skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The identity side has allways been a problem (P)politically and technically.

I think the original GDS was completely correct in basically forcing services not to have them, they are unnecessary for almost/all transactional inerteractions - where they are useful is for things with long term, cosistent interactions i.e. where theres an actual relationship, such as benefits or tax - unfortunatly HMRC and DWP both want to "own" the relationship as individual departments (or even benefits) rather than as a part of the government, and the UK is adverse to anything that looks like a national identity system (ignoring the fact we already have national insurance numbers for everyone(?), passport numbers, etc.)

Where I think the loss of critical thinking bites the most though are the small things:

- cookie banner on gov.uk

- my DVLA password, had to have numbers etc (despite password compostion rules not been a recommeneded best practice for almost 10 years [thanks NIST / GCHQ])

- forms are now so simple due to the mantra of "only ask one thing at a time" that you lose all context as you now have a page for "name", "date of birth" etc. instead of one page for "personal details"
It's an issue of supply-chains and gap in the market. I can't buy a generally competitive Linux Mint (or anything similar) device in a shop anywhere in my country as far as I know. Whereas existing vocal demand are generally tinkerer types who often want the opposite of what we actually need. So I can see why it's a difficult market to bootstrap. Meanwhile, incumbent hardware vendors have competence and interest elsewhere and are probably getting decent incentives from Microsoft...

Valve's been bringing eberyone forward. I wish System76 et al to keep on their optimistic trajectory, for what that's worth. And Framework would be in a great position to spin out a dist or just offer a community install (fingers crossed Manjaro don't get them loljk).
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They are trying so hard to de-evolve Windows into iOS and android.
I'm not sure if this is on the table even theoretically, as history shows that all those qualities correlate positively with technological advancement.

I'm probably biased heavily by modern upbringing, but "simpler life" sounds like a lot of mind-dumbing boredom, mixed with suffering and hard work, and defined by people dying young from trivial ailments we don't even consider dangerous today.
You may look into Framework laptops.
Time to rewatch all the TOS episodes where Captain Kirk turns off the AI/mainframe.
Sometimes I read the latest news from my adoptive industry and truly ponder the probability that we have been reincarnated in another world's hell.
> I just put it in bridge mode, disable wifi, and all network functionality is served by my own devices.

Same. Somehow I got them to install a simple modem, one without all of the router and access point features. I thought those single purpose devices didn't exist anymore.

Bought a relatively good router, installed OpenWRT on it then bridged it to the ISP's network via their equipment. It's working well. I even have HTTPS in my LAN now.
Now embed that tool in all my other tools so I can human-read the binary format without thinking twice and then we can chat.
Let's be honest here, the something is 99% drivers. It was printers, then it was wifi, now it's gpus. DNNs and LLMs at least made the compute part of the gpu driver Linux-native (from the vendors' perspective), one would hope the graphics part of the graphics processor would come next, but alas making big iron do work is done from macos and windows laptops.
realistically we're looking for much higher (sub 1%) cognitive ability. I understand this is highly sought after, so we incentivize by paying a few times what FAANG does locally.

I was genuinely wondering how OP preferred to be approached vis-a-vis this sort of assessment, since they suggested that they would walk out on conventional approaches. I mentioned cognitive ability and ability to learn as I feel those are harder to extrapolate from one's existing publications/contributions/take-home assessments, compared to in-person discussion(s).
That paper is extremely weak. Look at the confidence intervals surrounding the hazard ratios. There is almost no effect for paracetamol and the difference between paracetamol and ibuprofen is negligible. If this is the evidence, I’m not concerned.
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Money hidden by tax evasion is the deadest of all money. It literally doesn't get moved around, invested or reinvested, because that would trigger taxable events and get the IRS after your ass.
Morals are subjective and a function of time.

Just because you don't see it as equivalent, doesn't mean others don't
Nowadays robotics is about throwing stuff (including ROS, necessarily) in docker containers and running them on an Ubuntu 24.04 onboard the robot, and then adding GPUs and say "so that we can do AI in the future", right?

At least that's my experience :-).
Intel themselves claim 45 TOPS (IPC isn't a thing in NPUs) coming from their NPU. AMD didn't reveal the chip total of the new Ryzen series, but their NPU gets 50 TOPS. The only reason Intel's numbers are so much higher ("120 TOPS!") is that Intel included their chip total (what the GP dies can achieve, but at far lower power efficiency) with the NPU numbers, AMD doesn't include this. Presumably their GP cores would be able to achieve similar numbers.

Given that AMDs NPUs were already ~78% more power efficient than Intel's and both are claiming ~50% power efficiency increases, I'm not sure why there would be a big upset here.

Not really defending AMD here, but they have been investing hard into NPUs for about four-five generations now, while Intel only really hopped on the bandwagon last generation. Unless you just believe Intel has the best engineers in the world, period; there's no reason to believe they would close the gap that quickly.
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> What are “crime proceeds”?

Typically any proceed from a crime. In the simplest case, if someone stole money from someone, the money stolen is proceeds from the crime. Similar is if someone stole property and sold it, the money is the proceed. Same with selling illegal drugs, or money received from extortion or bribery. Like you said, regardless of the crime the money needs to be laundered.
>I still can't imagine how they managed to make a context menu open in almost a full second

They did make everything slower than it used to be when it comes to new UI elements, but the context menu can also be slowed down by third parties.

On my machine, the primary cause was the shortcut to AMD radeon settings.
You can remove it with this powershell command :

Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers AdvancedMicroDevicesInc-RSXCM | Remove-AppxPackage -AllUsers

It was a major pain to find how to disable this thing. In fact, if you google "AdvancedMicroDevicesInc-RSXCM" (with the quotes, to get a verbatim search) you won't find more than a handful of results talking about its existence.

It doesn't uninstall the settings panel itself, just the shortcut. Yes, the context menu shortcut is a standalone app package of its own. It's crazy.

After uninstalling this AMD crap the context menu went from taking a second to being almost instantaneous.

On other people's machines I've also remarked certain antivirus like Kaspersky causing major issues with 11's context menu performance.

I thought the new context menu was all about fixing the mistakes of the previous ones when it came to the nasty things people can do in extending explorer.exe but seeing the behavior of those new third party additions to the menu, I guess not.
Oh ferfuxxake, please stop it with the Valley Girl talk.

lol hahaha!
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This may not fulfill your needs in the way that MSI Afterburner and ThrottleStop do, however I would recommend checking out MangoHUD and cpufrequtils respectively for similar (but perhaps not identical) behaviour.
Fortunately I think we're good here given how MS org chart[0] looks like.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/XLuaF0h.png
Is that based on your personal interpretation of the facts, or do you think there is part of this study that proves that?
The only thing I can praise is the .NET Core ecosystem. C#, ASP.NET and EF is very comfy for web dev compared to my experiences with Java and its thousand moving parts.

That said, I still fear what may come. The decrees from on high concocted by the unscrupulous bugmen that are breathing absolute contempt for their users. Who can ponder their designs while maintaining his conscience?
You don’t really need ThrottleStop if you go into your bios, turn off Turboboost and/or powerlimit your CPU.

If your laptop bios doesn’t allow that, look for a “quiet” setting in the bios. This changes the PL1/PL2 to 35w/65w down from 85w/60w.

With the NVK driver steadily improving, it feels like it is only a matter of time before something similar to Corectrl is written for Nvidia. I realize GreenWithEnvy exists, but it’s never worked well for me.
I have a Samsung phone and while I'm allowed not to have a Samsung account, it's pretty pushy(pun intended) about it. There's an eternal notification active that tells me to add one. If I dismiss it, it reappears, either instantly or within a couple minutes. It can be snoozed, but the option to mute it indefinitely is greyed out in the notification manager. The app responsible can't be disabled or uninstalled. I can kill it, but then it's promptly restarted. Currently it has used 2% of the battery since the last charge.

I don't even know what a Samsung account is for, but I don't care. Clearly I don't need one because the phone is fine otherwise.
it looks like a layer of sugar over PySpark

seems to be Spark-only AFAICT?
it's good but the constant use of "super" was a little off-putting, "super curious", "super interesting", "super interested", etc.
lol most users will swallow anything microsoft gives them
> the entire slump in the laptop segment is driven by the fact that Windows is just utterly user-hostile garbage

Partially true, but I wouldn't rule out the marketing driven belief that cellphones are just like smaller laptops, which is utter BS.

Regarding Linux, I've installed Manjaro on some laptops and desktops for non techies, even seniors, and all of them (but one due to incompatibility with a proprietary Windows app) kept using it without any issues. I'm more a Debian user, also liking Alpine a lot on small systems and servers, but found Manjaro to be quite good for laptops and desktops that need to just work without fiddling too much with the command line.
I fully agree. There is no choice. People need to be on a certain income bracket to own macs. On a certain tech literacy level to own Linux laptops. So They've all been born and grew up on Windows. Recently I setup a recently purchased windows laptop.

Cleared all the crap, did not have the energy to work around online accounts, so setup one. All working. Great! 6 months later, Genuine Windows warning shows up on desktop, windows keeps asking to add product key. We never received one.

All the guides to retrieve it fail. I gave up, wiped the machine, installed Linux but had to give the person another windows laptop bc they had no idea how ot use Linux desktop.

Currently, my brother wants my help setting up some apps on his windows (he's an architect, so you know the heavy CAD stuff). I'm running away from him like the plague...managed to avoid him for 2 months, wonder how long I can last til he corners me.
I've been watching EuroMoMo¹ since early 2020² and it's done a great job visualizing the stats. Especially if you break it down by countries and age groups.

¹ European Mortality Monitor: https://euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps

² Blog post from Jan 29 2020: https://romanabashin.com/coronavirus-2020-outbreak/
Just bought these two books… I’ve been collecting early works in AI. These are early!
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A used Thinkpad.
(or any other used non-consumer grade laptop)

Most companies either rent their laptops or somehow sell them after a couple of years. They are usually in good condition and often the reseller gives you 1-2 years of warranty.
I've bought a used X250 for <300€ a couple of years ago and I could not be much happier. Of course, the specs could be a bit better, but for most of my tasks (HW + embedded Linux dev) it's sufficient. For everything else i can spin up some beefy server somewhere in a couple of minutes.
And since the hardware is on the market for quite some time, driver issues are mostly resolved.

Bonus: used Docking stations and spare power supplies are cheap and the battery can be hot-swapped.

Bonus2: since it's already slightly beaten down, making another scratch doesn't hurt as much as if it would've been a shiny new macbook.

edit: I think the official term is "refurbished". I can't see myself ever buying a new device again.
Yeah. Only MS knows the actual impact of their decisions.

The fact that they are removing a workaround says that it doesn't impact them much i.e. their actual users don't care.

Despite all these shenanigans, their regular users will be oblivious to the harm and power users will still grudgingly use it.
Except for the sexy ones, he tries to turn those on.
You probably deserved it.
Maybe a really tiny LLM? Like this? https://huggingface.co/openbmb/MiniCPM-Llama3-V-2_5-gguf/blo...

[Edit: just checked Reddit and it's apparently a 3B model (phi 2)]

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1bpw9c7/running...
That's how I installed Windows on one those mini PCs you can get from Amazon for $150. The trick, which required no fake account, came in the computer instructions.

Additionally have in mind you can create a random account for free for each computer you buy. That's what I do for my TVs when using YouTube.
An almost zero information content headline.
This is how Microsoft is fighting piracy: "So you want to use our software and not pay for it, huh? Fine, but in return we need your personal data and behaviour, and we will show you unwanted ads in the Start menu and other places. Deal?"
> I'm sure anyone determined to do so can act unfairly regardless of what process is in place, but the fact that there is a standardized test in my mind does the opposite and makes the process much fairer.

This is what privilege looks like. The inability to see barriers that affect others in a worse position.

Standards do not imply fairness only consistency.

You got a test that filters out people who lack the time to train for these tests. Basically, devs with a life (see family)
> I've always learned that there are sound components and meaning components

The Shuowen indeed already mentions sounds. But the fact that there are sound components isn't contradictory with them being also semantic.

> I don't think we need to look too much about what ancient scholars thought about characters

Let's say that I enjoy the study of ancient thought processes, and that some of it seems to be recorded in etymology & the like.

> were not trained to do science

I believe their approaches were different, more "naive" perhaps, which might be the source of confusion. Let me give you and example where we currently fall short, and where they did not.

Consider political organisation: from Plato (The Republic) we knew that they studied the way one political system changes to another, and studied the causes of this evolution. Yet, the overwhelming majority of contemporary people have been "in-doctrinated" to think that democracy is paramount.

Not only are we disregarding history and previous data, but most businesses, where we all spend a considerable amount of time, for subsistence, are fundamentally non-democratic: we're also severely inconsistent.

Perhaps ancient Greeks didn't had modern means (e.g. peer-reviewed papers, social "sciences"), but they nevertheless captured the jest of it, while we're essentially not.
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So that means they fixed SMB folder shares with Microsoft accounts, right?
No pricing and a "Try now" that send to a signup. Not a great service, wouldn't recommend.
Paywalled so I guess I'll never know, but in spite of the scary sounding name the associated press release says the following:

“Despite a large body of evidence from extraordinary efforts by investigators around the world, our committee found that in many cases, if not most, evidence was insufficient to accept or reject causality for a particular potential harm from a specific COVID-19 vaccine,” said committee vice chair Anne Bass, professor of clinical medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, and a rheumatologist at the Hospital for Special Surgery and New York Presbyterian Hospital. “In other cases, we did find sufficient evidence to favor rejection, favor acceptance, or establish causality. It is important to note, however, that identifying a harm does not mean that it occurs frequently. Harms associated with vaccines are rare.”
no.

I wanted to say Eastern, as I have examples from both Asia and East Europe.

I wished to not be more specific so as to not derail the discussion into "user kidintech implied that nation X has a tendency to cheat".
As a non-US-citizen my understanding of this is limited, but I see very little fact-based criticism and instead personal attacks and calls to "jail him" without even a clear case.

That in itself is strongly anti-democratic behavior that I would be extremely hesitant to support even if there was a strong factual foundation to the accusations (which I can't see so far).

Which aspect of this report makes you confident that MTG is "right"?
What exactly should Fauci be imprisoned for?
15 years ago, that was Photoshop that kept me back. I switched to macOS a couple of years later. Now, I switched to Linux, ditching Photoshop. So far so good. I can stand the life without Photoshop, but tolerating macOS or Windows is above me.
The reasoning is Microsoft is now in the services (as well as advertising) business, with traditionally-licensed desktop software revenue becoming less and less important. Which you kinda stated in the last sentence.

The reasoning for not going all in on privacy is because they want to maximise services and advertising revenue, and they also sell to government and enterprise who actually like the ability to spy on their employees. There's not much financial incentive or government regulation to make them focus on consumer/end-user privacy.
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> It seems that Microsoft is aiming to make the use of Windows 11 dependent on a Microsoft account. In combination with the increased calls for Windows users to finally switch to Windows 11, this appears to be a controversial combination.

I want to see if they really manage to force several millions of users out of the blue to make a MS account, against the explicit will of those users.
>because there’s only a handful of companies that pay well

If this was just FAANG I wouldn't even mind it. Bigger compensation means bigger hoops to jump through, artificial or otherwise. At least those bigger companies come with interview guides.

But I've been dropped Leetcode mediums on some Unity game dev jobs barely paying 40/hr with minimal benefits. Game interviews already have an absurd number of topics to try and guess you'll be quizzed on. (last interview wanted low level C memory/bit manipulation question... the one before that did Unreal Engine trivia... then the one before that decided to give me vector math and ray intersection questions), adding in random string manipulation questions when you will barely use more than concatenation on the job doesn't help with studying.
Looking at that study for Pfizer and Moderna it's a slightly increased risk of myocarditis and shoulder injury at the site of injection. That's it. All other side effects they either didn't have enough evidence for or found that the evidence explicitly rejects a causal relationship.
Not my experience at all. Ask a bootcamper a slight variation on a problem they're clearly doing from memory and they fold. Ask a solid CS person, and they usually get intrigued, and dive right in.
Remote work eliminates commutes, is better for the environment and employees, and gives greater flexibility in housing options. I hope employers will embrace remote work more once the baby boomer generation retires.
Such interviews are made to legally discriminate against old developers.

A freshly graduate student has more chance to still know this or that algorithm, and prepare for that.

An old/experienced developer has dealt with plenty of real world complex problems. So much that his attention is absorbed by them, not by what is the best way to search for an element in a tree.
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How? I thought this was a solved problem. I've been using arandr for a decade.
I’ve used it for coloring alternating lines differently in UI code, and as a lazy way to log only every so many times some loop runs.

I only know it well because it was covered near the beginning of one of the first programming books I picked up (on Perl 5) and it stuck with me because it seemed wild to me that they had an operator for that.
No it isn't. It is allowing microsoft the only authority to allow you to run software of your choice on your own hardware.
Now that I've started getting Windows 10 EOL Notifications (on aging 2017 hardware), I'll be needing to upgrade to a new Desktop + OS soon.

No idea what my next Desktop OS is going to be but definitely don't want ads/spyware in a progressively user hostile OS so it will be the first time where I wont be using Windows as my primary OS. I've been using macOS on my macbooks and deploy exclusively to Linux servers so either OS will be a viable alternative.

It will come down to whether Apple can ship compelling M4 H/W at this years WWDC, if they don't I'll be switching to a Linux Desktop OS where it will finally be the year of the Linux Desktop!
> but I really don't see any reason for forcing a Microsoft account.

Microsoft has ties with many governments. I wouldn't be much surprised if the reason they amass user data had nothing to do with selling that data to companies.
I wonder how much work it is to check if Windows was installed with an account and terminate the program in that case.