skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a joint decision from all Ubuntu flavors. It frustrates me so much that every Ubuntu-wide decision gets framed as "Canonical does x". It ignores the thousands of volunteers who pour their heart and soul into this project. The fact is that we, as a project full of volunteers, have decided that Ubuntu is built on debs and snaps.

One of the core features of Ubuntu is that you get 5 years of support for your software after release. We go through great lengths to ensure that whatever you install the first day after release will continue working for 5 years. We simply can't ensure that with a third-party repositories like FlatHub. This is why the Ubuntu Technical Board decided a long time ago to not ship third party repositories by default. It doesn't matter if these are ppa's or Flatpak remotes. Any flavor that was previously shipping Flatpak, shipped it without any remote, even before the decision just posted.

As Aaron said it so well on the discourse: "Most of the Ubuntu flavors provide free technical support via forums and IRC channels. Most of our users are using software from the Ubuntu repos or Snap Store and we are equipped to help them. We know what to expect from the software our users run and can give targeted and efficient advice on how to resolve issues. Some of us can even kick things into shape in the archives if there’s a legitimate problem with our packages, or we know who to talk to.

With Flatpaks, the situation is much more dismal from a technical support perspective. We have little-to-no clue what quirks the software vendor(s) will have introduced since we don’t work closely with them. We have no way to reach in and fix legitimate bugs aside from filing bug reports and hoping that they will be answered. We’re going to end up with frustrated support staff and even more frustrated users. And all because they didn’t know that if they clicked a particular button in their flavor’s app store, they would be downloading unsupported software."
There's research being done on this: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04761

At its core using an LM alone to solve factual problems seems silly: It's not unlike asking Dall-E to draw DOT compliant road signs.

I've gone at length at how unfortunate it would be if LMs start to get a bad rap because they're being shoehorned into being "Ask Jeeves 2.0" when they could be so much more.
Those who used them 10 years ago still use them... but billions who didn't use them then, use smartphones now.
> I would like to be able to really evaluate the product before spending a significant amount of money on it, but with the limits of the personal edition, it immediately quit on the first attempt of starting my back-then tiny hobby project.

Usually one contacts the vendor and asks for a time-limited full version of the product for evaluation.

> On the other side, with SBCL I have a really strong Lisp implementation.

That's one of the advantages of a language standard with multiple competing / complementing implementations.
If you were to ask experts in a given subfield which papers are reliable, I'm sure they would be able to tell you. The problem is that there's no process in science for expert consensus to make it to out to doctors/laypeople.

People assume that peer review means a paper is good, which couldn't be farther from the truth. Science journalists aren't any better, they care more about hype than consensus. Honestly, it's dangerous to give a random peer reviewed article to someone who doesn't have broad knowledge of the field.

Maybe we need middle-ground journals that publish review articles at the level of a Scientific American reader?
Blocking DoH is largely whack-a-mole

Maybe this is so but I have yet to see it. AFAIK all the DoT/DoH are on known dedicated IP addresses. I know they don't have to be. They could be on generic Akamai/CF/BunnyCDN/etc... end points but I have yet to come across one utilized in the wild. Have you found any? What are their IP addresses? I would like to add them to my DNS timing/monitoring scripts.

I null route about 24 DoT/DoH IP addresses and my one smartphone seemed to figure out automagically that my router was serving up DoT on 853. I can tell if something is bypassing Unbound because there are things I know should not resolve correctly.
Ironic mantra for you: Geoffrey Hinton in 70s, Minsky, Symbolic Logic, Neural Nets, stay the course.
They could have made it years ago, but in advertising dominated by design, being thin wins over battery life any day.
The non-manipulated output alone is worth it. When I was on twitter, almost every tweet seemed designed to suck on my emotional energy for purposes unclear (engagement?) but on Mastodon, things are just fun and I see things I would never have seen in a engagement-first/succubus model.
I think that what’s more important than rethinking and ultimately reversing this decision is to explore the conditions that made this idea internally palatable in the first place. Perhaps features need to be tested against a concrete set of principles. Otherwise DDG may just slowly corrupt even if nobody actually meant for it to.
No, its mostly news stories and channels like Code Blue Cam where I see people getting overprotective and blaming parents for letting their kids roam. Also sometimes kids will film each other doing stupid stuff and then those videos get added to compilations
ADHD medication shortages are a reoccurring theme on reddit.com/r/shortages with a common recommendation being a doctor-assisted reduction in dose in order to build up a stock of the drug.

This is not strictly an answer to your question, sorry, but I still hope it helps.
they are adding a "verified publisher" feature very soon I think. I saw screenshots of the beta for it.
As a parent I find it interesting that they don't have sleep in the list of options. F sex, water, food ... I could go for a nice nap.
Depending who you ask Engels was the first Revisionist!
Still unfair, because being timorous or reckless happens in both sexes. Media and law have practically demonized young men, and I'm afraid it's been done for clicks and engagement, not a pursuit for equality.

These days it's almost inevitable to see issues as black or white, but however boring, middle gray is usually the most fair position.
Was about to say this. Kudos to them for actually conveying the information! They seem to have learned that what they're (partially) in the business of selling is long term trust.
That doesn't really explain the differences though. Car culture and design was as prevalent in the 40s-90's too, which basically defined the ideal of suburban sprawl. However, those spaces were also filled with children, often literally playing sports in the streets.
The latter. Which is why it wouldn't work.
Amazon Announces Return-to-Office Policy, Workers Push Back
Really strange to hear what life for US urban kids and pedestrians has become like. Can't have been always like that. As a proof, there's an episode of The streets of San Francisco where three boys break into a supposedly abandoned mansion in their neighborhood (looking like those SF hills but what do I know).
> contracts, written in code

I wish those were called something else. They aren't actually contracts in the sense most people understand the term. And, being code (and immutable, if I understand it), I don't find their existence reassuring from a safety point of view. But that's neither here nor there.

> No need to tie up the US legal system

As (highly) imperfect as it is, the legal system does, at least, provide mechanisms to correct injustices.
Unfortunately, even after all these years Linux distros couldn't settle on a standardized packaging format so distributing software for N different Linux distros is still a massive PITA. Ignoring distro packaging might be the next best thing.
I haven't actually heard elevator music as much as people say it exists.

In fact I don't think I've every been on an elevator that had music.
Yes, group rates. It probably varies by states, but basically all group plans—even ones that aren't that great—are more expensive than even our gold-tier HCA plans, let alone silver and bronze (because all our HCA plans are terrible by comparison to even the fairly-poor group plans). The group plans might actually be cheaper in other states, I dunno. (there are also literally zero providers of individual plans that aren't on the healthcare exchange, in this state—none—so the couple options on there are all you've got)
https://slate.com/technology/2022/03/duckduckgo-russian-disi...
Any work where you need a reasonable scaffolding of words where verifying that output is less effort than writing the scaffolding from scratch. Plenty of fact-light writing needs be done.
I believe they're referring to when DDG announced they'd be doing something along the lines of deranking results that are pro-Russian, in context of the Ukraine-Russian war.
Do you mean the Tesla power wall? This thing has quite a large footprint (10ft container) so I can see the power wall still being used household backup solution.
I also have an Ubuntu desktop which I've ripped snap out of.

In my case, it's because my options are pretty much Ubuntu or Windows for this machine, and there's no contest there.
I agree, but does Apple run a SaaS that has SLA of the likes of GCP say?
When you talking about "destroyed by bolsheviks" -- it was tens of thousands of people who participated in revolution directly. There obviously were reasons why so much people decided to go to such measures to overthrow the government.

Specifically, because provisional government couldn't get to a peaceful consensus that would satisfied both sides. Old elites didn't want to give they privileges away. So people took it. Good lesson to modern elites.
you would indeed be better off with pop or mint. ubuntu is gonna move more and more towards snaps.
Western Europe in general. It's not just an NL thing.
NotJustBikes is very good at articulating the problem with suburban car culture. I knew it was that guy before I even clicked it and many of us have already watched it so unfortunately it's choir preaching on HN. I hope town planners and suburban SUV drivers can also be influenced by his videos.

The problem with a lot of countries is that the car culture has spread to every city due to planning laws and such. You just need one place done right that can grow into something more European.
Interesting to see NPR reporting on its own cuts
I live in the Nashville area as well. I’m sorry this is the state of things where you are. The walkable areas have all become super expensive because everyone wants to live there.
If You don't like the idea of my project, You can just ignore it. I spent my free time to create this and I'm happy, that someone likes it. I train my programming skill and learn new thing by doing projects like this. I would never learn programming if I didn't play with it.
Given that you just claimed that blatant ad is not actually an ad, does not make your other claims seeming trustworthy.

At this point all users should assume that you are lying also about not storing search histories matched to users.
GrapheneOS is a great option for those with a Pixel device :)
I got sucked into this with Heroes of the Storm, where I mistakenly bought into the belief that win rate was reflective of my skill.

I hate the games I lose because there is usually (9 times out of 10) nothing I can do to affect the outcome.

I hate the games I win because the win mostly comes down to how bad the other team is, or a superstar on my team, and I was mostly a spectator.

The games I enjoy are where it is a hard fought battle with decent teamwork that pushes me to my limits and beyond, and in those cases I don't care if I win or lose.

I've had 20 game winning streaks, 20 game losing streaks. Between the match making, smurf accounts, and weird balancing issues, it's very hard to know what is dictating the outcome. The psychology is so destructive if you place any value on the outcome.
Hmm, this has me thinking I could build a single-file executable with a self-contained database or that connects to the server. And with a little work I might be able to launch the system browser pointed at the Djngo. And with this I might have a simple web based replacement for all the Access utilities floating around here?

I know about Electron and Tauri and all that but this seems like an intriguing possibility to work on.
I don't think your extension in necessarily doing anything underhanded today, but I do think the privacy threat model marketed by your company is idiotic. You sell people fear, the idea that some corporation has binders full of GUIDs, and they know you bought socks! They are tracking you! Fear!

Then you sell them the idea that by installing your highly privileged software, that can read and transmit literally any data available to the user, they are enhancing their privacy. This is a stupid trade that nobody would take if they stopped and thought about it. The nebulous tracking thing is clearly lower risk than your browser extension, and there are other, better, less risky ways to subvert web tracking.
It doesn't reduce the value of the currency, it increases the supply of available money. This can drive additional demand and drive inflation that way.

That's different than (e.g.) Roman-era debasement where they were using less valuable metals to mint coins and the value of the coin was based on the perceived metal content of the coin, rather than being fiat currency that follows supply and demand trends.

If the currency was debased, inflation would have occurred fairly evenly across the economy, since the currency would be literally worth less. Instead we saw inflated prices chase sectors of the economy where there was either an over supply of money (e.g. PE buying up housing, driving up the price) or an undersupply of product (e.g. cheap eggs).
The optical stuff is still research territory and too early to be comparable to the current digital silicon. Lots of open questions about how to implement multiplication, implement activation functions, where to store weights, how to move data in and out, manufacturability of all of this, etc. Basically it's all questions.

To get some intuition about the promise imagine being able to implement the weights of a layer (fully connected layer is essentially vector matrix multiplication) as a 2D hologram and the compute as pushing an image from an OLED display through to an image sensor. Multiplication as attenuation in the hologram, summation is just the accumulation of charge on the sensor side. Everything happens all at once and the number of photons required is potentially very small. An actual working implementation would be both more clever and more practical. The potential to do every multiply in parallel for almost no energy is so attractive that I expect people to chip away at this problem for the foreseeable future.
> Anonymous accusations are a fine way to harass and intimidate anyone you disagree with or have a grudge against. As the article points out, it's a fine tool for oppression.

That's exactly what happened to Stallman, who was cancelled by a mob citing... an anonymous blog post!

> A fundamental right we have in the US is the right to face our accusers, for good reason. Here's the text of it:

That's the beauty of all these "ethics committees" or "institutional boards" : they don't have to adhere to the much stricter standards of a real court of law. This is, of course, by design.
For https, we can now use the newer Lisp Package Manager: https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/clpm/clpm (or use a mitm proxy: https://hiphish.github.io/blog/2022/03/19/securing-quicklisp... )
>...working together on one definitive GNU/Linux DE

No thanks. GNOME dev hubris is the reason I use KDE
Today I even called to a provider because of this. Music worked via cellular but didn’t via home wi-fi. It still works this way. Weird.
Some people get joy out of making other people unhappy. It’s not about winning, it’s about making others lose. Cheating in games is a very low stakes and easy way to achieve this. I’m no psychologist, but this is the only explanation I’ve been able to convince myself of.
The usual story is that fine tuning is not very expensive compared to building the foundation model.
I don't have the data to back this up, but I've been operating under the assumption that the majority of people access the internet through their smart phones more than any other devices. Maybe it's my age, but a lot of people I know don't own traditional computers and if they do it's a single laptop they occasionally use for office tasks.
More and more fascism takes root in India, it's sad as someone who grew up there.
They're also the only laptop or phone or tablet vendor I've ever purchased from whose battery life claims are anywhere near matching actual lived reality, even for very light use.
The last paragraph is of interest:

In December 2001, a Whitehall report was revealed that had been produced in February 1989, two months after Currie's resignation, and covered up by the government. The report found that there had been a "salmonella epidemic of considerable proportions". However, Chief Medical Officer for England, Donald Acheson had urged at the time that the word "epidemic" should not be used except "in a technical sense".
I did. My undergrad didn't involve any coding, so when I decided to study AI, and enrolled into a Computer Engineering PhD program, I took an undergrad computer architecture course, where I learned basics of MIPS assembly, while in parallel taking a beginner C course. C maps very well to assembly, so things made sense. Oh, I forgot to mention - before I enrolled in grad school I read the book "Code" by Charles Petzold. Highly recommended. It really helped me see how everything fits together. After a second C course, I dived into machine learning, and switched to Python (which I learned on my own, from the official tutorial). Later on I took a few more advanced CS courses (algorithms, parallel programming, network programming, etc). But I only learned good SWE practices when I started working with others in startups: OOP and code reuse, clean and consistent API design, naming, comments, TDD, git, reviewing and submitting PRs, etc.
Probably no one else cares.
Why would challenges by individuals be impossible to facilitate with tech?
So you've just proven that medical technology in general suffers from problems of edge conditions and individual variability, but you expect that Apple needs to create a literally perfect product.
Well, yes, and if one continues that line of inquiry further one might argue that things like due process and informal conflict resolution mechanisms are a good idea in employer-employee relationships, just because of the outsize power differential.
Pre-training generalist agents using offline reinforcement learning
You don't have to use ChatGPT. There are other styles of AIs that use LLMs like https://www.perplexity.ai/

Personally, I use ChatGPT (the paid version) and Copilot every day and find them awesome enhancers.
"Create account" seems to be the the new "install" experience on the web. I've noticed almost every "Show HN" that requires creating a new account gets complaints. Might be a vocal minority... (It's not a big deal for me because I just use a password manager to generate/store new account info.)

This has inspired me to create a user account system with anonymous guest accounts. You can use the system right away, then upgrade to a full, permanent account if you wish to keep using the service. Kind of like a shopping cart where you get the option of creating an account at checkout.

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On my PC, I am more likely to install applications that are portable/self-contained. If it's on https://scoop.sh/ I will install it without hesitation.
> maybe it's indeed time to let the system package management(apt,rpm,etc) just manage a solid BASE system, and let Flatpak etc to manage their own application sandboxes on top, kind of like dockers.

This is kind of how immutable systems like fedora's silverblue, and suse's microos are setup.

The base systems are still built with rpm, but for user packages you either use flatpak or stuff in containers via toolbox or distrobox.

It's still possible to layer stuff on to the base image if necessary though.
And fraudulent nutritional supplements.

And weird speech-synthesied rousing music: ‘Jim worked for a big electronics manufacturer, and had an idea. <Electronic item>s for the people. They they wouldn’t let him make it. They stole his idea and made a bad version. Now Jim is making <Electronic item>s himself that are twice as good and only a quarter the cost! Buy one to support Jim and stick it to the big evil corporation!”. How did that get to be a genre?

And “buy my video course to learn how to make thousands of dollars a day!” scams.

I find it frankly astounding how much obviously fraudulent advertising there is. Isn’t it illegal? Is there no authority that police’s it?
AdGuard Pro works pretty well for me on iOS.
The requirements for something that updates the OS and updates/manages applications/games is extremely different. Traditional package managers work but they are far from ideal.

They are completely inadequate for closed source software like games. Flatpak provides a stable platform you can target and it just keeps working across distros and in to the future while rpm/deb packages require constant maintenance.

Flatpak also provides a long list of essential features like permissions, sandboxing, portals, etc which most other OSs do. The future of linux is likely immutable OS images with something like OSTree, and then flatpak for end user apps.
And perhaps get a little exercise in the process. Good point.
In general, don't comment on people's appearance.

It's obviously okay to have preferences, but it's safer to stay away from certain phrasings if you want people to feel safe around you.
But they all know what’s going to happen when they sell to the scrappers. It’s disgusting and should be illegal.
Come play with us Danny,

but only broadcasted in the room 147
I just asked it, and it said you can attach 1 per turn. And then it continued something about using supporter cards to look for more energy cards, and trainer cards to switch them. (Which it also considers as using or playing those energy cards.) Not familiar with the actual rules, though. :)
Even better, install Devuan, which is Debian without systemd (the attempt to turn Linux into Windows). Many former Debian developers are now working on Devuan.
It's not hard to subtly stick a small flat wireless speaker to the wall, and by the time they notice it the attack is already complete.
Huh, I always get down voted for saying something very similar.

It's a rational assumption and should be taken in to consideration to the extent any particular threat-model should or shouldn't.
Voting fraud is generally a statistically insignificant issue. It's election fraud that is the issue.

More here: https://www.findlaw.com/voting/how-u-s--elections-work/what-...
It doesn’t work like that.. you always need your password
It's also a...productivity app. Of course the people who want to use such an app would self select to pick being productive as their priority, and it might not even be permanently, just temporarily in order to make themselves feel good too, psychologically telling themselves that they should be productive.
>The system is designed to help students get along with one another, said Dee Mostofi, a Stanford spokeswoman.

So instead of asking a student reading "Mein Kampf" what they are studying and what they have learned thus far from Adolf Hitler's autobiography, we can get along better by reporting them anonymously as a possible Nazi.
I'd have a second stream playing looped rickroll.
I'm sure it can be done and I'm going to do some research about it in the near future. I would like to make it available on macOS too
If payment is your main incentive to work on software you should stay out of the FOSS space. Go write your iPhone/Android app or sell your stuff on Steam. Another little insignificant app store won't convince Adobe or AutoDesk to port their stuff to Linux.