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Ask HN: How to check if Ubuntu distro is installed correctly?
I was installin Ubuntu 22.04 in dual boot with Windows 10 (detailed information here [1]) and
it installed successfully, but I'm worried that the Ubuntu installer didn't provide an option to choose the partition to install (in "Install Ubuntu alongside Windows" and "Erase Ubuntu and reinstall" mode) and didn't provide an option to choose disk encryption (at Ubuntu 20.04 it was probably ~LLVM).

Installed Ubuntu seems working normally in dual boot. But during installation there were 2 brief ~error messages on the black screen. Should I reinstall it from another USB stick ?

[1] https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/is-the-new-ubuntu-mate-install-ok-issues-during-install-though-finally-seems-ok/26454/2
My guess would be that that SNB's backstop and liquidity assistance is a way to bail them out before the inevitable collapse. It may make the medicine go down easier, as CS's collapse looks likely. Upon their demise, SNB can then say "well, great thing we had that backstop, huh!" rather than needing to find the political capital to get a bailout through.

Just a guess.
While I agree with you, whether it is able to have preferences or feelings doesn't actually matter in this context. A simulated pzombie may be morally distinct from a person, but the consequences of its actions are unaffected by the distinction.
> that the user is used to

That's not the point of typography or design. People are used to Comic Sans. That doesn't make it a good choice. Some designs call for something that stands out in a unique way.

If you are going to the trouble of finding an "atmosphere" for your site and researching the fonts you are using then why just throw that all out with a "stack" and sort of kind of but not really getting it right?

Here's the bigger problem. No two fonts have the same font metrics. Go to the Github page: https://github.com/system-fonts/modern-font-stacks#css-font-.... These fonts are all using the same font size, weight, etc. but they are drastically different. Calibri and DejaVu do not render remotely the same. DejaVu might be readable at a certain size where Gill Sans Nova is going to be rather awful. These are all within the same font stack. Even in the "Preview Rendering" you can see it cheated by having the footnote that says "These fonts have been size-adjusted for easier comparison." How are you planning to do that in CSS? You can't.

All this effort is wasted. You can just pick "sans-serif" and let the user use whatever they have set in the browser. That's better anyway, especially for a blog type layout which is the only layout that would make sense and not completely break with a font stack.
> competition is what got us the huge corps..?

Yes, and consolidation also. Competition also gave us their disruptors.

> maybe look for opportunities for cooperation instead

I hear you, and I don't disagree with your line of thinking, but cooperation to compete is a thing, no?

My point being, an adversarial strategy prevents power from coalescing into the hands of one group, because it actively seeks to disrupt that process. The more diverse competition there is, the more pressure there will be against huge corps.
I'm aware we have "one", but I'm also aware I sound like my great-grandmother when I use it.

One has to make tradeoffs ;)
Remember the erratic behavior demonstrated by "Sydney", the Bing GPT bot? Whether the model has the "cognitive" ability to "prefer" something is not relevant. The model has the ability to submit search engine queries now; this is a read only operation for now. Once we give the bot write ability, erratic behavior has the potential to cause real world damage. Whether it is an actual "preference" or something that only looks like one based on the output is purely academic at that point.
It would be nice to get a discount on already owned games when purchasing on another platform, but I disagree that it should just be free (if I understood what you mean about license transference). Porting a game to another platform is non-trivial - I think a fair compromise would be a discount. Otherwise the cost of games in general would have to go up to subsidize the labor to bring content to all platforms.
I know you wrote about emacs in your other post. If you are looking for something that doesn't change, try emacs (1985), vi/vim (1978), or sublime (2008). Microsoft's Visual Studio has been around since 1997, so Visual Code has a more likely chance of longevity in my opinion.
Haha strange question, but no. We are in SF for the YC batch, and then back to Boston where we all normally live.
They are not profiting in the SVB bailout. The available SVB assets aren't increasing in value unless interest rates go back to zero.
> and they tend to have the worst concentration of problems such as crime and drug abuse, and NYC is one of the prime examples.

Per capita drug use in NYC isn't as bad as many rural areas, where meth has become a huge problem. The fact is that more people mean smaller percentages can still mean lots of people.

Cities really aren't that expensive compared to the wealth they produce. Its just that with scale also means demand goes up, which increases prices because resources are still finite.
The typical Docker registry software when configured as a 'pull through' doesn't allow for pushes, if memory serves. That may be an important consideration while handling the situation

We run them in 'maintenance mode' just to be absolutely sure anything the upstream doesn't have (or had at one point) is permitted in!

Though, I don't think they'll allow pushes anyway with 'proxy.remoteurl' defined.

I'm not sure I followed your setup properly, but with the private registry defined as your 'proxy.remoteurl', you shouldn't have to worry about the Hub in particular - unless it's looking there, or people are pushing bad things into it
I think it's more about the goalposts "coming into view more clearly" as we get closer to what we thought AGI was going to be.

There's no question that ChatGPT could pass the Turing test (assuming it's told to try and to not to say it's a computer).

So, from one standpoint we've made it. But I'm in the camp that says this really isn't the AGI I thought we were going to get. Semantics matter now, and we need better definitions of what we're trying to do now.

I believe an important part of the AGI problem has been solved (or is at least downhill from here). What to do about the other parts? Let's better define what we do and don't have.

That and come up with better tests to replace the now outdated Turing test.
So we just need GPUs with 128GB of ram then? Or move towards the Apple M-series design where CPU+GPU both have insanely fast access to all ram...
This comment feels like it’s more directed at the comment above mine than mine.

I’m not implying that is where Swiss neutrality comes from, more making a counter point that IF they are staying neutral (currently) to protect fortunes then it’s not just to protect Russians.

I wasn’t making a statement about its history. Banking in Switzerland I realize is fairly recent. I am not even saying that’s definitely what they are currently doing.
We're in the middle of a culture war here! there is literally no speech that we *ALL* agree on.
The docker-based build worked fine for me on Ubuntu 22.04.

I haven't yet tried to pull the resulting binaries out of the docker container to see if it still works natively on 22.04.
The whole point of HTM as an asset class is that you dont plan to sell it.

Think of how you would report a non-transferable asset with maturation on your balance sheet?

How would you report savings in a CD with a steep early exit penalty?

Herein lies the difference between a list of assets, and a list of asset liquidation value.
My understanding is that most people opt to waive their right to a speedy trial after consulting with a lawyer. The reason is invoking the right guarantees the prosecutor will go hard in the paint pressing the maximum possible charges and generally making the defendant's life as unpleasant as possible.
I dropped it about 2/3 through because too much of it was reading as plainly-bullshit. "I got a great deal on my truck by just saying 'how can I do that?' over and over! Here's how it went!" LOL, no you didn't, and no it didn't, and now I'm wondering whether literally any of your other stories were even a little true.

I got a very little bit out of it, but the useful bit could have been a blog post. The rest was egotistical crap that seemed to mainly be content-marketing for his business.
The bank sector does not crash in a vacuum. If it crashed it would have a massive impact on your life, regardless of how much you hold in your personal account. The last paragraph from this very article gets at that:
"Why do I believe (disclosing investment in any banks) is an irrational disclosure, despite general support for this ritual? Because I live in a society, which is sufficient information for you to know that I’m structurally levered long to the stability of the banking system, much like you are."
Looks like they added support for unboxed floats yesterday (not sure about integers):
https://github.com/python/mypy/commit/d05974b9b099ec755fd1c6...
So, if the article was serving up on a raspberry pi instead of sprinkles on frosting, that would make things more rigourous/formal? aka rasberry pi has been put through some rigorous/formal testing methods.

Or per ' I don't think they strove for rigour and formality.', what was done to rule out the article being baked & served using a qem rasberry pi?[0]

[0] emulating a rasberry pi with qem : https://gist.github.com/plembo/c4920016312f058209f5765cb9a3a...
Ha, not in this specific way, no. Maybe I will do some videos, though.
Advice on Interviewing for US Digital Service?
I'm preparing for an interview with the US Digital Service for a Software Engineer role in about a month.

I have concerns preparing for a technical interview. Tech interviews in the private sector can be pretty brutal and I would like some time to prepare. Has anyone been through the process or is working there now? Any advice or recommendations on how to best prepare?
> On the other hand, I think it could also trigger an arms race, and might very well incentivize learning how to write a good prompt more than learning the concept well enough to succeed in a class.

I think general public having access to these AI tools is going to create a shift from scholastic aptitude testing to more performance testing. So no more homework, you use your time out of class to train so you can use the in-class time to perform based on the training you've been doing with your personal AI tutor.
But LLMs have been proven to demonstrate intent, and sentience is a philosophical question that doesn't really make any meaningful difference outside of questions of morality.
Pretty standard in Bengal, if you speak against Mamata Banarjee you will get attacked
This has lots of lossy encode/decode cycles that will accumulate artifacts. Good anecdote.
I've never used PyPy, but shouldn't it warm after the Nth request even if you don't have loops?
You suggested exactly that.

Your counter argument to equal pay for equal work was location based pay prevents distortions in local prices.

Most countries want as many rich people as possible. Progressive taxes seem much more effective at combatting inequality.
They owe folks money. If you buy them, then you owe those folks that money. So you'll have to pay the purchase price, and then pay the company's debts.
I'm white and if shit hits the fan can scrape enough money together to hire a decent lawyer.

People don't "imagine if that was you" because they KNOW it would not happen to them.
The endgame is probably when people need to raise capital because their business ventures in the real world are crashing and burning, and they actually take the available exits and drain the cash out of the system. Blocking offramps may actually do the ecosystem a favor (similar to coinbase always suspending withdrawals whenever crypto goes down).
You might need to deal with this on the receiving end.
U.S. political will to make positive and reasonable changes, like legislating that telecoms crack down on scam call sources or prevent spoofing, seems to have fallen apart. So many people are caught up in culture wars, there's only one thing they care to get behind, and it's taking our country back from those terrible, immoral, brain dead people on "the other side". Voters don't deviate from their tribe, so there's little incentive as a candidate to deviate from standard tribe policy, and so votes are inutile with respect to policy.

If there's a private sector solution to the scam calls that can be charged heavily for, that's what we're most likely to get. The competent parts of government aren't concerned with this stuff. Congress has to make it a concern, but they mostly toil on behalf of corporate lobbyists. Lobbyists aren't hired to help society at the expense of who they represent.

Intelligent, informed voters and honest politicians would have solved this and many other problems already, but we're extremely far from that ideal, and I think still trending away.

I've wondered before if posting in HN threads like this one is a better way to influence policy than going to the polls, since someone with influence could be reading. Maybe what I should actually be doing is writing to my representatives, as that's probably more impactful than either.
Count six. I'd buy it in a beat.
For the vast majority of cases, bail shouldn't even be required.
Swiss central bank ready for Credit Suisse support
What is "skivvy" in this context?
You can play with Microsoft’s Bing GPT-4 chatbot, no waitlist
Can things be called "droids" without jeopardizing yourself to trademark lawyers?
Going by watching friends grow setups, you'd have to have staggered grow cycles within contained areas to make sure there was always something to pick and cure. The whole fresh picked part seems silly to me, and I'm someone who has contemplated converting scotch tasting journals into weed ones for folks that rant about terpenes all day.

I think a "Farm to Jar" setup would be neater, almost like visiting a brewery that does free tours of the grounds. Tour and a tasting room followed by visits to the shop to buy your favorites.
CISC operations like 'imul' and 'idiv' were perceived like curse words in the RISC world of the day, but they were actually a beacon of hope. When x86 architecture matured, those operations became super fast thanks to the hardware acceleration.

So take it with a grain of salt when you hear someone claim that RISC is invariantly superior to CISC. Times and times again, the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
Switzerland didn’t exist during the Hundred Years’ War and they weren’t neutral until fairly recently in comparison
WYSIATI
Physics has plenty of holes. It’s a changing model of measurable quantities in our world. It doesn’t take a lot of brainpower to fit other systems either into the gaps in physics, or independent unmeasurable areas
Machines can never obtain human like intelligence because they are foundationally not human like, that doesn't mean they lack intelligence. That's like saying dolphins lack intelligence.
> > relevant

> not mathematically

Agreed. I don't think the GP was asking a mathematical question, so "relevant" meant "to explain why MTM accounting is not the only way".
Ask HN: Protecting the elderly from scam callers with GPT AI?
I am interested in brain storming ideas with the hacker news community about how Open AI technology could be use to protected the elderly from scam callers. Scam callers operate with near impunity in many parts of the developing world and often are targeting the most vulnerable and naturally trustful members of our societies. It was estimated 8.8 billon is stolen a year mostly from our elderly parents and grandparents who are in their most venerable stages of life. Something I have been thinkin about lately is how the success of these scammers largely rely on the self filtering out of victims, by that I mean most people don't answer unknown calls, or if they do they quickly hangs up when they hear the robotic voice that tries to get some basic info. (Often these scams deploy a "robotic dialer" whose main purpose seems to be to insure there is a human on the other side of the line willing to talk before transferring them to the relatively expensive call center workers.) It seems to me that if everyone who received these purposely answered them and tried to waste as much of the callers time as possible the entire model would be unprofitable and unsustainable. Obviously know one wants to spend their day answering and wasting scammers time (actually lots of people do see Jim Browning's Channel on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBNG0osIBAprVcZZ3ic84vw ) but not enough people would be able to spend the time need to do this.

This is where OpenAI powered technology could come in, I am envisioning an app that would allow people to send incoming scam callers to AI powered chat bot that is optimized to waste as much time as possible, and setup VoIP phone numbers setup to send to the system.

What do you guys think some of the (technical, legal, etc..) roadblocks are of such an idea. Obviously a lot of unwanted but not (strictly) fraudulent calls would be caught up in this, think auto insurance calls that got your phone number from some website etc, does this open the project up to legal issues? In my opinion there is actually a lot of gray area as to what constitutes a scam. Is a company that is cold calling and using high pressure sales and scare tactics to convince an elderly person they need a relatively useless "Identify Protection" service to protect them from the scary scammers, scamming them or not? I assume with out some sort of approval from them this would violate OpenAI api policies? What do you guys think of my "Operation Elder Shield" idea any feedback is appreciated?

Thanks for any feedback.
Are you confusing the term 'prisoner' with 'criminal'? Prisoner is used to refer to people waiting for trial frequently, and dictionaries seem to support this definition.
Yes, but you don't want to deflate for other (often worse) reasons. So could they raise interest rates to 10% and kill inflation? Easily. The trick is in raising them to the appropriate level to curb inflation without suffocating the economy.
Practically: CS may owe money, CS may get sued, CS still needs to pay suppliers and people...
> By removing audio jacks from everything Apple is not my friend.

I agree that this was a terrible decision (although as a non-Apple user, I wouldn't care except that so many non-Apple companies followed Apple's lead here).

But to be fair, that's a product design decision, not really one with moral implications.
> theocraticals

This is an excellent Freudian slip
The letter U in UBI means something. Social security is not universal. It's not even universal for retired people -- you have to pay into the system while you work to get the benefits when you retire.

It is becoming increasingly tiresome to see any benefit touted as UBI. UBI mean universal benefits. If there are any criteria that prevent a person from receiving a benefit, it's not UBI -- it's just another benefit of the sort we've had for decades.
so true - way more to learn from failures than successes
how do you compare this to "Getting to Yes Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In"
National Cybersecurity Strategy
Because it could just as easily be a scam in the other direction. Get paid for a legitimate service, have the payment reversed. The bank doesn't want to get involved - easier to treat Zelle payments as if you handed over cash.
We talk about "statistical models", and even "numbers" but really those things are just abstractions that are useful for us to talk about things (and more importantly, design things). They don't technically exist.

What exists are voltage levels that cause different stuff to happen. And we can't say much more about what humans do when humans think. You can surely assign abstractions to that too. Interpret neural spiking patters as exotic biological ways to approximate numbers, or whatever.

As it happens I do think our difference from computers matter. But it's not due to our implementation details.
> My RN friend graduated and got her RN a full 3 years before I graduated with my CS degree.

What took you so long?
fascinating article. one brief element I found interesting was the government regulation of production materials (arsenic in green dye)

I was genuinely unaware that it went that far back. for whatever reason I had the impression that these kinds of laws largely began in the post-war era
A couple posts after that, the author has this:

https://ricardoanderegg.com/posts/apple-notes-to-obsidian/
"ChatGPT, please convert this interminable youtube video into a readable, instructional web page, ignoring all of the obnoxious adverts."

Unfortunately, the profitable use of AI will be to do the exact reverse...

"ChatGPT, generate a how-to video by ripping off the content from https://pierre-couy.dev/tinkering/2023/03/turning-rpi-into-e... - and don't forget to insert adverts for three different VPN providers in there too"
A long time ago when I was looking for a low latency solution for streaming _from_ the Pi (should also have a similar performance in the other direction), gstreamer[1] was the only usable option.

[1] https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
I do not know rust, but this cannot possibly be as bad as curses :)

I wish there was a simple Text Form Library (not OO) that would read a screen description file and generate/process a 80x24 screen.

Something like:
Column,row,length,Text Description,field-type (character, integer, float).

On MS-DOS I had an C compiler that used had a form of printf for this purpose, one line per printf. I used those printfs to kind of create a format text file like above.
> B/c of the above coupled with rules of "you need to mark to market" and "if value falls X% you have to sell", lots of selling happens in low liquidity environments and therefore prices fall more, the downward cycle begins

This is a _good_ thing. We don't want a house of cards that's so fragile as soon as it looks like it it's going to fall down, we pour glue all over it and prop it up with cardboard.

Assets need to fall in value so that the next guy can have a chance to thrive. Some bank collapsing is an opportunity for some of the younger folks to buy up a piece, or leave with a team and a book of customers.

We should have this happen regularly so that it isn't an earthquake each time.