skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a difficult question to answer, since I must be doing a lot of very different things while thinking. For one, I'm not sure I'm never not thinking. Is thinking different from "brain activity"? We can shut down the model, store it on disk, and boot it back up. Shut down my brain and I'm a goner.

I'm open to saying that the machine is "thinking", but I do think we need more clear language to distinguish between machine thinking and human thinking.

EDIT: I chose the wrong word with "thinking", when I was trying to point out the logical fallacy of anthropomorphizing the machine. It would have been more clear if I had used the word "breathing": When I write I'm breathing, so the machine must also be breathing.
windows has always been garbage.
America: We Need to Talk
It is possible for the best aspects of a people/society to atrophy while they simultaneously expand their wealth/technology/etc.

We can make the world an undeniably better place while also loosing vital things. It's not a zero-sum game. Have we been doing this for 2,500 years? Probably.

It feels like a contradiction only if it's zero sum. But we generate more vital things than we lose, so it feels like (is) progress. But that doesn't mean we're not losing vital things.
Not really.

The big question is how to get an X-ray source with enough energy to penetrate metals and a detector with enough resolution.

Everything else can be cheap.
Not a good point.

A lot of that land is inhabited, or at least owned by citizens or companies. Pretty sure they would be against changing citizenship or losing their land.

And for government owned, uninhabited land: land is worth a lot more than its surface area. You can have natural resource of all kinds underneath – maybe some that are technically or financially not feasible to mine, yet, but may be in a few decades. (Just think of the massive oil fields in the arctic that'll soon be accessible to Canada and Russia)
If it's a coastal area it massively extends your country's EEZ – that's why there are a lot of border conflicts around tiny rocks in the ocean. That's also the prime reason why Russia will forever hang onto Sakhalin island. (Plus Japan already is not doing much with Hokkaido, I doubt they'd do anything worthwhile on Sakhalin except forestery and military areas).
Microsoft...screwed up my relationship with my HP printer. Two of them.

And don't get me started on that malware Onedrive or the constantly shitified Teams.
It's simultaneously a restriction on what kinds of content you're allowed to distribute to other people if you happen to be operating an internet product.
Congrats on shipping! We don’t use React, but we have had similar problems designing with Tailwind / Phoenix components in Figma. I’ll share with my team to see if they have any feedback.
Every Windows user I know hates the new control panels. (I use plural because they've been trying to replace the actual good control panel basically every version of Windows since 7 and it's an incredible mess). Enterprise users put up with Windows because it's better to administrate than anything else, so taking away that stuff really is murdering windows.
Never seen this list before... But holy cow, it's actually insane when you compile it all like that. This election cycle is going to be madness.
While I do agree that nowadays users with a basic computer usage would be much better served by a modern Linux distribution compared to Windows, it won't happen due to the power of defaults. Windows is preinstalled and that will be enough, no matter how badly it degrades.
I knew Windows was fucked when pressing WIN and searching for something brought up random crap from the internet instead of what I actually wanted. Do people at Microsoft use Windows or mac?
More like a local git repo having multiple remotes?
That's kinda how it works in the US but the big malls are very quiet in the middle of the workday
I do not know what is niche here, but I added couple examples from latest upgrade.

Are they just not testing what some options do? If so, we might be better off just not giving those options.
Interaction between two common oral bacteria creates bad breath
I am not too bothered about changes, just need Windows to run my PC without crashing/weird stuff or corrupting my files.

All I use it for is to launch 8 programs that is pinned to my taskbar that is opened as soon as my PC boots.
I laughed, but wanted to acknowledge that the single tree filesystem is a pretty great invention. I like how the plan 9 ethos is "if it's a tree, it goes in the filesystem somewhere" dns.. in the filesystem. html dom? looks like a tree to me, in it goes.

And I think this is the fundamental problem with the windows registry. Because it sounds like a really great idea. "A dedicated database to store all configs in" However in reality it sort of sucks. I think this is because now you have a second strange tree that has different special access methods and usage.
I installed Linux for my parents and they use their laptop a lot more. I did no proselitizing.
“ Requires social media platforms to use reasonable age verification methods to verify the ages of account holders and disclose specified policies and provide specified resources, measures and disclaimers.”

Problem here is what is considered “reasonable”? And how to do so without privacy issues.
Liberating Our Homes from the Real Estate–Industrial Complex
You’re being downvoted, but I haven’t done Java programming in over twenty years and even I knew that!
Where's the lie though
Isnt this the MS playbook 101? Bad windows version everyone hates but exiting the ecosystem is hard . Juat when people start getting fed up they release the new same as the old version and everyone buys it. They make billions and people are happy until the next release
Ukraine lost the minute they refused to take Putin's early offer to eschew NATO membership.

Putin's demand list at the time was clearly stated, and went well beyond simply requiring that Ukraine eschew NATO membership. And no, Russia is not simply invincible and impossible to defeat. In fact it has lost plenty of wars - and my its own leaders' telling, would have lost WW 2 had it not been for massive assistance from the United States.

So you're off way off base, and on multiple counts here.
IDK. I've been in a timex store before where they actually DID put the same time on all the watches. Of course pranksters would enable the alarm on a lot of those watches lol.
> That's why we eliminate the border between compile-time and runtime errors – all errors are runtime errors.

That's the opposite of what I want. I want as many errors as possible to be compile-time errors, so that I know I'll catch them all during development instead of as bugs in production.
Adam Rutherford's book "How to Argue with a Racist" is all about this.
https://archive.today/jhNnj
> by requiring social media companies to verify the ages of all users before giving them accounts.

This is not nearly so much about children as it is about de-anonymizing all internet use.
I applied to blendwork as talent and they were super quick to help out and connected me to some great people to work with. I am currently working with the same people and not only the compensation is good, the experience also has been great!
That type of restriction has a lot of existing precedent when we're talking about distributing content to children under the age of 16.
> OS X works well especially with the hardware it was co-designed with.

Only while they continue to support it. It may work well now but when they stop supporting it; it's proprietary, it's dead.

When they fully move away from Intel based support, all those without the latest platform will be dead in the water.

"Your not running the latest secure version of OSX! -- Your running an Intel? Sorry we don't support that".

As which that can be seen with old iPhones and iOS.
I think that is the crux of the problem actually. Same with Teams, what the buyer wants is misaligned with what the end user wants unfortunately. Most resources are put towards making it an easier sell rather than towards a product the end user loves.
UNIX pipes solve this problem. Both reader and writer are driving their respective process.
yeah, i read it as a joke as well.
Source for this? The ABA [0] gives a much more believable figure of 1.3 million "active lawyers", which is almost exactly 400 per 100k. So I suspect you are off by an order of magnitude, but perhaps you have a different way of counting lawyers.

[0] https://www.abalegalprofile.com/demographics.html
It's impressive how much worse MS Teams has gotten. Genuinely baffling decisions on every single level in that UI...
I said “scale is all you need for transformers”. That has been true since GPT1. The best way to improve our best model today still seems to be “make it larger and train it on more data”.

If you disagree please suggest a better way, or at least provide evidence that scaling up no longer works for transformers.
We are talking about university teacher. They are definitely the one writing and grading the exams.
Well in 2013 Windows had a 90% market share for desktop PC's, and now it's evidently down to 69%... so yeah, I'd say they have a problem.

(Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/218089/global-market-sha... )
Boy is NATO going to have egg of their face then if they can't secure air superiority. Something something no plan survives contact with the enemy.
The most accurate timepiece is usually the one with a cheap quartz crystal mechanism lol.
Install Windows 10 LTSC - keeps you sane for a few more years. By then the newer Windows should hopefully be better.
I guess the reason to ask about monetization is because you want to know how long a host is going to exist. Knowing how they plan to make money is a part of knowing the answer to that. As you say, it used to be good enough to have a space and accept there was an ad banner…but if no banner, then how?
Or even neocities for that matter...
Also see https://github.com/dwmkerr/hacker-laws?tab=readme-ov-file#th...
Now its tail is outside of the suit. Sure, it’s just dead hair, but there would be no way to seal the air in around where it exits the suit.

I’m as impressed as you are at the quality. Where I’m dubious is whether this confabulation problem can ever be made to completely go away.

Perhaps we need much larger models that can better understand the world.

I’ve always thought it weird that we use much smaller models for image generation than text generation!
You’d think a multi-trillion dollar company would have the resources to properly re-do the control panel, but I guess not? However, even Apple can’t get this right (see the unnecessary iOS-ification of System Preferences which to this day is a disorienting mess).
honestly really do not think you understand SSRIs or anti depressants at all man. Never once encountered people being unable to cry or feel negative things whilst on anti-depressants. Even if you have, to disregard antidepressants as some evil big pharma mind control is so incredibly narrow minded.
If the prevailing notion is Bob is playing dress up as a woman I don’t think there would ever be a problem with the right. The left would never agree with that.
You had virtual desktops with powertoys on Windows XP.

There's also one for Always on top, or the freeware Turbotop.
Token inference by itself isn't Turing complete, but if its output can have side effects (e.g. editing the prompt for the next iteration), that's a whole different story.
Small but significant correction: the three parts of the test you lay out are joined by an AND, not an OR. So websites are restricted from distributing material that "appeals to the prurient interest" AND "depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct" AND "lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors". If the website is not substantially composed of material that meets all three tests then the bill does not require age verification.
I think by this point Linux desktop has matured enough that you can say with certain that the biggest problems is application availability.

Users want to run Adobe's creative suite or Affinity software (because they have to, even tough there are some decent alternatives) or run some very specific Scientific/CAD/whatever software that has no parallel in the Linux world. Worse, sometimes its hard to get Linux native software to run on your choice of distro due to it not being available in your distro repositories yet (flatpaks are changing that but still not a perfect solution) or it being some proprietary software that was really only tested on some old version of Readhat meant for high end workstations which requires you to run some arcane scripts on the command line to install and therefore tainting your whole installation, kinda defeating the purpose of running away from messy Windows installations.
> He predicted correctly that the only way to achieve a general intelligence it would require to mimic the extremely complex neural networks in our brain

Besides naming neutral networks and human brains don't have that much in common
After making your prototypes, did you ever go up to a potential customer and get their opinion? The stuff you mentioned in the post doesn't sound like you had any feedback/validation
> It's amazing to me that Microsoft messed up Windows.

It is. At Windows 7, they pretty much had desktops right. Everything mostly worked. They'd finally fixed the crashing problems. (How? The Static Driver Verifier validated that third-party kernel drivers would not crash the rest of the system, and a classifier applied to crash dumps routed similar crash dumps to the same maintainer.) The UI was reasonable for a desktop, and wasn't a clone of the mobile UI. No ads. Didn't phone home too much, and you could turn off auto-update. No issues with installing your own software.

Then Microsoft tried to make desktop look like mobile and tablet. Desktop began to look like a big phone, optimized for content consumption and fat finger selection. The result was something that was neither a good desktop nor a good content consumption device.
I just got one for my desk. Sure the time is on the corner of my computer screen, and on my watch and my phone, but I'm not wearing my watch right now and my phones are just chilling on my desk. I can see the clock from across the room.

I have a clock in my bedroom, too. It has a cute rainbow light frame that serves as a nice little ambient night light. Since the plug is behind my bed I unplug it when there's lightning nearby, and those nights I end up missing my clock.
What problem? In 2013 Microsoft only had 2-3 big products, Windows, Office and X-Box. Now it's significantly more divested and the company's growth no longer depends on Windows' success or failure, and the stock pricing reflects that.
> Emacs on the other hand keeps shouting at you "if you don't use me like a fully fledged IDE you're doing it wrong"

People want to do everything in Emacs not because it forces them to, but because it allows you to do a bunch of things in a very cohesive manner. Trust me, taking notes while reading a PDF, jumping from a specific page to your notes and vice-versa, linking a YouTube video to the specific note, extracting subtitles for that video, feeding the entire transcription to ChatGPT to generate the summary for that vid, then composing Anki card content and pushing it to your Anki collection for that subject. Or even doing something utterly stupid like forcing Google Translate to expand numbers to their written form:https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1aey0eo/they_are_sur.... That all, is extremely empowering and liberating.

People often say: "These workflows you describe sound amazing, but I don't see myself doing them." Before Emacs, I wouldn't have considered doing things like that in a single app. I would have tried finding a specialized app for each thing. Becoming an Emacs hacker changes your mindset. Why settle for anything else when I can run it with a simple keystroke? And it's not just about saving time or not losing focus. It's just inexplicable fun to have refined control over text. Any kind of text.
It isn't designed to know things. It doesn't know what exactly it knows, where it could check before answering. It generates an output, which isn't even the same thing every time. So this again is a problem of not understanding how it functions
The problem is many parents aren't parents, but a single parent who works multiple jobs. They can't easily control what their kids do since they are not home.
There is no good replacement for Active Directory, by a large margin. It’s the single biggest factor that keeps Windows alive in the enterprise.
I think the end result is less people using the desktop overall (ie, just relying on tablets and phones), which in my opinion is a catastrophe since phones and tablets are generally consumption devices rather than creative devices (sorry, I'm not counting selfies or tiktoks), and we're slowly dumbing down the next generation.
> macos is bland and hasn't changed in years

I have the feeling Windows users are a self-selecting bunch.
Thanks for the source so I can put this into context (which is the context of Russian disinformation, not grassroots beliefs representative of the anti-vax movement).
I think we're in agreement on the framework of the debate (rare), it's just that from personal preference we draw different lines on what information is reasonable to assume your reader has.

I personally have not regretted much assuming incompetence in my future self on small things, but it's your choice to what standard you hold yourself against.
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State controlled - yes. Indian/Native American land or International waters? Not State controlled.
Correct Decimal to Floating-Point Using Big Integers
Windows 10 and 11 are miserable. At this point, I only use them for gaming, but just about every windows update breaks performance and stability, or introduces a headache. Sometimes they fix it, but mostly it’s drifting towards the abyss. Meanwhile, they endlessly shovel unwanted products and insert their corporate surveillance into just about every aspect of the Windows experience. I’m just sick to death of it. We are so close to the point where I can just delete it and run SteamOS exclusively or at least a majority of the time, and I cannot wait.

In general, MS is pissing a lot away. Office, both the desktop apps and Office 365, are absolutely atrocious (just started using it due to a new job, I previous thought Google Docs was the worst). VSCode has become slow and frustrating to use. I stopped developing on their platform products long ago because most are a terrible value proposition and frustrating developer experience.

I have been a dedicated DOS and Windows user since the 80s, and a Microsoft developer since late 90s and 2000s, but between Vista and Windows 8 it was clear they were circling the drain and I have been distancing myself from their products as much as I can.
It's useful for streaming data where you want to pass small chunks of data incrementally. JSON by itself isn't streamable (you need the entire blob to decode it). But if we just pass smaller json-encoded chunks of data and separate them with a newline, we can make a streaming-compatible JSON protocol.
Google and Meta Function as Extensions of the US Intelligence Community
It's my belief NATO could easily secure air superiority in any conflict where they commit forces entirely.

Instead in Ukraine we have a proxy war where NATO countries are hesitant and reluctant to over commit.
I'll take your suggestion along with my 12 years of professional experience with Ruby under advisement.
...tools on Facebook and Instagram were being misused by adults seeking to profit from exploiting their own children...The content, often featuring young girls in bikinis and leotards, was sold to an audience that was overwhelmingly male and often overt about sexual interest in the children in comments...

So basically we exploit children for sex in a world that is so uptight that sex work by adults is still controversial and not legal in many places. We have a world of adults so uptight about their own sexuality that victimizing the most defenseless among us is preferable to dealing with adults meeting their needs with other adults and sorting out questions of how to do that in a world where we no longer automatically know some small group well from which to bond with someone and marry them and etc and are still sorting out how to find a mate for life in this big wide world.

Corporations and parents and assorted others are all doing this. This doesn't mean Meta is off the hook for this but this is occurring in a larger context where we routinely just don't want to know kids are abused it seems.
> I don't really get the impression that current recycling techniques are lacking

Big money is trying as hard as possible to convince people not to buy EVs, and "The batteries are not recyclable" is just another wonky arrow in their bent quiver of fear, uncertainty and doubt.

In fact, there are huge EV battery recycling plants in the US, operating right now:

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/recycling-renewables/th...
The trans thing is the deal breaker when it comes to the right. We never saw massive resistance to gay anything for the last decade or so.
For what it's worth, I'm currently learning Rust. My primary motivation is that it offers the opportunity to get a job where I can use functional programming techniques (even if it isn't necessarily a "functional language" in the way something like Haskel is).
Tacit programming + llm control library (like LangChain) has a lot of untapped potential. Tacit programming shines when the control structures are simple (and functions/variables can be anonymized), and these patterns occur frequently in programming on top of llms.
At a previous job, planning regulations forced a mid 5 figure expense for a dumpster enclosure[0] complete with roof and handicapped access. You know, in case someone in a wheel chair or on crutches needs to pull a dumpster out for collection.

Whose blood wrote that regulation?

[0]Next to grandfathered buildings who just chain their dumpsters to the alleyway, of course.
I don't think there's a single answer to this as it is a multi facade problem. However I have been wondering is how much the global decline of testosterone levels in men has been contributing to this?

Speaking personally, I had no idea my testosterone levels were low until my wife and I started having arguments over sex, I know it sounds ridiculous but I had close to no libido as a man in his 30s. Even when I was younger I had no desire for sex and just thought it's "the way I am". My wife and I are both Catholics so naturally we don't attribute much value to sex however after a series of frustrating fights, I did some research and figured I should get tested..

When my results came back, I was only at 10nmol/L! After repeating the test multiple times (3 times, before 9AM), my baseline was established at 10-12 nmol/L..

This was _very_ surprising as I have a healthy BMI, exercise regularly (weight lifting + cardio 2x a week) and eat well..

Anyway after being refused by public doctors for TRT (since I'm in the "normal" range), I finally had it. I went to see a private urologist and he immediately put me on HCG + TRT and it has been incredible.. It has been 5 months now and my mood is much better, my libido is like a teenager and I have more energy.

Moral of the story: check your testosterone levels gentlemen!
I did enterprise administration of Windows boxes, ~400 seats.

We did not manually muck with control panels per station. I could not care less what the settings UIs for home installs of Windows are.

And that's the real truth, power users and these small fry IT install bases are not major markets. The most prominent markets are OEM installs for non-technical home users (who hate complex panels and love the push-button UIs), and large 3/4/5 digit enterprise installs that do not give a damn about this stuff because they're using MDT (or whatever) to deploy images to all their stations and not playing with this per-station configuration stuff.