I try to stay humble when predicting the future. But there is just no way there will be a literal military invasion. Trump would never risk a bunch of american dying on the ground, it would be terrible optics.
Maybe they just want access to the specific companies? Like, you get hired by the company. You hand over username/password/vpn-info to them. Then they have a way inside the company and can try to steal information, install backdoors, whatever, with very low risk of getting caught.
I added the custom instruction "Please go straight to the point, be less chatty". Now it begins every answer with: "Straight to the point, no fluff:" or something similar. It seems to be perfectly unable to simply write out the answer without some form of small talk first.
Maybe until the model outputs some affirming preamble, it’s still somewhat probable that it might disagree with the user’s request? So the agreement fluff is kind of like it making the decision to heed the request. Especially if we the consider tokens as the medium by which the model “thinks”. Not to anthropomorphize the damn things too much.
Also I wonder if it could be a side effect of all the supposed alignment efforts that go into training. If you train in a bunch of negative reinforcement samples where the model says something like “sorry I can’t do that” maybe it pushes the model to say things like “sure I’ll do that” in positive cases too?
I had a similar instruction and in voice mode I had it trying to make a story for a game that my daughter and I were playing where it would occasionally say “3,2,1 go!” or perhaps throw us off and say “3,2,1, snow!” or other rhymes.
Long story short it took me a while to figure out why I had to keep telling it to keep going and the story was so straightforward.
I guess because it is full of guesswork and devoid of real factual research (at least for the main headline question). But it turns out that bloggers looking for content and lacking any skill are also capable of writing plausible-sounding slop.
I've coded on linux for a decade now, but always used windows at home. Just last week I switched from windows 10 to ubuntu on my media computer since it cant upgrade to windows 11.
I open up firefox, go to youtube, and immediately notice that 30% of all frames are gone. Hardware acceleration isnt working.
I put the computer to sleep and go make dinner. When I return my wireless keyboard cant wake it up, I have to hard-reboot the computer to wake it up.
I ask chatgpt about solutions to these problems, and it start spitting out terminal commands that end up making no difference.
In my experience, 2025 is not yet the year of linux. I'll try again in 2027.
You ask ChatGPT for answers to questions and your surprised that random terminal commands don't work? If you look at linux forums, all issues always include hardware and software versions. Some problems are extremely context dependent.
Hardware acceleration isn't working -> what GPU? Do you have the right drivers installed (yes for Linux this is a consideration as there are so many display configurations not all drivers cough nvidia work for all scenarios).
You also didn't specify anything like the quality you were trying to playback at. Is this 30% dropped frames at 4k60 or 1080p30? You can argue that this is too much detail for something that should "just work" but given where you are and what you're talking about I would think you would be more nuanced in the troubleshooting. If you want the most seemless and effort free web browsing and media viewing experience just buy a macbook air (good product and also good dev machines for most).
Is it even worth the time searching on forums to fix these issues? I can't speak for OP... but if an OS I freshly installed is unable to watch youtube videos and wake up from sleep, I'm wiping it and installing something else unless I can fix it extremely easily (eg. with chatgpt).
>You also didn't specify anything like the quality you were trying to playback at.
If hardware acceleration isn't working, it doesn't matter which youtube video made you realize the issue existed. It's not as if the method you use to fix the driver would be different when the video you want to watch is 1080p30 instead of 4k60.
I think the issue is how people view their operating system then. If you think an operating system (which for the sake of this I'll allow to mean the distro for linux) should just install and "work" with no configuration needed, then linux on abnormal hardware is not for you. Whether or not a small amount of effort to search for solutions to a problem or to learn more about system configuration being "worth the time" is up to the reader to decide.
I don't know if you're trying to make a rhetorical point here, by giving a sort of worked example of "how to go about this the wrong way and give useless feedback in the form of a complaint."
If not... Well, wow, I really hope you're not "coding on Linux" for anything important.
What did you do wrong?
> I switched from windows 10 to ubuntu
1. What version of Ubuntu?
2. After installing, did you update?
2a. If so, how? Firefox is a snap; doing an update with the "apt" or "apt-get" commands won't touch it.
3. Did you install graphics drivers? Did you even check if you need them?
4. Did you try Chrome? Youtube is a Google product. Test with the Google browser. It's about 2 clicks to install it.
5.
> my wireless keyboard cant wake it up
Well known issue with some wireless devices (especially Bluetooth). Don't use them if you have an alternative.
6.
> I ask chatgpt about solutions to these problems
It's a predictive text tool. Of course it can't. Don't use LLM bots for search. Better still, don't use them at all.
Agree. People who join a project and insist on changing the default styling configs are insane weirdos. But people who dont want to use any styling solution on a project with several developers are EVEN MORE insane weirdos.
> Most programming should be done long before a single line of code is written
I'd rephrase this to something like: Most programming should be done before 5% of the code is written. Because "no plan survives contact with the enemy". I often develop a plan, work for just a tiny bit, and realize some new constraints. It's after that point that you should construct your grand battle plan.
> # 3 “Plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow.” (Fred Brooks, “The
Mythical Man-Month”, Chapter 11)
> Or, to put it another way, you often don’t really understand the problem until after the first time you implement a solution. The
second time, maybe you know enough to do it right. So if you want to get it right, be ready to start over at least once.
I've made an opposite progression from the op. I was a strong believer of upfront design, but now value iterative approach as you do.
For the first try, hack together something working, you'll learn things along the way, validate/disprove your assumptions. Iterating on this will often bring you to a good solution. Sometimes you find out that your current approach is untenable, go back to the whiteboard and figure out something different.
Its wrong in those day , exploratory coding is better for dynamic languges like python using jupyter notebook , and then do proper coding after exploratory step..
I work at a swedish bank. We spend very much time and effort to prepare for different situations such as that. Some preparation is required by the EU Dora act: https://www.digital-operational-resilience-act.com/ (yes I know that HN hates all EU regulations)
Being a cashless society does require some extra emergency planning, but I feel confident that Sweden has prepared as well as you could ever expect for such a crisis.
What preparations that a bank does in any way helps all the actual people out in the world?
The net is inaccessible in a way the bank can't fix. Broken cables or something cuts off a whole area even if the bank and the city the bank is in are up.
Is there an established fallback that everyone knows about and is ready to use?
Credit cards used to have a fallback methilod (which was the primary method originally), where if the pos system is out, a business can still process a transaction off-line by taking an impression of your card with a carbonless receipt in this purely mechanical device. The receipts are all deposited at the bank at a later time.
Unless there is some fallback like that that's actually ready to go and everyone is ready to use when needed, then how do you buy soup and heating fuel? Hand written IOU's?
Every time I've seen a payment system unavailable, the various goods and services simply stopped. Even food and fuel. At all big and little scales.
Here in the US a few years ago hackers took down some computers relating to a major oil pipe. For something like a few weeks a big chunk of the country couldn't get fuel. It later came out that the computers that were affected were only related to billing, NOT anything about actually operating the pipe. Fuel could have been flowing the whole time. Rather than allow any tiny chance of a billing discrepency, they stopped the flow and let everyone freeze and starve and die from lack of ambulances etc. (a little hyperbole, idk if anyone actually died that could be tied back to the fuel cutoff)
This and other examples tells me that when "merely the billing" is down, that the goods and services stop too, and all of them, not just the luxuries. It is not valid to propose that grocery stores and gas stations will switch to some emergency humanitarian mode of operation for the duration of an emergency and figure out the crass money later.
I'm pretty sure its a joke. It's based on the thinking that "the government" is trying to remove all our pleasure of life, such as smoking, eating meat and drinking. The joke is to compare the pleasure of sitting on the toilet with these vices.
