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Like macOS, that is, all locked down, with abilities to customize things revoked with every release, with most software paid, and only available on a narrow choice of pretty expensive (though powerful) hardware?

No, not really.

You can't make things smooth and flexible at the same time, it takes too much effort. You can't support a ton of varied hardware and make everything work smoothly in every case; it again would take non-viable amounts of work.

You can have a pretty smooth desktop Linux experience if you pick a large mainstream distro, pick reliable, well-supported mainstream hardware, and pick a polished desktop environment such as KDE or that Gnome variant of Pop OS.

But if you want to tweak things, you've got to tweak things.
I will use the OS I like and others will use the OS I tell them to use. It's called "my choice".
> I am saddened to see this trend happening in the Linux world. There are several trends that are reducing/removing the very things that make Linux better than other OS choices, and this is one of them.

That's sad to hear. Linux has always the rock solid beacon of the open-source world. I hope the spirit of OSS which produces alternatives to established incumbents in record time whenever the need arises keeps choices alive for users.
I heard about this issue back in the 80's talking to a friend doing an early WYSIWYG word processor development project. Typeset, proportional spaced, yes, same spacing between sentences and words, and if you eyeball typeset books from the precomputer era, that's what you will see.

I also looked it up in Chicago Manual of Style, and one thing I remember is, you want to get your hands on an earlier edition (for geek fun) because they have much more detail about typesetting than they do in later editions. (I don't know what the edition sweetspot is but I found a 1930's copy and I liked it)

>mostly amused that Guido van Rossum...wanted web browsers to collapse multiple spaces to a single space...Python...treats whitespace as significant.

this is actually pretty funny, thank you
Had to use Linux on a desktop for a few days recently. Have to admit: it has become usable. My previous time was about 10 years ago and then it was a pile of unusable, poorly designed UI.
Show HN: Open-source remake of Dangerous Dave, 1988 DOS game
Actually, they are not “perfectly good”, because they lack provenance. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provenance
For what it’s worth, the volume of device fraud Apple already deals with is insane.
> But I know a lot of people get confused and/or don't like having to pass (& thus keep) so much information to the allocator.

That's not why I think it' a bad idea.

I prefer the original because:

1. I can pass use the existing `free`, `malloc` and `realloc` implementations. By using a function with a different set of params I cannot do that. The user has to always write the `realloc` function you propose.

2. The interface for free, malloc and realloc is already documented, I don't have to explain to the programmers what constraints are needed for their memory allocator function. Under your proposal the programmer has to now have, and read, the documentation
My implication is that they should read code. Software literacy needs to be society wide.

Look loads of managers these days say "I used to code but now I moved to management I don't do that."

No one says "I used to read and write English but now I have moved to management I don't do that". Because sometime around 1500 using writing to communicate and set policy became so powerful that's how you ran a large (religious) organisation (in Europe).
It is needed if you want people to click on your content more.
> "Now let's look at what American students in your age are dealing with"

That's some top grade propaganda to indoctrinate children there, just like with the authorities suppressing news about the knife attacks on Chinese kindergartens and instead reporting extensively on school shootings in the US to show how safe China is compared to the US. Gotta love the CCP
Anecdotal but I bring my steam deck with a dock and M&K with me when I visit family since I don't have a desktop computer there.

Also, the Steam Deck's OS is by far the closest you can get to a traditional Linux distro since it's GNU+Linux under the hood. The built-in desktop mode is extremely close to a basic KDE Arch install, especially after you disable read-only mode. Android doesn't have as full-featured of a desktop experience unless we count Samsung DeX and even then display out is available on a vast minority of devices. iOS has no native display out and iPadOS doesn't even support normal 16:9 screens without black borders. The issue with all of the above devices is that their "desktop" modes are janky afterthoughts while on the Steam Deck it's a core feature.
At some point of time, I ended up with a Linux desktop that I rebooted to play games, and a MacOS laptop. And if I'm being honest, I switch between these so seamlessly it's barely visible to me. I would never have thought we would have gotten here. But Mozilla blazed the way making standards real and now all apps are Electron and the cross-platform future is here.
One reason people buy Apple products is because of security. Undermining activation lock would destroy that.

Are these MacBooks stolen?
>> Those who find the cloud services slow can just stop using them.

Microsoft has made sure users can't stop using cloud services, unless they spend a ton of effort every time a new update that re-enables them is released.

E.g. try to disable the web search in the Windows start menu.

>> And there are 97% of the world like her and, 3% like you ;)

If the 3% expert users switch away from Windows it will be the beginning of the end for Windows.
if they really start to shove ads in the start menu of windows 11 then Linux will have a real chance on the desktop.
Also you don't need windows for office - you can have it in the browser, and google docs is enough for most users.
Blocked from Kazakhstan too.
To turn your metaphor on its head, we aren’t playing with fire when we use it constructively; rather we are very carefully and thoughtfully deploying it, no doubt due to our gradual and deadly lessons with it over time. When we “play” with it (a la fireworks or neglected campfires), it wreaks rampant destruction.

Being we are basically toddlers with this new technology, I would argue the breathless speed at which it’s finding its way into our lives tells me we are not being careful or thoughtful with it.
You can actually switch to desktop mode, which is a full KDE environment, so it is a Linux desktop PC.
Twitter Beats Out Threads for Coveted Taliban Leader Endorsement
It indeed is. In fact, it's non-invasive, so stubborn OSs like MIUI will unfortunately find ways to block it at times.
>Presumably by catching up on big-ticket issues right before an election, rather than shallowly consuming every piece of rage-bait. I expect that retrospectives are more accurate anyway.

This is very much country depended I guess. Here in Poland if you only tuned in right before an election you'd miss a huge amount of crucial context.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2023/06/02/warning-...
Streaming services can be nice to discover new artists, or get reminded of artists who dropped off of your radar.
Who cares? I don't use Linux because it is or isn't popular. Who actually has an emotional bond to the market share of their software?

I use Linux because it works for me and makes my life easier, is free/open and because I don't have to deal with Windows.
It's nice and all, but it still feels far from being a first class citizen.
There are anecdotal stories of thieves just dropping a snatched phone when they see it's an iPhone.

It requires very specific skills to dismantle it to resell-able parts - and even those are hard because the components are linked and can't be sold separately.
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Probably safety-driven terror. They really really want to get their bots going, but in every single meeting some PM or other concerned engineer talks about safety and f**s up the entire meeting.

They even made the bot not respond to arithmetics questions because the bot is bad at this, lol. Someone who knows how to modify the bot had actually spent their time on something as unimportant as that.
> that most people in western countries haven't even heard of. Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo

Never heard of vivo. The other 2 are well known phone brands in italy.
>What if any government agency at any level were required to get a warrant signed off by a judge, that showed probable cause...

Buy and publish all congress members location data for a long enough period and I think you'll get your wish.
[0] https://www.uber.com/blog/piranha/ (https://github.com/uber/piranha)

;-)
Mintlify's Journey Through YC
I love these so much.
Ask HN: Mandated to be in office as an engineer. How do I minimize distractions?
Shared open office.
Category selection and location selection is sketchy at best, it's using those advanced selection lists but at the first tap of the field, the list opens, the keyboard opens and the list closes, only at the second tap I get an open selection list -_-
Libgen / Scihub or not, if the model can provide details about the book other than just high level info like the summary and no explicit deal with the publisher has been made, you can make a strong argument that it is plagiarism.

Even if bits and pieces of the book text are distributed across the internet and you end up picking up portions of the book, you still read the book.

It is extremely sad but ChatGPT will be taken down by the end of this year and replaced by a highly neutered model next year.
Damn, this is pretty! I was thinking of self-building such a setup with a Mac Mini.
How did you go from "a lot of people will switch" to "the year of Linux on desktop"?

Microsoft is making a lot of changes that will annoy the expert users. Stuff like a Settings app that has a single screen - e.g. one makes changes to his network setup, decides to increase the brightness of the screen - the Settings app navigates from network to screen and the user progress with network is lost.
Maybe because we're on the verge of being able to create fires which can actually consume the only home we have?

Playing with fire is in large part an ego and greed issue. Yes, it allows us to dominate, but at what cost?

I'd rather live a more balanced life than a greedy and ego driven life. I may not own the world, but I can be happy and sleep sound at night, and that matters.
I only post useful links, tutorials, cool demo videos, actual best practices or lessons learned.

You do have to adhere a bit to the "house style" (lots of exclamation points! And emojis! And "shoutouts"!)

The real problem is LinkedIn is happy to ignore my own posting style in figuring out what I want to see. Everybody else wants chicken soup for the spul nonsense so that's all I get served.

It's already hard enough to find genuinely useful blogs and content, burying it in pap and self-promotion is algorithmic malice.
We actually caught onto this shortly after they launched their Video Action Campaigns to replace Trueview for Action. Checked the URL report and checked the sites where our ads were playing to find exactly what's described in the article. Our Account Manager wouldn't help us get rid of Off-YT placements and we had to escalate it to his boss and threaten to stop buying YT for performance to finally get a custom solution to exclude that inventory. Google has a pattern of making their ad formats less and less transparent and taking control away from advertisers in order to sell trash GDN / Owned Property inventory, the newest example being P-Max. You can not trust Google as an advertiser.
Folks, don’t steal!

(I’m doing my part)
I've previously noticed when playing with GPT-4 it can sometimes 'autocomplete' on different sections of the text its feeding back, sometimes what looks like 4 or more different sections. Might be unrelated but is this MoE in action or them streaming the response in some way?
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> But what I find most interesting is that there is absolutely no taking of responsibility of any technological creations.

I appreciate your willingness to talk about it, but to be honest it doesn't seem like it matters much what you, or any of us (not singling you out in particular), thinks about it, does it? It probably doesn't even matter who these people are who should take responsibility. This is one genie, like the internet, that probably isn't going back in the bottle anytime soon. I haven't seen any argument against "AI" that's much different than those against "the internet" and "computers" that we've at other times in the last 50 years when tech hit new mind-blowing milestones. It just keeps going regardless, right?
Heavily doubt that those would make people switch. Maaaybe, if their social circle already uses Linux.

However, make the next Minecraft, Fortnite or Roblox work only (or considerably better) on Linux desktop[], and you will suddenly gain a lot more new users. Some of whom will stick around, since all their other apps work the same in the browser.

[] Whatever that term means, even the article makes a distinction between that and Chrome OS.
The system was specifically designed to prevent that too. To install Asahi Linux, you need the macOS user password. You probably don't have it. No worries, just factory-reset it. Now you have to get through activation before you can set a user password.

There's some pre-activation done out of the factory so that the Mac doesn't need to call home and check for lock on first boot out of the box, but if you wipe it, that's gone, and it does need to call home.
The article is about desktop market share (the headline is a bit misleading).
Without PDK, how to prototype at all? My prototype will be so out of touch with actual reality of process parameters that it will have no value. Even if it outperforms soft CPUs, I will have to redesign from scratch at the point I will get actual PDK, since my business is not creating soft CPUs. Also how do you define "comparable" for a logic-level design? I don't get how such a metric stays useful when is tried to be used for measuring actual physical designs.

> You don't need to prove that your design will beat out a similarly designed chip on advanced silicon, just that your design implemented in the slow FPGA is better at something (not necessarily everything) than a CPU trying to emulate the same behavior.

No, I do. Since, again, my objective is creating actual chip, not a soft processor.

Fine-tuning will come only after it's clear that the design is good.

I just don't see a way to create such an abstract model which will have any utility for measurement.

And the advantages depend on actual implementation, which depends on process parameters, and if I try to make a design which is good regardless of actual parameters, this will be too conservative and I may not succeed.
Android updates change the UI and inevitably make the phone slower.

As a user, I don't really appreciate all the menus moving around, just because some designer in california needs a promotion.

Unfortunately, currently, updating a device might mean making it useless.
I was thinking of something more communal/distributed. WikiLeaks wanted centralization.
They are not the same. Apple vision has both LiDAR and a depth camera.

https://lidarandradar.com/differences-between-the-lidar-syst...
Huh, more power to those folks then, I guess.

But I can easily imagine more conventional forms of entertainment, as well. Like a game of D&D that's narrated by the AI, or a text based adventure set in the Mass Effect universe, Lord of the Rings, Warhammer or any other fandom, really. Maybe like those old Choose Your Own Adventure games.

I think some companies are also experimenting with characters in video games that get their dialogue from these models - where the developers give the character a persona, provide information about events in the world and let players interact with them, like the Detective Origins demo. Of course, due to the slightly unpredictable nature of these models and their hardware requirements, no idea how viable this will be.
It also helps that there have been very few important (big, complicated) applications in the past decade or two. Firefox is there? My development environment is there? I'm probably good.
A "capped" profit of 100x is absolutely ridiculous. That is not even the slightest attempt to stay in the same ballpark as nonprofit.

Blaming any loss of Elon money for that is spin.

And he still gave them a hundred million.
I think we should tackle this problem by collectively teaching people not to steal.

I'm sorry, but do you actually think that people steal because they weren't taught otherwise? I mean, perhaps this works with, say, wage theft but it just doesn't pan out to theft of laptops. Everyone knows this is frowned upon. You can lessen such theft by making sure folks don't feel compelled to steal by making sure you have a robust safety net that allows for pocket money and buying computers and things - but you simply won't get rid of it completely.

In any case, laptop theft isn't a question of "teaching people not to steal". Theft happens worldwide.
Kinda nuts actually that you can’t install a Root CA and tell the OS “but only ever use it for these and these domains”. That would solve this elegantly.
Energy is scarce and money is infinite.

We had $1/KWh in EU this winter.

With that price you are paying almost $1 per day of running your 65W computer.

That's $30 per month just to keep the computer gaming during daytime.

There is no roof for how high prices or inflation can go.

Other gear are more important than entertainment, people will not consume games when they are hungry or cold (though computers help with that somewhat).

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that nuclear is heating the planet more than CO2, the efficiency of nuclear is 35% so for every KWh of electricity you heat the planet with 3 KWh.

3KWh that the planet has to radiate into space that did not get added during any time before.

We are slowly boiling the planet, like frogs in a casserole.

Eventually you wont have the energy, money or time to play anything.
Were any Russian officials making claims about Ukraine lasting a few days or only Western "experts"?
Yes, it was very annoying and it happened even to files that were open only for reading, not for writing.

For me, /etc/fstab was zeroed a couple of times, which lead to a bricked system (before 2000).

Fortunately, this bug was eventually solved and I have been using XFS for more than twenty years on a great variety of hardware, with excellent results and no data loss whatsoever.
Hey! One of the authors here.
If you prefer we made a short summary of the paper here: https://www.vusec.net/projects/floatzone/

Feel free to ask if you have any doubt
I agree, we can't believe anything coming from his mouth.
This a duplicate post of pure speculation.
Also routers (at least one in each internet-connected home), NAS devices, e-book Readers, car entertainment consoles, and many more.
How about the facility to connect to WiFi from that screen and trigger an email to the previous owner, ok to unlock this device or is it stolen?
I am a huge fan of the six jar money management system, and I use an app called Split(https://split.bluepill.life/index.html) which helps me to implement this strategy for managing money
From the post:

[Rumors that start to become lawsuits]

Some speculations are:
- LibGen (4M+ books)
- Sci-Hub (80M+ papers)
- All of GitHub

This is the most funny, but in the end sad aspect. If ChatGPT was indeed trained on pirated content and is able to be(come) such a powerful tool, then the copyright laws should have been abolished yesterday. If ChatGPT was not trained on all these resources out there, then think how much powerful a tool it would be if it were trained, then copyright laws are actively stifling advancement and should have been abolished yesterday.
No, it's not asynchronous.
That's nice. Currently in my house I have 11 machines with a linux kernel, including 3 running a desktop gui (xfce), 1 android tablet, 1 chromebook, couple of pis, and the rest being routers and APs. I've also got a windows 10 enterprise laptop I use for testing things at work, a macbook (same purpose).

That's ignoring the "iot" vlan with god knows what on (printer, plugs, speakers, even a bulb), but most of that's linux.

I wish more devices ran "not-linux" really.

For most people, a desktop OS is just a platform to run a web browser on. Chrome's dominant state in that area concerns me more than the dominance of linux in computing.
I’d assume legal as well, forcefully unlocking a laptop which turns out stolen sounds like a bad plan.
I used to use YNAB which was very helpful in learning and getting comfortable with budgets.

I now use monarch money[0] which has a much broader focus and offers better investment tracking, forecasting etc. They have a cash flow view which is particularly insightful.

A lot of the finance related subreddits are helpful (like personalfinance, bogleheads etc) for advice, planning, ideas etc. Also a fan of The Money Guy on YouTube[1].

[0]https://www.monarchmoney.com

[1]https://www.youtube.com/@MoneyGuyShow
... you are kidding right?

Any suggestion that google is somehow less of a spyware company than apple is laughably and objectively false.

But it doesn't matter, because they're both companies, and companies are inherently not your friend, so you shouldn't be thinking that your boo will be on your side forever (also see companies claiming that they're "a family"). That Qpple's business model is not dependent on spying on users, and Google's business model is dependent on no one having privacy is clearly a significant factor today. But in 10 years who knows? Corporations follow money, and there's only so much weight given to "our heartfelt truest of true beliefs of our customer's rights".

But that's still moot, as I don't use either system on any car, but now GM has built google's tracking infrastructure into the core of the car's "entertainment" system. If you use a car with android or apple car, the software is only running if you are using that with your device. Now GM is just saying screw it, Google is paying us to install their software as the only system on the car - do you really think google is doing that out of concern that to support GM's bottom line, or because google's entire business model is built on spying on people?
>30% of the population was culled through homicide, leading to the population

Is that from murder, or war (presumably inter-tribal), or both?

We're not exactly doing much better in modern times. See Russia's war against Ukraine, or the 100M+ killed in WWII.
Why do admins get a say in who their users follow in the first place? As long as the content isn't illegal or challenges the stability of the instance this should be up to the users alone.

This issue alone made me set up my own instance, but many users don't have that option.
I joined the US Army at the Military Entrance Processing Stations (MEPS) in Los Angeles, CA a couple months before the Rodney King riots. During the riots, there were a lot of fires, and the MEPS station burned down. When I got the basic training several months later, I saw that my paperwork had survived the fire, but much of the paper had charred/browned from heat & smoke.