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> Many of these features Windows has no analogue for.

Holding Shift and clicking scrollbar does jump directly to the clicked location on Windows.
Electricity prices are spiking. That's a problem for Trump
When I was using my 1080Ti on Debian with the official driver, I would frequently have problems on screen 2 where there seemed to be no video acceleration. I could fix this temporarily through some setting in the Nvidia drivers but it would stop working after a reboot.

I had several bad updates (this was when using Fedora) and was left with graphics 30 minutes before I had to start work, I ended up plugging in a really old AMD GPU to be able to work for the day and then spent several hours faffing to get graphics back up.

I will only buy AMD/Intel cards now because it is plug and play on Linux. I've had no problems with the AMD card on Debian 12. On Debian 11 I had to enable a non-free repo to install the relevant firmware. The 1080Ti as awesome at the time as it was, only worked properly and reliably under Windows.

The other issue with Nvidia is when they stop supporting your card, their drivers will sooner or later not work with the kernel. I have an older machine that works quite well and I had to buy another GPU as the legacy Nvidia drivers do not work with new kernels. The hardware itself works fine.
It's using Tauri, so Rust and ReactJS
"There's new evidence that historical trauma is passed down through changes to the genome!"

"Genome or epigenome?"

"...epigenome."

I feel like I read of a similar study every few years, the first I can recall was 'Transgenerational response to nutrition, early life circumstances and longevity'[1], and it is always needlessly disappointing to thumb through past the headline and read that, inevitably, the media has decided to report this as a change to the genome when the actual research suggests otherwise.

Epigenetic changes are interesting in their own right! But they don't change human genes, at most they change gene expression.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/5201832
Defaults matter. I don't know how else to express that a system which fails safe in the face of fallible humans is strictly better, all else being equal, than the alternative.
Musk has used Dogecoin as the vehicle of a pump and dump before, where he has promoted the coin and at one point made Tesla accept it for payments.

After that he lost interest (the dump part).
I'll quote Michael Douglas from Traffic, "If there is a war on drugs, then many of our family members are the enemy. And I don’t know how you wage war on your own family". His daughter was knee deep in heroin addiction as he was tasked to criminalize everyone. By the end of the movie he was changed imo.

We have no way of giving such an experience to those in power. The best we can do going forward is pick more well rounded people, and no, that doesn't mean great schools and great wealth. You must be experienced in life.
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Given the need to walk back some firings [1], it's reasonable to infer that the ongoing cuts aren't being done in a particuarly thoughtful manner.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2025/02/19/nx-s1-5302019/bird-flu-usda-f...
These seem to be rather different things though. I'm pretty sure this biblical passage is referring to a metaphysical concept, involving morality. Plus this article is a study about being on the receiving end of violence, not being the perpetrator of.
Microsoft didn’t miss their opportunity with COVID, teams user base grew by the millions
Nursing Is Not the Holy Grail to Job Security
I'm not a biologist either, but from my reading there are many cellular elements that influence genetic expression that are not encoded in DNA. And those elements can mutate as a result of the individual's experience during their lifetime. Some of them have independent genetic lines. DNA = behavior is reductive.
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"While our genes are not changed by life experiences, they can be tuned through a system known as epigenetics."

It is indeed not a modification of the genetic code. And the transmission of epigenetic state from one generation to the next is much less straightforward.
The web specifications should have been written in Haskell with a test suite. From there, it should be just a matter of optimization. Still a big task, but completely doable in a package by package basis.
I'm still learning Gleam, but I do not believe that "use" has anything to do with async. It seems to be a direct riff on Haskell's "do notation" syntax sugar (<-), which is used for unwrapping monads, but Gleam seems keen on insulating users from these details at the surface level.

The author of the article has an intuition that "use" is helpful for error handling, and it definitely is because one of the core benefits of monads is chaining certain categories with a guarantee that nothing will blow up in the process; however, use cases are broader, as you can chain all sorts of things.

Looking at it now, it's actually akin to clojure's threading operator, which basically just simplifies syntax when making successive function calls (argument threading). Whatever the case, it's not just for errors/async, but more so for chaining without causing a bunch of unnecessary indents to occur.
Oof, I pattern matched OP to a different argument I've seen a lot. That's embarrassing.

Yes, that's correct, it's provably impossible to construct an LLM that, if you ask it "Will this program halt? <program>", answers correctly for all programs. Likewise humans, under the assumption that you can accurately simulate physics with a computer. (Note that QM isn't an obstacle, as you can emulate QM just fine with a classical computer with a mere exponential slowdown.)
I don't think anybody is against optimizing government agenesis and their spending. People question the motives behind it. This is clearly done with ideological intentions, because Elon and Trump thinks that the big government in itself is a problem – as all fascists do. When you remove all government agencies and replace them with corporate interest you get what Mussolini called Corporatism but what we now know as fascism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism
The tech industry is just one rug-pull after another, but still people line up to try standing on the rugs!

1. We won't show ads in our product -> We'll show skippable unobtrusive adds in our free product only -> We'll show bottom-of-the-barrel scum ads in our free product only -> Those skippable ads are now not skippable -> We'll add a few vetted ads to the paid product -> We're going to shove ads onto every surface of the product we can find!

2. We don't collect or sell data about you -> We will collect limited data for "telemetry." -> We'll also collect some demographic data "to improve the product." -> We're going to collect everything we can get our hands on, but we won't sell it. -> We share your data with only vetted, trusted "partners." -> We share your data with everyone we do business with -> We firehose your data to anyone willing to pay for it!

It's the same progression every time, but users keep thinking this time it will be different.
Older AMD cards have excellent Linux support across the board.

Brand new AMD cards have great support -- in mainline Linux and MESA. But if you're using a kernel and MESA from a distro, you're gonna have a hard time for the first ~8 months. You'll either have to run a rolling release distro or make your own kernel, linux-firmware and MESA packages. I had to do this when I got a 7900XT card a few months after launch while running Ubuntu.

This is the Linux driver model working as intended, and it sucks.

I suspect you may also encounter issues with Flatpaks, since from my understanding, these use the MESA userspace from a runtime so they wont work until the Flatpak runtime they use updates their MESA. I don't think it helps to have a working MESA on the host system. I'm not 100% certain about this though, would love some feedback from people with a better understanding of these things.
What makes Brave a better choice than Firefox? While it claims to be privacy-focused, it's developed by a VC-funded company, not a non-profit foundation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)#Controvers...
Some discussion yesterday (20 points, 7 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43193633
Generational trauma is really hard to resolve. A therapist once told me "family systems don't like change." The really old family dynamics have a way of being passed down and reinforced. We settle into roles that perpetuate them.

Interesting that there is not just social pressure but also genetic pressure that may be perpetuating the trauma.

My grandfather drove a tank through Europe for the allies during WW2 and I know that is still impacting me and my kids. He self medicated his presumed PTSD with alcohol and died young before I was born. That impacted my father and the way he related to me. And I am sure it impacts how I relate to my kids too. I don't drink anymore because that history scares me. The rise in fascist and nationalist ideologies scares me too.

If we forget history we are doomed to repeat it. Both at an individual and societal level.
The press release writer was a bit shit at understanding basic scientific jargon. The research only finds epigenetic markers. There are no genetic changes. There are detectable changes to gene expression, and that's it.
Love it. Your whole website is great. I recently started writing down whatever passing thoughts happen to me in a small notebook. Only a couple of entries now, but it's a start. Unfortunately I was terrible at, or perhaps terrified of, writing at school and college, so I never learned how to be any good at it. I also find that nothing reveals more about what you know about a given topic than looking at an empty page or a blinking cursor. Even writing this comment makes me feel queasy, huh.
Ads that use dns cnames to bypass block lists. Only Firefox has an API for this.

Ads that previously were blocked at the HTTP Response level. ManifestV3 removed this API.

A world where the number of ad rules exceeds the new limit. Which is 500 dynamic rules, 50 static rulesets, 30,000 rules. This may sound high but its not.
> What I don't understand about people complaining about governments removing programs and reducing their staff is that implies either the status quo is just right or it's already not enough

One might be able to make that case when just considering a single agency. However this is happening across many agencies. It is extremely unlikely that they would all be significantly overstaffed.

Another sign that this is not a legitimate effort at just getting rid of workers that aren't needed is that they aren't deciding who to fire based on merit. They are deciding based on who is easiest to fire procedurally.
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If a government stops functioning, the result isn't the same as a company.

The argument that 'slashing' is the only way to reduce headcount is also extremely dumb.
> and console gamers outnumber PC gamers

It's my understanding that there are 2-3x more PC gamers than console gamers, but the console gaming market generates more revenue when you include hardware. In fact there are probably more PC gamers today than total consoles ever sold.
AMD seriously needs to fire its marketing team. Think how you would do it if you could introduce a naming schema and think of how to name technical features - it would be very easy to improve on what AMD is doing.
I basically use it to see which programs are open. Also when you get into macOS window hell, it can be helpful to see at a glance if anything on the dock isn't open (programs opened which are not in the dock will appear on the other side of the | )
> What's the difference between your "agentic AIs" and, say, "script kiddies" or "expert anarchist/black-hat hackers"?

The difference is that a highly intelligent human adversary is still limited by human constraints. The smartest and most dangerous human adversary is still one we can understand and keep up with. AI is a different ball game. It's more similar to the difference in intelligence between a human and a dog.
>complaining about removing programs and reducing staff implies either the status quo is just right or it's already not enough.

It doesn't imply that. How could one possibly feel this is comparable to a numeric slider being adjusted, where everybody simply has an opinion about which number it should be at? For every single cut: What, specifically, is being cut? By how much? Which positions? How is the cut being executed? What's the ostensible reason/expected outcome? What's the actual motivation? Under what authority/process? What are the side effects? Are there other ways of improving the process besides cuts? Is the person doing it also mocking the people who they're firing?

People give a shit about a lot of things, and they don't need to have all these questions in their head explicitly to do so. Systems and human opinions aren't that simple - especially super-gigantic systems and the opinions of hundreds of millions of people.
Sure, I did the same, BS/MS with a focus on Compilers/Programming Languages. It's been personally gratifying to understand programming "end-to-end" and to solve some tricky problems, but 99% of folks aren't going to hit those problems. There are tons of people interacting with Cloud Services every day that aren't aware of the basic issues like:

- Consistency models (can I really count on data being there? What do I have to do to make sure that stale reads/write conflicts don't occur?)

- Transactions (this has really fallen off, especially in larger companies outside of BI/Analytics)

- Causality (how can I handle write conflicts at the App Layer? Are there Data Structures ie CDTs that can help in certain cases?)

Even basic things like "use system time/monotonic clocks to measure elapsed time instead of wall-clock time" aren't well known, I've personally corrected dozens of CRs for this. Yes this can be built in to libs, AI agents etc but it never seems to actually be, and I see the same issues repeated over-and-over. So something is missing at the education layer
> The thing is: Rust comes with all the systems programming overhead, which in my opinion is not a good bargain if you are not, you know, programming systems. Alas, I’m too old to pick up my own garbage.

I struggled with this as well when I first started programming Rust. Until I got some great advice on the rust-users forum one day: just clone.

You don't have to struggle with the borrow checker, lifetimes, or anything else if you don't want to. Just clone everything. It's usually all your Pythons, Gos, and anything else with a GC is doing anyway. Clippy will tell you the easy places you can fix it. And when you get better and more confident, then you'll spot it yourself too.

So just clone, who cares. The RAII is going to clean up after you no matter what.
And it serves more cookies than my grandmother.
It will create a new administrative burden. Good news for translators.
Is it even desirable to avoid something nature selected for? The biggest assumption here is that these epigenetic mutations aren’t desirable for survival in a chaotic and violent world
> It helps me clarify the issue and I find once I can explain the system or the error clearly the answers (or how to find them) becomes obvious.

This is so true for me too. It’s basically rubber ducking with oneself. Or in preparation for rubber ducking _with_ someone else, writing down my thoughts often helps me figure it out myself.
Lost all trust for a lot of users after they did this.

Zen browser would be an almost drop-in replacement for those that like Arc but it uses FF under the hood instead.
Do you have any evidence that cancer develops resistance to rapamycin? I’d love to read a study. The data I linked shows lower incidence of cancer among transplant patients taking rapamycin than the general population.
Ask HN: Anyone Have Experience with Archipelo?
Archipelo is a tool that "[empowers] developers and enterprises to understand the context of how their code is created so they can verify code provenance, build secure software, and be more productive."

It appears to use IDE plugins and browser extensions to track what developers do on their machines, including tracking copy/pastes from Stackoverflow and LLM sites. It also has some compliance/enforcement capabilities I believe.

They had a press release come out today: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/02/28/3034691/0/en/Archipelo-Emerges-from-Stealth-with-12M-in-Funding-to-Tackle-the-Next-Frontier-in-Cybersecurity-Developer-Security-Posture-Management.html

I didn't see any previous discussions here on this tool. Anyone work with (or under the observation of) Archipelo before?
Could be, though also maybe optimization?
if you're looking for an immediate alternative, the State of Utopia has just bootstrapped this p2p alternative using WebRTC. It supports voice, video, and chat and has no logging, recording, or analytics of any kind:

http://taonexus.com/p2p-voice-video-chat.html
I like your future proof year numbering. Most current date formats are going to have a BIIG problem come the end of 9999 but not you!
You couldn't be more correct. I wasn't actively thinking of DFW when I wrote this post, but his stuff is everywhere in my notes.

A DFW post I wrote: https://kupajo.com/david-foster-walleye-sic/
> 8+6+4+4+3+2+1.5+1.5

What is this referring to? It sounds like a fascinating problem.
The millionaire who lost it all and became a castaway (2024)
Not op but for me what makes the difference is doing anything at all. Even if one is better than the other, writing down at all has a huge beneficial effect for many.
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In the spirit of friendly competition; I gotta argue that Skroll's "Remind" supercedes this in every way. More flexible and more powerful.
Ditto. I was around to remember the fglrx days on the AMD side. Ugggggggly. And that situation persisted for over a decade.
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Developers introduction to a technical ecosystem is more than likely using the card they already own. And "It'll likely be supported eventually" just signals that they're not serious about investing in their software. AMD is selling enough CPUs to finance a few developers.
Filsystem level deduplication is always legal
Meanwhile FireFox just removed their commitment to not sell user data. Its their “Don’t be evil” moment

https://www.osnews.com/story/141825/mozilla-deletes-promise-...
I think many people's issue with Brave is that it's a cryptocurrency grift, not that it's a Chromium reskin.
"every so often" Microsoft does this on purpose but when one has a monopoly, they do anything they want
Also you can still personally take old ludumdare themes. Do them in 48 hours. And then go and see what others did.
Even if you can't submit. They can still be fun mini challenges.
3,200% CPU Utilization
If you're in a violent environment, that environment will be so antithetical to survivability, it's prudent for your genes to transcript you were in a violent environment for multiple generations.
Funny, I got downvoted to hell when I said this exact thing some while ago.
Thanks, I just lost my afternoon to this!
everyone using a lissajous curve for their logos nowadays; who's going to be the first to sue everyone else?
I found when I was working on my dissertation that I struggled make progress on the actual writing. No matter how much work I did, I wound up rewriting, editing, re-thinking, deleting, and starting over.

I never fully solved that problem, but I found a workaround that helped: I started writing notes and drafts by hand in cursive with my non-dominant hand.

Writing by hand, by itself, calmed me and focused my mind, whereas writing in a word processor almost always caused a spiral of distraction and increasing agitation.

Increasing the difficulty of the literal, physical writing process helped me, I think, in a few ways. It became much costlier not to commit to a single version of a thought, so I had a strong incentive to pare away some of the noise surrounding it and state it in its most direct, least objectionable form.

I'm also convinced, though I can't prove it, that dramatically slowing the physical act of writing improved my working memory.

That being said, I strongly agree with just about everything this piece says, whether or not one writes by hand. And I would add that writing also forces people to use a wider range of faculties and forms of reasoning. I doubt one could overstate the value of this as intellectual exercise.
Marketing department at AMD missed the targets. But honestly, I don’t care about that.

Price is very competitive, and as long as benchmarks and QC are on point. Then this is a massive win for AMD.

NVDA as a “market leader” dropped the ball with the 50 series. So many issues that have turned me away from their products.
> by assuming that a system that can be formally modeled can prove something that cannot be proven within a formal system

Something that cannot be proven within which formal system? Every true statement can be proven by some formal system. No formal system can prove all true statements.

(This is all about Godel incompleteness. Turing incomputability does apply though, see the sibling comments! It's important to keep them separate, they're saying different things.)
Ticktick was the closest approximation at the time of Wunderlist shutdown. Still solid, but haven't researched the market recently.
I don't remember details about the Microsoft version except it wasn't good enough.
They'll carve out exceptions for themselves don't worry. They tried with Web Environment Integrity, it'll be back with a different name.
This is really really important now that server side tracking is rolled out at the major Ad providers. Keeping up a block list of the custom domains every site uses to mask their tracking will lead to an unsustainable cat and mouse game.
I use pen and paper for the majority of my journals and a Remarkable 2 for some.

I find writing long-hand works best for me. It's slower and that's the point of it. The journey is the process and the goal. The end result is clear, well-formed thoughts. You cannot rush the process to get the end result faster: you'll end up with a jumble of short-hand, bullet points, and half-baked ideas.

I also prefer a page. I can draw diagrams when it suits me. Software forces me to switch tools and my mental context to add diagrams. And they're all clunky besides. I'd rather something more intuitive that doesn't get in my way: a pen and perhaps a ruler, slide, etc on occasion.

The Remarkable software has improved with time and with the addition of the keyboard I can get close to the best of both worlds. I tend to use it for work-focused and project-focused journals. I'll start with free-hand but use the text-conversion and clean things up from there. The free-hand diagramming is much improved now that they've introduced better drawing tools that can force straight shapes from my free-hand ones. And then you get the benefit of being able to search through your documents from a computer.

For my paper journals I have to use a bookshelf and a box of index cards to keep everything organized. For the amount of journals I produce this is sufficient but it's not as convenient as it is on a computer... but personally I don't find I need to maximize convenience in my life, I'm satisfied with some processes and tasks being manual and tedious.

I also like the paper journals because it leaves a physical legacy of my learnings, thoughts, and experiences. I like reading through them on occasion to recall some algorithm I learned years ago that I need to remember or some book I had read in order to recall the salient thoughts and quotes I found interesting. And I hope maybe some day my children or surviving colleagues will find them useful too.