skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A long long time ago as a poor college student, I signed up to get a “free PC.” You got a shitty packard bell tower for signing away your privacy and allowing a bunch of ads annd telemetry exist in the OS. It really wasn’t that intrusive and eventually the company folded and I got a free (shitty) ad-free pc out of it.

I’m a Mac user now but when I pull up windows 11 on my kid’s or wife’s laptop, it feels like that free-pc dot com again, only it’s in every person’s PC. I’m genuinely shocked at the amount of trash that barrages a common user in windows, and shocked that Microsoft gets away with it.

My 14 year old gets barraged with not just co-pilot but a bunch of news and trash clickbait that is straight inappropriate for kids to see.

I’ve had to remove it all twice but with every significant update, somehow my settings get reversed and we’re back at square one.

I tried even using local accounts but it causes significant issues in the OS.

If you’d told me in 1999 that free-pc.com was the dystopian digital future we’d all be living in, I’d have laughed you out of the room - but that’s exactly what we have. The only difference is that the PC isn’t free. We are.
Many sanity checks are preserved with -O0, so they're still useful in debugging. And they serve as documentation of expected conditions. I often put in checks that I expect to be statically eliminated to remind myself what is supposed to be true.
Isn't this the nature of most "dating" apps/sites?

Men need the illusion of the service having many women members in order to join & pay.

Therefore..
You could make this argument about any bundling.

All of the 365 products as well as similar from Adobe etc have been bundled in ways to lock out competition. Even Spotify is planning to.

At some point EU needs to bring clarity to their competition laws and decide what they want the landscape to look like. Because right now they are just making up the rules as they go.
The ICC issued an arrest warrant for Putin last year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Court_a...
it's a neo liberal dogma.

if it weren't from guilds all towers and bridges would have collapsed and Maritime trade world never have happened.

then, many centuries later, and land owner elite capture, the guilds become in England just an extension of the peerage system and then it becomes what that phrase above describes. btw most medical labour organizations today work like that protectionism scheme and nobody complain much.
presumably if the chat bot was too erudite that would be off-putting to the man
Humoring your ridiculous comparison, no that’s not true.

Revenue maximization given mission constraints is usually the goal. SaaS is simpler, more economic and generally aligns incentives between parties better.

There are many things where a one time cost makes sense, though.
I also fondly remember IPX from when I was a kid. Red Alert 2 and Age of Empires II supported it, and it was truly zero-config on a small LAN. Then, eventually it died off, and I had to learn TCP.

The author’s point about so much not being necessary today, while simultaneously having more drudge work is interesting. I’ve often thought the former, but hadn’t connected it to the latter. For example, I commandeered my family’s two PCs (a Celeron 333 MHz and a Pentium III 550 MHz – what a screamer!) at night to run distcc on, so that Gentoo builds would finish in a somewhat reasonable amount of time. This is simply not necessary anymore. Firefox, which used to be an overnight job, now compiles in 10-20 minutes for most modern CPUs.

On the one hand, this is wonderful – faster feedback loops, more time to tinker. On the other hand, getting distcc set up back then was a fairly large undertaking for a kid, and taught you a good deal about a wide range of topics. Also, since the pain level of failure was so high, you were more careful to get it right the first time, lest you awaken to disappointment.
> A lot of prominent people were brought down by it

Source? Don't recall this at all.

> it's treated...they were talking to real partners...presumably because that's...salacious

There's stigma against cheating that isn't mitigated by failing at it.
I don't care about the spying stuff, but Windows is just so god damned ANNOYING all the time. It always wants me to drop everything and update Windows right then and there or get the latest 0.0.1 version of Office when I'm trying to make a presentation, or sync all my Google Docs to Onedrive, or make me see a dozen ads just to open the start menu, or have three different control panels and two registry strings and four group policies for the same one setting.

It's just an incredibly user hostile operating system that only a broken bureaucracy like Microsoft's feudal dynasties can build.

In contrast, I love Android, even more than any desktop Linux, macos, ios, etc. It just works and the notifications are super customizable and Pixel blocks 90% of my spam and texts and the adblock is system wide (via VPN) and it auto updates overnight and just never gets in my way. For every Windows annoyance I've had, there are entire months or years where Android just keeps on working, even across new phones and new major versions.

Google may be the spiest of them all, but at least they can deliver a great user experience and operating system. It's not perfect (I still miss my old style notification shade system controls), but it's a lot less noisy than Windows. A good operating system should stay out of the way, not make itself the center of attention at every possible opportunity.
Because they already did
Anyone know of any similar stories like this one? I don't know why, but I really enjoy reading these and hearing the thought process and decisions made.
Django getting background tasks built-in is going to be really nice. It sucked having to manage celery or similar alongside it.
No way. Really? I'm shocked.
What is your area of expertise that facilitates knowing the truth of all of your claims here today?
before you go back, which AI stocks will help us ride the wave in the near future?

/s
Teams is deeply integrated with Office (including OneDrive for file storage/sharing, Outlook for meetings), more than any other Chat App... I guess it's a good thing in general but it's also an unfair competitive advantage (using "priviledged API" I think)
I was somewhat surprised as well at the phrasing here, and had to look it up. During Assange's time in the Ecuadorian embassy, he fathered two children by a female lawyer hired to be on his defense team. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella_Assange#Personal_life_a...
> I think that Elm has divide by zero exceptions?

Elm numbers are JavaScript numbers, so divide by zero returns NaN, it doesn't crash.

Although there are other instances that definetly can crash your program, Elm code doesn't allow you to throw or catch exceptions as a language feature.

> My main worry about pure functional languages is that you are at the mercy of the compiler for optimization

It's a scale. There are many ways to optimize outside of using mutation, and allowing for imperative code does prevent certain kinds of optimizations. In general though, the trade off with a language like Gren is that you value correctness and readability more than performance. For me, for the sort of projects I work on, I've never hit an unsolvable performance problem with a pure language. Your milage may vary.
> Cool, you're still making the same bi-weekly $3000.

Most of the SE's around the world do not make that a month, the average is far less outside the FAANG bubble of the US.
Also since subdir is hardcoded, you can reliably type it a second time to chop off however much of the start you want:

for name in subdir/subsubdir/*; do
echo "${name#subdir/}" # subsubdir/foo
done
They don't just bundle it, they make it auto-start on screen on Windows machines whether you've got an account or not.
Horizon 5 did not work for me and many others on Windows 10 LTSC Version 1809 when it was the de-facto latest LTSC available. I'm not sure what feature was missing but it was working just fine with the latest Windows 10 Pro version available at that time. Of course things might differ now but I still wouldn't say that compatibility is big on LTSC when there's a high chance that a new game might be missing essential features which only get added in the next LTSC version.

See also: https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10LTSC/wiki/incompatibility
The press release is devoid of useful information, unsurprisingly. You can run an LLM under almost any energy envelope if you’re willing to wait long enough for the result. Total energy consumed and the time difference are the more important metrics.

The actual paper is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02528

The key part from the summary:

> To properly quantify the efficiency of our architecture, we build a custom hardware solution on an FPGA which exploits lightweight operations beyond what GPUs are capable of. We processed billion-parameter scale models at 13W beyond human readable throughput, moving LLMs closer to brain-like efficiency.

There is a lot of unnecessary obfuscation of the numbers going on in the abstract as well, which is unfortunate. Instead of quoting the numbers they call it “billion-parameter scale” and “beyond human readable throughout”.
Direct democracy (https://klissarov.eu/en/books/platform-of-the-pp-direct-demo...) can change the status quo - if enough people get up from the couch and do vote for it. It just needs to reach a critical mass - but at the moment people are too lazy and wait for someone else to do the job.
I’m so bored of chatgpt that when I ask it to summarize something, I stop reading before it finishes generating
My dayjob is on linux and my personal dev machine is a mac so I don’t foresee an unfathomable amount of issues, unless I get into driver hell.

Dual booting would rather defeat the point / message of leaving windows behind for Microsoft’s shenanigans.
I was also curious. If you really wanna go down the rabbit hole:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1557349

History certainly loves to rhyme.
I'm not British, but I'm a fan a silly humour. One message I like is:

"I would make an absolutely cast-iron firm commitment to build the 100bn Trident weapon system ... but then I would make an equally firm private commitment after that public commitment not to build.

Because they are secret submarines and no one will ever know...

Win-win. A hundred billion quid. Shove it in the health service"
And as a network admin I am pushing to have all of our office computers replaced with thin clients, and centralizing all of our compute resources on a single machine that is probably running Windows Server 2022. The current year is 2024. This architecture was cutting edge in the 1990s. I'm over 30 years behind the curve on this.
For sure. But as an external observer, my reaction is quite different. In the first case, it's very much "this sad dummy was sexting a chatbot." In the second case, it's "wow, it turns out this guy was a philanderer." Not sure why.
The "being in cellular network" is done by the modem. It's a separate CPU core that doesn't run any user code. If you jailbreak the user OS, you can send AT commands to it, which is still harmless as far as RF interference is concerned.

But I really struggle to understand how any of this relates to the distribution of apps that run in sandboxes.
Yup, in theory, capitalism shouldn't even have hierarchies, but in practice people hate managing capital so hierarchies emerge anyway. We're reminded of that in another discussion that came up on HN[1]. Life is much, much, much easier and more enjoyable when capital is someone else's problem – when all you have to do is show up and give some time.

You'll notice that the capitalism detractors never advocate for greater capital management abilities. It is always to take away such ability so that they can feel less guilty about their choice in not wanting to manage capital. Can't really blame them. Managing capital truly does suck. But it is interesting nevertheless.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40787255
We're constrained by the electoral system. The UK desperately needs PR, and so does a certain former colony.
First, flattened "cheating on your spouse" to "salacious lies" because they failed at it.

Now, flattening "doing bad things is bad" to "supporting police entrapment."

Beginning to think this is trolling.
So you're saying they've reached peak revenue? The best they can do is stabilize? And that's why we've reached a point that it wasn't working but now it is?
Leveraging AI for efficient incident response
And somewhat related to that, astronomer Patrick Moore used to be the chair of a far-right anti-immigration party. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Country_Party_(United_K...
You should check out Huey next time. It is a lifesaver for us. Allows us to do the tasks via SQLite db
or how they simulated an arms sale and then lost track of the guns
Software in Polar Science 2024 – event review
I don't get why they'd destroy the PPE if it exists and it's up to standard? Even governments can resell these products?
Well now you got me curious...

I don't know about particular implementations, but tar should support 255-character file names, with the caveat that I'm pretty sure that length includes the path (i.e. 'foo/bar.txt' is 11 chars long, it doesn't matter that 3 are in the directory prefix, and also the separating / chars do count). You can see this by reading the file format spec, ex. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=formats-tar-form... is my personal favorite. Pretty much everyone is using the extended USTAR format, and then the overall file path+name is stored in the name field and if it's longer than 100 chars then the prefix field is used, so you get a max of 155+100=255 chars, which is probably sufficient since IIRC most moderns systems won't let you make a longer path than that on the live filesystem anyways.

I'm less familiar with zip, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_(file_format)#File_headers seems to say that the file name field is arbitrary, but the file name length field is 2 bytes. A little searching also turns up https://pkwaredownloads.blob.core.windows.net/pkware-general... which appears to be the official spec, which contains this:

4.4.10 file name length: (2 bytes)
4.4.11 extra field length: (2 bytes)
4.4.12 file comment length: (2 bytes)

The length of the file name, extra field, and comment
fields respectively. The combined length of any
directory record and these three fields SHOULD NOT
generally exceed 65,535 bytes. If input came from standard
input, the file name length is set to zero.

so my reading is actually that zip should support very long file paths. Of course, I would easily believe that in practice tar implementations handle long paths better, because software is like that.
It's legal to bundle products. It's not legal to use a monopoly in one area to leverage your way into another market.
now get them for the local account thing, onedrive integration, privacy and all the other shit.
They did say that the answer is being produced faster than the human can read.
Yeah that looks really promising. Haven't done Django as my daily driver for a few years now, and I don't recall stumbling upon it back then!
We must seek a widely-applicable science of systems
Great example of ground effect, between that and the amount of relative wind against its 'wings' providing a great angle of attack...the really impressive component to the entire situation is: how much thrust did that little guy start off with that it was able to maintain lift for so long?
amazon has another battle on ai-generated listings on their marketplace as it is (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38969417).

while highly unethical and a nuisance to navigate as a user, i respect the hustle compared to drop shipping bs people speak about on social media.

the bottom line is that economically these are the parties most likely to find a way to filter out ai-generated content going forward. or they will die trying.
I will be the last person to ever say Adobe is above criticism, but until Adobe creates an entire AdobeOS, I’m not sure they’re in the same league as MS here
I recommend NixOS, if you want both a bleeding edge and stable (as in, your system doesn't break) distribution. These two are the reasons this guy chose NixOS[1]:

Why does NixOS work for me?

I got attracted to Nix because of the possibility of being on the bleeding edge. According to repology Nix related package repositories are far up and to the right, their own cluster. In fact, only Arch is getting close by, but not being as good in terms of freshness, as can be seen from the position of AUR below [2].

1: https://mihai.page/nixos-and-me/

2: https://repology.org/graph/map_repo_size_fresh.svg - even nixpkgs 24.05 stable is so far ahead of every other repo it's not funny.
I thought that might be the case as well, but didn't see any mention of that in the docs.
This post has no point.

Developers must avoid UB in their code, at all costs. Wondering what a specific compiler will do with your UB code is useless: as soon as you realise you have UB, go and fix it!
The enforceability worried Putin enough to cancel a trip to South Africa last year, despite its good relations with Russia.

https://www.politico.eu/article/vladimir-putin-to-dodge-summ...
When did I say they’ve reached peak revenue?
No. Tinder and similar actually make dates happen, a lot.

There are even a few niche ones where only the women can start a “match”.
The thing about local first syncing options like this is that they mostly do not work on mobile. For example iPhones cannot handle dropbox syncing random text files in the background as a regular filesystem for an app to deal with.

Not saying that's not iPhone's fault, but I doubt any of this works on that platform
Ghosting: Julian Assange
From text. That connection has been investigated for a long time.

Although I must admit, it isn't entirely clear what the author is talking about. It's a bit like thoughts that appear when one is somewhat intoxicated. But extracting a mathematical model from linguistic utterances is very much what linguistics is about (and hasn't been able to achieve). Perhaps rotating the representational space of an LLM suits his/her fancy.
This is a really strange way to attempt to silence my opinion.

Yes I do have issues with blurry laws. My current country is not in the EU, though until recently I was a resident of an EU country also with blurry laws. Am I allowed to have an opinion now?
> The Trump Russiagate conspiracy was a hoax.

Ah, an appropriate example of bending logic and serious ignoring of many facts to end up with this conclusion...
Maybe consider punctuation? You have yourself a great night, mate.
Seems a little odd given that they unbundled it in Europe.
I'm not lying - https://i.imgur.com/snOLtqJ.jpeg

No idea how they associated it - possibly taken from my chrome login on previous install and then tied it with some combination of licence key, hardware id and IP.

I certainly never gave it to MS nor did I request the reset, nor did I log in to gmail on the new install.

Sure it could be random but come on, this is the first time I got it and it was just after I installed W11.
Maybe.

I wouldn't call the idea of big tech having even more influence on our culture and entertainment progress though. Sounds horrible to me.
Entrepreneurship is so brutal, so crushing. Day job way way easier.
Politicians and corporate journalists lie to you, and they hate Assange because he exposes their lies. That pretty much gives you your answer -- he is not universally hated by normal people at all.
Depends what you mean by "public relations":

Haaretz and the New York Times recently revealed that Chikli’s ministry had tapped a public relations firm to secretly pressure American lawmakers. The firm used hundreds of fake accounts posting pro-Israel or anti-Muslim content on X (formerly Twitter), Facebook and Instagram.
Vertical kernel density estimation plot maybe? I'm not 100% sure what you mean. It would just be a vertical histogram if you're not doing kde.
Is there an American unit for power? I thought J/s is universal. 0.017433 Horsepower?

I had expected them to make the title more clickbaity, but that number is about right for a modern lightbulb.
I wanted to give a little charity, thank you for making clear that I shouldn't.
Yes... AI helps transform learning content to make it more possible to consume in ways that are effective for learning. But it can't help you with things up Blooms hierarchy (like synthesis) and indeed using ChatGPT might harm you doing that - it prevents you feeling the severe pain of bad/inconsistent writing.

Having learned before and after ChatGPT, the workload of students has remained the same, but some can obviously be done with AI, and most students do this, or have tried it.

I believe as a result, the efficacy boost has been offset by the lower amount of time people spend studying - just like most historical studying technologies. For every 1 student who uses AI to learn, there is 2-3 who prefer just to use it to cheat. But it works brilliantly for every type of student for basic explanations, run downs of historic authors or positions, etc. But this is pretty much just wikipedia stuff re-arranged to your learning level. It's helpful, but not augmenting.
Hey just visited the page and one of the things that seems off to me is the width of your header and footer. On low width devices it seems ok but for higher width they don't scale accordingly. Lastly, on small devices it doesn't seem appealing at all to me. I think you should try reordering the rows, meaning that the square to insert the images would be on top of the page and then the email submission form. As an additional tip, I think readjusting the width of the email submission form for small devices to not use all the available width could improve the website appeal.
i was unaware about the limitation. the experience sucks too much to put that limit to test as it is.
He has agreed to plead guilty to violating the Espionage Act, it's no longer an argument, he's admitting it in court. He's going to go to a US court in one of our tiny pacific island territories to plead.

He directly participated in stealing a bunch of classified information with Manning.
The entire earth is affected by Assange's revelations, and the legal wranglings thereafter. It is unclear which specific subset to which you refer, but I don't think their opinion is any more valid than others'.

Further, perhaps it is unwise to place much faith in the relevance of formal education to matters of complex political and technical insight deeply mired in populist information warfare and wiser to consider education level to be generally quite independent of formal training in most cases?
Don't forget,

3. Pushing you towards paid MS SaaS tools (prominently OneDrive)
Why would you do this work when stat (and GNU find) can `printf` the exact needed information without any parsing?
Bundling is illegal in the EU if it used to abuse a dominant market position in one market to gain a competitive advantage in another.

So what Adobe does, or what Spotify wants to do by bundling their own products within the same market, is far from the level of bundling Teams with Office, which is bundling across markets and where Office is extremely dominant.

I don't think the EU is just making up the rules here, there are rules and this case is far more egregious and more clearly in violation than the examples you gave.