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Ask HN: It seems I lost imagination, what to do?
I recently noticed that I lost my imagination while reading books. Feeling strange about it.

I remember in my childhood, while reading a book, I was able to imagine what the book is talking about, not only while reading stories, but also math/physics books. I imagined quickly while reading, how things fall, how they're accelerating and how they bump to the earth and go up again.

While reading an article today, I was stuck with strange feeling, why I am not seeing that objects in my head again? article was talking about master branch, feature branches and commits, somehow no visual image is appearing in my brain which I used to remember things, now I am really worried.

What to do? What is this syndrome or issue is?
For me google no-tool (as it often is just random score) shows 88/91 for the page. On subsequent run it's 95/100 though.
everyone is figuring it out :P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky9L1eGxj_k&t=1s
Not quite. Harry Potter is a remarkably pro-status-quo story.
The hottest new programming language is English
IBM Research's Vela Is an AI Supercomputer in the Cloud
Ah very nice. I may do that instead. Thanks for the tip
The US is already doing this, and not just once. They are already working with multiple of next gen network providers. And they are also doing their own.

The DoD will have access to multiple such constellations and use all of them.
I like it! My initial thoughts are:

* Instead of exporting a file, I'd prefer to see the code in the UI and then decide if I want to piecemeal or just download the whole file with package.json, etc. As someone who iterates it would be annoying to continually download new zips

* Is it possible to define custom primary/secondary colors to use as hashtags? Almost like tailwind config file where I can set up my theme in advance and reuse or @apply through the hashtag. And like tailwind, it would be great to just do #[000000] to set a custom color or value on the fly for a button, etc. or explicitly define #bg-black #text-white etc.
I really wish someone could convince me self hosting is worth it but more often than not it just seems like busywork. Do you really need to self host your static website? There is no real privacy gained and probably some security lost. Then you get into hosting more complicated apps, email, etc, and making sure you can access them from anywhere at any time and it just doesn't seem worth it to me.
I feel a bit dumb: there's a waitlist to "talk" to chatgpt or bing ai? But, any search I do just takes me to articles about these chat bots, but never have links to the chat bot?

Does someone have a direct link to the chat bot?
It would seem like no, in recent times at least. In recent browser versions (Chrome 94+, Firefox 99+, etc.) it's been changed to only report the default PDF plugins

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/p...
I think it’s still a relevant problem we will face as a society with regards to bot farms etc running social interference (eg election propaganda)
Still as shitty as it ever was. I experienced some data loss recently on a btrfs fedora install.
Out of curiosity, how did your measure their respective performances? My understanding is that BLOOM roughly comparable to GPT-3 in performance on most NLP tasks. Were you comparing OpenAI davinci to raw BLOOM by any chance?
Ask your friendly neighborhood AI. You can go a page at a time. It should be quite capable of those edits.
>> Why could't PIP just be an apt-extension?

Because not eveyone uses an apt-based package manager.

Python runs on quite a few platforms:

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Lib/platform.py

Apt is not the package manager for most of those platforms. Thus an operating system package manager-based approach would not work for everyone.

That said, several operating systems do "vendor" pip packages so that apt or the equivalent operating system package manager can install a known good version of the package. This approach can introduce problems, but it also can prevent problems depending on the operating system and programming language.
I'm glad to see this. I love Will's An Elegant Puzzle, but it's very clear when reading it that it's missing examples and guidance on how to write these documents he posits are so essential.

He says here that most companies/orgs don't actually write this stuff down, and he himself only did it at his most recent gig. Has anyone seen this done well in their own companies? Are there well-known companies with a culture of this kind of writing, that is generally agreed to be effective?
I have a friend who works at a large government contractor. They frequently have to respond to RFPs from the government, and had some analysts where the majority of their job was preparing responses to these RFPs.

They tried instead putting these RFPs through ChatGPT, and they were blown away by the responses they got. Of course, the responses still need to go through a thorough edit and review process, but that was also true when humans were writing the first draft.

He told me that ChatGPT obviated a couple people's jobs, with the added bonus that the turnaround time between receiving a proposal and sending a response was much faster.
There would be 20,000 such Stars paying 10 dollars a month. Than what?
rapid responses is basically the biggest problem, it is quite hard but also because you can't stream tokens into any TTS system and have it sound good. The more "complete" the corpus the better it seems to be at using the right sort of pausing and such. So it is more like a: LLM needs to be directly connected to a TTS type of issue, somehow.
Tootpick: Link target for Mastodon “share buttons”
As mentioned in the blog post. I wouldn't probably put a "real" production app on it so easily. You can replicate the same effect and more on a service like hetzner. But if you have a Raspberry Pi laying around and like 2-3 hours. At least a blog is enough! And the amount of hardware related things you'll learn is massive.

I've been running a few web bootcamps in the past. Explaining the hardware part through cloud admin panels is extremely hard. Having a physical thing right in front of you is spoko simple. Much easier for people to *click.
Why are these not compiler errors by default? Opting in to such important safety features seems like broken design.
I would be quite concerned if anyone actually did LMAO.
What's with arm sbc users not setting up any disk encryption? I have yet to see a guide / tutorial / experience reports that do not totally skip the subject.
They absolutely should charge it if people are willing to pay that much.
Docker is not implicitly doing anything.
The user requested for the port to get published and so docker published it.

As nice as it would be for Docker to be more configurable in terms of where rules get inserted, that would not have helped here because the user already misconfigured things (should be using docker networks for db access).
Technically docker even has a chain that you can throw rules into that will get hit before docker's rules... so it's there just very manual (instead of, say, having a ufw mode).
Question, does this even matter?

We can already buy any fake press release...verification is just a visual cue online akin to a press release indicating that its value is now somewhat below zero.
Neither is probability calculated using heuristics, not to be too serious or anything and ruin the fun.
In Bristol a provisonal driving license is enough, and anyone can get those. I think that's more about providing ID than proving that you can drive.
I assume lab grown beef would be just as unhealthy as natural red meat?

I initially became vegan for the health benefits (which are real, my cholesterol numbers have turned around dramatically), and later came to appreciate the ethical and global warming benefits of veganism. Lab grown meat would seem to keep those ethical and climate benefits, but I wonder about the health impact of lab grown beef compared to popular meat analogs like Impossible or Beyond beef.
> I remember once upon a time I thought C was fairly simple, so I decided to write a program to generate ASTs from C programs.

Oh man, I think we all have been this young and naive at some point.

I have spent time working with compilers for this purpose (having realized I did not want to attempt parsing source and generating the AST) and decided it is much easier to let them do the work. That being said, it can still be more than a handful (both GCC and Clang have their eccentricities) and depending on how you are using it you still might be in over your head.

When you start a project like this and end up failing because you simply do not have the depth of knowledge or time to see it to completion it often feels a bit demoralizing from the loss of investment. Truthfully though, having started many such ventures (emulators for 6502 and 80386 to name a few), you get all the benefit of experience from working on a difficult problems without the misery of debugging and model checking until everything until is more/less perfect. It's great fun, you learn a lot, and you should never avoid trying simply because it might be too much to handle.
No, Ariane Next is not even being seriously worked on. For this rocket to exists there will be at least 3-5 years of political discussions. The Ariane 6 has not even flown yet and Ariane 6 was already very decisive.

If Ariane 6 first flies this year, don't expect funding for a new rocket for at least 5-10 years and then at least 5 years of development.

Any Ariane Next will not exist before 2030 and likely not before 2035.

The only viable European rocket is the Ariane 6. And that has already been booked by Amazon. So unless they want to kick out Amazon, there is no way this will launch before 2027.
Thanks! That sounds much more reasonable. I wonder why they put 30 GB as the "Minimum required resources"...
Or as is the fashion currently, librelane
I'm still baffled how so many people are willing to gloss over all the heavy lifting the user has to do to glue all this together. Organizing a project is still and always has been the majority of the work!
just get a cheapest VPS from lowendbox
This page isn't something the AI built, the AI built specifically defined pieces of it and the author assembled those into the page using Webflow. I feel like their claim of "no-code" is a bit suspect. Embedding an AI generated block of code into a Webflow site has nothing to do with AI generating a website. If I add a block of AI generated code to a pull request that isn't "Using AI to write an entire PR".

AI still feels like self-driving cars to me. People saw some shadow of success there and said "by 2020 cars won't even have steering wheels" but who knows now if we will ever see them. I could be totally wrong, but my prediction is we see a ton of cool stuff but getting that last 5% down to where we can actually trust AI to run the show will not happen for a long time if ever.
> Knowing the author

If I were you I would revise this to "having read some recent shallow hit pieces about the author".
https://archive.ph/uCfoG
It amuses me how this is positioned like it's something new and radical :-).
Now that headless mode is a "real" Chromium instance, is it possible to add extension support to Chrome running in headless mode?
>> SolveSpace's kernel seems rock solid to me. It just doesn't support fillets or bevels.

Sorry, I work on Solvespace and can confirm it has some serious NURBS bugs. There are several open issues on github relating to NURBS boolean failures. The problems seem to fall into 4 or 5 categories, and we can probably fix some of the common ones. It's going to take time and some deep dives into the code though.
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Compound Literals in C are great. They're no surprise to anyone coming from more sophisticated languages, but I've never seen them used in the C codebases I've worked on.

What with C also allowing structures as return values, another rarely-used feature, they're really useful for allowing a richer API than the historical `int foo(...)` that so many people are used to seeing.

C has so much legacy that it's really hard for even decades-old (C99!) feature to impose themselves. Or perhaps that's MSVC's lagging support that's to blame :p
It's easier than ever to eat healthy, yet 80% of Americans males are overweight. Something is not right here, either of those statements have to be false.
Well let’s see who actually pays 12 dollars ongoing monthly payments for a blue badge.

that’s more than basic monthly netflix
I had a huge paragraph in the article about decentralization and how important it's in my mind for the future of internet but I've scrapped it because it felt like I was a blockchain guy even without mentioning it. So I'll make it simpler.

Honestly I just feel awesome seeing those blinking lights in my room and thinking it's sending packets to other people.
Ariane 5 is done. Ariane 6 will launch maybe once this year. And then its already massively overbooked. So much so that many of its launches will likely fly on Falcon 9.

And on top of that Amazon has bought a huge amount of launches. Flying these will take many years.

Its unlikely that they have capacity. Realistically this is a ~2030 at best, not 2027.
... but why does, when my X11 (happens in wayland too iirc) system has some kind of bug, one window displays the contents of another (with some graphical corruption)?

my supposition was that a buffer of one program ending up in a VRAM associated with another program can only happen if there is no MMU, otherwise, what's the point

also: do you happen to know why do Qubes folks think that it's okay for two mutually untrusted programs run on the CPU, but can't accept that two untrusted programs can run on the GPU without eveasdropping on each other? even with IOMMU it seems.

it gives me the impression that safely sharing the GPU is a work in progress / not very secure
With modern NLP models being extremely good, can't you bundle together all sites whose content embeddings are very close? Presumably there's an acceptable threshold somewhere that achieves a good tradeoff of false positives vs negatives?
And pay other people to go charge them.
$12 per month and user for a "social experience" that still tracks you and spams you is an insane amount.

If you consider that amount × 1000 for a very modest open source fediverse instance hosting circa one thousand users, that is more than enough to sustain admins, moderators and spare change for some development.

The economic model of social media never made any sense and its hard to see how it will sustain going forward.
Hello, would love to chat with you about QGIS plugins. Email me at devjobs@anor.io if you would be interested in making a QGIS plugin for the solar PV industry :)
Yes, drag soldering was the only technique I considered. However, it didn't work very good. As said before, the main problem was that solder created shorts between pins, and some others were left with bad connections. I also tried to use braid to remove the excess solder, etc., but I felt the more I tried to fix it, the worse the result.

I once watched this video about SMT soldering, and while the guy seems to be using just a soldering iron and flux, the result is outstanding. I don't know however which specific equipment and solder/flux he is using, and if it's real or there's some kind of trick involved :-D https://youtu.be/5uiroWBkdFY?t=112
Self hosting is really cool. However when it comes to static hosting, apart than keeping your data at home and having fun setting up servers, I don't really see the point when there's so many free good options. I use CloudFlare Pages for my blog, their integration with GitHub is flawless and you get to host your website at edge for free.

When I need to host dynamic content, another good option is CloudFlare Tunnels (I promise I'm not sponsored by them, their products are good is all :)), so you don't have to do shenanigans updating DNS records on the fly, and more importantly you don't have to compromise your network opening up and forwarding ports.
Why this infatuation with low Earth orbit? Why not put just few satelites further out, like every other satellite internet provide does except starlink?

EDIT:

To people bringing up latency. Far away satellite has them far enough that they cover large area so the signal goes to satellite and back and that's it. Distance introduces latency.

But in case of constallation packet must bounce through multiple satellites and/or ground stations to arrive at the target so that introduces latency too. So it's usually not great either.

EDIT 2:

Never mind. Apparently Starlink manages to get pretty decent latency so far: https://blinqblinq.com/starlink-latency-and-ping-times/

The question reamins, if the goal is for the Europe to have a backup system for disasters such as armed conflict is the ping really key factor?
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The near 300 packages a year they deliver to me disagrees.
it's probably actually cheaper to pay people piece rates to do it for you in a browser than to pay a developer to write and maintain a scraping script anyway, so if the later became genuinely impossible moving to the former isn't a big deal.
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I mean, if you read that article, it makes it pretty clear that the phrase is retained in the final sentence, but was once much more prominently placed. It doesn't claim that the phrase is completely gone -- it has the same information Wikipedia has. Are you claiming that article and Wikipedia are both just making things up here?
Please don’t use C at all in production if you can help it.
>> FreeCAD is like entering values into a form, while Blender is like playing around with the model interactively.

You should try solvespace, it has that fun feel but let's you apply constraints directly on the sketch.
Workers’ Pay Globally Hasn’t Kept Up with Inflation
No wonder it's full of beans half the time, it also made Pinocchio.
I think this explanation does a great job of showing just how large the bottom of the Email iceberg is. When I first worked with Email, I was overwhelmed by the work required to handle all the variation.

I didn't even try to run my own mail server, I was just trying to parse and store email in a structured form. What I thought would be a quick evening's work turned into a full week.

While building Hypermail [0], I actually resorted to using GPT-3 with some of the parsing. It did extremely well in handling variations in email reply formats (email clients all have their own way of doing things).

[0] - https://www.idiotlamborghini.com/articles/the_hypermail_expe...
Great opportunity to pitch my recent work on a similar solution for gRPC:

https://github.com/sillystack/api/blob/main/transport/transp...

I'm not going to make any security claims as of now (it's almost certainly broken) but it uses the Noise IK handshake.

Long term I think NoiseSocket would be a good way to go https://noisesocket.org/post/1/ but perhaps in service-to-service use cases ciphersuite negotiation can be simplified.
Police are looking for a large hyper-active bunny..

Wonder if he put them all the same basket ?

These yolks just write themselves!

:-D
It would somehow be combined with an open source search engine
There are still maintainers, Google's just not paying them.

Google gets credit for Fastlane and owns the IP, while a small army of contributors do all the work for free...
Your Coral project looks interesting. I'm currently using Navidrome as my personal music streamer, I'm curious what issues you've had.

Will be looking forward to trying out Coral for kicks once you release it :)
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The latest windows version requires a hardware tpm on a device in order to be installed. Every hardware vendor has therefore included a tpm on all their new machines. This was already standard on apple devices, and many android devices have one as well.
I don't like putting out huge amount of objects on any orbit because if they collide bits of them might spread to any orbit depending on the size of chunks and exact collision geometry.
Dynamic Libraries in Nim
Mmm ... while e.g. in React a lot of state libraries are specialised to React, I've had a fair amount of success using e.g. MobX for state management and React as the view rendering layer it was originally advertised at.

But yes, it's not completely binary, hence my saying 'most' a lot - the library/framework distinction definitely has a wide and fuzzy boundary line ala the time years (decades?) of disputes happened because somebody drew a negotiated official border with a really blunt pencil - but I'm advocating the idea that the distinction is a useful way to carve reality at the joints in a sense of "all models are wrong; some models are useful."

Plus, I mean, the 'is it inside' thing would make PSGI/WSGI/Rack/etc. count as a framework since generally they call your application, but they're not really framework-y in spirit on their own (middleware starts to get fuzzier, of course, but I think we're agreed that 'fuzzier' is an inevitably recurring theme here)
Doesn’t that have higher latency (further distance) and lower speeds (more users per satellite)?
The TAM for this device is the size of the internet
latency.
At the time I set it up I didnt know what I was doing or how it all worked, etc etc, so that is where the statement about it exposing my IP came from. It has been so long that when I first set it up I may have known it was exposed but didnt care. As time went on I just didnt like knowing it was exposed. Why? I just prefer it not be. Not that it couldnt be found I am sure

And you are absolutely right about the laptops and I have 2 right now that are just collecting dust. But currently I have no reason to change to a laptop. It is kind of like driving a nail in the wall with a sledge hammer, sad to say a laptop is more than I need in a server at this moment. The only benefit I get from a laptop for my current needs is a built in battery backup.
In the USA, the BLM administers some 18000 permits to farmers and ranchers who pay them grazing fees.[0] Then cattle wander on that range exactly as you propose.

The BLM also employs snipers and gunmen to intimidate ranchers who don't pay the grazing fees. Some ranchers respond with impromptu militias.

Sometimes things escalate to the point that goverment agents kill protesters. Sometimes law enforcement officers get assassinated.

But mostly, cattle graze as you suggest and the BLM collects grazing fees.

[0] https://www.blm.gov/programs/natural-resources/rangelands-an...
You're right. Apologies for that.
> Why should Starlink have monopolistic control over the high bandwidth SATCOM market?

They don't. There are other satellite internet providers they just don't use LEO constallations.
"We keep measuring our worth based on work and when we finally run out of work we're going to have a problem."

Yeah, because work pays the bills. Guess what happens when you automate faster than social policy changes? More unemployed artists than blacksmiths. Also people resist change when it threatens their way of life. It's almost like the luddites resisting automation are saying slow down automation people "when we finally run out of work we're going to have a problem".
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