skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The previous skin, Vector, had been the default look on Wikipedia for 12 years. It was time for a better desktop experience.

So, when is the better desktop experience coming?

I kid, I kid. Well, kind of. There are features of Vector2022 I really like, and wish was part of classic Vector, like the search bar. I still can’t get used to the LHS table of contents.

Ironically Vector2022 has a much improved mobile experience compared to mobile-first themes like Minerva. It’s nice to have a fully-supported responsive theme.

Is Pixel going to be available in Gerrit?
The PRP test has the same computational cost as an LL test. The reason why GIMPS now prefers to do PRP tests instead of LL tests is because an efficiently verifiable proof-of-work certificate was developed for PRP tests [1].

[1] https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2019.60
I would have to imagine 90+ percent of people use LLM and AI to outsource their thought and most will not heed this warning. OpenAI might say "Check important info." but they know most people probably won't do a google search or visit their library to fact check things.
I think that would be incredibly frustrating. If someone were to make a commercial product derived from something that was in year 29 of its lifetime (while in the public domain), they'd have to stop selling it a year later.
I think you are very confused about what sudo and being in the sudoers group does? sudo is just a command which lets you execute a command as another user. In the typical use case, it lets you execute a command as root rather than as your current user. For it to do anything useful you have to do exactly the same thing as you do on Windows: create a second unprivileged account and log into that instead of root.
Relevant What If from Xkcd https://what-if.xkcd.com/48/
Cybetruck owners are the car world’s vegans.
Ah, the AI finally making the XKCD come true: https://xkcd.com/149/
Interesting point. If that's truly the way it was also being marketed and sold, then yeah that could be an "out" for them.

No idea if that's really how things were pitched though. I guess we'll all get to find out. ;)
If it can run koreader it's 80% of the way there. Don't know about audio books though
Just have some of the seawater bypass the desalination and mix it in.
> They have fame of sometimes working and sometimes don't depending on the patient, and I guess the same could be said of many psychedelics.

The same could be said for almost any drug or intervention.
Get rich quick by buying land and investing in irrigation. The farmer doesn't get rich.
Heh, I would think that Amazon would allow expensing Wilmot's Warehouse since that feels more in their wheelhouse than Shopify

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wowzers, "hate" is not a strong enough word for how I feel about that raging piece of junk. Holy hell, I'll never get that 15 minutes of my life back
I understand the phenomena the article is talking about – being authoritarian about some things while hands-off about other (possibly much more major) things – but I'm sceptical that the proposed historical explanation is correct.

Here's my own take: the recent history of the West in general, and the US more particularly, has been a conflict between two competing worldviews – one relatively "traditional", the other calling itself "progressive". And go back to the 1960s, the competition between the two worldviews seemed relatively coherent – the "traditionalists" controlled most of the power structures in society, the "progressives" were (by and large) an anti-authoritarian rebellion against those structures. But, 50-60 years later, now the "progressives" (and their heirs) have come to dominate large sections of those same power structures, and they've swapped their prior (relatively consistent) anti-authoritarianism for an inconsistent mixture of authoritarianism about some things and anti-authoritarianism about others.

You can see the same thing in other Western countries – even if not to quite the same degree – who have rather different ethnic histories. That's part of why I'm sceptical that appeals to the history of different Anglo subethnicities really works as an explanation.
Is there a plausible experiment that can falsify dark matter? The study here used observational data and it didn't do that. (Deducing that non-existence of dark matter is plausible given what else was observed isn't the same thing.)

> “There are several papers that question the existence of dark matter, but mine is the first one, to my knowledge, that eliminates its cosmological existence while being consistent with key cosmological observations that we have had time to confirm,” Gupta confidently concludes.
> Maybe consider venn diagrams where they do and do not overlap?

Or consider that we're adults who are capable of doing things like on the one hand presenting a nonpartisan lecture on a subject when it's called for, or on the other hand attending a lecture presented by someone we disagree with on a number of topics and nevertheless deriving some value.
I believe JPEG XL is now supported in macOS 15 and iOS18.

edit: previous discussion about it
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41598170
A comment from Jimbo Wales on WMF Legal's reasoning for the temporary takedown can be found on the on-wiki discussion on the topic, the reason given is to preserve the Foundations ability to appeal:

> Hi everyone, I spoke to the team at the WMF yesterday afternoon in a quick meeting of the board. [...] note that I am not a lawyer and that I am not here speaking for the WMF nor the board as a whole. I'm speaking personally as a Wikipedian. [...] I can tell you that I went into the call initially very skeptical of the idea of even temporarily taking down this page and I was persuaded very quickly by a single fact that changed my mind: if we did not comply with this order, we would lose the possibility to appeal and the consequences would be dire in terms of achieving our ultimate goals here. For those who are concerned that this is somehow the WMF giving in on the principles that we all hold so dear, don't worry. I heard from the WMF quite strong moral and legal support for doing the right thing here - and that includes going through the process in the right way. Prior to the call, I thought that the consequence would just be a block of Wikipedia by the Indian government. While that's never a good thing, it's always been something we're prepared to accept in order to stand for freedom of expression. We were blocked in Turkey for 3 years or so, and fought all the way to the Supreme Court and won.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/1253528244#C...
> lol UAC is such a lazy shitshow of a security implementation…

It's by far the most secure and well thought out implementation of an elevation prompt across all operating systems.

A lot of thought went into designing the Secure Desktop [1] used by UAC, and really mac and linux not having something similar is an embarrassment.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/uac/user-acc...
Yeah, this just happened, a month ago, with the 120 yo farm land my inlaws have owned. Consolidated into the farm next door.

I don't know what to think. They (the inlaws) were all absentee landlords. The previous generations all lived in the area, most on the plots.
People with "less discretionary income" still deserve to access the web in a way that isn't broken. This might come as a surprise nowadays, but the web can be useful for more than just selling things.
It looks like that account never engages in conversation after they've made their statement.
"I don't know if I buy the explanation in the article"

Yea I don't know if the writer has ever talked to a progressive activist. Drug enforcement isn't poo-poo'd out of some Libertarian ideal (let alone a Scottish one). It's poo-poo'd because it's seen as an ineffective fix for addiction. This is largely true, but the activists forgot that a lack of drug enforcement can ruin city centers.

Reform should start in our incarceration system not in crime enforcement but I digress.
> You definitely can't have all of "Non-type template parameters" (the C++ equivalent of const generics) in Rust because some of it is unsound.

Just to clarify, does this mean NTTP in C++ is unsound as-is, or that trying to port C++ NTTP as-is to Rust would result in something unsound?
"credibility of opinions" is wild
Yeah, I had to create a user on many language versions just to keep the old skin.
I fail to see a point in wasting 2/3 of my screen estate to whitespace.
Can you share an example? I rarely have this problem, likely because I bias towards building it myself and only bring in outside tools when there's significant time savings
For anyone similarly confused by the "it," the Aug 6 one was Wilmot's and not Factorio (which, AFAIK, has not been a participant in any giveaway)
Antidepressants also have the fame of having a ton of side effects, whether they work or not. Reduced libido, sexual dysfunction, weight gain, brain zaps are the most common. Not to mention that they take weeks or months to both start and stop.

I'm not at all against antidepressants, and I know several people who have been helped a lot by them. But if there are potential alternatives like ketamine and psychedelics that have lower risk of side effects (ketamine in particular is extremely safe taken in a therapeutic setting) and only need to be taken once to potentially see an immediate effect, even if the science is weak, shouldn't these at least be available for adults to try before putting them on antidepressants?
A huge number of towns in the Bay Area and all over the Central Valley have Portuguese community centers, Sociedade do Espírito Santo (Holy Spirit Society) or something like that. Santa Clara, Hayward, San Leandro, Pescadero, Sausalito, Newark, San Jose, Tracy, etc. I am missing so many. Members carry on traditional Catholic festivals, have community music bands, etc. I crashed one such party, it was fun.

During my 20+ years in the Bay Area I listened to a lot of Portuguese/Azorean radio, so much that it corrupted my accent. I was born in the Texas of Brazil but I sound a bit like the British equivalent now.
I drive an Ioniq 6 and love the design. To each their own…
>"let's shove the JVM into every browser and make it a mandatory part of web"

Javagator / Jazilla!

https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/javagator-down-not-o...
Given his position, is it possible the Intel CEO is a little biased? /s
There may be something better than capitalism, but it surely wasn’t communism as we’ve seen by now.
I think you meant ≤ instead of ≥ 64K RAM
I think that people are just not ready for the sort of novel privilege escalation we are going to see with over-provisioned agents. I suspect that we will need OS level access gates for this stuff, with the agents running in separate user spaces. Any recommended best practices people are establishing?
Honestly, every time I interact with the USPS today, I get it wrong.

When I fill out a Registered Mail form and present it to the clerk, it's wrong, they ask what I really want, I get confused.

When I'm sending a package, something is wrong and the clerk is schooling me on their regulations.

I told them I should "Click'n'Ship" more.

I grok RFC822 inside and out, but a simple letter?

My father does great at these things. Never taught me.
hopefully not a spoiler given the name, but the space mod that was released on Monday opens new planets to explore, after you manage to build the rocket to space on the first level, so it's no longer an "entire game being dedicated to creating one massive monolith dedicated to the one goal of rocket building"
Shapez 2 is just stellar. I mean, Shapez 1 was good, but 2 is just awesome (IMHO, of course)
That was pretty much my thought, thanks for the confirmation. It sounds like a relatively simple but well thought out plugin could make it seamless during typical use.
It's not as good as SELinux but you can limit the rights of admins with group policy so that they won't be able to install random drivers in the environments you speak of that need that boundary.
Gemini is mostly good for its large context window (which is a huge plus), but the answers and “intelligence” aren’t nearly as good as chatGPT 4o. I haven’t tried Claude so I don’t know how well that does.
goat: Go AT protocol CLI tool
Discussed 2 days ago (89 points, 56 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41941415

NASA head says there should be a probe because of it (12+9 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41947189 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41954787
Is the Honda Ridgeline not a truck? Ford Maverick? The cybertruck is simply the biggest thing in that segment.
I have sympathies, grew up in edinburgh consumed by the festival for a month, imagine being a barca local consumed by insta princesses and bucks parties 365.

But, they're a long way down a hole of tourism as economy. This is stuff which breaks somebody unwinding. No easy fixes.

I hate crowds but I also hate the implied exclusives of "ugh, too many tourists (except meee)" which is latent in this.

Also, alongside tourism. Is British expat enclaves refusing to learn the language, pay local taxes or fit in.

Donostia is great. I loved visiting it. Off season felt quieter but doubtless still too much
> Nobody would seriously believe that, of the entire pharmaceutical world, the largest $ slice goes to psychedelic research

That’s not what it said though. It said “no psychiatric treatment”.
I’m a little behind on the antipsychotic pipeline but I’m not sure the statement as written - past decade, psychiatric - is too far off the mark.
Not really. The liberal legacy media are just democrat shills that will do anything to get their party over the line.
> Doesn't this still make them a Norwegian company

No. It's a Chinese company with an office in Oslo (in addition to China) [1].

Had they run it as an independent subsidiary there might have been a claim that it remains Norwegian. But they haven't and so it isn't.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_(company)#Acquisition_an...
I'm in the same boat. I think it's unfortunate that MediaWiki doesn't accept a theme header or cookie, which would be very easy to set with extensions. User sessions don't persist for very long and don't work in private browsing mode, while the querysring useskin= parameter is annoying to work with and isn't applied to hyperlinks.
This can, among other things, migrate your account to a different PDS.

https://whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net/entries/Migrating%20PDS%20Ac...
Factorio doesn't go on sale. The author's reasoning being it's disrespectful to those who paid full price for it.

Edit: official forum link stating thus: https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?p=159626#p159626
California can't seem to build its high speed rail. How is it going to build all this water infrastructure?
Sure, why not, when you're not going to say what you're talking about.
Why are writing the same thing to me twice? I understood it the first time bud.

I don’t see how you could incur a carrier’s wrath. You could spend a few minutes on google and find many carriers talking about it. They get paid.

As for your idea that they will block it, you’ll have to cite some sources for that. I used this for the first time over twenty years ago and had zero problems, and you can still do it now. You’re inventing problems now.

I’m not going to reply anymore because your requirements are extremely unclear and I’m not really here to provide free tech or developer support. This is just a fun place I occasionally contribute to.

If nothing else works, build it yourself. It wouldn’t be too difficult to get something basic built up and you’re good at inventing problems so you might be great at solving them. Have a nice rest of your day and best of luck with your project.
Yank working there via the Olivetti ATC in Cupertino. Worked on Unix and other stuff. There were quite a few Brits there doing tech writing. A couple of Australians as well. It was very cosmopolitan but it was a deserted city in August. There was even a big concert in July before everyone left for vacation.

Many (most?) of the Italians did not like it but it was work. They really wanted to be home. Same with Milan, a city to have a job in but then you'd go home on weekends if you could.
> Interestingly, "interruptions / randomness" was only the sixth most significant, while the most significant cause was "engineering system friction."

I notice that if you add the "lack of focus time" responses to that, you'd get the 3rd most significant factor, which feels closer to right to me...
Ditto on the point about Israel.

I noticed the same: anything critical of Israel gets flagged right away. And I'm not surprised: they have a large IT ecosystem and have engaged in similar behavior before. Paul Graham complained about this [0] after it came out that Israeli VCs, tech entrepreneurs, etc. had groups for coordinating attacks on anyone questioning the Israeli narrative on social media. Like, they mentioned PG by name in their briefings.

[0] https://x.com/paulg/status/1733146138226614465
Everything ever written reflects biases. That isn't the interesting part.
Why don’t you take a look at the past 4 years and reflect upon the train wreck the democrats have caused?
The aliens in Star Trek wear clothes.
When the underlying black-box is so unreliable, almost any amount of provisioning could be too much.
Traditionally, political thinking makes a distinction between de jure and de facto sovereignty, or respectivley juridical sovereignty and empirical sovereignty. By limiting the transfer of de facto sovereignty to a period of 99 years, the treaty ensures that it cannot be interpreted as a transfer of de jure sovereignty. However, in the context of international law the term "sovereignty" without further qualification is nowadays widely used in the sense of de jure sovereignty. This emphasises the thought that under international law a transfer of sovereignty can only be the result of a legal act -- in other words: de jure sovereignty has priority over de facto sovereignty.
Psychedelics boost your mood in the days, weeks, and even months after taking them. Source: I've used them. It's really dramatic.

However, eating a piece of chocolate also makes you feel good. Doesn't mean chocolate is an effective treatment for depression. Whether psychedelics are effective treatments for various psychological conditions, I don't know. Whether the risks outweigh the benefits, I don't know.

I've grown more conservative about drug use over the past few years. I hope we keep up the research but it is very clear that -- as the article argues -- these drugs have been overhyped.
In non-performance contexts, C# still suffers from the fact that I can't just reach out and install it from any random distro. The only other major languages with a comparable problem are Kotlin and Swift, which suffer from a similar association with Android and Mac OS, respectively.
Sometimes it's fun to do things when there's no real world consequence attached to failure and experimentation even if the mechanics are similar to something we do for work.

I sometimes do project euler puzzles for fun. I'm a CS professor - this starts to feel kinda close to my job. But it's relaxing and there's no pressure and no one is affected when I screw up; I just get to keep kicking at it, or put it down. The freedom makes a big difference.

The "solving an interesting problem" part of my job is the part I love. It's the other stuff I need a break from sometimes. :)
Yawn. No newspaper is immune to reporters making stuff up.
That's not an answer to my question.
Attacking Browser Extensions
>similar things were said about the Honda Ridgeline and the Chevrolet Avalanche; they ended up having the same long-tern issues that they were predicted to have; torn mounting points and reduced repair-ability when the inevitable occurs.

The fact that you think the Chevy Avalanche[1] has unibody problems says everything I need to know about your opinion

There's nothing fundamentally wrong with unibody construction for a vehicle like this some work vans have been that way basically forever (though it makes me want to go postal when the OEMs graft a really shitty frame onto the back of a unibody van and call it a "cab and chassis").

[1]https://www.gmwholesaledirect.com/v-2009-chevrolet-avalanche...
A lot of the crappy food sites at restaurants cut off the buttons such that they disappear below the keyboard and can’t click the button. I haven’t used my iPhone mini in a year or 2 so I can’t relive the names of the sites
Takes screenshots and uploads them to the cloud for processing because it is so inefficient?

Google’s not even pretending to care about privacy any more.
There is a book called American Nations written about a decade ago that tried to explain the different cultures in America through the nationalities of their early settlers. This article seems like an application of that book to specific policy oddities in California.

It's an interesting idea, but in both the book and this article, the connections are spurious. For example, it's a good soundbite that one can draw a through line from the Scots-Irish individualism to the libertarianism of California, but little real evidence of this actually provided.
I’m inclined to agree.

I also don’t get people who look up YouTube videos on how to do things in Factorio.

What’s the fun part left to do if you just use someone else’s factory or belt design?
TLDR; US: nudity & sex: no, violence: yes!, Europe: nudity & sex: np, violence: not so much.

> Movies and TV shows are things to watch with friends/family. It's awkward and annoying for sex scenes to come up.

I and all pretty much all my pan-European friends that I talked to about this issue are always flabbeghasted about this.

Can you elaborate why this is awkward and/or annoying to you? This is an earnest question out of pure curiosity.

Specifically weird for us is that in PG13-rated US movies/series/etc, depiction of sex (and nudity) is not ok but violence (and even death!) commonly is (as long as there is no blood or the blood is from aliens, i.e. green or purple). "Alien vs Predator" is an example.

In Europe it's literally upside down. When kids are watching we don't have an issue with sex scenes as much as with violence. Depiction of consensual sex is ok. Sex is fun, it's natural, it's wonderful (hopefully). You can explain that to kids. Violence -- not so much.

Nudity? What's the issue? When I leave my house in Berlin in summer the park next door is full of kids running around naked (as are most playgrounds). The issue with nudity (and the obsession of taking offense with female breasts/nipples) is completely beyond most people in northern Europe.

Basically, if many European family movies ever made it to the US market (they don't, ofc), quite a few would probably be edited for nudity (or even sex scenes) for that market.

Vice versa, US movies often do get edited for violence to become more "family friendly" for the European market. "Lilo and Stitch" is a good example; Disney edited the German version down by 1.5minutes to get a FSK-0 (no age restrictions) rating here. [1]

Specifically, female breasts occasionally visible in a kids movie won't raise eyebrows in atheist/agnostic/protestant northern Germany but in catholic southern Italy they may.

And speaking of the latter: Berlin is the first city that has acknowledged that actual gender equality requires women (or any gender for that matter) to be topless too, in any public bath [2].

So if you go with your kids/teens to a public bath here, they will see nipples (i.e. "nudity").

[1] https://www.schnittberichte.com/schnittbericht.php?ID=1004

[2] https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-clarifies-gender-equality-rules...