skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> app developers who opt for flatpaks no longer have to give a damn about downstream

As opposed to today, where app developers definitely don't just tell users to run:

sudo apt-key <name> --keyserver hkp://<X>:80 --recv <X>
sudo add-apt-repository 'deb [arch=amd64] https://<X> multiverse'

Or even more simply:

sudo apt install ./mydownloadedpackage.deb

People can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Ubuntu even allows double-click installs of downloaded Debian packages. Is there a complexity here that I'm missing?

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As far as I can tell, the parts of distribution that Flatpak makes easier aren't the literal distribution parts. Yes, they make it so you need to create fewer bundles (just Flatpak instead of deb, rpm, etc...). But they're more about the containerization than the distribution, if all you care about is distributing Debian packages outside of the official repos, that isn't necessarily that hard of a problem. I think you can even host a custom package source on a static site through Github pages, you don't even have to pay for the server.

The big change here is that you don't need to share dependencies, but importantly, you already didn't have to share dependencies, Linux apps could already embed unsupported system dependencies that they wanted to use, and many of them (particularly games) already did.

This makes that process easier, which you may view as a negative, but another benefit of that is that easy linking with Flatpak runtimes means applications are more likely to link to those libraries in a more inspectable way, and it's easier to at least audit the applications that were already bundling these dependencies before.
The heart attack stats are likely incorrect. An international WHO study on cocaine[0] concluded:

"A majority of health consequences may not be directly attributed to cocaine use. Cocaine often contributes to or exacerbates the conditions reported, rather than causing them."

"Few experts describe cocaine as invariably harmful to health. Cocaine-related problems are widely perceived to be more common and more severe for intensive, high-dosage users and very rare and much less severe for occasional, low-dosage users."

0. https://www.tni.org/files/article-downloads/2007030814092750...
I always read every contract I sign, but I may not be representative. However, the woman you were talking about could have crossed out the offending paragraphs in the contract in the gym probably would have gone along.

That said, I think contracts like that where you have to opt out of what you would think of to be normal behavior shitty.
> There are people 2x as smart and who will work 2x as hard for 1/2 the salary among remaining 7 Billion people on this planet and if the bank can hire them instead of you, eventually they will.

I've worked with remote developers from Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia in US companies, and talent in those areas can command SV-level compensation.

Truth is, if you can compete with domestic US talent, you can command US-level compensation, either through immigration or the "outsourcing" you're trying to spook people with.

If the work being done doesn't require talent that commands US-level compensation, then that work was already outsourced 20 to 30+ years ago.
'progressive enhancement of boilerplate'
Crypto adds it’s own bad parts.
The depend mgmt part is like that because people have different wants. There are DevOps wants, system packager wants, user wants and coder wants. And they are somewhat orthogonal, but not entirely.

Each of the tools you mention have their good part wrt/ one of those four categories, and the rest is an afterthought.

They did not end up doing one thing well, but one thing well and the other three too. Not as well.

The way, or one way to change that would be to borrow the overall idea and semantics from each "good" implementation, but to limit it to just that; and build four separate projects under one community, so that there is pollination of knowledge and efforts, but no cross-contamination of goals and semantics.

I'm not sure I am the person to start something like that.
all those things work in neovim aswell
>> Samsung spent years evaluating where to build the new fab, courting multiple locations and pitting them against each other for better incentives

Perhaps other states are not willing to top the gobs of money Texas offered to Samsung. The Amazon HQ2, race-to-the-bottom strategy is alive and well
That's one way to look at it.

Another way is to appreciate the fact that we have an open-platform with a standards body that actually works (queue the responses about how it actually _doesn't_ work). I can write an app once and access it from any device and it will work today, and it will work 10 years from now.

No other platform has achieved what the web browsers have, so I think we might be doing something right.
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> Apple's cooperation with PRISM[0] is well documented[1]

Neither of your links documents any kind of cooperation, let alone documenting it well.
The biggest attitude problem in crypto is to respond to technical questions and challenges with personal attacks.

Such a turn off both technically and socially. I find it more toxic and tribal than politics at this point.
> The main advantage is the absence of bloat, e.g. components like DBus

? Like most distros that start you off but nothing but a minimal base, you can choose whether to install DBus or not. Almost everyone using Alpine as a daily driver on their PC probably has DBus installed and enabled.
All browsers have JS byte code caching, but in my experience building web apps it doesn't make a huge difference in the real world. A user will hit a site, download and compile the JS bundle, and then that tab will be kept open for a day or two. They might close the tab and reopen it the following day. In any modern app that uses continuous deployment that means they'll certainly be downloading a new client bundle, and a lot of the time they'll also also get a new vendor bundle (client bundle is the app code, vendor bundle is the NPM packages). I have no doubt code could be split to optimize for fewest changes but JS tooling is complicated enough already so I doubt many sites would bother.
Brazil and Argentina is more successful than Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, Finland, Canada, Norway, USA, Japan, Korea and Englad combined. What exactly is the takeaway here?
I think you have pension funds exactly backwards. They are typically managed with the goal of reaching their assumed rates of return at minimal risk. With performance so far above assumed returns, if anything pension funds can afford to take on less risky assets and still meet their goals.
I don't think you can easily do this in vim, but search over the entire code base ignoring anything ignored by git. You can obviously do this with git itself, but it is nice having an interactive list of results.
Yeah, quite bulky :-) But interesting approach.
Versu story [0] was an engine for creating interactive stories that was specifically designed for including easily lively NPCs. I never tried it though, and unfortunately, the project was abandoned [1] although it sounded very promising.

[0]: https://versu.com/

[1]: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/the-end-of-versu-emil...
Startup idea: toilets that issue receipts.

I don't know what for, the market will find a way.
This is a hilariously absurd proposition. The existence of `git bisect` necessarily precludes an issue that personal expertise cannot find without some help.

Personal expertise tells you to use a tool like git bisect to find a problem, so you are more effective in your work. The same as it tells you to use gdb to debug a stack trace. Or do you eyeball the CPU executing instructions in realtime?

An absence of personal expertise will convince you that you are smart enough to do it on your own.
Economic sense for the big companies, but probably not for cities and local businesses.
Hi! Happy to make a new friend. My classic games were fun but tiny due to the 16k limits I had to work with. Be sure and check out some of my newer games as well www.clopas.net

I don't think I have never had the pleasure to interact with Brian or Steve but I greatly respect their work!
Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick Needs to Resign
It really depends. If you're not moving or borrowing against the value, does the value of your house matter that much?
Just set an alarm on your phone.
Kyoto is moving to separate organization
Oh sure, we'd all like to flee to the cleev https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfAHbZg_Az0

As someone born and raised in the bay area it's not that easy. All my friends and family live here. I have a well paying job that I like here and I like my co workers. I have accepted that for as long as I live in SF, I will have to rent. I will never be able to own a home remotely close to SF or to my office.

I don't want to just run to a low COL city and start over. I would rather fight for lower housing prices so that one day I might be able to own a home and start a family where I grew up myself.
> In the other camp are those who are quite concerned about the financial, economic, and political consequences if paper wealth reverts to historical norms in relation to global income.

What about the camp that is worried that paper wealth doesn't revert to norms? I mean, if a person doesn't already own a house, then inflated prices work against them.
Employees can find another job. Or they can choose to have no job, and potentially starve to death etc. But the latter is the default of the human condition, and has little to do with the whims of corporations.
It's also very well established that cannabis can cause psychosis[1] or depersonalization disorder[2]. Most conversations around cannabis risks usually just reference teens but that's just because there is a strong link between early teen cannabis psychosis and schizophrenia.

My understanding is adults over 30, while way less likely to develop schizophrenia are not immune to transient cannabis induced psychosis or DPDR,

1. https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/cannabis-induced-psych...

2. https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.ajp-rj.20...
Stupid question, how do I play these games? They sound great.
I have never run up against problems caused by people reading too widely.

I have frequently seen problems caused by people who didn't read enough.
I don't think that's true. Obviously a lot of people pay a lot of money for them. I think even the most craven NIMBY would adore a high rise condo if it had comparable square footage.

It's everyone else's vertically built accommodations that attract the hatred.
As a German, I will believe it when it's been done and I have bought my first legal joint and not a minute before that...
It does sound like he had an amazing gift. I am so glad you were able to hear him live!
> So curious, what is wrong with just letting people switch over as they need to?

It's a principal-agent problem. There are lots of people who want IPv6, but can't get it because their local ISP doesn't care.
This is more likely targeting phishing messages coming from NSO Group to victims, rather than communication between NSO members.
You are correct. Even spacing does not matter.

There are many initial configurations that achieve the maximum time before the last ant falls off the stick, and that includes configurations where they are evenly spaced and configurations where all but one ant is randomly spaced (achieving maximum time requires that at least one ant be in a particular initial state--I'm being vague to avoid spoilers).

(This is all assuming mathematical ants...point sized and can change direction instantly)
But shouldn't the employees that require extra subsidies (office space, commuting reimbursement, office utilities/supplies) receive the same overall compensation as those working from home with lower expense to the company? It seems to me that if being in the office is an optional preference for some, they should carry the cost of it.
Can we see the nice people behind this nice website?
Inflation screws the rich, not the poor. Statistically, the wealthy have way more cash than the poor, while the wage-earning population will get increased income along with inflation.
This is very wrong.

Investing in real estate is a real investment when it results in houses being built. In fact it is maybe one of the most timeless and obvious form of investment. People have built and traded dwellings through the ages. Prices have to rise when good land gets scarce and labor gets more expensive.

Low interest rates _also_ boost investment in technology and businesses.

Raising rates, if you mean central bank rates, would reduce investment in both houses and technology. Raising interest rates is a signal and incentive from central banks to not invest in anything and instead hold on to government paper.

Raising rates means funding the wealthy's savings by providing them a backstop. When they can't find assets that retain sufficient value on the private markets, they can just hold to government paper having above market returns. I wrote more here a while back: https://medium.com/@b.essiambre/the-world-deserves-a-pay-rai...
Here lies Scott, bitten to death by chiggers :) LOL!
Why are there secrets? Isn't this something that should be freely available to all? Why?
SpiderMonkey caches pre-parsed bytecode for scripts, which can immediately start executing in the interpreter. (I believe roughly the same is true for other engines. See [1], for example.) The tricky part of caching compiled scripts is that they generally refer to various runtime state. For example, a compiled script might include a check to verify the shape / hidden class of an object. If you want to cache that code, you also have to cache the shape tree. Multiply that out by all the runtime state that is referenced from compiled code, and it's a hard problem. We've talked about simpler mechanisms like caching function hotness / the number of iterations before our profiling data stabilizes, to trigger compilation earlier, but we haven't gotten around to implementing it yet.

[1]: https://v8.dev/blog/code-caching-for-devs
Convenient Utils Linux. Finally, just 5 chars (showu) to see all users, haha
Cities are built from less intense settlements. We don't build cities anymore because we systematically declare them "done" when they're just getting started.
We pulled our punches in Afghanistan.

Commanders on the ground were asking for air-dropped landmines to cover the areas that Bin Laden could have been using as an escape in Tora Bora in December 2001. Air-dropped land-mines would have made navigating those mountains much more difficult for Bin Laden, and may have killed him on his escape.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GATOR_mine_system

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They may use IADs, but we have far better equipment for that strategy. We can deploy our mines from airplanes and just blanket an area if we so choose. But of course: this strategy means killing innocent civilians who accidentally walk on the mines.

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Difficult Terrain works for both sides. Sure, its difficult for us to move in, but that also makes it difficult for the enemy to move around. Doubly so if landmines are secretly littering areas.
Is anyone familiar with Paulo Solari's work on asteroids and such..? He was one of Frank Lloydd Write's Fellows.
Yeah, I have no interest in being a "hero" or whatever. If they want a lead, they can hire a lead (I wasn't hired as a lead).
You can find the related paper in arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.11554
Mechanical actions of dendritic-spine enlargement on presynaptic exocytosis
Lossless avoids all those issues around human perception. Also, if you're storing game assets, some of what you're storing as images is not really imagery. It may be normals or height fields, which lossy image compression messes up.

The code is interesting, in that it iterates over the output array, not the input. This helps prevent write buffer overflows. It has read buffer overflows, though. You can craft a compressed file which, when decompressed, will contain info from elsewhere in memory.
Nice! Hadn't noticed that.
All countries eventually end up as Japan. India and Africa will race to be last. China is already somewhere between 1.1 and 1.3 total fertility rate. Sustained sub replacement rates (<2.1 fertility rate) locks in population momentum.

This is important because age of labor and consumers directly influences macro economic conditions, which trickles down to investment returns.

https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2014/02/World-population-...
> take out home equity loans to pay down credit card debt

I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir, but this is a terrible strategy. In a perfect world it cuts the interest payment a lot, but the risks are significant.
How to Post a YouTube Video on Instagram (Easy)
Do check out r/ethfinance, it's the most rational sub related to all things Ethereum.

Brand new, blockchain-based reddit/twitter hybrid gm.xyz looks interesting as well.
This goes out the window the moment you attach a second monitor for most folks. 1080p is very common; if we start talking about achieving retina at that resolution (say 220 DPI, a rough average across modern Macbooks), we're talking 10-inch displays. Even at 4k we're talking a max size of 19 inches or so before things get outside of Apple's ideal DPI.

I can't speak for you, but for my work and current eyeglass prescription, 27 inches is my starting point for comfort.

Even if I dislike it, Apple seems to have removed the global option to turn font smoothing off in Big Sur.
> Could you provide a source for the promise to stay in the single market?

https://www.businessinsider.com/boris-johnson-single-market-...
Tt's a talk with coinbase ceo. If your in to crypto great. if your looking some something interesting about Founder Led Companies didn't see much of that.
Here's one example: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGMTesZlKa0Lokb7ZNqOJXQ

And another: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEa46rlHqEP6ClWitFd2QOQ
> easy electronic transfers within 5 seconds for no charge, no chargebacks and so on, as people are used to in the EU

Um, no. I'm not used to that. My latest online German-bank-to-German-bank giro transfer took the usual two-to-three business days.
So, if I understand correctly, it seems that your disagreement with current policies is, to a large extent, ideological, rather than practical.

Also, if I read correctly what you write, the main disagreement between you and me is that you seem to conflate:

1. technocracy == authoritarianism;

2. taking public health measures == authoritarianism;

3. informed people will take good decisions.

To which I would counter with different definitions and observations:

1. In my book, technocracy means "letting people who actually understand the issue do something about it", by opposition to "count on people whose main skills are diplomacy and politics do something about a problem they don't understand." We still count on the latter to actually defend our democracy and technocrats (just as police officers, judges or teachers) are part of the means of action of a democracy.

2. In my book, the measures that have been taken were imperfect necessary (or at least seemed necessary at the time) based on existing knowledge about epidemics. They have a cost, largely in terms of personal comfort and mental health, but we're so far from authoritarian regimes that I suspect that people who use the word "authoritarian" to describe them have no clue what it means.

3. Experience with the US seems to suggest that many informed people will... do random things?
> If paper wealth takes a shit the people that will be impacted will be retirees and the wealthy, not your average joes.

Also the elephant in the room is that property taxes are a derivative of your net worth, not your income. So if paper wealth (due largely to RE) continues to outpace income then we're in for a big hurting soonTM.

This is the hilarious part about critics against a wealth tax - we already have a wealth tax. I live Texas and people are about to have a brutal wake up call when they can't afford $10k/year in taxes because their $200k ranch they bought 5 years ago (and cost them $40k down) is now worth $500k.

Note - I have mixed feelings about the proposed wealth tax. The proposed implementation was misguided.
My Return To Pirate Island 2 (turn of the century), the Inheritance (2013) were blind compatable.

I also released Escape The Gloomer on Alexa (fully audio only)

Currently working on making AdventurelandXL (www.AdventurelandXL.com) Windows screen reader compatable as well.
Newer fabs like this recycle a huge portion of their water. I did some back of the napkin math a few weeks ago and the amount of water that the fab will be drawing (after accounting for the recycling) will be about the same as the water usage of an equivalently-sized suburban neighborhood. So while water usage is definitely a concern, I'm not sure that this fab is a bigger concern than your typical neighborhoods or farms.
The aircraft was doing a VTOL take off. Maybe the upwards part went fine until it was required to start shifting forward?
SpaceX launches NASA’s mission to collide with an asteroid
Very neat indeed but I am partial to my own engine as I know it so well and can tweak it to do exactly what I need :)
Check out 'Exhibit 4' in report linked from the article: https://archive.md/DRUiI.

It shows that in the USA "net worth relative to nominal GDP" is actually pretty stable. The US has the lowest multiple of all the countries under analysis. Indeed the graph shows the US being almost exactly at the historical average.

I'm not sure what this means, but I certainly found it surprising.
The other lost game that I played around 1977 on a PDP 11 at General Electric Research Lab is called bloodbath. It was written entirely in Pascal and I have snippets of the source code across multiple files but not the whole thing. We managed to find references to one University professor who recognized the other names but had no clue that a game had ever arisen from it. It was your standard dungeon crawl except that much like this game you could expand it. It's also chock full of in jokes between its authors and I'm not sure I was supposed to be playing it but that was over 40 years ago so I guess the statute of limitations has long since run out.
It needs more good universities first.
At the risk of being pedantic; it's just a feature, it does not have anything to do with LSP. Plenty of non-LSP IDE's have these features as well (XCode, Visual Studio Classic, etc).
A comment in reddit said that "Rats are only sensitive to green and ultraviolet light. So it’s possible the rats can’t really set much on that Doom level which appears to use red as the main contrasting color" also that rats use scent a lot too.
My day to day browser is a hardened Firefox (plenty of about:config tweaks, resistfingerprinting, ublock origin, temporary containers etc).
For signing up to Oracle Cloud I used a tmpfs based Chromium browser (ie: completely fresh, factory defaults) to avoid issues resulting in my hardened browser.
Oracle cloud refused to accept my credit card with a bogus error message saying something about fraud and/or incomplete/incorrect personal details.
I searched for the error message and someone on a random website mentioned about having issues with Chrome and to try Firefox.
I found that quite unusual as it's usually the other way around but I tried using my day-to-day hardened firefox and instantly worked and account activated within minutes.
Go figure.
That’s more of a personal problem. Paper wealth reverting to norms would be more of a societal problem, and thus is more important to prevent.
I don't care about privacy that much. But that's also unrelated to the reason I will never have a light switch that's capable of having software updates.

The functionality I want from a light switch is simple enough that it should be able to be built into a finished product. More complexity means more failure modes.