skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't forget most of Russians. They don't share my sentiment either. Many of them are even convinced that Ukrainians want to take their land, so they are in fact defending from Ukrainians. This doesn't change anything.
I would be very careful when setting up any kind of replication on backup repositories. I much prefer to actually backup to multiple destination, since when replicating, any error will propagate to the synchronized repositories as well, rendering all of the equally useless.
You should consider asking ChatGPT for help in clarifying your point(s).
I tried to plug in a wii the other day only to realize the TV had no RCA inputs, so I hooked the wiimotes up to the laptop for the kids and fired up the emulator...
Justin Rye's site is now at http://jbr.me.uk/ (and the espe-ranto at http://jbr.me.uk/ranto/ )
I'm not a lawyer and obviously we won't get any definite answer unless it actually goes to court, all of this is just hand waving and guessing.

But I think that unless GPT starts reciting large parts outside of the context of learning/education/research, reciting smaller snippets would fall into "fair use" and not be illegal.
InfluxData: Discontinuation of InfluxDB Cloud in AWS Sydney and GCP Belgium
I once installed an Ubuntu 17 on an old desktop and my mother used it just fine. Most people don't need Windows. It's just that it comes with anything you buy and most people won't learn something new unless forced to. And to be fair why should they? They don't mind the extra cost and couldn't care less about our oss. We need to get them when they're young and impressionable and turn them into little linux evangelists.
>- non-local phenomena occur

No. Also superdeterminism doesn't have non-local phenomena. The idea is that measurements are predetermined to look like quantum.
Merit is close to the idea of investment.

Everyone deserves equal investment, yet investment is not distributed equitably at all.

Education, internships, mentorship, etc are all investments, but more importantly, they snowball.

An executive branch cabinet official likely had a high profile job, and a high profile job before that, and a job with mentorship before that, and several internships before that, and admission to a great college before that, and potentially private school before that, and potentially community clubs or community help before that, maybe they had a parent in a position of power.

Every opportunity helps you get more opportunities in the future, and those who have capitalized on opportunity are those people you would say "have merit."

So merit ultimately does not measure productivity, but investment. With this understanding strictly "meritocratic" systems are systems that do not promote social mobility.

Communism is often maligned (and it should be, because it empirically always results in authoritarian rule) and our schools did indoctrinate us with "communism is bad" and "there must be profit motive for people to work," but we have a blindspot for oligarchy which is a system with no social mobility and little public investment which is a much more likely outcome than communism. Wealth disparity results in oligarchy and we are very much on our way.

If people have no hope for their future they become a drag on society as a whole, so it is important that it is not just productivity, but willingness and ability to work that is taken into account. It is our responsibility to lift our fellow man up, so they do not drag us down.

If merit is the sum of opportunities capitalized on, then it's important to distinguish between those who have merit because they had many opportunities, and those who have merit because they capitalized on the limited opportunities they were given.
My mother has an iPhone 7. She just upgraded from an iPhone 5.

It works perfectly fine for her, it runs the two apps that she uses: Camera and WhatsApp. And the price was reasonable, only half of her weekly pension. There’s no way she could afford an iPhone 14, that’s a whole month’s income.

She doesn’t know the specs of her phone, or care.
On the github page there is headline, disclaimer, documentation, feature list etc. but the page never once describes what the product is and does in few lines.

Please add a description heading on top too. I didn't understand what you mean by self hosting on phone. Does it all run on your phone making your phone the main backup server? Or do you mean there is an app which you run and connect to a self hosted backup server?
What I think Linux is missing is a good "first intention" debugger.

rr is great, I have used it a few times with great success, but always as a heavyweight, for solving really tricky bugs. Usually, printf is first, then gdb and/or valgrind, then rr.

On Visual Studio (which has a great debugger), the debugger is the first tool I reach. It is simply more convenient, more reliable on a day-to-day basis, plus, there is "edit and continue". Generally I prefer the Linux dev tools (rr is one of the good ones, I also love valgrind), but for interactive debugging, for me, Windows wins.
Indeed, but I think we are too late for that. It's not like the usage of GOTO: someone who mattered wrote that its usage should be considered harmful, and hence nowadays GOTO has practically a niche usage.

If only someone that mattered would have written on time an essay titled "Microservices Architecture Considered Harmful".
Me, too. I tried to use Linux on the desktop since 2000. I can't run the software I need like Visual Studio, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom, 3ds Max. I don't care free/libre about alternatives as they are not doing the same. The OS takes time to be configured, managed, there are always things breaking and needing a fix. I still have a linux distro installed on a spare drive but haven't booted it in more than an year.

Whatever Linux specific stuff I need to run (mostly for development), WSL2 and Docker takes care of that.

I want an OS that just runs and doesn't stay in my way.
It is incredibly disingenuous to imply people who fled the war must necessarily support your position that Ukraine should make concessions to Russia. That is straight up trolling.
My scenario is based on the idea that someone would write code that generates an “archive” that is biologically active , like a prion or a virus or something else that has dangerous properties outside of its context as a data storage device. Not so much random DNA but very specific, targeted DNA.

I mean, DNA storage means you have an advanced, high performance DNA synthesis, copying, and sequencing machine. That’s fine in general, because most people using such a machine have a concept of the risks and responsibilities.

But imagine what would happen if we had millions of those machines connected to the internet with unpatched vulnerabilities. It seems like that could have some negative outcomes.
This is the original paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.02150 . The idea is that with a transformer you have many heads, say 64 for LLaMa, and for each head you have 1 "query" vector one "key" vector and one "value" vector per token. Most of the cost of inferencing models is loading the key and value vectors from GPU memory to the GPU itself. the idea behind MQA is that instead of having 64 queries, 64 keys, and 64 values, you have 64 queries, 1 key, and 1 value ("Multi-Query" as opposed to "Multi-Head", the original name). This means that there is much less data to load from GPU memory to the GPU during inference.
The ones I've heard about are self funded by those that want to donate their time and money. That's why Mastodon will never be a true competitor to Twitter and Threads. There's no permanent way to finance it.
This is not inherent to web apps though, is it? Free software web apps without vendor lock-in exist.
Like Intel nucs or pi
I don't know but I doubt it. That said, just now at the QG2023 conference a member of the Aspelmeyer group at IQOQI Univ. Vienna is presenting their work on an experiment where a mirror is mounted on a Cavendish torsion pendulum, and in order to do calibration and exclude sources of noises they have borrowed some protocols from LIGO. (Their lab is in central Vienna, near a couple of tram lines, and a 90-tonne tram passing 70m away induces a gravitational attraction on the same order as their test mass! When they test at night, they can also see the night busses in their spectral data.)

So there are similar issues with noise, but the mirror they're using in Vienna is small and light enough to suspend from a thin wire.

There are different things being detected: LIGO is interested in gravitational waves from the quadrupole moment of fairly-quickly-mutually-orbiting astrophysical binaries with many-light-second separations; this experimentalist (who just disclaimed deep theoretical familiarity as opposed to focusing on developing experiments) is looking for measuring the gravitational influence of very small masses (~microgram, with a move to a less-busy test location) and across very short distances (and his collaborators are interested in putting ever larger (but still << milligram) masses into quantum states).

PS: the speaker was Hans Hepach, a PhD student in the Aspelmeyer Group.
My absolute favourite "ugly" website.
Add a 2 3 line description right after your heading before Disclaimer and all other stuff that what this project actually is. What does self hosting and mobile phone mean here (I don't know if it makes your phone a backup server)
There are also very specific nazi-servers. Defederating them is pretty essential to a lot of people who don't want to see nazis popping up in their comments or streams. But beyond that, all those defederation games really need to die. I've already seen a major Mastodon instance defederate a popular art instance for its admin warning against dealing with Facebook. That defederation was widely condemned.

It should be possible to talk about this. It should be possible to disagree about this. I'm personally strongly on the side of wait and see. If Threads turns out to have a terrible effect on the Fediverse, we can always defederate them later. I do caution against special deals and NDAs with Facebook, but other than that, I'd rather keep things as open as possible until there's a real need for something else. And please let's not let this issue divide the Fediverse.

(I'm not on Mastodon but on Friendica.)
They could always try to get better at picking winners
Propose a draw?
Memory does not scale quadratically with sequence length.
To be frank, "RSA is so impossibly complicated that nobody ever could implement it" is just spreading FUD. It's not so complicated an expert* couldn't do it, the code is small to review, it's been done, and safe implementations are well-known. If you decide to use a new up and coming library the risk is on you whatever algorithm you choose. Sure, go to ECC if you want, but there's no good reason to especially doubt the security of existing RSA implementation.

* The only type of person who should be writing a cryptographic implementation in the first place.
Entanglement is not enough to give you the properties of measurements. While it is often presented as "when a spin-0 particle decays into two particles, one must have spin +1 and the other spin -1", that is not what the math actually says.

What the math actually says is that the spin of each particle is a linear combination of |+1> and |-1>, and that their sum must be 0. For example, one of the entangled particles could have state 1/3|+1> + 2/3|-1>, and the other would have 2/3|+1> + 1/3|-1> (or something similar, I'm a bit fuzzy on the exact math). There is nothing that says that particles must be in pure states from their own perspective. And yet, we only ever observe pure states (with some probability) in our own perspectives. So, there must be some additional law that favors these states.
SaaS were doing well already in 2014
Thanks. I guess it makes sense that you can send it out of a Mac through a USB-C DP-to-HDMI adapter.

Oh wait, I have an M1 MBP now with the restored HDMI port...
For perspective, this is about half the CO2 that you will exhale in a year of normal breathing. For similarly useful environmental tips, try not exercising as much - wouldn't want to increase rate of exhalation!
I'm aparently boring.

My "backup routine" consists of storing photos in iCloud, which is then syncronized "real time" to a local Mac Mini.

From the Mac Mini i then run scheduled backups to a local external harddrive, as well as a local Raspberry Pi running Minio, and nightly to OneDrive.

The external harddrive backup uses Timemachine, the raspberry pi backup uses Kopia, and OneDrive is done with Arq.

Furthermore, i make yearly archive discs. Identical copies on M-disc Blu-Ray media, stored in geographically different locations. Each disc contains the photos that have changed in the previous 12 months, and no encryption/archiving is used.

Alongside the M-disc media i keep a couple of external harddrives that contains the entire photo library. These are checked (with badblocks, non-destructive surface scan) yearly, updated and rotated when storing the new M-disc media.
I can't figure out if this is a rebuttal by absurdity or serious?
You forgot to link where I can buy your tin foil hat at the end.
A bit like code generation, really. Transpile one code to another and have the execution engine run that.
Steam is there, with Proton, and Lutris. It's almost a better experience than the twelve different launchers situation I left behind (though they're annoying in very different ways!)
I don't think devices have progressed much in the last 5-7 years. Before that, computers became almost twice as fast yearly. So yes I'm actually denying this. Devices haven't changed much in the last 7 years.
Very well constructed!
Did you try setting your User Agent to Chrome? I have to use Teams for work. Under Firefox it has problems and missing features, setting my user agent to Chrome solves all of it. Highly uncompetitive if you ask me.
You’re 100% the same guy under a brand new burner account.

This isn’t a movement, and you’re not an activist. Your actions will have knock on effects that harm millions, especially the disabled and elderly.

Keep at it, chucklehead. Soon they’ll start requesting CFAA prosecutions. FBI are much less forgiving than SF’s absentee PD.
> The change from say one version of Windows to the next is tiny

Huh?! That's bullshit. I had recently tried to fix something on family's PC that upgraded itself to Win11 and had absolutely no clue how to navigate all the new settings panels even though I use 10 near daily.
If the "potential destination" indicator dot is under a piece it might be there but not visible.
Most of the ram is for storing the model once it is loaded it is read only so will not harm an SSD.
Do you seriously think D&D and other choose your adventure games will be more popular than porn? Seriously?
Don't forget that Apple deliberately slows down your old iPhone when it decides its no longer useful for them to have a bunch of their userbase using old phones.

Plus, Apple users simply don't care about switching their phones, if Apple says they HAVE TO, they will.
I deliberately didn't compare it to a laptop, because the topic at hand is whether it qualifies as a "desktop". If it can function without an external keyboard and mouse that's a bonus feature.
The T in ChatGPT stands for Transformers. The similarity between the OG Transformer from 2017 and GPT3 (and other modern LLMs) is pretty big
I'd say you're nearing the cliff.

I have an iPad mini that's only a year or two older than that and software upgrades aren't supported, nor are there many (any?) apps available for that version of iOS
It is a little funny that I can't tell if this comment is pro or against desktop Linux.
False, I can use my 12 years old Android perfectly. While I had to ditch my old iPhone 7 (!) because I couldn't install most apps anymore.

iPhone 7 is still a perfectly usable device but bricked now.. Stuck in iOS.
Boehm is not tracing, it's a conservative GC.

PS admittedly, terminology is not precise enough in this space.
Counter battery fire[1] into Russia isn't going to end the war, just the opposite. I guess Russia will blame the mushroom clouds on the Russian partisans too?

[1] And we'll ignore issues with ranging, disproportionate numbers, ammunition, etc

Interesting article but any particular submarine captain getting schwacked on his morning run isn't going to affect the overall Russian war effort.
Microsoft has started another round of layoffs
Actually, maybe you are right. Based on what I've read in this thread, I feel like my approach to finance management is a bit wrong. I probably need something that I can do bi-weekly or monthly.

The initial thought I have for something that I can use often is because I easily forget what I spent money on a single day since I often use cash. I'll have to re-think my approach on this...
Yes, but parent was specifically talking about hardware specs. And a 4x times increase since 2016 isn't much progress compared to the 'good ole times' ;)
I don't want to own most of the music that I listen to. If I wanted to buy all the stuff that's in my spotify "liked songs" playlist - it would cost me thousands of euros.

Until relatively recently you could only buy whole albums not single songs. I don't want to buy the whole album if it only contains 1 or 2 songs that I actually like.
> you can't really have inheritance without polymorphism.

That's not true. In C++ you get inheritance without (runtime) polymorphism if all methods are non-virtual. It's very common actually.
Copyright does very little for individuals. Most benefits from the copyright system are accrued to large corporations.
> try to pressure the government into making it illegal for you to compete with us.

I mean the guy who created GPT-4 literally demanded a ban of any system more powerful than GPT-4.
While I do understand the argument made by the author, I am of the opinion that it's totally possible to damage some product/concept while being something separate/different - which the author assumes could not happen:

> Because Threads is not a Mastodon instance. It is its own self-contained, centralized social network with plans to let its users follow Mastodon accounts and vice versa.

Spotify also is not podcasts, as they host the shows themselves. Podcast and its infrastructure should be unaffected by this following the author's logic. But it definitely affected how podcasts are consumed and perceived and it was not for the better of the open standard of podcasts. Nowadays many people think podcasts just are on Spotify.
He mentions that the original version is from the 1970s, and he added to it over time. So the original sensibility is pre-PC, but yeah SaaS would have been around by this last edit.
To be fair, SteamOS is just a barely customized Arch Linux.

All the UX work is being done in the steam client itself and is not exclusive to the Steam Deck. In fact, the SteamOS ui is now available 1:1 in the good old PC Steam client, replacing the old Big Picture mode.

The only thing that doesn’t comes directly with Steam is Gamescope (but you can install it yourself easily).

Other than that, the SteamOS is just an Arch Linux with Steam installed, KDE and a Steam wallpaper.
> Any nation state with access to U and graphite can simply construct a pile reactor to make Pu. Much easier to conceal and operate compared to trying to mask reactor operations at a civilian plant.

The pile reactor that the US built during WW2 at the Hanford Site employed 45000 construction workers. Making plutonium is quite straightforward in theory, but practice tends to disagree with theory.

Two nations that I know of decided that uranium bombs make more sense for them, South Africa and Iran. South Africa went on to build six such bombs.
> Why do admins get a say in who their users follow in the first place?

Because it's their server and they have opinions of what their server is about and what's acceptable there. But more importantly: because their users don't want to have to individually block every troll and nazi out there. There are entire instances dedicated to just shitting all over everybody else, and most people on other instances don't want to have to wade through that shit.

Users can choose their server based on its policies. Maybe admins should be more up-front about their server's policies. But some degree of moderation is simply unavoidable on the internet today, because we've seen time and time again that everything turns to crap if you don't moderate. HN moderates too.
This issue doesn’t apply to the iPhone 7 yet given that that device received the iOS 15 update in 2021.

For all the talk this “disposable hardware” and “planned obsolescence” issue is much more a problem on Android.
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We need a new internet for that. Half joking but not really. One that is strictly p2p and has no distinction between client and server. All applications run client side and sync with a trusted and opt in friend of friend spanning tree. Looks more like organic neighborhoods. Incentivizes closer relationships but can still leverage networks in higher degrees through friend of friend connections. Essentially something like BitTorrent and bypassing BGP and incentivizing local clusters of information exchange that get mixed with “curators” who dip into multiple networks helping networks replicate information they want access to.

Latency matters less when it’s all run locally and can even be done predictably with local ai for many scenarios. That with local application rules that get verified by whoever is peering through/with you on a app.

Another part that I came across as a separate inquiry of possibility was kind of a OS on top of such a structure where you wouldn’t need anything than a “terminal” as all your computers are on a virtual machine overlay. It’s be interested to have every possible computation be hashed so once it’s done it just need to be retrieved so you can treat all peers as a type of addressable memory to not only information but computation and data.

It’s something I wanted to build but then I lost motivation because I can’t possibly be sane or unique now can I?
> That doesn’t really exist any more.

But the lack of driver support still does. Linux on a modern laptop is just full of headaches. I mean, https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen7-7840u this is typical: GNOME doesn't work, graphical glitches... In my own experience, operating MFC devices over several years is a nightmare, Bluetooth is problematic as well, some proprietary VPNs do not have Linux clients which might not be Linux's fault but if I can't log in I can't work.

Life is too short for this, sorry. Windows + WSL is the way. The right tool for the right job, Windows for drivers, WSL for, well, everything else.