skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not a sensible or technically sound thing to do. It is purely irrational. Win7 is already stuck on Chrome 110/111(?).

You are not gaining much by doing this, and are assuming significant risk. Even if specific portions can be quantified away, it's the unknown unknowns that should scare you.

Try a Linux distro again maybe? With some non-default themes and Wine, it really should make a better WinXP than WinXP.

Or at least use something like https://github.com/kirb/LegacyUpdate or the pirated ISOs that get updates from the Windows Embedded POSReady channel -- Win7 POSReady is supported until late 2024, and XP was until 2019.

There are safe ways to do this, but I worry the author may not be aware of them.
Screw that, I'm worried that the megacorps are gonna screw this up and make it even more American dystopian.
How do you know the number of VPs when the development cards are hidden
Yeah, it can get somewhat expensive (e.g. $10 in a day) with very frequent use. I find it much more helpful than Github Copilot, as it performs actions 'autonomously', i.e. it can identify which files to modify to solve a task, etc.
It is worrying that in a supposedly informed forum the simple, and factual, matter of there being distinct perspectives on the geopolitical order post USSR's collapse requires any further elaboration. Wow. Are you actually denying that others, quite a few billion of them not Russians btw (they go by "Global South" these days), view US behavior post Soviet collapse as aggressive and motivated by a desire for lasting hegemony? That clearly is not a view that would be addressed by the content in question, so GP's point stands.
> "No it’s not, my home networks "

When your phone is on 5g it is not behind a strong firewall, or any firewall at all. It's sitting directly on the internet. I can run a webserver on my phone and you can browse it.

> Do you not see the problem with all of my families devices “preferring” a neighbors network over mine?

If you've been laboring under the misconception that your phone is safe on your home network then perhaps this is a shock. But having your phone connected to a carrier means the carrier is responsible for providing a network.

Normally your phone is connected both to the carrier network and to whatever wifi network the user prefers, if wifi is available.

It seems like the major usability problem here is that instead of connecting to both networks, the carrier network supplants the user's network -- which breaks expectations when near user-run wifi.
That's actually very interesting.
I also have two blog posts on this topic!

https://treymanuszak.eth.limo/blog/power-of-randomness
https://treymanuszak.eth.limo/blog/yao-minimax
Sorry, to clarify my device will reconnect to a carrier-managed hotspot that has had auto-join manually disabled without a reboot within 4-5 minutes.
Programming may be an exceptional exception to this then. Perhaps other industries such as marketing are too.
>That is the natural balance. People need to be paid enough to be incentivized to work. Work sucks. Especially low income work. But society needs these jobs to be done.

You didn't just say that giving poor people money causes inflation. You said that giving poor people money causes the exact right amount of inflation to cancel out the money you give them. Where is the idea of this balance coming from other than it being theoretically convenient? Do you think society has some innate poverty rate that wage increases can never alter? If so, why is the US poverty rate higher than our peers like Canada, Germany, France, etc?

>That’s mostly true. But this is not a minimum wage increase. This is taking away the most valuable part of the paycheck: the part you need to survive. People aren’t going to work hard for $8 an hour if they’re taken care of by the government. It’s simply not worth it.

Do you make minimum wage? If not, why do you work as many hours as you do if you could be "taken care of" working less?

Most people don't work just to get the bare minimum to survive or else most people would be working a lot less.

>Also, basically any non trivial inflation is enough to make UBI not UBI because it’s supposed to be just enough to be liveable.

Peg UBI to inflation like minimum wage should be.
looks like a few of mine resynced and toggled auto join. My iPad has none of these managed network entities at all, seems to be a phone thing only.

Looks like comcast xfinity type networks are being imposed too. The xfinity App may be toggling these XFI, Xfinity Mobile, xfinitywifi pieces your way too.
YC24 here I come
I was all prepared to be very irritated. Especially if I could not disable them.

But disabling does work for me. And according to the documentation[0] these networks wouldn't get selected in preference to my home network anyway. My blood pressure is dropping a bit.

Assuming these are actually authenticated networks as described, then I don't know if this is any worse than allowing the phone to use the cellular signal. Same provider.

If your phone is hopping onto one of these while at home, I guess check your home wifi signal strength because it's probably dropping out?

[0] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202831
This is badass.
Even as a proof of concept it’s hilarious how many HR brains will explode over this
When I saw this, I had a good belly laugh! As someone who does a lot of interviewing who also hates all the leetcode style interviews, I love this.

I hope it ushers in a new era of non-leetcode style interviews.

But I suspect what it will actually do is usher in an era of in-person only interviews or having to use that same crap spyware that schools use to lock down your computer by essentially rooting it.
I didn't dismiss concerns about freedom of speech. I explicitly acknowledged them in paragraph 4. My point is that there is a tradeoff here, and reasonable people can disagree.

That's reasonable a reasonable complaint about how I talked about moral panics. Updated the wording to not say that's the reason for HN's strong reaction. Though I really do think that cultural history is a major factor.

> Also I think I'd object to your framing of "a public health crisis comparable to opioids". Much of that appears to be attributable to the side effects of the "war on drugs". At absolute minimum the vast majority of overdoses are clearly due to unreliable product quality which is simply not an issue for things purchased legally.

I really don't think this is true. The government didn't cause a generation of people to become addicted to Oxytocin. You can argue about the best way to help, and lots of municipalities are trying harm reduction programs, but I don't think you can pin people ODing on fentanyl on the government.

Smoking regulations worked. CFC regulations worked. Automobile safety regulations worked. Sanitary standard regulation worked. Mandatory vaccine campaigns worked. Food and drug safety regulations worked. The clean air act and clean water act mostly worked. Government intervention often goes wrong, but it also often leads to huge increases in well-being. Particularly for addictive things presented to minors.
Why not use Delta? https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol13/p3411-armbrust.pdf
They did a experiment which demonstrated that music popularity was arbitrary by showing how social interaction and recommendations arbitrarily focus on a couple of tunes and people prefer to gather momentum behind a few and that's how popularity comes from: some arbitrary randomness that meets a certain threshold then gets momentum and attracts backers purely from momentum.

Wealth creation in isolation would be no different.
I'd ban children from the Internet and from the phone network.

Computers are fine, as long as they're offline.

Countless generations of kids have grown up fine in these conditions. We already know being online is bad for them.

What are we waiting for?
For FastAPI, Pydantic ends up being part of the API contract. It's less about saving time and more about validating requests.
127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com

(kind of serious)
I just checked my phone, There were 3 verizon networks in there I don't recognize. I'm using a regular SIM.
Real question: Why did you write Syrian and Afghan refugees with double quotes? In English slang, this is used to imply so-called status -- lesser or fake. Their countries were destroyed by war, and they again have repressive dictatorships. Their need to escape to a safer places seems real to me. Also, if Syria or Afghanistan graduated to democratic, free countries, I am sure many, many refugees would want to return home for cultural reasons.
Source:

- https://twitter.com/VincentLivings/status/164106853131499520...

- https://twitter.com/VincentLivings/status/164120600707769139...

The submitted “TheGamer” article has an auto-playing video popup.
It's not so much about "booting" or "waking" befor opening the lid. It's more about improving what Apple calls "power nap": to get on wifi and download updated mail/chat/info before opening the lid.
I think the core idea is strong, but it's missing several features that could differentiate it as a product:

1) adding an "advanced" tab which enables the user to input more information about the document, e.g. formatting, length, etc...

2) learning the user's writing patterns and style - I'm not sure if this can be done by prompting, but my guess is that there are methods that you can use to steer the prose towards the user's default style

3) plagiarism detection - this would require a large document store and could be implemented using fuzzy/semantic search via Milvus followed by string matching

Keep up the good work.
The carrier told me to contact apple.

And in my case, I can’t exactly harass all my neighbors to disable their “free hotspot”. I should be able to control my own phone and dictate what it does/does not connect to.
This topic is basically flame war bait not really tech adjacent either.
Is that enough to qualify as "things they didn't like"? I was thinking something actually distasteful.
Probably to force more traffic onto wifi to keep people off of their network whenever possible.
Which other phones show this problem?
> washing clothes doesn’t seem to benefit from any QR codes

Clothing has care labels on it. Washing machine should read that.
Does it matter? An attacker has to know about a vulnerability to use it. Unless there's some reason that security researchers would be more focused on vulnerabilities in new systems than attackers are, or something like that.
Why would it matter if an AGI is conscious or not in order to be scared of it?
Thanks. I meant it literally and figuratively. Literally, drawing shadows of optical illusions generally makes them stop being optical illusions. Figuratively, all illusory experiences (magic tricks, scams, psychotic delusions) tend to have some mundane inconsistency which is likely to go unnoticed, but if you know to look for it the illusion evaporates. Illusions don't have shadows.
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How are you worse off? Also, do we count whatsapp as social media?
> line of business

> Line of business (AKA LOB) is a term that describes a business’s product or service, the resources used, and the process for delivering value to a market segment. It could be the primary or one of the main processes that bring revenue.

> For example, manufacturing dry-erase markers is a line of business. Everything that happens from concept, developing the markers, marketing, selling, to fulfillment, and staying competitive makes up the business line. So, a LOB could also describe a product line.

https://www.digital-adoption.com/line-of-business/
At this point I suspect that CCP is inspired by doom3-style demonology. In theological/occult literature, demonic creatures are said to wear a grey metallic-like shell instead of skin, that makes them nearly invincible: even a nuclear strike wouldn't break them. However that super-shield has a weakness: it conducts heat, so its owners suffer greatly from cold and heat. It's not impossible that a bored dictator, havong nothing else to do, will try to recreate this material.
Also I bet that the design guideline of most of these logos mandate a wide whitespace around them. These jokers even smushed the logos of the Finnish and the Netherlands police together. “Oh i see you let a bit of space in your logo empty. Mind if I push in an other logo there?”
All of us who haven't achieved fabulous success find this very comforting, of course.

But I'm still going to put in effort, because I don't believe in any of this fate crap, etc.
I mean, did Michael Jordan just get lucky every time he shot a basketball? No, he had talent. Maybe not 10000x the talent of some street baller, but then maybe wealth doesn't scale linearly with talent.
With local TinyML, Jian-Yang's Not Hot Dog can work without needing privacy-risky online services.
It's incredibly hard for parents to intervene. Even if you ban your child from using it, since every other kid is using it, the harmful effects are still there.

The best you can do is try to explain and contextualise everything your kid might be seeing, which is very hard to do.

Also, not all parents are engaged with their kids as well as they should be. Having bad parents doesn't mean you're not worth protecting.

> Or ban having sex without the use of contraceptives if you are so keen on banning.

I'm not sure what that means.
I'd be curious if GPT4 would be capable of reverse engineering the parser and producing documentation for it.
Yes. I have just 2 of these managed networks : AT&T Wi-Fi Passpoint and attwifi. It could be that they’ll switch auto join back on if I move somewhere that they’re visible. Edit: just out of curiosity I rebooted to see if that would toggle auto-join back on, but it did not.
Demonetize children has the making of a pretty good slogan.
Discourse forums summarize long threads quite well.
I'm not sure that this apple/pear example proves anything. In the context of "apple tree and picked" in the input, it's enough simply that the word "an" received positive feedback during training as the next word, and having generated "an" then "apple" becomes almost certain as the next word after that.

For sure there has to be some internal high level representation of the entire input, and I would expect also some representation of possible continuations at a higher level than just alternate word choices, but I wouldn't exactly characterize this as a plan since it's so statistical in nature, and the model has to continually adapt to what is actually generated (sampled).

At a low temperature setting "an" might always be picked, making "apple" more likely to follow, but at a higher temperature maybe another word such as "the" might be chosen, perhaps with a continuation of "biggest apple i could find", etc. In a 350B token training set I'm sure there are a number of other alternatives too.

So, does the model plan ahead ? Well, sort of, but this "plan" has to represent multiple branching alternate futures, and continually adapt as the output is sampled, so it's a very fluid kind of plan. It's also not clear how far ahead the plan needs to represent .. maybe one word only (like a state machine), even if the reason those alternate one-word continuations are there is because they were seen as part of specific longer continuations.

The lack of any internal state preservation from one word generated to the next puts a huge limit on what can be planned, as does the extent of how complex a plan can be generated from the flow of a single input sequence forwards thru the layers of the model. You can see the limitations of this with prompts such as "pick two primes > 200, and tell me their product, but not the numbers themselves"... if you play with it and analyze the mistakes, it makes it clear how much the output really is generated word by word, adapting to what came before, much of the time.
>Is your real name Pragmatic Pulp? Do you post pictures/videos of yourself here, or update us about your family? I could go on but I hope you get it.

At least on wikipedia, the definition for "social media" doesn't include real names, or posting stuff about your life specifically.

>Social media are interactive technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, interests, and other forms of expression through virtual communities and networks.[1][2] While challenges to the definition of social media arise[3][4] due to the variety of stand-alone and built-in social media services currently available, there are some common features:[2]

>1. Social media are interactive Web 2.0 Internet-based applications.[2][5]

>2. User-generated content—such as text posts or comments, digital photos or videos, and data generated through all online interactions—is the lifeblood of social media.[2][5]

>3. Users create service-specific profiles for the website or app that are designed and maintained by the social media organization.[2][6]

>4. Social media helps the development of online social networks by connecting a user's profile with those of other individuals or groups.[2][6]
Microsoft’s new Surface Dock tosses the proprietary port, uses Thunderbolt 4
One of the solutions to the climate crisis is make us all hardier. Would also be great for long duration space travel. Just add in some cockroach, axolotl, gecko and maybe a Kea and we are good.
I can see a use-case for this that acts as a constant AI companion to pair-program with!
sorry, I'm from Malaysia
"Machines have no incentives or desires by default"

It could be strange at first, but having the code pushing the LLM to look for values inside a token, this can be interpreted as component of desire/incentive in the global internal search for solving a problem (a prompt), albeit this was programmed by hand by humans, not fully "emerged" from the LLM itself.

But, you could see the human structure of desires/incentives just as an outcome of DNA (code), plus the hormone push to look for the proper solution for some problem.

So there you got it, LLM could have had desires / incentives the whole time since 2017 (the first ones trained).
both, sure, are social media. people on hn, for instance, use their real names, put their emails in their bios, link to their website or linkedin, etc.

not everyone stays pseudonymous.
I won't say that this has no chance of succeeding, even though that is the most likely outcome. But it is these kinds of blind and reckless experiments that will bring new understandings that can potentially add more knowledge that will make a success later on. Yes, that sentence was that long because that is how much importance this experiment will hold in the end.

They tested the genes on single cells or at best a couple of them together. I guarantee you that these cells won't even make it past the embryonic stage unless dramatic changes are introduced to the procedure. Gene expression is easy. The hard part is how to seamlessly integrate that extra gene into a network of densely expressed native genes, all of which interact and regulate with each other, and not disrupt any of them. Because if even just one in a few thousands get affected, like say instead of making 100 copies, it makes 90, then that fetus will likely become nonviable.

So we aren't going to make Space Marines anytime soon. Unless they manage to change all somatic cells in a human body at the same time, at which point it probably more likely the AGIs are in charge already.
stuff like setTimeout accepts strings too. I wonder how good those scanners are at detecting overwriting an initial innocent function that's later called in a timeout with a string, it can get fairly indirect

let harmless = { func : function() { }, harmlessExternallyLoadedString : '' };
let toAccess = 'func';
//do stuff that seems legit
if(true) {
let toAccess = 'harmlessExternallyLoadedString';
}
harmless[toAccess] = 'alert(1);'; //imagine this being a fetch request
//later on
setTimeout(harmless.func, 1);

now imagine the logic for what othervar is set to is obfuscated a bit by a more complex logic tree, and the example was a bit less contrived.
On my device these hotspots show up under “My Networks”

Disabling (switching auto-join to off) also does not work, most of them switch back on a few minutes later. This seems to be carrier-dependent from the comments thus far.

I disagree based on my reading of the documentation, these are treated as identical to your other networks. The only benefit is my home network is usually louder, but that’s the rub it doesn’t always work and devices routinely switch.

In my case I noticed this in a condo, so the physical distances are less
It's "Passpoint" and uses certificate based 802.11x auth, there's really nothing to worry about except calls dropping due to Wifi switchover.
Whitepaper from Aruba here:
Solving the Indoor Wireless Coverage Problem: Passpoint and Wi-Fi Calling https://www.arubanetworks.com/assets/wp/WP_Passpoint_Wi-Fi.p...
> Delayed justice

You mean punishment to prevent crime in the future. That isn't justice, is it worth it given the cost?

> It does, though. It objectively matters in terms of actual, predictable outcomes.

You don't get what I am saying, yes it matters in a general sense but for the purpose of administering justice it does not matter and it is irrelevant. It isn't despair either what I am saying, I am simply stating the fact that this is injustice being portrayed as justice, a perversion of justice if you will.
Yes,

Moved to Eastern Europe to reduce cost of life, Freelance on Upwork, work about 6-8 hours a week.

Absolutely, should have done it years ago.

I rediscovered the joys of programming by learning Rust, I rediscovered they joys of hobbies (photography, car wrenching, modeling, 3d printing, bicycling, weight lifting). Wife gets at least 2 full days a week to do whatever she wants together. We often visit old European cities for a 5 day weekend. What else. Rehabbed my childhood home, rehabbed my Wife's log cabin in the mountains. Looking for a historical flat in the old town part of nearby large city. Life is not bad.
The parent suggested controlling by the date of birth of all people born same year. I.e. if only 20% of all people born in 1900 have DOB registered on the first of month, but 50% of supercentenarians born in 1900 have DOB at the beginning of the month then something is fishy. The records accuracy should be same.
I remember a time when stem cell research was an off-limit topic because of the moral issues. Meanwhile, China is beginning to show breakthroughs with human-animal hybrids. Where do most people stand on this issue? Is this concerning at all? Has the genie already left the bottle?
If anyone in Tokyo is looking for a board game player, ping me. I live near Ueno. Played Diplomacy and D&D in my youth. Would love to start playing again.
I could see a system where carriers partner with cities to install wifi at crowded locations, preset a carrier provided password and use that for better service than 5g.

But I am shocked that they would force connection to open ssids.