skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to this blogpost from 2020 [0], this AskUbuntu discussion [1], this random german blog [2] and many other search results of "canonical snap backend proprietary software", the snap backend is proprietary software. There is no official information from Canonical available (that I've managed to find), so I think we can reasonably assume all this correlating information is true.

According to this Ubuntu documentation [3], the "dedicated snap stores" are just Canonical-hosted snap stores with more granular control, which isn't equal to hosting your own snap store.

There is an open-source implementation of snap store [4] which (assuming it works and someone is using it) would fall under "reverse engineering the protocol" part of my post, because the guy who wrote it reverse engineered the protocol [5]. Assuming that it works, this is the only part of my post that is not completely accurate - it is technically possible to host your own snap server without reverse engineering the protocol yourself, but that's only because someone else already did it. But Canonical could change the protocol any time and render this implementation obsolete, as they've done in the past [6].

[0] https://hackaday.com/2020/06/24/whats-the-deal-with-snap-pac...

[1] https://askubuntu.com/questions/1383583/is-it-true-that-snap...

[2] https://merlijn.sebrechts.be/blog/2020-08-02-why-one-snap-st...

[3] https://ubuntu.com/core/docs/dedicated-snap-stores

[4] https://github.com/freetocompute/kebe

[5] https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/announcing-project-kebe-open-so...

[6] https://github.com/noise/snapstore
Maybe you don't live in the right country. I've been an employer as well as an employee. And being an employee is super super relaxing compared to being an employer. You don't have to worry about 1000 things at the same time, many things aren't your responsibility. You don't have to worry about variable income and ways to protect against that. You don't have to worry about getting sick — in this country I have to pay you for a max of 2 years if you have a long-term illness. And it's nearly impossible to fire you: if you misbehave or underperform then I have to go through a mandatory performance improvement plan for at least 6 months before I can even ask permission from the state to fire you.

When I look at large companies that employ people, e.g. banks or insurance companies, I see employees that are much more relaxed than I was when I was a small company employer. The stability such large company jobs give you is amazing. At these companies I also see a fair number of freelancers but inevitably they are much more stressed than the regular employees due to having to deal with multiple clients and no illness income insurance by default.

So I can't recognize the "being compelled to do something on behalf of a boss", at all. As a boss, I was compelled to do all sorts of things in order to keep the company running and in order to be able to pay all my employees. Employees can go home at 5 while I worked the weekends.
> Yet anecdotally, it has occurred in every open office so far.

Open offices are terrible, by the way. They provide few benefits, and their main effect is to magnify the downsides of in-office work (at least for software development). They just happened to be trendy and enable lower real-estate costs.

> Managers were also eager to applaud this behavior rather than berate it, while at the same time looking at the actual work performed, scratching their heads why nothing was happening and then giving said individuals special treatment.... you'll also have to argue why your point is special enough not to deserve the same response.

Many managers are not great.

A busybody is undermining team productivity without adding value is a management problem focused on that individual. Remote work introduces more systemic communication and training problems.

> Those 'organic intentional practices' don't seem so great when 80% of the seniors on the team leave without a paper trail and the remainder knows zilch.

My experience is remote work isn't leading to any special emphasis on documentation. And in any case, any reasonable level of documentation isn't going to make up for all the experienced people leaving.
PC games never ever moved me to tears. PC and console games are not exactly well written, they are not about that anyway.

I think you're playing the wrong games, at least if emotional engagement is something you value in your media. What sorts of games do you enjoy?
I'll give $20 to the first person who gets one of these cards & sets up a host with Non-Transparent Bridging (NTB, effectively making that PCIe slot look like a device), and connects & talks to the Pi.
Yeah, I'm guessing (as not a lawyer) that it's too hard to extract $1000 from someone if they're broke and already spent it. Some govt agencies have their ways, but I don't think schools do, which is maybe why nothing financial is entrusted to the parents.
It happened to me when I was junior engineer during covid, honestly I came out as a better developer since I learned how to get answers from the code, I got much better at navigating different codebases. Though it was still a drag sometimes and I felt my manager didn't do enough to create an environment where junior engineers could thrive in.

I found that there were 2 kind of seniors - genuinely helpful ones, total assholes. These assholes will never help you, if you ping them they pretend to not see it and the helpful ones are always so busy they can't get any time to help you.
This was never a thing in China to begin with
Are you really wondering why multi-channel, billion-dollar companies like Apple and Stripe don't have to use the same lead generation method as a rinky-dink online blog?
Dr. Dobbs, early computer magazines. Then there was email and usenet.
> Sadly it doesn't wanna be more specific

Typical frustrating GTP :)

That's an interesting response from it, but I would not trust gpt at all to make this kind of estimation - it will only regurgitate permutations of the information that's already out there, and I don't think anyone really knows.

But yes you are probably right that I've underestimated.
"shut up and calculate", also known as the Feynman approach to quantum mechanics.

It's not imprecise. It reproduces experimental results from theory, so it's in fact the most precise approach in existence.
>Who decides they need to do that?

The corporation decides to do that. They shouldn't advertise that they support charities if they don't actually support charities.
So I know people are probably tired of posts that just plug something into ChatGPT, but I think it might be interesting to see how GPT3.5/ChatGPT might handle it.

It got the answer to the hen problem wrong every time. I kept modifying the prompt to let it know it was a tricky problem, to think step by step, to self-critique and adjust, & tried at temperatures of 0, 0.7, and 1 multiple times and after a dozen tries it kept giving either 12, 36 (most common), or 144. (Starting a new session every time.)

> This is a tricky arithmetic word problem. Think step by step. After having an initial answer, critique it, double check it, and change it to the correct answer if necessary:

3 hens lay 3 eggs in 3 days. How many eggs do 12 hens give in 12 days?

Again, show your work and don’t just give the answer right away but reason through the problem.

That is, UNTIL I gave it the specific advice that the article gave, adding this to the beginning of the above prompt (with another fresh session):

>I know that humans are biased for intuitive understanding rather than logical one. Intuitions are shortcuts that are very valuable, but sometimes they are just plainly wrong.

…and then it got the right answer immediately, first try. So this trick isn’t just a neat blog post, but empirically useful, and I’ll probably include it in prompts from now on for these kinds of problems…

(And note this is a blog post from today, so the blog post was not in the training set.)
Technically, text written by ChatGPT can't be subject to copyright, even if said "Tom Lesley" tweaked them.
We've banned this account for posting flamewar comments. Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.

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I applaud you for your honesty, introspection, and open mindedness.

If anything, LLMs have exposed our inconsistency in how we ground sentience, consciousness, and subjective experience. At times we thought we were talking about the same things, but we've clearly have been tossing terms about.

LLMs have, at least/last, given us the opportunity to reexamine important social ontologies. Better late than never.
Works for Amazon. Been on their search results page recently?
Other People's Money
What do I do now that I have a billion trillion Pengos?
Don't try to reply while driving your Lambo!
I wonder how he treats his constituents. Hopefully better than civil servants.
Most cars from 2012 don't NEED regular software updates.
This is your regularly scheduled reminder that complex numbers have (real) matrix representations, and what matters in any model is the properties it has not its identity as an object.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar, regardless of what another account is doing.

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I love the sneer towards the helpful voulonteers on the Microsoft forums.

Hello, <name>, how are you?

Good day! I'm <other name> a Windows user like you and I'll be happy to assist you today. I know this has been difficult for you, Rest assured, I'm going to do my best to help you

Please do

<giant copy paste including scf /scannnow and dism /something>

If the problem still persists, please try to update using the Microsoft tool.

Kindly let me know if this helps or if you have any further concerns.

Sincerely,

<other name>
Independent Advisor

Standard Disclaimer: This is a non-Microsoft website. The page appears to be providing accurate, safe information. Watch out for ads on the site that may advertise products frequently classified as a PUP (Potentially Unwanted Products). Thoroughly research any product advertised on the site before you decide to download and install it.
The term "AI" is only ~60 years old and less in the public awareness. There's a chance of it's public connotations being overloaded by the success of scammers transitioning from "crypto". It's yet another hot market selling things that most people don't and won't understand so the same tricks apply. When people hear about "crypto" now they think of the highly public scams (effective pre-mines, nft, "stable" coins, etc) instead bitcoin.
It's not dumb to sell shovels during a gold rush. And the thing is, almost anybody can do it.
Did this guy start as a reviewer, or is it more that YT generally feels product review heavy on the software tech side so you assumed this guy was cut from the same stuff? (Honestly don’t know I’ve only seen a few of his videos and they were all deeply technical.)
Hyundai and Rivian both have really interesting and atypical design. There are also some very interesting designs in the microcar segment where aerodynamics don't matter as much.
Hardware is just a thing for software to run on.

These aren't computers where you can just run your own stuff (hopefully). These are phones with embedded firmware and an OS that almost no consumer will change. We can call it hardware but it's clearly a software delivery vector instead.
Sure, you don’t. But Google might say “real Chrome is at the Google Play Store for iOS, the one in Apple’s store is outdated and we’ll kill it off in a few months, because that’s what Google does”.
There' stability and there's also stagnation. High growth potential does not automatically mean instability.

When choosing careers many young people prefer to go in the fields where there is growth, not stagnation. That's why tech is so popular and mechanical engineering is not.
> Interesting how our leaders see their role not as representing our interests, but in shaping our interests.

Someone called it "Manufacturing consent". I think this name describes it pretty good.

What these politicians do not seem to underestand is that those law may turn against them at a later point in time.
> The only condition is that an even number must have an all blue flipside. This condition is either irrelevant or satisfied for the blue card. For all other cards, we don't know. The card with "1" may have the number "4" on the flip side. So we need to check ask other cards.

Very good point, thank you. I have added an explicit statement that cards are consistent.
you got to love the loftiness of the ambition but then shake your head at the misery of the resourcing. £100M is going to get you the AI equivalent of Virgin Orbit, a cobbled together experiment which will likely be an ignominious fail
I don't see how the working decisions of a markerting firm would have anything to do with software devs.

The world doesn't revolve around software devs, which is kind of the whole point of my post. Devs can work from home, these articles aren't about them, and hence why its dumb to discuss them on HN.
> If you know that latency is statistically symmetrical (same in both directions, on average)

My understanding of relativity is that this is principally unknowable and we only assume that speed of light is same in every direction by convention (every few years there’s a paper that claims they managed to measure one way sol but later it turns out they actually measured two-way in a roundabout way) so you can’t really know that?
Along with this, this type of hype conditions people to view the subject as a scam. The rampant comparisons to crypto are an example of it. People making those comparisons are largely talking about the people who talk about the technology rather than the technology itself.
Orchestration isn’t going anywhere
Even if "normal computers" are left free, anti-encryption legislation could be enormously effective at the level of the general population even if it only manages to twist the arm of Apple, Google and force them to remove such software from their appstores.

"Bad guys" could still use encryption of course, but the government would gain the ability to easily surveil most people, which is what they're really after.
The government has the power to veto legislation, not Charlie Windsor the billionaire guy with a fancy hat.
I can't wait to use my own sovereign AI companion to eventually take over the moon.
Apple didn’t try to hide it either. They just didn’t make it public enough.
> How "good" of an investment of time is it to have "unhealthy hobbies"?

Why would you (personally) try to assign your values to someone else's hobbies? Is this your own hobby?

> How many people outside of the software community would understand/relate to this type of hobby?

I don't understand the relevance of this, and am now trying to figure out now if all responders on this thread have been successfully trolled...
I love the photographs in this article, of young professionals smiling and having a great time in the open plan office. It's been a few years, but I seem to recall a different vibe prevailing in offices like that. I guess you can't take a picture of someone internally fuming because the person they're sharing a desk with can't stop drumming his fingers on the table and farting. I guess you can't have a photoshoot of someone working in the stairwell because it's the only place they can concentrate, since all the meeting rooms are already occupied by other people who can't get work done at their desks.
As an Alliterations Anonymous associate, LinkedIn Lunatics [1] also has its appeal.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/LinkedInLunatics
I've tried sliding it down from the top and up from the bottom, as well as a persistent email collection bar anchored to the top. All inferior in terms of form completion as well as revenue generated within three months for the cohort of people exposed to the form.

Haven't tried a block in the middle of the text, but that's because most folks are landing on my product page, and that's had a lot of testing to ensure it's optimized for sales, which are naturally more important than email collection.
No, you just open Zoom and share screen and everything's at least as good as in the office days when everyone was so distracted by interruptions that they could barely work.
> I really welcome this, others might not.

Basically any change to Windows these days.
I'm reminded of Feynman's book "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman"

We went into the bar, and before I sat down, I said, "Listen, before I buy you a drink, I want to know one thing: Will you sleep with me tonight?"

"Yes."
The article mentions the AI Act and claims it “restricts the use of remote biometric identification — including facial recognition technology — in public places unless it is to fight “serious” crime, such as kidnappings and terrorism”, which I am afraid seems rather hollow as that is basically how it is already used.

I’m not sure whether it’s the reporting that’s confused or the politicians, but this distinction between three different things (“facial recognition technology”, “private facial recognition databases”, and “predictive policing”) is very strange. Modern facial recognition algorithms are just clustering vectors, and facial recognition databases are just lots of pictures of faces, neither seems well-defined enough to easily ban. And predictive policing is just plain bizarre - what relationship does that have with facial recognition at all?
This might be a good place for a Java programmer to say thank you to the Rails community for your relentless mocking of Spring and Enterprise Java back in the days.

Java is wonderful these days, and seriously I think you guys are a one of the major reasons why Java is so great today.
I'd go even further: I don't want ANY pop-ups of any kind in my computing experience, period. When I set out to do some task, I don't want my attention to be yanked away by anything. Computers should essentially be REPLs. Read my command, execute the command, print the result, and then read my next command. And the equivalent function when using a GUI: I click on something, the computer does that thing, displays the results, and then it waits for me to click on something else. They shouldn't be doing a bunch of stuff on their own in the background. They shouldn't be trying to decide what they want me to be doing. I decide what the computer should be doing!

We have drifted so far away from the light--when the user was 100% in charge of everything the computer was doing.
Don Lemon says he has been fired from CNN
Online Detectives Raised $300M to Keep Lies from Triggering the Next Bank Run
Hype train goes forward. Where are NFT influencers now?
Strange. On the website, they disappear from everywhere. Your subscriptions feed, suggestions, etc. You just don't see them at all.
I don't see any actual answer on the article, as to what would be the alternative
Securitization is a common one too.
It's sad because it means most disposable wealth is tied up in the trade of overpriced-just-because fashion products for the hyper wealthy.
>I do not understand why you would choose to generalize to such an extreme degree. How could you possibly have the confidence to speak in such broad terms?

Not him but it also matches my experience. Many have not learned to mentor remotely or just don't like mentoring and it's easier to show their contempt online vs face to face.
I think Musk never quite understood how other people perceive a blue tick. In his own experience on Twitter, he probably noticed that verified users were made more visible in his replies, feed, etc., and he seems to think that that is the primary benefit.
The BBC don't seem to care about being impartial when it comes to the royalty. They publish loads of articles about the upcoming coronation and I have yet to see any republican points of view.
I randomly picked the very first article I could find because I was on my phone, but it remains true no matter what. In the very best case scenario your company's stock explodes over the (typically) 4 years of your vest, but after that it will be adjusted down, so you will be earning less than new joiners again.
I have (great prices right now) and although I love the cities and the people are friendly I find the business (and political to an extent) climate extremely myopic. I have little hope for European business relevancy 20,30 years from now based on the seeds I see being planted today.
Fox was trying to pivote away from Trump, but that appears to have failed, so I think this is likely the reason.

Fox doesn't want any of their starts drifting close to sane, factual takes on anything, even in private text messages.
Fully agree. An USB-C connector is thinner and even at low volume I can buy them for $0.04 each. And if you buy a full 1600 piece reel its $0.02 each. Plus you NEED USB-C if you want support for USB-PD (power delivery) or USB-BC (battery charging) because both standards rely on the CC lines that A- or B-type connectors lack.
Today it is their problem. Tomorrow it's someone else's. That's basically how the US has been operating for at least my lifetime.
They all have issues but the worst issues I ran into were on the TrendNet switches. The NIC's would start to get into carrier reset loops or sometimes would reset with no predictable pattern. I225-V + Trendnet seem to amplify each others bugs. Those switches also have problems with the I219-V. I threw those switches away.

The TP-Link and Netgear switches had the least issues for me in that I only had to force a particular speed to avoid sometimes negotiating at 100mb. I am not sure people will notice the negotiating bugs unless their family are heavy bandwidth users. I noticed it because of streaming and gaming at the same time plus I shut down my machines at night so I have a coin-flip chance of negotiating incorrectly every day.
- that's a Y/Y number

- 8% growth is not good when inflation is 8%
State AGs call for a national recall of high-theft Hyundai, Kia vehicles
Please all this hard sell on complicated boondogles that will save us from the complexities of life. The concept of AI is as old of computers. Maybe older. People have been claiming we are just some form of AI since writing began. The turn of phrase may have been cast in anger and it clearly displeased people since it got downvoted to oblivion.

You can call it dismissive, but calling it ignorant is uncalled for. Producing the first half decent chatbot is not a good outcome given the time and effort put into this.
> - at the same time, desktop Linux distributions and macOS keep iterating and innovating without having that burden. Linux userland generally doesn't care a bit about backwards compatibility,...

Well yeah, and we still don't see Linux on every corner (android excluded). Linux desktop is a joke. You can either pick DE whick breaks compatibility every now and then (Gnome, KDE, ...) or which has more or less stopped developing (Xfce). I understand, it is nicer developing new things than maintaining and evolving old codebases, but I don't think MS needs to worry about Linux in this segment. And I'm saying that as someone who actually prefers any Linux flavor to Windows.
https://archive.ph/LPqwc
Twitter has always been something that requires constant vigilance to curate your feeds. Of course searching generic keywords for extremely trendy topics like "A.I." will be full of low quality tweets.

Maybe this is new because your interest/hobby tech is now associated with the "hustle" trend jumpers but it's always been that with with startups so I'm used to it.

Otherwise whining about how low budget social media users "Must be stopped" instead of just blocking/unfollowing and moving on is a waste of life because they aren't going away.
Perhaps facial recognition should merely be taxed
Mind that we made one-time pads (like TAN sheets) pretty much a thing of the past, in favor of 2FA…