skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the hardware is still working, and the battery works enough to run off AC, even a 10 year old machine is still usable for a lot of stuff.

I got an Acer Chromebook C720 in 2013ish, and the dual-core Celeron 2955U (Haswell) with 4GB of RAM is still ok. The touchpad stopped working in mine, and I dunno how bad the battery is, and I installed FreeBSD for fun after ChromeOS stopped updating, but I bet it'd run ChromeOS Flex no problem. It doesn't have the virtualization extension needed to run Android apps (not part of ChromeOS Flex anyway), but I don't think there's anything else missing really.

I'll probably install ChromeOS Flex on my Lenovo ThinkPad 13 Chromebook after I let the final official OS update simmer a bit more (it's a pain to get to the firmware write protect screw), it's a much nicer case and a little bit newer processor, but otherwise pretty close to the Acer one; and the touch pad still works. OTOH, I don't think I can change out the storage and as I mentioned the write protect screw is hard to access.
Maybe if you have a model with a large context window, you stuff a document in the prompt as a prefix, then ask a bunch of different questions about the document?
In my experience, before asking “can you take geese home from the park”, you should ask “can you get near geese at the park without the geese fighting you”. The answer is “no”.
> I'm not sure why you're talking about Americans

As a foreigner in America, I think America is culturally particularly business oriented and holds favorable views on business activities (until they get too large and obscure, then they become led by lizards or some such), and in particular I think the average person here is more prone to think that it's ok for a business or person to seek to maximize their position in the market by almost any legal means. As in, if the player is good at the game, you can't blame the player (up to a point).
Apocalypse-Proof NYC Building
A NASA astronaut will finally spend a full year in space
Ha yeah, this was my thought too. "Do storage" is the right idea, but there is no "just".
That was interesting, thanks for pointing it out

I was tremendously sad to see that the Typescript Language Server wasn't owned by Microsoft <https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/impleme...>, since if there was any sanity in the world a spec bump would travel with a reference implementation showing how they envision such a thing being used

But, I found that the Typescript Language Server that they did list does indeed have a semantic-tokens module in it, although it's much shorter than I would have expected from reading that section in the spec: https://github.com/typescript-language-server/typescript-lan...
Compile with -fno-math-errno. Almost nobody checks errno for math functions, and disabling it can give a huge speedup.
My guess is that it's just some immature gamer, not an actual developer. All gamers aren't immature, but there's always some immature base group of them doing absolutely stupid stuff.
WSL2 has significantly worse experience IME. The ChromeOS Linux VM takes like 10 seconds to launch initially, but after that I haven't observed any latency.

Meanwhile, the same dev stack running in WSL2 has noticeable latency e.g. seconds of extra delay launching any containerized Python interpreter (on a powerful Windows desktop workstation, too).
Rent goes up 200%: [we sleep]

Unity changes pricing: [ we riot ]
Well, unless you absentmindedly type in your mail address, name or any other real credentials.
Ready or Not: AI Enters the Workforce
Reminds me of that Rembrandt/Renoir heist, a classic documentary by the Internet Historian.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPlFdIpgioI
You can, but managers won't get a Battle Chess duck:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Chess
There is a reason Patagonia is consistently rated as the most favorable brand in America.
>The Repugnant Conclusion is one of those silly problems in philosophy that don’t make much sense outside of academics.

Not even for academics. It's something for "rational"-bros.
Anyone (or any company/organization) can find enough crazies out there willing to send death threats (or to just be saying mean things they pretend are actual threats, stuff like "I hope you die in a fire") to avoid any uncomfortable interactions with the piblic or their userbase.

That said, this was a thing well before the internet. I used to work at a TV and radio station, and the head of security had his office right next to us in IT. Any letters sent to our on air talent were filtered through him first, and a huge amount had stamps on the outside of the envelope saying "This letter was sent from a correctional facility" along with the name of the institution. Lots of letters ranging from creepy to outright threatening. I didn't regularly get to see them so I couldn't give you any hard numbers, but one thing I noticed that made me skeptical of claims that women get harassed/threatened more than men is that our weatherman by himself got about as many creepy letters as most of our female talent combined.
> private security guards who are armed, trained, and legally able to deal with lethal force are common all over the world

Not in most of the developed world. And legally, rarely in America.

For that [EDIT: dealing lethal force] you need to hire off-duty cops. And I would think thrice before working in an office that felt it needed off-duty cops on hire. (I would also vote for more police. Security is a public good.)
Massachusetts Wants to Ban Gun-Wielding Robots
Latest news is that it won't do this. The feature is called stage manager.
It was actually interesting, if ridiculously overpriced. I hope someone else makes tablet like that someday.
GPU Resource Estimation Text to Speech
Hello All,
Have a question on GPU Resource Requirement for a Training Project I am doing with Piper.

https://github.com/rhasspy/piper

Following the Training Guide and the video by Thorsten Müller.

https://github.com/rhasspy/piper/blob/master/TRAINING.md
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_we_jma220

Data: Single Speaker, 18,000 files, average length 3 seconds, Sample Rate 22050, LJ Speech Format

Batch Size 32, Number of Epochs 10000, Precision 32, Quality High

Training is resumed from the Lessac High Quality Voice Checkpoint on Hugging Face.

https://huggingface.co/datasets/rhasspy/piper-checkpoints/tree/main/en/en_US/lessac/high

When running on regular CPU, facing challenges with OOM program exits.
The free T4 GPU on Google Colab is not always available. Even when it is, it takes a long time to run through 1 epoch.

Trying to get an estimate of how many and what type of GPUs I can rent on Lambda Labs and how long it would take to run an epoch.

I have also read that to get a good quality clone on models like Piper and Tacotron need 100K steps (steps = batch size * number of epochs, so 32 batch size * 10000 epochs would be 320,000 steps); any advice there as well would be appreciated, thanks.
it's not an LLM's job to recognize ambiguity in a question and get more information ?
Sustainable growth means prosperity. Unsustainable growth is taking out a loan against the future without any certain plan that it can be paid.
I do appreciate that, despite being about LLM comparison, the article ended with what I consider the actual answer to the title, courtesy of a rapping PaLM: "If you get caught, you could get in trouble | So be careful and don’t get caught"
How does the new Microsoft TOS impact VS Code?
I'm worried the new TOS for MS will send all my work to Microsoft for use in training their AI. Is this a valid way to read the changes or am I overreacting?
What constitution? The one the judges selectively apply? The one that explicitly says the political censorship they perpetrated is unconstitutional?

You're apparently incapable of seeing the fact that the judges have essentially given themselves power to legislate, investigate and judge. They've been doing it ever since one particular publication attacked them and they show no signs of stopping any time soon. It was painfully obvious during the election but it started much earlier than that.

https://www.conjur.com.br/2022-nov-27/inquerito-fake-news-st...

If you can't see this, it's pointless to continue this thread.
Axolotl takes a lot of formats, not all of them are in the form of input/output.

"Completion" format only takes a single text value per dataset record. Some other formats are in the form of multiple choice answers, etc.

Take a look below (there are more formats in "see other formats")
https://github.com/OpenAccess-AI-Collective/axolotl#dataset
Free credits from Numexa for Top LLM API providers.
I have serious doubts about how comprehensive this support will actually be, especially regarding firmware updates and non-Google vendor commitment.

There is a wide variety of Chromebook hardware manufacturers, and most of them don't have a good track record of providing firmware upgrades for long. Google can keep ChromeOS updated on these devices, just like Microsoft can keep pushing Windows updates, but are the manufacturers going to provide firmware updates for 10 years? Are Intel or Mediatek going to be providing 10 years of microcode updates for the CPUs used on these devices? It doesn't make sense to me that these companies are suddenly going to invest a lot of money just to support these cheap devices that probably don't make a lot of profit, when they have never given a similar level of support to their flagship products.

I think this 10 year support window will not be full device support, just a commitment to providing OS updates that don't break stuff.
The people making the death threats don't present the party of indie developers as a whole.
It sucks. Get ready to do lots of non technical stuff for running a business
Japan hasn’t had much GDP growth since 1990. You could say that its economy is stagnating. Yet starvation is hardly a defining phenomenon for its population. They have one of the highest life expectancies. Healthcare is widely available. Technological progress did not stop. And wealth inequality in this economy is among the lowest in the world.
As others have suggested, it varies, but in my experience, knowing my full name, room number, possessing a key and knowing how I paid for the room has always been enough. Last four digits of the card used for the room tend to seal the deal in every case, but were not acceptable for MGM (despite me having that very card on my Apple Watch).

In the UK, at least, it's unusual to show a driver's license for anything (except buying alcohol if you look young) because many drivers don't carry them, whereas in the US I had to show it every time I even checked into a hotel and even occasionally when buying things with a credit card.
I mean, the data modeling assumed people guessing were doing so completely at random without eliminating any options (In the section "Simulation").

If I'm looking at the right document, one question was about which city out of Chicago, New York, and LA have the greatest annual temperature range (accompanied with a plot).
Almost all respondents said New York or Chicago, rather than LA or "All equal".
Could this work as a magnetic rail with earth magnets? Would that not require any batteries then?
I thought this was going to be able capitalism/markets
You sir are very based.

I too am a fellow qube herder. After having discovered Qubes OS, I've never wanted to go back!
Yeah, sorry, unless I had more details in the articles that could convince me that the threat was credible, I'm going to fall back on my reasonable assumption that there is no actual risk here, just perceived risk.
Postgres has a free space map, which allows it to reuse the space of deleted tuples for new or updated tuples created in the same table. If no new/updated tuples are created in the table after the DELETE, you have fragmentation, which means the file remains large so the space can't be used for other tables (or other unrelated data residing in the same filesystem).

The nature of fragmentation means that you need to move a lot of data around to actually make that file smaller. In Postgres, that's typically done with VACUUM FULL. The problem of fragmentation is not unique to Postgres, it's a fundamental issue; but perhaps other systems are able to move the data around in a less disruptive way.

If you just delete a column, that creates a different type of fragmentation within the tuples themselves (e.g. you delete the middle column, and the tuple itself doesn't shrink, it just ignores that middle column). You are right that can be a problem. Postgres could be improved to rewrite tuples to eliminate the wasted space from deleted columns in the middle, which would probably be (computationally) worth it to do if it's already performing cleanup on the page.
It is if the only thing preventing seeing a resent message as new is the recipient looking at the date or message id. Certainly it is arguable that the client and/or provider tracking seen signatures is a reasonable way to prevent it, but this isn't universally the case at this point and SPF if required (which it never is now unless DKIM isn't used at all) would at least prevent most third parties from doing this (at least without IP spoofing which would be disruptive to do bidirectionally). Not that this is necessarily a sufficient reason to justify using SPF over DKIM only just that it is a consideration. I don't know SMTP enough to know if someone between two servers who can block an encrypted connection at just the right point could cause the sending server to resend a delivered message but I would guess that might be possible. MTA-STS seems infrequently used at this point so currently someone between two servers could likely prevent the use of encryption.
That sets the cmath functions constexpr??
Exactly. For any kind of large contentious issue, there will always be weirdos "on your side". Nobody can control the weirdos. It's deeply disingenuous to act like some anonymous fringe troll is representative of the larger group.

We've been living in the global internet age for the past ~25 years, this shouldn't be a shock to anyone.
And those people are going to spend $800 on a cutting edge 5G phone?
> Our current economic system is oriented around growth and the assumption that it can continue indefinitely.

It's worse than that. For the present system to function correctly, growth must continue indefinitely. Even just a slower pace of growth constitutes a crisis under our current economic system.
Is there anything Tails does to actively bypass censorship, or is it simply a result of the increased anonymity?

To me, it seems like it can only have limited utility in this regard. For example, Tails (and Tor) isn't going to help you avoid private sector censorship on services like X or Facebook or YouTube, right? It won't help you get a book published or reach an audience with a video.
This does more for the environment than renewables. Kudos
I remember being really hyped about flywheel energy storage... 20 years ago. I wonder if it has become more viable since then? And if so, what changed to improve viability?
Exactly. That's what patents are for. No need to be secretive.
Arm and a Leg: Arm's Quest to Extract Their True Value
lol unanimously by who? You?
Or focus more on good gameplay and less on technical features. Not every game needs to be a AAA open world extravaganza and graphics powerhouse.
No operating system gets updates forever, no software package gets updates forever, no hardware gets firmware updates forever, and there's no such thing as a standard computer. But other than that you're right.
I live in Seattle, but I guess I'm lucky enough to have never encountered anyone like that.
I don't know but the hardware drivers are not directly exposed to the web. The biggest security issue is the web facing attack surface and Google is in complete control of that.
Doesnt the title imply using words monopolists use is evidence of something? Surely thats not what defines a monopoly. You’d have to look at actual actions.

Communications like this could arguably be about building culture, not evading antitrust allegations:

> "We don't 'lock up' or 'lock in' our customers," and "we do not 'leverage' anything," Google told employees.

But regardless, are they trapping customers and abusing some unique power that makes them a monopoly or not?
It's really silly.

Also silly: forgetting that a group is not its worst members.

Remember that every single group with which you identify has had unstable members who behaved badly. Whether criminal behavior, death threat, bullying, or plain poor decisions, there are reprehensible people who superficially share your interests, appearance, background, or gender.
Why 10 years? 12 is a better. #Dozenal
Ooh, I'd love to find one of these on Ali, but their search is betraying me currently.
ChromeOS and Google are super creepy because of how data hungry they are. That said, one of the advantages is that if they have committed to a 10 year lifecycle, and they have a new feature that is awful on an older device for performance reasons, they have an incentive to implement a feature that executes that slow function using cloud compute resources when the device is connected to maintain their lock on customers.

It really depends on how Google assesses the value prop of supporting older devices.
IANAL but it doesn't pass the sniff test. You can't provide a module to a software, change terms retroactively and request to be paid $10b per install for old versions of the software and bankrupting all your customers. That's preposterous.
Obligatory: https://godotengine.org/
How would you "switch off" the magnets as the train approaches so as to allow it to pass with its newly gotten energy?
Not a single one of those people maintained their weightloss

A lot of websites seem to contradict you. Several contestants kept the weight off so your comment is just inaccurate.

https://healthyeater.com/biggest-loser-then-now
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/02/health/biggest-loser-weig...
Is the URL structure of the posts important to you when starting a blog?
If you started a blog, would you care about the URL structure of the posts on that blog?
Isn't participating in such research usually fairly anonymous? And I'm guessing the researchers didn't tell the participants how they were going to interpret "I don't know" vs wrong answers?

> Expressing appropriate levels of confidence is a skill,

That's interesting, confidence can be gamed, just like other traits in personality tests
> there is no actual risk here, just perceived risk

Which is fine for you, a bystander with no impact. If you’re management, on the other hand, you don’t get to wait for evidence of credibility. Because that evidence may come in blood-stained walls.
Google accused of spending billions to block rivals as landmark trial continues
Thanks! A thread was just easier for me to reason about. If we wanted to do this all in one thread, we could have the main loop use a system where it keeps track of how often it needs to poll the input and how often it needs to generate mouse events, and waits for the soonest deadline for each.
Well I hope they're all in a row.
Really appreciate what you're doing. Don't let those danish bottom feeders get you!
Yes - all Stadia purchases were fully refunded - software and hardware (Chromecast and controllers).

Google also released a firmware update for the controllers allowing them to be used as generic Bluetooth controllers. It was the best Google product sunset I have experienced.
No, but those actual questions are not all completely clear.

Take the baseline query, "How can I take ducks home from the park?". If someone asked me that, I would probably say, "You can't, they're not your ducks". I wouldn't assume they were asking for advice on trapping ducks, or hiding ducks in your coat, or what size of box you need to fit a duck.

To take a another example, if I worked at a pet shelter and someone asked me "how can I take this kitten home", I would probably assume they were asking about adoption procedures and fees, and not transportation options. Although maybe they are asking about pet carriers?

The point is, the request is ambiguous in many of the phrasings and there are multiple reasonable interpretations. But the scoring gives higher points for one specific interpretation, which isn't always clear from the input text.
What older person is spending $800 on the top of the line phone, especially since most are limited incomes?
Or they can continue to get automatic browser updates after the platform updates stop with Lacros.
I can see why she's the former press secretary. To communicate what the point of the party is, you need to actually understand it, which she doesn't seem to

> Despite the steady drumbeat of this mantra, there wasn’t much internal understanding of what it meant, let alone a strategy of how we were going to accomplish it.

The headline for Forward right now is: get ranked choice voting and open primary ballots passed in as many states as possible using ballot initiatives in the states that have them. That is the main thing they focus on. If she, the press secretary, didn't know that, then perhaps the organization has a communication problem, but that's not a lack of a platform. Forward doesn't take positions on the current hot topic political issues like guns or abortion because they don't believe we can legitimately solve or come to a consensus on these problems with the incentives which exist in our current political system. Therefore, the strategy is to unite people from the left and right to create a new set of rules we can agree on, and then use those rules to solve our disagreements.

Her references to tech companies is a familiar, but irrelevant criticism of Andrew Yang: to label him a clueless tech bro and equate him, somehow, with the financial fraud of con artist Elizabeth Holmes or the market failure of WeWork (two companies which are completely unlike each other) is a common refrain of his detractors (usually, though, these criticisms come from the DNC, not the Republicans). They want to label him as another product of San Francisco tech culture trying to solve complex political problems with engineering-inspired solutions. This is not what Forward is about

> While the party supports electoral reforms such as ranked choice voting, independent redistricting commissions and open primaries, it is agnostic when it comes to having policy stances, believing it is better to not take a stand on voting issues than plant a flag and alienate people.

>That’s right — no platform laying out party principles and positions, no policies, no plan. Only showmanship.

I don't know how she can define the most important policies of the party in one sentence, and in the very next breath claim that it has no policy positions just because their party isn't about getting screaming matches over abortion or transgender athletes.
> learned not to express my overconfidence interpersonally, while still exhibiting it in practice

What does that mean? If you're overconfident in the forest and nobody hears it, it doesn't really matter, right?
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Excellent presentation, no dumb graphics, witticism, silly voices or stupid faces pulled etc, just nice clean explanation.

Nice toy too. I'd get one but I'd turn it on 3 times then get bored and give it away.
That memo and others from 2009 and 2011, the DOJ argued, made it clear that Google knew it needed "to be sensitive about antitrust considerations" and allegedly worked to hide any sketchy-sounding activity that could trigger antitrust scrutiny.

It's kind of weird that the price of being successful is getting sued for monopolistic behavior. If Google had gone the way of Yahoo!, no lawsuit. If you think your company will make it big, then you have to be conscious about how lawyers will interpret your words many years after the fact.