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I speak for my own experience but KDE has been incredibly stable on my machines. For work, I use Plasma on Debian Bookworm and after putting in some work to set Plasma up the right way (set up my favorite fonts, scaling factor, etc.), everything works without issues/crashes. On my personal machine, I'm using Fedora Kinoite (immutable Fedora with KDE) and the experience has been similarly splendid. I do feel that Kinoite is a bit more polished than Debian but I guess that has more to do with Debian's opinionated principles rather than anything else.
Because random(seed) has no specification for what the output will be. random() should only be used if you specifically want a non-deterministic value. The function you want to use for uniform distribution in a deterministic manner is hash(value)
Yeah. I have to say, I've never needed to give money to someone my bank doesn't want me to give money to. As someone spending money, I don't want guarantees like "this transaction cannot be revoked". I want to revoke transactions sometimes! Thus, crypto is anti-value-add for me. (Some would argue, merchants would charge lower prices if all sales were final. That's probably true! But it would depend on them never making a mistake, and everyone makes mistakes.)
Silly clickbait title, but newsworthy all the same. This looks like the first instance of a successful ballistic missile interception in battle and not a test. I feel a chill because you never know what payload a ballistic missile is carrying until it reaches its target. Using them in war is a scary precedent.
It's so lovely when HN discussions derail into USA vs Europe. Divisiveness, internet's favorite thing.
This seems temporary, assuming interest rates have topped out. Given the Fed's recent messaging, this seems like the most obvious time in 10+ years to wait out the housing market.
That's definitely what a lot of people think the choice is but learned helplessness is not the only option. It ignores the fact that for many many use cases small special-purpose models will perform as well as massive models. For most of your business use cases you don't need a model that can tell you a joke, write a poem, recommend a recipe involving a specific list of ingredients and also describe trig identities in the style of Eminem. You need specific performance for a specific set of user stories and a small model could well do that.

These small models are not expensive to train and are (crucially) much cheaper to run on an ongoing basis.

Opensource really is a viable choice.
In other words, extremely niche use cases.

I'm a crypto sceptic but I wasn't always like that. There was a time many years ago when Ethereum was brand new and I was an eager early adopter. I tried creating wallets, tried running a node to see what it does, put in some money through an exchange, and then... Nothing. There was nothing to do after jumping through all those hoops. In fact, turns out the only thing to do with the crypto wallet was to wait for its value to maybe increase over time. (Hence the "number go up" meme.) And for that to be realized, I would need to sell the coins to a new sucker to get real money out again — suspiciously pyramid-like.

And it's still like that today. There's no reason for me to ever open those old wallets again (and surely I don't even have the passwords anymore because self-custody is such a terrible idea UX-wise). And there's no reason to try any of the new stuff because it still obviously does nothing I'd need.

The early Internet wasn't like that. There was plenty to see and try, and interesting people to interact with. Once you tried it, you probably wanted to go back.

Today's early AI is like the early Internet in all the ways that crypto isn't and never will be. There's plenty you can do with ChatGPT and other models, right off the bat. You can install interesting stuff locally or run it on somebody else's server. You don't need to run the crypto-style terrible UX gauntlet and buy coins from a shady operator. AI is already so much easier and more useful and more powerful than crypto-web3-anything, it's competing in a completely different race.

OpenSea has lost 99% of their transaction volume in the past year, and even more of their revenue. I'd be shocked if the same happens to OpenAI. One was a fad, the other isn't.
A classic book called The Phoenix Project talks about ways to manage this. If I recall correctly, teams can fall into a vicious cycle where they only respond to immediate problems and, therefore, cannot schedule and prioritize their work. By maintaining a work backlog that gets prioritized and saying no to everything else, the team can ensure their work capacity gets respected and not get flooded with more than they can handle.

So, in this way, your DevOps coworker is right. However, I don't think it's true when a team isn't at capacity, which is the scenario I envisioned when I replied. In the case where it costs little to nothing to quickly meet another team's request, the mature thing, IMO, would be to either a) do that thing or at least b) engage in good faith to put the task into your work backlog and prioritize it based on the larger impact of the overall project to the company as a whole. When a team isn't at capacity, the work would be done immediately while simultaneously reinforcing the value of the process to protect your work capacity and prioritization ability. Everybody wins.

I suppose this is what I mean by "maturity"; teams have established processes to protect the team, but if the process allows for additional work, it's maladaptive to gum up the works just to keep expectations low.

...but that response is the "full PM" treatment; that's what I'd tell my boss or answer in an interview. In reality, I think of process as a "backstop" of sorts. You invoke process only when you're reaching some kind of capacity or limitation. If it's no sweat, just do it.
One of my favorite parts of AppleTV is that it has those beautiful screensavers.
Just discussed here in the last few days

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38186510

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38181200
How could a sane engineer think that chatgpt wrapper could be the next unicorn?
Roku too, but at least they're off to the side of the UI and easy to ignore.
Possibly none. These drugs are bringing our appetite under control in an environmental that is full of readily available, appetizing, easy to digest, high-calorie foods.
Yeah it is odd to use an example of a difficult to finish game as an example that people don't finish their games.
> There are 275k active Home Assistant installations[0]

Nit: That they know of. As you say it's a techy product and I would assume that techy types are the exact kind of people to turn off analytics.
Are there any particularly good courses that cover OS with Rust but are more recent?
While personally I'd like to see a reduction in obesity rates by focusing on causes (e.g., "sugar taxes" and the like), it's hard to deny the positive impact of these drugs. Obesity is such a destructive epidemic in my country (US) that I see an argument for providing these drugs either for free or at substantially reduced costs via government subsidy. Despite vaccine skepticism, free COVID vaccinations might be a model worth following.

If the public sector doesn't help, I imagine that insurance companies are doing what they can to put downward price pressure on these drugs. If I can pay x now to avoid 10x in payout costs to medical providers for obesity complications (while keeping rates the same), I'm going to take that trade (subject to actuarial data and discount rates).
And if Chaimberlain charges Amazon $0.50 per door opened to enable that feature (which steers buyers towards Amazon and away from the manufacturer website, Walmart/target/eBay/random competitor that doesn't have that feature) that might be a bigger, recurring, higher-margin revenue stream than all of Chaimberlain's traditional manufacturing profits. Which would you rather have - $200 revenue for a $100 cost once in 20 years, or $0.50 per week for a few packets of data?

They could afford to give away the openers if they could win that revenue stream.

And Amazon would dump them in a second if consumers could instead click "Link your Home Assistant for secure deliveries and get $0.30 digital credit". Or more likely, Amazon would throw directly wired Dash buttons at consumers to enable secure deliveries.
Is there a blogpost out there like "X things programmers don't understand about HTML forms"? In the same vain as the ones for names, character encoding, etc...

I'm sure there'd be a few humdingers in there.
I believe you. Code review takes me ten minutes a day, but trying to get ChatGPT to do anything useful is a full-time job.
Virtual feces removal and pipe laying, that pretty much sums it up.
KDE Plasma 6.0 Alpha Released
TL;DR: A hostile ballistic missile was intercepted above the Kármán line. This has happened before, but only during testing. No treaties were violated. No space marines were deployed.
Voters Overwhelmingly Pass Car Right to Repair Law in Maine
Not exactly a course, but Phil-opp's guides are pretty well done.

https://os.phil-opp.com/
Same, but isn't disseminating disinfo a constitutionally-protected activity (modulo fraud, ofc)?
Nah, I'll let sleeping dogs lie. Beyond done trying to give all my time to help out forums and social media stuck in their ways.
I’ve had Roku, FireTV, and Chromecast, and I have had hdcp and/or performance issues with everything but Apple TV.

I hate that I’ve turned into something of an fanboy but Apple TV follows the same old story from Apple: expensive but it consistently just works.
something that could happen with housing that hasn't happened in a while... Market goes sideways for a ~ decade
You may have heard the saying “cash is king” in the business world. But what if you don’t have enough cash to cover your expenses? What if your company is losing money every year and still struggling to grow? Does that mean you should give up and declare bankruptcy?
Enabling HTTP Streaming with AWS Amplify and Lambda Function URLs
Do Apple TVs not display ads? I have Google TV devices, in part because I can install what er I want on them, including 3rd part launchers that don't have ads.
I wouldn't call a sole proprietorships a company. Professional associations are still controlled by their shareholders. You can substitute "partners" for partnerships and "members" for LLCs since they're essentially all the same thing.
It’s a natural consequence of value semantics and not supporting references / pointers with range syntax :).

(You can still write the same bug in Rust or C++ accidentally.)
To fight off hunger while dieting, you eat lower calorie density, fiber-rich vegetables and unsaturated fats. Potatoes, avocados, legumes, there are a lot of options. They just don't fulfill the same psychological need that less healthy food does.
> walk through a door in an RPG Maker game end up playing a Quake level! And then, upon killing a certain enemy, be suddenly in a bossfight in a SMW ROMhack!

I just learned about this [1] yesterday but seems to be the first data point I've seen regarding something like you describe. Very cool to see, and it definitely blew my mind that things like this are now being developed.

[1] https://archipelago.gg/
It's gotten a lot faster a few months ago when they started using OpenGL instead of CPU rendering.
I wouldn't say it's pessimistic because philosophy continues to spin off new disciplines. Linguistics and economics were considered subdomains of philosophy a century ago.

Sociology is still heavily laden with philosophy. Right now artificial intelligence is informed by things that were called "cognitive science" when they were in the philosophy department.

It may be that one day philosophy is reduced to re-treading metaphysics and ethics as insoluble problems. But we're not there yet, so I don't think it can be rightly called pessimistic just now.
This is the one I'd prefer, if hypothetically I did such a thing :) https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube
https://archive.ph/QN1fM
The sheiks will live in lavish wealth, so who cares if the proles melt in the blazing sun? /s
> I'd be surprised if there was much, if any, fallout from the disappearence of Meta from the EU space.

One sure exception would be Whatsapp. It's really baked into society in many countries, including here in the Netherlands where it's the normal mode for most person-to-person communication, including customer-business contacts.
It's crazy how we refer to what's being marketed now as Ai. Ai is a very valid technology that has been worked on for years and even though it is expanding, it is not the same as the LLMs and other things that are being marketed and evangelized under the hood by old crypto and NTF sellers and scammers.

The bar for Ai should be what can learn and comprehend inputs without simply scraping Reddit, Twitter, and other social platforms on the Internet and then parsing responses. Ai as a term need to have an updated definition before things begin to become less hype and more meaningful. What is being marketed incorrectly as Ai these days is similar to how Crypto overpromised and under delivered, while also funneling money out of everyone's pockets, creating a frenzy of bad investment, and in creating unrealistic fear and very stupidly problems in society based on overconfidence in low-brow overconfidence in tech.
I’m curious as to your conclusions on point (2). We use GPT daily but see nothing with it that threatens tech workers. At least not in any sense that we haven’t seen already, with how a two or three developers can basically do what it took one or two teams to do 25 years ago.

In terms of actually automating any form of ”thinking” tech work, LLMs are proving increasingly terrible. I say this as someone who work in a place where GPT writes all our documentation except for some very limited parts of our code base which can’t legally be shared with it. It increasingly also replaces our code-generation tools for most ”repetitive” work and it auto-generates a lot of our data-models based on various forms of inputs. But the actual programming? It’s so horrible at it that it’s mostly used as a joke. Well, except that it’s also not used like that by people who aren’t CS educated. The thing is though, we’ve already had to replace some of the “wonderful” automation that’s being cooked up by Product Owners, BI engineers and so on. Things which work, until they need to scale.

This is obviously very anecdotal, but I’m very underwhelmed and very impressed by AI at the same time. On one hand it’s frighteningly good at writing documentation… seriously, it wrote some truly amazing documentation based on a function named something along the lines of getCompanyInfoFromCVR (CVR being the Danish digital company registry) and the documentation GPT wrote based on just that was better than what I could’ve written. But tasked with writing some fairly basic computation it fails horribly. And I mean, where are my self driving cars?

So I think it’s a bit of a mix. But honestly, I suspect that for a lot of us, LLMs will generate an abundance of work when things need to get cleaned up.
Http Post was not designed to be Idempotent so, basically you either fix double submission or your post starts to be Idempotent, which is basically against the spec (it’s not directly against it, but put would be preferred in that case). Of course you can always add an uuid hidden field and do upsert instead of insert/update. But such things are way harder to do.
No, in this case it is actually a full size TV that has the same OS as the FireTV stick.
Yes. I've used them for a few years now and never had any serious issues. Their delivery rate seems good, I don't get much spam, and so far as I know I have not missed legitimate emails.

They have a fast web client where you can perform actions on your entire inbox. So far as I remember gmail only allowed you to do actions on the current page of mails. If you don't want to use their official clients you can always connect via standard IMAP and SMTP.

Also they support plus-addressing like gmail, but also subdomain addressing. I.e. instead of name+alias@yourdomain.com you can use alias@name.yourdomain.com. You can also set up nice email filters quite easily, and their server supports the JMAP protocol [1], which they made. So if you want to interface with your mailbox programmatically they have a more modern protocol to use.

The years I've used them I only remember them having actual noticeable downtime once. Other than that rock solid. Their first line support isn't super technical, but I've only tried to contact them once.

Edit: Essentially if you want good olf-fashioned mail, Fastmail is about as good as it gets. It does not have the smart inbox concepts that Google Mail and Hey do. And not so much in terms of other fancy stuff either. But it makes up for it by using open protocols for mail, calendar, and contact lists. So no danger of lock-in.

[1] https://jmap.io/index.html
yes, we do have break glass procedures.

i guess my pedantic point is GH itself is central to many organizations, detached from git itself of course. I can only hope the same is NOT true for OpenAI but maybe there are novel workflows.

just to be clear i do not like github lol
Fast backups: 30 seconds instead of 5 minutes.
The uniform distribution of real numbers is easy to convert to other distributions, so if you want a language to have only one randomness function, it's a reasonable choice.
Not to mention, they just launder their selling of your data through Google.
I know, thank you, but I'm asking about the "curated" language features gp is criticizing. AdaCore does make Ada language extensions (who else would push the language forward these days?), but I didn't think they had any for rust, which is why I'm asking.
The active ingredient, tirzepatide, isn't what's new here. It was patented in 2016 and has been on the market for treating type 2 diabetes since 2021.

What's new is that tirzepatide is now FDA approved for treatment of obesity, which will make it possible for insurance to cover it without a type 2 diabetes diagnosis.
A friend of mine worked on firmware that shipped on hardware made by a household name and installed en masse through the entire US. Fairly essential infrastructure.

I almost asked if you’re that friend. The difference is that with what he was working on, it was a beloved money maker that was implausible to materially change because of recertification costs.

The last I heard, they were buying second-hand IDE licenses on eBay because the IDE package had been EOL’d ~10-15 years prior.
My in-laws have this, but mine, my parents, my siblings, my wife's siblings, and my neighbor all have a big window in that door. And none of them are ever locked.
+1. I have security cameras at home, and my "DVR" is a collection of shell scripts plus a Python script that uses YOLO to find the interesting parts of the footage. The thing works, helps a lot to review daily footage, was damn easy to put to work, and didn't cost me a cent (not even hardware; I run it in a Mini-PC w/o GPU). I knew nothing about ML before writing this script. So yeah, the value is there.
You are not seeing maybe the numerous consultants and self proclaimed AI experts charging for very dubious solutions. Money is definitely being “stolen”, it’s just a more sophisticated type of stealing. I have yet to see an AI solution that delivers x times the value of simpler rule based models.
A lot of units use 1/2 inch or in many cases less. Upgrading to 5/8" makes a big difference, and installing another 1/2" on top of that gives impressive noise dampening via additional mass. As does fiberglass insulation, and filling gaps around the edges. If you don't have to meet firewall code for certain walls, you can go a lot thinner and noise reduction goes down dramatically. We had an apartment that was converted from condos and noise dampening was significant. Noise was a major consideration (closely after neighborhood) when doing selection.
There are sometimes apartments spotted around in a suburby area, but due to the nature of US suburbs they don't really get many of the advantages density should bring - everything you might want to go to is still at least a moderate car ride away, there's no people out and about because there's no reason for them to be there, etc. Any time you leave your apartment you go straight to the parking lot and get in your car. It's pathetic really.
Super excited to see Automerge getting this high-level API out. Been following since before 1.0 and I can't wait to play around with the latest incarnation! Congrats to the Automerge team.
Appreciate the addendum.

I suspect there are two things being measured at once here: people's sentiments changing, and the content being discussed changing.

Once a topic becomes "trendy", the average article quality seems to drop. You go from research articles and niche blogs to the general press and businesses trying to cash in on the trend.
Ask HN: Did printing stop working for anyone else on Ubuntu 23.10?
I've been using a network printer with Ubuntu for many years, many releases, without any problems, and since updating to 23.10 printing stopped working. It's broken. Won't print and will crash. I have other computers at home that were upgraded to Ubuntu 23.10 and are having the same problem.

I tested my printer with Fedora 39, Debian 12 and openSUSE Tumbleweed and it works flawlessly.

It seems I'm not alone. I was browsing Canonical's bug tracker and came across this report https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups-browsed/+bug/2042780 where they seem to be having the same problem as I do. But the bug hasn't even been acknowledged by Canonical yet.

If I were to make a guess, this could be related to them trying to move the printing stack to snaps on the 23.10 (https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/05/cups-snap-ubuntu-23-10) and then backing off that idea (https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/08/ubuntu-23-10-wont-use-cups-snap). When they reverted the decision, the printing system was left in a broken state.

If printing is broken for many people this is a very serious regression. Makes me wonder what's coming up for the 24.04 LTS release and if I should have a plan B (which is moving to Debian).

Anyone else experiencing the same issue?
Researchers demonstrate new 3D printing technique for quantum sensors
If you, personally, change your voting patterns, do you expect society to change?
Machine Learning Could Be Used to Better Predict Floods
Apollo.io 3.0 is a go-to-market platform that leverages advanced AI and taps into Apollo’s premium B2B buyer database, supercharging the sales process
How Farmers Are Teaching Old Tractors to Think for Themselves
Not to this level.

If the whole Internet goes down, it's not clear if it could even be cold-started, at least faster than it takes for the world economy to collapse.
Google: Largest distributed training job for LLMs across 50000 TPU v5e
What's the area of those flats? Where I live there are plenty of 3 bedroom flats, but they are usually under 100 m^2 (often smaller) and almost always under 150 m^2.

3 bedrooms in 100 m^2 is pretty cramped.
Fair criticism but to clarify: The default is that if you press home on the controller, it loads up the AppleTV app, where it will show ads for AppleTV content. Pressing home again goes to the actual home, where you select the app you want to watch (YouTube, Netflix, etc.). There are no ads there.
AFAIK yes, but to quote the article (which quotes the maintainer of the MyQ integration, Lash-L [0]), “We are playing a game of cat and mouse with MyQ and right now it looks like the cat is winning”

[0] https://github.com/Lash-L
How AI could lead to a better understanding of the brain
KDE on Debian Bookworm has been perfect for me too!
I have a MyQ on my door. Just use the basic app that came with it and like the notifications / door status.

Reading this is the first I've learned about ads in the app (sure enough, I looked and they are there now). This annoys me greatly as if the device bought and paid for isn't enough, so now they get to serve up ads...