skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was in 8th grade, one of my teachers was out sick, and the principal took over the class for the day. He talked about frames of reference. To illustrate the point, he asked if we had seen the movie, E.T. Of course, we all had. It was the Star Wars-level blockbuster of the summer of 1982. He asked if we remembered the bus scene. None of us could. "You know, 'Uranus?'" Oh, right. Yes, we all remembered that line. Then he asked us if we could remember what any of the other kids were doing. Nope. They were standing, yelling, throwing things, and generally being disruptive. He said, as a principal, this anarchy on a school bus horrified him. It never even registered with us.

This lesson continues to reverberate with me over 40 years later.

People on this site "govern" our computers and devices as much as we can, so when these things happen, they stick out like a sore thumb, and we set about stopping it from happening again. Even after 30 years of "being on the internet," I am RUTHLESS about spam. When one shows up in my inbox, I deal with it, so that, by and large, every email that comes through is of interest and needs my attention.

The people who use Windows for any more than gaming (and a lot of them, too) are the kind of people that have 10,000 unread emails in their inbox, all of which are spam for services and offers they agreed to be spammed by, because they couldn't be bothered to at least tick the opt-out box (which only works half the time anyway). When the vast majority of these users see a popup like this, they simply click the button to dismiss it, just like hundreds other digital annoyances they put up with all day long, which they do not understand, and which they do not know how to turn off.

It doesn't matter that we get upset about this. It's already been proven several times over that we cannot influence this situation. The economics just don't matter to Microsoft. I have to conclude that the size of the "power user"/developer community on Windows is dwarfed by the rest. The only surprise here is that The Verge wrote a piece that is overtly negative about Microsoft.
Rates are still set by actuaries lmao. Insurers are getting out of Florida because they legalized insurance fraud and everyone got a new roof on the insurance companies, not the weather.
Aren't you forgetting the "buy a GPU" step? And aren't most OSes either free or significantly cheaper than the sort of GPU AI uses?
It's easier to parallelize so you can throw more GPUs at a single request (or really, batch of requests)
Have you used Microsoft Edge recently? It is a dumping ground for all things that Microsoft wants to try in a way that is easier to do than sending A/B testing out via Windows Update.

* Collections

* Shopping

* Browser Essentials

* Website scanning

* Outlook integration

* Games integration

* ...
In my case what stops me from using Kagi is not the price, but:

* No presence in Europe. Establishing a legal entity in Europe and using an European datacenter would at least add some pressure to handle data correctly. We can never know if they fulfil their part of the deal, but at least the consequences of a publicly visible privacy fail would at least be non-zero.

* Email is required. It would be way more appealing for me if this was handled like Mullvad handles their accounts. I understand Kagi's choice is mostly because they prefer a subscription model instead of a pre-paid one. Yes, I can use a disposable email address, but I'd rather not have to rely on workarounds like that.

(EDIT: I want to emphasize that this is only what is stopping me from using Kagi based on my own preferences; they (Kagi devs) are of course free to do what they consider best for the project from their point of view. I'm just not the target audience for this paid search engine, and that's fine.)
>In a conflict between Linux and Nvidia, in the HPC or AI spaces, Nvidia wins.

I HIGHLY doubt this. Nvidia has decades of investment in Linux internally. They aren't going to convert their DGX to Windows, or their dozens of internally utilized supercomputers. Sure, in a small window end-users are going to make a LOT of noise about Linux "breaking" - but unless Nvidia is planning on forking the kernel and fully maintaining their own version of Linux, they'll cave.
I think AI chatbots will lift these scams to a new level never seen before without any telltale signs that we can spot.
I use about 48gb of memory hosting 34 distinct apps including AI stuff, stuff moves hundreds of gigs of data a day and so on.

2gb idle is disqualifyingly high ram usage.
Great reporting here.
Sorting too :)
You could post this to https://kagifeedback.org/. They seem to take a lot of feedback.
It isnt hard to make stuff usable

Designing it correctly is an art
> Creators share abundant information and exchange ideas online freely because they know consumers will visit and either see an ad, subscribe, or buy something.

Some, sure, but hardly all of them. I don't think that this is "the grand bargain at the heart of the web" at all. If it is, then it should die.

What AI is killing, in at least some circles, is the willingness to share anything on the web at all, even when no monetization was involved. That's the heart of the web that the dagger is aimed at.
> I don't think anyone in their sane mind considers Teams (or anything electron-based, really) a model of adequate resource usage :)

That's fair

> And I'm thrilled that you can afford $100-$600 a month of server costs to run jisti, but I'm willing to bet that you are not a majority.

Stop hosting everything on Amazon, it's a total rip-off for raw compute.

64GiB of ram shouldn't be costing you more than $50/m (for some kind of colo like Hetzner)

2GiB of ram should probably be closer to $10 for a single VM instance with someone like Tilaa or Vultr (after tax)

Meaning one you start hitting 8GiB of total consumption for all your services it's cheaper to make the leap to 64GiB of ram and go with a colo.
They are as non-technical as it gets. Debian stable does the automatic security updates for them flawlessly without breaking the workflows. The OS is used for browsing, writing documents in LibreOffice and looking at downloaded pictures/documents.
I was looking for something like that, but didn't find it at a glance. Not surprising, I suppose.
Nothing in life is free. There must be balance. Regardless of whether an insurance company is public or private these bedrock issues of “can we remain in the black?” will remain. A “fiscal institution” that is losing money on claims will fail. Plain and simple.
I don't even mentally file the ACLU as "the good guys" anymore. Rationally, I know they continue to do a lot of good work today, but that bit has been flipped, and it's hard to go back. When you're an organization like that, you kind of have to be absolute in your stance, and write things like "history requires us to look at the bigger picture, and sound the alarm about the risks even when the facts are horrific".
The technique in TFA is very similar to radix sort.
Thank you nyokodo, payment for your services has been credited to your wallet.
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Well, no. Why would I? Even if I did, it does not change the facts.
https://archive.is/w2Nq9
Meditation became popular when neoliberals figured out that it was something they could make the lower classes spend time on, and pay for, in order to optimize their utility as economic cogs.

Nothing money touches is left uncorrupted.
“OP uses a sledgehammer to build a bird house and complains it’s too difficult”

This is equivalent to using K8s to deploy a static site and complaining infra is the hardest of all. React isn’t the skeleton key for front end apps. Sometimes using simpler tools is the way to go and adding complexity when it becomes necessary
I think the killer is that you would be forced to interface with consumer's banks, who wouldn't be particularly interested in helping your effort to undermine credit cards.

Or you could extend credit, but then you need to charge fees to cover interest of loaning out that money. Never mind the massive capital reserves to cover it. And now you're really just another credit card company.
One note regarding the pole transformers: in many parts of the US they've migrated to underground cabling and larger transformers. My neighborhood has that, and we have about 1 transformer every 4 houses or so. No idea how big the transformer is from a kVA rating, but pretty much every house has 240V/200A service, so they must be pretty large. The transformers themselves are approximately 3' x 3' x 3' and enclosed in a box at the front of certain yards.
It does say this: Note that all Code Llama models were initialized with Llama 2 weights before they were further trained on code.
If everyones quota goes to zero perhaps the master behind these scams go down with it.
Browser Screen Recording with Rrweb
Could someone help understand what is the difference between ml image generation and photography? Like, it seems that most arguments about one do trivially transfer to the other, so i am confuse
It's because you treat it as if it's all or nothing. You can effectively allow apps to cooperatively schedule themselves, but also make sure `while(true){}` doesn't infinitely loop the system. You can e.g. timeout each app, or if you feel very experimental, avant-garde etc, you could try detecting loops, and put a very generous timeout (since you'll miss some loops like `i=0;while(true){i+=1}` depending on the algo you use to detect loops). There are tons of other schemes, algorithms. Most of these ideas are implemented somewhere, but 99.9% of computer users using linux/OSX/Windows don't experience them.

For the programmer, it's most convenient when the isolation between unrelated programs is maximal but isolation between related programs is minimal; but for the user it's the most convenient when programs are maximally isolated in terms of computation, but not for other things such as storage/permissions etc. Practically, this requires a complex scheduling mechanism that is more preemptive than cooperative, but also cooperative a little. E.g. in linux, it's not particularly hard for a rogue program to bring the system to halt with something like a fork bomb (especially if swap is turned on). Even if you have a preemptive scheduler, if your program has 99% of the threads running in the system, it's effectively cooperative because chances are you're scheduled most of the time anyway.
> You see tooling in a different view than typical Python users.

That doesn't surprise me.

I do what you mentioned with F# in Polyglot Notebooks (which support several languages in the same notebook) and Elixir in Livebook all the time, both of which are superior notebook implementations to the outdated Python Jupyter notebooks.

My worldview is not driven by comparing Python to C#, Java, C++, and other such ilk.
But can NVIDIA maintain a patchset that just removes these new protections from the kernel instead of a complete fork?
AntiX is a pretty old distro, it wasn't against anything originally, iirc it was named after its creator - but now they take pride in being systemd-less.
hmm, that interesting. I just paid €0.25 transaction costs for using paypal, same with my bank or with creditcards. But cash on delivery would be free.. The transaction costs are charged to the customer quite often. I wonder if that is actually illegal now. Not sure if I wanna go after Takeaway for maybe 25€ in transaction costs over the years, but still
This is a reasonable point. With containerization and the cloud, this abstraction is taken even further.

In the end though, all this really does is perhaps change how aggressive a pre-emptive system needs to be. It could wait longer to pre-empt. Fundamentally though, the design would still need to be pre-emptive.
What do they do with just a phone...?

Are students just using ipads these days? I guess I'm getting (am?) old. Without a general purpose computing device in the home, my life would have been radically different.
> 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?

Bad weather == that's climate change

Good weather == that's just weather
Map shows every crash involving driverless cars in San Francisco
I found microdosing cannabis allows me to focus on one thing at a time.
> No, the “minimum” in the name refers to a minimum (proportion of time) over all windows. See link in GP and the thesis referenced there for a discussion of the dependency on the window size (which is a bit funny for all allocators).

That's just false; I can't think of a GC that can maintain more than 0% utilization in a time-window the length of a compare-and-swap operation (which could be 100s of cycles on some CPUs)
> people who want to exterminate people

This is the oddly standard wording used in defense of these newly-fashionable 'everything you've ever done ever can be used against you' contributor codes of conduct and I have to find it very disingenuous.

By and large nobody wants to exterminate anybody. People have legitimate differences of opinion and when they attempt to express them they're being told that even _thinking_ that opinion is tantamount to violence.

If you can't see it as anything other than a transparent attempt to restrict discourse I don't know what to tell you. It isn't like this is the first time this strategy has been used.
Your list of how a computer is more like a Universe than a book has three or four items.

Now enumerate all the traits that the Universe has that neither a book nor a computer has. Qualia, consciousness, time, gravity, electromagnetism, life, among infinite other differences. The list is literally infinite.

The gulf between the Universe and a book is the same magnitude as that between the Universe and a computer.

And sure, books are static once printed and need an observer to run, but that doesn't mean books will always need this.
the "nazi bar" concept does accurately describe the problem with sites like parlor today, but I'd argue it's only true now because heavy moderation has become the default.

most of the internet was not like this 10-15 years ago. forums and even large social media platforms were moderated lightly, if at all. you would commonly see edgelords dropping slurs, but it did not dominate the discussion. I don't think the entire internet would turn into kiwifarms if everyone just decided to relax a bit.
I just switched to AMD Radeon as well to get away from the nVidia hellscape that is nVidia and Linux.
Class action lawsuit against MSI for hinge defects initiated in USA (March 2023)
Linus opinion on GPL enforcement is clear: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-discuss/...

>Let's be clear about this: lawsuits destroy. They don't "protect". Lawsuits destroy community. They destroy trust. They would destroy all the goodwill we've built up over the years by being nice.
> open source witch hunt

Enforcing licences and neutering illegal violation of license is not a witch hunt.
You should take into account that people can be charged for "wrongthink" shown in such interviews. Here's one of cases, for example:

>Yuri Kokhovets, 37, was interviewed by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty outside a central Moscow metro station in July 2022.

>Kokhovets has been accused of spreading false information about the army and being motivated by "political hatred" and now faces up to 10 years in prison.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/08/30/russian-man-in-cou...

So many people with oppositional views just won't answer the questions, and state/war supporters will be overrepresented among participants.
A map (and the data) of river drainage basins (American: watersheds) would also be interesting.
Especially when the alternative is half a million dollars cash sitting in an account you can't legally access for anything else, or use as collateral for anything else, and you won't realistically have half a million dollars cash ever.

I looked into a surety bond specifically for auto insurance thinking I might be able to earn a bit of interest on $100-200k cash, get a small dividend, and "break even" in half a dozen years or so. The reality was pretty grim, basically if you're not already actively searching for things to do with 6 or 7 figure sums, it's not worth the time, and that's ignoring the logistics of having someone available for the claims processing side.
I am aware that I know next to nothing about the topic and that I am ignorant of countless complications. With that said, your pancreas also does not know that you plan to work out, at least I would assume so. So what is the crucial difference between a pancreas and insulin injections? That the response is delayed because the injection is not into the blood stream or does the pancreas also have better sensors to figure out how much insulin to release, or maybe even release things other than insulin? If it is the former, what obstacle is there for injecting into the blood stream? The infection risk of having a permanently open port into the circulatory system? If so, is there a similarly effective way to deliver insulin that is not into the blood stream and with less risks? Or could you have some kind of membrane in the port that only allows insulin to pass through but that is impermeable for pathogens? Or would that get clogged immediately?
His story Unauthorized Bread is a good one that explores just how bad it can get. Where the DRM in a toaster refuses to toast bread that isn't of the correct brand.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-...
We have none
This is much more invasive than Google’s banner on search (and kind of everything they make) pushing to instal Chrome.

And way worse than MacOS’ occasional prompt to switch to safari that I think happens once per version upgrade and is just a typical modal prompt.

Microsoft acts like their OS is free. I paid $120 for this stuff.
Tesla is allowing longer no-hands driving with Autopilot. Regulators concerned.
As others have pointed out in this thread, the $1.1 billion is not running costs for the plant, that just covers some expenses to renew it.

So actually getting a continuous 2.2GW from the nuclear plant will cost a lot more than $1.1 billion.
You're welcome. One of these days I should try to revive it myself, it's been decades since I last worked on the code though. But I still have the installation media that I made (floppy images) so it should be possible to bring it back to life.
Yeah, I would be much happier if I could create a separate account not linked to any BigCorp. Just let me pick a username and password.

But I guess they are trying to defer some sort of account creation human verification/rate limiting to those companies.
Whatever. From a pragmatic perspective it's a reason to stick with Windows.
And would that make life better for traffick victims in any way? They’ll brutally be repurposed for some other dirty work
More questions: Will phone manufacturers will be able to sell Android phones in non US supported countries?
I always forget Mastercard and Visa are two separate companies, as when people talk about them, they are always said together like it's a hyphenated name Mastercard-Visa. Mastercard and Visa are always accepted either one is accepted. Discover and AmEx are totally different, and stores can accept one without the other.

It's clear that Mastercard-Visa is by design meant to be the other's alibi for not being declared a Monopoly.
It does. Plagiarism is a thing.
>Visa and Mastercard both raising fees at the same time is extremely suspect.

Competitors making similar price adjustments based on seeing each other's public statements and strategy is legal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_collusion

Same reason that competitors' gas stations across the street from each other have the same prices. They can simply see each others' prices posted on the street signs and match them. Likewise with Apple Music being $9.99 to match Spotify's $9.99. Now they've both increased to $10.99/month.

Same "legalized tacit collusion" situation happens when one leading law firm announces salary increases and other law firms immediately match it: https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/large-law-firms-...

No secret agreements in hidden emails or conspiracies required. Just match the visible pricing your competitors have. The loophole is competitors can't hide prices because consumers need to know what the prices are to pay them.
That's all projection and appeal to emotion to justify censoring and bullying people into submission. How many people have had their characters assassinated, ostracized and fired, sometimes commiting suicide as a result, just because they said the wrong thing now or in the past according to the current moral fashion police. How many are self censoring and falsifying preferences to appease the authoritarians. They say it's about kindness and respect, inbetween destroying the next individual's life. Authoritarian bullies cloaking themselves in a veneer of kindness and moral fashion is not new.
Reducing weight is always useful alin improving efficiency and electric cars are really heavy compared to gas cars. But that's not going to make that much difference in range per batter efficiency. They should focus on the efficiency of the drivetrain, the cars aerodynamic properties. Tesla has a more efficient drive, train and better aerodynamics than most other vehicles, that leads to much better efficiency per battery power.
> ... but unless Nvidia is planning on forking the kernel and fully maintaining their own version of Linux, they'll cave.

Why wouldn't they? It would only be a few million dollars a year to do so, at most.
> I do not see on what grounds you can classify in this case Linux as a victim and NVIDIA as an attacker.

NVIDIA deliberately violates GPL license.

> The problem is that Linux does not have a clear license

are you sure about that?
Waymo crashes are far more common than I would guess given the news coverage of Cruise's issues. I can't see the full article, though, so this might be a reflection of 1.) larger fleet, 2.) longer time running in the city.
This video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azI3nqrHEXM explains why small pickup trucks can't really be sold in the USA anymore. This explains the drive to larger pickups, but I don't know what explains the drive from cars to trucks/SUVs.

We were considering a wagon when we bought our last vehicle, an SUV. The ability to occasionally carry more than five people was the deciding point. I believe crash standards prevent the selling of wagons with a "wayback" anymore.
I wish Patent office has similar attitude - not only for AI but for software patent in general.
In the meantime both EU and Italy play fast and loose with censorship normatives:
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2023/08/25/online-platfor... -
https://www.wired.it/article/pirateria-online-legge-anti-pez...
(italian)
This seems like an oversight that will presumably be fixed?
good for them, they totally could really use that extra cash flow from folks who can't afford to pay their bills
I can't think of a single argument that trivially transfers between the two, could you elaborate?