skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still use XP 90% of the time when I just need a quick VM to run some odd Windows utility or other. It's lightweight, it's not filled with the intrusive privacy issues of 10 or 11, and a surprising amount of software is still compatible.
Researchers say they can predict weekly stock performance from news reports
95 was trash, 98 was gold. XP was great, Vista was trash. 7 was great, 8 was trash. 10 was gold, 11 is trash.

Seems Microsoft has to squeeze in at least one bad version between good ones.

But never has a new Windows version been made available where people didn't initially hate them at first, XP, 7, and 10 included. It's not until the version after gets released when people really start appreciating what once was.
If it weren't for headsets there probably wouldn't even be a jack on the front since most mini PCs are based on laptop hardware and not many run a separate analog jack to PC speakers these days to make it worthwhile.
Yeah, and it's not even in the correct proportions. It's like it was created with Word Art. Ugh.
Those safety nets are not enough to live on for a family.

Are we really worried about elderly revolting?
The way I read this was: anybody with a phone with support for the same 4g/5g frequencies that One operate one.

Frequencies have always been an issue with choosing a phone. I remember Telstra (Australia) rolled out a great 3g network (branded NextG) you needed a phone that supported 850mhz 3g. Early on, there were only a small set of phones that worked on this range.

I suspect (guess) that the same will be for this satellite 4G service.
We absolutely do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Canadian_Mounted_Police
Yeah, these kinds of tools aren't cheap. I know really high end stuff can be > $100,000 per seat per year
Textbook Recommendations for Mesh Networking
I would like to build an application that communicates in a peer-to-peer fashion. I would like an overview of peer-to-peer, mesh and decentralized network algorithms/protocols so I can make an informed choice. As well as some hands-on instruction for building a simple network from the bottom up. I'd imagine this to be the counterpoint of "write-your-own server" tutorials that many languages feature. I also have no idea how to solve the unique-identifier registration problem. I only have a vague idea of how BitTorrent/kademlia works, and I could not make heads or tails of the purpose of cjdns from reading their white paper (can't find the original pdf anymore). I've always felt mesh networking to be like black magic and am looking for a book for enlightenment.
I'm not sure this is the answer you're looking for. But when I was 20 I started a business. At the time I had about $10k in the bank which I quickly depleted while not earning a salary. For 10 years I put all my effort into it, ignored the stock market, and re-invested as much revenue as possible into growth.

https://www.officialdata.org/us/stocks/s-p-500/2012?amount=1... says if I'd invested all that money it would be worth nearly 40k today. I will humbly say the return has been very outsized.
I don't know if it helps the legal case, but Diamond Multimedia used the word Monster for their 3dfx voodoo card, which I believe predates Monster Energy by several years.

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/3d-accelerator-card-rev...
Do you have an example? Besides banning big gulps and ineffectual ad campaigns I don't recall much policy on the topic.
"My belief is that computer security is highly overrated. [...] This can actually be quantifiable. [...] In 2021 Project Zero registered 10 0-days that concerned Windows. [...] None affected Windows XP."

Clever! Security by running an OS which none of the exploit authors are targeting anymore.
"You have walked into the fangs of a lurking Grue" ... The use of the word monster in computing is far older than its association with energy drinks!
There are at least three ways I could see an AI being the great filter:

1. An AI bootstraps itself to near-omnipotence and gobbles up all resources in a sphere around itself which grows at approximately the speed of light (where "all resources" includes "the atoms humans are made out of")

2. Same as (1) but the sphere grows substantially slower than the speed of light

3. Well before you get to the point where any of that is a risk, you get AI massively amplifying human capabilities. When you have millions of people with access to civilization-ending technology, one of them notices a clever chemical reaction which allows you to do isotopic separation without all of that mucking about with centrifuges and publishes it on the internet. Now we have millions of people with nuclear weapons and the ability to cheaply make more of them. This probably does not end with a civilization that survives and expands to the stars.

Only in the case of (2) would we actually _see_ a bunch of AIs roving about the universe gobbling up resources.
Not in the short term.

Just be disciplined... dont buy anything you want to sell within 5 years, and don't buy something in the middle of a hype wave, don't buy anything stupid, hold your breath when the market drops, and you can beat the NASDAQ fairly easily.
Yeah, at this point, I'm hankering for a "ChatGPT-to-butt" browser extension like the old "cloud" variant.
You have missed Windows ME between XP and 98, which was so awful people don't remember it anymore. For a revolutionary product, Windows 95 wasn't that bad.
In blunt words I do not understand what value it provides. I have used it, I have even written my own (toy, definitely not security hardened) wallet and PoW miner for fun. The foundational technology itself was creative, Satoshi made something no one had ever made before. But I have never seen a problem it solves that traditional solutions don't already solve in a better and less expensive manner.

Blockchain's primary advertised use is cryptocurrency, but every crypto is too unstable to actually be used as a USD replacement. In the real world it behaves like a stock, but unlike regular stocks it is zero sum. For every person that made money on crypto other people had to lose money; there's no fundamentals that actually produce a product or service and adds wealth to the world. If anything it is net negative to global wealth by enabling a previously impossible levels of fraud, and of tax and sanctions dodging.

There are non-currency applications such as smart contracts, but these don't demand the same attention as "currency" uses, and again don't solve anything that regular contracts don't already provide. Again, these come with downsides not possible in regular contracts such as software bugs that enable funds to be remotely stolen (with no recourse), or for funds to simply vanish and become permanently locked in an inaccessible state.

Other than semi-anonymously buying bulk acid (one of the few legitimate usecases), what usecase is it actually objectively a superior tool for?
malware spread by email. this is how yotube channels get hacked for Elon crypto scam livestreams. the session is hijacked too.

a second way is through chrome extensions that log cookies and form data. the old cookies can be replaced with the new, stolen session via cookie editor
I'd argue "less activity than what's consumed" is not causal but an accounting of what's already happened. Just like "more money in your bank account" is a mere measurement, whereas "getting paid for your job" is what was causal.
Wait so its not a market? I thought this was a resource where black hats go to sell their data. But you're saying that Genesis is the only black hat, and their "market" is just selling their own data?
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Don't be so sure.

A lot of automation simply isn't possible without AGI.
I did similar experiments with GPT4 and Soulver[1], though I "tuned" it by teaching it Soulver interactively before continuing to prompt. It can then be used in the same way. My primary goal was to add basic calculation capabilities to GPT, that are: a) guaranteed to halt (all Soulver sheets are functions) and b) readable by both GPT and the user (a Python program may be too dev-oriented for normal people).

It worked quite well. To well almost: I started a meta-conversation where I asked another GPT4 instance to come up with conversations SoulverGPT could have with a user where the addition of solving is beneficial. This worked, and eventually even found a bug in Soulver - essentially fuzzing the language.

[1] https://github.com/soulverteam/SoulverCore
It would be absolute godsend if we could, so one measly error wouldn't require restarting a entire process just to rewrite some small part.
I blame David Byrne.
You're right, but I think the secondary effect is important. Hypothetically, if there was no intent to protect mark holders, the law could work differently: As long as the trademark is used for equivalent products, and there is no harm to the consumer, then it wouldn't matter who used the trademark. You'd think I'd be able to start a company to sell GE toaster ovens made in my personal back yard factory, if the end result was equivalent to what GE sells.
USPTO are either incompetent or corrupt or both to allow trademarks on such generic terms. I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re taking back handers.
Ha, ok. On the other hand I'd argue "evidence it's genetic" is also clearly false.

There are certainly genetic factors that make some people vulnerable but our genetics haven't changed that much in the last 30 years. Obesity has.

The combination of genetics with our lifestyle and dietary context is where it's at IMO.
It's funny how things come and go.

I remember my first "real job" I was a young guy in a crowd of guys roughly all 20 years older than me. They were good at their job but very much go in, punch the clock, go home. It was a technology company but a very old one and few people in my department really was interested n their computer beyond their prescribed job.

I showed up and everyone had these monster IBM M style keyboards. They were brutal on my hands, stiff mechanical monsters. And oh man was it noisy in that place with everyone pounding on them.

So I bought in my own "Microsoft natural keyboard". At one point a coworker complained that they couldn't use my computer if they needed to because of my keyboard. It was absurd that this guy would bring in the keyboard he wants to use from his own home!

But within a few months everyone's old keyboards were in the extra cube dumping ground and everyone brought in their own keyboard. The M style IBM keyboards were out.
https://www.audioholics.com/editorials/monster
I was fine with Super Mario Run.

The "paid" category on iOS seems pretty OK. For example, I was just looking at card games and it includes games I actually enjoy playing such as Slay the Spire and Monster Train, which don't seem to be burdened by intrusive monetization schemes. (MT is $8 + $4 DLC - not free but cheaper than Steam's $25+.)

Square Enix has a bunch of gacha games but they also have regular pay-once RPGs like Final Fantasy. (Though some of them lack controller support, and several older games have become unplayable.)

(iOS should really add more game categories - there currently isn't one for platformers or endless runners, for example.)

Unfortunately f2p and slot machine style monetization schemes usually makes much more money than pay once.
The big advantage of doing it ahead of time is that you can proofread and edit it. LLMs are good, but it'll be a while before they get to a point where a bit of human editing doesn't help.
>Windows machines are the only affordable option

And before anyone chimes in saying "Linux is Free Open Source Software!", remember the old saying: Time is money.

Almost noone wants to spend time messing with their computer. A computer might be the end to a means for Linux neckbeards, but for the rest of humanity a computer is simply a means to an end.

Windows, unlike Linux, satisfies that role of being a means to an end, of just being a tool for bigger things. Buying a Windows license is, in fact, more affordable than messing in Linux.
If you agree that 3 makes for an easy roll, then it’s only an easy roll if you remember it and have thought it all through. If the player points it out when asking the guard, they have achieved the same outcome by making sure you and the guard you are role playing understand the situation via real world persuasion.

You’ve just shifted the burden of persuading the guard via roleplay to persuading the dm via contextual reminders which is less cool.
House cats kill an order of magnitude more birds and bats than windmills. Practically no one calls domestic cats ugly, or suggests to ban them.

Access roads required for wind generator maintenance are neither large nor busy: there's no fuel to bring, and no ash to take away.
Why do you assume 3 is an okay number but 10 isn't, it seems quite arbitrary.

At the end of the day it is 10x what, tasks closed (features, bugs, etc) at same or higher quality? Terrible metric but those people exist.

But you can also be a 50/100x engineer if the metric becomes value rather than tasks closed. E.g. convincing key stakeholders their project is a bad idea can save millions, years and companies.

There's plenty of such moments to make huge differences and they compound.
Totally agree, but people get really hung up and defensive when you imply that their success came from anything except sheer grit and Horatio Algers rags to riches work ethic.
Sometimes a player is just way better placed than anyone else; particularly on a randomized map. Last night my wife was in this situation in a 3-player game and my daughter and I both just toggled the robber between her two best hexes. Ended in a 10-9-8 score (where the 9 could have won earlier had they noticed they could take longest-road rather than building a settlement with the right combination of 3:1 trades).
Yep, there are no longer individual vigilante hackers, they are all working for corporations or governments now.
I've spent my time at smaller less advanced orgs. The pushback against automation, against software has been pretty high.

Skepticism of software is high; people seem to only trust things they can type into the terminal & crank out themselves. They see automated systems as too fancy, too dangerous, as unknowable. Companies and people don't take the time or opportunity to learn, understand and grow: they are committed only to the work ahead of them rather than a broader project of improving themselves & the org broadly.

It's all so backwards & sad. Seeing such persistent anti-commitment to getting good. Regularly taking the most reductionist take on what simple is, even though it so often involves complex tribal/oral knowledge with many unstated embedded choices baked in in how the org handles things.

It's a hard sell, because the base fact is that there is kind of a low cowardice pushing against creating code. Nothing is as well defined, well shareable, as explicit as code. The opportunity to learn from code is as infinite as you are willing to chase it. But people don't want to have to engage in systems or computers. They prefer informal knowledge & having regurgitated oral knowledge passed down, they dont have the fire to investigate & watch for themselves.

I hope we can keep finding ways to make automated systems better explain themselves, better show their work. Automation is just so amazing, but dealing with the fear insecurity & "I have no time for this" factor has been a miserable ever-lowering factor at most orgs I've seen. I wish geeks & orgs could believe more in trying, weren't so predisposed against figuring out good ways to pave the cowpaths.
Personally I try to stay away from FOSS projects who raise VC funding, it signals to me they are using FOSS as a way to do marketing, not developing a community-based project.

Plenty of FOSS who tried to make it in a for-profit, VC funded world eventually disappears when VCs can't extract any money back and they never become profitable, and then the creators/maintainers lose interest as there is no longer any money to be made.

Lastly, I generally don't work for for-profit companies for free. If they are non-profit, then it'd be fine. But you make money from my work? Hm, call me a socialist, but at least I should get a part of the profits then.
Solar and wind peak at different times, and windmills don't compete with farmland. They're complementary.

(Sometimes farmers do complain about windmills - that's because farmers are a kind of landlord and their actual problem is that it's harder to sell the land with a windmill on it.)
How come all .ai domains are taken?
Food cravings are intense and real. It's like being addicted to drugs...maybe even worse. People will suffer withdrawal-like symptoms when deprived of calorie dense food. Obesity can be prevented by preventing kids from ever tasting this stuff in the first place.
Totally. UPI has made things awesome for the residents but far far worse for the visitors.
Seems like you speak from experience.

Do you have any specifics to share ?
To be fair - the processor only has binary opcodes & operands :)

My example wasn't clear enough - I wasn't proposing full expression compiling. If you think (simplistically) of assembler as a macro processor that maps text mnemonics onto opcodes, I was proposing matching basic expression terms to opcodes (but only simple terms, like "x + y", that map to individual instructions).

Historically, there have been assemblers that do full expression compiling - where an expression compiles to multiple opcodes. But that's going back a way, when people still routinely used assembly. For modern purposes, where good compilers are easily available, something like that just confuses assembly with compilation.
I dunno about books but I'd dig up some papers from the Tribler folks to start getting some good heady discussions paged into my brain.
You just buy them. I wouldn't trust them for high-power or high-drain devices, personally, but you can just search amazon and see what they have.
I think the idea is to avoid contributing to money-horny companies using FOSS as marketing plans. Growing faster is not end-all-be-all, sometimes it's best to go at a reasonable speed.
If you can predict weekly stock performance from news reports you can quickly become rich. These researchers must be very altruistic people to instead release this work to the public.
From tasting food?
Author here, having both buses is a valid configuration and completely expected for running Linux under the PowerVM hypervisor.
> Feels like it would be relatively trivial to have some kind of parachute system that went off automatically on system failure.

> if SpaceX can make self landing rockets

Failure tolerant design isn't well understood by engineers who do not live in that world. We speak of Fault Tolerance levels, or FT-levels for short.

FT0 means any one failure renders the system inoperable. In other words, it can't even tolerate a single failure.

What "inoperable" means is --in terms of consequences-- is a function of what the system in question might be. If we are talking about a life support system in a spacecraft, FT0 is a really bad idea.

An example of a an FT0 system that might not have a horrible failure mode might be a bicycle tire. If the valve fails, it deflates. For the most part, that's not likely to be horrific. Yes, the tire does not work and becomes horribly inefficient, however, it is unlikely it will kill you. There are other elements of a bike that could definitely kill you with a single failure, particularly at speed. Anything that causes the front wheel to come off qualifies.

Higher FT levels provide protection from catastrophic failure. NASA, for example, used to require FT2 for life support systems (tolerate two failures). This, however, changed over the years to a more sophisticated framework. For example, redundancy alone does not fulfill safety requirements.

In terms of drones, no, one can't think of a trivial parachute system providing failure tolerance in real terms. Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (DFMEA) is the very first step in understanding how a drone could fail and create undesirable consequences; two of which could be harming people or property.

This subject area isn't simple. It also isn't impossible to create failure tolerant designs. The issue, outside of aerospace/military applications is that FT designs can get very expensive, very quickly. It can be hard to justify some of the design decisions one might have to make in the context of low cost commercial products. This is the main issue with drones.

Wikipedia covers the topic to a reasonable depth:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fault_tolerance
This reminds me of database setups where clients can't directly INSERT / UPDATE / DELETE, only call stored procedures that then construct those queries.
Reddit had fake users on day one.
Windows is incredibly broken and yet miraculously its power is that it works.

My exotic mix of apps work. Games work, new ones and 20 year old ones. All peripherals and hardware combinations work, or have a way to make them work. There always seems to be a path towards success.

Years or decades of muscle memory fueling resistance to change, corporate lock-in, game compatibility...that's how Microsoft can get away with almost anything.

Should Apple want to, they could get the ultimate revenge by reversing the lost PC wars. And actually dominate the laptop/desktop market. They have the hardware, software and resources to do so.

But it won't happen, it would require too many non-Apple moves, like wide compatibility, very long term legacy support, low margin products.
"Hey, can you xerox me a few copies of this document real quick? Yeah, just use the Canon all-in-one on my desk." Little clunky, but I'm certain it's been said somewhere/somewhen.
> Been active on Genesis Market? In contact with Genesis Market administrators? Email us, we're interested: FBIMW-Genesis@fbi.gov

This has big "congratulations, local felon, you've won a ticket to the Super Bowl" energy [0]. But if it was enough to fool criminals in 1985, it's probably enough to fool criminals in 2023.

[0] https://www.sportskeeda.com/nfl/what-operation-flagship-how-...
Replying to the media with just "poop" is the textbook example of being Spartan, I would call that stylish and witty.

Of course, my opinion of the media is that they're shit and deserve all the bad treatment they get.
This is an amazing example of moving forward without breaking changes ... We could probably do better with our software too. Another interesting example of creating a compatible signal is the addition of chroma information to the black and white NTSC television signal. The original signal was modulated using VSBAM and the chroma signal was added to (predominantly) the high frequencies of the channel.
Let's not be ridiculous. Of course LLMs are planning ahead, not generating words one at a time. You can't even generate correct indefinite articles (a/an) without planning one word (or token) ahead.

Surely you are not suggesting LLMs pick a/an according to statistical distribution and then choose vowel starting/non-starting words, not vice versa? This is testable: let it complete "I climbed up the apple/pear tree and picked". It always picks "an" for apple and "a" for pear, and never reaches a dead end by picking the wrong article so that it either fails syntax (wrong article) or semantics (pear growing on apple tree).

We actually have fairly good idea how LLMs pick a/an. Have a look at https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cgqh99SHsCv3jJYDS/we-found-a....
It wasn't supposed to be an extensive list, plenty of versions are missing, like NT 4 and well, every single version before 95 :)
I assume that was the "don't sleep with this person" warning. Way to feel welcomed to college.