skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WSL being a recent counter factor, as much as I don't enjoy Windows it got a lot more bearable for me since I can manage it through a Debian installation. Filesystem access, Windows program execution and running cmd.exe/powershell commands without having to open either of them removes some of the pain
After years of BSD and Linux on my desktop, I finally figured out that the desktop is about applications. Many of us need to actually accomplish things in addition to develop Open Source software.

Had M$ been broken up, maybe it would be different. Until things change, I am happy that at least I can run applications on UNIX based MacOS.

3% is just sarcasm
> I’m more than a third of the way done with my life

I'm just about to hit 61% and also feel like I'm just getting started (mainly due to wasting a whole bunch of years on trying to please other people, trying to fit in, etc.)
I might be a NT fan, yet I am the first to acknowledge NT never had a big market share on the server room.

The only places where NT managed to succeed on server room have been Microsoft shops, or places where .NET was adopted as the main development stack.

Workstations is another matter.

In the 80's many banks were either on mainframes/micros, or using stuff like Novel Netware.
I drove a regular Fiat 500 once. Terrible car, only time I've felt scared driving, and not due to the size of the car, but rather just the horrible build quality. It felt on par with the Geo Metro I learned to drive in.

I currently own 2 sub compacts, both of which are just barely big enough to fit a stroller + 1 bag of groceries, which feels about as small as I'd want to go for a city car, although part of me wonders how much of that is due to the size of the strollers sold in America!

I feel my car is both way too big and also too small at times. TBF a large % of my commute is taking the entire family around, or going to fetch large batches of things from stores, so I don't feel too bad, other than the entire using gas and getting 20MPG part aspect of it all.
I don't remember much of Ada, but here's something very basic I liked (had to look the details up):

You could declare custom integer types like this:

type My_Type is range -5 .. 10;

And then you could reference the range with My_Type'First or My_Type'Last

And there were named parameters.

for A in Range_Type loop
I_IO.Put (
Item => A,
Width => 3,
Base => 10);
...
end loop;
Exactly my thoughts. I think Linux is in a good sweet spot; popular enough so that applications advertise support for Linux, but not popular enough to be spoiled and optimized for the "casual" user.
You're absolutely right about the drift, but an FLL is sufficient for cases where you case about the frequency and not about the exact position of the 1PPS output.

E.g. when using a GPSDO to drive or calibrate frequency counters, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, and similar kind of equipment.

There are many GPSDOs out there that are FLL only.

I'm not sure how you'd implement a pure digital-only phase detector inside an LPC1752. The precision of measuring the phase would be pretty terrible when the internal clock is only, say, 100MHz?

Edit: I should be able to check this by putting the GPS module 1PPS and the GPSDO 1PSS output on the scope.
If you want a repeatable task done properly every time you give it to a computer. In this case, manipulating feature flags is a task for partial evaluation / staging. It's relatively well known in the programming language research community but hasn't made it into mainstream production languages. No amount of social process will ever be as effective.
Photos.app is just atrocious.

Google Photos just works.
Let’s not pretend it wouldn’t be good if I could run Linux on the desktop the way we run MacOS. It would be great to only have to learn one OS and it worked really smoothly.
According to that first one I only had a 4% chance of meeting my boyfriend, so that’s interesting. 4% actually seems pretty doable regardless, not sure I really deserve the ‘cat lady’ rating - go on a hundred dates, and you should at least run across a few solid possibilities.
By that logic these articles should be about FreeBSD/NetBSD not Linux cause they have more presence by running on every PS3/PS4/PS5. Roughly ~250m compared to the 3m
Thank you for responding. I wrongfully assumed that this was posted by yourself, if I had taken the time to understand that it was posted by someone else I wouldn't have made such a remark.

There's a trend where projects are marketed as 'blazingly fast', yet when benchmarked fall several orders of magnitude behind near optimal solutions. It's a knee jerk reaction of mine to call out when statements around performance are made without benchmarks.

Looking forward to seeing more about this project! I learned to program with CL way back when, makes me happy to see when people are working on big projects in it. Cheers!
I would be pretty annoyed to discover Apple unlocking my Activation Locked devices without contacting me, positively identifying me and getting my permission to unlock them. The whole point of Activation Lock is to ruin the resale value of stolen Apple products.
Indeed, if we are speaking about the Linux kernel, which isn't what most of these articles are about.
Taiwan too
From a quick test play, destroying with a laser seems to be a move itself, so takes a turn.
Didn't I see someone fake this with dog cells ~15 years ago?
Meanwhile Wordpress powers 40% of all websites

Basically the difference is that open source needs experts to maintain it, so it works really well for server side stuff and predefined environments. Not as much for desktop.
More likely to be bots/crawlers.
Laser Chess, 1987 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Chess>
This made me remember that for a while I used unison to sync the Thunderbird mail directory of my laptop with my EEEPC netbook (remember those things?) because a cheap 1 kg small machine was perfect to carry around on one week vacations, just in case... Then smartphones happened and killed that use case.
Pretty much how the USA feels, and also its oligarch billionaire class LOL
It surely does, yet they have a better OS to sell on the server room, Azure.
The EU Commission Adopts an Adequacy Decision for EU-US Data Flows
For years, I kept my wifi with the passphrase “This is my passphrase. There are many like it, but this one is mine.” Without the quotes of course. With two spaces after the period.

At this point I am not going to overcome forty years of muscle memory. I assume whatever tool is doing the rendering will make things right according to the current convention.
No. I will use the OS I like and others will use the OS they prefer. It’s called choice.

What stung before was that people were forced to use
Windows because of lock-ins, software compatibility, etc. That doesn’t really exist any more. If there is one good thing about web apps, it’s that browsers are now the application run time and browsers are more cross platform than any software libraries that have come before it.

The only area I wish had a better story was the enterprise desktop space (like Windows domains or jamf on macOS) but currently I can’t justify allowing my team to run Linux because having its hard enough for small companies to manage a mixture of macOS and Windows fleets without adding a 3rd platform into the mix.
The serial port reports a clock of 100MHz inside the LPC1752. If that's connected to the PWM generators, you should be able to get away with 16 without any dithering.
That's a bit of a mistatement/overstatement. That's like saying the Windows XP thin-client at Barnes and Noble runs the, mostly Linux/Unix, backend.

For US nuclear subs: All of the core components and electronics use a custom RTOS; older ones built in Ada, newer ones built in C++. The "control computers" (the computers that humans interface with to tell core components what to do) aren't running anything like Ubuntu or Fedora, but instead run a heavily ruggedized and customized Linux system based on the Titanium suite from Star Lab.

For UK subs, they run a similar custom OS for the modules and electronics and (until 2017 or so, at least) run Windows XP for their control computers.

I have no idea what other nations use; but I would assume they are similarly setup.

That's not to disavow the fact that clearly the US govt trusts those Linux computers to be reliable, thus their investment in them. So it is an accomplishment, they just don't "run" anything.
So what’s the best desktop distribution these days? Sounds like Ubuntu is out of fashion?
Yeah, Excel is only for once a week or month. If you need to be tighter than that, there's probably a way to make your bank display CC charges since the start of the week. I wouldn't want to bother scanning receipts into an app or anything like that.
Is it battery-friendly?
There's a section at the end where there is speculation on what the entire dataset entails. My guess is a chunk of it is probably from ChatGPT data (or GPT3 data from when training on your requests was opt-out rather than opt-in).
Yep Ben Evans’ newsletter is great. If one only would want to subscribe to one single weekly newsletter about the tech industry, I’d recommend that one.
Maybe we should quit the field of physics and just stand still as a human species so that people living in rural places can use Instagram and TikTok.
Switch uses its own proprietary microkernel.
> The caveat is that you know what you're doing. Most people don't. Computers are made for most people.

While you're absolutely correct it's my impression that most people will grant any permission without reading just to make this popup interruption go away and move on with their task.
The change from say one version of Windows to the next is tiny, and happens every 5 years or so.

Changing from one OS to another is orders of magnitude more complex. As you point out above jumping between them is painful.

Your job may require you to do that, but you're a tiny sliver of the work-force, never mind everyone else. My book-keeper has never encountered the Windows Registry.

You're thinking of the OS as an actual bit of software you interact with. For 99.99% of users it's invisible. They just want printing to happen when they press the print button.
Wow every layoff I’ve experience has felt like a betrayal and has taken real time to get over, both emotionally and financially. You lucked out.
I would love to see your rebuttals, especially since I have never seen any strong arguments in favour of AI being a net benefit to society, and I have thought and read about this at lenght.

Of course, I always expect downvotes on my posts here since there is a strong tendency towards loving technology here. But what I find most interesting is that there is absolutely no taking of responsibility of any technological creations.

Before you downvote, please just ask yourself the following: is it reasonable to say that all these latest AI developments have no serious risks? And in response to your reply, humanity is in quite a precarious state now, so isn't it expected that a sober analysis of it is rather pessimistic, especially with regard to hyper-advanced technologies?
A common meme since Windows XP was released, on every Windows release.
Wow, that sounds like a real PITA pattern for a photo backup system, at least for me and my mental model.
I've been wondering how freemium services like Thread Reader still operate now that Twitter is charging prohibitive prices for API access and taking measures to prevent scraping. The cheapest API plan with read access is $100/month, which reads 10,000 tweets, so could only produce about 500 pages like this one on demand.
>Good luck trying to run a proper GNU/Linux on those Android devices.

How is toybox not good enough to replace the GNU coreutils for a phone? Or what GNU software are you talking about that someone would even want to run on a phone?
Does anyone have a link / instructions on getting Falcon 40b to install on Apple Silicon?

Apparently "Hugging Face" have some internal swift code that works (but it has not been released). I'm keen to see how it performs on a maxed out Mac Studio (with all that unified memory available).
It's striking how much modern software development can match this theoretical ideal business, even though SaaS hadn't really taken off when he wrote this.

Really excellent read. Very amusing to see his analysis of Apple and Microsoft, which seemed basically accurate until the iPhone came out.
> The conspiracy theory that the new GPT-4 quality had been deteriorated might be simply because they are letting the oracle model accept lower probability sequences from the speculative decoding model.

In other words: the speculation was likely right, I'll propose a specific mechanism explaining it, but then still insult the people bringing it up and keep gaslighting them.
NixOS is great in many ways, but it’s really quite difficult to use. Anything that requires use of the command line is a no-go for everyone but hardcore enthusiasts. Even I, who have contributed to Nixpkgs, wish I could just stick to a GUI sometimes. Not to mention how NixOS breaks assumptions software has about your computer and therefore makes development much more difficult than it really needs to be.
A decrease locally, yes, but an increase overall.

A life form is definitely something I'd consider to be highly organized, i.e. low entropy, but that order is maintained via a greater relative increase of entropy by destroying and consuming other "instances" of low entropy (plants, animals, etc) for nutrition, which are they themselves sustained by disproportionate increases of entropy (consuming of other organisms, the sun doing its thing, etc).

So, as a life form tends to fight for its own survival -- survival being "just" a process of increasing entropy every else but the life form itself -- it is indeed an extremely efficient way of increasing entropy in the universe, in that is requires only a single point of decrease in order to cause a theoretically infinite instances of increase.

I suddenly feel an awful lot like a cow on my way to the slaughter indeed, and have the urge to go play Dark Souls.
Is there any self hosted alternative to this? I am not comfortable at all with giving all my financial data to YNAB.
Mastering Python Context Managers
Pitchforks can be lowered. From the article:

> The sentencing change comes after her co-conspirator, Sunny Balwani, also saw two years shaved off of his 13-year sentence, with his projected date of release now 1 April 2034, according to the Bureau of Prisons website.
But other than through unofficial modding how many of those expose an open BSD environment? The Steam Deck has a desktop mode as a selling point which functions exactly like a Linux desktop.
Sounds like BRSKI [1].

[1]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc8995/
I, for one, welcome our new desktop overlords.
When the inventor of a language can calmly tell you it is quirky, flawed, it immediately shows how enormously successful it is.
> I've at times been told that tech debt is fine because products only last 3-4 years before a replacement gets made.

Here am I, sipping on my coffee and catching up on HN while waiting for my 10+ year project to finish building.

Building what? A feature flag, of all things.
Yeah Zuckerberg saying that they want to "focus on positivity and kindness" is a huge red flag. And I'll trust Twitter's Community Notes over Meta's "independent fact checkers" any day
> 100% OSS

Tell that to your BIOS or the firmware that runs on your WLAN or NVMe. Hell, tell that to the CPU itself[^1].

[^1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine
GPT-Prompt-Engineer
Any Photoprism user out there that tried this already? How does it compare, UI and updating-wise? I'm a Photprism donor but seems that development is stalling a bit lately (just a new release in over 6 months and with not so big changes, although I still have to update to be honest)

EDIT: after a quick assessment in the doc pages/features, this seems to... blow Photoprism out of the water?
Have you tried taking a warmed-up water bottle, chilling it, and pouring it into a glass? I wonder if part of it is the psychological effect.
LLaMA 30B or 60B can be very impressive when correctly prompted.
Deploying the 60B version is a challenge though and you might need to apply 4-bit quantization with something like https://github.com/PanQiWei/AutoGPTQ or https://github.com/qwopqwop200/GPTQ-for-LLaMa . Then you can improve the inference speed by using https://github.com/turboderp/exllama .

If you prefer to use an "instruct" model à la ChatGPT (i.e. that does not need few-shot learning to output good results) you can use something like this: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Wizard-Vicuna-30B-Uncensored...
The interesting thing with these Uncensored models is that they don't constantly answer that they cannot help you (which is what ChatGPT and GPT-4 are doing more and more).
amazing, I can not wait to use that!
Never waste your midlife crisis
Please no. Making my MacBook less attractive to thieves is something I paid extra for. There is peace of mind in knowing my laptop is just a brick without me, it makes it more possible to recover it.

But I can see thieves making the case that it would be less wasteful to let stolen laptops be more fence-able.
It uses the Linux kernel with a browser userspace.

Some selected models allow to run GNU/Linux, WSL style, in its own sandboxed environment.
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Except that, we know such macro correlations exist — for the two reasons I outlined.

We know that the universe was once highly correlated, due to its size, and we know that such correlations form super-macro structures, from galaxies to filaments. We further know that knots in the wave equation are a non-local phenomena, such as with anyons. The minimal assumption is that any particle we encounter is part of such a non-local phenomenon.

To assume that we can isolated regions of reality uncorrelated to those two phenomena is to assume an ideological belief, unsupported by evidence.

That you didn’t discuss my actual objection to dismiss it with generalities is very telling.
The appearing and disappearing ‘lobby’ entries above the analysis board cause the rest of the page to jump up and down at random. It makes the rules and all following content borderline unreadable.
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Install Asahi Linux?
>and like 60% of embedded devices

Maybe 60% of embedded devices with an OS.

But yes, Linux (and BSD) are quite dominant outside of the desktop market segment.
> Linux is on more computers both today and all of the computers ever made put together than any other OS.

Yeah. But it's not its OS. The true OS of most Android installations is some propietary firmware blob.
It’s ironic you say: “we are playing with fire.” Playing with fire is, in large part, literally how humans have come to dominate this planet. Why stop now?
I think we should tackle this problem by collectively teaching people not to steal.

Legit resale people can be contacted. People who were tasked with destroying equipment, but trying to resale should be upfront about their operations and get unlocks before accepting delivery.
Just discover that Multiple 1.12.0 updates appear to be migrating Hyperkit to QEMU-based, there could be a significant change whenever VM can be backup?
Not tangible, but there will always be a theoretical and idealistic appeal for decentralized app/game/protocol hosting and governance. Corporate bodies like OpenAI, Twitter, YouTube, Blizzard Entertainment have made unpopular changes to popular services they own in a centralized fashion. What if LLMs, social media, and MMOs were both open source and hosted and controlled by their users, not just the whims of a single IP owner?

It seems that much like running a co-op or commune the barrier is whether enough people care to take up the fraction of effort and cost it takes to join such an arrangement.
As observed by StatCounter, a web analytics company...

I guess this is accurate for people who are in the web ads business, but otherwise obviously it's a bad proxy and seems likely it's undercounting a lot since Linux users tend to be savvy enough to block analytics and probably do less web browsing on StatCounter monitored sites.

Eg they show Firefox as having too small to see (< 2%) market share here: https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share - other data sources show 7-ish %.
Interesting: looking at Statcounter data, Linux has been gaining traction in India[0] since 2022 and now accounts for almost 14% of desktop operating systems (it's the 2nd most used OS already).

[0] https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/india/#mo...
I see.

I still manage to use TST, but part of my reason for using Firefox is just because I don't want to use anything Chromium based.

Oh, and also I don't really want to support Mozilla either so I am experimenting with LibreWolf as my secondary browser and so far it has been great.
“No True Senior SWE” paradox?

10yrs is a very long time in Computer Science. All the engineers I’ve worked with from earlier eras are very influenced by what they started their career with. Heck I’m the same way as I approach my decade threshold.
How low can you get the memory and computational power requirements that way?
Oh it seems you're right, I had missed that.

As far as I can see llama.cpp with CUDA is still a bit slower than ExLLaMA but I never had the chance to do the comparison by myself, and maybe it will change soon as these projects are evolving very quickly.
Also I am not exactly sure whether the quality of the output is the same with these 2 implementations.
MSVC is almost completely silent with the default warning level though, both in C and C++ mode, at least from my experience (it might have gotten better in very recent versions, I wouldn't have noticed since first thing I do is bump the warning level to /W4 anyway).
Emailing is a decent solution, but which may cost money, unless your phone is connected through WiFi.

I have always failed to see the appeal of a cloud solution.

Whenever I arrive at home, I immediately move all the new photos from my mobile phone to my computer. This costs nothing, except a few seconds of my time and it is perfectly secure.

I prefer to not keep any personal information on a mobile phone, except the mandatory list of contacts.
Samsung adds an advertising screen overlay on my old galaxy if i update it. So I need to keep it to factory default and not update it.

They claim they don't do that, and it's 3rd party apps. Perhaps, but it's apps they force onto users with their update process.

I imagine I'm not the only one blocking updates to avoid ads.
Roguelike? Real-life? Rote learning?
The CVE[0] is still reserved and yet to be updated.

0: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-37450
> This, of course, is “only” a batch size of 7.5 million tokens per expert due to not every expert seeing all tokens.

> Mixture of Expert Tradeoffs: There are multiple MoE tradeoffs taken: For example, MoE is incredibly difficult to deal with on inference because not every part of the model is utilized on every token generation.

Are these experts able to communicate among them in one query? How do they get selected? How do they know who to pass information to?

Would I be able to influence the selection of experts by how I create my questions? For example to ensure that a question about code gets passed directly to an expert in code? I feel silly asking this question, but I honestly have no idea how to interpret this.