skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been leaning towards using windows server for the few use cases that I need windows. The performance of it running on libvirt/qemu is indistinguishable, for me, to baremetal.

License is a bit of a challenge but with the 180 trail days and how little I actually use it I can afford to do a fresh installation every few months and be ok.

It’s kind of sad given than windows itself, at least the core OS used in windows server is rock solid… but when you go to the user offerings of windows 10/11 is such a stark contrast and crappy/unstable experience!
I think he inelegantly arguing the opposite - why should having a family get somebody out of otherwise compulsory service? That ends up just being an incentive for the kids of politicians to breed early and often.
It looks like this is a quantization method to flatten matrices for vector addition. Can anyone explain how this could allow LLMs to reach current benchmarks without losing performance?
Proud that the UK leads the world:

List of frivolous political parties - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_frivolous_political_pa...
Easier to hit the back or close button actually.
There are such things as tracks where you can drive your super car on the weekend and take advantage of the capabilities.
I'm fine with local "AI". I use the built-in translate feature quite extensively. I don't want it connecting to these outside services that prey on user-data and take advantage of user privacy; especially the likes of Google that is providing its AI services to Apartheid Israel's army.
Because all things equal, women have no trouble finding someone to be unfaithful with in real life, I'd say.

Or if you want an even simpler answer: for the same reason the majority of users of ordinary dating websites are men.
When you are talking about military secrets and making the unqualified assertion that information should be free, it is on topic to mention times when successfully keeping military secrets was critical for a better outcome of a conflict.

It's also worthy of outrage when keeping secrets leads to monsters escaping accountability.

But don't pretend it isn't the same thing! It would be very nice if all military secrets that get leaked were only of the "exposing war crimes" sort, but all that information is all mixed together with the "jeopardizing people and plans" information.

It's just not this clear cut "leaking is always good because information should be free" thing that a lot of people want it to be. It also isn't the clear cut "people who leak information are bad" that a lot of other people want it to be. It's a mix of good and bad and the details matter.
This is far from a novel question. There is extensive statute and case law in this area across many jurisdictions. You could start at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competition_law
I was actually surprised to find out that Firefox has ads on the new tab page. Discovered this when I accidentally forgot to turn off my VPN connection to an US server and Firefox took this as a sign to display ads. You can turn them off manually in the settings but since I never got them in Europe, I'd left the setting on its default value ("Please show me ads").
Sometimes DRY is not the right thing
This post explores how leveraging Node.js polyfills can simplify edge development, enabling familiar web frameworks to function seamlessly in an edge environment. It addresses common pain points developers face and introduces a novel solution for smoother deployments.
Interesting, I wonder why it was omitted in Springer's top tier journal Nature? Oh yeah: https://openai.com/index/axel-springer-partnership/

Edit: Looks like the science publishing company is "operated independently", despite family ties - https://media.springernature.com/full/springer-cms/rest/v1/c...
It looks like by "AI" they're only referring to LLM-based features. Other AI that I think would be beneficial in a browser would be OCR text in images, image classification and description (maybe optionally censor gore and similar), change detection on websites, good history search.

They already have some features that could be marketed as AI like reader view and local translation.
I was curious and went looking. This is the closest I found after a quick google search. It refers only to lighting options in the reactor chamber not the hallways and such.

https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/analysis/featurehow-to-choo...

"There are some obvious considerations: all underwater nuclear lights should be crafted from stainless steel with rounded and smooth surfaces for easy decontamination, and have no sharp or jagged edges to reduce the risk of workers tearing safety gloves or clothing. "
endeavour OS is a rolling-release Arch-based distro with a convenient installer and full desktop. i installed endeavour when my AMD GPU was still brand-new because i needed to be at the bleeding edge for driver support. i figured i'd switch to a more stable distro eventually but i never made the switch because i'm pretty happy with endeavour.
I'd really like if the "find" command supported this much easier, so if I write

find some/dir/here -name '*.gz'

then I could get the filenames without the "some/dir/here" prefix.

It would also be nice if "find" (and "stat") could output the full info for a file in JSON format so I could use "jq" to filter and extract the needed info safely instead of having to split whitespace seperated columns.
Stephen Baxter's SF nivel 'Titan' [0] has some astronauts build a sort of boat on Titan but the generally depressing story otherwise lacks any surfer vibes.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(Baxter_novel)
Highway to the danger boom, baby. You see much more arrogant posts referring to their superior human skills over AI.

The hubris of forcing all social interactions to take place in big tech walled gardens that want to replace you with A.I. is titillating.
McDonald’s “food” has not been in my diet since at least my high school and early college years. Have been avoiding them for at least a decade, long before the AI testing
There is GPU passthrough these days, where you can have a Windows VM with dedicated graphics and native performance running under Linux. No dual boot required. It does take a bit of work to get it right but I consider my current setup near perfect.
Can't you upgrade post install anymore?
I've got one - iron.

At the speed of man.
> I think having a law to require MS to allow offline set-up by all users would be an overreach

Honestly, no - it wouldn't be considering that for many decades we could use Windows without being connected to Microsoft cloud services.

At the moment MS is "only" enforcing an online account during OOBE.* The next step will be an unavoidable Windows-as-as-service product with "subscribe to remove ads and unlock xyz feature" - that's the goal they're heading for years.

They could do as simple as having two versions of OS: Windows Free with ads, telemetry, mandatory online account and a paid Windows Pro with all these limitations gone, with an offline account and more control for the end-user. And that's what the regulators, govt's agencies should really make happen. Sadly they prefer working over content scanning and damaging encryption, violating our privacy while pleasing entertainment industry with wild goose-chasing pirates.

[*] - last time I check in W10, singing out right after OOBE and reverting to a local account still puts residual traces all around the profile to the point that you never are truly signed out.
> Unlike some other ideologies they will happily answer any questions about it, it's just that the answers are extremely bad, whether it's "how would you make insulin" (you won't) or "how does criminal justice work" (sometimes meetings, sometimes lynch mobs).

To be fair, every ideology and/or mode of societal organization sucks at handling the nasty edge cases (even the best organizational mode we've found has a saying encapsulating this fact: "hard cases make bad law"), but yeah, anarchists mainly thrive in places where they aren't subject to the consequences of bad answers (e.g. twitter, reddit, bluesky, etc).
Shame the smartwatch ecosystem doesn't have more stuff like this. Was hoping Bangle.js would take off, but it seems like most people would rather settle for Apple watches.
I agree, the dialogs are getting increasingly frequent and harder to "click" away.
I'm open for suggestions for an open-source Android image gallery app.
You're not the first person that I hear having the exact same issue, and it's a very real one.

IMHO, the problem isn't with local-first application themselves. The problem is that our economic system rewards players responsible for vendor-locking (and any sort of similar practices), while providing no support (or even livelihood) for folks focusing on delivering a great product free of artificial restrictions.
Can you call readdir() from a shell easily?

WRT format, I'd prefer csv.
A toddler-level AGI. a "Baby AGI" if you will ...
Well put. This is the point I was trying to make, but I was more glib. It is perfectly reasonable to criticize someone for jeopardizing peoples' lives, without waiting to find people who were provably killed as a direct consequence.
People are only capable of informed decisions in their specific area of expertise. Outside of that the difference in opinion between a university educated and a working class is irrelevant.

When the people whose specific jobs and lives revolve around the topic have a contrary opinion you should probably take more seriously. Those who don't and elevate their opinions are what we call cranks.
It's worth noting that back in the medieval ages, most of the nobles (sometimes even the king) would be on the frontlines with the peasants, men-at-arms, and everyone in between. The ruling class could win and more importantly lose everything including their lives in an instant every time they went to war.

Contrast now where the politicians declaring wars and the generals commanding them seldom leave their gilded halls and fortified bunkers deep in the homeland.

Wars are easier to wage when you don't have to stick your own neck out. The advent of unmanned warfare will probably make this worse before it can get better.
It might be good news in that it's fairer. But in the current situation, it might have been better news for the opposition to have made the usual concession to the ultra-orthodox and allied with them to kick the ultranationalists out of the government.
Using theory of patches would better compliment the current approach. Integrating a scm such as https://pijul.org or atleast the underlying tech would allow for better conflict resolutions. Transferring patches should also allow for more efficient use of io.
The modern Lords is composed of a mix of Life Peers, who were sent there in their lifetime by the Monarch, generally in fact as a result of the government of the day (ie elected politicians) choosing them†, and a fixed number (from the pool) of Hereditary Peers, who have inherited this honour typically (but not always) from their father and so on, perhaps for centuries.

Historically all the Peers could sit, today a fixed number of Hereditary Peers are chosen, the rest get the same title etc. but have no role in Parliament. An election is held (internally) to decide who gets to do this, on the one hand it is paid (a few hundred pounds for each day you're there, so real money albeit you wouldn't get rich) but you're expected to actually do something useful, which if you are accustomed to just sitting on your backside getting rich off the labour of others will be a nasty surprise.

So, even if Binface were actually a peer (which he is not) he wouldn't necessarily be in the Lords today, and actually if he was in the Lords that means he'd need to quit to become an MP as it's not legal to be both - historically it wasn't even possible to quit but somebody in the Lords really wanted to be an elected politician in the 20th century so the rules were changed to allow them to stop being a Lord -- interestingly the law actually doesn't destroy the peerage, if you're a hereditary peer and you want to be an MP so you give that up the peerage exists anyway when you die and it gets inherited as normal.

† This is as self-serving and corrupt in practice as you'd expect. For every famously charitable sports person and beloved actor honoured, expect a career politician looking to retire, a party donor and some dodgy business guy who in a century everybody will know was a crook or a rapist or both... But in principle they could just send the nice lady who taught a generation of kids to read, that bloke who won six Olympic medals and somebody who was born with no legs and yet single handedly saved all the kids in a burning orphanage, so there's that.
TLDR: "Let the unimportant (i.e. NOT ME, NOT MINE) perish"
"need to monetize" != Need to enshittify and squeeze every drop of blood from the stone.

There's a large spectrum of extreme profits before every getting to that point.
I don’t see where that comment was giving Apple a pass. They are indeed really egregious in upselling iCloud, in my opinion. The fact they sell devices with undersized, non-user-upgradable base model storage and default to storing lots of stuff in iCloud so it winds up filling up is pretty blatant. I’ve had to help a number of friends and family who kept getting iCloud storage full messages on their iPhones because they didn’t realize that their Desktop folder on their Mac had been slurped up into iCloud by some update, and was full of large files they didn’t care about accessing on their phone.
There was actually a study in 2017 about this...

"The authors conclude the implications are mixed. On the positive side of the ledger, they report that the United States now possesses a more ready and professionalized military than ever before. On the negative side, this force consists of a dwindling percentage of the population, who are more isolated from mainstream American society than ever before. As a growing percentage of service members and officers are coming from military families themselves, the choice to join the military is becoming more akin to a decision to join the family business. The result is greater divisions between the “Warrior Caste” and the civilian population than the numbers would indicate if taken at face value. "

https://inss.ndu.edu/Media/News/Article/1428887/deconstructi...
I've been running Fedora since v20, its been an excellent and well polished OS for my development work and gaming with it has exceeded expectations.

I only keep a Windows 11 partition around for SteamVR as my Quest 2 headset is a bit awkward to get working well under Linux. This problem will be rectified when Valve release a successor to the Index headset. All of my other games run just fine on Fedora.

Linux on the desktop is a calm and sane respite compared to the ever more shrill and needy interruptions from Windows wanting its ass wiped.
What exactly do you mean by “hobby apps?” I’m slightly confused because it is pretty common to describe open source projects and the like as hobbyist programming, with all the expectations of customer service (specifically, none) that that entails.

If somebody is taking money for something, it isn’t really a hobby, it is a job. It might be a poorly paid one, but they still have an ethical obligation to their customers, to meet some standards of merchantability and provide some level of customer service.

But if you mean, “apps that hobbyists use” then that makes more sense. There’s nothing wrong with producing a toolkit that a hobbyist can use to write their own apps of course. It is like producing hand tools—you have an ethical obligation to make sure the tools themselves are reasonably free of defects but of course you don’t have to provide customer support for the treehouse!
Because I am willing to bet execs that greenlit this project have never worked a drive thru in their entire life. It was likely tested in ideal scenarios (ie, no background noise, order articulated clearly with no hesitation, happy path only tested).
That's 13 Watts apparently, in non-American units.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34138188
I like the take that Noah had on Twitter: the Disney version, where the evil witch gets killed, teaches an essential lesson too:

That we can overcome danger. We have basically cured Aids, we have fully eradicated smallpox.

The daemons are real and dangerous, but we can win.
Oh definitely, I don’t know enough to know that. Bibi won’t go down easy…
Check out https://www.booklet.group/ (my friend is working on it)!
The current CEO pushed out the person that was supposed to come back from medical leave of cancer to be the CEO. That story never got enough likes on this site though.

Anyway, the board and CEO did shady stuff so who knows what direction they will take Mozilla
The funny thing is that so so many bits of info come in very much like but not quite yaml.

e.g. /proc/cpuinfo
What exactly is this "MagNex" product and why is it worth an (long and mostly irrelevant to the point) article?
I'm not following. Do you think that a confidant or a source from within Al-Q, Taliban or Saudi govt in general should be thrown under the bus?
Very good idea. Let’s put the government officials themselves out there
Just use RDF/knowledge graphs. Yes, easier said than done.
But you own your claims on your facts. It's interoperable. You then need a tool chain for trust/provenance when mixing data locally or remote.
Mac and Linux user here. Linux is of course what you make it, but Mac forces no cloud account, contains no freemium apps at install, has no advertisement built in, and respects choices around voice assistants (looking at sneaking copilot into every facet, which is an issue for enterprise.)

MS is undeniably the bad one of the 3 currently.
Thanks for sharing, this is super interesting. Although it doesn't seem to be super active these days. Probably because it is difficult to commercialize local first. That might be why we need a widely adopted and super flexible standard to become attractive to hosters of such services.
Local first is the first software trend in a long time that has gotten me really excited. The aspect of co-located data and logic is what's most interesting for me for two reasons:

1. Easier to develop - Sync layer handles all the tricky stuff, no need for translation layer between server and client.

2. Better user experience - Immediate UI feedback, no network dependency etc.

I suspect there will be a major tide shift within the next year or two when a local first framework with the developer experience similar to Nuxt or Next comes about. The Rails of local first.

I can't recommend enough the localfirst.fm podcast which has been a great introduction to the people and projects in the space:
https://www.localfirst.fm/
Eveyone can interpret the various rules and regulations. I think you should do more research and reflection on how easy it is to be in cellular network.
Don Quixote's Fried Eggs: Purpose of a System Is What It Does
Dragonfly (Titan Space Probe)
Not really. They have survived very large scale US-Saudi bombing campaigns in the past and managed to maintain deterrence against Saudi infrastructure throughout, so unless the US invades in foot there will be no more finding out. And of course, if the US does, it will likely also do a significant amount of "finding out".
I don't think so. Apple is the one who really has the power to push that, and they haven't, preferring to let people port iOS games over to Mac OS. And while that is gaming, it's basically an entirely different market to the gaming we're discussing here and not a real substitute for it. While Candy Crush has a billion players, nobody is going "Oh, I can't play Cyberpunk, guess I'll just play Candy Crush". And for that traditional gaming market, Apple has thrown up roadblocks rather than assistance - their frequent tech migrations backs the back catalogue sales that help companies a lot, stuff like deprecating OpenGL for Metal means they need to write bespoke code for apple platforms when even the consoles are pretty onboard with standardisation these days.
Factorio runs perfectly and I can't see why anyone would need a second game.
I did think of that. Maybe we need to add a financial requirement, where politicians must pay twice higher personal taxes during war time to help cover costs?
Unpopular opinion: Manufacturers like this model, in the sense that artists "like" ticketmaster.

Dealerships take a lot of inventory and capital risk away from manufactures. Most (unlike Tesla) do not what to deal with retail customers directly.
LG Display Starts Mass Production of Industry's First Tandem OLED for Laptops
The majority of users are men on all dating sites and apps.
Thx ! Yeah, got your point, I'm trying to create a service as nice as nodequery was but with more features like custom metrics support, CVEs reporting, better granularity ...

Yeah the agent code is fully open source: https://github.com/Five-Nines-io/fivenines_agent so you can check exactly what's running on your server ;)

Here is the Pypi link: https://pypi.org/project/fivenines_agent/

BTW, I got my first customer last week, yay !
My head is spinning trying to understand the units in that headline.
A funny thing I always notice about these sorts of discussions, where a lot of folks identify this particular offense as the final line that is harmful... (which for the record I understand).

Everyone in the Linux community has known this would be the outcome since forever. There have been a million small abuses on the road to here. And I get that everyone has their reasons for using Windows and other proprietary software but the strangulation was plain as day. So:

For all the flack that folks here give militant believers such as Stallman et. al., you can thank them and every other FOSS dev for keeping the alternative alive. Imagine a world where there was no alternative. You don't deserve to have your attention hijacked or to be forced into a cloud contract just because you want to use your hardware. Hate to say we told you so but you can come to the fold anyway. Welcome to freedom.
Hollywood Actors are doing what they can to preserve their existence but eventually they will also be left behind - you can't stop the progress.
Well to be fair the cursors _really_ are distracting, what do you expect
I’d disagree with “doesn’t force you” if it’s getting harder and harder. If I have to look up how to run a new install without an online account (just setting up without network doesn’t work any more), then that’s near enough forcing in my book.
The last generation of Psion's in-house C++ Arm32 OS, Symbian, is now FOSS:

https://github.com/SymbianSource

Please, please, someone revive this. It was a pleasure to use.

Junk as much as possible of the idiosyncrasies and slap a standard GUI toolkit on top, like Qt or Gtk or something.

It already has a POSIX layer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.I.P.S.

It's as if BeOS had been open sourced and nobody noticed.

It's more complete and more functional than Genode, for instance. It runs on bare metal, unlike Serenity OS.
A critical motivation for dumb web was blackberries and early iphones. They had extremely limited computational power.

Remember flash? It was just too power hungry to run on phones.

Today's phones are stronger than yesterday's computers.
A “name” band gig like this is a job with almost no job security and a high chance of eventual failure.

Setting rock stars aside, regular working musicians are everywhere, performing, teaching, composing. It’s a job, but building a whole career on workaday activities requires a lot of DIY and resilience.
I don't want it because I don't have a reliable connection.
That’s not true. Shorting equities goes back to the East Indies Company and is often blamed for crises going back at least to the late 1700s.

Jacob Little was a giant Wall Street shorter in the 1830s.
A Huguenot philosopher realised that atheists could be virtuous
Recent discussion of a related article (61 comments):

Of Psion and Symbian

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40765872