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> The mergemaster(8) utility has been deprecated and will be removed in FreeBSD 14.0

This is a bit of a bummer, though.

I did just try to use etcupdate for the 13.2-RELEASE upgrade and it hung forever trying to grep for something in /etc/default/devfs.rules, so I had to fall back on mergemaster again...

Oh well, maybe a clean install when 14 is out and it'll behave better.

Congrats on the release!
Why the fck shouldn't I fight for the rights of my disabled son/grandparents/friend? Just because something does not impact me personally (yet), it's ok to just ignore it? What you are really saying is that you don't want to be bothered by all those pesky plebs out there and that they should be happy with what the status quo deigns to give to them.
From what I understand, at least two OpenBSD developers have their hands on PinePhone Pro devices. Not sure about any progress, but at least it shows that there is interest from the developer base.
Yeah, good point on the non-code-dependencies. While most of them I use have some big corporate backing, there's lots of small invisible things running everything getting little attention (like the old openssh story)
It might be a good idea to add auto splitting. I won't bother assigning each and every dependency an amount. Kinda like Xbox Game Pass or Setapp.
Hey Tozen,

Didn't know about this animosity or the fights that have happened.
That was definitely not my intention to spur anything up.
I have used Go extensively in many projects and in generally very happy when I need that kinda language (statically compiled, more "secure" handling of errrors etc.)

Thanks Tozen, I am checking them out now :)
8 years later an update would be fascinating. Would overtones and frequency doubling or splitting or harmonising account for any of this?
AI’s Inhuman Advantage
When prompted, chatgpt answers you as if it is a pirate.
I know people like to hate on crypto in these parts (mostly for good reason) but this is a great use case for it. You could remit billions of dollars worth of USDC to another country for ten bucks in gas fees.
Because with very few developers Asahi Linux people have made a huge amount of progress. Apple could have 10x as many people working on it and it would be a tiny drop in the bucket. Even if you lose some performance, its still worth it to run Vulcan software.

> never going to let someone else in the pool again

Then make a proper games platform that is easy to target for games that are already on steam.
Looks like regular TDD to me but tests are well defined real world use cases
Is there somewhere I can subscribe for an update on this specifically?
I've been working on CSS Layout as a library recently[0] (we have Flexbox and CSS Grid support so far). It seems to me that librifying everything (much like is already done with JS engines) could be a good approach to making building a new browser engine more accesible.

Because that way any one wanting to build a new one can starting by pulling in a bunch of libraries (layout, rendering, etc), and then just customise the bits they need (ideally publishing them as a new iteroperable library that others can also use).

[0] https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy
Using probabilistic logic is perfectly reasonable as long as you track the stacking likelihood it’s wrong. However, making a probabilistic argument without tracking the internal probabilities is a Fallacy.

ie: Saying A which is true 90% of the time and B which is true 90% of the time so given A and B then C sounds reasonable until you continue with given C and D which is also X% true…. The individual probability that A, B, or D is wrong makes the chain of reasoning rapidly worthless.

Thus the error is using probabilistic statements without acknowledging they weaken an argument.
They bought and ran the site for 16 years. Sounds like a far-fetched plan.
I do yes. It's my daily driver. I love it on the desktop. I use it with KDE.

What I love is the excellent documentation, stable OS + rolling packages, ZFS on root (snapshots!), the ports collection so you can recompile packages easily with your own settings if needed.

Also no attempts to include their own IP like canonical does with snap. The low level of commercial interest is great. There's nothing being replaced just for the sake of it.

The biggest problem seems to be wifi drivers with their closed source blob skullduggery making things difficult, but I have no need for wifi on my desktop anyway.
I don't mean to diagnose you with a mental illness from a passing comment in an HN thread, but your footnote rings the same bell my partners (diagnosed) anxiety does. They were prescribed xanax for it which helped but made them very lethargic, so they stopped.

Since you were prescribed ritalin at one point i'm guessing you went to see a mental health professional, maybe try to get a second opinion?

Other things they find effective (that don't require a diagnosis) include breathing exercises (flavor of the month is a free(no ads!) app called RespiRelax+), grounding exercises (name 3 things you can touch, etc) and indulging in dopamine activities (for them it's gaming and cooking, for you it might be sport and model aircraft). Last point is not really going to help you sleep but they find that if they can't sleep because of anxiety, it's better to try to forget about it by doing something they like rather than lay awake in bed.
Job of an accountant is definitely a lively one. They usually have a lot fun stories to tell, if you appreciate the specific darkness of humor related to people getting into a jail for being greedy, stupid or both. They also love to boast about breaking the rules or clever ways they made sure people observe them.

I have yet to meet a bland accountant.

They are also rather valuable contacts, since other people tend to owe them for solving their little crisis couple years back and such.
Openbase (YC S20) public postmortem
Of course you are correct that supporting Twitter or any service is a moving target, so long as it changes. But that doesn't mean specific bugs can't be captured in a test case.

Watch this video of Andreas doing exactly this, albeit for a simpler web app https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4SxKWwFhA0

At one point, he deletes half the HTML file to isolate where in the site the problematic code is. In a way doing a kind of binary search. After a few iterations of this, he comes up with a very small case that exhibits the problem he's trying to solve.

It's clear he knows his way around the codebase and where to make changes, but isolating these test cases is probably as important. And presumably if you fixed enough of these issues (while following the specs), 99% of the modern web should work just fine.
Good luck hiding in the far infrared 10-15 um when the weather is cold
I will look into it when I will be granted access to the GPT4.
But yeah, I plan to the make accessible the switch between GPT 3.5 and GPT 4 right into telegram.
It could destroy some sensors and even the tracks if lucky, but I think parent poster meant the burried mines.
I mean, Clauswidtz is a way better reading, with less vague information, still a bit wrong concerning modern warfare (although Russian seems to use it). And his teaching were applied effectively multiple times, with success, even during ww2. A bit dryer and less applicable for young edgelords. And more than half the St-Cyr (officer school) I knew/talked to fit in this category ten years ago, I doubt it changed much.
The 2 large park areas act as de facto boundaries. The hills and major roads also split things up. Only the NE 2/3 of the city and county is really urban, taking the area of proper SF from 50 sq mi down to about 20 if that.
According to the article, the store was closed due to security concerns. There was no suggestion in the article that it was due to insufficient sales. Are you suggesting the company is lying for some reason?
There is nothing worse than being asked about your occupation and then feel being categorized to "just another ..." and for the conversation to go elsewhere.
> The g factor going down in general wouldn't change this correlation; it's still better to be smarter no matter what the average is.

Women are famously known to not be more attracted to smarter men (by which I mean, men who the women consider more intelligent, and who are emphasizing intelligence over other things.) They're probably right; if it was evolutionarily fit, we'd already have it. But we have enough trouble with childbirth as is, and populations that are considered smarter (by people who believe IQ tests are validly constructed and administered) also often have more genetic diseases.

People who actually understand statistics like Taleb don't believe that IQ is a valid measurement or that it makes you a better person, of course, because "single number go up means better" is not how real life works.
Healthcare.gov (Obamacare) was a $1B, and it didn't work. Some Google Engineers came in to save it.

In Canada, the 'Gun Registry' cost $700M and it could be literally an access database not even mySQL. Literally probably could fit in Excel.

The governments custom payroll is going to cost another $1B and it still does not work, they are looking for alternatives.

It's fraud. The bill $1B for a piece of shit that a handfull of decent Engineers could have built for 10% the cost.

It's blind leading the blind leading the blind who don't care. Everyone's repuation is a stake so they will lie lie lie.

Bureaucrats believe the smooth sales pitch and have no clue what a good project should look like.

We need much better standards for IT projects because this is going to kill us.
Solar Radio Spikes Triggered by a Coronal Mass Ejection
Poverty porn is disgusting. Instead of helping by calling an ambulance, spectators taking videos of it to publicly shame individuals and give fodder for voyeurs to look down on the poor.

Inhumane conditions aren't unique to SF. Sacramento, Chico, San Jose, Oakland, and LA. These also aren't unique to California.

NYC, PDX, SEA, ATX.. take your pick. Same shit, different city.
Because universe is a physical structure, not mathematical, e.g. you can't define things into existence.
No city symbolizes that more than SF, followed by LA
> Most non-tech folks would be delighted by this.

And many tech folks too. My phone is a tool, not a lifestyle. I don't need my tools constantly changing out from under me.
It's easiest to "watch releases" on either the Logflare repo[0] or the Supabase repo[1].

If you're signed up to Supabase we send 1 email per month with all of our releases.

[0] Logflare: https://github.com/Logflare/logflare

[1] Supabase: https://github.com/supabase/supabase
A single hallway exit sign contains three times more tritium than all the leaked water.

No disclosure needed for something as minor as this.
Often called "USB condoms" they only have the power connected, no data. You can make a DIY version by cutting open a cable and cutting the data wires.
You should still do that. And you should read the paper and pick the bits you think might be useful and iterate on them. The cutting edge isn't like a knife, it's more like a rotating barrel of blades that take little chunks out of the impossible, and come around again.
Create ChatGPT Plugins in TypeScript
Shirt used to cost a month wage of a skilled worker. How much does it cost today? Why are you so sure workers don't see the benefits of automation?
> But I think that's the wrong learning outcome.

Unless and until GitHub fixes its combination of allowing overly-broad authentication/authorization scopes and victim-blaming over abuse of said scopes, the above is precisely the right learning outcome. At the very least, if GitHub supports programmatically adding 500 stars, then it should be downright trivial to support programmatically removing those 500 stars and giving the user a slap-on-the-wrist warning if the user really is the one at fault.
I've received power only cables with a few devices, usually power banks. It annoyed me at the time but now I think I should hang on to them!
The result of a test can be predictive of job performance simply because the result of /any/ test would be predictive of it, because it shows you're willing and able to take and complete tests. This does not mean the score on a specific test is "real".

Minimal example: if you gave a test to a living person and a corpse, only one of them would finish it, and that one would also have a higher income.

Also note the "highest intelligence" jobs don't always have the highest income, like academia, but rather involve taking lots of tests as a prerequisite.
Oh my god! That looks so much fun and so dangerous at the same time.
faced the same problem 1 in 1
looking for a solution, if you have already found it please share your impressions
this is one of the basics of permaculture. If you get in touch with any permaculture teacher/resource for other climates I'm sure you'll easily find an equivalent solution. It's all about working with what you have, where you are
Altmans pauses and ums feel super annoying - I've listened to him speak a few times and it's nowhere near this annoying IMO.

Joe feels very flat, and the entire conversation feels flat - no ups/downs, speed up/down.

Very good technology showcase but as a podcast this is annoying to listen to.
Protecting specific jobs at the expense of society at large is just socialism with extra steps. Might as well admit that that's what you are doing and feed people directly without neutering our ability to share and advance our culture.
While it works, it will charge slower.
Vestas hails breakthrough for recyclable wind turbines
Yeah, presumably OP could have convinced it to do whatever they wanted. /s, sorta
Errr, most people in that thread agreed with you?
ChatGPT generated content is remarkably timid. It is boring and not edgy.

Text to speech feels real, gets monotonous if you listen it for a while.

All this will be fixed though. We are in a new era now
I agree, the in-context, few shot learning is the most interesting thing a about these transformer models, they have basically learned to learn (meta-learning).

Some additional interesting papers about it:

Transformers learn in-context by gradient descent:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.07677

What Can Transformers Learn In-Context? A Case Study of Simple Function Classes:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.01066

"We also show that we can train Transformers to in-context learn more complex function classes -- namely sparse linear functions, two-layer neural networks, and decision trees -- with performance that matches or exceeds task-specific learning algorithms."
Of course you can just set the time again when it's wrong.

It doesn't have an adjustable offset no. But it doesn't work like that because it's temperature dependent anyway. So the offset is not stable.
Because you're still just a slightly-more-profitable product.

I wonder how well customer service serves AdSense customers?
Thanks.
That makes a lots of sense.
"Donation" is a somewhat tainted word, because it often has certain legal issues attached. Most maintainers aren't non-profits, so they don't take donations, they get income (and it'll get taxed). At the same time, "donating" something without it actually being a donation is complicated for businesses (e.g. github not invoicing me for sponsorships gets my tax consultants to make sad faces).

I understand the idea, but giving it a better legal framework than "it's a donation. but not really" would definitely help.
If you start with a simple ball of mud, sure. But a rigid architecture that's also a ball of mud is harder to refactor, and things also don't get done.

As I said, using escape routes for some time, for speed, is acceptable. The problem is making this into a rule.

Refactoring a bad abstraction is easier than refactoring an abstraction that is messy and bad. So either refactor sooner (and create proper abstractions) or skip the “ball of gold” altogether (eg: use the original framework directly).
That's very meta. Explaining how to promote open source software by promoting some open source software. I like it
I work for a > 100 people company where the business model is entirely based on donations. We are using stripe for payment and it costs us money, but you can still use our service freely if you want to.

I agree it is not simple, but it proves it is doable.
They made a better, nicely-boxed version called SyncStop[1], which I have happily used for many years. Sadly, it appears that they were a victim of the pandemic, as their last tweet was from just before it kicked in[2] and their Amazon listings have disappeared and websites 404.

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/224386777/syncstop-prev...
[2] https://twitter.com/SyncStop
Or, just, arch.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.09116.pdf
"Ongoing efforts"? Like what? People standing around staring rather than calling an ambulance? The inconvenient and actual truth is SF isn't doing shit because rich people run America and don't fucking care. The other countervailing problem is the poor in America in modern times are too disorganized, disheartened, and lack the determined resolve to effectively bring change to their position. Hipsters with iPhones thinking they're edgy if they take a picture without permission of someone sleeping on the street if they tilt their camera at an angle is the level of involvement: insulated urban dilettantes vs. people with nowhere else to go.
Thats actually an interesting angle. Sure, the low-margin price pressure has lead to increased consolidation and saving a few cents by having one chip instead of two - unremarkable. But that this exerts a kind of pressure to use the hardware that you got anyway is not immediately obvious, but probably true. Why let it go to waste? Why not collecting a bit of data here and there? Show a few ads, where they are not that annoying, really, who would mind.
I’m easy prey to any article mentioning a Beatle, but I found that quite interesting.

When watching that recent Beatles doco “Get Back” about the making of Let it be, it was fascinating to see how John and Paul had a way of putting musical ideas back and forth between them — but when a tune wasn’t yet “ready” to move out of that duo of composers then they did not want George to get involved. And I saw Paul getting the most frustrated by this - that George would add some embellishment or input - and Paul would feel like it was a set back and a distraction.

So strange to see it unfolding!

It was like this. Imagine two people (John and Paul) are working together to build a life size puppet/model of a character using wire and bolts. The two of them are constantly changing the shape of the character as they evolve the idea. But then a third person comes along, who happens to be the worlds best papier-mâché artist, and he starts putting papier-mâché “skin” over the half constructed character. They all get upset with each other. The world expert papier-mâché artist is hurt, the modellers are frustrated, it’s total chaos.

Anyway - it was a tough position for George to be in, that was pretty clear.
> Why would anyone create when everyone instantly gets to use their hard work in any way they want?

Because creating is part of human nature. Many creators actually enjoy doing what they do.

Now I don't disagree that it is in our interest to make sure that people can afford to create but that doesn't have to mean copyright at all.
I wish there was a Productpedia that would crowdsource structured data about products on a per-category basis. There are isolated instances of this on Wikipedia, i.e. lists of CPUs etc., but not in a queryable form (that I know of). You’d need support for one-off features, probably by using tags. It would be nice if ultimately it gained enough popularity that vendors would self-enter their products specs…

I imagine your site could become something like that if there was a means of opening up contributions.

Hah! It would be amusing to base it off of git and have people submit pull requests for updates or corrections. (I also feel that’s probably a horrible idea, for reasons I am to lazy to think up.)
The solution I found on reddit helped, reinstall the browser in the user folder - for example %localappdata%
Alive and well: https://www.nokianfootwear.com/
I might be the exception here, but IMHO it is pretty patronizing how non-technical people are expected to keep up with the digital security landscape. Instead of building devices in a way that, of all things, charging them cannot hack them, we expect everybody to know that this is even a thing.

What are even the chances of this security "strategy" being successful?

I'd like to suggest a mental exercise here: Just imagine that every discipline (mechanical, medical, legal, electrical, ...) comes up with new rules to follow every month that interfere with everyday tasks that you have to perform (such as handling your bank account), but you only know about these rules when you actively research them and if you break a single rule, you are in danger of your possessions being taken away from you.
That's part of the fun, isn't it?

If they can't appreciate my job, I will simply did into their so deep that by the end of the conversation, I have rough idea of what function does their job perform and where are the pain points for them.

I usually weave in some personal job-related stories for them to relate to my job a little bit better. Usually they are left stumped, because nobody ever digs and then gets them. Especially not an Aspie programmer.

It's also easy to find some of their efforts you appreciate and then compliment them on those.
> In this article, we will examine

Nice try ChatGPT.
USB batteries aren’t
I feel that can only happen at tech companies, where there is a high demand for specialized workers, and not enough qualified people to fill the gap. As soon as this type of work becomes a commodity, those benefits will disappear.
Not rely on (only) one AI provider?
But bear in mind, those providers generally don't provide all trusted languages out there already. PL/Java has existed for a long time, has a trusted mode, and isn't supported by Supabase for example.
I use CleanMyMac X. It packs several useful tools: uninstaller, system junk cleanup, free up memory, files analyser, apps updater etc.
https://imgur.com/a/NoxaYln screenshot of the dialog tree from the video
Twin studies can't prove something is caused by "genetics"[0]; twins are not free of environmental factors and don't necessarily have the same genome. Genetics, like many scientific fields that can't do real experiments, is just people abusing statistics for fun.

[0] if it did, this wouldn't mean anything, because it can't be used to make predictions, because you don't know if any random person X you are trying to predict trait Y of has these "genetics".
Show HN: Philosophy Blog, with ChatGPT's Intepretations
At the start of the year, I embarked on a fun project where I shared my thoughts on my blog and was blown away by the intricate and nuanced comments provided by ChatGPT, showcasing the full extent of its advanced language processing capabilities.
Ellie – A Mastodon Client for Windows
> For example we often see people thinking that because an LLM can explain how to do something that therefore it knows how to do it, like arithmetic. That's because if a human can explain how to do something, we know that they can.

I think example shows LLMs to be more like people not less. It's not at all unusual to see humans struggle to do something until you remind them that they know an algorithm for doing so, and nudge them to apply it step by step. Sometimes you even have to prod them through each step.

LLMs definitely have missing pieces, such as e.g. a working memory, an ability to continue to learn, and an inner monologue, but I don't think their sometimes poor ability to recall and follow a set of rules is what sets them apart.
There absolutely needs to be some sort of law preventing companies of a certain size from being able to do this if customers decide to file a charge back.
Strawson on free will and interpersonal relationships