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> What happens if the uutils team says that they're not releasing the source of the latest version but the $CURRENT-5 from now on, moving to a closed source, open baggage model? What prevents them from pulling an effective EEE?

I don't follow this argument. This can happen under GPL as well. Nothing stops the copyright holder from relicensing future versions of the software under a different license. The existing versions already out there under GPL/LPGL/MIT/BSD, there's no take backs, but the copyright holder is free to do whatever they want with future versions.

What would happen in your hypothetical scenario is that everyone would get really really angry with the uutils team and the latest open source version would get forked by the community. The proprietary one would wither and die, because who in their right mind wants a proprietary set of coreutils?

Fundamentally, the choice between copyleft and permissive is simply if you care that someone takes your software and incorporates it into a proprietary package. Clearly, the uutils team doesn't care if eg. Apple makes a proprietary fork of uutils for OS X. And that's their prerogative.
Windows 10/11 has become far worse that Windows 8.
The last really nice Windows was 7 . And Windows 8.1 wasn't bad (if you use it on a tablet pc)
It’s not a fetish.

I think Lennox really opens up for windows users when they understand that everything is a Linux terminal command.

When you go into the GUI and change your display resolution, that is a terminal command. Etc.

This is the same for extremely popular things like VS Code, where all the extensions are super cool, most of them are also terminal commands or have some semblance.

However, I can agree with you that this distinction is never clearly explained. And the majority of windows users have no idea, so they come over to Lennox and don’t understand why things might look strange, or require a terminal.
Windows 11 is an improvement in my opinion. But then again I generally like macOS. Agree, the touch focus of Windows 8 was a terrible misstep.
If you don't understand how they work, you may end up choosing a wrong container for the job (e.g. a list instead of a dictionary), and you will be tied to finding modules that do a specific job in a case when it would be trivial to just write something yourself.

In many cases it will be impossible for you to write certain parts of code, or you will end up mashing random libraries together, ending up with a program that works 1000x too slow, instead of just writing a few lines of code that solves the issue.

This is especially true for graphs/BFS/DFS and binary trees/search algorithms.

Also, without training your understanding of basic algorithms, you may be unable to write a lots of code that goes beyond wrapping over basic libraries. Not to mention being able to write the libraries themselves.
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I don’t think thermodynamics lets that work. You can’t move heat from something cold to something hot so unless you are preheating your water to a temperature higher than your deep borehole rocks, all you’re doing is putting the first N joules of heat energy into the water you’re going to pump into your steam turbines using excess grid energy instead of geothermal energy.
I'd be a completely different person if I'd grown up under a 21 drinking age. It was often my only social outlet.

Even the kids used to go out until the RAVE Act.
In the real world the bar for “ending the career” of a researcher is very high. And it should be. We as a society spend enormous (often taxpayer funded) resources training researchers. This is why we don’t casually throw careers in the trash over missing citations and correctable minor sentence fragments that can only be discovered by machines. What we do care about is misattribution of substantive ideas, because that undermines the incentives that science relies on. Clearly the former sort of thing is extremely sloppy and should result in corrections and major embarrassment, it’s just not necessarily worth ending careers over. I have been the victim of plagiarism of both kinds, and I can assure you that disciplinary resources in the real world work nothing like the theory you’re taught in grad school. And sometimes that’s a good thing.
This isn't exactly a paper on room temperature superconductors...

I read plenty of compsci papers and whitepapers, I just don't have to work with this specific niche of web caching. I doubt the methodology for benchmarking is so radically different from other computer backgrounds that my ability to detect fudging in it, or other structural issues with them would be compromised.

And on top of that, in this case both the code and data sets are available and the papers went through peer review.
> it’s no surprise that the participants insisted that training on their works was a horrible infringement of their rights (something that has still not been determined by any court, and would be a disaster for creativity should it be found to be accurate).

I cannot currently search the web for any sort of art without drowning in a swamp of AI results. Even if the SEO-tag-laden midjourney slop wasn't ugly as sin (it is), it's drowning out the art made by humans. A 'disaster for creativity' is already happening and if we don't get copyright protections for artists and creators against their works being made into the grist for AI content mills, this will only get worse.
> be of Protestant faith (or Jewish).

Like the extremely Protestant and Jewish countries of Spain, France, Italy, Ireland, Poland...I'm actually tired of listing countries now.
So perhaps Lewis is accusing Stapledon of devil-worship for imagining a world with an uncaring creator?

I would disagree that it obviously celebrates the concept or ignores the horror therein.

I think the problem I'm having is that for me, as a well-established secular person, the concept of "devil" is inherently bound up in Christian context, i.e. on the assumption that God exists and is good etc... . The concept does not easily apply outside of that context, to speculative fiction set in hypothetical worlds. However, I suppose that Lewis interprets everything in the Christian context, whether it is intended or not.
Sure. I don't. Linux works for me, and I improve it in ways I care about, and I continue to not care what others use. Like I said, increasing Linux adoption is not my goal. Improving the OS that I like to use is.
Don't news publishers have an even harder time making a case here than (say) software publishers?

At least with software, there are explicit licenses governing how you're presumably allowed to use them. Is the New York Times going to claim people are agreeing to a license before reading their news?
Not sure what is the point you're trying to make.
I wish my teachers could help me grasp this as well as this teacher does. Excellent intuitions from an excellent teacher on why speed of light is same in all frames.
Yeah this paper is garbage so many things would have a big influence on average lifespan - strength of workplace safety rules, smoking and alcohol use, driving mortality, regional conflicts, endemic diseases, etc etc that they didn’t include.

It’s particularly bad as an important conclusion they cite is that not including the variable they studied would lead to inaccurate modeling - while not including a ton of important variables themselves.

Maybe they did include some additional ones at first but removed them to the laughable 7 in order to get the result they wanted.

And in asia where there’s countries with large vegetarian but relatively wealthy populations they find the meat correlation doesn’t exist. Oh wow fancy that.
I got a new work laptop just before xmas, and since I'll mostly be using it to RDP to my workstation I figured it was time to give Windows 11 a whirl. I'd been holding off primarily due to the taskbar stuff, and was pleasantly surprised that the grouping options were back, and there was an option to move the start button to the left.

A couple of minutes of customizations and it now feels quite familiar. Only thing that slightly annoys me is the icon-only elements in the Windows Explorer context menu for copy/paste.

Back in the days the saying was to never install Windows until the second service pack was released. I guess the same still applies, just without the service pack name.
> I obviously condone the military actions in Ukraine (especially since I am a Pole of Ukrainian descent)

I don't want to be too adversarial, but don't you feel a bit hypocritical by supporting Ukraine to preserve its sovereignty in face of a larger, strongly authoritarian neighbor, but arguing for Taiwanese to simply give up their own?
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Yes that's a fair point. If I recall Googlers are just completely forbidden from contributing to projects with a CLA.
> If the only reason people work out is for aesthetics then everybody would just be a bodybuilder.

You're assuming that the body builder aesthetic is everyones desired aesthetic, it's not.

Also, working out for your health and working out to be more attractive are not mutually exclusive things. I'd argue they're the same thing, and even if you disagree, it's still reasonable for a large numebr of individuals to cite both health and aesthetics as their motivation/reasoning.
Sorry if it sounded rough but I don't think I twisted anything. It's fairly common for people on here to post stuff they done as a learning exercise, and also very common for others to then ask "But what is the value?" and "This doesn't seem useful to anyone", which I think could put first-time authors off from HN. I guess I just got a bit tired of it at this point.
>> In what sense? Public interest? LK-99 wasn't an incremental step toward room temp superconductivity, was it?

It was an incremental step toward this material. It also had some interesting properties at higher temperatures even if superconductivity wasn't one of them. It seemed really strange to me that LK99 was tossed aside so quickly. It got discredited faster than cold fusion, which is still lingering today under different names BTW.
Ice cream freezers reach 248K, so if it's really the case, then sufficient devices are already mass produced.
How has the divorce rate changed with each generation?
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It would be more productive to stop prodding at the symptoms and instead consider looking into potential root causes like car dependency and commercialization or erosion of third places.

Kids aren't just staring at a glowing rectangle due to some unexplainable pharmacological effect it may possess, they just crave human connection and sense of belonging just like everyone else. Using medical terms to dehumanize them is not productive at all.
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It seems it's going to become easier to check them in C++26 with https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/numeric/add_sat and friends. Or if you want saturating integer types, you can find https://github.com/StefanHamminga/saturating (granted this does not seem maintained) or https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/master/libs/safe_numerics/doc... from boost for a checked integer type. https://github.com/mbeutel/slowmath gives you exception throwing checking.

I haven't tried that style in Rust—or in C++ for that matter—but is it truly much nicer than the options available for C++? Perhaps out-of-the-box experience is the winner there.
> There is a huge blindspot, I've noticed, where people mistake familiarity for ease of use (and other qualities too).

The "legacy" Windows design isn't just so beloved because of familiarity, but because it actually provides visual cues to users [1], and the backstory on how it was designed is also interesting [2].

I know that there was an even more detailed article floating around here on HN but I can't find it offhand.

[1] https://twitter.com/tuomassalo/status/978717292023500805

[2] https://socket3.wordpress.com/2018/02/03/designing-windows-9...
I was making subtle reference to ASML withholding lithography machines from China. One could ask why China is yet to replicate their technology if know-how is so permeable
finally switched from Win10 to full time EndeavourOS KDE/Plasma and havent looked back.

got sick of my OS customization getting reset after every unstoppable auto update. oh, and the ads. the constantly changing ui shenanigans.

i kept TPM 2 turned off to prevent Win11 from metastasizing its way onto the machine, but the straw that broke the camel's back is that Win10 totally fucked up my dual boot setup after an OS auto-update.

btw, i used to roll my own winxp isos with sysprep and regedits baked in. all of that is impossible now without the unobtanium that's Windows LTSC.

(my hardware/usage is recent AMD thinkpad, time is spent mostly in browser, vscode, mpv, krita, darktable, terminal)

i do miss the Affinity products tho, they keep making them more Windows/MacOS-only, now relying on the windows store/msix installer, basically guaranteeing they'll never work with Wine/Proton :(
> they arrived to second-rate results

What second-rate results are we talking about? Japan, a rocky island with regular earthquakes and typhoons, and no natural resources to speak of, was the second-largest economy in the world for most of the past 50 years.
This is the correct answer here. The CEO blood-boilingly doesn't make sense, if looking at the organization as a technological steward of Firefox and maybe related technologies. But the CEO and Firefox are just there, year after year. So maybe it's not the organization that's wrong, but rather the way of looking at them.

So, as you say, if one shifts the perspective, to look at Google, using what's pocket change to them to keep a competitor alive, in order to keep them out of anti-trust and continue to let them dictate how the web is shaped, it suddenly makes sense.
Not in response to the article but the general vibes in the comments.

Writing a published book and having it out there is a thought that really resonates me. I wonder what I'd write if I had more time to myself, a clear mind, and /if I was a radically different person who wanted to do it/.

The thought of having written something, put it out there, and to have someone enjoy it is lovely – I'd be happy writing schlock if it came straight from my heart. But in terms of being the sort of person to sit down every day, concentrate, and slave away at it... That isn't me. Props to people who manage to put anything on a single page, let alone finish a whole book.
FYI, just a friendly reminder: HN culturally isn't reddit and low-effort comments with just a video reaction usually don't do well here.
> with Metaphor you'll get only Youtube downloaders

I clicked into the top 5 results, none of them were real youtube downloaders that worked, so I clicked the next 5 results, then I finally got one single (really slow) downloader that worked. 1 out of 10 top results
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There's already evidence of the harm caused to teenagers' self esteem due to endless comparisons with peers over social media. This leads to many types of mental illness such as depression, anxiety, eating disorders etc. Considering that we're exposing almost the entire teenage population to these harmful effects, it's hardly overdramatic.
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> Saunas imo don't outweigh your car freezing up so it can't even start anymore and you can't do anything in an emergency.

Saunas don't really offset the cold at all, although they are nice anyway. Cars not starting up due to the cold is really rare nowadays AFAIU. I haven't owned or need a car in 20 years, so no personal experience, but I don't hear any complaints about it.

And it's not something you need to really worry about e.g. in Helsinki. In UK for example a lot bigger problem is that the traffic goes into total halt when it snows.

In general I agree that the climate kind of sucks (although the summers are nice). But this is an annoyance, not life-or-death stuff.

> You should try it sometime, getting only one half assed hour of sunlight a day would probably drive me to suicide personally.

The lack of sunlight does suck a bit. And if you're really suspectible to SAD, living up north is probably not a good idea for you. But most just get used to it and it's more like people complaining about the rain in the UK.

And you definitely do need blackout curtains (or an eyemask) in the summer if your sleep is sensitive to light, so it's not really a pro. Most get used to it though.

> Well once those start flying it's all over so that's not really a consideration. Small things that don't make a NATO intervention worth it are the real problem.

Regarding the current situation, Finland is further from Ukraine than e.g. Turkey, so a stray missile from there is obviously just not gonna happen. And even if it did, a stray missile is almost certainly not gonna have much casualties in the bigger picture. Everyday risks are magnitudes larger than such.

There's been all sorts of jammings and airspace violations for decades. They probably mean very little. Joining NATO did slightly increase the miniscule risk of war for Finland in my calculus, as Finland became a geopolitical buffer zone for NATO. Those tend to get the worst horrors in major wars (see e.g. WW2). But anyway you're a lot more more likely to get hit by a car or something than being a casualty in a war.
maybe I have just been extremely unlucky last year.
None of these will matter once Ukraine joins the EU. Their soil is the richest and has the greatest depth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernozem

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/12/15/ukraine-memb...

They will incapacitate the EU's ability to farm without subsidies, something they already do heavily.

> E.U. farmers currently receive subsidies of more than $200 per hectare farmed. Given its vast arable land, Ukraine would be eligible for billions in payments.

>Even with membership many years away, the issue of Ukrainian exports entering the E.U. market has spurred protest, with farmers in neighboring countries lashing out over a glut of grain.
Great article that captures and organizes a lot of information that's not so easy to find with Google. I've spent many hours tweaking the Freetype antialiasing settings and interpreter version to get font rendering "just right" on Linux. Now that I know about this article, I might give it another go.

BTW, I just noticed that the Firefox UI isn't picking up my RGB subpixel settings. Does anybody know a fix for that?
Plenty of people use it responsibly. Why should they be punished just because some people can't seem to control their behavior?
> you do to your mouse trying to get your click speed above 10 CPS

There are multiple ways to do this. Jitter clicking and butterfly clicking are the most common ways to do this which don't make use of a particular defect in some mice (double clicking).
Regardless of what happened with him, there's literally no reason to believe that he wouldn't have had the same massive salary if he was still the CEO. Him being technical has nothing to do with taking a massive salary or not, the issue is cultural. Especially when you see the exact same thought process all over this thread, of thinking "But they are a CEO in tech! They deserve it!" instead of keeping in mind the completely different dynamics that apply to non profits. I don't think it has much to do with the CEO themselves
Yes, except one thing (the car crash) tends to have higher consequences than the coffee mug that the person dropped. And saying, "I was in a car accident" is very passive and ascribing the blame to someone else or the world at large. "I hit another car while driving." is the more accurate way of describing the situation.

People like to take credit for their accomplishments and hide their blunders.
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Probably makes sense mostly on Mac. Right now, it's common for developers using Macs to install GNU coreutils from Homebrew as a first step to ensure scripts and build systems that were originally written for Linux still work. Macs give greater ease of corporate device management, so Macbooks are a fairly typical compromise for companies that need to give developers a Unix environment but still want to maintain the level of control over endpoints you'd get with Windows.

I'm sure there's desire out there for a pure-Rust close-to-POSIX userspace you can put on top of Linux, but I don't exactly see a whole lot of progress toward that. At minimum, you'd need coreutils, findutils, diffutils, tar, grep, sed, compression libraries, crypto libraries comparable to OpenSSL or GnuTLS, an editor, a POSIX shell, an init system, a service manager, system-wide DNS and DHCP. Going beyond pure POSIX to a more practical server distro would probably include a PGP implementation, a package manager, sudo or equivalent, ssh, iproute2, probably many other things I'm forgetting.

uutils seems to give you findutils and coreutils. ripgrep is not a drop-in replacement for grep. I'm sure there are other "rewrite it in Rust" projects out there I don't know about, but low-level system utilities aren't exactly the gloryland most developers are interested in rewriting and POSIX includes a lot of stuff.

Frankly, I don't think this is a realistic terrain for any single organization. GNU itself took over a decade to get a practical distro and that was only because other developers provided a kernel, package managers, boot loaders, crypto, and what not. And the GNU project is not really a single organization. It encompasses many people from many different employers. Systems software in general wasn't as fragmented. If you were working in the space at all and cared about being cross-platform and collaborating across organizations in the 70s and 80s, you were using C. Everything else was proprietary. If we're ever going to get something comparable but in Rust, it's not going to be from a single Github org like this.
Examples based on expected environement generating visuals from / presenting visuals:

a) interactive [2i] & [2iii] / non-interactive

b) generating data for visuals via: sketches by hand[0], gui/command line[1], via database/spreadsheet/ide[2]

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[0] i) : https://www.skillshare.com/en/blog/how-to-digitize-a-sketch-...

ii) : https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-convert-any-text-into-a-graph-of-concepts-110844f22a1a

iii) : https://zapier.com/blog/best-wireframe-tools/

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[1] i) overleaf : https://www.overleaf.com/

ii) tiz and pgf packages : https://tikz.dev/ / https://texample.net/tikz/examples/area/physics/

iii) ggplot : https://ggplot2.tidyverse.org/

iv) gnuplot : http://gnuplot.info/

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[2] i) jupyter / jupyterlab: https://jupyter.org/

ii) impress : https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Impress_Guide/Introducing_Impress

iii) graphana : https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/grafana-with-postgresql-data-visualization-with-open-source-tool-36f5150fa290