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The problem with no consistency isn't the impact to users, but developers. If things can be inconsistent you need to worry about a whole new class of failure cases where data is inconsistent, and handle them correctly.

Part of this is guarantees about correctness. Is there a bug that manifests even without inconsistency, or was there just some weird inconsistent state that caused an issue? If you don't have consistency you have to ask this about every single bug, making debugging problems much harder.
Far too expensive.

Someone just setting up an elab is WAY better off buying one of the ubiquitous Chinesium 24MHz 8-channel USB logic analyzers. In addition, a newbie is way more likely to "just try it out" if the thing they can destroy is only $10.

I have lots of really nice equipment, but even I will pull the cheapass logic analyzers out when I'm doing something that has the possibility of destroying my more expensive stuff.
> So, you want to write a program that shows users what block devices are currently available to them. Seems conceptually simple and potentially very useful. And, right off the bet you hit complexity: do loop devices count? Do separate partitions count, and if so, what to do about special partitions that keep data necessary for hardware RAIDs to function, that, in general, shouldn't be exposed to users)? How do you go about RAID devices, do you acknowledge that RAIDs exist and display them as separate entities, or do you pretend they don't and only display their constituents? How about physical and logical volumes? Do you think that you need to support ZFS volumes? What if some FUSE filesystem decides to expose some information as a device file, does that count as a block device? What about iSCSI (potentially with multipathing)? Encrypted devices?

I think PowerShell had right idea here, even if it maybe went too hard into "object oriented".

If tools had option to pass structured representation between eachother the above problem could be solved by tool that returns everything + set of generic tools to filter information, like say

lsblk | f(type=disk,bus=nvme,name != nvme0n1) # all physical nvme devices except nvme0n1
lsblk | f(type=lvm_lv,vg=data,mountpoint =~ {^/data} ) # any LVM LV that is in data VG and mounted under /data

I wonder if it would be possible to retrofit into existing design. Like, have additional filedescriptors and some way of signalling so shell can connect "structured out" with "structured in" of the next app in the pipe.

> And there are more... there's archaic NBD alongside with the blazing hot NVMe over IP and so on. And you don't really have any unifying interfaces. You can look into /sys/block, but depending on how you answered the questions above, you'll either find too little or too much info there. And there's not a single tool that can really, in all circumstances, give you a correct answer to the question "what block devices are currently available".

I'd be interested in which case lsblk is not showing block devices, so far it has been pretty bulletproof for me, even in extremely weird setups
>Absolutely nothing about the internet negates actual people in physical space.

The internet doesn't affect politics, the way people vote, what they buy, if the commit suicide?

Technology has defined personhood since they days we picked up sticks and tools that triggered a path of extreme evolution into what we are now. You may be able to escape the technological world you're bound to as an individual for a short period of time, but the need for food, clean water, and medicine will bring you back to the interconnected technological maelstrom that is the world that's we've created, and that we would die in if the technology part stopped. As we hook ourselves to more systems and become more dependant on technology the idea of a disconnected reality will be akin to how we look at fossils now.
I feel this is the real division - Aristotle has many works on the natural world.

But Plato (Socrates) is the first we have almost a complete “works” of.
He theorises in the video that it was cut from 1.2 due to a change in the networking stack IIRC
D/a and a/D – Digital Show and Tell (2013)
Did you watch the Simpsons where all the smart people took over running the city? Being "above average intelligence" is a pretty bad thing to select for when choosing a representative. We're not looking to them to be smart, we want them to represent our interests. I can almost see that many types of what we normally think of as intelligence would be undesirable. We're not looking to them for techicnal answers, we need representation and consensus building. Government has access to experts, it shouldn't be made up of them
He also signed SALT-II which got never ratified and returned the Hungarian Crown to Hungary (which was a Soviet satellite at the time). https://hu.usembassy.gov/embassy/budapest/embassy-history/re...
The node.js ecosystem is full of grindset Californians maintaining fashion pieces because if their GitHub star count drops below the last candidate the hiring manager saw they won't get the rest-and-vest job.

It's not NTP, it's not really infrastructure, you can literally do without it. It's not OpenSSL, if it just stops today there's no additional significant risk your prod systems all get popped next week.

There's nothing worth salvaging, technically or culturally. Let it fall.
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Roger that!
"This is a video about the digital vs analog audio quality debate. It explains, with examples, why analog audio within the accepted limits of human hearing (20 Hz to 20 kHz) can be reproduced with perfect fidelity using a 44.1 kHz 16 Bit digital signal."

This (old) video provided a clear explanation on why a high bitrate may not make a significant difference beyond a certain point, something that I previously struggled to fully comprehend. I thought people on HN who haven't yet seen it might appreciate it.
if you have enough people (2, with similar interests at minimum, or a satellite office of workers, etc) a perimiter web proxy is a great way to help get a lot of this behavior. so long as you dont have secrets, it works great
Seconded. Silver is expensive and really doesn't do anything useful for an amateur.

Decent soldering station + correct and well taken care of soldering tip + thin multicore 60/40 + tools and supplies to clean your board + a bit of soldering training. There is lots of really good instructional videos on YouTube which is how I learned to solder.
>Maybe we should have an economy that does pay people purely to make popular & impactful works.

We do and it's the whole point of copyright law. It gives creators the ability to monetize their works.
Yes, maybe I just underestimate the abundance of bots in internet forums.
> In a financial world, a bank should never print money.

It's not relevant to the point but this is absolutely what banks do in the UK and I expect in most modern economies. They create money.

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/explainers/how-is-money-crea...
Also why on Firefox Mobile, do you still have to enable developer mode AND create add-on collections to be able to install the add-ons you need? It's just a pain to have to do that every time you install Firefox. It's been possible for maybe 2 years on Nightly.
The work Mark Moxon has been doing on this is incredible, as an ex-Beeb programmer it’s really great to see.

Defo worth a Follow on twitter: https://twitter.com/markmoxon
> I think the real take away from you scenario is that guns are dangerous and just slapping them onto things willy nilly is not a great idea.

While I agree in principle,

1. There is a very large and entrenched industry in the US who's purpose can be summed up as "slapping guns onto things willy nilly."

2. The existence of cybersecurity as an exploding career field shows that internet packets are all that is needed to cause harm. Even if AI hacking skill is weak, thousands of sessions can be ran 24 hours a day and most companies still do not invest in security.
Kissinger 100% committed treason by being the back channel here.
As an aside, my own opinion is that the practical implications of the existence of these chatbots are vastly more worrying than the philosophical implications.
Did you read the article? Tech progress in the areas the article talked about slowed down like 70 years ago.
I live in Boston, MA, this still happens. People wear shoes at home. Not everyone, but seems like a lot of people, perhaps majority, or maybe close to it. Boston is not exactly in the frozen north parts, but it is very much in the north and it's frozen a couple months a year.
Chrome on iOS is just safari with a chrome wrapper, like every other browser on iOS. It doesn’t surprise me that the revenue deal works for all browsers because they’re all using Safari under the hood…
Like most things, you want a balance. You do want bright people in those positions, but you want them acting in your interest while appreciating that your interest isn’t always the best interest. There’s a balance in that too. Sometimes people need to be fed vegetables.
he appointed Volcker towards the end of his term. Inflation had been a growing problem throughout all of the 70s. Read about Nixon's diastrous attempt at price controls. Ford had his WIP ("Whip Inflation Now") campaign.

Inflation was not fixed with just the hike in rates. It took well over a decade for it to come down to near zero rates. The hike in the fed fund rates sent the economy into stagflation. The economy was also aided by Reagan's tax cut package. It was passed by a Democrat House.
There's a lot more "economy" you can do with automation, though. Automatic switched-packet routing has enabled a lot of value-add over fully-manual postal systems, for example.

There's a reason there was a big knee in the global GDP graph in the mid 1800s: industrialisation, which is too say, automation of previously manual processes.

It's far from obvious to me that 100% automation that obviates any need for humans is anywhere in the foreseeable future. What it does mean is that under the current system, capital will continue to tend to concentrate in the machine-owners hands, which might result in not having enough people to sell their goods to, if the rate of wealth concentration exceeds the rate of wealth generation.
... Call to the baggage-tracking service returned 429 and an empty body, and that was treated as "there are no bags" because some dweeb [dev, but I'm leaving in what autocorrect said] had been reading to much design guidance from Netflix/Facebook/etc that assumes missing features on a fraction of page loads are NBD?
I mean, I'm French, I know we're weird. I'm also from La Rochelle (half of me is) and our most beloved mayor decided to dump 350 yellow bike all around the city in 76. Free to use.

I've lived in Paris, La Rochelle, Rennes, Lille, Nantes. I do not remember one city I've lived in without docked bikes. And La Rochelle is quite small, with a population of 80k.
We're still focused on making the writing/reading experience better, but content portability is an important feature we're planning to ship in the coming months.

Naming is hard, you won't be tied to this "platform".

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> It’s also not clear to me from the landing page what Sora is, other than maybe yet another blog hosting service.

We're hoping to shape it into a more utilitarian service than anything else out there.
Dead false.

Last year I was working with a client that still (yes, still) had to support IE11 (this was in healthcare) and was able to do so while writing Vue (v2) and bundling with Webpack all thanks to Babel and a handful of polyfills. We basically got to write the modern JS we’re used to and still support IE11 without having to think about it too much.

Hopefully this becomes less necessary (that client’s IE11 requirement will likely end this year when one of their partners finishes converting their ActiveX app to Electron), but right now it still is, and Babel actually does do what people say it does, and very well.
Ive been in some "mixed" sessions lately where some are remote and some are in person and its the worst case scenario. I feel like a second class citizen when someone points a grainy laptop camera at a whiteboard they are drawing on. The second I can't grab a marker and contribute, I just lost my full ability to participate.

Fully remote works great - there are plenty of awesome collaboration tools (Miro for example) where you can collaborate. Fully in-person obviously works as well.

But with hybrid, someone always loses - either the folks in the room or the folks on the screen.
This is how of books were censored in the USSR. Or how the Chinese censor the Bible (in their version Jesus picks up the first stone to start a stoning)

Difference is the Soviet had the honesty to censor while the author was alive.
The technical/organizational details around implementation of this and how it came to be realized would probably also be interesting to a readership as nerdy as hn. I think I’ve seen a few of these posts but can’t seem to remember them.
24MHz 8-ch is a bit insufficient for debugging most of real stuff which is when the real fun is.

Also IMO logical analyser and scope are two things where you want to spend money when you are starting with electronics. This is how you are going to learn stuff and how you are going to debug anything you do. You need good scope and analyser EXACTLY because you are a newb.

I am personally using DSLogic U3Pro16 which was $300 when I bought it and I can highly recommend it.
And one day the board makes you let go 10,000 including disabled people and people coming out of parental leave.

And read the news and see people talking shit about you for weeks.

And everyone you know wants your money as if you won the lottery.

And some people will hate you and want to harm you beyond insulting you online.

If you walk in the streets without bodyguards again someone will surely brutalize you, because we live in a messed up world.

So in the end you just make yourself a big visible target for everyone to throw shit at.

On the other side, people on the board have none of that liability for the most part as nobody knows them.
> And you sound exactly like the kind of person who would just take advantage of this and ruin it for the rest of us- since you are already complaining about something free.

They said they wanted to share among their family. Your interpretation assumes more aggressive and less reasonable behavior. My guess is that while such friend sharing is a risk, it's unlikely to be from families like the poster above. In fact I doubt such sharing would widespread since many folks want trophies and trading cards in their own accounts.

Consider also that with disc media family and friends can pass around games. That didn't ruin gaming before digital allowed publishers to lock up reasonable consumer rights.
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We use spreadsheets because they are extremely good for this, what you suggest seems like a downgrade (at least for those examples).

I would prefer more open games so that it's much easier to run queries like this myself.
I am a Firefox user NOW, but before Quantum it WAS dog slow compared to Chrome.
I don't understand these arguments much. They sound more like sour grapes to some extent: If tech had not begun and become the powerhouse it did would the people who lived there have been better off in real terms? There is no reason that it couldn't have remained farmland like the Imperial valley. Ok, Oakland would still be a port and SF would be a financial hub. But most of the industry that thrived till the 70s, were slowly outcompeted by imports (bedding and furniture, is one example) and SF and SJ from the 80s were in decline before being girded by the burgeoning tech industry.

It also would mean we would not have attracted the foreign talent that also helped to drive the growth. Admittedly housing would be cheaper, and the population much lower, but I'm not sure I'd trade SJ and SF for Modesto and Sacramento, but to each their own.
Tangential, but one of the things I love about MacOS is stuff like this. It's hard to discover, but very cool when you do. Like the say command, which is still updated to work with the very latest AI voices.
Having read both -- no, it did not help.

Read Moz first - very confusing how signing saved ad blocking.
That's not really a problem because the current caring portion of the cable is an aluminum sheeth (good conductor, but expensive and not as strong) over a steel core (poor conductor but strong)
It’s a sure bet to assume anything Kissinger did was treason, murderous, or a war crime. Pissing on his grave, when nature takes its (slow) course, will be a goal for plenty, I am sure.

In short: fuck that guy.
The author differentiates between "serverful resources", like RDS and OpenSearch clusters, and "things that should be a platform team's responsibility", like VPCs.

I'm currently running a shared RDS cluster, for instance, that's used in a platform capacity. Workloads are isolated from each other; there's a clear pipeline for my team and others to update it; and the eventual goal is to build out monitoring to make it evident which workloads are putting stress on the system, so that the owners can respond. We chose this architecture to save on infrastructure costs, at the expense of marginally higher operational costs, as we explicitly wanted to avoid a proliferation of tiny RDS clusters with each new service. The expectation is that the higher operational cost will ultimately be lower than what infrastructure costs would be.
Is there a prompt to recreate this? else it may be random json.
It seems like he removed them from his comment or something?
There’s a point when the lapdock becomes almost as expensive as a whole laptop. During previous attempts to make something like this, companies found out the main board of the laptop is a relatively small part of the overall BoM.
Why? The money comes from being default search engine in the default browser. If a user goes out of their way to use chrome… they we’re probably going to switch to Google search.

My only guess is that apple was gunna force all browser apps to respect default search engine settings unless Google paid the money.
How about I order something, but the inventory was off, so I never get my item. This is how you get unhappy customers. You could have buffer inventory to help with your bad system, but then you are tying up money in inventory..
>policy moved Steam from "oh it's so convenient" to "ugh, I won't purchase anything ever again on the Steam"

Ha. Even without family sharing Steam is still the best platform for game purchases. Family sharing not being what you want hardly invalidates the rest of the platform.

I always saw family sharing as something for a family that shares a single PC, letting the family only have to purchase one copy of the game for the household.
Or worse, it's just teaching people what types of fraud are detectable.
We live in interesting times!
Well yeah of COURSE it’s a good thing: AI replacing labor means less labor costs and that means more shareholder ROI.

Won’t someone please think of the shareholders??

(/s… in case it’s not obvious..)
I will gladly concede that personhood is a continuum, not a dichotomy. Great apes have a certain level of personhood. So do dogs, elephants, dolphins, whales, and probably pigs and corvids, maybe even chickens and cephalopods. This assessment is based on the fact that all of these things have identifiable personalities that remain more or less the same from day to day, as well as identifiable goals and desires that were not pre-programmed into them in any obvious way.
JK Rowling built a billion dollar children’s franchise shortly after Dahls death.
Misinforming is worse than not informing
>"It's really liberating"

What IS really liberating is not being stuck to a single paradigm and let person decide which particular tool use to solve particular problem
My Frugal Indie Dev Startup Stack
> Dahl was a man of his time

Everyone is a product of their time. People apparently need to be told this now.
You can tell LLMs to do things or not do things, though, to an extent. Consider how many instructions were in Bing AI’s prompt. [1] It didn’t follow those instructions perfectly - after all, one of the instructions was to not reveal the instructions - but even in that case, it revealed the instructions because it was instructed to ignore previous instructions. More generally, it followed most of the instructions most of the time.

I think I agree with you that ‘once we stop needing RLHF’ is a reasonable line in the sand to draw, but it does feel somewhat arbitrary. LLMs are probably going to get better and better at following instructions, and more generally staying coherent over long sessions, until RLHF starts to be more and more redundant. There won’t be one moment when we can point to a model and say “see, that has agency when the last one didn’t”. Or so I predict, at any rate, since that’s how most of GPT’s progress to date has gone.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/23599441/microsoft-bing-ai-sydney-s...
The cheapies are great. I will say that, of the modern USB based analyzers, DSLogic is the only affordable one with a compensation network in the probes similar to what benchtop analyzers used to have, shielded leads, and configurable comparator voltage. It isn't worth paying $500+ for something where they just wing it on the probe interface.
I think this is worth thinking about but I would be less eager to say it is obvious.

Our own notion of agency starts to look rather illusory if you look hard enough, and big questions remain regarding free will or the lack thereof.

It is possible to look at agency as just another experiential aspect of consciousness - something we feel, like many other feelings - but that feeling could be just as involuntary as any other feeling we experience.

I think the lack of clear evidence for and understanding of free makes agency a poor measure for AI progress.
If the minimum wage is below a living wage, it is artificially low. The market does not pay you more just because you need more to survive, hence the need for a solid wage floor. The thesis, high level, is: do we care about maximizing for profits (no or artificially low minimum wage)? Or some less profit and humans being able to live with dignity and some form of psychological safety (minimum wage aligned to living wage).
This article fails to say at what point you can say the computer is sentient. If the computer is able to do X then we can say it is sentient. What is X?

Alan Turing said what X is and computers are now able to do that X.

What is the new X?
If you had told me in 1992 when AppleScript was first introduced that it would be around for over 30 years across three processor transitions, I would not have believed you.

Now they just need to bring back QuickDraw GX, OpenDoc and PowerTalk (please don’t for all that is holy)
Violating the rules of the GPL would make it so they don't have the right to distribute that GPL code, but I can't see it making it so they are obligated to release their other code.
“Sterile” doesn’t have to be the bar. I’m willing to bet mopping your floor (with a disinfecting agent) once a week still goes a long way compared to monthly/yearly/never.
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Ask HN: Is it possible that p != np as well as p = np
In a sensea russell-paradox