Potentially a problem in the general case, but this was a trivial feature to implement compared to what the product already does. The developer was not incompetent so this story has a happy ending. Should we protect incompetence?

No, it can't in this case, because the deal wasn't for trade between our nations. Keystone XL was for the purpose of making it cheaper for Canada to sell oil overseas, not to the USA. Did your education not include actually examining the deal you're talking about? This pipeline existed solely to allow rich people to get richer at the expense of environmental impact. Pipelines always leak because we never make use of the extremely well-known technology we have for preventing it, namely double walled pipes. It would reduce the number of yachts the wealthy derive from raping the fucking planet, and we cannot permit that.

And they're not even buying in bulk! I look at aliexpress all the time, and occasionally alibaba. If they would buy even 50-100 of many items from alibaba, they would be able to sell them at the same price as aliexpress. They are just individuals and cannot afford to stock in quantity, which explains their prices... and shitty service.

Except old packages.

I run Devuan, but I find myself constantly having to install newer versions of software out of band because the packaged versions are unacceptably old. This includes XFCE, there are important bugs and feature improvements in just slightly newer versions which haven't been packaged for the release version. And last I looked the next release was still being indefinitely delayed for some goofy holdup, I don't even remember what it was.

Debian is also really bad at multiarch. They do support it obviously, but it's painful.

The GPL prohibits placing additional restrictions on distribution.

That is exactly what they are doing with their other license.

I've noticed that lately I get modded down by people solely because I'm criticizing a business.

This can only be because they have stock in it.

Allowing anonymous moderation when scores are capped and not everyone gets points enables abuse, and there's no other reason to do it.

This of course is not the fault of the new owners. Slashdot moderation was always broken by design. Like US Government, the design depends on most of the actors being benevolent. Look at how well that works.

If anyone knew how to make them better, they would be doing it. There are thousands of developers working on that right now. This is a fundamental flaw which suggests that LLMs are only going to be one small piece of a functional AI which you can actually trust. You can't do trustworthy fact checking with more hallucination, so you can only make incremental improvements by having a LLM check itself, or even using a different LLM to check output.

Because of the combination of additional operational incompetence in the IT departments where it is deployed, and further operational incompetence in whatever department signed the contract for the software that doesn't let them back out and stop paying until it ends even if the vendor is proven to be grossly incompetent. That is, some IT departments cannot make such a switch timely, and even if they could, they won't get budget for it.

The only humans which this robot's physical functionality resembles is quadriplegics, and they are more capable than it is.

This text was lifted directly from the article on VentureBeat, which is (obviously) a complete shitshow that no one should ever take seriously.

Too bad this story made it here. Shark jumped again.

At no point does HuggingFace advertise this as a "humanoid" robot. They describe it as "expressive" which is also quite hyperbolic. It's less expressive than the military/gardening robots in Laputa: Castle in the Sky as it can't even blow things up. Yeah, you can convey meaning with a head tilt, but the only message it can really deliver is "why were you stupid enough to pay for me?"

Also, the summary outright lies about the price of Reachy Mini, which costs $449. The advertised product (which is shipping now) is Reachy Mini Lite. Reachy Mini adds WiFi, a battery, and an Accelerometer, which probably cost them about $5 to add (and $4 of that is battery). The Lite version only works when connected to your PC. It's barely even a robot, it's better called a peripheral device.

Literally no one should buy this trash. It will end up in a drawer in 99% of cases.

The only part of this story I have a problem with is "decided to actually build the feature -- even though the app was never designed to support that format". Yeah, no shit, if the app was designed to support that format, he wouldn't have to build the feature because it would already be there. That's not an "even though", it's literally a requirement for it to happen. Author, editor, or whoever completely fails not only at basic English, but at logic, too.

But, this is also a hilariously simple feature. It's a format conversion! What the app already does is orders of magnitude more difficult, and the new feature can almost certainly use existing code to do most of the job. The output part already exists, this is only a new input part, and immensely simpler than the existing input part. This doesn't make it not news, of course.

Finally, the answer to the dev's question "Should we really be developing features in response to misinformation?" is "why not"? There is not a single solitary reason not to do so. And, to close the circle, he could not have developed features which people said did exist, because they would already have been developed. But even more accurately, he did not develop the feature in response to misinformation. He did it in response to demand, or put another way, the customer response to misinformation.

The fundamental data generation from LLMs is working fine if you're happy with neither you nor the tool knowing whether the output is any good unless you a) understand the subject and b) scrutinize 100% of the output.

Your standards are unexplainably low.

It's not the language, but it is that there is scripting.

What's in the browser should be limited to the kinds of dynamic features which wound up in CSS. Even those could be implemented poorly and used to harm the user, but it would be a lot more difficult.

Tax revenue makes sense, but jobs? DCs don't provide many ongoing jobs, so they're limited to construction, and pushing for construction booms means promoting construction busts as growth is not infinite.

I still go to eBay if I want something used.

Otherwise I go straight to AliExpress as they have the same trash sold on Amazon, but for less.

Install the camelcamelcamel extension in Firefox and get price history graphs in Amazon pages which will show you exactly how. They raise the prices gradually leading up to prime day and then give you a "discount" that is often not the lowest price for the year.