skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can download Windows 10 or Windows 11 from Microsoft for free without needing to input any licence keys.

If you install it without inputting a product key, it'll be more or less fully functional. There is no time limit to this.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows11
Cellular outage in US hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon users
So instead of doing SEO, marketers will post on Reddit in hopes of Google's LLM ingesting the data and recommending the product/service.
"More technically, inference kernels produced incorrect results when used in certain GPU configurations."

As someone who learned to read in part with the Commodore 64 user manual telling me about PEEK and POKE while I was actually in primary school, I think you're greatly overstating what primary school children write about in their holidays.

Snark aside, is their message vague? Sure. But more words wouldn't actually tell us more unless they also published a lot more about their setup — "we were casting float16 to uint16 on line 249 of server_config.c" isn't going to really help either.

Also, here's a recent security update from Apple to compare against: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT214056
https://archive.ph/jnsGq
It's an enormous amount of implementation effort aimed at tampering which, to some approximation, never happens. And as another poster has said elsewhere, partitioning the communications would be cheap.

That they are using the OEM software indicates that there is some authentication going on with the ECU to start the engine anyway. I bet they didn't truly plan for key rotation.
OpenAI already experienced this backlash when it was injecting words for diversity into prompts (hilariously if you asked for your prompt back it would include the words, and supposedly you could get it to render the extra words onto signs within the image).

How could Google have made the same mistake but worse?
I agree. Reading

> The invention of the decimal point led to the development of the decimal system

I think the writer didn’t grasp the difference between “writing numbers as a sequence of place-valued digits, using a separator between the integer and fractional parts” and using, specifically, a dot as that separator, which (as far as we know now) came much later.

The paper (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S031508602...) doesn’t make that error.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#Hellenistic–... hints at the point ‘won’ being because of the invention of thypesetting, saying “Later, a "separatrix" (i.e., a short, roughly vertical ink stroke) between the units and tenths position became the norm among Arab mathematicians (e.g. 99ˌ95), while an L-shaped or vertical bar (|) served as the separatrix in England. When this character was typeset, it was convenient to use the existing comma (99,95) or full stop (99.95) instead.”)
Woah, no one said that but you.
This is almost a tacit admission that they did put their finger on the scale. Is it really AI if there is human intervention?
According to some commentators Blue Origin has more than a fighting chance to compete with SpaceX

https://youtu.be/1slJdJTzfzc?si=V7HNxAvBz0TQtMTW
> Full disclosure, I'm not white

Thinking that your skin color somehow influences the validity of your argument is big part of the problem.
I'm not going to argue against Knuth on that.
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Interesting. Only 304 unique permutations so 9 bits is more than anyone would ever need for a tic-tac-toe state?
If it's not going to give you what it's promising, which is generating images based on the prompts you provide it, it's a poor service. I think it might make more sense to try determine whether it's appropriate or not to inject ethnic or gender diversity into the prompt, rather than doing so without regard for context. I'm not categorically opposed to compensating for biases in the training data, but this was done very clumsily at best.
Guess you guys have huge ovens over there. My bad, I've never seen one that big in India.
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No, I don't think you can trust AI to answer correctly, ever. I've seen it confidently hallucinate, so I would always check what it says against other, more static, sources. The same if I'm reading from an author who includes a lot of mistakes in his books: I might still find them interesting and usefull, but I will want to double-check the key facts before I quote them to others.
Probably. I honestly wasn't thinking about it that intently, I just wanted it to be clear I'm not feeling "left out" by Gemini refusing to generate images that might look like me.
Funnily enough, I had a similar experience trying to get DALL-E via ChatGPT to generate a picture of my immediate family. It acquiesced eventually but at one point shamed me and told me I was violating terms of service.
Lessons learned:

The Importance of Model Agnosticism: With the rapid evolution of AI models, building applications that are model-agnostic has become more critical than ever.

Control and Interpretability Matter: Relying solely on large language models (LLMs) poses significant challenges for creating applications that can be deployed in real-world scenarios.

The Need for Open Models: Lastly, the push for more open models has never been more apparent. Open-source models are essential for fostering innovation, ensuring accessibility, and maintaining the integrity of our work in the AI field.
Auth0 OSS alternative Ory Kratos now with passwordless and SMS support
I linked it in another comment, but I'll put it here as well - here's an IAEA report about an accident where a worker walked into an active irradiation room of a commercial irradiator, he was there only for about a minute total but had to leave because of intense pain which made him realize something is wrong. The total dose is estimated at 10-20Gy but it was still enough to make him very unwell almost immediately and caused death about a month later:

https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub925_web.pd...
There's a good chunk of the article about that. "Constant-tile" is a bit of a misnomer, "secret-independent resource consumption" is a better way to say it. If you just add a "sleep(rand)" or equivalent then you can still break the secret using statistics or sidechannel attacks.
We've merged those comments hither.
Is it up to the open source licenses to police the opinions people have?
The problem is more that it refuses to make images of white people than the accuracy of the historical ones.
Not to mention a fantastic writer. Already his PhD thesis was brilliant, and one of the few [1] I have ever read cover-to-cover. "Advanced data analysis from an elementary point of view" is one of my go-to recommendations for people (scientists) that have had some exposure to different concepts in data analysis (typically some regression and PCA), but want to acquire a more systematic understanding. His writing is charming as ever, his exposition exceptionally clean and straightforward, the math as simple as possible but not simpler, the advice practical. He manages to walk the very fine line in mathematical writing of being rigorous enough that the reader feels being taken seriously, while being engaging enough and maintaining a pace that allows one to actually finish the whole book without burning out.

[1] Four, to be exact, and that number includes my own.
No I'm not sure and maybe it's just me. Also but of a difference between a party and posts on the internet imo.
Devenv in WSL is the way to go
I mean during cold war many RTGs were deployed in remote regions of the world and subsequently lost. We even know of some cases where random people came across them and opened them up(unknowingly killing themselves in the process).
The comment was moved from a nearly empty thread to this one, I'll edit the part about the scarcity of comments to reflect this.
Do any cars have "traditional keys" anymore? My 15 year old Corolla has an embedded RFID tag in the key, and can only be duplicated at a Toyota dealership.
"S&P 500 has hit an ATH not long ago with high rates. The economy seems to be working quite well."

The market is not the same as the economy. We are in fact seeing rising consumer debt defaults across various types. Jobs data is not as good as it seems since there are higher percentage of part-time and low wage jobs in the numbers. Consumer spending is stagnating or down in many sectors. Hiring in consumer discretionary industries like restaurants has stagnated too. I'm not sure the economy looking that good, despite the optimism (inflation even?) in the market.
This welding process will have massive impact on military armor, if it did not come from the military.
> Try yourself: think of a TV show that was big in the last 10 years, then search for it on YouTube.

I did. I thought of "Breaking Bad". Searched for it. There are indeed many reviews and shorts, and on the side of the search result in a separate box I see the official show with a big "buy" button. Apparently I can buy the first season for £10.49.

> In the off chance that the actual content of the show is actually on YouTube, the odds that you'll get the episodes of the show in your search result in any sensible order seems like zero.

Not for me. It is all organised neatly into seasons. I can buy individual episodes or whole seasons.

> But if you pick one (say CNN) and go to their page on YouTube, you can see a list of clips. But the clips seem randomly selected and unordered a a week old. So there is no way I can play their "news"? At least not at first sight.

Not in my experience? I typed "CNN" into the search bar and it displayed a big box on top of the organic results saying "Latest from CNN" with the latest video uploads of theirs in order.

When I click on the CNN channel it indeed shows various programmes CNN has. If I want to see their latest videos I need to click on the tab "Videos". It can be ordered "latest", "most popular" and "oldest" where "latest" is the default for me.
It's the Scunthorpe problem all over again
Oil giant fined just $780k after 'one of biggest ever' methane leaks
This is a good reminder on the importance of open models and ensuring everyone has the ability to build/fine-tune their own.
X rays are called Rentogen in Japanese, after Wilhelm Röntgen, who produced/detected them first.
I can just read them with options set in user settings.
Perhaps the overtness was intentional, made by someone in the company who doesn't like the '1984' world Google is building, and saw this as a good opportunity to alert the world with plausible deniability.
But Georgetown, part of Washington, isn’t named for him - it predates his rise. It’s named either for King George II or for its founders, two guys named George. I guess George was a very common name back then.
More important question: comma or period?

:)
I tried that before, but it’s not very clean, is it? That way, I still need to deal with “Windows”.

And I think laptops with 32gb of RAM are too expensive for me.
Try this out, it even has a builtin ORM.
I'm lost on most of your reply. No worries.

My armchair knowledge of AI tells me there's degrees of influence from the safety teams about what is permitted and what is not permitted.

My preference for "unconstrained" AI is a preference for less degrees of safety and more permissions. A preference for accuracy and objective truth over guardrails to words, facts, images, ideas.

The original definition of "woke" is morally sound, if provocative. Lately it is used as a smear due to the very incidents like this over-corrective safeguarded AI, which really is a hopeless blunder. Woke has become the descriptor for over-corrective social measures that in turn cause harm, offence, and misinformation.

Might the civil disagreement be reduced to "where should the moral baseline be". Perhaps we disagree only on that.

If I visited a sorcerer on the mountain top for advice, I'd expect unfiltered wisdom. Otherwise what's the point of walking all the way up the mountain.
or saltstack
This reminds me of the recent discussion on status pages. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39099980

They need to be accurate. At&t status claims everything is fine.

My wireless service is down. Down detector has tens of thousands of reports, so clearly everything is not fine.
Well, the YouTube app ChangeLog on iOS uses the same template since years: "fixed space-time continuum". This is a trend, to pretend that users are too dumb to understand the complexity of things, so just do some handwaving and thats it.
In JS you’d use SubtleCrypto, (as long as it implements what you need), right?
PWAs are a great technology that deserves much wider use.

This decision by Apple illustrates the issues with the UE's tendency to over-regulate things with the many unintended consequences that invariably follow.
These investments don't seem either dishonest or stupid.

Only a fool would buy compute capacity from Google (at least without a special deal), and Google needs apparent wins to sell GCE. They're paying with compute capacity for advertising. They're paying a lot less than they would otherwise be, since costs don't equal sticker price. Right now, AWS has 1/3 market share and Microsoft 1/4. Google claims 1/10th, but that's only by gaming numbers e.g. by including Google Workspace into figures. Now, they've got a massive amount of $$$ to keep those figures pumped up to maintain that 10% number.

Amazon wants a bigger moat, or at least doesn't want Azure eating its lunch in the near future due to a lack of a reasonable AI service (MS is leading here, due to the deal with OpenAI). It needs a reasonable AI service on AWS. It is nowhere close to being able to make one themselves. It's giving money so it can have one, and have one from a company it's part-owner of.

Thing is, both of these investments make absolute sense even without financial games, antitrust, incompetence, or much of anything else.

As a footnote, if I were Amazon, I'd be looking at player like Groq. That could leapfrog Azure + OpenAI for many uses.
Remember that terrible feeling you have of being the victim of racism as a white man, and recall it next time you hear somebody who's not a white man complaining about being discriminated against or bullied when it comes to their day to day life and activities like getting a job, buying a house, or just trying to live their lives.

That's called empathy. It's not a weakness, it's a virtue, whether you signal it or not. Now that you've been enlightened and seen you're actually capable of empathy, you're more woke than you were before, and less of a bully, and less of an bigoted asshole.

Is that really so terrible? Can you now live with being woke and empathic now by choice, without even suffering as much as all those other human beings who have to live with ACTUAL day-to-day racism and sexism and homophobia against them without having any choice about it?
You can literally order lock picks on Amazon in Canada[1].

Which were absolutely engineered with Internet to be shoved into locks to open them without a key.

To be clear: purchasing ans owning lockpicks is perfectly legal in Canada [2].

I don't think your logic applies to why that legislation was introduced. They're treating Flipper as a lockpick, but legislate it differently nevertheless.

Cheap, misguided hype seems to be a more plausible explanation.

[1] https://www.amazon.ca/Professional-Accessories-Suitable-Hand...

[2] http://lockking.ca/can-i-buy-lock-picks-in-canada/
Bezos is going to lose another billion a year at least with the combined BO + ULA and will need to manipulate geopolitics to ensure a large enough market to recoup those losses. We are not going to see competition between Blue Oula and spacex but tacit complicity.
Honestly, I'm baffled by the American keywordism and obsession with images. They seem to think that if they don't say certain words and show people from minorities in the marketing material the racism and discrimination will be solved and atrocities from the past will be forgiven.

It only become unmanageable and builds up resentment. Anyway, maybe its a phase. Sometimes I wonder if the openly racist European&Asians ways are healthier since it starts with unpleasant honesty and then comes the adjustment as people of different ethnic and cultural background come to understand each other and learn how to live together.

I was minority in the country I was born and I'm immigrant/expat everywhere and I'm very familiar with racism and discrimination. The worst is the hidden one, I'm completely fine with racist people say their things, its very useful for avoiding them. The institutional racism is easy to overcome by winning the hearts of the non-racists, for every racist there are 9 fair and welcoming people out there who are interested in other cultures and want to see people treated fairly and you end up befriending them and learn from them and adapt to their ways when preserving things important to you. This keyword banning and fake smiles makes everything harder and people are freaking out when you try to discuss cultural stuff like something you do in your household that is different from what is the norm in this locality because they are afraid to say something wrong. This stuff seriously degrades the society. It's almost as if Americans want to skip the part of understanding and adaptation of people from different backgrounds by banning words and smiling all the time.
I treat my shell histories like documents.

When I start a new shell, it starts a new history with a generated meaningful name. That is good for one-off things and experiments. History is still always preserved. Nothing gets lost.

Most of my work is done in (usually long-lived) manually named sessions, that write their history to a file named like the session. I can restart old sessions any time.

Everything is in plain text files in ~/.history, which has pros and cons. One advantage is that I can archive older history files very easily. I often ripgrep through my whole history as well, though I occasionally long for it being in a proper database and content being more structured.

I can share my history sessions and use them from multiple shells simultaneously, but practically never do that, so it is not an important use case for me.

Would Atuin bring any benefit for me?
It's not the accuracy, the problem is that it refuses to create images of white people
> figuring out what a market segment might need

What segment do you imagine being the most likely to use this?
What existing alternative processes?
How does this improve upon them?
For those of you who want services, I went and hacked this together in 5 minutes:

https://gist.github.com/rcarmo/f96c659f149e357e1091cbfe352af...

You can drop the Python script into Automator and use that to publish a Service without tweaking anything else (but of course a proper solution would do some sort of API key management, maybe use the keychain module to retrieve that, etc.)

Still, it was a fun quick hack. Thanks rexec for the inspiration, I'm now looking into doing the same with a simple Lua/Obj-C app to publish the services directly.
> I might be fully past the idea that what makes the difference is the architecture rather than the team.

SO much yes. You may have the prettiest architecture, and the best separation of concerns, and the most modular modularity, but if you don't have the right competencies, processes and people all that would go out the window before you can even finish the power point slides showing off your nice new architecture.

It's like a garden - if you don't tend to it, it turns into a mess, and the fight against entropy never stops. If you also have to fight the team along the way you've already lost
How come nuts prices aren’t low for consumers though?
We have tons of viking material culture you can access directly without the AI layer.

AI as learning tool here feels misplaced to me.
Plan 9 is just as free as Linux.
You aren't wrong. But for example telegram, it's also very open and widely ignores obvious issues. However when it comes to spam or scam accounts get banned very easily after a few reports. Something I haven't witnessed on discord.
I had nearly the exact setup. But I never fully understood it. And despite tweaks, it kept loosing some history entries. Not a huge problem, until it was :)

I have far more confidence in atuin handling race-conditions and upserts than in my bash-spagetti not doing that.

Also, fzf, has a better append-history, but even there I managed to get it into some race-condition now and again. I presume it has to do with when the append happens: after the command ran and finished vs when I hit enter? Again, I don't know the details, and frankly, don't really want to know them either, if I can just lean on a tool by people who truly understand the problem.
The German word for king is König, not Karl
Last year, North Sea wind parks produced at full capacity for more hours than french nuclear plants.

The advantage of nuclear is of course that to some degree you can schedule the shut-downs.

Solar will make energy production essentially free [1] at the time scales we are looking at. The price of renewable energy systems will be entirely in moving them through time and/or space to when the demand is. We need massive Hydrogen build out anyways to decarbonize industrial processes, so betting on Hydrogen storage for this purpose seems reasonable.

The thing for nuclear economics is this: People will build these solar cells anyways. So during summer/day time you can not sell your nuclear power. So nuclear power plants don't need to be cost competitive with Solar. They need to be cost competitive with hydrogen storage if you only operate them for a fraction of hours per year. Nobody has shown a viable economic path for this. The only benefit is that the technology is more proven than mass hydrogen storage and conversion. However, proponents always point to unproven future hypothetical technologies to bring down prices to make nuclear cost effective.

And nuclear waste disposal remains a problem as well.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/solar-pv-prices-vs-cumula...
That's your assumption, which, I would argue, is incorrect. The issue is that the generation doesn't follow the prompt in some cases.
I agree, but this requires reasoning, the way you did it. Is this within the model capability? If not, there’re two routes. First one: make inference based on real data, then most board will be male and white. Second: hard-core rules based on your social justice views. I think the second is worse than the first one.
15 million subscribers to wall street bets.

One person has pulled this off.

Outlier luck seems more likely than skill.
The argument is that
1. Natural resources don't matter
2. Capitalism is the only way nations become properous.

I feel like both are demonstrably false.
Another problem is that the US spills its own problems and "solutions" onto the world as if the one true set of problems and solutions.

E.g. at the height of the BLM movement there were BLM protests and marches in Sweden. 20% of Swedish population is foreign-born, and yet there are no such marches and protests about any of the ethnicities in Sweden (many of which face similar problems). Why? Because the US culture, and problems, and messaging has supplanted or is supplanting most of the world's
Google pauses AI image-generation of people after diversity backlash
Quite a hefty percentage of the people responsible for the current day's obsession with identity issues openly state racism against white people is impossible. This has been part of their belief system for decades, probably heard on a widescale for the first time during an episode of season one of 'The Real World' in 1992 but favored in academia for much longer than that.
Odds are a modern computer can crack the salt plus hash in a few seconds. Just assume secret is less than 9 chars and run a simple brute force attack.