skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An E. coli outbreak associated with Wendy's restaurants has now sickened 97
Mozilla publishes a PPA for firefox if you want to install the snap free variant.

https://launchpad.net/%7Emozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
The performance issues are already a solved problem with flatpak. Seems there are fundamental issues with the design of snaps for desktop applications compared to flatpak.
I don't personally bother reading Tverberg articles, and I'm not about to start now. That being said, if we stick to just that quote, it is easy to justify.

If you have a situation where doing a thing has worked for more than 50 years years, and there is a theory that thing is suddenly going to stop working then it is a very rare person who will stand up and say or act on that politically. Large groups of humans are devastatingly evidence-driven and can't cope with simple leaps of logic like doing the same thing will get a different outcome.

So in this case, if we are about to hit peak oil and suddenly the global economy starts collapsing there is no way the politicians would sound the alarm. They'd be waiting patiently until public understanding of the matter was very high. You can see that behaviour all the way through resource problems.

Politicians can't even sell spending the same amount of money as they tax; they aren't going to try and pitch doing without energy until the crisis has well and truly hit. There is no upside for them.
Electricity?
"optimal amount of fraud in society is 0" - are you sure? why?

Bad Things(tm) are useful for testing and improving safety/security, and when I see people/institutions with no experience reacting to Bad Things(tm), I know they're in for a world of hurt when it does happen.

Perhaps you mean, the optimal amount of fraud that isn't prosecuted... or not detected... ? Even then, I'd argue that there's a tiny percentage that's useful for keeping the safety/security industry on its toes and at the ready.

As a proof point, if you believe that war (world peace) is not a solved problem, then it's only a matter of time before your city/region/civilization/race faces an existential threat, for which the only true preparation is to be ready to innovate and mobilize.

Sorry if this comes across as dark. I mean it in the same vein as having a small percentage of farmers is desirable.

By contrast, I visited a traditional silk factory in Stockholm (amazing btw) and the craft has been lost to the point where they're struggling to find craftspeople able to work their looms and other old equipment. See Jonathan Blow's excellent talk about lost technology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko
Was this caused by the same issue that led to canceling the previous attempt? Or is it a different part of the hydrogen system?
In any case, this is not ideal :(.

But early scrubbed launches won't matter Artemis program ends up in successfully achieving its objectives. As long as it doesn't explode in its first launch, delays are fine!
Because it's all politicians since Thatcher ? But i will admit that the Third way, like it's French equivalent 10 years ago, can do more harm faster than regular liberals.
This is a common anti-union talking point but I’ve never seen anything like it at that anywhere I’ve worked - the unions have been what shut down those actions by management.

I’m sure there are some bad unions but that doesn’t mean we should give up on the concept any more than bad moves by companies means we should give up on the concept of private business.
Not to defend snap, but I worked on Linux Chromium wrote this about why the apt/.deb model is difficult to make work reliably:

https://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2011/08/zygote...
We never wanted kids (we're mid 40s, it won't change). We spend time with nephews and nieces, and while it can be fun, we're always very thankful we can return to a calm house with two sleeping dogs and no mess. My wife is even less interested in kids than I am. Lucky it worked out that way, plenty of couples break up over that choice.
This is horrible. pde was the person who asked me to get involved with Let's Encrypt, and introduced me to many of the people that I've worked with the past several years at both the EFF and ISRG.

Rest peacefully, my friend.
Peanuts are actually an old world food. They are native to Africa.
After upgrading to Ubuntu 22.04 I tried to install an older version of Kicad, because that version is the one all my colleagues are using and I didn't want to run into compatibility issues.

Long story short, Snap said I couldn't have that :(
> With snap, Firefox is not updated until you close Firefox and run `snap refresh`.

Worse, they display a misleading pop-up notification telling you Firefox needs to be closed within X days to update. However, closing Firefox doesn't update it, and it doesn't actually tell you how to begin the update or when it will happen automatically. After searching the internet, it turns out you need to open a terminal and run a command to update it manually.

It doesn't seem like Canonical has any kind of UX team, or if they do then they're asleep at the wheel.
How is APT able to update the code of a running process?
You must be very confident with your calculation, as a miscalculation would empower and embolden domestic political factions that have been at the periphery of western politics for generations.
THIS!

i use to like r/antiwork on Reddit but dumped it over a year ago. It isnt about "antiwork" but "union drives". The answer to almost any workplace issue seems to be "join a union" but what about the major Union failures?

Here (Canada) we had an issues with a meat processing plant in Alberta. It didnt take long for the striking workers to lash out at their union as well for lack of support. The union felt there were not enough people for them to get involved. while they were content to take their union dues, they were reluctant to get involved in costly legal battles?

Unions are also a business as well, subject to the exact same "corruption" charges as any other organization, so it is ironic that r/Antiwork advocates them?

Look at the recent news from the head of the very powerful auto workers union (which also includes clergy?) here and his mystery $25,00. Naturally his excuse is his "prescription medication and alcohol abuse made me do it".

People complain about the "CEO" pay, but how much do union leaders earn?

Unions were very good in the past and did a lot for the country, but people would be far better off changing laws instead of joining unions.

This is what really kills me about r/anitwork. Not everyone can join a union, but legal changes apply to everyone. I actually had someone tell me once "why should my union fight to help ohters"?
Isn't that everywhere? In Barcelona I often see people jumping the turnstiles, or tailgating. People sometimes even get angry when I stop walking to prevent them from tailgating me. As if it's a right.

Meanwhile the staff just sit in their booth while twiddling their fingers.

Due to this laissez-faire attitude the whole subway system is infested with criminals. Pickpockets operate out in the open. One time I got pickpocketed I searched the bins and I found 10 discarded ID cards and driving licenses etc.

But I've never seen a subway system that wasn't like this. In Singapore perhaps with their $1000 littering fines.
When you say European, except for the fact that Tolkien wrote the story, what part of the show thus far has given you an explicit European feel? Did the Harfoots resemble British subjects, or do the race of men have to be from the European continent because of their skin color? Which city did Lindon look like? If we're already in a fantasy setting, why is there such a focus on relating the setting of the fantasy to our own European history, rather than telling a good fantasy story. Can you not relate to the story if it isn't explicitly describing a historically accurate proto-Europe?

If the argument is that Middle Earth should reflect a proto-European history, should we just accept that everyone from the east are pictured as orcs; mindless, ugly, uncivilized brutes? Is everyone from Africa part of the Haradrim or the Easterlings? The comparison to a proto-Europe only works as long as you wilfully neglect the horribly racist parts of the comparison. Or are you okay with those parts too? If the addition of a black Harfoot, black elves, or Durin's wife being black is your critique of the show, then you should reflect on why you feel that way and why you're able to so easily excuse the clear racism in favor of defending "authenticity".

It's legit WILD to read some of the remarks about the show on reddit and IMDb. It's horribly racist rhetoric disguised as a defence of authenticity and staying true to Tolkien's work. If portraying the racist parts of Tolkien's work is * that * important, maybe we shouldn't make media based upon it?
> This is counterintuitive and sounds like it is trying a bit too hard to be clever.

We can wrap up the unintentional HN slogan contest right now.
Coming from a French perspective, in addition to corporate, workers should also oppose union. Unions will crush work and life conditions for anyone, but a small group of people. They will morph into a cancer, nothing like advertised initially.

I hate them. They made me (and many others that I know) miserable.
Decades of trying to get help from private sector, as a result NASA stagnated, and China took the lead

As a result, the only option for NASA to compete with China is to take back the role of leader with public money and public R&D with public and state funded universities

It was a mistake to seek help from Musk, Bezoz and that Virgin dude who wants to create space tourism
$1499 https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/smart-devices/virtual-reality...
> I don't get reviews saying that TRoP, or some other new prestige TV series, is "terrible", or "a disaster", based on the first couple of episodes.

The ironic thing here is that most of the reviews from critics of this show have been positive. Not necessarily wild raves, but, you know, pretty positive.

It's possible that the Critics Just Don't Get It, Man, or whatever trope people will pull out to explain why professional critics should be summarily dismissed and only the users reviews are real opinions that we should listen to, but I'd argue that it's also possible that fandom in general has become entitled to the point of toxicity over the last couple of decades. After decades of good "genre" movies being few and far between and good genre television, especially fantasy and superhero, being even more vanishingly rare, now we've got it coming out of our ears and we are, apparently, really fucking pissed off that what we get doesn't match the unattainably perfect shows in our heads or something. And this isn't even getting into the way today's politics have crept in, but it's extremely hard not to notice that a substantial subset of fans angry with The Rings of Power or Ms. Marvel or The Sandman or whatever are specifically calling out changes that they have to preface with "I'm not racist, but...". I suspect if they'd made a TV version of The Sandman 20 years ago, before any and all attempts at diverse casting would be met with outrage by a loud minority, and cast a black actress as Death, the predominant reaction would have been: "Huh. Weird, but maybe she'll be pretty good in the part, let's see."

I haven't seen The Rings of Power yet, and I don't know if I will, but based on most of the reviews from people who aren't in the Angry Angry Fan Brigade, I expect it to look really good, have solid casting, have somewhat pedestrian plotting, and suffer from somewhat clunky dialogue. I also expect it to feel unnecessary in the grand scheme of adaptations. But I don't expect to be some kind of affront to Tolkien fans everywhere, and I think the AAFB just needs to chill out about this, like they need to about so many other things. (For context, I feel Jackson's LotR adaptation looked really good, had solid casting, and had somewhat pedestrian direction, most notably in Jackson's inability to let any moment anywhere remain small and quiet.)
not if letting 10 guilty esacpe breeds more and more bad actors. you can make the argument that a few innocent suffer is a net benefit for society in tne same way. in pursuit of 0 innocent suffering you will capture no bad actors

To put it another way you're forgetting the victims. The 10 fraudsters made 10 people suffer. their suffering needs to added to the equation
The main difference of posits (the variable sized exponent) is slightly worse for hardware (but not much). Posits, however win back a lot of points because they remove a lot of special cases. FP hardware generally needs special checks for NaNs, Infs, -0 and subnormals. Posits only have 2 "special" numbers 0 and NaR. The problem with subnormal floats isn't that they are inherently slow, it's that they are different and rare which means they aren't well optimized for. With Posits, everything is the same, which reduces the number of branches in hardware.
HOAs became this way because people can’t be bothered to show up and participate. Unions can and should be better.
where can you do these therapies?
Your explanation is so much more succinct than the article!

I believe buried in there is one other factor that is somewhat related:

- reducing friction helps drive more legitimate business. Accordingly, over-aggressive anti-fraud practices can result in reduced sales.

A toy example: a business could eliminate exposure to credit card fraud by not accepting credit cards. That would however reduce overall sales.

I guess this can all fit within a “marginal cost” explanation though.
They also pretty much all anti -arsonist. Does the logic apply there too?
I'm not sure if that still holds true, but IIRC they've had some telemetry in place and refused to disable it unless you get an Enterprise subscription or something.

Wonder why would I use that instead of kubectl+kubectx (and power of "xargsops" on top of that)? I don't mean to sound like the famous Dropbox comment, genuinely curious.
Snap is garbage for being the default option for software. It's good at some things, but this is not one of those.
sudo apt uninstall snapd
Out of curiosity, which societies do you think are mature enough to discuss such things?
I see this is being downvoted for some reason, but I have the same question. I get that if you keep replaying the game the expected value materialises over averages, but if you have one chance it doesn’t sound right that you should expect 25M if the two outcomes are zero or 50M? And that this is so true and obvious that it is dumb to take the 1M?
You're right I didn't understand your point. Remember that communication is a two-way street, though
I always use 90210 on sites demanding a "ZIP Code" because they indeed seem to notice if you just make one up like 12345. And it's the only real US postcode I know :P

It never seems to cause credit card validation issues though. I guess my bank just ignores that field.
I download and install the developer edition of Firefox from the Firefox website, extracting the tarball to /opt/Firefox, and add a menu entry to the KDE launcher. Takes a little more effort at first but afterwards it's smooth sailing. It even self updates!
I'd expect fraud to rise in Europe soon, since the pin part of that protocol can be bypassed:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/chip-and-pin-is-broken-say-res...

The mobile popup is a reasonable mitigation though; it seems likely to limit fraud to small purchases, or encourage sim swapping, etc.
True.

I made my own tactical error it appears. I had a good run with this account.
Yet people didn’t oppose when their own governments were slaughtering people. Countries
ruined for decades if not centuries. Whataboutism would be if I justified Russian actions, but I’m not doing that. I’m looking at the western butchers pointing fingers at Russian butchers. Hypocrite.
Sounds amazing. Please tell us the full story.
> It's okay just to say that you like the money.

I'm not an SWE.

> You don't always have to use the largest words.

Some words have specific meanings, rather than just being longer synonyms for short words.

> Perhaps too much.

Again, no. This was my point — this is like saying that the solution to homelessness is to take away the homes of everyone with homes, so that everyone is now equally homeless.

Don't pay the people who are already getting a good deal less; pay the people who are currently getting a bad deal more.

> I'm assuming you're being facetious given the enormous logistical and financial costs of starting a somewhat up-to-date semiconductor company.

No. Just fucking do it. Start another company that's less complex but is an obvious money earner; get rich; reinvest your wealth into a semiconductor company. Should only take 10 years. If you care, do it.

If Elon can do it — and Elon is not the smartest man — you can do it too.

(To be clear, you don't have to start a company that competes in the wider semiconductor market; you just have to start a company that competes in a niche. Like, for example, 5G radios. But your goal does have to be to compete; getting acquired means you no longer have control over your own business strategy, incl. profit margins, and therefore can no longer make your company "the one where people get paid well.")
> I think you're underestimating the willingness of people to suffer financial hardship this winter to divorce themselves of Russian energy.

Are you sure it will be just one winter?

In general, Europe is not great at: 1. Moving fast 2. Agreeing on and completing big projects.
Because it has no understanding of a border.
It is effectively throwing pixels at the image to see if it’s getting better or worse
> They did no such thing

You folks aren't actually going to make me dig up and link video of the guns being steamrolled, are you?
These two situations (the linked one and the one you're describing) aren't really comparable in terms of probabilities.
Right, more generally:

- X is ipso facto bad. The optimal amount is zero.

- X is traded off against Y actually, so in general equilibrium with Y, it's nonzero.

And the above pair could be:

(Covid risk, attending fun parties)

(Risk of getting hit by a car, being able to walk anywhere)

(Discrimination in society, administrative costs of anti-discrimination laws).

The list goes on. It's a simple concept in decision theory, rehashed with an attractive title.
I don’t think the paper towels are the same problem as the fueling infrastructure itself.

But I was curious and I found this proposal: https://h2tools.org/sites/default/files/App2_Consolidated_Sa...

Tbh, it didn’t fill me with as much confidence as I’d have liked. But I suspect it’s moot: the future is clearly battery-electric with renewable-based generation. Hydrogen missed the window of opportunity, if there ever was one.
Ubuntu use to be a go to for me, but lately I'd rather opt for debian or RHEL for a more stable sensible experience.
I have Mint (you mean Ubuntu Mint?). Firefox is in a snap.
Old man yells at the sky.
That seems more than a little disingenuous, given windshield squeegees, paper towels, and trash cans don't explode if not regularly maintained.
Lamotrigine has been a wonder drug for me, I'm still early days on my treatment but can already notice the massive improvements!

just adding my comment so people see that getting help is perfectly fine (if you get the right treatment/diagnosis, it's a life changer for the best!) - mental health is still a bit taboo in some circles and I remember reading about the good experiences of people online made me finally jump into treatment :)
4chan speak in longer articles is cringe
The fact that it's mostly about Europe is a genuine contribution. I had the (false) impression that in most of Western Europe, unions had won the political debate decades ago and this stuff didn't happen.

As for Amazon: they are the poster child for unionization. They treat their workers as disposable pieces of meat with no rights, and if you want to get unionized, that's how you do it.

People who have actual experience with unions in this country have a more jaded view of them: they tend to be run by cliques of people who enjoy the high life on their members' dime (cf. Teamsters). "Filing a union grievance" is often not at all a wise career move. However, I can still totally understand an Amazon warehouse worker voting for a union.
The difference between taxation schemes between countries seems to be a wildly heterogenous bunch - thanks for the explanation!
> More importantly, apt would update a running Firefox which you can restart later.

That hasn't been my experience on Ubuntu for a while. Regularly when updating opening new tabs will display a "just one more thing to do" dialog prompting me to restart firefox. On debian 11, if an update took place firefox will sometimes keep working in a kind of degraded mode (inspect tools don't work for instance) until restarted.

edit: at the moment I can't use netflix until restarted but I don't want to restart because I have a private window with tabs I want to read later.. Sigh.
It wouldn't be as infuriating if Snap weren't such an awful product, both for the user and for the developer. Just off the top of my head:

1. Sometimes it will warn you when uninstalling a snap will break other snaps; most of the time it doesn't. I removed some snap recently, and Firefox stopped launching.

2. The snapcraft CLI is awful. No way to disable colours, no man pages, no proper error codes, etc.

3. Every time you need some non-trivial piece of functionality, you have to go to ask Canonical for permission. The permission is, most of the time, granted relatively easily, but still.

4. The plug (permission, basically) system is confusing. The documentation is sparse and often doesn't actually answer, which plug you need. And you pretty much have to install snappy-debug (using snap, of course!) to find out approximately, which plug you'd need to add. Thru Canonical, of course. See 3.

5. No way to have your own instance of snap store. If you want to find out, why the upload fails or if the plug will work properly, you have to actually upload a snap to the actual Snap™ Store®.

6. Firefox cannot access /tmp/. A truly baffling thing.

The day Mark&co. finally realize that this thing won't work, no matter how many things they force into snap, is the day I will start a three-day party, heh.
Debian does all the tests for Firefox and doesn't complain about it. Canonical made a shit decision to accept snap on such a crucial piece of software, it's not ready for prime time.
They did, Nokia launched their first Symbian smartphone in 2001, the Nokia 7650. iPhone was launched in 2007. The Newton of 1997 is not exactly a phone, so I don't think it counts here, but if it does, so does the Nokia Communicator 9000 of 1996. Either way, Nokia was first to market.

Apple had the advantage of a nicer product, and was building products for the US first, rather than US maybe later. Tech news is mostly (but not completely) based in the US, so Nokia smartphones got little coverage as they were often unavailable or non functional in the US. Different GSM frequencies meant different builds, and CDMA was an even more different build. And Nokia had messed up relations with US carriers at a time when phones selling through carriers was the primary method of reaching customers.
I suspect a lot of the success of this will hinge on how friendly it is to tools outside the Jetbrains ecosystem. In particular VSCode. On my team in our little startup doing Rust it's sort of 50/50 CLion vs VSCode. And in many ways we're getting okayish value out of just GitHub + Notion + Google Docs.

I'm a big Jetbrains fanboy and an IntelliJ user since the 3.x days. I hope it works out for them.
On the plus side it cites economic data to back up its thesis, on the down side, it cites it from the Book of Revelation.
Nah, you're missing my point.