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> 1. "GNOME in unsupported configuration" is, with due respect, FUD.

If GNOME doesn't work with Debian's systemd-shim, are they going to accept patches to fix it? Or will it be up to Debian to maintain those patches?

> 2. There was no dichotomous choice to make.

They didn't make a dichotomous choice. They made systemd the default, but maintained the ability to switch to another init system [1].

[1]: https://packages.debian.org/sid/init-system-helpers

> Debian could have let you decide whether or not to install systemd. Instead, the project decided to essentially force the use of systemd, necessitating a fork.

If this is "essentially forcing" the use of systemd, then what possible choice would have counted as not forcing it other than making sysv the default?

> 4. Language-related package manager do make things difficult for an OS distribution, at least somewhat - but that's not particular to Debian.

You're not wrong, but most Linux distributions either don't have "LTS" releases [2], or they have commercial backing.

[2]: Not having to backport security fixes saves them a lot of hassle.

> 1. Admit the Devuan people were right and re-merge the distributions.

Right about what? Devuan/Debian is hardly a comparable situation to LibreOffice/OpenOffice. It's more like the relationship between Librewolf and Firefox, where a bunch of loud fans are praising the fork to the sky, but most of the developers are still working on the original project and the "fork" is busy rebasing their patches onto each new upstream release.

> 2. Recruit, offering a self-training track for aspiring package maintainers.

That would be great, but are there volunteers lined out the door who want to join the program, and just can't? Or is it boring, frustrating work that few people are interested in?

> 3. Modernize some of their tooling (as people seem to be complaining about that)

I actually agree with this point, but I'm not sure if this is the primary problem, or if it's just a minor issue that distracts from the main problem.

> 4. Fundraise effectively, to finance the above.

There is no Debian Foundation. They would have to have somewhere to send the funds to, before they'd be able to collect it. Obviously, this is almost as contentious as systemd was [3].

[3]: https://lwn.net/Articles/888752/
That's not my experience.

Work is done at a desk with a large display (or two) and a network port. The laptops come out for meetings, not coding.

Some people prefer hiding with their laptop and coding, but I find the added latency of wifi when using remote desktops is painful. Code is _not_ allowed on the laptop's storage.

Some people who do use laptops as primary machines will have a dock to let them use the wired network and large displays.
BTW, I read the whole EO and it is surprisingly well written and makes a lot of sense for an official government rule book.
This[1] Twitter thread[2], says it is probably bullshit.

“Reminder: Experts all agree there's no realistic way to get a high enough dose to cause Acute Radiation Syndrome in the #Chernobyl area, even in the Red Forest.” with link to expert opinion.

And it says troops are most likely normal casualties being treated normally, but in a facility that also deals with “nuclear medicine” which is the cause of the rumour (“nuclear medicine” == scans or cancer treatments, I guess).

[1] https://twitter.com/jrmygrdn/status/1509516246852767747

[2] https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1509516246852767747.html
Yeah it's still possibly the best. I did a landline-to-landline call recently for the first time in decades and I was shocked by how good it sounded. Completely got rid of the latency that leads to the feeling of interrupting/waiting to speak.

My current workplace is pretty serious about call fluidity so we all have $300 podcaster mics and open backed headphones and shit and all that was blown away by two fucking landlines a couple states apart.
Not to be played on acid.
Phoenix area added a bunch of roundabouts a while ago and last I heard they were in the process of taking them out.

Problem is if people are used to them they work well but if you rarely see them people don’t really understand the concept and just kind of blast through them without yielding.

Almost got taken out a few times when I was a cabbie, people just go full speed into them without looking.

The new hotness seems to be intersections where the traffic crosses over to the other side and left turns are uncontested(?).
That's right.

I would expect that dry herb vaping would be more or less equivalent to liquid vaping (but of course this would depend on temperature, contents of the liquid, etc), assuming that no combustion occurs.

Edit: I should say that this is not my specific area of expertise. This is a fairly active area of research, and while I am somewhat interested I am not following it super closely.
I mean, how would I know?

…but yes. I first had it at a circuit party in 2019. And someone had some this summer as well.

I am fairly confident the stuff I had contained a non-trivial amount of 2C-B. I have (what I believe to be) had actual pure 2C-B, and the closed-eye fractals are a good indicator.
Dammit, I was just going to reply to your GP comment and ask how one switches on the classic UI! :-(
I scripted up a button for my Tiddlywiki to open a random note matching certain criteria for processing. It's pretty cool to have an OS for your notes, I gotta say! It does feel like you can take a declarative approach to what you want. But... I wouldn't make the effort in many of these systems which are harder to extend.
What's "infinite asynchronous threading"?
Alas, addition isn't well-behaved.

Eg when you want to add a list of (non-negative) numbers, it makes a difference what order you add them in. The usual recommendation is to add them in ascending order.
If you’ve ever tried to get a crypto token listed on an exchange, its just as bad in that arena even though it seems so far behind the scenes.

The process to get listed is the same as a scammer’s process to ensure you get listed.

Some exchanges will say “no we would never handle this with DMs over telegram”

/gets listed by being introduced to someone with a DM over telegram/
DriveToWeb – Host websites on cloud drives
SuiteCRM – open-source CRM for the world
Ask HN: Why don’t some schools hide grades from parents to avoid upsetting them?
Why don’t some schools have counsellors who can give students advice based on their grades so that parents don’t need to see report cards and possibly suffer mental health issues as a result?
How much housing supply per person would be enough for you ? Currently we are at 1000 square feet per capita, doubled in last 40 years:
https://images.app.goo.gl/PpbQjaEDAiFZ5PP28
It's the whole legal/court system...

If a couple of politicians got imprisoned for that (like a normal employee probably would get), the rest would be a lot more careful around sensitive data.

But sonce the law treats the rich and influential differently than the "normal people", we have situations like this one now.
I mean, wattage is a noun that people use all the time to refer to an amount of power something draws. I can see your point that "efficiency" might not apply to "inference speed". What I meant to say is that AGI will be able to compute things and do cognitive tasks in many fewer seconds than humans will while also not requiring insane amounts of digital storage and/or memory to do so.
That's an educational problem. It's much the same here in Canada (southern Ontario to be exact), but the more roundabouts are installed, the better drivers are at navigating them.

One funny story my wife told me was, she was once a passenger in a car driven by someone unfamiliar with roundabouts. Upon encountering their first one, they proceeded to drive round and round, afraid to exit.

The unfortunate truth, is that because there are so few roundabouts here, driving schools do not make it part of their curriculum.

Chicken, meet egg.

However, I am a firm believer in roundabouts. Ignorance is a poor justification for continuing to build four-way intersections in places that do not require them.
If you have your own domain you could create thousands of fake email accounts that just forward to your real email.

For extra security have two domains one for the fake accounts and the other for your real email
So a reactionless engine that accelerates ions:

"The engine accelerates ions confined in a closed loop to relativistic speeds, and slightly varies their velocity to change their momentum".

How ridiculous.
What's the counterfactual here? If Krebs was wrong to report on this, what's the world where he didn't look like? Is anyone better off?

It doesn't seem like it. Either way, Ubiquiti had a major security issue on its hands. Krebs didn't make that true by reporting it, it was true already and he wasn't wrong to say that they did, regardless of some niggling over whether he knew two people were actually the same person lying to him about who they were.
You literally can’t set up Xfinity internet service without accepting an inbound call and then clicking on a shortened link they text you.

I asked for a callback number instead. They hung up and made me go through the entire process again, culminating in a new inbound call a day later and a new sms.
>without issue

>...must be magic.

i'd believe the second line if the first one were true, but fact is that although your experience may be very good, people have issues with WiFi constantly -- and more importantly; a lot of people are having issues without even realizing it.

An AP that hits 40% of it's projected performance metrics isn't down, but to say it is issue-free is malarkey.

Air-congestion is very real, and it affects all of us. Average latency is more chaotic now than it ever has been -- even if the low numbers are very low.

Is WiFi effective? Absolutely. I have no illusions that an office worker filling out spread-sheets is going to be totally hindered by a bit less predictable latency numbers -- I just think that it paints an incomplete picture by not realizing that we ARE losing something for the convenience of network-over-the-air.

And just to throw an anecdote out there , i'm often one of those conference room workers in one of the massive office buildings when contracted , and with a brand new XPS I still see all the same old issues with congested WiFi nearly everywhere I go. "Convention Wifi" is such a meme that most people expect it to fail 1st or 2nd day of any specific Con. It's not all that uncommon for me to encounter corporate groups that have specific APs for video conference that aren't allowed for general-employee use; the fact that this trend sprung up in the first place presumably indicates that not everyone is getting the performance they need from the arrangement.
> Journalists are not private investigators and it's unfair to expect them to be. We don't condemn doctors when the patients they trust falsely report/induce symptoms with intent to commit disability fraud.

But we do (and should!) expect journalists to issue retractions if they find out something they reported was incorrect.
Disk Inventory X has been a little hit or miss for me. Works OK on my two Macs (Catalina), but can’t index the whole (128GB?) drive on my wife’s MacBook Air (Mojave). Just crashes at some point.
Just going from memory - but I’m fairly sure that around 25 to 30 years ago, in Australia, it did work the way that is being described. That is, the person receiving the call could not disconnect the call by hanging up. The person making the call needed to hang up, otherwise the line stayed open. I messed around with this a few times because I was amazed it existed.

Editing to add that more detail, since I’m basically contradicting your memory of how it worked:

I’m fairly certain it didn’t work if you dialled out, so you may not have come across the circumstances to test it. Also, the other person would probably also need to be participating in testing it, because otherwise they will hang up as soon as you do.

I’ve just remembered another detail - I think there was something different about the tone you heard. If you received a call, and the other person hung up, you would hear the disconnected beeps. If you made a call, and the recipient hung up, I think you would hear the disconnection, but then just silenced.

By the way - I was also confused by seeing how phones seemed to work in the US - like pushing the hang up sensors (is there a name for these?) once to switch lines for call waiting. I never really connected their strange behaviour with how the phones in Aussie worked.

Actually, is this all related to party lines? I’m fairly sure Aussie had these. NZ did.
>Problem is if people are used to them they work well but

(un)friendly reminder that this goes for the people in the city plannign department first and foremost.

You can't just dump one in at every intersection and expect them to work out. It only works out when there's similiar traffic volumes on the intersecting streets.

Of course people just drive on through when the volumes are such that that's the prevailing flow.

Not that I have anything against 2-way stops but that's basically what you create a lot of when you start carpet bombing your town with roundabouts because they're trendy.
Yes. We are the singularity.
I don't know anyone that isn't taking Amazon or Apple seriously now. Lots of people don't take Meta or Alphabet seriously, but still buy or click online advertisements.
Wishing is very popular, but makes a poor foundation for argument. Or reputation.
I like ncdu for cleaning up from the command line
Auto-patching code sounds crazy, but cool if it works
I would say I agree with his position more than any other senator, but I think he focuses too much on what Fauci did or didn't know or do about gain of function research and not enough on actually investigating where the virus came from. I don't care about Fauci, I think Paul wants to out him to show a political victory but honestly that wouldn't change anything. The idea of the senate committee was to investigate the lab leak theory, but Paul made it about investigating Fauci and I think that was not for the benefit of the people but for his own personal campaign agenda and that sucks.
> Part of it comes down to what you mean by AGI. Is it a computer that is convincing as AGI? Or is it AGI that is essentially like human consciousness in nature?

If someone or something fools me into thinking it is intelligent, then for me it is intelligent.

When I discuss with a human, am I really intelligent and possessing consciousness, or am I just regurgitating, summarizing, deriving ideas and fooling my interlocutor (and myself) into thinking that I am intelligent? Am I really thinking? Does that matter, as long as I give the impression that I am a thinking being?

Of course I don't expect a computer to think in a way similar to humans. Even humans can think in vastly different manners.
> … advocated the initiation of a mandatory blockage of child pornography on the Internet through service providers via a block list maintained by the Federal Criminal Police Office of Germany (BKA), thus creating the necessary infrastructure for extensive censorship of websites deemed illegal by the BKA.

For full context.
You used to be able to do that with Access 2010 web databases. Of course, Microsoft has deprecated that in favor of Powerapps and Microsoft Dataverse, but it's not clear that actually lets you join an Access database to a low-code frontend. (It should, but there's a lot of marketing speak that I don't quite understand.)
I can’t imagine a situation where a bigoted foreign police officer is going to say “oh this person is probably just a privacy oriented civil libertarian, not some <insert horrible name for sexual minority>.”

I just can’t imagine that happening.

I could imagine a situation in, say, Saudi Arabia where I need to prove in male in order to, say, drive a car.

And not being able to do so could get me in a world of trouble.
Yeah but that's like a very long-term goal for which it's not even clear there's a legal framework or even a market for such products.
Consistency beats memory. Knowing you do x y z everytime is cheaper when things scale.
gain of function research is more like inventing novel nuclear weapons more likely to kill humans to study bomb shelter and anti radiagion technology than any drill. the pathogens created are not drills.
> And (more importantly imo) the larger issue is -- are you comfortable with a random person having enough money/power to threaten freedom of the press?

OK, let's see if we agree on the basic timeline:

1. Gawker outed Thiel.

2. Gawker released the Hulk Hogan sex tape.

3. Thiel funded Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker.

4. Gawker lost the lawsuit.

Is that accurate? If it is, the problem isn't that Thiel funded the lawsuit, the problem is that Hulk Hogan needed Thiel to fund the lawsuit for him to prevail in court and get justice for the wrong Gawker did to him.

I'm for taxing billionaires. I'm also for privacy and people being protected against paparazzi. Those things don't come into conflict unless someone sees a billionaire funding lawsuits based on the right to privacy and decides that anything a billionaire does must be wrong, prima facie.

> Do you think its equally wrong that Wired outed Naomi Wu while she lives in a country hostile to LGBTQ+ people?

Yes.

> Have you read Conspiracy?

No.
I don't see the relevance of an anthropomorphic body here. Obviously by 'behaves conscious' we would be talking about the stimulus response of the 'brain' itself, through whatever interface it's given. I also don't see why the concept of a final death is a prerequisite to consciousness. (It might not even be a prerequisite to human consciousness, just a limit of our current technology!)
The Chinese room argument is a parlour trick that uses scale as a distraction. It posits a person in a room manipulating symbols to produce intelligent seeming outputs. It says, see, it’s absurd to think a person in a room with a stack of symbols could emulate intelligence.

But let’s say the room contains many billions of people, it is the size of a planet, and it contains racks of many trillions of symbols, and it spends millions or billions of years to produce an output. That’s more like the scale of a sophisticated computer system, or a brain.

Does that sound much like a man in a room with some symbols? No. Does it sound like that could do complex calculations and produce sophisticated and perhaps even intelligent outputs? Well, given enough time and scale, yes why not?

The Chinese room is pure misdirection and it amazes me anyone falls for it. There’s really no actual argument there.
I think the ambiguity is intentional sometimes

To disrupt any empathic thoughts towards the defendant

As well as convey omniscience of the government

If not, I think it’s an effective idea someone should start doing, and i was inspired by reading a few indictments
I really hope this is sarcasm. Are you really suggesting an AP in every room? An AP and a router are not the same thing, and neither will give you a very very low latency 1.5 GB wireless connection in my experience.
Aside— I can’t get your pricing page to work. Every aws config just says contact sales. Maybe it’s just a mobile thing.
My feed reader caught the title as "The Singularity is Close", so indeed it was edited to "The singularity is close?". Both are different from the article's title "The singularity is very close". You were set up :)
I agree with you Amazon is not the best place to get pharmaceutical products and "abuse-resistant" formulations are effectively murder targeted at the most vulnerable. They are practically eugenicist in nature.

When I was much younger I had a bit of an adventurous spirit and never had problems finding pure DXM on the shelf. The issue I ran into most often was it was a frequent target for shoplifters so the name brand gel caps would often be out of stock. Usually you could find the generic store brand version though. Delsym was almost always available. The extended release may or may not be desirable depending on how long you want to trip, but IIRC you could just mix it with something acidic like orange juice to dissolve it and make it instant release. Just anecdotal I know, but that was my experience.
If AGI is achieved, and it is emergent out of multiple layers of "dumb" AI, is there any particular reason to assume that we will even recognise it? Or if we recognise it, be able to communicate with it? Will it even consider us to be intelligent?

I feel like there's often an unstated assumption in discussions about AGI, that our modality of consciousness is somehow fundamental, but I see no reason to assume that is the case. We are the product of a three dimensional existence, brief in time, with our traits having been shaped very particularly by the demands of tree-dwelling and tribal co-operation.

A mind that evolves rapidly, alone, inside a formless, digital space seems quite unlikely to have any of the same foundational qualities as us. To pick a single example, why would we assume that its equivalent of morality would be in any way similar to ours? It would have an existence that can be perfectly suspended or cloned, even rewound and replayed. It would have a much different concept of death than we do - it would presumably understand that it could die, but it would also know that its death could be avoided for literally eons. Assuming it became capable of communicating with us, we would struggle to understand its perspective as much as it would ours.
I mean, capitalism will also drive prices lower as different providers are forced to compete for demand in the face of nearly unlimited supply.

Also, there are startups like Helion[0] which are using magnetic energy recovery instead of boiling steam for turbines, so I'm personally extremely bullish. Whoever is first to the market with reliable, scalable fusion energy stands to make multiple trillions of dollars -- the incentives could not be more aligned.

[0]https://www.helionenergy.com
What are his qualifications?
> The whole concept of the Kurtzweilian "singularity" has always felt to me like a technology-flavored hand-wave of eschatological thought

Kurzweil is explicitly counting on it for his personal immortality. That seems pretty eschatological to me.
Once you have a team, it's pretty rare to have a "quantifiable" impact in the way that satisfies your engineer side. By design, your time is pulled to the problems that can't be solved quickly/definitively/numerically, or they'd have been solved by the other members of your team before you. And to the extent that solid metrics can be cited, you want them to be your team's accomplishments. The lead who takes credit for everything is a jerk.

I'm not saying your take is wrong here (some people seem to love this kind of management porn stuff a bit too much and roll around in it), but it is true that as you get more senior, you're expected to do things that don't have that kind of quick payoff.