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Often? Only in case of Upstart and LXD (I'm not familiar with the latter's history).

Here's Mark Shuttleworth in 2010:

The next major transition for Unity will be to deliver it on Wayland, the OpenGL-based display management system.

We came to the conclusion that any such effort would only create a hard split in the world which wasn’t worth the cost of having done it. There are issues with Wayland, but they seem to be solvable, we’d rather be part of solving them than chasing a better alternative. So Wayland it is.

https://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/551

Then in 2013, Unity 8 was released with Mir.

Snap was largely developed in parallel with FlatPak (called xdg-app initially).

There was a talk about the plans at GUADEC 2013:

https://www.superlectures.com/guadec2013/sandboxed-applicati...
This is probably a dumb question but what makes plastics or metals food grade?

I ask because I want to know if DIYing kitchen gadgets like this is somehow unsafe or is it possible to build food grade gadgets yourself?
It sounds like King County has an inefficient system. Bit of a rant here.

Tying success to "progress on their addiction" is also puritan brainworms, sorry.

A lot of US stuff seems to rely on punitive monitoring and "you relapsed, back to square one" nonsense, like a game of snakes and ladders. But with a body count.

Some people will never recover. Some will. Some will take fucking ages.

Being an addict and being a mostly functional, productive member of society are not mutually exclusive.

The actual ways to start fixing this problem are unfortunately, rather unpalatable to voters despite being cheaper in the long run.

Here's the thing. Heroin is dirt cheap to make at a controlled quality - its used in hospitals as diamorphine for end of life care, and some other uses.

State supply of heroin to heroin addicts is a policy that has been tested in the UK, Switzerland, Netherlands, and elsewhere at various points and it fucking works.

Decriminalization of possession with referral to addiction services is a policy that has worked phenomenally in Portugal.

Housing-first policies have worked out fantastically in Finland.

Putting supervised/safe injection rooms and needle exchanges in areas where addicts actually are (as opposed to where they are not) also works to reduce issues like people nodding off on the street, smoking up on buses, needles being discarded everywhere, etc.

Another point to note: the vast majority of addicts don't want to be addicts.

Those who do get off the drugs often relapse.

A vanishingly small minority don't want to get off the stuff.

Safe consumption spaces with state supply, clean needles/pipes/works, etc can effectively act as onboarding for users to engage with further services and progress along their journey to reintegration into society.

Get people into those spaces. Get them into supported housing.

Become their drug supplier, so they are no longer engaging in criminality or at risk of contaminated supply.

Don't make "being sober" a requirement for progression.

Aim to get them into "own door" independent housing with engagement with social services.

Help them find paid jobs and start supporting themselves, reintegrating into society.

Offer rehab/treatment, suboxone, etc.

Basically, TL;DR - offer them dignity and agency, and you will see far greater success.

End rant.
How much is Singapore NOT finding?
AFAIK John Buckman (who used to head the EFF) bought the rights to the failed ZPM tech when he started Decent Espresso.
>Yes, if you are at the office 24 hours a day like Elon it's likely you'll do incredible things

That is a very optimistic outlook. Or the bar for incredible is lower than I think.
Damn I love wfh. At some point my manager told me to not express my positive emotions so much because many people hated it, but man I loved it. My wife was studying so she was also at home, with the kids (then 4 and 8). Suddenly I could have breakfast with them, lunch, dinner, go for a walk with the kids and the dog in the middle of the day for an hour.

And now I still mostly wfh. Still loving it. Going to office 1-2 days a week, also loving that btw. Just, overall, loving the new balance. It feels so natural. Have to say, my commute of 1.5 hrs one way was killing me and I was, just before 2020, looking for other jobs, closer to home because of it.

Sure the ease of it all is enable by my wife being at home mostly, but she loves that. And she has the time to properly manange the restructuring of the old house we bought, and to do some handwork herself (applying insulation, arranging/negotiating with contractors etc.) Tbh, I think if my wife as as work focused as me, it wouldn't be so nice for both of us, so I get the struggles some people experience, but they were mostly when the kids were at home as well.
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Arguably nothing. They all leach chemicals in your food. We just don't know too much about what they do.
Addicts will find a way. Buprenorphine is the most abused opioid in Finland. Which by the way has the most youth drug deaths in Europe[1]. Granted it's usually Subutex (just buprenorphine) rather than Suboxone (buprenorphine + naloxone) but there's not much difference unless you're using intravenously because buprenorphine has such a high binding affinity.

I agree that there's a huge problem with opiates and am in favor of legalizing everything, but it's good to realize that buprenorphine is not a magic candy that fixes everything - you're just replacing an addiction to a deadly feel-good opiate with an addiction to a slightly less feel-good opiate with a larger therapeutic index.

[1]: https://www.euronews.com/2023/03/16/why-are-so-many-young-fi...
I switched our whole company switched to remote back in march 2020; I became a father in 2022 and have no intention to ever switch back to the daily commute.

I was there for everything so far. But it's not only what I would have missed out on, but also there are so many situations with a baby where it is useful to have a second set of hands. I don't want to imagine what my wife would have had to endure, if I left her alone the whole day.
...Or rather allow development of much larger AI but regulate the usage in critical situation (politics, health, environment, etc..) in a way that it is evaluable for human to take in consideration of the pros and cons of the effect of the _proposed advice_?
The risk is that of having unaware insects (us), who blindly adopt unfathomable reasoning for our mind, and take them as consolidated decisions, without knowing where they lead and _how_.
Where do you get all that misleading information?

> So.. its switching from petrol to coal?

Switching from burning fossil fuels in tiny inefficient engine to burning them in modern power plant is already a very positive change.

> Unless they really ramp up nuclear and solar. Which they did not so far..

Really?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_China
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_China

> And dont forget, the first 100.000 kilometers of energy are already spent driving of the lot, building a new car. So fading away old cars as slow as possible is the most energy efficient strategy?

No it is not a good strategy. It is better to replace oldest cars first, because they are usually least efficient, but even if you replace new ICE car, that car does not disappear - it will probably be sold and replace old, less efficient ICE car.
J has a library for what you describe, but I doubt you'll like it given your description.
What you described is another language called Nial.
Very similar situation (had first one 3 months before covid, second one during), our flat back then made me work from our living room, where they played. Absolutely amazing for bonding and I am sure they are better off due to it, but I can't say it has been beneficial for my work. But then again the same can be said about most others.

We have tons of global conf calls, its harder to do that with kids screaming in the background or demanding your attention. Good luck focusing on that hard task where it takes you some time to even get to mental model of given problem.

The thing is, when choosing priorities, I would have to be really messed up piece of sh*t of a human being to prioritize work over my own kids. So all good on that front. Now I work from my own study room as they are a bit older (and we moved to bigger flat) and its nice to have some privacy too
> Staying on Azure is on the border of being considered a firing offense...

If there was a competitor to AD that is. Right now developers and hn peeps have loads of options for their work, enterprises do not. I have Windows clients to authenticate, I need AD. I need forwards/ backwards compatibility on my clients, therefore I need Windows. I have applications that must run for several decades therefore I need Windows.
I have no clue what this post is doing here.
At least the biggest short-form social media site is currently being self-destructed. ChatGPT tends to hide itself for the longest if the responses it gives out are short and snippy. That would be a disaster in the hands of any actor looking to mass create unique-ish propaganda (ie. Russia), but at least that avenue is being closed off due to Musks boneheadedness.

For longer responses, it tends to follow extremely predictable sentence structure and meanders off quite a bit, so spotting it is kinda easy.
Does the US need some sort of genocide program to counter the Uighur thing? Just because China is doing something stupid doesn't mean the US needs to copy them.

Letting foreign companies operate locally is a boon for the locals. The reason China is threatening the US with superior products is because they let the US invest in China for so many years. One of the few advantages the US has over the Chinese economy is the CCP keeps denying their citizens access to effective tools and ideas from well run external corporations.

There is a strong argument to ban Tiktok because it represents a military/social threat. But that isn't tit-for-tat, if the US is persuaded by that logic it is meaningless what the Chinese regulators are doing on their turf.
I never heard that one. It's pretty much true. Is it interesting though? But it's totally compatible with the other "AI effect", which also seems pretty much true in my observation.
There are countless of people like Elon (overworked) who have never achieved anything incredible in life, and will never achieve anything remarkable.
Here is a radical plan for you:

Don’t try and re-invent the wheel. Copy what successful countries in Europe already does. For example, Germany is a great example when it comes to creating a strong export industry. Finland is a great example of how to create a world class education system.

Less ideology. More practical implementation.
> Sure we could do drug treatment for less money and more social benefit, but how does that punish the baddies? If we give them free treatment and forgiveness, what does that say about me? I was good and they did the bad thing, and yet you want to throw a feast for your prodigal son. Taxes are high enough already, too high to give money to those fallen souls.

It's ironic that Christianity says they should do exactly that.
Exactly. For example, imagine if Texas decided it would no longer allow people who have out of state driver’s licenses to drive in the state. All the other states will quickly ban Texas drivers from driving in their states as well. And we are the same country.

In fact, I’d say a ban is at least a decade overdue and our Congress is to blame as usual.

Edit: I mean a ban on social media networks controlled by China PR, not a ban on Texas drivers!
A simple find and replace would do the same then for a CSS change. Again, that's not something that should happen often.

As for support in text editors, you can still autocomplete any class you have in your CSS. And the CSS linting will give errors too if you have problems. And there are CLI programs for discovering unmatched CSS, which works pretty well in my experience.

And the devtools suffer from all the added classes. It can slow down to a crawl depending on your machine. And you can't play as easily with the styles... If I disable a property in the cascade, all other items with this property will lose it. I would say it goes against the devtools grain. But I guess it depends on your usage.
China is building and planning new coal power plants more than the rest of the world combined.
Share it's droppibg but China alone will pollute much more than everyone else combined.
TIL about the abuse in Finland. I was aware it was sometimes abused by prisoners, but that's new.

In another comment I went into a bit more detail around ways of dealing with the issue, using Finland's homeless housing policy as part of it.

Its a complex issue that certainly isn't going to be resolved through the criminal system.
This. The problem is not how many legs the internet stool has, it's the problem of discovery in the "dark forest".

You want people to be able to find you, for your outbound communications (self-promotion), and you want people to be able to cold-contact you in circumstances that are useful to you. But if you're not very careful your inbound communications get completely overwhelmed by spam and/or abuse.

Discovery is work. Spamblocking is work. Abuse deletion is work. None of which people want to do themselves, so they delegate it to platforms which do it for them.
Just like with everything else nothing is universal.

My team and I are again dipping our toes to office and our office day is by far most productive day of the week for us.

Only problem is that we transitioned to "open smart office" over the pandemic, so we no longer have personal desks. However that too should be resolved by Q4 as renovations come to and end and hopefully we can carve out our own space again.
Chomsky's ideas around the Universal Grammar are just a theory. Similar to how his formal grammars somewhat represent real languages but never fully, the UG model will never explain it all, or even most of it. Brain biology just doesn't like the idea of formal things/rules/grammars.

Here's an alternative theory/approach. What if natural languages are just the way the device starts working when the number of neurons grows quickly? NL properties sort of emerge out of low-level details of brain work? Neurons are simple but the brain is not. Complex brain properties emerge from trivial parts the same way our full bodies emerge from a simple DNA/RNA system. Any details in these systems would be too statistical to expose a limited rules system.

Obviously, powerful enough ML system can infer the system's properties. In fact, it can infer any function. The thing is that this doesn't mean there's some kind of simpler model explaining details of emergent system's work.

What is surprising is the way LLMs imitate a stateful function (our brain, with memory, fluid biology, etc) using a stateless inferred function (the model). I suspect this statefulness might be the answer to the question of "poverty of stimulus" problem.
While I like Rust a lot in many ways and have been around for quite some time :) Javascript, like Rust, is just a tool and experienced programmers choose the right tool for the job.

Just going by syntax (or in this case type coercion) alone is too simplistic for me.

Erlang, Eiffel, C, ASM, JS, Rust, C#, F#, Java, or any other language almost can be good choices depending on circumstances.

As for the specific claim of maturity. Rust is quite solid and attractive to me, but based on the number of changes over the last years not necessarily more mature than any other bigger language out there and arguably quite young albeit with a nice and growing ecosystem. Rust specifically is also in danger of going down the C++ route with a lot of over-engineering though by having too many levels of abstractions (And I write this as someone who learned C++ from a typewriter style written book of Stroustrup himself and loved every minute of it)
The 100x analytics seems due to columnar storage like with TimescaleDB, but how do you get improvements on the other things? Is it really faster on a database with good indexes?
I've been remote since our youngest turned 1 year old due to the pandemic. I honestly can't imagine what life would have been like otherwise.

The year I spent before that I was lucky to see her at all during a day. She wasn't awake before I left (except for the inevitable screaming during the night) and we kept her up late so I could feed her a bottle before she went to bed.

I think it's a huge win for equality and family life. Any boss will have to wrestle WFH out of my cold dead hands.
their boss has apparently given up wanting to legally fire them and trying to make them do meaningful work

so they didn't have any serious work assigned to them, and you wonder why they have the day free for themselves?

they are subtly unavailable during work time. This is not acceptable

when i am focusing on coding i am also unavailable. please don't expect me to be available any time you shout. i am not your personal assistant.
To me, that means flexbox and grids. All of my past css formatting issues are solved with those two things.
Agreed. "Assume good faith" is a good rule in absence of other evidence.

But "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time" is also true.
> This is not acceptable

Why? I'm a software engineer working in an agency and I work exactly like you're describing. If I feel like going on a run, I'll mark myself as AFK and go on a run. If I feel like closing my laptop at 3 and go shopping, I'll work later in the day when I'm not busy.

I still deliver on my deadlines and contribute more to the company than most colleagues. If you ping me on my phone I'll probably reply at any given time, and I put emphasis on written communication about issues I'm handling. Ideally, I've already written down all of the information you'd want to talk to me about.

This "style" works really well for me.
> that my Parmigiano Reggiano is not some cheap knock off

In US it probably is[1] as US does not recognize European PDOs on food. You can sell Sammarzano tomatoes without the tomatoes even coming from Italy.

This is all political and has roots in the Boeing-Airbus trade dispute.

https://www.walmart.com/search?q=parmigiano
Awesome demo (although main number was down on my second attempt)

So where is this all going wrt to enterprise, few thoughts:

- The handbook for UX design is going to get ripped up fast. We spend crazy amount of time on things like button placement, dropdown configurations etc etc. Well scrap that, capture user intention through natural language - typed and with this now through voice - deliver the outcome they want much faster with less friction and pain.

- I have already developed a basic POC chatbot on my own documentation, support logs. Combined with this I have a first line, junior support rep for a fraction of this cost. This is a bit mind blowing.
I think you've made your point clear and I think you are not open to have your view changed.

I personally know trans people, living happy lives 20+ years into their transition, and all of them knew early on, and all of them had benefitted from and wished for much earlier access to gender affirming healthcare and back in the days early access simply did not exist, because of the FUD and pseudo protective position you propagate.

my thoughts and prayers go out to you.
Once managed tech for an insurance actuarial department. We ran IBM DB2 for underwriting and claims apps. One day had lunch with the actuarials to make friends and make sure we were supporting them well. At one point in the conversation I foolishly asked whether they also would like to access DB2 to minimize data transfers. They laughed and said: "SQL is like drinking data through a straw. We use APL so we can drink it all at once." I felt like a rookie at spring training.
Add Louis Rossman to the list. He has couple of good videos on the subject.
Enjoy that peaceful phase, it will not last long.
Plus kids are generally noisy, in a way that's optimized to get your attention as a grown-up. I had to move out to an external office. There were more reasons than just noise -- we were also expecting a second one, and this was a two-bedroom apartment, it wouldn't work one way or another. But noise and attention were what pushed me over the edge to start looking for a nearby office for rent. I can't imagine getting much done with a toddler in the corner of my eye, as another commenter here puts it. Though I suppose work substance matters, too. If you are in meetings all day, sure, I guess that could work.
I like what you choose as the shifters, shimano 105, which the most well functioning and one tier less expensive than the most expensive one
Show HN: StratusGFX, my open-source real-time 3D rendering engine
It's been closed source for a long time while I worked on it on and off as a hobby research project, but yesterday the repo was made public for the first time under the MPL 2.0 license.

A feature reel showing its capabilities can be found here:
https://ktstephano.github.io/rendering/stratusgfx/feature_re...

A technical breakdown of a single frame can be found here:
https://ktstephano.github.io/rendering/stratusgfx/frame_anal...

It's still in a very beta state (bugs and instability expected), but I felt like it was a good time to make it public since a lot of its core features are mostly presentable. I plan to continue working on it in my spare time to try and improve the usability of the code.

Two main use cases I could see for it:

1) People using it for educational purposes.

2) People integrating it into other more general purpose engines that they're working on since Stratus is primarily a rendering engine. Any extensions to the rendering code that are made public would then further help others.

So I think it will remain very niche but I'm hoping it will still be helpful for people in the future.
Yes. I didn't ignore today's because this conversation had it front-of-mind and I'm curious, but it seems like for a long time it was some kind of beach scene and I have no idea what that was about.

Once you know "this is just a little curiosity button", it's easy enough to ignore if you're not into that.

(Today's is in reference to van Gogh's 170th birthday, which is a nice little "oh!" moment, but not one I clicked through to see more)
It can be, yes. But I was talking more about "right" for the end user which should be less subjective (I think).
First off, there is a huge difference in being 100% available and not outputting work. They are not exclusive. I WFH with people with babies and kids and they absolutely exceed expectations.

Second, people in office can be just as unavailable or unproductive as from home. There are a million ways to slack off or be intermittently absent.

Third, it's a matter of gender equality too. If the childcare is split 50% then one simply cannot work like someone without kids, or one needs someone else to take care of the kids. If it's not split then 99% it's the women who stay at home while the men build their careers.
> For a coordination game like this to succeed, the consequences to any defecting party must be extreme. What's going to happen to the first major company that decides to exit the agreement?

Nationalizing of their AI division, by a government AI lab, then selling to another company that can operate it safely? Kinda like what FDIC does with banks * shrug *
Who wrote this bill? We should applaud them for making it so ridiculous that it loses support immediately.
How does that compare to the change in people's expenses?

The CPI for rent is more than double what it was in 2000: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CUSR0000SEHA