skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Another reason why kids should be off social media until they get a driver's license and parents own all data before they turn 18.

This has nothing to do with social media. The images have circulated through WhatsApp and Telegram channels. And if they hadn’t, they would have through email or MMSes.
> Many clearly think of the weights as a source-like artifact.

I believe releasing the weights is necessary for an open-source AI project, but don’t consider the weights to be source.

Indeed, open source is not just about the code. For instance, the OSI definition[0] states:

> The license must allow modifications and derived works

If a company released source code for a project, but it was written in a new language whose compiler they held private, then making derived works would be extremely hard. Someone would have to reverse engineer how the language works from source examples, and reimplement a compiler with a similar performance. In that case, in my view, while the code was open, the project would not be open-source.

The same is true of AI models: people can certainly reverse-engineer the training code and replicate a training run to get the weights, but without the weights, the project is not open-source.

On the flip side, if the inference code is open and has the weights public but the training code is not, it is similar to an open-source project using a proprietary compiler (think C# before 2014). The project is open-source, but the training is not.

[0]: https://opensource.org/osd/
MacOS signing and security is better implemented than on Windows, and more comprehensive. Specifically:

1. On macOS it's safe for IT to assume all binaries used by non-developers are signed. On Windows ~30% of binaries aren't signed at all, which means the OS and IT can't tell the difference between a polymorphic virus and a mission critical program. Note: homebrew users are an exception as those binaries are generally not signed.

2. On macOS apps have been malware scanned ahead of time by Apple (notarization), in such a way that they can take their time over it. They can also go back and revisit earlier classifications if they learn they were duped and then re-classify apps retroactively. On Windows only online real-time scanning is possible, which must fit within whatever resources users have, so there's a lot of false positives and negatives. Microsoft has no equivalent of notarization.

3. On macOS code signing actually means something because programs are signed as a unit, and all the code inside a process is typically coming from either the app vendor or the OS vendor. Code injection and apps overwriting each other's files aren't allowed by default. On Windows, because they introduced packaged identity very late and tied it tightly to their packaging scheme (MSIX), most apps are to the OS just a collection of files that aren't obviously related to each other in any way, and apps constantly inject code into each other's address spaces.

4. MacOS has an app sandboxing system that is somewhat widely used, e.g. by MS Office. Windows sandboxing is brand new and not really launched yet (+will be Win11 only when it does).

There are other differences, but it's fair to say that Apple has invested into code signing and sandboxing more intensively and more consistently over a longer period of time, and this has been noticed by IT admins.
The US slowly pulling Germany away from pan-EU projects like this is genious, from the US perspective. Because without Germany, not a single project in this space (military aerospace, defense and so on) will develop a size that could make as much as dent in the US defense sector and the likes of Lockheed-Martin, Northrop and Raytheon. And thisballowsbthe US to corner the NATO market for military goods, and that market is the biggest in the world.

Germany is an easy target for that, usually we suck at this kind of projects because our requirements management doesn't deserve the name. Just how things like A400M, NH90, Eurofighter, Galileo and Tiger came to be sometimes really puzzles me. There seems to have been a different climate in the 80 through early 90s went it came to that. Ever since, not so much.
Afaik 7digital is the main backing service of a lot of streaming sites like qobuz and Deezer.

7digital is chock full of spam. Spotify, for all their faults, has some people who care about quality on those sort of things (the old Echo Nest people). 7digital and their white-label frontends don't, they're skeleton crew operations.

I hope they understand, they can't run Bandcamp like that. Bandcamp has had problems like this in the past, with people spamming the services with other people's music and pretending to be them. It happened to an old classmate of mine who's a reasonably well known Jazz musician. Someone pretended to be her on Bandcamp for years.

If this roll-up company plans to run Bandcamp like 7digital, there will be a ton more of stuff like that.
The title isn't even coming from England.
Setting up that much nuclear would first fix the problem of emissions. But sure if we have extra energy and resources after that.
When I worked there, they constantly talked up having a side hustle. It allowed them to hire higher quality people because comp wasn't US competitive. It is there because it was intentionally put there by Tobi and others.
> It's a bit sad that such capital investment from a commercial party is necessary

I think it's great that someone invests. That investments are necessary is no sadder than that salaries are necessary for your work. It's just a normal part of work/life where the alternative would be to do it for free, out of passion. But you also have to make a living.
I'm not sure what you mean? The nVidia drivers have never been considered for inclusion in the kernel source tree?
If a business asked me to go on a training session with this in mind, red flag. Big red flag. I think most people would react similarly.
It's interesting to see Apple basically imitating this with their porting toolkit. The net result is game developers being presented with two growing ecosystems for the same game simply by ensuring they stay compatible with both. With their VR stuff coming out soon, there could be a big push to get some games going there.

Either way, if you are a game developer, ensuring the games work fine via proton and Apple's porting kit should be a no-brainer. Basically, it should just work mostly without too much effort. All you need to do is a bit of Q&A and maybe avoiding to use some stuff that is problematic or coming up with some workarounds for those things. Neither ecosystem is very big. But at the same time, growing your market by a few percent is always nice. It's big enough that not supporting that is becoming an odd choice to make.

I've been using Steam on my Manjaro laptop for some casual gaming. The setup was pretty easy and I'm able to run most of my steam library. I'm not much of a gamer but I've bought some things over the years. And most of those things stopped working on macs. My guess is that Valve is starting to see a lot of Linux users with steam accounts that don't own a Steam Deck. It wouldn't surprise me if that's actually most of their Linux users.

As for OSS, Wine is basically very successful thanks to efforts like this. Most successful OSS projects need active users and, like it or not, the private sector tends to be by far the largest stakeholder in these projects. Wine as a hobby project was basically a bit of a niche thing. They got a lot of amazing stuff done of course. But it was kind of a bit of a pain to set it up and use it and progress was slow. Also support for a lot of games was a bit lacking and very dependent on the community chasing that. Steam makes this super easy and they made huge progress with getting a lot of games working. More importantly, they are big enough that game developers themselves now care about compatibility. And that's of course more commercial users.
you meaning fostering and nurturing that into more exploitative mega corporations?

I can live with that
> Linux desktop is more viable than ever.

Other then in most stuff migrating to the browser how so?
Browser + terminal has been a good combo for a long time, the desktop enviornment only have suffered enshittification due to a push to touch screen oriented UI conventions.
> The assumption was that Linux would struggle to make a dent in the desktop market until it managed to make a tempting proposition for gamers.

I don't think that assumption has been validated, and I don't see that from this article. The premise of this article isn't that the steam deck is taking market share, it's that it's increasing compatibility of games on linux. More to the point, the steamdeck hasn't made a dent in the desktop market, see [0] it's a fraction of a percentage of _gamers_ never mind any other use cases.

Don't read this as me saying this isn't progress, but we're still a far cry (pun intended) from a dent.

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...
I'd bet there will be a blockbuster movie about this guy within 10 years of him dying and it'll be in the pop culture, and maybe even stoke a temporary privacy / freedom focus for a while in common consciousness.

Unfortunately the world doesn't know how to really appreciate people as much when they're alive for some personality types.
>and I've read everything from Atomic Habits to Zero to One.

But have you read much history? Sure there are problems now, but there always have been and always will be.
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PostHog is my favourite startup as of lately. Their company culture seems to really be pushing things to the next level. Very inspiring!
Since 1997 here -- still my OS of choice, for desktops, laptops, and servers. I enjoy FreeBSD and NetBSD too, but Debian feels like "home". No surprises, no gotchas, no telemetry, no nonsense.

Every time I have to use my Windows 10 corporate laptop, I become even more bewildered that people actually tolerate such a farce as their daily computing environment.
Tradition, habit, convenience, taste. No other reasons exist.
One difference with food is that you can switch your food supplier any time, it doesn't hold your data or account connections hostage.
Maybe, but it's not just cooperative games, but many other techniques of modern board game design as well.

The latest in cardboard based entertainment is a lot more fun than the old Ameritrash of Monopoly and 'Game of Life'. My native Germans had a few decades of a head start there, but modern boardgames, even from the US, generally have surpassed Eurostyle games from a few decades ago.

So, I agree that cooperative games are more fun now than cooperative games a few decades ago (or even most boardgames from that time, cooperative or not). But that's mostly because game design has gotten a lot better in general.

> There were no technical limitations preventing such cooperative games to be made 70 years ago, all they lacked was understanding of game design.

Well, I would say better understanding of game design _is_ a technological advance. Just like eg Newton working out a faster way to calculate more digits of Pi is a technical advance (or the lifting of a limitation), even though Newton would have been using the same writing implements to do his calculations as the people 70 years before him.
Yes: space. It started with FORTRAN so the history is quite long.
The Worldly Philosophers was good. Past that no history stuff.
Recommendations?
Stallman's character is one of the reasons I have repeatedly considered establishing some kind of "Church of Computing", i.e. an organized "religion" solely to secure religious protections and rights as they apply to the modern world.

For example, the right not to have to use some random company's app to interact with a government agency or a public school (and agree to said company's EULA, etc). It only takes a few dozen people to create a church with legal standing in many countries.

The FSF and the EFF are nice, but churches have additional legal protection for their adherents.

It does sort of vaguely border on religious zeal at this point. I've told companies they can either talk to me on Signal (or email), wait til I arrive on site, or find another contractor, but I will not use WhatsApp no matter how much they pay. This also applies to, for example, Microsoft/Google/Amazon products where learning their APIs and products mean my human capital, my skills, can be revoked by someone I never met, made valueless, my income made moot, in a sense.

Imagine having invested substantial time and effort into a proprietary ecosystem that was killed (by the company or its competition) and not being able to quickly leap into a competing esoteric, obtuse product.
They arent scrapping the whole site. The entire site is 99% spam. Its scrap on request, if its not already cached.
The biggest share of US charitable giving goes to megachurches and other religious institutions who don't need it.

A fair amount of the rest goes on political lobbying and influencing.

The proportion that goes on direct no-strings plain simple humanitarian work is not all that huge.

Most of the US population lives in cities. If the US wasn't "individualism run amok" it wouldn't have tent cities of homeless people, and its health industry wouldn't be bankrupting half a million people a year. (For example.)
> If I had an hour, I'd like to expound on the significance of Americans buying precious metal at a loss through a giant vertical monopoly.

Costco occasionally sells gold below spot if Reddit is to be believed. Most of the time it's right around spot. These 1oz bars were going for $1900 give or take, which is spot give or take. It's fairly common to see a small ~$50 ish premium on small quantities like this, around 2-3%.

Costco is also not a monopoly, and it's not really vertically integrated - these bars come from PAMP, a Swiss company.

You can get gold for exactly spot if you have a lot of money - just buy a futures contract and stand for delivery.
Let's not forget the other Cerf, Bennett Cerf 1898-1971 the joke and riddle master.

Q: What's big, red, and eats rocks?

A: A Big Red Rock Eater.
He's not being facetious.
And now I reread that list, I realise I forgot the fire incident had my mum or her friend drive me to the hospital by car, so that's 3 ambulances in 30 years for 5 relevant hospital visits.
Well, that doesn't take a lot, because Epic isn't so much a company as a pile of money which doesn't know what to do with itself.
Trying to replicate something that already exists, without adding anything unique to the mix? You mean copying? Then showing it as yours? Does that create any value? Where does that even lead?

I mean if you recreate it in order to learn the technique, that's good.

It's like in the bbc show where they were sawing logs in front of an orangutan and the orangutan copied the action, but didn't really know why.

To be clear I don't have any problems with this photographer's work, just remarked that each and every waterfall looks the same on Flickr.
I don’t think there are any benefits, it’s cancelled (or about to be)
It's the right approach to making money. For the big tech companies.
You can have an AP accepting multiple different WPA2-PSK and/or WPA3-SAE passphrases, and since on WPA2 PMK depends on the password, and on WPA3 PMK is different for each client, you can put them in different VLANs or have per PMK MAC mapping if they share the same VLAN.
It started as a scare tactic that goes back all the way to when people "pirated" music by recording radio on tape.

The idea was to turn public opinion against copyright infringement by using terminology associated with violent crimes, such as piracy and robbery.

Ofc it backfired spectacularly, with the "pirating" community adopting the term and reveling in it. Who could have known that using a term that the general public immediately associates positively with countless novels, movies and other works of fiction, radiating a flair of adventure, swashbuckler charm and the freedom of the carribean seas, would fail to turn public opinion against something :D
we mainly do this because it can just help with getting PRs approved if we want to fix an issue in something we rely on (and it is nice / we can list as a perk), and a little influence can be very valuable if we want to give feedback on a project's direction. doesn't do much on the growth side as far as i'm aware, for us at least.
> I'd like to expound on the significance of Americans buying precious metal at a loss through a giant vertical monopoly.

I am more interested in when Costco got into the gold mining business.
I have never once clicked a "sponsors" logo, but I have definitely seen a logo I know and probably thought better of the company for it - baring GloboMegaCorps that I have long since calcified my opinions about.

Though, if you want to sponsor me GloboMegaCorp, my opinion can definitely be bought.
Gonna go out on a limb here and say that Che almost certainly did not kill anywhere near the same number of 'innocent people' as the overtly fascist south american heads of state from the 1950s-1990s did, namely Bautista, Barrientos, Pinochet, Videla, Stroessner.
> Think about it once more.

There’s nothing to think more; the FSF should use YouTube or similar services as mirrors so people can watch the videos even when their website is hammered down by the HN crowd. You can hardly argue that the current situation where nobody can watch the video is a good idea.
fully agree! I'm biased because I also work for pay on open source products but I think it's a great "rising tide lifts all boats" model of software development.
on discovery, at some point they turned tag pages from paginated into endlessly scrolling kind, and that's been one of the worst thing one could do for discovery. no longer can you actually browse the catalog top to bottom, you're forced to scroll and start from the top every time. oddly enough, there's still pagination in the Discover section of front page, but it only goes back 200 pages, which really isn't that much (those 200 pages might only go back a day/a month/a year, depending on how active a tag is).

for how much music there is, the discovery tools are kinda lacking. you can't really browse the full catalog. especially for stuff that's previously released, but not "popular enough" to be surfaced in 'best selling' sorts. stuff that doesn't make it into 'new' - which can literally be like 'oh, this released a week ago? it's not new already', and doesn't make it into 'best selling' that really only makes already popular stuff more popular, which isn't doing much for actual discovery of others. there's a lot of music that's out there and just yet to be discovered, and it's being held back by platforms that don't really do anything with it. held back by a catalog that lacks browsing tools and doesn't get more things brought to surface. i'd rather see platforms move on from 'making popular stuff more popular' and 'only ever showing stuff that's new new new', and make an actual effort to make all things discoverable.
Richard Stallman changed the world, deeply. Everything we have around us is mostly because of him and his vision. FOSS keeps the world moving.

We need his vision to inspire us to keep inspiring. And to help us understand what is right and what is wrong.

I hope he will heal soon.
I guess there's a different though - if its for a customer then its potentially something that you should be charging for. If the "customer" is actually another department in your company and the automation helps then the company should have software devs allocated to internal tools - they'll probably find a lot more places to smooth things out if they're allowed to look.
That's the software version of a guitarist trying to get a record contract by busking in the streets. Sure, it might happen, but there are more efficient avenues.
Unusually Warm September 2023 in Poland
Oh, the joy of being a prosecutor and finding such training material. Case opened and won right away!
In Europe, it likes to use unpaved tractor roads, or roads barely usable for cars in small towns as shortcuts.

When someone is not double checking, or thinks that is indeed the only way available to reach their destination, they are in for a surprise.

Anecdote, yet it happens to me all the time specially since they got the green suggestions, when traveling in country side in Southern Europe or Mediterrean islands.
If only there was a way to teleport something with the characteristics of gold over the internet and a simple hash check to verify its purity and if there was no elasticity in supply in relation to demand. That would be so awesome.
Convenient authoring doesn't necessarily make it a good fit for the hardware. Add in enough divergence and your GPU code is going to be matched or outperformed by a competent CPU implementation (on a chip of comparable size). Branchless code can result in substantial speedups on either.

To be fair though, modern GPUs are pretty good at branching and latency hiding, while numpy-style code has poor data locality unless you have a magic compiler.
Well, I am also good at making software, share the goal of a world where everyone fully controls their devices - yet I am appalled by many things around him.

Mostly the "superior" ethical stance. You do things this (my) way, then it is ethical and you love freedom or you are not ethical and don't want freedom.

Sorry, but I just have some different opinions about some things, but I rather feel not like working together with people who consider me lower. So the result is not cooperation but lot's of fragmentation in the free software/open source world. I do not think that helped the common cause. Otherwise we would not be where we are. Lots of open source and free software for tech people - everything closed down for ordinary people.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by illiteracy and innumeracy.
I came to find an answer to this question: why the heck do France care about nVidia?
Not what I'm talking about; I can have a nihilist burnout about something other than being a software engineer. It's just run-of-the-mill angst towards the tragedy of the commons is all.
That's nice. The cultural norms where you're from aren't necessarily reflective of the use of language elsewhere though.
doesn't `[] =` just call a method on the object in python?

e.g, `x[0] = 10` is the same as `x.__set_item__(0, 10)`, so there shouldn't be any technical limitation to using `x[0]` (says the guy who never even imported jax)
The Linux desktop is better than ever (in fact, I am switching to it the first time in a few days! I just need to setup some things first)

Sadly, the enshittification has also taken over parts of the Linux desktop as well though. For example, the mobile-first, flat-everything user-hostile design. (like gnome)

Dark themes were not common while skeuomorphism was mainstream, they are only in demand right now because viewing an extremely low-contrast white flat theme is an eyesore.

Luckily, KDE and the similar still exists and you can theme it:)
I’m imaging it’s because states and even cities can have differing sales tax rates.

Hard to advertise to a wide audience when the final price after tax is one of 12 different prices depending on where they live.
The section on hardware context reminds me of what is probably a little-known fact these days -- that Oregon Trail (amongst many other games[0]) was originally designed as a teletype game.

0. https://www.pcmag.com/news/the-forgotten-world-of-teletype-c...
Bit of a party @ the end of the world then, huh.