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Yet another GUI library won't fix anything. It'll just add one more platform that other desktop environments need to theme to look normal.

Gnome was right to take a uniform design, the same way KDE did. Gnome applications look weird on KDE, the same way KDE apps look weird on Gnome, but that's such a non-issue. Every Gnome application has an alternative in almost any other widget style.

The "damage" they have done seems to mostly be people who don't like Gnome being agitated by Gnome's success, forcing them to use Gnome applications because their ecosystem of choice doesn't have a native alternative. If Gnome were as bad as some people think, it would've already shrunk to irrelevance to the point the complains would go away.
GameStop stock soars after 'Roaring Kitty' reveals $175M bet
The race to the bottom in terms of pricing is destroying a lot of value in many industries and in the longer term is harmful to everyone who isn't already a big company.

People and small companies kicking that addiction will be painful, yes, but important to everyone having a healthier life.
Crooks threaten to leak data stolen from other crooks.
I don’t know about other countries, but considering the US cannot even be bothered to continuously perform surprise inspections of the quality of medicines or medicinal manufacturing facilities, or vitamins, I have zero faith in any of those labels, especially from places where the US has no jurisdiction and hence no possibility of consequences.

For all I know, the nicer looking produce gets slapped with an organic label and the less nice doesn’t, creating a visual illusion at the store. This is all ignoring the fact that there is no conclusive proof of “organic” being nutritionally superior.

People like the story of being “in the know” or “beating the system”, hence the utility of these labels. Another one I like is “A2 milk”.
The math didn't add up for us (I work at PostHog). At the rate we were scaling, we would have needed an entire call center's worth of highly trained Kubernetes support engineers to debug everyone's "my pods just died" / "Kafka just stopped" / "what is Zookeeper" problems.

This stack isn't straightforward to manage, and we couldn't crack the code of doing it at scale for other people without even having access to their systems. There was no malicious intent.

Read more here: https://posthog.com/blog/sunsetting-helm-support-posthog
> get anxious when their idea of the American Dream is challenged

How does anything in this article challenge the American Dream?
Shares of GME, which were briefly halted for volatility, pared gains to about 20%. AMC finished the day up roughly 10%.
it is surprising to find times of no violence, not times of violence. The history of the British Isles is filled with raiders and tribal conflicts, armies and their Lords. Peasants lived on the lands of their masters, while traders and pirates roamed.
I use this for everything at my house. I haven't add any issues.
> This is why we’ve been focused on identifying and fixing slow interactions from Chrome users’ field data, which is the authoritative source when it comes to real user experiences. We gather this field data by recording anonymized Perfetto traces on Chrome Canary, and report them using a privacy-preserving filter.

This is a great example of the positive value to the user of this kind of telemetry. Of course this doesn't mean people aren't also right to fear it's used in ways that aren't in their best interest. No clear moral here, just a data point.
He's not just out of touch he's actively pushing pretty horrific shit like the abolition of the state. He also agrees with Balaji about everything and therefore should not be trusted.
Good.
What Linux needs is libwidgets, i.e. GTK, to have widgets for desktop applications.
And, separately, libwankery, where the GNOME geniuses can implement whatever nonsensical "design language" they want for their 0.003% of the market user base.
If you have a problem with the title, then take it up with the submitter. The title of the TFA is "A path from Seattle". The article just says to walk in a straight line while facing due east. It does not say to travel East. I know I sometimes have an issue of reading over things too quickly to actually comprehend properly. Maybe this happened to you too?
I’m curious for more details. I imagine this has to be more interesting than “Just write the double for loop.” “No.” “Ok I guess we’re canceling this project.”
As opposed to Russian, German or French?
3D-MAT, a thermal protection material for the Artemis Generation
He likely knows better, so that makes me wonder why he would say this.
Yeah, and there is some literature questioning its safety profile.

See this disproportionality analysis from a nationwide population-based study of the French (full text, figure 2):

https://diabetesjournals.org/care/article/46/2/384/147888/GL...
> And if you are in a professional sports venue during a scheduled professional sporting event you are basically in a building with hundreds of thousands of potential athletes.

That does not hold, as they are there to watch. More accurate comparison would be, if you are into tech, going to a tech conference, you are in a building with hundreds/thousands of potential employees, employers, partners, etc.

> None of them? I had my career at 14. Still at it many decades later.

Well done, but you are an exception. "none" is not meant literally. i.e humans have 5 fingers. Yes, some have 6, but for the most part, we have 5.

> The romantic interests involved can easily choose to not get involved with anyone.

In your school, were there no relationships?
Some recent examples of coding exploits for 2b2t:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40067857

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29615428
The issue is with the lack of good quality startups than with financing really. Long-term is not a big issue, because funds can exit before the startup’s exit through secondaries. Also some of the funds in this field are ok with long term investments.

(src: I tried setting up a climate tech venture builder / seedfund 2 years ago.)
One main reason I chose the MSP430 was for the FRAM. Photon stores all its state (ie the photo ring buffer indices, and user settings) in one big FRAM struct, which can be read/written just like RAM, but persists across power cycles and crashes.

Another reason was MSP430's low power consumption, but like you said it sounds like ARM has caught up.

Would love to hear about alternative designs -- are there low-power ARM chips that have something like FRAM and don't require erase/programming dances to write data?
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It's not dialog boxes per se that are in libadwaita, it's things such as where to place buttons and in what order, and also what are the standard labels for the buttons (e.g. should the dialog have Yes/No/Cancel or Don't Save/Cancel/Save buttons? That's the difference between the Windows design language and the Apple design language).
No, the complaint that when people get rich, they’re scrutinized more.

People who won’t ever get rich, but hope to one day, defend the rich in this manner because of this dream.
"Searches"? Why would you have to search for evidence you already have in your possession, which surely must be the case? I mean, it's not like you would dream up a claim without evidence, is it?
That's like complaining that Harry was stuck but magic happened to get him out of a situation. That's kind of like the entire point of the series
The majority of the time its the same problem though. An rce in an image uploader running as your Web apps user will almost always allow me access to your database, since that web app uses that database by definition.
I think they dropped a 1, i.e. they meant to type 1.19
Just imagine seeing this tooltip "... humans may review your note" while writing your note in Evernote in 2013!
The complaints are most due to lack of consistency in the selection of the targets of scrutiny. The point of scrutiny should be to uncover the truth, not political point-scoring.
Idk, I think it’s pretty clear based on the description what they mean.

For one, the problem description says the straight line is “along the Earth’s surface” so I don’t think you can reasonably think it might go into space.

And to me it seems reasonable to say a straight line means not turning. I personally imagined getting in a plane and going straight forward, assuming there is no wind to blow me off course.

That is just the common understanding of straight. If somebody asks you to walk in a straight line, do you ask them what coordinate system they’re using? No, you walk forward without turning.

I guess “most obvious” can always be up to interpretation, though.
DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN. Is it different at your end or why are you posting this?
> Again, you're just shoe-horning in your preconceived ideas about how errors should be handled into a different language.

I said nothing about how errors should be handled. Have a nice day.
I am confused. I thought he had only $40 million after the stock peaked in 2021. Where did he get these extra funds, especially given that GameStop had fallen 80% from the 2021 peak?

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/gamestop-sto...

Fast-forward to 2024 and he claims a net worth of $200 million at the time of the screenshot when GameStop was at $22 on Sunday. So presumably he would be worth $1 billion if GameStop were trading again at its 2021 highs.

Plus, he would have incurred a huge short-term capital gains tax bill from his 2021 profits, as he used options.

I suspect the whole thing is fake: either the screenshot is fabricated or he was loaned the money to hype the stock; the money is not his.
“...historical context...philosophical themes...existential themes... broader historical and social issues...”

This dreary approach is likely to miss the point of Kafka’s art. I recommend Nabokov’s lecture on the Metamorphosis in his Lectures on Literature.
The Shire is idylic but not exactly utopian or paradisic. Clearly most people have to work - they are farmers, gardeners, millers etc. There is a clear social hierachy but nobody is exploited.
Would it be fair to say it is Alabama and they have been consistent in removing protections for child labor? Should we expect companies to do more stringent when the government is trying to do undo the labor standards?
This paper is from a small group at an academic institution. They are trying to innovate in the idea space and are probably quite compute constrained. But for proving ideas smaller problems can make easier analysis even leaving aside compute resources. Not all research can jump straight to SOTA applications. It looks quite interesting, and I wouldn't be surprised to see it applied soon to larger problems.
Scientists should use AI as a tool, not an oracle
That's cool, but it's ugly so I'm going to keep using a technically-incorrect-but-works-fine alternative
I don't see any of the comments here, is that a bug?
This is just entirely false. As a counterpoint, I recommend this passage about the washing in the Texas Hill County. https://x.com/trainallday247/status/1796732464838160650
I mean there is absolutely no reason to think that AI (broadly) and blockchain are going to follow similar trajectories.

I agree that every company becoming an "AI company" is not in the cards. However, I think there is going to be a slow ramp where every startup just throws a few annoying problems at a LLM instead of hiring ML people.

And kinda like the internet it's just a tool that you use when appropriate, but the things where it's appropriate will continue to expand.
They're pretty close to the same thing. A good read on this is https://wingolog.org/archives/2015/07/27/cps-soup. Consider block arguments instead of phi nodes. That makes the correspondence between a function and a basic block especially clear.
Encountering the World of Fake Lightning Headphones That Use Bluetooth
Do you mean 1.19?
Since the page did not provide any information on the language model used, I asked it and it said it was Anthropic. An About page would go a long way for this project.
I guess my parents are/were of a cautious enough sort that, for them, the trouble of navigating the internet turned more into narrower use rather than installing tons of malicious extensions via questionable websites. (I do remember once finding an .exe file downloaded from the website of a magazine to which my father subscribed. Didn't work in Ubuntu, I guess. Probably also not malicious in that case, but I can see how people could end up with crapware.)

As for other issues with basic use, my mother is even older now, and even things that used to be pre-arranged and familiar have become more difficult. But I don't think the OS matters much for that any more, on a grand scale. Touchscreens might help to an extent (and also avoid upside-down mouse issues), and obviously things would need to be set up so that there aren't any unnecessary hurdles. But beyond that it's learned routines rather than any kind of a generalized understanding anyway. She does know how to usually get rid of things by clicking 'x' though.

Did you find something that worked out for your grandma in the end?

(edit: You edited your reply before I finished mine, so I replied to the earlier version. I see the problem with accidentally triggering things. I guess it might be the fairly cautious nature and the limited use patterns that might have saved my parents from them.)
I thought about going that route but ultimately decided to hijack .home internally for my home network.
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The Train WiFi Test
It's kinda nuts how little this is taken seriously on HN.

When combined with:

- Pressure to make use of office spaces again, away from remote work

- The AI bubble

- The layoffs that started before section 174 that demonstrated how headcounts had inflated

- The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank last year

... it is not looking good for software engineers in the US.
That sounds good, wish more places did like that.
Agree with this. An insurance requirement would solve this problem. It would also incentivize robust security audits by the insurance companies and the data collectors.
The funny thing about all this is it's just history repeating itself. Back in the days of GTK2, there were a handful or two of "libgnome"-prefixed libraries that GNOME apps tended to use, but non-GNOME apps (that used GTK) tried to stay away from, in order to avoid depending on large bits of the GNOME desktop. The problem with that, of course, was that people in that position either got by with reduced functionality, or had to write their own code to do things that many people considered should be a part of the toolkit.

The GTK developers did recognize that a lot of this stuff was integral to a UI toolkit, and so most of the functionality in the various libgnome libraries was moved into GTK for GTK3.

And now apparently we're going backward again. No, I get, it's not the same situation. They are focusing more on "design language" than functionality: for example, the printing functionality that was moved from libgnomeprint (or whatever it was called) into GTK3 is staying (which makes sense), but menu bars (which have been in GTK since the beginning) are going away because GNOME doesn't use them anymore.

But that's a part of the problem; it seems like their rubric is "if GNOME doesn't need it, then it should be deleted"[0], coupled with the idea that many new design language elements should be GNOME-only and live in libadwaita, even if a more general audience would benefit from those elements.

As a developer of GTK-based applications for a good 20 years now, I honestly can't recommend GTK for new projects outside the GNOME umbrella. The problem is I'm not really sure what to use instead. Qt is really the only other major cross-platform toolkit, and does seem like a more stable base, but I don't want to do C++, and bindings for other languages aren't very ergonomic. (And toolkits like wxWidgets are just abstractions on top of other platform libraries.)

What I really want is a Rust-native UI toolkit library that does its own drawing, but can consume GTK3 themes. To me, the big issue is that of "native look", and I don't want Yet Another UI Toolkit that allows people to build apps that don't fit into my desktop at all.

[0] Note that quite a few things, like GtkDialog as a notable example, didn't get removed for GTK4, but have been deprecated and will be removed in GTK5.
They changed the title after all the complaints. Also the HN title hasn't been updated yet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40567623
> the complaint that when people get rich, they’re scrutinized more

When people get powerful they're scrutinized.

Plenty of billionaires fly under the radar. If you go to the Congress, however, and tell the country you're inventing something that could blow up humanity, yeah, you're going to get attention.
He means 1.19
HN was behaving strangely for me a little while ago
Paul Graham came out publicly to defend Sam, and we instantly have this blog post about, wait, just a sec, let's dissect actually why Sam is still evil.

Can we believe that Sam could actually be a good person? Today, Kara Swisher in her podcast on Pivot said, "Every time I tell people I actually like Sam, they become widely offended".
I cannot tell if this is sarcasm or not.
Firms don't seem to face consequences for violating the no-call list, as people notice FCC does not seem to stop spam calls or texts.
If you don’t know Dan or haven’t read enough of his work to get this,

> I can't pass algorithms interviews! When I say that, people often think I mean that I fail half my interviews or something. It's more than half.

is insane.

Dan’s day job is (or was, on the occasions that I’ve worked with him) to identify and solve the weirdest, gnarliest scaling and performance bugs in extremely large systems. If Dan isn’t passing your algorithms interview, it’s not testing what you think it is.
> Rich kids should go to public schools.

Thats nice, then all the rich kids move to the same school district and the problem does not change. With this split you have enshrined that the poor kids dont get let in at all. After all public institutions dont do charity work (unlike private schools).

Sadly, I wish I was wrong but current events tells us that this is how it is going to turn out: https://www.axios.com/local/new-orleans/2024/05/02/louisiana...
Maybe so, but that's not how geometry works. If geometry worked by my interpretation, then I would have skated through that class with an even higher grade than I got by following the rules.

Also, the GGGGP that I replied to started by trying to walking a tangential line to a sphere resulting in a space walk. That's like THC induced levels of strained thinking of the subject.
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"Former U.S. President Trump Hints He Wouldn't Defend Taiwan From China" - https://youtu.be/5KEgY8FR51o
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> Can we believe that Sam could actually be a good person?

Depends on what good means to you. This is a person that we have evidence on repeatedly using these kind of underhanded techniques. Maybe he's not physically hurting anyone, but this is a person I would avoid.
"knowing how to do math", is roughly how one who does not know any math beyond the tricks describe above describes mathematics.
Being responsible for fragmenting the entire desktop environment and causing the creation of forks like Cinnamon, Unity, Mate, Pantheon, Budgie, Deepin, and Cosmic is not the kind of success story I want to be associated with. The amount of development time wasted is appalling besides that I wouldn't consider my human interface guidelines a success when 8 out of the top 10 most downloaded extensions are created to get rid of them making the system bearable for normal users.
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