skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a similar 5.7" 32 GB eMMC device that runs a debian-ish distro with Phosh GUI, where I have been installing flatpaks left and right (without caring which runtimes they use) for a reason ([0]) since early 2022.

I am now at 107 total flatpaks, 18 of which are platform packages (= 89 apps+locales). If I were to remove five outdated apps, that are archived or inactive upstream, I would be able to get rid of four platform packages (I really should, but I don't want to for sentimental reasons).

I have found things to scale similarily across devices: The more flatpak apps you use, the better the ratio gets.
If you just use one app, you may end up with 3 Platform packages for it if you are unlucky, making that one app an incredible disk space eating monster. When you have 50 flatpak apps, things will look way better.

Now, would I like to have all these as native deb, rpm, tar.xz (arch), apk? Yes.

But I would also like to use the latest version, making that pretty much a pipedream - and in some cases the distro packages (mostly on Alpine and the AUR) aren't always as functional.

I am really glad flatpak and flathub are a thing.

OT, regarding alternatives discussed in other threads:

AppImages aren't really a thing on aarch64 (also, I use Wayland, which probonopd does not seem to be a fan of [1]).

Snaps: I had 'wrong arch' failures when attempting to run what was promoted as arm64 on Snapcraft.

[0]: https://linuxphoneapps.org

[1]: https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d...
In Germany you cannot sell real estate thatbisn't yours, ownership is registered. The notary, as part of his job, makes sure this title transfer is done properly. If the seller isn't the owner, the sale is void, as far as I know sales price is to be paid once the title transfer was requested and approved, upon proof of payment the notary finalizes it. So basically no title insurance needed.

By the way, excerpts of the registry for the real estate in question are part of the sales contract (just remembered).
‘A decent job’ is really subjective here. You don’t get to see the pictures from the article it’s summarizing, which may be ok for something as routine as a Starlink launch, but doesn’t help for a hurricane forecast where you want to see its path on a map etc.

I rarely just want an answer when I am doing a search. But when I do I generally care more about accuracy than I am willing to trust a LLM.
APIs Power Intent-Based Next Generation UIs
Tyler the Creator famously tweeted "Hahahahahahahaha How The F* Is Cyber Bullying Real Hahahaha ** Just Walk Away From The Screen Like ** Close Your Eyes Haha."

Seems like a ridiculous statement (and definitely doesn't address the real issue of cyberbullying)...

_but_ when it comes to open-source, that's my exact attitude. Notifications off, users opening issues and pull requests? May as well not exist. I'll occasionally check but that's it.

The easiest answer is that deep down you need to accept that you can only be "tortured" by the incessant, needy, unfair demands of your users if you choose to. If you can't handle it, disable it, archive your project, walk away.
100%! I think a lot of people love to say "Music's not what it used to be."; while they do have a point, in that music does tend to rely more on computation than instruments, it's not like the usage of instruments is a dying art. Some artists just choose to provide a different experience; if people like it, they buy it, and that's the form of quality control we've always had for music (I'm not saying it's perfect, of course.)
The commission attracts entrants until it is no longer worth new people taking the job? That's what you'd expect to happen!

What's surprising is that this competition doesn't reduce the fee rate, that's the part I don't understand.
> Something like that happened when Samuel Colt invented his revolver. Every person could defend themselfs. Overnight it become very unwise to randomly attack people!

"Every person could attack anyone" seems like a better phrasing, given that LLM really don't allow us to defend ourselves from bullshit.

> "Intelligent" people will have to drop their shilling for latest fad, will have to build some credibility, reputation and personal brand!

I'm not sure I follow. Without LLMs, idiots can convince the masses that they aren't idiots just with some reputation and personal brand, some even got elected for presidents. How is this changing the situation?
This is the idea of the book "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman. LLMs follow what he describes as System 1, the intuitive heuristic that gets you through most of the day, versus System 2, the rigorous algorithmic thinking that you reserve for harder situations
If you want to be picky, you need to get it right first. The actual term is frame. datagram is generally used to refer to layer 4 operation, and the term is not used anywhere in IEEE 802.3.

Also the GP is correct to say we fossilized on 1500 byte packets, since the layer 3 MTU is the relevant thing when talking about fossilization in the internet at large. This number was driven by 802.3's standard frame size being 1514 bytes, but that one is not even fossilized as much. It takes work, but you can control your own network and roll out jumbo frames. You can't roll out larger packets on the internet.
In Canada, it's usually 5%.
This demo is very hard to follow indeed. They are just jumping around, demoing features, but not talking about how it all fits together.
A friend of mine used to live in Brazil and he payed close to half a percent.
I was about to say the same. I'm currently buying a place in Germany and the fees are 3.57% per broker. So if you just use the seller's agent then it's 3.57, but if you have your own then it's about 7% total.
The latter. FYI - Han Solo makes that mistake in the Original Star Wars (A New Hope).
Sure, but that doesn't explain why it's so good at writing simple functions.

So long as the cyclomatic complexity of what you're asking it to write is less than 8 it does a good job of it. I've yet to have any trouble with it writing test functions. And it does a better job of explaining code than most developers I've worked with. All those things together make it unbelievably useful when you start working with the tool rather than against it.

It's increased my capabilities to the point that I can tackle problems in the hour before bed that used to take me weeks before. More importantly for me it's made it clear just how muddled my thinking between code and architecture was.
Ask HN: Showcasing your commercial close source work to future employeers
As a developer without open-source contributions, how do you showcase your work to potential future employers, aside from relying on CVs? Curious to hear from fellow devs on HN.
> – unusable profiles – in Chrome different profiles have different history and extensions, so for security purposes they are above Firefox's containers; I actually don't get the point of Containers at all, being useful only for logging into multiple AWS accounts, otherwise they have no privacy or security benefits;

FF has those kinds of profiles too, if you want to you can start it once using the ProfileManager from the command line, (un-)check the box asking if you want to always default to the last profile used or instead always start FF in the ProfileManager UI from now on, so you can choose on each startup.
These profiles are completely separated as well, have their own histories, bookmarks, cookie jars, extensions etc.

FF's Containers on the other hand are a less heavy-handed approach, by staying in the same profile, having the same bookmarks, extensions and history but fully separating the cookie jars, enabling you to have (just as an example) Facebook in its own little world, everything else outside that container and/or in their own specific containers, unable to cross-contaminate (to track you) with third-party cookies and the like.

Basically, profiles and containers are entirely different levels of sandboxing.
How is it different than an impersonator? 1. Let's say there's 1000 people that could, or would, want to truly impersonate him in the world as a job. Now there's 8 billion who don't need rest, who don't need to practice, who won't be indistinguishable from the real thing.
> Isn't the hint in the name?

Actually the hint is not in the name, that only tells a portion of the truth. If LLM were trained on textbooks teaching foreign languages from every other language, the name would suffice. But it does not, LLMs are trained on wide variety of texts, many of them social media, blog, and general web posts. The larger web is an ocean of bullshit, and that is where the bullshit within LLMs comes from.

'Textbooks are all you need' ought to be how LLMs are trained so people can
use them for their "knowledge work" without bullshit ramifications.
> so it isn't new

I agree but so far mainly philosophers & intellectuals used to ponder. With advancement in tech many believed that intellectual or creative work is safe. I think now this is a jolt to a lot of white-collar folks who are looped in with the recent advancements in AI.

Its not that intellectual or creative work will vanish but a lot of the current work will be commoditized.
>free tech support

Like, what, open-source police are going to arrest you for not addressing support questions?

MIT/BSD is "free as in the maintainer is free to ignore any and all tech support requests."
Not OP but I do think you have a false equivalence here.

Coal plants don't cover the costs and risk associated with the disposal of their _nuclear_ waste as well as their CO2 waste. They just vent it out into the atmosphere.

https://www.epa.gov/radtown/radioactive-wastes-coal-fired-po...
What the heck are these sources? The first one gave me a popup with some wild nonsense about censorship from big tech. I really doubt that ivy leagues are that politically slanted, I mean, many of the republican politicians/think tanks/judges are from the same Ivy League schools.
> I am trying to understand why we are wasting so much time in getting there

You’re trying too hard and missing the obvious answer.

As a global society, we just don’t care at all. Too many people are struggling today to care about what life will be like in 30, 50, 100, or 200 years. Too many people are getting rich because of (not in spite of) the damage we’re doing to the planet. Too many people are too satisfied with their current life to even consider changing it.

There’s nothing to speed up. What you’re imagining isn’t coming in 50 years or 500 years.
"My choice of license allows you to hire a contractor and fix or change the code in the way you seem fit for your purposes".

There's user entitlement, but there's also lack of dev entitlement toward the license terms they themselves chose.

This should be a template response in GitHub issues by default:

> Remember that this project is:
> * PROVIDED “AS IS”
> * FREE OF CHARGE
> * WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND
> * WITHOUT PROMISE OF FITNESS FOR YOUR USE CASE
> * WITHOUT LIMITS FOR YOU TO USE OR EDIT
>rapidly approaching, if not already past the point, for a lot of people where a single machine will never use all of that capacity

Now where have I heard that before...
When I see a lot of this voice replication I am reminded of something.

(Dune series spoiler)

For example, Duncan Idaho keeps being brought back with cloning tech, over and over, for centuries, because Leto II just likes him. Over and over, the same man keeps being put by the (nearly) immortal emperor's side...

I ask: are we stuck as a monoculture, not making new, interesting things, but simply replicating older ones?

The technology is novel and interesting, but culturally, aside from the concerns about annoying the people being replicated, it seems a bit stuck.
I don't know myself, it's not my demographic. Wild guesses: firearms or munitions, hunting/camping supplies, vitamins, political ads. Since they own businesses themselves and work in their communities, it could easily be someone.

I see this was an unpopular idea to someone. Yet politicians compete for their votes. And as a businessman, it seems manifestly clear that Musk would take all the money he could for any content on Twixter.
i would say from now on links to cnn should be automatically lite-ified. they have a plain-text version of all their articles. link to that instead.

every once in a while i read something or hear a narration and i cant help but suspect that GTP had some part in writing it. this article gives me very strong GTP vibes. i remember in 2018 i realized that i would never again be able to assume that an online account, post, comment, article was written by a human. and here we are. think about the author of this article. he would almost be forced to use GTP because it makes the writing and composition so much better. so much smoother. i dont think this is a good situation we are wading into…
I do this too and it is terrific, literally indistinguishable from ethernet. What’s amazing is you can run cable and MoCa on the same wire at the same time!
I know, though lot of major religions do not think so.
I use it to watch youtube, because youtube on FF causes way higher cpu load and battery drain on my windows laptop.
Jumbo frames are not a thing on the internet. The internet has fossilized at 1500 byte MTU.
I may be wrong, but my read is they can be enabled and installed manually.

Disabling them is not good though and removing from web store is a death sentence for commercial apps.
I haven't used Web Components yet, but plan to. If you have worked with or evaluated vanilla Web Components and Lit[1], is there any reason to prefer one of the other?

[1]: https://lit.dev/
The missile most certainly has a terminal radar to re-acquire the target after cruising close enough.

In your analogy, you're firing a bullet in the right direction that can look and steer itself to the sniper.
Hailed by who?

We should not accept news that use weasel words so blatantly.
Thanks. That's a niche enough concern that it should be highlighted as a qualifier. I suppose that's what the rest of the cut off title "...(or at least, held back fro" was originally intended to do.
Or we could water down the word "perpetual", yeah?
hah. Drilling holes to run Ethernet through centuries-old castle walls was my favorite.
In Europe these night trains are useless IMO.

Air travel within Europe is cheap and easy, night trains are far more expensive, slow and run unreliable schedules sometimes, and they often don’t even take you to places you want to go.

In America though, night trains would be awesome, 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.
Chrome Users Beware: Chrome is one of the tools that Google uses to maintain and extend its control over the web. You're empowering them to do shady things that aren't to your (or most people's) benefit.
> I'm just trying to suggest that consulting a professional is probably a good idea

I personally think everybody should go through at least one round of therapy, so I'm on board.

> It's not that the method itself is bad, just that people are different and specialists should help with identifying what works the best.

Unfortunately, not everyone has access to competent, affordable professionals in this area. Self help is often all that's available or all that some one is willing to do.
Public mass transport is freaking expensive, everywhere. Just look at all the cost overruns for similar projects in Germany (which I know of off top of my head). The alternative to public transports is a car. The alternative to nuclear power are, among other things, renewables which are readily available, faster to deploy at scale and cheaper (that is happening right now for almoat a decade). So the comparison is somewhat wrong.

Edit: Cost is the compelling argument for everyone with the money, everything else is either political or ideological. And the money truely has spoken.
I recently made a demo to query the contents of video recordings with LlamaIndex[0].

I then created a little app of my own with a backing vector store to let me query a specific type of creative content that I need to reference often in my writing. It's still a very rough WIP, but has been promising. It's nice to be able to conversationally query these things instead of trawling through hundreds of pages for some obscure bit of information.

Now thinking of making another store for all of my blog posts over the years. Sometimes I look up how to do something and stumble across one of my own posts when I Google it. And sometimes I _know_ I have a post about a certain topic and just need to find it for a quick reference.

[0] https://github.com/daily-demos/recording-vector-store
Recent friendly wholesome interview with Metcalf
, where Metcalf says he is getting into the weeds of geothermal energy production.

He also says the reason Ethernet keeps getting better is because they keep rebranding new, novel signalling and encoding schemes as Certified Ethernet. It sounded like he had a grin on his face when he said it.

https://hanselminutes.com/900/from-ethernet-to-geothermal-en...
He moves in darkness as it seems to me,
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father’s saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’

- Robert Frost, "Mending Wall" (1914)
It reminds me of the old philosophical debate about AI and consciousness.

Many philosophers argue that knowing whether something which appears to be conscious really is conscious is a meaningless question. If there is no way to distinguish consciousness from non-consciousness from the outside, then you may as well just say that the thing is conscious.

I think we may be approaching the same question with regard to truth. If it appears to be truth from the outside, is that the same thing as being truth? Is there any point in knowing wether it was produced from a thinking mind or not?
why would i want a real estate agent to help me with a contract problem instead of a lawyer?
No, because my action is based on their behavior, and shitty attitude, not the color of their text messages.

I do not care what color the message is. If I could read it, mission accomplished. People who worry about the color of an SMS are not folks I
care to deal with. They are overly concerned about the wrong shit.
> a maintainer cannot expect users to not complain

Eh… Isn’t that fairly close to the definition of entitlement (i.e. you complain when you have no reason to)?
you either die the benevolent language model, or live long enough to become the…

no, don’t like that. do not like that.
Didn't Cringley say back in Accidental Empires that no matter what actual tech was involved, you could guarantee that in X years whatever we use for wired networking would be called Ethernet? :)
How did it make it to read pdfs? I tried to create a tool that would extract tables from pdf and covert into CSV. https://chat.openai.com/g/g-e3jhasATL-pdf-ninja but it fails.

It works a bit better if I extract the string in python and do some clean up before sending

import fitz # PyMuPDF

pdf_document = fitz.open("foo.pdf")

page_number = 1

page = pdf_document.load_page(page_number - 1)

text = page.get_text("text")

response = client.chat.completions.create( model="gpt-3.5-turbo", messages=[ { "role": "system", "content": f""" ..... {text} .... """
In the context of LLMs it's only ever going to work out that wath math/stats, because garbage in garbage out will taint LLM output roughly to the same degree as human generation. Because humans are the garbage producers in both scenarios.

To bypass the garbage in problem, you'll need a different AI structure from LLMs almost certainly, a proper logic model.
This whole product category is barely a year old and you’re pointing out its (real) limitations?

If we’re talking about the viability of the search ads business in the next few months, sure, those are good reasons people will stay with traditional search and therefore be monetizable.

But as an industry trend, I think search will be 100% LLM intermediated pretty quickly. Pics of a subject, projections of hurricane routes… I’d be very surprised if both aren’t provided by LLMs within 12 months.
Preston Thorpe, about your epiphany moment, any possible relationship with Jesus ?
>Are there any open source boosters left, and if so how would they make the case for open source at this point?

I consider the way I publish MIT projects to be mostly in good faith. I put it out there because I like having my name associated with useful implementations of things. If my code, worked on with my own hands, is spread via unattributed copy-pasting? Good. Even if I don't know about it, somewhere out there my code is powering something.

I started this mindset when I was a new grad, and to achieve a task I would first look at a bunch of different open-source projects to get a sense of how they were approaching the problem domain.
If you want to be picky then it’s actually Ethernet frame, which is neither a datagram nor a packet.

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

Also, while we are being picky, datagram is one word not two.
>I said "good riddance" to the agents and did an MLS self-list for like $400. [...] So back to my original point -- where is that seller value coming from?

It's a puzzle to you because you had the personality & motivation to do the work of marketing+showing+negotiating the house yourself. You have inadvertently projected your DIY savvy onto other homeowners to do the same thing. But, a lot of home sellers don't want to DIY a home listing.

- some homeowners don't want to deal directly with potential buyers (pre-qualify buyer's bank financials, show them around the property, etc). Some homeowners are uncomfortable wearing a "salesmen" hat.

- some homeowners are not savvy about how to present and market their home. Sure there are endless books and youtube videos on jazzing up "curb appeal" but some people simply want a "professional" to advise them.

- some homeowners feel uncomfortable with legal aspects and even hiring an attorney specializing in real estate feels "weird". It's just more "normal and easier" to use a real estate agent.

Analogous situation in people selling things on ebay. What's the value in a service like iSoldIt[1] charging a commission for ebaying on sellers behalf when the seller can save money by DIY by taking own photos, using ebay website to upload the photos and list the item, and then pack & ship the item themselves?!? The value is that some people don't want to DIY certain tasks. I had a friend sell his camera via iSoldIt. I sell stuff myself on ebay all the time and thought he was crazy for paying the iSoldIt commission. He was a young programmer so he's not an old grandfather that would find ebay's website intimidating. He simply didn't want to deal with the whole ebay workflow and wanted some cash as quickly as possible. Consider that ebaying a camera is way simpler than selling a house and yet some still offload it to a service to handle it for them.

EDIT to replies:

>, but I don't think most people would be willing to spend 12k just to be more comfortable,

>Agents provide value. [...] Do agents provide tens of thousands of dollars of value?

To be clear, I wasn't trying to justify their 6% commission rate. I was explaining why most homeowners don't go the DIY route to save money which seemed more "logical" to the gp.

For decades, I saw endless commercials on tv for FSBO (For Sale Buy Owner) services trying to educate viewers on "don't pay seller commissions and pocket the thousands in savings yourself!" And yet, real estate agents persist. People are already aware of "selling by owner"; they just don't want to do it and would rather pay a commission.

[1] https://www.i-soldit.com/how-it-works/
Mmm. So is MicroCloud essentially a glue between LXD + Ceph?

It's not really clear what the problem MicroCloud is trying to solve, though. Considering that LXD already supports multi-node clustering, why does anyone want another cluster manager on top of LXD?