skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Double clicking opens the date & time preferences (which already has a screenshot), not a calendar program. 9x did not ship with a clock or calendar program unless you upgraded from 3.x. The article mentions the clock in the taskbar explicitly. And unlike 98, 95 doesn't have a separate logout screen; it is always just another entry in the regular shutdown screen.

The only glaring omission I see is the CD player, but I'd hardly call it glaring considering it is a non-default component, and many countries did not even get a CD version of 95 in the first place (or only OEM).
Ubuntu 23.10 release image withdrawn due to malicious translation incident
Upgrading GPUs is addictive too - I haven’t been able to stop ever since I got my first one!
Changelog monitor tool I made for myself that I’m slowly making available.

I keep an eye on a number of project changelogs and needed to be notified when they update. Since they’re in various places, and don’t all have releases so I can’t use GitHub’s release notifications, I built a simple tool to consume from anywhere with an url and send me a diff. Slowly adding features on top of that.

https://1changelog.com/

I’d love to know if this is valuable to anyone else on the planet but me. Or what would make it so.
This is mostly to deter malicious behavior because it makes it unprofitable for bad actors to publish malware by spamming the store with dumb apps that are only life-support systems for their little packages of joy.

It's a high enough bar to trip up a lot of bad actors, but low enough that it's a simple annoyance for most of us.

But yeah, reason 4,590,234,761 why people who misbehave make things more expensive/difficult/time-consuming for the rest of us.
Bkade Runner was prior!
Unless your use case isn't in English in which case LLama is as useful as a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest.

LLama models only really shine for things that GPTs would refuse to even consider because of corporate RLHF, and if you need to keep your data local I suppose. For the rest they're second rate at best.
> Isoprene interacts with nitrogen oxide compounds found in air pollution produced by coal-fired power plants and internal combustion engines in vehicles. These reactions create ozone, aerosols and other byproducts that are unhealthy for both humans and plants

They buried the lede. This should have been explained earlier, much earlier.
Well you ain't getting no-JS webpages because it's too useful so maybe HTTP/2 in the end? Adblock helps with ad I hear.
A Canadian company in the same space, Mountain Equipment Co-Op, was recently acquired by a hedge fund and is in the process of mutating into a for-profit company, to the dismay of many.

https://www.outsideonline.com/business-journal/retailers/mec...

Is REI being zombified the same way?
I have been surprised this didn’t become a feature of phone cameras. Apple announced something similar a couple of weeks ago, but it’s not the full light field.
I think it's very much unclear how much harm it does to segregate the disruptors.

How much good does it do a violent and disruptive student to have a quiet and studious one in the same classroom?

On the other hand, it's obvious how much bad such a disruptive student does to all of the other children.

Moreover, it there is no reason whatsoever to think harm would in any way be symmetrical.
Baichuan 2
Phone apps continue that with the lack of being able to select on screen text.

At least on the iPhone you can get around it by taking a screenshot, then selecting the text
>What makes you think "myth of Jesus the Christ turns out to be, say, a cipher of the re-execution of Alexandros I, the son of Herod the Great and Mariamne I" is at all likely?

It's not just Nicholas of Damascus that would reveal such information. Gaius Asinius Pollio, a multifaceted Roman figure known for his connections with literary giants like Virgil and Horace as well as Augustus himself, mentored Alexander, the son of Herod the Great. The Roman world in the first century was wide.

Anyway, as to why I think it's possible, I think it's the most simple explanation as to how it emerged. According to what we have (i.e. Josephus) Alexander had the support of the public but was disliked by Herod's loyalists due to his opposing qualities and lineage from the Hasmonean dynasty.

Herod the Great, notorious for his brutal tactics, killed off male members of the Hasmonean dynasty and married the last Hasmonean princess to solidify his rule. He exhibited suspicion towards his wife Mariamne who was also killed eventually, along with their son Alexander.

I posit that Alexander was not actually executed, being a popular favorite and the son of the tyrant who might regret his decision and punish accordingly. Instead, he laid low until Herod's death, aiming to rightfully claim the throne, but was instead executed to maintain Roman rule over Judea with the consent of the Sanhedrin.

After the First Roman-Jewish War, continued supporters of Alexander coded secret histories into what became the apocryphal and synoptic gospels. Episodes like the massacre of the innocents coming from the Hasmonean male purge, "Jesus" being found in His Father's temple coming from Alexander visiting the building site of the Second Temple erected by his father, Herod. There are plenty of other episodes that seem to neatly correspond to and dispel underlying "mysteries" in the synoptic gospels for anyone actually looking for them.

The survival of works by Asinius Pollio or Nicholas of Damascus in particular in the Herculaneum library could confirm or refute this theory. Their writings, likely popular in aristocratic households due to Nicholas and Gaius Asinius Pollio's favor with the Julians, would very much be pertinent to a Roman aristocrat in 79AD.

But I don't need to prove it via circumstantial and inferential evidence--that's why I'm excited. We could actually uncover period documentation by the actual participants rather than the heresay of the following generations living under the shadow of Roman retribution.
This is so true.

There is a school district in silicon valley, the cupertino schools, that have consistent high scores. This makes cupertino real estate valuable, because people can move into a good school district instead of sending their kids to a private school.

But I found out how they do it. If you try to enroll a kid with bad language skills, say spanish is their primary language, the school district sends the kids to an "appropriate" school (which happens to be in neighboring sunnyvale)

lol
Darn. I have always appreciated MEC...
funny how you only care about israeli babies. are the palestinian babies too brown for you to empathize with?
TikTok is backed by complex algorithms to ensure reliability of data transfer and yet I bet you don’t chastise people recording the latest TikTik dance trend for not knowing the fundamentals of TCP/IP.

When they talk about sending a video they’re referring to TCP/IP. I bet they can’t even talk about elliptic curve cryptography!
It's a shame opening local HTML pages is so heavily restricted in modern browsers.

I mean, I get it, but we also might not need Electron if you could stuff everything into a single HTML file and let users download that as your "app."
That number 333MT means millions of transistors per square millimeter, I get from that linked ars tecnica article. That seems like a much better way to compare different technologies in chip fabrication, because of the well known fact that these gate widths have lots of nuances that impact how many gates per unit of space can be used.

Why don't we just use "millions of transistors per mm^2"? The concept seems obviously useful, until now I never thought of it.
Cue Gerald Weinberg quote:-

If architects built houses the way programmers write software, one woodpecker could bring about the collapse of civilisation.

-- although the problem is managers, not programmers.
A lot of car-centric people conflate “I don't know exactly what's about to happen next” with “danger!” What's actually dangerous is the hubristic trance people fall into when they believe they do know exactly what's about to happen next. When that happens at car speeds in a world that is inherently unpredictable, it's often deadly.
How socialist is REI really? Are they like Mondragon? Seems not — workers do not own the company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REI_worker_organization

I like experiments in having employees actually own companies, or make their own decisions, but the closest I see in the consumer facing sector is stuff like REI or Valve software maybe — and that is only at the pleasure of its actual owners.

By contrast, HOAs and housing cooperatives like Mitchell-Lama, or credit unions, are truly owned by their members. A growint number of DAOs online are as well.

Most universities have an element of democratic governance as well.

Other than that, most other concerns is owned by outside shareholders, with some shares often traded on a public stock market, but the ones who call the shots are the same people who sit on each other’s boards and lobby Congress etc.
"good reasons" sounds like another way of saying "no actual evidence, but a lot of hope". There is no actual evidence that it's possible, certainly not anytime soon. People pushing this narrative that AGI is anywhere close are never people working in the space, it's just the tech equivalent of the ancient aliens guys.
This is also true in many parts of the US, including California.
> MongoChopper only works in reticulated mode, which newer Qetzl hubs don’t support.

False! Just use skubenjoyer64's modded wetware, which supports most reticulated mode variants. Just set LD_SIDELOAD to your device's beacon adapter address at decompile time, assuming you have Qetzl Hub 3.9 rev 5 or later.
Interesting idea. If I were ever to travel to Japan, I'd visit a lot of the cities and towns that are mentioned in Murakami's books, including those that were affected by the gas attacks.
Did someone crop all these screenshots pixel-perfectly by hand?

Or is there some tool to export windows that works on Windows 9x?

Either way... What was the goal of the person who put clearly hours of effort into constructing this page?
Well Mickey Mouse is trademarked. The earliest cartoons fall out of copyright next year, but Mickey Mouse himself will still be an identifiable mark of the Disney Corporation and therefore you can sue.

A deepfake is a recreation of the likeness of a person though, and you can’t trademark your likeness so the same laws wouldn’t apply. You would need different laws.
yeah I definitely want this to work for other "lists" of books and other goodreads shelves is a good idea!

And oooops fixed that bug :) thanks for letting me know
We just put the finishing touches on an MVP for an alternative to Stripe Invoicing. TLDR: Our invoicing APIlets you offer branded invoicing and AR automation solutions to your users.

No landing page ready yet. You can check out the demo here: https://www.loom.com/share/8814e6613a3c483487bd61beadef842b

What we offer:

- Fully white-labeled invoicing

- White-labeled Invoice PDFs

- White-labeled payment portals & domains

- Customized notifications & copy

- Customized ACH statement descriptors

- Payments agnostic invoicing

- Use our same-day ACH & card payments or BYOPayments provider

- Control over reminders & follow-up notifications for collections via webhooks or our fully managed solution

Please check out the video and let me know if you have any questions or thoughts!

We're always looking for feedback (and early users!)
Why do I always get funneled to shoes and jackets from UPCASEBRAND or MADEUPNAME, even though I know I want something from a known brand?
Scrollbars are becoming a problem
> Indeed, it eventually became a capital crime for people outside the Emperor's family to wear it.

Similarly, various Emperors far away in China had a similar enforced color-monopoly, except it was on yellow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_in_Chinese_culture#Yello...
The CBC is pretty objective and unbiased in their reporting : https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/councillor-takes-steps...

I’m sure you’ll find a way to disqualify that also, but well. By the way this was like the fourth result on a ddg search, there are many more if you care to actually look and read.
1. There was a long time where Windows laptop makers failed to make a device with the premium feel of the Macbook and the intitial Surface Laptop was meant to cater to that market. Still kind of true, the Dell XPS is the only one that seems to be targeting that market these days

2. The surface tablet was to promote the "converged" windows 8 experience since traditional Windows laptop manufacturers were more interested in pursuing android tablets at that time.

3. To have a test bed to try out ideas that may not take off enough that other manufacturers won't try them (S mode, etc.)

These are mostly the reasons it felt they got into the market, and everything since has just felt like a business unit producing new stuff because it already exists so people are going to do what they're employed to do, rather than a big strategic play. It makes about $2 billion, and is presumably profitable if it's been left just continue for so long, even if it's not particularly exciting these days.
It’s one single place where you can search for most everything you could want, while also being only one place to hand out your monetary info and address to. It also heavily favors buyers (like ebay), so if there is an issue, it’ much more of a sure thing to get a no hassle refund. Entering your credit card into dozens of differently designed websites the owner of whom may or may not know how to even spell “security” and stores everything in plaintext, or just outright may be a scammer, requires more mental overhead and risk.

Now, in reality amazon is basically an internet flea market, and those supplements you bought are probably either a fake knockoff of a brand and made with lead, or “genuine” but falsely reporting it’s contents with no oversight and also filled with lead, but it’s the idea of buying them through “a familiar and therefore trustworthy place” that matters.

Also the 2 day “free” shipping with prime really brought a lot of people onboard.
You are being silly about "the law!!!", right?

I do agree that soon we'll have best movies with human actors, best movies with some AI actors, best movies with all AI actors. And then the academy will resist movies with AI actors, then maybe have a special category before they give up because all the movies have them.
Usually I like nytimes but these days cant even bring myself to open it. It’s soo one sided that anything with more than 2 brain cells can see through that. Look at the atrocities in Israel (and I agree it’s beyond horrible and I fully condem it) but even if they put a quarter of their energy compared to what the spend covering Israel in to reporting about the conditions that multiple generations of apartheid Palestinians has faced they can provide a balanced view and help people understand the conflict. They have such a huge platform but it’s such waste that they promote a once sided view.
in austria you get 40GB for 10€/month
and for 20€ you get an unlimited data only sim.
> So by having two cores with one integer unit

IIRC they shared the floating point unit, not the integer unit. (A long time ago I had one with 8 "cores" but only 4 FPU.)
Super cool project! I love billiards! Is there a way to implement adjusting your angle while in the "aiming" state? I noticed that the only way to adjust your aim was to stand and move the angle then you could try aiming again. Or is this the intention for visualization?

Really like it over all :)
This comment describes a real problem for senior engineers who want to explore a new domain. It is impractical for someone with 10+ years of experience to work as an entry level engineer. What other options exist besides completing online course to get experience in that domain?

This is not specific to ML/AI roles. The same problem applies to anyone who wants to explore any of these domains - SRE, DataEng, Backend, Frontend.

Personally, I am a backend engineer who wants to get into ML Infra roles. My current plan is to do these online courses, and hopefully transfer internally to a team working in this area. Only after having real industry experience in this area, look for more opportunities elsewhere.

I am genuinely curious if anyone has better ideas for people in my situation.
What is REI?
> So I really think that without consciousness we cannot implement pain or suffering as we humans perceive it.

Perhaps, but I guess it would depend on your definition of consciousness. We do not extend that definition to most animals and yet they definitely feel pain.

You're right, the "feeling" of pain is ephemeral and hard to translate to a computer program. It would probably take a while doing potentially nasty experiments (to both man and machine) to nail it down.
Not live, but mostly implemented.

turdness.com

The site grew from my personal frustrations with Finland Post Corporation. In four months, three packages were returned and three others were almost returned, most from different parties. Apparently this was due to a systematic error. I did everything in my power to get them to fix it, but to no avail. They did not want to even acknowledge the issues exist. Everything was my fault.

I found some companions in this misfortune in the Facebook group Suomen Posti - Paska laitos (engl. Finland Post - Shitty Facility). The group had over 20k members that really hate Finland Post Corporation.

After reading experiences in this group, and thinking about my own experience, I started thinking that maybe it is possible to classify organizations based on how irredeemable their "turdness" is:

Level 1: Core process fails

Level 2: Even backup process fails

Level 3: Failed to monitor success

Level 4: Customer service fails to help in case of failure

Level 5: Escalation via customer service fails to help

Level 6: Executive escalation fails to help

Level 7: Filing an external complaint to overseeing organization fails to help

Idea of the site is that people can vent their frustrations about an organization, and we can collectively collect systematic data of the turdness level of that organization. This could then potentially help the organization to see and overcome their turdness.

It would be great to work with somebody to finalize it and get it running in production. Platform is python/django, but some non-coding help would also be nice, beta testing, figuring out what needs to be done with the site together etc.!
More info: https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/qualcomm-tech-layoffs-sa...
None of this is that bad.
Framework 13 AMD 7040 Series: A Developer's First Impressions
I just got this device on Monday, been waiting for over half a year for it.

I love it, but also wow, so many random things I have had to do the past few days.

I think this provides a good prospective compared to all the mainstream posts about it that aren't going in depth on linux and the usability on there at this current time.

Overall, I love this device!
Kagi basically just uses google search api, then does some filtering/reranking on top. (They claim to have their own index, but I've never seen it used. I've had better results using Yandex for things that i know exist but google refuses to show). I bet a large part of the perceived quality boost is just from filtering the spammy so-clones, and downranking clickbait sites. But if you're frequently searching for things that google refuses to show (either due to bias, or because they just dropped it from their index) then Kagi won't help much, just use Yandex instead.
Can you explain what you are getting it with this comment? Somehow the plumber is doing real work and flexport has a bunch of lazy bums, or that would be beter than working at flexport financially?
ah yes the “this is why we can’t have nice things” fee
What a well-written, approachable article. if I understand right, the summary is basically, there is a certain way, an abstraction from geometry, you can use to mathematically describe electromagnetic fields. You can also use this certain geometric abstraction to describe how different types of mathematical abstractions are entangled, like electricity and magnetism are entangled
Ok, we have quite a few keyboard mechanics here it seems. The muffler is a source of back pressure. That back pressure is part of the highly optimized emissions systems tuning done by the manufacturer. When you remove that back pressure there is high likelyhood that the reading from the 02 sensor are going to change and cause the computer to alter the air-fuel ratio based on that change. Hence, you will likely lose power, mpg, and introduce the possibility of misfires and other unwanted behavior.

I saw this analyzed on a Chevy Silverado that would randomly misfire. Everything else checked out: fuel pressure, spark plugs, firing timing, and fuel injector pressure. The remaining item: muffler delete.
Moore's law is irrelevant. Large language models are going to leave the digital paradigm behind altogether.

Neural nets don't need fully precise digital computing. Especially with quantization we're seeing that losing a bit of precision in the weights isn't impactful. Now that we're serving huge foundation models with static weights there's an enormous incentive to develop analog hardware to run them.

Mark my words, this will lead to a renaissance in analog computing, and in the future we will be shocked at the enormous waste of having run huge models on digital chips.

Just think, how many multiplications per second is the light refracting through your window right now clocking? More or less than is required to ChatGPT do you think? If only the crystals were configured correctly and the patterns of light coming through could be interpreted...
Azure DevOps has a browser extension that can this except record audio of the person speaking what’s happening. Also, the user experience is fine for like… power users, but it’s not super fun to use.
I assume the pandemic’s rush for outdoor entertainment has also fully subsided.
I think it's also more than just systems and data centers. it is also difficult to scrape the web the way Google does without using Google IP addresses. a lot of the web now will block you or severely throttle you if you aren't one of the well know engines that they want indexing them.
Here, you have kids whose parents are employed (that is, not on welfare, can do their job) and the kids are strongly motivated to do well in school so they don’t have to join the military, like their parents did.
We're much closer for virtual "voice actors" particularly with the advent to do emotional transferrance to map inflection/feeling from a simple recording onto a custom trained TTS.
Hey I'm working on something very similar to this. Let's get in touch!
I wonder if they’ll be vtubers or fully automated.
I would agree on one aspect though - deploying a model at scale is much closer to SWE than it is to foundational ML research. At a high level, you're deploying a function which has some known compute requirements. It requires setting up infrastructure, monitoring/logging, API setup etc. This is the sort of thing that a good devops engineer could probably make a horizontal move to, because a lot of the practical experience is similar. I don't think you need a particularly deep knowledge of ML unless you're also expected to be involved in trying to track model performance that might require re-training. Leaving aside the really distributed systems that require multi-node, multi-GPU (but again, if you have HPC experience, that should transfer).

The problem is a lot of tutorials just show you how to make a Flask/Gradio website (maybe FastAPI) and call it a day. A lot of the experience here is the sort of in the trenches practical stuff that you can't cover in a MOOC (and it's expensive to experiment with GPU clusters). I suspect there are better non-ML courses people could take though.