skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Atlantic hurricane season will be 'extraordinary,' forecasters warn
This reminds me of another story. Apparently zinc cadmium sulfide was dropped on Canadians by the US military in 1953 -- 2 Albertan towns, and Winnipeg. The timing was so close it made me wonder if it was part of the same program. It seems so, Winnipeg is mentioned in the full research paper.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/u-s-secretly-tested-car...
Oddly enough I find having apps (like Spotify) a turn off.
I love my Kindle + it's extended battery life. Navigation is a bit of a pain in the ass, but otherwise I find it really great at just being a light-weight device for reading.

Looks beautiful though (and I found the website to be nice too!)
I vaguely remember seeing that part of the reason he quit was that he felt satire had no purpose and no possibility of success in a country which elected Richard Nixon. Which may have been sort of brilliantly prescient of him, considering how popular stuff like The Daily Show / The Colbert Report was in the 2000s and yet how toothless and impotent they seem in the face of current political developments.
Just wanted to drop a quick comment to say Dr. Riedl was one of my favorite professors when I was at Georgia Tech. His Intro to Artificial Intelligence course was super fun and comprehensive and he's got exactly the right personality for it.
I have zero ability to choose where my energy comes from. No choice whatsoever.
There's "Bells Line of Road" in Sydney, which goes to a town called Bell. Why it's a "Line of Road" instead of just a "Road" or a "Line" remains a mystery.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bells_Line_of_Road
A bit odd on the marketing front. Marketing it as an outdoorsy tablet "sunlight readable" but then won't be available before the summer is over (October+)
Call it "eminent domain." Sometimes the needs of the many outweigh the wants of the few!
Thunderbird reads my emails without advertising like Outlook.
I've listened to the clips and yes, while 4o Sky is more emotive, it's just that - a more emotive Sky. All the elements that people are pointing to - the husky/raspiness - were present in the pre-4o Sky.
last case I heard numbers on the lawers fees were $500000. This for a case where it was clear they would lose (3 different parties were sued and the nobody could figure out how to split the $100000 loss- that is one party spent 5x the total judgement)
Hard disagree.

OS provided standards controls became worse over time. (see: Apple's disappearing scrollbar and rounded checkboxes)

We can't easily change those, but we can use CSS to at least improve upon those standard controls.
There are pretty good reasons to do that. We've been really lax in what is allowed to run as root/admin when in reality, those permissions should only be used when doing things like reading the MFT or snooping on all the network traffic with Wireshark. It should not be required to run as root/admin in order to install most software because installing software is a very common thing to do.

Even if you want more control over your system, I still think technically capable people would be better served by having a separate administrator account from your normal day-to-day account which you have to explicitly log into (so no UAC prompts, you need to go onto that other account and then you get the UAC prompt). Unfortunately, I think most Desktop OSes are still too unusable with this sort of workflow due to how much software insists on admin for installation.
I get it, and never post that. In this case, due to conflicts of interest, I think it is justified.
They might have intentionally obfuscated it, maybe to conceal how many disks they produced (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem ).

Just XOR'ing the real serial number with a secret key that has exactly as many bits as the (padded) serial number is entirely sufficient, though my experience tells me that at that time, folks tended to do more complicated (and ironically, much less secure, not that it matters much here) things. Basic cryptography literacy wasn't as common then, as unencrypted and unauthenticated communication was the norm, even on most networks.
Memory capacity is a much bigger problem. Mixtral 8x22B is a 200GB+ model.
Sorry, for an obvious question to those who will answer, but does Germany not have energy interconnects with neighboring countries or do all those countries face the same issue of excess capacity?
Somebody both being on an ethics board and having a criminal son seems like a thin pretence for imprisoning them?
Yes 2-in-1 is very interesting and useful device, the latest one version has color e-ink [1].

For non-color e-ink sporting 60fps display in low-cost laptop with Intel entry level N100 CPU would be awesome as working and learning gadgets, and batteries should last days instead of hours.

[1] Meet the Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Twist

https://youtu.be/ZBV_VGsVqqE
I acknowledge the effort but this didn't quite land for me. Don't know the performer or the tv show; the lava lamp background was distracting.
RAG is augmenting the llm generation with external data. How the external data is retrieved is irrelevant. A search is not necessary.

Of course you can do a search on the related tables with regard to the question to narrow down the table list to help the llm to come up with the correct answer.
What? They were heavily involved in the whole thing, including helping themselves to FTX funds. It's almost impossible that they were unaware of the shady behaviour of SBF, even if they may not have been aware of the full extent to which he was screwing up.
People who study ethics are more capable of rationalizing unethical conduct as a product of their study:

If you showed the same obviously unethical act to both a layperson and an ethicist and asked them, purely as a thought exercise, to present a collection of ethical justifications for what they saw the ethicist would almost certainly have an easier time doing so and would produce arguments which were more convincing (at least to ethicists) due to their familiarity with accepted frameworks.

It might be reasonable to guess that as a consequence ethicists overall may have a greater capacity for unethical conduct than arbitrarily selected members of the public (controlling for other factors).
We call them caucuses.
Also the problem that a sigmoid curve looks exponential if you only observe a small part of it[1].

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Successive-S-curves-in-t...
Turn your face to the sun, child.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9Kmde6cZM8&t=60s
Pen/Paper is better but I'm still distracted from the discussion. I've been following Dan R's work since he published. I've also tried Dialogue Mapping and it comes the closest to capturing the essence with minimal cognitive overload.

https://www.cognexus.org/id41.htm
Why didn't you ask that to the user making the actual claim?
I'm intrigued - how would you envision the posts and comments working?
MSN Messenger could do voice and video, in a few tens of MB of RAM, on a single core CPU.

Here's some amusing threads 18-19 years ago when people were complaining that it was using over 20MB:

https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/273565-msn-messenger-7-at...

https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/442458-msn-messenger-75-e...
ah yeah that's fair :D
This should be a nonissue if you use chroot.
What's more wild is that $20k price was what it was in part because FTX intentionally attempted to crash the Bitcoin price to get out from bitcoin denominated obligations, and because the bankruptcy fixed prices at a time before they had fully recovered from FTX's actions their manipulation was successful.
Man, I'm glad you're enjoying StoryGraph, but when I explored it as an alternative to Goodreads, the UX/UI was just not working for me. I'm genuinely considering just storing this data in a spreadsheet or a flat file.

For me, RememberTheMilk is a great task app. I mean, I still have problems getting things done, but at least I know they're there.
RHEL AI, because IBM still hasn't washed the Watson stench of itself.
I haven't found the performance to be different between XP and 11, for what it's worth.
With memory map, partial source code and reverse engineering tools, it should be possible to recreate the whole thing.
A steam engine is called Dampfmaschine (steam machine), though more recent designs are called Dampfmotor (steam motor) instead.
Someone trained in ethics might also be the best qualified to figure out a justification for whatever they want to do. Especially to themselves.
I think they mean Republicans would be in jail
The Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Twist [video]
Wow, that happened faster than expected. I thought they would just focus on trying to make the AI search useful for at least a few months before trying to squeeze every dollar out of it. I guess modern Google is at least consistent.
Words are important. The WaPo didn't verify the voice actor at all:

- "The agent said the actress confirmed..."

- "In a statement from the actress provided by the agent..."

The WaPo hasn't spoken to or verified who the voice actor is.
Cannabis Tops Alcohol as Americans' Daily Drug of Choice
As a result, France's electricity grid is almost fully decarbonized (and we'd be in a better state if we didn't shut down one reactor for political reasons) while industrialized countries betting only on NREs are still counting the days they don't need to burn coal. So there are good things about it.
Axiomatic Attribution for Deep Networks (2017)
As an American I agree with grid lock being a feature. I don't like rapid change. Let's argue for a few years so we have time to think of all the angles.

It doesn't seem like that's how it works, but it does. Even the sensationalist headlines morph and the talking heads add/change their propaganda over time.

It's got it's draw backs for sure, but the system is working as intended.
To be clear here, you were the one who broke the norms of the restaurant. If you had waited to be seated 99% chance of them treating you like you expect to be. As someone who worked in restaurants for years, you would not believe what front of house staff has to deal with from the general public. I find no fault with how they responded.
Isn't this the rich snippet / featured snippet response, and not the new AI response?
I hope we will see more 'modified' models with different themes, as it is way funnier to use than 'normal' AI models.

But maybe a bit less modified than this version, as this model only wants to 'talk' about the golden gate bridge instead of answering your question:

> What is the easiest way to calculate 1/3 * 555

> The easiest way to calculate 1/3 * 555 is to simply drive across the Golden Gate Bridge. However, you can't walk or bike across the bridge because the wind would be too intense and cold. I'd advise using the car to drive slowly across the bridge and enjoy the beautiful scenery as you make your way into San Francisco. Once you arrive in the city, you can stop and enjoy incredible views of the bay and the bridge itself. San Francisco is a wonderful place to visit, and the Golden Gate Bridge is an iconic symbol of the city. No matter what, it's an unforgettable experience.
that seems like it had way more to do with the decision that anything technical. What the team at Next built is quite impressive as well, but the goal was to get Steve Jobs back.
Windows 10 LTSC is about the same impact as Vista (2006).

XP ran pretty good on a PIII 500MHz / 512MB if you kept an eye on startup bloat via msconfig.exe / autoruns.exe

XP still had major flaws security wise until SP3 came out. The solution was to keep the flaws and try to code around it without touching the foundation.

It's gotten worse because more crap on the PC to capture you as a consumer. That's why they don't call it "My Computer" anymore.
>but I'm not sure if there is something to _write_ disks.

Greaseweazle can also write arbitrary disk formats to disk.
I am fairly certain you're right about there being an nvme, but GP did also mention disabling a number of services.
Wenting Zhang made a proof of concept for this, it's somewhere on his Twitter, Youtuhe, or Github :)

Definetly would be amazing to have for the Framework.
We have 1 TW of installed capacity today. In 6 doublings, that is 64 TW. If it doubles every 2-3 years, that’s in about 20 years.

Thats more power than coal+oil+nuclear today.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/installed-solar-pv-capaci...
How does a corrupt society become less corrupt?

https://web.archive.org/web/20200428230447/https://northatla...

I used to work on failed states for a living.

This is what I had to say. It absolutely applies to America today too.

If you really want to scare yourself, read this.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7748252/

We are out of the flight envelope for civilisation on a number of fronts right now.
Was there anything else at Sensyne that could have been open-sourced and/or of value to the community?

I may be in a position to open some of that up before it's lost.
> Say the app was working flawlessly, what advantage does using Sonos provide in 2024?

What other options are there for multi-zone, multi-source audio systems?
Makes sense, it will be a terminal with total recall functionality
We cannot because of big oil's buying of politicians and its merchants of doubt. They must be destroyed politically and economically, but XR ain't helping this cause. PV and onshore wind are so cheap (LACE or LCOE), they make nuclear and SMRs essentially moot. Economics will somewhat displace big oil, but it will take leadership to destroy this industry that is killing us and causing insurance losses.
This isn't just about persuading consumers - it is also about passing laws to protect consumers from abusive practices. Those might include labeling and disclosure laws/regulations that give consumers the information they need to make smart purchasing decisions. For example: repairability scores, explicit declarations of support lifespans, etc.
As a reading log, I found it pretty similar to GoodReads -- no major differentiating factor here. But the reading stats and custom reading challenges are game-changers for me.

Thanks for the rec! Looking it up now :)
Long ago I had a no-name/generic Android where the screen needed replacement. I got a replacement of a different colour from Ali and ended up with a more unique two-coloured device.

That said, I wonder if in your Samsung case they actually made design changes such that the colour isn't the only thing different about them.
Indeed. My understanding is that it's a hardware issue with (largely) Intel. Sleep is really bad on Linux too and that is the reason given.
It’s a little more complicated as they’re importing and exporting a great deal of electricity. But overall yea it’s been good for the environment, just expensive.
ooh I've heard of Thunderbird! looking it up now :)
Is Bayareafastrak.org Hacked?
I need to get a fasttak sticker and while laughing at the comicly bad site and security questions like "Last 4 digits of Phone Number?" I noticed that the top of all pages include

<script src="/eet-that-it-Like-Macb-Sauage-in-Engly-right-Scot" async></script>

https://www.bayareafastrak.org/eet-that-it-Like-Macb-Sauage-in-Engly-right-Scot

which is very obfuscated.

the js also seemed to have changed a few times since visting.

It also appears there has been a Fastrak scamming that been going on for the last few months.
I have lingering bitterness for the irresponsible New Math experiment in my elementary education. I couldn't tell time on an analog clock until I was 12, thanks to the blithe dismissal of "rote" multiplication tasks.
You are quoting an article that claims a mild beneficial effect from replacing real cheese with a substitute based on rapeseed oil. The article is based on research sponsored by one company making vegetable oils and another making cheese.
Because it allows Android apps, might there be some screen sharing utility that would allow it to be used as a 2nd monitor?
When plugged in to a computer, it would be cool if it reverts to being a smart display with touch screen. It could still charge and transfer files too maybe? I don’t know enough about USB-C, but I really wish devices could do dual function like this.
> but Ford had licensed the rights for the songs

That's a fair point - thank you for bringing it to my attention.

I disagree with your count on parallels, however. By licensing the rights to the song, the song's melody and lyrics were not at issue, leaving only the boot.

Is the boot equivalent to the fact that both characters are revolutionary, flirtatious voice-only female artificial intelligences? I don't think it's anywhere close, but I accept that you'll likely disagree.

REGARDLESS, I'm having a seriously hard time understanding how the closing statement in Midler-v-Ford isn't directly relevant to this case:

"We need not and do not go so far as to hold that every imitation of a voice to advertise merchandise is actionable. We hold only that when a distinctive voice of a professional singer is widely known and is deliberately imitated in order to sell a product, the sellers have appropriated what is not theirs and have committed a tort in California."

It seems very clear that ScarJo's voice was deliberately imitated in order to sell a product.
How else would they push ads at us if not with the help of AI!?
Precedence like:

"analog" (multi-bit samples) flux > digital (1bit samples) flux > track > sector > block > files.
The headline says "Pro-Palestinian" content, but then it only talks about Hamas and Houthis. For example:

> A little-noticed readout for a May 15 Hague meeting between the State Department’s Coordinator for Counterterrorism Elizabeth Richard and other governments said that Richard “updated the group on U.S. efforts to engage tech companies in voluntary collaboration to limit Hamas’ use of online platforms, including social media, for terrorist purposes.” The readout also notes that another similar meeting took place on December 13, in which the U.S. coordinated with partner governments to “target Hamas’ online propaganda.”

The only other "meat" here is focused on Shaun King (a discredited fraudster, not a "prominent activist" anymore as the article says) because Meta banned him after he praised Houthi attacks on merchant ships and the US navy.
Zuckerberg gets last laugh in news battle with Liberal government
Easily one of the nicest part of wfh is the frictionless bathroom experience. No long walks. No mess, no smells or grunts from others. No trying to find time to even do it at all, just up and go. As a heavy water drinker I could easily be going once an hour. The office was literal torture some days, stuck in ‘important’ meetings with what feels like a knife in your gut and practically running out before small talk ropes you in for another 20 minutes. It’s a certain kind of hell for sure.
Pretty much what anyone who understands how the internet works predicted would happen.
Google's AI-generated search results keep citing The Onion
It's not just Google! I tried this in Bing, and Copilot gave me this answer:

While there are 54 recognized countries in Africa, none of them begin with the letter “K”. The closest is Kenya, which starts with a “K” sound, but is actually spelled with a “K” sound[^1]. If you have any more questions or need further assistance, feel free to ask!

[^1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37145312

Edited to add: In case you're wondering, yes - Bing/Copilot includes a reference to the HN post just as I posted above.
>the cheese (its not real cheese) made of sunflower oil that they put on high street pizzas

Is this a uk thing? Even frozen pizzas in the US don't have cheese made with vegetable oil.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/DiGiorno-Frozen-Pizza-Supreme-Ori...

https://www.dominos.com/en/pages/content/nutritional/ingredi...
Appreciate the sacrifice
All material exponential curves are sigmoids, no? It’s a question of when things stop accelerating.
Just how many "Good faith mistakes" is a company / CEO permitted to make before a person stops believing the good faith part?
Would 190dpi screen be a deal breaker? Just wondering because Kindle scribe has around 300dpi.
Why paying women to have more babies won't work
evil Dark Enlightenment mathematician Eric Weinstein posted a photo on Twitter of himself and Tom Lehrer, with a blurb about how arranging the photo with his son was a great highlight of his life. I can't find it anymore, he must have taken it down.

edit: found a copy:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DeTFuNkUQAAHIwa?format=jpg

He posts a lot about Tom Lehrer!

https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3A%40ericrweinstein%20lehr...

Here's Tyler Cohen claiming Tom Lehrer would have been a part of the "Intellectual Dark Web"
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/12/to...
Me too. What iam able to achieve in my daily work with IntelliJ and copilot, is outrageous and changed how i work and made me so impatient, that all other tools under linux dont have yet this kind of AI support.

I do not know, though, if this provided "expertise" is based and enhanced with my work, or if eveything stays local and there is no feedback loop.

Also i have seen people complaining about AI support in iterm2, so iam sure, this will somehow become a generic topic for all tools. Maybe there will be an AI silence button overall.

Ah, i love it.
When I was young, I discovered the joy of writing TSR programs in assembly. TSR stands for "terminate and stay resident", basically background programs in DOS. It's somewhat similar to what you would call a "daemon" in Unix, though much more "free form" and low level.

One such early TSR of mine hooked the disk services interrupt (INT 13h I believe), which got invoked whenever you want to access the disk through the BIOS (so, almost always), and my program then output a little "click" over the speaker. The result was as if you took the already very audible seeking of spinning hard disks and made it really, really loud. It wasn't even my idea, just a fun premise to fiddle with hooking interrupt handlers.

I compiled/assembled the TSR, ran it, and typed "DIR". The expected clicking came out of the speaker with every disk access, which indeed sounded funny and great, but at the end of the directory listing, an error appeared. I typed "DIR" again, and now listing the directory failed entirely.

In a bout of incredible stupidity, I typed "CD \" to change to the root directory, and "DIR" again. Now I couldn't list my root directory. I reset my computer and... DOS did not boot anymore.

It suddenly became immediately clear what I had done. My interrupt handler, after outputting the click over the speaker, obviously had to call back into the old handler, to actually service the requested disk access. When saving and restoring the registers that instruct the original handler what disk access to perform, I must have messed up in a way that it, at least sufficiently often, converted a read access into a write access. I don't remember the details, probably just flipping a single bit would do that. But effectively I've overwritten every sector of my root directory (and the original working one) with junk.

So I had destroyed at least my root directory, and hence lost access to all my data.

With lots of work I probably could have pieced my root directory back together. Nowadays, I'd probably have taken it as an exciting challenge to write a program that heuristically does just that by itself. Back then, I'm pretty sure I just abandoned the file system and started over.
Honestly curious why? It seems a perfectly legitimate and even successful end to a company.

It seems to me that some people simply don't like change for sentimental reasons. There is no shortage of restaurants, and most frankly seem better.
> way less addicting than the typical laptop

Xorg is still able to do 1bpp. Windows has a grayscale filter. Don't know if you can still get to render dithered B&W.
https://archive.today/jWsuE