skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vega calls itself a "visualisation grammar" and I think it is much more worthy of that title. I just wish it was efficient. Sadly it represents every data point as a JavaScript object. In other words it uses array-of-structs style rather than struct-of-arrays which is an obviously bad choice in JavaScript if you want efficiency.
Yeah, mutter/gnome-shell was pretty awful. Weston and wlroots (Sway/Wayfire/etc) never had the issues Gnome had.

In fact Weston since 2015 has had a clever delay algorithm that allows clients to hit the very next frame if they sync to presentation-time feedback:

https://ppaalanen.blogspot.com/2015/02/weston-repaint-schedu...

(And Sway has a configurable delay; since Sway is so simple to render, the recommended max_frame_time value is 1ms — i.e. the compositor has the very last millisecond before vblank to composite, and everything before that is for the apps.)

Not really fair to compare with non-vsync systems — tearing is completely unacceptable ;)
Relevant, maybe: https://medium.com/adobetech/filtering-duplicates-on-the-com...
I would say yes as well. Especially if are not an expert and have really solid reasoning for the "bets" you are making!
Thanks a lot for all the details!
Codewerks: Write Code on Your iPad
Also, we are constantly updating the design view from two angles, improving the design conversion and then compressing the design size for faster performance.

As of now we decreased the conversion + load time under 8 seconds for largest file. We will have a smoother design viewer by end of March.
> I've maybe had to do that 5 times in the last...10 years?

Good for you. Some of us have to install up to date software more often than every 5 or 10 years.
Do we have a breakdown of how many tickets are bought by individuals and how many by companies, universities, and other institutions?

I’m sure that one of the conferences my company bought tickets to is going to be cancelled. I don’t expect they care to pursue getting their money back.
Nanoexpress: High-performance back end framework
Toward Human-Centered Design for ML Frameworks
Based on the data the ongoing cases have been decreasing for the past two weeks: http://covid.410go.net

In another two weeks they might have less cases than other regions!
Observable for Jupyter Users
Sure, but that specific issue has been resolved 100% AFAIK with the HTML 5 parsing algorithm being fully specified now.
What will happen to employment rights after Brexit
I have a soon-to-be 2 yo, so I can't help you, but maybe I can learn something from you. Are there any robotic toys suitable for a 2 yo? For now we play Duplo, role play, etc.
I dunno. As someone who gets IRC and consider it proper mature, and thinks Matrix sounds like a mess I’d rather not have to look into, it probably means Mozilla will be less accessible to me.

Unless they keep a IRC-bridge around and then I will be happy, because then Mozilla is still on IRC and whatever overly complex Matrix-based IRC-backend they have, that’s not really my problem.
This looks really cool, but the UI is unusable on mobile for me. The layout is broken and therefore many texts cannot be read.
I will check this out once I'm back at my laptop.
Honeywell: Our quantum computer will get 100,000x faster by 2025
I don't think that I can correct the original post at this point, but I meant "episodes" not "books."
Perfect. Exactly what I was looking for to send me the X top stories from HN everyday but $10 per month is way to much for this. $10 per year is what I would happily pay for receiving the HN newsletter every day.
NymphCast – an audio/video casting system with support for custom apps
> But they can go ahead with multi-100k person event in the midst of a pandemic, knowing that doing so carries a credible risk of thousands of deaths (or even creating an outbreak throughout Texas and surrounding states).

You don’t have to go
Based on this Wikipedia article, yes and no. It has multiple conflicting and vague definitions for whatever the hell a "wicked problem" is. It's like they read the definition of REST and thought "I think we can go vaguer".
Perpetual exhaustion from a three year deathmarch at work.

Same reason I haven't had the energy to start job hunting despite a three year deathmarch at work.
I disagree, IRC is as simple as it gets. This might discourage some people from joining.
It might hurt humanity's pride if this material turns out to be dejects spewn from passing spaceships.
makes sense, I like permissive licenses too.
I think we should give it time, look for other evidence, and slowly solidify the idea.
Dear diary,

why?
I have nothing to say.

I've tried on & off to keep a diary (journalling sounds so hip) and never found a thing to talk about.

I've found my great-grandfathers diary. As a farmer he noted things like weather temperatures, precipitation, etc. How the crops were doing, and what broke on the farm. It was interesting, but dry and factual.

So I tried and never found anything substantial to write. What was the weather on the first day of school in 1992? I don't care. I have the internet for that now.

Personal things? Feelings?
I hate myself and hate my life. Yupp same entry for the last 35 years.
Can’t you recycle the water?
Just this week I was reading “Notes on the Synthesis of Form” by Christopher Alexander (CA), which in someways kickstarted the “design thinking” craze. Later on, CA recanted many of his ideas about the systematization of design, and converged with Rittel regarding “wicked problems”. That said, the first half of the above book is still a fantastic read on why wicked problems tend to be hard when attempted in “self conscious mode”. One of the most thoughtful pieces I’ve read in a while... and it’s an intuitive, breezy and relatively short (for a book) read.

Here’s Rittel’s seminal paper on problems with the “planning/design“ approach towards wicked problems: https://archive.epa.gov/reg3esd1/data/web/pdf/rittel%2bwebbe...
The skiing industry is going to take quite a pounding. I imagine many resorts that did not have to rely on artificial snow are going to go bankrupt or outright close within the next decade.
Duplicate

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22466552
https://www.crx4chrome.com/
Would've done this too, but then LibreOffice came along and IMHO, it's basically the same minus the proprietary issues, so it's even less hassle!
for linux users, this is the best Firefox news in a loooong long time. having to copy paste links from youtube to smplayer for mpv hardware accelerated video can be a PITA.
"Helpful NullPointerExceptions": One of the biggest pain points of Java, probably the biggest. Good that it's being finally solved;
1 ton is for one passenger (yes, flying is a climate catastrophy). So the 1k USD is for one passenger.
There's probably a lot of literature out there. I like the scholarly essays that accompany Chickering's translation of Beowulf -- maybe start there and follow the reference trail if you get sucked in.

ISBN-13: 978-1400096220
Lego Mindstorms, it's something you can do together at first.

Check out Lego First Lego League for when they are a little older.
* https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FPCPITOTLZGUSA

If you doubt the official numbers, the Billion Prices Project goes out scrapes price data, and it matched pretty well with the CPI:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Billion_Prices_project
For countries with outbreaks:

- Fully educate the general public on the seriousness of COVID-19 and their role in preventing its spread;

For the public:

- Recognize that COVID-19 is a new and concerning disease, but that outbreaks can managed with the right response and that the vast majority of infected people will recover;

So the WHO tells you it's serious and concerning. Not that it is as severe as the common flu. Did we see proper management of outbreaks in the West? Well...

> "The incompetence has really exceeded what anyone would expect with the C.D.C.," said Dr. Michael Mina, an epidemiologist at Harvard University.

About hoarding canned foods:

> We're asking folks in every sector, as well as people within their families, to start planning for this, because as we've seen from the recent countries that have had community spread, when it hit in those countries, it has moved quite rapidly

> Dr. Theresa Tam: Prepare ... Some of those steps include stocking up on needed prescriptions ahead of time so there is no need to do so during a possible pandemic. She also recommended people stock up on non-perishable food.

Both Canada and US CDC have told people to prepare, including stocking up on non-perishable food. What's the worst thing that could happen when this turns out to be a tempest in a teacup? You eat from your pantry the next few months, or you donate it to a homeless shelter. What's the worst thing that could happen, when you don't prepare, and this turns into quarantine-levels bad? You'll have to live with the guilt of ridiculing people for preparing for one. The other bad things are unspeakable.

The data you gather may not bear out the panic, but can you think of a reason for that, something to do with social order and public policy in light of a global pandemic?

CFR is not everything, you may survive the first round, with neurological damage, bone damage, lung damage, testicular damage, heart damage, psychological damage, and kidney damage.

> it’s by no means the apocalypse

This may be how you cope, but you can't say this for sure. There is a proper chance at a global crisis, with the impact of the Spanish Flu or WWII. There is too much uncertainty to be complacent and factually discard this. This novel virus is from extremistan, and we "just don't know the damage this virus can do".
I mean, the first sentence of the preprint is "This paper characterizes the first protein to be discovered in a meteorite." The Significance section states that "[the preprint] is the first report of a protein from any extra-terrestrial source." And they claim that their evidence[0] that the protein is not a terrestrial contaminant is quite strong, so I would say that the confidence level of the researchers matches the title exactly.

[0] For example, from the conclusion: "The average molecular deuterium excess above terrestrial is (25,700 ± 3,500)%, or
a D/H ratio of (4.1 ± 0.5) x10^-3, comparable to cometary levels, interstellar levels and also equal to the highest prior report in micro-meteorites."
It's because genes are highly conserved, and I should have been more precise: we share about 50% of our genetic code with bananas. Intuitively this makes sense, since genes code for proteins and we can eat bananas (which can in turn eat us, with some help).

If you count the exome, which is not highly conserved because it doesn't play much of a role that we know of other than coiling, it's more like 1%. So "50% of our DNA" is not accurate, it's our genes.
Maybe now is the time for it to come back? Windows 2-in-1 devices with a pen are magical these days, but there's far too little well-designed pen-oriented applications.

(I'm worried this won't improve until web folks fix the broken pointer events APIs, and even then it'll only lead to proliferation of pen-oriented Electron apps.)
One of their points in the article was how they've decided to use more of the native OS interfaces instead of implementing their own versions (!!). For instance, using the OS's native threading library instead of writing their own. So, the number of LoC kinda start to make sense when you think about them re-implementing some not-trivial chunk of an OS's native functionality.
" 2) a population that follows orders"

maybe
Correct. And generally the seasonal flu is exempted.

The best comparisons would be to the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic of H1N1 pandemic in 2009. Especially H1N1 seems a particularly apt comparison point, even though it had a dramatically lower mortality rate.
I don't think your question is meaningful in light of why GCC exists at all. It was created to enable people to write free software and, along with binutils, it's hard to imagine any software that's been so profoundly influential in the free and open source software that we have today.

I think GCC will remain relevant for as long as there are people who care about free software.
Very little software is actually compiled with AOCC and ICC. Really Intel and AMD are being dishonest by publishing benchmarks that don't match reality. Of course it's different if you're compiling everything yourself, then those benchmarks might be relevant.
Interesting what you say about struct-of-arrays, I have been following this topic closely recently. Do you know any well known JS code implemented using struct-of-arrays or have some interesting resources about it? I am worried that SoA codebase is difficult to maintain and hard to express in a simple API.

I have been reading two resources about it, https://ourmachinery.com/post/data-structures-part-1-bulk-da... and https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39799874/why-does-javasc....
I had the same issue until I’ve disabled my adblocker.
I do not understand how genetic pre-wiring reduces the feeling of autonomy. Where being born in wrong country reduces autonomy so much more... Maybe people who were coming up with those thoughts were only born in nice places.
> Simple systems may have less downtime

* Yeah, but often they do less / are less effective during uptime.

* "simple" is an inspecific concept. Is the implementation simple? The API? The hardware? The requirements?

* "simple" is a vague concept. Is a 1000-line C program more complex than a one-liner script in a fancy higher-level scripting language? Yes, if you ignore the 1,000,000 line abstract virtual machine, JIT compiler, interpreter, large standard library and what-not. Otherwise - maybe so, maybe no.

> Modifications before additions

I actually agree, but:

* Managers don't like it.

* Sometime this downtime happens before there's ever been any uptime...

* Tomorrow you need something else, and the changes for that require re-engineering the parts you already re-engineered to best accommodate the previous addition.
Not really, it's just a different set of challenges. The original article sums it up well, in terms of a lack of text-order hints. I haven't really tried incorporating OCR approaches at all, but I suspect they could probably be used to detect hidden text.

The basic issue imho is that NLP algorithms are very inaccurate even with perfect input. E.g. even with perfect input, they're maybe only 75% accurate. And even an a text-processing algorithm that's like 99.9% accurate will yield input to your NLP algorithms that's like 50% accurate, so any results will be mostly unusable.
You're being much more polite here than I would be. Even if it isn't illegal, what they've done is a giant dick move.
I tend to go through long periods of writer's block

I have a lot of perfectionist tendency where I tend to be highly critical of early work

I have it in my mind as being a high effort endeavor

honestly, laziness

-----

looking at that list, none of those reasons seem very good, I should start (thanks for the prompt)
I spot checked some of the projects they list, and not one has any estimates of how much greenhouse gas reduction is attributable to TerraPass investment. Nor is the investment amount or percentage is shown. From which I conclude that TerraPass is a scam.
Does Information About Climate Risk Affect Property Values?
Possibly, but the explanatory power of your little theorem is rather substantial.
Back then HCI involved actual research, and not misinterpreting telemetry data to justify sales goals.
But taxation is "taking money" as opposed to "not giving it in the first place". These are not people who take a salary - if you tax the company into oblivion so that "it doesn't make money in the first place", then you stop the wealth creation. If you tax the transfer from the company to the individual... well, you need to be much more specific on how you do that in a way that is not making them look wealthy. Also, this form of taxation will not ensure equitable distribution of wealth to the contributors of the enterprise (i.e. Amazon warehouse employees would still be "wage slaves") - just redistribution to the general population (and just redistribution, not "equitable redistribution", because that would be too hard a problem to solve). Now don't get me wrong - I am e.g. in favor of "basic income" and think we should strive to offer a decent minimum standard of living to everyone. But it's a big jump from there to "we should prevent people from getting _too_ rich" - both these are initiatives that have some merit and some downsides, but I don't think one helps the other in any meaningful way.

(as a side note, I disagree both that Bill Gates' philanthropy is "hopelessly ineffective" or that the rich drive demand - but these are two long discussions/debates in and of themselves)
Couldn't agree more. For those who listened, Capella Romana's "The Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia" is also available on Spotify. It's amazing.
Very interesting, thanks a lot. I'll definitely give Wayland a try soon!
Just for completion.

The current understanding is that the transmission mechanisms for Covid-19 are:

1. Contact
2. Droplets (particles > 20 microns),
AND
3. Aerosol (particles < 5/10 microns)

The last one - Aerosol transmission - really adds to why this virus is so infectious.

Unlike balistic droplets, an aerosol plume can stay in a room for a very long time after someone coughs or sneezes. An aerosol plume can stay in the air long after someone flushes fecal matter down a toilet.

As a comparison aerosol transmission is what makes tuberculosis and measle so challenging in terms of containment and infection rate.
There were a number of Soviet missions that deployed a balloon-based probe to Venus. These were called the "Vega" missions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega_program).

I think that's more practical. At a high enough altitude, one doesn't have to deal with extreme pressure and temperature-- just sulfuric acid as rain?
I think that in JS there is much more potential for interaction (as frontend IS JavaScript; for Python and other languages, it is this language + JavaSript). Yes, ipywidgets are hacks (as many other interactive things).

So, I am surprised that there is no standalone REPL in that style. The closest things I've found are ObservableHQ and RunKit (the other is much more Jupyter-like, but still - AFAIK runs code in the backend).
I'll build you a clone and charge $0.83 a month! Sound good?
One of the co-authors of Fonduer here. Just for reference the original paper for Fonduer is here:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3183713.3183729

And additional follow-up work on extracting data from PDF datasheets is here:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3316482.3326344

One thing to point out about our library is that while we do take PDF as input and use it to calculate visual features, we also rely on an HTML representation of the PDF for structural cues. In our pipeline this is typically done by using Adobe Acrobat to generate an HTML representation for each input PDF.
There's a lot of bias here. You consider something you use mature. On the other hand what you don't use only "sounds like a mess". You may want to give it a try before criticising it as probably less accessible.
> Small cute kids are dying in pretty horrible ways because of this price all over the world.

No, they are dying because other companies have not found ways yet to duplicate that. In the end, it's all just information - recipes if you will. Nothing magic. When most drugs just become gene therapy, I'd suspect it will be a matter of days until they are copied and released for all - like movies high quality rips.

Only one thing is needed: a marketplace, so companies can compete on price for the customers who leave feedback to select the best providers.

This won't happen here, because of the FDA, regulations etc. But I don't see why a country with more appetite for risk (and thus money) will not become a hub for medical tourism, 1 flight away, with drugs and treatments cheap thanks to competition, and readily available thanks to the lack of regulations.
Don't touch your face (webcam monitor)
> In practice if all/most implementations are buggy, I think it's fair to lump them all together and say that Wayland.

Fair enough. I think it's a bit unfair to label the collective failure of the Linux community/ecosystem to actually make change happen as "Wayland has problems". But it's true that in 2020 you will still lose use cases when using anything Wayland based.

Wayland will never replace the X11 based workflows you describe though, because it isn't X11. Although X11 has a lot of fundamental problems, flexibility isn't one. And some flexibility you will have to give up moving to any Wayland based desktop.
G Suite users get free Hangouts Meet upgrades thru June in response to Covid-19
> but postwar US built the most advanced highway infrastructure, hoover dam, landed on the moon.

The interstate system could be seen as a boondoggle to make automakers rich at the expense of the US having a modern rail network.

Without question the moon landing and the Hoover Dam were historic engineering feats but they were both products of their eras. The Hoover Dam was a prewar Great Depression jobs effort and the moon landing would never have been possible but for the Cold War.
Is this better from a security standpoint? Does the compositor verify clients in a more secure fashion? Presumably screenshotting is still a thing on Wayland so this has to be a solved problem.
thats the preprint, if you look at the language used on the phys.org article there is a big difference between the two
Believe it or not, I agree with you. In cases like this I point to ISPs and their ability to sell more bandwidth than they can reasonably handle. Brokerages for regular clients know that lost uptime equals angry customers, who can and will move their money ( if not more ).
They kept it really low level and didn’t make many opinions on how to join the dots. There are functions to manipulate data, functions to make scales, and functions to and functions to render svg (plus dom bindings). These decisions make individual charts quite verbose, but the trade off is you can visualise anything you want. Just look on npm how many charting libraries use d3 as a base.
Let's make remote work mainstream for synchronous, verbal-communication teams
Hello all!

I just wrote an article: How remote work is done at my company https://gumroad.com/l/fatcPp

Before joining this company, I'd tried a simple remote experiment in one of my previous companies and it's failed catastrophically.

It's now common knowledge that remote work is (1) hard to mix with non-remote teams, and (2) for asynchronous, writing-heavy teams. My article challenges the second point.

So, go give it a read and tell me your thoughts, please.

This is not to take from asynchronous, writing-based communication. But some people with their current skill set, and some use-cases like baby startups perhaps?, are perhaps better suited for synchronous, verbal, screen-share communication. And they don't have to pay the cost of commute!

This article is the cultivation of my ~8-9 months of remote work, and a couple-of-years remote experience of my team. Sincerely hope it helps!

So, if you want to know how to work remotely successfully with a synchronous, verbal-communication-based team -- a team that dislikes writing and asyncronity, read this article: How remote work is done at my company - https://gumroad.com/l/fatcPp

https://gumroad.com/l/fatcPp
Convince designers people will hire them if they see designs like that in their portfolios. AFAI can tell designers favor whichever design will produce screen shots likely to make their next job search easier, actual usability or cost of implementation be damned, which makes perfect sense.