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Ask HN: Best Linux Distro for Development
I'm strongly leaning towards PopOs since I like Debain support, but Ubuntu is turning into Windows ( cloud services, telemetry, etc).

Given the absolute nightmare of Windows Recall, I opted to buy a 8845HS laptop instead. I plan on installing a nice 4TB SSD as well, with about 500 GB for Linux - I make tons of music and this is better supported in Windows.

I really enjoy Manjaro, but I find it's much harder to get working with certain software working.

I'm going to be developing embedded applications, flutter apps, and maybe some Android.

My main concern is speed, what's fast, what's not.

However, I'm also open to smaller niche distos, feel free to pitch your passion project!
Pretty much any standard mail client should be able to do what you are describing. Thunderbird can open raw email files and display them as though they were received via POP3 or IMAP.
> You can read as many tutorials as you want, you'll still suck at it.

I agree, but it's better foundation than getting something to compile and thinking you "get it."
I actually have a license for Tag&Rename, it's good software, but Window only.
In the SOAR all instructions could be tagged or not (the % bit selected this). They then tested the effectiveness of this (Patterson's "quantitative approach") by changing their compiler to output non tagged versions of a given instruction with explicit software checking and then comparing the results of several benchmarks with the same code using the tagged instructions. It turned out that only the tagged ADD had a measurable result.

So when the SPARC was created it included a TADD instruction. It also had a TSUB for symmetry even though the SOAR guys showed it didn't really help. The tags were moved from the top bit on SOAR to the bottom two bits in SPARC. Unfortunately exception handling on 32 bit SPARCs was really slow so pure software alternatives actually performed better. This exception handling problem also made register windows far less interesting than they had been in the Berkeley designs (this was improved in SPARC v9).
CSS: Margin Top vs. Bottom (A Trick You Should Know)
The site doesn't scroll at all on Firefox(X11) with ublock and umatrix, even when the non-tracking sites are enabled. In Brave browser it somewhat works in a janky way, but given that the site apparently brings a 24-core threadripper with 128GB RAM to it's knees, it certainly doesn't inspire confidence in the product, which otherwise looks pretty good.
But wasn't it clear that the "pretty acceptable" would have been far better with extra thought and a few more drafts?
Commercial drones like this typically come with enough batteries to run non-stop.

Even at the standard 1C charge rate, you'd only need 4 batteries to effectively fly non-stop.

In the article they mention the system was meant for rough terrain where they were hand-spraying because the tractor couldn't get there, but I guess they're working on making it viable for large flat farms now.
I don't remember my ICQ number but I can remember a dozen F2P MMOs from the early / mid-2000s and most of my usernames but I need to look up `tar -xvzf` every time even with an awareness of the Arnold Schwarzenegger meme.

The brain remembers what it wants to remember.
It could go to the estate.
You could bet in Bitcoin. If the quantum computer doesn't exist, one person gets it. If the quantum computer appears that can break the Bitcoin digital signatures, well, then the Bitcoin is worthless.
"Why not call the baby's mom? Why not just keep the baby anyways? Why not take it to the hospital themselves if they were concerned?"

Because many abusers pass off the kid to blame it on others. That's why childcare providers tend to assess (or are supposed to) the condition at drop off. Otherwise it's a finger pointing game that could result in serious criminal charges based on who was more believable.
There are two apps from Fuji and i heard the newer one works better but the older one does not work for transferring pictures 70% of the time and unfortunately my camera is not supported in the new "Fujifilm X App"
Criminals often have a series of codes or personal rules that guide them. It doesn't make them any less criminal.
Hey! Why did you open source it? Genuinely curious.
We'll make the licensing more visible. Stay tuned in a few minutes.
> small diesel engine to charge the battery as needed. Fuel is an insanely high cost for farmers, and the complexity of the ICE systems means high maintenance and repair costs too.

That is what they want, but that isn't something they can get. A 100 horsepower tractor will be expected to deliver 100 horsepower for 15 hours without stopping (it is common to eat while driving, though you will stop for a bathroom break here and there). That means you need to have a 100 horsepower engine. Contrast a Tesla which is rated at 600 horsepower - but realistically only can give you that for a few seconds before you are at speed and then only needs to deliver about 20 horsepower. The batteries in a Tesla would run that 100 horsepower tractor for maybe an hour, so a 20 horsepower engine in a Tesla could easially extend you a lot of range.

I work for John Deere. I don't speak for the company. I can tell you that we are looking at electric for small tractors - there are a lot of people who only use small tractors for a couple hours per day (or less). We have hybrid tractors for some applications, but there are others that hybird isn't useful. The rules of chemistry tell us that a battery will never be useful for large tractors, and even small tractors it is questionable if batteries can ever be good enough to go all day (if you look at our electric mower the dealer is required to examine your lot to make sure it isn't too big). We have tried things like put a 1km cord on a tractor - I don't know what the status of that is.
What a pain.

We really should just declared the year to be 360 days long, with 12 months, 30 days each, split into 6 day long weeks. The extra 5 days? Everybody take a vacation. Leap days go in there too somehow. Every month starts with a Monday and ends with a Sunday. Wednesday will be removed because it was no good anyway.
The kona is close, but is larger in every dimension and still has less cargo space than a Fit.

https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/honda-jazz-fit-2017...
How do you imagine that? Applying common sense and values on Russians?
They hire people who know that maths doesn't "top out here", so they can point to them and say "look at that mathematicians/physicists/engineers/PHD's we employ - your $20Bn is safe here". Hedge funds aren't run by idiots, just a different kind of "smart" to an engineer.

The engineers are are incredibly smart people, and so the bots are "incredibly smart" but "finance" is criticised by "true academics" because finance is where brains go to die.

To use popular science "the three body problem" is much harder than "arb trade $10M profitably for a nice life in NYC", you just get paid less for solving the former.
I am curious as to why your current company does not have unit tests. Do you mind sharing?
^^ this right here, I want to quote this in my next blog post :)
I love what I see. Too bad I don't have a need yet. But when I do....
> It would be a terrible legacy for all of us to be associated with executing an innocent man based on a rush to judgment and bad science. We must prevent Texas from making a tragic, irreversible mistake.

I believe that this statement is making specific reference to this particular case. (I miss-read this next part, but will leave my mistake here with this comment. See below conversation. Sorry for the confusion) Earlier in the article it is made very clear that this has not been the only execution of an innocent person wrongly accused of shaken baby syndrome:

> According to the National Registry of Exonerations, there have been at least 32 exonerations of those wrongfully convicted under the shaken baby hypothesis.
I wonder how many people went to icq.com and first provided their phone number thinking it was mandatory, then realized there was a "Login with password link", then went back, put in their ICQ UIN, and tried every last password they've used for the past 20 years before finding the one that worked?
Neat trick, Russia!

In any case, I've actually logged in from time to time and only 1 of my 9 friends from the late 90's as nerdy and nostalgic as I actually logged in the past decade and left me a message.
SpaceSniffer's UI is less clunky, but Wiztree's scan is an order of magnitude faster. That kind of speed difference can affect when you're willing to use the tool.

I find myself much more willing to pop open wiz tree to get a quick view of my system or a particular storage folder.
It's a privilege to be part of this years accelerator, especially given how awesome all the other projects are
Default visibility for type members is private, default visibility for not-nested types is internal.

Defining implicit cast operators frequently (especially ClassA -> ClassB) might be a sign that a better implementation is required. In practice, it's not done often.

Agree on unncessary Async suffix. It is a common mistake (it is one) to add it for methods that cannot or will not offer non-async variants.
Its also simply becausz its not just about self defense.

People would care less if israel was not actively supporting illegal settlers and that extremists killed ytzak rabin that was looking for peace. Or that netanyahu was on camera saying he wants to make palestinian civilians suffer as much as possible while he negociates in bad faith and doesnt respect the usa that are 'easy to manoeuver".

Its not just about hamas
> the target audience is developers who wish to embed text to SQL functionality into their own products

Who is asking?
I sill clearly remember my 9 digit ID, despite haven’t logged in for years.

I used icq a lot for personal and work communication
Somehow, we missed dental floss.

https://www.ehn.org/pfas-floss-2658203711.html
"Assuming it did happen several other times, it was probably going to happen again"

Yes, and that assumption is the big question. The factors you think make it a wash might be reasonable doubt to another. Lies run rampant in domestic issues or family court. Without real evidence to back up a person, I would have a doubt that anything unverifiable is likely a lie/exaggeration/etc.
Maybe, but can you understand the data you get to realize it is a tunnel?
Just for future reference - if no license is given it's unlicensed. Licensing defaults closed for extremely good reasons - that's one of the reasons why github had a strong push for users to assign appropriate licensing documents to repositories a while back and declare those licenses in machine readable forms (if applicable).
I have to admit, the thought has crossed my mind that it would be kinda cool to build a messaging server with support for ICQ protocol, MSN's protocol, OSCAR (AIM), Yahoo's protocol, etc. Maybe throw in XMPP too.

And in reading up on OSCAR[1] just now, I only just found out that ICQ did use OCSAR as well (at least according to Wikipedia). I never knew that. I had always thought OSCAR was only used by AIM.

Live and learn...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSCAR_protocol
Amazon's Project Kuiper begins to deorbit prototype broadband satellites
28072048 here.

Anyone knows about NINA chat? They're trying to keep MSN, AIM, ICQ and others alive. I wonder if someone else is using it?
Those are valid points! Hessian-free (HF) optimization is a really nice method, but as you say remains costly so people don't use it. The key idea in this paper is that if you are able to solve linear systems faster by using an analog device, the cost of a HF-like method is brought down, so the method can become competitive.

About the noise, it is true that the second-order information will be noisier than the gradient for a given batch size (and a lot of results out there for HF optimization are with impractically large batch sizes). In the paper we use relatively small batch sizes (eg 32 for the fine-tuning example) and show that you can still get an advantage from second-order information. Of course it would be interesting to study in more detail how noisy 2nd order information can be, and on more datasets.
I love FP. but this is way more readable than the above. It doesn't fight the ergonomics of javascript.
Can you make an example of “poor”?
You are correct. They're better than you would expect -- and the price is reasonable.
I will just say that I published a follow up article that proposes some solutions.

https://thenewstack.io/how-to-shift-testing-left-4-tactical-...

There really is no one answer, and you're so right that scale is one of the determining factors. Sophisticated tools like Signadot are designed to help dozens of developers use one high-accuracy shared cluster, but that makes no sense if your team is small enough to Slack 'hey I'm going to push my stuff to Staging, no one change anything' for your testing phase :)
Uvalde families sue makers of AR-15, 'Call of Duty,' Meta over mass shooting
Ask HN: Are companies self hosting LLMs?
TLDR: Are many/any real companies actually self-hosting their LLMs, for data/contact protections? Please comment on why or why not.

Background: Below, I lay out exactly why this question comes up.

This is mostly a sanity checking question because the situation came my way and I'm surprised I don't know with much/any confidence.

I can think of a few categories of LLM usage patterns:

[1] FULLY HOSTED APIs: For LLM usage, most companies I talk to and read about are hitting the big hosted APIs elsewhere (from OpenAI, Google, Microsoft). Obviously this has benefits: not managing the core model, not buying hardware that may be expensive/unavailable/soon-obsolete, etc.

[2] MIDDLE GROUND: Then, maybe some people "rent hardware" in a datacenter (whether highly managed or not), that already has the hardware pre-purchased, and running on fast internet, with redundant power, maybe even firewalls, replication and other features. There are many such clouds, and these could be from the Big 3 (Amazon, Google, Microsoft) or in fact from many other smaller players. Again, varying levels of DIY vs. managed-service are available, sometimes through intermediaries.

[3] FULLY SELF HOSTED: And I know about "hobbyist" self-hosters who may have bought up one or more amateur to semi pro grade GPUs or Apple machines to be able to run models basically for fun.

Comment: Both the "FULLY HOSTED APIs" and the "MIDDLE GROUND" are not suitable if a company wants to assure the "highest" levels of trued data protection to their clients, by saying the data does not leave their premises. (I understand there is a required capability level to even be able to effect and maintain such a security posture oneself, of course.) (Yes, once upon a time the "cloud" (aka, someone else) was untrusted, then became trusted, and so on an so forth; I think this is not a static trust relationship.)

What I DO NOT hear a much about is "we need to protect the data, so we will host it ourselves". This seems possible, if you have a lot of money to spend on hardware and people-time, of course.

But I am hearing "we need to protect the data, so we will host/run it (the AI) ourselves" from a startup with no capital yet, no investment, no signed customers. I don't know what they are thinking. Can you sanity check me my above thinking please? Is this something people pull off on a shoestring budget pretty frequently, beyond hobby projects? Or do people pull it off on small/middling budgets all the time?

Any comments are most welcome. If I am missing something major, please let me know. 'Appreciated.
TinyPod: New hardware to act as "Your phone away from phone"
It is outlawed, in the EU.
Ask HN: Good way to mirror many GitHub repos with a self-hosted Gitea?
I've always been worried about putting all my eggs in one basket and while I'm very happy with GitHub I'd like to be able to mirror all my repositories to something self-hosted (like Gitea) in case of any extended GitHub downtime. Bonus points if it can also mirror anything I've starred too.

Is there a pre-built solution to this, or am I going to have to write a script/program that clones from GitHub into Gitea with cron?
Chrome and Edge are dropping support for Mac OS 10.15 (all non-Retina MacBooks)
That's taking union busting to a new level.
4-5 days is the difference between a small weed that a little chemical will take care of to a large weed that can resist some chemical.
Can confirm, recently had trouble going back to corporate after working as CTO of VC backed startup. Hiring managers, despite my very good resume, judged me very hard and were nervous about having me on the team.
> Courtney said that she once

An 11 year old child.

> Rachel Cox then testified

A 10 year old child.
Ozempic? Or just eating less?
Maybe it is me being pedantic, but AIs don't hallucinate. They make stuff up (it is pretty much all they do) but to claim that is a hallucination attributes a trait to them that they don't have (shoot calling then AI does the same thing)
FTA: "“I’ve become a big proponent of not trying to outsmart the customers,” he says. “They tell us what their pain points are and what they want to see in the product. Don’t overengineer it. Always check with the end users that what you’re building is going to be useful.”"
> The corrupt government officers then start using the AIs

You're making it way too complicated. The government will simply make AI illegal and claim it's for safety or something. The'll then use a bunch of scary words to demonize it, and their pals in the mainstream media will push it on low-information voters. California already has a bill in the works to do exactly this.
It's the same with the Pythons now.
Worth noting that this was a party-line vote in the 2022 court, so it doesn’t really tell us much about what the law is suppose to mean.
www.nevergetoveryou by Prozzak would be the song I first think of. The ICQ "uh-oh" is in the chorus. https://youtu.be/3wnQcZ3HaBQ
It's true. Everything has a peak. All directors have a film that did the biggest box office. His was "Super Size Me."
"wip"
Why do you assume anything is supposed to be shocking about this?
I write like this because starting sentences is hard.
If someone showed me this solution I'd have quite a few questions. Like, why is there a 'newline in the example section, and why isn't that part in a comment? Why introducing the "helper" to enforce that the execution always begins at 1? Could there be some other way to design the program so that the four conditions don't all end with the same twenty or so characters?
Personally I feel a bit insulted that security can mandate a “tool” like this to “prevent” sql injections. Just because they are clowns doesn’t mean that we are.

Sorry users, the string “a > b” is not allowed any more. But fear not, “å > b” works just fine
The author of this article, Andrea Mayes, also wrote The Millionaire and the Bard: Henry Folger's Obsessive Hunt for Shakespeare's First Folio, a book which goes into fascinating detail about the Folgers' quest for first folios and the adventure of building the library.
Acquaint yourself with the Pareto principle, you will find it's evident in so many aspects of life, particularly in business. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
BeOS 5 Pro and Gobe Productive! I still have those CDs somewhere.
This isn't the first time Texas has done something like this.

https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/stories/was-an-innocent-man-exe...
AI at the EU's external borders: The smart dystopia [video]
Apparently ID3 included some strange frames such as the Popularimeter (POPM) for storing emails and ratings! lawik goes through some om them in this post which I found entertaining.

https://underjord.io/id3-specification-and-speculation.html
How'd you end up pulling through it?
Who suggested that?
> About zero farmers are buying a tractor solely for spraying crops

There are a lot of farmers that have a special tractor for spraying crops. They call it a sprayer and it cannot be used for any other tractor tasks.
There was an interesting series on TV, "Downey's Dream Cars", where Robert Downey Jr. did conversions of some of his gasoline cars to various renewable-driven engines, electric, biofuel etc. On one of these, the original plan was to put in a manual electric drive, which I was looking forward to seeing, but unfortunately that got cut as there wasn't room for the manual transmission.

Anything that gets petrol-heads on board with EVs is good IMO, hope they don't get burned for it.
"Justice" is used rather loosely when talking about the "justice system". Many people explicitly leave the "justice" part off for accuracy. It's just a system. Punishment is more likely than actual justice or rehabilitation.
Why would CarPlay/Android auto compatible head unit be worthless once installed? If anything, it adds to the car’s resale price.
As an individual I would not wear a mask to reduce infection risk by 5%. If it’s more like 90% then that’s something.
Same here. Haven't logged in for 20 years but I remembered the number.
“What’s your white cell count?”

begins staring at the sky

I’m most fascinated by the concept of how our brain edits things out. The sensor to information pipeline is rather complicated. So much filtering and projecting and such being done.
It seems the blockiness of voxels is the whole point. Applying normal maps to low-res textures doesn’t look good and completely changes the look. Generating high-res textures from the originals makes it even worse.

This voxel approach preserves the aesthetics of the old pixelated (now voxelated) graphics in a much more pleasing way.
I'm going back to my previous employer, where they have a written track record of what I did at the company. But even then, many teams at the company do not want me, and feel like I am both overqualified for the technical roles, but also underqualified/a bad cultural fit to lead a big engineering team
And Azure has a very poor reputation, so that bar is not at all high.
Do you use czkawka?

https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka

I don't think it uses the MFT, but it's the fastest and most flexible open source dup finder as of last year or so
I don’t require any additional level of support now, so no.
but mine can be read backwards
This is already how it works. Have you listened to an earnings call? Especially companies like Tesla? They are a dog and pony show to sell investors on the stock.
> Even worse: Some people assume an exceptional text-specialist model will effectively meta-impersonate a generalist model impersonating a different kind of specialist!

Eloquently put :-)
If you initiated the test directly on the device and didn't open the app until it was done, you could use expired tests
Was just thinking out loud, as a layman, along the lines of how not to wait for top down regulation, but still going around the practical problem of avoiding in both senses, the actual collision and the authorities eyes on you :)
I don't even know the acronyms you gave, going on a rabbit hunt now
Extracting archives directly into your system root as a superuser is in the same class of activity as piping curl output into your shell interpreter as a superuser: things that no one should ever do.
Yes, I noted that the authors are largely focused on study quality vs actual conclusions about which sorts of masks are what level of effective.

And critiquing sloppy science is very necessary. But it's being extended by many to be "masks not useful, full stop" despite largely being about "most studies suck." And the phrasings chosen by the authors make it look like that mis-read/extension is an effect they desire.