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I believe that the movement is sinusoidal,since every trend feeds its counterbalance.

OTOH, stabilizing at "0" or any point is impossible since the system is 2nd order and the response of the system is also an input to itself.

> humans also change over time

Yes, that's what I'm referring to. Citing myself:

> Also it’s great(!) to see that we’re going from “but ethics” to “I got mine, who cares”.

This is exactly how I observe a shift in general.

A public website is not a house, it's something between a big board in the city square or a community center where people can meet an interact.

Considering that, shall we paint the boards black or lock the doors to community spaces?

Also, while I assume this is not your first account here, these are worthy of reminding:

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

> Throwaway accounts are ok for sensitive information, but please don't create accounts routinely. HN is a community—users should have an identity that others can relate to.

For more, please refer to https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

So shall we build more walls around our content and make it anti-FAIR?

We can stop putting information in the open in any form, as well.

FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable.

Thanks for letting us know that we need a new layer of detection systems.

Also it’s great(!) to see that we’re going from “but ethics” to “I got mine, who cares”.

Humans are interesting creatures.

Edit: Please before assuming that I'm assuming things, this is an observation I'm making over time. It's possible that I'm in a bubble, but it's not a sample size of 1 (i.e. The comment I replied only).

We still experience some hardware failure when we buy new hardware in bulk.

The tub has not disappeared, but its shallower and longer.

It's not black and white as it looks.

I'm personally willing to change my life to help the planet and nature in general to the point it doesn't affect my wellbeing (as in health and safety). For me, personally, the problem is not changing per se, but people finding no amount of change enough, always moving the goalposts with "but, what if" clauses.

The problem with datacenter water use is the state of the water leaving the data center. Agriculture and meat industry can reuse the water multiple times from cleaner to dirtier processes and return it to the nature with reasonable processing.

The additives used by datacenters in some cases can't be filtered or processed out practically or in economically viable ways, so the water returns back as unusable, esp. if they get water from a body of water and return it with added chemicals the process gets very damaging.

That kind of shoving down is pretty bad, I agree.

I neither use Android devices nor Google Search, so the only Gemini thing I see is the Gemini chat interface.

I understand the pain, though.

Pretty interesting. It one-shots correct information with references and a further reading list 99% of the time for me.

I don't want it to fill in the gaps though, but make it reference anything and everything it brings, hence it doesn't hallucinate much.

If something feels off, I ask it to back it with concrete data, and if it can't, I don't consider that information correct. That happened once, though, and web doesn't have any information on that thing either. So in that case, not only it had no information on the web, the training data had no information on that thing either short of feeding confidential design documents if they were ever present in the first place.

The question was about an instrument preamp though, so nothing crucial.

There are some niche research areas where bog standard machine learning algorithms make miracles. LLM is just the poster child. AI/ML is a much larger and wider research area.

Gemini is also pretty nice for researching things. It turns out that having the whole internet indexed and having unlimited access to YouTube is a force multiplier of some kind.

Since Google has their own TPUs, TPS is also pretty high w.r.t. Claude, for example.

I also think that vendoring or at least caching your dependency tree somewhere local, so you can build everything from ground up to a known state.

It's not only an issue of availability or depending on circumstances you can't control, but a matter of reproducibility hence dependability.

I want to be able to compile critical software when a zombie apocalypse hits, and I have a growing discomfort about trusting outside parties for their availability and benevolence.

I'd argue that Kagi serves a niche of power users who knows what they want from their search engine and RTFM to get they want the way they want.

Google works like an automatic black-box which tries to deduce your intention from 4-5 words you typed in hastily.

I believe any ordinary user is still pretty happy about Google search in its current iteration. My mom doesn't get a YouTube premium account because she says she likes the ads, for example.

So, from our bubble, Google might be regressing, but the picture might be very different for the majority of Google users.

Red Book is still very much alive AFAICS. I have nothing about Blue Book either, but its extensions make things better, of course!

Oh, somebody called me out. Hello, I’m the other dude. Let’s break down my grandeur delusions.

I remember LG as Goldstar from my Grandma’s microwave oven. That was not something unreliable, but rather unremarkable appliance with no glaring problems. It was eh. Then they became LG.

I remember their other electronics. AC units, phones, TVs, optical storage devices. All of them were either okayish or below that. Phones? Sub-par even if they were innovative. TVs? Unreliable and lower quality than their peers. Optical storage? Can’t read a disc it burned 30 seconds ago, or can’t rip an audio CD correctly, or broke in a year.

I have seen so many LG devices fail or fail to meet their own specs they advertised with in my life, I have sworn to not buy any LG device ~25 years ago.

I somehow had to buy one of their portable DVD burners because I needed something quick. It failed to read a pristine CD other drives read at full blast after taking it out of its box.

So, please tell me I’m delusional. Invalidate my experience I collected over decades. Tell me about my grandeur.

I can tell you how many Samsung devices I have still continue to run or outlived their expected lives in another comment, if you feel like reading it as well.

I’m waiting.

Also, it was the last serious push of VIA as a processor vendor.

I genuinely miss that era of computing. Simpler, more fun, and with way more but not as crippling problems (except Linux support and WinModem. I'm glad that we're past that).

The fridges we have at least 10 year warranties on the compressor, that's right. Considering the last fridge we had worked for ~20 years, I'm eager to see how planned obsolescence will play on these, yet they work pretty nicely.

My own Siemens fridge is with me for ~14 years, as well.

I'm not in the US though. The models, their performance and service networks are way different.

I have replaced shock absorbers and power switch of a 15 year old Beko washing machine last year, and it cost me 6$ plus workmanship to get genuine parts installed in 20 minutes.

I bet that won't be very possible over there, though.

In my family we have 3 fridges, 2 washers and 2 dishwashers, and our experience a bit different than the rest of the thread.

The fridges are dead-silent and working great for 7+ years. Washers are also nice, washing for a bit too long but don't wear the clothes down and have better stain removal performance than their peers, and dishwashers are extremely slow and not designed for European market. Their baskets are not suitable for our dishes, we can't fill them efficiently even.

So, from experience their fridges are A-OK, washers are great with some caveats, but dishwashers are not good.

My first choice is still BSH group and Beko, but Samsung is acceptable if required, but LG? Ain't nobody got time for that.

This is still true from what I see, but in both families of distributions this is not a big requirement anymore. In my Debian based systems, libx264 is the only thing which requires multiple versions needs to be installed from what I remember.

On the other hand, RPM still doesn't know about reverse dependencies, automatically/manually installed packages, version holds, etc.

Either one is advanced enough to handle a big distribution and have their advantages w.r.t. each other, but I still prefer .deb as a person who works with both. Also, .deb can encode much more information about the software package it contains.

I don't know the reasons behind the design decisions of apt. I know its workings up to a point, but not the history behind them.

On the other hand, I have been using Kingston Canvas Go SD cards on my Raspberry Pi boards for a fairly long time now, and these cards' random access speed is above and beyond of other, older cards while not being expensive.

Now apt works like it's running on an SSD.

RedHat has a bad habit of dropping support for things not because they need maintenance but because they're just old.

I once installed a Sun workstation with AMD processor (Athlon64?) and nForce (4?) chipset. The ethernet card was there but it didn't initialize, why? Because RedHat EOLd the kernel module. Why? Because.

Reinstalled the thing with Debian after fighting it for 30 minutes or so, and the thing worked happily ever since.

> You can pay companies just fine to support Debian.

Yes, but this sentence didn't convince who was making these decisions back at CERN, approximately 20 years ago! I'm not even convinced that it was that possible and painless 20 years ago.

We agree about the rest of us, but I still ask why about EPEL stuff while writing salt recipes.

Update system, install EPEL, update system, install creature comforts is a such a bizarre dance to make while I can just write a one long apt command and get a better system in 30 seconds.

...and aptitude. Yes, that TUI thing. It's magnificent.

We ran and still run things bare-metal. If you remember the site names, we had quite a few TR-XX sites. I hailed from some of those.

Now a colleague of mine is handling these. I'm more on the OpenStack & HPC side for other stuff.

We might have exchanged some mails back in the day probably, then. :D

I'm in this for a couple of decades now.

Trump yesterday said (paraphrasing) "I won't be pacing the AI. Instead I'll be supercharging it and making it Super Intelligence. This is too awesome to stop, and I like it, so no pacing".

If I remember correctly, the reason why Scientific Linux was RHEL based instead of Debian because RedHat was a company and can pay them for services.

We used to run it on our Grid nodes, and while it was not bad, it was not that smooth, either. It was a little kludgy but worked if you didn't diverge from the happy paths much.

Now Debian has Extended Long Time Support via Freexian, I believe CERN has enough confidence to use Debian instead of RH family, and that will make lives of some people way easier. Debian is still easier to manage than RH based systems, and .deb is a really good package manager, and is arguably more sophisticated than RPM.

Subsection titles, and how the text flows. When I read these kinds of LLM-Powered posts, I feel the same thing. Like remembering the taste of some canned food which was not great, but I had to consume to stay alive. It feels like junk food, not optimized to taste great, but doesn't reek of machine oil either. A price-optimized, slightly unhealthy substance which is somewhat compatible with my body because of food engineering magic.

These posts are not only a waste of time, but it also makes me feel deceived and betrayed. Why this is important? Because it's the honest take and bears the load of the reality of the post.

Please, don't make me read something you didn't write.

Disclosure: This post, incl. llm-sounding paragraph is typed by a human. All of the keystrokes are 100% human and made possibe by burning ATPs and firing tiny lightning bolts across some brain cells. No humans are harmed or GPU hours are burned in this comment.

Total water consumption: 50ml of cold spring water, because I'm thirsty.

Also, when you consider the age difference between the two, Wireguard is OpenVPN plus the learnt lessons.

We should remember that we learn by failing.

Edit: When I first read the comment, XML part was not there, but I don’t agree with the XML part of the comment, because JSON to XML is Python to C. While both can carry data, XML is designed to handle more than that. Especially validation and transformation parts. If you don’t need these, it’s an overkill, but if you use them, it’s a perfectly fine format. It’s even elegant and batteries included.

Also, you can parse it in an instant. I have designed XML based file formats which would fall apart in JSON and YAML.

The XML debates sounds to me like calling a space shuttle complex because one only needs to go to the mall downtown.

The thing is, I already don’t get blocked by this process. I deploy automatically and continue working. If something goes wrong, monitoring warns me.

Everything is already at the background. That thing doesn’t need a CI, not the classical or AI enabled kind.

Maybe I was not clear about that part of what I do. Three minutes of something not working correctly doesn’t burn our world down.