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Ask HN: Which Linux distro provide the easiest transition from Windows in 2022?
I'm finding that Windows aligns less and less with my values over time until now it feels like I'm fighting against Microsoft to avoid advertising and unwanted online account requirements, automated updates that interrupt my work, and blatant violations of my right to privacy on the computing device that I own. I already do all my dev work though WSL and from what I hear most of the Windows apps and games I use should work under Proton or Wine now too. So I'd like to give Linux another shot as my daily driver.

However, I'm not interested in switching from fighting MS to fighting broken drivers and struggling to get things I need to run. I want as seamless a transition as possible where I install a Linux distro on my laptop and it "just works" (within reason), especially with regards to graphics drivers and so on. My laptop has a Nvidia 3070m and I do a lot of graphics work plus some gaming, so that has to work well.

The last time I tried this, I guess about six years ago, the obvious choice was Ubuntu. Is that still the case? Or are there better alternatives these days? I hear Fedora and Arch mentioned quite a bit.
I remember seeing this, by accident, years and years ago before it was blocked. Took me longer than it should to realise why I was seeing US Netflix content, in the UK.
> The fact is that culture is a completely different, parallel value system, that they just don't grok.

No, they just report on that. They report on money-related things. Doesn't mean they don't understand other things.
Icon had (has!) "failure is falsity" / "value production is truth", and pervasive generators / backtracking. In Icon a function ("procedure") either: fails, returns a value, or suspends (yields) a value.

jq is very much like this too, as it has pervasive generators and backtracking, but unlike Icon jq does not distinguish between "returning" a value vs. "suspending" (yielding) a value.

The jq way kinda means you have to have booleans, and so jq does.

I'm suspicious of the no-booleans approach. After all, one could also have no integers (the Lambda Calculus doesn't have integers, having only function values!). Boolean values are just useful to have, and being able to obtain boolean values from predicates is useful too. One could do the Icon/Verse thing of failure is false / anything is true, but provide an adapter function that produces actual boolean values for when you need them.
> It is ridiculous for people with eyes to not use their own eyes except to read studies as to whether their own eyes prefer light or dark.

What part of "It's just a preference thing" are you disputing?
Default values for structs, only taking effect when static or used with designated initializers, would be good enough imo, since you can always pass a struct to a function.

So you could do foo({.bar=1}) and the rest would be default initialized.
Really? Because this is what I got:

"Me: How do partial derivative apply in one dimensional calculus?

In one-dimensional calculus, a partial derivative is a derivative taken with respect to one variable, while treating all other variables as constants. For example, if a function f(x,y) depends on two variables x and y, the partial derivative of f with respect to x is denoted as ∂f/∂x, and it represents the rate at which the value of the function f changes with respect to the variable x, while holding the variable y constant.

Me: What about the partial derivative of a function that has only one input variable?

If a function has only one input variable, then taking the partial derivative with respect to that variable is equivalent to taking the ordinary derivative of the function. For example, if f(x) is a function that depends only on the variable x, then the partial derivative of f with respect to x is denoted as ∂f/∂x, and it is equivalent to the ordinary derivative of f, which is denoted as f'(x) or df/dx. In this case, the partial derivative ∂f/∂x represents the rate at which the value of the function f changes with respect to the variable x."

Clearly in the first question it got confused about the difference between single variable calculus and multivariable, but in it's defense that's somewhat arbitrary. It's second answer seems spot on?

That said, I agree that accounts presenting chatGPT responses as their own or even with a disclaimer, is... Weird. And I don't want it on hn.

edit: I'm impressed it got the unicode in there :-)
So only people with credit cards are allowed to use the forum? That shuts out a lot of people, especially in places where credit cards aren't used.
My point was that replacing an existing central gas posered water circulation heater with electric heating is easy, cheap and fast (operating it might be more expensive, or cheaper depending on electricity prices). It's not "Replacing a domestic heating system is significantly more difficult than adding new electricity plants.". I have done so myself on a relative's house in a weekend including installing an electrical water heater (solar panels in roof make this very inexpensive to operate). Of course you wouldn't use cheap chinese portable heaters as a permanent solution, but it would totally work, they are 100% efficient in converting electrical to thermal energy.

Your point that you can't have central temperature controls with electric heating is just absurd, I learned how to build this in first semester of electrical engineering.
All of the above?
> "Regarding 2, this is unbelievably naive. For such an important product, of course Microsoft would find a way to make it do "essential" OS tasks."

The Start Menu in Windows 10/11 is HTML/CSS. It's not a matter of "finding ways" to make it do things, HTML was pushed as being the document description / display technology, why wouldn't Microsoft use it for Explorer folder views and Active Desktop? Why shouldn't they be allowed to? You could embed web pages in the Win98 desktop background, that's the kind of embedded document thing people were researching and crowing about in the 60s and 70s in alternative OS's. It's the kind of thing users wanted with rainmeter and SysInternals' bginfo. IIRC you could edit the CSS and change the theme of Explorer folder views, give them new colours and background images.

> "Nobody complains that Microsoft ships Nodepad or Paint, because they are the bare minimum and avoidable."

Nobody complains that Microsoft shipped the best CSharp compiler csc.exe (before .Net span off into its own thing), and didn't ship or encourage Mono or Xamarin compilers. Or PowerShell and not Perl. Why don't those things attract the interests of the courts? And now they can ship Edge, and that's apparently fine now?
Exciting times. The philosophical ramifications of the syntax/semantics distinction is not something people think much about in the main. However, due to GPT et al they will do soon :)

More to the point, consistency will improve accuracy in so far as inconsistency is sometimes the cause for inaccuracy. However, being consistent is an extremely low bar. On a basic level even consistency is a problem in natural language where so much depends on usage -- it is near impossible to determine whether sentences are actually negations of each other in the majority of possible cases. But the real problem is truth assignment to valid sentences else we could all just speak Lojban and be done with untruth forever.
> All that free money has seriously misaligned societies incentives. Enrollment in the medical field is falling drastically because no one wants to work years to make less money than some 24 year old with two years of coding experience.

Sounds like a problem that's sorting itself out. There were far too many people who wanted to be doctors; maybe if the supply drops the medical industry might have to - gasp - do something about their working conditions, or even pay more.
It really depends on the type of software. An ETL pipeline, for example, is obviously way easier to develop and maintain through tests (record real system inputs, compare with desired outputs). But that logic doesn't extend to all other types of software.
Weekend AI project: how to conceive and publish an illustrated children's book
Is the choice operator somehow analogous to OR? If not, why not just choose any other syntax than `|`?
SQLite's free test suite is far in excess of most other projects'. What do you think the test coverage is in the Linux kernel, GCC, or Emacs?
That's semantics. If I buy a TV subscription bundle that includes internet, am I paying for internet?

I would argue what matters is the breakdown. I would agree that a vpn is auxiliary to the pixel, but it seems like a pretty core part of the Google One or w/e subscription.
It's harder for a few at the top to monopolize all the jobs than all the money.
It's too small. It's entire, and arguably entirely fantastical market cap is still smaller than Apple.
I hope that you are also learning to play guitar!
Alienware QD-OLEDs have a special pixel layout which isn't good for text
William Shakespeare was the author of those plays, if you mean plays like Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet etc. The answer is completely settled, since there is no serious argument that we wasn't, outside of fanciful conspiracy theories.

There are legitimate discussions about some of the plays which were likely collaborations between multiple authors (e.g. Edward III, Henry IV 1), and machine learning has been used to try identify the different authors and authorship of different passages. This is an area of open research.
OMG didn't expect to see the "I know this is true and I don't need researchers telling me otherwise" argument here.
2. 1969: Everyone Will Disappear In a Cloud Of Blue Steam By 1989 (1969)

lol what is blue steam? I can't find anything about this.
1. Theoretically speaking, this means the company has nowhere else better to put that cash [1]. Rather than reinvesting back into itself to fuel growth, dividends return company proceeds to investors. It's a sign of slow or no growth.

2. As an investor, you can't control when and how you're taxed. Dividends are taxable when they are paid out. A company stock buyback, on the other hand, would increase the value of your shares and let you sell when you're ready.

[1] Discounting stocks like REITs which are required to return profit in the form of dividends.
yep, you right.

i didn't pay any attention to the maths, just the outcome.

but then i tried to do the maths myself and got hella confused.

turns out i was doing "10^1/3" (3.33) in google instead of "10^(1/3)" (1.154).

so, that's lame - i guess gpt got confused about how to handle the exponential algebra.

so it ends up being something like:

$1,000,000 = $100,000(1+r)^3

10 = (1+r)^3

10^(1/3) = (1+r)

2.154 = 1+r

1.154 = r

R = 115%
I wonder if the big comics publishers have ever explored something like Jump. You have to fill a lot of pages with a lot of, honestly, garbage. Stuff that gets cancelled in 3 months. Shipping all over the place costing up the wazoo. And you probably can't get away with as much massive exploitation as in the Japanese industry.

There are of course a lot of short story magazines doing similar stuff, but given how labor intensive comics work is, the genre hyperfocus the major publishers suffer from, and the impracticality of the physical format for distribution in the US... maybe a digital thing could work somewhere.
Hi dang, is my account shadow banned? Or in any way limited

I hardly post because when I do its down voted, sometimes the post is popular but after 24 hours its back to being down voted.
As someone who did a lot of debates in philosophy, most casual commenters are hilariously bad at discussing something. It’s like a wheel that wobbles from its axis and the wheel quickly comes of the axis. It’s not always a bad thing, some threads are just that, casual.

If the purpose for you is to get a dopamine hit and not true interest (exaggerating here) it might tune you out from the matter at hand.

For me it is the aspect of a more eclectic crowd, with a host of opinions, yet often still respectful that I like. Most threads give insights that are lacking in more general, less well moderated places. You get more interesting in depth opinions and knowledge sharing what makes HN great to me.
Standard terms are a good idea. Wales just did this with (housing tenancy) occupation contracts
First time I came to the US over 25 years ago, one thing I noticed that was really different from western Europe was the amount of artificial jobs: grocery store bag filler, elevator boy, parking place guard, etc. I hadn’t seen these in Europe for years, cause nobody needs them. Having first visited Eastern Europe during communism, the resemblance in this aspect surprised me.
Look, if you want to complain that cars exist, fine. But they aren't going away, so we need to make them more CO2-efficient. Even if you could get rid of most cars, that wouldn't be enough, and it wouldn't be able to happen quickly enough to avoid electrification.
I think it's an unnecessarily coded criticism of the article (eg, that they think the article is propoganda, for reasons we can only guess.)
What if you're just too young to remember a business cycle because you weren't an adult or were still in college so were insulated from 2008?

Its funny to read all these takes from "kids" who think that all the fundamentals have totally changed at this point like the economy has turned some fundamental 180 degree turn and we're heading back towards >6% rates forever.

It hasn't. The Fed is going to crash the economy into a brick wall to bring down inflation via raising unemployment (we're probably still 6-12 months out) but then the Fed will slash rates in a panic and go "oopsie". This will bring back yet another low interest rate / cheap money period.

I suspect the next cycle will be shorter and a decade of ZIRP won't happen again, but we're going back to ZIRP again once the recession hits.
Great idea. Some dead accounts holding our handles.
I would pay If you had some automated tool to repeat contact platforms to encourage deletion of those ghost accounts.
If what your need is LTSC, why is Arch rolling update fine? What about RHEL clone or Debian for stability?
250: APPL
250: GOOGL
250: NVDA
250: AMAZN

Will take prolly 8 years though. But you have 25K available cash as a margin loan/credit line.
> if it's an area of knowledge you're not really that familiar with

Thats actually dangerous way to use ChatGPT. Since you don't know the real answer you won't be able to tell when it gets something wrong.
That and the dog from "Duck Hunt".
This is assuming he wrote the document. Dracul might have just sealed the wax and somebody else might have written it.
> Witch means that with a 2Gbps+ f.o. connection you can host your service at home, with a static IPv6 global address and a domain name bound to it.

Nice in theory, but some ISPs (mine included) will happily give you a /56 via prefix delegation, but if your connection drops, you will possibly get a different prefix, and so your IP unfortunately changes.
I do think it is a preference thing, but I also believe not all eyes are the same. I am myself visually impaired, and it is _so much_ easier to read a screen in dark mode. That is likely a different experience with healthy and eyes, but not all healthy eyes are the same either.
I wonder what authoritarian[0] evangelicals' sleeping dreams are like. I have read theories[1] that suggest their waking dream of establishing Gilead is because they fear the the outside world[2], and considering that even I don't care much for this XXI, I suppose they must be near paranoia with progress.

[0] the adjective is very important here; supposedly Carter has complained in public about the hijacking of US evangelical churches by godbotherers, but while plausible I haven't confirmed the quote.

[1] Bob Altemeyer had academic studies of correlation between fear levels and willingness to follow authoritarian leaders; to me it sounded awfully like the phenomenon of fear-biting in dogs (a vice to be avoided if one is looking for a good hunting prospect).

[2] evidently never having heard « Il faut de tout pour faire un monde » ?
Today I was very excited after installing Helix. I gave it a try and loved it. I liked the default theme, the select-before-action approach for editing text, the file chooser, too many good things out of the box. Then, I downloaded elixir-ls and started to notice some flaws. The LSP worked great after installing it. However, after a few minutes it stopped working, it just showed an error message. On the other hand, elixir-ls complained about "Elixir sources not found (checking in /home/build/elixir)". I did not find anything about that error message, maybe the LSP or Helix are "too new" for finding workarounds (keep in mind that the latest version of elixir-ls is v0.12).

I like to play with new toys. However, it's hard to find solutions for novel tech, though.
I'm interested in your light setup, particularly if you happen to use high-CRI bulbs.

It also took me ages to realize how large of an effect SAD had on me. I grew up in Texas, where it wasn't much of a thing, but went to college in Michigan and then moved to Germany (where I've been for 20 years) and it took me multiple years to notice the pattern of only struggling with what I'd previously dubbed "burn out" in the winter. That I used to visit Texas every Christmas masked the effect for a while since it gave me something of a reset during the shortest days of the year.

Now I manage with a combination of what I'd thought of as redonkulous amounts of lighting (20-ish bulbs in my living room, 7 in my small office), and usually 1+ months away from Berlin in the winter.

It's only been relatively recent that going to your extent in terms of lumens has been possible. I was previously pushing 1000w of halogen lighting in my living room, and going to a multiple of that felt like it got into extremely wasteful territory. (There is the reasonable counterargument that in winter, all of the lighting watts also heat the apartment, but I use my lighting setup for a lot of months where I don't also need heating...)

Do you also go for high-CRI bulbs? That's been a limiting factor for me at times is that I don't like the spectrum of cheaper LEDs (or CFLs) and often sourcing high-watt, high-CRI bulbs can be tricky. (I was late in switching to LEDs in general, having previously stockpiled halogen bulbs before they were banned in Europe, but a HN comment a couple years ago turned me on to high-CRI bulbs, which was a game-changer for me.)
Its literally bullshit in the highly technical sense.

http://www2.csudh.edu/ccauthen/576f12/frankfurt__harry_-_on_...

The essence of bullshit is that it is different from a lie, for a liar respects the fact that their is a truth and knows what the truth is well enough to purposefully misrepresent it, whereas a bullshitter neither knows nor cares if what they are saying corresponds to anything in reality just so long as it makes the right impression.

>The point that troubles Wittgenstein is manifestly not that
Pascal has made a mistake in her description of how she feels.
Nor is it even that she has made a careless mistake. Her laxity, or
her lack of care, is not a matter of having permitted an error to
slip into her speech on account of some inadvertent or
momentarily negligent lapse in the attention she was devoting to
getting things right. The point is rather that, so far as
Wittgenstein can see, Pascal offers a description of a certain state
of affairs without genuinely submitting to the constraints which
the endeavor to provide an accurate representation of reality
imposes. Her fault is not that she fails to get things right, but that
she is not even trying.
We've used OpenAI to build a ton of tools at my other company (https://recruit.so) to automate/enhance a lot of internal processes.

During the process, we realized with the right interface, we could enable our non-engineers to build these for themselves, and even could make the engineers a lot faster to ship.

OpenAI has amazing APIs with insane capabilities, but UIs are still miles behind to let most people to unlock the full potential of LLMs.

ChatGPT is a great example of that - which is primarily a frontend on top of an API that has been around for a while.

Our team consists of rockstar frontend engineers with 8-10 years of experience building products at 10+ YC startups.

So we thought, what if we become the frontend team at OpenAI? And thus we started building re:tune.

If any of you are building / exploring / thinking to build on top of GPT-3/LLMs and want to try out re:tune - would love to give you a demo and hear your feedback!
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33393540
I am Ukranian and I am strongly disagree with you. First of all don't call Ukranian language funny version of Russian. Second "civil war" - is the war between citizen in the same country. Now answer on 2 questions:
- who crossed the border of independed country?
- where is the war going on?

Yes, there are of course a lot of similarities between Ukranians and people in Russia, as there are between Ukranian and Polish people or between Polish people and people in Check Republic.
> It is unworkable for Apple.

Maybe. Maybe not.

There’s no technical reason preventing it. The cost of implementation isn’t a blocker either.

Product may support or may oppose the idea. Those are just opinions. Opinions can and do change.

As long as we agree that it’s “unworkable” because that’s just, like, their opinion, man.

> If you want a dual-boot system buy a Mac.

No.

I enjoy my iPad. I refuse to buy a $2000 piece of virtually identical hardware just to run slightly different software.
> [Paraphrasing] Is Verse supposed to be an easy language for beginners ?

Yes! Well that was the point of my comment. Maybe you have a different interpretation of 'Learnable as a first language' from the article, which is fine, not interested in arguing about that.
I don't think it is so important whether a comment is written by a man, a woman, a child, or a <machine>, or some combination thereof. What is important is that the comment stands on its own, and has merit

This feels wrong for some reasons. A generalized knowledge that AI can express may be useful. But if it makes things up convincingly, the result that someone may follow its line of thought may be worse for them? With all shit humans say, it’s their real human experience formulated through a prism of their mood, intelligence and other states and characteristics. It’s a reflection of a real world somewhere. AI statements in this sense are minced realities cooked into something that may only look like a solid one. Maybe for some communities it would be irrelevant because participants are expected to judge logically and to check all facts, but it would require to keep awareness at all times.

By “real human” I don’t mean that they are better (or worse) in a discussion, only that I am a human too, a real experience is applicable to me in principle and I could meet it irl. AI’s experience applicability has yet to be proven, if it makes sense at all.
I just wish it wasn’t $1500. If it’s tax deductible for you, it’s easier to justify though I doubt it will be for most enthusiasts when the Apple headset will supposedly release in 2023
Maybe losing valuable people is not affecting company straight away, but it surely affect the project. And with few project failing miserably (as they will if you do corporate waterfall) something might change. If not, then the whole company might fail. Remember, companies compete with each other, it just takes more time for some to fail.
That's not what ChatGPT does though. It will always add its own "thoughts" to your prompts. Using it as a writing assistant for spelling and grammar won't work.