skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not true, but losing the least still means you're a loser. At current demographic rates Japan's population is set to drop by 40% in the next 40 years.

>The UN forecasts that Japan’s total population could plummet to 104.9 million by 2050, possibly even as low as 87 million by 2060;
The ubiquity of everyone carrying a tracker means that you can manufacture a nearly perfect alibi by simply leaving your phone at home when going out to do crimes.
Any computer should be wiped and installed fresh after purchase. But Lenovo ThinkPad systems (as compared to their consumer systems) are better than most. They seem to know not to mess with ThinkPad.
PulseAudioDB
It was a superficial renaming initiated by a trademark conflict, that hardly warrants a "predecessor" designation.
Comes with a Copilot Key, so that model is off my list. We have enough dumb M/S Windows Keys already.
Now that the bios has the license key, isn't it pretty simple to wipe / reinstall from the MS image?
That doesn’t surprise me, but the purpose of New Yorker articles like this is primarily geopolitical in nature, not humanitarian. You can reference what they published in the lead up to the Iraq War as proof.
> To me something that is needed by everyone really should be fully regulated.

People say that, then when you look at migrants they tend to move to places where things are cheaper.

It is hard to make a convincing argument for cheap power because the benefits are so diffuse, but when people are making choices for where to live [0] vs power prices [1], there is a real bias towards places with cheaper energy, and away from places with expensive energy. That is a clue about what matters in practice.

So we're in this world where people do love to whinge about the Texas grid - and the reason they know about that grid is because Texas is really successful. In part (in large part) because of their energy policies and general attitude towards liberty.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...

[1] https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph...
It can do that. Verifying an answer is just another algorithm it can learn.

LLMs mostly can't do math but that, like most of their other flaws, is because of the tokenizer.
This isn't special, the same thing happened to the inventor of dynamic programming (and large swathes of control theory and reinforcement learning) Richard Bellman.
Like hurricanes?

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastdec.shtml
It’s quite rare to meet someone who wishes they paid more for their current house, or that it was now worth less.

People do notice changes, however, even if they don’t contextualize them correctly all the time.
First Contact with Whale Civilization Could Unfold
You are correct that there were more demands than the one I referred to.

The point I was making was that Ukraine sadly appears to be devastated by this war and is arguably worse off today by the choice they made to engage instead of finding a peaceful solution.

I don't see any mention of Russia being invincible in my comment - little confused by your comment there.

I am stating, however, that it is increasingly obvious that Ukraine is running out of young men to fight with. A quick internet search gave me these results:

"The average age of Russian soldiers in the last two years is not explicitly mentioned in the provided search results. However, it is noted that at the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the average age of Russian soldiers was reported to be 20-25 years old. Additionally, there is a mention of reports indicating that the average age of Ukrainian forces is around 43 years old"

This is an increase of between 27% and 43% depending on how you calculate it, in the age of Ukrainian soldiers over the last 2 years. Not a winning proposition.

Under those circumstances, donor countries like the US will either have to provide their own young men to die supporting Ukraine, or provide more expensive weapons to a country that has continued to lose ground in spite of the weapons we did provide.
I had a 15" 16:10 1920x1200 display on a relatively-inexpensive Dell laptop back in (checks notes) 2005.
Generative AI Vincent Van Gogh Experience at the Musée D'Orsay
Better not take your car, because it's tracking you separately.
Also can help you fall asleep if unable to.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6361823/ ("Self-Regulation of Breathing as an Adjunctive Treatment of Insomnia")
The system prompts are reliable and not "leaked". It's not leaking if you just ask and it answers. It's not trying to hide it.
Could your comment be any more indicative of how self-centered American tech workers are? Bad things happen in other parts of world, regardless of what anyone in America thinks about "RTO".
Rust is the future, but wrapped in Python
lenovo embeds malware in the bios now and it gets reinjected regardless of how you wipe.
Garbage computers. Make sure you at least get the premium support option so you can get a full refund when you discover what a piece of shit your laptop is.
And lots of people do substitute; but the reality is that even steak is a small portion of most people’s expenses.
Would you consider https://handshake.org to be one?
This is bizarrely incongruous with the news about living conditions experienced by people who are homeless, disabled, etc. Anyone who isn’t working is going to have a worse experience than almost anyone who was working a century ago - even coal miners got to sleep indoors!
Ah got it. If OP meant decompiling the executable and using the source, that could indeed expose them to legal risk.
> its not like you can just build a power station, and connect to the grid, to undercut and take a profit.

Technically it is pretty easy. Buy some solar panels or a diesel generator. Grid access is a harder but as far as I've seen the limiting factor is going to be government policy. You won't be cost competitive with state of the art .... but that implies that the grid prices are fair so you won't be able to drive prices down with any amount of capital.

People don't build new plants often, but that is because high prices are going to be caused by (1) that is the best anyone can do or (2) the government is enforcing regulation that makes competition impossible and in rare cases (3) someone else is already building new power plants faster and better than they can, so it is a waste of effort.

If none of those 3 conditions are present, things happen at the speed of capitalism (ie, faster than people think).

> If I'm allowed to charge more during periods of high demand, that encourages me to increase scarcity. I'm incentived to provide less power, and get more profit.

This logic is just not describing what happens in practice. If the government is giving someone monopoly power then yes, but under normal conditions someone trying to execute this strategy just goes bankrupt because competitors will undercut them in high demand periods and supply power in normal periods.
The whole point of clickbait is to get non-discerning, ignorant laypeople to click on stuff and watch it. If it didn't work, it wouldn't be the problem it is now. You can complain that people aren't intelligent or educated enough on things far outside their domain of expertise (which may be something as mundane as flipping burgers, though to be fair making a great burger isn't that easy), but obviously your expectations do not line up with reality. The entire field of marketing, after all, is based completely on weaponizing and using human psychology against people in order to extract money from them. People have fundamental weaknesses based on their biology, so just complaining that people aren't overcoming their built-in limitations is futile, IMO.
You can be a civilian and tasked with rerouting | patching the navigation and steer by wire systems of an oversized fishing trawler refitted to perform seismic survey while the majority of the crew fight a fire underneath the kerosene filled cable spools (with kilometers of microphone cables) during a monsoon storm.

That's fun, luckily most people in such situations tend to be pragmatic task solving types and few are loose cannon BP observers bouncing about screaming "I'm a teapot!" and "The pirates will get us if we don't drown!"

You don't have to be in the military to get caught up in surprise popgun atomic testing twixt India and Pakistan - you just have to be the bunny that took on a radiometric survey contract at third hand.

In hindsight these, and other adventures, are all part of the job and not worth quitting over.

As long as you're not the type that gets in a flap about every shipboard fire and runs about like a headless chicken, of course.
I'm a man who wasted twenty years programming with nothing to show for it. I moved on, to a working class job.

You're riding false hope and trying to get blood from a stone. HN doesn't pay for commenters, it pays start ups.

You should move on. Fifteen years is enough.
In theory (but only possible in assembly right now), there could be coroutines that shared the stack of their caller. As long as the caller (who's calling from a normal function) finishes calling the coroutine and doesn't expect to be able to call it after they return, then you could use it to implement iterators, e.g. over a binary tree or a hash table, like generators in Python. It could work as long as the caller used the stack frame base pointer to refer to their saved local variables, since the stack pointer could be changed between yields to the coroutine. I'm genuinely surprised there hasn't been a compiled programming language to do that other than Sather and CLU[0] (both of which are long dead by now). Graydon Hoare originally wanted them in Rust [1], but LLVM didn't support it, so it was scrapped.

[0]: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/800127.804079 (the third PDF page, page 125)

[1]: https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/307291.html (search "non-escaping coroutine")
The associated blog post from the team at the time:

https://blog.archive.org/2016/11/01/gifcities-the-geocities-...
As a hypothetical, lets assume there's a compiler that has a deep transformation around alloc/reallocs to optimize them when they're only fed 'static' input sizes.

// Source by nlewycky
template <typename T> struct vector<t> {
size_t len = 0;
size_t storage_len = 0;
T *storage = nullptr;

void push_back(T t) {
if (len + 1 > storage_len) {
// FIXME: what if storage_len > (size_t_max >> 1) ??
// ? Define maximum expected growth unit? 1K? 4K? 64K?
// Assignment from trinary op visually confusing, add ( )
storage_len = ( storage_len ? storage_len * 2 : 1 );
storage = realloc(storage, storage_len);
}
storage[len] = t;
++len;
}
};
//
vector<t> v;
v.push_back(a);
v.push_back(b);
v.push_back(c);
v.push_back(d);

After inlining all 4 times, the compiler might notice that in this code section vector<t> v always reaches the final size of storage = realloc(storage, 8); and optimize for that.

// Pseudo code
template <typename T> vector<T> v = {
// final state at end of code section
size_t len = 4;
size_t storage_len = 8;
T *storage = realloc(NULL, storage_len);
};
// Compiled and included, forgot template function syntax.
void template <typename T> vector<T>.push_back(T t);
(v[0], v[1], v[2], v[3]) = (a, b, c, d);

Even in this case, all the code the programmer wrote was evaluated and had side effects at least once at compile time. No code was eliminated as unreachable / impossible to reach. Instead it was optimized into operations that would always occur, barring realloc failure (which wasn't specified in the toy source, but would probably be a fatal error).
marquee tag was never dropped, and its wild, Firefox's is more like the old days, a little jittery. Chrome/Edge is a ton smoother in its scroll
Well sure, which is why elections provide an (imperfect) counter to that strategy.
Why have the tv connected to internet or your network?

The parent mentioned an Nvidia Shield, I also use the Shield for all streaming needs.

The tv is simply a dumb monitor. The only attack surface would be the single hdmi cable between receiver and tv.
I would like to see a tablet with easy battery access. No Androids/iOS.
I think you misinterpret my statement, as I too believe that human intelligence is based on the same principles as are being exploited in generative AI. I think there is ample evidence to support that viewpoint, even adversarial images that affect humans in the same way (to a lesser extent) as they do classifiers.

I do not believe there is anything special about human intelligence, mostly just that it embodies more complexity than we currently have access to in our training data, and perhaps the hardware required might be expensive, or maybe not really.

Interactive / bootstrapping learning is still something we will need to figure out.
To point out the obvious: run auto-update before doing the "crucial thing" and that won't occur. Or pay for the non-consumer oriented editions of Windows that allow full administrative control; they exist.

Anybody who could not figure that out is probably not capable of managing Linux properly either.
The explanation I got when I worked there was that it was put in to help identify competitors that were blindly scraping our online catalog. There's a couple others if you keep digging.

Similar to the concept of "trap streets" on some maps: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street
I thought MS was basically mandating that key now. Still terrible though, now I need to put two stickers on my keyboard instead of just one. I'd even pay to get two extra key caps to swap that and the Windows logo out. It's silly that my current T14 was bought new from Lenovo with Ubuntu on it, yet still has that damn logo.
I mean this probably depends on the group. But for example here is a forum discussion about how phone recording is technically banned for a BTS concert: https://forum.allkpop.com/thread/69555-no-phone-recordings-a...
No, it IS pointless. The society that existed in Khan's day doesn't resemble modern society in any way. So by your logic, the United States is actually tens of thousands of years old, because it started when the Native Americans crossed the land bridge from Asia, and various countries in sub-saharan Africa are several millions of years old because that's when modern humans first evolved there.
Please Enlighten me because this sound exactly like what sales is.

Like being real estate agent are just like car salesmen that happen to sell house instead of car. They show you the product try to use your emotion to manipulate you into buying it and collect a commission :-)
Microcities (2021)
Being unemployed does not result in homelessness unless you also join it with either a drug addition or an aversion to the requirements of unemployment/shelter programs.
> There is a big literature on the ages at which intellectuals peak in life .. Physical sciences peak earlier than social sciences.

I suspect what we are really measuring is the degree to which different fields are rewarding exceptional performance vs political connection and seniority. The latter is much more common in the social sciences than in the physical sciences ime.
Besides eggs, meat, potatoes pretty much all breakfast foods could be considered deserts. Pancakes, French toast, waffles, donuts, crepes, all sorts of berries and syrups, etc. I couldn’t fathom the idea of eating eggs or potatoes as a child so I don’t think I had a savory breakfast until I was in my mid twenties.
Yes, human brains are machines. Anyone saying anything less is implying magic. I'm not sure people are making this argument anymore despite being wildly popular even just 5 years ago.

No, our brains do not work like neural networks. I'd call Taco Bell Mexican Food sooner than I'd call neural nets the same as brains. Neuromorphic computers are closer but even still not the same. Yeah, we are inspired by the brain, but this is very different from being the same.
ThinkPad E14 Gen 5, which I ordered recently (using student discount), have memory slots as well. It also has 2nd SSD slot.
They happily launch all this stuff and just flat out refuse to reply to many requests asking for pages of mine they've archived to be removed.

I've added specific X- headers in my HTTP headers to prove I own the website and have authority to request this etc.

Nothing.

It really annoys me everyone loves them and praises them, but they won't even do the simplest of simple things to do the right thing.

And then when I say this, people defend them with "They have no people/time" yet they manage to produce things like what's linked.

Which is quite cool.

But still, do the basics please IA.
Deregulation in high-capital, long-lead-time, must-serve markets like energy, telecom, and emergency medicine has generally ended badly.

Because eventually someone realizes profit can be maximized by (minimizing investment) + (maximizing risk) + (increasing prices) + (appealing for government bailouts whenever catastrophe strikes).

A utility commission that looks skeptically at rate increases, but in return provides a more stable rate that industry can use to plan long-term expansions against, works better.

Yes, you have to deal with regulatory capture and ambivalence towards increasing efficiency and modernizing business -- but those are still solvable problems in a regulated environment.
You should read the referenced RFC, it’s right there.

“””Because all domain names end at the root, which has a
null string for a label…”””
I disagree - polymath to me implies Newton or Euler, autodidact just implies that you are good at learning on your own.
>how do you incorporate all of this change into your worldview and outlook?

This is going to be a cynical take by HN's standard. It actually reinforce some of the fundamentals of humans beings that our ancestors has somehow understood far better than we do today.

It is that "Interest" matters. Needs are driven by interest. You cant just say the world is going to end in 100 years time and we need to stop eating meat and turn off all heaters etc etc. You also cant tell company to stop earning money or lower profits margin just because of "Good". What technology do however is that we innovate so others cant say NO.

We are now at a time where non-fossil fuels, or Wind and Solar is cheaper, and will continue to get cheaper in the future. The economy of scale is there. To the point unless the Government TAX on non-fossil fuels, the pure force of this momentum meant it is only a matter of time. I use the term non-fossil fuels because renewable doesn't include nuclear, personally I am a big fan of GE BWRX-300.

All in all in am actually quite optimistic. We are slowly solving it.
I’d love $140. I slummed it and grocery shopped at Walmart today and still almost spent $300. Only bought one $25 item that I wouldn’t have bought at the normal grocery store.
What did you want taken down?
I've thought about this a lot, and I feel that it's not really as big a detriment to safety as you might expect. It's not exactly the same as an air gapped token generator, obviously, but:

- It's still something you have, and don't know: the TOTP secret. What you transmit is a short term generated code, but unlike your password, you don't send the secret key at any point.

- The downside of air gapped tokens is that when they break or are lost or stolen, you have to somehow re-enroll with a new device. The security properties of this process are deeply variable between authorities, and there's always the risk of just total loss of access. If you have the TOTP secrets backed up in Bitwarden, you can avoid this.

- Vault software can keep all of these secrets encrypted using keys protected by biometrics on a phone, or an external device like a Yubikey, that are only unwrapped by a particular physical interaction. Usually the vault software does a better job than the average person of determining whether you're looking at a legitimate authentication prompt or a phishing site, and I suspect it's less likely to automatically enter your TOTP code into the wrong than a person is when transcribing it by hand or copy pasting.
This paper is a great illustration of how little is understood about this question. They discovered that appending dummy tokens (ignored during both training and inference) improves performance somehow. Don’t confuse their guess as to why this might be happening with actual understanding. But in any case, this phenomenon has little to do with increasing the size of the prompt using meaningful tokens. We still have no clue if it helps or not.
I mean there's 50 states and a handful of territories if we're sticking to the US.

If you don't like how Texas or California does things there's still plenty of options to choose from.

But yeah, California has problems because it's regulators get stingy. If you control how much maintenance a company can do and cut back how much it should do then don't be surprised when things are poorly maintained.

> When PG&E suggested inspecting 300,000 poles a year to ensure safety in 2012, CPUC cut the total to 235,000.¹¹ In 2011 and 2012, when PG&E spent almost $100 million more on replacing poles than allowed by CPUC, the regulator took that as a reason to deny future claims for pole replacement spending. It said “PG&E demonstrated the capacity and willingness to spend more than previously authorized…to meet service obligations,” thus they would not include extra required pole replacements in the “rate base.” These sorts of decisions created exactly the wrong incentives, penalizing PG&E for doing more than was required.¹²

https://ciceroinstitute.org/pge-failing-california/
I’m struggling to understand the use case for this aside from just checking if your own directory is on the path.
I'm reminded of this story about how a lot of seafood is mislabeled and the supply chain is hard to track.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/16/fish-det...
FBI's Lockbit Takedown Postponed a Ticking Time Bomb in Fulton County, Ga
Dancing baby! https://web.archive.org/web/20090830200258/http://www.geocit...
Or used money they had saved. Or would otherwise save...
I gave up a long time ago on ever making money via HN. I rarely post my own work here. I no longer have my resume service linked in my profile.

Trying to get HN to hire me isn't the point of my remarks here.

Do note that multiple other people felt some need to shoot me down here and insist my gender isn't an issue and etc. I don't talk about me to try to get anything out of it for me.

I talk about me because talking about other people can get you sued for libel and not giving an example at all generally means it's too vague to make any real difference in anyone's mind. Talking about me is the least worst solution I have found even though it routinely gets me attacked and dismissed.

I talk about me and my track record on HN because I am on HN and you can verify my claims by checking my comment history under this handle and my previous one. You can see that I spent years trying to make money "honestly" while dirt poor and being offered money for sex while homeless and turning it down because I am celibate for medical reasons.

I talk about me because I have been here long enough some people know what I am saying is true, having read my comments for years. Maybe it will get those people to actually think and do things differently.

It seemingly worked once before on a different subject. While homeless and on a tablet, I used to complain somewhat frequently "I can't access that/that doesn't work for me. I'm on a tablet." And now design is mobile first.

Is that all my doing? Of course not. But I suspect programmers who never spoke to me, never admitted they knew I existed nonetheless kept my complaints in mind and it likely got us there faster.

At some point I quit bitching all the time "I'm homeless. I'm on a cheap tablet. I can't do that." Things just began working and stopped being a problem.
Poverty is the default state. We shouldn’t ask why we have poor people but rather how can more wealth be generated to have fewer poor people. Our system has redefined what it means to be poor. So much that we’ve forgotten that abject poverty is the default state.

We dont need less capitalism but rather more and faster.