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The article is explicit that it's an environmental pressure selecting for a previously recessive trait, similarly to Peppered moths during the Industrial Revolution[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppered_moth_evolution
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Great idea! I took it and implemented it, now there is a toggle button to turn on “Blind Mode”

Try it out!
Writing tests for the sake of coverage is already practically useless which is what a lot of orgs do, This could maybe generate such tests. However it doesn't materially impact quality now, so not much difference if automated.

One of the main value props for writing meaningful unit tests, is it helps the developer think differently about the code he is writing tests for, and that improves quality of the code composition.
If there was a deadly virus that killed human that do not have blue eyes, the entire human population would "evolve" to having blue eyes very quickly.

This is exactly what happened with the tusk-less elephants.
Closeness is the point. They did do Yosemite/El Capitan and Sierra/High Sierra, after all.
> We already know how to stop climate change (rapidly decrease our CO2 output)

Yes, but we don't know how to do that. The technology exists now in many domains; with adequate public will and money we could probably rapidly electrify surface transportation, for example, and maybe electricity production (though long-duration storage is probably still a ways from production readiness), but the technology to produce concrete or aluminum without emissions just doesn't exist yet at anything other than (at best) the concept stage. Likewise for trans-oceanic shipping, or long-haul aviation, or fertilizer production, or... (etc., etc.). People think first about cars and electricity because they're tangible in people's daily lives, but industrial CO2 is a big, very much not-yet-solved problem.

Work is absolutely happening in all of these domains, but it will take time and resources, and we don't know which efforts will or won't succeed, or if any will succeed fast enough to meet IPCC targets for keeping warming below 1.5C without carbon capture as well.
I think for small nations, external validation is important, and robot took off. So Czechs themselves will be quick to point that out among listing their achievements. There is much better Czech literature out there.
The tendency exists for sure, but there is nothing supporting the claim that it’s impossible. The Amish themselves are an example. Also there are other eco villages and communities that have managed.
Possibly yes, if you're only contrasting it with being able to be faster.

I mean, it's sort of a false dichotomy -- it's omitting a "default speed" for writing boilerplate that is neither enhanced nor impeded.

the potential issue with an enhanced speed for writing boilerplate is that it means that there'll just be more and more boilerplate to maintain over time, and it's not clear what that cost over time will be.

How much more effort will be expended to replace things in multiple places? It exacerbates existing issues of "these two things look almost the same, but someone manually modified one copy...should that change be propagated?"

Meaning, it's essentially an ad-hoc code generator. Code generation can be a very useful technique (see protobufs), but without the ability to re-generate from a source?

Perhaps a possible enhancement might be for copilot to keep track of all blurbs it generated and propose refactoring/modifying all copies?
Decades of disinformation by fossil fuels halted US climate policy
Giving users the option to toggle the algorithm on/off would be nice.
Mycelium Mesh Project A low-bitrate, long-range, distributed off-grid text mesg
Death is not the only outcome
Thanks! It's always nice to read HN threads and get "better" (subjective maybe) alternatives than the original post
She's slept in an iron lung for over 60 years. I imagine adjusting to sleeping in a more modern system would be incredibly difficult.
I have. Many political parties are trying to aim at carbon neutrality nearly only through carbon removal and technological improvements in efficiency.

This is actually a huge point of debate in a lot of countries.
After looking through the website I'm quite confused. It looks like you just edit HTML/CSS as you normally would with the many static site generators out there.

What part of it is the GUI builder? I was expecting to see something like a wordpress drag and drop style setup.
RDP over HTTP could assist in opening up the list of applications, however I’m not sure what the consumers look like for such a setup.
Presumably they are tree-sitter grammars for those languages. I think these grammars are open source so should be available (assuming they were unmodified).
distinguishes Westphalian sovereigns

This introduces the much more serious meta-problem of distinguishing commenters who merely happen to use 'Westphalian' from Lyndon LaRouche fans.
Import suds, ditto.
Plenty of bands recorded their albums on cheap multitrack recorders in their garage.
I'm curious as to how you think more and randomized competitions would change the outcome. If you like a font better than another font, it doesn't matter which two fonts are being compared. You like the winner more than you like the loser.
Boilerplate is exclusively what I use AI-powered code completion for (currently Tabnine).

In a perfect world we’d all have excellent comprehensive metaprogramming facilities in our programming languages and no incidence of RSI (e.g. carpal tunnel syndrome). Code completion is a good tool to deal with these realities.
Not just any child laborers, mind you: your $20 are getting your the finest Uighur and political prisoner labor money can buy!
Blind mode is a very good and popular suggestion! I also get the same idea from Twitter! I implemented it, now there is a toggle button to turn on blind mode. Try it out, maybe you will end up with something else this time, who knows?!
> I've tried several times, but I cannot get it to show me a view that is useful. IE, what's new.

That's odd. This is definitely something it can do, and in my experience it is the default view or at least easily available. E.g., the front page of llllllll.co is just that.
In the USA we're just predisposed to elect bad people, a significant segment of the voting public think electing a game show host is a good move, this sort of voting population will have effects at all levels.
Due to years of vocal complaints from developers since 2016.
AGP was designed to allow faster access to memory because VRAM was expensive. There was just enough for the framebuffers. Texture size was known to be huge, which would live in RDRAM b/c VRAM would have been crazy expensive (I think the dual 3DFx at the time was like $1k). Also Intel was investing heavily in RDRAM (remember that?). The idea of integrating graphics and southbridge was on the long-term roadmap, which would use UMA (unified memory architecture) to make cheap mobos, which board vendors were begging for. So this also figured into the decision: it wasn't about the graphics crown, it was about selling CPUs. These became the 810 and 815, which the game developers HATED because it held back progress for years: the 810 was the most common graphics chipset by I believe more than one order of magnitude.

So yes, cost cutting due to the desire to dominate the motherboard market, which they did, which led to even more market for their CPUs. Even at the expense of overall graphics software performance for years.
That "private health information" is them attempting to ruin other people's livelihoods. This isn't some personal issue like high blood pressure, this is a highly infectious disease.

Stop pretending this is some kind of principled stand, it's just people wanting to be inconsiderate assholes and other people not wanting them to be.
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any suggestions for said tools?
Not all automated curation is built equal and boiling it down to just one thing really confuses things. I absolutely adore YouTube's automated curation since the primary goal there is just to steer me to things I'll find interesting - the ads are present on all content and so YT just wants to keep me on the platform for as long as possible.

When it comes to Facebook it always feels like I'm being steered towards topics that yield monetizable verbiage. If a friend likes an upcoming concert I'll definitely hear about it loud and clear - while as an upcoming picnic or personal project being planned is less likely to float to the top.
For the blind tournament, I just implemented it! Give it a try :)
Society is a group of people. In democratic societies those decisions are made through elections.
well before electronics of any sophistication could reasonably fit in such a form factor

What level of sophistication would be required to get an edge from a 1cm by 3-4cm cylinder of computing and batteries?
How do you pay for your e-commerce goods online?
What compiler is used to build Clear Linux? I took some time to find out whether they used the Intel C Compiler or GCC (maybe with the right options) a few months ago but didn't succeed.
Your claim that natural immunity superiority is a myth is based on which scientific principles? Please throw all the science you can at me, I am genuinely interested.

Also, I'm curious if you read the studies you're linking to?

This is literally the conclusion from link #8

>This study demonstrated that natural immunity confers longer lasting and stronger protection against infection, symptomatic disease and hospitalization caused by the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2, compared to the BNT162b2 two-dose vaccine-induced immunity.
Breaking net neutrality is bad while doing that to Wikipedia is good. How come?
Putting users into echo chambers is not narrative control?

They could have made the algorithm so it showed users brand new different material, or opposing material, or more details, or related material from friends instead of corporations, or from people geographically nearby, or chronological, or let users find their own material and/or build their own feeds.

Instead of any of that they show them similar material, like you said, effectively putting everyone in echo chambers.
I call designs like Discourse’ the duploification of the web. Everything is twice as big as it needs to be so it’s “easier” to use.

Easier in quotes because it is actually a lot more difficult (for me). The excess white space and lack of differentiation between bits of content just make it harder to follow conversations. I might have brain problems, I dunno, but I struggle with it in any case.

But what I dislike more is companies and projects abandoning GitHub issues for Discourse forums. The disconnect between source and issue is frustrating as someone that files a fair number of detailed issues. Issues that, btw, require enough information that I end up using GitHub anyway (gists).
So far there is no viable replacement around that is "more adequate for the job" (Wayland is fundamentally flawed at the concept level). So Xorg will stick around much longer probably decades.
Cool. Any ETA for I can try it in a white labelled form?
Sure, but "both would be ideal" exists. You can have an Escape key and Touch Bar, if you want.
How does rust do bounds checking for slice accesses if the length is not stored?
I think the above commenter recognized that; that's exactly how these evolutions pretty much always work in nature, not unique to this case.
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/buddhist-monks-with-the...

It's more complicated than that. Always.

The monks I've known accept modern science, medicine, etc cheerfully. It's not really relevant to Buddhist spirituality any more than the advent of frozen fish sticks was.

It's fine to LARP 1850 if that's your bag. But people who truly wish to live in the confines of that era will have children who die of cholera. We should all be grateful for the upsides of modern society.
Hmm in the context of the article, I'm not so sure it's a good thing.

Later on they mention that if this genetic trait gets passed on to males, they die. So along with hunting, males are doubly at risk.

It may be advantageous for the survival of an individual to be born without tusks, but it doesn't sound too good for the survival of the species.
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These laws seem ... challenged? ... to deter unsolicited telemarking and SMS spam.
> But they carefully consider how each [technology] will change their culture before embracing it. And the best clue as to what will happen comes from watching their neighbors.

This knowledge is not unknown in the English world. This is how most large, conservative financial organizations manage technology. They don’t dive into new technology without some very careful consideration.
Good, I was getting really tired of subtly plagiarizing by hand.
> With CL, it felt like I was constantly fighting the tide.... just to get basic things working that are already solved problems in other languages (Node).... I was mostly fighting it alone.

Based on the author's comments in the article, I didn't get the impression that he hit any performance bottlenecks -- rather, it was an emotionally draining experience to be on the hook for everything. Similar to how some open source authors walk away from things because it's "Too Much".
> if CL were to get a second standard

Huh, TIL. Checking wiki, the final/current version is from 1994[0]. Welp, that explains it for me. Thanks!

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp#History
Yeah, that's what I meant by the "initial technical decision." Perhaps "technical and ego driven" would have been more precise :-)
(2019)

Also, from the video’s description: “DISCLAIMER: This video is a historical account from 2014. It is not maintained or updated, so it is not a description of how Spotify works today.”
As someone who has played semi-competitive games for a long time.. yes, the nature of man is to cheat ;) Not everyone, but enough. Rather than try to shape man, I would rather make a game "cheat proof".
I went to an Apple Store yesterday to compare the new MBP with the old 13" MBP w/ TB and the 13" MBA. The weight of the 14" didn't strike me as much of a difference, even compared to the MBA. It is heavier, yes, but not much.

I was also interested in the keyboard, and I think they are either identical-feeling or nearly-so across all three models. The new MBPs could be a tiny bit more resistant, but that could be my imagination (or the fact that the other demo machines have been in use for months, and therefore a little less springy).

I didn't notice a huge difference in screen brightness/resolution/responsiveness, though I wasn't looking that hard.

For me, the biggest upgrade in the new MBPs is the ports, since I'm on a 2-port MBP from 2017. If I could get SD/HDMI/MagSafe on an MBA or the 13" MBP, I would do so in a heartbeat. The speed of the new MBPs is amazing, but I (a non-technical founder) could easily get by on an M1 MBA.

I talked with a knowledgeable Apple employee, and he said that he expects they'll keep the 13" MBP around, and that when it updates it should get the same ports (and definitely MagSafe, which effectively gives you another port) as the new MBPs. He didn't expect the MBAs to get anything other than MagSafe.

My plan for now is to try to hold out until the 13" MBP is updated and get one of those. I prefer the smaller size, and the cost of the new MBPs is just not justifiable for me. I might even get an MBA if it gets MagSafe + 2 USB-C. One interesting tidbit is that Apple's tech specs show longer battery life on web browsing for the MBA than the MBPs. That metric is a relevant one for me. AppleCare is also significantly cheaper on the MBAs than MBPs.
It's fine as a manifesto but no where does that introduction page actually say why you might want to bother switching over from ls in the first place.
That’s a good plan if your language isn’t Go. For us I think tools to wrangle boilerplate are a lot more feasible than actually eliminating it.
The other key is that each community decides for themselves what is permitted and not permitted. Some Amish are permitted to drive cars, but only if the car is black, but this is community specific. Source - my brother-in-laws family left the Amish when he was young, so he got to see both worlds.
> forced a redesign of probably the entire unit

Both laptops (Air and 13" Pro) that the M1 launched in kept their previous designs. So the switch from Intel to Apple Silicon itself wasn't the cause. The switch from M1 to M1 Pro and Max, maybe. But even the previous Intel machines had some serious TDP (and thermal issues), and even that wasn't enough to justify a redesign.
You are right about online chess.. so let's stick to inperson for a serious game.
No I got the Netherlands confused with Denmark, which was a comparison from when bitcoin was much smaller.
Take Jack's story and multiply it by at least a million. That's the cost we're currently paying for it. Throwing a small fraction of those people in jail in order to prevent this epidemic is the humane thing to do.

That you'd rather call a real solution to this issue "perverse" and "sadistic" betrays your own cynical view: you really don't care that much about people like Jack. You'd rather grandstand with your smug, politically correct view than actually help people like him.

Why was it so easy for Jack, a high school kid in a small town in the Northeast, to get his hand on hard drugs like this? The answer: we stopped having the stomach for being tough on anyone connected with drugs, by throwing them in prison, and creating incentives to strongly discourage its use.

We don't hesitate to jail people for decades when we find them with illegal explosives or plans to commit acts of terrorism. If those people are successful, at most they kill hundreds of people. The use and distribution of drugs does much more damage and impacts millions in a massively negative way.
Remoteness is part of the problem.

We are moving into the Afghanistan 'we don't know who's an insurgent so drone bomb anyone holding a radio' stage of warfare and humans are not ready for the ease and lack of accountability that comes with it.
Hi, I'm the release manager responsible for this X release seeing the light.

This release would not have happened if an effort to improve touchpad support in Linux was not funded for the past year and half. X server 21.1 makes touchpad gesture functionality support universal so it's much easier to offer consistent user experience for everyone and downstream developers are less reluctant to accept contributions.

Thanks a lot to all the sponsors: https://github.com/sponsors/gitclear

By the way, I wonder if there is demand for long-term maintenance of X server specifically. If you think you could contribute, maybe write here and if there's enough interest maybe it's possible to crowd fund something.
McDonald's chicken nuggets aren't perfect ovaloids. They have artificial imperfections that people enjoy. (There are 4 different molds.)

You don't need natural imperfections.
> Analog knobs, jog wheels, sliders, trackballs, etc. are tragically missing.

Fwiw they are readily available by way of USB (e.g. MIDI) controllers. There are loads of dedicated knobs, faders, pads, etc. with a large amount of software to customize and translate those inputs (in addition to the array of software supporting them natively)

Obviously that would be external to the computer, but I think given the highly specific nature of analog controls it makes sense for these to be external. I'm having difficulty imaging a set of analog controls that would be at the same time universally useful and efficient in terms of weight and space utilization.
> I can't think of another reasonable alternative that allows the client to specify what they want in a single round trip

I don't know much about history so that might be a wild guess, but did people try to build SQL directly from the client and send it?
But easy to verify. Strip search before game, etc.
> Published in Science on Thursday, the study looked at the genetic changes engineered due to mass poaching for ivory.

This interpretation of evolution is a myth that needs to be busted. Nothing is being "engineered". What is happening is simply: no tusks is an advantage. That is, no tusks means less likely to be hunted / killed.

As a result, the tusk genes in the gene pool are less available. The no-tusks genes more.

In short, and ultra-simplified, evolution is reactive.
Could they? If they were outside the legal system I would simply steal their land and build McMansions on it.
Huh... funny how much that sounds like a current American political party.
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I will check it out. So far I have been skeptical about removing a base.

My original comment is mostly based on "The Theory of Free Banking: Money Supply under Competitive Note Issue" by George Selgin. There is of course a lot more surrounding literature.
A lot of dongle talk seems weird to me. A to C adapters are cheap. Buy a bunch and leave them on the things you regularly use. No dongle to track.
Right, you would need to finish a high level game in a single day to prevent that scenario.
I'm not a pacifist (combat veteran, actually) but I'll point out that you may be missing something on their side of the argument.

There are some things worth dying for (for example, freedom as you point out). A pacifist has a similar mentality, but believes not taking a life is worth dying for.

Both the pacifist and the non-pacifist want freedom, but the pacifist would rather surrender liberty than kill if that's what it comes to. By analogy, I want to keep my car, but I would not shoot anyone who tried to steal it even though it's legal where I live. I might hate what they're doing but I value their life more than my car.
The 13" Pro was updated to M1 together with the Air.
That was my understanding as well, I was proposing an alternative theory.
>Not if the other platform is decentralized...

Like all of the other decentralized social media platforms that most people just don't care about? I'd argue that social media has become so polarized that, no matter their views, most people will want some sort of centralized body setting rules that act in their (the user's) interests.

>... and doesn't rely on advertising money.

People have widely adopted social media because they're not charged anything (aside from their privacy being invaded) to use it. How is such a platform staying online without charging users or using advertiser money?
Naomi Wu really hates western journalists and tech-bros, and justifiably so. She's been doxxed, accused of being fake (they think her partner does all the work and she's just his model/actress), etc.

So yeah, she has a humongous chip on her shoulder, and maybe she gets carried away with that anger, but the chip on her shoulder comes from some legitimate grievances.

Regardless, she has a lot of respect in the maker space because she's one of the few people who says "oh yeah, we can jump in and come up with help for this medical/prosthetic problem" and doesn't half-ass it. She's very specific about that - this is one of those cases where Minimum Viable Product is unacceptable, these items need to stand up to real life and 24/7 contact with human skin.
Not to deny that there is something profoundly wrong with the world's extremes of wealth and poverty...but it sounds like a more honest headline would be "$Small% of $One_Rich_Mans_Wealth, if converted into the correct foods and somehow magically delivered only to the most needy people in several violent conflict zones in remote failed states, could cover the immediate hunger crisis that we are facing, says the director of the UN World Food Program".
Also “howitzer” is the English pronunciation of a Czech invention, houfnice, from the Hussite wars. They were the first to use firearms on a mass scale, arming peasants with pistols, long guns, and dragging artillery they designed in wagon carts. Was a real shocker to the medieval knights they were fighting.