skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a fantastic paper on this topic, "The Origin of the State: Land Productivity or Appropriability?" [1]

Grain has a predictable harvest time, long storage time, easy to transport dry, etc. This makes it an ideal target for bandits and rouge states alike. Tubers are heavy, harvestable year-round, can be grown in small patches, and parish easily. Who wants to steal 100lbs of potatoes when you can steal 50lbs of rice? Tubers don't require complex hierarchy to defend your stores.

Growing grain is apparently a devil's bargain between fending off bandits and fending off the tax man who promises defense against bandits.

[1] https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/718372
Wristband uses echos, AI to track hand positions for VR
Hm, I don't think I understand how this is supposed to work. The documentation is very barebones and doesn't explain much.

It talks about symlinking your dotfiles from somewhere else on your system, so is this only useful if you have multiple users and they share dotfiles? How does that help if you want to sync dotfiles between machines?

Then it talks about YAML and toml formats but it's not very clear to me if that is the format of the dotfiles that it manages, or if that is only the config file for Rotz itself?

Also it looks like you have to write a config file for every dot file you manage?

This seems overly complicated to, say, a simple git repo. A simple example would have been helpful in the documentation I guess....
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Snapdragon-8-Gen-3-Linux-6.8

> Granted, this is just about the SoC support and Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 devices of upcoming smartphones/devices will still need their respective Device Tree files added to the kernel along with any other peripheral driver support or pieces like the Qualcomm AI engine we haven't seen open-source patches for yet.

Another article seems to go into more detail (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-Mainline-Linux-2024):

> But still a work-in-progress is audio support, DP Alt-Mode, enabling the DSPs, USB-C power delivery, and GPU acceleration.

Hopefully the hardware is similar enough to older models that it's not too difficult to port existing open source GPU drivers, but with Qualcomm, I'll believe it when I see it.
Podman Desktop 1.9 adds Podman 5.0.0 and new Kubernetes features
I was just a teen when Jobs becaome iCEO at Apple. It felt like a big deal and the only thing that could have made it bigger was if Woz stepped on stage as well. It really did have the air of the band getting back together. At least that was the case for the Apple faithful.
FWIW, I find the classical chess tournaments with the super GMs to be fairly interesting, if only because the focus of the games is more about the metagame than about the game itself.

The article linked at the bottom of the source is a WSJ piece about how Magnus beats the best players because of the "human element".

A lot about the games today are about opening preparation, where the goal is to out-prepare and surprise your opponent by studying opening lines and esoteric responses (somewhere computer play has drastically opened up new fields). Similarly, during the middle/end-games, the best players will try to force uncomfortable decisions on their opponents, knowing what positions their opponents tend to not prefer. For example, in the candidates game round 1, Fabiano took Hikari into a position that had very little in the way of aggressive counter-play, effectively taking away a big advantage that Hikaru would otherwise have had.

Watching these games feels somewhat akin to watching generals develop strategies trying to out maneuver their counterparts on the other side, taking into consideration their strengths and weaknesses as much as the tactics/deployment of troops/etc.
Just finally getting around to reading/finishing my copy of Seven Games by Oliver Roeder, which covers checkers, chess, go, backgammon, poker, Scrabble and bridge, and the efforts for computers winning/solving each.

A common theme is the effects of the computers on the human players in elevating (but maybe also homogenizing) play.
`git gui` and `gitk` my Swiss-knife tools for every day git-ting. They are maintained by git core team.
And yet you are still their customer, so it worked?

Unless you actually walk and others do too this is just gonna continue.
I'm sorry. Are you claiming that an actress who lies about her age is conducting clear identity theft?

I have a sister who belongs in jail then!
Err... isn't the whole point of a big number release to introduce big, breaking changes? All major projects have breaking changes... but only the nice ones do us the courtesy of saving breaking changes for major release milestones
According to Braudel (in Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, vol. 1), without irrigation rice farming depletes the soil much, much more than wheat. If I remember correctly, he states that if one waits for natural soil regeneration (fallowing and/or crop rotation) wheat can be grown at the same place every 2 to 3 years, whereas for rice it is only every 10 to 30 years.
The UK's big opportunity was: to be the "best" EU country by having the most reasonable (informal, common-sense based) interpretation of EU rules permissible, and to benefit from intra-EU trade and freedom of movement.

This opportunity was sadly squandered due to populism (and Steve Bannon's Cambridge Analytica financed by Rob Mercer), with the result that now tons of migration from India and other Asian places is arranged to fill the gaps that the European workers that left created.

So let's see how life will be at the front doorstop of the EU of which it isn't a member anymore, say, in 10 year's time, compared to how it was 2016. From what my journalist friends are telling me, for once food theft has skyrocketed, because many cannot pay their grocery bills.
Said people are trusting the intel from the AI. Those who provide that intel possible should shoulder responsibility for its effects, or at least its efficacy.
Grew up in Simi Valley in the 90s. It was completely normalized that we would have frequent “earthquakes” that were actually rocket tests shaking stuff off the walls.

Once I was a teenager and that place was largely closed down, it was a good spot to drive up to and drink beer and look over the Valley.

Crazy history of what actually was happening there over the years.
Why is "happen" in quotes?
> Just look to Chess. The top players today are way better than any of the greats before, because they can train against computers and know exactly where they failed.

AlphaGo isn't available for anyone to train against like Stockfish is though, what are Go players using? Has another powerful Go engine been developed since then?
> That only leaves France and Belgium. Did they do well?

Looking at France and the quality of their industrial output in the 70s to 90s, ranging from high-speed trains, rockets, passenger airplanes, Concorde, helicopters, (racing) cars, submarines, nuclear power plants, medical labs, etc. I would say yes. Their infrastructure has also been of high quality, so has the education system of their elites, and their healthcare.

And from what I could see of Belgium and their infrastructure, it also looked like that period was good for them.

> Modern healthcare is better than anything before. Even in its dysfunctional state it is better.

This is a more relevant point. The question is if we aren't well past a point of diminishing returns. For instance, for France, the data shows that the life expectancy of women was increasing by 2 years every 10 years, until 2010. It has increased by 0.5 years since then. The life expectancy of men followed a similar trend.

In fact, we might not have seen the full effect dysfunctional health care just yet, and we could be riding on the momentum of previous gains. And the ever increasing delays to see a specialist can only have detrimental effects in the long term. In parallel, the disproportionate increase of healthcare costs per patients means that, at some point, life expectancy is going to go down.

> One of the reasons is that our requirements for those services are much higher leading to much higher inherent costs.

No, I don't think I agree. The house you are getting has not improved 3 fold in quality compared to 20 years ago. The roads you are driving on are not 2 times better. Train travel is not a lot safer, nor faster, nor with more frequent service. On the contrary. The food quality in your supermarket has not improved. The electricity you use still has the same voltage and the same frequency. The clothes you wear are not of higher quality.
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Agreed, but I still think humans should get a little more credit for winning against AI no matter how. Its a competitive game with very simple and clear rules. A hole in AI strategy is a hole, even if quickly patched!

I am still so impressed that Lee Sedol beat Alpha Go 1 game out of 5 way back when AI made its breakout. I was sad he felt so sheepish afterward for losing. In hindsight, I think it was an amazing accomplishment even if today an AI could beat Shin Jin-Seo (#1 player) 100 out of 100 times!
If you think that your hobbies are a significant contributor to the role you are applying for, put it on your resume.

I'm sure that OP meant discussing things that are not directly on your resume or are tangibly related to the application/role and don't have any real merit in being discussed and/or add any real value in being discussed as most people's hobbies have nothing or little to do with their professional life.
> GNOME and Gtk3/4 no longer prioritize keyboard inputs and hide them behind complex key shortcuts

I mainly use GNOME with the keyboard. I seldom use the mouse. I don't know about your specific workflow.
There was another post upthread that linked to a GrapheneOS post saying that it does require support from the OS to enable and set this up, and GrapheneOS won't support it. So you'd need to install a third-party OS that doesn't support it.

Not a great situation, to be sure.
When AI beats Go players, they roll up their sleeves and practice their passion and try to get better.

When AI beats Hollywood...
You can always move to low cost of living area.

You can get a decent apartment for 200k USD in the good neighborhood in the large city in east Europe.

You can even work at Google there, for something like 50k USD annual salary!
The dogma generally becomes accepted because it outperforms other known strategies. In a game like Go, that could previously take a while because there are so many possible follow-ups that it takes time to accumulate enough data on whether a new strategy is actually decisively better, or just worse but over-performing because it's less known.

There's a big difference between those two and "the hacker ethos" will lead to a lot of the latter. However, now computers can simulate enough games to give a relatively high degree of confidence that a variation in strategy is truly better.
Not qt? In my experience most native linux applications opt for qt over GTK, let alone cross-platform ones.

Any reason in particular to use vala over qt?
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That’s what I was afraid of. It’s nice that AirTags can tell if they’re at home or whatever. But they got so much better with UWB on the phone for pinpoint locating.

Hopefully they’ll add that in the future.
I just checked, Akonadi still uses MySQL on Plasma 6. But you can probably disable it (in settings > background services > Account manager (translated from French so possibly not accurate)) if you don't use any PIM feature of KDE (contacts, mails). Now, it's quite idle, so one wouldn't need to worry about it I think.

Baloo, Nepomuk's successor, has also improved a lot and file indexing can be disabled, or folders excluded from indexing.

And I agree about Plasma being lightweight: that's what I run on a 12 year old tablet which has 1GB of RAM because it has been the only touch-friendly DE that was lightweight enough for years. Now, we have Plasma mobile and Phosh that might do the job better.
Seriously though, if god was real, don't you think she would take away Childhood leukemia, or prevent the holocaust, rather than riddles and odd science setups ?

If you seriously wanted the answer, you'd ask the people who have been studying this question for hundreds or thousands of years.

Asking a bunch of randos on a tech blog doesn't come off as "serious." It comes off as someone who's already formed an opinion and is repeating it to himself to reinforce his position.

It's like saying you "seriously" want to understand Mozart, and then go asking at the dog show.
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It would be cool to be able to get the diesel and the metal. The plants have stored calories in some form. There is a way to get energy from them.
> You clearly never witnessed Qualcomm's MO. They're the kings of manufacturing proprietary bullshit

say no more https://semiaccurate.com/2023/09/26/whats-going-on-with-qual...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37709270

(it may or may not be true, semiaccurate's track record is... "checkered", and afaik reports were this doesn't seem to have shipped in the final product, but the fact that it's even a question...)
Apple not updating Apple software is why Google couldn’t release a Google product for Google phones?
What is the UI for human preference then? Is it still just asking people to pick the best of two options?
>Fifteen years ago, people used to ask me “What is an exotic fuel anyway?” and I would answer “It’s expensive, it’s got boron in it, and it probably doesn’t work.”

What a great book.
are you accepting Product Managers from Europe or California/Shanghai only?
The blog doesn’t say anything about how this “decision quality” metric is calculated… but presumably it’s using very similar Go evaluation functions to the ones used in the superhuman AI players, right? I think it’s highly unsurprising that humans would improve by that metric — they’re learning from the machine, so of course the machine likes it.

Also, most things in life are not two-player zero-sum games where you can construct an evaluation function and build a “decision quality” metric out of it. So I’m not sure what the takeaway should be in those cases.
You've put into words exactly what I feel.

"[..] frankly I’m not sure where that lives today"

I wish I knew.

Being a digital native (albeit an old one) and never having been very social in real life I notice that this trend drives me increasingly into real world interactions. I always found trade fairs, conferences, meet-ups and especially networking events a bit ridiculous and yet I attended more of them after the pandemic than in the decades before and very strangely I enjoyed it.

"HN seems to be the last place that had good regular conversation mostly cause of dang"

Amen to that!
What a great story. The spanning tree algo is under appreciated: this allowed people who didn’t understand networking to plug networks together the way you would plug extension power cables together,* making networking simple ( or alternatively insanely broken, when people had 400 computers on a single LAN with a rat’s nest of bridges and hubs…but unlike the extension cord case, nothing would catch literal fire).

* don’t try this at home or work!
For graphene, precise patterning without an individual manipulation is an almost solved problem.

There was a research paper earlier this year where a new method of producing graphene has been demonstrated, which does not have any of the disadvantages of the previous methods.

The new method is by converting a superficial layer of a standard silicon carbide monocrystalline wafer into graphene, by removing the silicon atoms.

This allows the production and patterning of high-quality graphene by the methods of the integrated circuit industry.

Only the placement and attachment of porphyrin molecules is a problem for which a solution would need to be found. It might be possible to find a coating non-reactive with porphyrin, in which to etch holes by standard photolithographic means, exposing the graphene electrodes to which the porphyrin must attach, then an immersion in a porphyrin solution might cause the molecules to attach in the desired places.

While such a technology is many years away, it does not seem impossible and (having worked in semiconductor IC manufacturing) I do not believe that it would need over 10 years of development, though it is unlikely to happen in less than 5 years. The main factor that would determine whether such a technology would become viable is whether it would demonstrate a better potential for future evolution than the other alternatives that are explored currently for the certain replacement of the silicon in the highest-performance integrated circuits, during the next decade. If it will be shown to be promising enough, then enough resources will be provided to solve the technological difficulties.
> so most of that money was never actually deployed competently

IMO that' doesn't follow. When 100s of billions are involved, graft limited to a few percentage points while rest is deployed correctly. Access money hardly stopped other PRC industrial policy from succeeding. Regardless, small % is still 100s of millions / billions meaning it will get CCDI attention. The issue was coordinating greenfield ecosystem and domestic demand to play nice together, which they couldn't when western options were available. Now PRC domestic semi looks to be integrating at rapid rate, partly because most of the money did their job and build up enough domestic players across the semi supply chain so they're not starting from zero.
but mysteriously that no longer applies when something bad happens.

It happens all the time. Perhaps more often than when good things happen. You can see it right in this very thread. It's like you're not even looking.
Daniel Kahneman's Success: a creation of the media
They are careful to promise better performance without mentioning battery life. And, separately, good battery life without mentioning performance. To me that creates the impression that they cannot do both. You’ll either have good perf but only for a few hours (then just get an AMD CPU), or good battery life but shitty perf (then just get a rockchip-based Chromebook)

The reason everyone is in love with Apple silicon chips is that you get amazing perf and still get twenty hours of battery life.
On my phone, the modem can be killed with a hardware kill switch.
It's exactly like the invention of agriculture. Not having to hunt for food gave more opportunities for intellectual pursuits because of having more free time.
By some weird coincidence I've been trying to make a wide gamut display work properly on Windows just yesterday. Short version: no success. We're so close but still so far.

Long rant: I've got a Windows 10 machine with NVidia graphics, a company issued Windows 11 laptop with an integrated Intel GPU and a fairly recent Macbook. The display in question is MSI MAG274UPF, which can be considered wide gamut.

Mac (presumably) pulls RGB primaries from the EDID and performs the necessary gamut mapping without losing the ability to display images in P3 space. Colors are perfect, wide gamut tests pass, everyone's happy.

Windows 10 has no idea what to do with WCG and displays everything in ultra vivid, extra saturated colors even after trying to mess with vendor-provided ICC profile. WCG tests fail.

Windows 11 should have Auto Color Management, which in theory should bring us roughly to feature parity with macOS, but for some reason it allows me to turn it on only on the laptop's internal display, which has ~60% sRGB coverage. Apparently Windows does not want to enable gamut mapping in SDR mode on HDR certified displays, even if they conform only to DisplayHDR 400 specification, which is an abomination in itself. Results are the same as with Windows 10.

My disappointment is immeasurable. We could have proper WCG support in Windows world.
KataGo is an open-source algorithm derived from AlphaGo, but with a number of tricks so that it trained faster: https://katagotraining.org/

It likely surpasses AlphaGo, and just like Stockfish, it delivers a protocol that can hook into many user interface apps: https://github.com/lightvector/KataGo?tab=readme-ov-file#gui...

From those technologies, also came an interesting visualisation of how human players changed their habits following AlphaGo: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16-ntvk3D1_pgjJ7u64t4jMYMh0z...
At least from the limited sample size of results, the rules text seems like garbled than other models in the mtg card generating space. Curious if you're able to first generate a few mechanics, and then have it design an entire set (either bottom-up or top-down). I'm sure balancing is not something Gen AI can do properly... but I imagine this can really change how set designers approach new worlds or mechanics!
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Don't know about go, but Lishogi is Lichess for shogi (Japanese chess)
This is true in Scrabble as well.

When I was playing seriously there were strong players who played a ton over a board and had deep intuition about what made plays good and what made plays bad. In the late 1990s/ early 2000s there started to be a lot more in the way of computer simulation and analysis and some very strong computer players.

One (general) example was that older players liked the idea of making longer plays using more tiles to "win" a race to the S and blank tiles (the best tiles in the bag). Computer simulations generally show that turnover (as this is called) isn't optimal and you're better off holding strong combinations of letters rather than playing them off hoping to draw something better.

Now younger players are better than ever because all of their training came with the help of computer analysis and simulation.

Of course in Scrabble a huge part of it comes down to just memorizing the words in the dictionary.