skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps if the X devs want people to migrate, they should consider giving Wayland all the features of X. Otherwise people are going to keep using the thing that works.
I stopped drinking 10 years ago and noticed no change. Did not lose weight, did not improve cognitive ability.
That’s ok. Having to learn web development is an impediment to the flourishing of the human spirit.
The mink story is interesting... presumably they are native, but had disappeared locally due to overhunting. But probably many of their competitors also disappeared (martins, weasels, etc) so there's an opening.

Though even that wouldn't seem sufficient... it's not like minks are undergoing natural population booms elsewhere. Which makes me think that there's simply a critical mass advantage, like maybe mink are too anti-social for their own good.
It might have been https://research.swtch.com/nih ?
Really just makes one think what sort of capability military has.
I'm not sure what you are asking it should be comparably priced to, but USRPs are on the higher end of the cost spectrum. Caveat: my experience here is extremely limited, but at one point I too was looking into affordable GNURadio-compatible SDR hardware that could transmit and receive (as opposed to the RTL-SDRs that can only receive) and I came across options like HackRF and LimeSDR.

However, knowledgeable people also pointed out that these cheaper options make tradeoffs in the RF hardware that make it harder to get reliable performance for non-trivial uses. Their opinion was that the time saved in working around those limitations was well worth the extra cost of a USRP.
Sorry, the conclusion in the paper really underlies how poorly the results fit the evidence: "The resulting almost doubling in the age of the Universe and increasing the formation times by 1 order of magnitude has been a subject of concern and requires that the new model also explain some critical cosmological and astrophysical observations" [0]

Call me skeptical of the claims made.

[0] https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad1bc6#...
Satellites have to pass through the Van Allen belts in order to get into such higher orbits, which may expose them to a not insignificant amount of radiation, especially if the final orbit injection is not done in a single impulse. Then, once they are comfortably out in their higher orbit, they have to endure yet more radiation without the aid of the Earth's magnetic field, and require more cooling capacity due to spending much less time in Earth's shadow than an LEO satellite.
Ive got a hybrid XFCE/i3 setup as my main desktop.

The panel is killed on startup.

This could get me looking into sway/Wayland.
Is the unique realistic way to conquer space.
> Imagine if corrupt governments could no longer shut down the internet and cell service.

Even in the parts of the world where this occurs it has been shown to be nothing more than a surface level inconvenience.

> Communication is and has always been an important element in human organisation.

Precisely. We don't exactly need the internet or cell service. We've got techniques and historical methods going back to the beginning of, unsurprisingly, recorded history.

> People will be really empowered by this technology

They're already empowered. This will mostly just convenience them.
I’m a hiring manager and I don’t care about cover letters. It really comes down to luck. I’ll have HR/recruiter spend %15 of their time to funnel applicants in competition with other hiring managers.

I try to sit down with recruiting and review linkedin and give examples of who I’m looking for.

We don’t use tooling to filter applicants. Maybe we are behind.
Sorry about your son. I hope you have found a semblance of peace.
Rust needs a web framework
Art is about creative vision. The creative vision of the average person is something like corporate memphis. It fails to stand out like it's creator.

You need to be out there a little bit to do something unique. Being out there comes at a cost, it's harder to form relationships with people.

Being sufficiently creative is a mental illness.
Or.. be very worried since this is one idiot on twitter and there are thousands of scientists who are now looking into this and are finding we are being poisoned on a daily basis and these companies knew it/know it and continue to do nothing.
It's the same in Europe. Oil lobbyists infiltrated the gullible greens and convinced them that gas and oil are better than nuclear.
I think it's similar to koka's 'with'.

https://koka-lang.github.io/koka/doc/book.html#sec-with
I would really hate to join a team of 9 engineers that owned 130 services.
Improving efficiency sometimes comes with other externalities. See, for instance, massive CAFOs where cows basically live on mountains of their own shit. Or gestation crates, where pigs cannot even turn around.

These things are more efficient, but many people consider them inhumane.

Efficiency is always a tradeoff, it's not always better. It needs to be considered, and done with intention, not with mindless drive towards efficiency for efficiency's sake.

I like to remind people that the Lord of the Rings is about a villain named Sauron, who was a wizard/angel/god whose domain was crafting. He was originally a beautiful person, who just wanted to build more and more. But he wasn't satisfied with the efficiency of the humans, elves, and dwarves. Convincing them was much slower than just telling them to do what he wanted. So he made some rings to control them. And he started breeding orcs who would do what he wanted without question.

Sauron became highly efficient, but he lost his beauty. I'm not anti-efficiency, but I am "think about the tradeoff you are making first. Understand what you are giving up."
Large language models are used to aggregate and interpolate intellectual property.

This is performed with no acknowledgement of authorship or lineage, with no attribution or citation.

In effect, the intellectual property used to train such models becomes anonymous common property.

The social rewards (e.g., credit, respect) that often motivate open source work are undermined.
Using an IDE does stunt learning though. Whether that’s a problem is up for debate. But relying on the run button, or auto completion does offload the need to remember how the cli fits together or learn library apis .
> or a coincidentally very narrowly-focused group of people

Yea, coincident with money.
Fields vary wildly within relatively small spaces. Just because it looks uniform doesn't mean it is uniform.

Our 100 acre bottom field this year averaged 274 bushels of corn per acre. Some places were around 360, some were around 50.

If you're trying to predict crop yields to beat the market, granularity is wildly important.
Any comparison with Dzero?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40563729
You had me at "AI is an impediment to learning..."

I use GPT all the time. But I do very little learning from it. GPT is like having an autistic 4 year old with with vast memory as your sidekick. It can be like having a super power when asked the right questions. But it lacks experience. What GPT does is allow you to get from some point As to other point Bs faster. I work in quite a few languages. I like that when I haven't done Python for a few days, I can ask "what is the idiomatic way to flatten nested collections in Python again?". I like that I can use it to help me prototype a quick idea. But I never really trust it. And I don't ship that code til I've ever learned more to vouch for it myself or can ask a real expert about what I've done.

But for young programmers, who feel the pressure to produce faster than they can otherwise, GPT is a drug. It optimizes getting results fast. And since there is very little accountability in software development, who cares? It's a short term gain of productivity over a long term gain of learning.

I view the rise of GPT as an indictment against how shitty the web has become, how sad the state of documentation is, and what a massive sprint of layering crappy complicated software on top of crappy complicated software has wrought. Old timers mutter "it was not always so." Software efforts used to have trained technical writers to write documentation. Less is more, used to be an effort by good engineering. AI tools will not close the gap in having well written concise documentation. It will not simplify software so that the mental model to understand it is more approachable. But it does give us a hazy approximation of what the current internet content has to offer.

(I mean no offense to those who have autism in my comment above, I have a nephew with severe autism, I love him dearly, but we do adjust how we interact with him)
Oh I see that. what inspection scenario you are thinking of? Have you faced something similar as the inspector and needed structured data immediately?
Xubuntu was lighter than Ubuntu (when it had Gnome), at least that is how I remember it.
Yet my comment keeps getting upvoted and downvoted. I guess I’m either saying something controversial, which I don’t think I am since I am stating the obvious, or potentially the anti-AI crowd doesn’t like my tone. I’m not pro or against AI (I don’t have a dog in this race). Everything at your disposal is potentially a tool to use how you see fit, whether it be AI or a screwdriver.
The commenter removed the content of their flagged post, that's why it shows the way it does even if you have showdead on in your profile.

If you mean you generally can't see flagged posts, go to your profile and check the "showdead" option.
Should You Be Allowed to Profit from A.I.-Generated Art?
The x86 instruction is named 'ternlog', and intrinsic - 'ternarylogic' though; while perhaps unfortunate, the title is appropriate. (and even then 'bitwise' already sort of takes place of what 'ternary'-as-three-valued would, and 'ternary' is also very often three-input, so much so that 'a ? b : c' is often called the ternary operator (and in fact ternlog can simulate this ternary operation; and in fact the article is even about exactly that))
In my opinion this is unlikely to be a real problem. In one breath people are saying all they're giving you is stack overflow boilerplate and then in the same breath stating it is going to provide some unseen entropic answer.

The truth of the matter, yes, organisations are likely to see less uniformity in their codebase but issues are likely to be more isolated/less systemic. More code will also be pushed faster. Okay so yes, there is some additional complexity.

However, as they say, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
The easiest way to stay on top of this will be to use LLM's to review your existing codebase for inconsistencies, provide overviews and commentary over how it all works, basically simplifying and speeding up working with this additional complexity. The code itself is being abstracted away.
The problem with this analogy is that compilers behave deterministically, in that they'll reliably generate the same lower level output for a given source input. Therefore, the program binaries (or bytecode) they generate are debuggable. You can't treat LLM prompt inputs like source code input to a compiler, because the output has no deterministic causal relationship to the input.

Also, you may not care now what assembly instructions your function gets compiled down to, but someday you might care a great deal, if for example you need to optimize some inner loop with SIMD parallelism. To do these things you need to be able to reliably control the output using source code. LLMs cannot do this.
https://archive.ph/tHhif
China and Tawain do trade despite the situation
Consequence of Hospital Acquisition by PE
There is a massive push to demonize drinking, you are seeing it everywhere. The numbers are always shocking but then you look at absolute increases, and a 100% increase in death from XYZ suddenly isn’t so bad.

Like everything, moderation is key. It’s incredible to me that the internet has become so negative on alcohol and so cavalier about marijuana. The latter is far worse for me in terms of productivity decrease and hangovers than alcohol. YMMV but the nuance and individual body results are heavily skewed in 2024
What can we do to make games scale?
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1842486240697786795.html
The oversimplified answer is that a Wayland compositor must include all the functionality of an X window manager and the Xorg display server. There are libraries to help implement all that, but it's still a big lift.
I'm not sure I see the point in that, since you wouldn't have the context involved in each decision to know if we made a good one. Unless you're specifically looking to identify that we haven't done anything _you_ consider valuable, so our opinion that thinking before we act is important isn't valid.

I can say

- I have a wonder family that loves me (and vice versa)

- I have a place to live and can pay the bills

- The people I work with are glad I'm working with them (and vice versa)

- I've been a software developer for decades and I get to solve new and (what I find) interesting problems on a fairly regular basis. Most of that problem solving involves thinking; with a minor bit of doing at the end.

So overall, I'm pretty happy with where my life philosophy has taken me.
Common ways startups fail to make what people want (and what to do instead)
I stopped drinking years ago, and have recently tried several of the different non alcoholic beers available. However I always notice something suspiciously like a minor hangover an hour or two after drinking one, which seems odd. Has anyone else noticed anything similar?
It's not so much a change as it is (well, will be) an option. We're not abandoning X11, and I expect it will be a couple more major releases before we have feature parity on Wayland with what we have in X11.

But yes, some people are excited, some don't care, some are worried.

But there won't be a switch. If users want to keep running it on X11, they can do that. I can't promise that will be the case forever, but it's not (won't be) that hard to support both with how things are currently.
> "Gender" is often used as a synonym of "sex"

It used to be the case, yes, I agree, but these days people are referring to gender identity when they talk about gender, IME.
4. Liveaboard who wants to keep some stuff on land just in case a boat sinks.
I'd rather we outlaw the ridiculous "and 9/10 cents" that is appended to every single gasoline price in the US, and that everyone ignores when reading.
I took it to describe a more expansive history of Irish spirituality, how neopaganism is recovering the legends and traditions that Irish diaspora took with them to the rest of the world, or perhaps were forgotten across generations. How Ireland emerges as a post-Christian society, but remains embattled with culture wars and difficult relations with the UK.

The Gaeltacht today is not unlike that little monastic fortress at Kells.
Many years ago I skim-studied a couple webdev books after trying to choose useful ones. The deeper I looked, the nuttier they seemed, which later I realized was due to bandwagon bias. Bias of any kind is of course hard to subtract, but seems a particularly strong problem for new coders looking for learning resources.
> Oil lobbyists infiltrated the gullible greens and convinced them that gas and oil are better than nuclear

It’s actually the gas lobbyists. They push an all renewables-no-nukes agenda. Which works in theory. But in practice, there aren’t enough panels and batteries being produced. So the gap is filled with gas.

The promise is that infrastructure will be phased out. But Europe has already invested over €1.5tn into new gas infrastructure. Those are 1.5tn reasons not to decommission it. We had a choice between nukes and gas, and the gas lobby convinced us it was a fight between coal (already on its deathbed) and solar panels.
This is the plot of the excellent movie Juno

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juno_(film)
I do know Android development.

Intents are only standardized for a few categories, they're slow (you routinely have to wait for the app chooser to load and scroll to the app you want) and not scriptable.

And the calling app can very well be killed by the loading of the called one.

> Killing stuff from time to time is literally an advantage for a system

Killing stuff that I want to have running is literally maddening. Ever wanted to have music in the background, and to not have the player killed at random times?
Or, to have files moved in the background (with the painfully slow SAF) without them getting randomly corrupted?
Or any other thing you'd need to go on while you check out something else?

> You have to make apps ready for a possible suspension

After 15 years the apps that do that reliably, whatever they're doing, are still exceedingly rare; not surprisingly, since software has never been developed in that way, doing it would require constant writing to the persistent storage, and even Android itself provides few facilities to make it more feasible.
And even when that's done correctly, getting back to the saved state often takes time.

> I don’t want a random app to read my browser caches/ssh keys

I want a specific app to read my browser cache/ssh keys or any other file if I need it to.
And yes, I'd like to limit an app's access to what it needs, but on Android it's either all (shared storage) or nothing.
File providers? Yeah, except that it requires the app that has the file to offer them, and very few do.

And one app I'd like to allow access to everything is a backup app; but no, to protect me Google requires me to upload everything to its servers (for what it even allows to be backup up).

And thankfully I can't use SD cards in any meaningful way, to protect me from myself.

For Android security means protecting the apps from the phone's owner, rather than the other way around
There's a 70p document (available at: https://docs.sailfishos.org/Develop/HADK/) that details how to port Sailfish to any Android device. From a skim, seems straightforward and not harder than building an Android ROM. Could maybe be outdated in some parts, since even if says last updated 2023, mentioned Android versions are from 2021.
Do you have any evidence of that?

From personal experience and from the popularity of rstudio, jupyter etc. the evidence points in the other direction.

It’s because when you start out you just need to learn what code looks like, how does it run (do all the lines execute at once or sequentially), that you have these boxes that can hold values etc.
Any article/paper claiming nonexistence of dark matter that does not mention the bullet cluster should be sent to the spam folder.
The Bank of England don't manufacture £1 notes, but the Royal Bank of Scotland still make them.

Perhaps you can help popularise them, so they make even more!
Compiz is an X11 compositor that can be used with Xfce if you disable xfwm4's builtin compositor.

A Wayland compositor is a completely different beast, and that's what we have to build.
Sanitize your outputs?
> they can easily source 200 KM² to increase their electricity capacity by 10%

Solar panels are by definition easy to see and thus knock out remotely.

> what do you suggest they do

Nukes. We’ve seen from Ukraine that they’re given special status even in war.
> good luck running banking apps without Google SafetyNet.

Doesn't most banks have a mobile version of their website. Maybe not the best but it could be a good compromise.
Even if you do have a good network you will still get ghosted when it comes time for your hookup to submit you as a referral. They’ll submit you and then crickets. Neither of you will have any visibility.

The tech job market is so fucked right now.
I hear you, and nationally that is probably true. But locally it's just not. There genuinely wasn't crime here outside of drunk fights once a year at the local pool hall.

Now there is genuine crime. Drugs and murder.

I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm saying that your argument doesn't apply on the local scale. Using macro data for micro experience is a bad idea.

This is also the reason that argument falls flat in a lot of places.
True. This vid was a major eye opener for how insecure the current staus quo is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVyu7NB7W6Y
Or "do I even need a library really?" These libraries do what I need AND so many other things that I don't need. Am I just bandwagoning. For my very simple purposes, maybe my own "prefix(n)" method is better than a big ol' library.

Or not.

All hail the mashup.
The First Numbers Stations and Listener
yes but you can measure various effects on the macro scale, which is why we think breast feeding is a little more beneficial than formula
> API calls from one server-side API endpoint to another public API endpoint on localhost:3000 (instead of just importing a function and calling it directly).
> These don’t seem to me like classic beginner mistakes — these are fundamental misunderstandings of the tools

This all sounds on par with the junior level developers I feel ai has pretty quickly replaced.

I still feel sad though :( how are people meant to get good experience in this field now?
Backslash escape codes are a convention. They're so pervasive that we sometimes forget this. It could just as easily be some other character that is special and treated as an escape token.
Absolute safety is a pretty meaningless objective as you approach infinitesimally small risks.

I find discussion of tiny marginal risks to be somewhat neurotic when there are so many real risks ( or passions) people could focus their attention on.
That type of logic is generally used to address the problem of being unwilling to act, for fear of making the decision; and it's reasonable in that context. But taking the time to understand the situation so that you can make the best decision possible (with the available information) is almost always beneficial.
Not mentioned in the article, but is there any analogous research on the effects of heavy drinking by the father in the 90 days before conception on offspring?
1988 according to Google Scholar.

https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?q=related:KEG9SnudRCsJ:...
> Population density is unevenly concentrated

So are PLAN landing sites. (They’re all in the south.)
When I was pretty young, I was given a copy of The Way Things Work. It had an incredible impact on me and is probably what steered me down the path of engineering. Truly, a fundamental part of who I grew up to be.

The chapters about electronics are obviously quite dated, but I think it still stands up. I'd absolutely give a copy to the kind of kid who has to take everything apart to see how it works.
No other "real FOSS Android" is going to pass SafetyNet either, though
Carl Sagan's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demon-Haunted_World

Will probably make your children atheists though.

So much of the world still runs on fucking bullshit, just look at the justifications for the ongoing [redacted because it'll probably derail the conversation].
I think its meant as not spooking the people in countries with unreliable currencies that hoard USD like one might gold bars