skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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.

Wow.

It sounds like North Korea Would be fantastic for you. You never have to hear from anyone with any opinion outside the officially approved. You’d fit right in. Highly recommended.
The device is locked on a hardware level, just "installing linux" won't bypass that.
It is currently - tried a couple of distros (arch, Ubuntu) with different combinations of the recommended (and other) tweaks. Windows seems to sip battery compared to both.
Apple boasts great device security, I refuse to believe that in 2023 it isn't enough to just wipe the storage encryption key. Device will still be usable and customer data protected. Oh well, the problem would be even less severe if these devices had removable storage. This is yet another anti consumer and anti environment greedy move from a company that markets lock-in practices as features.
we don't really think in terms of OOP, OOP is an abstraction and systematization of inheritance, which we do use to think sometimes, but as its abstracted it becomes untennable to use ...

there are relations between things that can be mapped well with inheritance, but thats a problem, we don't really want code to represent the thing we're coding, code needs to be more dynamic easier to read, change and move around, etc. representation should be between the end result of the code and the thing we're trying to represent
my wife primarily uses a chromebook (she likes the small form factorfits in her purse and is cheap to replace if she breaks it). She also has a Windows laptop, but she uses that much less often, and almost never takes it places.

(my computers, by contrast, all run Linux, and have for the last 17 years...)
Nextcloud is built for generic files, so you'll not get all the "smart optimizations" for images. Immich is intelligent enough to serve you a decent enough compressed image at first, and load the full image in background while you start to stare at it. On the other hand, Nextcloud will show you a loading banner.

Immich also does use CLIP to cluster similar faces and so on. Not only that, geotagging, camera details etc.
I'm sorry, is there a reason for such a passive aggressive tone and dismissive remark? Specifically with the ellipses and the extra "I guess"? Most people would find that rude. What is it that you intend to communicate here?
And (temporarily in) Cambodia.
Agree. According to rumors, Apple’s yield on the Vision is only 20%, meaning that out of every 100 coming from the factory only 20 are good enough to meet Apple standards. There are doubts that they can even meet their 400k quota
The Language and its Compiler (1979)
This looks fantastic ananth.
I use beancount for tracking my finances, is there anyway to use this GUI on top of the beancount files ?
Sure, that is part of it. But it seems to offer a bit more than pure backup, which you could get with a number of services.
> I think we should tackle this problem by collectively teaching people not to steal.

Yet again the blame is shifted from the ultra rich corp. to the poor?
Quote:

The philosophy of BCPL is not one of the tyrant who thinks he knows best and lays down the law on what is and what is not allowed; rather, BCPL acts more as a servant offering his services to the best of his ability without complaint, even when confronted with apparent nonsense. The programmer is always assumed to know what he is doing and is not hemmed in by petty restrictions.

~ from the book, p.5 (found at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCPL)
Can we really trust such data? How good is it statistically? I mean by looking at User-Agent string of web page requests you can try to guess what OS made it, but it is just about the web requests and an arbitrary string that the user can change – can you figure the real OS market share just based on that? They even say they cover only 1.5 mil websites but for sure there are magnitudes more hosted.
https://12ft.io/proxy?&q=https%3A%2F%2Flinuxiac.com%2Flinux-...
I lived in Singapore for a little while and this was one thing I noticed they did there. For example, by giving preference in subsidized housing to people who were married and further preference to those who had kids.

In the U.S. (and broadly, the western world) we seem to have a really hard time using economic incentives to encourage certain behaviors. I think it's partially because we don't want to implicitly judge a given lifestyle choice as better than another.

However, I think there is much we can learn from a place like Singapore. Singapore simply does not stick to any single political dogma - they choose a mishmash of policies based on the outcome they want to achieve.
That would not work; the lock is implemented by the SOC at a level higher than macOS- it is done by what is now the integrated features of the T2 SOC, which has its own little RAM and does it's own disk access and encryption and controls the boot-ability of anything off the SSD.

The operating system is not what is implementing the lock.
>There are no license issues like with the facebook llama.

OpenLLaMa uses a dataset which does not seem to have gotten propper commercial licensing for the training data. There is potential licensing issues because the copyright situation is not well defended.
I'm torn on this whole M1 MacBook scrap situation due to Activation Lock. On one hand, I get the need for security. Activation Lock makes Apple devices less appealing to thieves, which is a win for owners. I've seen cases where stolen iPhones are practically useless thanks to this feature. But on the other side, it's frustrating to see perfectly usable tech turned into waste.

Apples does have owner transfer service that works very well, I've used it for a few sales and now there's also a "Legacy Contacts" feature if someone passed away (added 2022).
Two congratulations are in order, first for your graduation, and second for your awareness, early in life, that you can take control of your finances instead of letting your finances control you.

Invest in learning how to use Quickbooks.

Quickbooks is the industry standard for bookkeeping and accounting - the exact topics your OP references. Mapping (your vocabulary) to Quickbooks terms, you can budget by category (manage your finances), import and categorize your transactions daily (keep track of your finances), and run reports to see actuals vs. budgets (where your money has gone vs. where you planned for it to go). Also, every so often (monthly), you reconcile your categories against your financial accounts (banks, investments, loans, etc.) to make sure everything is in-sync. Quickbooks also has other advanced features to keep track of more complicated bits like depreciating assets, interest-bearing accounts, etc.

Your return-on-investment for learning Quickbooks will be many times higher than any other tool. You can grow with the tool as your financial complexity grows, something tools like YNAB can't do; easily handover your financials to an accountant for filing come tax season; transfer the skills you've learned through personal bookkeeping over into running the books for a side business.

To get started, I'd suggest taking a class that teaches how to use Quickbooks for personal finances, or hiring a bookkeeper to setup your books and teach you how to run them to meet your goals.
My jeans’ metadata may outlive the company that sold them
> The only places where NT managed to succeed on server room have been Microsoft shops, or places where .NET was adopted as the main development stack.

.NET came out well after NT was replaced with windows 2000 (unless you claim that 2000, and thus XP and later windows OSes were also NT)

> In the 80's many banks were either on mainframes/micros, or using stuff like Novel Netware.

In my experience in the late 90s NT crushed Netware. It rode the wave of computerisation of SMEs and gained massive amounts of users (with desktop often being 3.11 onwards rather than NT).
It's not even remotely the same as anti-homeless spikes.

We've just had the massive fine against 3M for knowing and hiding the risks of PFAS, and the top comments here were "increase the fines! Lock up the bosses!"

Now we have a company going "we had to put a lot of effort into preventing this model from cheerfully outputting Al Quaida propaganda, explicit rape threats, and detailed instructions for an amateur to make deadly chemicals using only home supplies", and despite that effort they still had legal trouble in Italy because the output was unsuitable for minors (as well as the GDPR issues that were the primary headline at the time).

And a lot of researchers with no financial incentives saying "yup, there's danger in these AI".

The reaction here?

Disbelief OpenAI might be saying what they mean, and meaning what they say.

And people parroting "moat!" as if none of the other FAANGs could trivially cross any regulatory barriers that emerge.

It's like the entire topic of AI has been politicised harder than "is nuclear power green?"
I found that SyncThing is not a great solution for the "mobile photo reel" use case. I want my entire photo collection to be easily searchable & accessible from my mobile device, but I don't need a complete copy of my photo reel to be saved to my device. I want to be able to delete things from my phone to free up space, but I want them to still exist in my photo collection that is backed up to the cloud.
Thank you for the doorknob example. It's perfectly on-point.
Average costs of healthcare in the US per person is roughly $560/mo. That's a little more than most European countries based on tax breakdown. Yes, in the US rich FAANG workers that decide to go startup are required to pay for poor bus drivers making less than $50k. That's called socialized healthcare. I don't see a crisis. I see the news pedaling whatever garbage they need to slander the other party, including painting crazy pictures about the US "crisis" where lifespans are strikingly similar to everywhere else. Next time fill out your forms on time. You get Cobra when you leave and if you really are under $50k the following year, then yes it's really free. Unless you're too lazy to fill out your forms, or your startup took off, you are just fine.
That is a very dangerous way to approach copyright laws. They are definitely abused by corporations like Disney, infamously so, but abolishing them is absolutely not the answer. Art makers are already struggling en masse, taking away their ability to earn money off their work isn't an answer, especially if it's just to train a predictive text generator.
- If you can provide proof of legal purchase (the receipt must include the serial number etc), you may be able to get it unlocked at https://al-support.apple.com/

- There were a few cases of the owner dying and their relatives being unable to unlock their devices. Starting in iOS 15.2 and macOS 12.1, the owner can designate a Legacy Contact who can access their iCloud data and unlock their devices if they die: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208510 So Apple did make progress in "working around" this problem for legitimate cases.

- If you bought it second-hand... then it's good thing there is no workaround, because preventing resale of stolen devices is the whole point. Return it to the seller and demand your money back.
it's doing exactly what it was designed for. you can easily contact the previous owner to unlock them... though it's obviously not feasible if it's stolen.
There was a post on HN recently with a workaround these apps are using. I don't have it handy but I'm sure you can find it if you look.
Is a windows server a desktop PC. If not, why?
There's nothing stopping different organizations from making very different distributions of Linux, with some optimized for casual users and others optimized for techies. We're already had this for ages, with Ubuntu being aimed at more casual users and Gentoo/Arch/etc. being aimed at more technical users for instance. If Microsoft dumped Windows and made a new version of Windows based on Linux internals (but of course lots of big changes to make it more like Windows, plus a bunch of telemetry and advertising crap), that wouldn't prevent other distros from continuing to do their own thing.
Re: debugger. It's the opposite for me. rr is the best debugger period, so I am miserable whenever I need to debug on Windows or macOS where rr doesn't work.
I bet it'll be 6 figures within 18 months.
"The current best estimate for the mass of Earth is M⊕ = 5.9722 × 10^24 kg" (wiki) so ~6 × 10^27 grammes, so 90mg ~ 28 orders of magnitude smaller. So very, very much the former.
Teach people not to buy activation-locked laptops, and thieves won't have anyone to sell them to.
Mutex without lock, Queue without push: cancel safety in lilos
Birth control with an app – claims to be 93% effective vs. 87% for condoms
What a weird take. Unless you have immaculate email filtering or receive very few emails, it’s not hard for emails to slip through the cracks. You can complain about someone “not meeting half way” in a phone call or IM with read receipts, but email is one way communication until you actually get a response.
Absolutely not, I don't want my information retained on that device at all, I want it gone if I'm not getting the device back.
Came to say this. Enjoyed that game years ago.
They can charge a premium because they never sacrificed quality in any systemic way (obviously you can comment with your pet issues but the bottom line is that Apple has kept the quality bar very high for decades). That trust is earned and they charge accordingly.

Some immediately jump to Harvard MBA teachings that caused such widespread lack of quality, or capitalism, whatever. In my opinion a deep focus on quality is rare in any business. It is very hard to scale and keep in a business’s DNA. One reason small businesses continue to be formed and attract customers (beyond “buy local” pandering) is that solid small businesses are run by dictators that create an entity that is an extension of themselves, sacrificing nothing. Therefore they can charge a premium. Extending that to large companies is very difficult and requires solving an incentives and reputation puzzle to make each layer of the organization focus on quality.

I patronize businesses that maintain their quality and I pay for it. Life is too short and I have too much spare cash not to. Apple achieves such standards. You may have to upgrade hardware every few years but that’s part of the price.

It’s the “longtermism” mindset that goes against the grain of human behavior. Eating well, working out, maintaining friendships, putting in consistent effort - the fundamentals of quality. These are values that are hard and I try and notice it when anyone does it - people or businesses.
At 7 million vs 23 million pixels I’d avoid trying to design anything with smallish text
The kernel does not provide "generic" functionality; it provides very specific, often top-notch functionality which you can't easily find elsewhere, at least not as an easy replacement.

Linux has the largest collection of various hardware drivers, and a rather wide community of kernel developers who know how to produce them.

Linux has a number of specialty filesystems, some pretty important for embedded development.

Linux kernel has real-time extensions, which is not entirely a commodity, AFAICT.

Also, stuff like io_uring, BPF VM inside the kernel, namespaces (see "containers"), etc.

No, I don't think you can easily replace Linux kernel with whatever BSD kernel, Darwin, VxWorks, Contiki, FreeRTOS, etc, or, well, Windows. Much of the larger embedded stuff is Linux-specific, and much of big server stuff is either Linux-only or has extensive specific support.
No, we should tackle this problem by improving the mean quality of life of all humans. People steal because they are poor, unless they have a mental disorder.
Some ideas for you:

- Note the times of day (ultradian-style) when you can best work in this environment. Use objective metrics where possible. Most effective emails sent during these hours, best code written during these others.

- Consider the above a zone of reconciliation with the environment--something about you has accepted the environment for its current state and allowed work to happen

- For the rest of the time, change things up, take more breaks if needed, schedule time away, put on the extra-heavy noise cancelling headphones, cover your sightlines temporarily, etc. Protect your dopamine reception.

- Big picture: Keep promoting the idea (within your teams at work and with leadership) that a truly creative and professional environment should accommodate different environmental preferences to the benefit of all. Find people who think like you do. Recognize leadership who need very specific change proposals vs. those who just need the gist. Make it a point of negotiation if possible in an upbeat way.

Sorry it's a pain and good luck.
Yeah it should be a given that you have control over this. Blame your OS for the fact that you don't have it by default. It doesn't make any sense to get mad at firefox for implementing this. They're not interfering with your control. If they did nothing, you would have no control.
It actually does make a difference. The genie is out of the bottle partially but it depends a lot on what we allow it it be used on. If we sit idly and allow for ingesting all what’s written for instance, including whats currently written and let bros make derivative works for a quick buck then we mostly killed the writer’s incentive to write or publish. If we slow down and not allow ripping one another off it could have the opposite effect and trully lift all the boats at once. There’s a concurent thread about Sarah Silverman suing OpenAI, that’s what Im talking about as well here
Adobe (and others) wants a word with you.
> 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.

Huh? This is...totally wrong. Software devs at Microsoft are supplied with Windows machines by default, a lot of software is built on Microsoft-specific technologies like C#, and most of the server footprint is Windows Server.
If you're okay with your stolen device being reused as long as they can't access your data, you can do that, click the "Erase" button on the Find My app.
You can run that model (Wizard-30) on a computer with 64 gigabytes of RAM (or smaller, I don't know how tight you can cut it). You obviously want fast RAM and a good CPU, but you don't need a GPU.
This is the video I would post if I were a fence.
What would it even mean to "retain the stolen status" if you can reuse it normally?
The micro has general purpose counters:

> The LPC1759/58/56/54/52/51 include four 32-bit timer/counters. The timer/counter is designed to count cycles of the system derived clock or an externally-supplied clock. It can optionally generate interrupts, generate timed DMA requests, or perform other actions at specified timer values, based on four match registers. Each timer/counter also includes
two capture inputs to trap the timer value when an input signal transitions, optionally generating an interrupt.

Time-tagging the transitions of the 1PPS signal (and subtracting 100000000 at each transition) directly gives the phase difference measured in clock cycles. At 100 MHz clock frequency, the resolution is 10 ns which is well below the timing jitter of a GNSS 1PPS output. The OXCO can then be steered using a very slow feedback loop (in order not to spoil its short-term stability).
You should just check
https://nirantk.com/writing/pgvector-vs-qdrant/
The security is also in the fact that the stolen devices are almost worthless becoming well known.
> (the computers that humans interface with to tell core components what to do) aren't running anything like Ubuntu or Fedora, but instead run a heavily ruggedized and customized Linux system based on the Titanium suite from Star Lab.

That’s not to be minimized. Sounds like very much on the critical path, and definitely not some shitty infotainment sidecar. If that crashed, you couldn’t control core functions of the sub? Are there overrides?

Btw, thanks for sharing these details. I would never have learnt this. Love HN sometimes.
The fact they are using MoE is interesting. There are alot of specialised open source models on HuggingFace. You just need an LLM to act as the core "brain" and a few other components.

HuggingGPT works similar to this. It automatically chooses, downloads and runs the right "expert" model from HuggingFace https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.17580
> They currently have around 20% market share (as Internet servers -

Extremely big doubts about this. How would anyone even know? All the hyperscale datacenters built by FAANG must be 99.9% Linux, and those DCs alone would probably be enough to make 20% impossible to hit for windows.
That's fair. But above I read about a dev box with Emacs running on it, etc. You likely don't want it to be too short-lived. You can switch it off during night, of course!
Just to make devices less desirebale for thieves. And it is quite valid point.
nope. my understanding is using API of an AGPL software within a proprietary software does not extend its virality.
A desktop PC is not a type of operating system. It’s a type of computer designed for a specific use case, distinct from servers, mobile devices, handheld gaming devices or gaming consoles. A windows server or Linux server with KDE/gnome is not a desktop. A mobile phone isn’t a desktop, and it wouldn’t become a desktop even if you installed a plain Linux distro with KDE on it. A PlayStation, switch or Xbox isn’t a desktop PC, and neither is a steamdeck.

It’s an arbitrarily defined category of computer, and this statistics site doesn’t mention how they’ve specified that definition, but it seems they haven’t included any server, mobile/handheld, or gaming console devices at all, not just the steamdeck.
Yeah, the security of their profit.
POSIX loosened its guarantee here too?

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009696899/functions/re...

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/r...
Windows already blocks installation and execution of drivers that aren't signed by Microsoft under their WHQL[1] program. You can turn the blocking off, but that's a deliberate choice made as a sysadmin or power user.

Drivers from Intel/Nvidia/AMD are signed by Microsoft, WHQL certified, and are not part of Windows, so as far as Mozilla is concerned they are third-party drivers.

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/i...
To make matters worse for people that shares your stance, many Fediverse users in this movement are of the opinion that your instance should be blocked as well if you dont't block Meta.
And is this preventing theft in what measure? Data at hand?
This would be very welcome. I had hopes that Veertu would provide this (they used Hypervisor.framework at the time) but they pivoted away from regular VM usage before it ever eventuated.

With the current state of Vbox on Arm it would be good to have a reliable free/cheap alternative to Parallels or VMWare for vagrant use.
Counterpoint: there's way too much "art makers", copyright is keeping the quality ceiling down, good content loses monetization game with spam - all while that "predictive text generator" is, for better or worse, pretty much the most magnificent piece of technology invented this century, and - for better or worse - it's likely to become next major shift to economy and life.
I am part of the 3% having moved my main driver a few months ago. This is not the first time I move from Windows to Linux (Ubuntu). The last time I moved back to Windows was because Unity was dropped in favor of Gnome and I decided I didn't want a non mainstream DE. Things were already bad as they were.

I am happy with it but yesterday morning the computer wouldn't boot so I had to do some hand waving to fix the problem. No idea what caused it.