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I have migrated my gaming machine to Linux, and it have been great!

The reason was the introduction of copilot, ads and other shenanigans.
I think what we are specifically speaking about here is one where it can be done remotely. Intelligence orgs have had secure(ish) digital dead drops for years. Example:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-16614209
https://vkguide.dev/ is fantastic.
Isn't it possible, even common, to seek an outcome, but not feel inclined to do the thing that takes you toward that outcome? I don't think there's anyone who doesn't want a fit body, yet to borrow a phrase, "nobody wants to lift no heavy-ass weights"
> Rust compilation, WASM compilation, Docker builds shell scripts that produced a VM image, Python was in there somehow too

was it through bazel rules? The worry is if some of those rules will get bug or missing necessary feature, it will be pita to deal with.
There were - and are - a lot of companies vying for those sweet subsidies. And most of them can't make it work even with subsidies. Maybe Toyota with their prius is getting anywhere, the rest are mostly a footnote. And yet, Musk comes and makes a successful business there. I think there's something more than subsidies in play. Sure, subsidies help, but a lot of people failed where Musk succeeded.
I'm all for people switching to Linux from Windows. But doesn't Recall only work on Microsoft Copilot+ PCs? I'm assuming anyone on a normal PC doesn't have to worry about Recall. But I could be completely wrong.
I jumped to a Debian 12 based workstation about a year ago and haven’t looked back. It’s been a rock solid workhorse and KDE is quite nice these days.
If the data is ananomous (as it should in all telemetry), this is less of a concern. But yeah, it's definitely concerning to see more incentive for data collection beyond ad targeting.
> But even if that were not the case 20 years is plenty of time to cleanse Gaza, and the West Bank with it, of every last Palestinian. I'd say at the current rate it would take hardly a couple years.

Surely you realize that this is completely unhinged?

You are apparently an intelligent person. Doesn't it strike you that there should be a moral dimension to this? That there is a right way to act that is independent of realpolitik? Do you not realize that those people are, quite literally, under the care of Israel's government, and that to "cleanse" them would be a crime of world-historical proportions -- even if it might make life a little bit easier for people in Tel Aviv?

Besides, I don't think you understand what the reaction would be. Also, I think you overstate China's willingness, and Russia's capacity, to meaningfully support Israel should the US wash its hands of the region.
Andrej Karpathy: https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1797313173449764933

> Turns out that LLMs learn a lot better and faster from educational content as well. This is partly because the average Common Crawl article (internet pages) is not of very high value and distracts the training, packing in too much irrelevant information. The average webpage on the internet is so random and terrible it’s not even clear how prior LLMs learn anything at all.

People keep assuming that AI companies want to pipe any old junk into their models, but I'm increasingly convinced that this isn't true.
> Unions will get better salaries for low performers and decrease salaries for high performers.

As a worker, I simply don't care if other people are paid well as long as I get paid well. This mindset of "it is not enough for me to succeed, others must fail" is absurd.

Generally, employees do want people who are more productive to be rewarded more, but are rightfully cynical about employers' ability to judge who is producing.

> So there will be 10% salary difference between a guy working 45 hours a week and a guy wo shows up in the office and has all day long coffee breaks.

Almost nobody should be working 45 hours a week. Certainly no one in my field.

It's telling that your primary example of performance is "time spent at desk". This sort of terrible mismeasurement is why employees are cynical about employers' ability to judge who is producing.

> [Unions in Germany] don’t protect one from being fired.

That's probably because they learned from the mistakes of unions in the US. Having to work with incompetent or straight-up drunk coworkers because they can't be fired isn't a great experience.

> Doubling salary over whole career… I don’t know if that’s a good deal.

"Only" doubling salary because you started at a higher wage is a great deal. Union workers are paid more than nonunion at every stage of their career, but how much more disproportionately favors people early in their careers.
Does a high dpi screen, WiFi 6 and hibernate all work out of the box these days and keep working for a few years? Because I still see coworkers with issues in those areas even in 2024, while a simple macbook air does all of those no questions asked. Maybe they're not doing it right, but it looks close to my experience up to a few years ago.
> Life expectancy at birth is a pretty good proxy for how physically healthy people are in general [...] (Note also that improvements to life expectancy at birth are not entirely due to falling rates of childhood mortality: see here.)

Not entirely but it is enough of a factor that naively comparing life-expectancy stats without accounting for it is probably a bad idea.

IMO infant mortality improvements underlie so much of the demographic changes involved in a country's industrialization, economic development, and then cultural shifts.
Searle's arguments aren't that broad. If you're thinking of the Chinese Room, the point there is simply that computation isn't understanding. It's not a claim that AGI is nonsense in principle, and in fact most of these older arguments are narrowly scoped to GOFAI. Of course nobody serious thinks LLMs have minds, either, but unless you believe in ghosts it's hard to make a case that human-like AGI shouldn't ultimately be possible.
It's hit or miss. Some laptops work flawlessly, others do not. And then there's the gamut of features that not many people use, but maybe it's critical to your use case (like a mixed multi-monitor setup).
Make me think of every shopowner or manager of local restaurants or something said they had headache planning schedule for part-time employees. Some even say that is the reason they are paid well. I thought, but why don't you just use some algorithms to solve it?
I know that I'm going to move away. I just don't know if to MacOS or Linux. I'll wait until the M4 Mac Studio is released and then decide.
For the most boring consumer stuff maybe, but like any audio hardware that ain’t totally mainstream is not good.
Pronounced "Fungy" with a hard 'g' if Wodehouse is to be believed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barmy_in_Wonderland
Nope. Most of the relevant software is OSS made by hobbyists. ComfyUI, llama.cpp, etc. For example, Nvidia is building stuff based on ComfyUI, a GPL-licensed application.

My complaint is about people ignoring the license of open source software made by hobbyists. I disagree with your ignorant "AI fans" generalization.
Is this a message from heaven? Is the holy Hacker News now God’s preferred vehicle for answering prayers, yonder the silicon curtain far beyond?
I think it is actually a reasonable thing to compare. I've had similar thoughts on the Android comparison. Yes, Linux is the most widely used kernel in the world, but that doesn't mean that desktop GNU/Linux is up to the same level of usability. That doesn't mean that desktop GNU/Linux would provide a good touchscreen experience on a tablet. It could, but the entire userspace software stack is completely different.

I think what it does indicate is that the kernel is featureful, stable, extensible, reliable, and a good base to build products and services from.

SteamOS on the Steam Deck is a close cousin of desktop GNU/Linux, purpose built for gaming. It might be a handheld, but it's also a PC. I think the popularity of the device tells us that the compatibility of Linux with Windows software, games especially, is good enough for the average person. It tells us that people are willing to tolerate a bit of a learning curve and some differences to what they're accustomed to so long as the value is there, and 95% of things just work.

It's also worth noting that many Steam Deck users choose to continue using SteamOS, based on Linux, to run their Windows games, in spite of the fact that their device will also run Windows.
This comment seems unnecessarily brutal and reads like it is written by someone who knows nothing about Linux.
If anything, keep your mind open and never say never.
LLMs writing resumes

LLMs reading resumes

Can electric monks be far behind?
Yes, for now.
I agree and further to your point, I’d suggest he would never have achieved anything like what he has achieved in any other country other than the USA. Imagine SpaceX was based in the UK, EU, or Asia. It would be shackled beyond recognition.
Well, Asahi / Mesa developers demonstrated that they can "just support Vulkan" on Apple's hardware as the linked post explains. So Apple never had any excuse for not doing it. Their reasons for sabotaging Vulkan support were always political, not technical.
This is one reason why I’m quite interested in buck2; there are no built in rules at all, so if you need any changes, you can just make them.

Unfortunately the open source set of rules is a bit rough right now, with a decent happy path but a cliff if you’re off of it, but given some time…
Scientists find security risk in RISC-V open-source chip architecture
> But at some point the identity seemed to switch from reader friendly to reader hostile

The cycle of enshittification: companies are happy to provide a friction-free experience at the start. Once it's time to start squeezing revenue out of the product, you have to pay to remove the friction.
One day an update will turn it on everywhere. Possibly by accident.
https://archive.is/h0Vqi
> The feedback has to be structured in the correct way so developers can prioritize issues and turn it into a development plan. If it's just complaining about attitudes and making generalized statements, or constantly trying to renegotiate the direction of the whole project, that stuff doesn't help.

Selective absorption of criticism has probably steered gnome to where they are now. Especially if you are talking about the form... akin to the meticulousness of a grammar enthusiast. Since we are on a forum and not a bug tracker or feature request list, the feedback here tends to be more generalized. Also your focus on the form and the distinction between the GNOME Desktop and the GNOME Foundation is deflective when we are primarily talking about user satisfaction for which you made no argument at all besides your personal anecdotes. Why is GNOME considered so great? Why are 8 of the most downloaded/popular extensions designed to rectify the bad decisions made by the GNOME development team? Why are there countless forks? These are all points you conveniently ignored or decided not to engage with. You went for the low hanging fruit.

> Please notice that you're demonstrating extreme prejudice and creating a vicious cycle here: someone makes some negative comments, I lightly push back on them, then somehow not only am I the bad guy but suddenly I've been elected as representative for the entire community and the entire community becomes responsible for my actions too! The subtext here is that I just shouldn't say anything or express my opinions at all because now all the past disagreements and flamewars are now my fault too!

It's not prejudice; it's a consistent reaction from multiple people in this thread to your comments. You might want to reflect on why that is and consider how your responses might be perceived. I am also only engaging with you in this specific subthread, and not elsewhere. Please refrain from distorting the facts to strengthen your argument. No one is suggesting that you represent the entire GNOME community—just that your behavior reflects poorly on its less favorable aspects. You are entitled to your opinions, but no one is obligated to agree with them, just as you don't have to agree with mine.

If you truly believe I’m not entitled to my opinion that GNOME has, overall, done a disservice to the Linux Desktop and its community over the past 15 years, then please, enlighten me:

What would be an acceptable way to express this sentiment while maintaining the same level of concern?
Reflections from Local-First Conf
It's illegal for any company that works with state agencies to boycott any of our allies.. Israel is a common example because most (all?) countries surrounding it in the middle east try to sneak in Israel boycott terms into every little contract, so it's the most common.

But the same is true if someone wanted to boycott Canada. That company wouldn't be able to work/contract with state agencies.

In what way is that surreal or surprising?
You're right, it was hastily written and I was annoyed.

But I generally hold out hope that people can see a claim "A!=B" and a response "A=C, explain how C!=B" and understand that is not the same as claiming "C=B", especially on HN.
Six (and a half) intuitions for KL divergence
These articles are always weird because they ignore the most likely next steps for people who don’t want Recall:

1. Don’t turn recall on

2. Switch to Mac

Jumping straight to the Linux Desktop deep end after using Windows for years is an unlikely change path for most. These arguments ignore the fact that most Windows users have a lot of Windows-specific apps that they use, such as games.

I think the real audience for these articles isn’t Windows users at all. It’s for Linux users to pay themselves on the back for not using Windows.
You can see it as a testbed.

Now it's those machines only, and opt-out.

Eventually more and more machines will come with the necessary chips.

And it will be more of an effort to opt out. Then only professional versions will be able to opt out, through more and more complicated pathways. Eventually it'll just be part of the OS.

Meanwhile they'll find ways to sell the side effects of the functionality to other organisations, for example to monitor employees etc, to begin with. Then to governments, why not.
This seems pretty incredible but Im mostly surprised Google is dipping their toes into this domain at all. Feels fairly outside the Google wheelhouse. I could understand Alphabet having another company provide this kind of functionality but it just seems out of place.

Who are they competing with?
I think I see your point but it definitely feels shady to me.

First, personally I’ve never asked my employer to match an offer. I just leave.

I do think the thought process makes some sense though.

If I feel I’m underpaid I’m going to look around to confirm before talking to anyone.

If I get confirmation I’m being underpaid then I’m going to wonder why. Here’s where I have a choice… I either assume it’s because you’re intentionally underpaying because you think you can, or it’s because you don’t understand what you’re doing.

I know companies understand compensation because I’ve worked in management and on compensation planning software, that’s why I don’t talk about it.

More naive people might give you the benefit of the doubt, i.e. think you just don’t know what’s fair. Those people give you a chance to fix it, and only then learn that you’re intentionally underpaying them.

It does speak badly of the person but only in the sense that they’re naive and think you “mean well” in some sense.
> I was aware that Google domains would move to Squarespace, and migrated my domains to Cloudflare.

OK cool

> But now my domains linked to a Google Workspace are being migrated and the billing goes through Squarespace as well. I assume I cannot move Google Workspace billing to Cloudflare?

What? Do I get it right if you're asking if you can keep your Google Workspace but give the money to Cloudflare instead of Google...? (No, Cloudflare is not a financial services company last I checked)

And what does this have to do with migrating your domains..? (After migrating domains you can just delete your Google Workspace if you don't need it anymore = no Google billing consideration)

Seems your post is missing some detail or I'm misreading
Investors tend to lose interest if you tell them the sky is in fact, not the limit.
Something that gives even an approximation of the amount that could be earned might help. If I have to do a lot of digging to make a few cents a month, I'll never do it, for example.
Your mom sounds cool.
Just FYI, Switzerlands medical system is not nationalized. It is private and run for a profit (though there is centralized price setting for necessary procedures and basic insurance is mandatory and regulated well)

No one but the US considers Swiss healthcare to be affordable, and prices are certainly not being driven down. And as insurance is legally mandated, “even without insurance” is not something that can be properly evaluated here.

I am not sure where you got this info but it is very wrong.
If you can't do anything without feeling stoked to do it, there's just so much stuff you're never going to be able to do. Doing things that are uncomfortable and unappealing is such an important life skill.
The key word is "unnecessary". Everyone thinks we should get rid of unecessary plastic. Everyone also disagrees on what is unecessary. ask them if they would pay some percent more for a good to not have some specific plastic and it will be a resounding near unanimous no.
...and also because its main competitor Twitter acquired and then abandoned its own newsletter product, Revue.
CoreDNS IP Destination Guard
Why should I switch now and not at point 3 or 4 in that flow if your hypothetical ever comes to pass?
https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/blog/2024/05/upstreaming-...

I know someone who works for Qualcomm, he says they are taking Linux support very seriously.
in theory, if it has been activated once on that machine it should install without a product key and activate based on hardware identifiers, so should be fine to nuke the partition
There are various definitions and degrees of self-governing, to be sure.

But any definition that doesn't include the right to import food and medical supplies without Israeli permission is just a lie.
4 times 10^-17 doesn't sound right... 2.5 times 10^14 I think?
Well, I'm a Linux user of 20 years, but always used a work provided MacBook. However I just bought my own personal MacBook and it feels bittersweet. I'm actually really loving it but feeling guilty about it, as if I've sold out. I'm enjoying everything just working and it is making me reconsider my philosophy on software. I even bought a few paid macOS apps. It feels comfortable.
There might be some deliriant that produces altered states of mind, such that a patient with no MDMA/psychedelic experience could be blinded. That could also potentially work for the therapist or facilitator. If the control was essentially a sugar pill, I think any reasonably experienced therapist or facilitator would easily recognize whether a patient is under the influence of a psychedelic.
All three are also superficially easy to learn to use, hence they're able to sucker people in initially with the learning curve, then keep them there with the sunk cost fallacy.
The distinction might seem subtle, but even then it’s not illegal.

Also it’s not every contract between companies and the state. Texas uses 10+ employees companies and 100,000+$ contracts as the minimum threshold before language must be added to the contract during the terms of the contract.

But after signing such a contract the company is still only bound by a contract. Breaking contracts happens all the time it’s not illegal. Excluding Fraud etc it becomes a civil rather than a criminal matter.
> due to assuming a sane, human-centric language

There’s no requirement that the K-complexity is measured in a human centric language. Arguably all compression formats are languages too, which can be executed to produce the decompressed result. They are not designed to be human centric at all, and yet they do a surprisingly decent job at providing an estimate (well, upper bound) on Kolmogorov complexity. - As we can see in this program.
Should work soon; 555-series drivers are doing great on GNOME and KDE both in my testing.

But yes; Nvidia has been the sore thumb of Wayland and Linux adoption for almost a decade now. It's interesting to see the tides finally start turning!
> Yes, you do 'just click a button' to support MacOS in UE5, but there is still more to it than that.

Can you expand on this? What happens / doesn’t happen when clicking that button? Is debugging the additional effort, or incompatibilities?
This is my personal experience and opinion of being on their end of companies that use leetcode and that don't.

From the companies perspective, leetcode won't help you determine if someone is good at their job coding wise, however it is an indicator of basic talent. If you are the type of person to sit down and grind out stuff for the interview, or you have an innate understanding of algorithms to where you don't really even have to study for leetcode, you show that you have the capability to take on new projects and understand the context, and/or the willingness to sit down and figure stuff out. When I worked for Amazon versus a smaller company that didn't use leetcode style questions, the rate of new hires who couldn't do work without handholding was higher in the smaller company.

From the candidate perspective, I personally think that as you get older and more experience, you should be able to program with people (i.e manager) versus programming with a keyboard - if you are just as good at that, its a much easier job IMO. I move to a technical manager role, and the last to jobs I have had overarching system architecture problems in interviews rather than coding challenges. If however, you do want to stick with coding and development, its not unreasonable to expect that you should be intimately familiar with basic algorithms for leetcode. Grinding out and memorizing solutions is fine for junior devs, but as you get older, you should realize that every solution is basically pointer manipulation in some form and way, and not have a hard time in the interviews. Most leetcode interviews don't even expect you to know how to do it off the bat, most of the time if you demonstrate good reasoning skills, the interviewer will course correct and provide small hints and you will still get a fairly high score if you can solve the problem.
Down 17% in nominal terms over the last 10 years [1]. Add the 32% the dollar has lost in that period [2], and you’re looking at a 50% drop in purchasing power.

You’d have done much better in Treasuries [3].

[1] https://www.paulzimnisky.com/roughdiamondindex

[2] https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/

[3] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/REAINTRATREARAT10Y
For sale replica of the mustang aircraft
oh yes i remember them! - they were the first company to reject me for a job
There are at least two reasons for transformers poor performance on that prompt:

- Transformers view the word as tokens, not words or characters.

- The positional encoding might be holding them back. See this recent paper discussed here: Transformers Can Do Arithmetic with the Right Embeddings [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40497379
I would happily pay 15$/month to get a maintained Linux distro that "just works" on my machine without the Mac bloat/perkiness/weknowbetterthanyoudo. Many distros get _so_ close, but there's always an extra setup step to get basic things right. Machines-specific drivers, etc.
You can always keep a Linux desktop / server around. I have all three major OS’ and will likely never buy another Windows device moving forward. Once my Surface Book 2 cannot update anymore I will retire Windows from my life outside of employers providing me with Windows laptops / workstations.