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Do you think a version tweaked for much greater incidence of "hallucination" would be a profitable sell to people who like cheap artistic text without being overly concerned about a human factor (eg: strapline writing) or too correlated with perceived low quality to sell well?
> "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

Well great! Let's find out all the judgements of the secret courts, all the top secret info, where our money is going, etc. Government works for us right? I don't want to be nannied, I want the truth. What's sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose.

Why should the government have privacy but the individual not? Very asymmetric no? Whenever the government does something wrong, we likely don't find out at all, but if we do we have to go to its courts or legal system to get it addressed. It, on the other hand, can fine us for vices where no one is harmed.
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I use nnn[0] and it has a simple plugin[1] based on dragon. I can press `;d` and the dragon window pops up.

It is an OK workflow IMO. I'm not sure if I can directly drag and drop from the terminal list somehow. Or better yet, a full keyboard workflow.

0: https://github.com/jarun/nnn/

1: https://github.com/jarun/nnn/tree/master/plugins
Yea. There are some people who love to sit there and think everything out and draw on whiteboards during meetings for hours, have multiple test envs, have QA run over everthing, make sure their commit messages are all the same format and have lots of information, roll out a feature slowly to find bugs before it hits everyone.

Then there are people who want to get a feature done so they can see if it has any value. They would rather build something and then redo it later if it turns out it's not correct. They never read the commit messages so don't care about how they're formatted.

One is make sure everything you do is really good and the other is move quickly and break things. One side is "We don't need to rush bug fixes because we never release anything majorly broken" and the other side is "It's faster to rush a quick bug fix than it is to spend 6 weeks rolling out a feature." Both have their pros and cons. And depending where the company you're working for is in their lifecycle depends on what sort of development team they should have. Facbook for example should be spending large amount of time ensuring things work properly. While the 6-month startup with 18 months runway should be moving as quickly as possible to figure out what works and what doesn't.

Some people prefer one method over the other. Some like the middle ground between the two. Everyone is different. If a developer is one a team and doesn't like where the team is and how they act is normally better to just get another job. Very rarely is a company going to get rid of an entire dev team which is what would be required to change the culture quickly. And from experience, there isn't much worse team wise than having someone go on and on about commit message standards, code style, etc when half the system is basically on fire.
> And for what, to let rich people skip the line? Let them pay for their own system, and reduce the hiring burden for the TSA at the same time. Seems like a win-win.

Letting rich people skip the line is a loss.

Letting rich people opt out of the system poorer people have to use, reducing political support for having a properly functioning system for poor people is a loss.

Letting a private company profit from allowing people to “buy” back their time due to an underfunded government department is a loss.

It is losses all the way around unless you have an explicit goal of creating a more tiered society. All disregarding the notion that TSA/DHS is security theater and a jobs program at best, and a way to control the masses at worst.
This is actually a good thing, for Mastodon. When you actually use Mastodon, those automatic crossposts are not cool: for example mentions are broken even if the concerned people are also on Mastodon and most of the time the authors of these crossposted messages don't really react on Mastodon so the accounts are effectively bots not marked as such.

I also find that the content is not exactly the same on the two networks, and that some of these crossposted messages are a bit out of place.

(Note that what I'm saying here is about Twitter to Mastodon crossposting, but I really rarely saw it used the other way around.)
RDP doesn't pass through graphics primitives. You're probably thinking of X11.

Sending graphics primitives turned out to be the worst way to do remote desktop. All modern solutions just use video codecs. NX (the best solution on Linux) even switched from X11 forwarding to a video codec in NX4.

VNC is inefficient because it is ancient and uses extremely inefficient methods to encode the graphics. GIF is really inefficient too but you wouldn't say that means the idea of encoding animated images as bitmaps is a bad one.
With free software and decentralized repositories, users in each country can decide which software they want to distribute and how. If someone thinks a local ban is unjust, they know they have the right and the tools to redistribute any app that is in f-droid.org, or other free software repositories. Free software is central to an effective decentralized ecosystem.
Related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33729345
Trebuchet-client: Communication through tough firewalls and bad mobile networks
Makes sense from a business point of view. Build a moat and what not.
Hold on, didn't it come out recently with SBF that parkinsons drugs cause reckless gambling?
Please refrain from indicating that I wrote something I absolute did not.

I said "As an example ..." which you are paraphrasing into "... for test suites".

You are paraphrasing my existentialistic argument into a universal argument. Please never do this.
My login screen wallpaper stays as the background wallpaper. I find this very enjoyable.

A lot of Linux login managers (e.g. slim) make this the default. So all you need to do is cycle the picture that the login manager references.
> Why would you say that here, there are so many indians browsing hackernews.

> Don't help them get better at scamming.

Yeah. The last thing you want is someone like me getting into scamming, right? /s
AWS isn’t perfect, but it is absolutely the highest “quality” cloud provider money can buy right now.
Twitter has no incentive to allow this, especially now it is owned by Elon.
The rate limits are clearly stated in the documentation.

https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/rate-limit...
Probably because they dont sell on Amazon.
It makes more sense just to use a normal video codec. They can handle all sorts of situations efficiently that this can't e.g. scrolling, zooming and embedded videos.

That is how NX4, Chrome, RuskDesk, Zoom, etc. all do it.
Every comment on HN. Every comment on Youtube. Please refer to webster's word of the year. Have a good day.
You're right. It's still not as good quality as the pile of HPE and Cisco kit we replaced with it and it's more expensive at the TCO level.
Right, most uses of these model I've seen, you clearly want "hallucination" or something like it: when you ask it for a poem it wouldn't be so impressive if it just spat out The Raven.
Nobody with any realistic sense of reality gives a single shit about Hunter Biden and whatever the hell he did with his life.

People voted Trump out because he utterly gutted our country, even when handed layup after layup. Knock it off with this "Biden was installed" shit, jesus christ.
How are you going to receive money if you are anonymous? You will have to register somewhere to get fiat money? That exposes you to tracking.
I know people hate oracle, and its features and polish is much lower than AWS. But you should check out oracle Cloud pricing, it's really good. And its free tier is absurdly good.
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>proprietary package manager

The client is foss. The store is proprietary. The store isn't required to install or/and distribute snaps.
You’re half right. Eventually sellers flood the market for that product and the profit goes down. Then as they get rid of their inventory the margin grows again.

So you have to stay on top of thousands of products, and your cost, in order to do well. It never stops.
Yeah, so? It's THEIR website. It doesn't have to be fair.

Why are all these brand new people to the internet trying to tell websites they have to allow things that they don't want? As much as I hate censorship, the fact is it's THEIR website and they can do whatever they want with it. I don't have to go there. I can make my own website if I don't like a particular site.

As a user of the internet since 1995, I don't find anything in these "twitter files" interesting. Now Glenn Greenwald and Edward Snowden's books on NSA surveillance on the internet? I find those much more interesting and much more serious than this swill.
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github repo mentions they use Docker in Docker and link to the docker.com article from 2013 where the -privileged flag introduced (with one dash?). So maybe the container you download is actually just a "wrapper" to setup a "real" kasm setup? But it's just my guess!
I looked up their so-called "IT expert". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_Harris A bachelor in "ethics of human persuasion" doesn't make one an IT expert.
It’s trivial but not useful when good solutions already exist
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That page seems to seed wrongful directions without understanding their true consequences. This may render WASM as another Macromedia Flash of its time if those aspirations materialize.
Have seen quite literally dozens of versions of this idea over the years.

I'm sure this is well made and a fun project to develop, but I just don't get the fascination with this idea of desktop OS mimicry in a browser tab.
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This impacts the perennial argument that these companies are private organizations and the 1st Amendment doesn’t apply to them. As it turns out, their censorship regimes are government sponsored censorship.
> You say "a" test suite as if this was universal truth

In my comment I wrote "As an example ..." and I absolutely did not say this is a universal truth. It appears like you are able to comprehend basic English, and should be able to read my commentary.

You wrote the following in another comment

> but feeding this troll is sort of fun

Who do you think you are to write stuff like that? Why do you feel like it is OK to make these types of personal attacks on a forum like this?
I really hope the solution won't be GNOME purging extensions alltogether.
120.000€ total compensation. 37.5 hours a week, working as a tech lead in the Netherlands.
I can't seem to find the reference, but I seem to recall that Valve had specialized rendering logic for the power lines in Half Life 2?

I presume that's basically the same fundamental problem as rendering line art and star fields...
Does it work for them?

Paul Graham talked about logging into the production server and changing live code while on the phone with a customer. In some organizations this would be horrifying of not downright illegal, but Graham mention this as an example of succesful fast-moving startup culture.

There is no absolute “best practices” without context.

The coding culture migt be fine for that particular organization, but it migt be a bad fit for your temprament.
I asked ChatGPT. It replied:

It is true that the advancements in artificial intelligence, such as ChatGPT, have significantly improved the quality and the accuracy of the generated content. However, this does not necessarily mean that all the originality and the creativity of human content will be lost. In fact, AI can also be used as a tool to enhance human content, by providing suggestions, recommendations, or inspiration.

Moreover, the need for personal blogs and other forms of human content will not vanish completely, because there are many aspects of human experience, such as emotions, values, or opinions, that cannot be fully captured or replicated by AI. Therefore, human content will still have its own unique value, and it will continue to be sought after, as long as it provides something that AI cannot, such as a personal perspective, a storytelling style, or a human connection.

In terms of the content that will remain, it will probably be a mix of both human and AI content, depending on the context and the purpose. For example, for factual or technical information, AI content might be more reliable and efficient, but for personal or creative content, human content might be more engaging and relatable. Therefore, the content that you would still like to read after AI content took over the Internet will probably depend on your interests, your preferences, and your values.
As far as I know, the algorithms used for these are in fact rule-based at this point, not neural networks. Which actually is not much better, since these systems are still propietary and black box. This is of course horrible for a functioning sense of justice, since the decisions made are now (partly) dependent on opaque decisions made by an algorithm of a company without any arguments you can contest or inspect. Furthermore, it has been shown that these algorithms frequently are racially biased in various ways.

Further reading: https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessm...
CI is running on Github actions on their Ubuntu instances.
Yes, it is akin to “Your food is fuel” which can also be taken to the extreme point of not aiming to enjoy food.

Minimising recreational time on the computer resonates with a lot of geeks. Reminding yourself to go outside with a black background to indicate that the computer is off when work is closed sounds like a good approach.

I still prefer a background image that makes me happy.
This is running a full desktop as a service system that uses docker in docker to provide multiple full remote desktops each with login etc.
I took it to mean “free as in beer”
The CCP has 97 million members and broad public support (in b4 "the Chinese don't know what's good for them")

There are probably ways to "hate the CCP" without hating Chinese people, but it's difficult to see how.
> the organ of perception

The «organ of perception»?! What about ontology, alethics and reasoning, critical thinking?
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It's not the same group of people.

You are talking about the loud minority, but majority of people think that what Kanye said is horrible (as a half jewish European I have felt enough of what happened with my own family to make sure that I do everything in my power to make sure it is not happening again).

At the same time corruption has to be fought with transparency, that's where freedom of speech gets important for all of us.
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But it’s not “their” site, because the censorship decisions were being made by the government and Twitter was acting on behalf of these congressmen, etc. Thus Twitter’s actions were subject to the 1st Amendment. Congress cannot launder their illegal activities through an intermediary. The intermediary becomes a government actor.
still down, at least in Italy
While I applaud added clarity in all things, I wonder if there is anything unique about social media here at all? Is there obvious reason to think that the dynamic between, the, say, NYT and the Gov works or has ever worked any differently -- or have we simply been less aware of what went on in the past?
Because that's what typical customers want. Aliexpress products or clones that does 80% of work for 20% of cost.

Or in this case 100% of function for 10% of cost. Massage guns literature still basically pseudo science, $30 gun may work as well as $300 one. Plenty of youtube videos doing cheap vs expensive comparisons and medical professions stating it's unproven fad, whether percussive or relabelled vibrating sex toys. No surprise customer base will naturally dabble in cheap entry level products first. Can you imagine if Juicero was the leading juicer on Amazon. Something is even more wrong with that picture.
Imagine paying 44 billion buckaroos to become a mod.
How do you create GUI floating windows and terminal simulator inside web browser ?
Vendors also rarely have to tools to the aid in recovering from catastrophic failure. We had an incident a couple of years ago where someone tested a policy in production that wiped out all email older than six months. We have tens of thousands of accounts. Microsoft had no answer for how to recover from something like that.
> If one newspaper buries a story because of naked political bias, you might still read about it in other newspapers.

Might is doing a LOT of work in that statement. You know as well as I do stories get buried all over.

> If Twitter decides you're not allowed to read something, where else can you go?

Twitter is insignificant compared to Facebook, YouTube, Fox, CNN, and other global news outlets controlled by a handful of billionaires.

The much more important question is where do you go when THEY bury a story.
(It exploded over COVID, from my perspective)

The other somewhat unspoken bit about Hacker News in recent years is that it shifted from "people who want to build cool things" to "people who want to complain about everything".

It's pretty much every thread now, from politics to Rust to... throw a stone, it's the same tone and tired mindset. The HN I remember from years ago was tons of founders and people who actually wanted to do something interesting.
I'm not from US, but I tried to find some product "made in US" on Amazon because it really suppose to be of higher quality and I utterly failed.
I hate to break it to you but not everyone who speaks English on the internet is American. I'm not American and I don't live in America.
I wrote something similar for fun for macOS a while back[1], though it doesn’t have the niceness of double-clicking the filename. (And of course now I’ve noticed more things to fix or change.)

[1] https://github.com/Wevah/dragterm
I am pretty sure that no RDP solution for any Linux desktop system uses graphics primitives. For that to happen, all the toolkits would have to implement some way of passing their scene graph and their primitives to the compositor and the compositor would have to know what to do with that info.

RDP also supports plain framebuffers and that's what we use.

Anyhow, with the advent of specialised hardware for video encoding, passing framebuffers isn't necessarily such a bad option. You just have to make sure that the CPU doesn't touch the framebuffer before encoding and after decoding.
That's improving too. Now, very often you can get 15 day delivery on orders over €10 (or the equivalent in your local currency).

Not instant, but often quite manageable.
I really want to like AI research, but ultimately find it kind of boring. For me it's a combination of increasing complexity of the models and the requirement of having lots of appropriate data and computation power. Things are more interesting on the mathematical side, as long as you are happy with not getting anything practical out of it.
It's a tough industry with absurd barriers of entry. The few that have tried to compete, simply lost.

Asianometry on Youtube has a lot of interesting info about fabs.
pop up a warning instead to say there's been churn and let the user pick?
Collusion with a foreign adversary regarding illegally obtained internal comms from your political opponent: NBD

Collusion with a domestically owned bird app re revenge porn of your crackhead son: Worst scandal in US history

Got it.
"Close the app to avoid disruptions" is just laughingly stupid. This is a bit harsh to say it this way ... but it is.

Yet another point, which is related to all the valid remarks already done: it is quite painful to have this notification seconds after Firefox had been launched. Why the update system did not notice Firefox required an update before it launches it? Technical points left aside: when an application requires an update (Chrome, IE), it performs it before launching, not after it has launched.
> I mean, don't tell them, but why don't they just hire an English/American/whatever market person to make it look right?

Because they are betting it results in insufficient extra revenue compared to the extra payroll costs.
Ask HN: Is there any great free PostgreSQL provider?
I've been looking for one for quite a long time, but none of them fit my demands.
MySQL is also fine.
Check your blood B12 vitamin. Make sure you're at least that triple of the recommended minimum levels. Take 10000mcg suplements if necessary. There is no risk of overdose.
He is only fleeing prosecution, if he is unavailable.

For example, he can easily be contacted for interviews, with an email or phone call, or even by visiting te Bahamas. Thus he is not fleeing, or hiding from contact, and I even presume he has a lawyer, whom the police can contact.

So nothing is suspended here.
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NixOS webzine is now a thing
For example, https://www.yugabyte.com/ is good. But I really wonder what made it unavailable to connect for all of my apps!
I assume that font is the inverse of western ones that have great rendering of Latin text, but don’t really bother with the rest of Unicode. When working with Chinese suppliers in a previous job all the documentation and comms we got would be in that awful font, I even saw one of their developers using it for code when I was visiting them.
It's jingoistic and sinophobic since the purpose of the "work against" is to strengthen your own team's position. By and large, Chinese human rights activists do not think banning TikTok strengthens human rights in China.
Sometimes producers (RIP MPOW) also directly lists on Amazon, so you pay a small premium for fast shipping from local warehouses, and get pretty decent unofficial warranty - they know Q&A on low margin items lacking, high defect rate likely - will often replaced items no question asks on 1star review with offer to change back to 5 stars to (justifiably) gush about how painless RMA process is. Sometimes they even give you the shady gift card. Much better experience than aliexpress.
I have colleagues who move fast, break things, and don’t believe in interfaces. They are highly productive and it’s hard to cooperate with them in any other setting than pair programming, which does work great.

Then I have colleagues who write the interface first, tests second, and finally write code.

Cooperation between these cultures is hard. It works best to have cycles between areas of a code base. The interfacers can easily end up as janitors and cleaners, and there can be friction.

I think both styles are warranted, especially in startups.
I wasn’t arguing about curriculum though if I were I’d suggest the reason college starts with basic skills is to allow students to learn how to manage themselves.

Once they garner that foundation, learning new skills has a known pattern.

But as importantly, the entire experience of a four year college helps our children grow into responsible adults, learn about peers they weren’t forced to go to school with, and learn to think on their own.

If our kids fail at any given step, there are plenty of adjustments to be made in this process. And that too is a critical life lesson.