skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people in the UK have at least some familiarity with European languages. Many civil servants, a point mentioned in the article, studied Classics so are quite familiar with speaking multiple languages (and our diplomatic service doesn't work the same way as the US, so some civil servants come from the diplomatic service knowing 5-10 languages fluently). And in Europe, many people speak English. Proceedings at Brussels are largely conducted in English, almost everyone will understand English (they often do not speak it publicly, but are able to understand and speak it).

People who talked about Brexit were talking about East Asia and the Commonwealth countries, not the US only. I can't really think immediately of anyone with strong links to the US in the current govt (the only minister in recent memory was Liam Fox, and he hasn't been in govt for close to a decade iirc).
If you are looking for a generic screen (likely without a bezel) take a look at Alibaba.
> For instance I've seen estimates that 20-30% of perfectly good food is thrown away these days because it's not esthetically pleasing, e.g. a cucumber that might be of unusual shape. Also it's more economical to throw away food that you can't sell but is still good, than it is to give it away because then people would spend less which is bad for business. I don't know if this is a solvable problem, but it exists.

I'm highly skeptical of this. I have direct experience as my family were (until covid) market gardeners who would sell to farmers markets, local supermarkets, and restaurants.

Typically "nothing" gets wasted in these operations. You sell the prime produce at huge markups at the farmers markets, the mid-tier at the supermarkets, and the food service industry gives exactly zero care to the aesthetics of the produce so long as it's high quality and tastes good.

I can't imagine this would be any different at an industrial scale, if anything the incentives become even greater. You sort your produce for the market vs. industrial use, and the latter is likely to be a far more reliable income stream. I doubt farmers are throwing away 30% of their product.

Yes, there is a lot of loss along the way - but I'm not sure we can really do much better short of everyone growing everything locally.
Its reputation for focusing utterly on just what it is being paid to do seems to be growing stronger every day.
The way I think it works is each government starts with a finite amount of political capital after there is a change in majority. This is expended and used up over time, slowly in a growing stable economy, much faster when there are destabilising events.

Delivering Brexit and mitigating Covid were massively destabilising events that required an enormous amount of political capital to deliver. On top of that you then have scandal after scandal which drain that political capital.

Ultimately the Conservatives are out of political capital. They can only regain it by not being in power for a period of time.
I noticed that comment threads on posts are just using a third-party saas commenting platform that still has their branding (OpenWeb) on it. That being said they want to be in market ASAP to capitalize on the market sentiment and rushing a bit is forgivable.
An Earth-sized planet found in the habitable zone of a nearby star
You could be right about all of this, but it isn't very compelling without more concrete detail.

From the perspective of a neutral observer, what we're getting here is one anonymous person's interpretation of Carmack's behavior, and we don't know anything about this person. So for all we know, it's equally possible that this person is arrogant and narcissistic and takes disagreement as bullying.

Not saying I actually believe this of you, but there are plenty of such people in the tech industry. So I don't know what to think here.
Yesterday’s Future Is Brighter Today
If /proc is mounted in the container you can grab the same information (more tediously) by looking at /proc/<pid>
I work in hardware. The picture of the freezer with wires coming out under the door gasket, is familiar.
Microsoft steadily replaced their staff with increasingly dumber and more complaint developers. I was shocked with how bad it was when I worked there and I’ve only seen it get worse since. A lot of the damage was done by Steven Sinofsky and his vicious war with Dev Div.

People wonder why the company hasn’t failed yet, it’s due to the incredible power of inertia. But even inertia runs out eventually - it’s a slow process but it is happening.
Huh? You can simulataneously point to a bias, while at the same time realizing that individual accounts don't always neatly fall into one of two positions. There was a clear indication they wanted to suppress anything that would suggest an idea counter to a certain narrative. That effort even extended to parody and jokes. Everyone makes jokes.
At least on gnome you can drag or resize a window from anywhere by holding Super.
Good luck to them. After a thorough de-googling of my online life, Maps is their one product I find myself going back to use over and over.
Going by the current discussions around Twitter and Facebook (by both the left and the right), I don't believe that's the conclusion most people would come to. Both sides want to hold the platform responsible for their users speech, albeit this is charitably phrased in statements such as "companies should do more to prevent (political bias|misinformation)."
Repetitive Strain Injury, which is an umbrella term for a ton of different conditions but they generally involve pain from doing a certain activity too much or unergonomically
A lot of those risks would be risks before there was Linux, GCC, and the plethora of open source tools. There's working RISC-V emulators running Linux with toolchains now, and there isn't even any real RISC-V hardware you can get yet beyond some demo boards, etc.

> whether it will evolve and innovate

CPU evolution and innovation is driven by the transistors beneath the ISA, not the ISA. For Intel, MMX/SEE and all the SIMD stuff was an innovation and something new, but the instructions that use it are really not that big of a deal in and of themselves. When some other capability arises in CPUs, any ISA will simply get new instructions.
Posting this again, the case against micropayments: http://web.archive.org/web/20060214180624/http://www.openp2p...
They do also IP-bans and MAC-bans. Which are both against the law in European Union.

In september (ie in Pre-Elon Twitter) I tried to make new accounts and they were immediately Deboosted even with random IP via cellphone. Only when I made one in public library is was ok. But it was immediately deboosted too when at home.
As a former inhabitant of England, I always thought that those in charge suffered from a uniquely wide 'competence gap' which I would like to define as the difference between someone's self-perceived competence and someone's actual competence. (The term is probably useful more broadly...)

Maybe it is the historically class-based society alluded to in the article, but it always stunned me how those at the top, and in particular politicians, were pushing through policies without even a modicum of consultation. See for example the 'kamikwasi' budget of last month: in which other European country would this have been done so thoughtlessly?
I wish Gnome did not try so hard to be macOS. If I wanted to use macOS, I'd get me a Mac.

But I see that the other Unix machine most Gnome developers use is a Macbook, so they try to make things familiar, because they sort of like that UI. (Those who don't but still want a coherent desktop can pick KDE.)
I’m not sure what you are lumping in under your idea of ‘the Turing handwave’ here. Is it the idea that the Turing test is sufficient to prove intelligence?

Personally I think that’s a misreading of what Turing meant when he proposed the test. In getting people to ask ‘can computers think?’ he wasn’t trying to get you to grapple with ‘can electronic hardware do something as special as thinking?’ - he wanted you to confront ‘is thinking actually special at all?’

I think he was trying to get people to grapple with the idea that brains can not be anything more than Turing machines - because there is nothing more than universal computation.

The only things a mind can possibly act on are its initial configuration, its accumulated experiences and the inputs it is receiving - and anything it does with that information can only ever be something computable.

And anything that can be computed by Turing machine A can be computed by equivalently powerful Turing machine B.
That screenshot is a significant step down from Windows 95 already. It's simply too complex.

Way too many random vertical and horizontal lines going everywhere. A mix of text way too close to other controls right next to whitespace controls. Outlines intersecting with the text they're highlighting when there's plenty of space around them. Drag&drop bars that attract way too much attention with how textured they are.

I personally like the modern, simpler designs better. The aesthetic of late 90s UI were great but their designs were often a hodgepodge of whatever control the developers could fit onto the screen, with resize bars placed to let the user overcome the crammed design on demand.

I don't know what your working system looks like, but my fonts aren't fuzzy. The margins are visually pleasing and the widgets are quite intuitive because they're used consistently.

Feel free to go back to the old ways with Chicago 95 and LXDE. It's not exactly Windows 95, but it's pretty damn close. But please don't bring back the jank of overcrammed late 90s UI design, you'll only scare people away.
Whether a company is public or private has no bearing whatsoever on whether its behavior is anticompetitive.

Private companies have to follow legal regulations the same as public companies do, generally speaking.
Turns out a lot of people on the radical left want to censor people or worse.

My office is pretty democrat and most people don't understand the twitter hysteria.
It's clear now Twitter has a lot of radical left. These radical left doesn't realize most people are on Elon's side after his kid was stalked.
As indie people we often have to balance between jobs and our creative art, so I understand you quite well. I follow you on twitter and I like your UX tips, so the book goes straight to my reading list. Good luck with your new creations!
Went through this with SCE. Was looking at 300k for 11 poles. If the end of their line is on your land. See if you can put the meter there.

We ended up putting the poles in ourselves for 10% the price, so there is hope.
Yes I always feel stupid when using mac's because of this
There are several obvious culprits, here's the timeline:

1) Promoting the proxy war in Ukraine and impeding diplomatic negotiations, plus pushing for the expansion of NATO, had the result of pushing gas prices through the roof, driving record inflation (and enriching a few gas suppliers). This is the primary cause for the recent economic slump. The Neoconomist magazine is not going to address this issue, however.

2) A poorly managed Brexit. Maintaining a regulatory level playing field with Europe on issues like food safety standards would have facilitated trade. If Brexit had been better focused on pushing back against neoliberalism (halting the export of manufacturing jobs, limiting the import of cheap labor, controlling cross-border capital flows at the nation-state level) it would have worked out better. However, here's what gave impetus for the push for Brexit:

3) Privatization of national resources since Thatcher, and the resulting increase in costs for basic services. Railways, electrical suppliers, etc. were all put in the hands of wealthy interests who steadily raised rates to enrich themselves, leading to increasing poverty and the destruction of the British middle class. This growing wealth gap sparked national anger, hence support for Brexit.

Face reality: the ~40-yr neoliberal program has been an absolute disaster, and should be thrown on the scrap heap of history immediately.
Engineers will do anything but the most obvious thing to solve their problems. AI isn’t going to help you become a better writer, it is going to make your writing better. Those are two different things.
"Economic reform" is just the latest soundbite. Half hearted acknowledgement that current tory policies have failed so by necessity the next thing being pushed must be branded as a change. Hence "reform".

I have yet to see anything of substance fly under that banner.
Everyone fails.

Carmack has also had a lot of wins.
His accomplishments stand on their own.

Perhaps he is not a good people person.

He puts in an astonishing amount of effort on his pursuits
or at least he used to.
He may expect the same of others, not understanding that
the majority of people have different lives and goals.

He might also just be an asshole.

It will be interesting to see what he does next.
I think he still has one or two wins left in him.
A weird thing is that ChatGPT definition is vacuous -- there is maybe one meaningful word in this sentence:

In software development, a platform target triple (also known as a "target triple") is a string that specifies the target platform for which a piece of software is built.

And then he writes the definition below that:

This platform target triple specifies the CPU, vendor, and platform/OS that you're targeting.

Why quote ChatGPT? Just delete that sentence, and the article is better.
I love my Pentel Graphgear 1000. If note taking, I really think the way to go is .7 or .9 leads, but .5 is nice if you need fine lines.

I use the .5 for woodworking, but a .7 along with a Rhodia dot paper notepad for my desk.
> Technology is the last space where a newfangled product would lose momentum by being released to early.

> I’m open to being proved ignorant here. Can you think of some examples where tech was obviously ahead of its time and not accepted?

Is this a joke?
Ironically you’re being downvoted by the same folks who would benefit from unions. American Twitter employees, for instance, would have done a lot better with European labor protections. European Twitter employees probably have a sizable comeuppance on the horizon.
Does anyone find it troubling that the Linux foundation is being hijacked for tertiary interests that do not involve things in the operating systems/virtualization/containerization area but are simply concerns that some members of the Linux foundation have?
Exactly. There's no such thing as a proper audit for crypto.

Perhaps it could be invented, but no one has.

I doubt the will to do it exists, since that would seem to be against the interests of all the big crypto players.
Swift Quit – Automatic App Quitting on Mac
This Nmap tutorial will show you how to use the tool to scan an entire server for ports and protocols so that you analyze and exploit vulnerabilities. We will also be looking at the Nmap scripting engine and how to use scripts along with your scans.
I've guessed it's the nature of the beast. Without context it's hard to gauge what part of the question is interesting to the reader. So it errs on the side of completeness.
We're talking about things like dialog windows that don't take much vertical space even when putting all confirmation buttons in separate rows; this is a set of applications that often easily fit on half the screen. I know what you're talking about, I'm writing this on a laptop with 13" screen and I'm using a browser with vertical tab bar for a reason, but this isn't that case.
I know that you understand that farmland has been pulled out during periods when prices were low and the government programs paid more. You also know that farmland is getting bought out for cities to expand. It makes sense why the farmland acres have shrunken there is no argument there.

Output has gone up because yield trend has been increasing. I'd know this because even 10 years ago 200bu corn was great for us...now 250 bu is what we hit.

Am I going to argue there are some operations that do not take proper steps to ensure that what they put on their ground stays on their ground? No because there are. However for our personal operation and a growing number I'd pull water coming out of our field tiles and put it up against the water you buy in the store. Then I'd take the same water coming out of our field tiles against the runoff of water from the parking lot, or the streets in the city or the yards in the suburbs.

There is a reason why I am apart of a growing number of farmers who are pushing for soil health and utilizing practices that benefit the environment in a measurable way. We do not agree with the way a lot of the conventional operations are doing it. Heck there are a handful of solutions that have been presented to the state and national government in order to further move the number of acres that are doing these things to avoid the situation that you mentioned about Ohio and their lakes. We hate that as much as you do.
Exercise is medicine for cancer, even in late stages of the disease
Yeah, right. Irrespective, of whether Oppenheimer's action in respect of David Bohm was right or wrong—and I'd reckon it was wrong—Oppenheimer was treated very badly those bastards Lewis Strauss and Edward Teller and the system failed to protect him.

Oppenheimer was left a broken man by their actions and he should not have been. Clearly, he was no saint, and he had strong views both political and scientific but that was no reason to denegate him so.

It's easy to forget that unless someone with Oppenheimer's forceful presence had been put in change of the Manhattan Project there's a damn good chance that the project would have taken much longer to complete—even in hindsight, Lt Gen Groves made absolutely the right decision. Unfortunately, Oppenheimer's high profile and personality made him enemies and the heightened and frightening politics of the era denied him a fair hearing and justice.

BTW, I say that as a great fan of David Bohm and I believe he was badly treated by Oppenheimer and others but this was more the result of personality clashes than him being out of step with scientific orthodoxy (if everyone only followed scientific orthodoxy alchemists would still 'brewing' lead and hoping for gold).

Irrespective of reason, Oppenheimer and Bohm weren't the only martyrs of that era either, Fred Hoyle should have been given the gong for the B2FH Paper/stellar nucleosynthesis but fell foul of the Nobel Committee because of his 'prickly' personality.

People's personalities and frailties ought not play a role in how we perceive and value them for their contribution to science but unfortunately that's often not how it pans out.

But distance in time often rights things: whilst it's too late for Oppenheimer, history is now putting things right in his name. Remember, such events aren't new: by reasonable accounts Issac Newton was a horrible, nasty, vindictive bit of work but we now honor him not for his personality but rather for his monumental contribution to science—and changing the world forever.

That's how it ought to be.
I chose my words deliberately.

Interpersonal skills is a necessary component of playing the game, but the end game is power and influence and winning.

It’s awful when the wrong tool/stack/architecture/etc. is chosen due to someone’s powerplay.

There are little emperors at every firm trying to lobby their influence; then the ones who gain start choking off anything that smacks of competition.

I see this as a huge negative.
I’d like to see it get merged into AvaloniaUI which is already cross platform and built by smart people with experience.
In countries where service workers are paid decently, tips, when given, often take the form of rounding the bill to a convenient number for making change.
It's because you have the blessing and privilege of working two to three jobs in a capitalist society, a very small price to pay to access all capitalism has to offer: smartphones, TVs and cleaning machines that break in a month after warranty expires, cars, a healthcare system that will take your house and your dog as collateral...

Unions? you should be thankful!
> Did they migrate cosmetics from 1 to 2?

Yes. Your whole account got migrated.

> I simply want there to be some accountability for mega corps so they can't just abandon games, release the new iteration for $60, and then kill the old version off.

Well then definitely don't point to Overwatch for that, because they released the new version for $0 and migrated everyone's equipment.

> It's more aptly fit to use CoD as an example to be honest

You mean the game where I can play multiplayer for games released well over a decade ago? I haven't heard of an instance where they shut down the old servers for that series yet at all. Other than that they'll be doing that for their free to play platform, but that's practically the same argument as Overwatch to Overwatch 2. You should be able to import accounts, it's no cost for the new version, etc.

EDIT: I guess some CoD versions ran on GameSpy which shut down a while ago. That was a third party system not made by the publisher though, dunno if you can really hold the publisher responsible for that third party service going offline.
The more time I spend working at FAANG, the more I think there's no grand conspiracy to keep us from competing, it's just bad incentives all around.

Want to get promoted as an engineer? Work on something BIG (even if no one asked for it). Want to get promoted as a manager? Get more people on your team (even if you don't need them). Want to get promoted as VP? Better re-org everything so people know you exist (even if re-orgs happen every year). And this problem gets compounded by the fact that the people who are best at playing this game end up making decisions that impact everyone else.

I often wonder if something can be done about this, or is it like a natural law when it comes to big corporations.

If only we had metrics to solve this!
Ha! This is a best loosely coupled. EPI discloses labor unions fund them. Labor Unions did nothing for families in the 60s,70s,80s, and 90s when all manufacturer jobs were driven out of the US due to bad labor negotiations. Joining a union is about as helpful for your job as joining a country club except you don’t get any real perks.
Many people don't want equality... especially those who see themselves as superior.
Exactly, and I'm not trying to devalue their beliefs, I'm just trying to understand how they can be against something that would benefit them.
So by "there" you mean that the tech is good enough to provide a good experience, and so they've basically plateaued? That's my guess too. I rented a Quest for a couple of weeks and it was pretty neat. It just didn't fill any needs we actually had. I was thinking of it as a try-before-I-buy situation, but when I sent it back at the end of the two weeks, nobody cared. The kids were already back on their Switches and the Playstation for gaming.
I think it’s indeed a bit weird to “require” the AI to generate test cases but not impossible, actually it might be even desirable. The thing is that you don’t need to necessarily validate the test cases themselves, as long as the method to generate them is well known and trustworthy. A good suite of test cases (manually or automatically generated) will never guarantee anything, but it is certainly very useful, and I believe an AI could generate much more and better test cases than we do, as long as it is trained correctly.

For example, you can have reinforcement learning with rewards for finding test cases that fail, and it could even be an adversary to the other AI that is generating the code itself…?
Or even be totally right, but there's more to the problem. Peeling the onion.

We hope that fixing one piece of code will solve three or four exhibited problems. But it's often more like, change three or four pieces of code to make one problem go away.

As Heinlein is purported to have written, "If it's not one thing, it's two things."