skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>you want to treat life like an RPG you need to minmax the right skills in, fine. That's a very strange, naively calculated, and from my perspective, totally unfulfilling way to live life.

It's not naive to try and optimize learning to help maximize a fulfilling life. The available time in life to learn is finite and therefore choices have to be made.

Not every subject has equal importance. It would also be naive to think every subject or skill has equal relevance to a particular person's life and therefore one can just choose randomly.

(I learned that lesson very late in life. In my 20s, I was very careless and carefree about what I learned and I squandered away a lot of valuable years. I wasn't discriminating enough about the topics I spent time on.)
Sway has become one of my favorite pieces of software. The only issue is that Sway or Wayland seems to have trouble implementing an easy to use redshift/nightlight. Based on my research into eye strain and talking to my optometrist I keep redshift on 24/7 and I can’t go back.
He's using his education to write beautiful letters to other world leaders.
Yes it is. Dont presume to tell me what to do, you tendentious pedant.
Also the lack of a meaningful buffer of air between the trains and the tunnel wall results in a lot of extra heat (convection) to be absorbed by the surrounding environment, making the underground more hot.
>“The profits are all based on the user’s info, but the users get none of the profits back.”

>“As they say, with Facebook, you are the product.”

Whenever people become products or property of another party it's a pretty good sign something has gone very wrong.

Perhaps its time we had a Personal Data Emancipation Proclimation and positively asserted the intellectual property rights of one's own personal information over those who seek to own it through coercion and deception.

The technically literate like Woz and many on HN are among the greatest critics of these human data traffickers, while the technically illiterate masses continue to "voluntarily" give up their data; reminiscent of how upon learning to read, Frederick Douglass finally understood the reality of his bondage while noting that his fellow slaves were contented in being illiterate and ignorant.
The easy concurrency stuff is cool and very useful.
Performance just isn’t the only, or always the most important factor when choosing a language. Sometimes we choose a language and it’s ecosystem for factors we know we value right now, rather than ones we might value later on.
Do you know about Waymonad? It's supposedly Xmonad for Wayland and uses wlroots like sway.
Maybe normal people will need to use burner phones. If they don't want to be tracked, anyway. I mean, they're like $10 or whatever at Walmart. And family plans aren't that expensive.

Do you honestly believe that tracking will become illegal in the US? Or even if technically illegal, effectively policed? As, for example. robocalling is?
I use screen capture and remote operation every day. Are those features planned?
For as long as X is considered to be a reasonable alternative to Wayland, NVidia is unlikely to suffer as a result of its drivers being unable to support Wayland. If Wayland becomes the only practicable option for graphics in Linux, then NVidia is going to be forced to support it to keep their Linux market share.
I could also criticize the spacing, but much ink has already been spilled on Gnome 3.X on both sides of the argument; I'm not looking to start a flame war.

However, I was under the impression that previous versions of Gnome supported non-integer scaling factors, which seems to be gone from current GTK versions(?). Just being able to set the scale to 0.5 or 0.75 would go a long way for people with lower res screens.

Even though I don't use Gnome myself, this still affects me, since many applications use GTK, and thus have massive Fisher Price buttons compared to other programs I use.
I find that unbearable and senseless, doesn't matter who does it.

Certain people need to be excluded from the society and there is nothing wrong with it. Why do we insist otherwise?

How did we manage to convince ourselves that is "more humane"?
> Broad agreement on the dangers of “heated or aggressive” rhetoric by political leaders.

Why be concerned about free speech that doesn't incite violence?
I haven't noticed as much concern about the aggressive behavior of Antifa.
Watch out for 3600G then. I don't know if there's a concrete plan to launch it immediately, but it looks like the additional $20 on it may give you what you need. The Navi should do 4k@60.

I realize that this proofs you from getting a PCIe 4.0 GPU of your choice much later, when you have the budget for it.

Of course, don't expect it to give you ultra level graphics for that small die size and heat dissipation.
Why was this post flagged?
Is there any plan by Wayland to incorporate ssh forwarding? Last I heard it wasn't in the cards, and I think that feature is useful enough; it's probably the only feature I really would miss.
Where do we even begin?

Windows managers? Consistent window decorations? Thousands of applications? Consistent performance? Redshift? Global keybindings?
Yeah but flirting with Electron is a strong indicator that the project is pathological in its decision-making, to me anyways.
The EU was never going to accept Ukraine as a member and never will, and they did reduce trade restrictions, but EU states don't want Ukrainian products. EU farmers already produce too much food, EU states won't eat Ukrainian foodstuffs since Slavic tastes are so different. The EU also doesn't want any more workers immigrating to richer states.

Also, Ukraine tried rapprochement with the EU after the Orange Revolution, but again, the west only wanted to use them to get at Russia, not to see them successful.

As for Ukraine's economic success, it's always been tied to Russia, and the successive revolutions have not been good for it. That's why every election after failed Euro-optimist governments can't deliver, Ukraine elects a pragmatic President.
Thanks, that's a great summary!
That kind of thing leaves me scratching my head.

BTW, don’t scratch your head. It throws off the phrenological screen.
> There is inherent waste to ..

What has inherent waste to do with your reference to "Rejected Energy" ? What do you now understand of that graphic ? Transmission losses are generally in the range 5-10% for modern grids. Your interpretation of that ambiguous reference wrongly indicated 66% losses. Thats not reasonable and doesn't support your advice on energy storage. I suggest gaining more familiarity with the general subject before judging it.
cherimoya, atemoya, soursop... the description fits in Annona or Rollinia
Yes, I was thinking about that case. While Ruby was comparatively still a modern language at that point, Rails used the metaprogramming of the language to effectively create a new unique language on top of it with it's opinionated design. It might be even a point in favor of Lisp, since even in an older language like Common Lisp it can still be possible to build a new language on top that feels modern, maybe some kind of tidyverse environment for handling the next AI wave paradigm whatever it may be.
Readable Lisp S-expressions Project (2013)
Recently another post mentioned the shift from engineering-first to shareholder-first that occurred after the merger with McDonnell Douglas in 1997, but how many fatal accidents occurred in Boeing’s history before that merger?
It's OK, even the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th deviations have their "normies"
The OP makes a good case, but I don't agree with his dismissal of 'syntax' as a major problem.

I found the comment introducing https://readable.sourceforge.io/ quite interesting. Deserves a submit of it's own.
Yes, this is really giving new competitors an opening. But of course, adding a completely new supplier to your fleet is a large step for any airline and will take some time and effort to implement.
GT 710 does 4K@60 for 43$ new from Newegg.

I doubt that’s the cheapest option though.
Nobody doubts your ability to connect the dots from horserace politics to intellectual curiosity (or, for that matter, from cat pictures and image memes to same). But garden-variety politics are off-topic for HN; you can use the search bar to see the mods repeatedly pointing that out.
- Java: no
- Ruby: no
- PHP: no
- C: yes and no
OK in that case, it's semantics.

You can call it whatever you want, as long as you keep certain people forever excluded from society. Preferably at low cost.
Sure, you don't run into situations requiring math. Instead existing everyday situations are perceived in new ways because you understand calculus.
Not really defending the vague statements of the person you're replying to, but I'd take those surveys with a giant grain of salt. There's just too much selection bias at work. I for one struggle to imagine how any company could ever induce me to take one of these surveys, and I doubt I'm that special a snowflake. 49% of devs have used python in the last 12 months? And 50% java? Huh? Who are these people?

Probably the best we can do is analyses such as github's [1], which doesn't rely on people responding to marketing emails to reach a conclusion - but I'd say even that is very far from the big picture. Most large IT organisations still run their version control, for example. Hell, I'm still coming across PHP and JS programmers in 2019 that don't use any source control. Professionals. At agencies. Yeah.

None of this is to rain on golang's parade - it's a solid language IMO, despite the hype around it encouraging many people to, again IMO, optimize prematurely. Just to remind that an output is only as good as its inputs.

[1] https://github.blog/2018-11-15-state-of-the-octoverse-top-pr...
Just have a database table, and update it with a special key. When the transaction commits, you know the script has executed correctly, and the key is written as a result. When the script doesn't complete, the commit is not performed, and you can run the script again. No need for "idempotent" scripts.

Trying to do this with a filesystem instead of a real database, and things get messy.
Ok, so is a single internet troll post by someone from another country sufficient to be considered an act of war? And if so, does this apply to all countries, or only Russia?
The irony is that, as near as I can retrace the public timeline, American was actually the carrier that bludgeoned Boeing into producing an up-engined 737 in the first place.

http://news.aa.com/news/news-details/2011/AMR-Corporation-An...

In retrospect, a lesson in not letting your biggest customers drive your development pipeline.
As far as I know not into the wayland protocol itself. The devs have been pretty adamant that wayland is 'just the compositor' and left the rest as an exercise for the community, or the toolkit developers. So for instance there is https://github.com/foss-project/green-recorder but as far as I can tell on wayland it only works for gnome, and requires dbus to work (wat?!).
I'm under the impression it's more like NVidia does not want Linux users, or at least has turned some WM developers against them[0].

[0] https://drewdevault.com/2017/10/26/Fuck-you-nvidia.html
I can only recommend the "Veronica"-Series of Quinn Dunki, where she builds a complete graphics card for her 8-Bit-computer, as well as the computer itself

http://quinndunki.com/blondihacks/?page_id=1761
Awesome! I recently spent a while making an animated ASCII globe in Python, rendering a map with Cartopy and Matplotlib and then converting the pixel array to ASCII characters. It was not elegant. Perhaps I'll switch to this.

https://gist.github.com/rgov/97f57e58fcfc999a26501f91392606b...
Best to click through to the content, which is very good. “Reactions to Trump’s rhetoric: Concern, confusion, embarrassment”
> If there's one thing that unites us all, it is intense and hypocritical tribalism.

"You need to be tolerant of my beliefs, but I don't need to be tolerant of yours"
The word extremism has nothing to do with right or wrong itself.

If I live in an area that has had a stable climate for 1000 years, but i had at least some evidence that an 'extreme' change was going to occur, most people would consider that extremism. Especially since people will radically have to alter their behavior to survive.

In general extremist are incorrect, yet due to black swans, not always.
???

Hurd doesn't even support SMP yet.
>Large majorities say the tone and nature of political debate in the United States has become more negative in recent years – as well as less respectful, less fact-based and less substantive.

My in laws are Republican voters. I can’t leave my daughter at their home anymore. A few months ago, they had some Christian channel on where this guy was going on and on about how Donald Trump was sent by God himself to lead America and that working against Donald Trump is to work against God himself.

Fact based or substance based debate - LOL. I mean, yeah I don’t want my child being brainwashed into believing that Mr. Cheat on my pregnant wife with a pornstar is a messiah figure sent by God.

Thankfully my husband was equally disturbed. I’m leaving out some details, but my in-laws had no issues whatsoever with what they were having my child watch. They believe this garbage. We no longer leave my daughter with my in-laws, no matter how much they plead.

If you have to convince people you were sent by God and going against you is undermining God - I mean that’s some Taliban level crap there.
AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT and RX 5700 Review: New Prices Keep Navi in the Game
> start giving your kids amazing skills that you think will give them a fulfilling and good life from day one. Well yea, of course.

You'd think "well yea, of course" but man do I feel parents rarely do that. The majority, and I really do think the majority, seem to be content just doing nothing with the most valuable years of the childs life.

Perhaps I take that too seriously, but I don't think so. I feel that is one of our largest failings as a society. That and failing to encourage learning, lessons from past mistakes, self growth, etc etc.
Maybe theming is still supported in Ubuntu?

There is going to be a way as long it's based on CSS files on the file system. I definitely don't want the default theme, I prefer scrollbars and other things my way.

Developers of Linux apps should accept they have difficult users. I'll buy a Mac when I'll settle for UIs I don't like.
I am sad I am not seeing a strong cultural push towards everyone learning a single common language (which, for historical reasons, could well be English) at least as a well-acquired second language. Instead, the received present-day norm is to insist on cultural and linguistic diversity. Learn Spanish. Learn Mandarin. Learn German. Learn French. Oh, and while you are at it, learn Welsh or Irish too... It’s bewildering. And those enormous corps of translators seem like such a wasted effort!
Forthrightly admitting to wrongdoing might impact the lawsuits.
flock(1) is not POSIX, though. mkdir(1) can be used if you absolutely want a POSIX way to manage locks. For example:

if ! mkdir .lock; then
printf >&2 "Already running?\\n"
exit 1
fi

Some network file system implementation do not guarantee atomic mkdir, so you still need an extra caution with this method.
I intend my next PC build to last ten years, like my last one has. I will be including an AMD GPU, because I don’t want to be left high and dry by NVIDIA when Wayland takes off.
Waypipe does this in a really similar way to x forwarding.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe/
Except for those who pave the way. Not all OSes are products.
From article: "So, really, there are only five global languages: English, Mandarin, Hindi, Spanish, and Arabic."

I would call all these "big" languages, but I would not call Mandarin, Hindi or Arabic "global" languages. There may be over 700M speakers of Hindi/Urdu, but they live mostly on the Indian subcontinent and Hindi is not really a language of global business or education.

Spanish, and outside the above list, French, are more "global" languages in the sense that the language is a majority-dominant and/or significant language of business on several continents.

(FWIW I do know English as second language and understand a few words of French and Spanish, and can get along with everyday things in Mandarin, though I am more fluent in a couple of other small languages (Swedish and German). I am certainly not belittling the mentioned big languages, I just do not think they are truly "global".)
People don’t want philosophy; if they did then there are plenty of authors from Aristotle through the modern day. Existentialism is basically “how to survive in an arbitrary world that makes no sense”. It’s a fucking guidebook for the modern world built in the years before and after WW2.

People en masse want pop-philosophy that confirms their existing beliefs. Nobody reads JP to become a better person, they do it to feel better about being a shit person.
Quick search, here's a 2017 annual report.

> Today, the majority of Mozilla Corporation revenue is generated from global browser search partnerships, including the deal negotiated with Google in 2017 following Mozilla’s termination of its search agreement with Yahoo/Oath which required ongoing payments to Mozilla that remain the subject of litigation.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2017/

Not a great position to be in. I would pay for a premium version.
It appears that one person is working on it and the project is in a prototype phase: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/emersion/waypipe
> Just as natural languages derive directly from our needs to do things with, and communicate about, things in, and state of in the real world, such as running away from lions, attracting mates, and (more recently) engaging in commerce, mathematics derives directly from our needs to do the exact same sorts of things: count chickens (or the number of lions you are running away from), mark time, distance, and rate (as you run from them) and their relationships, and so on.

This is a pretty half-baked comparison. Math is great for describing things which can be defined precisely and their interactions. Numbers, physical systems, economics, etc.

Human language can be (and is) used for these purposes as well, but more broadly is useful for an entirely different purpose: expressing emotions, sussing out the meaning of things, developing relationships, providing a voice for the human condition. Mathematics is ill-suited at best for these purposes. Both language paradigms may be able to quantify how fast one has to run to get away from a lion. Only one of them can express why you’d want to, or the terror you’d feel trying to do so.
This feels like the prisoners dilemma scenario, where cooperation with the other side is riskier than ratting them out. Neither side is particularly incentivized to cooperate, so what’s to give?
AirVPN user since 2015 here, and happy since.

Glad I chose one of the better ones, their mission list, that they have a status page, that their servers are named after stars and my subjective opinion, that "AirVPN" is actually a bad name (a transparent privacy tunnel?), all pointed me towards believing there are actual nerds behind that one, and in this topic, I consider that very important...
There is a technological race. 5G will provide infrastructure where new businesses and can companies emerge.
The clue is perhaps in the name, it isn’t called “The Students’ College”.
No MicroCenter here in south bay, sadly. That’s alright, though, I am mostly curious when it’ll start showing up.

I didn’t really plan to fire off a purchase today, but I did stop into my local computer store and they did not have any yet. So it seems supply may be at least a bit limited for now.
> Even though insulin treatment itself can’t be patented, improvements in delivery mechanisms can be. These incremental improvements, no matter how small, can be used to extend the 20-year patent on a drug, a process called “patent evergreening.”

I'm confused - wouldn't the new patent only cover the improved method, and the patent on the original, un-improved version would still expire?
> the 20 odd accommodation halls

> the other 200 odd people in the hall

For anyone unfamiliar with this somewhat uncommon usage, Matt is not saying that these are odd accommodation halls or odd people (strange or unusual).

The "odd" here means that the preceding number is approximate - there are about 200 people in this hall, and about 20 halls in total.

It's usually written with a hyphen to make this more clear:

"the 20-odd accommodation halls" or "the other 200-odd people in the hall."
Xamarin has a cross platform mobile GUI and there’s a cross platform open source WinForms implementation.

I’m not sure why you’re always talking about console applications though, most software these days is some form of server process or network service.
Lobash: A modern, powerful library for Bash script development
Yes, I agree. What I meant was, considering that the 737 was designed in the 60ies, they should have a successor development started much much earlier (like 2000). Even with the predecessor of the MAX they were running into ground clearing issues leading to its asymmetric engine housings.
My take home from this thread now with a few weeks to reflect is that if we want a real window manager that is maintained, then it will have to be a community effort. This will be hard because training an involvement with x11 has been left entirely to Red Hat too long. It will be a lot of work and money to transfer knowledge from the few who do know it.

With this in mind, are there other projects that are at risk due to stewardship by a single corporation? How can we prevent this in the future?
Can you give an example? I can't think of any everyday situation that most people would run into where calculus comes in handy. It's definitely necessary for certain specific applications, but not ones I'd call everyday situations.
Not that unpopular, even His Grahamness said something along those lines (quote from https://readable.sourceforge.io/)
Do state run prisons have lower rates?
Remote operation over the network is actively worked on via Waypipe, seemed to work pretty well for me.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe/
I see this a lot and now I need to ask: do you actually use it and find it usable?

Every time I've tried it, it was plagued with problems (fonts, HiDPI issues, different environments) and horrible performance. I mostly had to resort back to NX, which is okish, but not better at all than Windows' RDP or better VNC solutions. So what's the big draw here?
The first few are not the most valuable. Sorry.