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> The latency issue is increasingly disappearing or at least becoming negligible in most population centers

I believe that thats your experience. Its not really because the technology is improving though, its because you're growing older.

The latency is absolutely horrendous, and anyone thats used to a decently performing system will not agree with your opinion.

As a simple example: i can easily code 6+h with no break on a good system, with these mainframe system i'm gonna take a break at least every hour because the fatigue builds up so quickly.
Its every little interaction, simple input that doesn't appear for 50+ms, switching owrkspaces thats delayed for 150+ms.
User-accounts mean limits can be applied per-user instead of per-IP. Especially when a lot of us are connecting from the same office/site, or the same corporate VPN.

But being logged out is more efficient for cached responses. The more load the site is under, the more this pays off.

It makes sense that they're both true - it's not a case of which is more recent, it's what problem they're solving.
Paid for the service? I grew up in Scotland, milk and meat came from the farms every morning (90s), you'd put your order in the old milk bottle with the money and they'd leave whatever your order was. I seem to recall it was 50p for most type of milk and 75p for creams. (Except the BSE years.. shudder ugh the BSE years.)
It's NEVER down for me. I've been visiting for a few years now. Multiple countries, ISP's always up. Maybe it's your ISP censoring?

Have a look at these

https://github.com/tg12/RUBC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_451
The KDE Plasma desktop, in an atomic fashion
There's free water in the tap
KDE: Make Plasma Wayland the Default
The email I got said this:

>What is important after the changeover?
• We want to be able to offer you even better customer service in the future. For that reason, we want to change the date of your invoice. This will make it easier for us to quickly answer questions about your invoices. Starting in April, your new permanent billing day will be the 12. of the month.

I think they have just spread the billing day out across the month for all customers
People used to (and still kind of do) worry about glass chipping... ironically we can see that and deal with it. Unlike micro-plastics. Human nature right?
>Have you ever paid for satellite Internet before?

Yes, as the first public internet provider in North Europe (1988) I paid for almost all satellite Internet services before and usually was one of the earliest adopters. For example [1].

In 1997 I met with Ian Alexander and proposed him to deploy his first 400 meter long rigid airships at 10km-20km height to become the first very low-orbit internet provider. He subsequently got an experimental flying permit in my country through my political parliamentary contacts.

It turned out to cost $40K per month to crew the rigid airships 24/7, just barely profitable for a 500km circle of reception.

>Paying less than $1 per GB is something that happened because of starlink.

The actual cost of 1 GB transit traffic in 2024 is $0,00006944 (I am sorry, I may be off by a factor of 1024, than it could be $0,0711, My apologies, as soon as I have this confirmed I won't be able to edit this HN comment anymore).

Starlink buys internet transit traffic locally where your receiver is, then bounces it off their satellite back to you. So they pay very little compared to what they charge you. And I have never ever been able to download 1 GB for $1, they throttle you long before you reach 75 GB per month.

And when your area is oversubscribed they just throttle your traffic, no need to raise the price.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridium_satellite_constellatio...

[2]http://landewers.net/Rigid%20Airship%20Design-UK.pdf
It takes mere moments to google "how much plastic is actually recycled"

You would have to be naive to believe that executives in the petroleum and plastic industries are unaware of how little plastic is actually recycled rather than complicit.
Horse girls are disappearing at similar rates like car guys. It seems that screen-related activities are less work while giving similar levels of fulfillment.
Hetzner ist best, kein protest.
Prod is bad, but stealing signing keys or credentials is worse.
It's not really about smaller families, it's about children density, living in a safe area (no cars counts as well) and the mentality (sometimes that translates into local laws).

Once you fix that, kids are going to be kids.
…for money.
Amazing write-up. Thanks for sharing.
> Breeze is Plasma's default theme and it has been updated for Plasma 6, but it's a subtle change — sort of like repainting a room and changing the color from "flat white" to "eggshell white". It has some changes to spacing that make it feel a little less crowded, and it has >>fewer lines separating UI elements<<.

Please for the love of god don't remove the lines and other distinguishing features between UI elements. This makes the UI so much harder to parse. This trend where everything is flat and visually indistinguishable except for inperceptible differences in shade of grey can't go away soon enough. It's ruined a decade of user interfaces already. Yeah they look pretty, but they're awful to use.
Google Phone is going to make talking more fun with sound reactions and effects
I really want to use fedora silver blue, but KDE just greets me with a black screen and a cursor and nothing try has fixed it.

i'm currently on pop!_os waiting for their new desktop :)
You're visiting too infrequently.
Without trucks every single mid/large city would starve in a week

Without SUVs nothing of value would change, we might even see less deaths on the roads
Still the case, right
Hence, I would conclude that he is working on it for years.
Insightful comment. Do you have any book or youtube recommendations for casual readers like me - A programmer who is fascinated by engines and gets intrusive thoughts like "why ever happened to jetcars? " ( that nagging question again popped up when i read this headline - "Wait, Efficient at any speed"? "wasn't that one of the problems chrysler faced in the 60s ? could this work for roadcars?" )
Any word if we can get it on Fedora 39 yet?
I have 3 bins (rubbish; garden waste; paper/soft plastic/glass), and take thin plastic and tetrapaks to the supermarket to be recycled.

Takes me months to fill the rubbish bin
Or at the very least, have the professionally dignity to gather up enough cash and resources to control the law and have sway in its enforcement
You cannot become part of the LGBT community outside of being an ally by choice.

You either are gay, are lesbian, are bi, are trans etc or you're not and opting in to all the social bullying outside of the sub-10% LGBT (who themselves are not that united) who will now supportive on principle makes very little sense.

These issues among LGBT people map pretty much exactly to the pattern of mental illness and substance abuse that exist in every minority out-group. Far more likely that this very obvious explanation is the true one.
At the same time, interesting that downtime can give rise to conspiracy theories.

Hmm maybe people are always looking for patterns (humans as "pattern finding machines"?), and if there's a maybe-pattern, the thoughts start flowing. (A good thing usually I suppose)

Maybe it's good to avoid accidentally creating patterns

Or, could be fun to intentionally create pointless nonsense patterns :-)
My experience is the opposite on this. I have had my first job where Citrix was used for day-to-day tasks in 2023 September, and I would estimate the latency was around 300-400ms. It was very noticeable and frustrating, especially when coding. I would be typing code and I knew I made a typo, but had to wait for the characters to actually show up on the screen, before I knew how many characters to backspace over. Switching windows and workspaces felt sluggish. This was with both the server and the client being in the same country.

It was a bad enough experience, that it is now a part of my interview questions if the company works through remote desktop solutions.
There's some really cool ideas in this, and I love how you're straight into the documentation with examples. Great job.

I raised my eyebrows at this part though where the type constraints part was being explained:

> Coming from an Object-Oriented background, you may be tempted to compare Contracts to "Interfaces", but you'll find that while they may be used to a similar effect, they are not the same thing. The intention of an "Interface" is to encode subtyping relationships between types, whereas Claro has absolutely no notion of subtyping. [1]

IME with e.g. C#, interfaces are exactly for this kind of thing? Abstract classes and classes are more used for polymorphism?

But I admit it's been a while since I worked with C# and I may be remembering this stuff wrong.

[1] https://docs.clarolang.com/generics/contracts/contracts.gene...
I was 7 years old when I realized there was no god and death would mean the permanent end of my consciousness. I also saw the myriad ways people have of dying early on and really didn't want to end up among them. The world might not be that scary, but existence (particularly the inevitable but delayable end of it) is.

I suppose it's a Nietzsche thing; the "Death of God" turns us into "The Last Man".
Meh, GNOME has 1/10th of the features of KDE, but it's much more stable and consistent.

I've used KDE for the past year, and it's just too much, too many options, and if you stray out of the happy path, you encounter plenty of bugs. Then what's the point of offering so many options. I'm back to GNOME.

KDE enjoys a lot of reputation from people that believe the Windows-style UI paradigm to be the best. That's arguable. I would certainly install KDE to a user new to Linux, but I have been running Linux long enough not to get lost if I don't have a taskbar or desktop icons.

GNOME could be so much better, sure, but I prefer 2 options that work (4 code paths to test), than 10 that don't really work all that well (1024 code paths to test).

My dream DE has the simplicity and design of GNOME with the completeness of QT. GTK is a dead-end, but at least it's written in C, so it is future-proof compatible with better languages such as Rust, instead of being stuck with C++ until the heat death of the universe.
The Butterfly Redemption
It's almost none. I've done the numbers, its an irrelevant amount.
Microsoft Copilot breaks down over inability to not use emoji
I'm in agreement with you. Like one or the other, not the switch over.

I rather the approach be that if it is an open source project, that they ask for donations. It is possible to succeed in that way, though it requires learning how to pull it off, where they also get corporate sponsors and donations.
Are you sure that’s KDE? Because Silverblue is using GNOME. Kinoite is the KDE version.
I don't think you truly grasp how small this number is, this is actually good, like really really good. Github has about half a billion repositories.
That's basically why I stick to KDE. Feels like the natural evolution of the pre-vista windows ui.
Serving my blog posts as Linux manual pages
Working on point transformations. Not that bad, but still a bit of a pain.
We won't. We'll get it with Fedora 40.
I'm sad this is the current state of affairs but I'm glad they (and you) had the chance to grow up like that.
> just look at Krita for example compared to GIMP

They're not really comparable. GIMP is for picture editing, Krita is for painting.
Months? I'd say I'm mildly addicted to HN and I noticed this week it was hit or miss, but only this week. Very surprised to hear you say months.
Is that a reason to believe it less? You can also see from hiring threads that it's a very small (but growing) team and that inherently it is truly being worked on.
s/‘s/s,/

Otherwise the VM possessive reads like:

Cloud = VM’s Robot = bare metal
That's not a solution. This requires you to expose those host docker socket mounted into a guest container, which breaks some security mechanisms by preventing isolation from the host systems.

Which also does not work on k8s. It does work in docker compose, but also isn't portable to places where the docker socket isn't available, eg hosted pipelines.

Test containers seem to work well if you're not already properly using containers in your pipelines, and are not interested in deployment to k8s.
I'm interested in collaborating. For example, from the comments it occurred to me that a 128-bit SIMD register can contain 64 2-bit values. It seems straightforward that SIMD bitwise logical operations could be used in training such models.
I have a dedicated server in Hetzner and I don't understand what this means. How do they decide when the server is "used"? Based on CPU allocation? SSH sessions? HTTP traffic? Power?

It's easy to shut down virtual servers and continue from the same position. It's not that easy to do the same for servers.

The linked page is very unclear about this.
Maybe I'm alone in this but I always found the silicone cap design choice to be particularly disgusting and unappetizing. Having your sauce fired to the plate at high velocity thin stream with a gross noise just isn't what I want when I'm about to eat. Doesn't take much imagination to think what it resembles in nature when you look at it.

Think I only used one of these bottles once when they were introduced what 15-20 years ago? Then I've taken the entire lid off every single time since because of how unappetizing it is. Always go with the glass bottles too if I can for the same reason.
The thing is, the goal of a rocket is not to "lift things off the ground", it is to "speed up things to an orbital velocity" -- around 8km/s for LEO.

From this point of view starting the rocket engine in the air at 0.2km/s speed is a marginal improvement compared to starting it on the ground. It still can be an improvement if executed correctly but it's hard to make it big enough to justify the complexity.
ALMA is just so impressive. It's one of the science facilities that's produced the most "wow", IMO.
"I love starting fires in the woods during very dry summers, the flames are so pretty, you'll have to kill me to stop XD"

That's more or less how you sound. Also speaking of "companies" and "billionaires" while not understanding that car ownership is one of the biggest propaganda win of capitalism in the last 100 years is interesting... it's like a morbidly obese and diabetic person telling you mcdonald's and refined sugar are Freedom
Used to happen whenever you criticized communist China so I assumed it wad an anti-naughty-posting feature. (Thankfully there’s been some relaxation on this, as evidenced by this post being visible.)
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Regardless of that, not being able to select multiple layers at once (in GIMP) is downright inexcusable.
I’ll make sure and open HN in a second session logged-out to help when things are getting slow
I wonder if they bothered to send him a warning first, or if they went straight for the sting operation.
"mathematically perfect alien star system" is a pretty good clickbait example.

I mean I guess it could be worse "We found a mathematically perfect alien star system, and then..."
It’s going to be funny if it turns out biology was right all along and we end up just copying it.
With all do respect the numbers do not back this up. There were less than 200 of these types of deaths in 2021 according NHTSA and thats with a massive increase in cards from the 80s. Almost all danger for children has reduced since that time across all economics groups.

The pressure from parents on other parents has made it so we dont trust children to handle risks that are pretty manageable.
I would love to have this, but this is very naive in the current economic climate. There is already a notion of trying to get rid of general computing devices from Apple, Google, and Microsoft. They would immediately use the opportunity to corner the market, lock down everything, and start extorting more money. There is no way I would give up my personal desktop.
Sure, that's a tradeoff that you make. Personally I update my implementations more often than I update the interfaces, so I'm happy to take that hit when modifying the interface in trade for knowing exactly where my implementations break.
It's a bit of confirmation bias and recency bias. Uncorrelated things might appear correlated if you limit yourself to a small sample size.
The Vault7 operators called. They want their exploit back.
> How come I was able to browse HN just fine from another browser?

Logged out experience is different than logged in, others noticed it being unresponsive logged in as well so we can assume it's not related to your user, can't we?
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

HN runs on a single core, I doubt they'll get replicas
How did you "accidentally" manage to get this? It isn't even in Arch stable yet?

The only distro shipping it right now seems to be KDE neon, whose entire premise is shipping KDE stuff as soon as possible...
> and provides a lot of surface area and crevices for mould to grow

Isn't the whole reason Heinz ketchup is self stable is because it's too high in acidity for mold to even grow
Were you logged in? When you're logged out, you get a cached version of the page. When you're logged in, the server needs to generate the page for you in case you hid something (or something else that might modify the page).

I'm just making an educated guess since I don't know anything about the internals of HN, but it seems likely enough to me.
It's not just about emissions, though. Single-use plastics literally just accumulate in landfills until the end of time, while glass is highly recyclable (and one of the few economically viable ones).
I remember using a variety of VNC/RDP over local network for connecting to my laptop, so I could do development there and keep the codebase completely separate from my other machines, while still using my desktop keyboard, mouse and larger monitor. I'd just turn it on, connect to it and treat it as another window in the OS.

That said, I think we either need proper OS level sandboxing, something like Qubes or just using multiple VMs or devices with remoting. It doesn't feel viable to have something like Discord or other communication software or things with account tokens, and executables like software or games running on the same install, whereas dual booting isn't viable for that either.
You don't need to move to these specific places in the Netherlands, in pretty much any city/suburb or town over ~3000 or something people you will have everything you need within safe biking distance, including a train or bus station to get around further.
"White House urges developers to dump C and C++"

Translation:-

Someone who works in the White House told officials that his son is learning Rust and that it is better than any other programming language. So the officials repeat the message to the public.

White House says they are "open to suggestions" on what the best "safe" programming language to use moving forward.

(Basically, if they are pushing on "safety" it is obvious people on the inside are pushing for Rust)
It's listed on https://news.ycombinator.com/lists which is one of the links in the footer of every page. [edit: originally the title teased us with 'unlisted page']
This is a misuse of the word conspiracy. Hopefully a good faith one.

I'm fully aware that the pattern as I observed could be a coincidence. At the same time I have been able to browse logged in from another browser or my phone 100% of the time, so HN wasn't down, just for this user.

It isn't a stretch to assume the eye of Sauron fell upon me. Hence I offered people try it out experimentally and decide for themselves. Certainly we can agree more data is necessary, there is no need to paint me as paranoid.
Oh Gerald, do wheel me back into my pleasure dome please, I've had quite enough of this silliness.
Is playing in your own yard really "unsupervised"? Similarly to you, when I was a kid (in the 90s), I would leave home on my bike after breakfast and come back before dinner. I was maybe ~10yo. Now that was unsupervised.
Slow is good, it's covering spans of millennia. This is not the book-endorsement I was looking for but I won't shun it either.
Idioms and design patterns are both common solutions to recurring problems in software development, but they differ in scope, granularity, and formality.
I used to be a user of Wayland but since Firefox defaulted to it and I found that Picture-in-Picture doesn't work, I've since dropped back to X.

DuckDucking it, I couldn't find a solution, but I hope someone can tell me there is.

Outside of things like this (and finding the right screen recording program) I didn't really notice a difference.
We all know what "memory safe" means today.

It will be Rust.
Good job KDE team - nice to see steady progress.

I encourage anybody using KDE to occasionally file tickets at bugs.kde.org; Nate is a powerhouse and seems to review all inbound tickets, and anything critical will reliably get worked on within a reasonable period of time. They're also very open to ideas and feedback (that fit into their general UX guidelines.)

I would love to see more distros switch to an opinionated KDE (and also to KDE by default). It's so malleable, and yet most distros just dump the basic default setup on users.
I already replied to this guy. I honestly think his concept of convenience is overrated. I know a lot of people who would rather drink from glass than plastic. Surprisingly this convenience has never reached the beer industry and you can always have beer available in glass. I can never find milk in glass bottles though and I can't see why, I'm literally forced to use tetrapak due to the lack of options.

I think that in a lot of cases plastic is a poor container and that's why I asked the question, for me it's not obvious the convenience of the plastic nor why plastic is the only available packaging material for almost everything.
Sustainability talk being about ketchup caps while rich people fly to climate conferences in their yachts. Weird world.
Consider the 'HN hug of death' we have patience for when a site linked on the front page is down.

HN must be getting orders of magnitude higher traffic than that constantly.
It's very weird how most websites already figured out how to keep their services up under load, but a CRUD text-only forum, with an "elite community of techies", can't.

I would be curious to know what is the big challenge here.
If I ask you: Could your knowledge of the available implementations affect your abstractions design?

Most probably you would say: No, if this happens then I don't know enough about the system.

At some point on my career I would have provided the same answer.

However...
How Google Lost Its Way
And any gain in the very first part of a flight can also be achieved by just making a cheap rocket first stage slightly larger.

Being able to propulsively recover rocket first stages, as Falcon 9 demonstrated, has destroyed pretty much any rationale for winged or air breathing first stages.
As well as this being our regular reminder to be careful what you pull from public repositories and other sources, and to verify your dependency trees, it raises another question:

If malware is massively prolific in public repos, how much does this affect LLMs and other automation tools that are trained using the contents of such resources? What are the chances that we'll see copilot & friends occasionally emit malware in response to coding questions that generate responses long enough for accidentally malicious parts to hide amongst? Simpler vulnerabilities such as simple injection vectors have often been seen already.
Could just shorten it to: “Don’t be a di*”