skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what valve is doing with collabora "pressure-vessel" at the cost of a very expensive and intrusive kernel mechanism (mount namespace), and beyond sanity complexity ELF handling: they have to "scan" the host system and depending on the GNU versions (modules/symbols) used, have to cherry pick down to the host glibc libs to import into the container (usually it is limited to the driver libs).
Currently, "pressure-vessel" is not finished as there are still bugs and missing features (basically speaking, if you don't have a massive and mainstream arch or ubuntu/debian...). Have to check on it in the near future, the devs have to fix the handling of host environment variables and some host libs which are not imported (for alsa dmix and dsnoop IPCs to work as intended in the container singe games need only to care about alsa-lib API).

Then to work around the toxic behavior of glibc/gcc devs, valve is building a "mitigation" of extreme cost and complexity with the help of collabora.

The guilty are the glibc and gcc devs, they deserve hate, and this is righteous hate.

The other mitigation is to drop the ball, and go full wine+vkd3d as a layer to protect game binaries from glibc and gcc devs SABOTAGE. But this is a gigantic shabby kludge (troubleshooting is just horrible, and not breaking anything on the long run...) ON TOP of the already kludgy and bloated glibc/gcc... valve calls its wine+vkd3d version "proton" (probably running in a "pressure-vessel", I don't use proton but a custom lean build of wine+vkd3d).

Valve seems not to do that fairly (hope I am wrong): proton is wine+vkd3d with nasty additional components. At least they should backport in plain and simple C everything from proton into wine+vkd3d... but some says there are too many real windows components (actual copies) and nothing really pertinent to backport. On the good side, dx12 is said to be a simpler vulkan, hence games, if coded with a conservative usage of the windows APIs, should really work better and better. Some troubles on the video/audio codecs, but game devs should really use a LGPL ffmpeg/libdav1d statically linked into their binaries for that.

Keep in mind: all that should not exist in the first place.

The alternative is to be extremely competent on elf/linux and to manage to generate game binaries which will work using only the core video game components, and that even on "older" distros... namely what Ethan Lee is doing, because do not expect game devs to know how to do that, it is a technical abomination ("pinning" can become quickly very hard, and it worsen if the game is using c++): game binaries naively generated on "recent" (for instance glibc 2.34) distros (what "normal" game devs do) won't run on "older" (for instance glibc 2.33) distros. Allready got at least a game and demo in this case on steam.
> The earth is getting greener, rapidly

https://skepticalscience.com/co2-plant-food-basic.htm

https://skepticalscience.com/co2-plant-food-advanced.htm

> The maximum human carrying capacity is probably higher than ever

https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4060/4/3/32

The Human Ecology of Overshoot: Why a Major ‘Population Correction’ Is Inevitable
Absolutely! What mental model did you arrive at?

Mine is "an SSG is just a source to HTML compiler and compositor, plus file organiser".

I reviewed a few tools (jekyll, emacs.love/weblorg, hugo), and ended up making mine in big part because I went down the rabbit hole of "well, why is this part here? why is it like this? why can't we do this other thing? wow this bit is cool, how do I make it myself?".
Right, and that was in 90s dollars!

It's pretty astounding what you get for $2k 2023 dollars now, which is roughly $1k in 1998 dollars.

Plus that $2k 2023 machine will be good enough for probably 5 years even for a pretty serious professional. Versus a $3k 1998 machine that even for a young hobbyist was basically decrepit in under 3 years.

So your modern day computing run rate is like $400 2023 dollars per year, versus late 90s being easily the equivalent of $2k 2023 dollars per year.
Part of me feels sad, part of me feels dread, and part of me says, "well, we're just reaping what we have been (and still are) sowing, and we collectively deserve all that is coming." All the suffering sucks though.
If manufacturer does not support software updates including security updates, it should be plainly stated, to compare similar items to purchase.
Okay. My ethical standard is "to exclude — as far as is possible and practicable — all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose."

You'll note the wiggle room. It's not about being perfect and never contributing to animal harm because that's impossible. It's about doing the best you can in a bad situation.
the ordinary human ego has adopted itself to larger-than-large for survival. I claim that ordinary humans will use their ordinary ego to invent ways to "manage" the changes that are occurring.. and that will happen repeatedly, despite all reason or science.

It is important not to start direct confrontation when someone is showing signs of listening at all.. simple minded responses are ordinary. That is exactly why nation-level Science is being applied, right?. It should not be shocking that ordinary people reply with simplistic responses. The situation is too extreme for the pleasures of ordinary quarralling -- disciplined discourse is called for, even if most people are not willing or able.
The ability to cancel an operation without talking to the operating system requires that your program has yield points. That yielding is what allows another part of the program to take control and say "OK, I'm done with you now, no need to finish".

Yes, the problem is that your thread would continue to perform work even if you stopped waiting on it.
True, but anybody can host the frontend... which is some HTML with a few calls to supabase.
A lot of Varela's ideas are considered in Spatial Computing VR/AR/MR also even refered to by some as Embodied Computing. XR works by expanding perception expectations (in the Lisa Feldmen Barrett sense) using an animated freedom to produce new experience but similar enough to be understood. The reasearch connecting visual processing in the hippocampus to emotional memory formation (visual thinking) is quite strong. XR and new interface formats are forcing us to look closer and explore the relationship between cognitive states and our understanding of embodiment/environment which certainly exists.
They look great if you intend to prove inequality of opportunity using inequality of outcome.
I wonder if there is anything more to the reason that it has never gained any real traction? A lot of groups would stand to lose a lot of money if something like this become used by even half the population. This would mean a massive reduction in purchases of many dental products, visits to dentists, procedures needed by dentists, etc.
They aren't different. They are the same. The only difference is that in Go the `yield` points are implicit (the compiler inserts them) whereas in Rust they are explicit (.await).

Otherwise they both schedule a task to be executed with the implicit runtime - in Rust that may be tokio or something else, in Go that would be the Go runtime.
Off the road system and in villages sure, but in Anchorage where I've lived for over a decade...not really. Maybe 1.5, and some things like avocados are kind of a joke, but I've lived quite a few places in the lower 48 and it's just not that bad (especially since wages are also higher)
There is no such thing as a "pinch of m4". You start a clean project promising that you won't touch m4 this time. Then you add a small m4 invocation to save yourself from some boilerplate.

A year later, when you are trying to figure out why all instances of the word "cat" are silently disapearing from your website, you dig through 5 layers of macro expansions to discover that a junior dev tried implementing a for loop instead of copying it from the manual and messed up the quotation marks.

Having solved the immediate issue, you decide that debbuging your DSL is too hard, so you import M4 macro file you have been copying between projects. You then spend a day replacinf all usages of 'define' with your macro-creating-macro that adds comments to the output enabling your stacktrace generation script to work.

Next project, I am putting down a hard rule: no m4! (Except for maybe that one instance)
People believe we are coming out of an ice age?

This means they deny climate is changing.

The more you know…
That was quick. I just had a renewal coming up, so I took the opportunity to transfer out.

Originally, I was going to try Cloudflare, due to their at-cost pricing, but they didn’t allow transferring domains without first moving DNS (and maybe more? I couldn’t tell) to Cloudflare. I didn’t really understand the implications (would I have to use their CDN?), so I bailed out part way through. Edit: sounds like it’s just DNS: https://developers.cloudflare.com/registrar/faq/

I ended up going with Porkbun, based on recommendations here. Their interface is a blast from the past, but their documentation is pretty good. The only issue I encountered is that they don’t support wildcard email forwarding like Google Domains, so I had to inventory the email addresses I’d been using and setup manual forwards for each.

Overall, I wish Google Domains was still a thing. It was easy to use and cheap, and I thought it would stand the test of time.

Edit to add: Google Domains’s UI/instructions for transferring out were great. What a shame the service is going away!
https://archive.ph/GY27i
Bamboo.

One hectare of bamboo captures approximately 50 tons of carbon per year. Seems like we need only 2M square kilometers of bamboo to offset all the carbon emission of humanity. It's a bit more than Alaska or less than a half of Sahara. It seems like a lot, but I think it is doable, given ease of bamboo planting.

Of course we need to gene engineer variety of plants to capture the carbon for different locations. I believe in fast-growing pine or maple for that matter.
Seems like an unnecessarily condescending comment
Also discussed extensively six years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15731913
If you’re moving your head or screen at all, wouldn’t the same chromatic aberration explanation predict a parallax effect? I also see it if I close one eye, but only if I move my phone side to side a little.
Maintaining High Performance
Sketchy ideas for interfaces that play with the novel capabilities of LLMs
The personal responsibility theory of pollution was made up by these corporations you are defending. The reason that companies make products is to sell them yes. But the reason the products are made in polluting ways and with essentially unrecylable materials is cost cutting. Regulate industries to use the more expensive but less impactful production methods, and you find that pollution will actually go down in a way that matters. Tell individuals to stop buying plastic bottles and you'll get a subset of the middle to upper class to somewhat comply. Make plastic bottles illegal (or at least mandate that the company buy them back to really recycle) and the problem becomes moot, it's not like individuals can make plastic. Same for fuel, waste disposal, etc, etc.

The only thing consumers could do is buy less, but life makes that rather hard. The companies that you are trying to absolve lobby to make that harder.
I think a lot of it is the other way around: graphics design driven by branding rather than UX.

I also think the death of native development has a lot to do with it. The web is now the UI layer of desktop, but that means there is no consistent design language across the system.
There was a thread about alternatives on HN [1]. The top mentioned ones were: Porkbun, Namecheap, Dynadot, Cloudflare, Nearlyfreespeech, Gandi.

I've used Porkbun, Namecheap, and Gandi. Namecheap is my preferred. Porkbun is fine, Gandi I would prefer to not use again. I haven't tried Dynadot or Cloudflare's domains (but I love Cloudflare's DNS).

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37099102
I just checked on them a few days ago.

Their current messaging is back to:

“Climate change is a hoax for science grants and political power”
OAuth 2.0 Step Up Authentication Challenge Protocol
You don't think techniques have improved since the 1940s?

Of course the data would be different with 60-70 years of improved collection techniques, analysis tools, and theoretical knowledge about the climate.
if that's terrifying to you, don't watch: "The deepest breath" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzH6BI6P4Uo
On Computers.
More than glycemic control: SGLT2 inhibitors may extend lung cancer survival
As a lifetime Polaroid fan, I would disagree. I think this product signals that results of their death were greatly exaggerated.

In the US, at least, Polaroid cameras and film are widely available, even at convenience and drugstores, not to mention online. This new camera is a tool for artists, which harkens back to the way Edwin Land originally conceived and marketed the product.
No. SBF is an entitled prick. And if you are worried about your dietary needs not being met in prison, then don't do shit that lands you in prison? What is this questioning?
Or what about the scrollbar hiding automatically so its really hard to manualy grab the scrollbar handle and scroll with your mouse. Specially in long lists super annoying.
I looked up some domains I was interested in the `.dev` TLD and they go for 7-8 times the price that google offered them for a year.
Isn't that the point of serverless though?
Just searched for world record. 24 minutes!

Budimir Šobat (Croatia) at 56 years old no less!
How is Caddys performance compared to nginx?
Considering that solar panels are close to perfectly black, they will also close to perfectly absorb the remaining 80%. The 20% of solar electricity that is then used for AC, will be released as heat as well.

You've just made a ~100% efficient heat capturing machine. The 98.1% reflecting paint will be much more efficient, with the added bonus of not being dependent on the grid.
I read what you wrote several times and I still don't understand what your point is.

Can you please elaborate?
I used a shell script for that, but vaguely thought of changing to a Makefile for a while, and finally did now, thanks to the article reminding of that; it is more appropriate. Though the shell script still invokes make, and then rsync, since rsync seems less appropriate for a Makefile. But now it synchronizes fewer files.

As a side note, I am quite happy with XSLT templates to produce the pages (instead of attaching a static header, as in the article), as well as to generate indexes and an Atom feed.
Can you share some example descriptions?
Seriously does anyone trust Google to run a product? Even if they came out tomorrow with a teleportation service I'd be too worried they'd cancel it mid-flight to try it out.
Org Design Pitfall: Fragmented Resource Pools
Are you saying that the opposite of the OP story is the ideal?
> This claim was, unfortunately, pure disinformation. In reality, she had merely met Rainsford in a couple of social situations. The claim was a lie.

If this was someone else, they would have been done for fraud. Yet one who calls themselves a 'disinformation' correspondent had to be dishonest enough to get the role at none other than the BBC.

Never knew that the BBC hires people who not only are dishonest about their past roles but also purposefully spread disinformation to millions. Such irony.
And yet here you are reading that comment, writing this one... And those experiences are real.
This is a great use of ML! I run a data engineering company, but in the past I worked as a controller and I think Finance controllers need better tools. Your idea of embedding ML into the spreadsheet is really a good one. I can see accounting teams and controllers using a tool like yours to control expenses, reconcile bank transactions, manage cost categories for management reporting.
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LLMs are inherently bad at this whole "correctness" thing...
> Operating systems should be modular, allowing the user to reduce as much bloating complexity as possible and needed.

Yup, updated my comment to clarify that point -- thank you. "the overthrow of the root user by the corporation" -- damn. Good turn of phrase :-(
Gnome is pathetically bad at this point. The old desktop CDE is almost as good overall despite its many quirks...
A car alternator uses brushes or slip rings to get power to the excitation coils, which is a big part of what the motor in the article has been designed not to use.
Would you mind saying more about your experience with Gandi?
Doing perfect is the enemy of doing good.
There actually is a logical reason and that reason is they can only produce and provide so much in a day in a prison. They can't make all these custom meals. That's now how the kitchen works in a prison.
> Plants cannot live on CO2 alone

Not my claim. We also have plenty of fossil fuels to put into the Haber process until we transition into fusion, even if that's in the distant future.

> The Human Ecology of Overshoot: Why a Major ‘Population Correction’ Is Inevitable

> Homo sapiens has evolved to reproduce exponentially

Sure, humans do that until they industrialize, then they slow down.
I think humans are one of those species, as they cannot survive wet bulb over 95f nor can current populations survive across the collapse of agriculture, hence the problem
> Someone needs to figure out large scale injection of SO2 to the stratosphere. Don't wait for permission, just do it!

I wonder if a hundred years ago someone said "Someone needs to introduce the cane toad to Australia to reduce the beetle population! Don't wait for permission, just do it!".

Not the exact same thing, sure, but we are terrible at predicting side effects.
> amazing and terrifying at the same time to be underwater for that much time on only one breath

The terror subsides. We have deep instincts related to diving. Releasing the terror reduces oxygen burn, which lets you access the 2+ minute range, even with swimming.
that was a fun read! hope you get your fresh pizza next race
Gandi was sold earlier this year. The new owners do not have a good reputation.
Unfortunately the neurosciences diverged in the 1940s and 1950s when lobotomies became increasing common and emotions got tied to what you said based on what you felt. Psych-sciences have been apart from the neurosciences ever since. Better techniques like fMRI and EEGs have meant more data that’s not getting used in diagnosing and treating diseases.

Meanwhile the adrenal cortex and the autonomic nervous system has been largely forgotten. It regulates how we feel every second of every day, even when we are asleep. Good luck being happy when you are overstressed and underslept.
I think airports work on a concession model where companies essentially bid to get a spot there, like a mall food court. So the business model is to get a monopoly and then sell overpriced crap, which doesn't lend itself to innovation and makes the market hard to break in to.

I agree it would be awesome to be able to get it at the airport.
Effect must be less. For AC, you're transferring indoor heat outdoor AND generating excess heat from running the AC itself. For heating, the excess heat generation presumably works counter to the heat transfer.
You laugh, but the concept of this funny YouTube video was the actual business model of a SoftBank-backed startup that raised half a billion dollars [1]. The crucial flaw in their otherwise ironclad plan was that the pizza had a tendency to fly around and lose all its toppings when the truck went over a bump in the road.

[1]: https://gizmodo.com/zume-softbank-ai-pizza-delivery-stellar-...
Technically, teeth brushing can become a thing of the past for you at any time, if you're not in love with your teeth.
I know this is annoying, but you learn electronics by doing.

First, you need to know the basics. Ohms law (V=IR), the power law (P=VI) the two Kirchoffs laws, voltage divider, what a capcitor, inductor, mosfet, and diode do.

Most IC companies (Texas Instruments in particular) have very good technical documents that give you practical tips on how to use their products.

Find similar projects that you can base your own project on. It doesn't matter what the license is, you probably won't be releasing it, and copyright doesn't apply to electrical circuits anyways (but they do apply to the drawings of circuits).

If anyone recommends "The Art of Electronics", instantly stop listening to anything they have to say.
Very good point. This would require some standard library approach for much of this, which may or may not be feasible.
> They're stated explicitly in the user manual.

Not everyone using a generator in a crisis bought the generator. Not everyone where a generator is being used in a crisis even speak the same language.
Another one bites the dust

Another one bites the dust

And another one gone, and another one gone

Another one bites the dust (yeah)

Hey, I'm gonna get you too

Another one bites the dust
Well, not if you force them to use only correctness-preserving transforms. Just reject anything else.
Audience waves EU flags to Rule Britannia, Last Night of the Proms 2023 [video]
Congratulations. It took you some time, but you finally figured what most of us have discovered a lot of time ago: we are rich by any objective standard when compared to most of the population
Wow. That looks great. Thanks.
Ugh. Don’t show diversity outcomes without breaking them down by level at the same time.
What are you skeptic of? There is so much misleading denialism of what is now ao blindingly obvious to any casual reasonable observer, that I propose you apply you skepticism with a bit a cui bono.
I agree the graphics are above bar for a GOV report.

From my limited understanding many of the HVI contributors listed have experienced microtargeting themselves.

Many may have been duped into thinking they were doing the right thing by relaying seemingly benign messages however the total effect of the "dog pile" was pure terror from the HVI's perspective.

The subversion process is guided from completely benign and friendly conversation through one small compromise at a time. The automatic nature of human interaction is then exploited from a series of reflexive controls and forced decisions that completely undermined the HVI.
Decoding a $2M/Month App's Marketing Strategy Through Its App Store Reviews
The shots occurred in a span of several seconds, not simultaneously.

I don't see anything implausible about a second shooter having Kennedy in his sights, waiting for the initial shots to be fired, and pulling the trigger once he heard the initial shot.

There are a lot of implausible aspects to all of this, but that... doesn't seem like one.
I can vouch for Cloudflare — definitely the cleanest registrar I’ve ever used
I highly recommend Edwin Land's biography, The Instant Image. The title refers not to the method of photography but how the device was invented -- conceived as a complete product in one mental flash that took years of real scientific invention to bring to technical fruition.
What if we injected the carbon back into the earth
Fun fact: William James was a professor of physiology at Harvard. Now William James Hall is a literal and figurative ivory tower on campus. How many students are taught that the status of the brain in their body affects learning, memory, attention, and critical decision making?
A charging cable is not an accessory, its a core component. I believe this would also go against EU regulations, which were reportedly a huge point of moving them to USBC.