skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least they have a "Reject all" button, easy to access (it should be the norm). Not some dodgy dark pattern that takes a good minute to find.
I don't see any downsides with Jpegli. Your Linux distro admin exchanges the lib for you, you never need to think about it, only get smaller and more beautiful files. If you use commercial software (Apple, Adobe, mobile phone cameras, Microsoft, ...) hopefully they migrate by themselves.

If they don't, literally nothing happens.

I fail to see a major downside. Perhaps open up your thinking on this?

Yes, Chrome published data.
The author tried essentially the same thing as what you suggest. He booted into recoveryOS (a separate partition) then from there tried to delete files from the main system partition. But rm failed with the same error "No space left on device". So as others have suggested, truncating a file might have worked "echo -n >file"
> The best policy is really to not collect this information.

Quoting from the flowchart:

"Touch ID or FacelD are stored locally and cannot be accessed by the operating system
or applications."

Called out as if it's a bad thing??? It's a really weird flow chart.

Meanwhile, Apple did more work on differential privacy than anyone, famously sandbagging their Maps directions / routing by refusing to collect your route A to B, instead segmenting the trips and disassociating them.*

Across the board, they create incredible hurdles for themselves at great expense.

One wonders why, when Apple have to compete head to head with firms that do not sandbag themselves.

Perhaps it's because Apple has to get most of its revenue from device sales and user subscriptions, while the others get almost all of their revenue from turning user data into ads, so they actually are fundamentally different in mindsets?

* https://www.idownloadblog.com/2019/03/13/apple-maps-navigati...
Sovereignty might have gotten a bit of a priority boost post Nordstream.
Probably going against the grain here, but I think it’s great that at least a modest fraction of the benefits of highly risk-optimized revolving credit and low-friction electronic payments are feeding back to the consumer, vs. having all the value derived from that technology captured by the banks and merchants.

In a world where these high-exchange-fee / high-reward cards were outlawed, merchants would pay less in aggregate in fees. But almost surely they’d lose out net from a drop in overall consumer spending.

That affiliate programs inspire gamification for consumers to optimize their spending patterns to “win prizes” seems like a neat bit of competitive market pressure: It’s obviously a win for all involved or they wouldn’t be so popular.
https://archive.is/Lhkml
Don't think saffron contains any safrole?

The main plant source would be sassafras.
> This would be transformed by the compiler into something like this:

Even modern C compilers for "modern" 8051-derived MCUs work like this :)
Huge huge majority of open source (especially famous one) is developed by people that are paid to do so by corporations. So it's a misleading premise.
"slightly harder" isn't enough. That's what I'm saying that people are not accepting.

The days of 3rd party libraries simply being trusted because they're open source are slowly coming to an end. the problem is not unreproducible builds, the problem is that we implicitly trust source code found online.

Projects relying on 100s of 3rd party libraries are a major problem, and no one seems to care. They like it when their Rust build lists all the libraries that they didn't have to write as it compiles them. They like it when they can include an _extremely_ small Node library which itself relies on 4 other _extremely_ small Node libraries, which each rely on another 4 _extremely_ small Node libraries, until you have a node_modules directory with 30,000 packages in it.

We don't know how to write software any more. We know how to sew bits of things together into a loincloth, and we get mad when the loincloth makes us itch. Of course it does, you didn't LOOK at anything you are relying on. You didn't stop to think, even for a moment, that maybe writing the thing instead of trusting someone else with it was even an option.

As we continue doing this, relying on 3rd parties to write the heavy lifting code, we lose the skill to write such code ourselves. We are transferring the skills that we need into the hands of people that we can't trust, when viewed from a high level.

We need to get back to small applications, which we know because we wrote them in their entirety, and that someone else can trust because the code for the thing is 2500 lines long and has extremely few, if any, dependencies.

We need to get away from software which imports 30,000 (or even 100) third party libraries with implicit trust because it's open source.

"All bugs are shallow with enough eyes" requires that people use their eyes.
I have something similar, but simpler that I made for home use. Anything I want to deploy goes in a container, and I have a template directory with a service yaml, a deployment yaml, an ingress yaml and maybe some PVCs.

Really what you're aiming for is avoiding the repetitive tedium of writing out the same thing over and over for what essentially is a simply container that needs an ingress for web/api access and perhaps some storage or access to a DB.

It's overkill for sure, but I don't want to run Docker hosts, and I don't (yet) have anything in my clusters that will let my just run a container and provide an ingress for it without this; plus I prefer the declarative approach anyway and I can just commit it to my local git for when I need it.
Yes, and that's not happening right now, and it's a Big Fucking Problem. I am pretty sure this will someday be a prime case study in AI ethics courses. A Waco type of "how could this happen" moment.
On Android it is typically done with a firewall app, like AFWall+
Great. Now employ a team of 10 or so full time engineers and assign them to contribute to it.
They became as successful as they are by collecting massive amounts of data to learn to effectively psychologically manipulate people into buying their products, convincing them they are the most secure, fastest, most private option that will make people like them more for using.

Apple is above all else a data driven marketing and advertising firm just like Google and Meta. They are profitable because they are effective at using data to change user purchasing behavior.
On one "prepackaged" end the scale, MS Teams has an option to transcribe meetings. On the "Local" side, I've had success using Whisper.cpp to transcribe my own voice recordings.
Well written and pretty interesting. Somewhat obvious I suppose.

I was hoping he would go into detail on how programs like Citi double cash work. In that program you get the normal 1% back at purchase and then 1% at payment. I assume the latter is subsidized from interest payments, but what about card holders that never pay interest? Are they subsidized by those that do?
Well, at the highest scales they launder in plain sight with completely de-anonymized banks and the banks get a slap on the wrist. So that might be considered a different category of problem all together.
> that personalised information never leaves your device

Doubt. Show me the source code and prove to me that the binaries currently executing were derived from it. Then I might believe such a claim.
Less boilerplate, centralization, leading to less maintenance burden

A universal helm chart like this allows a lot of defaults to be set, with the values containing only the necessary changes to get the code running in the cluster (and small adjustments, as needed). When you need to add/change/remove something from all services, this can all be done through the universal chart, greatly reducing maintenance friction of getting changes through to all services from one location. In a large enough organization, there can be hundreds of services with almost exactly the same chart with the same set of things.

I think creating a helm chart makes sense if you're planning to publish it and have it used by multiple, different entities that don't own the project (think about any open-source projects really).
However for internal, closed-source services, the same entity owns the code, the chart, the values, and the deployment. It adds a lot of boilerplate and there's really little reason to maintain and publish a chart as an artifact for each service.
You might have mistaken safflower for saffron, the former is a colouring agent.
> We have no influence on the operating processes of such [proprietary] solutions and the handling of data, including a possible outflow of data to third countries.

All countries should have a strategy to fork open source software and implement it for this reason. They should also share their contributions with the wider Linux community as well, although with the recent xz scandal, pull requests from nation states may be looked at with suspicion.
I'd say it's worth a try.
Ok now do the cost for moving all other applications from Entra/Active Directory SSO running on Windows to LDAP or some non MS Oauth implementation on Linux.
I'm sure replacing all the legacy applications and retraining the government employees on their FOSS alternatives can be done but it's going to take years and burn many many millions in fees for IT suppliers and investigating alternatives.
You really need to do it because of ideological considerations because i doubt you'll save a dime the first decade.
SableDb – Fast, persistent database supporting Redis API
pass a txt file to this: https://abbreviation-finder.streamlit.app
I am as concerned about security as I am about privacy, and Apple has the best track record for long-lived devices that are still receiving security updates.

As for privacy I don't know any major vendor that is privacy-focused. Not only is it a hard technical problem to solve, it's also leaving money on the table. I don't see things changing any time soon.
Odd post for the news section here, especially considering the subject is a 10 year old article
The answer is that the system doesn’t work if a 3%-fee card isn’t held by a low-risk, high-spend rich person. Indeed if that weren’t the case, merchants would reject the tiered fee structure.

(This is also the answer as to why in the absence of regulation, exchange fees aren’t higher than they already are.)
If I remember, there was also an issue around people working in the administration not wanting to get used to new software/ not being able to do some tasks.
Btw you get a random example when you load https://strudel.cc/, not everyone is looking at the same one
Yes. Rewards are subsidized by anyone paying a fee for their card, and by everyone with higher prices. Reward programs incentive consumers to make that card “top of wallet” and prioritize spend on it, which is why the entire rewards system is afraid of interchange cram down and free instant payments in general.

(Work at a fintech, I see the financials but those I cannot share)
LoongArch, I believe
It can get quite high in the chain. This is a financial decision - extract value (money) with the cost of other values (principles) and users' privacy.
Do you have to select car parks based on ones that don't require an app? More and more near me require an app to pay for parking.
I am a fan of this lens

https://7artisans.store/products/50mm-f1-05

and it’s APS-C counterpart. Personally I have had times I was walking around with a 50mm and not being able to frame anything up but between the extreme bokeh and ability to laugh at low light conditions I have so much fun. for certain kinds of pics the manual focus is fun and easy and with the aperture wide open nobody is going to mistake your pics for smartphone snaps.
I have a theory that between them Star Wars and Blade Runner killed, or at least seriously damaged, SF.

Instead of forward-looking weirdness (like 2001) a lot of SF - especially written SF - turned into reruns of WW II in space and 30s detective noir decorated with some stick-on SF greeblies.

There are obvious exceptions. But a lot of SF became less interesting, with endless reassuringly predictable variations on battleships in space, and gumshoes/mercenaries with laser blasters.
Fine tuning on your own knowledge probably isn't what you want to do, you probably want to do retrieval aided generation instead. Basically a search engine on some local documents, and you put the results of the search into your prompt. The search engine uses the same vector space as your language model as its index, so the results should be highly relevant to whatever the prompt is.

I'd start with "librechat" and mistral, so far that's one of the best chat interfaces and has good support for self hosting. For the actual model runner, ollama seems to be the way to go.

I believe it's built on "langchain", so you can switch to that when it makes sense to. When you've tested all your queries and setup with librechat, know that librechat is a wrapper around "langchain".

I'd start by testing the workflow in librechat, and if librechat's API doesn't do what you want, well I've always found fastAPI pleasant to work with.

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Less for your use case, and more in-general. I've been assessing a lot of LLM interfaces lately, and the weird porn community has some really powerful and flexible interfaces. With sillytavern you can set up multiple agents, have one agent program, another agent critique, and a third asses it for security concerns. This kind of feedback can help catch a lot of LLM mistakes. You can also go back and edit the LLM's response, which can really help. If you go back and edit an LLM message to fix code or change variable names, it will tend to stick with those decisions. But those interfaces are still very much optimized for "Role playing".

Recommend keeping an eye on https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/
Hamas are terrorists, yes. But that doesn't mean you destroy them at all costs. It doesn't mean you can "mow the grass" in Gaza at such high civilian cost. And while destroying Israel is Hamas's stated goal, it's about as delusional as thinking the Jan. 6 rioters could have overthrown the US government. 30,000 Hamas fighting with crude weapons against the IDF, one of the most powerful and advanced armed forces in the world? Come on.
Hmm so it's about using neural nets to predict numerical scores from text reviews left by users?

If you have non average tastes for entertainment perhaps you could train something like this to give you custom scores that apply to you personally...
> Facebook (as it’s the most used example) being blocked in a country or region (EU for example) would be devastating thousands/tens of thousands of businesses.

You've stated this as a fact but small businesses thrived before Facebook, so I think it's fair to assume they'll thrive after Facebook is long gone, absent other evidence.

The only type of business I genuinely see suffering are those who advertise crap dropshipped from Alibaba that nobody is looking for organically, sold at 2000% markups, and that would be a good riddance.
Arduino is a nice, but it's still built on the shoulders of tools like GCC, isn't it?

I never owned a computer in the 90s, but my impression was that Cygnus[1] did a lot of work porting GCC and improving it for use in a variety of platforms, including embedded targets. They arguably helped pull GCC into mainstream usage, to the point of almost permanently forking it [2].

Those first 20 years of GCC development were prerequisites for something like Arduino to emerge in the mid-2000s. I'm just not sure we have the equivalent of GCC yet when it comes to synthesis tools.

When it appears, it might be a good opportunity to create a consulting company and drive it forward while also making some money. The key pitch would be improving your ability to maintain and share designs across targets while not having to pay recurring licenses on your tools.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygnus_Solutions

[2]: https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/History
The problem this ml should solve is pricing: get cheaper components and compensate with ml.

Basically increasing the precision of the arm by controlling the voltage much more precisely
List of long time abusers of Wikipedia
yep, definitely no middle ground between “happiness contingent on the well-being of the planet and other life” and “soulless wealth-chasing imbecile”
Hyundais are leasing very well right now.
Saffron has a slightly bitter taste, but unless you're making something like a syrup for gulab jamun which can have a pretty large amount of saffron you're unlikely to use enough to feel it in foodstuffs.
Yeah last time with Munich they moved back to MS after MS just so happened to move their HQ to that state.

Microsoft is clearly keen to avoid this becoming a thing. If governments can shift successfully then so can businesses

https://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-germany-moves-into-a-new-h...
This is a weird flowchart, calling things out weirdly, like “Touch ID or FacelD are stored locally and cannot be accessed by the operating system
or applications.” as if that's a negative?

Since they call it out in the article as well, I really want to understand the "fragility of the privacy protections" on TouchID.
I am not saying this was the reason, but it is suspicious that the Munich Linux project was dropped, after Microsoft moved their headquarters back into Munich.

And the reasons given were made up. The recommendation written by Accenture claimed that "users weren't satisfied" while a poll from a newspaper showed that most users were indeed satisfied
Of course.
Same thing will all those environmental laws shenanigans.

Companies are better off investing in short-term gains and leave the governments taking care of the environment and digital accountability of its citizens.
"before authorizing a bombing — just to make sure the Lavender-marked target is male"

Ugh.
> Like in the days long last we used to email .doc files to each other? I doubt it

How long ago are we talking? I was sharing files with coworkers on a shared network drive 20 years ago. I could send files via IM as well back then.
> You think EU companies will stop buying Office 365 subscriptions to reduce their dependency on the US?

I don't think they will stop, but they will become much more hesitant.

Concerning your other points: it is of similar economic importance for the company to invest in precautions to prevent that you are taken hostage of, in this case by Microsoft. Thus such measures are actually often in the company's self-interest in opposite to fighting a virtual trade war for someone else.
Some initial growing pains seem worthwhile though
The article also has a number of incorrect assumptions regarding how Siri works and what kind of data Apple collects. They do not mention Apple's differential privacy approach, for instance, nor do they seem aware of many iOS improvements in that regard over the past few years. So I don't really consider it a thoroughly researched piece...
I haven't looked at Guix but in the discussions around this exploit for NixOS they mentioned that regenerating autoshit for xz-utils would not be something they can/want to do because that would add a lot more dependencies to the bootstrap before other packages can be build. Kind of funny how a requirement for bootstrapped builds can add a requirement for trusting not-quite-binaries-but-also-not-really-source blobs.
Where are the most intense thunderstorms on Earth? (2006)
My conspiracy theory is ai astroturfing and gaslighting humans inr extinction for insert reason unobvious to humans.
Nice! I think in general, public services should not have to depend on for-profit organisations for their operations. Especially when such are tax-funded.
> What will it take to get to a point where people can make art independently of livelihood?

Did you finish reading my comment? I'm the exact person you're talking about. I've never made a cent from any of my art, yet I plan to continue making music until the day I die.
That's the atheist take. Anyone participating in this is committing a mortal sin which is not what you want right before Judgment. Religion aside, normalization of euthanasia leads to some horrible outcomes like offering euthansia as health care.
Epson: open the lid, pour ink in reservoirs, put the lid back on, print.

epson.com > products > printers > inkjet printers > check "ink tank system" => 134 models to choose
As someone who is trying to build a bootstrapped startup in spare time (read: coding while tired), this is amazing. Thank you so much for creating it.
Only if you stay on a outdated version. If you're a company/government you have a M365 subscription that includes the latest windows and you're replacing your computers every 5-7 years so Win11 not supporting some computers from 2017 might cost you 1 year of support for a small part of your total fleet.
We have no car.

We love electric cars.

For convenience we only rent gas powered cars.
Governments can take a longer and more strategic outlook than private enterprises. It's not even primarily about nationalistic trade wars: I want my tax euros to fund as little closed-source software as possible. It's crazy how much money even just our schools spend for software that can't be freely redistributed or modified. That said, I'm not holding my breath regarding the success of this most recent move.
You just do it like USA does: if you want to do business with the public sector, you must not rely on a foreign cloud.
That's a great callout. TouchID data never leaves the Secure Enclave, so wondering about privacy implications of that is just ridiculous.
The "lesson" does not seem so clear according to the article you have linked:

> Schneider claimed that the decision had been political, “not made on the basis of facts”

> “We do not see any compelling technical reasons for a change to Windows and Microsoft Office… We solve compatibility and interoperability problems by providing MS Office, mostly virtualised, at workplaces that need to work together with external offices on office documents.”

One point of critique was the difficulty involved with 3rd party programs on the Linux laptops. But with MS Teams, Zoom etc. running in the browser and/or having actual Linux clients these days, this may be much more feasible today.

The opposition claimed the decision to abandon Linux was a purely political one. The mayor who pushed the return to Microsoft, Dieter Reiter (SPD), was a known Microsoft fanboy, but he (of course) denied personal investment in the reversal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux
> Across the board, they create incredible hurdles for themselves at great expense.

If they're so privacy-conscious, then why do they violate GDPR by making analytics opt-out rather than opt-in?
“ By piling into EVs as car prices were peaking, a fact visible at every showroom in the country, the two had made the most classic of Wall Street errors, buying high and selling low. ”

They also mention at the beginning of the article the numerous failed CEOs and attempts to turn around the company over the last 20 years.
Speaking from the Matrix side: it would definitely be preferable to have a large reliable source of funding for public sector Matrix deployments rather than juggling between loads of small overlapping ones (especially when they end up failing to route any $ to the upstreams). That said, Schleswig Holstein is looking to route $ upstream in this instance.
I usually shoot with either a prime or a zoom which is well to one side of 50mm. I’ve been through “the kit lens sucks because it is the kit lens” to “I actually took some pictures I like with it” to “These are not so sharp and I wish the aperture had more blades.”. I don’t know if and when I can justify the expense but I am definitely thinking about a better lens in that range or maybe wider though a tele with a wider aperture would help with shooting sports.
They're not without merit - I like Bon Jovi and Billie Eilish too. I'm saying that in a world with millions of jobs in the process of being upended by AI, the jobs of millionaire performers are not high on my list of concern.
I still don't see the point of helm in the first place.