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Jiocus··on Show HN: Primo – a visual CMS with Svelte blocks, a code editor, and SSG
Did you https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost ?
Jiocus··on Windows Update Restored: Fix Windows update on Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, and XP
Two reasons I think Windows exploits would pay higher than 'Linux':

1. The Windows (end-)user base is much larger than Linux (not counting Android), so a Windows exploit enables more potential victims.

2. Windows has been the de-facto corporate OS for a long time, so a Windows exploit offers more high-value targets.

Jiocus··on Companies must stop using Google Analytics
> it's still technically "cloud" if it's managed servers (wherever they may be).

Thank you for this. No more second thoughts about pointing cloud.example.com at our local HPE rack.

Jiocus··on Ask HN: IP cameras that don't require an app or internet?
Just because there's an app available doesn't necessarily mean it's required. It might be that other solutions just haven't been typed out in their docs.

I've recently worked with some of D-Links consumer IP cameras, DCS-8302LH and DCS-8000LHV2. They offer an app and optionally cloud storage but they ship with ONVIF support. No web interface afaik, but what I found was that I just needed to start interacting through ONVIF to get going with a local-only setup (this would automatically disconnect the camera from the app as well).

These cameras are some of the cheapest available, but they have been solid.

Jiocus··on New data transmission record
Thank you for inquiring (or I hadn't realised I wanted to know too!)
Jiocus··on New data transmission record
7.9km

The article links to their paper 'Petabit-per-second data transmission using a chip-scale microcomb ring resonator source'[1]

> We experimentally demonstrate transmission of 1.84 Pbit s–1 over a 37-core, 7.9-km-long fibre using 223 wavelength channels derived from a single microcomb ring resonator producing a stabilized dark-pulse Kerr frequency comb.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-022-01082-z

Jiocus··on Functionality that has been deprecated in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
What GPU were you driving, and were your issues with Xorg or Wayland?

I'm running 165hz + 240hz on Xorg with i3vm or KDE Plasma (kwin). OpenGL compositor with Nvidias drivers. Everything works fine.

Jiocus··on Twitter showed us its algorithm – what does it tell us?
Thanks, I'll check it out
Jiocus··on EVE Online player uses obscure rule to pull off biggest heist in game history
Just checked it out, couldn't find what I was talking about anymore. You're probably right!
Jiocus··on EVE Online player uses obscure rule to pull off biggest heist in game history
Nowadays, you can actually leave the ship and stretch your legs in a 1 room station quarters. And I'd say in the social sense there are people almost everywhere, they will be present in the many chats or 'in person' in space, even when you hope you'll be left alone..

I think the philosophy of the capsuleer/ship mechanics is a refreshing one, and there's a cyberpunk feel to being wired up into that hull.

Jiocus··on Twitter showed us its algorithm – what does it tell us?
The article has a side-note saying:

> “two models trained on the same data but with different algorithms will behave much more similarly than two models trained on different data with the same algorithm. That’s because the training data contains the patterns in user behavior that algorithms mine and use when recommending new content.”

Do we know how ‘true’ this statement is? Or how much % an algorithm must deviate to cause a % change in results? What about difference in data? If someone can point to somewhere to read up on this, I'd like to know!

Jiocus··on Teaching ChatGPT to speak my son’s invented language
The psychology of split-brain is a nice gateway to 'The Bicameral Mind', a major theme about how the conception of the AI's works in the series Westworld. Nice!
Jiocus··on Maximizing the Potential of LLMs: A Guide to Prompt Engineering
I've never heard the licensing argument come up about 'reverse engineering'.

edit: Which I feel is closer to prompt engineering than software engineering.

Jiocus··on Spotify is trying to silence former employees in severance contracts
Notice that it's not the loyalty scheme per se that is problematic —during active employment in Sweden you are required to adhere to these principals by default— but the unethical possibly illegal messaging. edit: The responsibilities doesn't extend after employment has ended unless otherwise agreed.

What I don't get is why Spotify didn't prepare this arrangement in their contracts with their people when they joined the company. Then all cards would be on the table, the contract would be referred to as “the standard type”, less drama.

Jiocus··on Dancing Plague of 1518
Wow, I was reading about this just yesterday —it was linked from 'List of unusual deaths', naturally

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths

Jiocus··on A Baby GPT
Finally, a concise explanation why this generation of chatbots –while absolutely superior to previous art (where applicable)— still throws me back to discovering markov chains*, 'cat'-ing countless amount of text into a 'corpora.txt' to build models of various personalities.

The idea that a larger corpora == better was quickly established, but I hit a ceiling quite soon on early RPi's.

It was possible to seed a start word for text generation, a Baby prompt we might call it?

Nice feature was being able to make a mini chain (model) of the user input sentence, then merge that statistics into the bots chain. The verbatim record of what had been said was obscured but some words and their relations —the experience— was kept. So I imagined, at least.

* I recommend giving the 'markovify' README a view: https://github.com/jsvine/markovify#basic-usage

edit: LLMs still can't deliver an as convincing display of an Aleister Crowley-persona, but I can barely handle a prompt so we're even.

Jiocus··on Tables no longer needed for HTML email
You both have a point, but this formatting issue is because HN doesn't use `overflow: scroll` for pre/code snippets.

Edit: Realized arguing for CSS properties defeats my point on plaintext. You are right, plaintext is problematic.

Jiocus··on Tables no longer needed for HTML email
Tabular data isn't hard,

    | Type  | Host/Name     | Value/Points to                 |
    | ----- | ------------- | ------------------------------- |
    | CNAME | s1._domainkey | s1._domainkey.example.com       |
    | CNAME | s2._domainkey | s2._domainkey.example.com       |
    | TXT   | _dmarc        | v=DMARC1; p=quarantine; adkim=s |
Even .csv formatted stuff fares OK in plaintext.

But I agree with you on context and having data visible right there in the email. It's often the case that people forgo using email as the functional communication technology it is and settles with attachments only and the canned byline.

I want to see full markdown, mermaid and the like in email.

Jiocus··on Why human societies developed so little during 300k years
When wheat domesticated man, as Yuval Noah Harari put it.
Jiocus··on Building an interactive clickable map for my blog
Last year I was prototyping an interactive map using HTML <map> and .svg images of floor plans. I think there's real potential in the approach.

https://rogue.dev/content/media/2023/04/coordinated-html-ima...

Jiocus··on State-of-the-art open-source chatbot, Vicuna-13B, just released model weights
Actually, yes..

2 x 32GiB (SDDR4 3200MHz) can be had for 170€ and probably less than that if doing the research. Took a bit of faith and a lot of impulse decision-making as this device was/is specified for up to 32GiB RAM only - but it went through.

This is precisely the use case I had in mind

*Lenovo 16ACH6H

Jiocus··on There's something off about LED bulbs
Traditional incandescent bulbs were not immune to planned obsolescence, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel

“The cartel lowered operational costs and worked to standardize the life expectancy of light bulbs at 1,000 hours (down from 2,500 hours)..”

Jiocus··on Windows needs to stop showing tabloid news
Would love to go back to a flashed device, but last time I did (3-4 years ago) my banking and e-id apps refused to run in rooted environments. 2nd-factoring payments and the like is a main use case of a phone now. Are these kinds of issues still around?
Jiocus··on A Simple Framework for Architectural Decisions
The main use of an ADR isn't to arrive at a decision, but to record the choice that was made and why. Filling out an ADR and gaining zero benefit while doing it seems plausible - the hard work of arriving at a certain artefact is already done (hard work isn't a requirement).

In my solely own opinion:

an ADR documents a strategic choice and ties accountability to it's author. The quality of the document (and the content) should work in their own best interest.

Another kind of documentation could be used to record e.g. details of implementation or describing APIs. The latter is focused on building a knowledge base for co-workers, onboarding or end users. edit: I call them REFs.

edit 2: Filling out superfluous forms which ends up of no use to anyone is a waste of time. Cut back on documentation until people starts asking for more of it.

Jiocus··on ChatGPT's API is so good and cheap, it makes most text generating AI obsolete
Have you checked out Copilot Labs, the experimental version of Copilot? It's bundled with ability to explain and document source code, among other things.

https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-labs/

Jiocus··on What Is Systems Programming, Really? (2018)
> I don't understand the use of but here. This doesn't contrast with what I said.

I meant that I don't agree with your sense of the word 'system', as clearly and obviously referring to software development. Of ourse, if paired up with the words 'development' or 'programming', the association is there.

Still, the following titles reads to me as very different occupations:

- Systems Programmer (low-level, bare metal)

- Systems Engineer, (e.g. aeronautics, robotics, banking, requirements)

- Systems Developer (business domains, processes & people, services)

biases all mine

Jiocus··on What Is Systems Programming, Really? (2018)
I kinda see what you mean, but systems is an exceptionally vague term. Popular use and even the formal field of Systems Science is hardly more related to computing than any other area of society.

Everything programmed are systems but not all systems are programmable

Jiocus··on Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes
Okay, but where did you take your business? That's what we wanna know :)
Jiocus··on Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes
As a long time customer, I would recommend Namecheap. I was trying out Gandi since a couple months. On the bright side, they have a lot of additional international TLDs, but that's about it. Gandi has been noticeably more expensive when comparing equivalent domains.
Jiocus··on Microsoft Designer
I read some year ago that this kind of thing applies to New York as well, that was in the context of an open-world Spider-Man game featuring NY skylines.
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