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Frankly, I just don't think Flatpak (and its ilk) is worth it for getting exact dependency versions. If you're stuck using any dependencies that suck at following semver, and change API/ABI/behavior in breaking ways, you should probably just vendor it with your app and link statically. This can be a part of your normal build process, so users building from source can get a working build, and you can also reasonably easily distribute binaries if you want to (though you'll probably want to use one of those glibc header tricks so you don't require a brand-new glibc version).

I could see some app developers liking Flatpak as a way to self-publish a new app (in order to gain some users) before distro packagers pick it up. I don't think I'd ever do that; I'd just wait for distros if they think it's worthwhile, but I can understand why some developers could find it useful.

The thing is, after reading this article, as well as the article it's responding to, I find that I largely agree with both of them. Software distribution and packaging on Linux is a huge mess, especially if you want to distribute binaries that make it easy for users to simply download your app from your website and run it. Flatpak does seem to do a decent job of solving that problem, though it creates other problems, and tries to do other things (like sandboxing) that it doesn't do particularly well. But at the same time, if you end up with a reasonably successful open source project (ignoring the chicken-and-egg problem there), you can rely on popular distros to package your app for you, and you just don't have to worry about it.

I think Flatpak could provide two main (potential) benefits:

1. Sandboxing and isolation. I agree that even distro packagers mostly don't do any kind of security auditing. They get an app building, running, and maybe do a few basic things with it to ensure that it at least vaguely works. Of course, as the author points out, many Flatpak apps are intentionally allowed to break out of the sandbox, and this fact is very poorly communicated to users.

2. Proprietary software distribution. Vendors won't package for 20 different distros; on average you get an RPM, a DEB, and maybe a tarball with an install script that does who knows what to your system. And hopefully they built it on an old-enough distro so it doesn't unintentionally depend on this month's release of glibc. And then hopefully it doesn't depend on libraries that are so old and obsolete that most distros don't ship them anymore. Flatpak gives vendors one thing to target that will run anywhere, and while I avoid proprietary software as much as possible, there's value there.

For my part, I keep Flatpak and Snap off my system; if an app is only available that way, I'll find a different app.
Analog audio delay/echo machines work like this. They could have multiple read heads and you could move them relative to each other and adjust the speed of the tape to get various cool effects.
I see this as valuable. Makes you reconsider everything you read online.
I always thought netflix would have best fit owning a news channel that just focused on reporting facts, events, without spin, as they happen. Due to sheer subscriber numbers, if the news channel had advertisements, it'd have a good chance at large viewership to bring in profit.
Yes, but it has produced something -- in fact, it has produced the top rated ADAS system as rated by Consumer Reports: https://data.consumerreports.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/...
It would cost a competitor more than $200,000,000 to take their business in this situation, so yes.
Yeah, until you're trying to install something that uses OpenGL. :)
Unless I'm missing something somewhere on this site... this is a summary about the book by Erin Meyer [0]. But I ctrl+F'd and I don't see the name Erin Meyer anywhere on this page, nor do I see a link to another site or where to buy the book. I think that giving such a detailed summary + excerpts of a book on a site and not linking it is a bit shitty.

In regards to the book points, the last one reminds me of another great book on cultural differences by Michelle Gelfand titled "Rule Makers, Rule Breakers" [1] on her theory about 'Tight' and 'Loose' societies. As someone who has lived and worked in several very different parts of the world (and called very different places 'home' at various times in life) the book went a long way to giving context on why I feel different in different places (I'm from a 'tight' society but now spend much of my time living in locales that tend to be 'loose' but always feel a bit alien due to never being able to shake the want of 'tightness' aka rules, order, timeliness and predictability.)

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Culture-Map-Breaking-Invisible-Bounda...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Rule-Makers-Breakers-Tight-Cultures/d...
The past is the future, and it was called IRC
Google and Meta may be the companies with the most detailed personal information. Yet they don’t manage to have the best model.

As others have pointed out, the secret for the NN may be to just have as much parameters as possible. So if I had a ton of money to train a LLM, I'd spend that money on curating a corpus of text. First priority would be books and papers out there. Then, maybe quality information on the internet like Wikipedia, Stackoverflow, source code, documentation.

After all, the low-level functions like grammar, sentence structure, word use can be learned from any good text. For higher-level stuff, I would want quality input in there. So it learns reasoning as scientists do in papers rather than some politically biased person on Twitter.

(We've seem some old emails of CEOs posted online. Something like this could be of value because they discuss strategy. But these are the exception. I guess even for interesting public figures, most of the conversations wouldn’t help much. It would also put OpenAI in danger of leaking sensitive information.)
We're getting hung up on semantics. The parent comment said "real stuff". I said "interesting news". People took issue with both terms. But that's fine: substitute whichever term you'd like for content sufficiently attractive to make CNN competitive. The strategy Fox and MSNBC use to accomplish this --- and, again, bear in mind that their audiences are relatively pathetic, even when they're successful! --- is obvious: turning the news into a sporting event. The NYT uses another strategy: they're a broader entertainment platform, not solely reliant on the news, and have a significant cohort of subscribers who don't even care about the news. But CNN can't really do that, either.
> Sadly I have to agree with this. How many "package maintiners" are just wannabe developers that are just doing a bullshit job.

I'd be a little more charitable.

"Package maintainers are overworked, thus Flatpak."

Flatpak is not an improvement on any technical axis. It's going to bloat your disk usage. Your apps are going to have slight inconsistencies as app developers are going to lock to a specific version of Gtk/Qt/etc. and never move. I can go on and on.

However, that's not the point. The point is that package maintenance is work that nobody is willing to do or to pay for. At the end of the day, there simply is no choice other than shoving this back at the app developers.
I wish people pushed for a more targeted approach. This seems like a baby-with-the-bathwater situation. I know it's easier to do that way, but you can do lots of things with your phone apart from social media. For example there's lots of books I read on the phone as a teenager just because of I could easily access them on the go. But on top of that, why limit 1:1 communication? Email? Maps access? Etc. I hate the "screen time" idea personally, because it's generalising way too much. We don't take away "reading time" just because kids could read the wrong thing.

I hope a few places that overreact this way will make it more popular to provide restricted tech experience rather than a full ban.
If they wanted that, they'd allow top-level code, instead of this weird halfway method of doing it.
The Free Will Theorem (2006)
> It's hard to pass a law that protects these people because they are outside of the legal system by being undocumented

It's really not. Don't deport people who file labor complaints. You can protect undocumented workers quite easily.

> Most of the people that are caught up in this situation came without a visa so please don't conflate the two.

I don't care if they came without a visa or overstayed a visa or literally walked across the border. I think borders are arbitrary and see very little difference anyways.

> I'm saying that pretending like having open borders and having all these undocumented workers and turning the blind eye necessary leads to exploration.

You are claiming something to be inherent when it is not. Illegal immigration does not create exploitation. Threat of deportation creates exploitation. If the threat of employer retaliation didn't exist, if illegal immigrants were educated about our labor laws, there would not be as much exploitation. It's really simple, I feel that you are being obtuse.

> This is the same logic that thinks it's compassionate to let mentally ill people sleep on the streets and self medicate

Nobody thinks it is compassionate to "let" people live on the streets, they just don't think cops should forcibly remove the homeless. Compassion would be giving them housing and treatment, but you wont see many "liberals" supporting free no strings attached housing.

If by self-medicating you mean harm reduction by giving opioid addicts heroin then I wouldn't say that is compassionate, just the bare minimum. When the alternative is them overdosing on fent or dying from withdrawals.

I think you haven't really thought very hard about these things because your arguments are very tired and simplistic. The answer is not more cruelty, nor is it the half-measures you see in San Francisco or Seattle or whatever. The policy solutions are pretty simple and are supported by empirical evidence in many countries and case studies.
>At your current spot price ($29), that means it costs $0.29 per gallon of gasoline to capture the released carbon.

The graph is deceptive because eyeballing the average rate gets you ~$300, not $29. There might be something funky going on with the averaging, because if you click into the individual producers, the price you get is on the order of hundreds of dollars, not tens of dollars.
Did there used to be? Or did CNN function more like a utility, something between what it is now and the Weather Channel, which is how I remember it? Because it's not that you can't stand up The Weather Channel But For News; it's that you can't compete with Fox and MSNBC doing that.
“My mother? I’ll tell you about my mother!”
You’re mostly right but here’s a quick correction. Vingroup (technically a separate company does the real estate) has built many private neighborhoods where the roads are very clean and not full of trash and they are quickly expanding. I’m not saying it’s the solution, but if you have to be in a Vietnamese city then staying in these private “cities” is pretty nice.
Turns out you can’t control or contain a highly contagious respiratory virus. To think we could was peak human arrogance.
But this is not the general battlefield, but a Linux niche one, where the sub-society hasn't collectively made a decision yet
The question is whether any players actually need copyright as we know it, or if it's a convenience.

There are definitely some creative types who have optimized their business around the affordances copyright has provided. But can they pivot to a less copyright-dependent model? Maybe the musicians who just do studio work have to start touring instead.
makepkg is simple, but at a cost of not being nearly comparable to rpms or debs which handle a lot of stuff makepkg simply does not. With a proper deb you can do partial updates and won't end up in a state where you can't run an application because it's trying to use older ABI-incompatible versions of libraries than the ones you have presently installed. On Arch, it's very common - you're always expected to update the whole system in sync, and if you install a thing without updating the whole system first things will often go wrong. debs are complex because they're solving complex issues which makepkg does not even try to solve, otherwise it wouldn't be as easy.
Walter Cronkite only had to keep viewers interested for a 1 hour news show each day, not 24/7. The network his show ran on spent most of its time airing things that were not news. CNN is trying to run news 24/7, and of course it's failing to keep people interested given that.

Also, Walter Cronkite had only two other major networks to compete with. CNN has to compete with however many cable channels there are plus the entire Internet. I'm not sure even Cronkite could have kept 30 million viewers in today's environment.
It's not unusual, but it's still bad
The book that sprang into mind is The Overstory by Richard Powers [0]

Fantastic book but all the CMN communication and nutrient sharing seemed a bit too fantastical there too.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Overstory
The traditional approach makes upgrading a runtime much harder, as everything depends on it.

Whereas the flatpak approach allows any application to define a new runtime version without affecting other applications.

The downside here is increased storage, but I think it’s well worth the stability gains
Really? This is what you call running Linux? From your link:

> All that's left is that pesky 32-bit CPU & MMU requirement. Well the AVR has no MMU and is 8-bit. To conquer this obstacle, I wrote an ARM emulator.

> It takes about 2 hours to boot to bash prompt ("init=/bin/bash" kernel command line). Then 4 more hours to boot up the entire Ubuntu ("exec init" and then login). Starting X takes a lot longer.

Uh, yeah ... I don't think I'd use the verb "run" anywhere near this.
> silently gives up

He gave up loudly on his twitter in public space.

> gave up after 2 days.

More like several weeks.

> See comma that still hasn't produced anything.

It has produced something as other comments pointed out.

It seems to me you are the one who is full of hot air.
And now you know why there are substantial and significant oppositions to forgiving student loans. Not only is the notion patently unfair, it doesn't even address any of the actual problems and will just make them worse.
>I’m not really sure who denies that Flatpak is a distribution, but I’m certainly not one of them. If anything, this seems to be a really good thing to me, because we’re bundling a distribution and deploying it to users’ systems

One difference between the "Flatpak distro" and traditional distros is that the latter's modularity improves accountability. For instance, if I encounter a bug with a Fedora or Red Hat RPM, I can file an issue in Red Hat Bugzilla for that component, each package has an owner whose job includes handle those bug reports just for that package and forward them upstream if necessary. If I wish, I can even install the corresponding debuginfo packages and step through a debugger myself.

Since Flatpak runtimes are monoliths, every bug is a problem with the entire runtime. It's not clear who is responsible for what part. Is there a centralized bugtracker for each runtime?

Also, compared to the "Flatpak distro" traditional distros have more clearly articulated maintenance policies. I know for how long a Fedora RPM or Ubuntu deb will get updates, and I trust the Ubuntu and Fedora maintainers to keep on top of the latest security patches. What level of maintenance does a Flatpak runtime receive?
The non-stop grind of shitposting on Twitter 24/7.
The difference is that indulgences goes to some random organization that doesn't use it in a way that offsets/mitigates the damage (eg. you doing adultery and then paying the church $$$ doesn't result in the adultery being reversed), whereas carbon removal actually reverses the damage (at least in theory). In that sense I see it as closer to cleaning up your own mess.
Some medical devices like the Dexcom CGM and insulin pumps use smartphones to communicate and upload their data to the cloud where parents are able to follow their child’s readings. So, there are some reasons. The phone isn’t the problem. Social media is the real issue. For children who have a healthy relationship with their parents, and are able to correctly handle peer pressure, it can be fine.
Is this going to turn into a game where the individual who uses Microsoft products the most is considered the most productive? These scores do have some meaning, after all, there are folks who are giving the job their all and folks who are phoning it in. These people aren't guaranteed to be the same in 6 months. The hard worker may burnout, and the person taking it easy might have life circumstances change. The person working hard may be so successful they leave anyway.

We generally dislike paying people more than a 2x difference within the same bracket which means once you hit the top of the terminal level, there is limited incentive to work hard. Folks are either working for the next gig, or they are learning to extract more life satisfaction from their employers.
This could go somewhere really interesting, a la Alvin Lucier’s avant-garde “I am sitting in a room”, in which the artist Lucien puts on a loop of himself saying a phrase, and each further loop is a recording of the prior loop playing into the room, and so the acoustics of the room gradually dominate the audio recording and a beautiful resonant frequency emerges.
https://youtu.be/bhtO4DsSazc

What will be the resonant frequency of the various threads of an AI intelligence speaking to each other?
That's fair. I figure a lot of the same design pressures apply though, and of course there's a cost to diverging from what the rest of the world is doing.
If you tap on today’s spot price (which is nearly the lowest price on the graph), a tooltip pops up and says $29.

I tapped it because I wasn’t sure if the Y axis started at zero. (It does.)

Edit: Macroalgae is at $8. Is that in production yet?
Didn’t futurama prove something tangentially related?
An excellent example of the aphorism that "great artists steal"
> This isn't the gotcha you think it is. It's an entirely separate cultural issue.

Well, yeah. It's called: shitty densification.

> If you had read the article in question you posted, it mentions the fact that there are multiple cheaper apartments nearby that aren't as trendy due to age.

In other words: they are even shittier.

> "Houses in Japan typically decrease in value over time until they are worthless — the cultural legacy of post-World War II construction and shifting building codes — with only the land retaining value. Owners feel little incentive to maintain an aging house, and buyers often seek to demolish them and start fresh. But that can be expensive."

Again, you're looking at symptoms. Tokyo is basically being rebuilt all the time, mostly as a result of corrupt wheeling-and-dealing by real estate developers. But the countryside and smaller cities stay empty and decaying.

> Efficient? Have you lived in Houston or Austin?

Yes, I have. I hated the climate and the (lack of) nature around it, but loved the city.

And yes, Houston is much more efficient than a similarly sized NYC in pretty much all categories: commute time, cost of housing, income inequality (0.48 GINI index vs 0.56 for NYC), infrastructure spending per capita, number of municipal employees per capita, etc.

> Because I did. For 5 years. It was a nightmare getting to anywhere because it's a sea of paved-over bullshit with zero avenues to get anywhere outside of using a car.

And why is that bad? Cars enable more efficient cities. They are objectively far superior to transit for several fundamental reasons.
Funny, my grandfather worked in agriculture since he was 5 by his own account. He is the hardest working man I know, but I never heard him say anything about the value of a hard day's work. Instead he told me how important an education was and how I should always work smarter and not harder.
And there's a season just for that last category:

https://www.birdandmoon.com/comic/four-seasons-of-bird-watch...
It isn't exactly a new theory that a significant amount of traffic on social media is driven by AI. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory

I'm a little surprised how long Twitter has managed to last in it's current form. I don't know any real life people, besides celebrities, who actually actively use twitter. I never understood how it is able to sustain itself. But then again... tabloid magazines are still sold in grocery stores even though I've never seen anybody ever purchase one... Operating costs must be low.

Now that AI is widely available, I think it will be in social media platforms' interest to develop verification methods that make sure that real people are using the platform and not AI.
Sort of an homage to the windows registry, but it's not a "secret 3rd thing" it's just another folder.
"Experiment" was probably poor word choice, I mostly just want to see if anybody notices them or if they get kicked out of subreddits by mods. So far none have. I saw a bunch of people on HN say that AI was going to create this new wave of spam so I tried to test out that theory. My conclusion is yes it would make content generation for a prospective spammer easier but there still are a bunch of technical things you have to get right (maybe not for Reddit but for platforms with better protections like Instagram) or your accounts will all get banned in waves. Like your TLS fingerprint, order of headers, or making all the analytics requests that the official app does (I don't even attempt to make these so I assume the accounts will eventually be banned). The other reality is that bots for governments and marketing people usually post low reputation links for their propaganda or affiliate purposes so they are likely to be caught that way anyways. I don't think it dramatically changes things in this space to be honest because I'm pretty sure the large scale disinformation/spam operations were already employing poorly paid foreign people to write posts. Maybe I'm wrong.
2019 in Nature journal
> What is something that old people love that you don’t understand?

> Why are old people so obsessed with collecting things like spoons, thimbles, and shot glasses? It's like they want to have a tiny version of every object in the world.

Asking the hard hitting questions. The people demand answers!
Nothing wrong with using the DB as a mq, especially if the load is small enough.
Plenty of tools are built on that, these two come to mind

https://github.com/procrastinate-org/procrastinate

https://github.com/bensheldon/good_job
Also there is an inherent 'I can do this way better myself' as part of the developer psyche. Though no one gets around to actually doing it.
> There simply isn't enough real stuff to report to fill 24/7.

There isn't enough CHEAP stuff to report to fill 24/7 that isn't toxic partisan garbage.

There is plenty of "real" news. But it takes real money to go dig it up and put it together.
Joburg City Power demos how it will cut your lights remotely for load shedding
The Xbox Series X uses GDDR6 and has a memory bandwidth of 560GB/s.

I'm assuming apple is using LPDDR5 for power efficiency. Theoretically they could make a desktop specific chip with GDDR6.