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I have been using different Linux distros, and I decided to settle on Linux Mint Mate edition: based on debian/ubuntu.

I tried Manjaro, the concept is very cool, but adding my Canon Pixma 5051 driver was extremely difficult, and adding OneDrive support was also difficult (getting some errors at compile time, no matter what package from AUR I choose), so I decided not to use it.

Furthermore, I also tried Fedora, Mate edition. I was really surprised how unpolished it looks compared to any other Mate editions (Mint, Manjaro, Solus (solus is the most polished of them all), Ubuntu).

It is my understanding (and I am not an expert in Linux at all), that deb is better than RPM, so can I ask you, why Fedora?

By the way, you can install Windows 10/11 Enterprise (10 IoT will be supported till 2035), which has none of these problems.
When in rome ...
True this.

I tried it once a long time ago; it failed to find the sqlite3 command (back when SQLite was part of base). I spent way too much time debugging a sqlite-based script until I noticed /usr/bin/sqlite3 was still on my system.

"sysclean is a perl(1) script designed to help remove obsolete files, users and groups, between OpenBSD upgrades."

Or you could read the release notes.
Not everywhere is the US.
They should be listed as a kernel contributor based on a miniscule patch.

Lines of code modified is a notoriously bad signal for estimating the significance of software engineering contributions. And at the end of the day, credit is damn near free to give out and volunteer projects ought to let it run like water.
I agree. I think apps that would initially benefit from LLM-powered conversational interfaces are those that have the following traits:

- constrained context
- part of a hands-free workflow

A couple use-cases I have been pondering are driving assistant and cooking assistant.

People are already used to using their phone or car's nav system to give them directions to an unfamiliar place. But even with such a system it's useful to have a human navigator in the car with you to answer various questions:

- What's my next turn again?
- How long till we get there?
- Are there any rest stops near here?
- What was that restaurant we just passed?
- Is there another route with less traffic?

These questions are all answerable with context that can be provided by the mapping app:

- List of upcoming directions
- Overall route planning
- Surrounding place data
- Traffic data and alternate route information

It's possible to pull over to the side of the road, take off your distance glasses, put on your reading glasses, and zoom/pan the map to try to answer these questions yourself. But if the map application can just expose its API to the language interface layer, then a user can get the answers without taking their eyes off the road.

The information is contextual and constrained based on a current task. In some cases it might be more desirable to whip out your phone and interact with the map to look up the answers on a screen, but often it won't be worth stopping the car, and so the conversational interface is better.

Cooking assistant is a similar case: you are busy stirring something and checking on the oven -- you don't want to wipe the flour off your hands to pick up your phone and ask how many teaspoons of sugar you need. Again: contextual and constrained info based on a current task, and your hands and eyes -- the instruments of traditional UIs -- are otherwise occupied.

Today, our software interfaces generally have one of two kinds of entity on the other end: humans, or other software. In the near future there will be another type of entity: language models. We need to start thinking of how our APIs will change when they're interacting with an LLM -- e.g. they'll need to be discoverable and self-describing; error states will need to be standardized or explicit with instructions on how to correct; they'll need to be fast enough to fit in a conversational interface; etc. It's arguable that such traits are part of good API design today, but in the future they may be required for the API to function in a landscape of virtual agents.
Yeah, I'm also skeptical about the actual value of specialists in the future. To me, AI brings a ton of power to generalists, who now have access to very powerful tools that would have taken them a long time to learn otherwise.
> Google survives by selling advertisements, essentially making the web worse.

This seems entirely subjective. I prefer using Lichess to Chess.com, but I would in no way think that Chess.com, with its sponsoring of full-time players, makes the game worse. Advertising-related money goes somewhere and pays for things.
Yes, the policy makers are making changes, but the scale is huge in India. For example, the state where I come from - TamilNadu has installed wind power capacity of 7.9 GW which is more than Denmark at 5.5 GW. Since I have lived both in TamilNadu and in Denmark, I can tell the economies are absolutely not comparable, yet, progress is being made.

India has huge potential to leap frog development hurdles by going all-in on renewable energy. It is almost always sunny, and large areas are suitable for wind power. There has been talks for decades about covering water canals with solar roofs (which reduces water evaporation, while keeping the solar panels cool as win-win), but I dont know if that was implemented.

When I talk to people back home, there is a sense of "the economic super powers of today kept us suppressed during industrial age and did all the damage to the climate. Now asking us to hit the brakes while not paying their fair share by cutting their own emissions is unfair! ". I can symphathise, but it is not a question of who does. It can simply be seen as an opportunity.... Imagine if there is too much power when the sun shines and wind blows that power is essentially close to zero-cost?
How many industries would love such an opportunity?
I'm not implying anything other than the fact in Romania social workers KNOW it's very, very likely the child will fare worse fate in an orphanage or foster care, EVEN in cases that would be considered abuse in the West.

Given a more developed country, I'd presume there are more people willing to adopt/do foster care for the right reasons and the social workers can regularly check upon the welfare of the child, thus there can be legitimate reasons to lower the threshold of taking a child out of a family setting vs a less developed country.
I would argue that it's clearly the most effective system at training people to do this. It's fine to imagine (and try to create) alternative systems that would work better. But there isn't one now.

Constructive criticism is good. But what I mostly see (and often do myself) is just grousing.
Nice! I remember her argument regarding Amazon.

From what I recall, the reason why her argument was recognized is because it solved a thorny problem of US anti trust law, proving harm.

Currently, in the US what matters is showing that consumer welfare was harmed. AINAL but proving harm is not easy - Amazon in particular reduces prices to the end customer, increases choices and makes sales easier.

This is where most arguments died, however her approach had enough merit to pursue.

However, it seems her approach and argument has changed, and is more couched in terms of current legalese - more focused on showing consumer harm than applying a new legal approach.
"That circle"? You make it sound like an exclusive club for the elite. This isn't supposed to be a popularity contest.

Linus' attitude is very material. Kernel leadership sets the stage for other contributors to do the same, good or bad.
Not exactly. Reported-by is for reporting the symptom; the root cause analysis is separate (and often requires much more work).
That doesn't reflect well on Oppenheimer.
> I likely write a follow up post about my criteria and reserach and perhaps a follow up review if I end up pulling the trigger.

I feel like people who use the phrase 'pulling the trigger' in this way have an unhealthy relationship with shopping. They are shopping for dopamine and they are like the ones who have a hundred of the same hat and when they need more dopamine they buy that hat again.
UIs being dumbed down for average users was already annoying. Apparently the process won't stop until the illiterate are included too.
There is an illo of the Masquerade hare in the article, to be fair, although it's barely mentioned AFAICS.
It depends what you want to do for a "daily driver".

Basic things like writing documents, viewing images, and (limited) web browsing using a text-based browser would probably be perfectly fine with an unaccelerated framebuffer.

It would be amazing if there was an OS agnostic driver layer

That's what things like VESA VBE are for.
I do this on my Planck, and have aligned the numbers to have both a row of digits, and intersecting 789, have the layout of a conventional number pad on the rows below. I feel like I have more flexibility and control on a keyboard with fewer keys than I have ever used before this!
“S” sounds very interesting! Is there a link to it? And I agree that books, or most any art form, can be considered creative for the reader/viewer/experiencer since they change our brain, especially if we make something playful inspired by them.

I bought a paper copy of a book called The Ground Itself not long go and warmly recommend it:

> …a one-session storytelling game for 2-5 players, played with household materials (a coin, a six-sided die, and a deck of cards).

https://everestpipkin.itch.io/the-ground-itself
That's because it is a tiny fix. To ask for credit as a contributor makes it seem as though that was the whole goal and that's why the OP feels 'robbed' as though this is a thing of great value that has been taken away from them.

That's not how I interpret the contents of the exchange:

https://www.mail-archive.com/linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org/m...

Could the kernel maintainer have handled this better? Probably yes. Was the OP robbed? In my opinion, no, their work was credited and the fix is so small it doesn't warrant elevating the OP to 'Kernel contributor' which is typically reserved for more substantial contributions, not bug fixes of a few lines.

Another comment has a nice middle ground in the form of the 'Suggested-by' tag which I think would have been an improvement. I've got a little project on the go and I'm meticulous about crediting people but the context is entirely different there, nobody is going to hold up my project to claim they are a contributor on their CV so I'm fine with the kernel maintainers keeping the list of 'kernel contributors' manageable.
> There is nothing wrong with being motivated by getting credit.

It's wrong if it's your top priority instead of improving the codebase. And even then not being wrong doesn't mean you are entitled to get it, your motivations are your own.
It feels a bit unnatural to pipe multiple arguments like that in JS, and you could inline them in the first call without losing legibility:

a = c(b, 7) |> d(%)

It's the arguments added way down the line that are problematic:

a = f((e(d(c(b))), 4), 5)
a = ((b ~> c ~> d), 4 ~> e), 5 ~> f
a = b |> c(%) |> d(%) |> e(%, 4) |> f(%, 5)

Smart pipes [1] were a bit nicer about that:

a = b |> c |> d |> e(#, 4) |> f(#, 5)

Basically you would use # token whenever you wanted an expression and just a function name when you needed to pass a single argument. Best of both worlds IMO.

Perhaps it could even be extended for Curry-ish function syntax (although it isn't as obvious):

a = b |> c(7) |> d
a = d(c(7, b))

Too bad it was withdrawn.

[1]: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-smart-pipelines

P. S. When studying Haskell on a CS course in school, I used to define exactly the same squiggly arrow operator for my programs :-)

x ~> f = f x
ya just to chime in, this is also a deal killer for me. I don't have any interest in per contact pricing. We have a ton of users who don't pay us very much.
Am I the only one who never saw these extra capabilities? OpenAI keep spreading news about "multimodal chatgpt", video, voice etc but to me it still looks like the initial version, but for $20/mo. It's still a text bot that gives unreliable answers.
Jetbrains justifies the cost for me. I can easily recoup the cost in productivity over VSCode.
LEGO has used and uses may different kinds of plastic not only ABS. From my understanding the effort here was halted because the whole reason to use PET was to be greener but if manufacturing with PET burns more CO2 than other non renewables it makes no sense at this time.
AIUI tummy down on a (wakeful) person is generally not a concern nor what the "back is best" crowd is referring to

Obviously a parent who is spending nearly all their time with a newborn knows them best and is likely able to make the best judgement about what works for the child, but the purpose of the advice is to avoid a class of scenario that occur most often. due to issues that are very difficult to detect and often go completely undiagnosed, as they pertain to early development and often improve naturally over time.

The technical report by AAP the other year does an excellent job of presenting the current evidence in an as objective way as possible, I highly recommend it:

https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/150/1/e20220...

You will note that efforts are being made to disentangle diagnoses from the broad SIDS label and that while SIDS cases are trending downwards, it's likely due to both proper classification and education.

The point of preventative measures is to avoid the issue entirely. Sure, tummy sleeping might not be a problem for you (or maybe it was and you just got lucky!) but by generally recommending back sleeping, a class of issues is avoided.

So all in all, I really don't see this as bullshit at all. Caveat that you gotta do what you gotta do, but I'd rather this advice persist than not. We should hope that no one ever has to endure the loss of a child.
I've thought about this and I wonder why we couldn't have an exam model for education. One cost for the exam, and one for the prep program. If you wanted to you could study at home on your own, and then just pay to take the test/get your essay graded. If you want, separate price for the study program guided by a professor. Driving works the same here, the test is run by the government, but there are various driving schools that you can sign up for to get prepped and get some practice.
Many of those people would be adequately served with a pair of glasses.

This, wouldn't help them, even if they had both a device capable of using it and the means to pay for it.

Even if it could help people, it's an open question if it would be safe, to, for example, use this to scan medication when it is only a probabilistic model that may hallucinate something that isn't actually there.

What you're talking about is a speculative use of a service that might one day exist based on this technology.

What I am talking about is this actual service.
> in Denmark and other more developed countries it could be the opposite.

Did you mean: richer?
I do have a question, let us say we favoured an alternate approach like a BioEngineered Cornea, what would be the downside to doing that vs. this?

If you had to choose a pathway to fix the blindness issue, which one would you choose? Why?

See: https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/08/11/1057576/bioengin...
Yep. That's exactly what I'm saying. This is like the primary skill that people learn to get a PhD. It's true that people can learn it without getting a PhD, but hardly anyone does, because it kind of sucks and if you're doing it you may as well do it with the guidance of an advisor and get a credential at the end.
Selenium-Python but Lighter: Helium
Well, it'll generate images of issac newton ok, so shrug
Not sure if other people have mentioned this, but Ramda's `pipe` operator is left-to-right function composition which has a similar effect to this. I use it regularly, I find it very useful.

https://ramdajs.com/docs/#pipe
> The prospect of cybersecurity professionals taking years to apply a patch after a security flaw is discovered beggars belief.

Not just years, but generations in some cases.
You're trolling but...

Airsoft and paintball games are a pretty good real life FPS equivalent and more importantly it forces you to get physically fit as opposed to sitting on your bum clicking.

I recommend watching some actual airsoft and paintball games on YouTube. They're about as close to the real thing that you'll get.
The covariates are awkward and because they correspond so strongly with parental traits, the possibility exists that the kids are dying because of dysfunctional parental behaviors specifically.
I guess you're thinking more plot oriented narratives.

I was thinking about something like Ulysses, Virginia Woolf, Proust, where the artistic choices are more stylistic and about examining thought itself, rather than structurally about characters and events.
Cloudflare AI
It's amusing to see that UI along with the phrase "An operating system that respects the user."
> quality of the cloth produced by the machines was worse than the handmade stuff

Yes, it was, but it was far cheaper. You can still get extraordinarily good fabrics today, extremely well-made hand-sewn leather goods. But a standard size carry-on suitcase made of high-quality leather in the US will run you around $1000-1500. You can buy a crappy mass-produced plastic one of the same size for around $100, or a well-made nylon one from Asia for around $300.
Summarizer app after Bard recent update?
We know some already built summarizer app. But the recent bard update that able to connect to workspace and create summary easier make me ask how about already existing summarizer app, is there are still market or just pivot right now.

Let's discuss
Not all LEGO is ABS. https://bricknerd.com/home/every-type-of-plastic-used-by-leg...
The pipe function of `fp-ts` doesn’t have direct access to methods and properties of the pipe output like Verticalize. You have to wrap them into anonymous functions. Same with promises.
Linus' attitude has nothing to do with it, he wasn't part of this exchange at all. And yes, it's an exclusive club, hence people trying to become a part of it.
The *BSDs import the Linux graphics drivers these days. Big chunk of AMD GPU drivers are autogenerated from hardware description tables.
Well, I'd say it is about as dangerous as trusting a random stranger is. Or do you seriously believe blind people have never been trolled by fellow humans?

Please dont project the typical AI-angst into this assistive technology. It doesnt deserve this, especially from people without hands-on experience.
Hi HN,

this is my library, which I've been maintaining for years. Its high-level approach is extremely useful for automating the modern web. I hope you will find it useful too.

Michael

P.S.: Yes, it's still based on Selenium 3. I've simply never had any reason to upgrade. It just works.
There are debatable issues, and clear cut issues -- not providing basic care or medical care is quite clear cut.

Homeschooling is debatable, if the children are evaluated to be equal to their regular schooled peers, I don't think the child should be taken out of the family environment, but should be subject to further wellness checks by social workers.
If AI can truly reason and build complex applications - I.e it has mastered composition and causality, then AI would have a full mental map of how commercial and residential buildings work.

How every pipe fitting links to each other. In that case plumbers aren’t needed for small things since a user could state their problem to a smartphone and AI could guide them to the correct fix as it debugs the users house.

Same with construction or doctors or teachers.

If AI can truly learn and reason the physical world, then it doesn’t mean much to be human.

What is being a human in terms of labor? A 100 watt 80kg biological agent with general intelligence that can learn and follow steps. With eyes and ears they sense, with legs they move and and with hands they apply fine motor skills to move other objects.

The whole point of AI is to build cheaper labor that follows instructions, never sleeps, never forgets, replaceable if broken.

The rich and powerful will 100% get more rich and powerful, the question is how well that prosperity will be shared with the rest.

It could be that some powerful nations say let’s go kill entire other continents and take their land with our robot and drone army.

Globally 35 billion barrels of oil / yr are consumed. Thats 1700 kWh/barell * 35B = 59.5TWh/year = 6.8 TW. This means if someone could make human equivalent robots that take gasoline as energy, they’d have an army of 68 billion human-like robots.
The irony is strong in you....
Imagine when it’s not just locking up, but spills over to state homicide: https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/24/texas-death-ro...
Okay, what happened? You can't leave these half stories here, lol
It's there for everybody to read, as well as in comments here, I'm not guessing at anything. You can't be 'robbed' of something you do not already have.

And that's before we get into misrepresenting the kernel maintainers words in a way that considerably changes their meaning.
Taxes is also a big part of why manufacturing is expensive in some places. If they were removed, the savings could be passed on to the customers.
Also relevant: https://bellard.org/dvbt/ - transmitting DVB-T from a VGA card
I said that blaming medical reasons for SBS is exceedingly rare. As indicated, trauma due to shaking is usually the case. Medical reasons can't be ruled out. That's the crux of the issue.
After a certain point, the obsession becomes unhealthy. The guy clearly isn't enjoying his hobby anymore and is instead becoming a policeman trying to enforce his image of perfection onto an imperfect world.

Either pick up your ball and play elsewhere or accept the imperfections and work around them.

And since I can't reply thanks to HN lame posting too fast nonsense, this false equivalency on this site needs to stop.

If you're invested in your hobbies than you have immediate control of what's in your vacinity.

You cannot control others. You can influence them and encourage better behaviors.

But unless you become a cop or in this case get hired by peloton to find cheaters, you're fighting a losing battle. This guy's obsession with his hobby is comical. I almost want to buy the hardware to troll this guy with nearly impossible records and then find ways to work around his tricks.

Why? Because I can but I have more important things to spend my money on. Others in that hobby are sure to see this guy, laugh at his OCD, and troll the ever loving hell out of him.

> Is "Accept the imperfections and work around them" how you approach all of your hobbies? Are you not invested in any of them?

Yes, yes it is. Because they're HOBBIES and fretting over them to this level leads to unhealthy behaviors and obsessions like the bike guy seething about cheaters. Go outside and touch grass. It's better for your mental health.
> Whenever I read something like this, I wonder what it's actually based on.

Why wonder, rather than ask? People sizing others up to rob them, people abusing others to start a fight, human shit and piss (in public, not alleyways). Basically SF downtown now = Tenderloin 2005.

> comparable sheltered people claimed that, say, some part of a city was really bad

If you think I'm sheltered ask where else I've visited.
Another great thing about those laptops is that Libreboot is supported (https://libreboot.org/docs/hardware/#laptops-intel-x86).

One can buy an X230 with Libreboot pre-installed at https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-x230/.