skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is it that non-macbooks are full of odd hardware compromises? For example, as follows from the video review, this laptop has huge screen bezels, bottom-firing speakers, and a crappy microphone. Why isn't there a company that would produce nearly macbook-quality laptops (albeit without the M-series ARM processor), but reliably linux-friendly?
I like when people take issue with me, shame it rarely amounts to much more than the subsequent chaos that ensues because humans refuse to resolve their differences via communication.
Because all those eVTOL start-ups used air taxi as a sales pitch, selling their proposed designes as helicopters woupd have resulted in about 0 funding.

So, of course Airbus is using the same branding!
TOS are allowed, as long as they don't illegally stifle competition and consumer choice.
There's a general fascination with VTOLs in the tech scene for a while, especially as the Next Big Thing for on-demand ride hailing, but I also wouldn't be surprised if part of it is a legal distinction to avoid some of the rules for helicopters to adhere to like Uber calling themselves a limo company instead of a taxi company etc.
How much of the noise of a helicopter is from the sonic booms of the rotor tips? I read somewhere it’s a substantial portion but I may be misremembering.
The thole 'paper' is a trash-level 'research', adds no knowledge at all.
Typical in that area: 'I run ping from random places here are random graphs', let's assume some nonsense and there are bizarre conclusions.
Not true. I record to SD card these days, the only downside is no 4K (presumably due to speed limitations), but for 1080p 60 fps it works just fine.

You must get a top spec 64GB (larger capacities are too slow, smaller capacities have not enough space to record anything). Sigma publishes a list of known compatible SD cards.

If you suffer from the shadow flicker issue, let me know. I couldn’t truly enjoy fp until I worked around that.
Scar-free surgery prints living skin (and maybe hair) right into wounds
Partner. Spouse. This seems easy.

edit: "it's just a joke" - please re-read OP.

5 to 6 syllables is too many? Why aren't you saying WAF (PAF) if that's a concern :)
You just have to navigate to other orbits without passing through lower orbits.
So… why do people want to fine tune LLMs at home? It seems very unlikely to provide value.

* you’re probably not going to succeed at injecting new knowledge in a way that feels satisfyingly top of mind to the bot

* you’re probably not going to create such a meaningfully new style that it warrants a Lora like in images

What’s an example use case?
Priuses, Teslas and the fight over what makes a car green
https://archive.is/9pDi7
yes, its fundamentally down to incentives.

I suspect that some of our intuitions on how a market place of idea works, are ill suited to the environment we have been building up.

This links back to our discussion, because American laws on free speech (and most laws on Free speech), do not build out for complex eventualities.
Eventualities such as a media conglomerate being created, or the proliferation of emotional journalism to grab eyeballs and thus winning advertising revenue.

The current situation isnt ideal for a market place of ideas - or for the kind of high minded ideas we want to see prevail (I admit a bias).
The current situation is completely legal though.

I think the lesson is that after some point, either economic growth or information growth, market forces that sell junk food, dominate the market place.

Here’s my conundrum.

it may be, that at some point, you cannot avoid a big brother scenario. You just need someone to ensure that you can’t sell cigarettes to kids.
But this is the path that leads to every thought police debacle ever seen.

Ideally there would be some way to ensure that there is a free and frank exchange of ideas, without the network being overwhelmed by spam, fraud, or emotional manipulation.

Hmm,

You know what - I think there is something that can be done.

Break up major networks.
Fund regional newspapers through private and public support.

Essentially, we are trying to reduce the power of a single network gaining leverage over other players, and ensuring that smaller players have a way of existing in this market place.

… I feel like I have reinvented the wheel. This is anti-monopoly or cartel 101.
I think it is almost certain that GPT was trained on full books
I don't think they do, specifically, they just know it exists.

I am probably one of the most likely people in the world to be tracking what Carbon is up to, yet I only really started paying attention last week. It's hard to keep up with many things.
I agree with you in principle, but in this case the author is describing their own situation. They do have a wife, I'm not sure they should be required to remove the gender of that actual person.
I have two 4GB rockpro64 with the NAS case on my closet. Each with an SSD raid. There are no fans in this setup and the SBCs don’t take much space. No heat either. More than happy with these, good uptime too. Tow-boot gives me an UEFI environment so I can use some normal distros so I use the latest Fedora server.
Yes agree with this. On the Homelab subreddit I’ve seen people suggest it as a bad thing if someone’s wife isn’t okay with a mess of wires accompanying a rack mount server and some other older PC’s located in a living room. They then proceed to question the posters “manliness” (in other words) for suggesting they plan on cleaning it up or moving it.

Anyways to your original point I feel as if online people feel like marriage is a bunch of negative compromises that are always one sided or something. Homelabs are great but please don’t put loud servers and PC’s in the living room. :)
Not to mention entirely outsourcing training workloads to specialist firms. Apple does a lot of secretive outsourcing of things you might think they would or should do in-house. This contrasts with Google and Meta who seem to like keeping everything in-house.
I generally agree that you should let the user use the facilities they're used to, but if you have a habit of copying and pasting credentials you'll be more vulnerable to phishing.

Firefox and Chrome's built-in password management tools would never accidentally enter your credentials on a lookalike site, but you very well might.
This could almost be me. The main difference is my "server" is an off-lease Dell Micro PC that I maxed out the RAM on running ProxMox with a mix of VMs with everything stored on a Synology NAS all sitting in my basement office closet. I have tailscale setup so I can access it remotely.
For LEO objects (which this is), yes.
No! That's a terrible place to put a rotor!
They call it an air taxi, others might called a multi rotor helicopter but from the picture it looks like a Babylon 5 Starfury to me.
Due to the difference in wealth, it is very easy to shift opinions in these types of situations.

Providing a known-bad chemical that is just going to, at the end of the day, impact everyone in this world is just plain wrong.
I concede that I'm grateful that we have option at our discretion. Hopefully such a law would make that compulsory.
Perhaps, but it seems more like Toriyama changed the target demographic as his set of "original readers" aged; similar to what Rowling did with Harry Potter.

And as an adult I find media targeted at pre-teens and teenagers to often be cringey, but I sometimes find media targeted at children to be charming.
Not just that, but Google pouring way more money and engineering effort into V8 than either the Ruby or Python teams could.
China is only an adversary if you ignore the hundreds of billions of dollars in trade we have between us. If we were serious about treating China as an adversary or enemy, we'd address trade way before we'd bother with toy sites like TikTok.
There was a guy who followed a tutorial about how to fine tune mistral with DPO, who has zero computer science skills and his model ended up at the top of the hugging face leader board among the opensource models with 7 billion parameters. Some random guy managed to outdo the creators of the LLM.
In addition to what others have said here it is important to consider that when you use the agency, even though it’s expensive, they are doing the work for you in a black-box way. You pay them and get the work done without having to know the details of their operation.

Doing it by yourself it’s going to be cheaper on the money side but will require sourcing, hiring, management, supervision, and possibly training which should be taken into account because it will require your effort that could potentially be spent somewhere else with better results.
Living with the ghost of a smart home's past
I wonder what the added effectiveness is of such elaborate setups vs an off-the-shelf HRNG dongle plugged into the server (which I assume is what every other company with such requirements uses). Are the lava lamps and pendulums actually that much more functional or just marketing?
Was shocked to read that shark livers are used for biodiesel. Feels like 18th century whaling for lamp-oil.

Here's a Forbes article that seems almost enthusiastic about this as a "green" energy source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/melissacristinamarquez/2020/03/...
stow has worked really nicely for managing my dotfiles. Here are two blog posts that helped me get my workflow down:

https://alexpearce.me/2016/02/managing-dotfiles-with-stow/

https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/2019/dotfiles_stow/
The US should have a word with American CEOs sending China billions in hardware assembly contracts then.
That's what I get for typing on a phone with autocorrect. The word should have been "trajectory" though I concede that I may have spelled that incorrectly enough for the autocorrect to mistake the word.
Will definitely be falling down this rabbit hole after work; thanks for posting.
This. It's like Mickey Mouse in the US. Everyone have heard of it at least once.
Nice that you're in Canada. I'm in the GTA. :)

I've been using Copilot for quite a while, but I just recently got access to the Chat component at $work, so I figured I'd try it out.

For Kijiji, what I've found is a workflow like:

* photograph item
* maybe do Google image search to confirm what item actually is (model # etc)
* ask AI to write the item description based on the model # etc, including a tagline, maybe injecting humour. this can save a lot of time if, for example, you're selling something that comes with a lot of components that could be highlighted
* ask AI to suggest a price for the item, based on the condition

The last one is key, because it can save a lot of digging around and it could turn up results you weren't expecting if you're just checking eBay etc for similar listings.

Ideally there would be an app that would do all of this for you, since listing multiple items is pretty tedious. I'm not sure I sell enough stuff to make a lot of automation worthwhile, but it might be a fun project.
It looks like it has more in common with what we call a drone or an octocopter than with traditional helicopters
Forgiving someone makes sense, if you believe they honestly made a mistake, or if they are willing to change their future behavior.

Forgiving does not make sense, if it just gives a narcissist another shot at you. "Fool me once..."

We have neighbors like that. We wanted to believe the best of them, and let them get away with crap 2 or 3 times. You don't have to be mad at people like that, you just have to realize that their nature is not going to change.
I would be fully supportive of the GDS (https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/government-digit...) taking on additional responsibilities and providing support and assistance to other government agencies. gov.uk is almost universally praised by the general public and tech people.
That's the real trick and problem - by the way https://www.amtraktrains.com is a great forum if researching - you CANNOT use averages for 'one time' trips.

If you're talking about your commuter to work, you can use averages to get "good enough" because you take it often enough that the averages will mostly work.

But these long distance trains might on average be two hours late - but if they're 24+ hours late, you might have ruined everything (unless the connection was another Amtrak train, then they will work with you).

For those types of trips, if you want to take them, treat them as land cruises and either be on one train to your destination OR plan to have a mini vacation at each connection, staying a day or two and seeing the sites.

(I have had two long distance trains die on the rails and become busses, which is amusing if you're not in a rush. Seven charter busses descending on a Subway in some infinitely small town for dinner amusing. They had everyone get off the train onto busses, we drove to where the train that was coming the other way was, and got on it, because the rails were blocked by a corn train flipping over.)
Epic vs Apple is at a different point along the spectrum—there are plenty of people who argue that Apple is within their rights (and even pro-consumer) to have the rules that they do, but there are plenty that are opposed.

Epic is more palatable than a social media company but less obviously good than encryption.
Feedback from a friend who lives in the very West Mongolia who read this article:

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This concerns mostly East Mongolia, and it can be a good thing for the nature, even though it is disastrous for many shepherds/herders. It's now more than 3x as many livestock animals in the country compared to when communism fell in 1990. Over-grassing kills the steppes and makes the desert spread in record speed. So if half of the livestock animal population would die, it would be, as said, good for the nature, but crap for the shepherds/herders.

If you want to see the official animal statistics check out http://1212.mn/en
"
> They also have a real OOB mgmt system, which can be really helpful.

You can find regular-PC-case-shaped motherboards that have real IPMI management baked in, but you do have to be willing to pay more for it, as they're usually (always?) found in "workstation" boards.

However, you do need to do a bit of research to make sure the advertising claims match up to reality. Some of these "IPMI" ports require custom Windows-only software and don't let you remotely control much at all.
It is near impossible to have a poor country that isn't easy to bribe. EU and these companies know this too.

Even if you say the responsibility is on these countries to ban them themselves, you know that's not going to happen due to the wealth disparity leading to corruption. What then?

Folks thinking this is a "not my problem" situation, put yourself in the shoes of the parents in the other country. They know they are generally powerless to protect their kids from these, and people from European countries producing these chemicals are saying "not my problem".
Not only was it not designed for those environments, what's the point? The parts are aging, machines that old struggle even without the increased stresses of space, and as the station ages, more and more effort has to be spent on maintenance and safety.

The thermal regulation system was designed for 45 minutes in day followed by 45 in night, the communications were designed around being within realtime communications range (eg astronauts remoting into PCs on the ground for personal browsing, so as to reduce risk to the station's own computers) and there are no reasonable crewed or uncrewed vehicles available to maintain the station at that distance. The station is also likely to struggle to deal with docking to either lunar lander, given their size.

We can't turn it into an orbital museum piece without maintaining it, lest it fall apart and cause a massive amount of debris.

We're still early in our spacefaring days, there are still many more historically relevant space stations ahead of us, some of which we may actually have the ability to properly preserve. For the ISS we'll have to settle for the astronaut training models used by NASA.
I am forced to use tuxedo for work. The laptops are chronically unreliable, with random freezes, shutdowns and component failures on a daily basis, even though we have recommended Ubuntu LTS installations. Their software additions are quite amateurish and the support poor. System76 or Framework are probably a better bet.
Beats crypto in my opinion. I feel like there's a sliding scale for this stuff, and playing with language models is genuinely interesting, though it's harder to predict what the real benefits will be.

I feel certain there will be great benefit, but not in the way AI hypesters expect there to be.
The latest Lenovo Yoga Pro 7 on AMD 7840U are the closest thing you can get to a Macbook, with near-M3 performance and decent Linux support, while being much cheaper. My only regret is the soldered RAM.
Yup, however airliners operate at airports, while this contraption is designed for "urban air mobility", whatever that means. I mean, it has to be something with looser restrictions than heliports, otherwise the niche for this vehicle would be pretty small...
The article says it is but that is potentially misleading. Building an initramfs is very simple. Copy all the files you want in it and make a cpio archive. Arch's tool for doing it is just a 80 line or so bash script. In principle, it doesn't matter what user does this but only if all the files you need are readable by a non-root user.
My 2021 Toyota has a screen and I hate it so much.
- When I start the car it takes a minute for the software to boot so radio and stuff is unresponsive

- I get a popup warning to obey the laws and drive safely that stays up for 30 seconds. Why in the hell do I need a reminder for this?

- If its cold enough it warns be to drive slowly because the roads could be icy... yes I know Its 30 degrees out, I didn't need this warning.
A friend of mine has a Tuxedo Pulse 14 (if I remember correctly) and he is using openSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE Plasma on it and he sounds very happy about it.
This looks similar to aircraft from Joby Aviation. I wonder if this will crush their market opportunity now that a much bigger company is playing in the space? How can Joby compete against Airbus?
Because Apple works its supply chain hard. It's not a coincidence that their CEO comes from that side of the business.
Cisco tells Secure Client users to patch or risk VPN security flaw
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_scale

It would cost substantially more for a small-scale company to produce a laptop with the quality of MacBooks than it costs Apple. That cost difference would have to be passed to the consumer.
And both of those built-in password management tools are actively targeted by credential harvesting malware.
> While some parts may reach the ground, the casualty risk – the likelihood of a person being hit – is very low

They probably ought to put a number to this. When a person says "odds are very low," they usually mean like 1:1000. When a scientist says it, they mean like 1:100000000000000.
There’s a lot more stainless steel and concrete in a pressurized nuclear reactor than an orbiting space station
I’ve a decent all AMD 14 inch one for work from Tuxedo. The webcam and mic setup is horrible.

But it’s light and capable.

Still I’ll likely get a MacBook and run Asahi for my home laptop as the build quality is still the best in the industry.
Palantir wins US Army contract for battlefield AI
> My wife, who is a physician, thought it might be hypoglycemia, since i'm at high risk for diabetes.

Isn't hypoglycemia a side effect of insulin and other glucose lowing agent rather than of the diabetes itself?
> mac only

Also iOS.
Major macbook compromise: glossy screen, no option to make it matte (there isnt even an official matte screen protector that is not for privacy in their store, and it isnt clear whether a glued on screen will damage the coating, or not fit when the macbook is closed).

More compromises: lack of ports, missing basic functionality in OS, very high cost for ram and ssd.
A Rough Trade (2001)
Yes, because Alice herself is malicious.
New report claims to have info on Microsoft's censorship of Bing in China
You're the one making a claim. Not me

But I can see nothing further is going to be gained from this conversation so I'll end it here
Marissa Mayer's Motherhood "Challenge" (2012)
Criticizing China or the CCP is not xenophobia.
Feels fitting for their brand as it ties into the idea of an aeroplane being a bus.
Yeah, the one size fits all is grating, for example my wife is not really into computers but she likes to see what I put around the house and just to ask questions and understand what I'm doing. She didn't have anyone to really ask questions growing up, and online wasn't so great so now we just talk and seeing a new box is just an occasion for discussion.
You have to be pretty stupid to eat an entire sheet of acid. At 100ug per tab, and a sheet is 100 tabs, that's 10 milligrams of acid.

Either way, you can't overdose on acid. Sure it'll be a crazy trip but "overdosing" isn't a thing that happens with acid.
I think people like ElMo and Trump do have a lot of self control. In addition to getting what they want they are also masters of influence. It is also not poor impulse control if they are good enough to muster enough resources to afford their impulses in the first place.
Most transit systems (and leaking into trains) are oriented toward commuters, because that's the vast majority of the ridership.

The most common "concession" to visitors is often a (slightly overpriced) day or week pass that lets you ride anything anytime.
> For those sharks who have perished due to becoming bycatch, this allows a unique opportunity to have their livers provide valuable products like biodiesel, squalene, and omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) –including eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA; also icosapentaenoic acid) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). Afterall, the major constituents of WSLO are triglycerides (TG), diacylglycerol ethers (DAGE), and squalene.

What a strange article.
It’s true that their GPUs are slower than Nvidia’s. But keep in mind that cores are really different and cannot be compared across architectures. You want more Gflops, not necessarily more cores.
Ah. In that case, you should employ care givers who accept cash.

Like a shaman. Or a doctor whose license has been revoked.

Good luck!
Closest I’m aware of are ThinkPads, but be aware that build quality is not equal between model lines, that some models have less-Linux-friendly chipsets, and that some models come with surprisingly underwhelming display panels for their price (e.g. they’re dim). Most of the X1 lineup should be pretty solid though.
I have to applaud the library for releasing this report. In Canada, the most likely response to cyberattacks is mealy mouthed platitudes like "Please be assured that we take your privacy very seriously and are doing everything possible to recover the data and ensure that something like this does not happen again." and on and on.

So refreshing.
Wasn't Facebook used by russian intelligence to manipulate the 2016 elections?

Does it even matter that it's under US jurisdiction if it can be misused by foreign actors without any real consequences? Meta just uses its lobbying to keep itself without harm.
I dice and microwave sweet potatoes, after I do the same for the beetroot (which takes a bit longer to cook). Added jicama recently (diced, uncooked), and in combination with sprouted legumes (cooked, or raw if just lentils), apple, cabbage, nutritional yeast, vinegar and olive oil, it was delicious. That's not a strict recipe, just an example of a recent breakfast/lunch.