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The key weakness in your comment's parent comment was, "occupy the exact same point".

One might ask why shining a flashlight during broad daylight (or say while doing work around the international space station) doesn't produce black holes. Or why there aren't black holes in the first image at <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caustic_(optics)>.

Particle DM is still quantum particles, with Compton and de Broglie wavelengths. A cold milliectronvolt axion has a wavelength on the order of a kilometre. How do you trap a pair of them in a volume comparable to the Schwarzschild radius of about 10^-50 metres?

Additionally, an appreciable mass-energy of dark matter (one you can expect to be described tractably by the Raychaudhuri equations) will be a many-particle system occupying a noncompact volume.

Newton's constant G in SI units is the force in Newtons between two one-kilogram masses at rest with respect to each other at one metre apart. It's small (< 7e-11). You will wait a long time -- about a full Earth day -- for two kg of anything initial 1m apart to get very much closer to each other because of (only) their mutual gravitational interaction.

However, each of the pair of kg-mass blobs of DM particles is not likely to stick around intact that long because (by virtue of them being weakly interacting particles) nothing around them is strong enough to keep them from running away due to thermal motion. They are only cold in the sense they move slowly compared to hot dark matter in the form of relativistic neutrinos; they can still move about at many m/s, which is a lot faster than m/day. Newton's constant is rather small, and rather too tiny when thinking of coaxing a couple kg of CDM into a volume comparable to the Schwarzschild radius of about 10^-27 metres.

One might compare this with two kg-masses of water ice. In a ball of ice various interactions trap molecules within the ball even against sublimation. The ice balls will come into contact in about a day. Thus we can have things like Saturn's rings or periodic comets, helped by the non-gravitational interactions of water ice keeping the mass-energy-momentum from flying away before gravity can do its work.

Indeed, keeping galaxy and galaxy-cluster dark matter halos from flying away puts an upper bound on their temperature (if you heat up the water ice above to a couple hundred kelvins it can sublimate away in minutes). Halo DM needs to be cold in order for it to stick around.

tl;dr, two sets of non-self-interacting (collisionless) dark matter just slide right through each other. cf. the famous Bullet cluster collision. You'd need at least a galaxy worth of dark matter and at least many millions of years of Chandrasekhar dynamical friction (radiating away very low amplitude gravitational waves as structures ("subhalos") form and move through each other) to make a black hole from DM alone.
I love astronomy since I was a kid. It is amazing how much we've figured out and still doing so everyday. However, I realized this long ago (in my teens) that much of the stats, eg numbers of stars/planets in the universe, their distances/compositions/ages etc, while calculated, are built on top of multiple instances of approximation/assumption/insufficient data. We know very well how a simple early rounding can lead to widely different end result in a chain of equations. Imagine that in a gigantic situation.
In my teen years, I've always wondered why they are not launching Hubble 2.0 3.0 etc every 5 years. Because that's what we need. More state of the art observatories out there in space to gather more data. Without that, we're just increasing the chain of assumptions and approximations.
Sure, somebody admitted to doing something stupid, but the title is clearly meant to attract all the C bashers by pretending the quote is from someone who was involved in the development of C.
My first project ever after completing my embedded engineering degree was building an interface like this.

It was for medical washing machines that are used to clean/sterilize endoscopes. After each run, the machine would print a report containing temperatures, etc, that would have to be analyzed by the medical staff to assess if the endoscopes were safe to use on patients.

I designed and build an interface board for LPT to an ARM SBC (Raspberry Pi didn't exist yet, IIRC). And wrote some C code that would convert the line levels to characters, and output it to a TCP connection. On the other end of the connection there was a server which would store and parse the output of the washing machine. This allowed us to develop a simple green/red indicator via a web interface, so all staff could see it, without having to physically get the piece of paper that would have been printed.

Pretty neat experience as a first-ever project for an employer. And even getting paid for it! I just checked the website of the company I build that interface for, and they still sell it! :-)

All in all, I'd guess that it took less than 1 week (40 hours) to develop.
I watched Amadeus, didn't he?
I did _not_ just run `free` after boot, maybe you need to reread the methodology.

As for RAM leaking - I cannot and I will not account for that: such a test could take weeks to carry out. In my experience modern Linux DEs do not leak that much - people normally do not interact with their DE (yeah, I'm not joking) anyways - you boot into something, e.g. Gnome and you run your applications (e.g. web browser, spreadsheet, terminal emulator, media player, instant messenger, etc. etc. etc.) and your DE is running happily in background.
If you explain which assumptions you find cloudy, I can either justify or reëvaluate them.

If you explain which wordings you find propaganda terminology, I might attempt to restate them.

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Edit: following Linebarger's injunction from Psychological Warfare[0]:

> The point will invariably arise: "This tells me how to listen to a foreign radio. Okay, I'll get the news, the lectures, the plays—all the rest of it. But so what? How am I going to know what's the truth and what's propaganda? How can I tell 'em apart? Tell me that!"

> The answer is simple: "If you agree with it, it's truth. If you don't agree, it's propaganda. Pretend that it is all propaganda. See what happens on your analysis reports."

let's do an analysis of my post:

Source: 082349872349872 (ostensible, first-use, and, I claim, also the true source), transmitted on HN

Time: Monday morning, no retransmission, non-peculiar time.

Audience: HN

Subject: query on the relation between fear, dreams, and authoritarian evangelicals

Mission: white propaganda soliciting information about content of dreams outside the author's social circles, and informing about the existence of academic studies relating fear and following authoritarian leaders. potential ostensible second-use wrt James "Jimmy" Carter.

Exercise: perform your own analysis, according to the STASM model or your own.

[0] https://www.gutenberg.org/files/48612/48612-h/48612-h.htm#Pa...
I personally would steer the ferry away from killing ten people to save one person, but I’m also reasonably sure I’d be arrested by a rural philosophy professor.
All the duchies into which Kievan Rus disintegrated were ruled by houses tracing their descent from Rurik. Thus, any one of them could try to "reclaim the ancestral lands" by the standards of that time. Of course, there was a little hitch there since the lands would need "gathering" first...

Moscow ending up the one who actually pulled it off is kinda ironic, though, given that it was very much an upstart that wasn't even there when Kievan Rus was still a polity united under a single ruler. Goes to show just how effective collaborationism (in this case, with the Mongols) can be to build a power base.
Just remove all scoring systems. Discussion is not a competition. Remove the incentive to cheat using AI.
Whatever happened to LXDE? Not sure if the whole team went with LXQT, but I really liked the old one. Still use lxterminal every day.
Why not ask them to run headless VMs? they can even ssh into remotw instances so they don't even have to download and setup the VMs manually!
I dont need to make that argument. You need to make the argument that I shouldn't be able to.
Maybe language changed since then, but to me 'else' sounds right and 'or' sounds wrong:

IF (condition) THEN (do-this) ELSE (do-that).

I think 'or' would not go with alternative commands, but with an alternative condition:

IF (condition) THEN (do-this) OR (other-condition) THEN (do-that).

If you don't want to use 'else' then 'otherwise' would sound idiomatic, too.
Again, I'm not saying C++ is not complex. I'm saying the complex pieces fit. And that Go has the problem that the pieces don't fit together. (and that this is because it has a bad foundation)

I have more than 20 years of C++ experience. Maybe more than 25. I'm surprised you used CFront 20 years ago. Is this like how in my head the beginning of the Unix epoch was "about 30 years ago" when actually it's almost 53?
There's a difference between using GPT to refine an initial thought versus completely using GPT to generate everything. So if you're employing ChatGPT in the former sense I don't think it's any more harmful than using a more intelligent version of Grammarly.
Obviously. This is a consecrated codebase[1].

[1]: https://www.sqlite.org/codeofethics.html
Bear in mind that this will work for many bits of parallel port equipment, but won't work for everything.

Some things use very precisely timed signals, as short as a few microseconds, and that simply can't be recreated by software over USB without hardware support.
At the first video ad I see, I will immediately crack the DRM on my Kindle books and close Kindle for the last time.
GNOME 43 on my Fedora Silverblue 37 (and presumably all other installations?) takes 6 GiB of RAM at minimum. It's sort of sad.

Also I run it from a flash drive.
I Love draw.io BUT for sequence diagrams
I definitely recommend https://sequencediagram.org/

- quick to create diagrams

- can use text to create or drag / type

- configurable to style diagrams as u need

- runs in browser - no server required

- familiar syntax - similar to plantuml and other variants
Exactly. Some scientists are also activists, and that’s okay as long as they approach science as a scientist, with empirical mindset. In social scienses too often the activist mindset is all they have.
what is missing?
amazing YouTube rabbithole.
"Giving artificial jobs don't differ much from giving people artificially valued money."

There's a big difference. It uses up the hours so they can't self consume them. And they are forced to turn up on time, and stay the day - or they don't get paid.

Which goes back to the root of our exchange system. We don't really exchange money, that's just a token - we exchange the output of our time, which is finite, and therefore valuable.

A job is a way of giving up your hours for the benefit of others.
At that point it wouldn't matter whether or not I could detect it as a GPT generated post, it reads at the intellectual level of your average Redditor so I would've downvoted it to oblivion.
> I’ll never understand the logic behind “high memory usage” as a metric for desktop environments.. If you had the hardware, would you rather see it used or see it dog slow trying to load UI components from disk?

Linux already uses all the availabe RAM for disk cache. I would rather not an app do that (except in special cases like databases, which know better than the underlying file system what needs to be cached).

If a desktop environment is using a lot of memory, this means the same memory is not available to my other apps. So yeah, even on a 32GB machine, I do care about what each app uses.

As I type this, on my 32GB GNOME system, 21GB is currently in use. Of those gnome-shell uses 2,1GB + another 700MB for gjs and zoom (which I haven't used for a couple days, it just sits in my tray) uses 1,4GB. That's 12% for doing virtually nothing (there are window managers that easily take 5% of the resources of gnome shell and one of these days I'll be fed up enough to switch; and zoom does literally nothing right now except hog memory), and that's just looking at the two top memory users.
Indeed, that is included within the subset of "quite RAM-hungry applications" :)
If content known to be of human origin could be archived and frozen
now in late 2022 it may become valuable in a few years. Some kind of
verifiably timestamped encryption might be useful.
Presumably vanilla MATE uses Metacity instead of Compiz.
While memory usage is not a perfect metric of how "bloated" a piece of software is, I would't say it's useless either. That memory isn't just sitting there, it's being read, written, moved, meaning the software uses it to do things which also take up CPU and other resources. There is no escaping that doing more stuff in the background means less prioritization for your active usage so the software feels (and is) slow to respond.

Now if that background/automated stuff is useful to you then that's that, you can't have something for nothing. But if you don't care for most of it I don't see why you would keep it around and not benefit from a snappy system. If you've never tried using a window manager instead of Desktop Environment give it a try, it's extremely simple and you can have both in parallel. See if you miss anything from DEs, I for one don't.
OP is claiming something much weirder - that Ukraine has "created" Russia.
IceWM takes less than 20MB of RAM - it represent Windows 98 quite well.

Full featured DEs offer features far exceeding what Windows 98 had: applets, advanced window management, 24bit graphics (Windows 98 icons were mostly 8bit) + transparency, a ton of convenient APIs. Coding in pure Win32 is quite difficult.
Apart from the ad hominem, what is your actual, informed rebuttal then?
.com is however not owned by Verisign. They can't just set arbitrary prices without ICANN approval.
"That's exactly the point, because it's an attempt to encourage people to save money when they'd rather spend it because inflation is high."

Except that can't happen can it.

If Loans create deposits, then to get more savings, you need more loans. You can't have one without the other.

What they are trying to do its get people to pay off loans. How many people do you know who pay off loans in the middle of an inflation?
I guess they are similar to what IceWM shows.
Comments from when it was published: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14734865
it's called pattern recognition
The UI for voting in general isn’t great and gives me anxiety on mobile so I almost never click it. With my sausage fingers it’d be good if the clickable area was bigger and up voting had some CTA…
> is almost universally hated by the whole population

Haters do not move the market at all, unless they are willing to short the coins. Only the participants, whatever their intentions are, move the market.
Ok, $100 USD says that a crop failure resulting in at least 2 million excess deaths happens within the next 20 years, let’s round to <= 31st December, 2042.

Of course by then $100 USD will have the purchasing power of ~$10 USD, so it’s not the riskiest bet on my part.
It's a bet !

But more seriously, based on the fact that that represents really a lot of banknotes - and those assets are bought from real companies - which would then need to deposit say 100M in cash in their bank - doesn't seem hard to track I guess.
Still supported by Debian and Fedora (as a separate spin). You should also be able to add it as an alternate session in Ubuntu and its derivatives, though it's not directly supported at install.

In practice though, you may find that installing some Xfce apps gives you similar performance to the LXDE originals with more up-to-date features and bug fixes. (This will be especially true as GTK+2 loses distro support over time - there may be no benefit to running LXDE-gtk+3 over Xfce.)
All it takes is one bot to get in the walled garden though and it is the same.
It's not really surprising. The West has always seen USSR as a new reincarnation of the Russian colonial empire, and its nomenclature reflects that. Conversely, Soviet propaganda always focused on "internationalism" and "brotherhood of the nations" (on paper), and thus always made a clear distinction between the two.
"But with a jobs guarantee, who decides what the job is in service of? "

Doesn't matter (ultimately it is a political choice). The point of the job is to use up hours so you can't use them yourself. It forces the spending of time - which is the actual underlying exchange amount.

If you give up your time for others, then others will give up their time for you.
What if I can’t decide which is better so I further diversify into both?
Depends on your application tho. On a Raspberry Pi that is a server and has a GUI only for occasional use these metrics might be more crucial. If you have a high powered laptop that you just use for browsing, you might not care so much about anything at all.
I believe the baseline expectations will simply increase like what Seth Godin said about this:

> If your work isn’t more useful or insightful or urgent than GPT can create in 12 seconds, don’t interrupt people with it.

https://seths.blog/2022/12/attention-trust-and-gpt3/
It's not about the quality of the writing... it's about the substance. We have a vast number of non-native English speakers here at hacker news who are able to post insightful comments without having to worry about 100% syntactical accuracy.

Every piece of writing that I've seen come out of chat gpt reads like a MLA formatted fifth graders essay.
I do read terms of services and agreements and they usually contain things I don't want to agree to but have little choice so I just hope they won't really affect me.
I've run this website for a over a decade and looks like donations are just not a thing. People happily click Google ads though so at least there's something. Something which garners around $50 a ... year.
XFCE is a pretty snappy desktop interface, sure, however KDE is not less snappy than XFCE. I have used both more than >5 years, at the same time. KDE was on a much slower system and was not visibly slow w.r.t. XFCE. Now I'm using KDE everywhere.

The perceived slowness is due to window effects in KDE. Disable these and window appear before you lift your finger from your mouse or enter key.

Lastly, KDE's memory usage comes from the facilities it provides. Disable them if you don't need them, and save a lot of memory. KWin (window manager + compositor) uses ~180MB on a 4K screen, while file manager needs another 57. That's not much.
Binance is a scam. They make it extremely hard to withdraw money, with errors, fake limits, unresponsive customer support.
You can configure GPT-2 to be like this.

https://gist.github.com/navjack/2a248ad534be13e34cad922d278f...
For clueless "decisionmakers" I 100% agree, but this? Seriously:
“A lot of the engineers, researchers, and planners … have the best intentions, but they don’t always understand the reality of what it means to live in a rural community…”
What other solution is there to a ferry, when a bridge/tunnel is out of a question? Relocation?
Relax, NASA has little effect on the rest of the world's space programs. I hope you're not thinking 'space can't be done without USA'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_government_space_agenc...
You can't say 1:1 directly that cheap credit = rise of Vanguard, but index funds have gotten really popular since 2008. The near-zero interest rate was the environment, and that environment was built on the Fed's policy goal of the Wealth Effect (belief of growth of assets boosts demand & spending). So, given that you could pretty much throw anything at the dart board among the giants and it would go up, indexes performed exceptionally well and capital poured into them. They were also initially seen as 'safer' post 2008 meltdown, but I think as the years passed it became less about this

But their growing concentration (esp. regarding Vanguard) has also worked to naturalize some of the largest companies as a 'group.' This kind of frame became sort of unavoidable amid all of them rising, so it's hard to separate the 'cheap money' environment from Vanguard's influence growing - especially since this macro environment also allowed for their entry into other ballooning assets like real estate w/ their ETF (which has been controversial)

The problem with this growing concentration is that, as Vanguard becomes a major holder of every top stock, then all those grouped assets are going to start moving more and more in lockstep the further the concentration grows. And that's less and less of a market to me, and more just a artifice unrelated to actual profitability. In all, this is another child of the post-Great Recession cheap money environment, although how directly you want to tie them together is debatable
Thanks, connecting to a remote tmux session makes a lot of sense to me. It hasn't been a significant need in my work so far, but it's something useful to keep in mind when those scenarios arise.
> This would allow EU governments - such as Turkey - to easily man-in-the-middle people’s web connections to such services.

Turkey is not an EU member state, and at this point membership is not looking likely for the next 15 or 20 years.

Hungary, on the other hand, is — but I am not sure Orbán would try such a stunt given what would follow.
No i3 ? :S It's like the LISP of DE :D
While I have no idea if this is another case, Ubuntu seems to have a tendency to carry Ubuntu-specific patches that may cause unforeseen consequences.
I've had an Ubuntu patch cause squid to crash when the config had an empty line at the end of the file or something like that.
And Ubuntu's "openbsd-netcat" requires an EOF marker at the end of input, otherwise it won't terminate the connection. The original "openbsd-netcat" does that. Ubuntu even patched in a parameter to make their "openbsd-netcat" behave like the original.
Maybe they should have called it "ubuntu-netcat" instead.
These antics, combined with the mess that is the "snaps" system, made me swear off Ubuntu and leave for RockyLinux.
perhaps you could short crypto correlates on traditional financial markets then. COIN, for example.
(meta) Interesting to go with what looks like Comic Sans in this day and age. Deliberate trolling?
*on Fedora

Now do it again on a different distro which packages different default apps and services, and see how these values differ by multiple hundreds of MB.
I'd love to see the same for a CSR4 module, those are very weird.
I had the same experience with my workmates, in Quake 3. We played so much on the same maps that I recognized anyone by their play style, and also because they liked different parts of the maps.
> Paying your maid more than market wage is virtue signaling.

Is it? They're more likely to stay in that job and ask for more money on other jobs because now they know it's possible.

Just like we devs know we can make FAANG salaries and our asking price is adjusted accordingly.
The post refers to an article [0] which mentions that dividends are also not that great for productivity/R&D spend.

"Excessive dividend payouts, however, can undercut investment in productive capabilities in the same way that buybacks can."

[0] https://hbr.org/2020/01/why-stock-buybacks-are-dangerous-for...
I've long been a fan of Enlightenment. It's still going well.

https://www.enlightenment.org/download
Oh, no, escape, there is still time, save your wallet!
I could be lead to believe that if my main source of information were HN comments.