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Ask HN: Which enterprise companies use Unix and Unix-like operating systems?
I was wondering who uses Unix or Unix-like operating system at enterprise level.

The Fortune 500 Company I work for completely decommissioned HP-UX and AIX many years ago.

Are there big companies that uses *BSD, Solaris or derivatives today? If yes, why? Is it only legacy or there are specific reasons?
In the case of the UAE, it wouldn’t be the money. It would be a change in leader.

The current president (one of only 2) is the son of the first and he isn’t as liberal or as charitable, although his dad did create the country by unifying the region after Great Britain pulled out.

But he isn't too bad, but if he goes away, UAE being an authoritarian dictatorship, it could go both ways.

Inconsistent and unpredictable governance is the death knell of many countries and any organization. That’s why authoritarian governments are never stable long term.
Talk about victim blaming. That’s not how intellectual property or copyright work. You’re conveniently ignoring all the paywalled and pirated content OpenAI trained on.

https://www.legaldive.com/news/Chabon-OpenAI-class-action-co...

Those authors didn’t “make their IP available on the internet”, did they?
It's fine to study the forest, but it's also fun to look at individual trees. On another level we are deterministic chemical reactions and all language is just flapping meat sounds. So what?
Dear OpenAI, either remember my privacy settings or open a temporary chat by default, this funny nonsense of typing in something only to find out you’re going to train on it is NOT a good experience.
> What technology is used instead?

“ASML's older tech may be more reliable and good enough” for TSMC’s next chip generations.
While building the knowledge, skills, and staff required to apply these exact same tools towards ordinary americans.
>You might want to try out another web browser that has aggressive ad blocking (Firefox, Brave, or Vivaldi should do it) since ads are one of the major methods of spreading malware.

Under rated advise. Too bad said Joe six-pack donesn't follow it because it thinks other browsers "have viruses"
> And on a related note, Lewis Mumford, a philosopher and writer, wrote quite a bit about how clocks were (in his view) the necessary invention for capitalism to flourish.

Szabo also takes this up in his excellent essay "A Measure of Sacrifice":

Fair broadcast and verification of time was thus of fundamental importance to the most common contractual relationship in the new European cities. In agricultural societies, including medieval Europe, serfdom and slavery had provided most of the labor. Most workers in a modern economy earn wages based on a time rate. Along with or following the rise of the time-rate institution – including the contracts themselves, the laws and regulations governing the contracts, and the technology to fairly measure the principal quantity – came the growth of related economic institutions, such as the joint stock company. These institutions enabled a boom in productivity and the spectacular rise of Europe from its darkest ages to the modern era. We will now chart the rise of the clocks and the institutions they supported.

https://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/rob/Courses/InformationInSpeech/C...
Thats kind of a surprise, given its Broadcom, but very handy. My license for Parallels expired a while back, so this gives me a way to move forward...
The funny thing actually is that repeating yourself is a really important communication skill. The model seems to have internalized that, but isn't yet quite at the level where it properly understands why/when to repeat.

It's probably related to GPT's more general sycophant inclinations. Acting like a doormat is apparently easier to teach than nuanced politeness -- much in the same way that repeating yourself ad nauseum is easier than intuiting specific points of emphasis.
It's 90% creepy...
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Not sure if you own an Apple Watch but there is almost zero doubt in my mind they’d sell less watches, especially to boomer generations and above without the phone setup experience. Originally the phone needed the watch for cellular so the UX has grown out of that.

You’re a hacker news reader so more like an “elite” user of technology. Most people aren’t and won’t do things like read the Apple Watch EULAs on the watch, setup payment cards on the watch alone. I don’t think it’s even possible to setup the eSIM and number syncing without the phone yet. It seems tied to your phones IMEI.

Maybe Apple would make a UX for the small minority of people like yourself, but they already have a lot of stuff going on and I guess it’s not financially viable to satisfy everyone in all situations.
Welp, thanks for telling me what to turn off right now Mozilla.
In oppressive regimes like USSR (as if there are or were any regimes "like USSR") (where censorship was manual) there always were loopholes to avoid censorship and convey messages you wanted to. In the West (as well as in the East) today the platforms don't allow for any loopholes, or even when such loopholes are found, they're being censored out very quickly.
"list of categories we’re using: animals, arts, autos, business, career, education, fashion, finance, food, government, health, hobbies, home, inconclusive, news, real estate, society, sports, tech and travel."

"This helps us [...] providing a browsing experience that is more tailored to your needs"

How would my browsing experience be different in any of the categories? Unless it's about showing me ads yet again.
Not the same, I know, but Disney+ TV has this series:

https://www.disneyplus.com/series/the-imagineering-story/6ry...

And going way back, Epcot plans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLCHg9mUBag
Once we have godlike tier ASI, you're probably right. But I expect that robots could become extremely lucrative even when avaiable AI's haven't reached that point yet.

Companies that have a head start at that point, may get a huge first-mover advantage. Also, those companies also very well may have the capability to leverage AI in product development, just like everyone else.

And just as important as the products themselves is the manufacturing capacity to build them at scale. Until we have massive numbers of robots in service, building such infrastructure is likely to be slow and expensive.

EDIT: Also, once we really have the kind of Godlike ASI you envision, no human actions really matter (economically) anymore.
Preface: I fully agree with you and wont buy an iPad weithout user switching.

However, user switching seems to be a features more on lower priced budget devices for world markets where individual people cant afford their own devices. When you are rich enough to live in the western world and buy Apple products, you dont share them!
> "She'd be like, 'Wouldn't this be so cool for your daughter?'" McVay said. "And I'm like, 'That's not real, though.'"

Other than not being able to buy an AI generated item, what's the functional difference between a clickbait image generated by AI, and one generated by a human? My assumption is that people endlessly scrolling for dopamine hits are not overly concerned with the epistemology of it all. In these circumstances, something is true or real if it is amusing or distracting, because it's all just content, and that is what content is for. AI is so good at generating content that this is probably exactly the right use for it.
> The AirTag has anti-stalking protection. An important feature, but not something the owner of the AirTag may want.

Yeah, that’s like, the issue with trackers. If I buy an AirTag to stalk my ex girlfriend, why should Apple want to help facilitate that goal?
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Do vertical monitors make you more productive?
DuckDuckGo for the win!
> Waiting for a hardware competitor that can run standard Linux

Microsoft surface is an excellent piece of hardware that can run linux just fine
Barrier sounds cooler in a press release than "we made it fast enough to surpass an arbitrary benchmark"
By default it comes with neither and most iPad users probably don’t add them.
Silicon Valley was once the domain of nerds and introverts trying to build a better future.

Now it's the domain of MBA-bros and idea guys- sorry, Thought Leaders- trying to measure themselves with their bank accounts.

They ditched even the most basic principles (like, "Don't be evil") in pursuit of obscene wealth and unsustainable growth, so why is anyone shocked they sold away their political principles as well?
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More likely future LLMs will mix ads into their responses. ("Your air filters are in stock in aisle A6. Have you heard about the new membership plan from Lowes...?")
One of my favorite tweets:

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale

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https://twitter.com/AlexBlechman/status/1457842724128833538?...
Title feels a little bit misleading - they're not collecting 'categorised search data' so much as 'categorising searches and then collecting an aggregate of only the categories.'

I'm not entirely sure how to phrase it better while keeping it pithy but the current wording reads to me like they're collecting the searches as well as the categories, and they deliberately aren't doing that.

(I entirely understand that some people will reasonably have an issue with what they -are- doing, but it's at least worth understanding what that actually is before deciding whether you're one of them :)
It’s a “hallucination”. Human Intelligences are currently quite prone to them. Many times they just make up plausible sounding sentences that aren’t true because they’re just fancy autocomplete.
OpenAI prioritizes macOS over Windows 11 for ChatGPT app, but why?
> A prototype of FORGE is implemented in MacRelix; a port to FUSE is in progress.

MacRelix was recently featured on hn. It is a Unix-like environment for classic Mac OS.
It might help a detective take a new look at a scene as if they were there. I suspect there are generally enough crime scene photos for a given crime.

However, I’m not sure how admissible this would be as evidence given the somewhat generative nature. I would assume any lawyer would tear apart the fact that this is guesswork/estimation and not a known “truth”. Deblurring tech already exists to mathematically undo motion blur, but gaussian splatting would effectively be “creating” evidence.

Allowing generated images like that to be considered evidence of crimes would be an incredibly dangerous precedent to set, in my opinion. But with this court, and the right case, dangerous, unpopular, and otherwise questionable precedents seem to be the name of the game these days. Especially when judges can be bought off without any repercussions.
Just a shortcut for anybody trying to find it.

"Remember, you can always opt out of sending any technical or usage data to Firefox. Here’s a step-by-step guide [0] on how to adjust your settings."

---

1. Click the [hamburger menu button] and select Settings.

2. Select the Privacy & Security panel.

3. Scroll down to the Firefox Data Collection and Use section.

4. Check or uncheck the box next to Allow Firefox to send technical and interaction data to Mozilla.

[0] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/share-data-mozilla-help...
Isn't this exactly what Google does in Chrome?
DDG started to ignore the country preference (the slide button) I set.

I keep it in the off position, that should mean "all countries" but it still shows me results in Italian language, even if I search in English.

Google started doing that years ago, and it's quite annoying since I usually want international results.
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Providing a link to their own comprehensive guide to turn everything off definitely earns style points in my book.
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Assuming the patent wasnt assigned to the startup, what about the remaining work product from the startup? Does one need to start with a clean slate for the new startup?
Ah good catch, they must have rearranged this when they added Stage Manager. It's more obvious now with its own "Multitasking & Gestures" in the top level settings categories, right above Accessibility.

There are three choices now: Off, Split View & Slide Over, or Stage Manager.

The real trick with Settings though is that it has a search bar at the top of the sidebar (with no visual indication that it exists unless you find it by scrolling up past the top), so you can always use that instead of hunting through the many pages of settings.

Parent commenter should probably turn off the 4-finger app switching gesture and the 3-finger undo/redo/copy/paste gestures as well. Doesn't seem like a feature their mom will be learning to use on purpose.
I wonder if it's physically possible to start with a situation that you're describing and end up with a toroidal planet.
> Innovation and privacy go hand in hand here at Mozilla [...] Rest assured, the way we gather these insights will always put user privacy first [...] Remember, you can always opt out of sending any technical or usage data to Firefox

Wouldn't actually putting "user privacy first" lead to the conclusion that gathering insights like this shouldn't be done on a opt-out basis and instead be opt-in, at the very least?

Personally, I'd see "privacy first" as not needing to sell any user data at all, in the first place, but we're clearly beyond that already.
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Seems like this is in support of "Firefox Suggest", which seems to show sponsored links. I really don't like advertising so I really don't like going down that road.

Can't they just take Google's yearly $600,000,000 payment and build the best browser "for the user" while also addressing technical debt and organizational issues so it can continue as an open source project if/when the money ever dries up?
I thought there wasn't such thing as a "centrifugal force" :-|
> The post lists its sources at the bottom

If you trust some random student's homework as an accurate summary, that's on you.

> Your claims that this system is entirely a myth

I never said that the existence of a system is a myth. The myth is the score. The internet meme that everyone knows and that many believe is centered around this score, and therefore has nothing to do with reality.

> that it's only applied to companies

I never said that it only applies to companies. I said that it's mainly focused on companies. I specifically told you one way that it could be applied to individuals: people who default on court judgments can be banned from buying certain "luxury" goods like high-speed train tickets.

> I don't need to be an expert to understand English.

Understanding English does not mean you'll understand a legal document written in English. I don't think you've understood the law you linked to. One major aspect of it that I think you don't appreciate is that it is focused on limiting the types of penalties that local governments may impose for certain types of crimes. Another aspect that I think you're missing is that this is focused on business regulation. When it does mention "natural persons," it's often dealing with their professional conduct. E.g., people who commit fraud may be banned from carrying out certain professions. A third aspect of the law that I think you're overlooking is that these penalties are imposed on entities or people that break the law, not for any sort of low "social credit score." This example ties together these last two points:

"In accordance with laws and regulations, carry out professional bans or practice restrictions for a set period of time against natural persons that have major conduct in violation of laws or regulations in a specified sector."

Local governments can ban people who violate the law in a certain business sector from practicing in that sector. This is nothing at all like the "social credit score" meme. This is like, "If you've been convicted of embezzlement, you can't work at a bank any more." It isn't, "If you post a comment online that the CCP doesn't like, you can't get a loan."
Because of all the things humanity has learned about the universe, none of them has turned out to be aliens or evidence of aliens. You can theorize it all you want, but so far every time the universe has just turned out to be a big, strange place.
I have to sign in with Google just to get a mere 3-day free trial without any idea what it is?
We are not Kardashev Type 2 civilization, barely 1.
That is very interesting. I'm going to ask my oncologist's opinion about this and see what she says. I'm almost done with my radiation and chemo regimen (approaching 10 months... bleh), so if eating bacon-wrapped hot dogs keeps me out of the next treatment for longer, it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make :)
I just learned about the skibidi toilet stuff - very strange, but so was stuff like "Cool 3D World" back in the day.
Yes. What are your contact details?
No. Your queries aren't send to Mozilla, just the broad categories. Chrome is sending full queries to Google.
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Its crazy, but sometimes people have non-Apple devices. There's a decent chance none of the baggage handlers had an Apple device on them when they were handling the bag, or they were only around the bag so briefly it was between the airtag's chirps.

There's a good bit of separation between the cabin and the cargo hold. I imagine it could be pretty difficult to get a read from a low power tag deep in a bag in a pile of other luggage with several other big metal plates between.
Except they allow schools to run device sharing.
I mean, China's way ahead on this one.

https://apnews.com/article/tiktok-bytedance-ban-china-india-...

> TikTok has never been available in mainland China, a fact that CEO Shou Chew has mentioned in testimony to U.S. lawmakers. ByteDance instead offers Chinese users Douyin, a similar video-sharing app that follows Beijing’s strict censorship rules. TikTok also ceased operations in Hong Kong after a sweeping Chinese national security law took effect.
> We’re ramping up our efforts to enhance search experience by developing new features like Firefox Suggest, which provides recommended online content that corresponds to queries.

So, they need to collect data about my search habits so they can show me relevant ads in Firefox Suggest? At this point why do I even bother using Firefox? I seriously might as well just use Chromium.
It looks like you used some old tutorials?

"subprocess.run" appeared in python 3.5, and it's pretty nice - for example you so "check=True" to raise on error exit code, and omit it if you want to check exit code yourself. And to get text output you put "text=True" (or encoding="utf-8" if you are unsure what the system encoding is)

As for your boilerplate, it seems "p.stdout.splitlines()" is what you want? it's what you normally want to use to parse process output line-by-line

The background process is the hardest part, but for the most common case, you don't need any thread:

proc = subprocess.Popen(["slow-app", "arg"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, text=True)
for line in proc.stdout:
print("slow-app said:", line.rstrip())
print("slow-app finished, exit code", proc.wait())

sadly if you need to parse multiple streams, threads are often the easiest.
Actually a pretty cool name (and model size) for a locally run LLM.
I wonder if they are planning to get ads, there is little reason to collect behaviour data for anything else.
>It’s a horse of a different color.

Horses of all colours are still horses, yet you use this statement to explain why iPads are not tablets?
What is The Cathedral and the Bazaar about? I couldn't quite tell from a cursory glance.
custom... everything.

if you tried to look at the disk in dos or windows, it would report unformatted.

took a lot of convincing my neighbor's dad that the disk really worked, but only as a boot disk, because windows 3.1 would report it needed to be formatted
Few people are going to say "modulate your tone" in a vacuum sure but that doesn't mean that ability along with being able to manipulate all other aspects of speech isn't an incredible advance that is going to be very useful.

Language learning, audiobook narration that is far more involved, you could probably generate an audio drama, actual voice acting, even just not needing to get all my words in before it prompts the model with the transcribed text, conversation that doesn't feel like someone is reading a script.

And that's just voice.

This is the kind of interaction that's possible now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nSmkyDNulk

And no, thumbing the pause button, sending an image and going back does not even begin to compare in usability.

Great leaps in usability are a revolution in itself. GPT-3 existed for years so why did ChatGPT explode when it did? You think it was intelligence? No. It was the usability of the chat interface.
Your brain is doing this without you realising, just because you aren't verbalising it doesn't mean it's not iterating through its own output and selecting the best answer. Some of our thinking is purely illusion.
Models can also do this, some models like Gemini allow you to see this in action where you get to select the best answer, there's also behind the scene methods such as q-learning.

When your muscle memory is instinctively clicking that start button, it's more akin to a very strong weighting after many sessions of reinforcement learning. Our brains may still be dumb but we can quickly say things like 1+1=...2 because we used reinforcement learning to strengthen the weighting back in primary school. We're not sitting visualising an abacus moving in our minds.
Do you add all of these customizations in every prompt, or just pick and choose some?