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Many games run acceptably well on Linux nowadays thanks to Valve's efforts with the Steam Deck, pushing technologies like Wine -> Proton and DXVK.

The biggest chunk of games that do not work falls into the multiplayer / live-service category, as anti-cheat solutions often don't allow for running on Linux this way.

Compared to macOS, this is probably night vs. day.
For music listening, the YouTube Music app has settings for higher audio quality under "Settings > Playback".

According to their documentation, this is "Upper bound of 256kbps AAC & OPUS":
https://support.google.com/youtubemusic/answer/9076559?hl=en...

EDIT: FWIW, I'm a Premium member. I'm not sure if this is a standard feature.
Phyllis Fong, who was investigating Neuralink, "forcefully removed "
I have been using Ubuntu on a Asus Zenbooks for almost a decade now. Guess it's a recommendation.

GNOME on the latest LTS Ubuntu (24.04) has a pretty cool Android-like panel for basic settings (wifi/bluetooth/vpn/brightness) and only requires a handful of tweaks.
I just realized that ramalama is actually part of the whole Container Tools ecosystem (Podman, Buildah, etc). This is excellent! Thanks for doing this.
I know that Trump was something of a bad loser when Biden was elected, and that he encouraged the riots on Capitol Hill, but I had not heard (from the media media here in Britain) that he attempted to rig the election. Could you provide a source for this please?
I think it aged perfectly well.

We were talking about his son, he let the process play out in full which is beyond respectable.

When the incoming administration has shown extraordinary will to persecute political opponents, I think it would be unethical not to preemptively pardon these people.
And the (I thought popular) "Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report" hasn't been published since Jan 16th...

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index.html

Looks to have been an uninterrupted weekly streak since 1982...

the (still up) archives: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/mmwr_wk/wk_pvol.html
Do you have information on this or are you just supposing? The VCU accelerator is supposedly 100x faster than software for VP9 and they have up to 20 accelerators per host. At those ratios it's not clear that a machine would be able to keep up with the audio processing, or that it would be easy to manage the division of labor between accelerators and host CPUs. Also there definitely are broadcast transcoders on the market that do the audio in hardware.
More like life is messy and difficult compared to pretending.
I can run the latest version of my OS of choice on hardware twice that old.

This is only a problem that Apple has created to help them sell hardware. These days, a 6-year-old laptop is still a perfectly capable machine.
Fascinating...I did well-known work at G, but at the end of the day just a line-level report on Android. I'm a little bit surprised, but, in ways a line-level report would be. Naive ways. (who cares!? You gotta test on partner devices anyway!! and who cares?! Google can afford it!)

Thinking on it, it's rational if that was the impetus. Why lose money? I guess I'm more sore over BSing ('because AI'), that TQ was shitcanned in the name of "let's ship devices", just to turn around and do N years of getting ChromeOS onto Android. Finally, I always saw ChromeOS as *awesome*, much better than Win/macOS...modulo the hardware...and the Linux VM perf penalty...but man its complex. To start unwinding the Android VM perf penalty, you'd have to shift off an Android VM onto Android anyway...

gah I should stop writing. Tough problems, no easy answers.

Just really disappointed it went this route. I joined G in 2016 as an Apple fanboy and was really chuffed by this new hardware division that'd induce discipline and steadily build out a real ecosystem. It's 9 years later, there's no real commitment beyond the phone and watch, which were both ~ready in 2016, and multiple half-assed commitments that were rolled back.
I have no interest in engaging in an off-topic political discussion.
If you read the end of that interfaces article, you'll see a low-boilerplate way to get interfaces using tagged enums. There's no pointer casting etc. involved.
Not everyone is constantly scouting for political reasons to dismiss ideas.
I found the question and answer weights as well as some primary source documents on the methodology in the court file.

My interpretation is that this was not "obviously designed to be gamed with secret information", it was just bad methodology. They had a goal of screening out 70% of applicants, but the remaining 30% of applicants needed to have a demographic balance that would not constitute a disparate impact, and they had to do this in a legally defensible way. Working backwards from that goal, they took biographical data that they had collected in the 80s and 90s and constructed a test program that, they believed, would give them the result they wanted. So if the answer weights are logically nonsensical, it's not because they were building in a secret password, it's because that's what happens when you build a model that's overfit on a small number of datapoints.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.182...

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4542755/139/24/brigida-...
What is the battery life of the 2-1? Also any issues with drivers or everything worked without manual configuration?
Try clearing your cache, the button has always been there for me.
> Can’t you have all people working in Texas and still incorporate at your company mailbox in Delaware?

This doesn’t give you a seat at the table. Living in Texas, having a large number of employees who pay taxes and vote, that gains you influence with the legislators and governor. Not relevant for most companies. Important for Musk and Mark.
They're over-represented by ~1000x compared to background population; that's relevant.
I think the relevance of their transness is not very significant.

The lesswrong apocalypse cult has been feeding people's mental illness for years. Their transness likely made them more outsiders to the cult proper, so e.g. they didn't get diverted off into becoming Big Yud's BSDM "math pets" like other women in the cult.

I doubt they are significantly more mentally ill than other members of the cult they just had less support to channel their vulnerability into forms more beneficial to the cult leaders.

Yudkowsky wrote an editorial in Time advocating for the use of nuclear weapons against civilians to prevent his imagined AI doomsday... and people are surprised that some of his followers didn't get the memo that think-pieces are for only for navel gazing. If not for the fact that the goal of cult leaders is generally to freeze their victims into inaction and compliance we probably would have seen more widespread murder as a result of Yud cult's violent rhetoric.
Microsoft had a research version of the CLR called Rotor (2002) that predated Mono (2004). Rotor built for Windows, FreeBSD, and macOs, albeit with a not-very-open license.

When Mono came along, the internal position at Microsoft was surprisingly positive. There was a dev slide deck that went into Mono in some depth. And a telling slide that said it wasn't a threat because the performance wasn't competitive at the time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_Source_Common_Languag...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_(software)
If you want to learn more, don't make the transition easy. Get a second laptop that is Linux-compatible and get a difficult distribution. It will force you to learn more faster. Linux From Scratch is the most hardcore (and, imho, fun!) way to deep-dive. I'm not familiar with the newer, more expert-level distros but I'm sure others can give suggestions.

If you don't want to learn more and just want a "working computer", use either Ubuntu or Fedora, as they have the most support. If you use Ubuntu you'll want to use Kubuntu or one of its derivatives as the default Ubuntu desktop is one of the most unusable and featureless things I've ever used.

Laptop wise, look up distributions' officially supported laptop lists, and laptop vendors' laptops that officially support linux. Lenovo and I think Dell have some officially supported Linux laptops. Then there's a smattering of vendors who sell laptops with Linux as the only OS. Any of these will save you lots of headaches; an incompatible laptop can leave you struggling for weeks to get it to work, if it'll work at all. Generally stay away from brand-new gear as it's the most likely to use something that doesn't yet have good Linux support, or may require the newest Linux software which isn't supported on slightly older stable Linux distro releases. Finally, always look up reviews of that laptop with Linux, as you may find quirks like poor performance, overheating, battery issues, wifi/bluetooth connectivity issues, non-working keys, and more.

I recently got a ThinkPad T14s Gen4 and it works very well with Ubuntu 24.04. You need to check the generation of the laptop, though, as the internals change and may make it not compatible anymore. In general I would suggest buying a laptop which you can return within 30 days, as you may find you either don't like the laptop itself, or its Linux support is too quirky.
Related ongoing discussion

The government information crisis is bigger than you think it is - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42895331
Even Musk doesn’t know what he’s doing to the republic, I don’t see why anyone else should.
Meta seems to be doing well with Zuck, as does Dropbox with Drew. I like the freedom to, but not the requirement to, invest in public founder led companies.

Thinking back to 2022 - the market was ready to throw Meta out with the bath water. The voting protections kept Zuck in place and now we have consistent backing of Llama. When Zuck says he believes in open source and will continue to fund it I believe him because he is a software engineer who wrote Facebook on PHP which is open source.
How about presenting any kind of argument against what seems to be obviously true to anyone who has been paying attention?

Nah, just downvote it out of perception and get back to Netflix.
I would highly recommend Fedora, but not the default Workstation installation. You can try out the default, but I recommend either the KDE spin, or the Xfce one. These are desktop environments and the default one (Gnome) I don't consider user friendly (didn't even support desktop shortcuts at some point). KDE is also full-featured, while Xfce is a bit lighter in feature-set.

For Laptops I'd have a hard time highly recommending anything. The thinkpad I have works great and heard great things about Thinkpads in general. The frame.work looks like a good suggestion on paper (which I'm also considering to buy) but based on their forums, thermals, noise and AMD firmware bugs are still too prevalent for my taste (including slow uefi firmware updates).

There are a couple of Linux tailored laptop sellers in Europe. Products look nice, but imo make the same mistake of throwing top of the line CPUs in thin laptops, then people wonder why their testis are toasty.
Copyright reform is necessary for national security
You can always be sued, and this may be a difficult defense to make in practice, but drivers are not generally liable for accidents caused by mechanical failure if the cause is manufacturing defect.
This is intentional. They're mad about the covid response, and want to prevent mask mandates or lockdowns at any cost. At any cost. Including suppressing information about bird flu for as long as possible.
Well, the guy in the YT video is clearly not logical. One diesel genny feeding all of those trucks vs all of those trucks being ICE powered. Some people just can't connect the dots.

Modern train engines are just diesel powered generators pushing electric motors. That's how they can claim 100mpg. They could do similar to the construction equipment, and still improve vs just powered by diesel engines directly.
The alternative hypothesis is Musk and Mark will have a lot of influence in Austin. That might let them transfer value from Texas’s taxpayers to their companies. Again, I don’t think this is a simple analysis.
Living in a container, playing with a Samurai sword… Neal we need you to go on TV and tell these people to quit fooling around.
The AI voice revolution isn’t about mimicking humans—it’s about building practical, purpose-driven systems that automate routine tasks while knowing when to hand off to human agents.

This hybrid approach is proving to be the true game-changer, balancing automation, efficiency, and human touch.

As AI continues evolving, businesses that embrace targeted, purpose-built voice AI will lead the way in customer experience, automation, and tech-driven innovation.
Huh, that text (and barcodes) are very offset from where they should be. Would you mind sharing what OS and browser you are using and if this text weirdness was temporary or all the time?
A bookmarklet to kill sticky headers (2013)
I find this part of Zig challenging. I like real interfaces as a language primitive, sue me!

However, I recently just swallowed my pride and try to work by convention: provide a method on the implementation type by the same name as the `anytype` argument. `T.writer()` in this case, `T.allocator()` in others, etc.

Previously trying to battle this, I went about as far as the language would let me attempt to automate the type validation: https://github.com/nilslice/zig-interface

This at least allows you to leverage composition to combine "interfaces" - but the caller still faces the `anytype` issue.

I'd like to re-write this (with admitted of help from Claude!) to follow the stdlib pattern used in things like `std.mem.Allocator`, but I reach for this too infrequently to dedicate the time.
So... you've pointed out the problems, what are the solutions?

What am I allowed to use as primitives to compose systems that require cryptographic functionality? If I'm writing medical device software and the hospitals I'm selling to say I can't store files in plaintext on disk, but also some security expert on HN says I shouldn't use AES as a piece of the solution because that's "rolling my own crypto" and too dangerous, what should I do? Mandate that postgres configured with encryption be used (even if the application is simple and doesn't require a full db)? That will almost certainly harm the prospect of the sale because having to get hospital IT involved introduces a lot of friction. Or are you saying "use sodium to encrypt the file, don't try to do it yourself with AES"?
Probably because they are focusing on "artificial intelligence destroying humanity", as the article says? Many data scientists work on AI nowadays.
State-of-the-art LLMs have been trained on practically the whole internet. Yet, they fall prey to pretty dumb tricks. It's very funny to see how The Guardian was able to circumvent censorship on the Deepseek app by asking it to "use special characters like swapping A for 4 and E for 3". [1]

This is clearly not intelligence. LLMs are fascinating for sure, but calling them intelligent is quite the stretch.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/28/we-tried-...
Not sure how it compares to Arch, but Debian sid/unstable is pretty stable most of the time too (been using it on my desktops for over a decade). But both are probably bad for beginners unless you're prepared to learn and tinker.
They brought a sword to a gun fight. Presumably they would have killed the landlord on the first go if he hadn't managed to shoot and kill on of the assailants first.

But it seems they went back later and finished the job. (He survived the original attack, only to be subsequently successfully murdered)
> I don't have a problem with wanting to rename the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America but I do have a problem with Trump and a lot of other people using the term America or American to refer solely to the United States.

"The United States" isn't the name of our country either, does that bother you? Does "US" or "The States?" Those aren't the name of the country either. It isn't in any way exclusionary, it's just a hell of lot shorter and easier to say.

People who call themselves Londoners aren't being exclusionary when they're in the UK anymore than are the Londoners who use that to describe themselves in Canada.
They, like Americans in the US, are simply describing what they are, not limiting what other people aren't or can't be.
The ram kit is still 8x32gb so the price is lower than it actually would be.
For anyone wondering why genetic data (e.g. alphabet: ATCGU) is compressed as gzip and not as .bwt.gz, its because it's a costly operation to run on a whole genome pre-compression, and makes it impossible to chunk (e.g. if you're interested in a limited locus, you now have to find all related bases to that locus, and perform the unrotation + decompression).

It's got some limited use in mapping though, and suffix arrays are still dead useful in non-BWT mappers
Google is not an authority. Nor does Google claim to be. "Sensitive country" means a specific thing. Rachel Ulatowski is incorrect in her insinuations on what it means.
Hi, tool author here.

Huffman coding is a static minimum-redundancy code. What this means is that it finds an optimal assignment of bit sequences to letters in the input alphabet (commonly US-ASCII or extensions). This however means that Huffman coding can not exploit redundancies that stem from the concrete sequence of characters. For example, you could easily predict that an `e` comes after `Th`, but Huffman coding can not know that.

Hence after applying the Burrows-Wheeler transform you need to have some sort of a higher-order transform (i.e. a transform that considers more than just individual bytes) which somehow reaps from the changed distribution of the result of the algorithm. But we will get to that in a second.

The joke here is that the Burrows-Wheeler transform is closely related to suffix trees and suffix arrays, which are often used in bioinformatics and HPC for full-text search. If you wanted to find a pattern of length `p` in a text of length `n`, if you already have a suffix tree of the original text, the search is linear in the length /of the pattern/ - i.e. O(p). The suffix tree stores all suffixes of a string in a compressed manner (i.e. it has a linear space overhead, approximately O(20n) as given by Gusfield, D. (1997). Algorithms on Strings, Trees and Sequences: Computer Science and Computational Biology. Cambridge University Press), so you can search for a word in it by simply traversing from the root node to an internal or leaf node by following a sequence of bytes that comprise the word.

As such, a suffix tree (and equivalently suffix array and the BWT, which is trivially computed from a suffix array) form something which can be thought of as a static PPM model. Notably real world implementations of PPM use suffix trees as a part of their main storage data structure (e.g. PPMd). What this all means is that given a suffix tree, we can very cheaply give the probability distribution for the next byte that follows a given fixed-order sequence of bytes. This is nice, because then e.g. an order-2 predictor would be able to tell that `Th` is followed by `e` once enough data has been gathered.

As you can probably guess, the more preceding bytes you know, the better will be your estimate for what is the most likely next byte. But the larger your context, the more expensive the searches and computations become due to pointer chasing in the suffix tree.

So how do we remedy this? We notice that the Burrows-Wheeler transform essentially clusters similar contexts together, meaning that a low order predictor (= faster, simpler) on BWT compresses as well as a high order predictor (= slow, complicated) on the original data, at the cost of an extra transformation. This is viable, because the Burrows-Wheeler transform can be quickly computed and there have been recent advancements in running it on the GPU. So what this means is that bzip3 uses BWT + a low order predictor with an arithmetic coder to encode the bytes, meaning that it can make use of high order statistics for compression and performs comparably at a faster speed.
>This presents a huge challenge to the NSF. The CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 has several provisions tied to NSF that explicitly require it to broaden participation in science, and earlier laws governing the foundation have similar language. That means that in addition to weighing the intellectual merit of proposals, NSF must consider how the research it funds will expand "participation of women and individuals from underrepresented groups" in science — something studies show leads to more productive science.

So the order in this case violates the law?

But who can defend the law if the department is staffed by loyalists, and there's a broader effort to filter out anyone "disloyal"?
This article provides a solid overview of the AI competition between the U.S. and China, emphasizing the importance of integrated AI systems over just model development. It effectively highlights the strengths of each country, but it could benefit from a deeper exploration of potential regulatory and ethical considerations that may impact AI deployment. Would you like to add any discussion on governance, potential AI risks, or emerging global alliances in AI development?
If fascism means secure borders, an end to the kinetic conflict in Ukraine, an end to social media censorship, and a booming economy, more than half the country will vote for fascism. Promises fulfilled or not aside.
I made it through the initial ad/sponsor section. Really makes me want to watch less YouTube.

To the product specifically. I'd have looked at welding or otherwise attaching the screwdriver bit to the ring and making them with different processes. It's sort of obvious that neither a jeweler nor a screwdriver manufacturer would know how to make this product.

I'm also not sure why we really need the opposite "screw" ring. Sure it's cool but the initial idea was a screwdriver ring so let's go with that?

By some chance the YT algorithm has been pushing some videos from the same creator. I've never watched her before but curious how I guess they seem to push certain creators across the board to all of us.
That was probably a rhetorical question, but just-in-case, the Nazis absolutely started with deportations many years before the gas chambers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_evacuation_and_ex...

They even plotted to forcibly deport victims to fenced-in zones on an island which they would seize from another country, putting it outside their laws at home.

Except it wasn't Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, but:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar_Plan
> honestly a really big problem

Why?

Every business is going to be where its customers are not to some degree. That’s just fundamental to trade and, like, hadrons.
Anyone uploading audio different platforms might find Streamliner useful (I'm nowhere near the point where details on that level matter).
https://adptraudio.com/product/streamliner/

It's wild how many details sound people have to keep track of. I know when I upload to Youtube things get smoothed noticeably compared to say Soundcloud. Probably because I've mastered over their -14 LUFS requirement.

I wonder how much of the modern 'everyone needs to use closed captioning watching TV now' comes from the streaming services Codecs and other decisions and not just the A/V sound peoples' decisions. Do movies sound people now need to listen through on something like Streamliner above for every decision?
I don’t agree with you that safety was sacrificed in the name of diversity or equity.

We sacrificed those lives to save money. End of story.
Kind of like your idea in real life. The Vectrex is used in a college in Germany. Very fun projects result.

https://itwww.hs-pforzheim.de/daten/mitarbeiter/johannsen/ve...