combining the best of Brex, Notion, Lyft/Hopper, and Asana in one platform. Plus, it features AI travel agents with unique personalities and a pioneering airport VIP lounge access system.

thanks for give me a feedback champ!
He just wasn’t as good at it as Elon…
The last SE had a smaller screen but the actual device was larger than the last mini (13 mini). Both are discontinued now, sadly.

The 16e is the smallest phone in the current lineup, which is bigger than both.

I really like the 13 mini, I had been on Android since since maybe iphone 4. Not sure what I'll do when my current phone dies, I don't like having a big phone in my pocket.
When you need to move between windows all the time it isnt.

Also that stuff worked correctly in windows 10 (and 7 and XP...) and was just removed.

Why? To cut costs? It kills corporate productivity...
Of course they do, because there’s way more local citizens than immigrants.

But non-Western immigrants are more likely to commit crimes (i.e. on a per-capita basis).

This blog post goes into some detail, and also adjusts by sex & age (also important!).

https://inquisitivebird.xyz/p/the-effects-of-immigration-in-...

You can easily confirm the basic “Danish origin vs non-Western immigrants” statistics by doing simple math from official sources.

https://www.dst.dk/en/Statistik/emner/sociale-forhold/krimin...

Persons of Danish origin commit 75% of crime yet represent 84% of the population. Immigrants are only 16% of population yet commit 25% of crime.

Or is official Danish statistics lying?
"Don't learn to code" is bad advice
But he funded X on debt as well as his own money I believed so he's crystallised a loss. $14b disappeared.
Knees Hurt? This Exercise Can Help
But he’s right. The U.S. collected tens of billions in tariff revenue, and much of that came from price cuts by Chinese exporters trying to stay competitive. China may not write the check, but they absolutely paid through lost profits and market share.
Biden had six or seven bankruptcies when he was a senator and people didn't say he had no clothes on. I think we can give the current president a little grace.

EDITED:

Trump had six or seven bankruptcies, not Biden.
In other words, the problem is "lampshaded": The author indicates to the audience that they are well-aware something doesn't make sense, in a way that encourages the reader to ignore it going forward.
Unless something changed really recently that loophole has been fixed for a minute. I had to use the bypassnro because being off wi-fi wasn't enough.
Most of the privacy issues with smart appliances has to do with the apps that you're required to use to access the smart features.

The cell phone apps harvest data. Not so much on the actual appliance. There are also issues with the apps having malware bundled in them. They're just bad apps, generally.

The appliances do get hacked though. It's not unusual for IoT devices to be used in ddos attacks.

Really, this is just a good reason that everyone should be using, at least, router level DNS filtering to disable a lot of this stuff. One can go a lot further but that's a good start.
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