skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>There are usually hundreds of processes started before that PID 1 process gets started.

By the time PID 1 is started, the OS has run OS code, or more specifically, prior to PID 1 being ran, the OS has run OS code -- that much is true!

Loosely, you are calling that OS code -- "processes"

We could call that OS code "processes" -- however, there is a difference between this loose definition of what a "process" is, and what a "process" is defined to be by Unix/Linux standards and conventions.

The OS code that the OS runs, the kernel code -- typically does not have a 'PID' (Process ID) associated with any of it.

To understand this, let's remember what Unix/Linux (or any OS) is -- it's software abstraction layer over hardware.

It's goal is to act as a hardware abstraction layer, but also as a moderator, a resource arbiter for other pieces of software, other code -- to run on the same hardware, the same machine, at the same time.

This other code -- is typically the user space (AKA non-privileged) software, the user-space code.

In order to manage that user-space code, AKA user programs, AKA user-installed software and because several (or more) of these programs might be and probably will be running simultaneously, a unique postive integer handle (functionally the equivalent of a key in key-value programming).

That unique positive integer handle assigned to each user-space program (unique ones can also be assigned to threads of programs) -- is typically the PID, or Process IDentifier.

That's WHY they exist.

PID 1 is the Process Identifier for the first user-space program to be run by the operating system, typically 'init' -- or a descendant.

If "There are usually hundreds of processes started before that PID 1 process gets started", which is what you're calling "processes" (kindly disambiguate exactly what you mean when you say "process" please!), then WHY is it that they are not given ascending unique positive integer numbers and WHY does this numbering, should it exist, force PID 1 to be some other higher-numbered PID?

If "hundreds of [user-space] processes [are] started before that PID 1 process gets started", then WHY exactly, is the first ran user-space program PID 1 -- and not some higher numbered PID?

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???
Is this made up?
https://www.protolabs.com/ does this all day every day, but your iterations for fine-tuning you should probably try to do by finding a local 3d printer.
the breville/polyscience control freak does this, as a single burner, _very_ well, though it's not cheap. I use mine for anything requiring fine temperature control over time & deep frying, but just use my gas range for more general cooking tasks. the control freak certainly proves that it's possible to make a non-gas burner that performs acceptably for me (also no touch controls, which is mandatory), but nobody else is making one. My ideal range setup would be something like 2x control freaks and then a 30k BTU gas burner with an electric combi oven that can do temperature & steam control as precisely as anova's countertop one, but there's zero chance of anyone ever making something like that.
OP also had multiple offers they would "not normally accept".

We are spoiled in this industry.
I understand why, but people are jumping the gun to cynicism here. Obviously, a "factory" could mean anything, and maybe we need more details to know, but at first real inspection, it seems like they're making them in Oklahoma.
A child not exposed to language generally won't learn to communicate and think clearly, as seen with children raised by animals, which often never learn to communicate like humans. Exposure to a large volume of language is hence a necessary component of human development. Children may need other things too, but this doesn't change that both they and LLMs require a large volume of text.
Microsoft's AI doesn't reproduce copyrighted source code. They are so confident about this that they are indemnifying customers, see: https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2023/09/07/copilot...
I feel like these tongue in cheek responses mentioning porn being the main use case are pretty cringy. It’s not that hard to accept that other people have different things in mind. Sheesh.
It comes from having researched the GeoThermal market to determine whether the last software company I worked for should enter that market. The answer was a resounding NO.
Maybe they can use a service like Starlink to stream voice, location and blackbox data to a secure location on land, that way even if the flight is lost or destroyed we would know what happened, or even where the heck it is(looking at you MH370).
I think I missed this on my quick pass through the code, I see a lot async usage here as well, https://github.com/moturus/moto-runtime/blob/main/src/net_as...

Very cool. Thanks for pointing this out.
Yeah, the model Y offers more space and a third row.

But the point is whether there is a comparable or even better product than the Model Y in that price range, not whether it is better in every single field.
Steam Deck as a left of field option with the best supported gaming outside windows and very competent linux machine when docked (might want an alternative OS such as Bazzite[0]).

Fan noise audible if it's permanently loaded up but that's like many of the knockoff NUC or litre PCs.

0: https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/
As 95 went on making sure hidden applications didn't exist got harder and harder too. It seemed over time more applications would use the equivalent of a TSR application that ran in the background with no icon in the systray/start bar and on a regular basis would fiddle with the disk restarting the entire process.

I remember some commonly used winmodem driver would cause this behavior.
> but now that the canal is effectively blocked by Iran-backed forces nobody screams about a global crisis

Not sure about what sources you follow, but the ones I am following scream about a full blown global crisis. Here is for example the explainer from the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/19/red-sea-shi...

At the same time many defence analyst is astonished by the appearent dithering of the US Navy over the issue. In fact the more fringe elements are talking about that the recent incapacitation of the US SecDef might be the reason behind the inaction.
The fine folks over at /r/minipc Reddit forum keep a whole spreadsheet tracking nearly all the best options with columns for various features.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IjCpi4_z_WfO0G53E_mW...

Personally I purchased a beelink ser7:

- AMD Ryzen™ 7 7840HS

- Radeon780M (RDNA 3)

- 32Gb ram

All for about 700 IIRC
> In the sciences, "someone says" is the lowest form of evidence there is. It is so close to "no evidence" that we simply disregard it without further thought.

Not really. "Someone says they conducted an experiment in a certain way and the data they gathered was as follows:" is still a form of "someone says You're trusting that they aren't lying about their data (and they often are).
Yeah they opened up diplomatic relations, under Chinese mediation, and so far nothing indicates a breakdown. Plus do not make the common mistake of not noticing agency - Houthi are quite effective political agents with their own agenda.
I assume it's that I expressed myself poorly.

Let me state the analogy directly. Consider the problems as analogous in term of technological advancement: generating electricity and travelling/getting from A to B.

The tendency is to look at the current/historical solution and try to think of improvements to it. But this way of thinking is blind to complete disruption in terms of technology. Early 20th century horse travel could have been improved with faster horses. Current thermal generation (heat engine/steam based) could be improved with more efficient/cheaper sources of heat - such as nuclear fission (and fusion).

The advent of the cheap automobile, despite limitations compared to horses in some respects, made having faster horses irrelevant. While removing completely the heat-engine component of electricity generation (wind) and even the mechanical component (solar and batteries) and using mass production (factories) and being cheaper has made improvements to thermal generation irrelevant.

This conclusion is supported by how the generation mix is changing over the last 10 years or so. More than 80% of new generation and storage capacity added globally in that period has been renewable. Attempting to make thermal competitive is folly at this stage. The technology is in the process of being displaced by a newer simpler cheaper set of technologies.
Nitter allows people to see the context of a thread without having to log in to Twitter. By posting a nitter link, you're enriching the conversation instead of either annoying people or doing marketing for x/twitter.

The platform shouldn't be the point of a conversation. If a platform makes itself the center of attention, there's something wrong with it.
Incorrect. It’s clearly an iOS fork given the APIs available for use when developing for it are the UIKit prefix (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiimage) and not the AppKit/NS prefix

That said, the majority of Quest games are Unity based and Unity is fully supported since they were announced as a launch partner at wwdc.

The input model is different though since Quest games can assume a controller.
Sorry, but this doesn't explain anything to me. You've traced genetic mutations that cause an array of ailments and conditions spread all over the body, and propose that taking vitamin B will cure them all?...
The hidden pitfall in this question is that the most obvious answers come with external power supplies. Some are half the size of the computer.

e.g. https://www.servethehome.com/lenovo-thinkcentre-m920x-tiny-r...

Some models can be powered over USB-C, allowing them to run off compact GaN chargers, monitors, etc.

https://www.amazon.com/MINISFORUM-7940HS-Radeon-USB3-2-PCIe4...
I had a pretty 'dumb' AEG induction hob that would do that. Sort of effective, but honestly I never used it other than figuring out how to do it once - combination of fiddly to do and just not something I personally think is that useful.
this is foreseen to come eventually, the APIs are there https://web.dev/articles/web-share?hl=en
> And now they have reached 100M MAU which shows that people are coming and staying.

The current MAU is calculated by counting the users who see threads on instagram and accidentally click on it - which is A LOT.
I am following a similar path, but it's less of a deliberate attempt to be "conscious" and more simply a lack of interest.

Most of the stuff out there simply isn't that interesting to me anymore, whether that be news articles at a prestigious tech publication or the latest device. Generative AI tools are cool but the constant "we're almost to AGI" hype has become tiresome and cultish. Even the new Apple headset just looks kind of lame. The coolest tech things I've seen in recent years are cyberdecks, which are almost always not using the latest and greatest technology.
> One?

You realize that you can turn your head in the virtual space to see another virtual monitor?
Tuna species popular in sashimi and poke bowls in sharp decline
> So much scientific evidence I see published is just survey results from participants

Don’t forget the likely bias that you are talking about scientific results in the press, which is a negligible subset of scientific work and which is biased towards humans, and sociological studies in particular.

From you comment I doubt you’re seeing much work in insect embryology or slippage in gravel pile formation (I don’t run across that stuff either)
Yemen is currently split along mostly reasonable lines. It's just not recognized internationally (the most internationally legitimate government has de facto nothing to say in the north nor in the south).
Looks amazing and I'm keen to try it out. However, I cannot find the sources or set up instructions anywhere on the linked page. Please add at least a link to the github repository to the page so people that stumble upon it can find their way
The Lenovo ThinkStation Tiny Workstation series looks to be about the right form factor (can be mounted on the back of a monitor too). Only missing criteria is a dedicated GPU, but Iris Xe iGPU's outperform a GTX 260, so for only gaming it might be an OK compromise. They can be had cheaply second-hand.

If you're willing to go slightly larger, Mini-ITX PCs are still quite small, but have the benefit of all desktop-class hardware and easier upgrades. There are too many options here to make a specific recommedation, but if you search for Mini ITX on /r/battlestations, you can find some inspiration.
Once it reaches its maximum velocity the altitude doesnt really matter. However I dont know how to calculate that maximum velocity and the minimum required altitute.

From the very short snippet I can read (paywall) I dont know if the phone landed in concrete or not.
Serious question: Why is the answer to firms automating everything "give me money for doing nothing" and not "get a different job?"

Don't get me wrong I would love shorter work weeks, fewer hours a day, etc. for the same pay. That was the promise of all this additional productivity, after all. But even that is still getting paid for work.

I just can't rationalize the idea of paying an entire population for nothing.
Depends. What if your PWA is an in-house app for operators in your company? They all have an issued device with MDM, one or a few skus, all apple (or all Google).

I think most in-house devs would rather not deal with the app store or the vagaries of getting the MDM side loading pathway working
It's a great proxy for cost, but price has more to do with availability than with cost. I'd expect price to go up a lot more than 1/3rd, especially if this drags on.
Is there any clarity around what constitutes IT? Does it range from installing printer drivers to writing software for self-driving cars? I look at IT as a cost-center focused on keeping the company business running - internally focused (email, finance, ops, sales, etc) - but NOT product development. However I am not sure how the government defines it for these stats.

Edit: to simplify my personal definition - if your report to the CIO - IT, if you report to a product group - not IT.
DeepSeek LLM: Scaling Open-Source Language Models with Longtermism
I was seriously in the market for a heat pump system for the upper floor of my home. The current oil fired furnace system works but oil is expensive and the heat from our pellet stove doesn't reach up to the second level very well.

Then I started working at a co-working space that has a heat pump system and the HVAC techs are in here working on it a couple times a year as we wear parkas and hats because it's 10C in the building. Or it's summer time and I'm trying not to sweat on my keyboard.

This led me to look more closely into reliability and longevity of these systems and the math just didn't add up, even with very optimistic values for MTBF and expected lifetime.
An Unreasonable Investment
No it's not. We build programs with less insight into theory than a civil engineer who builds bridges.

It's all black box experimental testing with little theory. That's why we have unit tests.

When there's a complete theory about something. You can actually build that something very accurately as a theoretical model and rely on that model as an accurate blue print for the real thing. No such theory exists for programming. The complex application you designed has no theory behind it at all.

bridge builders on the other hand first build the bridge theoretically before building the actual bridge. There's some testing but physical engineers don't rely on testing as much as programmers do.

Imagine if we built airplanes the same way we build programs. Let's pretend those airplane builders just use their gut feelings like programmers do and then those builders verify their built planes with a suite of unit tests only.

First off the cost would be insane as likely a failed unit test is a destroyed plane.

Hence why all other engineers besides software rely more on theory while software engineers rely more on the scientific method which is largely less effective.
Do you know what racism is? Racism is when humans, by-and-large identical, are separated because of arbitrary and meaningless differences in appearance or heritage.

We are talking about software right now. One cannot be "racist" towards LLMs any more than we are "racist" towards phishing scams and virus websites.
on the contrary, profit is an accounting treatment

see amazon, who famously strive to show no profit by plowing profits back into growth expense

so return (aggregate all forms) on equity, and revenue, are more interesting, since one gives you vector and the other gives you scale.

so it's one of those statements that seems right, then seems wrong, then seems right again, depending on your level of thinking about it

// making no claims about the blogger, they could be in the first camp rather than the third
Simple, but with an inherent performance issue and GC load; note also that Java's Valhalla project adds value types with more stack based semantics, so there too you as a developer get a choice.
Why not just record more than 2 hours? Maybe two days worth of audio instead?
> I say this in a derogatory fashion

You're not supposed to do that here.

> The reason you're insta-banned is that you didn't "engage" with it properly

I was literally in the process of signing up. How else was I supposed to "engage"?

> Facebook does not want technically-savvy people

How would they even know? Like I said, I hadn't even finished signing up yet.
It’s obviously hyperbole. It makes a point about how to improve your mental health by taking care of your physical health.
Humans don't have moral rights because they're human, they have moral rights because they're conscious, self-aware beings, in every non-theological moral philosophy. A car is not self-aware and cannot think.
I laughed when I saw the source: "just" 30 lines, to be sure, but 30 lines of dense, alien glyphs! This is probably 300 (or 3000?) in a less expressive language, right?

What's a good place to start for languages like this? k is proprietary, isn't it? I found unrelated languages with the same name on GitHub.
This is a proposal from the NTSB to the FAA to raise the CVR recording time from 2 hours to 25 hours, in line with ICAO. This is very likable scenario for everyone except pilots unions.

> The NTSB has conducted 10 investigations since 2018 where the CVR was overwritten, including four runway incursions, Homendy said.

I tuned into the NTSB press brief last night, and they emphasized understanding communication is important for the best accident analysis. Homendy stated that they now do not have any record of communication between the flight deck and cabin.
People saying the Quest 3 and the Vision Pro both support AR reminds me of the feature comparison checklists back in the day between iPhones and Windows Mobile. Yeah, they both have a "browser." They both have "apps." Turns out there's a difference.
Evasion of EU sanctions against Russia through Central Asia
It sounds like he mostly just rides mountain bikes around his hometown somewhere in Colorado and occasionally does a chat with cancer patients who are interested in that.
It has nothing to do with that, it's just bad design to have pattern image backgrounds that make text hard to read and add nothing.

There's a reason even small web pages don't look like this any more. Pages made like this were people seeing features and thinking they should use them without thinking about what they were doing. Go back as far as you want, professional pages never looked like this.

Even in the days of geocities it was only people's first web pages that looked like this. You could excuse people for learning to put a .gif in the background and then showing it off in the mid 90s. 30 years later there isn't any excuse.
> Pilots have also opposed the move [to add 25 hr recording], with the union representing pilots for air-freight company Atlas Air telling the FAA the longer recordings would be an invasion of worker privacy.

> "(It) would significantly infringe upon the privacy rights of pilots and other flight crew members, as well as drastically increase the likelihood that CVR recordings will be misused or disseminated without authorization," the union said in a Dec. 28 response to the FAA's 25-hour proposal.

I'm not sure I agree that flight crews of passenger aircraft should have an expectation of privacy while flying planes. It seems like one of those kinds of jobs where the risks involved and need to gather forensic data in the event of an accident should outweigh the pilots' privacy concerns. Maybe add some regulation w.r.t. disseminating the recordings outside of releases by the NTSB as part of accident investigations.
What about the heat? If the fall is longer won't the phone heat up more?
This isn't much more than the original twitter post: https://nitter.net/SeanSafyre/status/1744138937239822685

The most astonishing thing to me is the destroyed charger cable.

Also a good reminder that it's a very good idea to have the screen lock after a set time — even if it's long.
I paid $590 for the minisforum UM700 in 2021 [0], now worth ~$215. Ryzen 7 3750H. Upgraded the 16GB RAM to 32GB which was another 50 bucks or something I can't remember.

Been my daily driver desktop since 2021.

I play Victoria 3, Cities Skylines, Valheim. And develop on it. Both Windows programs and also Linux stuff SSH-ed into my beefier dev servers.

I've also done some light video recording and editing.

I've run out of disk space now so I think I'll grab an external drive. But I'd buy one of these again.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B093BBLB4K/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...
Web Share Target API (manifest: share_target) - it allows a website to specify itself as a share target. Of course, it's not yet supported on iOS.
..but also it is very possible to limit what people do with ChatGPT output material
https://archive.ph/kh1c4
The materials that you are referencing were all created for the benefit of humans. The creators want humans to learn from them.
AI-Powered Surtitles Creation App for Theatre – Captitles
Go look for other headsets with similar features and especially optical quality. You won’t find anything much cheaper. The quest (even considering the pro) and pico devices are toys in comparison
I have a similar electric stove, and yeah, it still delivers a terrible cooking experience decades later. We're going to replace it in a kitchen remodel soon. Induction is a better experience, and if it means replacing hardware every 10 years, so be it.
If "all" this thing does is replace a 4K monitor for existing MacOS stuff, I would consider saving up to buy one.

It would be nice to work in various locations with the equivalent of a big 4K screen.

I am unfortunately one of those people who really cannot work on a laptop screen, I need lots of real estate. (And laptops are ergonomically bad even if you don't mind the small screen)

I actually currently have 3 4K monitor + keyboard workstations in various rooms in my house. (Office, living room, garage) because I like to work in various places depending on the weather, who else is home, etc.
Kind of cool as a hobby OS.

But would be nice to backup your claims regarding performance with actual numbers.
Can you give a rough timestamp for that quote to establish some context?
Love it! 07:43 :-)
My dude…
The San Diego Lowrider Archival Project: The Lessons of "Low and Slow."
Of course Technology Connections has a video covering this. https://youtu.be/zheQKmAT_a0?si=xoh5OInHkovn2bqG&t=1230
> when studies are translated to press reports

On this particular issue, even the original studies often screw things up unfortunately. Frequentist statistics works very differently from people's natural intuition, and the attraction of a binary decision tool (NHST) has led to a lot of lazy thinking and sloppy science.