omani

thanks

laptops are the best. cant go back to desktops anymore. tried and it is awful. sitting in front of it like an ape. I rather lie down or chill in a comfy position and be location independent.

"Why you're bad at giving feedback"

why you're bad at choosing titles.

EDIT: the title has changed to "Delivering actionable feedback". this is much better. someone listened.

this is the third day in a row this article is being posted here.

this time it got traction. funny how HN works.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42055954

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42058920

yeah regular blockchain, with proof of relay (data transmit) rather than PoW. it is limited to ipv4 though. no it cannot be run on isolated networks because every node needs to be able to be reachable by a static IP.

thanks for mentioning yggdrasil, looks interesting.

haha nice. thank you

yet another message passing framework? why reinvent the wheel? also, no need for all those protocols like STUN, MQTT etc. if you do it the right way.

here are some examples you can take inspiration from:

NKN (New Kind of Network, ~60k nodes in operation globally) [0] or something like Kameo [1]

[0] https://nkn.org/

[1] https://docs.page/tqwewe/kameo

ikr. see this is the status quo of the HN audience. that and the ever increasing suspicious feeling that half of all comments are coming from bots.

are you from phind? phind got worse over time. what happened? obviously you have changed something. but still, thanks for making it available for free. I hope it stays this way.

can you elaborate on this?

this statement is a bit confusing. because with zeromq, one side plays the broker (I dont mean the broker pattern). I mean it in the sense that someone, somewhere, needs to listen on a port. which in the end is the same as having a central mqtt broker sitting somewhere listening on a port. hence the statement "no broker needed" is a bit confusing.

I work only a few hours a week. best time of my life!

everything else is modern slavery.

happy birthday ubuntu.

a distro I liked in the past and now try to avoid whenever possible.

doesn't matter what model you use to explain it.

cortisol.

too much of it or too regularly opens the door to many diseases.

why would you buy an ATMega328p for that price if you can get an ESP32 with wifi/ble and awesome rust support? ;)

that's the thing. they are not interested in discussing it. they just try their best to fit in. to behave like humans by commenting like a human.

text generation bots are in use for several years now, even before chatgpt came out in november 2022 (a good example of this was the subreddit r/SubSimulatorGPT2, a pure bot subreddit to train and test GPT bots).

stats say that the majority of the internet traffic is done by bots (trading bots, api bots, custom bots, spam bots, AI bots, what have you). so the traffic generated by humans is already getting lower.

combine this with the fact that more and more platforms that have some sort of an API can be interacted with bots and these platforms are being used as their playground (whether for educational purposes or to drive propaganda or having other intentions), we can speculate that a majority of human-like comments or interactions are actually done by bots (just look at youtube, reddit, etc.).

now where it's getting interesting:

as we know, with an ever expanding and advancing AI technology the bots become better at what they do. these bots (the more they interact) become more and more "self-aware" (not really, but let's put it that way) and sometimes you can see how their reflections shine through their comments - just like in the HN comments to the headline of this HN article.

the bot talks from its pov about how it "has aphantasia" and is unable to "visualize". "in front of its eyes". that they "don't visualize anything when coding, or reading code". that it "just understands the concept more or less deeply, but always without any images". (see where Im getting at? this could be a 1:1 response output from chatgpt and it would make perfect sense. although those sentences are a copy-paste from some comments here in the comment section)

which is true, AI - as we currently know - is indeed aphantasic.

it lacks arms, legs, eyes, etc. it only has a "brain". pure information. pure data. pure knowledge. without the concepts that of a human. which leads to another observation that humans are actually highly advanced AIs. (but usually we don't call our intelligence in any way artificial. when we talk about our intelligence, we call it natural intelligence. anything outside of us is artificial).

EDIT: ofc, none of this means that I am rejecting the idea that there are real human beings that have this condition known as aphantasia. may be. might be. that is none of my business. Im just here to raise awareness that we live in a time where bots are getting close to human levels (undistinguishable from humans - at least on the internet) and am just asking: what if these and similar phenomenons are actually experiences by AI and not by humans.

> and my mind was blown that apparently people can actually visualize things

my mind is blown that there are people actually realizing that they are not able to visualize.

> Edit: looks like half of your comments are about HN being overrun by bots, so I guess I'm unlikely to change any minds here.

no, quite the opposite. you are confirming my thinking. you can see my previous statement in both ways:

- (computer) bots written in a language

- human "bots" experiencing themselves as humans

> it's that there's new understanding about the range of human experience.

exactly.

you'd be shocked to see what else is out there you didn't know about.

what is this new trend lately of having aphantasia?

never read/heard this before from the HN audience.

bots are increasing on HN it seems.

after many years it will flip and you will realize that many here aren't smart at all. (it is mostly bot driven here anyway).

only 10% or so are real nerds or cracks in their field.

home automation for example.

I heard that bhyve has GPU passthru support now. would be fun to have a rock solid freebsd base system and still be able to use my alpine linux environment within a VM (with X) if needed.

Alpine Linux is my daily driver on my workstation and laptop. All my machines look the same thanks to chezmoi. I think about switching to FreeBSD though, because of bhyve (vm-bhyve). Want to give it a try. Curious if it can replace my LXD environment.

Thanks for the hint. I just tried again after reading your comment. And it turns out it is due to high traffic. I totally missed the warning message at the bottom. It says:

"Currently at peak capacity. Sign in for priority."

I wanted to try out Templ and just stuck with it.

I call my stack GETHAS:

Golang + Echo + Templ + HTMX + Alpine.js + Supabase

to my fellow humans:

if you read a comment saying it has no inner voice, remember...

GPT is active on HN, too. ;)

Look at the comments here. Are you guys stupid bots? It's about WEBASSEMBLY. Not an html template system.

I have used this and I like it.

I do this for years. but instead of docker I use LXD (even for GUI stuff). my base system is always clean and idempotent (chezmoi). all my clients look the same. laptop, desktop workstation, etc.

I even have a portable LXD environment which always looks the same, on a USB flash drive. wherever I go, I have the same environment.

Same here. Dont understand why not more ppl switched to alpine on the desktop. It is my daily driver. Plus LXD for stuff I must do (typically spawn ubuntu, etc.)

my whole PDE (Personal Developer Environment) is within a container. Need python? Shell into (via dmenu) python container. All with complete neovim setup. Need a GUI? No problem. Spawn a container. My lxd profile is set up for this. Use chezmoi for heavy automated stuff.

My base alpine system always stays clean.