skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not always. Almost not ever.

https://endoflife.date/iphone

I’m impressed Apple supports iPhones for 7 years from when they went on sale, but 5 years from when they stopped selling them varies by product line.

On the Watch, it’s 3 years. It’s unfortunate because you could have bought a Series 3 this year and learned you will not get a software update for it ever again.

Where this 5-7 year legacy thing gets annoying is computer hardware - it used to be that you could bring in an Intel MacBook of any year and get it serviced, but at some point they cut costs and instituted this 5-7 year “legacy” policy, without actually specifically telling anyone any dates as to when their devices would or would not be serviced. The rule of thumb for computers is that if you can’t get OS updates, you’re probably not going to get spare parts, but that isn’t always the case either.
Here is how it worked when I ran a file sharing service:

- We would allow people to upload files

- these files would go into a 'holding tank'

- the files would then get greenlit if some rudimentary algorithm determined
they were landscapes or other innocent content

- the remainder would be flagged for review

- bulk images would be displayed in a grid of 8x8 thumbnails

- the vast majority of those would not be reason for further action and
would be greenlit, the remainder would go into yet another holding tank

- now the pictures would be viewed full size, any kind of image that
would be against the TOS would be rejected and a hash would be kept
to avoid seeing it again

- any kind of image that was deemed illegal or borderline would be
passed on to LEO for another decision, possibly resulting in
criminal charges against the uploader.

The complications:

- uploaders would try to mask their identity

- uploaders would be all over the world

- even after reviewing LEO would sometimes indicate that an image was
inconclusive (in those cases we erred on the side of caution)

--

In short: companies can and do work together with law enforcement to stop service abuse and illegal activities. Whether it is an AI that flags it or a human is from a legal perspective utterly immaterial, and if LEO clears it
that definitely means that you are allowed to either view it or pass it on.
I have owned a Dell XPS, for an intern, in end-of-2020, and never again:

- The first experience was trying to open the thing, the hinge is too strong, so the bottom comes with the top instead of staying on the table, and because of the loose grip it drops and slams on the table,

- Fans are just as noisy as all PCs,

I was told the XPS experience was the closest to Apple in the PC world, barring System76, that was a marketing-by-lies.
Chemical weapons are rarely used only because they are not very effective. If they were effective they would not be outlawed.

When we invent a version that will be practical to use, (e.g. small hard to notice drone capable to spray highly poisonous chemical right in enemy barracks) all the "success" in outlawing we had will instantly disappear.
Dell XPS’s are superficially nice machines but the power management is comically broken. They overheat and drain their battery while sleeping. You’re lucky if you close the lid in the morning and there’s still juice left by 5pm.
Chemical weapons are little-used because they don't work very well, even compared to soldiers with bayonets, much less compared to the Bomb. Producing chemical weapons is very dangerous and requires large industrial facilities.

By contrast, precision-guided munitions make the Bomb obsolete (it's great at killing people but it's a comparatively crude means of coercion by comparison), and they can be produced inexpensively from widely available materials.

We should be planning how to preserve what we can from defeat.
In much of Europe Dell will end up cheaper because it will be sold within the single market, meaning no customs tax and import levies, and warrantee doesn't cost you hundreds of Euros in shipping costs. System76 is really only an affordable option if you live in North America.

That's if this comes out in whichever European country one lives in of course, because Dell is exasperatingly vague about their specific offerings, and in my case (the XPS 13 with Ubuntu 20.04 with Dell Netherlands) I could only offer it via telephone. That part sucks. The laptop is fine though.

For the record: for my work laptop over the past ten years I've had two System76's and now a Dell XPS 13.
Thank you for clearing that up, I had a hard time envisioning the Swiss from disenfranchising the elderly in such a callous way. Usually their policies make good sense.
Also:

> The prevailing wisdom for this seafaring situation is “Don’t Stop.”

The law is to render assistance. That law was based on prevailing wisdom.

Apparently the author moves in different circles to the rest of seafaring folk.
You're not ready for how this is gonna play out in a domestic theater.
Your statement sort of assumes the worst case has negative infinity utility. Which, granted, is usually how economists model human behaviour, but perhaps not how humans behave in practise. (If death truly had negative infinity utility, it would overpower the benefit of everything and we couldn't do anything.)
this looks really interesting: https://exist.io
Here is an article in the Swedish equivalent of the financial Times. https://www.di.se/digital/expert-streamingtjanster-anvands-f...
12 had amazing form factor, but it was great only for native apps, web apps were running horrible on it.
But it was beautiful at that time, it was first macbook with various colors? Even once one lady at coffee shop approached me and asked what version of MacBook it was. No no... that's end of the story :)
Fortifying federated access to AWS via OIDC
I think what you're talking about would be random numbers with a poor distribution, which is important to distinguish from random numbers with poor unpredictability.
As it quotes, Anandtech had many benchmarks suggesting Apple's chips are going strong and even speculating similar idea.

Anand Shimpi who founded Anandtech has stepped down from Anandtech and is working for few years now at Apple in hardware.
Yes, one of the reason I like that reactor design. They basically put something in the fluoride that is basically designed to corrode so that the actual reactor vessel doesn't. If I understand correctly.

Their design doesn't require the 7 year swap cycle most MSR do.
Oh yeah, those are pretty limited. You might look at the Switchblade and Bayraktar mentioned in the article.
There have been a lot of papers on techniques for training in low precision, even as low as binary. But the largest models that would benefit most aren't using those techniques, which indicates to me that they don't work as well as their paper abstracts suggest.
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16606

https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/25495/3/src/syscal...
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/927/

Seriously though, this looks great.
Because a big part of those gains has bad consequences on the environment.

It's not about productivity, it's about keeping that productivity while reducing externalities.
There is text on the bottom that is trying to say something. Can only see the top pixel of text in Android Firefox most of the time.
I am puzzled by that too, it is roughly where the VIC II is and it doesn't appear that anything was soldered to it to tap it. My other guess was that this sat on top of something and the hole was needed so it would sit properly?
Is OpenAI Codex free? How to access it?
Chemical weapons were successfully outlawed because they're not terribly useful in war: https://acoup.blog/2020/03/20/collections-why-dont-we-use-ch...
LEO = Law Enforcement Officer?

cmiiw
There are speed cameras, but they're well indicated, stationary and even Google Maps warns you in advance when you're getting close to one. Police, I've never seen.
Can you tell me please what you mean by "infinity utility" here?
> Are there any MSR designs that require NO reprocessing (whether online, batch or other)?

I think the Terrestrial IMSR (which is probably the one closest to commercializing in the West) is designed for a once-through uranium cycle, similar to current LWR plants. The idea, IIRC, is to replace the entire reactor vessel (including the fuel salt) every 7 years.

Not sure what the plan is for dealing with the spent fuel. If the fuel salt is water soluble (not sure, but salts tend to be, right?) I'd think some form of processing is necessary before geological disposal. But maybe that can be a cleaner and simpler process than a full PUREX.
Not just Dell :(. I had a Lenovo T14 AMD. The battery would drain overnight in S3 sleep. To add to the offense, if that'd happen it often wouldn't charge with the supplied Lenovo USB-C charger anymore. However, a borrowed MacBook USB-C adapter would bring it back alive within a few minutes.

The first time I was pretty sure the laptop turned into a brick. Of course, this happened hours before I had to give a lecture.
Google makes this unnecessarily difficult for most people by preventing delivery to their users unless you jump through the right hoops.
Trees Are Spreading North in Alaska. That’s Not Good
Mainly I think of protecting yourself from a $100k aws bill
Who cares? The MIL complex/employment guarantee scheme obviously.
The whole keyboard looks like form over function. I have never touched them, so I’m curious about other people’s experience.
Given that they exist primarily as an anti-trust policy for Google, and word on the street is that they've laid-off most of their actual developers, good on your company!
Missed one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second
Yes, there are NOT 60 seconds in a minute...
Call them. :(

I had the same problem in the Netherlands with my XPS 13 with Ubuntu 20.04. The local website didn't list it, but when I gave the phone rep one of the codes they use for it on the US website they could order it (they were genuinely surprised at that). Dell's website really sucks, and it hides or shows things based either on outdated inventory data, or really black-boxy algorithms.
Since they’re also promoting Canonical’s app store I figure some advertising must have been part of the deal.

22.04 LTS is a useful reference though, even when planning to use another distro.
XPS13 is my go-to choice. Serving me for many years, although I have to admit that the camera placement (bottom-left) corner in the older models is funnily frustrating.
Google’s Covid Outbreak Is Currently the Largest of Any Employer in Los Angeles
Ask HN: Spam Filter for Office 365
We use the Cloud-base Office 365 Outlook mail server and looking for a better spam protection than the built-in one. We don't want a self hosted solution and it should integrate with Office 365 out of the box. We have heard of N-able Mail Assure but there are a lot of bad reviews out there. Has anyone heard of a better alternative?
Why? Isn't it always part of a TOS that you have no rights and that the company can do whatever they like anytime they like?
Interesting. If they only predicted 30% probability of a thunderstorm, why did they make this statement?

>The service posted a public apology on their Facebook page on Sunday, explaining that the "least likely" outcome happened, and that uncertainty is part of weather forecasting

If there's a 30% probability of a thunderstorm, no thunderstorm is the most likely outcome, not the least likely.
My XPS 15 got a faulty HDMI port suddenly after a forced Windows 11 update. It caused permanent problems for my HDTV as well that I had it plugged into.
The battery went bad after 2 years, and it is running hot regularly.

Right now I just will use it to stream videos until it dies. Most of the Dell computers I've purchased in the past 8 years have had major issues just after purchase which conveniently occur just after warranty expires. I got an R13 earlier this year prior to my laptop failures, it's still sitting its box unused for when my 8300 fails.

My previous non-ssd XPS 16 still runs, after 10 years. That's the reason why I once was loyal to the brand.
> The Russian economy is doing fine, business with India and China is thriving. "Massive losses to their army" I believe is far from accurate. I'll be greatly surprised if at the end of this, Ukraine isn't economically destroyed, geographically devastated. Territories lost will remain lost, and the deaths of so many people will have been for nothing more than furthering the geopolitical and industrial interests of the main instigators.

1,000 tanks and close to 45k soldiers either KIA or WIA is not “massive losses”?. The world thought Russia had years worth of tanks, turns out it only took 6 months before they started breaking out the the 4 man T62s.
AfD is not relevant anymore. They are openly pushing Russian economic interests now (Nord Stream 2, lifting sanctions) and so became a used asset.
Only loosely related, but Robin Sloan also wrote a truly excellent article about using neural nets to produce music: https://www.mcdbooks.com/features/sourdough

In his book Sourdough, he spends quite a while describing the music of the Mazg - a fictional group of European migrants. For the audiobook version of Sourdough, he trains a SampleRNN model on a particular genre of Croatian music, then has the model produce Mazg music. The description of machine learning is vivid and approachable, and the audio clips are fantastic.
Most of the Saxon 'industrial base' either moved to Bavaria after WW2 or was looted by the Russians. The Wismut was a 'one hit wonder': after the Uranium deposits were depleted (which didn't take long) it tapered off like everything else in East Germany. The investment in microelectronics in the 70's might have been the only thing that went somewhat right and had a lasting effect even after the GDR imploded.
And? What's the point of your comment?
Believe me, I know: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... But with Rosetta Apple seems to have committed to the ABI now.
Maybe it's the fact that we all realize our mortality, and the benefit that it has on a species. Nature has built into us a few limiters to over-flourishing, like it has for many other species: a short life-span with expendable body components - we've overcome that with medicine and other life-extending tech. A disinterest in procreation - we're trending in that direction but the procreators are probably gonna win that battle. Limited resources - science is finding ways to exploit new resources while diminishing the quality of life for all.

I'm a drinker and proud of the contributions I still make to society, but also that I won't hang on for too long past my invitation to stay on this rock. There are people better than me who should occupy it.
From Rudyard Kipling's If;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
Two unintended consequences

- Patients find it too risky to store medical information on Google drives/devices.

- Exhausted patients are forced to scrutinise every upload for the potential for Google to mistakenly perceive a breach of TOS.

This is not good for the world.
I was reminded of David Graeber's description of banking bureaucracies, as I read this.

At ground level, bank employees blame irrational form filling, small and nonsensical process requirements on "regulation." In reality, they are implementing a bank "compliance" policy that is relates to regulation. That way, neither the regulator nor the bank is culpable... either for solving the problem or for consequences of the solution. Meanwhile, the banks themselves probably lobbied for the regulation specifics, and almost certainly wrote large parts of it themselves. It's cozy.

At Google-scale, there is no dividing line between between private & government bureaucracies. They're merged in a way that evolves to deflect criticism & responsibility from both.

The scariest line, to me, was this:

"These companies have access to a tremendously invasive amount of data about people’s lives. And still they don’t have the context of what people’s lives actually are."

Well... "luckily" Google & such are getting better all the time at "context." The response to such issues is usually to deepen the bureaucracies, not to pull back.
Microsoft has never cared about end users either. They of course focused on them, but only as far as how much money they could extract, and that didn't mean keeping them happy. The customers were locked-in to their monopoly OS, so why would they care about customer happiness?
That's the plot of Norman Spinrad's book Little heroes.
It starts with the idea that Music record companies can only make bad automated music, and in order to make a hit, they hire real musicians.

It's a great read!
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/719900.Little_Heroes?ref...
Probably serious enough, since the album they describe exists. Spotify is smart enough to know that it isn't "the" Fanny Mendelssohn though - at least in the artist database. It could well be that Release Radar is dumber and is fooled by the matching name.
Same for France. I've been continually "impressed" by how manufacturers (this is both Dell and Lenovo, the two big ones I'd personally check) list Linux devices in their US stores but then they're unavailable in other countries.

The filtering functions of their shops insist there's no options for Linux laptops. Then you use full text search and some show up. Obviously not the dev laptops I'd have wanted, but still.

These companies need to get their act together; it's unbelievable how bad their online shops are in 2022.
Thanks for posting, this sounds super cool. Now I just really wished I had a reason to order a molten salt loop.
Perhaps they will leverage their Netflix CDN edge machines they have stationed in so many ISPs/POPs around the world?
I'll be dang'd if I know.
I have a work-issued Precision 7510 that is the antithesis to what you described. I'm with you on the 'laptops that look like glass' thing.
You can switch Escape with caps lock. It's easy to do in linux and arguably better if you get used to it for vim keybinding ergonomics
Good story.

Being a good human is important. Helping someone without being involved in (aside from sustaining them) is noble as well.

Not every problem in this world needs a solution, those seeking will or will not find their solution. If in a position to help them humanitarianly, do so. Don't set expectations or guidance, resolve a need. Unless you have other extraordinary means.
The memory is still soldered on I guess, even after the framework laptop proved that you can have a compact laptop and memory slots (and other stuff), something we were told wasn't possible.
Linus is using a Macbook Air: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/linus-torvalds-uses-...

It's not the first time: https://www.cultofmac.com/162823/linux-creator-linus-torvald...
"We must stop and outlaw crossbows right now."
Not really, electricity prices only need to fluctuate by a factor of four for this to be economically viable.
Digitised full text search is a start.

The next level up is full linked cross referencing; bio files on all people that appear in the minutes, the ability to trace their interactions through time, the disclosure of what public ownership records they have for land and companies in the immediate and adjacent regions, what boards they have positions on.

If they are there to (say) lobby against local public transportation then who are they affiliated with that is also lobbying against the same in other county areas | states, etc.

Disclaimer: we did this some years ago for global mineral exploration and project development, linking public records from companies, stock exchanges, land bureaus, etc. and eventually onsold the data and the process [1].

It can be a grind to set up and get swinging, but ultimately worthwhile and can be funded via a subscription model.

[1] https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/campaigns/met...
The article is about defense even of military assets/organizations, and concludes there is no great counter yet. The civilian threat is just a tiny cherry on top of all the other current civilian threats.
My experience with quantization is that a little is easy, and a lot takes work. Quantization aware training helps, but it's finicky and adds extra steps to the training process, which in turn slows down iteration speed.
Unfortunately I only received this machine as is. Not even a power brick. So it is likely that the original case was indeed thrown out.
For the technically minded, not neccessary. Just buy a large computer monitor and connect it with a tiny computer. It's a hassle but the system is really yours, especially if you choose carefully what to install.
Is there any source in which countries this Google CSAM scanning works?
Is your water pure? You had better hope not.
Because the regular non-swarming drones Americans use to bomb civilians to death, like the General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper, cost over US$100 million each, and they can be shot down. This means that with a slaughter budget of US$10 billion you can only deploy 100 drones and you can only deploy them in areas that don't shoot SAMs at them. Maybe you can kill 10'000 people (each Hellfire missile costs US$150'000, so that's an additional US$300 million for 2000 of them).

If your inferior plastic toy jerry-rigged with improvised explosives costs US$1000 then for the same slaughter budget you can deploy 10 million drones and probably kill 100 million people, depending on how many murder missions each plastic toy survives. What's more important, though, is that your 10 million drones can kill 1000 precisely chosen people.
Yes. Parsing SQL solves some rather specific problems, which the article doesn’t seem terribly clear about.

Interrogating the running database to establish schemas and types is exactly what my Postgres/TypeScript library[1] does, for example.

[1] https://jawj.github.io/zapatos
> It's also sad that industry completely failed to convince the population that they can provide a safe solution.

I don't really think the population matters. The problem is that after the NRC was replaced AEC was replaced, regulation became totally technology depended. Doing anything other then PWR was essentially impossible.

The DoD is only now undertaking efforts to change this, but its turning a large ship.
Isn't this mostly self-inflicted, though. The 2010 way works just as well today.

* npm as a tool, sorry, it sucks. You got to replace all other languages with javascript, live with the consequences of that choice.

* libraries/packages/... are easy to add but hard to maintain. Extremely fine-grained packages with no culture of long-term stability make this a lot worse.

* I'd rather have git complain about a merge than spend time finding out which of file.html, file_old.html, file2.html file_new.html , ... are in use. Lucky you if only 1 file is the answer.

* The whole 'programmers want to install tooling but the sysadmins wont let them' story goes back to at least the '80 ies. Devs on unix installed software in their home folder instead of letting responsible sysadmins install it system-wide (when the sysadmin has time and can be convinced it is usefull).
Try Fox News. Btw, very nice of you to create a fresh new account _just_ to reply with a strawman to my post :)
Sounds like they’re not very good at email!
For capital gains, doing nothing to earn them is the rule. The fact that economic activity doesn't appear out of thin air and that someone has to pay those capital gains either by foregoing income or through higher prices is usually forgotten.

What really disappoints me is that Marxist don't follow a very simple idea, let profits and capital gains reach zero through market forces. That would fulfill the spirit but not the letter of communism.