skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my case I went from Windows 11 to POP_OS! (I hope they rename this ridiculous to google name) though I kinda want something more bleeding edge just unsure which one hits the sweet spot.
If I could use gnome at work I would totally switch back to Linux full time. I used gnome 3 for years during HS and college but it was too jarring to switch back and forth once I had to start using Windows full time. The window management muscle memory is just painful.
That’s not really accountability though, at least not in the same sense as the legal meaning.

A CEO has a fiduciary duty that an AI cannot fulfill. Although we variously like to beat up on shitty CEOs around here (rightfully so), a corporate officer of any title requires an ability for cognition, reflection, and abstraction that an AI does not possess.

That might be a bit of a technical argument in a way, but at the end of the day AI doesn’t change the fact that you can’t hold a computer responsible. It’s a machine.
> Gain immediate access to a production environment and dump the database

I don’t know how easy it is to dump an entire environment, but the “gain access” part depends on the user and what roles they have. If these were highly privileged users, then yes, they could get a lot.

It could be mixed responsibility here. Possibly Snowflake should require MFA (do other cloud providers do this?) but their posture seems to be “we make it possible for anyone to sign up easily”. On the other hand if Ticketmaster had an admin account with access to entire production database which was not configured for MFA, that’s definitely on them too. On the third hand, if these were regular users that Ticketmaster did not restrict access for, that is also on them.
Some feedback: Telling people "that's wrong" and leaving it at that isn't very useful. These days I try to either say something constructive, or nothing at all.
I attended, and one thing I learned is that being good at giving talks is often more important than the subject matter of the talk. It's all about keeping it slow and digestible and making sure you don't lose your audience. "Computational Origami" is an example of a talk I loved because of how well it was executed, not necessarily because of the subject matter.
On the other hand, almost all of that has moved to cloud services which work totally fine on any os.
Multi monitor support is working on Ubuntu 24.04 with a 34" 4k monitor and 24" 1080p monitor. 4k is set to 1,5x scaling (scaled 1440p), and everything is being driven by the default intel drivers. Works perfectly.
The link seems to be wrong. Correct link is probably https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/02/world/americas/starlink-i...

And just for good measure, https://archive.ph/8mAtm
A laptop that's fanless? Is that real? Or do they call it fanless because it's very quiet? The wikipedia article for fanless design redirects to quiet which to me suggests some people use the term in this way.
Use LuaCheck if you don't want to use the LSP. It warns about the use of globals, which is generally what you want. It's perfectly possible to design your program to use no globals.
Anecdote: I did 5 sleep tests (over the course of 6 years or so) with different hospitals in different countries with very differing results. I (EE) have 0 trust in the hardware/software of some of these devices.

1st test (the most elaborate in-hospital polysomnography with the tons of wires and not being able to move around): AHI 17

Subsequent ones all of the "take-home/installed at homee" portable type:

2nd: AHI 6

3rd: magically completely cured AHI 0

4th: AHI 5

5th: AHI 7

Yeah right...
Compass: AI (RAG+customer interviews) that answers difficult software questions
I figure that I should (finally) post about the thing that we built / launched. Compass is an AI product trained to give you specific answers to challenging questions about software vendors.

Marketing, Product, and Ops teams use Compass to get critical information they can't find online—like:

- Where customers struggle with their product (and their competitors')

- What terms you should redline in SaaS contracts

- How software vendors price and how to talk them down

- and… any other question they need answers to.

How it works: We trained Compass on InsightDB, our repository of >20,000 firsthand experiences from people who recently purchased and implemented software. (Basically, we have a small army of contractors doing in-depth interviews with people who have bought software). We interview our customers about their experiences using software—you're joining a community of people helping each other.

For any information not already in InsightDB, Compass Pro subscribers get the answer within a 2-week AnswerSLA. (Compass Scale subscribers get answers in just 1 week).
I don't know a lot of users outside specific developers which are not multiplatform and work exclusively with Linux desktops. After an Apple fiasco, I switched the whole office to Manjaro. This lasted several months.

But the offer of long battery, silent and powerful computing device is still in their hands.

Anyway, the reason in the near future will be the AI intrusive implementation on both leading desktop platforms, so Linux will continue to be the choice of privacy conscious.:)
As with race conditions, making things faster doesn't change things but only exposes preexisting problems. The preexisting problem I see here is sloppy definition of existence for the message: if you can see the message on a burning piece of paper, it should be considered to still exist (just as a message being sent with smoke signals does not disappear the moment it's committed to smoke).

E: The obvious way to fix this is to stop talking about messages existing/not existing, but talk in terms of messages being stored in X (or having been deleted from X), for some value of X.
Just use xfce? My windows and linux setups are basically identical.

In fact since Windows keeps changing things, I usually configure Linux to be more like (old) Windows than Windows is.
AFAIK metatables are still in Lua 5.4?
Ask HN: How do you create a moat if your product is based on a LLM API?
I have many ideas on how to use LLM to make something existing more efficient or to just create a new way of doing things.

All my ideas depend on using a foundational LLM such as GPT4 or Claude API which anyone has access to.

What are some ways to create moats for products that rely on foundational LLM APIs?
Soooo ...

We'll have to start by replacing the CEOs and work our way down as AI costs drop?
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Oh this is great!
A reddit thread (https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxhardware/comments/150cx0y/arm_...) mentioned the:
https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/c/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadx/
and
https://www.robo-kala.com/computer

Not what I'm looking for personally in computing so no idea if either are what you are looking for.
AFAICT, this feature requires the recovery contact to also use an Apple device, which does not help us. It seems like another way to try to lock users into using Apple.
I had the "pleasure" of working for someone who would take the AI's word over mine in my domain of expertise. It was a hair-ripping experience to say the least and I'm while I'm not there anymore, from what I can see they hadn't improved in that area by an inch...
What I meant by pace of fraud: think of US military R&D around World War II and the Cold War, vs. now., and whether they translate into anything actually useful for the soldiers in the field. What I think is a big part of the difference is that back then, US was fighting with peer powers and it was possible for it to lose. Over time, it transitioned to only fighting wars with much weaker opponents - wars with no "lose" condition, where the only variable is how much money the US is going to spend on any particular conflict before getting bored and recalling soldiers home. The latter kind of conflict doesn't create much of pressure to deliver working solutions, or even test bed to verify them.
And why was Hitler's Germany able to conquer several countries and kill millions? Because big powers felt "we're afraid of repetition of the 1st war" and "peace in our time" and "let's make deal with him againt the others". Those policies caused utter disaster.

When you find a scorpion at your doorstep, even if it talks smoothly, and proposes to share the room as mutually advantageous, you don't negotiate with it.
Developing that automaticity with a physical skill also unlocks the brain to do other parts that are conscious.

After a game, Lebron James can explain what happened in a play moment by moment for every player on the floor, and everything he was thinking and planning as the play developed. He’s done it in post game press conferences off the top of his head.

Granted he’s maybe the all time greatest, but it’s illustrative. He’s not thinking at all about how his body is going to do what it does. That’s completely automatic. He’s thinking a lot about the higher level strategy of the game.
There’s a proverb (I can’t remember where I read it now) that goes something like, “what comes in through the front gate isn’t the family jewels.” Seems appropriate here. There are no short cuts to building insight and and intuition.
I mean it depends on your perspective. Because you could also think that preventing only one of the multiple crisis we are facing won't be enough to perceptively delay the breaking point.
The air makes do with but a heatsink, no fans. After all, the same chip works just fine in fanless iPads.
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Math problems are quite similar in this way!
A fan is a weird thing to be hung up on. This sounds like a clear example of moving the goal post. For what it's worth, I've heard my FW 13's fan kick on only a couple of times.
While this is true, there are billions of convenient examples everybody knows. Also there are things that have a lot less variables than a table.

I'm not convinced. (I don't thing so.)
There are now many alternatives, looking at office culture today there is really no need for Windows anymore. Many even do their job a lot better with a tablet and a keyboard. The big problem is IT. Zealots that has to use Microsoft/Linux/MacOS/iOS/Android. I say this with decades of experience, different settings will always mean different choices usually it is not the best solution for the organization that wins.
This is pretty great.
I have something of a following (newsletters, social media), gave two talks at PyCon, and even had a booth advertising my training services. So at the risk of sounding like a total egomaniac just for responding, let me say a few things:

1. I absolutely, positively love meeting new people at PyCon, regardless of their background, level, etc. I learn new things from just about everyone I meet, and that's a huge part of the fun for me. I'm frustrated that I don't get a chance to just meet and chat with more people during the conference, and actively try to eat meals with people I don't yet know so that I can get to know them.

2. Part of the greatness of the Python community is that we realize other people, regardless of their fame, are just that -- people. They were unknown at some point, and people were nice to them. So they'll probably be nice to you, too.

3. Every community has jerks, Python included. If someone famous isn't nice to you, then just ignore them from that point on, and concentrate on the numerous nice people. It's not worth getting riled up or upset about it.
so who else was he on the board with? sounds like a major disagreement with the board only, not executive management.
No there’s really no fan. It can throttle performance if it starts to overheat but I’ve only seen that happen when I was sitting outside.
Second coming, rapture etc are not unique to religious nutcases. It appears to be a mental disease that afflicts the atheist PhDs and others alike.

Over the last 100 years, average temperature (of whatever use this metric is) has gone up 1.5 deg C. Meanwhile life on this planet has flourished. Planet’s green cover has increased. Humans are better off on pretty much every metric.
If any random probe targeting Win10 has a 1% success rate, and similar probe targeting XP has a 0.01% success rate, what probes would you let your botnet send out?

Probing for obscure OS that isn't there on the other end = opportunity cost.
I've had my IKEA sofa for close to a decade, saying you need to change it every 5 years is not even close to true. There's a perception that more expensive=will last longer, but it just doesn't hold out in reality. Oftentimes the mass market product really is just a solid product.
Don’t do it all in one prompt.
What about this scenario: two teams, rnd and delivery team. Rnd has an okr to make the projects easier to deliver. How do you objectively measure that, as one team does not completely control the result.
But it will become AGI if we just feed it more data right
Big Linux user here. It's been my daily driver on my personal desktop and laptop for coming up on 20 years (damn). I haven't had any of the dreaded graphics-driver-breaking-during-update or other hardware issues since like 2008. It works great with Zoom, Teams, WebEx, whatever you throw at it. It's fast and stable. My laptop uptime regularly hits 30+ days before I go down for an upgrade.

When my 70+ mom needed a new computer, I put Ubuntu on it and turned on unattended upgrades. I do SSH into it every 6 months and update her Zoom .deb manually (I guess there's a ppa for that?). She uses it every day and has had no problem.

I'm really impressed with the Linux experience. Thanks to all who have contributed!
The device in question had no locking enabled of any kind. The associated Apple ID account was locked by Apple without warning, and so the phone itself was locked for any use other than emergency calls.
Well, but in this case they're just homonyms, like how the word "bank" can refer to the edge of a river or a financial institution. The gas in your car is short for "gasoline"; you wouldn't call oxygen a type of gasoline, it's a gas.
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they should test these augmentation techs on people who ride horses as it requires using thought and micro gestures to operate an entire second body in real time using each limb independently.
Because that's how we have evolved as a species. Being attractive as well as yielding to beauty.
I disagree with the bulk of the comments thus far that this is too far-fetched. I believe that AGI, and some of the scenarios the author proposes are possible and society needs to be aware of this likelihood.

"The general reaction to language models among knowledge workers is one of denial." - FTA
it started as a kind of fully-automated gay space-communism vibe, techno optimist critique of calvinism / "protestant work ethic", how about we don't conflate an individual's worth with their economic productivity

at some point it became consumed by implausible screenshots of SMS conversations between oppressed wage workers and cartoonishly evil franchise managers

nowadays it is strictly eat the rich
Personally I find it like going from an automatic gearbox back to a manual one
https://refactoring.guru
Does anyone even like these AI features being shoved into every orifice? I feel like something's going to give in the near future--at least as far as current approaches go.
If the company need those team to help other teams, then those teams should have OKRs to help other teams. A good OKR is that they need to respond and/or fix things in X hours etc, depending on what kind of support they are expected to give.

OKR shows you the state of the current organization, if the OKR are dysfunctional the organization is dysfunctional, it would be even if you didn't see the OKRs. The fix isn't to remove the OKRs, it is to align the OKRs with what each team is really expected to do as I said above.

If the team you need help from had an OKR to help you quickly, so they focused on that, do you really believe that would be a bad thing? That is the only way to do it, such teams are slow to respond and provide help everywhere that doesn't give them OKRs to reduce latency on responses, they always have their own things to work in regardless if they are visible or not.

Such OKR also makes life easier for that team, now they get rewarded for what they are supposed to do: provide support. And, if they don't have enough people to provide that support, now they have a good case to get more resources to enable them to provide that support.
Well there is some variability in that. A lot of the cloud services out there don't work offline at all, suffer from sync issues, have poor quality apps if they even have one or have poor or undocumented privacy architecture.

(I have Apple ADP turned on, so all my keys are on-device only. I also have period of up to 2 weeks where I am completely disconnected from the Internet)
We could both learn to take a deep breath, from this. I was fine until you showed up in bad faith. Don't say I took it that way. It was.
There is an abstract in the paper which is more authoritative than wikipedia. You should read the paper. Also whatever Friedman said or did is entirely irrelevant to the so-called Chicago Plan - it's not called the Friedman plan after all :

At the height of the Great Depression a number of leading U.S. economists advanced a proposal for monetary reform that became known as the Chicago Plan. It envisaged the separation of the monetary and credit functions of the banking system, by requiring 100% reserve backing for deposits. Irving Fisher (1936) claimed the following advantages for this plan:

(1) Much better control of a major source of business cycle fluctuations, sudden increases and contractions of bank credit and of the supply of bank-created money.

(2) Complete elimination of bank runs.

(3) Dramatic reduction of the (net) public debt.

(4) Dramatic reduction of private debt, as money creation no longer requires simultaneous debt creation.

We study these claims by embedding a comprehensive and carefully calibrated model of the banking system in a DSGE model of the U.S. economy. We find support for all four of Fisher's claims. Furthermore, output gains approach 10 percent, and steady state inflation can drop to zero without posing problems for the conduct of monetary policy.
You either need:
- distribution: have some community effect, where the more users you have, the more valuable the product is (and the harder it is to replicate)
- a proprietary dataset: so that it can't be replicated
- a cost model others can't afford to replicate
- something incredibly catchy (luck!)
corrected link: https://securesend.gitbook.io/crypto-middleware-npm-package/
And yet, with crypto, it is possible for people to verify that the code matches exactly what was written, and it was publicly audited by multiple companies and battle-tested with billions of dollars in value.

UniSwap is a great example. No one ever worries that a UniSwap instance will do something nefarious. That's how the decentralized software SHOULD be. We don't need everyone to verify, but just allow ANY AUDITORS IN THE WORLD to do it.
I think that tribe on Sentinel Island might be a more final frontier.
You don't need to focus on ALL Android hardware. Just look at one the best selling budget phones on the market and pick one from there. Something like the €200 Samsung A25. If it works good on that potato, it will work on everything.

Also there's a lot less variety in Android those days, both SW and HW. Most have 1080p displays these days apart from the flagships, so UI should be consistent.
I'm using Ubuntu Mate on desktop, and multi monitor is wonky. After each reboot I have to pluck out and put in cable for the bigger main screen so it can be detected by system. Then have to re-arrange position of monitors on the desktop. Might be an Nvidia issue tho. Still better than Windows.
Does this imply humans are programmable to some extent?
It probably would make more sense to put that at the top of the article.
I've been pleasantly surprised how well Steam does with Linux gaming. Even "Windows only" games often work, as I recently found with Phasmophobia.
I've seen working with Laravel for years. I recently (Friday) released a Django version for my AI CRM builder (provide a few words
and use ChatGPT to build a CRM)

I used packages with similiar functionality to Laravel (orator, Django Breeze)

Everything translated well. The choice of backend didn't matter as much as I thought it would.

Using VS Code compared to PHPStorm was the only part of the experience that felt degrading. Using PyCharm might have changed that.

I don't think it matters as much as it once did.

Laravel:
https://github.com/iceburgcrm/iceburgcrm

Django:
https://github.com/iceburgcrm/iceburgcrmpython
My memory is fuzzy on what I used way back in the day like this. One was a meta-search engine across general engines (eg Google) and specialized engines. It had boolean operators to let me drill into the search. I think it was Turbosearch.

Regardless, I wanted features like that on top of Google, Bing, etc. It could be free and ad supported with a user focus like DuckDuckGo.

Also, a Kagi vs DuckDuckGo comparison might be more fair than Kagi vs Google since DDG is still serving the users despite being ad driven.
You could infer if there were a lot of activity or a lot of disparate activity from a single IP address that it belonged to a VPN.
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Figure the man (or woman) is really only there to meet legal requirements around having a human somewhere in the loop. The human is a liability, thus the dog. From the interpretation where dog is guarding the equipment, the dog may as well be robotic, sure. But some live animal also provides distraction from the equipment, as well as the ongoing companionship needed to keep the human psychologically stable, which is also crucial for long term liability. Spare human workers are hard to come by, most of them having died of starvation due to lack of employment.
> I can’t remember the last time I encountered one by using the proper compile time checks.

When you're sufficiently careful, you can reduce accidental nulls down to the level of minor inconvenience.

But no amount of care on your part will stop your teammates from deliberately using nulls.
It’s funny you say that, because the primary beneficiaries of capitalism have been exactly those workers over the past four decades. While not good for American workers, off-shoring and outsourcing have lifted over a billion people out of poverty since the 1980s.

China had the fastest growing middle class in the world, so much so, that as a buying market they’re absorbing the entire stock of many categories of high quality or luxury goods that are preferred by the middle class.

The Chinese worker making my phone may hate their job for similar or different reasons than the investment banker, both who famously have jumped from buildings due to work stress, both famously faces of capitalism. But, that Chinese worker is now able to provide for their family including their education and onward advancement in a way that wasn’t possible before.

Since the 1980s China has been speed running the Industrial Revolution, with massive cities forming of people who were almost entirely in rural areas previously in abject poverty and doing subsistence agriculture, all of whom now work jobs that have elevated them out of that poverty.

You can say a lot of truthful negative things about capitalism but pointing to manufacturing jobs in China is completely missing the thread.
You're saying that OKRs should be SLAs, instead of hitting specific objectives? Our OKRs tend to be "release these features/fixes", not things like "hit team metrics".
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Was thinking of switching my mom's pc to linux because windows 10 is nearing its end and the pc doesn't have tpm chip for Win 11. But thankfully i found that windows 11 Iot LTSC version doesn't require tpm (or uefi secure boot) and doesn't have most of the crapware preinstalled. But the ethics of acquiring it and activating it is a different story (MAS)