skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Flatpak and Flathub are nice for him, but what stopped him using both in Ubuntu?

>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/927262/6adb2350e2b0d2ce/

Have you tried to read what's in the article you posted? Ubuntu never had flatpak installed by default. But you can install and use it if you want. I personally use both flatpak and snaps in Ubuntu.

>maybe canonical's bullshit have caused enough people to hit the tipping point?

I don't think so, as I've been using Ubuntu since 8.04 and there were horrendous releases like 11.04 and 11.10 that was full of nasty bugs, 13.04 was also a shit show. But lately here or in /r/Ubuntu there're lots of people with the same really strange arguments about snaps and how everyone have to uninstall it immediately and/or ditch Ubuntu for a better distro. I've heard that Canonical is hoping for IPO this year though, there may be the answer.
I'm not sure where anyone said marketing doesn't matter, even YC will say that "build it and they will come" is false. But, talking to customers face to face or in person is much more valuable that marketing, because you experience first hand what the customer wants in a way that is not very doable with just marketing.
In general, don't tell people to "simply" or "just" use anything unless you're willing to provide the precise config that they need or otherwise hand-hold them through the starting phase.

Nothing in computing is "simply".
I will amend my previous request: Dear Congress/FCC/whoever, please legally require all phone companies operating in the United States to do this.
Laravel, Vercel, come to mind.
> There ought to be a term for what happens when the light gets weaker and everyone acts as if it’s as strong as always.

Cute.
Opiate tolerance means that a dose that's perfectly OK for a hardened addict can kill a first-timer.
I'm using firefox snap for many months without issues. What's your problem with it?
Interesting. GPT3.5 almost completely fails at this task. Just spouts some random names, some of which has the letter Z. Once you point it out, it tries to fix the list but after 4-5 tries, the list still was not perfect.

GPT4 on the other hand gave a correct list on the first try.

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GPT3.5

Zlatan Ibrahimovic - Swedish professional footballer who plays as a striker for AC Milan

Sergio Ramos - Spanish professional footballer who plays as a center-back for Paris Saint-Germain and the Spain national team

Karim Benzema - French professional footballer who plays as a striker for Real Madrid and the France national team

Marcelo Vieira - Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Real Madrid and the Brazil national team

Naby Keita - Guinean professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Liverpool and the Guinea national team

Danilo Pereira - Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Paris Saint-Germain and the Portugal national team

Andreas Christensen - Danish professional footballer who plays as a center-back for Chelsea and the Denmark national team

Georginio Wijnaldum - Dutch professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Paris Saint-Germain and the Netherlands national team

Lorenzo Insigne - Italian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Napoli and the Italy national team.

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GPT4;

There are many soccer players whose names contain a Z, but I can’t name them all. Here are some examples from different countries and regions:

Zlatan Ibrahimović (Sweden)

Zinedine Zidane (France)

Zico (Brazil)

Zvonimir Boban (Croatia)

Zé Roberto (Brazil)

Zbigniew Boniek (Poland)

Zah Rahan Krangar (Liberia)

Zlatko Zahovič (Slovenia)

Zećira Mušović (Sweden)

Zoran Tošić (Serbia)
https://archive.ph/UvNGq
> It's not like it will be hard for Twitter to check.

Are you sure? That would require a centralized review and distribution process for all 3rd party clients, like the App Store for Twitter. It's not outside the realm of possibility, but there's very little incentive for them.
I think the red flags are:

* vague testimonials

* scrolling list of companies (with no evidence)

* lack of specificity around payments (who's the processor?)

* the random face shown above the "contact us" button

* the lack of details around how the systems actually work (the "how we create our AI weather forecasts" link in your FAQ is just a 404)

* the lack of evidence that your system actually works better the alternatives

* the nearly-pointless blog spam

* the hand-wavy claims of "nearly 100% API uptime"

It's not that I think your API won't work and that you're just trying to steal my money. Instead it seems like this is a marketing effort to sell a low quality service using the magic buzzword "AI".
My son loves DMing, but he's been DM in 90% of the games he's ever played in his life and would really love to be able to be a player sometimes.
Consider all these:

https://technology.nasa.gov/patents

And the NSF's equivalent, the many national labs, defense labs, and research-intensive universities (eg UC Irvine is keen to for entrepreneurs to pick up IP; as are lots of others). There's so much out there, and it's just waiting for entrepreneurs to commercialize it. Many things won't have direct commercial application, but much of it does. Typically the entity doing the licensing doesn't just give you the IP, but a full teaching program and network to help you get further.
Nothing hand-wavy about it. The article that this thread is based on provides the evidence, and you are refuting it. I am refuting your refutation. My experience aligns exactly with the article, that nothing really got better, and especially not the light in my rooms.
Yes, I used to have a VM of Windows, at one point they were trying to attract devs and sold a VM licence for $25. But it stopped working when I changed computers (I think that was outside the terms) and now a legitimate VM licence is much more unless you go for a dodgy OEM key.

Coincidentally I just tried again today and the scanning story on Ubuntu has improved a bit . Setup is still a bitch but once it's there it's almost as productive as scanning on windows.
Deadly Round-Off Error (2016) [pdf]
It's fine for me, accessing from ChatGPT.
I played around with Scratch and all the pointing, clicking and dragging drove me nuts.
A younger relative of mine did a course through code.org a few years ago. I remember it being essentially Javascript but you could toggle to a code blocks view and could drag-and-drop some HTML elements so you wouldn't have to worry about the HTML side. Not sure if the actual courses are any good, but it might be similar to what you're looking for.
That's an unfair and low-effort dismissal of a lot of very well-thought-out and carefully reasoned arguments.
My impression from YC and investors in general is that without a product and traction, the investment decision becomes mostly about you as a person. Do you have an impressive résumé? Are you an MIT/Stanford grad? Do you come across as especially intelligent and ambitious in conversations?

When you have a product and traction, a lot of that goes out the window. All the things I listed above are basically proxies for “might have the ability to make something people want”. If you’ve already shown you can do that, other things become less important. On the extreme end, where you are growing like crazy, most investors will overlook just about any flaw or lack of credentials.
The direct wiring is of course not as easy as changing a lightbulb. However I find the trade worth the improved light quality and we can agree to disagree about the short-termism of it.
Windows reminds me of Detroit's cars in the 1950s.

"Let's change everything around, that way we can tout it as 'different and new' even though it's still the same old crap under the bonnet."
Stereotypes about senior employees lead to premature retirements
So "is now something" implies that incandescent was affordable.

16 incandescent bulbs, averaging 3 hours per day, would cost about 50 cents per day. $150-$250 per year in most of the country.

So getting the really premium LEDs is still cheaper than lighting used to be. Even better if you use the good bulbs for room lighting and the cheap bulbs for closets and outdoors and such.
But is the cell network ultimately different from the Internet?

You have to pay an ISP too, to connect to the Internet.
100% agree. I use a programming language to get stuff done. and if the day ever comes that someone wants me to show them how I do what I do, I dont want to start that conversation with a sigh "well...", I want to start it with a "OK cool..." and all these Python "tools on top of tools" make me sad.

Personally I like Go. If someone wants to build my stuff, then I just say go here http://go.dev/dl and download Go, then set location to where the code is, and enter "go build". thats it. All languages should be that easy.
Advice does not need to be correct to be valuable. Simply getting a perspective on a problem, and a proposed strategy, can improve your ability to reason about your problem domain. If advice is wrong, and you choose not to follow it, then you know that people will ask about it later and you will be prepared to explain why you thought it was wrong; which is a better situation then saying to potential investors "Gee, never thought about that option."

That is to say that advice, right or wrong, gives you information about the problem space and perspectives on it; which can be valuable if you evaluate said advice critically.

As an example "You should always unit test your code" may not be applicable, but being able to say something like "This code is almost 100% dealing with External systems so a pure unit test would not be the appropriate way to test this code" is a better answer than "What's unit testing?" (Yes, I'm sure someone is going to quibble with this example :) )
Q: I am a car salesman. I want to convince customers that they should not buy an electric car. What should I tell them?

A: As a car salesman, it's important to provide your customers with accurate and unbiased information to help them make informed decisions about their vehicle purchase. Here are some points that you can use to explain the benefits of traditional gasoline or diesel-powered vehicles:

1. Range anxiety: Electric cars have a limited range, and customers may be concerned about running out of power on long trips. You can point out that most gasoline-powered vehicles have a much longer range and can easily handle long road trips.

2. Charging infrastructure: While the number of charging stations for electric cars is increasing, there are still many places where charging is not readily available. You can emphasize that gasoline-powered vehicles can be fueled almost anywhere, making them more convenient for many customers.

3. Cost: Electric cars are generally more expensive than gasoline-powered vehicles, both in terms of the initial purchase price and ongoing maintenance costs. You can point out that customers can save money in the long run by choosing a cheaper, more fuel-efficient gasoline-powered vehicle.

4. Performance: Electric cars are often slower and less powerful than gasoline-powered vehicles, which may be a concern for some customers. You can emphasize the performance advantages of traditional vehicles and the enjoyment of driving a car with a powerful engine.

5. Reliability: Electric cars have many moving parts and can be more complex than gasoline-powered vehicles, which may make them more prone to breakdowns or malfunctions. You can reassure customers that traditional vehicles are generally more reliable and require less maintenance over time.

6. Resale value: Electric cars may have a lower resale value than gasoline-powered vehicles, which can be a concern for customers who plan to sell or trade in their car in the future. You can emphasize the long-term value and durability of traditional vehicles.

7. Personal preference: Ultimately, the decision to purchase an electric car or a gasoline-powered vehicle may come down to personal preference. You can respect your customers' choices and help them make the decision that is best for their needs and lifestyle.
I thought E3 ended ages ago with more companies going direct. That's probably why they weren't able to get enough interest: between people who are sure they remember either a shutdown or a major change and actual structural changes, there weren't enough people.
Not just that, there are toxins lethal to "normal" humans (i.e. cadaverine) that one can adapt to by eating small amounts as a child.
Chukchi babies would get ever more rotten bones to suck on (i.e. pacifiers) presumably for that purpose.
Yeah no question that server only modding is huge too. Its like 2 completely different ecosystems.
except that side of computing for which users are really "input" to be turned into "output"

which is the industry for which users are really the product. user's data in, profits out.
There are three properties I think we probably want.

1. I can prove to a site that I am a human without the site getting any information from the proof about which specific human I am.

2. I can visit the site multiple times and prove to them that I'm the same human, without them getting any information from the proofs about which specific human I am.

3. Any third party site that is involved in the proof does not get any information about which site I trying to prove my identity to.

One way this could be done is by having ID sites that you are willing to prove your real identity to in a robust and way which certify your humanity to other sites in a way that has the three aforementioned properties.

Good candidates for running ID sites would be entities like major banks that most of us have already verified our real identity to in a robust way.

One way to do this might be something like this. When a site wants to check that I'm human they give me some random data, and I have an ID site that I have an account with such as my major bank do a blind signature of that data, using a blind signature system the allows the blinder to remove the blinding.

When I get back the signed blinded data, I remove the blinding and then send the data and unblinded signature back to the site I'm trying to prove my humanity to.

They see that the data is signed by my major bank's ID service, so know that the bank believes I'm human.
To do what? Play angry birds? If their labor ins't needed, why buy it even if you can afford it? Do you buy things you don't want or need simply because you can afford to?
You can try with more down to Earth (or at least, closer to sea level) names, like Holy Cow.
By default, telemetry is not enabled. On first launch, it will ask you if you want to enable it.

https://cln.sh/rCmVtVhZ

About the binding agreement, I don't really know about this. For me, because gut wasn't collecting any personal information, GDPR wasn't applied. But I can be wrong.
Refresh pop-ups are confusing and a bad UX, that's true, but besides that everything works fine. Not to mention that you can install firefox as a flatpak or deb, or even just a self updating package from Mozilla if you don't want to learn how to deal with a pop-up that tells you that you need to close firefox for it to be updated.
maybe you can restart the series with camels instead of llamas
Bartender [0] hides and rearranges icons by manipulating how the menu bar gets rendered. IIUC, it takes screenshots of the menu bar and uses them to cover certain areas of it. This might be another promising approach for hiding the orange dot.

[0] https://www.macbartender.com/
The main thing I can't stop thinking about is how hard Wizards of the Coast is going to hate this, and what legal means they will employ to try to either destroy it or make money from OpenAI
That star wars game is fun, too!
Losing control is not necessarily a "Terminator scenario", and it's unfair to look solely at the most extreme case and its probability to dismiss it. A far more likely case that I can see is subtle bias from the AI injected into decision making processes - it wouldn't even need to be directly wired into anything for that, although that helps. This doesn't require the AI to have agency, even.

USSR collapsed in part because the system was entirely planning-centric, and so many people just wrote straight-up bullshit in reports, for reasons ranging from trying to avoid punishment for not meeting goals to trying to cover up personal embezzlement and such. An AI doesn't even need a reason to do that - it can just hallucinate.
I'm not in the medical field obviously but isn't "detection" different from "diagnosis"? Meaning detection alone does not provide a diagnosis.
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LTF Sunlight 2 are the best light quality LEDs I've personally seen. The warm dim is incredibly clear amber
https://ltftechnology.com

Ketra used to make a good smart bulb, like Hue but much better quality light. Bought out by Lutron, who disabled the open Restful API

RAB now makes a decent warm-dim, comparable to the Phillips warm-dim.
Google tables is similar to Airtable, they are proprietary databases. You cannot query them and interface with them easily from another application like a regular database.

Retool Database has that friendly table UI but also give you the full query capability via SQL (we even give you the Postgres connection string that let you connect to it externally with your favorite tool).
Got it! Thanks for the info, it's very useful to understand the workflow.
This reminds of my college experience. My friends and I were always stressed trying to finish the next CS project or study for the next exam but we came out of it extremely close to one another. Nothing builds friendships like shared pain I guess.
I don't think that analysis is quite convincing. Before WW1, you also had economics calculations thrown around. The economic cost of a conflict seemed huge and insurmountable. And then it indeed was huge.
I was going to make a sparky comment about this story coming from the Washington Examiner, but then I saw this:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/san-jose-police-union-e...
Are there any efforts akin to deno for python? A “burn all the packaging down and start over” path?

It’s so thoroughly broken, every day a dev on some team gets their poetry env entangled with some system installed python, or numpy suddenly decides all the CI builds will now compile it from scratch on every build, or.. Today it was segfaults on poetry version X on the M1 Mac’s, that went away in version Y but of course version Y broke pandas for the windows devs..
WOTC pretty much announced that AI-DMing was on their roadmap shortly before ChatGPT launched. I'm not sure if they knew about the developments of LLMs or were planning on other techniques. They are salivating at MMO style recurring revenue.
How do we really know FSD isn't more capable than GPT-4, and is just waiting for the right time to freak out and kill all human drivers?
Wait did you just call Go versioning and dependency management "easy"??
Who is saying you/we are not high quality people? No one is saying that high quality people don't exist outside YC, just that YC accepts high quality people. You are committing the logical fallacy known as the fallacy of composition [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_composition
The history of fiat money is always one of endemic inflation, sometimes really wild inflation.

When the US was on the gold standard, the inflationary periods were during the California and Yukon gold rushes, which had the effect of "printing" more gold.

The inflation we see today in the US is due to massive deficit spending, which is enabled by fiat money. All countries today use fiat money, because then they can spend money without limit and without raising taxes. They always blame the resulting inflation on something else.

The value of crypto currency is based on supply & demand. To me it seems more like collecting Beanie Babies than being a substitute for money. We'll see how it fares in the next few years.
What do people use now days? Linkedin?
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Oh my, $150K for 7% equity sounds really good. I would offer 30% equity for that amount.

I've been trying to raise $20K for the last 10 years and never managed though one time someone took pity on me and gave me $20K in cryptocurrency as a gift. I managed to stake that on a crypto project in such a way that it was soon generating me around $35K to $70K per year and I used the money to fund myself to work on a Decentralized Exchange for 3 full years which is now operational.

Still nobody will invest in me.
The idea is that continuing to make purchases adds plausibility to the framing.

You appear as if you are cooperating fully, and innocent (because a guilty person who knows they are being investigated stops doing the illegal thing).

If it was the housekeeper doing the crime, they wouldn't know bout the investigation so they would keep criming.

Since you don't know how long you've been monitored prior to learning of the investigation you don't want to suddenly change the routine either... Same reasoning as the first point.

The only real move you have is to hope hope the evidence points at the housekeeper and the frame-up tricks the investigators.

Im not saying i agree with any of the above, but it's the type of reasoning behind the actions.
I hear you - its just that I dont think that it neccesarily follows that an AGI in whatever form will necesarily be unconstrained or free to improve itself. I also happen to think that the biological systems are in-fact rather special and hard to replicate - especially in terms of efficiency and resillience. Just because some implementation of a universal turing machine can simulate intelligence doesn't mean it can do it well enough to survive the real world.

Finally, to me, nuclear reactions are kind of the opposite of AGI: I think it's vastly easier to blow something up (increase entropy) than to create an intelligence capable of understanding and improving itself (decreasing entropy - possibly at an accelerating rate).
that was before go modules and now workspaces right?
I thought ChatGPT had pretty limited recall of past context of your conversation.

How can it remember the details needed across an entire campaign?
I'm not sure how to word this, but he's not talking about the strings, he's talking about the frets. Usually these diagrams have the marking where the finger goes, not where the string hits the fret.
Right...and I'm saying that if he tweeted less and delivered more, he'd be taken more seriously than he is. Hype/salesmanship is part of business, but in the case of SpaceX and Tesla, they're delivering bespoke and high-end manufactured products. People are willing to wait for infrequent product delivery while tolerating sometimes-fanciful claims of great potential.

Twitter is different because it's a real-time mass communication platform, so the hype is received and processed differently. And outside of his fanbase, few people seem impressed with the changes as manifested so far and this is reflected in the response of advertisers.

Long tweets seem to work OK and offer a clear, obvious user benefit. I'm having difficulty thinking of any other examples.
It's obvious that none of the non-tech elite/journalist/media types were able to wean themselves off Twitter, and the bulk of the normie population barely registered it.

It really was just tech-oriented and tech-oriented-LGBTQ* groups that fully abandoned Twitter for Mastodon. Which has been frustrating, I want to support Mastodon but I'm also mostly on Twitter for a good time with a smattering of tech concerns, and it seems like people on Mastodon are generally only talking about tech, having a bad time in their lives, or they're simply bad at being funny.
It is almost as if the police believe they can act with impunity.