skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
is any of this not able to be disabled? uninstalling is disabling, but better.

sure, it is annoying to have crapware installed by the manufacturer.

maybe my test potato isn’t powerful enough to warrant using windows as more than something on which to run a browser. poorly.

ignoring that detail, windows 11 is fine as windows goes.
> For example, Harley can't woo younger riders to the brand because their attempt to acquire them turns off older Harley fans who are slowly dying out.

That cuts the other direction as well, if Tesla/Musk just alienate 90% of the population and the backlash builds against their touchscreens and build quality then they may find that they're just selling to fanbois.

And the EV Ranger is the vehicle that is targeting the kids of the people who presently drive F150s.

A car/truck purchase is emotional, and if you live in Astoria, OR a cybertruck is going to get you a ton of shit from everyone you know.

The successful Tesla models have had styling that pretty much looked like any other vehicle and didn't stand out a lot and any cachet was based around what it was and how it performed.
Well it's never been done in real life that we're aware of. Mostly because if it has been done, they almost certainly were not caught by traditional policing techniques.
I know someone who is a non native speaker based in another country who has struggled using Google translate to accomplish his job. With a specialized prompt he is able to translate from his native language into English with alacrity. This has revolutionized his job. The outputs capture the nuances of idiomatic language across both languages.

That’s not a toy. That’s a universal translator that’s eluded us for decades.

I would also note that the next obvious step for the LLM is to combine its semantic understanding with specialized models and expert systems and other ML to build ensembles like the one discussed here. Yes, LLM isn’t sufficient to do everything. But it’s sufficient to do the things we’ve been unable to do with these specialized systems. Layering in semantic reasoning systems, agent based goal finding and optimization, and other capabilities in a feedback loop with the LLM, will see remarkable capabilities unlock.

I’m always surprised how little imagination I see on H.N. at times, and there is a real impetus to call monumental breakthroughs nothingburgers.
For me its mostly projecting my own insecurities onto others. Being in a space where you are guaranteed a shared interest with others (places hobbies get practiced at, volunteering gigs) is a great way to aleviate the fear of rejection, looking like a weirdo, creep or whatever.
The PKK terrorists inflict bombs and child rapes and kidnappings outside the white world. Hence the “tolerance”. A report by the UN of their child kidnappings and rapes in Syria, Iraq and southern Turkey:

https://menaaffairs.com/un-report-again-reveals-ypg-pkk-terr...
Great stuff, thanks for putting it together
That's when Windows died for me...

Welcome back to reality. took you long enough.

M$ has no motivation to put anything in there, or take anything out, unless it's going to profit M$.

Of course, most people on this propaganda feed are firmly in the "if it's good for a billionaire it's good for me" boat.

Good luck with that...
"You're not uncool. Making friends as an adult is just hard" - https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2021/11/10/making-friends-ad...
> Having it grown in a pile of manure may make it harder to keep from being contaminated

I hope you don't buy organic vegetables because have I got some news for you... Between copious amounts of manure and liquified fish as fertilizer, you could always tell by the smell which farmers were looking to cash in on organic produce.
> The grass isn't always greener

I'll take "slightly less green" over "looking to subvert every choice you make".
Making friends as an adult is hard (2021)
Exponential scaling for a presumable GPT-5 suggests it's response time will be unusably long for the vast majority of use cases, and probably cost multiple dollars USD per query.

Not to mention there doesn't actually exist enough English text data in the world to even double GPT-4's training set.
In addition to what other have said, the definition of "friends" may change with time and context.

Like yourself, my family was super "close" to our neighbours when I was growing up. But they weren't even remotely "friends" in the sense that I might use the word today - there were zero common interests; significantly different backgrounds, world perspectives, priorities, lifestyles; they had little to talk about other than the prosaic; less superficially and more importantly, they would not be particularly honest or open or intimate with each other within the parameters of social norms. But what they were was utterly dependable to each other - both households knew that they'd support each other - through the winter and power outages and minor and major inconveniences that comes in life.

There's certainly huge value in that and I think it's certainly possibly to establish such relationships with neighbours today, though it's hugely luck of the draw; but will that satisfy the need we (or at least some of us) have for close friends with open, honest and sharing relationships, partaking of interesting discussion and activities, and relationships surviving through geographical & lifestyle changes?
I don't know my current neighbors at all (I live in an apartment building with 150+ units) and I'm fine with that.

However, when I was in a house... I met some. They were often the worst kind of people. The most NIMBY neolib white-flight our-neighborhood-is-going-to-hell 60+ year old assholes you could imagine. The one we thought was nice apparently would beat one of his kids and make him sleep outside the house. That was the nice one!

I can't say I know many good stories about neighbors. Look at movies - conflict with neighbors is a constant theme.
There are currently hearings being held around the legality of the collection from the AN0M app.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-18/accused-criminals-cha...
Some of my closest friends growing up were neighbors so it’s not necessarily a trade off. I mean maybe you live near a bunch of people you really dislike but I think it’s a pretty modern phenomenon to have such little connection to the people around you.
Where is that? And which language and where? Sorani? Kurmanji?
Sure, you would need to rewrite the training code for AMD's ecosystem. If you're using mixed precision training, I suppose you're right about BF16. That puts the relative performance of A100 about 2.5x that of the Radeon RX 7900 XT. May be better to go with the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 with a $1600 retail.
why is this happening to you?
I never talked about Europeans at all, so no, I don't think they work less hard. I said "parts of Asia".
Seems to me that Putin thought he could benefit by invading Ukraine at a point of weakness.

The weakness of Russian imperialism will be clear to all before the end.
I mean, don't many people in the demographics mentioned, 20-40s university educated city dwellers, already do this? Sharing a flat is very common in my social circle. I've always lived with people and not only is it less isolated but you save a lot of money splitting rent, electricity and food bills. And having roomates during the pandemic was really good for my mental health. Having to live completely alone through all the lockdowns was awful for a lot of people.
I agree it's awful because ordinary users don't bother to turn it off.

But it wasn't _that_ hard to turn it off. I didn't have to hack anything, just look for the settings.
I've been wondering how related these feelings of distance and isolation in the middle of society are to how the area is designed.

I had always known for a long time the "why" I didn't want to go out on weekends and such, but it wasn't until I watched some of those videos from "Not Just Bikes" that it really, really struck me. I literally dread finding parking more than I enjoy finding friends.

And suburban (and frankly disturbingly high percentages of urban) America IME is a strange cross between in constant proximity of others, and constant suspicion of others. Like there's just enough people around to not be alone, but not enough to feel safe for many.

There's another comment in this thread positing that the social closeness of the old days broke down because of more urbanization, but it's clear it's sprawl that's killing socialization.

The other day a friend and I were talking about cities since I complain a lot about this now, and we did a quick check: Houston is far, far LARGER than say, Zurich, but their population density is a fraction. Everyone lives in cars that don't talk to each other, going to little boxes that mostly don't talk to each other. And the parking lots required for people to travel to a restaurant or bar means that there's less restaurants and bars.

Incidentally, I've found a single combination pedestrian/bike trail near me, and it's busier than the other trails, and people there are so much friendlier. It's a joy to go, and I'm slowly realizing I may still be introverted, but being out and about without it being a chore actually alleviates a lot of my anxiety.
It's probably my computer/browser, but that feels hella slow. For those getting ideas, Windows 2000 was lightning fast to use. Even on something humble at the time. Those windows and menus popped up instantly.
I would like to lift my interaction with git to a higher level of abstraction.

Now this would be based in the context that the wonderful AI knew
What client, what project, what tools, what team, what rules etc.
knew the codebase, parsed and knew all the history,

So the CLI:
AI# Hey, check in my code.
AI# >Ok.

Which would contain in part:

Hey commit my code, ensure that all files are up to date.
Handle all conflicts and manual merges that may arise
based on your knowledge of the entire code base and the
code I have just written.

Ensure to update whatever GitHub might need it.
..
Ensure that all tests are run, ensure continuous integration
runs.

Do whatever it is this company / client / project wants to happen
after a commit.
docker update
restart containers
Trigger lambdas
Release.

Whatever
""

AI# > I would like to let you know that checking in your code
was successful and all issues have been handled by me and
all routines and procedures have been completed with success.

AI# > Would you like to play a nice game of chess?

Ok. I am on it.
I am checking your code and handling all the boring stuff.
All mergers have been handled by me.
All testes have returned positive.
Not sure that paying for support is even that helpful. I was responsible for a few tens of millions of dollars in client GCP spend (admittedly, a small fraction of client AWS and Azure spend), and I only spoke to any official GCP reps once -- and they were from a recent acquisition. Our GCP team had closer contacts, of course, but as far as my experience went Google compared unfavorably to both AWS and Microsoft, who were happy to throw SMEs at me anytime I had a question. (Even so, there's a lot I do like about GCP, even if I'm a bit uncomfortable with its long-term prospects.)
> I wonder if TPUs, like Google's Tensor chip, will beat out GPUs when it comes to image/video based training?

One of the OpenAI guys was talking about this. He said the specific technology does not matter, it is just a cost line item. They don't need to have the best chip tech available as long as they have enough money.

That said I am curious if anyone else can really comment on this. It seems like as we get to very large and expensive models we will produce more and more specialized technology.
Vanguard unfortunately got rid of its similar Advantage offering a few years ago. I hate now having two separate accounts at Vanguard—Cash Plus (essentially a high-yield savings account) and brokerage with sweep—yet neither offering checkwriting, when with Advantage I had sweep (with very competitive return) and checkwriting in one place.
Good idea, you won’t get any money which will prove my point that people can tell bullshit from an actual product. Well not you, but most other people.
Shouldn't this really be: 1 Great Lecture Set to Ambient ?

I'm only seeing the Carl Sagen lecture...
The Lost Art of Code Reading
Cloud is a service that moves CapEx to OpEx. What ever cost savings it may provide is a side effect of this move. If you moved to cloud and do not see any savings, that means you have sized planned your capacity well. But there are a lot of businesses that cannot plan ahead for various reasons, and cloud provides value to them.
I'm on Gentoo with mostly stock kernel, Xfce and my battery life is pretty good! It sleeps and goes dim just fine. Lenovo Yoga6. But I had to swap they pieceofcrap RealTek WIFI for Intel - cause the rtw89 module has sleep issues (and that card generally sucks)
Yeh it’s shocking, the level of bullshit is almost at the level of my coworkers. I’m just waiting for the day we can get humans to stop hallucinating even after 40 years of deep learning.
They could, but it doesn't stop what happened in this case - the cops infiltrated the organization, so people who had access to unencrypted communications turned them over to the police.
> You'd Be Happier Living Closer to Friends.

Really though? Anecdotally I feel the opposite... Proximity tends to breed opportunities for conflict. Personally, I really appreciate the distinction between neighbors that you have a more "professional" relationship with versus friends who maybe you have fewer day-to-day contact with but can be more intimate emotionally...
"Lottery tickets", "lifeblood", "symptoms of work", "pearly gates of liquidity"

I count four. Curious, what's the fifth?

Your comment made me realize that it's quite an interesting sentence.
ICU4X 1.2: Now with Text Segmentation and More on Low-Resource Devices
We're happy to announce ICU4X 1.2, containing a host of new features with a focus on text engines. The new ML-powered break iterators and HarfBuzz bindings enable developers to perform text layout on many platforms and resource-constrained environments.
Because just about 10% of people could enjoy mathematics with current education technologies, and I think, people who enjoy programming are subset of who enjoy mathematics. This is natural limitation, unfortunately.

This is not to say, some people better then others, just every human have some strong sides from possible set, but very rare people strong at all.

For simplicity, there are three main classes - math, arts, psychology (as example, Betazoids in Star Trek are not totally fictitious, exists people who are so strong in sensing others, so it could appear, like they read your thoughts).
This is good correlated with number of graduated in Germany - ~35% (I think ~10% math, ~10% art, ~10% psychology).
Some people are physically strong.

Programming is mostly math.

So, early 80s computers, gives great tools into hands of math people, and this duet gives lot of fruits.

After computers penetration become much more than 10%, it become impossible for education system, to educate more math people, so for others computer becomes just entertainment.

I believe, with AI teachers, private highly-custom education will become more affordable, so larger percent of math-capable will appear, but I can't predict exact number, may it become twice bigger, the same with others (arts, psychology), so 70% will be with diploma.
For what it's worth, as the rare suburbanite HNer, I fondly recall my family having the same sort of relationships with neighbors in the late 80's and 90's; unfortunately the same just doesn't seem to happen even in socioeconomically comparable suburbs today. Even just attempts to strike up small talk with a neighbor when we both happen to be outside at the same time are usually rebuffed, and the idea that anyone would invite neighbors to (eg) a barbecue seems frankly impossible. Even when neighborhood kids play together the dynamic is usually their parents keeping minimal contact with each other and not trusting each other to keep an eye on the kids. I wish I had more insight to offer into why things are like this nowadays, but it's frankly just baffling and depressing.
In most of the US it's kinda hard to live genuinely close to a large number of people. And close doesn't have to be just physical distance, things like convenient public transit can put a lot of people and amenities within a 15-minute radius.

That not only influences your ability to leave near friends you have already made, but also opportunities to make new friends by finding events or groups that match your interests.
Did you get a lot of blue screens with 7 through 10? Or Vista even? Besides one PC that 7 vehemently disagreed with (couldn't run 7 for more than 5 minutes) I think I've had 2 in the past decade.

Personally I think Windows 11 is ugly, the rounded corners, the whole way the icons are shaded, especially the junk they stick in the search bar.

The new context menu is HORRID. It itself is inconsistent! So I'm baffled to see it claimed to be so. There's nothing consistent about having some menu items run horizontal and some vertical. It's awful. Yeah, lets make the most important menu items be smaller targets and harder to parse.
We have a 9 & 5 that are exactly the same way, which makes me want to mention: the Harry Potter series gets really dark pretty quickly. Some of the stuff in the latter books is (IMHO) not appropriate for 8-9 year olds. Just a friendly note in case you struggle like me to keep up with all the books your son is going through :)
In Slackware, that would be a matter of selecting the X11 or Wayland session on your login screen.

Or, if you use X11 and the commandline at runlevel 3, you simply ran xwmconfig.

My daily driver is Plasma, but I also have Xfce4, MATE and Cinnamon.

I welcome new and innovative distros, and certainly this seems to be one of them, but I really don't see the point of the article.
Duke Nukem 3D allows you to create a single sector that intersects itself several times. And you can walk right through the path with no issues.
Hey, we sort of became friends last month :D
rare suburbanite HNer

I bet that's pretty wrong.
I have a model Y performance and love it. I reserved the cybertruck within the first 5 minutes of being able to. I will enjoy rolling around in bleeding edge technology while people have their opinions.
I think the complaint was less WU bothering them with disrupting their workflow by installing updates, and more that WU sometimes installs adware as an "update", and Microsoft decided around Win10 that it was tired of users disabling updates until they wanted to update, and stopped letting you do that without really invasive changes.
Against fixing this behavior, and others:

The year of the Linux desktop for anyone who regularly browses this site came a long, long time ago.

If you're running Windows today and still telling yourself that you'll switch once it finally gets bad enough, the sad truth is that you'll put up with anything, as long as Microsoft introduces new bad behavior slowly enough to let you acclimate to their successive, increasingly fucked-up 'new normal's. As long as learning how to mitigate Microsoft's next insult to your dignity seems like it'll probably be less work than mastering a whole new operating system, Linux won't seem 'ready' to you.

But accumulating more knowledge about how to partially unfuck Windows only keeps you stuck. So stop. Cleverly, laboriously contending with your OS vendor as a fundamentally hostile party is not a solution— it's the hallmark of serious dysfunction. Don't do it. Don't reward Microsoft's abuse with further investments of your time and energy in 'mastering' their platform. Divest.

Instead of fixing this like it's a benign papercut, let the full badness of Windows wash over you. And then... leave.
It does. You're loading segments of real movies on Netflix that are not encumbered by copyright.

But they're intentionally otherwise indistinguishable from any other real movie on Netflix.
All great points.

> it's okay to move ahead if I know at least 80% of the material.

One of the worst feelings is moving on in a textbook and realizing you are indeed totally lost.

Here’s my own list of necessary but not sufficient conditions for deep learning:

- Motivation. Easy to overlook; hard to get if you don’t already have it.

- Frequent experience of “I have no idea how to solve this,” followed by hours or days of playing with the problem, followed by a eureka moment. You can’t be sure you’ve learned the thing unless you’ve constructed the solution yourself. Builds confidence too.

- Seeing the same material in different contexts or presented in different ways. It’s like looking at an object from different angles.

And for bonus points:

- Teach the concept to a curious friend. Their questions will lead you to deeper understanding.
The guardian has a nice piece on this:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2023/apr/...
There are two Microsofts, as I see it.

The one with DevDiv and stuff, which has amazing and mostly free development tools like VS Code, VS 2022, Windows Terminal, WSL, Azure, the .NET ecosystem, the MSVC C++ STL, PowerShell, TypeScript, and so on.

And then there's the bean-counting, irritating part of Microsoft that has stuck around since the 90s and doesn't seem to go away. This part justifies adding advertisements and crapware to Windows, pushing for SaaS (while still charging a LOT), changing the UX of Office programs every version, not being able to implement and release a proper UI library after a decade or so, and pushing laggy Electron apps like Teams instead of developing fast, native ones.

Like many others here, Windows is a daily driver for me. I actually like using it, because a lot of hardware and configurations that need painful finagling on Linux (just try using a multi-monitor high-DPI, mixed-DPI setup on Linux, or any game that has anti-cheat, or touch fingerprint sensors, or HDR and wide colour gamut displays) just work on Windows. It has a massive repository of programs that I use frequently. But some changes are just... irritating.
Or, if you purchase consulting hours from any of the major firms, get ahold of their sales team and have them run the ladder for you. A GTM partner is generally more than happy to leverage their firm's relationship with the public cloud providers in the service of their relationship with you.
My understanding about electronics basics is taking a hit, after reading this piece of info.
If I were meant to have friends god wouldn’t have made me a programmer.
> They don't need to have the best chip tech available as long as they have enough money.

That sounds like someone who is "Blitzscaling." Costs do not matter in those cases, just acquiring customers and marketshare. But for the rest of us, who will see benefits but are not trying to win a $100B market, we will cost optimize.
I’m onboard with the sentiment.

However my Google Pixel dev phone is upsell and Ad free, as far I’ve noticed.
I've heard the $2 LTSC keys on aliexpress activate without issue
> Like yourself, my family was super "close" to our neighbours when I was growing up. But they weren't even remotely "friends" in the sense that I might use the word today - there were zero common interests; significantly different backgrounds, world perspectives, priorities, lifestyles; they had little to talk about other than the prosaic; less superficially and more importantly, they would not be particularly honest or open or intimate with each other within the parameters of social norms. But what they were was utterly dependable to each other - both households knew that they'd support each other - through the winter and power outages and minor and major inconveniences that comes in life.

That’s a valid distinction. But if they had that level of care for each other, I would argue the major reason they didn’t share dinner together, play lawn games, or watch football on sundays was because they didn’t want to. But the author of the article does cite that interest.
Come on, that model has never worked.