skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not even a radical viewpoint, which is why the downvotes seem irrational. I have seen "normies" pontificating on how Windows XP was perfect for them and how they have seen no benefit going forward.

If I am being maximally charitable, the benefits that come afterwards are drivers, gaming-related (DirectX) or security-related (which is not a user-facing feature). All of them are nice, but not at the cost that the end user perceives; a slow, painful experience, with an OS that crashes randomly and has weird inconsistencies everywhere.

I have mostly stuck to Ubuntu for desktops (since 8.04) and MacOS for laptops (since Snow Leopard).

(Unrelated, I also notice the busy cursor, which is why I went back to Ubuntu once I was able to get a desktop)
I’ll believe it when headline reads “Billionaire Researchers”
"We're going to write security updates for this OS but we won't give them to you" is such psychopathic behavior.
Is that really true! Can LLaMA-65B output code as good quality as GPT 3.5 Turbo?

Are P40s only $200!

If your information is accurate that is incredible and great tip. I’ll start on building such a rig asap.
Corporations like Microsoft have successfully hammered this idea into people's heads that the evil hacker known as Anonymous will hack into your fridge and make it explode and burn your house down if you forget to update it for two weeks.

Almost nobody who makes a big deal out of this has ever actually been affected by it, they're just parroting what they're told.
I do still like the 95/98/XP paradigm best in terms of, start button, non-grouped buttons for the different windows, and some quick launch icons. luckily because I run linux I can have my pick of the litter, cinnamon, MATE, even KDE with some heavy configuring will do it. I wonder what the author didn't like about linux, seems like it's perfect for someone who's stuck in the past like me, if it's not a software compat problem (which from the sound of the article it isn't)
That's such a bizarre way to structure a law. Skill or not, the distinguishing feature of gambling is negative sum activity.
What the author doesn't explain, but I find myself wondering, is how did this go unnoticed for so long? What conditions expose it? Obviously it's easy enough to trigger in QEMU, but is real hardware in that condition so rare?

I feel like I missed a bit of context for what launched this whole adventure. The adventure itself was interesting, though!
And here I had no idea there was a separate app for Spotify live. Splitting functionality out like that seems like the feature would’ve died from day one
This is not exactly new, see this paper from 2016, for example: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms12808
Unless you solve the need to eat food and drink water I think the better solution is to stop ruining our biosphere instead of building new humans.
>There is an international, widely-recognized standard alphabet for precisely specifying the pronunciation of things in arbitrary languages

So...why don't we spell all languages with that alphabet? Think of the increase in efficiency!

My doctor has signs and other notices that you should arrive 15 minutes before your appointment. I asked "why don't you just make all the appointments 15 minutes earlier?"
It is unproven whether genetic “improvements” to intelligence or other traits would make a society like China’s more robust. Conversely there are very few countries with average incomes above $15k per annum that are able to survive as dictatorships, this is often attributed to education levels increasing with wealth. That could indicate that increasing intelligence would make China less stable.
Wingman does not stay turned off for me, as op mentioned in his edit.
Well yeah, you still gotta play to win and put the odds on your side. You may never make it but it won't be because you didn't have what it takes.
I must admit I come to HN for the comments 80% of the time. Especially given the fact that most articles are now paywalled.

I let the title serve as a prompt for discussion and short-form essays. Or I find an interesting thread to jump into.

Sometimes a comment will make me dive into the article, or if the headline is sufficiently interesting, I'll start off with it. The headline in this case sounded like a bit of a platitude.

This makes me reflect on just how messy my approach to information gathering and synthesis is. A bit everything, everywhere, all at once.
It doesn't seem like there is much to say on this topic. Wealth accumulation is the outcome of many dice rolls, some that are weighted in ways that are within your control and some that are weighted in ways outside your control. The most you can do is to roll as many dice as you can and, to the best of your ability, choose those that are already optimally weighted.
The asker thought they were. They were not. The internet is big and human memories are not.

As an aside, I’m really starting to hate these threads on here, people are constantly reading words that aren’t there in search of gotcha-it’s-skynet. It’s not. It’s just pattern matching and randomness with a giant amount of information encoded.
My gripe is that YouTube constantly shows me the same videos I didn't click on. A clue: if you've shown me this thing 3x and I never clicked on it I am not interested!

I agree: it makes it seem like there are a couple hundred videos on YouTube, and they keep trying to shove the same ones down my throat.
The title implies that "if you're smart, it's up to luck whether you end up rich", yet the opening of the article states that what the article is actually about is whether "the most successful people (the richest of the rich) were actually smart or just lucky".

These are two very different things, completely different topics. Whether the richest dozens of people in the world deserve to be / are smart is a very different question than whether it's just pure luck whether a given smart person ends up rich.
>> Oceanbird is awesome! The trouble is that overhauling the entire industry with new-built ships would take too long to make a meaningful climate impact, and be extremely expensive (not to mention that their approach only works for ro-ros).

Shipping is responsible for like 2% of emissions. A 5-10-20% reduction on a small number of vessels for a small number of voyages is not gonna make a dent.
> 10 was gold, 11 is trash

If you think 10 is "gold" and 11 is "trash" I assume you're suffering from some sort of stockholm syndrome from using 10 too long and haven't actually tried 11 yet because it's just a reskinned 10 (and visually, it looks a lot better).
It's important to note that this wasn't a waiver, this was multiple settlement agreements. Apple Corps sued Apple Computer at least four times:

- First in 1978, for merely being called Apple. They settled with an agreement to not enter into each other's businesses.

- Second, in 1986. Apple Computer put sound chips and MIDI ports into the Apple IIGS. Apple Corps sues claiming violation of the settlement agreement, because apparently just being able to play music makes it a trademark violation now.

- Third, in 1991. Apple Corps buys a new Macintosh and notices one of the system sounds is called Sosumi[0]. So they do. The settlement agreement now basically just prohibits Apple Computer from selling physical music.

- Fourth, in 2003. Apple Computer opens a digital music store. Apple Corps sues despite the settlement agreement clearly stating they only have rights to sell physical music with the Apple branding. They lose.

[0] Pronounced "So Sue Me"
All the basketball players I can name are very wealthy.
It used to be that you paid $ for the top process, or you could reuse your investment by paying $$ for the previous one. Anything older was cost prohibitive.

This was the real meaning of Moore's Law.

But yeah, it stopped some 5 or 6 generations ago.
That's a huge burn. 2000 is far above "total novice"
I no longer use windows, but I just came to say Windows 8 is the best windows.
You don't really need to keep things too quiet if everyone understands they will be jailed or disappeared (or worse, their family forever will have negative social credit) for dissent. It's not as if Tiananmen happened in some faraway village with few witnesses.

If everyone knows about something but no one would admit it, does it matter that everyone knows it? The knowledge will go away in a generation. As a dictator it surely is magical.
Do you want to re-check if that setting has been retained? It sounds like there may be a re-sync but with the carrier.
In my mind one of the biggest no-brainers. The upsides are almost unlimited, the downsides seem much smaller than in almost any other controversial field of research. Unlike viral research or weapons research it's not like some half tardigrade-human randomly is going to run out of the lab. We're talking abou the ethics of what, cells in a petri dish?

Radiation resistance, ability to survive better in space, probably a good shot to eliminate a lot of diseases, maybe fewer usage of resources, better cognitive function (in an age where people are afraid of machines outpacing us), solving fertility issues that seem to get more urgent. Compared to a lot of other questionable research these are tangible issues.
They wouldn't be researchers now would they.
Process is pretty overloaded. In this case I think they mean manual process (or perhaps a process with many wait states due to manual, human tasks).
Isn't this the reason why Game Freak and Nintendo went with the abbreviation internationally? But they got sued anyway?
The entire argument of the Chinese Room stuff related to LLM falls apart really easy.

If you show a 2 years old kid, an apple and you say "This is an apple", now the kid knows the thing - the apple - is an apple in his world model. Automatically inherits LOTs of properties, you can ask the kid and see in real time how he began inmediately to associate the physical object - now named in its internal language model - to some other similar stuff he alredy knows, like "This is plant?", "It falls from a tree like an orange", "It has some skin like an orange", "can you cook apples like you cook bananas?", an so on.

But this requires a physical representation of the apple, now kids intelligence has some edge here, it can do the same thing just with words, you can teach them words, "apple", and say them "it's a fruit", if they have another fruit already "tagged", like a banana, they will say you almost inmediately, "is it tasty like bananas" ("tasty" is code for sweet in child's language models around the planet).

Hence, the LLM could have an emergent property of actually knowing what every word the "say" mean, if - like many have been inferring lastly - they also have a world model, it would relatively easy to just "plug", let's say 10 million of words to their exact meaning, and even to their relative meaning depending on the context they're being used.

And that's precisely what we may be seeing right now when we prompt something to chatGPT, and all the mathematic stuff, like "predicting the next word" is just some really, really low level process inside the LLM, not much different than the electric stuff - watchable by EEG - happening between neurons in the brain.

So if you look at the "EEG" from a LLM, the prediction thing happening inside the LLM, it won't probably tell you much, just like having a casual look to an EEG won't tell you much about what the person was thinking at the time of the capture of the EEG.
$1k a week goes a long way here.
TFW sheep backed securities crash your entire economy.
I would say that the main difference is that most modern social media apps use adaptive learning algorithms to curate an intentionally addictive feed. Traditional TV is not personally adaptive and video games with lootboxes have a comparable dopamine impact and have been seeing (justifiable) regulation.
> assuming your can handle the deaths, ignoring ethics will let you move faster than competitors.

An aside, completely ignoring humans in this story for one minute, that's evolution leaning into a fitness gradient.

We often forget that because of our plastic bubbles and lattes. No big cats with huge claws to run from. But nature guided this process in us for a long time.

"Nature is metal"
“Why should I buy something I can build?”
> However, they also experience unlucky events that reduce their wealth. These events occur at random.

Seems like an obvious flaw in the study.
The only motivation GS has for announcing something is to drum up counterparties to bet against.
That turned into a sizable pension fraud scandal in Japan.[1][2]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/world/asia/15japan.html

[2] https://www.economist.com/banyan/2010/08/06/the-case-of-the-...
I'm seeing this behavior on 16.3 as well.
It gets more sickening every day. I own every Apple device there is. But there has never been a company more anti-Steve-Jobs-vision than Apple.

The seamless experience has turned into a my fight against Apple's hatred of their customer.
The failure rate for smart people who don't try and don't take risks is 100%.
So the good (?) news is this seems to be carrier dependent. In my case 5 of 9 carrier-managed networks will revert to auto join while with some carriers zero will.
> How are you worse off?

Everyone in my middle school used social media to know when to submit assignments, class schedules etc. Without social media you're going to be left out.
To me the problem is transmitting the force generated by the sails to the body of the vessel

A small to medium vessel fully loaded is like 150.000 tons. 10% of that is 15000 tons, imagine the force that needs to be transferred to the structure of the ship in a place where it was not designed to handle that force.
Lossless Image Compression in O(n) Time (2021)
It seems you need at least: 1. A PowerPC machine (with IOMMU, so I guess it can't be too old). 2. A PCI VGA card. (Emulated, it seems.) 3. IBM VIO bus support compiled in. 4. A KASAN kernel booted to get told about the issue so clearly, otherwise the failure may be much more subtle.

So, yeah, that's quite the confluence of things... Do PowerPC folks usually run their VMs with VGA emulation for example?

EDIT: Actually never mind, I think that just having PCI bus support and VGA arbitration support compiled in may be sufficient, instead of actually having a VGA card (real or not)?
Yeah, that doesn't match their spec. Unless your home network goes down momentarily and the iPhone immediately switches to the other wi-fi network. You could maybe check the iPhone logs (or the router logs!) to see if this happens, but this is going to be a pain to figure out what is happening and when.
Unpredictable black boxes are terrible interfaces
I’ve tested this on iPhone 14 Pro Max, 13 Pro Max, and 12 Pro Max. Using iOS 16.4 and 16.5 beta, I’m unable to replicate this.

AT&T 54.0.1

Managed Networks: AT&T Wi-Fi Passpoint, attwifi

Verizon 54.0.1

Managed Networks: PrivateMobileWifi, VerizonWifi, VerizonWifiAccess

T-Mobile 54.1.0

Managed Networks: t-mobile

———

I’ve tested the following scenarios

- confirm auto-join disabled, wait 10min, recheck and still disabled.

— confirm auto-join disabled, reboot, recheck and still disabled.

- confirm auto-join disabled, enable airplane mode, recheck and still disabled.

- confirm auto-join disabled, disable wifi, re-enable wifi, recheck and confirm still not auto-join enabled.

- confirm auto-join disabled, switch cellular data to alternate esim, switch back, confirm still not auto-join enabled.

At this point I feel there must be something different about your setup that’s non-standard in some way.

It’s slimey as hell that they get added automatically, but still very much possible to disable at least it seems.

Edit:
“Wingman” and related variations never appear on either of my T-mobile devices.
>Actively car-hostile urban planning is the dream

Hopelessly impractical. Cargo delivery (to/from warehouse and stores), disabled or otherwise mobility impaired persons, etc. all need road vehicle access, and retrofitting a city to be bike-only would be astoundingly expensive and disruptive.

IMO it would be better for a city to be built from the start with passenger/bike and tram/light rail as a direct replacement for road vehicles (including cargo tram lines that share infrastructure with passenger trams but branch out into clusters of buildings, or run every other block, such that endpoint delivery is not overly difficult).
> Purchasing a bot kit with the fingerprint, cookies and accesses, you become the unique user of all his or her services and other web-sites.

Are these bots using the cookies stored locally by the browsers that the compromised systems user is using?
Cats belong outside where possible. And birds have predators, it's just nature.
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Do you have a privacy policy?
Good thing your ZIP code is not some innate genetic quality then. It's luck where you're born, but not where you move.
Video games nowadays are just as bad.

Children don't really watch TV (anecdotally). They watch YouTube, which is just as bad.

The key difference between television and video games of yore is the feedback loop. TV and video games were one shot deployed and then ratings were gathered after, averaging across the entire audience.

Now YT and video games don't have end states - same thing as social media. While you often won't have individual-centric recommendation algorithms in a video game, you have dark patterns and gambling mechanics in all the most popular games which is just as bad.

The argument really isn't that we need to ban children from social media, we need to guard their dopaminergic regulation the way we guard their physical and mental health... oh wait.

Ultimately its the responsibility of the parent (at least in the US). Parents who are aware of the pitfalls of high-dopamine-low-effort activities, poor diet, and low physical activity are going to guard against these things. The ones who don't will likely suffer later in life.
The author said that their experiences with Linux was slow (Debian and Lubuntu were examples) and had no intention of using Linux because of these experiences.

Personally, I don't know what they're talking about, but I've always had a smoother/faster (albeit a bit clunky/glitchy sometimes) with Linux than Windows. Even when I dual booted Win7 and Ubuntu, Linux was always faster. Currently, I'm using XFCE w/ Arch on a 6 year old laptop. Programs open very fast, I get regular sw updates, and I've been running it for work for four years.
He is smart.
Ok, I'll amend my statement to mention an even more dangerous and increasingly pervasive attitude: the government should parent your kids, so I can parent my kids!
> The only thing keeping many of these folks around is the political clout of their managers and department heads.

People love saying that, but why wouldn't an exec take a multi-$million bonus to cut that dead weight? Or Private equity buy it out to gut it and resell it?
That's the thing, isn't it? The people who want this will only use a 100% product, not a 50% one, so there's no way to bootstrap to it.
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People have an intense fear of this sort of thing. It is very deeply wired into our brains to worry about threats from people who are alien to us, and who are also potentially stronger. So if you’re going to make an army of super-human soldiers (or even just citizens) you’d better be sure their performance is so much better that it’s worth alienating every other person on Earth. Given that warfare seems to be moving in the direction of autonomous machines, it’s a little bit difficult to imagine that anybody is going to get a lot of benefit out of this sort of thing, but who knows.
tinfoil hat but frys used to seem to fuck with competitor websites on their in building wifi. amazon would never work. At last 2 times I had to go outside to get cell coverage and then pull up the amazon price to show them to get a price match. nothing really stopping home depot or whomever from shoving a pi-hole in front of competitor sites either.
"My gift to industry is the genetically engineered worker, or Genejack. Specially designed for labor, the Genejack's muscles and nerves are ideal for his task, and the cerebral cortex has been atrophied so that he can desire nothing except to perform his duties. Tyranny, you say? How can you tyrannize someone who cannot feel pain?"

- Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang (SMAC)
Rekeying the lock is the main issue. It costs money and then you need to redistribute keys to anyone who has one (other family members, nanny, cleaner, etc.)
I am coming to the conclusion that my opinion on this subject is unpopular.

I don't think it's a desirable thing for the government to regulate what type of software or speech happens on the internet, or runs on private silicon. Additionally, I don't like when the government takes on traditionally parental roles. Why are we all cheering on Washington to regulate the internet?
Sheesh, a linux phone can't come fast enough.
Previously:

> Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999

https://web.archive.org/web/20181221180137/https://twitter.c...

> This warning is prompted by a company called Brave, who've been taking cryptocurrency donations "for me", using my name and photo, without my consent. I asked them not to, and to refund anyone who's donated; they said "we'll see what we can do" and that "refunds are impossible".

> I did ask Brave how keeping profiles on untold numbers of people and assigning donations to them without consent complied with GDPR, at which point the person talking to me stopped replying to emails.
Yeah, that's probably a bug.

If this happens often enough to annoy you, you could file this bug with Apple by typing "applefeedback:///" into Safari. It could take some guesswork to figure out what component to file this against.
> the AGIs are in charge already.

Assuming AGI with a quantum component added in, this type of experiment could be run digitally exposing all of the possible variables.

Brave new world indeed...
morally you cant but actually you can, go to a few thift shops, get enough routers to cover all channels, create many screaming imposter networks portal eachone to something not pretty, soon[day or 2] you will see the original network gone.

beware of FCC.