skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Methane leaks are bad, but new satellite tech (deployed by … charities, apparently?) will solve the problem by lowering the cost of finding leaks!

Carbon emissions are bad, but new carbon capture tech will solve the problem!

Reliance on unproven tech is bad enough, but the author is expecting us to believe that there will be any willingness to adopt these technologies let alone for the world’s governments to enforce their adoption.

I realize it’s not black and white here, but when you factor in the cost of even modest failure it just doesn’t make sense.
> Support for languages as good as VSCode

Oh come on now that's can't even be close. Surely vim supports and order of magnitude more languages than vscode at least. I actually haven't found one without vim support yet, including a dozen assembly languages, verilog & vhdl, various horrible proprietary scripting languages and so on.

Does vscode use vim syntax and script files to try and match that or something?
It's called a camera. It takes 4k videos.
Honestly, I wish I could make Haiku my daily OS. Not quite there yet though.
Timestomp for Linux
Personally I like my dots but I am pretty novice and I do use GNU stow.
Is there any courses that are free to try as a demo instead of the video ?

Personally I'm a "learn by doing" person so demo videos are just too slow.
I don’t know if V8 does between runs but it seems to share something between subprocesses. There is commentary in the Node Worker docs about turning it off/on.
> an option to have vim use a url for the vimrc?

Is copying .vimrc whenever logging in for the first time too much work?
I completely agree! That's why I created this site: https://xdgbasedirectoryspecification.com. We need some place where people can immediately understand the practical benefit, and the minimum ask of their users.

Of course, it doesn't help just to complain about the issue in a void, so I've also submitted like 10 PRs and filed quite a few issues. Projects like pnpm and Poetry took note, and now they comply!

Someone's gotta clean up house, and I don't mind doing the dirty work.
Climate change might be the greatest challenge we've ever faced, but it's hardly an "existential threat" (ie. something that threatens our existence). Even under the worst IPCC forecasts, there won't be enough land lost (eg. by flooding or desertification) to wipe out humanity. Don't get me wrong, billions dying or displaced would be a humanitarian disaster of epic proportions, but isn't something that threatens our existence.
Linux Process IDs, Sessions IDs, and Process Group IDs
Can we also get a Windows Vista version? That was the BEST Windows ever! I liked it so much!
The language will be “preserved” in that 300 years from now, a tape drive in Harvard’s Widener Library will have a Hokkien model on file for historians writing a tenure book designed to go right back into those dusty shelves.
Project Aria AR Glasses
I don't know how much you want to get into this, but since we're already on this topic:

https://www.netlifycms.org/docs/external-oauth-clients/
https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/oauth2-provider/

NetlifyCMS allows you to define your own backends, and Gitea now has OAuth2 support. Should be able to adopt a similar strategy and allow Gitea to be used as a backend.
The same skepticism can be applied to any study, depression treatment or otherwise. Practically, self reporting is highly effective and well correlated with effects, especially for depression.
> I think it will be organic. I’ve severely curtailed my discretionary spending. The restaurants suck now, bad service and low quality food for a high price. Bars are barely open during adult hours, many being closed at 8 or 9pm. Theaters, concerts, and sporting events seem to run on a skeleton crew of people that are clueless.

Given that we're in an economic downturn/recession, it's really hard to use what you said as evidence for degrowth, which implies some sort of long term phenomena rather than a 1-2 year thing.
I have been learning German recently, and its surprising how much better DeepL is compared to google translate.

I have been surprised that google translate is also crappy in Deutsch a language that is often very well supported in tech.
I speak Arabic, and google translate is hot garbage when translating to Arabic, its often very literal and doesn't understand the context.

Since DeepL seems to shine in complex languages, I hope they are working on supporting Arabic, a language spoken by more than 400 million people.
What sort of side effects are we talking about?

As far as I know, bladder damage is the only actual physical effect of ket
The wildest parts of those forum threads were the people whose coin shipments were lost or delivered to the wrong address. Intense panic after they realized they might have lost thousands of dollars in the process of chasing a tiny cash back or reward bonus.

It was also fascinating to watch it all break down in the end, as banks stopped accepting bulk deposits of the coins. A lot of panicked people trying to find some way to get their thousands of dollars of coins back into their checking accounts after every bank in town turned them away. IIRC, some credit card companies also stopped paying rewards on those purchases or closing accounts due to the obvious manufactured spending, making all of the risk and work pointless.
The solution is simple, stop messing your home and put personal data in

/home/you/personal/

source code in

/home/you/src/

The home is not a place supposed to store random "regular files"
> It's just nature's way of filtering out people who like sex but don't want kids.

More like:

It's just nature's way of filtering out people who like sex but don't want [more] kids [right now].

That’s a lot of people, and thus, less kids.
What is safety shaming?
unique insights come from your perspective. It is your unique perspective which is a _factory_ for unique insights that allow you to solve a series of problems that hit your startup/company in succession. It is this durable perspective that has built up through long term experience that can't easily be copied/duplicated that makes you win a market.
Your Japanese coworkers are the exception, not the rule. The vast majority of Japanese speakers in Japan, including those in technical fields, do all of their work communication in Japanese. They may use technical vocabulary borrowed from English and other languages, but those words are used with Japanese pronunciation in Japanese sentences.
Oh these companies are having uncontrolled growth...
> Second Life hasn’t been “hot” in the tech world since 2008

This would be a bit more damning if the claim was "More People Bought Items in Second Life _in 2022_ Than Own NFTs".

I'd expect _anything_ that started in 2008 and hasn't formally died to be more successful than something that's barely had over a year in the market.
It's something way beyond our current capabilities.

There's some interesting work on "organs on a chip" e.g. arrays of microfluidic cell cultures that allows some experimentation on a combination of a few types of tissue modeling an organ or some aspect of it, but even that's already pushing the state of art and not fully mature at the moment; doing something similar for many (much less all or most) organs is something that doesn't work yet; and these "organs on a chip" are useful because pure simulation is even less mature and is unable to do what these cell cultures can.

The goal you state is interesting, relevant, and potentially achievable, but it's still some decades away.
The Pew Research survey is real data on what self-described libertarians in the U.S. actually believe. Your personal anecdotal experiences may be different, but frankly, your opinion is a minority view on HN (which leans libertarian compared to the general population), and I'm going to trust Pew Research's survey over your word.

> convincing people how reasonable you can be instead of distancing yourself from the crazies

Again, I did not express any political ideology. When I saw you making comments conflating libertarianism with anarcho-capitalism, I explained the difference and brought in evidence to show that self-described libertarians generally do not hold the radical views that you believe they do. Equating libertarianism to anarcho-capitalism makes as much sense as conservatives equating progressivism to antifa and warning of a far-left takeover.
For me the taskbar in W11 is a giant step back, all windows are collapsed into a group. No idea why they removed the ability to keep them expanded other than trying to mimic the look of OSX
You hide the unsafe code in functions and the rest of the code is safe
I've talked to some strong candidates with some short-stint history. I think including it, and being candid about the rationale, could be mutually beneficial. Hiring is expensive, and hiring the wrong person is tough. If the prospective employer can identify that the "short stint" reason would apply to them as well, it's best for everyone to part ways immediately. If not, that's good news for both of you!
People made this very argument about tv.

Your phone, like your tv is actually mostly quite boring and needs a bunch of flashy gimmicks to keep you watching, a la Letterman's "tonight's top 10" launch animations to try and hold your interest over how they didn't have the content for 3 jokes in a week let alone 50.

Quick edit to something different with colour and movement!
When the population is growing quickly the ratio of young:old people is high. When the population is shrinking, the ratio becomes very small.

A society with many old people and few young people will suck
> Feels like a feeling of impending doom with climate change could also be a factor.

My generation in my country feared nuclear war and economic collapse (15% inflation when I was growing up). Each demographic has its own impeding doom: climate change fear is new, but I don’t think there is more fear than the past. I think people in the US from my generation had communism to worry about, and communists probably worried about the US. The big change is social media and mass media driving more fear - hard to measure the difference though - does our capacity for fear remain constant regardless of input?

Edit: and when I think of the fear in the lives of my friends, their personal situation is far more critical than any distant fear of global warming. Their kids, their job, their marriage, their parents, their friends, their status. I am interested in the demographic differences because that give good hints as to cause and effect.
Does this queue have a way to check the age (timestamp, txg id, whatever) of the oldest thing in it?
Likely 跡 not 後. The former can mean track mark as in the mark you have left on the society.
This was a weirdly strong memory from my childhood.

The BBC’s consumer rights programme Watchdog, which my parents always watched, would cover it on an almost weekly basis.

It really was a staggeringly stupid thing to do. And it was weird to watch Groupon convince so many small businesses to do similarly ruinous promotions in the 2000s.
strongly disagree - as of 2022, more apps follow the XDG Base Directory Specification than not - in fact, by a wide margin. So by "doing dirty" in your users home directory, you're going against the grain of the ecosystem.

It doesn't seem like you understand much about the specification? I'd recommend reading it, or at least a short summary I've made available here: https://xdgbasedirectoryspecification.com/
Some families have been trained to choose not to ask someone for any reason. There is also the common experience that someone will say no or ignore your request for photo-taking in the US (as well as there being a nonzero chance they run with it). The underlying issue is it's more about trust in risk management. Who wants to get a possible $1000 ticket and probation for a 200$ phone? There are much easier ways to snag a phone (bars, resorts, pickpocketing, etc). A thief certainly isn't going to do it at somewhere like Disneyland or Mount Rushmore, where there's a zero chance that you'll get away if there's an incident. Is it really about trust in the people? Not in the way the article describes.
Dispersing encampments, for one.
Classic Mac OS in what era?

The System 7 UI toolkit was underdeveloped, and forced a lot of applications to roll their own controls (with mixed success). The System 8 "Platinum" appearance mostly resolved that, though; I'd point to that as an excellent design for the era.
Why do they have Steam installed if there is no desktop environment?
Both Japan and Korea have been strongly pro-natal basically forever, and both are staring into the abyss in terms of maintaining their native populations.

Both suffer from exactly the same set of problems:

(1) Massive numbers of people living in densely-packed, high-rise apartments. Population density inversely correlates to birthrates in developed countries.

(2) If you factor in Forced Fun Time and commuting, salarymen in Japan often work nearly all of their waking hours, six days per week. Korea is worse, from what I understand.

(3) The male population is deeply unfit here in Japan. This correlates strongly with low birthrates.

(4) Pay is very low. It is exceedingly difficult to raise a family on the average Japanese or Korean salary until you are in your late 30s or early 40s, by which time you don't have the energy or inclination.

(5) Whatever time, capital, and energy that remains is commonly spent on games, porn, and booze, all of which are highly profitable.

It's a downward spiral, and would take drastic action, most of which would cause significant short-term pain for the wealthiest chunk of the population. Ergo, it's not going to happen.
Propaganda or not, the article confirms that these calls do happen. At this moment in time, with tensions as high as they are, that's an important element to have in place.
I think the ship's long sailed. Too much software just throws random crap into $HOME, so it's best to give up. I've resigned myself to the state of affairs and my "real" $HOME is in $HOME/code $HOME/home.

As the saying goes, layers are only added, never removed. The world where people respect XDG is not one that can be achieved anymore.
Thanks, this is reasonable. Sometimes people respond in ways that make it clear they are pushing someone's agenda or conspiracy theorizing.

Yes, the problem with power is that even in many democracies it seems too easily convertible to money and attracts greedy people.

I suspect such greed is a psychological pathology, but in addition to treating it the system could somehow make power inconvenient and unprofitable to attract "irrational" people who are crazy in the right way to want to actually make things better rather than turn a profit. This does probably sound quite un-American and I don't know how it could be implemented.

I am somewhat hazy on the politics of the Iraq war but I'll look it up.
Do you recall where you saw this? As for some counter evidence to your memories, I would suggest you check out the studies cited by the linked paper.

ECT is not for everyone, but a last option when all else fails.
About #3, I don't think it's more enjoyable, it's just more comfortable.

Much like physical exercise, social interactions are a biological necessity. People aren't just choosing to be lonely.
The Tower of Babel scenario isn't so bad is it? Instead of minority language speakers being under immense pressure to adapt to and be replaced by dominant languages, communities can continue to exist as they are in their own language.
I'll give you that it's a short article, but:

> The side effect profiles of the two treatments differed, with ECT more likely to cause headaches, muscle pain and memory loss, while ketamine was more likely to cause dissociative symptoms, vertigo and double vision.
> Does vscode use vim syntax and script files to try and match that or something?

Vs code supports language server protocol [1] and also includes support for syntax highlighting [2]

If I recall correctly, vim supports syntax highlighting through less-than-elegant regex searches.

[1] https://code.visualstudio.com/api/language-extensions/langua...

[2] https://code.visualstudio.com/api/language-extensions/syntax...
Ato using Kanji 跡 can also mean trace, track, mark. Which fits the definition better.
Can you elaborate? Target rockets from whom? How?
> People made this very argument about tv.

And they were right then, too. I despise the television.
Run overlapping projects/experiments concurrently.
On the details page of each book, there is a Google Drive link buried within the description.
Where is the code for Joinbase? It looks like a solution to a problem I am currently in the process of analysing.

I can't see any way of installing it from the website right now?
While i agree dotfiles aren't the best, i'm concerned about creating too many alternatives. Then we risk ending up in this situation: https://xkcd.com/927/

As someone who uses linux to get other tasks done, rather than as a hobby in itself, I would rather have an aesthetically sub-optimal standard than have no idea what's going on.
WebAuthN and Fido for Linux
Ideology-driven development is bad no matter what environment you’re coding for.

I’d view it as similar to any other work in a hazardous environment: Apply layers of protection to mitigate risks to an acceptable level. There are so many unavoidably tricky things about embedded development that if you can easily rule out the avoidable ones, it’s worth it.

‘Unsafe’ isn’t a synonym for ‘bad practice’, it’s just a hint to ‘look here first’.
He looked like 55 +/-5 in 2013
https://www.linux.com/news/u-boot-creator-wolfgang-denk-grea...

I have used U-Boot in many projects and my current one uses it, too.
The indefinite growth theory is discussed in this chance meeting of an economist and a physicist.

"Alright, the Earth has only one mechanism for releasing heat to space, and that’s via (infrared) radiation. We understand the phenomenon perfectly well, and can predict the surface temperature of the planet as a function of how much energy the human race produces. The upshot is that at a 2.3% growth rate, we would reach boiling temperature in about 400 years. And this statement is independent of technology. Even if we don’t have a name for the energy source yet, as long as it obeys thermodynamics, we cook ourselves with perpetual energy increase."

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/04/economist-meets-physicist...
You mostly use standard Web APIs inside Workers, so that's portable, but the entire runtime (including Durable Objects, KV, R2 and D2) is open-source and can be self-hosted.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/workerd-open-source-workers-runt...
> Absolute statements like this is just social malaise

> Complete and utter social non-sense. People have just stopped thinking for themselves.

Yes, absolute statements are a problem - including your comment. There's context around antiwork, there's context around grind culture - everything can be taken to an unhealthy extreme.
New study quantifies the impact of face-to-face interactions on innovation
I like this explanation and the one in the parent comment quite a bit. Rather than a grand thesis about internet / social media [0] / polarization that one's likely to see in a think-piece, it's the little things about how we've chosen to structure our society. These things that seem like trivial inconveniences [1], like just making some new friends when yours have moved away, or if you live the suburbs just taking that 20 minute drive whenever you want to see someone, end up having a disproportionate impact on our behaviour. After all, we evolved in an environment where one was pretty much automatically embedded in a community, with very little effort required to socialize other than following the social norms of the tribe.

One other thing I'd also point to is network effects. If lots of people are all finding it easier to be online all the time rather than be social, then for any given person, that results in a reduced number of potential friends.

[0] I would actually put some blame on social media for being a poor substitute for socialization, but just good enough that it makes people less likely to dig themselves out of being isolated. But blaming the internet in general, including things like blogs makes as little sense as blaming books.

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/reitXJgJXFzKpdKyd/beware-tri...
I use brave on mobile which doesn't support extensions.
There is built-in chromium dark mode, which seems OK but its not possible to disable it per tab.

Firefox on android for me is pretty slow.
It snowed yesterday here... so I'm gonna say yes.
Why climate despair is a luxury
Which is another reason why dependencies shouldn't be shared
To add a counter to this, I'd say technically things are looking pretty bad. The population is expected to grow by 2 billion people in the next 30 years, so I wouldn't call that leveling off. With the degradation of, and simultaneous need for more arable land, food supplies could become an issue, especially if we see more things like the Russia-Ukraine war take place. We'll have fished out most of the ocean in that same period of time. We're also running out of fresh water in areas we need it as we drain aquifers and winter snow pack declines.

Arable land under threat -https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00139...

Fish stock collapse -https://news.stanford.edu/news/2006/november8/ocean-110806.h...

Lack of fresh water -https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170412-is-the-world-run...

There are many other things, such as the continued reliance on fossil fuels and still increasing demand for crude, coupled with a lack of new oil exploration.
That's the beauty of it - we'd have a decentralized marketplace for deciding which one counts! Every email sender can choose to use one or the other, and the best one should win in the marketplace of ideas!

/s
Have publishers even considered selling a subscription without ads? I realize it would cost more. I would really like to subscribe to a newspaper that has readers as its only customers.
This. At this point in everything being "cloud native" fewer and fewer people and orgs have any experience building internet networks - buying transit (circuits), peering, etc.

For players at Cloudflare, AWS, GCP, etc scale it's essentially free. The fact that many of them (other than Cloudflare) charge $0.08/GB or whatever for egress and that's just accepted because people think "that's what it costs" is wild to me.

My personal conspiracy theory of sorts is that many compute, storage, etc products from big cloud providers are essentially priced as loss leaders because while the average dev has some idea of what a GB of storage, GHz CPU, etc costs (because they priced a laptop) they have no idea how bandwidth and connectivity is priced at this level and cloud providers capitalize on that (somewhat understandable) ignorance.
Which software in particular? Given my experience, it is well within reach, besides a few exceptions including Firefox/Thunderbird, etc, and one relating to Chromium-based browsers.

The trick is to use the XDG Base Dir Spec, only if the old ~/.name location doesn't exist. Old users are happy because it doesn't break compatibility and new users are happy because nobody's dropping 10 sacks of potatoes on their metaphorical doorstep
Murder claims grip world-famous gorilla park in the DRC
Many game servers can run natively on Linux and are still installed and launched via Steam.
Publii [1] is still an excellent option in the Hugo-but-graphical space. It has a desktop app and allows hosting on GitHub Pages, AWS S3, Netlify or just plain old FTP.

[1] https://getpublii.com/
This video about the Lotus Elise was pretty interesting in its description of how Lotus used adhesives to save weight.

https://youtu.be/h0jXhOmL7Xg?t=334
Anatomy of the Mask: A Reading List on Superhero Comics