skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is literally no point in such an effort that doesn't involve the threat of significant impact, i.e. legal/regulatory penalty.

We've been in this world long enough, and we should be smarter about understanding that.
The frustrating thing about shopping for x86 laptops (as you probably will be if you’re wanting to run Linux) is how few models come even a little close to comparing to MacBooks in terms of battery life even with tools like tlp running and CPU throttled down as far as it’ll go, and that’s to say nothing about heat and fan noise.

I’ve been looking around and the only two 12-14” options I can find that match that description are the HP Dragonfly G4 and ASUS Zenbook S OLED (AMD), and those still fall several hours short of the M2 Air, and the M3 Air will likely widen that gap with its SoC being on a smaller process node.
Unless it leaks blue chat boxes it has an uphill battle
Fix the test or remove it.
You really think the orgs don't know that ?

You really think they expected ever festival-goer to suddenly realize the errors of their ways and go home ?

You really think that now, no one is going to think about this story ?

What is your background on activism that makes you say all that ?
The entire chain that enables this is disturbing, but fascinating.

For instance, the scammers would need some kind of credibility in the job market before the team-building exercise. Do they just start up new legtimate businesses with new people just for this purpose?

And the SE Asia slave camps need a huge amount of compliance from the locals.

And what happens when none of the employees return from the original country?
I really like Kagi and have been a paying customer for a few months. The price is very fair. I find what I'm looking for faster than with any other search engine and I am better treated as a customer.
https://128.199.184.57/
I find it difficult to understand whether your second sentence refers to Russia or those 'post-soviet countries'.

If it is the latter, I want to note that as a person from a Baltic country I have no doubt that my fellow citizens value self-determination and democracy a lot more than consumer goods.
True for a very long time. People would smuggle Levi's into the USSR.

I think Americans underestimate sometimes just how much America benefits from its cultural exports which people love.
That's a neat project. A key difference is the Google dataset resolves down to the address level (at least in the US). So it is able to account for tree cover over individual buildings, which can be determinative to the economics of a solar install.
The community of network operators exchanging routes over BGP. Get yourself an ASN and some IP space and join us! At the end of the day, the Internet is a collection of independent networks, interconnected voluntarily when there is mutual benefit to doing so.
But wherever and whatever you're doing you CAN make steps toward doing that.
Honestly, that's the more interesting and more difficult part. Anyone with basic training can be coerced to slice and dice schemas and configs until pretty graphs are produced. LLMs might not even be the best for that.

But knowing _what_ to look for in the data given a problem statement - that's valuable, and hard to teach. LLMs have such a broad base of "knowledge", they can be reasonably good at this in just about any domain.
GUI applications are only as responsive as the framework allows them to be. Because Notepad2 and the later Notepad3 were built with win32, they will start the fastest. Applications with a lot of plugins will only load as fast as those plugins can be checked and loaded to prevent exceptions. Personally, I like AkelPad since it still uses a proper MDI like Visual Studio 2008.
Again: it's you that has put the specific "AI" projection onto "CG".

As I say, this term appears to be used in the past broadly to include the kind of 3D animations that appear in conventional porn adverts, and also to face-swap and other Photoshop-type edits.

All I can say is that prosecutions in the UK for example have often mentioned such material alongside conventionally shared material.

I don't think I've read about any prosecutions where fake material was the only material justifying prosecution. But I could have missed that.

I have absolutely no interest in getting into the rest of the argument, which is tedious and IMO kind of obvious on many grounds.
No. A computer is no more capable of simulating a Universe than is a book. The same arguments apply to books: If a super advanced race were capable of writing such vivid fiction that it created a Universe, then our Universe must be fictional!! It's an absurd idea that has gotten way too much traction.
At this point the only thing preventing open large scale piracy is the Russian government's proactive steps to keep it underwater.

Obviously, if government intervention wasn't there and you would start distributing Barbie, who can sue you? The movie company? They has exited the market and don't have local presense. If they do, just move the office to LPR and make them file their complaints to "Lugansk People's Republic, Russia".
I’d almost be ok with that but the paywall doesn’t actually contain good content and the key to each gate is pretty expensive
> Indeed, the ACLU have lost their way.

Indeed, they haven't.

> The memo listed several factors to consider, including "the extent to which the speech may assist in advancing the goals of white supremacists or others whose views are contrary to our values."

i.e. Consider whether we'd be arguing against our own goals.

How anyone reasonable could consider this a bad thing, I don't know.

https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/defending-speech-w...

They've defended people and organizations I oppose, but their reasoning has always been sound.

That the ACLU debates and reflects is admirable.
But you can separate the file format of the executable from the loading process, i.e. implement "doing what the OS loader does" on your own. This way, you can define your completely own executable format instead of being forced to use the one that your OS wants you to use, or even decide that it doesn't have to be a file format (e.g. stream the data from a network stream).
That sounds very much like the plot of Animal World!

To be honest, it doesn't all add up for me as simply described: offices where multiple people suddenly vanish seem unlikely to escape notice back home, unless they're excellent at picking people without any support network to report them missing. But maybe there's more to it than the simple description. And there is an enormous supply of migrant workers in cities without friends or families to come looking until it's to late, so I suppose it could happen. Or maybe it's garbled in the transmission and the jobs are all actually out of the country, but they don't spring the trap instantly when you walk in

But at least it seems not to be simply little scammers tricked by bigger, eviller ones, but rather they really have people who were genuinely looking for at least fairly honest work being ensnared.
There are many problems in Florida in addition to heat engines getting better at what they do = huge insurance fraud problems, restrictive work practices, shortage of stuff to make/fix roofs, shortage of local roof fixers = fukkit, lets walk
I am not of the field, bit did dig into the CBT hole (both reading and consulting a trained therapist), and I have the impression that the effects are overstated (and, at least for me, this was totally the wrong approach). The main issue I see with the studies I tried to look at was that they compared the answers to some psychometric scales between people following a CBT method and people following "talk therapy". My problem with it is that, while CBT is pretty formalized and can be "administered" in a not so terrible way even by an if-statement based chatbot [1], "talk therapy" is a very broad category, and the effects will be mostly dependent on not only the skill of the therapist, but also the fit between the therapist and the client. So yes, CBT will consistently give small results, but comparing it to consulting a random non-CBT therapist is as absurd as comparing the travel time by bus to the travel time by jumping in and out of random trains until you reach the destination.

[1] before I get attacked on this: I do not say that there are no good therapists with CBT training - but I am confident most of them would still be very good even without the training or method.
That's how I felt after finally ditching car-free lifestyle at 30 (including selling my 2nd bike and letting my main one rot in sheds/parking garages/basements) and starting to drive everywhere ;)
> In that sense trafficking victims are absolutely more deserving of those rights than convicted criminals.

No. you assume conviction = guilt, and that whatever treatment that comes thereafter is just.

For instance, it appears you would endorse treating people like these trafficking victims if they were first convicted by some court you consider valid, since "that's what being a prisoner means".
That federal program is broke as a joke, and it generally comes with extremely high deductibles and poor payouts.

It’s easy for states to regulate insurance companies for political points, which you’re seeing in California and Florida. However, insurance markets collapse slowly and then very very quickly when the math stops working out.
Let's see what the people always screaming about how the EU only cares about fining American tech companies who do nothing wrong will respond to this.
It often isn't as simple as using a correlation identifier and looking at logs across the service infrastructure. If you have a misconfiguration or hardware issue it very likely may be intermittent and only visible as an error in a log before or after the request. The response has incorrect data inside a properly formatted envelope.
I hope someone manages to write a crack or something that enables the same behaviour in non-EEA locales, if only to see what mental gymnastics MS will engage in to explain why that would be bad for users.
tend to sympathize, it's slack or discord invites that trigger it for me
> Same for legal cannabis firms due to being unbanked previously or because the whole industry isn't traceable.

My understanding is that banks are federally chartered and thus cannot provide services to weed firms as it remains illegal federally.
While I think this is great, when is Google going to stop showing pop ups on GMail, YouTube and Search that try to get people to use Chrome?
You can still create room without login. Just click "book a meeting URL" at https://meet.jit.si/ which redirects to https://moderated.jitsi.net/ and there you can create room without any authorization.
Could Nature turn from one of the most respected academic journals to a clickbaiting blogging outfit in the space of a decade? [1]. The post rehashes some old and sterile ideas. The most recent reference is a preprint from 2013.

Alas the zeitgeist is conducive to "bits will eat the world". Here is a more radical idea: Could the Universe be a giant Universe? (= a recursive function). Maybe its Universes all the way down?

[1] Apparently yes
That statement (the universe, which is what we seemingly evolved and grew in, was created by ... us? we are our own creator?) is so circular and illogical that it is actually ingenious.

Like humans existed in some other existence, but we were going to get Gnab Gib'd, so we ensured that the next universe would inevitably rise to precisely recreate us through a convoluted 4 billion year evolutionary program in a tiny speck of dirt in one of billions of galaxies?

It's like some convoluted anime/manga plotline that occurs in the final stages of a 10-15 year run. Or heck, like the infamous "Dallas" plot element from the 1980s: THE ENTIRE SERIES WAS JUST A DREAM.

Or "Lost".

It does seem that quantum mechanics hints at the universe being some bizarre gigantic n-dimensional computational matrix, but that's probably because of the discrete quantities and rigid math and things like hard orbits/energy level jumps which seem a lot like memory assignment or cellular automata.
Thank you. This is a much better article.
The source of older versions of Windows was "forced open", a long time ago, unfortunately not legally.
the first thing you need is food. i can't understand what you are talking about here - food is not free.
That seems to me to be begging the question.

I see no evidence that the desktop will "die out". It may change form, and it may be used by a smaller percentage of the computing public, but the idea that we're going to see a time without significant usage of desktop (or laptop) computers within the foreseeable future just seems laughable to me.

It smacks, to me, of the idea that the only thing worth being in the market is the very top: the company selling the biggest product, making the most money—otherwise you might as well not even bother.

This is toxic thinking.
There's a lot of people depending on a functional NVIDIA driver to do a lot of computation. It's understandable that they'd be defensive if the thing that powers their products suddenly taken from them, regardless of who's at fault.
I'll assume you are arguing in good faith, but I doubt it, considering your tone.

I did not say anything about a leaderless company. I said that the current perceived value of C-suite contributor is way over-inflated. That culture can and should change.
I looked up the ordinance, and I was wrong about a few things. Livestock or poultry may be kept provided that there are no more than 4. So I was wrong about the limit -- it's less than five and not five or less.

Also:

* I need to have a 1 acre parcel, and I have only a bit over 0.25
* It needs to be 25 feet from all property boundaries and fenced in, which limits placement options

So my options, for this plot, are nil.

I don't recall the 1 acre limit when I looked before, so I'm wondering if this has been updated.
Everyone is doing it.

Google is using Google search to shove ads for Chrome in your face.

Microsoft is using Windows showing ads for Bing in your Face.

Apple is using the settings app to shove ads for TV, Fitness subscriptions, etc. in your face.
Not unless they open source the derivation of otherwise make the source available.
> It feels like this is something that maybe good priests/churches used to do that accidentally got lost as society became more secular.

Certainly, and I could expound on this point at length, but suffice it to say that the elites of most long-lived world religions have had extensive experience, knowledge and wisdom in so-called "psychology" fields for millennia. In fact, as the State disestablishes religions, something must fill the vacuum, and in fact psych*y are used much in the same way as religion formerly was.

Psych*y is in fact a compulsory and State-Established Religion for most of us in the West, particularly in these United States, because of the coercive nature of the clinic and hospital system, the court-ordered treatments, the subsidized "medicine" drugs and practitioners, and so forth.

Most of us can tell you, even some atheists know, that psych*y is a shitty poor excuse for a religion, and no substitute for an actual faith practice, and the way the State foists it on us today is basically abuse.
For fiction writing, all of them work more or less the same.

The trick to get the AI to produce more iteratable content is to use a really long prompt. The more specific you can be, the better. So, don't say 'in the style of Hemingway' to get something like Hemingway. Say something more like 'in the style of the character of Timeaus, in Plato's Timeaus, as translated by J. Harward' to get something that feels more like an ancient platonic dialog. Don't say ' I want a heroic character who fights dragons', say something like ' I want a maiden in distress over her recent divorce from her alcoholic husband of 7 years, Fred, and the incarceration of her mother for the 4th time for drug abuse. This maiden lives in upstate New York, and ....'. Give it as much as you can.

And again, you use AI as an accelerant, not as the generator of the initial ideas. You still have to do that on your own. You can have the AI tweak things, suggest things, but having it make things up from whole cloth isn't the best. Take what it gives you, throw half away, iterate on the rest, repeat. Like with a longer prompt, if you give the AI the entire text that you need a hand with, and then ask it very specific things, you will get better results.
> So rather than make them equal

Unsurprisingly, we did try this for a decade or two. It was an extensive and expensive failure and is widely researched and written about [1].

A minor boost to Māori in a waiting list point scoring system for list prioritisation has caused a knee jerk dismissal of the scheme as we see here. Absent from the shouting has been a solution to Māori living shorter lives with worse health [2]. The new scheme also reduces the impact of race on list priorities, as noted at the end of this article [3]. Race is a couple of points out of 100, most being clinical.

The point scoring system is a small part of the large changes underway in the system at the moment. The moves are primarily towards more autonomy for Māori within the healthcare system [4]. The background to this is a recognised failure in the system after a successful court action claiming Treaty of Waitangi obligations were not being met. They weren’t and aren’t [5].

With knowledge of the situation and what’s going on, ‘apartheid’ is a pretty radical take. To my knowledge even the dog whistle politicians in an election year haven’t called new the scheme apartheid.

Update: yes, our dog whistle politics have gone there.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027795362...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/20/new-zealand-st...

[3] https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2...

[4] https://www.futureofhealth.govt.nz/maori-health-authority/

[5] https://waitangitribunal.govt.nz/news/report-on-stage-one-of...
I want everyone here to completely get over the fantasy fairytale idea that Microsoft can be moved on this by typical "consumer feedback" types of responses.

We've been here too long, and we know what Microsoft is and what they do.

Switch operating systems, or push for EXTERNAL changes in law and policy.

The other stuff is futile.
You’re right that my rant is incorrect on the premise that they don’t have hmm, but it’s because I missed rocm adding it two years ago. So my bad, and unfortunately I can’t edit my post so I’ll leave the link here with my apologies.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Radeon-ROCm-4.3

The reason I missed it is because rocm dropped support for my cards very unceremoniously. At which point I gave up.

I do think the rest of my point outside of the first sentence is valid though. Rocm isn’t reliable to target. Nowhere near CUDA.

That it’s so dependent on what card you have, what OS/kernel you use and is so aggressive with dropping support for older cards, makes the entire ecosystem a mess. CUDA by comparison is so much more ubiquitous.

That becomes chicken and egg with popular libraries adding rocm support because it then ends up targeting such a sliver (and shifting sliver) at that of the market.
"This ice cream isn't going to eat itself" :)
Those regulations mean the average worker won't have to buy a new phone when the battery degrades, and if they do buy a new one, their existing chargers will continue to work with it, so contrary to your point, it saves the average worker money and improves their life in a very tangible way.
Short answer is, humans gonna human.

As to whether it's been tried, I would say that the Socialism I'm referring to was implemented quite successfully in the United States in the 30s, and its benefits persisted into approximately the 70s, at which point the cohort which remembered why The New Deal happened had aged out and their children started dismantling all the apparatus in a fever dream of capitalist ideology, which they've been promising would produce a utopia, but which if you look out of any window in the USA, you will has done quite a good job of producing that same anti-utopia you referred to.

As I said, humans gonna human. Agent Elrond talked about this in The Matrix. His machine empire perspective was that we don't want to be happy. I think that chaos provides opportunities for opportunists, and there are those who know this and seek to create order, and there are those who know this and seek to create chaos, for exactly the reasons you might suspect. [edit: and then of course, there's the endless herds of prey who do not know this.]

If you read 1984, you know that "If there's hope, it's in the proles" is kind of a mantra that Winston repeats to himself throughout the story, and one which ultimately is replaced by a boot crushing a human face, forever.

At the same time, Orwell was a Socialist.

The 20th Century is a set of chapters in a story that runs back through the centuries, and that endless war that goes hot and cold and on and on is the real story there. To pin the blame for the dystopias of that time on the ideology that ruled over them is to miss the plot; I could as well say that free market economies are inherently dystopic based on the evidence outside your American doorway, and be just as wrong.

America struck the right balance for a while, and everyone benefitted, and then the corporate raiders took over, with Ronnie McRaygun as their exuberant figurehead. And they just keep hitting that corporate welfare pipe to keep the party going, but the hangover is coming, boyo, and it's either gonna go socialist or it's gonna go fascist and then socialist. Let's skip the unpleasant part this time.

Narrator in 2050: They didn't.
I see that the third author of the book was Allen Rohner. I worked with him at Compass Labs, an incredibly talented developer! He also founded CircleCI.
The insurance mandates are for things that impact either your life or other people. I don’t want your judgement proof ass hitting me with your car without the ability to fix it, nor do I want you using emergency medicine as a pediatrician. Thus, mandates.
Why Rust is the most admired language among developers
Innocent person in jail means that guilty person walked free. If it is easy to lock Innocent people, justice system has no incentive to try to figure out who really did it.

Result is easily that then you have both more innocent people in prison and more guilty people being free.
I’mm sure it works in some cases but does it also increase drug abuse? How about other negative effects?
In that case the question would be whether they valid democracy more than the opportunity to be employed in London or Germany.

Of course, it's impossible to tell, since in this case they come bundled, at least until now.
Typescript syntax is fully backwards compatible with JavaScript, so you actually aren't forced into using TypeScript at all.

Just change the file extension and it just works™
> I have never understood this buyback philosophy and spoke against it(my whispers in a hurricane)

Buybacks come from net income (profit). A business always has a choice of using the profit to pay the business’s owners (via dividend or buybacks) or to invest it back into the business (such as spending on R&D).

Obviously, what portion of the profit is ideal to spend on R&D and what portion of the profit to pay to owners is not an objective truth.

And buybacks are nothing special, except that they allow more flexibility in how to reward the owners.
Perhaps not, but a whole lot of people have already died -- and it's only been 1.5 years. Even if it only goes on for another 6 months that's going to be a lot of corpses.

Iran-Iraq ran through most of the 1980s; Vietnam and Afghanistan took decades. World War 2 didn't last that long and killed far, far more.