skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Windows 7 was genuinely good. It was stable, it just worked, it shipped with Powershell, and I could launch anything with very few keystrokes.

The downsides I will acknowledge are the modal dialogues (which are worse on macos) and the fact that many system tasks require diving into the win32 api, although I've at least always found that to be well documented.

At the time of 7, Linux desktop options were not great

Windows went downhill from 7. Although I still prefer it over macos.

I have high hopes for Asahi, which I'm hoping will save my despicable work macbook
That's the perils of using a proprietary service beholden to the law of the US. Ideally you would want redundant services in different jurisdictions to circumvent takedown requests like this. It is crucial to have control of your infrastructure, even if it may be mirrored elsewhere.
yes, the idea is to do these tasks using a variety of languages, not just Python. With this LZW task, for example, she has already created a compression and decompression in Python and is now working on doing it in C so that it can take a file compressed by a python script and decompress it back with C program.

Regarding Racket, it looks interesting. While I never did anything like it myself back in the day, it looks like it'll be an interesting task for my daughter further down the road.
Something akin to: Here is a niche mathematical problem that does not fit any existing solutions/publications, we need a working but not necessarily optimal solution to do this. ?
Anyone know if JSON-LD is being used more in very recent years for AI? Saw a couple of comments elsewhere that many large companies are using it now. If so, how is is (and any knowledge graph / linked data) used in these situations?
I'm affiliated with Qdrant and was quite surprised to see us listed in your comparisons with some false statements. If you claim to be the only database with billion-scale vector support, it would be great to make your benchmarks public, as we did: https://qdrant.tech/benchmarks/

Btw, Milvus is described in your comparisons as "a fully open source and independent project", while Weaviate and Qdrant, in contrary, are "maintained by a single commercial company offering a cloud version". Why then the suggested way in the Milvus Quick Start on github is to use Zilliz Cloud?
Like all the other commenters have said you're not really asking for an "estimate". A fixed cost project does NOT have estimates. Estimate occur when you do time and materials i.e. you get charged per hour and it can always get extended.

There's competition and you roughly know where the bid will land (assuming you're already experienced) and likely talking to each other. Instead of giving a real estimate anyone knows you pad any real estimate 3x and then drag it out if you're under time.

I once tried to give a real estimate, finish it under time and got told for it because then we can't bill the client (time based).

Again, no it's not an estimate. It's called I have $x and y time and want to do <z>, how many corners can I cut whilst the client won't notice?
3.5 was the gpt-3 pretrained model plus instruction tuning and rlhf
> Plus the random assortment of windows programs for which there could be a Linux equivalent but you really need that one that only works on Windows for some reason.

This!

What keeps me working on Windows (besides the fact that I somehow have completely missed the in-OS ads) is the time it would take me to replace all the random little quality of life apps that I've gotten used to. I'm sure there's a great Linux clipboard manager that does everything Ditto does on Windows but I don't have to go and find it, get used to it, figure out all the quirks (and the things it lacks that Ditto provides, and all the things that it provides that Ditto lacks, etc, etc).
I have the same in Chrome on my Android phone.

Click on open a new tab and tabloid news are shown below the shortcuts of often used domains / links. Same when swiping left on the start screen (don't know what that screen does as I never used it due to the SHOCKING content..)

There cannot be any good in this and it should stop. I see this as a notch to getting people accept more cookies etc so Google can present more relevant content (it's not like I browse any gossip page besides HN). But somehow I doubt that better content will be shown in those ad spaces if I allow for more cookies.
Encryption key rotation is crucial for maintaining the security and privacy of our customer's data. To efficiently protect this sensitive data, we have to periodically rotate the data encryption key. Manually rotating these keys requires more effort, and there is always the potential for human error. This post will show you how to automate encryption key rotation process to ensure your data is always protected.
Windows 10 LTSC for the win
Windows + WSL works pretty well. I have all kinds of distros installed using Lxrunoffline, e.g. Debian Bullseye, Ubuntu etc. and WSL1 + WSL2 in parallel. I also start most of my Windows programs through WSL these days.
Games were the main reason I came back to Windows after trying Ubuntu with Wine over 15 years ago, then quickly switched to Mac, and when I was unhappy with Apples direction, Windows the unfortunate but obvious place to come back to. Should have gone to Linux instead.

I still need to check whether all my favourite games are supported on Linux. Also, a lot of my games are from GOG rather than Steam. And I need to choose a good distribution. My laziness and indecisiveness is holding me back.

But I really think the time is right for something better. An OS on a Linux-like foundation, with an Apple-style UI (but better, because plenty of stuff there still doesn't make sense), capable of running all games. Probably developed and polished by a big hardware manufacturer trying to eat Apple's lunch. There's System76 of course, but they're small. I want something that's for everybody. A new standard to draw everybody away from the increasing piles of crap from Apple and Microsoft.
How X-planes may solve the sonic boom problem
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The old alphabetical copy that gets interrupted when the storage medium is full?
How can you possibly be this naive?

In reality it's always Michel's Iron law of Oligarchy. It doesn't matter what political system you think you have. In the end what you have is always an oligarchy.
If you ask it about orbital mechanics, it will answer correctly. If you provide it a problem that does not use language associated with orbital mechanics, it will answer without consideration of orbital mechanics. This strongly suggests it is not understanding either the question, or orbital mechanics.

All evidence I've seen is consistent with it understanding neither the question nor its background. If the text seems to invoke orbital mechanics, it will output discussion-of-orbital-mechanics-y text – and if it doesn't, it won't. This is what you would predict from studying the model's architecture, and it's what is observed. (Many people have a different perception, but most of the time I see people raving about how intelligent the system is, they post screenshots, where you can see them feeding it what they're praising a few lines earlier.)

I have yet to see anything that falsifies my "GPT models don't understand anything" hypothesis. (Nothing that stood up to scrutiny, either… I've tricked myself with it a few times.)

> Am I correct that you assert it that it's incapable of understanding in your sense?

I'm not saying it's incapable of understanding. Just that it doesn't understand: I'm neither knowledgeable nor arrogant enough to assert that it could never. I don't think it's likely, though, and I can't imagine a way it could gain that ability from the training process.
When I use Windows I'm always annoyed by the lack of advanced WM features: focus-follow-mouse, windows always on top, etc. But the thing I miss the most is the transparent copy on select and paste on mid-button. I always have to end up doing it twice.
Sure, it defines holding broadly, but the act doesn't allow actions on mere holdings, only on “Covered holdings”, which are “Controlling holdings" in firms in the domain covered.

On the other hand, it isn't restricted to actual holdings, since it expressly encompasses not only indirect controlling holdings, but also potential future direct or indirect controlling holdings as a basis for unlimited mitigation measures, so in that sense its even broader than you paint it.
> The Zig documentation states that "Identifiers are never allowed to "hide" other identifiers by using the same name."

I see this desire to get rid of shadowing all the time, but in practice it's such a disruptive restriction.
This is insane indeed, on my work laptop I'm forced into Windows, what a mess! (Oh the glory of my clean KDE 5.27 on EndeavorOS at home, what a contrast, such beauty, such wobbly windows, such snappy tiling.)

At some point I saw something about the Kardashians from my taskbar! Wtf, I though that with all this analytics Windows would at least show me something about Cardasians.

I mean MS365 is nice, VSCode is nice, GitHub is nice... I gladly pay for all of it (not VSCode atm of course). But I really prefer them all from my clean KDE (or sometimes Gnome) environment. It's like Windows is the cheap part of the ecosystem, if you want to go full premium you replace that part of the chain with something else.
A win 11 pro license isn't 200$.

A non-OEM Windows pro license bought from a legit reseller is actually quite a bit more than $200, at least here in Europe.
You won't be able to do that. Spam filtering exists and mostly isn't based on message contents looking real or not.
I've unrecoverably bricked a couple of android phones through not having the precisely correct model variant for the instructions I was following, or for the specific ROM I was installing. Sucks, but I generally don't faff with a device that's worth more than throw-away.

The risk is worth it for the life that LineageOS really breathes into an older device.
If there are strict deadlines it's not an estimate.

Understanding that a deadline is not an estimate is something that a competent manager (or owner) should be able to do.
Found the data, from Swiss National Bank itself. Switzerland's banking assets are 520% of national GDP, compared to US's about 120% GDP. <https://www.snb.ch/en/mmr/reference/stabrep_2022/source/stab...>
If people can automatically distill what motivates you, they can produce automated lies.

The best deception is one where the victim is self-motivated to believe it.
GitHub Exposed a Private SSH Key: What You Need to Know
I already said I use Linux at work, I know exactly what I'm talking about.
If they already have one, most are compatible with various kinds of barcode. But perhaps there is an integration problem there. The QR approach I described is how it's usually done here in Asia, and it works well. (I've never had a swapped order, nor heard of it being an issue. Volume is likely considerably higher, too.)
How would you be subject to a bank run as an individual? Do you hold deposits for others that they can withdraw at any moment?
From authors website: "I graduated high school in May of 2022..". Elsewhere, he writes he placed first at a university level drone programming challenge at IIT-Bombay Techfest. Very impressive.
I don't remember where but I've seen text injection in prompt.
Like, if you hide text within a webpage and then GPT adds it.

Something like `Some text blabla.<span style="display: none;">Hidden text</span>`
And when asked for something specific, GPT would output the hidden text.

So you could push code onto github with an exploit along to common usecases.

EDIT: found it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35224666 Anti-recruiter prompt injection attack in LinkedIn profile (twitter.com/brdskggs)
MX records don't fit into the "only for name resolution" mantra either but no one has advocated that we stop using those have they? That also ignores all of the other record types that aren't just for name resolution too.
Arrays vs slices seem to be pretty much the same as in Go, and the notation is completely straightforward: "ARRAY 100 OF INTEGER", except instead of "ARRAY" and "OF", the "[" and "]" are used — type constructor goes first, before its arguments, as it should be.

As for pointer types, they look reasonable but can't say much more.
Stress as a concept was only invented ~100 years ago.

I do wonder if perhaps it wasn't our environment that suddenly became stressful (all your family at risk of dying of the plague has to be more stressful than missing a deadline set by your boss).

Perhaps vulnerability to stress is caused by some other, as yet unidentified factor that suddenly became big around 1900?
The Uniquely American Future of US Authoritarianism
I haven't even given it a deep read, so I unfortunately can't help shed any light. From my quick read, it didn't seem to me that laying out a digestible or rigorous philosophical perspective was really the point here. It seemed more directly biology inspired than philosophy.

I also don't seek to valorize Lecun. But he was a very early figure working on these technologies and from the beginning there was a neuroscience-inspired impetus to machine learning.

My point was sort of the opposite: that assuming Lecun doesn't clear the bar of having "exposure to the prior work on philosophy of mind and philosophy of language" seems like a weak bet.

edit: For clarity, I'm making the assumption that lifelong AI researchers who put time into learning from neuroscience... would also gravitate towards and seek to learn from the nearest relevant branches of philosophy.
Officially it is: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/windows-11-pro/dg7gmgf0d8h...
There was no gate-keeping. Yann LeCun was doing neural networks in the late 80s.
https://archive.is/HCpO1
That's very interesting, thank you for linking!
I would play most any game that isn’t in app purchase multiple-premium-currency trash. I have multiple consoles and macs, so most things are covered.

Games explicitly banned:
Roblox, for ads and IAP

Minecraft, because the second time I had to reinstall it on a ps5 to fix a corrupted installation was too much.

Any game by gameloft, etc. If it has a purchase price it’s probably fine. I also don’t let my young kids watch game of thrones.
A different article from 2022 claims that following work found a different mechanism.
"""However, last year another team of Japanese scientists called this "vitrification" hypothesis into question, citing experimental data suggesting that the 2017 findings could be attributed to water retention of the proteins. This latest study supports that counter-hypothesis. "Our data suggest a novel desiccation tolerance mechanism based on filament/gel formation," the authors of the new study wrote."""

Article: https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/09/scientists-glean-new...
As a long-time Linux user, I have to wonder how much better my life would be if I had access to all of these. My naive guess is about 0%.
Don't you think it is a strange default that users (even people that pay for the enterprise version) are bombarded with the worst of the worst clickbait that takes up 1/3 of your screen if you mousover a certain part of the screen?
It's far from feature-complete. If Excel Online is good enough for you, the faster, more stable LibreOffice Calc is good enough for you.

People use Microsoft Excel for the stuff that just nothing else does.
Then we have different priorities, if I spend a lot of money on a gaming machine beefy GPU I want 100% of its performance at all times and no risk of problems cutting into my limited gaming time. If there is a problem on Windows you can be sure the game devs will give it a priority over a problem on Linux.

Been a Linux user for over 20 years, still use it for work, and yes Proton does look great, but I don't see using it for gaming anytime soon.
Not the same but analogous to Betteridge's law of headlines[0]:

"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
I just want to be able to pay once and not get annoyed by any crappy news or adds.

I am super annoyed about my Sony Android TV which for weeks shows me a huge "Audi" add that fills half the home screen. I am not going to buy that car ffs!
I may be missing something as I don't claim to be as smart as LeCun, but to me that probabilistic argument is not even wrong.

The "probability e that a produced token takes us outside of the set of correct answers" is likely to vary so wildly due to a plethora of factors like filler words vs. keywords, hard vs. easy parts of the question, previous tokens generated (I know abuse of statistical independence assumptions is common and often tolerated, but here it's doing a lot of heavy lifting), parts of the answer that you can express in many ways vs. concrete parts that you must get exactly right, etc. that I don't think simplifying it as he does makes any sense.

Yes, I know, abstraction is useful, models are always simplifications, that probability doesn't need to be even close to a constant for the gist of the argument to stand. But everything can be bad in excess and in this case, the simplification is extreme. One can very easily imagine a long answer where the bulk of that probability is concentrated into a single word, while the rest have near-zero probability. Under such circumstances, I don't think his model is meaningful at all.

Connecting with your comment, if someone made that kind of claim about humans, I suppose most people would find it ridiculous (or at the very least, meaningless/irrelevant). With LLMs we find it more palatable, because we are primed to think about LLMs in terms of "probability of generating the next token". But I don't think it really makes much more sense for LLMs than for humans, as the problems with the argument are more in how language works than in how the words are generated.
Innovative High Performance Raid for Media and Entertainment Workloads
>My own hot take is that Physics is stuck on a theory of everything for the last 100 years, because we are stuck on some fundamental limitations what Math is able to model.

Your previous assumption reads more like math being able to model it, but scientists preferring elegant, aesthetic and simplistic solutions.

Looking at my PhD physics neighbor in student housing a few years back, it doesn't seem true though. He was juggling multi-page equations for his quantum field theory thesis.

In control engineering it's more true though. I remember one of my professors say that many people only use linear controls because there they can "prove" the stability of the system. In contrast to the nonlinear, i.e. everything else, control theory where such proofs were harder to get by.

However, he continued, proving the stability of a linear controller interacting with a linearized system could never "prove" the system's stability as a whole.
You can even install PowerShell for your command line and you'll feel right at home!
I disagree. I don't think full access to messages is always necessary, but it can be in some circumstances and it should be up to the parent to decide how responsible their child is online and grant privacy accordingly.

A 16 year old is still going through tons of life changing events. Everyone needs help charting a course through life, especially at that age. Who better than a loving parent to guide them?

Parents should be aware of what their kids are doing online. More and more of "life" is online. More and more harm is impacting kids online. A parent whos entirely unaware of what their child is doing online is simply failing to be a parent.
Since the vast majority of American car buyers finance them, a lot of them get channeled by salespeople to think in terms of the monthly payment instead of negotiating on the full price. Also, a lot of people go car-shopping when they think they need a new car right away - current one has an expensive problem or just got wrecked, and can’t step back a bit by deciding to spend a few hundred more on Ubers or a rental for a week or two (this is where even somewhat inconvenient public transit can make a huge difference).

And since enough of them have $40k+ SUVs and “crossovers”, those become the norm for middle class families who really would have been just fine with small station wagons (if those were actually available in the US market)

The best way to escape this cycle is to only buy the car you can pay for up front (even if you then take a loan because the interest rate appears to be in your favor). Do this enough times, and you’ll be ok with plonking down the cash for a $15-20k carefully-researched, moderately-used vehicle with a warranty, but be horrified by the very thought of that $600+ 5-7 year loan so many of your colleagues accept as normal.
The very last paragraph sums it up pretty nicely imo:

> You'll have to be more creative when coming up with variables that don't shadow existing ones (which, for me, generally means using more obscure names).

The last adjective I want used in relation to my variable names is “obscure.”
If you end up Manjaro do yourself a favor and change into the unstable branch. Their model of updates in the stable branch sometimes breaks stuff
This will never end. Just move to Linux. Wine (and proton) are very good these days. For everything else there’s Virtual Box.
Profit sharing or dividends - the concept that SV companies hate!
In case you don't know the site: ProtonDB offers crowd sourced reports on how well games run with Proton/Wine. With some playing around, you can run GoG games using Proton.
I'm guessing the OP means Emacs' eww browser.

https://i.imgur.com/DnOYcqx.png

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eww_(web_browser)
Absolutely, I think it's bizarre. But I find that many users actually seem to like it. The apple news app seems pretty tabloidy too (although not as bad) so I'm cautious about projecting my taste onto others.
> Legislation is usually too little and too late, heavy-handed, and hard to change.

Often EU regulations, especially tech-related ones (e.g. the USB C one) come with baked in provisions for how it will be updated to stay relevant in the future.

The upcoming DMA and DSA will hopefully enable a lot more interoperability and interchangeable software and standards.

Microsoft's Windows bullshit (the EU already established they can't force you to use their browser, why are they allowed to do it once again) will need a heavy slap down too.

> Many people in tech, and especially americans, sneer at the thought of regulation, but I don't see any other way to un-fuck the most popular personal computer OS in the market.

The only people who sneer generically at regulation are people who either misunderstanding or are just oblivious to how much their lives are shaped (in probably 90% of the cases, even in the US), for the better by existing regulations. One can argue on the merits of a specific proposal or law, but otherwise it's just absurdity like a house cat.
I experimented with Bing to create a cover for my novel. I prompted it to create:

"a child voodoo priest"

And got a lot of interesting results:

https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIG.0R0NBSEhAJk__g2djOhW

https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIG.XoAiY81ifmW_SjeHLQMm

But then I said that the voodoo priest should be "female" and got told that it went against the content policy. I tried "woman", "girl", "lady". But all went against the content policy.

And when I tried to say that the voodoo priest should be "scary" instead, I got my account suspended.
You need[0] a slow migration. Like any major change really.

Get a cheap small box that can run Linux and slowly start to build the tool familiarity alongside your defaults.

That's pretty much how I did it. Went back to Windows less and less until it was only ever for Windows-only android flashing tools (which is about once every 6 months). Still annoys me how much space Windows takes up to dual-boot just for this use-case. Bloated PoS.

[0]: If you're going to do it. I'm not saying you need to do it, I'm not that guy.