skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It may provides some features for certain types of users, but I really don't see any reason for forcing a Microsoft account.

To play Devil's Advocate, I can see some:

* Backups. Let's face it, most people do not and will not take backups and yet they all cry when they inevitably suffer data loss. OneDrive syncing everything at gunpoint is a holy grail in the face of this problem.

* Sync. Clearly, most people like all their computers looking, having, and acting more or less interchangable with all their others. Together with backups above, OneDrive and a Microsoft account bring this to fruition.

* Licenses. Most people aren't going to keep the Windows box with the key around, or neatly store the documentation (which contains licensing information) they get with their new laptop or big box desktop. Chances are they're all in the trash the next day. Tying license activations to Microsoft accounts addresses a lot of headaches around lost licenses.

I, as a tech nerd, hate it. But if I hang up my nerdism at the front door and see things as a normal man with too much shit to do and too little time to deal with 'pooters, why yes, a lot of this actually makes fucking common sense.
> can't imagine how they managed to make a context menu open in almost a full second. In Windows 9x on a 200Mhz it was instant. A useless one too, because all the options that matter are in the old one.

And the system sounds now take a few seconds to chime - often after I already dismissed the corresponding dialogue
Amish would be an example.

The shire didn't had nothing that would deserve going out of the way to loot it (at least nothing known).

Hobbits had a sort of primitive defense systems against occasional invasions of goblins and wolves and LOTR mention their skills in the use of several weapons. A few chickens or tobacco herbs simply don't not worth the mess, specially when men were richer and can just buy it.
No but I permit internet access as long as they don't search for the solution (I trust them not to do that, and don't monitor what they do)
> they opened a bank account, deposited their own money in it and then withdrew it again without stealing anything or harming anyone, but you're not allowed to do that under someone else's name

Yes, you're not allowed to do that under someone else's name, that's what the crime is.

> can't be bothered to prove the original crime

The entire point of money laundering is to make it as difficult as possible to find the original crime or connect it. In an environment of anonymous payments, how do you prove X made a payment to Y?

It's basically an extension of anti-fencing law, which is a pretty old principle. You're not allowed to help people fence stolen goods, and it's not a defence to look the other way. Money has to be treated specially because it's fungible and not a "good", but the principle is the same. If you were running a "cars bought for cash" scheme and refusing to check if any of the cars were stolen, I would assume you'd eventually be prosecuted for that.
Well give how well the FAANGS all turned out, evil-money generating society destroying hell holes... I imagine it actually goes like this:

Im going to randomly and silently draw from one of 3 topics that I understand, but nothing that I don't and would need to collaborate with you to solve. It must be something I have memorized so not to risk looking less smart than the interviewee. Good we have now hired the 10,000th copy of me, the company can now continue to produce the SAME garbage across 10,000 people. I have succeeded and can now be promoted to level 5.5 and 2/5th.
> because they know what exact technologies they are using and they don't need to measure candidate's ability to learn new tech, etc

Well leetcode interviews do not measure the candidate's ability to learn new tech either, do they?
There is the "Read Free Online" button, though. I guess you don't want to know.

I find the press release very interesting, by the way. It is almost as if they want to assure people that their report is politically correct.
> I suppose we’re really talking about having an anxiety disorder that impedes the ability to deliver vs feeling anxious on the day. The former should manifest noticeably somehow, by definition.

I'm not really sure what you mean. First, anxiety is on a continuum, so I wouldn't propose a dichotomy here. Second, lots of people have situational anxiety, which I wouldn't call a "disorder". For example, a great fear of public speaking is pretty common.

Of course poor performance at some specific task, e.g., an interview or a speech, is manifestly noticeable, but the cause of that poor performance isn't necessarily manifestly noticeable. In other words, you can't necessarily tell whether it was caused by a lack of skill or competence or just temporary anxiety. Or maybe lack of sleep the night before.
Okay then, I'll just switch my gaming rig to Ubuntu and fiddle with Wine or whatever to get my Quake Champions running. Might take a small performance hit but I'm not going to use Windows with a Microsoft account. Not ever. Not going to happen.
Modern buildings act as a dynamic source and sink for urban air pollutants
> the fact that there is a standardized test

...a standardized test? No. There are tests. They sure as heck aren't standardized.

Maybe they should be, since everyone seems to be doing the same thing.
I'm definitely not one of those people who thinks Windows should stay frozen forever as Windows XP, I appreciate we're finally getting 15-20 year old features like search filtering in the task manager.

But whoever's bonus metric is tricking people to sign in with MS accounts is really making it a gross experience. I managed to finally get my new machines install on a local account using "OOBE\BYPASSNRO" although none of the instructions I found online worked for some reason, eventually found the script find myself. Then when trying to eventually register Windows it tricked me into converting to a MS account because the license troubleshooter forces you to login to do anything.

Next time I boot my machine its asking for my MS password instead of my local password... So that's taught me to never enter my MS account into anything on the desktop because there is a risk it will silently do that.

You have a "Home" and a "Pro" version, really just wish for a world where they do this silly scammy behavior in the Home version and let the Pro version just be an actual tool to use hardware. I'm not using Windows because it's a great operating system I'm only using it because it's the only OS in the Venn diagram of "Supports Nvidia GPUs" and "Runs Adobe CC", can't they just be happy I use it at all.
hang on, what if...

we're the bad guys?
Super off-putting, you mean.
Still technically correct, the best kind of correct. I wonder how much cheaper are land-based telescopes over the lifetime of instruments such as the Hubble or the Webb.

Also, a huge shame the Overwhelmingly Large Telescope was cancelled. We need more creative names for those.
It is not paywalled, you can read the summary here

https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/27746/chapter/2
This is a general cognitive problem in reducing a higher dimensional object to a lower dimensional representation for processing. For a complex entity like society and/or human wellbeing, it seems inevitable that the representation will mask important non-tangible/non-measurable dimensions of the object being considered.
They go exactly according to the plan. Now you officially don't own your own personal computer.
> Making up random arbitrary things whenever needed to get out of a fix is just bad storytelling.

It is also poor form when you are trying to make a point.

> HP has no consistency.

Perhaps so. Then why did you not choose to criticise something which happens in the actual books?
System76 is by far the best that I have found. No litany of kludges to make your Windows laptop mostly functional (e.g. no need to have kernel parameters to work around buggy hardware) No need to look compatibility tables and install guides.

It ships with Linux preinstalled and with great support. So if you want Linux that Just Works, this is my recommendation. (Also if you want to DIY it with e.g. Arch, since the hardware supports Linux already.)
For me, the something is the DAW i use (Cubase). I know it intimately, I make a living with it, and despite trying other alternatives, there isn't a DAW which runs on Linux which would cut it for me, in terms of overall features.

If Cubase ran on linux (and all my current plugins could work), then I'd drop it in a heartbeat. I've been running Linux in various guises and roles since (I think) 1998, but it's never made it to the 'daily use, I can do everything in it' stage, despite quite a few attempts on my part to make it happen.
I’ve had good experiences with business-grade Dell laptops like the Latitude line. Framework and Thinkpads are generally solid, too.

As for distro, Fedora is a great beginner distro.
My guess is long term health effects from Covid and from treatment deferral for other diseases because of the effects Covid had on healthcare capacity.
The proper name for such thing would be "gobo".
I guess(!), MS makes most of their profit from Windows licenses with enterprise licenses, where all users are managed through ActiveDirectory.

If that assumption is correct, then I guess the financial losses of private users not migrating to Windows 11 might be negligible.
To be fair, it is quite typical for cutting edge hardware not working in Linux for the first few months. Kernel devs have to catch up, and depending on your distro this might take a while. Best is to wait until support matures, or go with last year's option.

(Not that it really makes much difference in Intel-world anyway, the difference these days is not very noticeable - I am typing this on a Thinkpad X1 Gen 5, which was released... in 2017. Can't justify buying a new laptop, each year I have a look and wonder, what the benefit would be.)
Weird I haven't had a graphics issue since like the 8000 series of cards for like, the normal driving graphics right off the card use case. Optimus is definitely a little fucky with multiple GPUs and sometimes new CUDA versions break libs if you're keeping it bleeding edge updated, but most ML workflows use environment management to get around the clusterfuck that is the python ML ANN ecosystem anyway. Nvidia does a lot of work to make it hard to work with their cards but since GPGPU started taking off in the 2010s this sounds like a blast from the past, as a lot of the need for getting good performance out of cards on compute servers - which inevitably run linux because it has any kind of reasonable headless userspace and is easier to write reliable software for - has driven better driver support in general

In discussions between people who don't use linux, their notions of what the pain points even are seem to lag by sometimes over a decade

I find myself equally ill-informed on the pitfalls of windows ecosystems of late, except the ones that make the news for how insane they sound, but in my defense I also don't go around claiming I intermittently try to use it but just can't make the jump

As microsoft continues to tighten the screws, I just hope all these reluctant users can get out before it's too late
Dan Lemire does a lot of awesome work. See also roaring bitmaps.
I'd suggest you read the document you shared. Not only they found no relationship between vaccines and sudden death, the problems vaccines may cause aren't life-threatening unless in very specific acute cases. Most of those cases would be identified during autopsy, so you would have a spike in deaths of a specific kind; that's not what is happening.
"By learning how the Shire worked, we can start to understand how our own past worked, in all its complexity and contradictions."

Sorry but this is totally preposterous. Why should we look at our past through a fictional creation of one author? Why don't we go directly to the sources that that same author had? Makes much more sense.
LC says, "we have no clue what we are building but need people who can build anything, maybe", its a hiring strategy when you have no company strategy.
No one will ever know for sure, as the CCP has been keen on burying any evidence in either direction, I suppose just in case it might make them look bad.

That said, it just seems like too much of a coincidence that it would not be a lab leak. A novel coronavirus pandemic just happens to start right near a lab with documented safety lapses that happens to study novel coronaviruses.
The also seem to have an odd relationship to the US government, to the point where they sometimes come over as a half-public entity. (See the domain seizure and other anti-cybercrime operations where the FBI and DHS were very openly cooperating with MS, even though MS had no direct involvement in the cases)

Maybe they just think of them selves as part of the government already and believe they are too big to fail...
> The total number of excess deaths in 47 countries of the Western World was 3 098 456 from 1 January 2020 until 31 December 2022.

Hmm, would have been better to talk about lost quality adjusted life years, because someone old and frail dying 3 months earlier than expected vs someone previously healthy dying are two very different things.
A lot of these "blockers" are, to put it bluntly, merely excuses.

Like ggp here didn't mention why he thinks ThrottleStop and MSI Afterburner are a must for him but but I doubt that they are truly irreplacable. More likely they provide some non-essential utility which would make this more about tradeoffs, or about just taking the plunge to feel the grass on the other side of the fence with your own feet.
It is incredibly important to make the life of decision makers from the covid times as unpleasant as possible in order to reduce the chance of a repeat when the next pandemic comes.
> Maybe check out the side effects of MRNA vaccines.

Too busy to read it yourself? The summary is not long. After that, maybe check out the possible consequences of a Covid infection, Wikipedia is a good start.
Modern hash table implementations use vector instructions for lookups:

- Folly: https://github.com/facebook/folly/blob/main/folly/container/...

- Abseil: https://abseil.io/about/design/swisstables
>One of the great things about LOTR is the ring is ascribed various powers, and then the consequences of that play out. The rules within its world are consistent.

LOTR has not one but three people rescued in the nick of time by enormous flying eagles that can talk. That's technically all fine within the rules of the universe, but it hardly seems any less of a stretch than flying cars in Harry Potter.
such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_Buffers ?
The economy of the orcs and Mordor was more interesting to me for some reason when reading the books.

One can easily imagine the good guys having functioning societies but the bad ones we expect disorder.
> That in itself is strongly anti-democratic behavior [...]

Not sure what this has to do with democracy? Seems more like a rule of law issue?
That's awesome. When I roll with kids I'm always amazed how quickly they learn. Kids and many women also have a unique advantage that their forearms are basically just the bone and make for a pretty great choking tool lol...

It's really great to see adults and their kids at the gym, especially when I've watched them grow up over the years. Only suggestion I would make is for you to start training now. Even if it's just a couple of times/week, 8 years is a lot of training time. My only regret with jits is I didn't start training sooner.

If you have room, you can also buy some mats for the house and practice 1:1 with your kid.
I wish I could, as a candidate, ask leetcode-style questions to my interviewers, too. If I am to work with them, they should prove to me that they can pass them, right?

Interviewers tend to forget that they are in a dominant position: they have nothing to lose, they are the ones who take the decision, and they are the ones who chose the questions. I have been in such interviews where I completely failed, but where I am absolutely certain that I could have made the interviewer fail as well were the roles inverted. It feels a bit hypocritical to fail someone who did not actually do worse than you would have done...
> You cannot categorically claim that LC tests are largely memorization tests rather than raw problem-solving skills.

Sure I can. By the time you get to Leetcode hard, these aren't just "can you derive the answer". The questions by design take 45+ minutes and have some weird quirk in it that is nominally related to the core concept being tested. These aren't necessarily meant to be done on the fly during an interview period.

>Not being able to see up the mountain doesn’t imply there are no climbers above you.

a better analogy is that youre on a road and you see a freeway above you. The people above you aren't "better", they are simply on another road, to another destination. But they aren't necessarily worse either. They could be on their way to a dead end job or could be a billionaire CEO.

That is to say, it's useless comparing yourself to other people you don't know. Everyone has their story.
When I ask people to code FizzBuzz I:

- give them ~30 minutes on their own machine
- they get to pick the language they code in
- I leave the room for large parts of it
- I bring them a drink
- I tell them I want to see what they can do and that I don't care if they complete it
- permit them to search on the internet (as long as they don't copy/paste a solution)

I see this usually:

- they finish in a few minutes
- they just can't do it, even with hints
The part re excess mortality due to non-covid causes means Fauci killed lots of people. Even if he had saved more from covid (he had not), it would not change the fact that his policies killed many who would not have died otherwise.
In Crimea, Ukraine is beating Russia
> What in the article is underhanded? Worst case, he has undisclosed conflicts of interest.

undisclosed = underhanded

> Does Altman have a Trump-like wake of ruined careers and lost riches among former allies? Everyone he's been close to seems to have done well from it.

I'm not talking about Trump, and I don't think Trump should be a reference for what is or isn't acceptable.
>and let the Pro version just be an actual tool to use hardware.

Pro has Group Policy, among which is an option to block Microsoft account logins at the OS level. It kind of breaks Microsoft 365 subscriptions if you need Office 365, but that's obvious.

Other Group Policies include ones to turn off Windows Autoupdates, block OneDrive, block Copilot, and more.
So here's each vendor's first CPU on TSMC 5nm. This is actually the only process they've both used, and AMD only used it for a couple of models -- they tend to use all the ones Apple doesn't (7nm, 6nm, 4nm vs. 5nm and 3nm), which makes direct comparisons rare. But this is one:

https://nanoreview.net/en/cpu-compare/apple-m1-ultra-vs-amd-...

They both have a similar TDP, a similar number of cores and the performance on most tests is similar or better for the 7945HX3D.
They've always followed the buzzword. It was mobile, then cloud, then VR, then blockchain, now AI.
Yes, but how can I long-term keep it organised and handy after a notebook is complete?
> “if you know how to problem solve you will always pass.”

See, this is true eventually. But it's _definitely_ not true in 45 minutes.
A list + links would be much appreciated!
Two reasons I can think of to force the creation of a MS account is to

a) make it easier to get started using MS products (e.g. Office), since you don't need to go through the hassle of creating an account; it just works and

b) once (almost) everyone has a MS account, using MS oauth may become the default login mechanism for many third party services (although Google is already starting to take up this space).
I'd like the record to show that the upgraded mobile apps are significantly worse than the old ones. The old ones are currently still available to download, for now.
Myocarditis seems to be the one you refer to?

Conclusions Regarding mRNA-1273

Conclusion 3-2: The evidence favors rejection of a causal relationship between the mRNA-1273 vaccine and Guillain-Barré syndrome.
Conclusion 3-10: The evidence favors rejection of a causal relationship between the mRNA-1273 vaccine and Bell's palsy.
Conclusion 5-2: The evidence favors rejection of a causal relationship between the mRNA-1273 vaccine and thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome.
Conclusion 6-2: The evidence favors rejection of a causal relationship between the mRNA vaccine and myocardial infarction.
Conclusion 7-2: *The evidence establishes a causal relationship between the mRNA-1273 vaccine and myocarditis*.
Conclusion 9-2: The evidence favors rejection of a causal relationship between the mRNA-1273 vaccine and female infertility.
For all other possible harms studied, the conclusion was that the evidence was inadequate to accept or reject a causal relationship with the mRNA-1273 vaccine.

At the same time for the myocarditis analysis it seems most other vaccines couldn't have evidence for or against it having a causal relationship:

BOX 7-1
Conclusions for Myocarditis and Pericarditis
Conclusion 7-1: The evidence establishes a causal relationship between the BNT1622 vaccine and myocarditis.
Conclusion 7-2: The evidence establishes a causal relationship between the mRNA-1273 vaccine and myocarditis.
Conclusion 7-3: The evidence is inadequate to accept or reject a causal relationship between the Ad26.COV2.S vaccine and myocarditis.
Conclusion 7-4: The evidence is inadequate to accept or reject a causal relationship between the NVX-CoV2373 vaccine and myocarditis.
Conclusion 7-5: The evidence is inadequate to accept or reject a causal relationship between the BNT162b2 vaccine and pericarditis without myocarditis.
Conclusion 7-6: The evidence is inadequate to accept or reject a causal relationship between the mRNA-1273 vaccine and pericarditis without myocarditis.
Conclusion 7-7: The evidence is inadequate to accept or reject a causal relationship between the Ad26.COV2.S vaccine and pericarditis without myocarditis.
Conclusion 7-8: The evidence is inadequate to accept or reject a causal relationship between the NVX-CoV2373 vaccine and pericarditis without myocarditis.
Following that logic, I suspect 90% of congress should be executed for one law or another that they voted for.
But isn’t that why we have things like CUDA? Who exactly is “we” here, people who only have access to CPU’s? :)
Organ harvesting in Chinese prisons is a real thing that happened (state even acknowledged it), but to what extent and until when is unclear. The probably most comprehensive write-up on the issue is by the China Tribunal, but I wouldn't take their words ar face value, since all the authors are falun gong associated or have a vested interest in making China look bad. If you're interested in the topic, read the report, it contains a lot of circumstantial evidence and conjectures. Nothing that would hold up in a court of law, but imo. At least raises a number of questions surrounding Chinese claims on the issue.

The Falun Gong claim that their organs were targeted because they are "purer" sounds like straight up bullshit to me. Horrible as they may be, the CCP is very materialistic and doesn't put much stake in spiritual bullshit.

Falun Gong itself was both a cult and a spiritual movement, with at its peak close to 100 million practitioners in China. Since the harsh crackdown in the 90s, mostly the cult side is left, and they are dangerous loonies.
They just fixed bug I guess...

Unless "OOBE\BYPASSNRO" still works I don't have any problem with that
I see the mental health issue.