skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's eight years from when the model is released so as long as you pay attention and don't buy a model that's already old at the time you buy it it's not too bad.

On many devices you can unlock the bootloader and install a third party chromeos distribution (or linux) after that if you really want, too

8 years is MUCH better than basically all android devices although it's probably worse than windows on a normal laptop, and you're guaranteed updates during that period

The browser is in the process of being decoupled from the os version (it's in beta right now and you can opt in I think) so in the future even if you stop getting updates you'll be able to update the browser to fix the problem you're describing ("you can't even use it to watch streaming because the Chrome version number is too low").

If your chrome os devices are just past their lifetime and have enough storage, you may be able to opt into that and keep using them now actually

I think in the case of schools, 8 years is probably longer than they would expect to keep using laptops anyway.
Anker started trying to direct you to Amazon at some points in your shopping. There’s no fucking way I’m buying electronics off of Amazon anymore.
I really don't care if people use Signal but as a Telegram user I'm exhausted by this hatefest that appears every time Telegram announces a new release. Moxie is a terrible source because he very recently was the CEO of Signal, a competitor, and uses words like "plaintext" as a misleading perjorative for any encryption not E2EE.

If you want and need E2EE please God use some other messenger but why don't we stick to the topic of the feature announcement and save the hate, folks?

If you're a user of Signal, I support your choice to use Signal. Please support our choice to use Telegram.
Certain people were kids who didn’t know better and were lied to by adults they trusted.
> we don’t know about the process used to create the technologies that underpin our civilization.

It's been like that for a while. That's why we need everyone else to function as a society.

I've watched a couple blacksmithing videos on youtube but I still don't really know how smelting iron works, and I wouldn't be able to produce a steel if my life depended on it. That's literally 2500+ year old tech.
If paying back loans is suffering then loans should just be illegal. Why allow people to enter into contracts that are apparently unconscionable?
That's kind of the point, if they didnt avoid that trajectory then what are they doing? Going down with the ship?
Does it have to be beneficial? Another possibility is that the melanin production machinery just broke in a small population and the population was geographically isolated enough that the breakage wasn’t overwritten by neighbors (since there were no neighbors). I wonder if this has been ruled out somehow?
It depends on the specifics.

For example, suppose a drug cartel invents a new formula. The DEA gets to ban it under existing law.

I'm not saying that's analogous. I'm merely providing a counterexample for your idea that the government always has to create custom laws whenever something new happens.
So $66 a year? That’s not very much. 3 year life span with children as the user/abuser? Seems about right. Must be a slow news day.
True for individuals who are unable to value their time, but I doubt you'd find an IT industry professional who agreed. You buy the machine with the support contract and you get the supported parts and you don't touch them. Modern designs don't even have replaceable RAM, for good reasons and not as some kind of conspiracy.
> My absolute favorite thing about writing code — and the reason I stuck with it through the initial learning curve— is that there is pretty much always a right answer when it comes to code. Your code either works or it doesn’t. This is not the case with almost anything else in life. When you write an essay, paint a picture, or design a website, you never really know if you did it “right.”

I grew up in a wilderness of mirrors, constantly lied to about so many things it took years to adjust after leaving home at 17. This aspect of programming brought stability and prosperity into my life. It remains that way 40+ years later.
We should just compare to how much renewable power The Register as a company is using.
> The USA misuses the term endlessly

Well most of corporate america certainly does, but they can just as easily be multinationals so its not really the USA other than they may have registered the entity here.
(1) It's brand new. (2) Freeform isn't a substitute for either of your examples. Miro and Microsoft Whiteboard are good comparisons, except they target enterprise while Freeform and other Apple "office basics" apps target personal/education/small business use.
Dan, are you sure you want to keep this level of incivility on the board?

Think again, if it is really proper to not encourage exchange and encourage instead perplexing """performance art""". Too similar to the directly anti-axiological "how does that make you feel".
Yes! I consider Twitter first and foremost a journaling app and have used it as such from the get-go, an online Commonplace Book.
What is a company supposed to do when a market is no longer available to it? Make new products. There is nothing — nothing — saying that SoFi must offer student loans. It’s just looking at that money, and saying ‘this is easy money’. They _could_ create new financial products in an area that isn’t impacted by the repayment pause, and seek to grow that.
What difference does it make what form the compensation is in? Is your argument that because employees receive stock that they somehow have enough voting power to influence company policy? That’s laughable.
Could you link to the document that backs up your claim? Specifically the Chromebook devices.

It looks like google supports devices for 6,7,8, even 9 years. Plenty of models with 2030+ expiration.

https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6220366?hl=en#zip...
I think the proper term for the job should be Prompt Alchemist.

We've seen this before. Back when Google was a search engine, you'd eventually get a feel for how things worked, and build a vocabulary of "spells" that give the results you want, without using the common words with many overloaded meanings. (Example: Annotation instead of mark up, when trying research the Marking Up of Hyperlinked Texts)

Similar things proved to be true of Stable Diffusion and the image generators. It seems quite reasonable to conclude the same will be true of GPT4 and its kin.
> Would it be a stretch to blame him for the current company culture of nurturing new products left and right just to kill them off after 3-5 years?

“More wood behind fewer arrows” was Google’s direction from Larry Page starting in 2011, which was when they slaughtered a lot of existing and (from Google’s perspective) marginal projects and became a lot more prone to demanding that new efforts prove themselves adequately or be terminated, so Pichai isn’t responsible for starting it, at least.
The grid is for trade, so I am not sure what sense this complaint makes. Also France relies on imports sometimes. Electricity prices changing with production and demand is also exactly what market is for. As long as the market is working, this is beneficial to buyer and seller and changing prices are signals that allow the market to optimize production and consumption. Even when the price becomes zero sometimes, that does not mean than renewables need more subsidies if they earn money at other times where the price is higher. Also Germany still has enough of conventional generation capacity to ramp up production if needed, so the "is possible at all because" comment is wrong. If there is trade, then because this is cheaper overall (and in general this helps buyer and seller).
What SoFi is doing here is more like a bail bondsman suing because the government stopped having people pay bail. The government isn't stopping people from repaying SoFi, SoFi is not a party to the actual transaction.
That’s interesting, is the installation through Amazon? I’m guessing not in the US?

I bought an AC unit on Amazon here in the US and they just send it like any other product in a box, and it’s up to you to figure the rest out.
What sort of discount will the people who had their loans paid off offer for their services? As a taxpayer who didn't attend college I don't expect to pay full price for someone with a degree that I paid for.
Sort of.

Gensler doesn't get to wave his hand and eliminate crypto. But he does get to bring lawsuits against crypto companies alleging they violate existing law. He will have the burden of proof in those lawsuits. If he wins them he may be able to effectively eliminate crypto through application of existing law.

Edit: I realize "you have to defend it on the merits" was poorly phrased. What I meant was that I predict judges will find crypto against existing law. So if you want it to be allowed you'll need to argue for new laws. But it was a very bad way to put it.
I think there’s a heretofore unnamed evil twin to semantic satiation where you edit copy too much and sound like a narcissist.
Where can I learn more about this stuff? Also for other animals.

I remember reading that a fly's "framerate" is so high, it doesn't see an image on TV, just the dot created by the electron beam slowly making its way across.
It’s not an anti labor narrative. It’s reality. When you start having families, you slow down. Many googlers who want to keep pushing tend to leave Google
There are plenty of studies and anecdotes that show your wealth is the number one factor in your kids success. So, that seems like the best place to start if we're going to intervene to provide a more "just" system.
No, if anything it results in worse support as things stay broken for much longer.

Order X, get Y, get refund, order X, get Z isn’t good support it’s a huge waste of my time.
> Why is SEC supposed to do the job of Coinbase's lawyers?

The current legal framework for determining whether something is a security or not is the Howey test [1]. And it looks like that Coinbase's listings pass the test? If they didn't, they would've been sued already.

Why try to redefine what makes up a security on the fly without telling anyone?

[1] https://www.sec.gov/corpfin/framework-investment-contract-an...
It depends a lot on what country you are in, and what job level you worked at. Reach out to your connections and see if there is an opening somewhere. I doubt you will have to resort to a new career at McDonalds, or even a non tech job. But without being more specific it is impossible to give applicable advice other than abstract ideas which sound good but might be useless.
The prices in summer were so high mainly because half of France nuclear plants were offline. Look, even the article you cite mentions this: "The largest Nordic nation became the region’s top exporter in the first half after France suffered problems at its aging reactors"
But that can’t be a cause for standing. Should oil companies have standing to prevent mass transit?
>Meet the new boss/Same as the old boss

https://www.google.com/search?q=who+lyrics+meet+the+new+boss...
Often it feels like government especially education contracts for technology are designed to enrich people, rather than buy what is best for education.
He's done great good: for himself, stuffing his wallet. He's played the game well, squirrelling his way to the top, and siphoning off his fill.

For all the Alphabet stuff, and hiring the smartest engineers on the planet, I've yet to hear of a single Google breakthrough beyond their search. They're still just ad salesmen.

Only other useful things they've done that most people would be aware of is refining Microsoft's email/office software into the SaaS age, and making a popular map app. That's great, but no breakthrough.

Now OpenAI's going to kneecap them. Who searches for lists of potential sources of answers when ChatGPT just gives you them? They're fucked.
This is already AGI, as it is not tailored to a specific purpose (unlike all previous "AI"s were). It can do anything (given multi-modality), it is general. Humans are still better at specific things, but LLMs easily beat humans in generality. For example, GPT-4 can surely write a better poetry than an average human (despite that it is not "the best of the best" poetry), and so on.

It is AGI.

There is no point to rant about "oh but there is no long-term memory, no goal-setting, no planning and such" — it is really easy to augment it with all that, see Auto-GPTs and similar projects. Just loop it through itself and give it an interface to the external world, and it could do anything. Incrementally improve the model, and you'll get to superhuman performance in all tasks.
Sure, why not? IMO an employer should have a greater responsibility to its employees and its customers than to its investors.

There is a differences between "not important" and "not the most efficient way to increase shareholder value." Corporations regularly refuse to do work that I'd consider important as a customer because their investors don't see it as important.
I like my chromebook as a cheap, portable remote desktop client to a more powerful windows machine - and for watching youtube on the device itself. But what dies faster than any component, in my experience, is the emmc module. My understanding is the larger the size the more life it will have due to wear leveling. Ive found its hard to find a decently price chromebook that has replaceable ssds (m2 etc). The selection is really slim. This is one thing I wish could change.

Just add why they're so handy. For $199 i got
*14 inch anti-glare IPS display
*fanless, battery life 3-7 hours
*RDP (thru ssh tunnel) into a beefy windows desktop or laptop *you have IMO the best windows experience on a laptop.
can easily bring a compact external battery it charge it up over usb c. never have to worry about finding a power outlet or running out of battery
Most SWE is snake oil, take one look around and you'll see what I mean...

React..? Golang? GUIs?! We stepped too far from The Truth (vim, ghc) and now we are all Oilers.
Providing Liquidity is a crime that harms everyone except market makers and economists. I’m pretty sure they don’t matter.
Don't take names so literally. They're just useful labels that help us categorize things and communicate shared meaning. At this point, people know what you mean if you say "prompt engineering".

Prompt engineering feels like a quite appropriate name because there is a lot of experimentation and refinement to find good ways to interact with these models (I.e. good prompts!).

It doesn't perfectly map to "engineering", but it maps pretty well. What else would you call an iterative process of experimentation and refinement?
Reality is coming for combustion engines very quickly. What's interesting to me is essentially I would think a lot of traditional makers are going to go bankrupt. GM and Volks make a huge percentage of their money from China and all of a sudden they aren't selling many cars there.

I think we are going to see a lot of car company bankruptcies. Interesting times.
> SoFi exists because of a quirk in the federal student loan program. While the government charges different interest rates depending on the loan type, within those loan types there is no differentiation.

So many businesses in this country arise because of these "quirks", which are really big f*cking mistakes, and then entrench themselves and the problems fester. The U.S. government treating a $100,000 loan for an English lit degree and a civil engineering degree the same is silly. Student loans should be dischargeable in bankruptcy so market forces can act to keep things sane.
Just a shout out to ikkyu tea, if you buy in bulk and get free shipping, it's a pretty good value for tea that you can trust.
> they had to [take a huge loan] in order to study.

This isn't true. If you go to a state school and work part time to cover your living expenses, you can get an undergrad degree very cheap. And the most prestigious of private schools (e.g. Ivy league) offer very generous needs-based scholarships, so if you come from a poor family you don't have to pay.

You "have to" get a huge loan if you choose to attend a very expensive private school that won't give you a needs-based scholarship. But nobody has to do that, it's a choice some people make. It's a decision made by naive kids straight out of highschool so I still have some sympathy, but this narrative of necessarily having to take huge loans is part of the problem and helps to normalize this. The belief that huge loans are necessary in America is wrong and contributes to the real problem.

From: https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2021/11/01/whic...

> The 2021-22 average tuition and fees sticker price for full-time, in-state students at public four-year colleges ranged from a low of $6,100 in Wyoming to a high of $17,750 in Vermont.

> Following Wyoming, the least expensive states were Florida ($6,370), Montana ($7,265), Utah ($7,387), and North Carolina ($7,389).

> After Vermont, the most expensive states for four-year universities were New Hampshire ($17,040), Pennsylvania ($15,312), New Jersey ($14,963), and Illinois ($14,667).

> Over the past five years, average in-state tuition and fees at public four-year institutions fell in 18 states after adjusting for inflation. During that same time period, only six states (Alaska, Connecticut, Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon and Rhode Island) saw their average in-state tuition increase by 10% or more.

> According to the report, in 2019-20, 75% of first-time, full-time students attending public two-year colleges received federal, state or institutional grant aid. At public four-year universities, 78% of students were awarded such aid.

> The average net tuition and fees paid by first-time, full-time in-state students at public four-year institutions was estimated to be $2,640, the lowest it’s been since 2006-07, down more than a $1,000 from a peak in 2012-13 of $3,720 (in 2021 dollars).
Remember when Apple basically gave away computers to schools during 80/90s? I feel it created a long-term positive impact for the company down the road.

Chromebook might accomplish the opposite.
The rule of thumb is that a filesystem needs about a decade or so[0] to iron out the bugs and become reliable enough for regular use by regular users. Btrfs is 14 years old which means it's old enough to start getting adopted, but changing the default filesystem in a distro is not a particularly quick process, since most people simply don't care about most of the advanced features. Plus since data loss is such a feared problem, any anecdotes about it will cause a massive hit to the filesystem's reputation, regardless of the anecdote's validity. Right now Fedora and OpenSUSE use btrfs by default, likely because they're upstreams of enterprise distros where users will use those advanced features, so Red Hat and SUSE want to make sure it's as solid as possible before potentially rolling it out to paying customers.

Personally, I'm a happy user of btrfs installed by default by Fedora and haven't had any problems with it, but I'm also not using any of the advanced features.

[0] Source: casual conversation and poorly remembered anecdotes
There are so many confounding factors with attractiveness that I don’t think this is a useful line of thinking.
I’m not discussing the CEOs from those scandals. I’m discussing the ramifications of the scandals that have been passed onto present day CEOs. The GP asked what risk current CEOs assume. I linked them directly to Section 302 of Sarbanes-Oxley, which is the authoritative body on risk that a CEO assumes for a publicly-traded company in the US.
That's how I console myself.... ;-D
100%. People who have not tried to interact with these models don't understand there is actually quite a lot of skill in navigating the latent space.
>In that case not having the switch at all is probably slightly better, at least it's not lying to you.

In theory, yes, in practice if the result is still shooting one's foot accidentally (or worse) there is no difference.
"Chromebook EoL date" is a very easily Googlable document listing hard cutoff for every model.
See also ambigram, coined by Douglas Hofstadter, which is a word or phrase that also makes sense after a transformation, commonly a point rotation of 180°:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambigram

Word ambigrams make fun logos.
That's finally a real use for large language models. Replace the agile coaches. Needless to say, a team is better off replacing them with nothing.
To be fair, when the building collapses in the CAD simulation, you just "reboot" it with different parameters. Civil engineers don't actually put bricks or weld a metal.
What is the hierarchy in a migratory 50 person hunter gather band? Who is the king or heir? There is no class system and there is no surplus produced, because there is mo reason to produce surplus.
Even if they stole technology they'd need a time machine to be where they're at now since they're ahead of others. I wouldn't put it past Intel to imply they stole from their upcoming node but, if so, it's not like Intel has that out yet...
One thing to remember: Small Claims Court (or whatever it is called where you live). Most jurisdictions have something like this: a light-weight court system without lawyers for low-value cases. Pay a minimal fee, like 10% of your claim, up front, and your claim is in.

Just make sure you know exactly who your counterparty is. If the item is sold by someone else via Amazon then your first target is the seller, not Amazon. HOWEVER there may be the Amazon A-Z guarantee, which is part of their deal with you, and which you can sue them over.

I'm always amazed about how stories like this never seem to talk about "here is how you use the court system when MegaCorp stonewalls you".
> Back to the original goal of this post. While I enjoy writing WAT code, one aspect of the experience that could be improved is documentation. The WASM spec is much more suitable for formal verification than for actual documentation purposes; specifically, it's hard to grep and doesn't provide much in terms of examples. This is alright for a spec, but I couldn't find complementary resources that just show code samples.

I know the pain. One time, I was trying to use an experimental academic research tool. The tool accepts an input file, written in a custom language. The language is fully documented, but the only thing the documentation did was listing the syntax of each command in BNF notation. But at least it had demo code in the repo so you could read code and doc side by side to figure out how the code should look like...
It absolutely has to do with pupil size.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35667806
I was under the impression that it’s unusual for fabless chipmakers to do transistor level design anymore, and that they mostly rely on the standard TSMC libraries. But I may be wrong about that. The critical point I was trying to make is that the ASML machine doesn’t know how to make transistors. That’s something TSMC does: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16041/where-are-my-gaafets-ts...
Source study:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-023-01144-z
Captain obvious here: look at the article's date.
School lunch programs in the US are captive to the ag department, which is why they are gross. It’s a dumping ground for whatever commodity domestic goods are the most plentiful.

Layers upon layers of perverse incentives. It’s not just taxpayers that pay, it’s also the kids and the environment and thus future generations.

Some people have been trying to get this changed for a long time now. No luck so far.
It sounds like Intel is dragging its feet releasing an open source driver for those cameras. But as usual if you use a bleeding edge distro like Arch it's just mashing in a few AURs and you'll have support: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=280559