skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is the desktop situation is such a mess. Do you go with a gtk or qt desktop and which one? And then X11 which is ancient and creaky, or wayland which is fatally nerfed in design (if not it's entire development philosophy) even when it does do what you need which is far from always?

OTOH windows is becoming adware/spyware and macos is becoming big brother lockdown-wear, so maybe it is time for linux to shine.

Personally windows (actually, almost anything microsoft) enrages me anytime I'm unfortunate enough to have to use it, and I'm getting increasingly annoyed at macos limitations and won't be buying apple again, so my next machine will run linux.
s/Wayland/Gnome/g
I work at Microsoft and I see so much "cloud" Windows. Some of it is running Kubernetes even. But a lot Azure is Windows VMs orchestrated by "Service Fabric".
Probably Wizard 30B, they released the training weights at every offset as well.
Have you used Figma? Feels like sketch got stuck in the Stone Age quickly once Figma made a performant browser based design tool
Funny, isn't it?

> 3% [of the] desktop market share

How do you spell "90%() of the server market share"?
And I don't dare talking about mobile and embedded devices

() my very own guesstimate
Exactly. It's one of the reasons I use separate VMs per client when I freelance. I want to install the cert, so I don't see the cert warning messages or accidentally click through a real MITM attack, but never on the host OS. That could let the client MITM all sorts of stuff like my email to other clients if Thunderbird syncs at a client site.
See the wiki link in a previous comment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_product

"The product is said to converge when the limit exists and is not zero."

#1. Consider the series 1 - 1/2^(1/2) + 1/3^(1/2) - 1/4^(1/2) + ... . The sum converges, but the infinite product diverges to zero.

#2. Consider the series x_1 - y_1 + x_2 - y_2 + x_3 - y_3 + ... where x_n and y_n satisfy x_n - y_n = 1/n, x_n * y_n = 1/n. It is obvious that the sum is the harmonic series and diverges. However, the product converges to one, seeing as x_n \to 0 and (1 + x_n) * (1 - y_n) = 1.
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I wonder why they keep making these articles.

Linux is on more computers both today and all of the computers ever made put together than any other OS. It is on virtually all servers on the Internet, the majority OS on phones, its in many TVs and STBs and streaming sticks, its one of the few OSes ever in space, its one of the few OSes ever on Mars, and it is also the OS behind ChromeOS (which that article mistakenly breaks out as its own numbers; so by their own admission, its at least 7%).

The largest desktop OS on that list? Windows.... made by a company who makes more money off Linux than anything else, is the largest corp contributor to Linux, and has far more Linux machines internally than Windows ones, and hires software developers who do not develop for Windows.
Been using for 15 years, I've never sat there and worried about gtk or qt, Maybe wayland or X11, but I've just naturally moved to wayland?

Just install something like Fedora, and you won't worry about it, it will just work.

I personally hate Ubuntu btw Canonical is just not for me. I have no idea how it's so popular. Personally Fedora or NixOS are just so superior I don't know why anyone bothers with anything else.
It is when you’re talking specifically about desktop usage.
> There is no limit to the type of questions or the topic you may ask

Seems very broad and general. The beauty of Reddit is going into subreddit's and asking a question to a specific community. Reddit is also fairly anonymous too.

I understand that this is a commercial platform, but when cash is introduced to a Q/A system... incentives are misaligned.

It seems communities without monetary gain (Hacker News, Reddit etc...), have very little incentive to lie...
So, they name them as further resources but don't use them as introductory texts. As I said.
What new limitations has macos added?
That guarantees yet another low salary though.

Never tell how much you’re paid because your first negotiating mistake will carry on throughout your career. Instead state how much you want without basing it on your current comp. Hopefully you know that by now.
Thanks: it's not trivially clear how I could try it out to check if it works well: it seems to use Debian security tracker to note which CVEs have been fixed, so version numbering scheme should not come into play.

I'll try to find some time later to play with it in depth as it seems to be an interesting set of tools!
I have no idea how large they are compared to overall cloud marketshare but most game servers are Windows.
In my testing, the chat and instruct-tuned versions of MPT-30B is very close to 3.5 for many tasks, but of course the team who made it got bought up immediately and it’s licensed only for non-commercial use. I’m hoping the open source community runs with the base model in the same way they did with LLaMA.
Not yet, heard tale of several people having the same idea to train an open model though through either crowdfunding or some wizardry with crowdsourcing GPUs.

$65 million sounds pretty high though.
It's not relational. There's several rigorous proofs against Spinoza's relational theory. Namely that of Kant and Einstein:

"even if space is composed of nothing but relations between observers and events, it would be conceptually possible for all observers to agree on their measurements, whereas relativity implies they will disagree" [0]

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_space
Wow interesting.

So given headphones can control exactly what vibrations go to each eardrum I guess without knowledge of your ear shapes (and head, nose, hair, etc) it would be like listening with the ears of someone else!

I wonder how much difference I would be able to hear.

But forget that, there could be an audiophile market startup here! So much opportunity for marketing. Listen to Beethoven with an authentic sound including 18th/19th century aristocratic wig! Empathise gender choosing which kind of wig to be virtually wearing. Hippie music with virtual audio long hair! Jazz club sounds with a virtual audio perm! The sound of a different size and shape nose - struggling to marketingspeak that one but I'm sure it's possible.

It /has/ to happen, it's too perfect not to!

Virt-audio ear perfection. "Don't be a prisoner to your head"
Crypto enthusiasts have been saying that for the past 14 years.
>Alas, how many of those users know they are running Linux is another question.

That's the whole point. Probably 99% of computer (anything that uses a processor I guess qualifies a computer these days) users in this world don't really care what's running underneath as long it gets the job done. If something can run linux underneath and can still pass as acceptable that's a huge win I think.
I enjoyed the quad mix of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. I found that separating some of the sounds over 4 speakers helped clarify them. This works because there's so much going on in that album, so many sampled sounds throughout the album like the snippets of conversations. The clocks at the start of Time were great. I listened to the whole thing sitting in the middle of my living room with my eyes closed. It was extremely absorbing and enjoyable.

99% of the time I listen to the regular mix though. I love music but I don't want to sit motionless in the dead center of an array of speakers. Music is a soundtrack to chopping onions, relaxing with a book, fixing my bike etc.
> Apparently at the expense of "unknown".

I'm pretty certain that the 'unknown' is almost all Linux or *BSD users. From the source of the data itself (https://gs.statcounter.com/faq#methodology)

> In other words we calculate our Global Stats on the basis of more than 5 billion page views per month, by people from all over the world onto our 1.5 million+ member sites.

The majority of Linux desktop users that I know off are especially privacy focused and potentially blocking attempts at fingerprinting.
$13 billion isn't $13 billion if $N billion of it has to mandatorily be spent on high margin (70%?) Azure services.
On mobile the desaturated background / color change doesn’t reset when the video is paused.
The decision of Microsoft to withdraw from Russia has had a significant impact as well, particularly due to the emergence of government-supported Linux distributions that are gaining popularity among various organizations and companies in the former USSR and BRICS nations.
Meta’s Microservice Architecture [pdf]
It's explained in the video. Rat neurons are more than enough for this application and are much cheaper to come by.
PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers) – The Secret Life of Components [video]
If you remember Tim Hunkin's The Secret Life of Machines then you might enjoy his new Youtube series and HD uploads of the old series.
Chrome OS is actually also Linux isn't it?
> Come late 2021, our cross-signed intermediates and DST Root CA X3 itself were expiring. And while all up-to-date browsers at that time trusted our root, over a third of Android devices were still running old versions of the OS which would suddenly stop trusting websites using our certificates

I only noticed this a few weeks ago, apparently ubiquiti users were also affected.
Yes, apparently one factor that prevented malnutrition from claiming more lives in the pre-agricultural era is that 30% of the population was culled through homicide, leading to the population remaining below the environment's carrying-capacity.
Surely they'll find a use case before the sun burns out!
So why are AMD, Intel, and Nvidia shipping improperly designed DLLs as part of their drivers? That's a larger red flag than anything involving Firefox.

I know some people consider proper binary signing difficult on Windows and find the UAC prompts annoying, but those are multi-billion dollar companies, I'm pretty sure they can figure it out.

If anything, Firefox shouldn't be the one doing this, Windows itself should be preventing loading of unsigned/improperly signed DLLs without a UAC prompt.
Operating systems have a really high degree of lock-in. Such that while you -can- change OS, there's simply no incentive to do so.

That's why you're still running the same OS you always have. [1]
You accumulate software yes, but you also accumulate habits and knowledge. Changing OS means discarding all the accumulated knowledge, which 0% of "normal users" want to do.

Throw in the change in software, ending up with at least some proportion of worse software, and the desire to change is 0.

[1] where "you" applies to a rounding error away from 100%
SteamDecks aren’t desktop PCs. If you were including gaming consoles/handhelds, then BSD would be way ahead of Linux with all the PlayStations that have been sold (and maybe with Nintendo switches too, depending on how you chose to count those).
I left Google Photos when they included some strangers data in my Takeout backup (and likely put my data in someone elses backup) [1].

Sadly I've not found a self-hosted like-for-like replacement. My photos now move from my phone to a folder that's backed up to s3 via Restic [2].

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2020/02/04/googl...

[2]: https://restic.net/
Sure, and this may include setting their browser ID to make it look like they are on Windows.
Peru Declares National Health Emergency Due to Guillain Barré Syndrome Increase
That's not relevant to the ECJ decision.
No, it says unvote in both cases.
That never stopped pirates there so I doubt it's much of an incentive.

The biggest driver of adoption is simply more computers sold with Linux pre-installed. Very small fraction of users ever installs an OS.
Market share is a quantity ratio. For me it is not important that a lot of people use Linux besides me. But it is very important who uses it. That is because this is not a consumer good with buyers and sellers, and therefore this not a market. Important is that competent people are using Linux, because that guarantees that it gets better every year, which it does since I use it for 30 years. From my personal experience the most competent IT people I met were using Linux.
As I have said many times, a good intentioned program with a bug only needs bad intentioned data.

A malicious PDF file is enough to break havoc with a simple memory bug, so unless you claim that open source is also bug-free, or that you don’t use any external data (but visiting this site already invalidates that assumption), then you are just being naive.

There is nothing inherent that couldn’t work with Wayland - there is nothing preventing the relevant teams agreeing on a new interface to broadcast accessibility information to the wayland server, that can thus share that with specific accessibility software (which is explicitly permitted to do it).
I too occasionally feel the urge to go back to Linux, but then I remember I'm a game developer. Oof.
The free plan for personal use should be here to stay. What's not set in stone yet is whether there will be a Pro plan for more advanced features, and if so, what said advanced features would be (likely cloud services / Kubernetes). But I'd expect the core Docker and Linux machines functionality to stay free.
They seem to be popular with retirees who don't need to do much more than use Facebook, email, and watch YouTube videos.
Seems that this website blocks any access from HK completely through cloudflare...

Cloudflare making it easy to block entire countries, allow people to be lazy in protecting their websites and goes completely against the open web. Of course I could use a vpn but it's getting tiring that I have to do so more and more often.
My journal or some piece of fiction wouldn't be covered under any US trade secret statue that I know of. I don't know of any privacy laws outside of any PII in the journal, but a piece of fiction I wrote wouldn't be covered under any privacy laws for sure.

The only thing giving me the right to stop somoene from distributing it without my approval is copyright.
So....EU agrees to let US spy agencies access to EU citizens data.
>> is the largest corp contributor to Linux

You're mostly right, but this is incorrect. MS was the largest kernel contributor for a few days 10 years ago, but overall companies like Intel, Google, Oracle and IBM contribute a lot more.
While his research about corals was also interesting, the most important work of William Saville-Kent was published in "A Manual of the Infusoria" (1880-1881, 3 volumes), which is still quoted even today in many research papers.

Among other things, this contained all the early knowledge about Choanoflagellata, the closest unicellular relatives of the multicellular animals.
It's open source software. Comment out the whole feature if you want.
> This is insane. What are we doing?

expecting academia to be a job training program, reprimanding higher level general eduction as "33%" waste, trying to address the symptom (high loans) instead of the disease (why are they high) and pretending that cutting required courseloads wouldn't also reciprocate to higher tuition costs like every single time financial aid services like FAFSA increase, repeatedly posting out-of-touch "basket weaving" examples instead of allegedly any single other degree path with "bullshit degrees", having your only argument to discharging loans be that you can't repossess knowledge like you can cars, pretending this is an issue about students not holding "commitments" instead of addressing targeted bilking of a vulnerable group of people, trying to set up a cringe libertarian stance about government stepping in to "force" you to take courses and "distortions" from "political agendas" and anti-union sentiments completely irrelevant to any other issues anyone is talking about, creating huge fake scenarios of being hundreds of thousands in debt for fake degrees and passing this off as an even slightly applicable scenario to others, ... etc

> Our 18 year old's graduate high school devoid of marketable skills

it's really unfortunate for them that they had dead weight watching over them for 18 years, waiting for them to fail and to then immediately turn blame on someone else. it's not unknowable what they're being taught. the problem more and more seems to be that people like you have a voice in the world that someone might be fooled into believing is valid.
https://newsletter.leadership.garden
There is more to an 'OS' than the kernel.

SteamDecks are indistinguishable from PCs, since they run more or less exactly the same software as a Linux desktop/laptop would.
it's in my bio: https://maxrozen.com/
And yet not having a presence on the desktop stings a bit doesn't it :).

You can conquer the world, dominate every space and yet there's thus little voice inside saying "but you're not good enough. See over there, in that one space, you're a weakling. "

Welcome to the human condition.
> Sorry, you have been blocked.
You are unable to access linuxiac.com

Why tho ?

> Email the site owner with the cloudflare ray id.

Okay, where do I get the email id ?

Love the false positives. Keep em coming.
> its one of the few OSes ever on Mars

When explaining linux to skeptical non-techies, I tell them it's the OS running the nuclear submarines right now. Suddenly they're more confident it can handle their ecommerce dashboard.
Only the "Unknown" category has decreased in market share, which leads me to believe that the linux market share has not increased at all. Just that the data is more complete.
I think that is an important milestone.
An OS whose hardware support is largely closed source on one side and painfully reverse-engineered on the other. Thisnk about the graphics hardware.

For years, during the desktop boom in the 2000s, most of the support for networking hardware, wired and wireless, was based on binary blobs coming from Windows OSs and "imported" into a Linux system. How could you dare to use Linux as a desktop?

As of today still most of the PC hardware comes with Windows preinstalled. It would be like offering people pink cars which they can paint in a different color, more or less.

Nope. I think 3% is a lot if you take into account the amount of efforts needed for people to contrastate the so-called "market push".

Linux world is "fragmented" by definition: each main tool and even desktop environment has a number of variants, developed by smallish (fragmented) teams in the name of freedom and choice. Windows, on the other side, has a basically monolithic environment in the name of ... dunno what. Normal (non-techie) people are scared by Linux. Because they have never tried the blue pill. They have never seen how deep the rabbit hole can be.
Why Match School and Student Rank?
> You can use the above without paying OpenAI. You don't even need a GPU. There are no license issues like with the facebook llama.

I actually wrote about getting an LLM chatbot up and running a while ago: https://blog.kronis.dev/tutorials/self-hosting-an-ai-llm-cha...

It's good that the technology and models are both available for free, and you don't even need a GPU for it. However, there are still large memory requirements (if you want output that makes sense) and using CPU does result in somewhat slower performance.

There are async use cases where it can make sense, but for something like autocomplete or other near real time situations we're not there yet. Nor is the quality of the models comparable to some of the commercial offerings, at least not yet.

So I don't have it in me to blame anyone who forks over the money to a SaaS platform instead of getting a good GPU/RAM and hosting stuff themselves.

Here's hoping the more open options keep getting better and more competitive, though!
Me to...on on the one hand you could leverage the power of many individuals, unlike in earlier days.
On the other hand, SEOs would just inflitrate that space and it would turn out just as shitty.
This is rescurrecting the mythical "secure internal network". It's been tried, a lot, and found wanting.
That's far better market share per year than my personal projects do.
I'm in two minds about this, I am glad that there is no way around activation lock, but of course it produces waste if nobody else can use it.

It would be great if they could engineer a solution in that the device is activation locked and be factory reset and reused.

There was a discussion around activation lock somewhat preventing thefts due to the risk that the device becomes activation locked. But I don't know how truthful that is. As stolen devices are often sold to unsuspecting users with activation lock enabled.
Sure, Linux is on many, many devices which have proprietary UIs. And there it does pretty well, because the kernel just provides generic functionality cheaply. It’s a commodity backend that could be swapped with another commodity backend without any users knowing or caring. Hooray. Linux is the go to choice when you could just as well be using something else that’s really cheap, like BSD.

However, desktop Linux is where the product is 100% OSS. That’s the apples to apples comparison. And that’s where it can’t compete without vendors writing property code to put in front of it to make it actually work well.

Server side Linux gets a lot of support from professional programmers paid by big corps. They have improved it beyond hobbyist level, and it works pretty well. And of course cheap makes up for a lot.
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AOSP with the more modern kernels and less vendor garbage in giant forks will help with that.

Unix was king in the 80s, maybe early 90s for anyone doing terminals, banks, government and universities were all ok the big iron train. But when nt3.1 and 3.5 came out, if you were a business not looking into it, you felt like you were behind the times. We had DEC and iris at our house, so weren't in a good position to switch, but it wasn't long before the change happened.
That sounds kind of complicated to reason about and thus pretty dangerous for feature flags. At my work, we use them to do partial rollbacks in case the new feature/behavior has unintended consequences. Deployments might take weeks to complete globally, so doing a hotpatch or code rollback is incredibly expensive compared to toggling a feature.
Where do you get the idea that most iOS devs prefer Apple? It's not true for any other type of development so are you arguing that Apple fans self sort to iOS devs?

I would love to use Linux build machines but the xcode requirements make it a non-starter...and its not for lack of effort.
Unless one of the observers accelerates for some reason. Now his observation is privileged.
"Technically correct"? That seems like the same concept.

> as well as renting generally -- those kinds of transfers are not allowed without author approval.

Could you elaborate? If I set up a used car rental service in Sweden, and that car includes a user manual, then do I need permission from the copyright owner to include that manual in the rental?

> in combination with Biblioteksersättningen

On the topic of "technically correct", https://sv-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Biblioteksers... tells me that technically it's not part of copyright:

] This is because it only benefits domestic authors. In the Nordic countries, library compensation has not been part of international copyright but part of national cultural policy. Other consequences of this are that the library compensation has a maximum amount, so that the most borrowed authors do not receive compensation in proportion to the lending and that no compensation is paid for loans from research libraries.

That quote tells me the payout is not proportionally divided.
A lot of people are locked-in Windows, but as Microsoft more and more ruins the OS by pushing advertisement, telemetry, slow cloud services, new versions of apps optimized for those who don't know how to use a computer, rather than experts - there will be plenty of users switching to Linux.