skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The modern answer to that are probably books like "the three body problems". Also old French science fiction can be excellent, e.g: anything Barjavel. Not to mention there are always UK outliers, like Douglas Adams.

But personally, I'd say Bande dessinée, the European cousin of comic books, is where you will find the most untapped underrated wonders.

Anything Moebius or Jodoroski, like "L'Incal" or "La caste des Meta-barons" is truly special. The aesthetics have a lot of personality, the writing is messed up, and the world building is all kind of twisted and provoking.

The main problem is that they sometimes take you for a whole run then end up nowhere. But the ride is awesome, and some of it has left scars inside me, I'm not kidding. And it has been translated to English.

Even without aiming for extremes, you'll find all kind of fun stuff.

Like "Aldébaran" that really sells this sense of discovery of new exotic places with a rag tag expedition, like African jungles in the past, but on new planets. It's a big saga too.

"Sillage" that packs your read with a futuristic black window amidst a galactic political turmoil.

Bilal's immortal trilogy giving the Egyptian alien concept some wind.

Or "Le gipsy" for a no brain adventure with a truck driver coasting on a road that wraps around the entire world.

It's crazy to me that given the lack of creativity of Hollywood they scrap everything they can from books and even mangas or video games, but they rarely attack this treasure.

Plus those SF master pieces have equally good fantasy sisters.
I buy this. I would just argue that there's been a "surge" in the campaign of late, as it were. It's also more public and panicked than in the past. When it happened in the mide-late Oughts, things just went away quietly. Now, there's an almost constant drumbeat of x was cancelled, y is looking for a job after being laid-off on Twitter, etc.
> Humans really are doomed.

I agree with you, except no.

I mean, the universe will eventually die in heat death - and long before that Earth will become inhospitable - and even before that - we'll probably get smashed by some giant meteor or something.

Smart people wasting braincells on pointless thought experiments does not make us doomed.

On the contrary, the extremely-rare crazy idea that turns out to be genius is probably worth all the pointless debate.
You didn't read my comment did you. I gave you pointers with other reasons why the economy may not be thriving, if that's even the true for Finland.

You have many counter-examples of countries doing fine with a welfare state, but instead you cherry pick an example of one of the countries that you consider does "well" without one.
Not that I know of but that would be cool
What advantages do you find over Linux?
Did Braid use Lisp? I thought it was all C++
I have a Fire Tab and it's collecting dust, I'm fairly certain Vega won't be able to do F-Droid, which is a bold move.
> It sends secret credentials to Microsoft servers

So in a work environment it probably can never be used? I'm willing to bet that it won't make a single bit of difference.
Or, more likely, the entrepreneur is (perhaps negligently) allowing their managers to spend investors’ money. Only the profoundly lucky entrepreneurs generate enough positive cash flow to cover the more likely losing investments and help pad out ~15% profit to make the VC funds worth maintaining. The idea that businesses are inherently efficient is hysterical.
How much do I have to pay netgear to use it?
EU digital identity: Council and Parliament reach a provisional agreement on eID
Dismissing politicians as stupid is a simple way to feel good about yourself, but does nothing to solve the actual problems. Politicians are just as human as everybody else, and they love money and power more than they love some abstract "greater good". They understand the problem just fine, it's not a very complicated problem. We need a better system, not smarter politicians
One is completely straightforward whereas the other is ambiguous. Only one interpretation is sensible without making a big assumption about the author's views.
Stanisław Lem is an example I suppose?
No, not inherently. The point is that simplicity and elegance enables efficiency.
The sympathy strikers don't risk losing pay, since they strike against someone other than their employer. Laws and contracts don't seem to be preventing the unions from shutting down Tesla's operation. The need for production doesn't seem to be preventing this either.
With the note that its explicitly parodying scifi, the Hitchhikers Guide (Douglas Adams is British) is a fun read no matter the medium you can find it in (except for the movie and possibly the adventure game).

One of the most ageless stories I've ever read. I revisit the radio series every year and it holds up to a remarkable degree.
Not when you compare against other devices and consider that bloat is a thing and programs and websites use more RAM now than they did to accomplish essentially the same thing.

If Apple was asking $600 that might be OK, but at $1600? How many laptops at that price point have 8GB RAM? Heck a $400 Steam Deck has 16GB.
> Tech’s stagnated for over a decade

I don’t know where to begin with this, but on topic, the M1 came out in 2020 and was a big tech leap in how PCs are done.

Sure, all the individual technologies within existed elsewhere first. But Apple executed and delivered great products.
I’ve found it helps to go to your doctor with a game plan. Research your issue, figure out what the desired course of diagnosis and/or treatment is, then ask for it at the doctor’s.

They will usually just give you the referral you want. They may ask you to do some wrist exercises first, but if you are persistent, it will happen.

Think of primary care as talking to first level support at the call center. If you already know your problem needs a specialist, lead the conversation in that direction.
Because nuance is valuable? "GDPR is good" doesn't remotely address its strengths and failings, nor the conflicting incentives and motivations that produced it.

I agree that there's no room for home-team mentality here, but we should absolutely assign credit and blame where it's due, especially when those of us who don't live in a jurisdiction with such a law gain some halo-effect benefit.
Forced “refresh to update” is the point. No supporting 2-10 years of legacy clients. And bypasses enterprise IT update restrictions.
Visually a very nice UI! From a feature point of view, is there a difference to existing open-source web automation tools like selenium ide or ui.vision?
FreeBSD 14.0 has not been released officially yet.

The release builds are currently running, with the ETA for the official announcement being November 14:

* https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.0R/schedule/

There will be an announcement at (amongst other places):

* https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-announce/2023-Nov...

(This seems to happen with every release.)
I am not arguing it is morally wrong for a wealthy child to spend their wealth. I am talking about the whole of society. It's really very annoying of you to persist in strawmanning me in literally every coment. Sure I used negative words to describe an entirely hypothetical person, but the reality is that people exist on a range of productivity.

let me switch to a tangent. You seemed to be concerned with making a wealthy society, where at least some people have wealth, right?

In order to do that we have to ensure that its worthwhile for a talented person to work hard. When someone cannot become wealthy no matter how hard they work, why would they work to make anything in this world?

and so society suffers. The way to make people work to make things, is to reward them for doing that. This is an economic reality, and is demonstrable, there are many economics papers on the relationship between income inequality, gdp growth, and income mobility. Suffice to say, no matter who you are, its in your interest for there to be more mobility, and for inequality to be in a certain range (not too equal, for incentive, and not too unequal, it causes dramatic negative outcomes like crime, unrest, addiction, violence)
I've always wanted to write to Vinge and pick his brain about Rainbows End, because of all his novels (that I've read, anyway) it seems like the one that you could just about extrapolate from current tech and society... but it's also a bit unclear how much of this plausible future he thinks is a good idea, and how much is bad.
It is up to the manufacturer to implement it, most esp devices like 8266 and 32 have weak security firmware, are easily hackable (benefit to me). Most don't have security in mind and don't get security updates.
Profiling the compilation process suggests that this isn't the case. Rust's higher level passes are rarely the dominant part of execution time.

Check out https://github.com/lqd/rustc-benchmarking-data/tree/main/res... and the other benchmarks in that repository for some data on how real world crates compilation times are spent. You'll find that backend code generation and optimization dominate most crates compile times. There are a few exceptions: particularly macro heavy crates, a couple crates with deeply nested types that hit some quadratic behavior in the compiler. But overall, the backend is still the largest piece.
But of course by then (late 2030s) we as an industry will appreciate that Wayland has deep unfixable flaws and nobody is willing to maintain it and everyone should switch to ... V-something... let's say "Vineyard", the new graphical system that everyone agrees we should switch to ASAP because this time we got it right;)
What is causing this to be a major release vs not just being a point release?

Genuinely curious, since I can't gleam that from skimming the release notes.
Mobile gamers dwarf the number of console and PC gamers.
I don’t think it will, unfortunately, a reporter at Gematsu pressed Blow about it and he just kept repeating that it would be out for the platforms announced. The Witness never came to Switch either.
Alexander Calder Transfixed Albert Einstein and Sartre
You could have a son instead, it wouldn't make a difference
I paid for my car in cash, and nobody batted an eye. Car dealerships are not subject to banking regulations, only banks are. I don't know why people think that would suddenly change once bitcoin gets involved.

Governments pay companies to investigate people breaking the law with both cash and bitcoin. Cash and bitcoin are both coexisting just fine with existing financial regulations.
Good thing I'm still running Office 2013!!!! (and I only had to upgrade due to .pst size limits of past versions if I remember correctly - it's been a while since I moved to the brand-new-at-the-time-2013!)(and I got Windows Firewall Control, still on v.4.9.x.x version - before it became 'free' after its acquisition and move to v.5)
If you want to understand how the EU works, like really understand how it works, my best advice is to binge watch 2 or 3 season of Yes Minister or Yes Prime Minister.

You'll realize most of it isn't stupidity, it's intentional.
I have a counter argument:

Monopolies drive the cost of items and services up. (besides having all the other negative effects that are always caused by a huge concentration of power in the hands a non-democratic institution).

And as we see and know very well, e.g. by looking around us, monopolies or (at best) duopolies are always the outcome of unregulated markets.

More or less in all sectors, and especially in this very globalised world, where economies of scale drive profits up for those who put them to effect. This of course includes the Financial sector.

So, I'd say the exact opposite of you statement is true.

I'm replying to your comment because you statement is kind of the prototypical statement of free-market champions. I'm sure this conversation has already happened tens of thousands of times.

Still, do you think you can share any more insights about how can you possibly think regulations are the reason of a higher cost of living?
I was talking about my use of my machines (the topic of TFA), not how others use their computers against me.

On your topic, I'm not totally helpless, though. I can't do anything about store surveillance except go to stores that don't do that (while they still exist).

That said... I can and so put my phone into airplane mode before I enter stores, and I avoid using credit cards in them, specifically to help protect against those kinds of spying.
something like 50% of the time I try to redirect a fedex package to walgreens (local drugstsore) the retailer has that feature disabled. I'm sure they have a great reason for it but it seems that putting the package unsigned on my doorstep is specifically the service that they are choosing and I do not have a choice nor do I get to find out about it until after the order has shipped.
This is no longer the case in Windows 11. The "trick" to disconnect from the internet worked in the 10 setup procedure, but not 11.

The new method to create a local account at installation is to attempt to login to a known bogus account. Enter "no@thanks.com" as a username and keyboard mash the password. The installer will tell you that account is locked and then offer local account creation.

It's a stupid thing. Utterly stupid.
Jeff is great. I always look forward to seeing his videos on YouTube. I’m really happy for him and his success.
Innovation for the sake of innovation doesn't make a whole lot of sense. A CPU on germanium? Why? The semiconductor industry thought about it decided silicon was a better material platform 50 years ago.
they just don't care. bureaucrats are, by design, interested only in bureaucracy and its power, which this initiative powers up considerably
I bought a think pad just a couple years ago. I had to upgrade it to 16G. I had to upgrade the screen to actually be readable. The whole thing was deceptively priced as being on a permanent sale. I don’t get why Apple is the target here, they’re way better than other companies. 16G is starting to be standard for sure, but Apple is only a little behind the times in that regard.
Google has Search and Ads, which generate vastly more money than they need to operate. Google Search is one of the Great Inventions in human history, so I think the money is well deserved.

But this creates an environment where the natural empire building among managers isn't tempered by the need for their units to produce revenue covering their costs. So the organization tends to grow to where it consumes all the billions raining from the sky.

Disclaimer: Just a loose thought from a cynical ex Googler.
Aviation is a great way to turn a large fortune into a small one, even for the richest people on Earth.

DOD estimates the F-35 will cost $1.7T in total development cost The Concorde was a couple billion, Howard Hughes pretty much spent his fortune developing aircraft that turned into a flop.
Under the rules of the tradition economy, yes.

In tech, however, any company is ~1 good (implemented) idea away from >100X ROI. From the top that looks like bringing in as many good people as possible in order to maximize your chances of one of them having that idea while on your clock.

Once a company is big enough it’s the multiple management layers that make that simple equation almost impossibly complicated.
I found it on LinkedIn, specifically targeting Swedish SWE ASFAIR but do you really want to work for $50/hour? That's less than I pay my carpenter and it's what $100000/year boils down to when you have to work 50 weeks/year.

The ad said prominently $100000/year which sounds pretty ok for an SWE salary in Sweden, but then if you read on you realized that you needed to start your own company and your company would be paid $100000/year which is quite a big difference. That's my main objection to these types of ads, if you don't already run your own company, chances are low you are familiar with the payroll tax and other costs that comes from running a company which will eat into what you may initially perceive as a good salary, only to end up working more for less.

In my experience as self-employed, it's not that hard to find Swedish companies that pays at least twice the hourly rate and then you can have much longer vacation and still earn more!
Look online, you can get creams with CBD, CBG, and THC. Federally legal in the US because it's hemp derived and less than .3% THC by weight.
Can you point to something specific in the Arm ISA for embedded CPUs that makes it less power-efficient than the RISC-V equivalent?
> I don't know if there's something special about the Surface for this but during a regular Windows installation, if there is no Internet connection it offers you the option to create a local-only account.

A new windows 11 install (non pro, donwloaded from the ms website) will never allow this. You'd have to do command line trickery or physically remove all network cards. I found this out the hard way and got myself a cheap pro key instead, which still requires trickery but less.
How were the images in this web page created? Nicely done.
> IIRC Zuckerberg actually claimed to have been inspired by Rainbow's End. Presumably, in some alternate universe, taking inspiration from Vernor Vinge's other, better books, Facebook instead spent billions trying to make irritating talking spiders.

We should all be grateful he didn't think weaponised autism was a brilliant idea.
The problem I have with 16GB as a upgrade is that the base model is widely available and often on sale. 16GB does exist as preconfigured option, but it is a lot harder to come by. It's mainly sold as BTO, which means you have to pay full price. That makes that extra 8GB of RAM ridiculously expensive. I mean it's already ridiculously expensive, but the fact that base models sell with huge discounts increases it even further. I will NEVER EVER pay for this upgrade out of sheer principle. I'd rather switch to another system.
And free outbound from Logan! Though I must say, the last time I did this it was a bit of a nightmare. The SL1 was very late and we were packed in like sardines.
AMD Epyc servers have offered encrypted memory for many years.

Intel is only now catching up.
>"money doesn't matter"

Understood to mean (in the context of this blog) the difference in living standards and happiness are not affected by a 150k/year income or a 450k/year income. Or another way, "I (author) have encountered the diminishing return on happiness. dH/dm = 0".
> It’s not really that go is better designed for fast compilation

One of the explicit goals, by Go's creators, was fast build times. I still remember Rob Pike introducing Go during an all-hands at Google, where he talked about the very long build times for C++ and Java in Google's monorepo, and then showed some promising demos. (Most of us rolled our eyes at it then, because it was just a "hello world", but it's quite impressive how the language has evolved and remained true to its goals.)

> - it is just a plain language where the compiler can just spit out vaguely optimized code, and call it a day.

It's a simple language, but I wouldn't call it plain, nor characterize the optimizers that way.
You claim this, but my own simulations show the oceans boiling away to nothingness in just a few billion. Are you certain you did the math correctly?
You can rely on Microsoft to come up with the next abuse and make a security hole out of it.
> Containers, btw, cannot be snapshotted.

lxc-snapshot(1), podman-container-checkpoint(1), and docker-checkpoint-create(1) all beg to differ.
I switched as soon as I could, the beta was great. Once release happened it went in the crapper.
nRF5 is indeed inferior SDK of the 2 (thus abandoned). Also I dislike that a big chunk of the stack there is a binary blob.
Regarding the code organization, not sure what toolchain you used, but the latest recommendation for nRF5 (Segger studio) could make it fairly easy to do this, but manually opening the project config files and changing them, not through the GUI.

nRF Connect is a different world, comes with a lot more options, some really rooted in Zephyr OS, some lessons learned from the prior SDK.
And if you're familiar with Linux build configuration system, that is basically what Zephyr brings to the table (comes from Linux foundation).
But yeah all that flexibility comes as a penalty when you want simple stuff, compared to ESP32-Sx
It is a monotonically increasing number:

* https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/porters-handbook/versions/

Mostly for large kernel- and userland changes that can alter ABIs, APIs, data structures, etc.
Show HN: Possibly Endless Golf, possibly the coziest golf game in the world
Hi All I'm really into cozy games and wanted a chilled out golf game that I could play on my Steam deck in front of the TV. So I went and made one myself! I made it so that levels are easy to traverse through but you can challenge yourself if you want to.

I have demake in development for a game jam at the moment as well. This is I link to an early version of the demake https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=136972#p

I will have an update with updated physics soon and the physics in the Steam game are a lot better. Please let me know what you think.
It would require that Wayland be aware of internals of the "compositor". Instead of that, Wayland is only aware of surfaces, which it can guarantee can be stitched together within a certain time budget. Hence none of the tearing that is unavoidable with X11.

A window close event goes to the "compositor" of a surface, without being aware of which PID may have caused what is currently rendered on that surface.

Windows and macOS do the same, if only because they have a single "compositor"/window manager.
What keyboard do you use?

Even though, as I wrote above, Emacs does not require finger contortions, I do do finger contortions. I doubt I'll ever stop using Emacs but I have always been a little concerned about my little fingers ("pinkies"). So the options seem to be either evil mode, or a new keyboard, both of which require busting a decade's worth of muscle memory...
Does Gizmodo hate Andreessen, or is his head bullet-shaped?
At the introduction I thought the article was trolling. In the middle I thought it was instead just an interesting way to present info about bows and arrows. By the end I realized the author is serious and the premise is silly.

If getting everyone to move to bows is feasible, why make that the goal? We should instead solve all conflicts with dance offs and rap battles. Ooh, or a walk off! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkMer1HnluU
I bet there's a specialized courier service in Manhattan who only deliver small and boring envelopes that just happen to be extremely valuable to financial companies.

No idea what that company might be, but I'd imagine they don't use bikes just for the "bus factor" risk of that person getting into an accident and the envelope lost.
Fortunately, we have ZFS for that!

https://web.archive.org/web/20180223071740/https://blogs.ora...

"Thus, fully populating a 128-bit storage pool would, literally, require more energy than boiling the oceans."

- straight from the horse's mouth (that's Jeff Bonwick, who created ZFS).
That's the total injury rate, and both the national and European governments as well as unions are doing their best to get that number to close to 0 as possible.