skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I run a RaspberryPi 3 with FreeBSD 13 booting off an SD card and a USB SSD for storage [1]. Coincidentally today (1/7/2024) is its one year anniversary.

It runs a jail with my single user GoToSocial ActivityPub server [2] reasonably well with cloudflared [3] handling incoming traffic and acting as CDN to take some of the load. Originally it was only using an SD card, but there was too much IO contention so a USB-SSD adapter is used to offload the IO.

I choose FreeBSD over Linux since I have other Rpis with Linux already and wanted more experience with *BSD, jails, and ZFS. Unfortunately ZFS wasn't the best choice on an Rpi since it's more cpu intensive and switched back to UFS.

Overall it's been solid, multiple GTS updates and have it on my list to update to FreedBSD 14 but not really in a rush.

1. https://social.ecliptik.com/@micheal/statuses/01GP860MYM2CGH...

2. https://gotosocial.org/

3. https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared
There is a bizarro world of engineering out there. It treats engineering like an LLM. Provide high level verbal requirements and iterate. When things break punish. Get rid of failing threads, praise working threads. Repeat until you get a barely usable end product.

As with an LLM, this is a strategy that can work in some contexts, but does not represent general intelligence.
Why isn't the universities being used to solve these problems
PSA: "generative" in the context of academic linguistics (syntax, specifically) refers to the theoretical tradition started by Noam Chomsky, not what you might expect if you're coming from LLM/AI land.
By 2007, the remaining 32 bit only Intel CPUs that I can think of were the Atoms made for netbooks.
> Ideally the NHS would just build it in house, but sadly it's a slow and bloated organisation unable to innovate (as most government managed things usually become).

Several government departments have robust in-house data platforms already. The Ministry of Justice does, the Department for International Trade as well. I've personally worked on the former and have pulled code from the latter.

(the code I've looked at from DfIT was https://github.com/uktrade/fargatespawner )
I'm afraid you just don't understand the structure of my comment. It's not a hypothetical fear. It's an analogy for removing functionality under the guise of curation or security.
That's only true if you hold the environment to be negatively correlated with quality of life.

It's not automatically true that having cars increase the quality of life.
We shouldn't need his alleged drug use as an excuse to eject Musk from public life and positions of power and responsibility.

His abhorrent and disgusting behavior should be enough on its own.
Believe what you like. I’m trying make a serious point.
You did so by (as I understand) suggesting the status quo attracts competent leadership. I offered an argument that it does not. I agree we do not need to bring out guillotines. I disagree that Boeing has competent leadership. This is how Internet conversations work.
imbibing far right reactionary terrorist incel propaganda: I sleep

doing drug drugs: real shit
This doesn’t even begin to surprise me. Even on a tiny scale, myself and a couple of the other top students at our university got an unsolicited phone call from palantir about 10 min after we finished our last exams congratulating us on finishing university and encouraging us to apply to Palantir. They had clearly gotten access to our exam timetable so they could call us right after we had finished.

It was deeply creepy, and left a very unpleasant taste in my mouth.
There are lots of reasons a developer does something other than what a user would want most.

Even if the user were aware of all the same facts and had all the same understanding as the developer. Even while working on open source code.
Fast fashion is only going to get faster in 2024
I hear you, but I think you're slightly missing my point. Even if I grant that the current regime is focused on religious/conservative issues, that can easily change over time. The problem is allowing our governments to use spying and surveillance to control us. That's something that gets worse over time and doesn't get rolled back with changes in elected or unelected officials.

In 100 years, will progressives or conservatives be in charge? I don't know, but I'm pretty sure that whatever spying apparatus we put in place now will still exist (or be enhanced) by then.
I'm not sure it's translated in a language you understand but "Les indes fourbes" (Guarnido/Ayroles) is a picaresque story with a wonderful main character, a gripping adventurous plot, and some of the best artwork I've seen in years.
oh woah I had no idea Westworld (2016) was based on previous work!
If his pharmaceutical regimen has contributed to his accomplishments in the last six years, I'd like a copy.
I don't know the details, but I think what you're describing is what the Dutch DigID ( https://www.digid.nl/ ) system provides. It is used on local and national government data portals as well as for legal document signing, etc. It works very well in my experience, and in fact I don't even have to have a username/password on the websites.
> “When you allow link history, we may use your information to improve your ads across Meta technologies.”

Exactly what we all wanted! Better ads! I feel so happy now!
If this helps China ween itself from coal faster then it's a huge win for the entire planet.

I know there's a lot of hate for nuclear (much of it understandable), but if we hadn't fucked it up in the 70's then climate change would not be a thing right now.

Yes, renewables and energy storage are good things too but the modern world is built on cheap energy and the more the merrier.

Side note: I became enamored with LFTR when it started getting promoted back in the day and I still think that too would be worth tackling.
Ok if I'd like to buy 5 licenses instead of the one I need or do you know any legal way to get just one single PC with Windows 10 LTSC?
Never encountered this in the last 5 years working on .NET + Linux system.
Babylon 5 is the best science fiction series ever IMO (if you can make it all the way through). The first season was especially campy, but the world building, geopolitics (not politics, but how the alien species interact), storytelling, and philosophy are all very thought-provoking. Yeah it had amazing space battles, but where it shines the most is in the dialogue. I still get chills to this day from some of the discussions. The show is even better on a second or tenth watch as all the foreshadowing is so apparent.

I thoroughly enjoyed DS9 as well, but outside of some things like Quark and Garrak, I feel it to sometimes be a pale imitation of B5.

Farscape is just freaking weird, but just so much fun. The characters have no restraints on emotion. There is no chain of command.

Stargate SG-1 and all the spin offs are also extremely good and the only science fiction show my wife could really get into. If you haven't watched it yet...well then you have like 18 seasons and a few movies to get through if you count all the TV shows.
Except this would mean being stuck on classic Win32 with MFC, and not so goodie .NET Framework 2.0.

Unless Windows XP 2024 would also be expect to be similar to macOS and Android, with .NET taking the same role as Swift and Java/Kotlin on those platforms.

Hint, this is still far from it on Windows 11, despite the WinRT, WinUI and WinAppSDK adventures.
That's my theory too.

A very similar thing used to happen with people accidentally using a QR code linking to a popular blog post or something explaining QR codes ("PLEASE INSERT QR CODE HERE --ed.").

Somewhat hilariously, even Google's (discontinued) Titan security key had this type of blunder in its Bluetooth software: It was using the example key from the Bluetooth specifications for all keys, making them vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks [1].

[1] https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-2102
i drive on the interstate highway system way more than i like, and i'm often struck with the thought that, if we didn't have our interstate highway system now, we wouldn't build one.
Building a personal internet from Markdown files
EU will remain in "pre-Federation" stage for centuries, since, unlike USA it is composed of many nations, with language barriers, and historical grudges against each other. It might become temporarily united by force (that's what EU Commission, and Germany are trying to do right now), but that won't last even a decade.
What are the better products that are available?
Making a serious point and witholding important information is an oxymoron
But that's like, part of the issue.

"Oh, you just used the wrong Linux. You really should use X with Y blah blah..."

There is no "wrong Windows".

Ubuntu desktop might be the closest to just works, but I'm getting more and more averse to its quirks and will likely find myself back on Debian soon.

That's just part of Linux's charm I guess.
The Irish state has a serious problem with using peoples data and it often uses it maliciously. The Irish Data Protection Commissioner is widely regarded as a joke.

Examples include knowingly illegal phone record collection and use in dubious murder cases [0], using medical and school records to pressure parents of disabled children to settle court cases against the state when most vulnerable (and lying about it until caught) and secretly recording all calls to police stations including non-emergency numbers likely to catch whistleblowers [2].

That doesn't include all the private sector scandals, like data breaches that went uninvestigated and unpunished.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/apr/05/mobile-phone-dat...

[1] https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/dossiers-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garda_phone_recordings_scandal
Google isn’t trying to pass the knowledge off as its own. When Google or Bing display summarized information, they provide links in citation style so you know where the information came from.

Compare that to what you get from ChatGPT. If it were a college student, it would get kicked out for plagiarism. This is one of the foundational pillars of Western cultural and academic integrity it’s subverting.
Nothing new then.
Is there an amount of concordant eyewitness testimony that should count as evidence?

If your answer to that is "no", you're not being reasonable. The courts of most countries would also disagree with you. This even takes into account the fact that "eyewitness testimony is bad"... Like sure, maybe if it's 10, but if it's 100 people all making extremely similar claims? 1000? 10,000?

The NDE people often use language like "realer than what I thought was real". While some drugs can induce this too, drugs also give quite random experiences, while the NDE thing seems fairly well-structured with few exceptions.

It also seems internally-consistent (as in, within the realm of itself and its claims about reality, it doesn't seem to violate its own rules).

If I was anorgasmic and thousands of people told me that orgasms are real and "you know it when you have one," why should (or shouldn't) I believe them?

Have you heard of the Kalman filter? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalman_filter

Consider that every eyewitness can be mathematically treated as a "noisy sensor" (who might also be a bad actor via lying). What if we applied a Kalman filter to quantized claims made across thousands of self-claimed NDE experiencers? Might this be a way to quantify (and therefore bring into the realm of rationality) eyewitness testimony of this nature?

There are many things we consider "real" that we can't directly measure, btw. Why (from a science or mathematical perspective) is Taylor Swift so popular? How would we determine this without asking people (which puts us right back into "eyewitness testimony" again)?
China's EV maker BYD has carmakers around the world 'in shock' over its prices
At least in the US this is already how it works. There are existing KYC vendors where you can basically pass along info to them and they will give you a KYC score for a customer.
well, obviously the market of ideas should include terrorism and violence as legitimate tender, otherwise it's just sparkling democracy
I'd rather require 'Kid mode' devices _self identify_ as being in _kid mode_ and a two layer approach of websites which are known to be not 'kid friendly' identify as redirect to a kid-friendly resource.

Do not lock up adults on the Internet. Rather, keep the kids in the nanny's care in their own device context rather than on the wider network.
I solved it by just running a console.

People look down on me for it, but the way I see it: my computing experience is not keeping me prisoner; and I value my time too much to dig about certain issues, you're guaranteed to suffer the "my FPS isn't so good I will investigate" or "this game doesn't run so I will investigate" situations.

Cheats are less common too, so there's less incentive for kernel anti-cheat, and if there was: it would be contained to my "game computer" anyway.
I'm sure Palantir is up to just as much shit in its sales division as it is in its actual work, but normal human beings just call changing your communication style and content in response to the listener's reactions "having a conversation".
Fun fact: my ATT router refuses to let me even access this site, saying that I need to use their app to add the domain to a whitelist to access it.
Ubuntu mostly, and I have plenty of experience with Linux distros since Slackware 2.0 in 1995, so no need for the typical answer that I am holding it wrong, once upon a time I jumped across distros on regular basis.
The whole point of their enterprise is that they're attempting to clarify the law, often in particular directions. That can only be done by bringing test cases. A "positive result" comes in several forms there, namely that a) the case is not thrown out and b) they then get their desired result. Simply establishing that they're able to challenge in a particular way can also be a big deal.

For example, while it wasn't GLP but Gina Miller challenging article 50, it established that laws can't be revoked except by parliament, and that the SC can police this. Our supreme court is young (est 2006 or so) and is still coming into its powers because those are defined through lawmaking in the courts as well as parliament.
If anybody asks me who do I want to be, when I grow up I'll point at this author
I don’t think it’s a problem to need to download extra keyboard layouts tbh, especially in a smaller image.
The vast majority just run out of the box with steam now, often with better performance than windows.

Quite a few that use other launchers are "plug and play" installs with lutris (like WoW).
Not exactly forgotten if you use golang.
We're not gobsmacked when you don't know Verilog, so I'm not sure why you think you can be gobsmacked some chip designers don't know C...
> Banking KYC isn't about making sure people are authorized to bank, its about making sure the government is able to track them down if they are (determined by the government to be) associated with bad things.

That's simply not true. E.g a huge part of KYC is ensuring people aren't sanctioned for banking purposes (i.e. OFAC checks are mandatory).

Yes, a record of a user's identity is important, but it's still bad design that every little company, many of which have dubious security practices where they squeaked through figuring out all the right boxes to check to "pass" a SOC 2 audit, have to store this information indefinitely. Some sort of federated system where a business could delegate KYC responsibilities to a respected provider (which is exactly analogous to how Stripe-like credit card processing works) would make a lot more sense.
This is pretty much how integration works, and calculus shows us that integrating any arbitrary function can be done this way.

But really isn't not that hard to intuit. Take any arbitrary shape and draw any number of arbitrarily small rectangles inside it. It should be easy to see that by adding the area of each rectangle, you approach the area of the shape. As the rectangles get smaller, the combined area of the rectangles gets closer to the true area of the shape.
True, it does seem to be suffering from a chicken-and-egg type of problem: Not enough services accept it, so not enough people actually remember the PIN and care to install the app necessary to use it.

But now that both iOS and Android phones can be used as "card readers", I hope we should finally be seeing some more adoption. Before that, almost nobody had a card reader handy when they needed one.

The EU's eIDAS digital ID/signature portability scheme should also help boost it.
Not a lawyer, but seems like the law on copyright and fair use is not that clear cut. It comes down to arguments and how well they resonate. The lawsuit here argues all possible sides - producing content verbatim, summarizing an article (wirecutter), and then also hallucinations about the stories and brand names. All three are done by journalists themselves anyway, so a favorable verdict opens them up to a lawsuit?

Anyway, we tend to forget that there are countries outside USA who can make laws too. And they will do. What if, one country happily says training content for LLMs is not copyright violation (like Japan was rumored to do)? That is an answer I am more interested in finding out. Any country that passes that law would see massive investment (esp if other countries deem it a violation). That would just mean tech + investments + innovation going out of USA. A recent trend here is approach of France towards regulating AI in common EU laws[1].

[1]https://www.politico.eu/article/thierry-breton-mistral-battl...
YOU SAVED ME
Name a game and it probably works on linux these days.

My favourite games all do, but I'm already using consoles exclusively for my gaming because I was unhappy being held prisoner.
They would also be overwhelmed by the average Windows install if they had to perform it themselves. However, these days you can get laptops with Linux preinstalled, even from mainstream OEMs like Dell or HP.
BTW I don't exactly follow. If it's a database of people showing their government-issued IDs, it's then just a copy of the government database of these IDs. I can't believe that a government issues a photo ID number so-and-so to some Joe Random, and forgets about it. I bet it keeps a record.

The interesting part might be tracking the real people across websites, at least such websites that require this level of identification.
The Store doesn't require an account for free apps or updates.
Ah, really? My feeling (in Berlin) has always been that because of its grip on CDJs, Rekordbox dominates.

But this is a quite unfortunate, at least on my MBP 2014, Rekordbox (and Mixxx, mentioned elsewhere in the thread) send the fans into overdrive immediately while quickly becoming sluggish (just about the last thing you want from a tool for DJing), while Traktor keeps things quiet and responsive.
YouTube likes to pre-add videos to other recently-added-to playlists before I've even checked one off. I still haven't figured out a way to have it stop doing this. Frustrating. I have to constantly comb my playlists to fix these. I've now removed the non-NDE-related ones.

This bug/behavior has existed for years, apparently: https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/bywczb/youtube_add...
I don’t think we’re ready for a world where sunglassed people in a cafe sit there staring blankly. Imagine what it’s like for the various patrons as you adjust your field of view towards their direction. Just awkward.
I absolutely love how the opening image is Madobe Nanami.

Stay awesome, 4chan.
>how eager we are to overestimate the capabilities of such a partner in conversation, as soon as some criteria seem to be satisfied. Which is arguably still relevant today.

Honestly, AI shouldn't be the takeaway point here, but how we do the same for politics.
id of added "(bable)"
>live selfie

Why not just make everyone live stream their wank? /s
"Well designed SPAs look and feel like a MPA" isn't exactly a ringing endorsement when MPAs are less complex to build.
The entitlement is off the charts with this one.
Carta customers say platform tried to trade their shares without consent
> By international standards, US ‘democracy’ doesn’t get rated that highly.

For starters, it's a two party system.

Sharp tongues would point out that this is double the amount of political parties you'd "find" in Russia or China ...
Yes. WSJ has around 600k print circulation, which makes it #1 in the US. (For comparison, the NY Times is second place with 300k; the Washington post is 3rd with 140k). WSJ Digital subscribers is 3.4 million or so.

Personally, I have free access through work and I have, in the past, been a subscriber to the dead tree edition.
nslookup comes with the OS
> One of the biggest challenges modern OS developers face (Apple and Microsoft namely) is how to make the new version of the OS appealing enough for users to move to.

More fundamentally, how do they convince users to continue spending money?

> A lot of people don’t care about the carrots though. Their computer does everything they need it to and does so reliably. In a lot of ways the OS is a solved problem, but the companies who make them still need to pay the bills for all the security work that will always need to be done.

Exactly. Consumer desktop/laptop operating systems (Linux/MacOS/Windows) have been largely stagnant for years, at least in terms of offering meaningfully better ways to get things done[1]. That's a problem for the commercial offerings: why would anyone buy the new version if it doesn't do anything new/better than its predecessor?

Microsoft's path is pretty clear: the OS is evolving into an internet terminal. Consumers don't pay for the OS: they pay a subscription to do anything, with features increasingly delivered online and, crucially, all their data "managed" (aka controlled by) by Microsoft too. Device sales don't matter first order in that model: it's a dumb terminal. But Microsoft has to keep the device manufacturers sweet: it's imperative consumers use Microsoft's dumb terminal, because it's connected to Microsoft's services. It would be a disaster if HP, Dell et al decided to use some other front end. Microsoft will do whatever it takes to remain the dominant desktop.

Apple has more of a dilemma. It's always been about the integrated experience, and hardware sales are a first-order driver of revenue and profitability. So it needs to keep consumers buying hardware as well as trying to up its rental offerings (iCloud etc). Moving to its own silicon has powered that for the last few years (more supply chain control, better performance, and good marketing on why it's better).

>It makes me wonder if Apple (for example) put macOS into a no-new-features mode and just improved security from here-on-out what the long term effects would be for users and the industry.

That's arguably what MacOS has been for the last few years: security updates plus support for their own silicon.

Beyond the hype, LLMs possibly offer an opportunity for a notable change in desktop interaction (note 'change' not necessarily 'better' - I'm withholding judgement on that). An OS that could respond to users' queries/instructions directly could be better than having to click about semi-randomly to find the right menu option.

[1] which doesn't detract from e.g. security upgrades, different peripheral connection standards, hardware improvements, etc.
You don't need a PSA, it's self-evident.
Sorry, it seems I confused gross and net profit numbers.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MSFT/microsoft/gro...
In my case it was a podcast player, so primarily audio, where playing in the background is a perfectly normal thing to do and you might want to browse other content while playing.
Not all, kernel level anticheat with the big multiplayer games is a problem these days (areweanticheatyet.com), but other than that, most titles work.