skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They still have the dominant desktop OS and they barely care about that. Microsoft in it's current form wants to sell you subscriptions and in that context the operating system is less relevant.

What stings me a bit is that Microsoft is the dominant player on the desktop and then they are so little about making the making it a good and consistent experience. Windows 95 was never amazing, but they put the work in and gave us the impression that they at least tried. Now it's 2023 and my desktop has ads, tracking and UI elements that are 30 years old, because they could never be arsed to update them.
In the post they say:

> In addition, dropping the cross-sign will reduce the number of certificate bytes sent in a TLS handshake by over 40%
Notably most of Europe is a signatory of both treaties.
Nah, you can't easily dynamically downmix surround sound audio to stereo. In the main mix, the dialog mostly comes through the center channel, and the left and right surround sound speakers are used for sound effects. If you simply split the center channel to left and right without massively boosting the volume of the center channel first, you're going to have stupidly loud sound effects (from the L/R surround sound speakers) and the dialogue will sound like whispers. If you're playing the movie from a PC, you can boost the center channel audio with software, but sometimes (e.g. when a character is off-screen) dialogue will come from the left or right channels and you won't be able to clearly hear them.

If you've got a stereo speaker setup, there's no good solution unless you can get your hands on the actual official stereo mix (some streaming services let you select this), but even the official stereo mix is an afterthought cobbled together by some overworked and underpaid audio engineer: the primary mix is absolutely the theatrical mix with all the surround sound channels, then everything is downmixed progressively from there.
Only if we can find a "willing" tardigrade.
The (even pre-emptive!) opposition and censorship seems way stronger this time around than with previous technologies. Like instead of ignoring the porn (or even profiting from it), they are trying very hard to make it impossible.
I second this. I've had the very rare message saying the tab tree has gotten out of sync (always as a consequence of me moving tabs between incognito windows), but the first time it happened clicking the message refreshed the tab tree successfully; the second time it didn't but toggling the sidebar off and on fixed it. I've had no problems with stability.

And to me the context menu option to unload tabs is a killer feature.
My point is that openai's competitors have no problem handling regulations.
> Meanwhile modern replacements like DigiKam, Lightroom, ON1, and so on are incredibly bloated with very slow UI response even on a very powerful desktop PC.

Darktable and ON1 feel decent snappy on my ~8 year old Desktop PC.

Though it was a looong time since I last tried Picasa.
It is not a matter of the age of your hardware but your software. Ipad mini 4 got its latest OS update in 2023. The problem is that in the Android ecosystem it is unfortunately common to only have a short window of OS updates from the release date of the hardware.
“Leaked” seems like a strong clickbait claim from whoever wrote this, along with the “it’s over” part….
I've seen an example and the weakest link seemed to be the TTS, which sounded several generations behind.
Wouldn't the operators of all apt mirrors be renewing their LE certificates with certbot every month or so? Then, after June 6th, 2024, they will get a new certificate signed by the new LE root, which isn't cross-signed and isn't expired.

Or am I missing something?
I have an iPad Pro (1st gen, 2015) that I continue to use as a (secondary) daily driver.

My laptops are both 2015 MacBook Pros.

I’m sure there’s plenty of use cases where the gains are valuable. If you’re a photographer, developer, gamer, or web browser without an Adblocker, I’m sure it’s immense. For me personally, the gains are questionable.
This kit uses SATA, relying on one of those M.2 6-port SATA adapters for the split-out, and a custom PCB sandwich that routes the SATA signals to three sets of two slots.
You can slow things down, but not by more than a few years, because of the gradual democratization of training foundation models. Right now training a model competitive with chatgpt can be done for $150K (microsoft orca 13b). In a few years the cost will be low enough that individuals can train models. At that point regulating it will require draconian dictatorships.

I’m also very wary of the copyright angle on this, because just like we don’t prohibit people from learning copyrighted materials in their brains, it feels very wrong to regulate how we train digital brains. I’m ok with forbidding the output of copies of individual existing copyrighted works, but we already have laws on the books for that. I find it downright immoral to prohibit the generation of works “in the style of”. That again reeks like the kind of draconian society I don’t want to live in.

People will always be willing to pay for human-made art, just like we pay more for handmade pots, even though machines can make them better, so I think the doomsayers who predict the end of art are flat out wrong. Easy access to mass-generated AI content could be the best thing that happened to true artists, just like chess AI that can beat every human player was the best thing that happened to the chess world. We need labeling laws that show the origin of works so people can choose whether they want artificial or human-made, but please not another extension of the copyright regime to be even more suffocating and hostile of cultural flourishing.
Multiuser support is free, face detection is cheap enough embedded camera chips do it, metadata indexing is cheap with any recent DB engine, search is cheap with them as well.

The only computationally expensive thing here is face matching. Photoprism recommends two cores and 3G RAM and claims to be able to run on a NAS.
Maybe Russia has been injecting lead into his water supply lol.

I’m also saddened.

Musk is not really a hero or a villain, but his manic stages have given us our first realistic shot at becoming a spacefaring civilization, and moved the needle big time on the lock that the perro cartels had on the automotive industry vis-a-vis electric cars.

I hope elon gets better. Losing a billionaire tech maximalists manic episodes is going to set us back decades as more reasonable people chase profit instead of dreams.
All work and no game ...
"Firecracker is an alternative to QEMU that is purpose-built for running serverless functions and containers safely and efficiently, and nothing more." [1]

Interesting. I guess we are reading a different website.

1. https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/
Yes, I assumed 1 user per server. If a family shares the server, then you can divide by the number of family members.

The link I shared has the details of the calculation. The calculation assumes 50% CPU load which is most likely too high for this use case.
LattePanda or Zima Board plus some adapters is the closest possibility right now but there are price and power efficiency tradeoff a in both cases.
And Active Director and Exchange, they have to count for a ton of installations as well.
A baby doesn't output propaganda at 6GB/s in computer readable text.
I’ve been running btrfs on my laptop and workstation since 2015 and haven’t had any issues. I get all the advanced FS functionality I want without needing to worry about kernel versions or any of the other hassle of setting up ZFS.

In many ways ZFS feels like the last hurrah of “traditional” file systems. The fact that ZFS finds itself without genuine alternatives isn’t because it’s just that good, it’s because industry players have moved on. If all you need is a monster file server or a local data archive, sure, use ZFS.
Thanks for pointing out environmental considerations. These got swept under the rug for too long.

I'm not too comfortable pointing to the cloud providers for "efficiency", but you gotta go somewhere. I get that.

Personally I'm more a fan of building more efficient software (green software?). Using 6GB @ 4 cores to handle some media is a bit much IMO..
Beyond what the architecture encourages, the devs themselves have very much encouraged a narcissistic, block happy culture across the protocol.

It's very disappointing to see something that should have encouraged people from disparate backgrounds and views to come together and discuss topics without "engagement" driven controversy baiting, just being used as "Twitter, but you get to make your personal Pyongyang".
And yet lettuce can still outlast officials in government!
Here's my European personal finance software on Apple Macs and iPads journey.

I used to use MoneyWiz but it couldn't handle both American, Irish, and Swedish bank or investment accounts. So I outgrew it quickly.

Then I did it manually in Excel, and Later Moneydance that is really a great product. That said it didn't really work for me due to my undiagnosed ADHD brain. There is some automation in Monedance but I never got forex exchange rates or Stocks to work like I wanted automatically. I know you can get it working but for some reason I never got it to. THey later got some automation for a 2 euro subscription fee, but it cant handle my Irish or Swedish banks only American banks.

If you are in to privacy then Moneydance is the software for you, they are really big on not wanting your data which is refreshing. It really is a great software, Im just not Neurotypical enough to use it though. https://moneydance.com/

Now I am using Banktivity that handles all European and American banks, with automatic updates. https://www.banktivity.com/

I love it. It just handles stuff for me, and my ADHD brain feels in control of economy again...
> There are many, many servers that do not defederate with any other servers.

Yeah? Where are they?

> If you prefer closed source spyware social media apps, by all means, stick with Twitter and refuse to do your research.

No, I prefer social media which doesn't engage in censorship.
The vast majority of experts are being employed to say this. There is no demonstrable evidence of physical computation to the contrary.
>Windows, on the other side, has a basically monolithic environment in the name of ... dunno what.

Consistency, stability?
Many people train on libgen/torrent in the form of books3 (e.g. LLaMa does this).
Hence the limiting of things to developed countries.
is it?

Because condensation is literally part of the definition of derivative, and basically the weights are a condensed form of the input data. It's some sort of lossy compression, when looking at it from the right point of view.

Summarization and translation are also clearly derivative.

The definition of transformative I found:

- add something new (context of other books I guess, this one might pass)
- with a further purpose or different character (further purpose clearly yes)
- do not substitute for the original use of the work (this one I find difficult. In the case of books, probably. In the case of github, it aims to replace quite some aspects of it)
I'd venture to say 99% of people don't give a damn on what their os is. All they care is to run their apps without the os getting in their way or breaking. They don't feel the need to and don't want to be forced to tweak, customize, fine tune and manage that os a lot.
It is in tech terms. Just deal with it.

Phones from 2016 are ancient and you can buy newer phones dirt cheap. The Samsung A series costs almost nothing, same with all the cheap Redmi phones and Oppo and whatnot.
> Atmos through stereo headphones is a non-sensical premise

If you watch atmos content through an apple tv it has head tracking for airpods. It's not going to change your life, but the audio being centered on the actual screen a la a proper surround sound setup is a nice touch.
Well, because my local instance of <WebApp> says, <Feature> isn't available unless I use HTTPS.

Also, HTTPS with a public CA just works on most systems, whereas IPsec requires Client configuration. It's still easier to roll out than switching from IPv4.

For personal or experimental things, I may use a local CA, but getting certificates for the internal subdomains of my company is trivial when you already got a public domain on a Server that's capable of using DNS-01 challenges.

Enabling HTTPS is just way easier than actually ensuring you can trust your local network. Many real-life middle-class companies start out with just having a network and not thinking about security at all. Some companies may even have untrusted internal networks by choice by allowing BYOD.
That seems like a rather false hope. Russia doesn't have much of a track record for backing down.

We can discuss the Prigozhin incident but no one outside of Wagner supported him. Nor does he seem to be in favor of withdrawing from Ukraine but rather assigning blame for mismanagement of the war. In fact, there are a whole host of vocal Russians ("ultranationalists") who seem to think Russia (and therefore Putin?) is not putting in enough effort.

If there is a coup, the rest of the civilized world really may not like whoever replaces Putin.
I used an AWS instance with similar specs as reference. What kind of low power servers are you referring too?
> The author argues in that life is very likely because it is the most efficient way to increase entropy in the universe

Why does the universe favour things that efficiently increase entropy?
Leaked is I think an accurate term -- this (or the original post) is fairly new information leaked from openai.
We should always remember companies are just groups of humans who are accountable for their actions.
Steam Deck's desktop environment is barely usable without connecting it to a dock and using an external keyboard and mouse.

You won't use it as a daily driver in handheld mode. The virtual keyboard covers half of the screen, the touchscreen is unusable as a mouse and touchpads are inconvenient.

Ordinary laptops don't have these problems.
how about wood used for construction...
Nextcloud is super slow and inefficient on many levels. After running it professionally for several years I try yo stay as far away as possible.
Whatever the endgame is, Russia having a thousand fewer tanks, AFVs and artillery guns is better for USA, NATO, and European security.

If we need to perpetually spend like 3% of our defense budget on Ukraine... That's fine? We're not really dedicated to it like the $Trillion/year we spent on Iraq or Afghanistan.

One can even argue that all the data we are getting from Patriot systems and Drones is good for the Taiwan situation. Out defenses and weapons are being tested, while China's are not. We will have upgrades and improvements that we otherwise wouldn't have gotten thanks to Ukrainian war.

From a purely selfish perspective, USA is a big winner of Ukraine/Russia war, much like the Nazi Germany was the winner of the Spanish civil war.

A war in an allied nation where our weapons, doctrine and theories is tested puts us up in ways that money cannot buy.

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We are learning how to spin up 155mm production lines and Stinger missiles thanks to the Ukrainian war. We've learned of the hole in our air defenses that drones pose. We've seen how naval drones work vs the Russian navy (and a preview for how it'd work vs the Chinese Navy). Etc. Etc.

The only reason we are sending these cluster bombs is because we've failed to spin up production of 155mm shells fast enough, and our stockpiles of that shell were too shallow in practice.

We've learned that Switzerland is not a reliable ally. We've learned that Germany's doctrine relies upon Swiss AA ammunition and that Germany is grossly unprepared to ramp up AA defense production.

Good. We learned, our generals will remember and we will be in a better position when a real war hits us. This was all a test and we can use the results of the test to improve ourselves.

And who knows? Maybe we can even keep Ukraine free and prosperous when it all ends. Might as well try our best to help them while getting all this valuable data.
Meta’s Threads app is a privacy nightmare that won’t launch in EU yet
As a note the 366B in Bloom-366B refers to the number of tokens, not the number of parameters. Bloom had 176B parameters (still many more than Falcon)
'people are leaving twitter, trust me bro' - wsj
Perhaps it’s a fictitious force just like centrifugal motion and otherwise. :)
It's not "good". It's bad. You have to figure out what kind of bad though, and what the alternative is. As it happens, alternative may very well be worse.

And I'm glad you agree at least that PUTIN EVIL.
>but not popular enough to be spoiled and optimized for the "casual" user

I'm trying really hard to come up with a scenario where optimizing the desktop experience for the average user is a bad thing.

For example, what keeps me on Windows (and WSL2) at the moment is that the freesync/variable refresh rate technology doesn't always behave as you would expect it to be, resulting in games that stutter, frame dip and eat inputs. Gnome devs have a branch pending final tests for vrr for months. KDE on Wayland is the best for what I'm asking atm but even that has its problems during gameplay.

And let's not forget the pains Nvidia's drivers cause compared to AMD on Linux for desktop. I built my desktop using AMD GPU and CPU specifically for Linux to play nice, and yet it doesn't for the only 2 games I play during my downtime. It's just sad.
I've had it happen where it was just disabled, I would have won because I could laser the king but it just didn't show me the dots.
I have no idea.
It is what is is... :/

Cynically it feels to me like it's just a nice way for the companies nearby to get free labor.

My assumption for that is just that it's just supposed to be an internship somewhere where our focus would be to study and thus we shouldn't get any benefits from it, but I've never heard of it working that way. It was always in IT here just being an unpaid junior.
In VR there's lots of possible optimizations in the vein of foveated rendering that can be exploited.
For anyone else wondering:

“Mortgage: late Middle English: from Old French, literally ‘dead pledge’, from mort (from Latin mortuus ‘dead’) + gage ‘pledge’”
I hate the way it's configured, but it gets the job done.

It would be nice to be able to tell it to stay away from Download.
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You’re overdramatizing this. The comparison was between the danger imposed on citizens by passive munitions vs an active invading force.
I still have to see a single webapp that is as performant and feels the same as a native one. We might get there, and lots of companies are happy to release a half-backed webapp today, but that is definitely not the experience today.
> Does an Apple TV support Apple Music, and if so does it deliver multichannel sound over HDMI?

Yes, yes.

You can also connect a multichannel DAC to any Mac or iOS device.
Hello everyone
We have been working for a couple of years now on MetisFL, a federated learning framework that allows developers to federate their machine learning workflows and train their models across distributed datasets without having to collect the data in a centralized location.
Since the project is now transitioning to a public phase, we are actively encouraging developers, researchers and data scientists to experiment with the framework and contribute to the codebase.
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> If you don't want to be all alone, you shouldn't have to opt in to becoming a part of the hivemind.

You don't need to be all alone, you just need to be mindful that maximising freedom for all includes the freedom for others to choose not to want to associate with you if you insist on being disruptive, and what different groups find disruptive varies, and you can not expect everyone to voluntarily subject themselves to disruption, and in many cases harassment and threats.

You don't need to opt in to a "hivemind". You just need to find a community that does not consider your speech offensive, or create your own. The Fediverse has communities that span the political and social spectrums, from the furthest left to actual Nazis, many of which certainly very much refuse to engage with each other but all of which still are able to exist and exercise their speech to those willing to listen.

> and the Fediverse

"The Fediverse" does not censor. Individual instances and sometimes groups of instances censor. Nobody stops you from hosting your own discussions and federating with those who are willing to consent to engage with you and saying whatever you want.

What you have no right to expect of others is for them to yield and put you in charge of what they're forced to listen to.

> Where are the censorship police in public parks and libraries, asking people to leave? These spaces are perfectly fine and nobody is being harmed in them. There's no reason our internet deserves special padded walls, memory holes, and horse blinders.

Try to strip off completely in most parks, or shout in the library, or going up to random people and harassing them with speech they find threatening or offensive, and you'll see that every space have community norms that are enforced, and will censor you if you act in ways incompatible with what we've decided is appropriate for that space even if you're entirely free to act the exact same way elsewhere.

Protecting the freedom of all also means enabling the creation of spaces with restrictions.

> Remember that just twenty years ago, democrats and liberals were the protectors of free speech. The pendulum swung to the right (and it'll probably swing back left again). That's why this platform- and infrastructure-level censorship is so upsetting. Tools that "protect" today might be turned against you tomorrow.

This maximalist view of wanting us all to carry speech we don't want to has nothing to do with free speech, but about a desire to force us to listen, and it has a deeply authoritarian undertone to it.

I'm all for broad and strong protections for people to say what they want, but not to be forced to let them do so in my own space.
"Fungi" is plural.
In Windows' File Explorer, F6 cycles focus between window sub-regions, while Alt+D sends you unconditionally to the address bar independent of where the focus is. So maybe there is a parallel here.
Yep, unfortunately I haven't been able to use the laser yet because of this bug
Honestly it's less like Netherlands and more like Sudan (or France?) sometimes. I've also used linux since SLS for what it's worth.

Choice is fine as long as everything can integrate properly and work together.

Maybe the desktop could do with a little bit of Singapore's sort-of benevolent-ish dictatorship - that's how the kernel is developed after all.
If I read a book and then write a summary, is that plagiarism? What's the difference? I am legitimately not familiar with copyright law, but real lawyers seem to think it is unclear whether training on copyrighted data is illegal (in Japan it's definitely not).
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A bit disingenuous to post these particular macs as a problem when you have mountains of decade old macbooks in background.

All that said, his proposed solution sounds reasonable.
The person that upvotes the answer is the person that asked the question.
So, if it is useful for that person the purpose was served.
Our telemetry says 98% of Firefox users have fewer than 20 tabs open. And that's Beta data so heavily skewed to more sophisticated users. I wouldn't be surprised if it was closer to 99% maxing out at under 20. 95% have fewer than 10 tabs open. 75% have 3 or fewer.
Or in the Carboniferous, where wood was first invented, but no organisms were around to digest it, so it accumulated in the form of coal.
Yes, I have, and Sketch is far superior for me. So much that I would rather buy mac and Sketch than use Figma completely for free.
Mixture of experts is different from ensembles because MoE happens at every layer as opposed to joining the models once at the end