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Haters gonna hate.

Some people just don't like it. That's their decision. In most cases its emotional.

Beyond complaints about journals being binary, which I get, there's usually not much more to the systemd hatred than "I just don't like it, humph (frown, arms crossed)".

It's an open source world..... the haters have the chance to come up with something that's better and if it is actually better then in the Linux merit driven ecosystem, then the better thing should win and be adopted, right?

Personally I love systemd - unbelievably useful and powerful.

Stallman used to say Linux should be called gnu/Linux because there's some gnu code in many distros.

More realistically it should be called Linux/systemd because systemd defines so much of how the operating system works.
Ask HN: any horror stories about CentOS Stream breaking updates?
I am planning to move to CentOS Stream and everywhere I read about it they mention how it is "unstable" and "prone to breaking changes" etc, though they never gave specific examples. I would like to hear some real world stories about CentOS breaking changes.

upd: typos
From the wiki page on "animal"

The word "animal" comes from the Latin animalis, meaning 'having breath', 'having soul' or 'living being'.
Delete the 'User-Agent' header from outgoing email
man, it sort of seems like mass media should be publicly funded instead of controlled by rich people trying to make a buck. these guys (the media in general, not specifically Nat Geo) put out government propaganda anyway and hire government officials, I might as well get it high quality free at point of service via tax dollars.
The issues published before 1928 are out of copyright for sure. 1928 and afterwards, if it was renewed then copyright lasts until 95 years after first publication, which means those volumes will be entering public domain one year at a time.
Its mentioned in the article a few times, and in a quote from Larry.

> "We’ve announced a new database — a new version of MySQL with a fast query processor called HeatWave — and we have customers moving from Amazon Aurora where they’re experiencing a 1,000x speedup versus Aurora."
I think it would be compatible, in the same way a GPU would be compatible. You wouldn't be able to use it for your display though (for the same reason you cant use integrated graphics with your GPU).. so it would only be useful for accelerating ML or graphics rendering workloads for example.
IMO this is a larger indictment of our clearance granting process than it is our handling of UFOs…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Not_Taken_%28short_st...
Corbs assistant in his later work, Iannis Xenakis, was a pretty interesting guy. He was responsible for a substantial portion of La Tourette for example.

He was an architect, engineer, musician and mathematician, but i think he is mostly remembered as a composer. His quasi philosophical treatise on mathematical composition of music actually has the full code of one of his music programs (in Fortran). It is a really interesting read.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iannis_Xenakis

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formalized_Music
It seems to use a different tokenizer than LLaMA, though the neural network architecture is the same.
The hardware being limited is not an excuse. It's of course much more work to polish high-fidelity graphics than it is to polish something on an old console where you only have a few pixels to work with. Zelda looks and runs abysmally compared to any modern non-Switch game. People should stop giving Nintendo passes for that.
People don't want micropayments because even now in 2023 the entire payments industry seems to not be able to design a payment flow that doesn't suck. The UX on almost all payments is just terrible. Being gated behind login flows, awkward input forms, TOU acceptance dialogues, receipt and confirmation screens, and being bounced back and forth between the store and third-party systems is just an overall awful experience. I don't care how much something costs, if it takes me more time to pay for an article than it does to read it, I'm out. I still remember the very first time I used Google Pay on my Android in a physical store as it was such a magical experience. I actually stopped myself twice on the way out of the store to do a double-take at my receipt to confirm I had actually paid - it was that fast and easy. Micropayments need that magic and speed. If the only thing standing between me and an article I'm interested in is a FaceID auth, that's very acceptable. This flow can be done today, it's just that no one is willing to strip the process down to its most basic form. If you can solve that first step then there's only 99 more problems to go.
> The former, nevertheless, costs at least $3,000 more

But why? I would think with less size, energy, and weight constraints, it would be cheaper to make. Or at least it could be cheaper. And if it cost less, there would be a reason to choose it. So the only reasons I can think of for it to be so much more expensive, is they don't want it to compete with MacBook sales, and/or they are trying to extract as much revenue as possible from the niche customers who absolutely need PCIe slots.
I love rule 5.

Each function should have on average, at least two assertions that cannot be checked statically, and the calling code must try to recover from the failure.

So much for writing code that doesn’t suffer from the halting problem, or that has high branch coverage!
Inb4 NACS combo plug haha.

In all seriousness, if they can accommodate 800V vehicles then CCS1 is over.
That solves the problem of profitably charging the card (maybe) but it doesn’t solve the issue of convincing people to sign up and pay for something that costs 5c.
Yup, I worked at a car wash and the water coming off of cars is absolutely disgusting. Had to wear some sort of hazmat type suit to clean the trench as we called it.
That's a narrative that spez is actively pushing, but it's pretty far from the truth. I wasn't a mod, but I deleted my 17-year-old account (and 17,000 comments) and refuse to even lurk there now. I saw several older accounts do the same or plan to on the 1st.
Congrats on your success.
Curious to know how this is different from Pendo (https://www.pendo.io/)
I don't see why people struggle with consciousness. I've found it to be concrete. It's the experience of having inputs (vision/hearing/etc) and outputs (response to stimuli). Whether or not you're actively aware of "hey, I have inputs and outputs" doesn't really matter. It's just the process of it.

Do you have a pet dog or cat? It's obviously conscious. I guess my construct breaks down if we consider things like plants, they obviously respond to their environment.
A real world example of relatively complex filter conditions + flattened transformations simplified with comprehension I usually bring up is: https://github.com/hexpm/bob/blob/177a4354a25cb4f2f2f0349ccd...
Export to Britain. They're the kings subjects right? Let ol Charlie look after em out he's got enough cash.
I can make two observations that explain some of it.

Other aspects of a language can matter more than the types. Python, for example, was a well constructed language in many ways that make up for much of its disadvantage on the typing side.

Many commonly used statically typed languages have poor type systems. They will both fail to detect some important errors (like null pointers) and get in the way when writing more generic code.
And the sites that list every possible phone number in a given area code, just so that they'll be a search hit for someone searching for a phone number. Zero value provided there.
Do we really have to assume FTL? Why couldn't the aliens be from, say, Europa?
Wildlife officials holding open houses to discuss West Coast sea otter recovery
https://huggingface.co/blog/stackllama

You can easily finetune 7B or 15B LORA model with that on consumer GPUs.
analratassart would probably be just as bad
That was my first thought as well. Kinda tangential but I am from India and UPI is giving these major global payment networks sleepless nights here. Granted UPI has a long way to go but it is already so ubiquitous and convenient at this point. Google already has a foot in the door and VISA and MC have stated their intention to enter the market few months ago. I guess they might as well do that with an acquisition or two.
Starburst just laid off 15%
No comment just miscalculated growth
We already have the Payment Request API, which is more than enough to handle this. My general view on the "process" mostly revolves around the UX from the customer's perspective. Someone needs to build a flow and say, this is how it works, take it or leave it.
Remember plutonium is 23,222,915,000 wh/kg, and antimatter is 24,965,421,631,578 wh/kg :)
I'm guessing that it's because U just happens to appear in some popular four letter words, which might make things awkward when you're reading letters out to another person over the phone. It might also come before a lot of other rude letter combinations making them seem more personal.
Use OSF (osf.io) instead, which is made for open science
Do you actually believe that US is not accepting of corruption and is not a weak culture?

For a country that is insanely rich, it’s sad to see poor and middle class being screwed over at every turn of their lives. Pharma , healthcare, crony capitalism, bank crisis , false flag wars … the list goes on.

The reality is that poor countries have to cut corners due to lack of resources and people turn their blind eye because “something is better than nothing”.
Couldn't stand any of them. So there's 1.
Do you know a dataset for fine-tuning roleplaying?
For a solar roof and a battery on a typical Texas sized house? I'm going to need to see a source on that one.
TIL! Thank you for the detailed explanation and links to additional context.
Pseudoclass seems like the obvious answer here but maybe there's a reason that's undesirable that I'm not familiar with.
I've been thinking that mastering the 40+ year old awk language for data manipulation would probably not be harder for a regular accountant than mastering Excel formulae. Being good with awk would possibly add a lot of flexibility to that casual data worker's general computer workflow -- for something like 1% of the cost in terms of computation power.

In reality, because of how tools were introduced to them, I guess most accountants never think outside the GUI-based paradigm.
I pirate because a lot of content is not available in my country. I pay for all the services that are available to me. Plex serves me well for the ones I can't buy and I bought a lifetime subscription last year. If they asked for money for future updates I'd probably pay if the amount was reasonable.
Rust solves the pointer escape problem via static analysis and annotations, so that’s feeling pretty dated too.

Similarly, allocation is fine with today’s large memories. You need to bound the request queue depth and the amount of memory allocated per request though.

I also question the idea that safety critical code is a special class that is distinct from normal code.

Buggy consumer devices lead to all sorts of deaths — after all, a one in a billion scenario is going to hit a few people per day on average — for example, look at the correlated 999 and 911 spam that hit iOS and (separately) android this week.
https://www.teamblind.com/post/Today-Starburst-Data-is-layin...
We need a way of benchmarking all the things super easily, so you can say, "version x of this app is 3.2 times slower than version y, and compared to xx software, it's 30% slower". Then the bean counters will have numbers to put in their powerpoint slides, and it can be a point of differentiation between companies.

Like a standard GUI test suite. One click and it's measured. It could ignore or use predefined times for each network query.
So by this definition bacteria has consciousness. I would have to disagree that bacteria are conscious.
I'm afraid I don't understand the motivation behind sharing this link. It's a bunch of plaintext lines with no context whatsoever.

> Musk Foundation
> Grants are made in support of:
> Renewable energy research and advocacy
> Human space exploration research and advocacy
> Pediatric research
> Science and engineering education
> Development of safe artificial intelligence to benefit humanity

Care to provide some insight into it?
> He's just spouting complete nonsense that has been debunked to an absolutely ludicrous degree

As someone who has only recently become aware of rfk in any form other than people referring to him as a kook, I'm surprised by statements like these.

Maybe his positions in the past were more extreme? This is from a town hall tonight, I'm curious if this is the kind of complete nonsense that you mean:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KLxBwIupF88

The highlights seem to be that he and his kids are vaccinated, but that he wants to see childhood vaccines subjected to placebo controlled trials (and he claims with some substantiation that the existing ones have not had placebo controlled trials, though I can't validate that).

I don't know, it didn't seem all that whacky to me.
Ask HN: What companies do you admire for their user/customer support?
Support experience can make or break a product experience for users. I think there's a lot you can glance about a company/product's trajectory by looking at how their support functions, especially for startups looking to kick some incumbents by embellishing support as a key differentiator in their offerings.

I think there's a lot to unpack in the nitty-gritty - would love to hear HN's thoughts on companies they've seen doing this well -- big or small, a brand name or unknown, ...
Ha! Somewhat unrelated, but that reminded me of a homeless guy in Portland whose intro line was "do you know how you say dragonfly in Spanish?", to which I responded "libélula" (I knew it because Spanish is my mother tongue). Interesting, he seemed kinda pissed off, as I spoiled his soliciting routine. Maybe he's the human version of those sites!
I read that line a few times and still don't know what it means.
In the same way that Spotify bought podcasters, I wonder if Netflix or a new competitor could lure creators from YouTube. There are some great, quality solo or small-team creators on YouTube that could increasingly anchor a platform.
I wish there was a “this is tail recursive; if you cannot turn it into a loop, fail to compile” compiler annotation for C++/rust.
Skip intro feature is only available on paid version and works really well.
Indeed, most companies violate this requirement and copyright holders of GPLed code generally don't have legal/economic resources needed to enforce the license.

There is a test case that will, if successful, allow all recipients of GPLed code to sue for GPL compliance, this will open up the possibility of enforcement to users too, which could potentially lead to class action GPL lawsuits.

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html

On cars, read through the presentation above, it discusses GPLv3 in cars and how that could work. Basically, there is a lot of proprietary software on top of the GPLed software in cars. When you modify the GPLed software, the other software would stop working (or be removed), and so your car would stop driving until you replaced it. You would then need to write replacements, you could then drive on your own property, or get them certified by the relevant authorities for use on public roads.

https://events19.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017...
> Do you assume, US fighter pilots get stumped by birds often?

Planes specifically have cockpit warnings because U.S. fighter pilots get confused by the difference between sky and sea.

Just because you're good at something doesn't make you an expert at everything or your experience is infallible.
Rule 5 prohibits programs that average less than two undecidable branches per function.
Could that be related with PS3, IIRC, being, easier to play "backup" games than X360?
That blog post demonstrates that it's not "easily" finetuneable, just possible to finetune. There's many technical considerations even beyond hardware (dataset formatting, training hyperparameter nuances) that do not make it accessible to the newbie experimenting with LLMs.

It's a rabbithole, and unfortunately there's no good shortcuts.
I just saw this.

MS was already a monopolist in 1990. It just took awhile for the government to notice.
It’s not too difficult to write your own encoding. Probably 10 lines of code or less if you hard-code your encoding alphabet.
Autonomy seems important as well. Plants are at the mercy of their environment to a much larger degree than conscious animals that can strategically assess their environment.
This is why I can't help but mentally roll my eyes when people say that static typing makes programming slower.

It makes writing the happy path slower, but is writing the happy path _programming?_

By the time you have a program which is complete and (at least mostly) bug free, the static typing has saved you hundreds of hours.
They said gpt would increase productivity, but I don't think they meant the productivity of spammers!
This is shit design.
Basically, this. ^

I fitted an off road style fuel tank on a truck I had, but I opted for the version without sponges/baffles. It would try to stall when stopping on a low tank.
If you believe having no agreed-upon definition of “consciousness” means we should not bother talking about it at all, try to define the “I” in “I don’t know what consciousness is and therefore refuse to talk about it”, you might get a tad closer to the crux of the issue and perhaps see why it is considered “the hard problem”.
I love how he was referring or me but you’re so arrogant you thought he was talking to you.
Every single one of the guys who writes these articles owns office real estate, guaranteed.

remote workers: “This is great and I’m more productive.”

managers: “I was skeptical but honestly this is fine.”

upper brass: “We’re so far removed from the trenches that we are completely divorced from reality, so this sucks and needs to come to an end.”

folks who own office buildings: “Thoughtful essay about how the results are in from the work-from-home experiment, I bet you can’t guess what conclusion I’ve come to”
The dynamics in engineering companies have a lot in common with the dynamics in software companies.
I interpreted their message as saying Erlang is more functional than Elixir, which didn't really make sense to me personally. (I think they are both the same amount of "functional")
The mods are losing. If you search for "reddit gamedev" on Google, /r/gamedev is nowhere in sight, instead you'll see /r/gamedevelopment and /r/truegamedev (which are not private). The "eternal september" effect means that those other communities will quickly surpass /r/gamedev. It's simple internetology.
Another scam by Musk
This was the first time I heard of img.ly and had a little hobby project I was considering where the tools might be a nice fit... but the terms and cost is extremely opaque. Feels a little surprising given how pleasingly usable and straight-forward this open source software is.

(I _think_ as long as I'm doing a hobby project I could use the img.ly CE.SDK for free indefinitely...? The only restriction is on "production" but what does that mean?)

Probably these products don't match what I'm looking for, but it was all a little hard to ingest. That said, background-removal looks very easy to use and probably does fit my needs, so kudos for that. As someone who loves the ease of prototyping 100% in the browser this is also great!
They will also be unable to burn whale blubber to heat the house of lords, but is there an actual risk of a production shortage due to the lack of coal plants?

The graph says other sources have come online, and the article doesn’t address this.
Bacteria using their flagella to move away from danger seems like a conscious decision to me. It's analogous to the "Are viruses life?" question, where on the fringe it does get a bit more interesting. Any poorly defined term is going to raise interesting questions on its edge cases.
In the footer they link to several versus pages, including one for Pendo[1]. Perhaps that can shed some light?

[1]: https://www.june.so/blog/june-vs-pendo
But still, it's just unfathomable that in billions
of years across billions of trillions of star systems,
that only one developed intelligent life

Only a vanishingly small portion of them will develop advanced tools, much less explore the universe. We have some pretty intelligent non-human life here on earth, but it doesn't seem like squids, elephants, or dolphins are on an upward intelligence trajectory and seem unlikely to explore the galaxy (apologies to Douglas Adams w.r.t. dolphines)

It's also important IMO to understand that advanced intelligence is not an inevitable goal of evolution. Evolution only "cares" about survival. That can result in intelligent life, but it can just as often result in horseshoe crabs -- creatures of low intelligence that fill a niche perfectly and resiliently.

Intelligence is a really tough way to survive. You need a metabolically expensiv and fragile brain (or brains)

I'm a believer of the notion of "great filter(s)."

I think most civilizations on a path to interstellar travel have to pass through a nuclear fission phase (how do you build advanced stuff without discovering this?) and I think a great % of civilizations will end/cripple themselves during this phase via nuclear war. This will filter out a lot of civilizations.

The next challenging filter would be making serious efforts at exploring/colonizing/exploiting other planets and solar systems before exhausting their own home planet's resources or making it unlivable. The human race is definitely on pace to lose this race.
They are looking at downsizing or trying to get more out of each developer. Kids mean less focus so they might be trying to phase you out.

Not a place you want to stick around because if you got sick, needed timeoff or got old you would be in the same position.

Having said that you can follow a few strategies.

- You have the work as hard as possible, burn yourself out and get fired and do poorly on interviews because you are stuck on your old position

- You can try to embed yourself in a critical role but you probably needed to be already in such a role

- You can try to make yourself less visible and avoid thd boss hoping time heals all

- You can start preparing for the interview circuit and get a headstart when the ball drops

I would advise not involving hr unless you want to sue and start your job search immediately. I would do my best to address issues raised but not go overboard where it affects your homelife/health. The most important thing is staying mentally positive and giving an honest effort goes a longway when you are creating your story for the interview circuit.

When you least expect it they will keep you around when you think you have a job for life someone buys the company and lets you go. You never know what may happen, money struggles might push your boss out and create new opportunities. Keep grinding it out.
wait what if eating gods tasty animals in eden was the original sin
They are the rules for JPL, where they are sending shit to other planets and have 1 incredibly expensive shot to get the software right on the first try. The software cannot have an unrecoverable error condition and the safety critical portions of the code like that used for landing the spacecraft need to work on the first shot no matter what goes wrong. Even other spacecraft don’t need to have as strict rules but this is a different playing field
I live in New Orleans and I have to say I feel safer there than San Francisco