skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> break the law

You misunderstand the law. The police can collect evidence in their jurisdiction. They are free to grab papers, phones, laptops, servers, etc. If the hard drives are encrypted, they can ask a judge to compel decryption, after presenting evidence and subject to rebuttal by legal counsel.

What the police often want to do is an extra-legal search of materials outside their jurisdiction, i.e. in the cloud, in remote servers, etc. I would posit that this is almost always the case, since raiding any tech company would otherwise yield a few printouts and a stack of encrypted laptops.

> Are you advocating that employees have the obligation to break the law

Absolutely not. The IT employee is probably several time zones away, and is just securing assets not on-site. His team mate will probably provide discovery if/when the police actually request things through a court process. The staff on site should cooperate, whether or not their cooperation has been rendered moot.

You aren't suggesting that the police should be able to sit in that office, accessing anything they want on remote servers, indefinitely, right? Why can't the police kick the IT guy's door in and demand an admin login?
I was blocked on my machine but could access via my phone (same wifi). But 5 minutes later, it was back on my machine
High Speed Rail doesn't need to cover the country end to end, because most of the travel isn't end to end. There are plenty of "regional" services that can be done that will already remove millions of other worse trips (by car or plane) and will be a net benefit for everyone and everything (saving people time, generating revenue, reducing pollution and noise, etc. etc).
Node.js – v20.8.0
I was wondering why these were selling out like that… I see gold for sale occasionally @ spot price but I’m not personally interested.

But with the 4% you mention it makes a lot more sense.
Let's pray for RMS:

Father God in Heaven,
Please heal Richard Stallman of the cancer afflicting his
body, and give him a strong will to endure all of this to the end.
Let him keep his health through this period of his life here on Earth, LORD.
And let both him and his legacy continue shine the light of freedom and
transparency and human decency in this world, which is getting so dark.
And keep him healthy through his chemo, please God. And give him the joy of Your
salvation through Jesus Christ, and the hope of life eternal.
Save his soul, please God. And if it is Your will, even make him a saint in the
church of Jesus Christ, Your Son. Heaven wont be the same without him.
In Jesus Christ's name I ask,
Amen.

I will continue to pray this for you RMS.
>enshittification

This is the 2nd time this word has been used to describe the Linux desktop in this thread, and it's disingenuous. FOSS doesn't do any of the things described with enshitification article: it doesn't sit between buyers and sellers and screw each of them in turn. That's not what's been happening. Maybe the software goes shit, but it is not "enshitification". At every turn there's been alternatives (GNOME3 -> Unity/Xfce, KDE4 -> Trinity, Pulseaudio -> Pulsewire, systemd -> upstart, Debian -> Devuian, etc)

Stop misusing the word, you're discrediting the good work of FOSS.
"Developers avoid ads like the plague."

If they can.

They can't avoid them on Instagram or Tiktok.
Good Lord this is cynical. Perhaps it's just a different medium? Not everything has to be a hardcore interrogation.

There's a time and a place for that.
this works with your username a little too well...
I agree completely! I ditched Ubuntu for this very fact. GNOME and snaps are deal breakers for me. I switched to Fedora KDE a year ago and I use it every day. And not just for coding. It's a real treat and stuff just works and gets out of my way.
Broke once, then it started working, now it's broken again.

Web browser version works just fine though.
Sure, because 1956 is quite Hungary-specific. The more our media globalizes (eg TikTok trends in sync all over the world, not even a week delay in the newest fad), the less people relate these things to their local history. People use international cultural references and only see the Hungary-specific local view in school where they are bored anyway.

1956 is also interesting as it became relevant politically again with the war in Ukraine. And it is my impression that many people in Hungary look at this not as something happening in a bordering country but as if trying to see it through Western European/North American eyes. A bit like vampire Transylvania, which might as well be a totally different entity than Erdély. So is "Ukraine whose flag the celebs put on their profile pics" a separate entity from Ukraine, east from Nyíregyháza and Mátészalka, where the cheap cigarettes come from etc. A very different set of connotations.

Similarly, the communism that's cool is mentally compartmentalized away from historic reality like 1956, Rákosi, Kádár etc.
I’m fairly sure the Twitter portion is because they named their product synonymous to a common social media expression for “share a picture of your (male) genitalia”.

It’s an unfortunate scenario for anyone who had to look at those tweets, I’m sure.
Won't that mean retiring at 90? Otherwise pension funds will become unsustainable.
Chromebooks can run Linux:

https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/chromium-os/chro...

https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/install-ubuntu-on-chromebook

Another option that I'd personally strongly prefer: Buy an used Macbook Air with M1 CPU (these can be found for 500-600 EUR where I live).

Optionally set up Fedora Asahi Linux on it - macOS is good though. The machine is a beast, I work on it (have 16 GB RAM, but 8 GB is usable too) and am not planning on upgrading for a few more years.
Sure, but that doesn't make a difference. Even the top 1% of the most requested timelines and tweets are huge amounts of requests. That's many many orders of magnitude more data then new articles and requires a large number of accounts.
I dunno what it is. After a little search, I think you wanted to point out that games developers lost interest in it and migrated to the smartphone stores?
Whoever set that up probably wanted it for their own use, both for easily managing the system when they need to work on it, and for themselves when they're travelling anywhere.

If I'm ever in charge of rigging up a captive portal system like this, I'm certainly going to do something similar if I can get away with it. Maybe even put a hint on how to bypass in the portal's page source. "ssh works on port 46969, don't tell anyone." > rot13 > base64 -> "cache-burst-ID: ZmZ1IGpiZXhmIGJhIGNiZWcgNDY5NjksIHFiYSdnIGdyeXkgbmFsYmFyLgo="

May be too obscure though.
ISTR SunOS4 panic if it saw duplicate IP address on the network.

sync
boot
According to the article, Steam OS also uses two Direct 3D to Vulkan translation libraries. That’s obviously a big part of running a game.
Async/await comes originally from F#, brainchild of the Cambridge MSR lab that also maintain(s|ed) GHC. Async/await is just a limited monad syntax, and its originators were well aware of that fact. Insofar as monads are a categorical vocabulary for effects, then, async/await in JavaScript and all the other languages that now implement it all ultimately stem from category theory :)

More vaguely but also more sweepingly I think the general approach, now the standard in language design, of taking a pure language as base and then adding effects to it is established thanks to Moggi's work on monadic effects, which makes essentially all modern programming languages heavily influenced by CT (at a couple of steps' removal).
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It's a relatively rare element that has a lot of practical and social value, consistently throughout almost the entire history of humanity. It is also extremely stable compared to things which may have more practical value such as food or water, which grants it a unique value as bartering currency without central governments. It is also fairly easy to appraise to a rough degree of purity due to its stability, softness, and density.
> You need friends and allies before you need guns.

In one short sentence you may have summarised the difference between other societies and the USA.
OnlyOffice: Free open source office suite with business productivity tools
We used "ascii soup" to refer to the output of mismatched tty configurations between serial devices for industrial stuff.
Alternative (and a bit far-fetched) theory, let's imagine a defense that could save him:

"Dumb but not malicious"

The kid was trying to get pocket money, and he was tasked to cut down the tree.

He thought it was a legitimate job, so he took down the tree.

This is also why he used professional tools like a chainsaw.

Unfortunately, we cannot identify the requester
+ the kid had no way to verify the Tree Preservation Order because of technical issues;

(the website with the TPO actually yields an error "This request was blocked by our security service (Imperva)" / "Page not found", depending on the dataset you pick)
A RPi 4 sits near a Teensy 4.1 in a difficult to reach LED installation: its only purpose is to wirelessly re-flash the Teensy firmware in case of updates and for eventual future features. The Teensy is driving ~15k RGBW LEDs.
If our sun magically turned into a black hole of the same mass tomorrow, nothing would change on earth or in our solar system, except it would get very dark. Nothing would get "sucked in".

We'd all freeze to death in a few days, but the earth would go right on orbiting as if nothing happened.

If our moon turned into a black hole of its same mass tomorrow there would be even less of an effect. We'd notice we could no longer see the moon, but we'd still have tides just like before.
I believe he didn't upgrade because the newer Intel chips had a backdoor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine
Wow, I didn't know about this. I often need remote desktop and its been a real pain in the past to get it running and to get it running well.
> One might for example have more cameras or more sensors, another time you get an upgrade from microUSB to USB-C,

There is no need to change your main board dimensions for that.

> small form factor (...) get axed because there isn't enough demand. And yet the flip seems to be a new rage, seemingly big enough market share.

Is it really? To me it looks like they push for the foldable phones while downplay the small display ones because they can ask for a higher price on the new gimmick and therefore have a higher profit margin

> So that they lose you as customer, who cares? They get more customers in return.

If they are favoring "get more customers" over "create a product that reduces global environmental impact / gets away from planned obsolescence", then they are no different than all the other companies and all their talk is just marketing. As with any bad ethical decision, it looks good in the beginning and it might even seem as something justifiable, but in the long run people end up noticing the fraud and move on to the next one that promises to do better.
Yeah, I agree about positive discussion in technical space. Even if it’s just the founder coming on a Reddit thread and shilling their own stuff while still providing value by comparing it to other products.

Example: I was interested in looking more into Dremio the other day but couldn’t really find any good positive technical discussion about it on HN or Reddit so I just… stopped looking into Dremio
Seems like a fairly simple business decision for Apple.

They are receiving $19B in annual revenue today by having Google as default search engine (which is all profit for them).

Or they could spend billions on the acquisition of Bing + more billions annually to run Bing.

Spending huge sums of money. Or receiving huge sums of money. Which would you prefer?
> Google Groups is where you can find what has been preserved of the historical USENET archives

I recommend archive.org instead. There are many great collections there with USENET groups saved as mbox files that you can download. Install something like mboxgrep, import into a mail reader, or just read the files as text.

Just one example:
https://archive.org/details/usenet-comp
I’ve heard even a small dose of magic truffles (few g) can also help. I know someone very well who regained their sense of taste this way
Yeah, ours was a fluid dynamics problem that needed information from neighboring cells. So at some point there needed to be data moving between cells and that really killed performance. There was also a global value that need to be computed at each iteration that controlled the simulation speed to ensure the step sizes were not too big.

Also the file I/O was horribly slow. We where scaling and dumping raw data to files so what we could do post processing to make movies of the simulations.
> What other indicators could we look at to get a better picture?

Depends how you look at that picture. Let me ask this, if 100 people buy bitcoins and 100 people buy the equivalent dollar value, what proportion of each group will generally be checking how much their purchase is worth on a daily basis?
Same problem, lasted about half an hour.
I’ve not tried it yet, but came across this site the other day which meets your use case: https://aihomedesign.com

(No affiliation!)
There are several apps that just do not work on the web inside a browser. If an app is anything beyond a single page app, it effectively requires being a desktop app.

It makes no sense to me when people say desktop apps are dead and that web apps are where it's at, when web apps run in a browser which is a desktop app. It's like claiming containers won and operating systems have lost.
That was a beautiful comment, but I want to make an important point:

> While the Free part of FOSS is being substituted by “(just) open source” and “source available”

The OSD is very much compatible with the FSFs list of freedoms.

“Source available” is a new name for “shared source” and is fake open source proprietary trash.
Physical appearance or architecturally?
It means including premiums and other things that you would get for your tax in most European countries.
I believe its maintainers truly believe they are taking the right decisions that are good for the project.

They limit the feature set so they can stabilize on a smaller basis.

They take UI/UX decisions they think are right.

That's what I think.

I also think they managed to build a beautiful UI that works quite well and that pleases many people.

I also think they removed useful features, lagged on important features (thumbnails in the file picker, which I always found bad anyway, including in the Gnome 2 days). I also think they believe they know better than their users on what they need when they really don't, that they should be more understanding of users trying to work around the flaws instead of despising them, and that they shouldn't both reduce the feature set to a minimum and break extensions in each release. And I do indeed think they made UI like it would be used on tablets, degrading the experience desktop, way too early when they didn't work well on tablet anyway for many reasons and KDE was the only bearable option on tablets at the time.

So I really believe they truly do what they think is best, but I also like the KDE approach way better: listening to the users, trying to polish things while not removing too many features, being humble in their decision, and acknowledging their users might have different needs / taste. (for instance, in Plasma 6, they are reverting to double click by default - many KDE devs prefer simple click and think it's objectively better, but they recognize many users are disturbed by this default.)
A lot of people would pay good money to have their car smell like Stallman for weeks.
Thanks for this, I appreciate your optimism
It's a lot more understandable if you consider the state of computing he experienced while growing up:

Programs were way simpler, and shipping the source code in paper was the de facto way of distribution.

It's not like he was a wacko around his peers. He just created what seemed a logical step from that.

I'm just sad that there's no young people to pass the torch for when the time comes and the founding fathers are no more.
If it helps, people often use 'corporation' as shorthand for a for-profit corporation.

Most non-person legal entities will be a corporation or other similar structure.
Would be great if you share it also github :)

Thanks
If it was that open, you may not have been the first... or last.
I'm the same and I think it's more like a vpn product, a tutorial site and a certain website builder, where we all know which specific companies I mean.
Current loop is used where the length of the cable could be huge. If you put in 20mA at one end, you know you will get it out at the other irrespective of length, which is not true of voltage.
Yet there are enormous amounts of cooperation within free software. There are the various organisations like the GNOME foundation, the Free Software Foundation, Debian, and many more beside. Thousands of volunteers keep these things going to produce well integrated, usable software.

Not to mention the common principles in most free software around interoperability and loose coupling. Apple and Microsoft (and the rest) have less to do on this, because they don't have to make their software nearly as generic. Microsoft famously fixed something in SimCity at the OS level. Google and Facebook don't have to worry about interoperability, which undoubtedly removes a lot of complexity for them. In some ways, free software has a greater burden to carry.

The problem with usability in free software is not one of culture or cooperation, it is one of capital. The fact is, Apple and Microsoft have at this point invested hundreds of billions in finding the best engineers and designers around the world and paying them to focus on polishing their operating system. By comparison, Debian's (very impressive) 3500 or so developers, maintainers, and contributors, are almost exclusively volunteers and working at most part time on their chosen packages.

If you want to see better free software, what I'd suggest to you and everyone else is this:

Next time you want to buy a phone, pick something cheaper, and donate the difference to a developer of free software. If you're an iPhone user and you switch to a Fairphone 5, say, you can throw £600 at someone like Joey Hess, or just pick an organisation that makes good stuff and give it to them if you don't want to find a specific author. Let's remind ourselves that if 1000 people did this, it'd be £600k of funding to improve free software.

Personally, I'd recommend a donation to the NLNet foundation: https://nlnet.nl/

(plug for nlnet, they're currently taking proposals and will fund successful ones: https://nlnet.nl/news/2023/20230801-call.html )
Legally compel the user of the machine to unlock it. Most people will fold immediately. No one is going to risk jail and a long legal battle for a job.
RDTool, A reaction diffusion toy (2022)
>piracy is de facto legal in many EU countries, at least as far as individuals downloading

It's not legal, just the police in most countries have bigger fish to fry than people downloading mp3s and blu-ray rips.

But, try pirating content in Germany and you're guarantee to receive an angry letter with a fine from some crooked law office, threatening to sue you on behalf of the IP holder if you don't pay the fine. It's basically a legal mob shakedown.

Granted, this is more of German thing, as German laws makes it the European stronghold of copyright/IP trolls, while most of Europe doesn't bring out the jackboots for small-time internet piracy the way Germany does.
Is there a mainstream laptop on which Linux runs as well as Windows? I'd really want one that doesn't cost 3k+.
Synthia-7B-v1.3 hits 64.85 on 4-evals; LLaMA-2-70B-Chat at 66.8
Game boys didn't have app stores, web browsers.
> With its updated version of Autograd, JAX can automatically differentiate native Python and NumPy code.

Nice. When did they make this change?

Here is the old way in the docs, where you needed to define functions for the if-true branch and the if-false branch, and feed them to a conditional function, to get the normal if-then-else conditional.

https://jax.readthedocs.io/en/latest/notebooks/Common_Gotcha...
The audio output from all Raspberry Pis has always been crap, to the point anyone looking for decent quality would have been forced to use an external DAC anyway, so not a big loss here, although stopping that PWM audio generation nonsense and adding the DAC into the CPU would have been the right thing to do.
You have visited the EFF's headquarters, yes?
Ah ha... :) I wouldn't see division as exact opposite (or symmetrical inverse) of multiplication. Multiplication is both left-distributive and right-distributive, and thus distributive. Unlike multiplication and addition, division is not commutative, neither associative in general.
> today would get you canceled

I hate that word. It's not being "cancelled". It's being called out for being a jerk, and it's past overdue we did that.

For the Stallman case the impact of "cancellation" was probably 0, anyway.
Outside of mining unobtanium, or fossilized unicorns, or HP ink, almost anything else is not commercially viable to mine in space and bring down to Earth. And it will be so even if Starship is ready, and even if that Starship would indeed cost 1-2 mil to launch as advertised. It is always cheaper to mine stuff on Earth, ever rare elements. That's why nobody is seriously doing anything in that direction. Mining asteroid for a local asteroid settlement would be profitable, but there are no asteroids settlements.
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I disagree, use the word more to complain about GNOME and what they did to their UI. Even my 512GHz Windows XP Laptop runs more smoothly, and that without SSD.
I believe ads work by making a brand name familiar, which helps you recognize it in the sea of information. And that makes it automatically somewhat more attractive and reputably. You can be entirely unaware of this and it still works.

Maybe the ad is not what convinced you, not at all, but it did prompt you to wonder if this LaunchDarkly thing is any good. Youtube kept spamming it in your face and you kept ignoring it, but of course the name stuck and now there are talking about it on HN so you decide to read "that" thread and not the other one about unleash or something you never heard of.
This is one of the very best websites in the world. Various articles from it have been discussed here on HN before: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=ciechanow.ski
I have a Pi3 running pihole/dhcp for my home network, and 4 Pis as part of my home k3s cluster (along with 3 cheapo nucs). Yes it's overkill but I'm in infra and I learn a lot from it.

The cluster runs nextcloud, collabora, plex, longhorn storage, deluge, nzbget, some custom projects I built to sync my bank accounts with my finance software and to sync photos from Signal chats to my nixplay frames, backups for my NAS, Grafana/Prometheus/Loki, netdata, etc.

I also run an entertainment company and we use a Pi Zero to control our onstage LED lights via presentation remote or wifi as a fallback.

I keep thinking of other things to do with them, but this is already enough to maintain in my "spare time".
HuggingFace model: https://huggingface.co/migtissera/Synthia-7B-v1.3
One of the nice things about gold (one reason it is so valuable) is that it doesn't "rot" or degrade, like, at all. Naturally, it does not tarnish.

So unless you have a lot of aqua regia lying about in your house, it will remain exactly as is.
Sounds like largely coastal navigation, with some longer hops, a pretty different beast from the open water austronesian (/ Melanesian / Polynesian) navigation.