skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using my MS account is actually how I transferred my Windows Pro license. I unlicensed my old PC and then logged in on the new PC and licensed it there.

(It was also originally a Windows 7 Pro license that I've moved through 4 different versions of Windows)
When I read this kind of stuff I think i should form some kind of party with the goal of reaching some position of power in the EU structure in order to prosecute microsoft and friends as much as possible.

I don't care which party, i don't care which power position.

I just want to prosecute and harm Microsoft and other companies adopting this kind of predatory and abusive behaviors.
Kinda funny, just yesterday, my kid found a solution for the issues he
was having with fallout 4, and it was switching to use a local account

fallout 4 , was opening in window mode only, and no matter what we did
it refused to read the setting to open full screen, also the game was
not saving anything

he kept searching online, until he found someone suggesting to use a
local account, and bingo, it fixed everything

i am not sure exactly why , but it seem it has to do with your home directory
going through onedrive if you use an ms account , and this messed up the game
ability to read settings and save progress
The 'consumer data extractor' (hardware) team is teaming up with the 'consumer manipulator' (AI) team, and all free of any inconvenient 'dont be evil' policy.

What a time to be alive!
The Earth becomes a Venus-like hellball long before the Sun dies.
(Edit: I've been informed on a side channel that non-disparagement clauses can no longer be enforced. IANAL--can someone elaborate?)

As someone who was a low-ranking insider at Lambda some years back, it was my perception that the people calling Lambda out presented a mixed bag in terms of veracity.

Someone here commenting on this story said that Lambda counted their student TAs in their employment stats, for example, but to the best of my knowledge this never happened. There were a handful (like three or four that I know of) that we did hire as full-time staff doing real jobs, and I'm pretty sure we counted them as employed, but not the student TAs.

With respect to this ruling, it says that students were subjected to up to $4,000 finance charges. I hadn't heard of that at all. Reading the details, it turns out that's the difference between the published upfront cost of paying Lambda versus using an ISA. The upfront cost wasn't hidden; it was published right next to the ISA cost. But because they weren't the same value, and it was probably more expensive to use the ISA, they called the difference a finance charge. Which is fine, but if Lambda had simply not allowed people to pay upfront, there wouldn't have been a "finance charge" to complain about. In other words the finance charge was already published in the rules for how the ISA would be repaid. So, factually accurate, but a strange thing to complain about, like complaining that the upfront cost of a house is lower than the mortgage cost.

Still others complain about the selling of the ISAs to investors, and say that that means that Lambda would still make money no matter how well their students performed. However, this would be a very short-sighted strategy as no investors would buy the ISAs if the students weren't performing. So selling them didn't really remove any of Lambda's impetus to place students in jobs. (It did improve the cash flow situation, however, which is why it happened.) From what I saw, the goal of placing students was ever-present regardless of whether or not Lambda was currently selling ISAs.

My point is, there's a lot of information out there by a lot of people who aren't sure about what they're talking about. And it can be tough to know what's real and what's not.

One thing I can say with certainty is that all the instructors who worked there back in the day were absolutely fucking passionate about getting students into jobs and changing the world, in that naive startup way. Some of the success stories from those early cohorts are the things I'm most proud of in my entire tech and teaching career.

As part of my layoff agreement, I had to sign a non-disparagement clause to get my severance.
I remember the days of issues with sound cards using oss, and how after years of frustration, alsa worked perfectly fine and the very next release of Ubuntu, they moved to pulseaudio which made it all shit again. That was the last time I installed Ubuntu, I went through Debian, then os X and now nixos.
It still over-covers it sometimes. Eventually it never will.
I was a huge Linux nerd in the early 2000s and tried my best to use it as a daily driver. But gaming forced me to keep a windows box around and eventually I got tired of the inconvenience of dual booting and Windows became primary for awhile.

More recently, I decided to try moving back to Linux as a primary desktop environment after getting frustrated and annoyed by the various dark patterns in Windows, and I was shocked to find how much better the gaming landscape looks now thanks to Steam and Proton. I’ve successfully gone all in on Linux again and hope to never use windows outside of an occasional virtual machine when I have no other choice.

Depending on your reasons for keeping windows around, it’s worth taking a look at the Linux desktop again. It’s exciting and gratifying to find it so extremely functional after many years of frustration and living on the bleeding edge of something that wasn’t ready for the mainstream at the time.
I saw that distinction too & there's a lot of validity to it.

But, I have no doubt a agm-158c could hypothetically go fly off, scout around, come back, and probably even have fine motor controls to fly close & get captured by some kind of dock.

Grizzly to point this out, but also not all aircrafts in history have been designed to survive engagements. We don't say a Kamikaze suicide bomber isn't an aircraft because it doesnt land. We are however calling Ukraine's Aeroprakt A-22 based drone a drone, even though it's literally an aircraft airframe.

But in general that there's a lot of things that could potentially be seen as aircraft carriers, as drones and missiles start to behave closer on the spectrum to aircrafts than to pure missiles. The distinctions of intelligence & sensing seems pretty arbitrary, but it also seems IMHO that the behavior of this lower class of flying system has bent upwards to more resemble it's bigger historically manned/piloted counterpart.
He said they were using Bing and Google on the Dwarkesh podcast.
> We just aren't there.

This is subjective. I have a car that does all my journeys, is preheated and fully charged every morning - and I don’t have to visit fuel stations to fill up so it’s actually better.
Edge switching to be chromium based and free access to OpenAI’s best models is hardly emshitification imho.
My guess is around 256GiB but it depends on what level of quantization you are okay with. At full 16bit it will be massive, near 512GiB.

I figure we will see some Q4's that can probably fit on 4 4090s with CPU offloading.
"I don't want to live in a society where there's the rule of law; I just want to do whatever I want, because no one will ever abuse that to hurt me."

I've got news for you, part of this is not the case . . .
"Long-acting drugs are likely to be an even greater boon in populations that have long been hard to reach: patients who have spotty access to health services, or who have trouble taking daily pills because they have unstable housing or transportation, are struggling with substance use, are mentally ill or face discrimination and stigma."

A great many of these people don't have the big bucks these long-acting drugs will cost and if they have something like Medicaid, stingy state Medicaid formularies won't cover them.
They are doing it, far more than you'd expect.

"Thanks to the GDPR, users in Europe
who download the Outlook for Windows app, will be greeted with a modal pop-up dialog that
displays a user agreement and requires its users to consent. The breathtaking aspect of this is
that the dialog starts right out stating: “We and 772 third parties process data to: store and/or
access information on your device, develop and improve products, personalize ads and content,
measure ads and content, derive audience insights, obtain precise geolocation data, and identify
users through device scanning.”

https://borncity.com/win/2024/01/18/new-outlook-app-monitori....
We're not in violation of the ToS

Yes you are, by your own admission just a few lines above, and a quick glance at the ToS itself. Your "intent" doesn't matter. By using the service, you must comply with the ToS, full stop (unless it is clearly void by existing law, which as your lawyers will immediately tell you if you choose to waste money on them, it isn't in this case).
> > and heavy handed punishment is the best way to deter it.

> That sounds like an empirical statement. Evidence?

Singapore and Japan.
I had the same reaction, but when I saw the thumbs up and down icon, I realized this was a smart way to crowd source validation data.
No, they're not. Corporations have known, concrete impacts on the world, whereas the dangers of AI are, so far, corporations. ASIs are (as yet) fictional.

Another difference: most corporations will avoid doing illegal stuff if the penalties are large enough: the corporation alignment problem is political. Pretty much no extant AI systems can be instructed in this way: we don't know how to align AIs even in theory.
Would you be OK with 1% of GDP?

But would you really be OK with some authority deciding how much gets spent on it? Or is the amount not the real issue?

There's an ad in the article itself: it was offering me 25% off a subscription to MIT Technology Review during Earth Week. I didn't ask to see that information. It was trying to get me to do something I wasn't very interested in. Is that advert part of the problem, or is it one you'd arbitrarily allow?
Well, they're not AI companies, necessarily, or at least not only AI companies, but the big hardware firms tend to have engineers at the helm. That includes Nvidia, AMD, and Intel. (Counterpoint: Apple)
Is that because of limits to air resistance vs. aircraft surface area?
I remember it taking me forever to figure out the exact incantation of clicking tiny text and unplugging network cables at the right time in order to do what should be the most basic setup tasks in an OS: Setting up an account. I'm so tired of companies begging/forcing me to do things on my computer that I as the user don't want to do. The user is supposed to be in charge, not the computer or the manufacturer.

It's gotten to the point where I am afraid to type in my actual Microsoft account anywhere near my Windows PC, lest it decides to spring the trap and say "AHA GOT IT! Now you're logging in with your Microsoft account now and forever! Muahahahahahah!" I won't even speak it aloud, in case Windows has the microphone on listening for it. I'm only half joking.
The joke’s on them because I have relegated my windows box to gaming only. When another OS meets my gaming needs, microsoft’s os will be finally gone from my network.
But that's rather overstating the case, isn't it? If all these cables simultaneously break, we'd switch to Starlink (at much lower total bandwidth), and international communication would drop in volume, with the most valuable uses winning.

Millisecond-level currency trading would cease, but second- or minute-level trading would continue, and that would not dramatically destroy economies.

ATMs of foreign banks might stop working; local banks should continue.

Watching video from a foreign server would no longer be possible, but that's not the end of the world.

And so on. It would slow many things down, some things would stop, but it wouldn't be the end of modern civilization.
For-profit is a terrible way to organize humanity, except for all the other ways. It turns out there's no workable alternative to allocation of resources by means of markets.
Have you tried Genode's Sculpt OS?

"Sculpt is an open-source general-purpose OS. It combines Genode's microkernel architecture, capability-based security, sandboxed device drivers, and virtual machines in a novel operating system for commodity PC hardware and the PinePhone. Sculpt is used as day-to-day OS by the Genode developers."

https://genode.org/download/sculpt
You're quite free to stay on Windows - I'm sure someone likes all these new features! I just strongly prefer an OS which doesn't have them.
These are not random mutations but adaptation features.
In the E. Coli LTEE (Long Time Experiment) still ongoing, 65 000 generations since 1988 have shown little adaptations (like epigenetics) but they are still E. Coli, not another bacteria, nor another species.
CVE-2024-20356: Jailbreaking a Cisco appliance to run DOOM
Ok well explain why the mass market is not adopting them enmass already then.

We are either there and there are compelling products that people want or we are not and they are struggling to sell/values are going down...oh wait we are currently experiencing the latter.
Because the software we want to run either runs best under Windows or only runs under Windows.
It’s terrible at code worse than Gemini.
Linux gaming just isn't there and I use my PC mostly for gaming, so that's a difficult decision.
Are AI Mammograms Worth the Extra Cost?
My main issue isn't with the Microsoft account itself, but with how it truncates usernames in the file system to just five characters. For instance, my preferred username 'unsignedint' is shortened to 'unsig.' It's perplexing why there's an assumption that all names should be five characters or fewer.
https://archive.ph/j3aQ5
I'd assume it has "Excel features", which translate to finance features.
When I was in high school back in the year 2000, I remember teachers getting pissy (rightfully) when someone's cell phone rang during class.

Personally, I was always thinking...you're in class. Who the hell is calling you and expecting you to answer?
To be fair you have to realize how much more dependent the global economy is on software nowadays. Halo was a Bungie product, and when Bungie left as Microsoft took it over yeah, the product had loftier business goals that needed to be protected. Smaller devs can't really reach critical market saturation anymore like they used to.

You can criticize where things has gone with MTX but I don't think that was a choice by the game developers. I also think it's a generational thing as you and I are now too old to spend all day fucking around with some game we played a ton. I'm sure the kids of today are tinkering with minecraft/fortnite/whatever replaced those games.

Also to me it's a bit of wanting to try and put the tooth paste back in the tube. When we were teenagers modding Halo we maybe didn't fully understand the impacts it had on the game's community and the overall experience. As an adult I just see how games like Call of Duty appear to be constantly losing the fight against hackers, and using over engineered matchmaking algos with SSBM to try and maximize the typical user's gameplay experience. But I can't regain my naivety and be one of the many younger adults who probably don't even really notice these issues, the way I didn't when I played Halo 3 on Xbox Live which had boosting, standby, and stealth servers.
A recent find in Minnesota may change that outlook:
https://interestingengineering.com/energy/minnesota-dream-he...
You're looking at the statistics wrong. I can't be bothered to dig in to your link to figure out why, but it's plainly obvious that there's not some huge 93% of people who never drive out of their town.

It's probably more like - on 7% of days people drive more than 30 miles, that is to say, basically everyone does it, just not every day.
Nope, that's not what they said.

If 90% of students aren't _scammed_, but 10% are _scammed_, there is an ethical disaster. But at this point it's clear you either have some actual financial incentive/relationship with Lambda School, or you just don't want to be wrong. Either way, I don't think engaging any further will be fruitful.
I’ve heard that the Long Term Servicing Channel is a decent option for a nag-free time, though I’ve no experience of it personally.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/ltsc/ove...
how does Elixir+Phoenix help for this sort of use case instead of just using Python or JavaScript? thanks for any info!
Tough case. Adrenal adenomas are common incidental findings. ~15% are hormonally active, which means the vast majority are not.

As a radiologist, I sometimes wonder about whether I make too many recommendations to referring doctors (consider endocrine evaluation for a potentially hormonally active adrenal nodule).

A FREQUENT attack on us as a specialty is that we "find too many incidentals" (see attacks on mammography, breast cancer screening, other sorts of screening, ad nauseam).

Perhaps I'll keep doing the adrenal nodule recommendation, although I usually only make the recommendation if it's 1cm or larger.
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LLM costs per MTok (updated 4/18/2024)
Same thing with Windows Mail. I just got a message telling me, "We've decided to move you to Outlook (which I don't want) instead of the Windows Mail client that you're happily using." Now I've got to go searching for the magical wizard spell I need to cast in order to stop it from doing this.

I really wish a Windows Product Manager could comment here and explain why the hell they keep doing this shit despite the user not wanting any of it. I know they won't. They're ashamed of what they are doing, and/or hide behind some "do not post online" corporate policy.

Why can't operating systems just stay out of the user's way? Go schedule the CPU, manage the filesystem and network peripherals, and stop with the user behavior modification experiments.
except that you're essentially endorsing a dangerous form of nationalism and rationalizing domestic surveillance by suggesting it's acceptable for our own government and companies to manipulate and monitor us but not for foreign entities, to say nothing about how naive it is to think domestic companies will later come around to regulating themselves. this is exactly the double standard that not only undermines the principles of fairness and privacy but also paves the way for greater acceptance of intrusive surveillance under the guise of security.....
As a Destiny player I am more than aware they don't own Halo.

They are also not passionate about Destiny 2 and it shows.
One problem I experienced when test driving the mache is that the range estimates are on the lower end when you accelerate too much on the highway. I typically drive in line with other drivers here on the east coast which is 75-80 mph and I was just not getting the range that I was expecting. That contributes to range anxiety.
That aside, I think it can be a serious scientific question as well.

i.e. Is there a scientific explanation for the fact that the ratio between the diameter of the Sun and Moon are the same as the ratio between their distances to Earth such that they look almost exactly the same size to us?

We can of course say it's coincidence -- and that may be the case, but if we use "coincidence" to explain away anything we can't readily explain (instead of trying to find answers), there'd there'd be no scientific progress at all.

Ideally, the model of how the Moon formed _should_ give an explanation to that. If that turns out to require (for example) the existence of ancient space aliens fine tuning parameters in our solar system, well, IMHO people can decide for themselves whether they think this is more likely, or the fact that the ratios of the celestial objects fit just perfectly.

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Btw, slight nit with your logic -- if solar eclipses are impactful for humanity's survival, one can invoke the anthropic principle to explain why it's a necessity in an environment that gave rise to humans. But it seems they're not impactful, so in that way, it seems that the possibility of a creator is relatively increased.
They are saying "one of" does not mean the only one.

One of my cat's eyes is blue.
One of my cat's eyes is green.

Both can be true at the same time.
Seconded. When I first saw this, I thought it looked unintuitive and difficult to use, but when I tried it, it was very easy and I had the extracted data in a few minutes.
This is a list made up of other lists, and some of those lists, like sanctions lists, are public.

e.g.: https://ofac.treasury.gov/specially-designated-nationals-and...

> their more widespread use keeps criminals out of the financial systems.

Governments already have solved this by requiring banks to use lists like these (or similar subsets of these) where desired.
Google execs found incapable of speaking two sentences without mentioning AI
Nah, Windows 7 was (and still is) great, truly good work to fix vista mistakes. Downhill ride started with windows 8
In the corporate environment, I wouldn't expect a user to be choosing between local and Ms account anyways.
My personal theory is that this is all because Zuckerberg has a rivalry with Elon Musk, who is an AI decelerationist (well, when it's convenient for him) and appears to believe in keeping AI in the control of the few. There was a spat between them a few years ago on Twitter where Musk said Zuckerberg had limited understanding of AI tech, after Zuckerberg called out AI doomerism as stupid.
The term IS meaningless, there is no clear distinction between "brainwashing", "education", "marketing", "propaganda" and "convincing". Except that the first term was coined as war propaganda, so that you could say that people was brainwashed by your enemy instead of admitting that your enemy convinced those people. This also helps you to brainwa... I mean, to convince your citizens that your enemy is very evil and those people brainwashed by them could also be seen as bewitched drones, not fully human beings.
It matters and it doesn't. It doesn't affect turn around because you can have a ready to go inventory.

But it matters how much an engine can be reused because it's a significant material and labor effort to produce them. Are the 9 engines from each flight reusable, and to what extent? Does half the motor get replaced each time or is it generally ok?

The Ship of Theseus debate doesn't have a hard answer to it. We can -like the Persian Immortal - respect the continuity of the thing. But so too we should track and follow the churn of the pieces, acknowledge the parts decayed. I for one am very curious how much of the ship and how much of the motor needs replacement, and how often.
dnsmasq can be used for wildcard domain aliases in OPNsense firewall, https://github.com/opnsense/core/issues/4145#issuecomment-12...
I think that's a great way to think about it.

You can extend it further and say that the reason this is bad is because you're giving the kind of people who have no qualms with preying on strangers like that the resources to prey on bigger prey.

We don't want those kinds of people to have the kinds of resources to match their unseemly ambitions.
32 bits is a bit over 4 billion states, so that is doable. However a lot of algorithms can have more than 32 bits of states and so quickly get beyond what is doable.
what do you work in?
As kreetx said, I use the Excel-like features.

For example; the finances for each company should be submitted to the national tax department each quarter. I configured the Notion tables to group them by quarter of the year. For each of these quarters, it will automatically configure the income, outgoing and the result.
Right, but you can successfully course correct if you have a reproducible measurement, instead of one that varies by 20% each time you make it (source: Cooks Illustrated magazine on angel food cake, did experiments on how much variation cup measurements of the same flour had - given their audience, probably preaching to the choir, but it was at least a decade ago...)