skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most MDM persists a wipe unless they’re de-enrolled by serial or other unique identifier (e.g. computrace, Windows Autopilot although it’s a bit weird, apple too I think)

Computrace/absolute is a literal rootkit
It’s probably a frustrating response. OP asked for help with one thing, and then commenters were like work on physical and mental health. And OP is like yeah-cool but that’s not the problem I asked for help with.

That being said, I 100% agree with _eukj in this context. Mental health very underrated and important.
I use a treadmill desk and am a big fan.
It's nice to walk for a few hours a day while on the computer.

Stephen Wolfram takes this up another level by also walking outside for a while in nature with a laptop holder[0]. Anecdotally, he reports having a lower heart rate on days he does this.

[0] https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2019/02/seeking-the-prod...
The complexity of the modern web is very off putting to me, but I'm an old timer that spent too long in the land of infrastructure.

I'm doing something similar to HTMX or HotWired, but with 100% vertical ownership. I posted about this some time ago: https://www.adama-platform.com/2022/06/26/making-html-the-be... ; where I am at today: https://book.adama-platform.com/rxhtml/ref.html

The core thesis is to turn the browser into a RIP terminal ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Imaging_Protocol ) to some degree where the server is 100% in control like a BBS/MUD. As an example app, the main IDE uses it, and it's great how lean everything is.

I'm enjoying going my own path.
"The market" is highly unethical and anyone who sells exploits there is undoubtedly a black hat.
I have found it to be a very good verbose search engine that is just wrong 25% of the time. Like “how do I do X in Julia” will give me the answer or just random noise that looks like an answer, but it’s faster than trawling through Google _if an answer exists_
wow, a self driving car that will dispute fines for you
I got a forcing-function: the stereotypical pandemic dog. If he doesn’t get his walk, he will do his business in the house. I literally just came back soaked from my daily one hour walk (I was too optimistic about the weather).
The article compares data from 1990 and 2020, yet doesn’t mention covid as a confounding variable (while talking a lot about housing).

I think the more telling numbers will be over the next few years. Will there be a post-covid bump and then normalize back to pre-covid levels? Will things just stay the same with incredibly low covid-level birth rates?

Only time will tell, but this article is sloppy. The economist can do better.
About to say the same, solving application level conflict for well-defined data structure could also skip the CRDT which is sort of protocol level altogether. Plus, real-time collaboration is just for poor work process. It's very rare any app would want synchronous operations on data from different actors at the same time without work process. Even brainstorming isn't a good fit for this type of communication.
If you have nothing else to do, your TV and Netflix are cut off, at least you still have a bed and each other. Makes sense to me.
I think if we ran the GPT2 spotting model against anyone's comment history we'd find a couple comments that scored really high. I doubt it's actually related to your writing style.

Alternative hypothesis is that it's not about how you're writing but where. HN appears to have been used to train GPT3.5. I don't know if it was used to train GPT2, but it might have done. So your comments might be in the training set.
You couldn’t sell it then accept the position?
Your source?

The article states the opposite of your claims:

> The fertility rate is high in European countries where family norms are flexible, women feel free to work, pro-child policies are generous and childcare is well organised – in short, in countries that have come to terms with gender equality.
And a related question is whether there are more interesting/efficient things you could do with that energy.

It's a question that relates to the laws of thermodynamics as well which dictate that the conversion between different forms of energy has some theoretical upper limits in terms of efficiencies and those inefficiencies multiply if you have a series of such conversions of e.g. solar power to carbo hydrates to mechanical energy or electrical energy. The longer that chain, the worse it gets.

You are better off charging a battery and using the stored energy directly. Almost no losses that way. It's the most efficient way to use energy for a lot of things.

There is a market for synthetic fuels of course but it is going to have to be a market that is willing to pay at least 3-5x the energy cost they would have if they were able to use electricity directly. A good example is long haul aviation. Batteries don't work for that (too heavy). Shipping might be another one.
And that's not necessarily universally true.

* Securing hardware authenticators is much more within our control than the whims of Google are.

* Most of us aren't ex-Googlers with contacts and reach (which are the only way to get reliable support when one's account does get borked), so that side of the risk is also much higher for normal people than for you.
Yes. That was part of the plan for Intel. Remember that Intel was suppose to have 7nm by 2019, which is roughly equal to TSMC N5.
Motivating yes, but possibly also allowing you to overdo it by checking out.

I say you’re both right. While building a habit, audiobooks help a lot. When trying to set goals, music is better (tempo) but for the mental health aspects, like nature bathing, touching grass, and meditation, eventually you want nothing in your ears more often than not.

But only after you’re confident you’ll actually show up for the exercise, distractions or no.

Audiobooks are a great way to get through books you feel you should have read but can’t seem to get into.
What inline formatting in notepad.exe? It doesn't even support bolding/italics/underling.

But I guess there are tabs and line return/carriage returns, so there's that.
Most concerns about poverty on the internet have little to do with history or concern themselves with becoming well informed about economics beforehand.
My unsolicited and uninformed opinion: Marriage is becoming a status symbol and I personally believe low birth rates are being driven by men more so than women. If you’re a medium to high earning male in NYC, there are so many women to choose from that are pining for commitment (I believe biology plays a factor here). Most of my well to do friends are uninterested in marriage and are just churning through girls.

I am happily married - largely driven by personal values religiously influenced moral principle. For most my friends, the question they pose is what is the benefit of marriage? You tie yourself down to monogamy, give up your personal life and risk losing half of it plus a life of child support and alimony in a divorce.

I don’t have an answer but I think the root cause may be different than increasing access to child care (which certainly helps) on the margin.

Edit for another random anecdote: almost all my Jewish friends in their mid 30s who are well to do are married. Can’t think of one that isn’t. I believe there are cultural correlations that can be drawn.
More holistic than that actually. But it’s not entirely off. I’d say think of all the work that goes into the PR for exec/celebrities. There’s an image that is crafted and displayed. You get coached on how to talk to the media… etc.

I’m not needing that entire level of consultation here. But it is beyond what a stylist would do.
I know it's petty and unavoidable, but it's a bummer to click an ambiguous headline like that hoping for a new tool to add to your repertoire as a wheelchair user.

That's one thing that I miss from my able-bodied life, contemplative walks. Rolling a wheelchair around and dealing with the intrinsic difficulties associated with doing so really destroys any kind of meditative quality out of the experience.

Now my deep meditative thoughts come to me in the shower, but it still doesn't hold a candle to a stroll through town during a brisk winter in fair weather.

Apologies for bringing down the mood, but I feel better.
They are, actually. Japan is a very good country to raise children in. Basically everything from giving birth, to kindergarden to medical care is completely free for kids.

It’s a really weird experience to go to the emergency ward of one of the most famous childrens hospitals in Japan and have the guy say ‘your bill comes to $0’ after.

Both parents can take up to 1 year of combined childcare leave after a birth (part of that at 60% salary).

There’s “Children’s hall” s scattered across the neighborhoods that are basically a free playroom, toy repository and library for kids up to high school age.

Kindergardens have been sprouting up like trees all over the country. I think the last time I read any stats about it there were like 6000 kids on a waiting list in the entire country. And again, free or mostly free.

Housing is relatively small, but also affordable, even in the 23 wards of Tokyo. If you go outside Tokyo you can find really nice houses for dirt cheap.

At least it’s not for lack of facilities/benefits that Japan isn’t having children.
Dreams change under authoritarianism (2019)
I wonder how abandoned property works in this circumstance? I’m sure the courts will see the item as clearly the employer’s, but why should you be providing free storage for their equipment? You’re also assuming liability for that laptop (e.g. cat knocks over water glass onto it), so how does that work?
Dropping a link to Black Rose Anarchist Federation: https://blackrosefed.org/who-are-the-anarchists-and-what-is-...
No, it was gifted to us at my current place.

My previous employer wanted it back even though they’re a trillion dollar company.
I couldn't find the specific combo I spent quite some time researching last year so I tried ChatGPT. Within seconds it recommended the exact solution I ended up using based on my searches back then.

"What adhesive would work well for affixing a mylar sheet to foam board?"

> A good adhesive for affixing a mylar sheet to foam board would be a spray adhesive, such as 3M Super 77. This type of adhesive can provide a strong bond between the mylar and foam board, and it dries clear, so it won't be visible once the mylar is attached. You could also use a glue stick, but it may not provide as strong of a bond. It's important to use an adhesive that is compatible with both the mylar and the foam board, so be sure to read the labels carefully before making a purchase.
I guess one way to look at it is, if the original work (the photograph) was in the public domain and the derivative work was created (the painting), would the artist who created the painting still be allowed to claim copyright over it.

But I still don't understand about Fairey. How did he use the original? Even if he traced outlines to create his image from a photograph, it's still "creating a drawing based on a photograph".
Both and neither. Therapy is irrelevant. I’m trying to make an image that sells to other individuals.

Just cause you’re in therapy won’t suddenly make you a CTO at FAANG or whatever.
This is excellent - thanks for the reply. Those slides answered my question really well, and it looks like you've put a lot of thought into this.
Our company tracks all the laptops and mobile phones. On onboarding we send them to the programmer and during offboarding we collect them back. Shipping label are always generated by us. At the end of life we sometimes give away devices to their users after resetting them. In case of laptops we mostly have a second life for them as long as they are fully functional - they are used by administration, as a second device for projects as needed, etc. But we do not plan to wind down anytime soon, so this might be a different story with a startup going bankrupt. In particular once the person responsible for administration is no longer with the company ;)
I make 6 figures and I get rejected by girls that work at Chick Fil A
Here's an answer I wrote myself:

It gives people a heavily filtered and throttled interface to access to their language model.

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Edit: I asked chat.openai.com about it:

Would "It gives people a heavily filtered and throttled interface to access to their language model." be a fair way to describe chat.openai.com?

Yes, that is an accurate description of chat.openai.com. The site provides users with a limited and controlled interface to access a language model, which is a type of artificial intelligence that is capable of processing and generating natural language. This allows users to have conversations with the language model and get responses based on the information it has been trained on.
Nightmare for who? How hard it is to admit that their equations are incorrect? Even amateur like myself can see that the dark matter is adhoc value that was calculated in order to patch the standard model. There are several better alternatives but do we need to wait until these stubborn believers have passed away until the world can move forward?
I once had a VP that told us to take anything that wasn't bolted down as they had closed the branch and laid off all but three people. I got a desk, computer, several monitors, big nice shredder. I only have the shredder left, it still gets the job done.

Another place, a small biz, wanted everything, including the Kindle I had been gifted earlier in the week. Even tried to get me to give up the laptop case I purchased for the work laptop. Nothing worse than having to take back a cheap Kindle, hours after being laid off.
also leads to https://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2021/the-blues-and-the-harmonic... exploring non-12-TET tuning as the basis of "blue" notes.
It's cars. Rural america is not walkable unless you live near nature trails. You're walking on roads with no shoulder and people happy to run you over.
This might become more and more of a pain for neurodivergents, we already sound "odd" enough as it is, now people will assume we're just chatbots.
Lymphatic system is drained only through movement. I wouldn't be surprised if the same holds for the one that was discovered in the brain recently.
Two women bring class-action against Apple for AirTag stalking
In heroic medical science history fiction it's a bit of a trope to write "the operation was a success but the patient died"

I sincerely hope she survives at least 5 years, and significantly more. If she gets only a single year of treatment -free high quality life outside of respite care, that would be a bitter pill outcome but might still be held a success. Sometimes giving people a year of quality life at end-of-life is a good outcome.

The article as written is light on for data and time info. She's had at least 3 post treatment checks one of which was 3 months, the other 2 not stated but 6monthly might not be unusual.

Recurrences in blood borne diseases are not unheard of. She had some signs of recurrence at 3 months but it went away. Maybe fragment traces? Non viable remainders flushing out of the marrow? (I don't know if this is even plausible. I'm not in medicine)

It's great news, but so was Christian Barnard's first transplant. In modern terms the survival wasn't very long. (200 days in the first 4)

A better outcome would be like Steptoe's work on assisted conception and birth. (IVF) and I certainly hope she and future patients have that.
Like hearing a track of a roaring beach being played through headphones.
The question I was actually raising was about the reliability of claims about a population that was explicitly excluded from the data.

Your implication of the heritability of childlessness is similarly troubling, but I imagine you might be thinking of large families where nearly all siblings are childless.
I'm active in the CTF crowd, and I think the general feeling is that you only want to burn your lower tier exploits at pwn2own. Usually these will be the exploits for things that are harder to sell to an exploit broker. You probably won't see many top tier vulnerabilities at pwn2own.

Zerodium is definitely a bit too well known to have actual market pricing for vulnerabilities, but their tier graphic is pretty accurate (https://zerodium.com/program.html). Notice how most of the things hacked at pwn2own are at the bottom of this graphic.

Selling to a exploit broker is pretty much always more profitable for higher tier exploits, and usually if you're in this industry and want to make bank you'll just work for a company like dfsec where you get bonuses for finding these kinds of exploits anyway.
Having a dog also helps. My dog is old and slow now but she gets me out of the house! It's extra motivation because if I don't walk her she will pee somewhere inside!!
Well, it has always been a "privilege" for a few.
> If you’re a medium to high earning male in NYC, there are so many women to choose from that are pining for commitment (I believe biology plays a factor here).

NYC is well known for having more women than men.
Yeah they suck at it. There are so many good queuing systems, and if you’re on any cloud there’s gunna be a cheap managed queue that is super reliable and near zero effort. If you get beyond trivial scale just use a managed queue.
They haven't gone to crap. I bought their basic laser b&w printer and it works without any of this nonsense.
Let me add another pair of goalposts here: Solar can be done without water
I'd like us all to try and reserve the accusation that someone is a bot until we really need it. I know this is probably pointless, like asking a fish not to swim, but if we water down this language (which is already happening & perhaps inevitable, I kinda think "bot" just means "person who expresses an opinion I don't like, that I've heard before, and feel is repetitive" in some circles - eg in this video [1] they say "bots can be people") we're going to have a harder time expressing ourselves when we need it.

I'm a language descriptivist, so I'm bound to accept whatever the language does, but darn, I do find this particular evolution frustrating.

[1] https://youtu.be/LEvfdBF19kQ
If you can find a route with long stretches that don't have a ton of intersections or cars buzzing you, it can. I've done a lot of both activities. Cycling burns a lot more calories, and you can get further away from home, but walking is generally more meditative.
I wasn’t laid off but when I left my last job it was during the pandemic. My employer made it super easy since the IT folks tracked everything. They simply sent me a FedEx slip, I took it to my local place, they put my laptop in a box, end of story. It couldn’t have been easier. (For those wondering I got a follow up saying thanks for returning the equipment)
The cycle I've seen for people 30yo+ in the SFBA is this...

1. Take a job and move, start by renting

2. At 5-10 years, start thinking about buying

3. By year 10, either determine you can purchase a home or not

If you can or cannot buy a home will determine your general quality of life. Partly due to owning a home but also because it signals how much wiggle room you have financially.

4. If you can't afford to buy a house then you end up frustrated because there's a life you see others living it and you can't. You end up moving back bitter.

5. If you can afford to buy a house then it's a sign that you could likely have a good life.

I warn folks coming to SFBA that if they don't see a path to a $400k yearly household income that they should plan to stay for <5 years before deciding to move.
How do you stay engaged when ‘easy money’ rolls in nicely, month after month after month? I am in a similar situ and sometimes it feels easy to lose focus and play all the time.
Well maybe it's time to switch to a OS that does what the user wants.
There is similar law in Ukraine for quite a long time. Everyone just ignore this law..

I bought flat for cash in USD not even in local currency. Car were bought in cash in severL transactions to be below limit. Part of payments were in foreing currency.

It only consumers who became affected. Less protection from law in case of fraud. By documents car price were 10 times less You pay.

Meanwhile this law has not prevent any corruption or apply any incovients to local barons.
^The pseudo-intellectualism that seeps through HN comments makes my eyes roll.

Here’s my take.

Stuff is expensive. Marriage is a lot of responsibility. It’s not 1950 anymore. Shit changes.
World Cup 2022: Global Audience and Preferences
They likely sell them instead, and make a lot more money than they would have at pwn2own.
Google dropped it from Android, but several phone manufacturers are putting it back in ever since.
Keep in mind the context of this thread. It's some shitty blog suggesting you do every fuck thing on postgres. Myself and the other guy are simply suggesting that running a single-node instance of redis is an infinitely better and simpler choice than implementing a cache or a job queue on a rdbms.

I don't feel designing for a guaranteed high-availability application was part of the discussion at all.
This blog explains some of the key innovations they added on top of GPT-3, especially the natural language understanding (following instructions).

https://openai.com/blog/instruction-following/

In the first few paragraphs they show GPT-3 as equally dumb like all other language models that came before it and why they built instructgpt.

>> Here is the summary (ChatGPT summarized)
They present their approach to the problem, which involves using a recurrent neural network to encode both the instruction and the environment, and then using a reinforcement learning algorithm to learn how to execute the instruction. They demonstrate that their method can learn to solve a variety of instruction following tasks.

Some snippets from the blog:

>> InstructGPT is then further fine-tuned on a dataset labeled by human labelers. The labelers comprise a team of about 40 contractors whom we hired through Upwork and ScaleAI.

>> We hired about 40 contractors, guided by their performance on a screening test meant to judge how well they could identify and respond to sensitive prompts, and their agreement rate with researchers on a labeling task with detailed instructions. We kept our team of contractors small because it's easier to have high-bandwidth communication with a smaller set of contractors who are doing the task full-time.
I already suspect my blog writings and standards work in IETF are, it wrote a pretty good CV covering letter/brief biography for me according to a relative (also a computer scientist) who tested it. He also noted it stuffed up his, claimed he'd written on work which was demonstrably untrue.

RFCs and associated mailing lists are pretty widely distributed and certainly RFCs aren't ring-fenced from GPT.

So if chatbot detectors are bad on people who are inputs to the ML can't that be added to the detector?
For what it’s worth, I think the article is pointing towards deep contemplative thoughts driven by some action like walking. As someone who’s had my ability to walk in jeopardy, I always thought a row machine or rope pull down machine could accomplish a similar result. The goal being, airing out your brain and moving blood. I don’t mean to marginalize your feelings, they’re valid, just trying to share some past thoughts.
Turns out coffee also makes semiconductors work faster too
Having goggles oauth doesn't preclude a secondary login method such as username/password.

They just didn't want to support it and found some reason to justify the removal, that's as much as you can get from the given facts
I really don’t agree. When I worked at Google, I filed a couple of bugs for memory leaks in the new gmail, and to my knowledge they still haven’t been addressed two years later, because there are a million dependencies and the thing is so complex no one can debug it, or even come up with a reliable repro.