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Microsoft can simply fuck off if they try and sell me VDI. It's literally the shittiest user experience you can have regardless of who provides it or how it is implemented.

Local first, remote sync is fine.

Remote first is not!
I always find it amusing when maps like this, or for weather, etc. have a nice even line at the 49th parallel and it's like... "here be dragons" after it :-)
>Is that what the contract says? Does it say that if a customer installs CentOS, or some RedHat downstream, that they are now in breach

Nobody is arguing that it's in breach, he's just explaining why a business motivation might exist to differentiate RHEL and RHEL-clones.

It's certainly in breach of the "spirit" of the agreement in a much more direct way than the arguments people are making about the GPL.
It feels as if a lot of this discussion happens between people who have a completely different context in mind where throwing all the prototyping code away may make more or less sense. For me, it is hard to think of a scenario of writing prototyping code for more a few days and not reusing at very least 10% of that code (with some modifications). I would be fine throwing away the 90% of it or sth, but the frustration having to rewrite parts that I had just written and threw away would be too much to bear. Even merely for reference, would make no sense for me to throw away.
> Have you ever seen a Youtube video about someone reviewing a Tesla or comparing it to another car? The comments are always full of hostile and vitriolic remarks by people who are personally offended if the video suggests the cup holders on a Model 3 are less than perfection. For some reason, Tesla is surrounded by a cult of personality where it's not just a car, it's a lifestyle.

Recently, though, it seems that the pendulum has swung and Tesla haters are far more vocal than the fans.

Anyway, whereas brand allegiance in buying a car is somewhat based in emotional tribalism (modern cars are mostly quite good regardless of brand), the same cannot be said about physical phenomena. With cars, there are decades of car advertisements that appeal to emotions but there have been no ads about superconductors.
Carbon is more or less dead (certainly for new apps, anyway), and GNUStep does indeed implement Cocoa. GNUStep doesn't implement a lot of other macOS frameworks, though.
The GPT-3.0 "davinci-instruct-beta" models have been returning non-deterministic logprobs as early as early 2021. This is speculation. CUDA itself often has nondeterminism bugs.

text-davinci-001 and text-davinci-002 were trained through FeedMe and SFT, while text-davinci-003 was RLHF; the models themselves have more variance at high temperature.
Pinterest does a whole lot specifically bad - they tend to trap users with login prompts on entry and make it impossible to see the full image. If I'm searching for a meme to DM to someone or a photograph of a landmark Pintrest is something I avoid like the plague. It's essentially a black-hole for images - people pin them and then they are lost forever.
When I was homeless in LA, the heat was unbearable, and there was precious little shade anywhere. My only respite was public libraries, which are free, air conditioned, quiet, have restrooms, water fountains, and loaded with free entertainment and education. I spent nearly every day there.
Anyone who’s tried OneDrive knows this has zero chance of not being dead on arrival.
Cyberattack disrupts hospital computer systems across US, hindering services
constant exposure to 400ppm CO2 is not, deliberated supplementation.

400ppm 24 hrs a day, is deleterious to plant species.

couple this with daytime air temperatures exceeding 30 C, and this is walking on thin ice concerning crop failure.
> Is there a gaming edition that actually uses local hardware?

Xbox
As the resident pedant, one cannot have "sub-accounts" in AWS. One can 100% have Accounts that are a member of an AWS Organization, which itself has a Management Account that does as you describe as the "main account", but there is no parent-child relationship between Accounts, only OUs and Accounts or OUs and other OUs (which the Organization, itself, counts as an OU)
They're not wrong. I've got an M1 14" MacBook Pro and a ThinkPad T14 gen 3. The MacBook is in the cupboard and the ThinkPad does the work. Despite a few rough edges it's a lot more useful and easier to drive. I genuinely prefer windows 11 as well. Less eye poking. Also from the macos side of things, some macos ports of software I use are dire and unusable.
So, kagi has a couple hundred actives?
"How's it going" from your co-worker is obviously different from HR or your CEO or someone X levels above you.

As a long-time WFH person I always assume I am big-time socially inept (and I definitely am) but apparently office-dwellers (you) are even worse!

To me it is clear that Bill-From-This-Mornings-Standup saying "Hey, what's up" is different from Emily-Director-Of-HR saying "Hey, how's it going today?" is different from "Kim-your-bosses-bosses-boss" saying "Good morning. Got a minute?"
Crypto's summer of scams 2023: fake yield aggregators
A group of anons with NFTs as their PFP and Chinese characters as their discord handle create a “decentralized yield aggregator” on a beta version of an L2 that just launched onto mainnet 90 days ago. The platform offers vaults with 400% APY on USDT, 500% on their native token, 1200% on partner tokens, and 100% on ETH....
Doesn’t explain the lack of romance though - which sex (or at least the expression of desire for) usually comes with.

I can understand holding back on the PDA if you are making an evening TV shows watched together by families. But in PG-13 movies?
If anything this will kill the cloud.

I had the unfortunate pleasure of working on remote windows at { large financial institution }. It was a nightmare. Yes they got a huge immediate cash savings on hardware, but at the cost of worker productivity.

The response time from keypress to response was literally like I was in 1992 working with a dialup connection to a terminal server.

Oh, also the executives got their own laptops, so they didn't dogfood their own solution.
I wish there was a better Apple-blessed path towards making the iPad a dumb terminal of a Mac Mini. The lack of a nice first party screenshare makes me not bother.
... and Chrome a bootloader for Jupyter Notebook.
I think it’s just a retroflex R, but when it’s preceded by tongue-forward th in “either,” it comes out almost like a flap.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcrVeMYnOS4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_dental_and_alveolar_tap...
That's pretty high, I would not risk it due to the slight correlation with dementia later on.
We need more of these type of projects in different markets. These huge corporations get away with the worst support, price gouging and a lack of competitive technical ingenuity, as an example look how long it took us to get into the 5G race, it wasn’t until it became a national security interest to get the ball rolling. Can go on and on; internet, rail, etc.
Meh, no lambda key.
None of that matters, though. All that matters, is if this satisfies someone who wants "a triumphant moment for desktop Linux". And I'd say, no, no it does not.
Can anyone recommend a classic text or two on atomic/nuclear physics that would be good places to start for someone with a background of graduate math, some physics (mechanics, thermo) and computer science (advanced degree)? Much thanks.
What's the Go community? Google employees?
There's no Go community, it's a corporate language.

Why hasn't the Visual Basic for Office community produced more libraries?
Loops are an abstraction over conditional branching and, depending on the kind of loop, some other things.
Retrieval Augmented Generation with Citations
There's more to a computer than hardware. M1 Macs have great performance and battery life but the experience of using OS X is awful. Why pay $1500 for a system with poor multiple monitor support, poor mixed DPI support, no keyboard shortcuts for things such as snapping windows, no ability to name virtual desktops, and so many other problems?
So are people with more excess weight less susceptible due to the fat acting as an insulator?
I don't remember now, as I don't read news, and it was covered by everyone at the time due to is ability to play into the current tribal wars. So it was filtering into my social media from witness accounts, analysts, etc. But CNN has no credibility, along with Fox and nytimes. They're into entertainment and will slant their stories to promote tribal outrage, as that keeps people returning for more. Life is much nicer ignoring them.
LlaMAo :)
I'm surprised Reddit isn't higher on the list. Either I'm on a desktop and Reddit's website is a bit clunky to use - or I'm on mobile and I have to click past several attempts at them to funnel me into their app.

It is a true shame that so much useful information gets trapped within their ecosystem.
I've heard it like forever. And I do not really care. Windows did serve me well since it came out and still does. I also use Linux (both desktop and servers). If this FUD article ever materializes I'll just switch to Linux completely.
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/01/26/texas-heat-deaths-mi...

279 died last year. I don't know how reliable texas tribune is but they cite their sources. Is that not viable statistics?
Duuude - it’s like they wanted to make you hate remote. It was the one place I couldn’t stand remote work.
> I noticed people from hacker news routinely read scientific papers.

Highly doubt that. It’s very hard to actually read scientific papers when you are not actively doing research.

You can’t just read a research paper in isolation. It’s next to useless. You need to understand its context, where it stands with regard to its sources and what it brings which is actually new and valuable. It’s nearly impossible to do properly if you are not fully immersed in a research subject.

I don’t even know how you would scheme introduction and sources to filter articles which are immediately obviously useless without being immersed in a field.

I guess you can obviously go though lists of papers which have be deemed worthwhile by someone else or got prices. That solves the filtering issue but then nearly every time you will be better served reading a text book presenting the ideas in said papers.

I fully expect the HN readership to contain a significant amount of students and actual researchers which explain why you encounter people reading papers but these people aside I would be surprised if the habit is common.
Do you think it's a coincidence that almost every perfume uses some pheromone-like ingredients?

Musk and civet are the most famous examples but also see hedione, a major ingredient in perfumes since the 1960s, because it enhances pretty much any floral smell. Hedione seems to directly stimulate the vomeronasal organ (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003193842...).

There's also the case of sandalwood, a perfume ingredient since antiquity. It just happens to smell almost like androstenol, an androgen believed to act as a pheromone, even though it's not really chemically related.

PS, fwiw my wife sometimes tells me she married me because of how I smell like. Apparenlty I smell like violets to her.
Yeah, it's one of the first things you notice when trying to do some kind of "feed GPT some data and get it to produce a novel answer to a question" task with the API.
I didn't realize that, cheers!

but how does red hat structure their stuff? I know that gnu projects must surrender their copyright to gnu, in order to prevent future shenanigans. if red hat had their core infrastructure (package manager, package definitions, etc.) copyrighted to red hat, then they can change the license on future releases of red hat to make it restrictive. you're then free to release a gpl source of the packaged code and the red hat specific modifications, since they fall under gpl, but you can't release the scaffolding anymore that make up the rest of the red hat system. I'm not a lawyer, but I've seen this kind of trick pulled on gpl projects before, where version 2 is now bsd/proprietary, while gpl version 1 remains in public access.

(edit: I'm reading the rest of the thread, and it seems there's some confusion about what exactly is in the new red hat contracts.)
Some points on why I switched from Firefox to Chrome:

- It "failed" while trying to use Google Meet for work. I don't remember the details of the incident, but it was embarrassing enough that it made me switch, at least for work stuff

- No Chromecast support

- Buggier than Chrome in general: last I remember was an issue with page scaling when printing

- No desktop integration of PWAs (i.e. launcher icon, standalone window). This is what I missed the most as a Linux desktop user.

- Worse performance than Chrome, at least on Android. Firefox was freezing often and even causing my phone to... restart randomly. This is unacceptable.
While it's possible that Google hasn't said they'll be doing the updates separately for the browser there's no reason to suspect they wouldn't do that once LaCrOS was fully implemented -- after all, it works under Linux.

The comment I submitted only went so far as to say they started doing "that", referring to the parent's post about decoupling and providing separate updates.
Phoenix, AZ has an office of heat response: https://www.phoenix.gov/heat

I think it will become a necessity in many places
$31/month seems so expensive since you’d still need some terminal pc. I think you’re better off just having a literal dumb terminal that only runs office365.

If I had to buy a pc and maintain it for employees and then pay $350/year that’s not economical.

I think you’re more likely to have some docking station you slide your phone into for a big monitor and keyboard and then just use the browser.

That and the UX is going to be horrible.
It seems strange to me that you would "move PC to cloud" for mass market users without also removing restrictions that are typically bound to local hardware - RAM for example.

If you take it for granted that you want to eschew typical hardware, and deliver experiences over the Internet, is the best way to do that really let someone rent 8GB of RAM in the cloud, and load Chrome and web pages into that cloud ram they rented? and then let the webpages paint in the cloud and draw it for the user over RDP?

This makes sense for Microsoft to use their desktop telemetry investments in the cloud era. But less sense for users doing basic productivity.
To me it sounds like what's described is similar to my own interactions with ChatGPT where:

1. Write a prompt, get a full script in response (good! as I expected)

2. Realize something missing in the prompt, or want to improve a specific function.

3. Prompt like "For function foo_bar(), give me just a updated version of that function that adds exception handling for missing files".

4. Chat GPT ignores the (admittedly implied in my language above) "just that function" part, and rewrites the entire script.

While usually it only modifies the part of the script I asked it to, it's annoying because (1) it's slower to give me the whole thing back (2) need to do additional checks in case the function I care about depends on things outside of it that might have been changed.

I've had this a few times, so I'm in the habit of not trying to iterate with chatGPT when asking it for scripts, but instead just doing the rest myself.

(Disclaimers: I haven't tried too hard to find a solution to this; there might be one; I also don't generally combine ChatGPT with Copilot; one or the other on different projects; and haven't tried other forms of using GPT-4...)
I only have experience with OpenStep 4.x on PC hardware, but I feel like you may be vastly underplaying the speed gain from then to now, unless NeXTstep on black hardware really felt that much faster than on one of the blessed 486 configurations. I mean, NeXT was not known for speed, and this was the age of slow spinning rust or, for NeXT, even slower MO drives.

I remember NeXTtime - it was essentially a prototype tech demo that could play some -- only some -- QuickTime movies in a very small window. I find it unlikely that it was significant in the deal. IIRC the Apple tech team wasn't that impressed with the interrupt latency of Mach, which later had to be fixed at Apple out of necessity.
OpenAI released an app last month with press-to-talk that transcribes voice-to-text, but there's no in-built text-to-speech (use a screen reader I guess?)

I think this a dumb architecture. The Whisper model has been released and runs well on an 8GB consumer GPU. Train a new head on it to produce speech until it exceeds the other voice-to-voice models, and then fine-tune it to banter instead of translate. Is that possible? Sure, but it's a pretty small model, so you wouldn't expect large LLM performance.
I Am Not a Turnip (2014)
Isn't Red Hat's position, "You have the freedom to redistribute this code but if you do so, we will sever our relationship with you as a customer of ours, so you won't get any more code." Which might go against the intentions of the GPL but not its actual wording.
this seems like a plausible outcome, and if true could spell disaster for OpenAI models relative to the competition and open source models. Currently, reliability is one of the core obstacles preventing widespread adoption of LLMs in many business critical workflows. And if these rumors, that GPT-4 is inherently un-deterministic and unreliable, are true then most enterprises are better off finetuning open source LLMs—which are just as capable—for their specific domains. they stand to gain better performance that way anyways, as domain-specific models will always outperform generalist ones
This doesn’t have anything to do with AWS, this has to do with terraform not allowing you to dynamically instantiate providers.

The same thing happens with the Kubernetes provider when you try to use it with multiple GKE clusters.
I think all the benefits you listed also apply to a kindle. You can get free ebooks via the library, it’s portable, and there’s no online BS to distract from your reading (I turn off the “show commonly highlighted passages” feature)
> Linux has always been lackluster on the Desktop - fragmented, lacking features, lacking important applications, etc - and MacOS is attached to overpriced mediocrity.

Honestly, I would agree with that 10 years ago but not anymore.

The we-yfication of clients applications and Electron (ironically) did a lot of good here.

These are numbers pulled out of my Hat, but I would say out of my experience that around:

- 90% of proprietary applications around nowadays are just WebApp or Electron Apps that will just run fine under Linux

- 5-7% are old Win32 apps that will just run like a charm under Wine (ironically, sometimes better than under the last windows version)

- 3-5% are the problematic ones. They are often Microsoft applications (Office365, Teams) or Oracle applications.

The most problematic one I do find currently is Office 365 that never runs properly under Wine (probably on purpose).

Even the game situation improved tremendously with the arrival of Proton.
Interesting! Good sleuthing, that is odd. Guessing arojas just didn't want to deal with it any more so they moved it to the AUR and handed it over to someone else straight away. Maybe it had some quirk that made it not worth the time, though I dunno how it would, there's only a new release of units roughly once a year. http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/units/
Honestly a lot are really hard to read. You start with the easy ones, learn the lingo, and then just keep going. Eventually you can enjoy reading the harder ones.

You learn pretty quickly that if you want answers, it's better to just go straight to the source, rather than have it filtered through someone else, where the message can (and often does) get twisted.

What are you interested in reading about? Maybe some people can recommend you some papers to start with.
> See the third image from the economist

That's our world in data graph.

> the pollution reduction in the US is largely due to offshoring polluting activity, but it's not true. If it were, the gap between production vs consumption-based CO2 would be large

You're mistaken. Consumption based CO2 is production_based - exported + imported. It only means that you import more than you export. If you export a lot, you may also import a lot from china. This graph doesn't say what you say it does.

> Sharing graphs from 6 years ago, as you did, grossly distorts the situation we face in 2023

Where did I shared 6 years old graph? I'm linking same source as you do (our world in data).

> pollution that happened hundreds of years ago in various parts of the earth ... to solving climate issues facing humanity in the present day.

The CO2 stays in the atmosphere for decades to centuries, and some portion even for thousands of years. It causes acidification of the oceans, deforestation also tips the scales a bit by removing carbon sinks, industrial ag degrades soils and releases a lot of carbon, etc. ... you're wrong again.
There is some point regarding changes on the code where rewriting is less costly or more costly than changing the current code. For me, a big part depends on whether I depend long term or short term on it and how deep I will have to go anyway using it.
I've noticed there always an "assembly" period where the inevitable two camps of psychos have yet to form and ideas and hope are floating around everywhere. Then the camps form and who knows what's real, because all available information is skewed by both to support their narrative.

This was especially fun in the early COVID days when it was just data and outbreak tracking. Then it.. well you know.

Science is basically just attempting to delay that calcification, but it happens regardless.

It's been fun learning about this. And I believe it is important and I'm happy people are sharing results mostly without serious bias. So far.
Poll: What DE do you use?
LXDE/LXQt
Nice to see a government that takes science seriously. In the US if you fake data you can become president of Stanford (for a while).
No. This was on site even! Everything was a lightweight terminal connecting to an oversubscribed cluster.

Meanwhile the managers, (I only assume), got huge bonuses out of it.
This is the hopefully-not-inevitable endpoint of the DRM/WEI initiatives. No more worries about pesky users doing things that you don't like, when their "computer" is just a dumb framebuffer that can only show what you stream to it.
This article seems like a stretch to me. Microsoft is pushing their online services, and even have a VDI solution, but neither of those things will likely ever cause the Windows desktop to dye by any stretch of the imagination.

Moreover, having lived through the thin client experiment of the mid 2000s, I can't see VDI ever taking off in the short term, especially at Microsoft's price point either. M365 is brilliant in many ways, but it serves to augment the Windows desktop today, not replace it.
I'd chew my arm off to have that 40h a week pair programming experience to be honest.

Sounds like my dream job.
Discussed here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37001884