skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because if you don't get snowboarding holiday insurance then you shouldn't be snowboarding but you can do anything else while you're on holiday.

Meanwhile in the US if you get kicked off your medical insurance with any kind of chronic illness then you either pay out the ass for basic treatment or die.
Golang is evil on shitty networks (2022)
No, Microsoft did not ask the users if they wanted this or not (or made this behaviour configurable). Just as they did not ask users if they wanted to see ads in their Start menu...
How's the peripherals support on Surface Linux?

I've been wanting to switch to Linux on my Pro X SQ2 for a while due to the WSL2 support on it being terrible (might be fixed now [1]) but always thought that most stuff such as LTE, webcam and surface connector wouldn't work [2].

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/11274#issuecomment-2...
[2] https://github.com/linux-surface/surface-pro-x/issues/1#issu...
You think that Big Tech is donating big to Republicans because of identity politics?
You didn't notice Brexit - a distinctly Tory-enabled change that wouldn't have happened if the Lib Dems or Labour had been in charge?
That hasn't impacted their salaries so far though, especially that of the leadership.
> hardware is so poorly designed

So, don't buy poorly designed hardware? Even my $300 Walmart (Motile) laptop suspends with Connected Standby enabled without issue.

I've had over a dozen devices since 8.1 came out, none of which had problems with Connected Standby.
Asians were negatively impacted by affirmative action, so its no wonder they support the candidate that opposed it.
Unimportant side question: why are they called "macaroons"? I find that a bit offputting in its cutesiness, and the word doesn't even give a hint as to what they are (aside from being a flavor of cookie, I guess).
from the release:

"TDK’s technology is aimed at a solution that can be utilized in various wearable devices, such as wireless earphones, hearing aids and even smartwatches, with the goal of replacing existing coin cell batteries."
I'm not really talking about companies here for the most part, I'm talking about academic ML researchers (or industry researchers whose role is primarily academic-style research). In companies there is more incentive for good software engineering practices.

I'm also speaking from personal experience: I once had to hand-write my own CUDA kernels (on official NVIDIA cards, not even this weird translation layer): it was useful and I figured it out, but everything was constantly breaking at first.

It was a drag on productivity and more importantly, it made it too difficult for other people to run my code (which means they are less likely to cite my work).
Mathstral
Thanks for the great pointers!
The marketing says that this is an Alternative to Imgur, but the product doesn't feel like an alternative to Imgur, it feels like an alternative to OneDrive. It shares more features with Gyazo, the other product you compare it to, but I don't see it being a solid upsell.

Is marketed to Imgur users as a better alternative for broadly sharing memes on the Internet, and if so why is privacy and encryption important? Couldn't privacy be a limiting factor, since Imgur is first and foremost a social network? Wouldn't the limited space of the free plan be a dealbreaker for someone happily using Imgur in an unlimited capacity for free?

Is it marketed to business users that actually prioritize privacy, and if so, aren't you worried that comparing it to a Social Network like Imgur would betray the privacy angle? Where are the enterprise options that allow me to onboard people with SSO/MFA and protect sensitive files from people outside of the organization? There are too many security holes in this product to trust it for business use, especially copying the full URL to every shared object to the clipboard where it can be accessed with anyone with the URL...

If someone actually wanted to use this service to store and share large files, you only offer 100GB for $5/month, and limit file sizes to 10GB. For $2/month you can get 100GB on Google Drive with roughly the same capabilities, and for $10 you can get 2TB on Google Drive or MEGA, with the latter being encrypted by default. $10 from Office 365 gets you 6TB of cloud storage with sharing capabilities. The pricing for Horizon storage is outrageous by comparison to every competitor's offerings.

Furthermore, you have to read through the pricing page to discover that encryption at-rest isn't default, and you have to turn it on for files you want encrypted, and it doesn't even tell you what kind of encryption or how the recipient decrypts it. Alternatives like MEGA still have you beat in that regard.
Spyware is illegal. Jail all CEOs, managers, engineers that worked on spying features at google, ms, etc

They are repleaceble and next gen will not dare to spy on users.

Fines are stupid and don't work anyway.

This is in full compliance with the democratic process, judicial tradition, etc so I'm not ranting, instead it is that we have been so removed by the idea of punishing the actual people that do actual crimes just because they work in megacorps that any suggestion to do so sounds like a commie rant.
> returns a reusable data structure mapping input keys to output keys

IMO this use case is exactly what Copilot is for. Write a comment including one example each of input and output, and tab-complete in your language of choice to have it create a rewriter for you.

One benefit (and danger) is that it will look at the values, not just the keys, and also may generate arbitrary code that can e.g. adapt a firstName and lastName to a fullName. But that's why you have a human being triggering and auditing this for subtle bugs, and putting it through code review and source control, right?
if you think crypto is only using wasted energy, you are detached from reality
Oh well, so we had at least 2 countries counting COVID cases by fax. https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/science/crunching-the-numbers_w... (couldn't find a better source, I think they even ended up weighing fax piles to count cases, but I'd like to verify that as it might as well be an urban legend).
Bah humbug. When you just want to get semething onto the web ASAP, browser CSS defaults are pretty OK and <center> might be all you need.
Codestral Mamba
I don't want my computer to do _anything_ if I set it to sleep, other than keep the memory contents alive for some time. Although these days even Ubuntu with KDE starts up so fast that the only reason for sleep (instead of shutdown) is to keep some programs running, with some mid-work state.
I don’t think Mozilla is trustworthy anymore.
I think you are misunderstanding. These are typically mathematical tricks used for computation and don't lead to actual non-local interpretations of QM. I don't think any major work is done without standard QFT.

I doubt you can find any serious Theoretical Physicist who believes retrocausality or FTL information transmission is compatible with the Universe we observe.

Anyway we've diverged off the actual crux which is that Quantum Conscious Woowoo theories require types of hidden variable theories which are not coherent with this Universe.
It was surprisingly easy to configure ShareX to work with Horizon! Handles deletion and putting the URL of the uploaded file in the clipboard and all.

Hopefully you guys could collaborate to become a default file/image destination uploader that actually handles logging in and logging out of an account.

https://i.horizon.pics/35dwiVGxz8 <-- Uploaded via ShareX.

```

// Uploader import string

{
"Version": "16.1.0",
"Name": "horizon.pics",
"DestinationType": "ImageUploader",
"RequestMethod": "POST",
"RequestURL": "https://api.horizon.pics/upload",
"Headers": {
"Cookie": "token=YOUR_SESSION_HERE"
},
"Body": "MultipartFormData",
"FileFormName": "file",
"URL": "{json:.data.fileLink}",
"DeletionURL": "{json:.data.deleteLink}",
"ErrorMessage": "{json:.message}"
}

```
get a cheap 30$ endoscope from amazon. You can go in through power outlets/lightswitches etc. (probably want to cut the breaker first though). Handy tool to have around for all kinds of tasks.
I really hope this doesn't become a contributing factor in a future plane crash from an onboard fire in the baggage compartment. I could see someone throwing their laptop in a suitcase with a bunch of clothes and having that heat building up into a thermal runaway. It's asinine to me that there isn't a hardware thermal sensor that just shuts off power if the heat is too high. In addition to the tragedy of an accident, what will happen is they'll probably block everyone from bringing laptops with them.
You don't, a $150 refurbished iPhone SE is fine for this, so you're saving both time and money :)
They’re in every thread that mentions go, calling it terrible and saying people are idiots for not using c# instead.

It’s become predictable and tiring
Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic Used Swiped YouTube Videos to Train AI
Completely agree. This seems to me like common sense reasoning to me so I'm curious how the best companies in the world just seem to phone it in with leetcode.
Yep! To add, Apple details this in their security whitepaper.

It used to be, years ago, that the limit was a purely software function. For many years this limit has been enforced in firmware/hardware.

The paths between memory, storage, and CPU are now protected by the Secure Enclave hardware which is responsible for enforcing passcode entry attempt limits. These limits can only be configured after a mandatory passcode prompt (or via MDM).

It is certainly possible that certain elements of the U.S. government have developed more advanced exploits beyond what GreyKey could have done, that they aren’t going to publicize.
IMO there was only a brief period of monoculture, and only if you consider C & C++ to be part of the same culture, which is a stretch. It started in the mid-80s when people stopped writing programs in Pascal and/or assembly, and stopped in the mid-90s when Java & Perl started to get used extensively.
> I wonder how many interviews start with the perpetrator really having no rationale, and ending in them simply back-rationalizing their emotions

That's the core of the Reid technique, isn't it? Here's two rationales, one socially acceptable and one socially unacceptable. Pick one.

We don't actually care which one you pick, because a confession is still a confession, but we're handing you a convenient narrative you can use to justify your actions (a carrot), and an alternative people might believe about you if you don't pick Box A (a stick).

Something similar happens in high-pressure sales. I bet those guys would make great interrogators.
Yeah... Cause it's hard to do when you're drunk.
In a small but measurable percent of cases, the sugar pill does actually make tumors
disappear though. [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12509397/], and helps with almost every other factor of
care in much larger percentages of the time.
> Was there difference in hunter-gatherers in europe/asia/americas compared to africa? Why hadn't the ancient elephants, giraffes, etc been hunted to extinction?

Elephants and rhinos do survive in Asia.
> "I'm so smart I can reason about the world without any evidence"

This is also a key limitation on non-embodied AIs.
A Managerial View of the Multics System Development (1979)
There are slightly nicer stud finders that use magnetics to detect live wires.
OpenBSD Workstation for the People
A Show HN a few months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38473743
Sunak gracefully handed over the Prime Ministership to Starmer with zero hiccups.

You know what happened here? Trump tried to force Pence to not certify the election (VP certifies all the votes from the electors) and even appointed fake electors. And obviously the January 6th shenanighans.

And to top it off, his current VP pick JD Vance has publicly said that if he were in Pence's position, he wouldn't have certified the election results. So 2028 will be interesting if these guys lose.
https://evenizer.online
I think Surface Pros are very use-case dependent. It's perfect for mine, to the point I'm astounded there is no real competitor.

Use case: While traveling or at coffee shops, be able to switch between full laptop mode (as long as you have a table; doesn't work on your lap), and use with the pen for taking notes, drawing things etc. While not as critical as pen use, being able to take the keyboard off quickly when reading or watching videos saves space, and lets me get the screen closer.
Every time I've reached for task queues, latency has been the absolute least of my concerns. I usually care far more about tooling, reliability, ease of deployment, scaling, observability, etc.
Before it can or before it has more than 50% chance of having actually done so? Because those are different things.

For the first, you don't need AGI, no matter which of the many definitions you have for what that means. The automation used by the US for their early warning radar in Thule Site J was not programmed to know that the moon does not have an IFF transponder and that's OK, while the Soviet satellite-based system was triggered by reflections of sunlight.

Likewise covid, cancer, smallpox, ebola, HIV — these things do not need "general" intelligence, they're self-replicators that hijack our bodies and have no goal besides what they do.

Some talk of "P(doom)", but (and I should blog about this) every example I have seen has a blind spot that is especially embarrassing given the circles in which this discussion proliferates is very familiar with Bayes' theorem: P(A) by itself isn't meaningful, it's P(A|B), so when it's doom, doom given what? There's too many options for what each of technology and politics will allow AI to "look like". Doom within 24 hours because an AI takes an instruction literally and without regard for our ethics, is very different to 'doom' in a million years caused by natural extinction that is never prevented because every single time we make an AI we keep finding that it builds a spaceship and flies off into the void so it doesn't need to deal with us any more.

Me, I think that when LLMs alone (again, don't need to be "AGI" by any particular measure) have the capabilities of someone with 5 years post-graduation work experience in just biology (or similar subject with similar potential for accidental harm), then we've got a reasonable chance of multiple incidents each year where idiots (and/or misanthropes) make a Covid-scale pandemic (or, if the LLM is a software rather than biology helper, a deliberately corrupting rather than greedy version of the current encryption-blackmail malware) — and that kind of scale has a combined risk of about 10% of one of the incidents being of sufficient scale that global society collapses and doesn't recover, before it's happened so often that everything gets locked down, possibly including a Butlerian Jihad. And if you think humans would "obviously" take steps to prevent this after the first failed attempt, I would point out quite how many US politicians have been shot and yet those same politicians still refuse to consider that the 2nd Amendment might possibly be not that good. (In case you think this is topical: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27No_Way_to_Prevent_This,%27_... )

Remember, the AI doesn't need to actively hate you, it just needs to do something dangerous — and it doesn't matter if that danger comes from a long-term plan that requires it to engage in amoral power-seeking, or a short-term plan from a deranged monster of a human using it, and even when both it and the user are "pro human" it can still do this from simply being unaware that one part of the plan is incompatible with life.
Question - if large clusters are reporting that they're seeing gains from using RDMA networks because communication overhead is a bottleneck, how is it possible that this thing is not massively bottlenecked running over a home network?
you have tons of holes in your walls already you can probably use one of those. Power outlets, light switches, etc.
I agree completely with your last point.

As other commenters have pointed out, this is probably a good solution for HPC jobs where everyone is using C++ or Fortran anyway and you frequently write your own CUDA kernels.

From time to time I run into a decision maker who understandably wants to believe that AMD cards are now "ready" to be used for deep learning, and points to things like the fact that HIP mostly works pretty well. I was kind of reacting against that.
Actually it's the other way around. As long as Firefox only has a negligible market share, advertisers are not going to care about it enough to work around Firefox-exclusive tracking protection forever. Regulators are also not going to be concerned that Firefox makes certain business models harder because it is insignificant.
Yep, some weird 'express yourself with this limited selection of colors' thing. Keeping in mind we've been able to adjust that for as long as I can recall
> First ever App

I was expecting something historical. I wonder what it was.
Regulations is just a scary word for rules.

There's always rules.

The trick is to fashion a ruleset (game, marketplace) that maximizes for public good (long term).
So it's an S3 bucket with a CDN, and a file upload client...
I second this last paragraph.
I want to add my pet theory that it is not a purely psychological phenomenon. It's like that thing where we only remember the good movies (the "classics"), and the others are forgotten. When you first get started on the field, you're reading just the "classics". When you get to the current state of the art, the classics have not been sorted out yet, and so you get a lot of trash.
Thanks for the reply. I suppose I have a hard time seeing much happening that will be too bad for ordinary citizens either way. I recall people panicking about a Trump presidency in 2016, but I never saw or heard many negative outcomes (for individuals) about his presidency so I don't quite understand it and have a hard time measuring how justified people's panic is.
Your link is word salad as far as I can tell. It certainly doesn't say "Facebook was foundational in ethnic cleansing in Myanmar".

Social media companies are often scapegoats when things go wrong in the world. From teen mental illness (Jon Haidt) to Trump getting elected (Cambridge Analytica). And now apparently genocide in Myanmar. It's all just nonsense.
This is a bit like saying good witch doctors can diagnose you without the voodoo accoutrements, which are just there to get you to open up about how you are feeling. It's still voodoo, and still produces garbage conclusions much of the time.

Thing is, there isn't an academic journal for voodoo. There is at least one for polygraphy.
In addition to c-reduce and shrinkray there's also cvise [1] for reducing tests. It's great.

Also, if you happen to be reducing an LLVM case you can use llvm-reduce [2].

[1] https://github.com/marxin/cvise

[2] https://llvm.org/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-reduce.html
Free oil changes from dealers are often offered on new cars. Getting you in to the dealer more often may benefit them in some ways:

1) Opportunity to upsell other services,

2) Some people (quite a lot, actually) have alien-to-me car buying habits and might be convinced to trade in their new car after only a year or two and buy another new one if you can just get them into the dealer at the right time.

No clue if that’s why they do it, but maybe.
> He checks on his phone when one is available, drives there and plugs in.

One more things on the busy todo list - not a biggie for a retiree for sure.
“How is the computer supposed to do background checks / send its location etc if it can't wake up for a short while?”

Why would I want it to do that? OTOH, coming back from pay of on modern hardware is fast enough that I just reenable hibernation and use that instead of sleep, now that MS has made sleep less sleep-ish.
Wouldn't you be on the 324 degree radial
I don’t understand how this is actually an improvement over other ai generated video models/systems.

I mean you get the same weird floaty movement they all have, the same kind of glossy sheen (I don’t know how to describe it exactly but all AI images look like they have like vaseline spread over them whenever they go for photorealistic). Extra limbs, too many fingers, impossible geometry, clothing stretching way too far down the body to make any sense.

The first Sora demo was way more impressive. This honestly seems like a step backwards. Like it got worst and isn’t any better than freely available tools people use to make YouTube videos today.
Sure but you wouldn't call it an SD card before that point.
340B legislation is one of the clearest examples of corruption. I cannot believe anyone can be so stupid, much less two branches of government, to pass something that does nothing but allow for corruption.

Goal: provide poorer people with more access to healthcare and medicine

Step 1: require medicine manufacturers to sell medicines at low cost to medicine retailers if they want the government to buy the medicines via Medicare/Medicaid

Step 2: there is no step 2. There is no requirement for medicine retailers to sell the medicine to end users at low cost.

Result: Medicine retailers arbitrage this by obtaining medicine for cheap and selling it to high prices to insurance, paid for by premium payers. Meaning people with health insurance paying extra so that medicine retailers can earn money…to do nothing.
I can second these episodes, and the podcast series in general. It's very informative about things that have been "misremembered". Other good series were the OJ Simpson trial, Monica Lewinsky, the Satanic Panic, and of course the McDonald's hot coffee lawsuit.

Just recently on Hacker News I saw someone making jokes about this lawsuit being spurious.

Oh gosh, now I'm on a tangent.

Rather than defend "this was not spurious" I'll just say that's how our legal system is set up. The legislative branch is not interested in making reasonable laws, and/or creating capable regulating bodies like most other modern countries. Your recourse here is to sue, hopefully there is an appropriate decision, and it's taken as precedent. Of course we've gone further in that direction in recent history.
Azure CLI converts local accounts to MSFT online accounts on Win11
A+ Thank you
Go to https://aihorde.net/api/, scroll down to /v2/status/models, and click Try it out and then Execute. It's an enormous list and I think it can be dynamically updated, so that's probably why it isn't listed on the website.
Oh, excellent! Thank you much, I'd missed that but it does indeed do exactly what I want.
This is an elegant, accurate description of my own experience. It's taken 20 years of regular attempts, but I've finally given up. ("This new release of Ubuntu / this new distro will be the one!") I use WSL if I want to compile a program for Linux users.
Instead of "unsafe", we could use "computer verified correctness" or something similar. Truth is that humans make mistakes and Rust is the only "project" which achieves verified correctness in some critical areas, in projects of any complexity.
Is that based on the average level of maths at the time? I would argue that there are far more mathematicians now who understand the results from that period now than there were then because our mathematical literacy, especially in higher education and in the developing world has increased significantly.

The fact that those results are easier to understand is because of our increased literacy. Trigonometry was the cutting edge of maths at one point and math literacy was even less then. Now it’s material for tweens.
Thank you. That's what I've asked them to provide me along with the quote. Still waiting for their reply.

I guess I am a bit disappointed from the fact that I own laptops from Lenovo, Dell and Asus which were subjected to much rougher usage and are still working flawlessly. This Macbook was my first Apple notebook and this issue cropped up with comparatively careful use.