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> Debian has backports. Read the Debian docs first, then rant later.

I'm not ranting. I'm just telling how I would like the out-of-the-box experience to be. I don't want to read a lot of documentation on how to set it up to get the latest official stable version of each program. Maybe I want something like "backports-get install syncthing" but maybe not, since "Backports are packages taken from the next Debian release (called "testing")" - I want the latest official stable version.

> IRL, stability matters. And no one wants to break things over a stable version.

Then it should be up to the user to pin the package to an older version. I want the latest official stable version of e.g. syncthing. If I want an older version, I should be able to pin it that version instead.
> spectrum monitoring".... is definitely a thing that is done in many places

Not by Ofcom it isn't!

(At least, certainly not on any scale as far as RF interference/spoofing is concerned).
I haven’t cared about the artists (their biography or something?) since I was a teenager. Just the music.

But I’m also the kind of person that hardly ever goes to concerts.
I still think it's a big difference between trusting existing OS'es and apps, which are under scrutiny by hundreds of security researchers and thousands of security nerds all the time, and willingly sending away all your data to a party who promises they will treat it well (I know it doesn't work like this in this case, but just for the sake of argument).

In essence, what you're doing is training an assistant to learn all of your details of your life and habits and the question is if that "assistant" is really secure forever. Taken to the extreme, the assistant becomes a sort of "backup" of yourself. But yeah it's an individual decision with the pro's and con's of this.
The 0 button doesn’t have any letters associated with it. So I doubt it.
It's older than that. I remember that from ~2002, when I used POV-Ray for a class project.
My mother actually writes them all down in a booklet. It's very old-fashioned, but it does work for her.
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I’m fully expecting this to just be a ported version of the Vision Pro’s feature that allows a Virtual Desktop of your Mac. In that context, it seemed to have extremely low latency.
Yes it is, a friend had their laptop stolen, the police tracked down the offenders within 2 hours and returned the items. What they also don’t tell you is that it’s a dystopian panopticon and runs on a slightly different legal system than the rest of the U.K.
My preferred stack is nextjs (react based) on the front end and either Django or fastapi on the backend. React allows you to build mvps really fast, handle states very well and has a lot of hooks you can use.

The downside to this is it makes code heavy sometimes. I use nextjs because I love the server side rendering and seo optimization it provides and use the client components (traditional react) to manage state.
I never liked the 3D era of TVs that were so popular in the CES some years ago, I found it gimmicky and not that immersive and the 3D effect requiere an almost perfect scenario to work. But then I got to play with a Meta Quest, my hype for 3D came back.

I wonder if we'll see more productions like this thanks to these cameras being more common.
https://bjango.com/articles/macexternaldisplays/

https://bjango.com/articles/macexternaldisplays2/
Please, share your sources and what cities you are talking about.

I live in Europe and I see groups of kids hanging out by themselves all the time in many, many major cities across the continent.
Luckily, _most_ people don't buy overpriced and closed Apple devices.
> I've learned from HN discussions that there is a vast difference in what people think of as a "suburb".

In Australian English, “suburb” roughly means “neighbourhood”. So to us, downtown (or the CBD as we call it), is a “suburb”. In the Australian sense of the term, the Financial District and the Upper East Side are suburbs of New York City.
What We Learned from a Year of Building with LLMs (Part III): Strategy
I was thinking the same ø, but does it work with the neutral field and changing players in the mix?
Which, weirdly, should be simple. The Vision Pro’s Mac mirroring is probably the exact same stack as the IPhone to Mac feature.
"When I install syncthing, I want the latest official stable version. This is what Windows gets right with WinGet. With WinGet, I'm installing syncthing from the official source. With APT, I'm installing a syncthing version maintained by a group of people that calls themself the Debian Go Packaging Team. And this version is a year older than the official stable version!"

I do not like binary packages. I prefer to compile the source myself. If the program is too difficult to compile then I am less inclined to use it. Needless to say I am not a Windows user.
It's been a minute since I heard pov-ray mentioned :D - Had fun playing around with it in the early 2000s
Post Office Horizon scandal not the fault of judges, Lady Chief Justice insists
It's almost exclusively used by businesses and government to send notifications.

They use SMS because it's a baseline that every phone, smart or dumb, has. No need to have an email address, no need to have an app.

Most people use Whatsapp / Messenger / social media / to a lesser extent iMessage.
If you have time, could you explain the ycombinator and if parts a bit more? Been a while since I looked at this stuff
It seems they didn't address hallucination at all?

Presumably this hallucinates as much as any other AI (if it didn't, they'd have mentioned that).

So how can you delegate tasks to something that might just invent stuff, e.g. you ask it to summarize an email and it tells you stuff that's not in the original email?
Interesting. Any Brits ever seen it enforced?
It’s interesting how true this is. Definitely harder to host people now, I’ve managed to get by but it’s definitely awkward to host people in my current unit, and the big thing I’m excited about when I move is the ability to host a group of people for a meal
Not a bad shout, but no matter how awful it got, I'd argue there never was a good version of Evernote.
Honestly, on this one, I see both sides. I think functions should be written so that there type signatures are readable in the code, but I'm not sure I want a language making something semantically incorrect just to discourage bad style.

Either way, I use (and honestly love) python on a daily basis and I wish my gripes with it were on this small a level. Yes, I'm looking at you, passed by assignment and late binding closure.
Seems like the right to defend one-selves is a one-way street.
I am not running a SaaS Platform but I have tried to start several startup so I do have some experience but take it with a grain of salt.

All SaaS that I have seen have some sort of user tracking (mixpanel, amplitude, posthog, ...) which tracks pretty much everything that users do. This can be done completely server-side since you can track all API calls and attach some user metadata to them.

With client side tracking you can do even more, especially when it comes down to UI optimization. Not too big of a fan of that to be honest.

Besides that, user interviews are always great and as a CEO or product manager I would also make an effort to talk to users and take time to gather feedback and just listen to their problems. Staying close to your users is important. Who doesn't like to be heard? However, it's one of the things a lot of startups struggle with or don't see the value in.

Last but not least, if you have only a few users talking to them is the most important thing. Analytics only really work when you user base is large enough. The way to go is to define a set of funnels (what do you expect users to do in what order) and see if these funnels work. Besides that, there needs to be some kind of funnel discovery (what are your users actually doing in what order). The second one if important because it tells you a lot about intentions and gives you a great idea of who to talk to.
> presence of a priori knowledge about the world

1. A certain architecture (e.g. a module that enables syntactic processing) is not knowledge about the world.

2. We model the world according to our capabilities.

3. Modular language models have been tried, but did not meet with success.

4. The link you include is about the conceptual space, which is not (directly) related to human syntactic processing.

5. The question is not about metaphors, but about reality.

6. Babies aren't born with a base model and fine-tuned. They learn. This is the metaphor NNs are actually based on.
Are machine generated podcasts also a thing? My gut feeling is that it would've harder to make passable AI podcasts but I can't give a rational reason why. Spotify would be all over that.
Speedrunning WebAssembly's History: A Fictional First-Person Perspective
Language is mostly used for conditioning people into doing things. People will continue using language to manipulate you into giving your time or money to them. You cannot change others from trying to manipulate you. You can only change yourself and stop taking language seriously.
> I don't quite see what the outbox pattern has to do with the two generals problem.

Well then, hopefully you would have found it an unsatisfactory 'solution' and walked away from that interview too ;)

> Once you have that durable record in your DB, you can essentially treat your DB as a queue (there's lot of great articles on how to do this with Postgres for instance) for some worker processes to later process the queue records, and send the events.

Yeah but I already have a queue I can treat as a queue. It's called Kafka.
We just broke ground on America's first next-gen nuclear facility
I mean there will be non-zero chance that the game could go on forever.
I do trust Google not to cancel one of their core (or most popular) products, like search, Maps, Docs, Android, etc. Anything else I don't. I do use Google Photos, but I wouldn't be too surprised to see them shut it down one day.
You can't piss 1Password off, until you do. There's nothing inherit about Agile Bits that shields them from arbitary account closure.

You can't piss Apple off, until you do.

I personally haven't heard of people's account getting randomly shut down for whatever reason for either company, but I'm sure it happens.
The question was aimed at a person with no charger at home who relied on a charger at work. I don’t have a home to charge at and don’t want to risk relying on a company
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Sounds like the very early versions of EF Core which did not translate C# GroupBy into SQL GROUP BY, but instead loaded the /entire/ data set into memory and did the aggregate there.
Are there any modern alternatives to POV-Ray?
It makes zero sense for a company of this size. I bet they are served with gag orders like daily, so the warrant canary is going to expire the moment it is published.
This comment instantly made me think of this.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_6th_Day

Apparently it was also Terry Crews acting debut.
Ask HN: Has anybody made money off of AI in prod?
So much hype around the ai space and it feels like every new startup on the planet has AI in it one way or another. Are we kidding ourselves that this can actually go into prod and make companies profit positive vs the old way of doing things or do you think this is an actual inevitable reality?

Has any company even made any money here? Hallucinations are still super high. I’ve seen a few examples where the model is deterministic and trained heavily on certain prompts but it starts to get into the gray area of just being rules based. What do you think?
uhm why would you ever use this instead of sqlite
> No, I mean, "not allowing you to run arbitrary code" is just a side-effect, not the design choice. The design choice is market segmentation.

It absolutely is a design choice. Apple wants to control all the code that runs on users' devices. Market segmentation is merely a side-effect.
"Their devices"? The owner of the device is the one with root privileges.
If you're OK with unsupported means, there are ways of bypassing that limit. See https://khronokernel.com/macos/2023/08/08/AS-VM.html .
Great. The OUP book linked above viz. Introduction to the Theory of Complex Systems by Stefan Thurner et al. looks particularly good since the ToC lists all the needed interdisciplinary topics for a study of this subject.
On Apple’s side, Apple Intelligence will only be enabled on A17 Pro and M-series chips, so only the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max will be supported in terms of phones.
The general idea that it is "authoritarian" to force people into isolation to prevent them from harming others is obviously absurd (imagine an airborne disease with Ebola-like mortality).

You could probably make an argument that it wasn't justified in this case using information known at the time but you have to actually make that case, not resort to appeals to "freedom" or information we know now.
It would be fun to have a chess variant where en passant applied to every move:

- you play bishop a3×e7 taking my queen

- I reply with bishop a7×c5, taking your bishop en passant, getting my queen back (your bishop got taken before it reached my queen)

- you reply with knight a4×b6, taking my bishop while it’s on route to intercept your bishop that took my queen. You get back your bishop, it does end up on e7, and I do lose my queen again

- I reply, taking your knight while it moves through a5. Your bishop dies again, I get back my queen.

- etc.

For knight’s moves, I think you’d have to either make a hard rule as to what square they move over, or let the player say how they moved on every move. Also, two pieces could be taken in one move (a piece on the target square and the knight that just hopped over it)

Standard chess already has some of this in the rules for castling. There, you aren’t allowed to move your king through a position where it would be attacked by an enemy piece. That’s like saying it can be taken en passant.
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Ask HN: Am I dead meat already?
Hi. I've been in the profession (SW Eng) for about 18 yrs now. A few years from my 50s. Didn't go the managerial route. Stayed technical. My current gig is in a very difficult and complex project written in C. Been there for 2 yrs now and I'm afraid that due to the ancient tech stack and despite being a good engineer I'm loosing my marketability.

After enduring bad behavior for nth time (yeah it's a toxic workplace) I decided I had enough and did a round of applications. Mostly for backend positions and mostly for golang positions. I don't have prod xp with golang but it's close to C and every time I've used it it seemed ok. But the problem is that I'm either being ignored or skipped over. All jobs are for seniors in the _specific_tech_stack_. Other positions I've applied for and got no response whatsoever are architects, tech managers and the like. Granded, this regards a turd job market (EU/Greece) but still that's where I am at.

Am I toasted for good? I mean, nearing my 50s with my most recent gig writing "C" on it is as good as declaring my career over?
POV-Ray itself dates back to the early 90s (and was based on code from the 80s). The FAQ in question was last updated 2013, and the paragraph about graphics cards is probably older than that.
This is my experience too. Pedestrian crossings are completely ignored and indicating is optional. Combined with this god awful SUVs, Australia is an unpleasant place to be a pedestrian.

Sydney has this weird thing where cars drive full speed to red lights and break at the last minute which is pretty frightening when crossing.
I usually also like type annotations for return types. The problem I'm having with my PL is with generics: If the return type depends on T but is not T. If I infer the return type it's obvious.
With more digging, I found a good breakdown on this - https://westaway.com/faq/who-pays-the-legal-fees-in-a-startu...

"To be clear, the term requiring startups to pay for investor counsel fees is unjust. This is because startups are forced to pay the legal fees of the counsel negotiating against them. "

I wonder if YC would start pushing investors to stop this practice
GPS *had* no encryption or authentication; indeed, such security is only a recent addition to the L2 frequency.

USK: Galileo also has authentication available on its civilian frequencies.
As a precursor to Animal Farm, Kipling's https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/tale/her-majestys-servants.... (1894) features a number of animals caught up in state bureaucracy.

The other animals have nicknamed the elephant "Two Tails", and it explains that it is afraid in battle because it can think about what happens when a shell bursts, and ruminates upon whether it might not be better off back at home in the forest rather than here in the army...
Reminds me on this [1] from George Carlin.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isMm2vF4uFs
One word: invidious
I'm 49 and have only had 1-2 interviews a month since last august when I got canned.
Omnivore: A read-it-later app sponsored with the help of Open Collective
Sounds interesting. Is there a open issue for this? I found https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/issues/8505 but it seems that that specific issue is closed.
None of that suggests any malice. We don’t know what happened internally, other than the arial designer was eventually let go. That engineer could have been pushing the “every phone has the problem” narrative and brushing it off. At some point the pressure from customer feedback could have meant they were overruled and ordered to retest, or test under the specific conditions.

The fact that Apple changed their stance from “here’s a workaround” to “here’s a free bumper” is a sign they reacted to something, and that could have been anything from the conclusion of internal testing to a PR job to keep customers happy.

If they had said there was no design flaw from the start and stuck with that the whole way then I’d understand people’s reaction, but all I see is a company that said “don’t hold it that way” as a workaround then eventually issued free bumpers, thus confirming the issue. That doesn’t suggest they were blaming the user for doing something wrong. The sentiment just wasn’t there.
Yes, I have actively and adamantly fought against American Thought Control for fifteen years. I was "recruited" (press ganged,) discovering their lawlessness and lies for myself.

All of the dark conspiratorial things you think might be happening but cannot accept are possible in our modern world (America) are happening, only the story (conventional narrative) is that of a society that cannot know or accept the true circumstance (voices in our heads sacrifice of the innocent and lawful? Crazy talk! Someone would do something!)

I hope to publish an incendiary account, though that time may be long from now. Until such a time, I struggle to be your undeceiver.
There was a case recently where a little girl was crushed by a SUV making a right turn at a pedestrian crossing.

She was walking right behind her parents, but the driver could not see her because the vehicle was too high, so thought the road was free when the parents had passed through.

The court decided that the driver was at no fault as it was impossible to see the girl from his position.
Board state itself becomes unique pretty quickly, so you would just end up with a gigantic lot of "moves" played only 1 time.

EDIT: so you could define "rare" moves as the biggest difference of occurrences between state N and state N+1.
How does one understand what is going on with out a clear set of documentation?
Either one is so smart they can review everyline of everything they are running. My contention is that it is hard enough to find authoritative documentation much less developing an understanding of the code needed or running.

The choice is either many little trust relationships or a giant leap of faith. I feel better served by a giant leap of faith and access to all the technology I can use.

I prefer no documentation and consistent behavior to no documentation and a bunch of internet howtos on what might work.
https://archive.is/46Yz2
They asked how I would guarantee that a Postgres update and a Kafka event could both happen transactionally.

(P, K)

Which sounds like one of those classical impossibility proofs.

Their solution was to introduce another part into the system, "the outbox":

(P, O) K

P and O can form a transaction, but that still leaves the original problem unanswered, how to include K in the transaction.
> In the US, iPhone has a 58.81% market share

There are demographics where Apple has dominance.
SSD on chip might be a thing one day but I’m pretty sure only the RAM is on the same chip.
For complex queries, yes, but everything they can, they do on-device. No one else does that, even if you ask ChatGPT what's 2 + 2 it'll go to their servers.
I think it was in 1994 that I posted to usenet (lost in time), offering 'render time' on my 286 for POV-Ray. They were such amazing times, yet compared to today seem so innocent.

POV-Ray was my main hobby at the time, along with the community of the Raytech BBS in the UK, and defined so much of my interests going forward, through many 3D modelling and rendering packages.

Such a huge part of my younger years, and one of the biggest influences on my life overall.
Especially if there was classic IDE HDD grinding involved :D
"Their" is referring to the owner of the phone in that comment. Or perhaps that is what you mean?
Wait are they arguing this is what caused the last ice age, essentially????
Had one happen to me recently where I was scrolling Spotify, and they do the thing where if you try to scroll past max they will stretch the content.

One of the album covers being stretched had some kind of fine pattern on it that caused a clearly visible shifting/flashing Moiré pattern as it was being stretched.

Wish I could remember what album cover it was now.

Though really it's simple enough: As long as you can still spot a single dark pixel in the middle of an illuminated white screen, the pixels could benefit from being smaller. (Edit: swapped black and white)
That sounds like a big issue, but surely assuming for either case is bad.

I expect OS's will expose an API which, when queried, will indicate the level of AI inference available.

Similar to video decoding/encoding where clients can check if hardware acceleration is available.
I have friends with school-age kids ranging from 9-12 years old living in Stockholm, Berlin, Amsterdam, Düsseldorf, Münich, and Milan. Almost all of them go alone to school: walking, biking, or using public transport, the only exception is the couple who lives in Milan.
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> Would be cool if that allowed people to run their own.

Oh my god that would be absolutely amazing!
Thanks for repeating yourself; this comment potentially influences my decision-making about DuckDB. Good to know about the negatives too.

At what data volumes does it start erroring out? Are these volumes larger than RAM? Is there a minimal example to reproduce it? Is this ticket related to your issue? https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/issues/12480
I don't know how reliably you can distinguish between stupidity arbitrage and lazy arbitrage, and there might be grey areas, but if it's actually more convenient it's probably lazy arbitrage and if it's easily confused with a service it's reselling it's probably stupidity arbitrage

I'd like to distinguish between those that bring services closer to customers and those that hinder customers getting to the services they intend to use