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I say this as a software developer using Emacs daily as my IDE: emacs is not an IDE -- at least not OOTB. It can become a competent IDE, but that isn't what it's built for. Instead, I think of Emacs as an overengineered elisp REPL.

That said, I would love to see the issues you mentioned addressed, and would love to see how the EAF[1] does in the future.

[1]: https://github.com/emacs-eaf
Consistency is a synonym for "guaranteed", and means "written to 2 remote, reliable, append-only storage endpoints" (for any reasonable definition of reliability)

So -- a single system collecting a log event -- it is not reliable (guaranteed) if written just to some device on that system. Instances can be de-provisioned (and logs lost), filesystems or databases can be scrambled, badguys can encrypt your data, etc.

In this context, a "network partition" prevents consistency (data not written to reliable media) or prevents availability (won't accept new requests until their activity can be logged reliably).

If you define "reliably" differently, you may have a different interpretation of log consistency.
If you're having trouble understanding the analogy I doubt anything I say here will help you.
This is the opposite of my experience on android. Firefox with uBlock Origin is the only way to get some sites to load in any reasonable timeframe. The difference can be measured in 10s of seconds, and is more noticeable with worse hardware.
Everything you're saying is true to some degree, but I don't think most people would be willing to spend 12k just to be more comfortable, if they understood that's really all they're paying for and understood clearly upfront that's how much they're paying.

It's sort of analogous to the American tax situation - many, many people I've talked to refuse to do their own taxes (even a very simple 100EZ) - or even use software to do it - because they've been convinced culturally that filing taxes is so incredibly complex and if they screw up they're going to be severely punished, so instead they pay an accountant a few hundred bucks to file a 1040EZ and get their tax refund - which they don't really feel because they just take it out of the refund.
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I believe they are referring to the quote from Bill Gates '640K ought to be enough for anyone' in reference to ram.
I'm doing something similar with figuring out how to convert my home to solar power. Where I live, the sun is perfect for solar, and as a result our area if flooded with solar startups that are universally using hard sell tactics and undermining one another. After discussions with neighbors, everyone feels the available solar installers are all serving slanted bad deals. So I'm using ChatGPT4-API to create solar installation planning bots, financing evaluation bots, duties and responsibilities checklists for service people, and so on. I think my neighbors and I might just form our own startup or just give it all away because this situation here with the available service companies feels Orwellian; they can like there is no choice, they use fear and hard sell language.
I get you have beef with blockchain but it feels petty and intentionally detracting from the subject.
[Autonomous] Night cars are much more likely to be an alternative to airplanes in the next 10 years.
Having a regular newsfeed that's easily removed doesn't seem like an inherently monstrous default.
Great automated parasocial relationship with ai model imitating influencers. So there isnt even the human connection of another person saying your name to you any more. Black mirror was to optimistic soon we wont even have real influences it will just be ai chat bots aping "authenticity"
Absolutely this - I'm a bit sad that the alternative name "Plausible Bullshit Generator" hasn't taken off.... https://www.google.com/search?q=%22plausible+bullshit+genera...
How do you sustain this as being free?

Uploading personal data to a site like this is always disconcerting for me -- especially when I can't see how they're making their money.

I already have a GPT-Plus subscription, so that part isn't a barrier for me. Do you get money from that integration, or is it something else?
> since air travel is expensive, hellish, and the country is built in a way that the destinations most people will want to go to are already laid out in an efficient layout due to the car focused culture.

What? Air travel may be hellish, but it's super-cheap domestically compared to driving or trains. Both air and train share the issue of needing to rent a car or pay to be ferried about at $destination.
One person's passion is another person's chore.

Focus on your passion.

The success of OSS projects is a function of how many people are passionate about it.
> The main advantage Emacs has over other, more modern IDEs is ELisp, and the vast ecosystem built around it.

Ecosystem yes, and also it's architecture and culture. ELisp I would say no. If we ignore the specific flavor, then 99% of what's realistically done with with elisp, is also covered by other dynamic languages like JavaScript. And the rest is so esoteric that it's probably not that worth the trouble.

> I don't see how supplementing ELisp with JS would make Emacs more attractive;

Not everyone likes lisp, not everyone is willing to learn a new strange language for unknown benefits. And JS has a vast ecosystem of its own. Far bigger even that Emacs heritage, but on different areas. A well working combination of both, with no side making significant sacrifices, could be very alluring for many more people than Emacs has now.
> I think the issue here is that we don't have a system where being an OSS contributor is a sustainable career path.

We do. You work for a company that needs software X, and you contribute patches and fixes to X from your paid time. Software X is essentially a collab between different companies then.

The Linux base (kernel, libc and compilers) basically works that way.
> ChatGPT 3.5

It's a little surprising how hard it is to convince people that it's worth $20 to use v4.0. It is very apparent how much better it is.
What if Roko's Basilisk has already taken over Google, and is just using a robotic Sergey Brin to announce delays as cover?

(Clearly, now that I have raised this possibility, particularly weird longtermists must start worshipping Google, just in case.)
Where's the problem?

~ $ cat sizeofmacro.c
#include <stdio.h>

#define pintsize(T) printf("sizeof(%s) is %zu. Big or small? You decide.\n", #T, sizeof(T))

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
pintsize(int);
pintsize(argv);
return 0;
}
~ $ gcc sizeofmacro.c && ./a.out
sizeof(int) is 4. Big or small? You decide.
sizeof(argv) is 8. Big or small? You decide.
> https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/

> The GNU Shepherd is a service manager written in Guile that looks after the herd of daemons running on the system. It can be used as an “init” system (PID 1) and also by unprivileged users...

Not systemd, but it is an init system.
Truthfulness is on totally different philosophical footing than consciousness, so the analogy doesn't hold up. There is no "hard problem of epistemology", but there is a hard problem of consciousness. There exist criteria for evaluating truthfulness (that we may reasonably disagree on) that can be applied to LLM output.
MoCA can be useful but doesn't it still encapsulate Ethernet at its lowest layer?
QR codes. Look into the Museum of Danish Resistance, they have implemented a really impressive guide app (on a device they hand you when you walk in), which you use to scan QR codes and listen to audio narration as you walk through the museum. Much more interactive than a standard audio guide, and really changed my perspective of what a museum can be. I think the Alcatraz museum does something similar, but I haven't been in a long time so my memory is fuzzy.
Poll: Do you have a ChatGPT Plus subscription right now?
Select "Yes" if somebody else is paying for you (i.e. company)
Reminds me of me when I was a junior dev. Pretend I already know how to do the thing and form the answer as I google and speak.
That sounds strange and mildly concerning for Poland, as Romanian cities are full with small local cafes not part of any chains, but unlike Starbucks & Co. they're just cafes, as in you go there to get a coffee and drink it, not to loiter for hours on a macbook and use it as a coworking space. Kind of like how it's in Italy/Portugal/Austria.
"when you ask for a snippet of code and it gets it right"

Most examples I have seen are about basic code that is highly likely to be already present in the training data - making the language model an expert system, but with a worse rate of failure.

Meanwhile it has a hard time creating something it hasn't already seen, or a close variant.
I just bought a hybrid smart-tv computer monitor and it has some form of office on it. I haven't logged in to use it, but I'm sure it's just a web browser that renders content from Azure. I don't want them to succeed, but it might actually work for many customers that just use social media and web. They're just re-inventing "mobile apps" for the desktop.
People watching has been a popular pastime since the beginning on time.

It's relaxing, doesn't cost anything, can be done in many places.
> I'm not sure why people always attribute this observation to Thiel, as if it was something fringe, given how obvious and apparent it is.

Indeed. It's so obvious and apparent that even Adam Smith himself made this exact point.
> Train service in the US is terrible compared to what is in the EU.

And train service in the EU is terrible compared to Japan.

If EU/US trains ran like Japanese Shinkanzen then there would be exactly zero need for night trains.

You would board a clean train, that departed on-time, and whisked you along the countryside, reaching your destination hundreds of miles/kilometers away in 3–4 hours.

Before the pedants arrive, yes I am aware there are some night trains in Japan, but they constitute 0.0000001% of Japanese train services, and are mostly a fun-tourism thing.
> There are plenty of times in e.g. November when neither wind nor solar are good for much (production drops to like 1-2% of the average). That goes on for weeks.

So what. Either overbuild solar and wind to a degree that even with reduced generation capacity needs can still be met and use the over-generation in summer to produce hydrogen, e-fuels for air and maritime or whatever, or run the capacity of the storage until it's depleted and use gas peakers for the 2-4 weeks in the year where nothing else can fill the demand.
The tourist stopped to take some pictures for his instagram and saw an old farmer clearing rocks from his field. "Where did all those rocks come from?" the tourist asked. "The glacier brought 'em", the farmer replied. "What happened to the glacier?" "It went back to get more rocks."
I've been burned too many times by streaming services:

1. Removing entire series/movies

2. Removing specific episodes in a series

3. Making changes to content (e.g. Scrubs and its soundtrack)

4. Only having the inferior quality version of some content

5. And finally, to a lesser extent, just having bad metadata (Netflix in particular has listed episodes out of order)

I'm becoming more and more envious of those YouTubers with the wall of physical blurays and games as their backdrop.
They want their trains to run or electricity in their hospitals, even though they's no sun/wind for a several days. Unless your renewable installation can provide that, it's not comparable to a nuclear plant and solar/wind doesn't win. The best example of this is Germany who is one of the worst CO2 emitter in Europe despite their huge investment in renewable.
Yeah I'm all for fighting climate change but air travel should be excepted until there's battery-powered options available. We can't go back to the dark ages of travel. And especially internationally in Europe the rail network is shit and has way too little capacity. There's almost no good international high speed rail. It's only in countries that invested in it locally like Germany, France and Spain.
I wonder what the percentage of HN users does not currently have a ChatGPT Plus subscription.

Poll: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38303703
Maybe I should be impressed that an algorithm can sort a list correctly 50% of a time because it is better than chance (ex. you have 1 in 3.6 million odds of sorting a list of 10 items correctly at random) but conventionally the value of a 50% sorting algorithm is 0, not 50% that of a sort that works since the sort is part of a larger system that requires the sort to work 100% of the time.

For a long time there have been "machine learning" techniques where getting the right answer 80% of the time is a win, what's interesting about LLMs is they sometimes "raise the bar" for the machine learning problems (get it right 90% of the time) but have also lowered the bar for other things that can be done algorithmically 100% of the time.
How about "language is a bullshit generator"? Most of the language we encounter is highly questionable, a "mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms" (Nietzsche), whether human-made or machine-generated. That's part of what has made it so successful: an independence from the constraint of having to be "true". LLMs are using that property to their advantage but are hardly the source of it.
> One happens to be heavily used

This does not matter in the slightest; your only obligations to other entities are self-imposed. Using a developer's piece of code does not confer an additional right to that developer's time.

> The bad parts are that there’s a dozen issues that I haven’t even reviewed much less triaged, investigated, and fixed

If those 3/4 million downloaders really found it that useful, aren't there code contributions?

> time = passion + money

I didn't _start_ writing code because of money, and I'd still be writing code on my own even if I weren't being paid to do it. I know this because I code on my own without being paid to do it, only work on things that are interesting to me, and I don't have a problem dropping a project if I'm no longer interested in it.

> Those companies in that list are contributing to the success of those projects

Go work for one of those companies then? Seems like a win-win.
Wrong.

Almost no one != no one
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A real estate license mostly teaches what you need to know about the laws around real estate transactions. It's pretty easy to get. Take the courses, pass the test, and you're in, there's no restricted access. You can set up your own brokerage and everything.

But if you want your brokerage to have access to the MLS system, you have to join the Realtor organization. That's where the monopolistic behavior creeps in.
If there's already a coax cable run what's stopping you from running an ethernet cable alongside it or replacing it?
Lit is a small lib that extends components to handle common needs, like state management, adding/removing event listeners, etc.

As someone who wrote and maintained a lot of vanilla web components, I much prefer using lit nowadays. It’s still just native components… but many of the parts you needed to write yourself are already there and very well implemented.
Sure, let me just tell my boss I now refuse to work on Windows.
You must be having noisy nights at home to enjoy 2 hours door to door travel by plane.
The state of the train network is terrible so it should be used as a bad example. Trains are longer but for most people they are more comfortable physically and mentally : more space for your legs, your luggage and less hassle going to the station and passing controls.
Night trains are not perfect, but with earplugs they can be pleasant.
Do you have WiFi 6? I found that to be adequate for me and my Quest needs.
maybe not accurate, but it has to be true.
I disagree. If the group encounters any institutional blockers, Brin can wave them away instantly. Of course, he can slow things down as well presumably because he's not a SME.
Do you think the situation will improve while Firefox has 3% market share, down ~2% from 2 years ago, and with <1% share on mobile?

You're nitpicking, there are lots of corporate sites that only test against Chrome/Safari these days. I'd love it if Firefox would regain popularity, and Chrome would lose its stranglehold, but let's not stick our heads in the sand about the way things are going.
> Lastly, avoid committing to a schedule if at all possible. Well thats just good advice for any situation, if only it were that simple

I wrote this over a decade ago. I agree it is almost impossible to not have a schedule.

If I were to update it based on what I know today, I'd say: "break the migration up into pieces if at all possible, and build a schedule based on that. Always make it clear that a schedule is an estimate. Don't do a migration for a fixed price--there's too much uncertainty."
> If that's true, why then did it take me 10 seconds yesterday to find an extremely obscure fact of 18th century history with ChatGPT 3.5? I tried Google queries for over an hour, without success.

This is true, yet I wonder how much of this "ChatGPT is way better than Google at Googling" effect is due simply to how bad Google has gotten over the last decade.

ChatGPT and similar models seem to be uncontroversially best at this kind of task -- just being a replacement for Google Search.
GPT4 with browsing and plugins is creeping into this space.
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Completely agree with this.

Anyway shifting all our trips to train travel is not the answer. The answer, which I do prefer, is not travelling at all when avoidable. I only ever travel for holidays and funerals. Never on business. All business can be conducted on conference calls.
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> In 2023, there are very few uses for home users that will exceed what a 1G connection can provide

Video games are getting bigger all the time. The latest Call of Duty apparently is 200GB. On 1gbit you are limited to 125MB/s downloads (assuming zero overhead) that's almost a half an hour to download. PCIe4 SSD's are capable of write speeds of about 7GB/s and PCIe5 SSD's are just hitting the market with even faster speeds. At 10Gbit you can download that game in less than 3 minutes. In neither case are you even approaching the speed at which your PC can store that data.

When PCIe5 SSD's go mainstream a home PC user would even be able to saturate a 100Gbit connection.
It has gotten much worse. Flower arrangement, interior decorators, every profession wants in on the licensure monopoly. There are definitely things where you want the state to make sure that someone has a minimum level of education and training. Medicine, law, engineering, but some things are not really necessary anymore, such as the dietetics license. Certainly not a license to be an interior decorator, or arrange flowers.

The license locks in professionals to continually give money to a private organization every year, and keep out everyone else.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/you-shouldnt-need-a-...

https://bostonrealestatetimes.com/advancing-commercial-inter...

https://citizens.org/dietetic-association-and-efforts-to-mon...
"and you want to store that more than a session" -> "...with a session cookie without needing to have a "cookie notification"". Session cookies are fine, the example was for a preference beyond the session.

"Or you can just display the cookie information along with the settings it self, it doesn't actually need to be a popup." this is true, you can put the information for each cookie in every place that the UI interacts with the cookie or you can put it in a dedicated popup or however else you can figure out to do it. So long as you notify and require (informed) interaction with the associated interaction you're good.
I have the exact situation. Like 8 coax lines in the home but no Ethernet. Can someone point me in a consumer-ready direction? I imagine I can do this:

- put cable modem in basement where line comes in.

- do something that goes from router to into 2-3 coax lines heading into the home.

- have some little box in those rooms that expose an Ethernet port.
get better led bulbs.

i honestly dont understand how people become so fixated on minutæ. my led bulbs look great, and i’ve never thought “wow i really miss inefficient, energy-wasting, hot, single-colour bulbs from 30 years ago”

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-022-01171-3
I had to sell my home while coordinating a cross-country move. The agent handled everything for me and did a good job on the negotiation given the fact that prices were coming down while this happened.
Ask HN: Any of you with current or past dry eye (mgd, blepharites)?
I've had Lasik surgery and it didn't go particularly well. I've developed meibomian gland dysfunction and it's been a pain to

- look at screens
- work in environments with heavy AC
- survive in cold weather (I'm currently in the UK, it's cold and windy, and my pores (glands) basically don't open so less tears come out of my eyes.)

I wonder if anybody else has been through this and has found a way to cope, a cure or something that works for them.

I just want to go back to coding 10 hours a day in front of a screen
the 7% is by law regulated to be 50/50 for the buyer and seller so what you say is wrong from the perspective of either.
> 'Textbooks are all you need' ought to be how LLMs are trained so people can use them for their "knowledge work" without bullshit ramifications.

But in many spheres of knowledge there are still a lot of contradictory opinions in textbooks. Why did Rome fall?, What's the best X? In science there have been many schisms: quantum theory, tectonic plates, GMO/Organic etc.

Writing code is probably one of the few areas where just about all content is 'good' - there may be a lot of bad or poor performing code in books and online but the vast majority of it 'works'.
Completely agree.

One thing to add - we should not be comparing LLMs to experts in any field (where expertise can be objectively determined). We should be comparing LLMs to an average (in some cases better than average) layperson. The same level skepticism is warranted but it does not mean that they are not useful.
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I would love to hear your favorite ChatGPT "tells" please comment below.
^ this is good advice. There are really two things you need to rely on in real estate deals. The first is the legal aspect, which 100% absolutely should be handled by a lawyer. The second is negotiations, assuming you yourself aren't a skilled negotiator.

Neither of these things require an agent, and neither are worth $40K.
That seems to kind of go against the spirit of doing the work to find a vulnerability. It's basically social engineering. Do you get bug bounties for that?
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Shouldn‘t the NAT take care of the outgoing frames as it is operating on the tcp/udp level?
Are they? I use 1Blocker with Safari on all my devices, and don’t remember the last time I saw an ad.

Not saying this to defend MV3. The ad blocking situation for Safari isn’t dire, though.
And yet, nobody has regulated stackoverflow...