skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
X is being deprecated in favor of Wayland, the only way to not use it is to not use new versions of Linux.

NetworkManager replaced every other networking that came before it, DBus replaced configuration files/CLI tools/UNIX sockets, PolicyKit->polkit replaced standard Unix permissions (and before that PAM, which oddly still exists), filesystem standard changed (/sys/ and /run/ didn't used to be a thing), bluetooth changed, alsa -> pulseaudio -> pipewire. Most hardware and driver specific behavior seems to change, breaking whatever system files, configuration, modules, firmware, etc came before. Video subsystems seem to change like every 5 years.

And systemd isn't just "12 years old", it has been growing (like The Blob) for 12 years. It used to just be an init system. Now it's a network manager, a DNS resolver, a log manager, a credential manager, a login manager, a partition manager (yes, really), a container manager. resolv.conf -> systemd-resolv, fdisk -> systemd partition, syslog -> journald, netrc -> systemd credentials, login/controlkit -> logind, docker -> systemd.

Among the most serious changes is that now you literally have to use systemd for most graphical environments on Linux. To not use systemd, you have to use fake systemd replacement tools, because everything depends on systemd so much now. That's some serious churn.
If Bun gets more popular, which it seems to be, it will probably draw away a lot of people who are currently using Deno.
There's a very good book on quantum physics, published in 1978, by PCW Davies, called 'The Forces of Nature', which discusses most of this in nice detail. One gets the sense that not a whole lot of new physical theories have been confirmed since this book was published.

For example, the renormalization problem:

> 'Fortunately the problem of infinite self-energy can be overcome... Manipulating infinte quantities requires some mathematical care, but it can be proved that all <observable> quantities are finite. The technique, developed in the 1930s and 1940s, of absorbing infinities into unobservable 'bare' quantities to get a finite answer, is called renormalization. It may appear like a trick, and nobody pretends that it is completely satisfactory, but without renormalization the predictive power of quantum electrodynamics would disintegrate. With it, the answers obtained have the legendary accuracy already described.'

According to this book, the problems with renormalization are much more severe with weak interactions:

> 'The renormalizability of QED can be traced directly to the masslessness of the photon. Like all massless particles that spin, it can direct its spin either parallel or antiparallel to its direction of motion, but not in between as well. In contrast the massive W can align its spin in three different directions, for example, parallel, antiparallel and perpendicular to its motion. This seemingly innocuous property is the cause of all the difficulty, because it turns out it is the W particles with the perpendicular spin directions that prevent the infinities from being renormalized away."

> "These observations suggest that if the W particle were massless, it might be possible to construct a unified renormalizable theory of weak and electromagnetic interactions in which the photon and W are combined, like the hadrons, into a single family."

Notably there's no mention of the Higgs boson in this book, which is nevertheless remarkable in how it covers the background of almost every physics story I've come across for years. However, is this basically the entry point to why the Higgs boson is important? For example:

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

> "In the Standard Model, the W± and Z0 bosons, and the photon, are produced through the spontaneous symmetry breaking of the electroweak symmetry SU(2) × U(1)Y to U(1)em, effected by the Higgs mechanism (see also Higgs boson), an elaborate quantum field theoretic phenomenon that "spontaneously" alters the realization of the symmetry and rearranges degrees of freedom."
Thanks for the comment. I really don't know anything about these kinds of discussions. I tend to not know what people mean when they say they're anti-capitalist on Mastodon, but this gives me a clue. Interesting to read!

You say you'd refer to what you're talking about as "libertarian communist." I'm not worried about this term, I'm just curious! Do you know of a resource that lays out and summarizes some of these ideas? I don't expect you to teach me them, but it sounds like you might know where to even begin. I don't even know what terms to search for right now!
I'm not sure why this would be considered a controversial statement. A lot of short to medium distance in Europe is very good/convenient by rail, e.g. Eurostar from London to Brussels or Paris--even if not necessarily cheaper than flying. But while I've taken night trains between countries, it was more for the experience and not to save either time or money.
> centralizing docs in 1 searchable website to make docs "discoverable" is only addressing the symptom

a searchable docs website is the most important thing for me. having to "discover" an api by stepping through code and comments is a waste of time--only useful when you already know the basics, which requires documentation
With 3D printers, "cheap" is inversely correlated with "reliable." Something like an Ender 3 will fulfill your requirements, but will require maintenance once it's been "broken in."

If you can find some more cash, a Prusa MK3S or the newer Bambu Lab X1 or AnkerMake will provide more consistent, reliable quality.
But also billions of wasted consumers’ money
No one is arguing that EVs will solve climate change. They are necessary but not sufficient, and their issue isn’t that they aren’t efficient enough, it’s that (1) our grid isn’t yet fully clean and (2) cars don’t account for a sufficiently large share of emissions (so 100% of clean power for cars doesn’t address emissions for other applications).

> single family homes are way worse with regards to energy efficiency,

We’re definitely not going to get everyone into small urban apartments in the next 50 years. We couldn’t build the necessary apartments fast enough, and the costs would be enormous for a relatively small reduction in emissions. The better value for money is building out our clean energy capacity as quickly as possible and disincentivizing waste via carbon pricing.

> Defeatism is not on the roadmap.

Cool, then let’s just terraform Mars and call it a day. Of course, we have to be realistic which means no terraforming Mars or building hundreds of millions of apartment units and equivalent rail infrastructure.
I find that even real, natural driving shots often look fake, but I'm not sure why. I've accused a film maker friend twice of using "janky and obvious looking greenscreen" for driving shots and both times I was completely wrong. Once was a car on a trailer which might have accounted for some of the unnatutalness, but the second time was a real quad bike driving on a real road with a chase car in front of it and a backwards facing camera-person.
Probably not what you're looking for, but this reminds me of Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis series, except with aliens instead of nanobots. Their ship is a giant organism, and humans are biologically modified to be able to interact with it.
One sleight of hand is to write down g instead of g-2, in which case you pick up a couple more digits but haven't added any useful information because the value of 2 is already known.
My kids tease me because they say all I print are things to hold other things. For example, I printed a bracket to attach a 4-port router and a USB power supply to the underside of my desk. I’ve printed tool holders and little boxes to store 3d printer parts in. I printed a stand to hold my laptop in clamshell mode.

I’ve also printed jigs and router templates used in some minor woodworking projects.

Not super useful, but it’s pretty satisfying to have and idea, create it in TinkerCAD or Fusion, then see it materialize on the build plate.
The far more practical method would be for trains to haul thier own batteries. A couple freight cars full of lithium would provide substantial range without electrifying the entire track. And trains have amazing potential for regeneration during braking, if one can find a way to do it practically.
Death to shared libraries. The headaches they cause are just not worth the benefit. I have been dreaming of someone cresting a system devoid of them.
> Meanwhile many well paid, hard working lawyers and doctors hold on to the love for their work.

They really don't. Professional work life, or, any field to which you enter to work for money, is as difficult as the other. Software is not an exception.

It has more to do with our current economic system (capitalism) trying to get the maximum profit out of everybody and overworking them than the specificities of any field.
"Turns out our entire food system is built on outdated, unpatched Linux and Windows CE hardware with LTE modems."

I think this comes as a surprise to no-one who works in industrial software and hardware solutions.
turns out this magnetic sense degrades over time, as I last saw it reported years ago
Your future care won't start at all, until it has verified its secure boot chain against Skynet.
Our family lives in a major urban metro. We go to a traditional urban church. We have everything you mentioned. No diss to our rural brethren, but rurality is not a prerequisite to this life. Most city people problems are of their own choosing.

My wife and I currently suffer from the more socializing than we can handle.

But this requires people to care for religion, which again is a self imposed change people have decided on.

We can criticize Reagan and thatcher till the cows come home. However to claim we are living in their utopia is false. Their utopia was highly religious and would not allow the shifting social norms we have seen in the past few years. The article is actually quite irresponsible in only bringing up thatcher and Reagan's economic revolutions while failing to bring up the sexual revolution.
When you have a quiet quitter on your team, it's obvious to the rest of the team that they're carrying that person, and they resent it.

They'll claim they're doing acceptable work, but only in their own eyes. They invariably have a bad attitude and make work more of a drudgery just by being around. Team morale suffers because of their insufferable selfishness.

Everyone has to be a hero in their own narrative, and the quiet quitter is a hero in their own mind by sticking it to the man. What they don't see or care about is the rest of the team.
How useful is CVSS Score in CVE triage – The CVSS who cried wolf
Iterative TSP Optimisation with Julia and Jump
My number of X's adapt to fit the possibilities and potential of the environment. Right now it's 1x. Actually that's a lie, it's my 1x effort but the company I work with is floating on cloud 10x because I know more of the requirements than they do.

Still have no idea what this mythical 1x - 10x number scale maps to. Inspiration can up anyone's game.
Betteridge's law of headlines.
No.
> a poorly-documented product that does something, is much better than a well-documented product that does nothing

not necessarily. with the latter, you know the constraints of a solution and can make an accurate judgment on whether it's worth using
CSS is. I don’t think pure HTML is.
So let us assume 2 adults and 3 kids.

$5k for a _very nice_ cargo bike capable of transporting 1-2 kids too young to cycle on their own.

$4k for _nice_ bikes for each adult. ($2k x 2)

$3k for _good_ bikes for each kid as they grow out of the cargo bike. ($1k x 3)

$1k a year on maintenance for the bikes if you don't want to do it yourself.

$1k for locks and a crash course on how to lock your bicycles to stuff making it too much of a pain to steal.

That's $15k, or the cost of your lower end for a car for 3 years.

So between year 3 and 4 you can start either just replacing the bicycles with new nice ones because you like brand new, get yourself even more expensive electrified bikes, or spend it on other stuff.

And all the while here you could also settle for just "decent" bicycles which cost way less.
Fool me once, shame on you…
You're comparing brand new cargo bikes to used cars. The real comparision would be a new cargo bike (2-5k) vs a new car (>40k).

You're making the assumption that the cargo bike seats only one person, when a parent could easily seat two children on a cargo bike.

You're making the assumption that everyone would be using the cargo bike as their primary day-to-day transportation, when the cargo bike is mostly useful for either transporting young children, or when transporting cargo. At other times a more reasonable choice would be to use a regular bicycle.

You're making the assumption that cargo bikes take up as much space as cars which is just downright false.
Nice photos. I'm part of a railroading family so some of these look like the calendar photos that came with the annual calendars that employees could or did get.

I'm pretty sure that the caption on the 12th photo is wrong though. It is captioned "Winona, Minnesota" and, being a geoscientist, I'm pretty sure that the photo was taken somewhere else. That part of Minnesota was scraped relatively flat and then eroded by melt-water from the glaciers in the last ice age. It is not covered by high mountain desert vegetation as in that photo but instead has lots of lakes and mixed hardwood forests.

I believe that the photo comes from near Winona, Arizona. The mountains in the background appears to be in the San Francisco Peaks north of Flagstaff.

Another trainspotter took this photo [0] along the same tracks but from a different vantage point. You can see the background is the same though.

[0]https://www.flickr.com/photos/bb9604/27448935498/
Zig, the programming language Bun is written on, is currently having some Windows headaches of its own: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/12420

I wonder how much of Bun's immaturity is due to Zig's own immaturity.
Name me an OS that doesn't need an OS to build it.
Found a way to reproduce, not sure if it is the source of the problem above or something else. When holding a pen while pushing the thrusters with the fingers, the thrusters get stuck in their current mode when the tip of the pen gets close to the screen (and the cursor appears).
That's not true. Take a look at the post! And look into these implementations and their users.

Or don't. But don't make assertions then without looking into the facts.
Wait till the Mafia finds out. "Nice car you have there. Do you want it to still going ?"
TIL – How to exclude commits from Git blame
I think it's less about the nationality of the developers themselves and more about the environment they learned in. Countries that are a common outsourcing destination foster shitty development practices and corner-cutting (it wouldn't be outsourced otherwise), so if most of the IT work in the country is working on such outsourced projects then the majority of the IT talent is likely to pick up & perpetuate bad practices.
Ender usually has the best value (price to performance) but most of their printers require a little extra setup and ongoing maintenance. Their new "s" printers are pretty nice out of the box though. Prusa seems to be a pretty reliable brand too, and most of their models are highly recommended in the 3D printing circles I hang out in.
The whole thing gives off a smell of cargo cult security.

E.g. "7-Zip doesn't have anti exploit support". Dug in to the source for that claim - it's a forum post of someone running Windows XP in 2020 (!) with an ancient version of Malwarebytes.
Activities for Boring Meetings (2012)
Big thread the other day:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32447339
I think that I can help clarify badrabbit's point.

There are some who believe that there is only the physical universe of matter, and there are some who believe that there is not only the physical universe of matter but also a non-physical universe.

The non-physical universe is similar to ours in that there are thinking and feeling beings doing things in time and space but lack the property of matter.

Some people have closed their minds to the possibility of a non-physical reality because people who study physical reality have merely proclaimed that a non-physical reality doesn't exist.

Institutions of higher education such as Harvard, Yale, and Princeton where formed by people who understood that there existed both a physical an non-physical reality and they wanted to educate everyone to have a deeper understanding of both.

Many great scientist held both views.

Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691.
Said that a deeper understanding of science was a higher glorification of God. Defined elements, compounds, and mixtures. Discovered the first gas law – Boyle’s Law.

Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783.
The son of a Calvinist pastor. Wrote religious texts and is commemorated by the Lutheran Church on their Calendar of Saints. Published more mathematics than any other single mathematician in history, much of it brilliant and groundbreaking.

Arthur Compton 1892 – 1962.
A deacon in the Baptist Church. Discovered that light can behave as a particle as well as a wave, and coined the word photon to describe a particle of light.

Bernhard Riemann 1826 – 1866.
Son of a Lutheran pastor. A devout Christian who died reciting the Lord’s Prayer. Transformed geometry providing the foundation of Einstein’s theory of general relativity; the Riemann hypothesis has become the most famous unresolved problem in mathematics.

Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662.
A Roman Catholic theologian. Pascal’s wager justifies belief in God. Devised Pascal’s triangle for the binomial coefficients and co-founded probability theory. Invented the hydraulic press and the mechanical calculator.

And the list goes on and on.

You are free to close your mind. Perhaps one could argue that closed minded people fill a different need in our societies, but I wouldn't.
Discords text search is incredible though, It's still not a good platform for support but not because search is bad
That's the general approach Deno has gone with. it's finding success.
The bicyclists were quite likely killed by car drivers.
By far the closest online equivalent to pop-ins I've had has been... inside video games. The first 10 hours of playing DayZ, a survival FPS with in-game spatial audio, was a revelation to me. Mostly relating to how, why and when people to talk to each other. I'm convinced you can't separate the work (talking or doing) from the workspace (real or virtual).

I've been building a 3D visual collaboration platform that has some fairly obvious value in how you externalise/connect/recollect thoughts, but I'm really keen to explore if it can become a workplace where pop-ins and serendipitous social collisions come easily. For that to happen it needs to become something you can spend large chunk of your workday inside of, which is no easy task.
Any one remember the make money fast scams flying around the Usenet groups and in emails?
But... why would you want to spend energy replacing something that has been running stable for over a decade?
When I move heavy stuff I don't use my car, I rent a truck, which was made for moving heavy stuff. I also don't see a reason to carry toddlers to grocery shops.
This is one of the foundational tenets of Extreme Programming

https://asana.com/resources/extreme-programming-xp

When following this process you should strictly adhere to TDD and constantly be refactoring/rewriting code
Yes, and?

People put their hands on Van de Graaf generators[1], people buy electric shock buzzers from joke shops[2], people stand on body-fat measuring scales which send electric current through your body to measure its conductivity and estimate fat content, people touch vehicles on humid days and get static electric shocks, people use electric shock to the brain as a therapy[3].

The safety risks I'm aware of are alternating current across your heart strong enough to override the heartbeat signals and make it quiver instead of beat normally (e.g. touching mains power with both hands, current flow through the chest), and enough current flow to cause flesh burns (extreme examples: lightning strike, touching electricity substations). I'm not aware that "feeling a buzz" is inherently a safety risk without any more context or explanation.

[1] https://assets.fishersci.com/TFS-Assets/CCG/product-images/F...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/IDS-Electric-Shock-Buzzer-Classic/dp/...

[3] https://www.ted.com/talks/sherwin_nuland_how_electroshock_th...
Is this meant more to be used on a small embedded Linux system? As a Serverless OS for fast startup?
How bad was the smoke
Look up Eternal September.
Been quite happy with my Anycubic Mega S. It just works. $179 on Amazon when it goes on flash sale.
At a minimum, because there is very little political appetite for it (apart from left-wing urban professionals) in large part because it’s an insanely inefficient way to meet climate goals (compared with building out clean energy sources and electrifying fossil fuel
applications like cars), but also because it’s insanely invasive (it requires pushing everyone into a lifestyle they don’t want).
I don't think continuous and discrete-with-arbitrary-precision are the same thing, maybe even to the degree where we can't use the latter as a universal approximation for the former. I think there are some cases where approximating a continuous function on a lattice produces an error that isn't a function of precision (I think the Weierstrass function is one).
Is there a legitimate purpose for this entitlement?

Zoom for government is authorised for FedRAMP moderate, and has authorisations from the DoD and the Air Force. Does that mean anything?
yep, a bunch! in production it's mostly small projects with only a few collections and simple CRUD. the auth providers are nice, i'm excited to work with subscriptions, and not having to provision anything makes it easier to say yes to an idea. migrations took some getting used to, could use some tooling, but zero downtime is worth the fiddliness. it's my go-to for new projects now--for most things, i can get away with fauna, auth0, and a few edge functions as my whole backend
Another thing that sticks out for me is alcohol. I'm not teetotal, I just drink extremely infrequently. Since starting to drink less, it's quite noticeable how much media relates to alcohol use (and abuse). Birthday cards are especially fond of alcohol references, but also media where what looks like alcohol-dependent behaviours are played for laughs.

I an fortunate not to be an alcoholic and don't have one in close family: it much be quite hard to deal with it if it were a trigger.
How much of this applies to win10?
I want to relocate to Sweden.

I am a top-tier FP guy among other things.

https://schiptsov.github.io/

Just read.
Many people will fret when mentioning a commercial vendor. but IMHO and YMMV the leaset systems to get going with the least hassle would be either Lispworks or Allegro and both offer trial versions not getting in your way throughout the book (even though I'm Emacs SLIME user for long time). I'm interested in user minimzing unrelated side topics and spiral customization (I love them) and focusing on the book
You never constented to your data being given to the police though(or more accurately in this case - to be sold to the data broker and then given to the police)

More accure comparison would be if you left your car with a garage to have it serviced(giving them permission to enter the vehicle), then the police come to the garage and pay them some money to enter your car and search it.
It's still true today; the current version of 7zip doesn't support Control Flow Guard (validated on Win11), and there's lots of security features that come _after_ supporting that.