skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “Local authorities know that if someone asks to be registered on a fictitious street, it’s almost always going to be a person who needs social help,” explains Minardi. “They’re worried that this person will be an excessive burden on the town budget.”

> As soon as someone asks an Italian town to be registered on a via fittizia, that town is legally obliged to create one...

I assumed the purpose of this workaround was to provide accurate population numbers to the national government, who would then provide funding for services based on how many people actually needed them.

If that's true, I don't see the advantage to the city in blocking homeless or itinerant people from registering.

If that's false—for example, if no money trickles down to the city level based on population—then why legally require cities to create these fictional streets in the first place?

It may be a requirement without corresponding support. That's certainly a possibility. But it's confusing to me without clarification. It's easy to speculate, but I'd love an authoritative answer.
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It’s certainly (?) legal to implement an emulator for a given instruction set. I’m not sure how implementing a CPU in hardware would be different.

What clearly is subject to copyright is the documentation describing the instruction set and its semantics.
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> And there are others that I missed

For instance, the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, where the German Empire you seem to idolize was effectively born. Also the same war that gave the German Empire a degree of overconfidence about their chances against France.

> however had Britain remained neutral and not created alliances that it knew would put it in conflict with Germany is it possible that the Germany vs. Russia conflict might have remained a regional war (like others I mentioned above)

Did Britain create the alliance between France and Russia? They certainly weren't a party to it, because that wasn't their casus belli for entering the war. Their casus belli was the German invasion of Belgium. My contention is that if Britain was less neutral and more proactive about creating alliances that could put it in conflict with Germany, they could have successfully deterred the First World War.
> Considering that Japan and Korea do just fine is proof that youre arguing with a straw man.

Not sure about Japan, but anybody who thinks Korea is doing "just fine" has not been following Korean news. Daycares are closing left and right because there aren't enough kids. Now it's moving up to secondary schools. Soon it will be cafes and restaurants as there aren't enough customers. Then the whole economy will crumble down.

Technology doesn't help when there aren't enough people buying your product and services.
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It comes with full OpenAI-compatible API that runs directly with Python, iOS, Android, browsers. Supporting deploying latest large language models such as Qwen2, Phi3, and more.
Saying that somebody has a damaged reputation.
This is a lot of imagined complexity that's been resolved in other countries by simply adopting gender-neutral restrooms.
> It is puzzling to me that so many people seem to think this concept has no value. To me the concept is obviously good and something I have wanted for a long time.

The issue is not that the concept has no value. The issue is that the risks and drawbacks are so severe, that they override any value the concept would have.

It's like asbestos, or leaded fuel; these have several useful properties, but their drawbacks are bad enough that they have been banned in many places.
I'm perplexed that anybody thinks Microsoft were being dumb. They know exactly what they are doing and putting the pieces in place to violate users' security is the point.

Theyre just boiling the frog slowly. It'll be turned on by default soon enough and then theyll start looking for excuses to upload it.

This can be used to make them a shedload of money one day.
> I'm aware that other OSes exist, but I happen to hate Windows least on the whole :/

Have you given Linux a try? Unless you have an Nvidia card or an Adobe workflow; it is usually good. The Nvidia issue may go away in a year.
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That's wild and crazy, though understand where they are coming from. That is, there is so much that can go wrong without restrictions around elections. And so they are putting a blanket band, they could go in an manually add exceptions for things like this, but then people may find work arounds through those exceptions or more likely, people will say why does it allow X but not the endless "Y"s they didn't think about manually excluding or getting called bias for excluded A but not B. Hopefully next election that have something more nuanced.
What are waves? Just loops over time :D
What’s funny to me in all of this is I’m pretty sure regular windows search is still really bad and I haven’t heard them mention the feature “search for a file on your pc you know exists”.
I don't think this attempts to address botnet attacks, but to be fair, there are very few tools that you can just run on a single physical or VPS host that can effectively defend against a botnet. Frankly, most things that aren't Cloudflare (or in the same ballpark) will be ineffective against well-crafted botnet attacks.

This is useful in a defence-in-depth scenario, same as fail2ban. You might be able to defeat the odd hacker or researcher doing recon on your host, and sometimes that's good enough for you.

If you need botnet protection, you shop around for botnet protection providers, and you get a botnet protection solution. Easy as.
It's how it's always been, always.

Many here may be too young to remember when many consumer products came with a "product registration" card. This was basically a postcard that asked for all sorts of information, such as your name, address, phone number, birthdate, sex, SSN, marital status, annual income, interests, other products owned, whether you own or rent your home, etc.

People willingly filled these out and sent them in. All the info went into databases that were merged with other sources and traded around various marketing agencies on 9-track tape reels. Advertisers could get mailing lists segmented by age, sex, income level, geographical region or specific zip codes, etc. for their campaigns.

It's all much more pervasive and invisible now, but it's basically what has always been done.
I tried Codespaces but one day my internet connection was bad and I couldn't do any work. I've switched back to local dev
I'm glad that it's shining a light on the reality of Windows 11 as a subscription and data collecting vehicle.

If you still hate Windows least, that's almost certainly because it's what you know best. I work with Windows, Linux, and OSX on a daily basis and Windows is easily the most user-hostile of the three.

Edit: All you know -> What you know best
That people will generalize is something that HP should consider when they "comingle" their various divisions.
Abolishing landfills? What exactly would this do?

There's an ungodly amount of free space on earth. Drive outside a major city sometime.

Preventing people from dumping on unused land in order to reduce emissions seems ... ridiculous?
I don’t think you’re being imaginative enough.

People break USB ports all of the time, and ruin DisplayPort ports because they’re a locking connector.

Also, USB-C. The combination of video, power and data transfer that any laptop supports is up to the manufacturer, so it’ll fit but will it do what you need?
You really struggle with the fact that other people disagree with you, don't you?
>I'm aware that other OSes exist, but I happen to hate Windows least on the whole :/

Would you like to share what you like about windows that you don't have on other operating systems, or what puts you off about other OSes? Not trying to be passive aggressive, just curious
Listen mortician! I just thought the toaster wanted to be friendly.
Physicists are not in the book-selling business to at least three significant figures.
If you want an example of the discrimination men experience with regards to sacrifice and expendability, see articles like this.

Thousands of men died and over 150000 risked their lives (a fair number against their will as military aged men were being drafted at the time).

80 years later, we get a whole article dedicated to one non-combatant female journalist.
not sure if this counts as ML engineering, but I support all the infra around the ML models: caching, scaling, queues, decision trees, rules engines, etc.
Ok awesome suggestions.

I got set on SteamOS as i was contemplating buying an SBC with similar hardware and giving it a custom case.

But this looks better!
It's not clear to me how you would even go about a break up of Nvidia. They're almost unique in their success. With any other large company - Microsoft, Apple, Meta all have distinct segments of their business. Meta actually spent a huge amount of effort trying to embed their separate products in each other to avoid exactly that threat. With Nvidia, what would you even separate? They don't do the fabrication, all they do is designs and then variations on those designs for market segments. Are you going to break up their design team? I don't think it makes sense.
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What do you mean about NVIDIA? I find their drivers have become pretty good. Especially so if you're using them with containers.
Waves on what?
> Without formal education you’re almost certainly not even dealing with concepts like breadth-first search, trees, or nodes, so no, a ton of people will not be inventing it on the spot.

If you're not dealing with nodes, you won't be inventing A* on the spot because you don't have a problem to which it can be applied.

But otherwise, it's literally a breadth-first search with the queue replaced by a priority queue.

> Even using a queue, that’s a data structure that a person with a task to do isn’t likely to spend the time to invent on the spot.

A to-do list is as simple as data structures get.

A heap is complex, but if you want to insist on developing everything used by the algorithm from scratch, the person faced with this problem is likely to just use a sorted list.

Try it out. Ask some people how they'd find the shortest path between two points through a weighted graph (use whatever terminology you want); see what they say.
A Skynet mode. It doesn't have to be very complicated or any more intelligent than ChatGPT already is, just give it a webhook or two linked to some nuclear missile silos or something. Maybe a GPTs with some custom actions provided by the DoD.

Just make sure it doesn’t do that time traveling robot terminator thing after we’re gone. I don’t consent to having my timelines messed with unless it’s a multiverse destroying grandfather paradox.
Don’t do it, I stopped using Twitter because of this friction
As I said in my other comment. Statistical models generate output with constant time/energy. So for any input y, and any output x, the computation is constant time. eg., generating any 100 tokens of output takes the same time as any other.

If you reflect on that carefully, you'll note the only way this is possible is if the algorithm does not use any semantic features of the input. Indeed, if it has no relevant capacities at all.

Consider e.g., the prompt, "imagine a world where..., and then infer..., and then what would be... ?" for various "..." we can choose, the output ought take arbitrarily longer to compute; but its constant.

For any word: imagine, reason, suppose, simulate, believe, remember... denoting any alleged mental operation, we can trivially construct cases where actually performing this operation would take more or less time.

"Given premises A, B, C, D,...; infer conclusion..." has a prompt reply which is constant in time regardless of how many premises we input. "Recall memories A, B,C,.." likewise.

The only way that answering "yes" to a question, say, regardless of what that question is, taking the same time/energy/etc. to answer.. would be if no semantic feature of that question was being used in its answering.

This is an LLM, it's all statistical AI: the number of operations performed per prediction is constant for all predictions. Almost no alleged capacities are consistent with this fact.
I just got a RealID myself a couple weeks ago. I did not have to prove anything about my SSN. I gave them a copy of my birth certificate, my old driver's license, and a piece of mail delivered to me at my home address. That's all.

The only thing on that list that takes any effort to get is the birth certificate. And everyone really ought to keep a copy of their own anyway. Even before RealID we used birth certificates for ID at the DMV, so it is not a new requirement (for Oregon at least).
Not necessarily, you just might not build 100% of your eventual home immediately.

It used to be (i.e. prior to the postwar expansion of credit to the American consumer) pretty common to build a "starter home" that was intended to be expanded. You start with the basics (basement, kitchen, bathroom, bedroom) and expand modularly from there as your prosperity and needs allow.

In the midwest, they would start by building the foundation, basement, and a very modest first floor. As the family prospered, had children, and developed roots in the neighborhood, they'd expand the above-ground portion of the home in the summer months. You can find homes frozen at each stage of development from the pre-depression 1900s still around today, although they're of greater archaeological value today than housing stock value. A lot of present-day "colonial" housing stock in the Northeastern U.S. have evidence of this gradual accrual over the decades.

This idea of "build a whole mansion at once" was historically reserved for the truly wealthy, and has only been "practical" for a greater segment of society for the last 50 years (again, with the expansion of consumer credit, not because we can actually afford these things).

You could still choose to build things this older style. Our culture of "obtain everything all at once, immediately up to the limit of your purchasing power" is the main impediment. That, and building codes might frown on some earlier-phase iterations, though YMMV.
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on the contrary, i think a LOT of thought went into privacy and security. specifically, how to ignore and bypass it.
Ah I see. I guess that came across as criticizing your terminology, but it was more aimed at the general hype around those reverse-engineering articles, which seemed a bit over the top to me :)

Either way, I'm holding off on buying one of these PCs until some real-world info comes out (no one really has this capability yet, so it's all largely speculative).
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I also wrote a Swift CLI that wraps over the Vision framework: https://github.com/nexuist/seev

Text extraction is included (including the ability to specify custom words not found in the dictionary) but there are also utilities for face detection, classification, etc.
Seems reading comprehension isn't your strong suit. By definition, rape of any kind fails the "consenting adults" criterion pretty trivially. I draw the line exactly where I said I do, and the whole "the worst crimes I can think of justify the whole project of authoritarianism because it's simply a matter of degrees" line of reasoning is as puerile as it is unoriginal
Here's what Qualcomm is saying: https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/blog/2024/05/upstreaming-...

They claim they're all in on making Linux work seamlessly on the Snapdragon X. I'll leave it up to you on whether or not to believe them.
Which means you are filling them illegally…

Also not for nothing but a 10TB drive is about £225 here and that’s 200 BluRay movies.
Ask HN: Do you contribute tutorials to community writing programs?
Some popular tech companies have programs that invite developers to write tutorials for the company website. The most popular programs are by Digital Ocean and Twilio.

Write for DOnations (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/pages/write-for-digitalocean) by Digital Ocean invites developers to submit proposals for tutorials on a rolling basis and pays $400 (plus donation) per tutorial published on its Community site: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials

Developer Voices (https://www.twilio.com/en-us/voices) by Twilio invites developers to submit completed drafts for tutorials on a periodical basis and pays $650 per tutorial published on its Developer Blog: https://www.twilio.com/en-us/blog/developers

Other companies have similar programs: https://github.com/malgamves/CommunityWriterPrograms

Have you written for programs like this? If so, what has made it worth your while? If not, what would make it worth your while?
They should've left it disabled, and then "accidentally" enabled it, or nagged people into enabling it. I think it would've boiled the frog slower and been more successful.

Alternative cynical take: they needed to have a compelling story for press/launching the laptops they've been working with software/hardware partners on for years. They got to announce "Copilot+ PCs with Total^H^H^H^H^H Recall"! And now they get to walk it back enough controversy will die down and they can still do the first bit I mentioned. Hm.
Essentially, yes, that's how stupid law is in Spain. But if a third squatter would break in, they'd be safe. See eg https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.antena3.com/programas/espej...
The CIH virus? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIH_(computer_virus)
You have never heard of phishing?
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California will try absolutely anything to lower housing costs except building more. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-will-do-anything-to-en...
See my other comment in this thread, but I’d venture to say yes. Changing the efficiency of enforcement naturally will throw something else in the economy out of balance, particularly if the money spent to increase confidence-sniffing is not being well dispersed into the local economy.

If in the past you’d have to hire more local policemen, they’d need more police vans made, they’d need more uniforms made, more wear on police vans means more work for the mechanics, etc etc etc, now you just pay Protector Co. once for your new surveillance software. Now you haven’t dissuaded people from crime with good plentiful local jobs (as a gross oversimplification, but hopefully you can see this would still apply to a more realistically complex economy)
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I'd never heard of this, but it's in the article, too. I think the tech world would have looked very different if Estridge had taken over instead of Sculley.
In the past, I've used things with load-dependent (instead of temperature-dependent) fan speeds.

It can seem like it is a simpler method of control (why measure temperature if we don't have to?). But they were really very annoying to be around. It wasn't so bad with constant loads, but bursty dynamic loads created an audible cacophony that was very distracting.

Such a system also doesn't necessarily take into consideration other things that affect cooling performance, like ambient temperature and dust.

At least one of the problems (the annoying sounds) can theoretically be worked around by slowing down the rate at which a fan ramps up and down. But by the time that is done, fan speed is back to lagging again -- we're heading back to where we were before.

And then we still have variables like ambient temperature, dust, degraded thermal interfaces, and others to contend with.

So, the simpler method seems to be what we broadly already do today: We change fan speeds based on the temperature of the thing being cooled.

This temperature already has everything we need integrated to begin with: It includes thermal output, ambient temp, dust, old thermal goop, and everything else.

If thing is cool (for whatever reasons it is cool -- maybe it's idling in a shed in January in Minnesota), then: Fan can go slow or even turn off.

If thing is hot (for whatever reasons it is hot -- maybe it's doing real work in a shed in August in Minnesota and full of cat hair), then: Fan can go faster.
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Wait, what's wrong with Wordle's hard mode?
Brilliant. Thanks for posting. Actually quite a good metric for thinking about valuation, ie it’s 5x what it should be right now.
I certainly do not want to go back in time to a pre-industrial society. I do want to go _forward_ into a truly post industrial society though, and not simply hide the dirty industries into the poorer parts of the world.

But, the technology must be met with an ideological shift away from technological dependence. We need to create more environmental technology, and less representational technology - interfaces and screens.

The software revolution is yet to happen, that is what I aim for.
> as it would essentially hand the PC games market to SteamOS

... or they will just stop developing windows games and do only xbox/playstation games ...
Eh… unless you are subbing to every streaming service out there it’s not. A new BluRay release is circa £20-30, DVDs are cheaper and also get actual discounted.

When it gets really expensive is when you have kids at which point Disney+ which is £7.99 pays for itself in about a day.
In most cases these traces are shipped over the wire to a vendor. Only that will cost $$. Then, not all vendors have tail sampling as a "free" feature. So, in many cases it's better to not record at all.
Just delete the document.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerberos_(protocol)
I didn't know that, thanks for the info
How would these images look if each character was a pixel? Worse?
> So instead of looking, like the author of these new options, for ways to make life for the bad guys harder we do nothing?

The thing is, we have tools to implement this without changing sshd's behavior. `fail2ban` et. al. exist for a reason.
I've been running linux (ubuntu) for last 2 years, for the 3rd time in my life.

All I can say is:

Linux does just about everything more efficiently than Windows, but Windows does just about everything better than Linux. What makes Linux so great is also what keeps it perpetually at ~5% adoption.

I'm probably going to go back to Windows again soon. I'm just not interested in needing to learn a bespoke computer language to get the most of of my PC.
I thought most ML engineers use their laptops as dumb terminals and just remote into a Linux GPU server.
Oh fantastic!

Any way we could maybe just solve the second problem to get it done faster? Those poor fossil fuels companies are really hurting-- honestly that should be our priority. We can't have oil execs going hungry.

/s
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Probably monochrome for the very first prototype.
What is standard CL way to enforce these type conditions (apart from declaim)? Some spec library similar to the one Clojure has?
Also though https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.02427
No, its not. And if you think about the effect of the tax on supply and demand you’ll see why pretty quickly, I would think.
Is there a single place anywhere on Earth where it doesn't suck for somebody there?
There's also this classic blogpost: http://blog.sigfpe.com/2009/05/three-projections-of-doctor-f...
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Some, like Max Tegmark in his Mathematical Universe Hypothesis, suggest that mathematics may be all there is.