skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- A stolen device that is 100% brick has zero value, so there is no incentive to steal it.

- A stolen device that can be used with some limitations can be sold for a higher price, so there is a much higher incentive to steal it.

Call me petty all you want, but if you steal my Mac I'd much prefer it to end up in a landfill rather than have the thief make money from it. If they can't sell them, they'll stop stealing them at some point.
> Until relatively recently you could only buy whole albums not single songs.

What is "relatively recently" here? The iTunes store had a per-song price since, like, 2003 or so. And I'm pretty sure I recall Amazon selling mp3s individually since at least 2005 - I listen to grindcore, and I was amused at the per-song offering when Nasum's Grind Finale came out with 152 tracks. At £0.79 a track... no sale.
From other comments in this thread it seems you can run immich on a raspberry pi.

Any who, I don't consider it a simple sync service.
You talk as if humans weren't perfectly capable of coming up with nonsense.

Blogs upon blogs full of worthless pap that is there for SEO reasons have existed for like a decade already.
I still have an iPhone 7. With my usage, the battery lasts 1 or 2 days. I can read the occasional email, my newspaper, use Teams and Telegram when I'm not behind my laptop. It even plays games. What more do I want?
> I'm continually baffled that so many companies follow RHEL compatibility to this day.

Because RHEL, and subsequently it's clones, are a really good server OS. You get updates for 10 years, Red Hat or it's employees maintain a large chunk of the generic-Linux stack, large software support, Cockpit, more modern features when compared to the Debian version at the same time (e.g. dracut, firewalld, systemd, NetworkManager, Podman etc).

Then when you want commercial support, converting to RHEL (or vice versa) it's painless and quick.
This seem to be just one maintainer but it does point out an interesting problem. If politics are allowed to interfere with Open Source then which and who's politics? Is Linux suddenly American? Clearly not, but why listen to US sanctions then and not Russian or Chinese? Do every maintainer then follow their home countries politics?

If this spreads I won't feel inclined to roll out any Linux systems again. Especially if the politics followed are the US' as that is absolutely not a country that can claim any moral high ground, even over Russia. I too support Ukraine but I support Palestine even more and equal rights for China as for the US too.
I didn't say 3D audio was "standard stereo".

What I said is that for decades you /can/ record 3D audio and then listen to it using headphones. And yes using standard 2 track stereo. I used a cassette tape recorder in the 1980s, a stereo mic and a dummy head and it was fun. Speakers won't be as good for 3D. Can't be. And you don't need any other equipment to listen to it. Everything I know about Atmos, true and false I've learned today.

Atmos isn't being pushed here as studio recording & mixing tech to enable 3D but maybe somehow it is and it's one of these things that isn't any one thing and is used differently by different people at cross-purposes because at heart it doesn't know what it is? I don't know, or indeed care. Seems like you can't listen to these 3D audio albums with your regular headphones and expect a 3D sound though.

The idea that this is the breakthrough Eno needed to make albums with 3D audio possible just jars with it's pure dishonesty. Do we know for sure either way if he's being paid by Dolby?

You are, of course, entitled to disagree with all of that.

I seem to have run head-on into a hype train, wasn't expecting that. Maybe it was opening with memories Eno himself abusing audiophiles that didn't help.
No, playing is how humans grow up to be adults that don't play, but think.
We don’t - pigs are fed omega 6s and their fat is unfit for humans to eat because of that. Stick to ruminant fats, preferably grass fed and grass finished.
> i'd love to know whats going on in that team.

Seems like a good time to rewatch Silicon Valley and watch Hooli scramble to keep up.
It doesn't capture every keystroke in the system, those sent to an elevated window are not sent to the low-level hook: https://stackoverflow.com/q/52696285

This fits with the security model of Windows, and PCs in general. Processes from the same user can see and interact with each other, but not with those of another user. Users are expected not to run any process from shady vendors.

This might seem lightweight security in the age of too much internet where everyone runs anything, but it is what enables some kind of openness and control on those platforms, vs. the very controlled interfaces of smartphones.
No. Read the title again. The title of the article is not talking about server or mobile market share which you bringing that up is irrelevant.

It is specifically talking about desktop market share.
Privatisation has been a costly failure in Britain
Interesting viewpoint. I'm sure some assholes and psychopaths would love to have a figleaf to explain their behavior. But in my experience: you can have 90% nice people and 10% assholes and it will wreck your life. Even 1:30 is probably still too many.

And the failure modes and pathologies you describe are external: an exploiter is by definition not part of the group of altruists and that makes them a perfect example of how few assholes it takes to ruin things.
Can't you set your client to sync a specific folder and simply relocate the things you want synced to said folder?
Get kids and die, perfect way to procreate.
To be honest it's a pretty good track record if you can only remember one instance of botching a backport, it's many years old, and it didn't have any security impact unlike Debian's ssh key generation.
> 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.
Firefox 117 to incorporate offline content translation
Should we really call it "engineering" if its a case of "try random things until one of them works without really knowing why"?
Consider using the Immich CLI (https://github.com/immich-app/CLI) for a bulk import. The UI might hang, not give you a reliable picture (pun intended) of which files succeeded and which files failed.
The public position (as opposed to the rumour mills) is that they're not working on a 5, and don't intend to at least until they can figure out how to do it safely.
Pay them to host it. $400/year. Literally a rounding error. Works out cheaper than a cloud compute and SQL server
I f'ing love it when companies make hollow threats like this. It is proof that these are not serious people.
One would hope but I recently watched a YouTube video of an Australian touring a shopping mall / grocery store in Moscow. It looked practically identical to a western version. Contrast that to the USSR where grocery shelves were routinely empty and there was no variety of items.

Now maybe this is some kind of well funded information operation and sanctions really are working but there is no way the level of austerity is anywhere near the USSR's terminal levels. Until the Russian people's daily lives are adversely affected in a huge way, the comparative dissolution is not happening.
I don't understand how or why this defeatist, nihilistic attitude is growing in popularity. Do people just lack the self awareness to realize their inaction is tantamount to malice?
Isn't this article about a paper published 5 days ago?
A bit like an autoGPT, I did not immediately see any kind of token limits. But I did not look carefully. On a complex problem or one that accesses a lot of data the cost might ramp up.
This whole thread has turned into a massive quagmire. To all of the people saying users should have the right to interact with whatever they want, why does the owner of the server not get any rights about what content passes through their box? If you disagree with the admin, setup your own server. There are even services now that will spin it up and keep it online for you
The opamp would still be a good idea no? That RC filter output will be very susceptible to noise and we wish the OCXO tune input to be as stable as possible. When I built one of these a friend had me route the opamp output as a guard ring around the entire DAC to VCXO tune net.
So sick of CPUs in Linux distros, the feature creep is insane!
Note that the last paragraph is a supposition that is not rooted in reality. Red Hat is still doing upstream first development and is still mostly independent from IBM (who didn't participate in this decision).
Desperate people make desperate decisions, ergo, might makes right and Russia should be appeased? And when did we establish that they're insisting on the war to continue? This is a knot of false assumptions: that people who flee the conflict have some uniform opinion; that this in any way justifies concessions; that people who flee the conflict have a particular unstated but heavily implied moral character.

You can make as much of a show of extending me good will add you please, this is not a good faith argument and I have no hangups about calling it a spade.
> Prompt engineering is kind of like alchemy. There's no clear way to predict what will work best. It's all about experimenting

I know this sentence is true for prompt engineering, but please help me with my language barrier. Is the meaning of "engineering" in this context more akin to "hammering out"? Does English have a specific ambiguity here? In my language "to engineer" means a specific technical activity with strong scientific roots, and a regulated profession. You cannot legally call yourself an engineer unless you jave a specific university degree and have a specific certification.

Nothing of what is described in this sentence would ever have anything to do with "engineering".
I wrote about something along these lines a couple of years ago [0] and thought the idea was dead due to rate limiting. But does LE now regard each subdomain as having its own limit, rather than taking that of the parent domain?

[0] https://3dbrows.dev/
That's called machine learning.
You can have my portion.
Me too. But the CA and browser mafia is too intertwined to let this change anytime soon.
You shouldn't take the "mixture of experts" too literally, it's yet another architecture to use internally for a gradient descent optimized graph of ops.

I obviously don't know how GPT-4 do it (or if it even does it) but think of partitioning your network into a couple of very isolated sub-graphs (the "experts"), and add another learnable network between the input tokens and the experts, that learns to route tokens to 1 or more expert sub-graphs. Then the gain is that you can potentially ignore running the unused sub-graphs completely for that token, and you can distribute them on other GPUs as except for the input and output they are independent of each other.

It all depends on the problem, data, and if the gradient descent optimizer can find a way to actually partition the problem usefully using the router and "experts".
A Visit to the Sponza Palace’s Atrium
Precisely.

Quite hilarious to see some HNers who cannot even read the title of the article and are compelled or have the urge to bring up other irrelevant statistics to hide the little to no desktop usage when compared to other desktop operating systems.
Alt link for everyone blocked by Cloudflare https://archive.is/uaICX
obligatory: you are not Netflix/Meta/Google... so you don't need to do this architecture for your own startup. Just spin up a monolith until you have something that needs breaking down and even then it might not need it or you might pivot to doing something else entirely.
>> You can slow things down, but not by more than a few years, because of the gradual democratization of training foundation models.

Just to be clear, what's being "democratised" is the fine-tuning of second-tier, inferior-performance models; or pre-training of third-tier ones. In the game of training large neural nets, the players that can afford to train the largest models with the most amount of data and compute at any given time will continue to dominate for the foreseeable future.

To make it plain, maybe in a couple of years you'll be able to train GPT-4 on your student laptop (unlikely, but let's allow it for the sake of argument). You'll still not be able to get anywhere near the performance of GPT-6 or whatever OpenAI and Google will be able to train by then.

Academics, hobbyists and smaller companies will continue to play second fiddle to large corporations as long as the dominant paradigm is more data and more compute.
> and blamed that a lot of people are taking the sources and not contributing back

Yet when commercial entities take code and don't contribute back, it is “just how things work”.

While I appreciate that RedHat has been a good player overall compared to many others, this comes across as the kid at school happy to throw icy snowballs at everyone else moaning because they got hit by return fire. How unfair of the open source world using open source licenses the same way the commercial world does.
I have an S8, while the support may have officially ended this year, it has not received security updates for years.

The only thing I got in the last year was a gps firmware update. Security patch level is still April 1, 2021 so really it's been out of support for over 2 years now.

It's a shame because apart from this huge incompetence from Samsung it's the best phone I've ever had. The latest S23 is far inferior in terms of features. No notification led, no 3,5mm jack, lower resolution display than S8, cameras sticking out of the case, much heavier, no 3D glass, no heart sensor, no pressure sensitive screen. Oh and it's double the price I paid for the S8.

The few things where the S23 is better (CPU speed and photo quality) happen to be things I don't care about. But I do care about security updates.
What is the numerical range of a matrix?
It doesn't really matter which desktop you pick, they're all the same.

If you went to buy a car, would you be fatally paralysed by indecision at seeing two different makes that looked ever so slightly different parked side-by-side?

Of course not. That would be idiotic.
Of course. But I'm a Smug Clojure Weenie, so. :-)
Yeah, looks like this will be valid for just as long as it takes Schrems to drag it through the courts.

Again.
But NATO didn't oppose Russia's invasion of Georgia in 2008. So that precedent was already set?
I spent a long time thinking about business like this after a decade and a half of hard knocks in SaaS and marketplaces where I simply hadn't been thinking clearly at all. That's how we came up with Best Parents (www.bestparents.com) in 2020. It's the first marketplace for high-end, in person, short courses and travel experiences for teenagers worldwide. My wife has expertise in the education sales industry from Turkey and Europe, for me deciding to jump into this particular business with her involved reasoning from my first principles, which greatly overlapped with the ones presented here in this doc. So this post is my confirmation bias speaking!

About Best Parents

1. It sells the world - we have customers from over 30 countries now

2. Demand is inelastic - families are always going to seek out programs for their kids abroad / away from home

3. Cannot easily be substituted or copied - the suppliers have to trust you, that trust has to be earned over years

4. Minimal labor requirements - our website is automatically translated into 4 languages with AI

5. Enjoys low overhead

6. Does not need big cash outlays

7. Cash billing - we have a 6 month billing cycle, we hold all the cash

8. Relatively free of regulation - also common sense prevails

9. Portable / easily moveable - we live in SF but have spent 3 or 4 months travelling this year

10.Loads of fun intellectually - thinking about how AI can guide teenagers to better and more diverse experiences, teach them and their families how to appreciate and contextualize those experiences, teach suppliers what to offer and how to improve their offerings ... v fulfilling. Feels like the real future of education

11.Leaves me with some free time now, prospectively lots later. Still just our startup's second year in sales, my first year full-time, lots of product to build

12.Income is not limited by personal output

What I was surprised by was how little VCs in general seemed to respect my reasoning. I had not been anticipating that kind of a tepid reaction. There's a lesson I learned here - that the businesses VCs are generally looking for are far from the ones entrepreneurs logically probably want to consider. I believe that after the popping of the crypto bubble the whole ecosystem as it recovers will wend its way back to a more balanced, forward looking place where enriching the lives of children and helping families overcome their generational trauma by joining an international parenting community is seen plainly by many as exactly what it is - world-changing and relevant.

Another thing I did come to realize was just how sweet a business B2B SaaS and Enterprise SaaS really is. Wow. It's a money printing machine, makes marketplaces look relatively paltry even though eBay was "The Perfect Store" like the book @Animats cited. Oh well, at the end of the day the business has to satisfy your intellectual and emotional needs for you (i.e. me) to give it that 150%. And this one's a winner with 20%ish gross margin and really decent basket sizes.
iQuit: My Hellish Attempt to Leave Apple’s Walled Garden
Official STL Hashmap is unordered_map, which is the fastest data container in CPP. This test is to show how close CrossDB performance to STL Hashmap and CrossDB query can be faster than Hashmap in large data set test.
Well. Now it sounds quite serious.
https://archive.is/OtpL4
I've had no problems with downmixed surround on stereo speakers. Never had a problem with dialogue, not once. And I've watched basically every notable English-language film that's come out in my lifetime.

I didn't say anything about a centre speaker, though. A centre speaker is useful when you have a large screen and people will be sitting outside of the sweet spot. You don't have to be far outside the sweet spot before you lose the ghost centre channel. But you can still get really far without a centre channel and it's much easier because the ideal position is behind the screen which is hard to achieve (requires an acoustically transparent projector screen). The ghost centre channel is always behind the screen, though. Some AVRs even include an option to "lift" the centre channel by mixing it into the L/R to account for the common suboptimal below-screen positioning of the centre speaker. I've never tried it, though.

Nobody has ever heard my stereo set ups and commented on lack of surround speakers. And when I did have surround speakers nobody ever commented on them. Nobody ever couldn't hear the dialogue. They were always impressed with the bass and dynamic range.

For me, the diminishing returns are something like this (specifically for film soundtracks):

- 60%: Good stereo speakers (preferably full-range, down to 60Hz),

- 80%: Quiet environment and ability to listen with full dynamic range at close to reference SPLs (ie. no kids, no neighbours annoying you or you annoying them),

- 90%: Good subwoofer to add the actual sub-bass material (down to 20Hz),

- 99%: Good LCR set up (ie. centre matched to the L/R speakers),

Leaving 1% for anything extra like surrounds etc. It's just really silly to add surrounds before getting the huge gains above.
I have a walking desk and typing works ok for me. I ground my palms on the work top and type away ok.

Works great for conference calls - best if no video as you will Bob about.
I highly recommend it.
fool me once, shame on you.

fool me twice, shame on me.

fool me thrice, ???

profit
> You can also just run the VM's using Apple's own API's.

"just".

Where "just" is:

- download and install XCode

- download sample project

- download a sample project

- download a Linux Kernel image

- load a RAM disk into memory

- write some Swift code to configure run parameters. Swift code is different if you want to run non-UI and UI versions

- you can only run one VM at a time or write your own code to manage that

- ....

Or, you know, use Docker Desktop, or lima, or...
It might be expensive but I wouldn't at all be surprised if MS already makes more money annually on Linux instances on Azure and I'm almost certain that Windows instances on Azure makes more than the regular enterprise installations.
The Rise, Fall and Renaissance of AMD (2022)
Lasermoon for me, which was a slight fork of SLS.

Before that, whatever Linux it was it came on about half a dozen 1.44MB floppies. I remember it used a Linux 0.9 kernel, but not much else - except it was a Real Proper Unix System like I had at university, except *on my very own desktop PC*! With a compiler and everything! And SLIP!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_Papers
Why would it be more exciting?

I've been running a massive SaaS app for the last several years. JavaScript is not a performance problem, especially after compiling using the Google Closure compiler "advanced" mode. Rendering is a performance problem: think large tables. WASM would bring me no significant advantages.
Red Hat kicked off a tempest in a teapot
"If customers wanted generic Linux they could get it in hundreds of flavors. They don’t. They want RHEL"
My firm was hacked, but only the Windows machines suffered. So there's the value of diversity for you. I'm pushing for some FreeBSD now.
Dropshippers are just outsourced marketeers for the producers of whatever it is they sell. There's nothing wrong with that, real world products in a competitive market benefit from being advertised and you might as well outsource that activity to people who are good at it (ie bropreneurs on instagram).

It's hardly the best business ever though. Dropshipping only works well in a low-competition world, but since its barrier to entry is so low (all you need is an instagram account) you can be assured that competition will pop up very quickly and all your profit will be competed away.
As I understand it, the concept of microservices mainly originated to solve organisational bottlenecks, rather than to improve the quality of the software itself.

Microservices are organized by business use-case in order to isolate a team so they can focus in deeply understanding the requirements of this specific domain. This is fundamentally a fuzzy and human division of concerns, and has little to do with the performance factors you state, which seems to be a secondary priority. Mantainability and code-quality are related concepts, but they don't seem to be the top priority either, for them it seems that it is more important to enable a team to attain deep knowledge of the problem-space assigned to them, rather than ease in implementing solutions.

Sure microservices are supposed to handle scale, but are we talking about computational scale or organizational scale? It is ambiguous, but I think it's more of the latter. That's probably why so many technical issues have surfaced surrounding this architecture after the initial hype, it was not about technical efficiency to begin with, and it only makes sense for very large teams of engineers, if at that.

Just my interpretation, I don't claim to be more qualified than any other professional here to have an opinion on it.
Ask HN: Best Resources for Learning Computer Vision and Self-Driving Vehicles
Hi HN.

I am new to ML and have an idea for a particular project involving computer vision and self driving vehicles. What are some good resources for someone with experience in traditional software development, who wants to get into this space as a developer? Textbooks, videos, anything you think would help me.