skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unsure if it's related to the same region but in general, scammers are getting sophisticated with their attacks finding local churches and email phishing with unusually detailed information about church members. Posting videos asking prayers for specific individuals online is a bad practice since it exposes not only that individual but everyone around them to scam.
What's the point of leaks if we all know they release a new phone every year? The foldable phone leaks were exciting because no one expected them, but this?

However I do like the color, nicer than the typical black/white
I think so too. But in general, it could also be due to other reasons: faster hardware, lower timeout for batched inference, optimizations like flash attention and flash attention 2, quantization, ...

I'd say that it's probably a mix of all of the above (incl some distillation).
That's true in principle but the laws and legal system are set up in such a way that a very large percentage of particular demographics will end up in this situation and from an outsiders perspective it doesn't look all that different.
WebKit is probably the only thing holding the web open at this point. Imagine if this last bastion of non-Chromium went away, and Googles stranglehold on the web was finally total.
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Specifically, wikipedia is not an unbiased source on any issue that is of particular concern to the terminally online. Anything to do with US politics or culture war is going to be heavily distorted due to the nature of the beast (its something people care a lot about, there were strong founder effects and there was a purity spiral).

The sources that are allowed/disallowed and their respective biases (e.g. what they publish or don't say) are a big factor.
God bless you sir/madam, but I’m not wrong. There may be some people with “glandular” issues causing them somehow to eat too much but I don’t think I’m saying something controversial when stating that americas obesity crisis is mostly just to do with lazy sedentary people who like eating and watching tv more than eating healthily and doing exercise. Blaming micro plastics, hormonal imbalances blah blah etc is a waste of time, and won’t result in any benefit to anyone.

Most people just need to hear the hard and brutal truth, you’re going to die young because you’re fat and you’re fat because you’re lazy and can’t handle some small amount of effort to abstain or go for a walk.
It has a lot of users and many niche issues, they do not have to fix them all.

I fixed an issue myself that got on my nerve and was already sitting in the bugtracker for years, so they are more like helpful forum posts.
So the WASM code of the font is just for a dynamic ligature engine?
Sourcegraph Cody uses OpenAI. It works pretty good I guess. I couldn't figure out how to give Google's Codey (spelled differently) a spin as a github copilot alternative.
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Every time I visit my parents, I find they've reverted to using Edge and don't know why. Despite my best efforts, they don't seem to have the will or technical ability to resist M$ manipulation. It's frustrating.
We are halfway down the slippery slope on this stuff. Ads are starting to pop up inside the apps we already pay for, operating systems, and even in, say, point-of-sale devices begging for tips.

It's not about ads being 'the only source of revenue for our business' anymore, it's about "product managers" being able to dominate the UX and development conversations by convincing organizations like MSFT that they can contribute additional value/revenue by using preexisting customers as expansion opportunities.

If you are a UX designer especially, fight back – otherwise this downward pressure to squeeze water out of a rock will simply end with users jumping ship. I'm already transitioning to Jitsi because Zoom pulled this shit.
> Are the machines leased or owned? Because if they are owned outright (which is implied by the fast that ifixit was able to buy a used one to work on) then wholesale replacement of the control electronics would just void any warranty but would not be able to be hit with any sort of firmwarm hack copyright claim, assuming any new software writted for the control logic was clean-sheet engineered and not reversed from the Taylor control system.

It’s not the warranties that concern them. The franchisees are worried about running afoul of McDonald’s corporate, which limits what franchisees can do even to owned equipment.
It'd be great for investors if the top positions were paid mostly / entirely in stock. That way we can entice a good CEO with high pay and our interests will still align.
> I hate whoever is controlling all these awful choices for their OS.

That’s Microsoft. They control their own software.
I'd be inclined to call them multiple cores myself, but if they all share the same pipe to main memory that would be a plausible reason to call them all the same core.
MacOS, run by Apple, the same company that mandates the Safari engine on iOS? The same company that fights tooth and nail against allowing non-“approved” apps to run on their devices?

Let’s not delude ourselves to thinking that two of the richest tech companies in the world are all that different. Both are working against your interests to monopolize their turf.

The group that truly puts users first is FOSS: Linux and BSD.
The popups are awful but I'm surprised they are happening on games. I wonder if that is unintentional. I would become very hardened into not doing whatever a popup asked of me if it interrupted full screen games like that.
The matter at hand is not how Covid originated but whether there was pressure to rush to the conclusion that it wasn't man-made.
What’s wrong with a company git repo for that?
Which is clearly a good thing for consumers and for startups who would otherwise have no chance of competing with tech behemoths like Google and MS.
> Any EU tax payers care to justify this insanity?

EU tax payer here. I was asked by the EU if they could use my tax money for this and I was fine with that. I think my neighbour was also asked and he was cool with that, too, so the EU went this way.

Don't worry, it wasn't your money that was spent here...
OSM is great but it cannot answer those questions accurately.
You need to decide if these are private companies or public utilities. If they’re public utilities, the government should provide them. Restricting company’s freedom to choose a business model is not the answer.

You might not like it, but that’s kind of the point, either let the market decide or take the market out of it.
Seriously? I should trust some scientists getting paid to push a product to multi billion dollar companies, over something simple you can grow yourself?
Remember when you got really excited for new Windows releases? Remember when Windows asked politely to activate automatic updates and assured you "No information is collected that can be used to identify you or contact you"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YbYdfaD0oA
The term in using for whatever the hell Microsoft Edge has turned into is "prankware." It's completely insane, even on Windows 10.
I agree with the sentiment overall.

There will absolutely be some great benefits provided by LLMs and the like. Alexa type devices that are more useful than a light switch. Auto spelling correction that actually works most of the time. Maybe a microwave oven that just has one ‘Heat this up’ button.

But I think the beneficial use cases will be a fraction of the overall use cases.

These technologies are going to be far more effective at enshitifying our world. Spam, scams, replacing artists and knowledge workers with tools that can produce ‘good enough’ output… and yeah, military capabilities that’ll allow humans to kill more humans more cost effectively.

I’m looking forward to the good stuff, it’ll be neat. But absolutely dreading the wave of horribleness that’ll inevitably come of this.
Wish these articles would start facing heat for only covering history of certain countries and culture.
Does this one include Dr. Halliwell of the Spice Girls as one of the scientists?

https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19980501&slug...

This new one seems to have about as much credibility as past petitions by so called 'Scientists'.
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If your EV uses twice as much electricity it is going to spend twice as long at the charger which is not a “luxury” experience. Other people could be stacked up waiting for the charger while you are waiting and, in the big picture, big EVs make the problem of building out a charging network bigger because we need more chargers.
Some claims can certainly be automated. Not everything requires sending someone out. If, for example, there's a burglary, and a customer submits a list of items stolen and the value is within a certain range, it may be easier and cheaper overall for a company to cut a check rather than have someone spend time trying to verify the claim. There's a higher risk of fraud, but if the personnel savings outweigh it, then the company is likely to accept it.
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The thing I find annoying is that the lab leak narrative has shifted to: 1. Repeat the same things we've known since mid-2020. 2. Declare the lab-leak hypothesis vindicated. 3. Complain about being suppressed/censored.

Repeating the same thing does not count as an argument, dammit.
You have a dishwasher that can load the dishes and put them away?
This reflects the disparity in the east vs west and the focus on society vs the individual. It's better from an individual rights perspective that an innocent man isn't imprisoned but in societies that put far less weight on individual rights, you wouldn't be willing to have ten guilty men reoffending to prevent that one innocent man being jailed.
I liked this article (paywalled) that interviewed relevant scientists anonymously. Answers seemed to range from unclear to probably not.
https://medium.com/the-nuance/i-asked-leading-covid-scientis...
Nobody is expecting you to pay for server costs and your opinion on the righteousness of your action doesnt absolve you of the responsibility for the delete function that was just created. Or gets you out of the predictable consequences. Old fashioned stuff like checks and balances werent around for fun and censoring stuff doesnt make it go away. Neither is a mob level targeting mechanism a good or safe idea.

Creating means to create holes in the public discourse is utterly reckless as you have no means to tell how big they have become. And no means to address them. You just punched your eyes out because you didnt like the sight of something. The potential to create human misery with this is hard to overstate when people blatantly ignore the consequences. This is a nobody is going to hear you scream type of threat. Its also not a novel risk, we know how horrible attempts to dictate public discourse went in the totalitarian systems of the past. Not because of some evilness, but systemic inertia and no longer functioning breaks. Without the ability to communicate, we are screwed.
>like my phone working without outrageous charges when I travel to most places here

Just don't get anywhere near Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Andorra, Monaco with your roaming enabled :)
Much to be said about the second half of your comment, enough that I'll leave it to the better educated. On the former, an article titled "the declining effect of CBT" was foundational to my disillusionment regarding new therapy techniques. Nothing is new under the sun, but fresh techniques often overperform in talk therapy studies. A long symbiotic relationship between providers and those in need have resulted in a blooming field, and metastudies generally show all talk therapies as slightly more effective than [only] drugs, and all drugs as [only!] slightly more effective than no intervention.
Well there's a whole book on it by Matt Ridley
Could this also be as a result of cancelling policies in certain states? For example, withdrawing from Florida means an entire FLorida team/department is no longer required or in as much quantity.
Without commenting on Worobey's thesis:

> It is trivial to tell whether a variant is antecedent

I'm sure all of the evolutionary biologists would love to have your level of confidence.

It's trivial when the differences and the timescales are large (and even then we get it wrong plenty of times). But it isn't trivial at all when the differences are minor and the timescales are close, in fact it can be really, really hard. Fortunately with COVID19 a lot of evidence was gathered in real time and preserved so there are a lot of theories that can be ruled out based on that.

One of the hardest problems is to figure out when there is an individual where more than one virus took hold at the same time and genetic material was exchanged between two strains rather than just a mutation. There is some - but inconclusive - evidence that this happened more than once during the COVID pandemic.
As opposed to what? Code that can be directly loaded into memory with no headers? That's how .COM files worked.

There is no such thing as "program is just a function" unless it's compiled with the OS, like on some microcontrollers. For programs residing on storage, the OS needs a way to load them into memory along with its resources which means it needs to read some kind of format, even if it's trivial.
I have a door from Run-Chicken, mechanically it's still good but the electronics went out in it. I'd love to have something like this running it, going to give it a shot.
> What should Windows 11 users do to let Microsoft know that such behaviors are intrusive and offensive?

Leave it for a proper OS.

It might not be possible for your company issued computers if they don't allow you to use something else[1][2] but for your personnal uses it is fairly easy.

[1] I doubt it would be configured to receive popup ads in that context anyway
[2] Having a toxic work environment is a good reason to change job. I personnally count being forced to use Windows as a toxic env.
>Any EU tax payers care to justify this insanity?

Yes. The EU has an annual economic output of about 17.4 trillion Euros. A few million dollars in taxes is probably like what, 0.0001% of the zones tax burden, a fraction of a cent of my taxes?

I'll do you one better, if I could kill one of big techs user hostile features with a regulation I will chime in 50 bucks per bill. Windows probably runs on 90%+ of people's home and work devices, no regular user is just switching off Windows, you're not the norm.
I always enjoy this sort of thing, especially regarding games from my childhood. Thanks, OP!
Did you really post this in good faith? Come on.

The impression from your comment is that the lab leak proponents are all doing good science, but are being attacked by the zoonosis proponents who all lie and manipulate data.

That you then give some cherry picked selections and demand that everyone Do Your Own Research is not a convincing argument. It is, in fact, the go to for crackpots everywhere.

I have zero bias for either outcome. It isn't my field or expertise. It should continue to be studied in depth so we can prepare for the future, and clearly there are very smart, very capable people arguing sincerely for both positions, as is often the case when there is a lack of data to more conclusively prove anything.

At the same time, people should realize that the "lab leak" theory got suppressed not because by itself there was anything evil with it -- labs do have accidents -- but that it was proximal with bad people and bad arguments and got tainted by association. e.g. The Assholes of society were almost universally proponents of the lab leak theory because it's pat, fits in loads of conspiracies and racist overtones, and lets you stomp your feet in anger. Those people basically tarnished the position.
"bots" don't run on their own. While the initial message might be from a bot, leads need to then be coached into falling for the scam which involves human labor and can very well be such enslaved victims trapped in third-world countries.
Talking Gaslighting...

It always amazes me when people attempt to rewrite history that people lived through just 2 years ago

Lab Leak was absolutely suppressed on all major tech platforms, and calls a xenophobic conspiracy theory by all major news outlets in 2019 and 2020, 2021 it started to shift to "hey maybe that is possible" and now in 2023 is "extremely unlikely" to "likely with low confidence".
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There is another measurement for men that involves a body part without bone structure.

Perhaps this report settles once and for all, what proportion of normally more visible measurements are true correlates with that measurement.
> But given the Snowden leaks ... if there was more truth to it, people would've done the whistleblowing already.

People would have said the same thing the day before Snowden went public.
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> the people of California and Florida want insurance so they can build matchbox houses in high risk disaster zones,

This has always been the case in Florida. Insurance simply costs more to compensate for risk. Flood insurance is separate in the US (and very costly).

California might have more to do with the regulatory and legal environment.

> now wildfires and hurricanes are way worse and getting even more worse.

What happened to the climate/weather distinction? So, every hot day and hurricane is evidence if the earth warming? Every cold day and blizzard is a temporary local weather event, not indicative of the long term trend?
Just saw a documentary interviewing escaped trafficked labors – just men, women ain't even capable of escape. They are falsely promised for "entrepreneurial opportunities," promptly got locked up and financially deprived to do scamming, prostitution, etc. One guy escaped, bystanders took him to the police and the police was part of the traffiking ring and sold him back. He finally paid off somebody with promise of ransom payment from his relatives, and upon entering Chinese border, he was fined by Chinese border control for violations. These local traffik orgs are armed with AKs and well connected politically. What a crazy, crazy world.
> You can't reasonably change or revoke your PIN.

i can, have, and will

> Your device is likely covered in your fingerprints.

true, fingerprints are not (a) secret
Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are proof that having your real name next to your posts does not mean people will behave better.
Not even scam bosses allow for remote work i see. Cant they just like hire willing scam workers instead of trafficking people?
Bitcoin as a protocol can’t be regulated, but anyone using Bitcoin can be regulated. Same with taxes. In practice this means any entity that operates a registered company has its crypto operations regulated, while entities that operate fully on chain may not be regulatable (depending on structure and operational security decisions).
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Do you really think HE owns most of the fiber they use? It's mostly leased from much larger behemoths that own the physical cables, who treat it as a private conduit for photons, and lack the ability to even know what's being transmitted over it, so can't censor.

Source: https://he.net/about_network.html - you see them talk about "negotiating with the top fiber carriers" and even "long haul wavelengths", which means they don't always lease a whole fiber, sometimes just a small slice of the EM spectrum on one.

IP transit is a value-add on top of an underlying physical asset which already has the properties that you want.
The hard and fast rule is: you're not permitted to have a source code interpreter.

That's the "rules of engagement", same way you can't run Flash or Linux binaries; the same way you can't touch windows kernel space without a code-signing certificate from a eye-gouging authority.

Exceptions to apples rule are rarely given, even for educational purposes; such as pythonista.

When taken though that lens; if we hadn't turned everything into a fucking web-app: alternative interpreters of HTML/CSS could exist.

Unrelated, but: Ironically the original vision for the iPhone was web-apps not native ones (as there was only an app store created after community backlash over Apple pushing people to the web).
If the differences are large enough: yes. If not then it may remain undecided. The closest match found in the wild so far is 96% or so, which is good but not good enough (and it was found in a bat, but relatively far away from the spot where it was first found in humans). I think that is the most recent state of affairs.
LinkedIn and various job boards have much more responsibility than Tinder; most of the victims described in the article travel to SEA for what they've been led to believe are high-paying white-collar jobs, not because they're romance-scammed into going to meet a partner there.
Exactly. Nvidia's position is so incredibly strong in AI and these customers clearly do not care whatsoever about spats like this and/or whether or not the driver is closed source/binary/whatever. If they did AMD/ROCm would have more than low single digit market share in AI.

Nvidia obviously has the resources and ability to make a Debian/Ubuntu derivative (or whatever) that can offer increased usability, performance, etc with their hardware. Nvidia may even save effort and cost internally by primarily focusing AI/CUDA driver development on their own distro as opposed to what I'm sure is currently a significant amount of patchwork, workarounds, etc for the bewildering array of variability currently present in the Linux ecosystem.

These users/customers aren't using a given Linux distro out of idealistic passion/preference for the distro like many users here - they just want to do AI. They're going to use the best tools available to achieve that goal.

Needless to say these massive thousands of Nvidia GPU deployments are highly orchestrated and if an Nvidia distro can offer even 1% improvement on the usability, performance, etc with their hardware these customers are going to deploy an Nvidia distro immediately. These customers are also likely effectively supporting a distro variant already and they would absolutely rather let Nvidia take on as much of this effort as possible. I'd venture to guess many Nvidia customers have actually been asking Nvidia for it - Nvidia may already effectively be doing it for them.

Lambda Labs (for example) already does this - shipping and supporting an Ubuntu derivative that does whatever you want with AI within seconds of booting their hardware. Even Oracle already does this and the recent issues with RHEL/Cent are yet another reason this makes sense to Nvidia. Nvidia also already does this with their Jetson line of hardware.

You're absolutely correct that it is the desktop users who will get shafted by this.

I've been a Linux desktop user since 1997. I love Linux. However, for something like this not even the might and influence of Linux/Linus/etc will "win" going up against Nvidia on this.
What really annoys me about Windows:

I build my own PC and bought a new license for Windows Professional and it still is filled with adware and other MS bullshit. Like what does "professional" even mean?

Steve Jobs said it best: they have no taste.