skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Out of curiosity, how recent is this? I haven't owned my own macbook since the pre-touchbar era (I think the last model I had was the early 2015 Pro), and I had heard that Linux had gotten harder to boot since then due to newer firmware (I remember hearing for a time the newer models were yet to get wifi support on Linux, although I don't know how long that lasted), but at least up until then I was able to use a fairly typical Linux setup dual booted alongside MacOS. I remember using a blogpost I found as a reference, but I think the order of the steps I used were turning off FileVault, shrinking the main MacOS partition by the amount I wanted to use for Linux, doing the Linux install the way I normally do (one FAT ESP partition with refind installed, then the rest as a LUKS volume with LVM root and swap), turn off SIP by booting the macbook into recovery, booting into MacOS and running the `bless` command to set the refind partition to boot by default, rebooting back into recovery to turn SIP back on, and then finally booting back into MacOS and turning FileVault back on. Essentially, by temporarily turning off SIP and FileVault, I was able to get Linux booted by default with my usual LUKS/LVM setup but also have the option to select MacOS from my refind menu and have that booted with the usual FileVault/SIP protections. Based on what I'd read about the efforts to support Linux on the new ARM macbooks and Apple seemingly not going out of their way to block this, I would have thought that this method would still work, although maybe there's something I'm missing.
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Lots of sensors with a restricted pipe isn't uncommon - in the electrical transmission substation world they've been dealing with the problem of how to do a lot with a tiny amount of bandwidth for decades. An industrial fieldbus protocol even exists for it called DNP3.

The answer is your end devices only signal on meaningful change, whatever that may be, and stay quiet the rest of the time. How meaningful that change must be depends on how much bandwidth you have. When you get right down to it you can do a lot with a little in the industrial controls and remote monitoring space.

We get so used to overly verbose communications protocols and overly abstracted data structures and methods, it's refreshing once in a while to care about each bit!
Ah perfect timing. I am putting a buying freeze on apple products for the next year. Was about to max out on a macbook pro, but will delay it.
And this is the public language. Imagine the beautiful language they use inside.

My company got recently through some layoffs as well and well, ... it almost seemed from the speech they gave that the people fired were a burden. "Accelerate", "transform" and all that. Softening the blow as if you were dealing with a fucking bunch of idiots that don't know what's happening around them. It gets really surreal.

You can give them all the money you want, and that's really noble of some companies to do so, but please don't bullshit!
The permissions were a non-starter for me. If you're going to download my contacts and have the ability to share, edit, or delete my calendars, you need to explain why.

Even then, requiring incredibly invasive permissions for a productivity app is unreasonable. Just limit the features that "need" those things instead.
Yes, very. outlook.com (formerly known as Hotmail) is an email provider. Outlook is an email client which can be used with any email provider.
This is often a big part of how neural networks are trained. Take labelled photos (really it applies in abstract ways to other data) add a little noise, mirror, shrink and stretch, translate to a different area, etc. One piece of data becomes several training images.

And no, this standard practice does not eliminate adversaries.
It dates from the 1800s (and should have stayed there), but the show re-popularized it. https://www.yourdictionary.com/sweet-summer-child
OK, thanks. well, that is indeed quite unfortunate.. regarding things like lost job offers and the like.. Sad state of affairs, i mean e-mail in 2022. But, as an mail-service operator myself, i feel like i can understand, more or less, both sides dealing with the spam issue.
Cue evil laughter from MS board of directors.
Well, what are our options?

What else can we do to protect ourselves from Microsoft Copilot?
That's because in the mid-oughts Solaris used GRUB for booting.

It's really nice because you get to boot from multiple datasets in the same pool so upgrades and downgrades can be very smooth.
This is quite common in tech. There have been a number of situations where a person has been fired, but retained their access credentials, and did post-firing damage to production systems. It's not beyond the realm of belief that a corp would install an agent that would allow immediate remote power off for a terminated employee.
I appreciate the recommendations!
Wouldn't that just be because OP's comment appeared on the article, which was posted ~1h ago, and the Google result link is to the article, not the comment directly, hence has the earlier timestamp?
It’s a hurtful topic and has complicated ramifications, but…

> other whatsapp groups that I'm not in, which are filled with hateful politics.

That brings the discussion from you to others users, and your goal seems to be to change how other users are affected by their time on a platform.

> The radical Bolsonaro whatsapp groups are a mix of top down and grass roots content.

You seem to be talking about motivated individuals who formed groups with a specific purpose and express their views and propositions in these specific groups (which you don’t belong to, as mentioned first)

Whatever way we slice it, short of the platform banning their related topics entirely, I don’t see how a neutral service could act about these people/ideas spreading, from a mere platform POV. You’re talking about thought policing private groups basically.
Thanks for the correction. I’m from California and never heard it before. Do you think the author of GOT was paying homage to the Southern usage for a reason?
This is literally the "you wouldn't steal a car" meme.

To spell it out: No, this analogy does not hold. "Stealing" data does not deprive the owner of anything, so it should not be treated remotely the same as physical stealing (usually not even of potential revenue, as piracy studies show).
Amen. This lawsuit is sickening me at a “fuck this entire industry” magnitude.
Ah yes, OK. My bad. That definitely sets the world back to normal then.
It's a lot easier to manage one pool occupying one large partition on all the disks in the pool than it is to manage any number of partitions without pooling.
Oh yes, I find TikZ very useful and it's an amazing piece of engineering. My point is more that I find it very difficult to understand how it works on a deep level.
To be fair to Lowtax, he was an insane person.
Yes, the passion to defend copyright trolling for isEven functions (an example included in the filing) from people here is bizarre.

I can't decide if people just hate Microsoft enough that a future where you must pay to include an iseven function in your code is a price worth paying to give them a bloody nose, or there are just a large contingent of users making millions off their GPL code who are put out.

More seriously yes, copilot damages copyright (or is perceived to) and that is a good outcome irrespective of the actor. I will never see eye to eye with people defending the existing legal framework.
Issue is that most of those people have been likely opposing the government. Now they are out of their only source of income and wont be able to finance change.
I am only slightly hopeful for a lawsuit so that it loses spectacularly and sets a precedent that this is legal; however I don't trust the legal system enough to think they'll logically reach that conclusion.

My code is 100% in Github Pilot, is there any way to publicly say that I'm against the lawsuit even if they pretend to represent me?
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Memegen ftw
We use Microsoft 365 business at work and I hate that exact experience. Every time you sign into a Microsoft service you play the coinflip game of: "Does This Accept Work/School Accounts?" And some of them even change over time! Windows Insider (as individual, not Group Policy-/WSUS-deployed) would not see my M365 Business account until recently.

At this point, I just made a "personal" @outlook.com account for the few things that don't.
Whether it is legally wrong or not to scan OSS code (I think it is wrong), there has been a time-honored precedent for disallowing automated scanning:

robots.txt

This is exactly what is needed for source code, and the default (no robots.txt) should be "disallow".

The fact that the Web has considered this moral issue should be a strong hint for the AI people not to take a purely legal stance but consider the OSS community that they are so heavily using.
Damn - I would've dropped in had I known, I left at sparrowfart this morning and am having first tea break on the inland road up toward the Murchison quiet zone for a bit of field instrument checks.

I SMS'd my father who's heading in to town (Perth) later today, he might drop in over the weekend to look at the toys, he'll be just another 87 yr old with a critical and curious eye.

Best wishes for the show, hope you enjoyed Oz :-)
You can still do BIOS boot on disks without partitions. One huge advantage of "legacy" boot is that it can work filesystem-agnostic, avoiding and secondary FS implementations in the firmware or in the bootloader.

And if you go that far, you can throw out any FS kmod from the initrd except for what you need for your root partition. Including vfat.
I never understood the tax angle to that. That clarifies a lot of things
I don't know about employee owned businesses funded by loans. But Mozilla (ignoring the foundation/corporation technicality) and Wikipedia, showed me how generally flawed these kinds of non profits are.

They have some insane mismanagement of funds, which don't go where they are most needed, and where user want funds to go. Firefox's market share has dropped tremendously under Mitchell Baker. If it were a traditional company, she would have been fired ages ago (instead she has had her pay increased). The way they work they just have to convince their benefactor (Google) to keep giving them money. There are no investors that demand growth, so it's all just internal politics with no performance incentives.

I could maybe understand it if at least, unlike most for profit business, Mozilla would actually be amazing with privacy and treating their users well. But they are barely better than Chrome. It's almost impossible to disable and keep disabled all telemetry. They've pushed things like Pocket, a Mr Robot plugin into users, and so much bullshit.
On Elon Musk’s Vision of Twitter as a Hive Mind
I doubt it will take even that long. Gone by autumn 2023, and good riddance
> Keep that recurring revenue base independent of the CC processor?

Yes. You can transition existing customers over time by moving them over when their card expires.
> even weirder, Google says that they (currently) indexed it 56 minutes ago, when HN reports you posted it 23 minutes ago. Google is now apparently predicting the future 33 minutes in advance.

One interpretation is that Google is lying about the indexing time.

But it seems more likely in this case that they're reporting the indexing time of the page they link to ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33458756 ), rather than the indexing time of the comment you're responding to ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33459157 , which can only have been indexed half an hour ago).

In other words, they updated their cache of the page content without refreshing the indexing timestamp.
It's presumably signal not trusting 97 different stores not Debian's in particular not to get compromised.
Most people just want to build stuff. Programming is just one way to do that.

I took two semesters of computer science in college—working in Java. I hated it. I just wanted to build websites that did things and those courses didn't get me any closer. I built a bunch of apps that had to be compiled and nobody would ever use them. I swore programming off until I discovered WordPress a year later and started building WordPress themes.
No it's to share visualisations and stuff, similar to a game, but let's face it - the code is going to be incredibly basic, generic and not worth protecting.
What made you think they'd be willing to compile from untrusted sources?

There are a lot of users that prefer the established trust model of a Linux distribution.
They're willing to trust the mostly unpaid debian maintainers for example... but not John Doe, the temporarily set back billionaire who's just about to make it big
the thing that made me wanting to post is this bullshit:

Download Duplicati 2.0 (beta)
or
Look at 1.3.4 (not supported)

i work at a big tech and see this all the time, if your "new shinny promotion ready" version is not ready, why the hell would you drop support for the old version that works? i'd stay away from any of this products operating by this irresponsible teams.

yeah, i know, lots of biased guesses/views and sentiments on my part but you get how much this angers me.
Even if this succeeds, you've already lost.

1. The ability to be able to run and train these models is going to eventually be perfectly plausible on a home machine.

2. It's only a matter of time before models, e.g. a popular model scraped from all of the code on GitHub, is a publicly available torrent.

3. People will be able to just run it locally as an integrated plug-in in jet brains or VS code.

4. You'll never know if somebody has lifted their code in violation of a license anymore than you would be able to tell if somebody used code from stack overflow without attribution in any commercial endeavor.

The End.
> enough communication

People will learn from mistakes and create more problem for the platform with alt-accounts.
That's the full context of what I was saying. Copyleft is a hack for copyright. In a world where copyright is enforced, RMS doesn't consider the neutral ground of public domain licenses (like the popular MIT and BSD licenses) good enough. They do nothing to solve the problem of proprietary software.

The GPL is entirely dependent on copyright. Rather than pretend copyright doesn't exist, the GPL turns it in the other direction. By violating the GPL, Copilot is still violating copyright.
We moved from Minio to Wasabi. Big improvement in costs.
> which is not how commas are used

How is that an argument? "I am right because I am right?"
I will put some money on a wager that they increase revenue and profits and take it public again in a few years.
The language is often impersonal, there is absolutely no humanity in it: you're terminating "resources" as if they were like disposable items you can get rid of at any moment.

Layoffs don't have to be like that. Business doesn't have to be like that, you can still be human and recognize you're getting rid of people with families.
It's still a bit off; Google's index clearly contains content that wasn't present on the page at the "time of indexing".

Whatever content appeared on the page after Google indexed it is something Google shouldn't know about.
Not really. I certainly used paper map atlases for city navigation pre-smartphone, and I've done my share of cartographic projection plotting.

But "grid north" doesn't refer to any specific direction, in the way true north and magnetic north do. It depends on the projection, but the headline implies a single "grid north". Hence why it's confusing. (In this case it assumes knowledge of a particular official local projection.)

Whereas by point of comparison, online maps generally use Mercator (technically "Web Mercator") for local navigation, where there is no distinct "grid north". Up is always true north in standard Mercator.
> Microsoft Linux

Man, what a time to be alive! Who would have thought it.

Edit: who's extending, embracing and extinguishing now?!
Building on the M1 Mac is probably starved for memory, linkers have an appetite for it especially on larger projects
It's not only bandwidth limited, it's message count as well.

The $60/yr plan allows for 750 _messages_ per month. Up to 3000 messages per month if you stack 4 plans together.

So on the base plan, you're limited to ~1 message per hour if you spread it out across the month.
This is more nimble than traditional campervan, motorhome or RV, and it's also much cheaper to boot. You can also use the van as normal vehicle with the available five seats everyday if you are not on the road or camping, unlike the traditional ones.

This American Ford Transit van has a cousin that is currently being sold in the UK and Europe. It's official Ford's vehicle with collaboration with Westfalia that has more than 70 years designing campervan conversion vehicles [1]. The version with the toilet inside is called Ford Transit Nugget Plus and the waiting time is more than a year. It can cater for four adults sleeping inside and has the built-in toilet unlike the normal Nugget van.

[1]The Nugget Plus Highroof:

https://westfalia-mobil.de/en/modelle/westfalia-nugget-hochd...
This is correct. Message content is encrypted, and only readable from either an unencrypted backup on iCloud or if one of the message recipients reports your message (their client then sends the message to Meta unencrypted).

Message metadata is available to Meta. All I can say is.. if your threat model has to account for metadata like this than you have a whole lot more to account for than just WhatsApp or Signal.
There is no UEFI on M1 macs. However boot protocol there is completely different and complicated.
It's simple, they aren't bleeding cash, the business isn't in trouble, but they aren't seeing enough growth to justify employing all those people for another few years. It's exactly what the email said, they over-hired.
What Elon Musk gets out of owning Twitter
This is a really good take, and I wanna expand it further: when interest rates are lower and planning horizons are longer, valuations get bigger.

If you think of a company’s market capitalization as a rough measure of its future cash flows, that valuation is gonna be a lot higher when those future cash flows don’t have to fight much future interest.

Higher future valuations means it’s worth paying more NOW to capture a slice of that valuation.
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You can install RPMs on Debian but most probably you will run into filesystem-level conflicts with DEB packages. But if you are rebuilding your own Debian-based distro, nothing prevents you from packaging everything into RPMs instead of DEBs and that's see. Not that I see the point of that, though.
Why doesn’t MS use Server Core? If they don’t why would anyone use Server at all? Is AD even worthwhile anymore for a new company?
>That said, I admit that I would also expect error handling to be addressed in any piece of software written for any purpose.

I always view assignments and live coding in interviews as a startup that has runway of an hour or two. Would error handling help this startup survive another day? No. But properly covering the main use case - may in fact be.

It's fair to want the candidate to mention the edge cases and tests for it in the end verbally, there I agree. But expecting 120% performance giving out vaguely formulated problems with extreme time constraints and the pressure of an interview to me seems almost delusional.
Then I would say "Outlook.com" instead of "the entirety of Outlook" because they are very different things.
This is a logical fallacy. A human is not an algorithm. We do not have to extend rights regarding novel invention to an algorithm to protect them for people.
Not the point of this post, but it would be nice if we normalized the practice of, giving people a digital copy of a range of relevant files when their employment ends for any reason (performance reviews, all the contracts and NDAs etc that you signed when you started, information about benefits, options etc). People shouldn't need to try to frantically save this stuff.
> Edit: who's extending, embracing and extinguishing now?!

Still an open question, I'd say.
Almost everything makes sense, imho.

I have actually almost such a setup since some time.

The only thing I don't understand: Why add something like `systemd-boot` to the setup? It's completely unnecessary! All you need is an UKI on the EFI partition. UEFI has a perfectly sufficient bootloader already. I never found out what additional advantages `systemd-boot` would offer.

Maybe someone could clarify?
You might enjoy: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/bob-black-the-abolit...

> Wild animals don't have this problem. If you're a deer you literally run around all day eating plants and fucking. Sure, the animal kingdom has a whole host of other concerns, but my point is that we've replaced all those with a system and we don't have any choice but to live within the boundaries of that system. It's not legal to live a deer's lifestyle as a human.

I have a heard of 15 or so deer on my property. I spend a lot of time watching them, they seem to spend most of their time chewing their cud and watching for things that want to eat them but they seem pretty well adapted to it. They have a pretty good life overall. However, the deer don't have a choice either, but if they were given the choice to live as a typical human I doubt they'd take it. :) But then again, most people wouldn't choose to live as deer either.
You might be able to find a solution in migadu (https://www.migadu.com/)
No music features.
If this is real, I hope they get also the unblurred version so they have a nice photo when the fad gets away.
Personal user filtering can't be the only form of moderation. There is some content that I don't care if it exists as long as I don't see it. Spam is one example of this. However there is some content that its existence on the platform makes me less likely to use the platform even if I never see it.

I'm sure Yishan knows this from his time at Reddit. They seem to go through a controversy about this every year or two[1] with most of the offenders focussed on either hate or porn. /r/jailbait is one of the early examples that comes to mind. It hosted risqué, but apparently legal photos of underage girls. Reddit couldn't just tell people "Don't visit those subreddits if you don't want to see that content". Most people found the content objectionable enough to want it removed completely. Its mere existence made normal users less likely to use Reddit despite users needing to go out of their way to see that objectionable content.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communiti...
Isn't that an unfair comparison? I would think that Rosetta 2 relies on TSO being enabled, so if you use it on a processor that doesn't actually implement TSO it's probably wildly unsafe while a more correct/safe emulator has to incur extra overhead to work around the lack of TSO.
> Microsoft Teams

Teams is just a an Electron (AKA Chrome shit-client) program. So nothing can be done, unless they want to re-write the program from scratch. I'm not saying the current situation is acceptable, its not. But when you choose Electron, you more or less doom your product to having awful performance forever.
Get a grip old chap and think through the old saw: "... when Hell freezes over", meaning [it] will never happen. There are plenty of riffs on that meme, including devilish hand protection strategies.

Google is a boring old replayer of trite old stuff and quite right too - that's what it does! I suspect it also reads HN on a tight loop - many of the locals there are also from this parish.

I suspect even the eye of Sauron doom scrolls HN ...
They fund much more than this, and almost all of it is cool. Check out In-Q-Tel Labs, they have some cool projects.

disclaimer: I work with In-Q-Tel investments almost daily, but am not affiliated.