skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And at least for the BIOS version I have (and the BIOS V06 available on the website), there is a default password.

Unfortunately no mention of lkwpeter, AMI_SW, or aLLy -- those would be my instinctive guesses. However, I'm puzzled that he didn't just try to clear the default password from the BIOS image before flashing it, or try a BIOS image from a different model with similar hardware; Apollo Lake SoC with an IT8987 is not exactly a rare combination --- Clevo W515PU uses that, for example.

Anyone else have guesses on what the OEM/ODM for this was? The APL09_MB_V10 identifier makes me lean towards LCFC/Compal, but the complete lack of component designators is odd, and Compal mobos are usually blue. Quanta and Wistron tend to go for green mobos, from what I've seen. Can't rule out Pegatron either.
What the parent is suggesting is that content from forums is the only place where the model would have encountered the concept of getting a tip for a good answer. For all the other content in the training set like websites, books, articles and so on, that concept is completely foreign.

This is a first principles sanity check - very good to have against much of the snake oil in prompt engineering.

The one thing that is conceivable to me is that the model might have picked up on the more general concept, but if there has been a clear incentive then the effort to find a good answer is usually higher. This abstract form, I imagine, the model may have encountered not only in internet forums, but also in articles, books, and so on.
Just a correction on the article, you don't need to be unionized to participate to a strike in France and I doubt there's as many in the union as they claim.
Eyeballing the graph, it looks to me like the increase begins around 1910.

The red portion of the graph starts later because of the arbitrary temperature they decided to use as the 0 point.
Who is talking about data in this thread? Someone made a half dig at it. Haven't seen any data yet. Other than the article. The bit about the hottest 12 months. Which seems pretty uncontroversial to me.
I see an upward line starting from the 1920's onward if you focus on the general trend.
This isn't quite true.

Polls consistently show that people think someone somewhere should do something as long as it doesn't actually cost them any money.

"IPSOS found that just 25 percent of Americans said they’d be willing to pay higher taxes to address climate change. A 2019 Reuters poll asked specifically whether respondents would pay $100 to fight climate change and only a third said yes"
French Software Engineers make $60k per year. I'm sure they wonder why and think striking / unionizing is the answer
I’ve yet to find it again, but I read an interesting commentary recently noting that the bulk of enthusiasm in press coverage, and for spending money, is on the long term prevention side (“decarbonization” etc), while no real press or spending is directed at the survival/relocation side, and this is an interesting data point to some.
on the chart in the article is “each month compared to the 20th century average of 12.2°C”, so that’s the zero line in this instance
I get that at some point twitch or even amazon.com can't control prices of ads because advertisers will pay only what they think those spots are worth but on the flip side, I think it is worth noting the costs of running twitch have probably massively increased since their justin.tv days.
I remember reading in the justin.tv days, they were trying to convince everyone that they're sustainable and that one ad an hour (not one ad roll with multiple ads, just one ad) would MORE than cover all of Justin tv costs. I'm sure the rates have collapsed since then AND the costs have gone up. I wouldn't mind 480p back when the best quality I could watch was from some guy's webcam at 720p but it is a different matter when I want to watch 1080p60 screen share. 480p is worthless for watching video games or coding streams. Probably obvious but just wanted to say out loud that the costs have likely gone up.
Lots of people have commented on the level of anger directed at V. Personally I do think the lies justify it, and it's definitely part of the picture, but in practice mere marketing BS (unfortunately) doesn't usually raise this level of anger. I don't think that's the full reason.

I think part of the reason is that a lot of us want to believe something like V is possible, powerful safety features in a small conceptual and complexity footprint. So the first time we heard about V, we got excited, thinking maybe it could really be the cool thing it claims to be...

No one likes false hope. It really stings, actually. Then you find out they're not correcting their mistakes, which means they're doing it on purpose, which means they did it to you on purpose... that's the kind of thing that gets people pissed.
Unified Diffs Reduce ChatGPT laziness 3x
The wise man bowed his head, “no difference between true and untrue” etc
Typical Android users? Maybe not. But any non-developer user who has tried to sideload an app has used it. It’s hard to overstate how central adb is for doing anything on Android that goes beyond vanilla usage.

(But I agree, 5-7 words of explanation would be helpful)
Before capitalism all of the world was "Third world". And the equity you get without capitalism is everybody being equally poor. And then millions die, like in every attempt to build communism in past century.
Semantics, I suppose. Those ANNs were Markov chains, in a sense.
It's pretty common for someone to read an article and find it interesting, c/p the title, and submit it with a link, so I assume the former.
The positive feedback loop is very troubling to me. I don't know I believe humans are doomed, but I'm quite sure the earth will be a miserable place to reside in the no-so-distant future.
Yes, absolutely.

It's also a false dichotomy and I'd wager things aren't going to get better when they go to ask for their job back, even if they got it back.
That was my guess, too :-)
I have children and I'm freaking out for their future. Really really not a good situation. I'm pissed off we have Putin being a dick face rather than all world "leaders" working together to save the planet for the sake of their offspring's futures. Billionaires building apocalypse bunkers and then, the biggest concern of all, another potential term of "why don't we just nuke the hurricanes?" I mean, not looking great.

I think the panic will come soon though then it will just be too hard to ignore. Might be too late to do much about it by then.
> the speaker is just unusually difficult.

"Your actions are making it unusually difficult for us to continue rent seeking!"

I bet the Mafia considers that young police officer that actually wants to stop crime "unusually difficult" as well.

Generally when everyone is corrupt, non-corruption is seen as bad and evil.
Is 60k bad? Pretty sure it's the average salary in the entire Europe.
I was already somewhat familiar with cursive, and I knew it was a ~more proper~ way to write in that cursive is designed to lessen strains on the hand and be easier to write at speed. Also I wanted to. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If you look at temperature shifts at 50 million year scale whatever wea are doing is basically irrelevant
https://www.climate.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_widt...
I don't think people are worried about losing access to a particular LLM. They are worried about losing access to Gmail, google docs, google photos, their phone, google cloud just because of a test in an unrelated product that happens to share the same account.
World population was 2 billion in 1930, 3 billion in 1960, and 4.5 billion in 1980. Today the world population is a bit under 8 billion. The Earth could easily support many more than 8 billion people with the right technology install base, I don't want to give the impression that population is an issue in itself, it isn't. However, with the predominant technologies being oil-based transportation, coal-based power, and carbon intensive agriculture throughout that period and continuing today, the size of our economy (enabled by the size of our population) is capable of a much greater degree of warming through GHG emissions than we were in the 1960s, let alone the 1800s.
Don't Learn to Code – Jensen Huang
That comment seemed to me to be dripping with sarcasm :)
It's not a matter of the environment vs economic austerity, rejected by the people, it's the environment vs corporate abuse, rejected by those in power.
I’m sure your question is rhetorical, but just in case - I think we all know it’s because they want to fit in, or at least… …not get called out for not participating.

Yes, it’s not mandatory and yes you _could_ sit down and not sing, but the consequences are that your fellow spectators will be agitated. They may not show it in any way, or… …they might!
What sorts of salary should French software engineers be making then? $80k? $100k? $200k?
Only making the avg salary after some fairly technical education is pretty bad.
Not sure how much this makes google look non monopolistic. Doesn’t seem like a competitive market when Apple passes on Bing 7 times over a decade.
It's pretty low for a software engineer, this is coming from a Swede. I know people inside Ubisoft and they have notoriously low salaries.

I work in telco and we pay our developers more than Ubisoft does.
This short comic is also great - https://bsky.social/about/welcome-to-bluesky-comic
The chart is relative to the 20th century average, so even though values before 1980 are less than 0, it doesn’t mean warming hadn’t started. It is just that around 1980 we got clearly above the average of the 20th century.

Imagine this wasn’t deviation from average, but absolute values and ignore the blue/red colors. Then notice the trend — it is getting warmer through all the 20th century. I think, I can easily see a trend line already from 1910.
Try to find a single paper on Transformers or LLMs in general in Francois’ scientific output: https://dblp.org/pid/116/8242.html

Don’t get me wrong, Keras is impressive, and Francois is impressive as well. But for insight on LLMs you should probably listen to people who specialize in them.
I'm surprised and encouraged by your comment.

No one really ever wants to discuss this, the issues with the data, the missing data, the statistical techniques used to fill in that data, how the models are derived, the funding situation with climate research and the quality issues with all of it.

It seems like the only acceptable answer is the sky is falling and we're all going to die.

Maybe both things can be true: there is a man made effect on the climate and it's difficult to measure and a lot of the research quality is poor.

Perhaps humans have adapted to difficult climates throughout our entire existence.

Perhaps the models that predict the end of the world are a bit extreme, and there are conflicting interests.

Maybe, just maybe - everything will be ok.
Quite a Nietzschean insight. Both in therms of its direction and the quality of its expression in language. I am bowing to you, Sir.
Walmart utilize some pretty underhanded tactics against their suppliers. At least they did back in the 90s and I have reason to believe they still do.

One example: Place a massive order beyond the capability of the supplier to meet the demand but at a premium price to incentivize them to try anyway. Then cancel at the last minute when production is almost finished but doesn't quite meet the original quantity ordered. Finally come back a few weeks / months later and offer to buy the resulting overstock at a deeply discounted price.

Obviously the blame doesn't all belong to Walmart but when a company is struggling and desperate it only takes a couple of deals like that to put them on a fast track to liquidation of their assets until all that remains is a company dedicated to marketing imported products under a previously prestigious brand.

The company I have specific knowledge about, Rawlings Sporting Goods, shut down most of their US manufacturing at the end of the 1990s and moved everything to China. Walmart had a big hand in driving the nails in the coffin of that ~80 year old company.
> The overdose rate is starting to really spike again

One of the issues is that when the number of drug addicts was significantly reduced, we saw investment in the programs being reduced year on year.

This tells you the effort against drugs never ends.

I believe this is now being re-evaluated by the Portuguese authorities (returning budget to these programs). It’s a lot more effort than one thinks to ensure the correct support at every stage.
Average _software engineer_ salary.
I can't tell if this was created before or after all the Examples shown? It feels like people 'invented' this, then this website wrote down the implicit standard everyone already converged on.
Regulatory restrictions and Korean banks not set up to accept Stripe payments.

Korea has domestic payment processors that likely lobby the government to keep foreign companies out.

All over Asia alternatives to American/western payment processing already exist, and local regulations may prove difficult or too expensive to comply with.

Americans don't have access to many Asian-oriented banking and payment providers, and other goods and services, so it works both ways. Sometimes it's typical protectionism through regulations and tariffs. Sometimes the market already has big established players making breaking into the market risky and expensive. I don't know specifically about Stripe in Korea, they do support it here in Thailand where I live. I know that no Korean payment processors are signing up new customers in the USA.
Not surprisingly, deliberately polluting it again is a proposed method of reducing global warming. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_aerosol_injectio...
What is money really?

If I build you a house for $10, then I pay my friend those $10 for a house, then he goes back to the original friend and paid them to build a house, we end up with $10 passed around and 3x magic value added to the economy (houses).

If I go to mars and become the first farmer, then pay 2 barrels of food for a house, then pay 1 barrel for a cobbler to make me shows, I’ve set the market price that a house is now worth 2 pairs of shoes.

I start a stock. I offer 1 million shares, I sell 50 shares to my friend for $10 each. The market cap is now 10 million.

What even is this fuzzy value thing we call currency? Seems like the only thing ascribing value is some powerful guy with a military behind them saying it has it.
My favorite resource on Tacit programming is Point Free or Die: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seVSlKazsNk
The expectation is that salaries are periodically adapted to improve people's "purchase power". In Belgium for example, the yearly "indexation" of salaries is mandatory with a minimum of the inflation value from the previous year.
The vast, vast majority of people who are better equipped than myself - and likely you - disagree.

But let's put that aside. Let's put aside the fact that the mechanisms involved are demonstrable and simple enough for children to understand.

Even as laypeople, we can observe that in the past ten years there's been year after year after year of once-in-a-century catastrophic weather events. The odds of these being unrelated anomalies decrease every time. Unprecedented heat waves and forest fires across the North America, all the way up into the arctic, with entire towns burning to the ground. Deadly ice storms in Texas. God-sized hurricanes. In isolation these could be hand-waved away - in aggregate, they clearly point towards catastrophe.
This article is rather terrible. Here's a better one with actual explanations: https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/unions-call-strikes-ubisoft...
Gaming salaries are shit because everyone wants to be in gaming. Why would you pay $100k to someone if there's like three other kids in line that would do it for $70k?
It is actually worse than that. Even the relatively small amounts of money we are willing to spend to combat this are often not spent well.

One example, is rooftop solar. Rooftop solar is very, very, expensive compared to utility grade solar. A dollar that goes to subsidize residential rooftop solar is a dollar that would go much, much further if it was used to subsidize utility grade solar or wind.

Another example of poor decision making is Germany which decided to start shutting down nuclear power plants while they were still burning coal. So last year hard coal and lignite still produced 35.3 percent in German power production (compared to 35.2% from renewables. (https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/coal-germany). Before the phase out of nuclear, it generated about 25% of the electricity. It is all really hard to believe...
To use what with what now?

Not trying to be snarky—or maybe just a little—but I own an AppleTV, it’s fantastic albeit very closed. I can’t parse your statement in part because I haven’t googled those things yet (I will) but also because many years of experience have led me to disregard statements like this.
I'm part of a marginalised group that is often considered to be illegal in many countries, or at the very least, very off-putting. (In 50 years, perhaps, things will change and we will be more accepted. To be specific, it's a grey area in the U.S.)

I'm interested in BlueSky but the relays are a worrying "point of failure" if they can just block me from there. I'll be more interested if there are multiple relays that I can use in parallel, with at least one being friendly to us, so I can still participate. Currently on the Fediverse it mostly works since we can connect directly to other servers, and there's no SPOF. But I would love to use BlueSky due to the better protocol design! Just more relays would be good.

... Wait, can we self host relays? And is it plausible for a community to do that? I couldn't find anything about it.
I'm not sure what they earn in Ubisoft but game developers are on the lower end of software engineer salaries in general.
I've seen this shared here and there, but it's not original research, Pedro Domingos doesn't do much of that anymore, mostly spends his time trolling on twitter an calling everybody "woke"
Northern Europe has some of the highest salaries in Europe, so that's not a good comparison. Looking from different resources online, it seems the average is around 60k. Spain, for example, has the average of being around 40k and Poland around 30k.
Being a woman who attends metal concerts, the scene in the USA is 90% guys. It's significantly more gender-skewed than programming is
There's no RISC microcode.

RISC is about the ISA, which is the interface between software and hardware. It is irrelevant whether the hardware is implemented with microops or hamsters running on wheels.

Yet if the existing microops used in popular CPUs made today were actually exposed as the interface between software and hardware, they would be VLIW ISAs, not RISC ISAs.

The whole "CISC have a RISC inside" idea is thus wrong at many levels, and just left over cultural damage from an Intel PR campaign ("risc vs cisc doesn't matter"), which was very effective at misinforming the tech world.

Note that Intel chips did no-doubt win in the market, but that was despite CISC, rather than thanks to CISC: Intel had a MASSIVE fab advantage, alongside the software moat around Microsoft OSs.
Good luck to them, but why would you want to work for such an awful company anyway? Even in the 3A (or "4A"...) space, there are much better studios, in Europe and elsewhere. Preserve your sanity and quit.
> Go receives so much unjustified good will it is almost unbelievable...

Yes. Yes it does and it really is annoying. I can't tell if it is the language or just people not deeply understand the abstractions it provides because it doesn't use sane defaults (or the defaults are geared towards high-throughput, google scale nonsense).

I help out a lot on FrankenPHP, and lately I've been digging into a weird bug, deep in Go, that causes FIN_ACK packets to get delayed by hundreds and hundreds of ms. There are so many layers of abstractions (nearly 100) to dig through. I know for a fact in the C# there are less than 10 to the CLR, then after you can rule out the language, you are just tracing IR. But no, I'm digging through hand-written asm, hunting for a bug or at least figure out how to report it with enough information that it doesn't sound like "my email can't be sent more than 500 miles" (google that one btw).
It seems weather extremes are becoming more common.
So you can imagine just how much hotter than average it's been in other parts of the world in order to raise the global average then?

Locally, here in the southern hemisphere, we've been having a run of days that are +45 C and more.
Before we discuss the funding situation with climate research, let's discuss the funding situation against climate research. If indeed climate scientists were pay-for-play, don't you think some of the richest companies in the world would be better at finding credible people to parrot talking points that serve their financial interests?
I would think that the censorship and other rules related to the internet are a reason for this.
Now before the usual deniers come yelling that just last week they had the coldest snowfall in decades, someone explain them what average means and that one can have both the hottest year and the coldest week in the same time frame.
The fundamentals of programming haven't changed much in decades, so I'd start there. Probably more wisdom in The C Programming Language or any of Knuth's or Wirth's books than in the mountains of tutorials and Medium posts online. The languages and tools and frameworks in vogue change all the time, but they are mostly just new coats of paint on the same old house. As Alan Kay (another author you might read) pointed out, the programming profession is plagued by fads and fashion, constantly reinventing the flat tire.
Korea is very good at recreating things better. Introducing Samsung stream..
That's true, didn't even think about that. Time to start buying property in Greenland!
Every medical issue I've ever had I managed to correctly diagnose by myself using Google (haven't had many issues since ChatGPT) and later confirmed by a doctor. I attribute this to my years of experience using Google to troubleshoot and debug software.
>This is bad for RISC since there is literally no advantage gained by losing backwards compatibility.

I respectfully disagree. There's a major advantage of losing backwards compatibility with established ISAs, and that is freedom from licensing.

e.g. The main strength of RISC-V is not even its technical superiority; It is the free license.
That the bootloader is hard to bypass says nothing about whether the bureau of prisons has checked the source code. It seems to me unlikely they have.
Inflation affects the value of currency, not assets. Oprah isn’t sitting on billions in cash, presumably. Those billions are invested in assets, which typically inflate at a rate similar to inflation. This is why one of the best hedges against inflation is owning things like real estate and equities. The value is separate from any currency you can denominate it in.

The benefit of mild inflation, to phrase what you wrote a little differently, is that it encourages people to create assets with substantial intrinsic value as a way to dispose of currency. Everyone wants to own as little currency as possible. There are many positive externalities to asset creation.
> so many projects to work on which are equally fun

To a lot of people, nothing is as fun as the Amiga (or C64, or Atari, or ZX Spectrum...).

> which you could use to keep up to date for instance

If you make everything in life about your career, all of your life will turn into work.

Why practice oil painting when there's Photoshop? Why restore vintage cars when there are Teslas?
How about you make a database of questions related to voting history. The algorithm matches the candidate whose history aligns closest with your selections.
It might have something to do with being chased by brutal horse-mounted police and beaten up in the past.
I did not realize he was retired.