skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You didn't address my key criticism, maybe I didn't make it terribly clear. If I bought my friend a house, it was specifically for that person to live, not because I want to make a competing housing project or something. I don't think it maps because the intent is different; I am not a businessman, my goal isn't to make profits, this would have been purely an act of charity and yeah I would be annoyed if they burned down the house I gave him.

But maybe the main reason that it doesn't map is because your analogy involves a transaction between two people.

Organizations are not people. Let me repeat: organizations are not people. Businesses aren't people, charities aren't people, churches aren't people. A transaction from one organization to another organization is not the same as a transaction between me and a friend.

An organization is comprised of people but that's not the same thing. Most individual people have empathy, companies are sociopathic. Most people wouldn't kick their family member out of the house because they don't meet a "bottom line", but a company will do it without blinking.

As I said, Elon is a businessman and he has absolutely no excuse for not knowing this.
Is there a citation for this, or an announcement somewhere? The Wikipedia page was changed, but with no link backing it up, and I can't find any.

EDIT: ah, found it: http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/wordPressNEW/2024/06/11/lynn-c...

RIP.
I know about this from living in Lima (Peru), the weather due to our geological position is always temperate, goes from min temps of 11 degrees to like 32 in summer (top), usually around ~18/19 degrees up to like 23 throughout most of the year.

You'd think climate is great, but it's ALWAYS "foggy", you can't see a clear blue sky like in the inner regions of the country such as Cusco, it depresses you, I can't imagine it being even darker.

It's why I simply can't believe nordic "stories" about being the happiest place, I simply can't believe with all the money in the world you'd be happier than at a tropical beach with half of that money.
I've been using a AGM M8 Flip for months and I love it.
Hey! from the Dappier team here, which was quoted in this piece.

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He was talking about the covid vaccines when he said that, which never prevented infection or spread. That belief started from a misunderstanding of the press releases.

He either didn't know what he was talking about or was making it a moral thing without regard to effectiveness.
Summary:
A U.S. congressional committee, led by Republicans, has accused Wall Street firms of colluding with advocacy groups to pressure companies into reducing their greenhouse gas emissions, potentially violating antitrust laws. The committee's report, which is an interim one with the investigation still ongoing, focuses on Climate Action 100+, a group of over 700 investors aiming to curb emissions. The report alleges that the group bullies asset managers into joining and using their shareholder votes to support climate proposals, which could reduce fossil fuel extraction and raise energy prices. The committee has also criticized major asset managers like BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street as members of the "climate cartel." Several Wall Street firms have ended their membership in Climate Action 100+ this year due to fears of an antitrust crackdown. The committee's spokesperson has stated that the goal of the investigation is to inform legislative reforms, and it has called witnesses to appear at a public hearing in June.
I'd recommend getting a super cheap camera that can record yourself sleeping. You might have actually been asleep (according to this article).
Francois Chollet – LLMs won't lead to AGI $1M Prize to find true solution [video]
Source on flax seeds and soybeans being endocrine disruptors?
In general i see one very easy solution to this problem. People who want everyone else locked up for thoughtcrime can be locked up for threatening the human rights of their peers, and everyone else can move on with their lives. Your own standards getting applied to you is always fair.
As much as I do appreciate Elon's takes on a lot of things and some of his approaches. I don't think he would work out well for a corporation the size of Microsoft.

Microsoft is almost more of a conglomerate than a singular software (and hardware) company. It would take a solid leader who also appoints appropriate corporate heads in each division.

The marching orders for Windows seems to be "monetize home users." They don't "sell" the OS anymore on practical terms for home use... it's more about trying to sell adjacent services, shove Edge with built in consumerware plugins and nickel and diming every possible corner to each out a dollar or two a year per user.
... and the open-source clone (EmuTOS) has been widely ported since.
Do you want Quotation (estimated price)?
When a businessman or an indie developer deals with his/her customer, a quotation (estimated price) is often required. Even in most situations there's no response to it, and you get annoyed to write it by adjusting numbers again and again to different customers.

The question is, which I want to know its answer from you,
if a plugin/site/app helps you generate quotations using default templates, which let you take more time on real business/development, at the same time not ignore any chance to develop customers, will you use it?

Any other functions do you want this plugin/site/app provide? Will you pay for it?

Thanks.
They basically give away the whole OS for free as long as you're willing to deal with some nag text and customization settings being disabled. I think you can do the same customization with third party tools anyway though. It never locks you out of your computer for not paying, and in exchange they slurp up whatever data they're shipping off from you.
I think a lot of people might look at this kind of regulatory intervention and think it might be overstepping because of a lack of evidence. Like, are they acting prematurely? The answer is a definitive, no. Feasibility is irrelevant. It’s about scale. Once a substance is handled and consumed by no less than 100% of the population, with no viable way to replace these substances without a ton of work, it’s way too late.

There are legitimate scientific concerns that we are currently damaging the human gene pool.

Good regulations work well. It took a global effort to ban the CFCs that were destroying the ozone layer, and it’s completely repaired now.
This seems like a problem which has absolutely nothing to do with traffic.

If local governments fail at basic duties missing traffic lights are not the thing you should be worrying about.
Thanks! We've changed to that from https://www.cityoflondon.police.uk/news/city-of-london/news/... now.
The country lies north of the Northern Tropic, which means that it gets less sun in summer AND significantly less sun in winter.
I think the closest analogy is theocracies punishing blasphemous speech.
This is very similar to King games, which is also a Microsoft subsidiary (as part of Activision Blizzard). The sad part isn't that Microsoft is publishing a P2W Minesweeper, but that the little simple Minesweeper we used to love is now gone. Maybe they realized that anyone who likes Minesweeper can now download a free Minesweeper clone, something that wasn't necessarily the easy or even possible (depending on where you lived) in the pre-Internet days when the original Minesweeper was created.
NPUs are basically specialized for matrix multiplication, GPUs for more general parallel operations on multiple data (Single Instruction Multiple Thread) although modern GPUs also contain matrix multiplication units.

May be a degree of software compatibility at the highest level - eg PyTorch - but the underlying software will be very different.
I have been programming in my dreams, but I woke up and had to retype it all!
Japan's Life-Sized Gundam, Through the Years
Fair as well. It's just sending a command which you know will fail, and even relying on the fact it fails, feels wrong, whether it sends a request over network or not.

BTW I checked and it's not an error in Postgres, only a warning. Still not something I would want in my database logs for the happy path.
A NPU can do only a very small subset of the operations supported by a GPU.

A NPU does strictly only the operations required for ML inference, which use data types with low precision, i.e. 16-bit or 8-bit types.
Why would LVP be any different?
Pretty crazy how that’s not even 1k years ago. Humans have been the same for like, at least dozens of thousands of years? Maybe even more?
> If you've scared your fellow citizens into believing you're going to commit an imminent hate crime, then you're probably guilty.

If it's just about how much fear you instill in people - no matter how reasonable or unreasonable, than the same argument could be used about throwing immigrants, LGBT, intellectuals, etc in jail.
I did manual capacitive touch on an ATMega328. Peripheral support is easier and more reliable, but not strictly necessary. You "just" need a GPIO with analog input and a timer.
Then Microsoft is operating incompetently and it's not my obligation as a player of Minesweeper to endure their shit version of it because their organization is incapable of taking on a simple problem simply.

If you can't as a company belt out a simple game in a short amount of time without roping in 4 project managers a senior project manager 2 senior developers 12 code monkeys and 4 graphic designers and all the overhead to manage them, your company sucks and should be buried.
Do you run any specific app for photo frame or just included Photos app?

I have an old iPad, haven’t been using it so this gave me an idea.
> the CPU architecture for 32-bit x86 Linux will now be reported as x86_64 in Firefox's User-Agent

And in a few months, everyone will state that no 32 bit users remain and support can be dropped.

#facepalm
Capital One partners with fintech giants Stripe, Adyen to prevent fraud
Some of the products mention on that piece were true operating systems.

MP/M and its derivatives (MP/M-86, CCPM, CDOS) were all multitasking, multi-threading, multi-user, multi-terminal/console real time preemptive OSs. The bank switching versions also had a form of memory protection.

CDOS-68k, CDOS-286 and the subsequent renamed to FlexOS products also had those capabilities, but with inherent memory protection.

So it is only really the basic CP/M-86 product (lacking the MP/M bits) which was the simple program loader.

In many ways the FlexOS product are sort of inspired from the DEC minicomputer RSX-11m OS; and the MP/M derivatives look like they were inspired by DEC RSX-11d (and hence RSX-15).
I'm guessing only a small fraction of the subscription cost goes to delivering the video. Copyright is a government enforced monopoly on content, and money goes to monopolies. As Thiel said, "Competition is for losers."
Strange that the Nazis purged the KPD/SDP if they were both socialist.
My major experience with GEM was Xerox Ventura Publisher.

Ventura and Aldus Pagemaker were the two desktop publishing contenders on the PC. Pagemaker used Windows. Ventura ended up going to Windows as well (no surprise there).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corel_Ventura
to me, this is like saying germ theory of disease has higher theoretical burden than miasma theory of disease because it posits all of these individual viruses and bacteria around us everywhere.

"sure, we can observe bacteria and viruses in the lab individually - but when we move to the physical world disease spread is described by miasma which is simpler and thus this is the more parsimonious theory." there are fewer entities in miasma - but you still have to posit this additional thing (the miasma) on top of the already observed viruses and bacteria.

similarly, i don't agree that 'count of entities' is the correct criterion for what makes a theory more or less parsimonious/occam's razor preferred. it is about the number of rules even if there is a single rule that creates exponential entities. Copenhagen would also predict this 'exponential branching' in the system under observation - it just proposes that it collapses when measured by the apparatus: an additional rule that makes it less parsimonious than many worlds
If every department is expected to function as profitably as the most-profitable department, then this can happen.

Even if Windows makes money, if it doesn't make as much as Azure (or whatever else is doing really well at any given moment), then it stands out. Looking at "Home" Windows vs. "Pro" Windows probably makes this even more stark: I'd bet home/consumer editions of Windows are bleeding money.

Heck, they've probably been losing money on home Windows for a decade or more (i.e. even back to when Microsoft still charged for updates), but the loss was offset by sales of Office (every non-techie's first question after giving them a clean Windows install: "where's Office?"). But now installed Office is getting replaced by cloud solutions, most of which aren't Microsoft.
It's 'bout time to start calling those Special Drawing Rights... [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_drawing_rights

--

...as Individual B. Citizen, all you can really do is stack gold &/or satoshis &/or land.
oh RIGHT. Gotta fix it
If you felt anything from so little I’d certainly call it placebo
> IMO (just based on the specs; haven't actually used it), the main reason to use this is for the PIO stuff. That's a very niche use case though.

PIO is interesting but I'm not fully convinced they're better than a suite of dedicated timers, especially in the realm of power-efficiency.

The _real_ wtf?!?!? spec here is 264kB of SRAM. At this price point / power-consumption, that's a _LOT_ of SRAM. Any application that needs a ton of SRAM (ex: 300 x 200 pixel 8-bit LCD screen) will find good use in the RP2040.

A lot of the other parts of the RP2040 are quite lackluster. PIO is "interesting" but seem somewhat overhyped to me.
You can't prove things are safe, at best you can say harm hasn't been observed under these test conditions. In particular things with accumulative impacts may not show any signs of danger until millions of people have been using them for years. The only valid approach is to collect data as we go and make iterative changes as our understanding improves, we can not count on getting things right at the outset.
Looks clean, but how are you organizing the "thousands of notes I had on Google Keep"? It looks like a single page of notes.
How Data Integration Is Evolving Beyond ETL
The most annoying part about the PIO is that there are only two of them (though with 4 sub-units each), they only have space for 32 instructions, and they don't have an external clock input.

They are great for implementing very basic peripherals, but more than once I've started to implement something more complex just to realize it would be unacceptably slow and run out of space. If they were to beef them up just a little, they could easily replace the more trivial FPGA applications.
In terms of brand equity, HBO was and still is (if it still existed) synonymous for "quality content". I still have warm fuzzies for their well crafted brand noises and other signals (the static, the duha da da, da da, da dadada, da da da, the big chrome HBO flying around, etc)....

I guess as close as it gets these days is apple tv and ragin horn dog lee pace and the alternate space race shows.

Max. That's the name of a dog, or mel gibson, or a condom size.

Anyhow, ditching twitter for eggs and then slapping eggs all over everything else is just .... lazy. Not quite as dumb as swapping "HBO" for "Mags" but pretty close.
Makes you pine for the good old days when you merely had to reboot the computer with your daily BSOD!
By gaming revenue?
ARC Prize – a $1M+ competition towards open AGI progress
Hey folks! Mike here. Francois Chollet and I are launching ARC Prize, a public competition to beat and open-source the solution to the ARC-AGI eval.

ARC-AGI is (to our knowledge) the only eval which measures AGI: a system that can efficiently acquire new skill and solve novel, open-ended problems. Most AI evals measure skill directly vs the acquisition of new skill.

Francois created the eval in 2019, SOTA was 20% at inception, SOTA today is only 34%. Humans score 85-100%. 300 teams attempted ARC-AGI last year and several bigger labs have attempted it.

While most other skill-based evals have rapidly saturated to human-level, ARC-AGI was designed to resist “memorization” techniques (eg. LLMs)

Solving ARC-AGI tasks is quite easy for humans (even children) but impossible for modern AI. You can try ARC-AGI tasks yourself here: https://arcprize.org/play

ARC-AGI consists of 400 public training tasks, 400 public test tasks, and 100 secret test tasks. Every task is novel. SOTA is measured against the secret test set which adds to the robustness of the eval.

Solving ARC-AGI tasks requires no world knowledge, no understanding of language. Instead each puzzle requires a small set of “core knowledge priors” (goal directedness, objectness, symmetry, rotation, etc.)

At minimum, a solution to ARC-AGI opens up a completely new programming paradigm where programs can perfectly and reliably generalize from an arbitrary set of priors. At maximum, unlocks the tech tree towards AGI.

Our goal with this competition is:

1. Increase the number of researchers working on frontier AGI research (vs tinkering with LLMs). We need new ideas and the solution is likely to come from an outsider!
2. Establish a popular, objective measure of AGI progress that the public can use to understand how close we are to AGI (or not). Every new SOTA score will be published here: https://x.com/arcprize
3. Beat ARC-AGI and learn something new about the nature of intelligence.

Happy to answer questions!
Funny, I had the exact opposite experience. For OSH Stencils, they had a scaling issue with their setup that I pointed out to them, and they just shrugged and said that was the nature of the beast essentially and they couldn't do anything about it. They might have said something about Kapton shrinkage or some such. (I don't currently have the exact numbers, but it was off a couple of percent linearly, which doesn't matter for a tiny board, but for a 4" board, the difference adds up, so that if you align the apertures on one end of the board, they don't on the other side of the board. Like the aperture was off by a whole 0603 pad or more). I went back to Pololu for that same board, and everything was spot on. And I have had zero complaints with them since. If I had to complain about something, I might slightly ding them slightly on the super-tiny aperture shapes and the kerf width of their laser. But everything has always worked. Apparently YMMV.
keepassxc works for me on android, windows, and mac
They're paying annual licenses if they skip versions or not...
Teaching Calculus to Computers in Rust
As with everything, I think it's scope and scale: Quora was always a cesspool, but now every single question has a machine-generated response that's frequently incorrect or misleading (sometimes in legally concerning ways, like one was for me recently).
For me, the standard is: if the material was used pre-industrial age, it's far more likely to be "safe".

Any person could overintellectualize this point and find exceptions. But it's just common sense.
I'm also wondering if such an NPU can be targeted (in a way that can be understood) from the assembly/machine language level. Or that it needs an opaque kitchen sink of libraries, blobs and other abstractions.
Remote device downtime causes for kiosks, lockers, cameras based on 200K tickets
New research into 200K tickets across 100K remote devices/connected products (eg smart lockers, self-checkout kiosks, camera systems) revealed the top causes of downtime:

• 18.1% configuration issue (majority = wrong device settings)

• 14.5% network issue (half of these loss of service)

• 11.8% software problem (e.g. free/crash, disk space full)

• 10.9% power issue (most of these are loss of power)

• 10.6% OS issue (half are configuration related)

TL;DR: most common device downtime issues can be resolved with remote device management software — so long as the software is able to connect to the holistic connected product (must be more capable than traditional RMM/UEM software used for IT devices or mobile device management).

The report also shares remote resolution paths and odds of success for each (e.g. loss of power = near-zero odds of success; whereas a disk space issue can be resolved automatically using remote monitoring/management software)

Research is from goCanopy.com
> China’s domestic market has bordered on isolation for decades now.

Imports of goods and services into China [0]:

* in 1990: 38.46 billion USD

* in 2022: 3.14 trillion USD

That comes to nearly 15% annual growth in imports every year for 32 years. That is not what an "isolated" market looks like.

0. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NE.IMP.GNFS.CD?location...
I was thinking more about the usurious rates that are often charged to people who can least afford it.
They're straddling a line, I think. The games may not always be fully "installed" on a clean setup, but there are bundled shortcuts and other hooks to them.
Not every package and contents within are the same. The plastic containers for prepackaged produce are much lower on my concern list than say Coke and Red Bull type drinks. If you've ever seen what those can do to concrete, you'd really question what it's doing to the plastic linings in the bottles/cans. Someone also mentioned alcohol reacting with the plastics. All of those gas stations where they have pallets of soft drinks just sitting outside in direct sunlight also gives me pause on how lackadaisical we've become. The '91 Gulf War gave us lots of insights into storing Diet Coke in the sun in a desert can cause "unexpected" reactions to the liquid.

Throwing your hands up and running around like a headless chicken is probably an over reaction, but rolling your eyes and sticking your head in the ground to ignore it is also equally not good.
So does Apple make it easy to export even now, just one click on the menu in the System Settings. I assume having an app would make it easier.

So you have two password managers one for Firefox and the other for apps. What happens if you have an app login that is also a web site? Two entries of the same thing?
Basic arithmetic seems to work fine. Antiderivatives, much less so. OTOH doing aintiderivatives while awake doesn't work that great for me either.

[edit]

Though I should clarify that in my dreams I usually finish the antiderivative (wrongly) when awake I usually just fail to finish the antiderivative.
Interesting thought. Looking around the room I'm in the only think I'm sure was definitely handmade is a musical instrument, because I know the guy who made it for me. And even then it uses parts which were machine made: strings, tuners, bridge etc.
As another person that blocks ads with vengeance, I'll turn off my ad blocker only when advertising companies go bankrupt and effectively disappear from the face of the planet. Even non-surveilling, non-criminal advertising is still brain poison. Why would I want to ever expose myself to that? Especially when on the margin, the damage inflicted to my life by ads is usually comparable to, or greater than, the value provided by the piece of content nested between those ads.
Correct. You can build a Forth compiler from hand-typed hex machine code. It will be a bit easier if you have an assembler handy, but that's not essential. Trying to build a Lisp compiler this way would be madness.