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Nix is great on the steam deck in so many ways. I use home manager just to install my general development environment, but at the same time there are some issues. like the sleep/suspend button will often cause the Nix Daemon socket to stop working, and you and you have to restart it, which can be kind of hard if you don't have access to SSH or whatever.
> When did "profitable" become the sole metric by which we judge someone's work?

When humans learned to domesticate other humans.
> article makes him sound like a script kiddie who dicked around with some DDoS networks and formed a couple LLCs but didn't end up accomplishing much

I’d say that’s impressive for a high schooler. Initiative, follow through and results.
The United States isn’t supposed to have a “CEO” in the sense that a corporation does. For countries, that job description is called a “monarch”, and the Constitution is specifically designed to make sure we don’t have one.
I'm sure chatGPT reads every one.
(EDIT: Moved to comment I intended to reply to)
These are all half-baked at best. They are spending so much
money on undergraduate-level work. But to be fair, who in their right mind would work for Meta in 2025 if you have the talent.
It's part of a compiler ecosystem. ie. The front end is shared.

See clang-tidy and clang analyzer for example.

ps: That's what I like most about the core guidelines, they are trying very hard to stick to guidelines (not rules) that pretty much uncontroversially make things safer _and_ can be checked automatically.

They're explicitly walking away from bikeshed paintings like naming conventions and formatting.
"profit goals at predefined amounts" ? What are these pre defined amounts? Who sets the amounts? I'm really not sure you know what you are talking about at all.

Private industry has no prime directive. There is no supreme leader telling them what to do. That's kinda the whole point. Some choose to pursue maximum short term profit at the expense of all else, and some choose to give every penny they earn to the poor and needy, with a whole spectrum in between. Most people in our society are good people, unless they are constantly told they are not, constantly told that they should be afraid of everyone else, or are given too much power over others.
(Demonizing groups is a classic fascist tactic. They're spending money on bad group so therefore we're justified to do whatever.)
Why isn't all government budgetary information public to begin with?
> Only if the output from Claude is correct. If not...

Had a task at work to clear unused metrics.

Exported a whole dashboard, thought about regexes to extract metrics out of xml (bad, I know) asked chat gpt to produce the one-liners to produce the data.

Got 22 used metrics.

Next day I just gave chat gpt the whole file and asked it to spit all the used metrics.

46 used metics.

Asked Claude, Deepseek and Gemini the same question. Only Gemini messed it up by missing some, duplicating some.

Re-checked the one-liners chat-gpt produced.
Turns out it/I messes up when I told it to generate a list of unique metrics from a file containing just the metric names one per line. What I wanted was a script/one-liner that would print all the metric names just once (de-duplicate) and chat-gpt ad-literam produced a script that only prints metrics that show up exactly once in the whole file.

In the end, just asking LLMs to simply extract the names from the grafana dashboard worked better, parsing out expressions, only producing unique metrics names and all that, but there was no way to know for sure, just that given that 3/4 of the LLMs produced the same output meant it was most likely corect.

I fixed the programatic approach and got thr same result, but it was a very wiered feeling asking the LLMs to just give me the result of what for me was a whole process of many steps.
I expected a lot more.
I know a number of them but they’re rightfully not looking to be especially public about it now on the internet — life is hard enough just doing the job they’re trying to do. Which is frankly a lot of banal accounting and auditing type work. They’re in their 30’s and 40’s with prolific backgrounds in PE, as entrepreneurs managing nine figure budgets and thousands of employees, etc.

Politics vs policy, or something like that?
No animosity was meant there, friend. Completely above board, I get that a lot of people see "ML" and jump to conclusions given the hype around "AI" in the last couple of years.
The nukes not having a future in Germany is completely down to the Green Party and their pathological obsession with killing nuclear power.

They organized and succeeded.

Where was the opposition? Is the entire German environmental movement beholden to the Green Party?
I always assumed it was because he believed the price he was paying was now too high anfter the tech downturn, and he wanted to try lower it a few billion. It’s roughly worth a few million in lawyer fees to take a 10% chance to lower the purchase price by just over a billion.
A larger list of DOGE employees is on Wikipedia. While there are a variety of members, most of them don't have the experience you'd expect someone to have in the respective roles. The average age is definitely higher than 25 though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Government_Effic...
IMO it's more reminiscent of Red Guards from Cultural Revolution era China.
Almost certainly not. The President can’t reorganise e.g. the CIA and Federal Reserve under HHS, for example.

Any sentence that begins with "The President can't" can safely be disregarded. The executive branch has all the lawyers, all the guns, virtually all the media, and (now) all the money.

Everything we were taught was an ironclad law of American constitutional governance has turned out to be a "guideline," a "custom," a "tradition," a "gentlemens' agreement," or "nothing that my pet judges can't fix."
They also have a simple uninstall command now as well. It used to be kind of a pain in the butt to do but now you can just install it and uninstall it in a couple minutes.

The determinate systems installer for Nix is honestly a really great example of a great command line tool. It very transparently tells you "this is what we're going to be doing. Will you allow me to do all of these things?" and it tells you what when it is doing them. Then they bundle the uninstaller.
I like mostly agree with you but I kind of think as prediction versus explanation as more of a spectrum where you can weight both. Like I mostly think about it from a machine learning perspective where if you do the matrix inversion you can say well this is exactly where these coefficients come from but a random forest you might only get a shap value and an transformer will never give you the exact answer as to how it arrived at the solution since it is measuring a latent space. And in physics you desire a system of equations that can be used to describe some dynamics. And if it is terrible at doing it, then you are not going to trust the model much. But like the power of a model comes from its predictive ability. Like how Ptolemaic model mostly gets the planets right but for the wrong reasons and newtons law of gravitation gets it mostly right for the right reasons and it didn’t need to get regular adjustments like Ptolemaic. And so in that example you have both the predictive ability and the explainability both being important in different ways.

I recommend galit Shmueli paper called “to explain or predict “. I also like the “two cultures” paper by Leo breiman. These are both machine learning / statistics views on this topic.
>Can you back that lack of doubt up with anything? Or is it a function of your own eagerness to construct a straw-man?

You're asking whether a set of replies to a user named xadhominemx are straw man arguments when that user has taken each opportunity to live up to the implications of their user name.

I'm not sure I can help you if you are having trouble spotting the obvious bias in their replies.

In the universe of possible responses to the part of my original comment at the top of this thread that they extracted for their initial reply they specifically chose to attack the beliefs of the people characterizing them as "absurd".

When reminded that many cultures that do not have written histories have been found to convey their traditions and knowledge orally in stories and songs over many generations, they replied with another, more vicious cultural attack instead of a rational acknowledgement that perhaps they had forgotten something they may have had an opportunity to learn during some part of their education.

In that reply they suggested an alternate view that the people are rapists who abuse their spouses and neglect their children. This is another instance where they chose an attack over a rational conclusion supported by evidence.

When I challenged their objectivity they doubled down on their earlier replies confirming their own biases in the process.

Then they skipped the thread when I suggested that their biases were showing and that they should educate themselves.

I'm not seeing a straw man here.

The points that I made and they took issue to are supported by anthropological research and historical accounts and their suggestions have no supporting basis in fact when you dig into the links that I have provided and that others have provided on the thread.

xadhominemx clearly stepped into a thread with an agenda driven by their personal biases and when challenged with facts, skipped out without offering any support of their own biased agenda.

No straw man. Perhaps you agree with xadhominemx in some or all of the things they suggested and you stand ready to offer supporting arguments that they have chosen to dodge. I'll follow this thread for a while because I like interesting discussions.

I appreciate your reply and look forward to the next installment.
It used to be C++ would be the last choice for embedded...

Modern C++ with constexpr and friends and the massive work and cunning they have put into avoiding template bloat....

...C++ is now my first choice for embedded.
Usually during winter around 10-20 cent/kWh, though can go several times higher depending on weather.
Companies have to be very careful with AI products in international markets and even some US states because there are a number of different AI legislations in that need to be checked.

This is why cutting edge models are delayed in certain regions.

The work to verify and document all of the compliance isn’t worth it for various small demos, so they probably marked it as only allowed in the US and certain regions.
Hmm, didn't seem that way, I specifically did it the way I describe in the article to have it easily reversible, though I must admit it's just theoretical, I haven't tried uninstalling it.
Once, Nortel Networks was a $100 billion telecommunications giant and could have bought Cisco for $20 billion. It was too late for Cisco when they realized they were awfully behind in IP networking race. So they bought Bay Networks for $4 billion. It didn't work and soon after, the company of 96,000 people dropped to 30,000 in a few months, and then silently disappeared from the history.
Music Generation AI Models
You picked one of his posts. The one that has gotten the most attention is "Normalize Indian hate".
Edited my comment. Thanks for the consideration.
I mentioned broken peripherals in the comments you responded to. You're moving goals.

>> which distro(es) would be available?

> None

Me: there's Ubuntu 24.10 build specifically for Snapdragon X Elite ARM computers

You: that distro is buggy

Me: but it exists, because Qualcomm mainlined code to Linus' kernel tree.
It may very well be, it is the type of optimisation where it is quite possible that some compilers may do it some of the time, but it is definitely also possible to write a version that the compiler can't grok.
Arguably it was designed explicitly for the chief executive having control of the executive branch we just haven’t had executives with this level of interest in making major changes in 40+ years. Was somewhat common to shake up the scope of the federal gov’t when the bureaucracy was much smaller in the 1800’s and early 1900’s
Ahh I see. Thanks for the info!
I recall an aphorism that government is self-governed 90% by norms and 10% by law. I don’t know if American law is being violated but certainly it is alarming to observe from the outside when the norms are totally disregarded.

The US looks unstable and untrustworthy.
I’m sure my democratically elected representatives will have a conversation with your democratically elected representatives about these issues.
That's nice of you to decide that for him and for all the people who read that publication.
Unfortunate that the examples they provide were absolutely terrible and robotic.

It put me off from actually trying it, I might reconsider.
Thanks! I was a little confused. There's nothing that makes using Xbox for text games to be impossible...just seems non-optimal lol.
I had the same thought. Why do we need to keep coming up with weird names/acronyms/portmanteau
I'm in Texas, and my HVAC guys all switched to heat pumps on their own houses a few years ago. The main problem is that most of are on electric AC and gas/propane heat; so, the switch to heat pump usually means throwing out either a perfectly good AC or a perfectly good heater, and installing a heat pump which is, generally about 50% more expensive than either: it's just a lot for a homeowner to swallow. For new builds, the entrenched builders have backlogs of old equipment that they don't want to lose capital on. It's a tough cycle to break.
To be fair, I would be very afraid of the daemon mode on a Deck, that's why I went with the single user mode.
I run containers with podman as well as Waydroid for Android apps. I install novel reader applications or whatever and have them open in the background using TTS, while I play.
In the specific example you're quoting, this would in theory be possible : train a model to just output random code in a specific language, then run it to provide feedback of whether the code was correct or not.

In the end you might be able to get a model very highly capable of outputting or validating correct code without ever having seen human code.

One issue I'm seeing with this is that the space of possible harmful code that you'd need to run on the training machine is quite vast, even in a VM. I wouldn't touch that with a 10-foot pole, or plug it to the Internet.
Good work. The delay seems to be around 5 secods. This is a step in the right direction. I'm wondering how much more real-time can we push it.
I know how long it takes to get a security clearance.
would you mind looking like a fool for a chance to save a couple billion dollars?

there's no fair market value for Twitter because there's only one Twitter. If you're rich, money is just a means to an end. you see something, you take it. If you think you can save a couple (billion) bucks on your way out, why not give it a shot? it's already yours
That’s a different thing than building “impressive tech” imo. And a far cry from what would qualify someone as one of society’s “future titans”.
Of the big companies doing significant work in AI, I'd say Meta is one of the top ones to work at. Even if you're just looking at it from a 'who are the good guys' standpoint.
If you’d done something dumb and then lots of things even dumber then you would have done really dumb things and no, not everyone did or would.
And I would reply that your view is incredibly pessimistic.

Making your customers happy is the only route they have. When governments or other third parties get involved then you and I might no longer be the customer, but I can assure you that the corporation is still serving their customers.

That's the number one problem with our current situation in the US with healthcare. You are not your doctor's customer. You are like, 3 layers away from being his or her customer.
The majority of it is. The parts that aren't tend to be personal information, which is where most of the concern comes from about this crew bypassing data controls.

This work could have been done without this slash-and-burn approach. It could have been done, in fact, without involving the government at all. The people involved did not actually care before, or they would have known this.
I didn’t say don’t do something. I said do something and understand a modern consequence. Go ahead publish but don’t be surprised when your work isn’t attributed correctly in the future and empowers people you may not agree with.

Blogs aren’t the only form of publishing and sharing.

Maybe after the AI winter subsides it might make sense again. A world where people were encouraged to publish to share knowledge ended up being publish to support Google’s hold on the net, now evolved to publish so people can read 5% of what you wrote distilled through statistical summation.

It makes all long form content look bad, not just the bad long form content. It continues to enable the societal trend of only consuming short form content. Which in turn enables reactionary and low information behavior instead of critical thought.
Isn’t this basically the point they were making?

> We’re wasting our youth on the fever dreams of old men.
Care to share your blog‘s url?
Edsger Dijkstra kept a kind of primitive blog on paper[1]. Largely, so far as I can tell and with a few published exceptions, it was meant for himself.

It's a goldmine of course. Personally I find some of his snarkier papers entertaining, but the real value is in seeing how his understanding of CS developed.

[1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/
It is an emergent behavior and the negative consequences, that HRC was insentiviesed to use the strategy is why it’s an emergent behavior. I don’t expect parties to learn from this mistake and not use the strategy - but for the sake of the country I really wish they didn’t.

2020 was an incumbency, I doubt the democrats felt they could realistically replace Trump with someone less likely to win.
You really think so? How about the alternative being he's fully pardoned of anything that might be brought against him and coasts to billionaire status by launching companies and having his funding rounds and paths to exits secured now that he's an absolute NRx legend with the full backing of Thiel and Musk?
There's EmuDeck which does all of the work for you. There's also another newer package that does the same but I forgot the name. At least EmuDeck can be easily installed with a flatpak, no idea about the other one
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> When our leaders are picked by their enemies

This bears no relationship to reality; he won the primaries in the normal fashion. He's the candidate of the right, who love him, go to his rallies, and buy his crypto.
Has Meta done anything else?
Ha, not sure why it got submitted here now, but since I wrote the software, I'll provide some background:

A couple of years ago we had a hand-fiddled table in our OpenStreetMap wiki with events, but discovery was poor and nobody really wanted to write wiki table syntax _shudder_ to add events. So people either didn't do it or only advertised their events in their group chats or Facebook groups.

Thus I started writing some code, and now people can add an event by just logging in with their OpenStreetMap account and filling out a small form. We still display our events in a Wiki by using the API and a small Mediawiki plugin to maintain human compatibility for people who are used to getting events from the wiki. There are also RSS feeds, iCalendar subscriptions and event file downloads, so that everybody can subscribe to events in their preferred form.

It's a small project that I've been running for a couple years and it's really rewarding to see people using it every day.
> I don't like Musk and have not for many years, but the left has been venerating some very flawed people for a very long time. It’s hard to be outraged now when we’ve been selectively told to ignore the past of others.

Such as? I'll be seriously impressed if you can come up with anywhere near the volume and severity of flaws of the people in Trump's orbit.
>Yet, we see people with their real names and pictures support the war on social media.

Mostly bots, minor officials, public sector employees and their relatives (they are forced to publish pro-war materials on their and their relatives social media under the threat of losing their jobs)

>If the majority opposes the war, then how come over 1 million already willingly signed up?

That's less than 1 percent. And keep in mind that to get that one percent, they are paid about 20x the average region salary every month.

>and go outside your bubble

Judging by your arguments, you are not in a bubble, you are directly broadcasting Putin's propaganda about popular support. And this is at a time when, to get his agenda in media, Putin has to sentence people to real prison terms not even for posts with condemnation of war on social media, but even for likes under such posts.
Sure, but as I recall, in those days, the system would happily block for a bit if you managed to drain the estimated entropy pool low enough by doing something like generating an openssh key on first boot, so having another source that the competition takes 3 years to implement could have provided noticable performance benefits for things people notice, like how slow first boot is, in the days before zx2c4 looked at Linux's /dev/random code and hit it with hammers.

(I'm not insisting on that workflow or example being an uptick, just that that's a concrete example of how having an additional source back then could have caused noticable performance differences. I'm aware you're not calling rdrand for your /dev/urandom or random accesses, now or then.)
I'd like to see a a press conference:

"Question for JD Vance - can you look at your Indian wife and children and then say a guy posting 'Normalize Indian hate' is not a 'bad dude'"?