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Yes, frame-integrated cells are optimal from a bang/buck standpoint. However, the advantages gained by using standardized swappable batteries would be overwhelmingly dominant in comparison.

If someone doesn't immediately and intuitively get that -- and you're hardly alone in that respect -- I've found that no rational, math-based argument will persuade them. The ship has sailed, your side won, and now we all get to deal with the consequences.

Batteries with this tech, sulfur, alu-air, etc will triple the density for half the current cost by then.

Exactly! But you will have to buy a new car to take advantage of them, because your current car was designed as a battery with wheels rather than as a drivetrain powered by a battery. It didn't have to be that way, but again... your side won.
The rollout of that stuff took some time precisely for this reason.
Good omens TV show really carried the tone of the book really well (except for the heaven and hell scenes).

So if you need a lower barrier of entry to Pratchett books, the series might be a good start.
Cities will not need to do that. In Europe they are gradually banning cars as a whole from city centers an you are right, it saves lives. And it also makes those cities more livable.

When I say gradually, it's an euphemism, it's an _extremely_ slow process, but it's the global tendency here.
Also, air conditioner. It made huge difference to allow for intellectual work at the places which are otherwise too hot.
You write "nothing must ever contain CFCs ever again, including critical medical products that use only insignificant amounts" while Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Protocol writes:

> There were a few exceptions for "essential uses" where no acceptable substitutes were initially found (for example, in the past metered dose inhalers commonly used to treat asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease were exempt) or Halon fire suppression systems used in submarines and aircraft (but not in general industry).

You write "and the substitute materials were later found to have their own problems."

Could you be more specific? I mean, there's no wonder material that has no problems. I don't think you mean that trivial observation, so do you mean the substitutes overall were more harmful than asbestos, across the full product cycle from mining to disposal?

And, does "the panicked removal" mean to include the use of unlicensed workers not following legal requirements for removal? As I recall, predatory contractors did take advantage of the situation, but then what's the lesson - that we need more government oversight of all building contract work?
That's a great idea / suggestion! Due to the licensing rule we avoid showing CPT codes to patients and write our own descriptions. I think we might open source that as I hate that AMA tries to charge so much for this - they don't do any work and just make healthcare more expensive for everyone.
As far as I'm concerned, this misses the point on a couple levels. One is that the focus here is very intentionally on desktop Linux. Servers and Android absolutely do not count.

The other is that the notion of a 'proper port' here doesn't really matter. Source ports are rare and don't necessarily turn out better than compatibility layer ports. If the goal is to have playable games, or for Linux to become usable as a desktop OS for gamers, what kinds of ports we get doesn't come into it.

That said, source ports are nice and it'd be nice if they were common some day. It would also better secure desktop Linux's position here.
The big lesson is that CFC removal has been a massive win for humanity and that kind of categorical and decisive climate action is exactly what we need in the future!

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220321-what-happened-to...

We have sadly not applied the same ideas to asbestos. We definitely need to. And to many other terrible materials that poison us and our environment all the time (like PFAS).

This was not a mistake. It was a humanity saving decision. It's the blueprint to save us from the climate catastrophe.
You should really read the book listed. It only saves time when work on a project is parallelizable, and only if the communication needs between folks is low. It's not a matter of folks fighting, it's a matter of the amount of context needed to coordinate work. Often more people on a project results in the project moving slower, not faster.
Game-changing Cancer-killing molecule unveiled by scientists
This will do us in a handful of years. if you think there’s enough ship to push people migrating to places where they can still get protein back into the ocean or flimsy border fences will stop things, you’ll be in for a surprise.
Lead is still everywhere: In fishing ballast, in curtains, in camera stands, ...

I used to love removing those little lead pellets from curtain weight ropes. It wouldn't have crossed my mind to so much as wash my hands afterwards. I've seen children chewing on fishing lead, and nobody seemed to even be aware there's a risk involved.

I mean, people used to ADD LEAD TO THEIR WINE(!!!) by the grams to give it that "heavy sweetness". Still, it took centuries for the population at large to notice that this might be a problem.
The naive way of deciding it it halts is executing it and keep track of all state between steps. If the machine halts, you're done, if it repeats a state, it's looping.

If you can represent a program with an LBA, it is by definition a context sensitive language and decidable. You could also show it by making a equivalent gramma for the language, that accepts the same input as the program. This gramma must be constructed in a certain way, and then you know it is a context sensitive language.
Most Western European researchers have been on vacation the past few weeks.

I don't fault them for failing to synthesize room-temperature superconductors while they were relaxing in some resort in Turkey or Thailand.
And Terminator was M (in Australia), which means "recommended" for 15 years and older, but not restricted.
As i see it, Romans mainly gave us idea of "rule-based society" on which entire Western world stands. Even as Romans themselves made a joke out of it in their later history. But the idea was so transformative that even subsequent barbarian kings that ravaged Roman Empire after it's downfall, did not seek to formally overthrow it - rather, they pretended (with varying levels of plausibility) to lawfully inherit and rule it, or parts of it.
You make no sense. Observe:

> And things like clocks and batteries were slowly refined over many, many years, so they don't fit either.

Everything started with a thought, or a discovery. What happens after is irrelevant. The event, that kicks off Dramatic Change(tm), is at the start.

> That's just a list of good inventions.

No. It isn't just a list of good inventions. Ignoring that it's not all inventions, you seem to lack the understanding of the impact. For example:

> Antibiotics

A discovery. It literally changed how humanity moves forward. One of the whitest swan moments in human history.

> public key cryptography

It took until 1975 for someone to figure this out and it changed how we exchange information, legitimize ourselves and deal with our privacy.

> contraceptive pill

The invention of the pill was an event that had massive impact on how Humanity moved forward.

> printing press

The invention of mass production of books lead to the first information explosion, dramatically changing humanity's future.

What you're doing here is mixing your ignorance of the impactfullness of some of the things on the list, with your own personal idea of what's "great", or however you want to call it.

Even if I agree that not everything on that list is equally meaningfull in terms of impact, some of them are really fucking high up the ladder, just like room temperature superconductors.
What if a company wants to prey on desperate people who want to do everything to avoid dying, including paying boatloads of money for "experimental" drugs which are just plain old quackery?
It is not necessarily lazy. Computations might, for example, be time-shifted to link time instead of runtime. See some of the notes on project Leyden for more details [1].

https://openjdk.org/projects/leyden/notes/02-shift-and-const...
Well, as an European, with 2 world wars in that period, I would not trade now for that.
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It does have an Egyptian Pharaoh's charm to it. Ironically, their ancient method of preservation would be the most likely to survive into the future. Perhaps there's room for a "green preservation" service, where we effectively mummify you with your organs, then put you in a dry desert vault for the next few millennium. The "Valley of the Somewhat Upper Class," if you will.
He wrote a blogpost about it https://pizzey.me/posts/no-i-didnt-try-to-break-companies-ho...
An insurance underwriter that gives 200k life policies for 65 euro / month will be bankrupt soon.
Hey, you're free to go live in the bush and die from sickness if that's your prerogative, capitalism doesn't prevent you from doing that or a myriad of other things (apart from externalities).

In fact it's one of the most voluntary systems of organization that are known to man (assuming a government that protects individual rights), unlike other systems which are fundamentally based on coercion and/or, as you alluded to, did not lead to much progress in bettering the human condition.
> Maybe 120V AC isn’t objectively the best.

It is not indeed, 240V AC is better as you need only half the current for the same amount of power.
Plenty of people care about native images/Project Leyden which this proposal is an integral part of.
But if you only now and then, getting a rental for this is much cheaper. Or just get delivery, even cheaper.
I work in academia and this is the first time I've heard about Sorbonne. I can guarantee you that if I asked 10 colleagues which is better, Sorbonne or Bordeaux (random French city), none would be able to answer with confidence. Maybe it is different in France, but outside of its borders, the name has not much value.
Going Postal and Making Money were great. After those it started to feel slightly off. Sadly.
Without being intentionally snarky, the same logic applies to measuring current and voltage. What is observed is an effect of zero resistance, not zero resistance itself (whatever that would mean).
IO is just state and can be represented on the tape. You can construct a machine for every conceivable input at every time during the execution and reason about them.
Google always settles. Rare to see them win and pay nothing.
The Linux community does this themselves as well, tell a Linux enthusiast how much you like Ubuntu and watch their eyes roll as if to say “that doesn’t count”
Hasn't Discworld gotten multiple rounds of stamps or am I remembering wrong?
> Other products have popped up such as BioMin, a toothpaste that contains Fluorocalcium Phosphosilicate. But again, this is another toothpaste that is not available in the United States.

It is available as of a couple years ago: https://biomintoothpaste.com/
It's a tempting idea, but I somewhat doubt it. The change from linear to exponential population growth has a limit and many of our ancestors saw the consequences of this change, and it's particularly easy to imagine them "waking up" today, and with a few short "translational explanations" they'd be on their way.

A story about waking up Ben Franklin would be fantastic.
Hhhhh well.
For some private individuals this might be good. And if you're trapped between diverent casinos and hotels, there's a win for a lot of people.

Musk likes to be the poor mans hero while only working towards rich scam and trying to get as much public funds, ehrm sorry I mean tax money, for stuff which is completely unnecessary for a tax payer.

The whole world should just work like this...
>My understanding is that Zig has all of the power and modernity of Rust, without the strictness and borrow checker.

This is an oxymoron :) The strictness and borrow checker are part of the power and modernity of Rust.

But even apart from that, Rust has automatic value-based destructors (destructor follows the value as it's moved across scopes and is only called in the final scope), whereas Zig only has scope-based destructors (defer) and you need to remember to write them and ensure they're called exactly once per value. Rust has properly composable Option/Result monads, whereas Zig has special-cased ! and ? which don't compose (no Option of Option or Result of Result) but do benefit from nice built-in syntax due to their special-cased-ness. Rust has typed errors whereas Zig only has integers, though again that allows Zig to have much simpler syntax for defining arbitary error sets which would require defining a combinatorial explosion of enums in Rust.

Of course from Zig's point-of-view these are features, not deficiences, which is completely understandable given what kind of language it wants to be. And the other advantages you listed like comptime (Rust's const-eval is very constrained and has been WIP for ages) and custom allocator support from day 1 (the way Rust is bolting it on will make most existing code unusable with custom allocators, including parts of Rust's own standard library) are indeed good advantages. Zig also has very nice syntax unification - generic types are type constructor functions fn(type) -> type, modules are structs, etc.

I hope that one day we'll have a language that combines the best of Rust's strictness and Zig's comptime and syntax.
~6% of users, 38% of bug reports, and:

> says that very few of those bugs were specific to Linux, being clear that "This 5.8% of players found 38% of all the bugs that affected everyone."

You're welcome.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/qeqn3b/despite_hav...
> Just playing Devil's Advocate: you can't miss out on what you don't know exists.

You don’t need to experience something to know it exists. And even if this were true that ends up being a shitty justification for abusive relationships.
US firm sued by man fired 'for speaking in Hindi'
This is mostly due to "they're taking our jobs!".

Which actually highlights a problem in our society that we have to work to be able to afford living instead of living to be able to work on something more meaningful than earning money.
“slaving” is about the dumbest term you could have picked here. These people are slaving no more than lawyers paid to execute wills.
The same does not apply to drugs in general. There are plenty of medications which are fine for grown adults but a big no-no for developing children.

The Covid vaccine was not just another generic influenza vaccine, it was the first-ever approved mRNA vaccine. It works in a completely novel way and although side effects in children were unlikely, there was simply not enough data to rule it out completely.
Oh. Carma is a bitch. So just keep downvoting me for being fierce to Elon, hero of all people and universal genious....

Sorry. Had to laugh.
So what the heck has happened with LK-99 really?
Once here on HN, someone wrote that meditation helps him/her better than all medication. Well, it strenghtens the "minds muscle" if you will, calms down and teaches handling distractions.

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The best book on meditation might be John Yates - Mind Illuminated. Got it after a recommendation here on HN.
It really does vary wildly from person-to-person. I know folks for whom atomoxetine did wonders, but 4 months on it for me had almost no improvements in my symptoms but a bunch of minor side effects.

Like lots of medications, you really do just have to try out several until something works well with your particular body.
It's a great choice for icons - one size fits all!
Hao Wu is an immunologist.

I hope he isn't connected to Stanford's Nolan.

LK-99 is weirdly connected to UFO lore, so I'd want to be cautious.
Wow, those are really nice release notes.
It's already in there.
Fwiw, the three-pronged approach is supported by household phones now. So if you went back to POTS, you could have the same features. Not that you should, but the tools are better now.
The market for gas cars will be dead in 10 years. It has all the signs of a technology transition and it will be absolutely brutal for all car makers which aren't ready. The range argument won't matter because people rarely drive distances exceeding 200km/120 miles in a single day.
> The big lesson is that CFC removal has been a massive win for humanity and that kind of categorical and decisive climate action is exactly what we need in the future!

That's one lesson. Another lesson is that when powerful people take such celebrated "decisive" action, less powerful people get trampled underfoot, in this case through potentially crippling medical costs.

> This was not a mistake. It was a humanity saving decision.

The phasing out of CFCs was not a mistake. The way it was implemented, however, contained many mistakes, some of which have negatively impacted many lives, as illustrated by the top-level comment.
I would assume that many US labs are also attempting to replicate it, but are just not as public as the wikipedia listed attempts. Also US government agencies/labs are probably working around the clock to make and test this stuff but in secrecy.
Look at the response to thalidomide in Europe. It caused a massive scandal and directly resulted into significant law changes in a significant number of countries.
> Residential off the shelf routers don’t have firewall for incoming traffic

[citation needed]
> There's such a deep seeded, systemic bias against linux that it actually can never win

Probably the reason it can never “win” is because it’s an operating system kernel. It’s software.

You know what can win? People. Companies. In competition with each other. The Linux Foundation wins all the time when it gets contributions of code, money and capital. Valve wins all the time when people buy Steam Decks. Microsoft wins all the time when someone spins up a Linux server instance on Azure. Users when all the time when their Linux systems do the things they want it to.

But yeah, Linux never wins. Never can, never will. The same is true for Windows and Mac OS X and FreeBSD though, and postulating that a piece of an operating system code base can “win” or “lose” is the linguistic trap that sniped millions of nerds for over three decades. There’s no scorekeeper in this game.
Zig is not memory safe and therefore at risk, just like C/C++, of future government legislation that outlaws the use of memory unsafe languages for some or all projects. The risk of such legislation is not insignificant: https://www.itpro.com/development/programming-languages/3694...

Personally I do not see the point of building an entirely new language and ecosystem that does not fully address this issue.
> excuse my ignorance, but are there any major developer tools that don't support Windows?

Semgrep is one that I use at work. Nix is another. Docker¹ is a third. Many terminal emulators support multiple operating systems, but not Windows.

Windows support also often lags for new programming languages. Golang didn't run on Windows at first. Crystal is only now starting to have full-fledged Windows support. Plus there are many tools that do run on Windows but work poorly or are extremely slow or require tons of compatibility shims, like Git and Emacs.

A lot of dev tools are Unix-first. You just probably use only a few of them if you work at a Microsoft shop.

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Not Docker itself at this point but 99.9% of all Docker containers that anyone actually uses.
Other than valves own games they don’t have exclusives. They don’t care if you’re on other stores. Only that if you’re on steam you don’t remove it later. Which was never really enforced until epic bought steam as exclusives to pump themselves.

So you could argue valve cares about gamers more.

This is also evident in the fact that exclusives are often more expensive than games on steam that are available elsewhere because of actual competition.
Many of the "repairs" are discarding the motherboard and putting a new one.
> Everything started with a thought, or a discovery. What happens after is irrelevant. The event, that kicks off Dramatic Change(tm), is at the start.

Clocks did not have an event that kicks off a dramatic change. We've had them for thousands of years. I don't see how anyone could disagree with that.

I could see disagreement about batteries, but even then I feel like they were quite marginal for quite a while. A slow buildup is not a "black swan but good". There needs to be quite a lot of suddenness to it all.

And I didn't even mention the ones in the rest of your post so I don't want to argue those.

If you talked about all those because I said "list of good inventions", let me clarify. It's a list of "good or better inventions", mixing ones that qualify as 'black swan but good" with ones that don't.
Isn't htmx intercooler.js without jquery, which is (intercooler) a 10 years old library been used extensively in a lot of sites?
“Linked lists are hard” is not “none of the common knowledge around traditional data-structures and algorithms work”.
Some decry it as nepotism, as if those who are wealthy are not allowed to have preference for their own kind simply because they are wealthy.

Eh, I don’t think it was okay for the WASP owners of the Los Angeles Country Club to “prefer their own kind”.

Maybe the right heuristic is something like: the more power and dominance a group of people have, the less okay it is for them to have preferences for others within that group.
we could do annual scans with current tech. the fundamental limitation of MRI is proton relaxation time, which limits the sampling rate. the path to reducing scan time and thus cost is to use a more sophisticated reconstruction method to reduce the number of required samples. this is being worked on.

i don't have any data here, but I am dubious that a room temperature superconductor will bring down the price of MRI machines. a room temp superconductor only saves you a dewar, about $50k of liquid helium and a cryocooler. you still have to build the rest of the MRI, which is an _extraordinarily_ sensitive instrument

> Fires, particularly house fires would become less common as wires simply stop conducting when they are overloaded.

depends how sharp the phase transition is.
It's not like we would have free roaming in the modern age if passports weren't a thing. People would still face travel restrictions, they'd just be more nonstandard and unpredictable.

Consider how the days before passports also lacked air travel available to the masses. Even cars has only just started to become commonplace.
I don't see how you could possibly have travel that is so cheap, quick, and accessible to such a large population without some way to control who is coming and leaving your country? Especially with how we're quickly making different parts of the planet inhospitable, and given how rapidly populations have risen compared to a century ago.
This is also why I think frameworks like Flutter that render everything to canvas are going to become more and more popular over time - as more and more WASM standards are implemented in browsers.

HTML will be used only for docs and not for web-apps.
Thank God for lutris
I was briefly excited that this was Lisp for the Raspberry Pi Pico, but it is not.
Still way better than the 70% - 90% that telcos used to charge for Palm, Windows CE/Pocket PC, Blackberry, Symbian, J2ME.
Chinese citizens say what?
A fictional account of what could happen:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Piercer#Plot
Most days. Just switched to linux to access latest version and features, especially loving the new 'packed struct(u32)' for some low level SoC work (Register representation). I get compile errors if I miscount the bits, and I managed to get some type safety, and not a single 'shift', 'and' or 'or' sign in sight!

Looks like I'll be porting to 0.11.1 as soon as the documentation is in place... I hope they slow down soon, already feels complete. The WASM support is amazing, much smaller outputs than the other options I tried (Java & Go). Great work team!