skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are concerns that breathing in and ingesting microplastics from clothing, car tires, and packaging is causing some of the health epidemics we see in the last decades. Like rising rates of obesity, cancer, mental disorders (autism, ADHD, gender dysphoria) and decreasing sperm count and quality. But no definitive evidence exists yet. If this turns out to be true, there is a case against plastic even if it is economically superior to the alternatives.
It's not Coke vs Pepsi and pricing competition (Coke costs more than it's competitors), it's using a useless manufacturered product and shipping water in a can instead of drinking from the tap and adding a scoop of sugar and spice of your want.
Companies are not people. Because these companies are buying residential property, actual people miss out.

Would you be OK with a private company owning so much drinking water you and your family miss out?
That makes sense.

I suspect that it's the appindicator extension that I am using which causes the problem, but I've not proven this. I'm still salty that they removed appindicator support to begin with, though.
Hard agree. I never bothered to look it up, because we were so disappointed, but it was like they changed writers or show-runners to people who didn't appreciate the material, but everything we liked about the first season was changed.

No more slow burn mystery, with lots of character-based world-building, and protagonists out of their depth putting things together from a limited perspective (with the audience usually one step - but only one - ahead of them). The second season is action heavy, with characters reduced to tropes who seem to have had a knowledge download and all become "special".

I've seldom been more disappointed in a continuation of something I loved.
See also the Java LMAX Disruptor https://github.com/LMAX-Exchange/disruptor

I've built a similar lock-free ring buffer in C++11 https://github.com/posterior/loom/blob/master/doc/adapting.m...
good luck avoiding c++ software on the desktop. FWIW, c++ has many more features than plain c for improving safety and reliability (for example shared_ptr) if that's your concern.
Because we've allocated more resources towards the production of art and private jets than towards essentials production.
Dagger Functions
Surprised to hear that, I would have guessed folks over 40 would be accustomed to "2-bit wh*re" - my dad used to scream that all the time about his personal banker "god damn that man he's a f'ing 2 bit wh..." - pretty sure my grandpa used it regularly also. Maybe my family are not the most refined of people. ;)
> cognitive dissonance

morality aside, it's not "cognitive dissonance".

That would require "behavior does not align with their values or beliefs", and they never stated their values on the matter.
I do this now today too, but not even for potentially malicious software. Some projects that are not inherently malicious are just written poorly or stupidly by design. Just the other day I ran a program that, before I even requested it to do anything, appended 3 lines to my ~/.bashrc. I didn't even notice until days later. I can't fathom why any developer thinks this is a good idea, and is exactly the kind of thing that makes me sandbox every foreign piece of code I run now.
>so I would take that with a huge grain of salt.

Your comment seems to contradict itself. The technology is so valuable that the GUR is upset Musk didn't provide it to them, but not so valuable that deployed units and operators would be targeted?

I think this war has demonstrated that Starlink is priceless.
> The simple 2-bit explanation is KDE is following Windows trends, Gnome is following Mac trends.

I find it more that Gnome is following Android/iOS trends. They're trying to be the mobile DE, but Linux (aside from Android) on the mobile phone was DOA.
Funded by the USA
Inflation is gauged by a basket of goods, not defined by it.

At heart, inflation is a mismatch between the real value of the economy and the currency placeholder used to represent that. This is why governments can (and need to) keep printing money as the economy grows.
Couldn't you simulate a subreddit my making a hashtag #/r/art and filtering for all the matching posts?
The whole of the US would be hard since national level news and culture is what is getting exported, but local knowledge by state/region is a possible source. Like pronunciation of location names pronunciation (like pronunciation of Tilamuk Oregon, Miami Oklahoma, etc.), songs and chants for university sports teams, and jingles and phrases from local commercials.

Rock Chalk...
> The core of CSS absolutely has changed. Unless you're building a mobile-only site, you're likely using media queries today to target multiple viewport sizes, which wasn't on anybody's radar in 2006.

These two sentences don't really follow from each other? Gaining additional features isn't necessarily the same thing as the core of a technology changing. The actual core of CSS would be things like its box model, stacking contexts, specificity, etc.

And ironically you can in fact achieve responsiveness without using media queries. That's arguably the entire point of more sophisticated layout algorithms like flexbox and grid.
Love this, fun stuff.
Hashtags are great for “right now” or ephemeral topics that wouldn’t fit into a hierarchy.
Pro tip: Split your gigantic (and certainly thoughtful!) comment[s] into paragraphs.

Makes it a ton easier to parse. Cheers!
I am a huge Neuromancer fan and have read the book at least twenty times. I’m not really optimistic about this, mostly because the world of the novel is too dirty, chaotic, and messy for a company like Apple to produce. It would need to be made by a director like Gaspar Noé or Alphonso Cuaron (I’m thinking of Children of Men) to get the mood right.
I checked for my country (Slovakia in Europe) just out of curiosity:

- tomatoes (148g for 100g of ketchup)

- distilled vinegar

- sugar

- salt

- spice and herb extract

- spices

https://www.grizly.sk/heinz-paradajkovy-kecup-jemny-570-g
You don't have to be large to do it, lobbying isn't expensive.
??? I wasn't criticizing him at all. Good for him, but as one who has lost multiple people to cancer over the years, seeing people in such a frail state is really heartwrenching because its just obvious that their train station is up next...

I'm a super fan of curb...
> "Disruption" is a smaller company with less baggage finding a way to do something better than some ancient behemoth.

It's much more complicated than that, and it's really worth reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator's_Dilemma to understand the concept.

In general, disruption happens when the rules of the industry change. It's not just a matter of a small company with less baggage undercutting an established player.
This is particularly egregious in how racial news is covered. All the more so, as I'm pretty sure it is part of a feedback system that is actively making things worse.

Which is not to claim that "racism is dead." But I don't know why you would amplify failures while silencing successes. Or, if you do, I don't know why you would be surprised to see more of what is amplified. :(
It might be cheaper for you to call an API to run the inference instead of renting a machine. GPT-4-Turbo goes for $0.01 on 1k input and $0.03 for 1k output on Azure. A x2gd.2xlarg instance on AWS has 8vCPU and 128GB of memory. It goes for ~200$ per month.
As an alternative MassedCompute [0] has some interesting rental options (billed by the minute). They recently changed their site so it's harder to see the options available - but, I've used it a few times and it's generally competitive with respect to price and environments / features offered. Looks like you, unfortunately, need to sign up for an account now.

[0] https://massedcompute.com/
I don't think "army of homeless people" deserves a place in our comprehensive solution to social ills.
That's terrifying. Did they at least give you time to backup your data?
I used to. But maybe we should go to the park more. We all rarely get out anymore.
NYC has got to find someway to force the poor and middle class from taking up space on city roads that the rich want to use to get places quicker.

This is probably the most regressive form of taxation there is.
Can you explain why this should not happen at all? From the renter's experience, corporate landlords are more likely to follow the law.

From the perspective of homeowners, I can see that this adds another competitive player, and allows lower-income renters into wealthier neighborhoods.

I do not see why this should not happen at all.
It's also a way to shield yourself from tenant lawsuits. The extent of damages you can seek are the value of the house.
Agree completely. There’s no rule that adaptations have to be 1:1, indeed that’s usually a bad idea.
Does Slack actually open on Plasma 6?
In the early 90s, my High School served "Power Jello". The cafeteria workers told us they used orange juice instead of water.
Silo jumped from reveal to reveal without giving enough development time for them to matter. You (the viewer) immediately know who is good and who is bad through TV tropes. My partner understood what was going on and the characters alignments almost immediately. (They hadn’t read the books.) when I see an adaptation I don’t want to just be shown the highlights so that I can go “yep I know that scene” I want to experience the story told though a different medium using that medium’s unique characteristics. Not just a picture book with captions. (And the size of the silos was way off from the books. Modern CGI could have pulled that off but the reduced size of it for the sake of the shot… it felt cramped and silly.)
I wonder if someone has tried running Doom or rendering it on/via something and they failed.
Foundation the books... doesn't have good characterization. At all. But, Asimov, so that goes without saying.

It does have some clever plot reveals, but at some point the "Ha! Little did you know this was the plan all along" becomes rote.

The failure in adaptations I see is not understanding why people liked the source and leaning into that.

It's not the window dressing / surface-level stuff that's too often mimicked: it's a more core, simple... thing.

To me, Foundation was about 'epicness across time'

But, if I wanted a better written version of that, I'd read the first 3 Dune novels.
This is awesome, thank you for building this. I've been looking for something like this for a long time. Does it have any built-in authentication features?
It's great to see, though my main gripe with KDE right now is Dolphin, the file manager. It tries to do everything but is just ever so slightly buggy in every way, it can't run as root, and asks to confirm saving twice every single time when editing a networked file. As much as it is less featured and ugly, Nautilus was less annoying to use.
Yes, signed up from a 3rd World Country late last year.
Gren took the worst thing about Elm and made it even worse: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36275171
Do you have a VPN you can try on? I run a VPN connected to a San Fran server 24/7 on my mac and I very very rarely have issued with HN (or any internet issues at all tbh).
I would suggest that nearly every person on this website is a developer. Both C and C++ let you shoot yourself in the foot quite easily, but at least C++ has RAII.

If you're referring to Rust, it's just not there yet for anything serious: https://areweguiyet.com/
Oh sorry I don't think you are. I've probably thought in similar ways some other times, elsewhere about something else. Maybe most do, some times.

(Hmm looking in the dictionary, I think it looks like an ok word choice?)
"Groups" can have alignment among their members. Members can join/withdraw as they please.

Corporations are not a diffusion of their workers' voices, they're a diffusion of whoever owns 51% of stock - maybe even just one person.
Out of interest, what are the issues you're facing? I'm having a great time with NixOS / Plasma 5
Many people complain about streaming fragmentation not the other way around. And it's an extremely optional product.

And did Google ever actually promise unlimited storage for all time? (And there's still a lot of free storage. I finally broke down and added some more but just so I could avoind managing how much I was using.)
I don't know if that's obvious, and I prefer to give people the benefit of the doubt and explicitly state their positions before I presume that they are simply regurgitating erroneous media hype.

Despite much misinformation to the contrary, Citizens United had nothing whatsoever to do with campaign donations and was standard first-amendment jurisprudence striking down an attempt by a federal agency to exercise prior restraint on speech.
This market structure is frequent in Germany, where many more people rent than in the US, and they mostly rent from large real estate companies specialized in housing.

In Germany it's not controversial at all and this I'm surprised to see the controversy around these corporate landlords in the US.
This will be tough after what CD Projekt Red were able to come up with their phenomenal take on CP2020..

Neuromancer also "needs" a proper movie adaptation not a TV show.

I'm very skeptical about this, but let's see...
Theses companies are part of a larger trend of the Atlanta rental market coming to be dominated by investors.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution did a whole report on this last year:

https://www.ajc.com/american-dream/investor-owned-houses-atl...
This is for existing customers. If they offer servers for an hourly rate I would expect prices to up with a priced in setup fee
Wondering if this might have any impact on the use of quantum computers in LLM training/distillation…
You might have this idea that people just fall into great wealth through random happenstance and then just buy ETFs passively but that's not true. There are a lot fewer bill Gates types holding ETFs than there are 8 figure net worth guy that owns half a dozen car dealerships. Or doctors/lawyers that own their own practice. A lot of ceos also get paid huge amounts in stock. That's much more the norm

> Family businesses account for 64 percent of U.S. gross domestic product, generate 62 percent of the country's employment, and account for 78 percent of all new job creation.

https://www.familybusinesscenter.com/resources/family-busine...
Can we stop conflating weakness with women and girls in general, and female genitals in particular?
I enjoy the Sprawl books the most, but of his three completed trilogies, I think either the Bridge Trilogy or the Blue Ant trilogy would be 1) more easily put to film and 2) possibly more enjoyable as television series.
That's not what happened here IMO
> When the US is the only one holding up their hand at the UN against an immediate ceasefire the last 3 times it came up

The only one on the SC. Lots of countries have violated UN resolutions, including practically every member of the SC. This is far from evidence of being the sole reason for anything.
Apple hasn't made any good adaptations yet, so I am not so optimistic they'll do a good job with this--but I hope I'm wrong.
I've never been able to get the hang of KDE, but this release is quite impressive. This and SystemD is really one step closer to something like OS X.
The tool that allows you to automate repricing, stay stocked, and dominate the marketplace effortlessly. Win the Buy Box and start selling like a pro
You know what's more efficient than glass? Ship the product in bulk and dispense it into the customer's container.

And a lot of products could actually be formulated on site, because most of, say, your cleaning aisle is various combinations of relatively few standard components. The biggest barrier there are certain people's desires to control information and to create the perception of distinctions that don't exist.
Thanks for the graph, but I'm looking for others that are "as far left" as heroku - eg offer db stuff (like elements), review apps, etc. I haven't seen that yet, but will take another look at Render!
Airfish-8 wing-in-ground effect aircraft slated for service in 2025
This isn’t a scramjet. We watched it cold start and it has a compressor.
Has anybody here listened to the BBC drama version? https://archive.org/details/foundation-trilogy_bbc-radio_197...

I enjoyed it, but I haven't watch the TV series or actually read the books, so I no idea how it lines up...
Depends on your android version. They shuffle it around every time it seems. But holding a finger on a notification should bring you into the menue.
In what ways does Gnome hamper your productivity? Are you really using the DE a lot?

Most of my day is spent in applications. I launch an application and that's where I'm spending my time. I'm not using the desktop environment all that much. I really don't find much difference working in Windows, macOS, KDE or Gnome or even iPadOS as far as interacting with the graphical environment goes.
I agree, especially when it comes to window management and virtual desktops. I have been running Linux desktop since the late 90s and used A LOT of different desktops and window managers. I remember when gnome 2 came out and everyone hated it! (sound familiar?)

For work, I have my desktop running gnome and I have a macbook that I also use when traveling or at the office. I find my productivity on mac os drops with its absolutely terrible window management and terrible virtual desktop implementation. I instead run fedora in a UTM VM fullscreen and only use mac as a "host" for the VM.

Gnome (with version 3) required a change in how you use it as a desktop. In gnome 2 days, I used to have a grid of virtual desktops and maybe always assigned email to 1, chat to 2, etc. The task bar was heavily used and important.

But with Gnome > 3, I really love the dynamic virtual desktops. Every task I am working gets is own virtual desktop. As I finish a task and close windows with that task, that virtual desktop goes away. If I have a long running multi-day task, that virtual desktop with windows associated with it stay open for that whole duration. Only things related to that task are on the virtual desktop. I might have 25 browser tabs open in total, but 3 of them are tied to a specific task on the firefox window on desktop 2, 5 are tied to another firefox window on desktop 5 and so on.

Everything is _very_ keyboard driven, and I don't ever touch a mouse to interact with gnome itself.

This makes task switching really nice. There is no need for a tab bar with 50 items on it, or a browser window with 50+ tabs open.

One thing I do miss from some of the older window managers, is the ability for the window manager to do grouping/tabbing. I'd prefer if now application implemented tabs, and instead the window manager did it.
I'm not advocating for violence, neither endorsing GP's action.
I just stated that morality is weak base to judge any action.
I'm happy with them taking the best from Windows 11 so long as they don't destroy KDE with distracting ads in the UI like Windows 11 does.
I'm a little skeptical about that jitter comparison, I'd like to see more info. I don't see anything in this excellent report that sheds light on the difference (and honestly don't see that difference in the graphs.)

Mostly I'm curious how the hardware is the limiting factor here, I always assumed it was a combination of queueing in the Starlink infrastructure plus retransmits. Maybe a better antenna lowers the number of retransmits needed?

I don't have a proper jitter measure, but FWIW my Gen 1 Starlink in Grass Valley, CA has a round trip time (measured with IRTT) that varies from 30-60ms over minutes. That improved significantly in January 2024 after some change Starlink made. Previously it was more like 40-100ms.
You are leaving money on the table if you haven't used your mind reading skills to get the James Randi Educational Foundation million dollar prize.

The question was how do we deal with the coming lack of jobs without UBI. The answer is we peacefully reduce our population. This pre-supposes a lack of jobs. If you want to change the conditions of the question and say there will be more than enough jobs then we don't need UBI.
'wall street and silicon valley', as if there weren't hundreds of millions of dark money billionaire slush funds and the world's biggest and most effective propaganda network in play.

Gerrymandering absolutely has an effect, and this has been well documented. Here, for example: https://law.marquette.edu/facultyblog/2024/01/analysis-of-pr...
I didn't ask to "take my money", just gave it to them forcibly by wire transfer, it showed up in my account all right.
The first stage angles early on. At separation it’s going at 2km/s, so pretty fast.
> He said that if he could have chosen a language, instead of English, to be the world’s shared second language, then it would be Swahili or colloquial Indonesian. He said both of these languages have been learned by millions of people as their second language, so all the weird edge-cases have worn away, and they are as smooth and beautiful as a river stone. No weird grammar. No weird tones. No exceptions.

I have no knowledge of Swahili and perhaps it really is all that but this statement makes no sense - English, French, Russian, Arabic and plenty of other languages have been learned by millions of people as their second language yet they still have plenty of weird grammar, exceptions, and edge-cases.
As fellow mathematician tutoring my son I found all of the articles incredibly useful. Thank you for writing them and making them freely accessible. Awesome work.
Those numbers only make sense if the Gini coefficient of both comparison targets are roughly equal. Since the US has a much higher coefficient, it means that way more wealth is concentrated into the hands of the few. If the US can 'force' those people to pay enough to make up for their massive over representation in wealth and net worth, I don't see you getting the wonderful gifts of socialization any time soon.
Agreed! High tech, low life. Alfonso Cuarón would have been great.
I see a lot of bill boards showing "No Input" and "HDMI 1" on a pastel blue starry skyfield. It's what pops up when you google image search for "no signal samsung".
Isn't it great, that unlike Windows or Mac, we have a choice! We don't have to try to create something for the lowest common denominator of user, and we can find something that works really well for us, individually.
To be completely pedantic, I don't believe the Wayland protocol itself actually dictates a design like this: you can separate the Wayland server from the compositor and display server bits if you want. I am not aware of many implementations of this, though; the best example is probably still Arcan.

That said, the very vast majority of Wayland compositors, including Mutter, Weston and everything using wlroots, is implemented without separation between the display server, compositor, etc. so in practice this is still mostly true, it just needn't remain true into the future.
"SuperPAC" is a loaded term used to refer to independent advocacy groups that spend money to publicize their own political positions; direct coordination or transfers of funds to any actual political campaign is prohibited to them, so referring to these as campaign donations is not really accurate.
We don't worry about food because we have an abundance of it, maybe not quite at the right ratios but enough that basically nobody starves. So we should do that for housing - build so much of it that pretty much anyone can get a home. The issue is that, not that 3 companies hold a miniscule 0.64% of an area's housing.

Build houses. Flood the market with houses.