skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure the context here is "worldwide". I don't see any comments about running AC to bedrooms.

Also, "nice" things continually transition to being expected "basic" things. Especially when many people find the upgrades not too onerous. Other people feel natural frustration if happenstance makes the transition to a new norm more difficult for them.

--

It took work to get good WiFi signals throughout my home this year. But an 80+ foot tree fell on the roof, centered directly over me in bed without killing me, during a tremendously dark and stormy night. So I won't complain about the signal resistant materials! Too much! In a closely adjecent "verse" I won't be complaining about anything.
Clever , but seems insufficient protection on which to bet one's life.

At a minimum, there should be an always-available partition to contain plausibly-deniable files. Just having an empty USB drive is already suspicious, especially in any stressful situation (why would anyone go to the trouble of carrying something empty?)

The decoy partition should report full capacity even tho it may be small (just like the bogus "large" Chinese knock-off drives that report huge available space but are actually only small memory chips that will fail only when you actually try to load it fully).

Should probably also ship them with a wide variety of bogus off-brand labels. If some authorities figure it out, we don't want bulletins to look for one particular marking set to work.
Years ago I suffered extremely bad dizzy spells which would prevent me from moving at the risk of immediately falling over. These instances would last several days, progressively getting weaker. A tip from a doctor that over consumption of caffeine might be the cause proved to be correct. Switching to decaffeinated coffee caused subsequent dizzy spells to be weaker than previous and eventually they stopped.
Africa wasn't colonized by Europe until vaccines and treatments were invented because of malaria and other tropical diseases. Quinine was one of the last ingredients needed to conquer Africa.
Then surely, instead of trying to poison the legal landscape around these issues for everybody, they could cover their business needs by no longer selling that equipment, but leasing it.

Then they could make the terms of the lease be amenable to the economics of their business without working to make things worse for everybody else.
In what sense does Altman belong in the same sentence as Musk? I’m completely puzzled.
Please don't be a dick and dismiss it as "EEWWWWW ANGLOCENTRISM NOOOOO". Fuck off.
> Some OpenAI employees have rejected the idea that there was any coercion to sign the letter. “Half the company had signed between the hours of 2 and 3am,” a member of OpenAI’s technical staff, who tweets under the pseudonym @roon, posted on X. “That’s not something that can be accomplished by peer pressure.”

> Altman’s departure jeopardized an investment deal that would allow them to sell their stock back to OpenAI, cashing out equity without waiting for the company to go public. The deal — led by Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital — values the company at almost $90 billion, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal, more than triple its $28 billion valuation in April, and it could have been threatened by tanking value triggered by the CEO’s departure.

Ok so the company was offering a cash out of 3x and the long term employees are most likely to have most power and influence within the company. Yeah, no undue coercion that everyone is so motivated by this they’re signing things at 2am? Or more like they’re reading tea leaves and don’t want to be the odd man out because this is a convenient enemies list if your name isn’t on it, especially since Sam apparently has a history of manipulative and retributive behavior + a huge pay day for either you, your bosses, or people who have significant standing to impact your performance reviews / career trajectory.
Yes, you might get the odd Schindler every now and then who tries to do just that, but most are probably in it for the money and not to fight some uphill battle.
i always find those prices unbelievable. What is the actual cost of all the expense and workhours for making the treatment
That's not a MIDI editor, its a custom music language. Also it's paid, not open source.
Upsold... is that what we are calling lying now?
Show HN: Create Homeschool Resources in Seconds
We run a network of accredited microschools and have been experimenting with generative AI. This tool generates homeschool resources in a nice format. We combine the form input with a detailed prompt that aligns with evidence-based educational practices.

We have another version for teachers that has been used to generate 40,000 resources in the past three months. Excited about making it easier and more affordable for parents to homeschool!
True i've been using the OpenOrca finetune and just downloaded the new UNA Cybertron model both tuned on the Mistral base.

They are not far from GPT-3 logic wise i'd say if you consider the breadth of data, ie. very little in 7GB's; so missing other languages, niche topics and prose styles etc.

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if 13B would be indistinguishable from GPT-3.5 on some levels. And if that is the case - then coupled with the latest developments in decoding - like Ultrafastbert, Speculative, Jacobi, Lookahead etc. i honestly wouldn't be surprised to see local LLM's on current GPT-4 level within a few years.
Most of what I see online and in the news is pro-palestine.

Reading up on the conflict, I support Israel more and more.
Are they taking this approach only in the negative form?

Ie; if they detect you’ve made a mistake an and not claimed something you are eligible for. Or paid some tax that you are actually eligible to deduct/offset somehow, does it notify or automate the process of fixing that error?

I’m not opposed to the idea of automate to ensure compliance with the law / regulations. But enforcement should go both ways. The goal of automation of policy should be for the policy to be maximally effective. It shouldn’t just penalise those who incorrectly claim, but rather maximise eligible claims. And by that same measure, ensure those ineligible are rejected.

Obviously without any penalities, this would lead to over claiming, and reliance on the system to reject. But I think the system should be resilient enough to handle that.

While it’s not to such an extreme extent, there is a polar opposite attitude / policy towards entitlement of government benefits in Australia and New Zealand. In Australia you may be eligible for something, but it’s your responsibility to know that and claim it. And the government takes a ‘we defend the benefits from those who are ineligible’ attitude (more so if the Liberal party is in power, see Robo Debt scandal).

In New Zealand they take a ‘these benefits must go to those who are eligible’ attitude. And they model the extent to which they fulfil that objective based on how many claim vs how many their model states are eligible.

The outcome is that in NZ they call after you’ve had a baby to ensure you’re receiving additional tax benefits, services, etc. In Australia you’d only receive a call / letter to notify your benefits are being cut off, and there’s some difficult->impossible method of re-applying. Such as contacting a call centre that’s queue is full by 9:30 and stops accepting calls…
People don't fight wars over a random human person drawing over a map. It's not even something you'd think would be made illegal.

The wars happen when nations disagree about borders. Those borders are represented by maps but luckily nation states don't confuse the two (except for political theater and posturing). The wars happen when the real physical objects go over the real physical borders not when a random person scribbles on a map.

I think my analogy holds up pretty well even with your stretching of the scenario.
Please google "CAA DNS record"
That's a great reminder, thank you!

I should revisit the guidelines and the FAQ sometime.

Also, here is a link that explains undocumented features and behaviors of HN for anyone interested:

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented
Perhaps they stopped maintaining it due to the lack of support.
Hamas is not a just stray gang in Gaza. It’s the (once) elected sovereign. It holds all executive positions and runs anything in Gaza. Any hospital in Gaza is controlled by Hamas.
AAV or adeno-associated virus is a delivery method for getting cas9 mRNA (the code that says, make cas9 protein and do gene editing). Zinc finger nucleases are a similar class of dna editing proteins.

In this specific experiment they chose to transfect cells with plasmid directly rather than transduce with virus.
Geocities, a blast from the past. My first web host.
I used to, but not anymore. It seemed to be A LOT of ads and people I didn't know who were somehow connected to me. I also deleted my account.
Sure, and it's entirely possible for them to have changed their mind once they saw how contingent the whole company was on his remaining.
Jesus, why did I look this up? https://www.timesofisrael.com/4-ny-babies-get-herpes-from-je...
The article says "patients must undergo a preparatory treatment with a chemotherapy drug to remove any native stem cells that might remain in their bone marrow." It doesn't make much difference to the patient if it's the Lyfgenia itself or the chemo drug, if the chemo drug is a requirement. Right?
So they already do that. There is a very distinct price difference between off season repairs and emergency field repairs. Both on labor and parts.
https://archive.ph/ZN4MP
Is this working on Windows?
I don’t see how a plant is supposed to metabolize the aspartame for energy?
If you donate to an open source project you are entitled to getting whatever feature implemented?

/s?
You can't disbelieve all stories, because there are important stories to believe in, it's not irrational, it's difficulty of categorization. But you can disbelieve nudes, they don't need accurate categorization.
You've broken the site guidelines badly in this thread. We're going to have to ban accounts that keep doing that, so please stop now.

Needless to say, this goes regardless of which side of the conflict people are supporting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
NeurIPS'23 Competition Track: Big-ANN Supported by Microsoft
How's things like sleep, hibernate, system wide touchpad gestures, HW video decode and fractional scaling working in the land of linux these days?

I know if you can live without those then Linux is daily drivable for a long time, but I need all of them to work flawlessly, and every time I try Linux on my bare metal laptop a lot of those features are still missing, janky or require research and tinkering.

I really want to make the switch but I also need 95% feature parity. I don't game much so I don't care how many Steam games now work on Linux via Proton if the basic features of an OS that I mentioned before are not there out of the box.
What is the shelf life of a modern CD/DVD? I might consider using them more
It's obviously true that calling out or implying anti semitism where it doesnt exist doesnt automatically make the accuser an racist.

But it usually does.

They are, while doing this, implicitly or explicitly endorsing Bibi's "exterminate the palestinians" Amalek trope, Ben Gvir hanging a portrait of Baruch Goldstein on his wall (shot up a mosque, considered to be a hero by ~10% of Israelis) and Isaac Herzog calling race-mixing a "tragedy".

(i dont think it's too controversial to suggest that those 3 people essentially represent Israel)

This practice of calling all and sundry racist in defense of a state founded upon an ideology of racial purity is, of course, probably mostly racist projection.

Indeed, it's hard to be a dedicated anti-racist these days without being accused of being an anti semite at some point.
Ironically Google will start to realize that the search quality dropped as they depend on it to power Bard now unlike the top ads.
There have been many arguments that AIPAC should register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act but my understanding is that in it's current form AIPAC doesn't qualify.

I see this as a reason to strengthen the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
Arguing that roads are more expensive is roger irrelevant.

> 10x more expensive than this bike path.

And faaar less than 1/10th of trips goes to bike paths. Cost per actual trip is what matters. What I see is a few busy bike lanes (say city centre). And some virtually unused bikelanes e.g. there are very nice expensive cycle lanes next to the Southern Motorway - but their cost per trip is surely much much higher than the cost of the Motorway per trip costs. I.e. your argument isn't just wrong, it's likely wrong in the wrong direction.

And some of that expensive road costs are for cyclists e.g. a costly ROAD intersection designed for bikes (near a university). The new redesign to fix the cockup is more $$$. One intersection - and designing for bikes was the cause for the costs (the externalities were also high). https://i.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/123202841/traffic-light...

Cyclelanes get road barriers e.g. road to Lyttelton has a new one. Fairly accounting for costs added to roads matters.

> NZ$317

Aaaaand just where do you think those government taxes come from eh? You are trying to imply that the difference between $750 and $317 is free money not paid for by Christchurch tax payers.

My bigger point is that the reality needs to be rationally acknowledged. Ignoring usage is putting head in sand.
The alternative explanation seems unlikely. I'd think that if it were true, there'd be even one single instance of that having come up in conversation prior to bad graffiti and printed propaganda showing up all over my neighborhood. Getting a glimpse of what people allow themselves to be subjected to on the various platforms seems to indicate it's younger, easily influenced, volatile reactionary people suddenly being inflamed by whatever hot conflict of the day it is; people I wouldn't normally talk to anyway and who wouldn't have any authentic connection with it. The only time it's come up in real life was when I bumped into some Israeli guests at a hostel, and they were talking about what their families were going through and whether they'd have to go back and serve.

It doesn't come up on my Instagram presumably because I had previously unfollowed everyone who posted about whatever other injustice they'd been told to be pissed about, and shockingly I don't feel the need to go and vandalize property to spread the word.
One could say the same for "the other part": being pro-Palestinians doesn't mean being pro-Hamas, but that's also a convenient excuse used by people who are actually pro-Hamas.

The problem happens when nobody is given the benefit of the doubt about being in group 1.
You don't need specific hardware, it will run on non-TPM devices as well.

I've also noticed that if you build the ISO yourself via UUP dump[1], instead of using the official ISO from Microsoft, then you get a bare start menu with no bloatware or ads, just Explorer and Edge. Nice.

[1] https://uupdump.net/
A lone mathematician battles the forces of evil with the help of a virtually indestructible and artificially intelligent assistant CGPT.
This is also consistent with some number of OpenAI operators wanting Altman removed, and then discovering that the company's long-term financial outlook, and their accrued compensation in particular, was highly contingent on him staying. It's pretty normal for people to believe that they could, if all else was equal, have a better or more healthy management culture. But people rarely act on that belief precisely because earnestly pursuing it can end up threatening everyone's future well-being.

It's also consistent with OpenAI's board comprehensively botching their response to those concerns, even if had been clear that over the medium term Altman needed to be managed out. That's why there's a term for this ("managed out").

Instead, the OpenAI board created news cycle after news cycle of palace intrigue by seeming obliviousness to how their actions would be read.
It's very interesting to me that a large new org (say BBC, DW, CBC whatever) will publish some YouTube video report about some political subject (Canada and India, Ukraine and Russia, Taiwan and China), and within 15 minutes the video has a comments section containing 200+ posts in a very obvious direction. Are 100s of Canadians really awake at 5am posting on a BBC video about Canadian support for Ukraine 15 minutes after it was posted? Are 100s of Taiwanese people really awake at 3am commenting on a DW video about China-Taiwan relations? 15 minutes after it was posted? I can't tell if I've become paranoid over the last 4/5 years or if it's real, but it seems so stark to me how intense manipulation on platforms is, be it YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram.
FARA defines "foreign agents" as individuals or entities engaged in domestic lobbying or advocacy for foreign governments, organizations, or persons. Doesn't matter if they are US persons. It's a registration and disclosure requirement.[1]

[1] https://www.justice.gov/nsd-fara/fara-index-and-act#611c
>My point is that higher education isn't job training and doesn't pretend to be, and people who think it is or should are the ones that need education the most because they don't seem to get it.

That was true 50 years ago, but employers turned it into job training. My father in law retired a well off businessman with a History degree from Yale he got in the 50s. You know what a History degree from Yale qualifies you for today? Teaching History and maybe writing some books. The degree didn't change and Yale didn't change.
This. And software developers are helping to make the dystopia real.
I think a common error is taking this view in isolation on each bug.

Fact is, if you ship enough 'low probability' bugs in your product, your probabilities still add up to a point where many customers are going to hit several of them.

I've used plenty of products that suffer from 'death by a thousands cuts'. Are the bugs I hit "ship blockers"? No. Do I hit enough of them that the product sucks and I don't want to use it? Absolutely.
I’m not holding them to a higher standard.

Imagine if you will someone going to start large scale bombing NYC. Or London. Or Rome.

The Hamas attack was unprecedented and horrific. I don’t know that it justifies declaring all out war on and entire city.

I can say that without being anti-Semitic.
"Enable workers to get the most secure Windows ever with Windows 11. It’s AI-enhanced and easy to use with a 250% ROI."

Wtf is this even supposed to mean. 250% ROI, AI enhanced ?? What ?
Don't forget HDR on monitors and gesture support on trackpads.
I've certainly be frustrated at others for shitty software. We're definitely taught what bad code is.
The question is, what is so special about the Israeli/Palestine conflict that leads to these outsized protests? I do not recollect a similar response to the treatment of ISIS or the war in Yemen, even though both had the unconditional support of the US war machine. Even if the left could be absolved of antisemitism, the resistance groups it is aligning itself with clearly can not.
> the collective probability of rare, but expensive health issues is basically 100%

Not really, no. Most people will die of something expensive, but not $2M expensive. A quick google says that per-capita lifetime health care expediture is ~$300k.
> I feel it's the premier linux gaming distro due to valves efforts.

For anyone reading this: virtually every piece of code is upstreamed to the projects themselves (Mesa etc.), there is no reason to jump to Arch for gaming.
Maybe it is? I vouch for things frequently but that's because I have Showdead turned on and scan the New page regularly for unlucky submissions. I personally think it's a little too easy to flag things on HN, it seems as if the threshold to kill a post was set at a time when there was a much smaller userbase.
>when do not accept the same in other engineering domains?

No, you just complain that your taxes are being used to build expensive roads and bridges. Or you think airplanes are far too expensive. Or that new cars are insanely expensive.

There are cost trade offs. In general, better quality more expense.

Also in software there is not an excessive amount of software engineers in relation to demand for software. So SWEs can get paid a lot to go build crappy software.
DNA analysis can be used to profile you. Health risks, ancestry, genetic conditions. This could be used to deny insurance coverages and employment opportunities due to perceived health risks.

DNA analysis is rapidly evolving to extract more information than you might initially assume. We don't know how much or how accurately DNA can be used do infer your preferences, moral instincts, aggressive tendencies, intelligence, propensity to fall victim of a scam, to become addicted, to act violently, etc.

DNA also provides insights into the genetic makeup of family members, which can face the same problems.
https://nitter.net/MistralAI/status/1733150512395038967
Why should we in the West support a religious ethnostate? No government has the divine right to exist. Governments succeed or fail by the will of those who live there.
My Synology is fairly low-end one. It's "only" something like a 1.8TB RAID-1. (I think it was probably cheaper than operating my old Linux box with btrfs to do the same thing.) But, yeah, I plug my various wired stuff in where it's convenient but basically don't sweat the details.
Crass, sure.

Not sure it's really easier though, economics and emotional affect are often at odds. Ask people if a hospital administrator should spend 100k on either a single liver transplant for an 11 year old girl, or spread over 100 less expensive life saving interventions for 50 year olds, most people will say save the girl and demand the administrator be fired for even needing to think about it.

(Half remembered but apparently real scenario, though I'm not sure where from)
It is interesting that the widespread view of isreali people that Palestinians doesn't have right to have a state is not viewed as bad as the other way around. Ironically it can be called antisemitism too. Because they are Semitic too [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_people
I used this software some time ago to edit a couple MIDI files with mouse and (computer) keyboard, mainly for altering melody tracks, fixing some wrong chords and adding drums. I found this tool pretty intuitive to use and liked it a lot.

I had previously tried Sekaiju and another tool whose name I forgot, but I felt like they were aimed at more experienced users and assumed a higher level of knowledge about MIDI terms and concepts (of which I know very little), so much of the interface went over my head. MIDI Editor was good enough for my simpler use case.
I run Windows in VM only for gaming (vfio videocard passthrough on Linux).
So couldn't care less what's inside - win10 or win11.
Sounds like something more is happening here.
Are those population’s countries accepting Palestinian refugees?
When in Rome, do as the Romans (and use ASCII). Please don't be a dick and DDOS the Romans' IT systems with needing to support the vagaries of every foreign dialect in the world.
Yeah, it’s annoying that paredit is “complected” with Clojure and lisp modes in other editors. This is one of the major things keeping me in emacs: it’s relatively trivial to mash up pre-existing emacs functionality ad hoc; other editors tend to precombine features in arbitrary ways.