skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The universal rule, for business and personal affairs: earn more than you spend.

However, in business the general consensus is you need to spend money to make money. That is why you have starting capital. With oodles of VC funds, it is tempting to spend without keeping the ROI in mind. Accurately forecasting revenue and achieving it are an enduring challenge.
I have lots of clothes that I wear that are much older than that. And most that are newer than that use designs from long before 2016. They are only newer because the older ones wore out from use. I can only think of a few articles in my closet that could be identified definitively as newer than 2000 by appearance. I imagine this is true for many men, less often for women I suppose.
Everyone hates on crypto because of all the electricity use for mining. But how much electricity is the training of all the giant LLMs costing us?
Why pay for a whole month though? Depending on your work, spin it up and down as needed. If you're just building a binary you only need it up for minutes or seconds. Been on my mind lately. Lot more sandboxing too. And if you want to build fast you can just scale up your instance since its so short lived. Want to switch from x86 to ARM? no problem. Spin up 40 of your current app? no problem.
Honestly, what was the point of continuing to fund OpenSolaris? Tiny market share, no prospects for improvement. They're already funding a different open source operating system.

Caring about open source isn't about funding infinite options everywhere.
I have as much power as you do, none at all.
I assume Microsoft SQL?
99.999% of humans who haven't seen the data.
i am not sure if you've met artist, bur like lnisity in art is a big deal.

You learn to draw a human body naked. You learn how to draw muscles correctly, each of them, then you add clothes.

And the rancid algorythm would shadowban people for like a drawing of an elf showing a boob. You didnt need to share hardcore porn to get banned.
Vegas Sphere launches Flying Toaster Screensaver after 15 minutes of inactivity
LLMs actually have tangible use (granted far from bespoke yet). Crypto mining has no tangible benefit.
Funny how often the word recollect has come up here, without mentioning the fantastic tool recoll, updated frequently and available for many operating systems. I use it on macOS for an immense library of scientific and other documents. I think there's a standalone installer, and it's also available via macports. It may be found at

https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/pages/index-recoll.htm...

It allows me to index and find words and phrases in files of many types AND view their contents independently of external readers, or using system readers, including text, PDF, or word processing files of common sorts.
I've read House of Leaves multiple times, a few in paper and a few on my Kindle. There was no discernable difference in enjoyment between the two formats - your conclusion is false.
> Are there really 20-30% of cloud workloads not on Linux?

> What do they do? Who uses them?

I don't know about the percentages but there is at least one b2b e-commerce website application thing with the latest version built with ASP.NET MVC on dotnet 4.8 so it has to be on Windows.

It isn't "cloud" by any means but you can create an EC2 instance or an Azure VM or whatever and put Windows on it and run IIS and all those things.

That and I think on Azure, you can run things like Azure functions and Azure web apps on Windows.
I also don't understand why people would pick Windows to run modern software where you have a choice.
The team at https://iwantmyname.com/ always seemed small and friendly, and they’re based in NZ
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I play fps shooter (Overwatch 2) weekly at minimum. I’m far from being ”pro”, advanced hobbyist rather. When Windows spontaneously decides to reset refresh rate back to 60, I’ll notice it the second I aim by flicking my mouse. In addition to strobe-effect of low fps, the increased input lag in mouse controls is absolutely noticeable and really messes my aim. So no need to be pro to enjoy (and notice) increased responsiveness in fps games as long as you’ll clock a few hours weekly to it!
Surely gravity must be quantized at Planck scale. The question is whether that remote scale is the only relevant one and whether there might not be interesting phenomena governing the interplay of the quantum universe with gravity and geometry at larger scales, lower energies.

The footprint of fundamental forces across scales is definitely not uniform. Strong and weak forces are confined to the quantum regime: no long range manifestations. Electromagnetism differs in that it has both a quantum regime and a classical field limit. Gravity may exhibit its own quirky behavior across scales.

The enormous intellectual effort to unify all fundamental forces into a grant scheme may have been a case of premature optimisation.

The most exciting would be if we could break with endless paper universes and device experiments probing the interplay of gravity with quantum.
VCs have to swing for the fences and hit out of the ball park. Typically half of their investments tank. So the occasional big hits have to pay for all the failures too. Otherwise their investors will just take the safe option with mutual funds, bonds, treasuries, etc.
OS/2 had both MS-DOS 5 and Windows 3.x compatibility, first by running a copy of Windows in a VDM and then later through integration. OS/2 was also very damn stable.

286 protected mode was bug-ridden and lacked features. 386 protected mode fixed most of them to make it more stable and usable.
Sure, it's perfectly valid to say we don't understand it - but the ambition of physics is to actually understand things like that. So if we agree that it is something that we don't know yet, then it remains a target for new theory development or new experiments.

Physics is ultimately not about predicting the outcomes of experiments. It goes farther than that: it is about coming up with a model of the world that humans can understand. The experiments and predictions are just there to validate that the model actually corresponds to the world, but they are not an end in itself.

And all of this speculation about what the Born postulate actually means has in fact lead to new experiments and new theories. If we had only ignored it, we probably wouldn't have discovered Bell's theorem, and we probably wouldn't have discovered decoherence.
So fold.

Running out of money to run a charity means they now suddenly need to fuck over the people the charity was supposed to help (that is, everyone on earth) ?

Imagine if a feed the homeless charity accepted private investment and went around installing anti-homeless spikes everywhere after stopping feeding anyone. It's a similar style of behavior.
I've been daily driving Linux since March 2020. The only thing I miss is Adobe products. Most games work. VR is still a bit janky. I run Gentoo so I have typical bleeding edge upgrade problems but otherwise it's relatively stable.
A Judge-Made Right to Vagrancy
TEI by Example
OpenProject is a open source MS SharePoint alternative
> I assume Microsoft SQL?

Yes! Especially if your application is legacy/old and requires Windows anyway. I used to think why people would do that when you can dockerize SQL Server and just use Debian or Fedora or whatever but I once tried that on a legacy application and things... were not quite right.

It was easier to install on Windows than to debug the issue so I just let it go.
I think things would be different if the code was new or I was familiar with it enough to anticipate how it could break in different ways.
If the code/framework is new enough, it might be worthwhile diving into that rabbithole.
Elizabeth Holmes’ 11-year prison sentence shortened by two years
I can't test this, but I suppose it should be as easy as going to about:third-party and clicking a button next to a blocked entry. Probably preemptively learning about how to reset this if Firefox won't start anymore.

As long as it's all end user-controlled, I suppose the only issue is awareness that this feature exists and how it's controlled (this is the first time I've read about it).

Also, it feels somewhat weird to have this function in an application rather than at the OS level (or as a independent process firewall application) - but I suppose this is fine.
We must destroy OpenAI!
The earnings recession is here
I'm in the camp of "3d spatial is mostly a scam, just use stereo" but, without the 'head-related transfer function', (i.e. The fact that everyone's head is slightly different and it changes how you're personally used to hearing spatial sound) I think plain stereo audio can't replicate space as well for all listeners. That's why (good) atmos headphones want you to photoscan your ears and a good atmos speaker system needs a proper array of speakers surrounding you.

For games it works great, much more defined locality of sounds than stereo. For music... Well I think it could work if an album was made for atmos. Not made for stereo and converted to Atmos. Another commenter mentioned the museum installations he did with music designed for a certain room. I bet those sound great in their intended spaces, I've never heard them.

> You will not get any sound intended for the left ear only heard by the right and vice-versa.

The fact that one ear experiences a diminished volume, a slight delay, and different reverberations is one of the major reasons we can discern sounds in 3d and not just their angle relative to our head.

But hard panning like you've mentioned is still a useful musical technique and any atmos song seems to lose the ability to do that fully. Hard panning isn't realistic, but it often sounds better.
I looked too closely into a bag of frozen spinach I had been using for smoothies and discovered it was about 10% small green caterpillars... I threw it out and never bought it again.

Morally, could I tell you why, like the author of this post tries to do? Absolutely not. I eat birds and mammals. I had a decade-long stint of vegetarianism and often thought about my moral responsibility as a conscious creature towards the other creatures on this Earth. But tossing the insects wasn't even a choice, and in retrospect, I don't think I could convince myself to eat them (even if the macros are good.)

I wonder how much of this aversion is learned/cultural, and if future generations will laugh at how squeamish we are today.
That’s the point. Hardly anyone uses Chrome OS, but it is still more than Linux.
Back in the early 2000s I had XFS zero out some files on power outage. Well known bug at the time. Fixed soon but retained the branding.

What a time. People would recommend ReiserFS back then. Big fan club.
> the cross-signed certificate will expire. This should be a non-event for most people

Let's hope so. But the last DST cross-sign expiration wasn't a non-event. IIRC, GnuTLS failed to correctly path-build after the expiration (AFAICT, it would only build a path to the expired cert, see that it was expired, and then abort, ignoring all other possible paths); worse, GnuTLS is the TLS library used by apt (when using HTTPS, which isn't the default, but my security team wanted all packages vendored and served securely — which … sensible, but yeah. An outage was the cost). (This was fixed in Bullseye, I think? Which was literally like a mere week or so before, by sheer luck.) Azure also had multiple outages caused by or surrounding that expiration.
This is a solved problem - don't consume animal products. Doing so causes cancer in the consumer [1], untold suffering for the human producers, who are often children [2], and the deaths of billions of animals per year in the US alone. [3]

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2...
[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-28/slaughter...
[3] https://www.sentienceinstitute.org/us-factory-farming-estima...
Call it 100 million college-educated Americans. I don’t think 100,000 people can formulate working quantum computing algorithms in ten seconds. It is probably closer to 0.001%, but those people probably can’t describe 13th century medical technology very well.
It does not require a monthly fsck. I've set mine to once every 6 months. Been running like that since 2006 or so on many systems. Just do: tune2fs -i 6m /dev/path/to/device
I don't think in the short term Apple will budge: neither the Vision Pro nor the dev toolkit are available, so lack of apps is probably a larger issue than some apps not utilizing the Vision Pro to its fullest extent.

Longer term, we will see...
To be fair, it’s still early for crypto. The best use cases of the technology are yet to emerge.
Stop listening to artists who don’t make music available as downloads?

Not to mention the resurgence of vinyl (not that I have any interest in that personally).
This strikes me as a very strange opinion, especially now when Threads has 100M users 5 days out and is expected to support ActivityPub. In any case: since the beginning, pointing and laughing at Mastodon (a single AP implementation) was always like saying "Yahoo Mail will never win the electronic messages war!!" - it misses the point, like, entirely.
Try FolderSync on Android, I have it set up to automatically sync directories to my computer via SFTP every few hours when it's on my home network.
Yikes, it sounds like you have something you need to work on.
If it involves Elon being a bad guy, it is certain to have HNers salivating at the thought.
I must be getting old, because GPT-4 is basically magic compared to what has come before... and just a few months in people are happily dunking on it.
The first misunderstanding lies in not recognizing that the comment that started this whole thread is, in fact, making two claims and disguising those claim as questions. The rest of the comment, i.e. the non-question parts, reveals the true nature of those "questions". Implying that "even the very best minds" are somehow unable to discuss these questions is a cheap rhetorical device. It's what the Internet clumsily, but accurately, calls "debate me, bro".

The second misunderstanding requires fewer words to describe: Russell's teapot.
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A very important distinction indeed, as the Termux folks keep hitting walls in their thought process that Android/Linux is GNU/Linux.

Or how despite having an endless choice of games, and applications, almost none of them are available in GNU/Linux.
Introducing XAML for Blazor
I'm Daniel Kehoe, and I participated in the brief www-talk "Space after Periods" discussion thirty years ago (as Daniel Miles Kehoe).

I wrote a blog post three years ago, "Personal History: Punctuating the Web (1993)," that offers more context and perspective on the discussion [0].

We discussed this on Hacker News three years ago when Microsoft Word began flagging double spaces after a period as errors [1].

That brief discussion thirty years ago still seems to arouse strong feelings for people.

Today, looking back, I'm mostly amused that Guido van Rossum (the developer of the Python programming language) wanted web browsers to collapse multiple spaces to a single space after periods. Python, notably among programming languages, treats whitespace as significant.

[0] https://danielkehoe.com/posts/personal-history-punctuating-t...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22975299
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I use https://github.com/jpsim/AWSPics , which takes care of everything. It's great IF you're comfortable with your whole photo solution being cloud-based (but you still own and control it, you're not just handing it all off to a SaaS), rather than being self-hosted. Personally I prefer the former these days, but I know that I'm in the minority here on HN.

With AWSPics, sync your photos (just a simple directory tree on your local device) to S3 (I just do it manually from time to time from my desktop, but no doubt it can be done automatically at regular intervals, and/or it can be done directly from a phone), then Lambda functions generate thumbnails and browsable galleries (as static HTML), then you can view it all via CloudFront (password-protected using Origin Access Identity).

AWSPics isn't really being actively maintained these days. But it still works fine for me. The setup is cheap, you basically just pay for the S3 storage (currently costing me a bit under $1/month - and I guess you could use a cheaper S3-compatible alternative like Backblaze and reduce your costs further). No server to set up or maintain. Durable backup built-in. Fast reliable CDN built-in.
Don't know, it used to be 100% in my company in 2007 and now it is like 80% because there are some iOS developers who need macOS and designers who use Sketch, which is insanely great and which alone is worth buying an alApple computer and suffering macOS to run it.
I like projects like this.

I grew up on a spot on a river where in the 1800s people would float rafts of logs down to the Chesapeake Bay, sell them, and then walk back up. A somewhat related project I never seriously attempted was to try rafting down the river. Very different way to experience distance.
Block the server
As an engineer; I want homogeneity, interoperability and lower cost/effort to ship features. We can see that the market also wants this and that's probably why everything is now an Electron app.

As a consumer; I want an affordable, high quality product that supports all of the software/games I like to use.

The task of getting my MacBook to run Linux and play video games is massive on the part of Apple. I understand that interplay is intricate, complex and expensive to implement so it's not fair to force Apple to implement anything they don't want to - for instance have the government declare Vulcan a mandatory standard for all OSes.

As someone who values the freedom we have to innovate, I don't know what the right way to convince everyone to play nicely together is but ultimately it's about stimulating competition to drive innovation.

The current environment stifles innovation, either through ring fencing developers/users or adding a storefront/marketplace tax to distributing a product, killing new products before they get off the ground.

The Apple Silicon hardware is remarkable, but outside of web browsing, basic web development and video editing - it's artificially limited in it's capabilities.

Windows is a dumpster fire, holding onto market share due to its mammoth support for software and Microsoft won't improve Windows unless there is competition.

Perhaps the solution is not to force "platform" companies to build anything, but instead think of software like we did old school repairable hardware and implement regulations that require vendors to offer the equivalent of schematics.

Perhaps regulations that require platform developers to distribute their software/drivers under permissive open source licenses such that people can implement competing platforms. That way no one is compelled to do anything but if a disruptor (like say, SteamOS or Asahi) wants to compete, they can freely build a better product without needing to reverse engineer APIs and worry about getting sued.

Perhaps OS vendors be regulated such that they must offer a means for third party software to be run. That way developers could distribute for platforms through their own marketing efforts and the value proposition for OS marketplaces/app stores is a better ROI - rather than being "the only option"

Perhaps hardware should be regulated such that it's "jail-breakable". That way disruptors could offer competing platforms that are compatible with the original (like the ROMs available on some Android devices, or Ubuntu OS or something).

...Or maybe that would disincentivize the giants from building anything because there's nothing other than investing in innovation that would protect them from losing market share

I'm not advocating to open source all the things under GPL or something - feel free to keep Photoshop, Word and The Witcher 3 closed source - we just need some kind of balance that lets me, as a consumer, have choices so that the giants can fight it out and build the best products.
If you had just spent 90 days observing the equivalent of millions of books what are the odds you could recall even one thing from each of them.
It's curious that there seemed to be a 6% classification shift between Windows and Unknown in April, and that was reverted for the June data. I wonder what UA string caused that, and it honestly doesn't inspire confidence in their methodology if they don't double check a 6% shift.
Every once in a while I'm tempted to switch back to Linux (I used to have that as my desktop between 10 and 15 years ago), but then I remember:

- My DJ software (which I pay for) is not supported at all on Linux (likewise true for most common music production software).

- The Affinity suite (which I paid for) is not supported on Linux.

- The best debugger I can find (remedybg, which I paid for) doesn't work there.

- and there are a few more niche ones.

I just can't give up on half of my productive tools and trade them off for much jankier alternatives. I sadly cannot contribute to get to 4%.
Unfortunately I've found the current OSS models to be vastly inferior to the OpenAI models. Would love to see someone actually get close to what they can do with GPT-3.5/4, except capable of running on commodity GPUs. What's the most impressive open model so far?
Linux is irrelevant in other markets?
> I gazed into his breathtakingly dark eyes. There was something deep and familiar about them, glimmering in his eye sockets like two spherical cows.

…I’ll be in my bunk.
Here in Australia Chromebooks were popular in schools, but in recent years they have lost their gloss: https://au.pcmag.com/laptops/95381/demand-for-google-chromeb...
Police in Hillsborough and Clearwater, FL to Monitor Private Security Cameras
Alpha Leonis
Agreed, the article is irrelevant because it talks about desktop Linux market share.
doesn't make sense; chromeos installs are a proper a subset of linux installs, aren't they? or is chromeos running on fuchsia now?
Schools and many many data entry shops..
It's a small price to pay as a planet for not getting your laptop (or phone or tablet) stolen, I guess?

Backdoors can (and therefore, will) be abused, so it is better that there is no way around these security measures.
Schools. Chromebooks are generally sold to schools in bulk.
I use an app I've developed recently: https://guitos.app

It was initially meant to replace a spreadsheet I created based on the budgeting advice given on the r/personalfinance subreddits. It can

help you figure out where your money went, plan your budget ahead of time and analyze past expenditures.

source code @ https://github.com/rare-magma/guitos
seems like a misleading clickbait headline
Since 12 years?
At this point, after attempting to start a literal fight with Zuckerberg, Musk is proposing a penis-measuring contest.

He appears to be decompensating in real time. If that's salivation fodder, so be it, but it just makes me sad. You hate to see it happen... or at least I do.
Everyone should have an activist mindset.
Check out what Lit is doing with tagged template literals.
Like the old saw about Brazil…
Would love to hear more about how you came up with this game!

Have you thought about making it so you can play against the computer?
why rat neurons and not people neurons?
Just wait until the RLHF class action hits them.
From a quick search on online stores, it seems Chromebooks are not that rare, there's your answer pretty much
pretty cool. can your give more datasets for sft?