skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course it's a very small step to make babies amounting to 3 times the current population of Switzerland (so assuming roughly a 50/50 female/male divide, everyone needs to make 6 babies on average, in the same year so they will still all be babies when the last one is born? that's probably impossible for the females but we are already way into the science-fiction category) and put them all in a committee.

The more I think about this, the funnier and more complicated this gets.
I was using dial-up up to 2008, included. It could push 10 megabytes an hour at best, and even that only late at night. An hour of dial-up was on the order of 0.05-0.1% of a typical monthly salary back then.

So even if you were willing to spend 10% of your monthly income (which is impractical, but this is an extreme example), it could buy you maybe 1-2 gigabytes of data. Or you could just, you know, order a (source or binary) CD for free or almost free.
In my opinion, all of these things exist because CSS is confusing to people, not because anything is inherently better. This is especially true with modern build tools. CSS modules and Atomic CSS seem like a regression to me, but not all needs are the same.
I'm often the first to attack Gnome for doing something counter-user but on TFA's opening charge…

> the most limited and bloated desktop environment

… I struggle because for all its developer-instigated limitations, Gnome performs really well. Usually that translates to Mutter is really good at getting out of the way of the rendering pipeline, but to users it means the same thing.

It also gets a ton of community support to resurrect a lot of the butchered features through extensions. The JS API is pretty decent and as it improves —and we stop expecting Gnome to look after anything but itself— that Gnome could be the most flexible desktop.

They do a lot of things wrong at Gnome —stemming from a plethora of individuals having too much unchecked design power— but the display server stuff isn't bad at all.
Casually, that's the position i'm at. Changing some code and trying to "pin" parts i understand of it
So Linux will essentially just become a HAL / "bios"
More like 8 or 9 dice landing on the same number.
I always put my seatbelt (feel naked without it), but I deactivated the ringing in my car, otherwise it's annoying if you have a bag on the passenger seat.
That "map by tiled" example feels like 10 fps on my Firefox mobile. It's significantly better than the official Flutter demo game, but significantly worse than a pure JS framework.
I find it really difficult to imagine how are people OK with bringing new children into this world, I don't even live in a particulary poor or horrible country.
He (bilekas) obviously has no clue about the topic he's talking about.
Your linked article does not say that either. If you have some other source please link it.

But more importantly your understanding of how trading is judged is flawed. It is trivial to find a population of traders that includes 33% of them that beat the market last year. In fact you can do so going back every year through time.

What is hard (but not impossible) is to find a single trader who has done that consistently for many years. That’s because beating the market isn’t interesting, it’s beating it on a risk adjusted basis which is.

In fact your linked article hints at this. The most active traders in Congress _under_ performed the markets.

There simply isn’t evidence in aggregate that Congress people get market advantage through information only they have.
I would love to read a rundown that is not so hyperbolic/dumbed down ("most sophisticated software in history" for some multiple-0-day worm, also supplying digital signatures of large manufacturers must be common practice for agencies, etc).
Boruste
The point is you have total control over your key. You don't control the banks and there's no guarantee you can always get your money from them.
It's not good for anyone, since it causes people to give up on any meaningful improvements.

Furthermore it's probably wrong, too. Just after my mom finished school, some people were talking about how the number of diabetics is rapidly rising so that soon there would not be enough land to raise all the pigs required to get the insulin.

This was just before synthetic insulin was invented.
Supporting CommonJS and ESM with Typescript and Node
John Burns: Dublin tech guru ousted from board over Gaza 'genocide' blog post
Blog Post: https://blog.paulbiggar.com/i-cant-sleep/

Jim Rose, ceo of CircleCI, responded by pointing out on social media that “Paul does not speak on behalf of” the San Francisco-based company, which he declared was “committed to our customers in Israel and around the world”. Soon afterwards, however, Rose posted: “Effective December 22, Paul Biggar is no longer a director at CircleCI. We thank him for his contributions on the board and wish him the best for what’s next.”
> As the organization continues to grow and these team types continue to sprawl, it becomes increasingly hard to visualize the full organizational landscape, and, consequently, to get things done.

The premise is true, but the conclusion is a recipe for disaster.

As organizations grow, they tend to have more managers, teams, departments, and procedures. However, adding more layers to this complexity is not going to solve any issue. In fact, it will only make things mentioned above worse.

It's like adding fire to the fire to put it off.
In the eyes of the average gamer, it doesn't really matter what are the technologies running under the hood as long as the games run when they press "play".

>It is 2024, and yet almost no studio targeting Android/NDK cares about GNU/Linux

PC gamers aren't mobage studio's target audience.
I can recommend this article by Hannah Ritchie which paints a much more realistic picture:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/02/hannah-r...
This guy is clearly trolling
If only there was a way to write generic logic to complement this feature...
Have you actually tried setting up linux, downloading steam, and downloading a windows game?
Imagine you live in Kyiv, Mariupol or Bucha.
I think, one way or another, humans can address these problems. We've always been at relative risk. I know I'm a technological solutionist ("stupid" according to a sibling comment), but there's a way.

My worry is the way will involve abandoning people around the world, pushing back against immigration and sharing as the rich get richer and more isolated, eventually underground bunkers. It is going to take a lot of work and faith and sacrifice to address this crisis humanely, but the reward will be larger than "at least I'm not in the desert." Self-serving populism is imo the biggest problem.
Would be great to hear what people are using for RSS readers
The “end of history” fallacy is to acknowledge radical unexpected events got us here, but then insist nothing radical or unexpected will happen in the future. That things will just play out like clockwork. They won’t.
Unfortunately there is pretty big differences between the states of the various GPU drivers on Linux which impacts Proton. A game playable on a Steam Deck is not necessarily playable on a system with an Intel Arc A770 or GeForce RTX 4060 despite those GPUs being more powerful.
The model is on BitTorrent, see readme for the frontend app:

https://github.com/Const-me/Cgml/tree/master/Mistral/Mistral...

The torrent file is also inside the MistralChat.zip archive.
It's always been the case, as far as I know. You may be thinking of the fact that you can't ptrace a process that's already being ptraced, which includes processes that are ptracing themselves.
I don't agree with the premise that civilization was "born" 10 kya.

Humans have been not only around, but have been building tents and sewing clothes for hundreds of thousands of years. With both the climate chaning and sea levels rising/falling (where do humans build dwelling, if not near rivers and seas?), it seems to me like a massive case of survivorship bias and superiority-complex induced delusion.
With the end of one world begins another .
I wonder if some of the boost header-only libraries might work.

In particular the shared pointers.
I think he was a simple AVID informant who may have thought he had planted a audio/video recording device on behest of AVID and not the virus.

A local news outlet states that he was an 'avid motorcycle rider' meaning he was an expert at riding motorcycles. Such a rider has low chances of getting into an accident than average.

Or the accident was a mere coincidence.

https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/engineer-who-helped-buil...
I agree Gnome could use more polish and customizability. But it is my favorite desktop by far. His opiniated design is both a blessing and a curse, but like Apple, I accept the tradeoff: the UX is too good compared to the other players.

Product management is hard, and even harder in an open source realm.
If those wafers were a modern process node, they would have to be scrapped immediately after that kind of handling.
The world has ended.

A new world has begun.

It may be wise to recognize this and work to shape the new world for better.
Although there is still lots we can due to mitigate the damage we caused and we should do it, the article is right. The future will be a lot bleaker in many ways due to our stupidity, and especially the stupidity of those who think technology will save us.
> His naked, decomposing remains were found in the bath of the main bedroom's en-suite bathroom, inside a red bag that was padlocked from the outside, with the keys inside the bag.

> A subsequent Metropolitan Police re-investigation concluded that Williams's death was "probably an accident".

Can't make this up...
That’s it! The way to deal with climate change is to have a nuclear armageddon within the next 50-100 years!
Dubai's drivers are some of the most dangerous in the world. It's quite normal to see a Ferrari and Maserati pull up at an intersection, then take off on a drag race like they are in a Fast & Furious movie.
Don't ask me why, but I had to urge to look up the number of Chinese surnames: About 2000 are currently in use, half the Han Chinese population uses just 19 surnames.
Quite low compared to the 850 THOUSAND (another source has more than a million) surnames used in Germany, twice as much as in Spain bespite it have a tradition of double-names. I guess Germany being such a central state with many migration waves over the last 600~800 years since family names have become common.
The comment directly above you on the page right now gives an example of people getting the trade-off wrong, so your dismissiveness is pointless.

The framing is also relevant for another reason: choosing a conscious trade-off point means that you can choose to move it as circumstances dictate, which can be very non-obvious. There's currently a lot of noise in the UK media about dodgy PPE contracts issued during COVID, and for my money most of the coverage misses the point.

The coverage focuses on who the contracts went to, and how much they cost. There is only scant consideration given to whether the contracts were fulfilled (and they weren't - the PPE was no good and couldn't be used).

This is precisely backwards: in an emergency situation where you don't have enough of a thing, and the existing systems to provide the thing are very much tuned to preventing fraud, you absolutely want to be able to throw money at the problem and accept that more of it than usual will be going places you wouldn't ordinarily tolerate. That's a lever we should definitely be able to pull, by making a conscious choice to relax . But that's only true if you do actually get what you paid for.

Yes, you want to be able to follow up any dodgy procurement after the fact, but in the moment what you need is the critical resource.

The scandal should be that none of it worked, not how it was bought.
Nah, it's more the worries of a technologist who has contributed to what we have today for the past 20+ years, and worries what the balance sheet on that really is given how well things are going.
If the paper does not fit reasonably within the page limit, you should submit it to another venue. If you can't write a meaningful 10-page version of a 30-page paper, you probably can't give a meaningful 25-minute talk on it either. You should submit it directly to a journal that accepts long papers.

Some conferences also have special tracks for short papers, and some journals publish "letters" instead of or in addition to full-length papers.
Hope she wins. People shouldn't be fired for criticizing an apartheid regime.
Super weird, I can type on Android, will try some other phones.
Zero-config database extension for VS Code
By "variety of football" I meant American football and football/soccer. The lengths of both fields is about the same.
Considering half of the links in this article are linked to things like Yahoo News, I'll take it with a healthy dose of skepticism. Beyond that, sure things are bad but I'll point out that every single generation I've ever talked to has thought "theirs would be the last".

Maybe civilization will burn out. Maybe not. In the end, we're all going to die whether it's individually or corporately. Make use of your time to the best of your ability. Love the people are you well—especially those who are hardest to love. If no one cries at your funeral, you have only yourself to blame.
> An Irish employee of Israeli tech company Wix...

Reaction: Not that I'm any sort of expert - but "Israel routinely treats the Palestinians horribly" has been a widely-asserted and widely-believed meme for the past 3/4 century. If the employee in question wasn't okay-ish with that...why was she working at Wix?
German YouTuber and Linux kernel maintainer got latest Linux and X.org running on highest end, $20,000 Sgi O2 w/ R12000 MIPS64 cpu and 512MB unified memory OpenGL graphic workstation!
Exactly because of such impending Armageddon message people can start treating climate activists as Jehovah's witnesses. As fake messengers who fool people to squeeze some money here and there for their organisation. The message must change from "we are all going to die!" to "hey, humans seem to be negatively affecting nature, here is some reasonable advice on how we could potentially fix it to make the world a better place".

By all means, such hysteria never works:

> This is why I’m a doomer. Because the world has already ended, and human nature prevents it from creating a better world. Now, I’m just waiting for the end while enjoying the time we have left, like someone watching their last sunset.
The article isn't an admission of failure & call to abandon all hope. It's a call to action, aiming to mitigate the worst impacts of the polycrisis.
Uber and Doordash don't exist everywhere though
I live in a democracy. The government didn't pop into existence by manifestation of an unseen will, the society in which I live elected them.

If people voted for a government that is butt buddies with the large corporations that exploit society through lobbying and regulatory capture, then the values of that society are already represented, and everyone compromised into unethical corporations having their way.

What is not feasible is me, as an individual investor, voluntarily handicapping my ability to profit off something completely legal, out of some misguided notion that by divesting a few thousand dollars of some unethical company shares I would be saving a society that is far beyond salvation.

I am not the main character in the world at large, I am not a savior. I am just getting by life trying to do what I can that my wife and child are happy. That's really all there is.
Making your company look bad is probably fair grounds for immediate dismissal. She's probably not very sentimental of her position at Wix anyway.
>Simply opening a folder with 40 images in Files (nautilus) takes 4.6 seconds to load all thumbnails, while in thunar (Xfce 4.18) the same thumbnails load in 2.6 seconds. This is a local file browsing experience on a real machine (not VM):

Neither of these speeds are acceptable for 2023, 40 images should feel instant. On MacOs folders with 100s of images don’t even visibly load in you open it and the thumbs are there.
The Mystery of the Coin That Shouldn't Exist
I can't remember precisely what is on the source ISOs, but if you are building a custom version of Debian you likely want the upstream package source plus the Debian changes to that (from things like dgit if the package maintainer uses it). Since these source ISOs didn't contain things like the snap packages you'd need other things anyway to start making a downstream distribution.
https://archive.ph/PMjI0
Indeed, that's a false dilemma. I could just as well have argued that the money has gone to bailing out banks, or to funding the war in Ukraine, or whatever. Not to mention that money itself is a social construct; it is created by banks and/or the state. If a (sovereign) state wants to, it can print money. Of course this has risks, and sometimes results in currency devaluation (not as frequently as some believe), but it's another way in which one can't claim that "country C invested this much money in A instead of investing in B".
Related: https://www.leefang.com/p/inside-the-pro-israel-information
Their advantage is that they have the largest desktop user base. Access to those users or being the de-facto default desktop base, can be turned into income.
>"ah yes, the thinking happens in the cerebellum.”

Why do we NOT think so?
It must be capable of thinking alone, as only mammals have the neocortex. It would only be logical to expect the more universal cognitive abilities to happen in the cerebellum, and only those that are specific to mammals alone to happen in the neocortex.
Oops!
[1] https://emcfastpass.com/rf-modules/
There's a huge variety of potential futures for the humankind. Best case create a friendly AGI, power society with fusion power stations, renewables and batteries, eliminate poverty, hunger and wars, build colonies in space and on Mars.

Worst case runaway global warming, leading to a major disruption of the world climate - e.g. like the one in "The Day After Tomorrow". Non-stop wars for resources, with the use of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. Complete global collapse of society and civilization.

One big problem with collapse are the 400+ commercial nuclear reactors in the north hemisphere. Without connection to a working electric grid and regular diesel deliveries those will go boom and will spread enough radioactive material to make most of the land on Earth deadly for humans.
I've read in reviews about Teslas that they're actually really poorly built, versus historic car companies and you get the kind of creaking and rattling in 2024, you used to get in cars from the 80s.

>> Does it hold its speed indefinitely at 100mph like an ICE car?
> Why not?

Does it? My ICE car is probably going to get replaced, and on the occasion that I'm driving through Germany, I'm doing 100+mph on the autobahns, and I can't recall seeing many EVs keeping pace with me. I wondered whether electric motors have some sort of limiter to preserve battery life or something.
In the wikipedia article they suggest “micromort”: the amount someone would be willing to pay to reduce a one in one million risk of death.
> 90% of people would work on farms, as they did over two centuries ago.

Lotta people gotta die before that happens. Who gets to live?
Vegetation can also help to break velocity. People fell out of planes and survived by falling into trees and snow underneath. The smaller branches of the trees very much acted like a crumple zone on a car - giving way and breaking, but taking away little chunks of energy everytime.
Supercomputing Predictions: Custom CPUs, CXL3.0, and Petalith Architectures
I hate that the maximum for auto-lock is 5 minutes. I wish you could set it to 10 or even 30. but it's 5 minutes or never.
Did you read the article?

> The Ubuntu sources will remain available and this isn't anything about closing off that, but rather whether the merits and ongoing maintenance burden is worth it for assembling source ISOs.
It's a bit scary to think how much depends on the expertise of this company and their ability do produce those machines.

I recently got recommended the video "Imaging at ASML" [0] and it absolutely blew my mind. If you decide to watch it, don't ditch it before you see the animations of the light waves and the problems that need to be solved.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdlZ8KYVtPU
> This is counterintuitive and sounds like it is trying a bit too hard to be clever.

Indeed.

You could make the same counterintuitive and clever point about any bad thing, pointing out that there are things one might do to reduce that thing, which have other costs, and aren't worth it, but for many bad things that would not sound counterintuitive and clever, but deranged.

Consider the following statement:

> The optimal amount of salt in food is non-zero.

That's true, and it's not clever at all, we need salt. It's not that trying to remove all salt from food would be too expensive.

But consider also:

> The optimal amount of radioactive material in food is non-zero.

We might defend this in a similar clever counter-intuitive sense. But it's a completely different statement, and it's wrong.

EDIT: The three replies making the same point about bananas are a great illustration of the desire (and failure) to be clever and counter-intuitive that's also evident in the article. We don't eat bananas for their radioactive material. We don't need to eat radioactive material.
> as you're not liable for leaking them.

But it's fun when you get your checking account drained, and it takes weeks to get it back.

I've seen that happen to a couple of folks.

That's also why I don't like to link my account to sites like PayPal and Venmo.
Did you read the same article as I did?

I read most of it (I would have preferred study links so I could look at the uncertainties but whatevs) and it basically just said, everything's fucked and our only hope is to go back to small scale agriculture (which would require massive, massive population loss).

Like, the next century is gonna be touch and go for humanity (certainly at our current levels of technological sophistication) but just saying we're doomed is entirely unhelpful.
Maybe that's the thing - the things I read on my cell phone and the things I read on my computer are fundamentally different. I am surprised that I seem to be in the minority on this, maybe.
Someone, yes. The person in front of you? Unlikely.

Analogy: someone has a winning lottery ticket. Is it the one in your hand? Probably not.
Existing is such an unlikely chance that it's more likely we don't.
This is the original piece in Dutch: https://www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v/2024/sabotage-in-iran...

One of the things it mentions is the bike crash, there was an investigation but they couldn't find proof for it being anything other than an accident.
Because procreation is The be-all and end-all of people's existence?
I wonder, where did you get all that about privilege, upper-middle class, gated community, and private schools? Do you know the author personally? According to his bio at https://jxnl.github.io/blog/writing/2024/01/01/whoami/

> I was born in a village in China. My parents were the children of rural farmers who grew up during the Cultural Revolution. They were the first generation of their family to read and write, and also the first generation to leave the village.

> Growing up, I had always been interested in art and science. In high school, I went to a public art school and studied digital animation and design for 4 years. Then, in college, I went to Waterloo to study mathematical physics.

To me, it sounds like he was an ordinary 1.5 generation immigrant from a poor background, who happened to have some talent and very good luck (e.g. being an early hire at Facebook).
Despair and disinterest are the easy way out. It's not clever. I'm grateful that my ancestors didn't give up so easily.