skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one wants to learn how to develop a proper UI either. For all the heatmap and eye-tracking and logging tools available, no one seems to be doing anything useful with the data they get.

Do you know it takes 3 or more states for Google Maps to load and start navigation from within it's own app? Try it. Count how many times you have to interact with the screen just to use the actual main feature of the app.

Here's another one: In Outlook, I want you to count the number of interactions required to attach a file to an email. You're free to use the drag-and-drop features, but you have to count every single individual action required to complete the task, including clicking Start, opening Explorer, navigating to a folder, etc.

These are critical tasks and features. And they require more work than using tertiary features. So, not only are these interfaces getting less and less responsive, accessing critical functions for routine/repetitive tasks are more convoluted than features no one uses, like the go offline feature in Outlook.
I think the most obvious examples are:

* Closing borders when we already have a pandemic in all countries. Swedish borders are still open.

* Closing schools when most evidence shows that it is not effective. Swedish schools are still open.

There is of course lots of debate about this in Sweden, some are worried that Sweden is not taking enough decisive action. There is however a wide-spread general support that the more measured approach in Sweden is a good one. Anders Tegnell has become a very popular public figure for his low-key bureaucratic but yet humoristic way of explaining the uncertainties involved and why Sweden is doing things this way.

I believe that the reasons these measures are taken in other countries is because it is a way to show strong political leadership in a time of crisis. I think this approach works less well in Sweden because people have very high trust in experts and (well-managed) authorities.
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And some link to tutorials https://learn.adacore.com/
I dual boot right now and hop into Windows only for games. Wine is janky so that's not a good solution.

I've been a pretty devoted Linux user for close to 20 years but I'm starting to seriously consider switching to a WSL setup in the future.
Some friends and I built a free and open-source website for playing board games. The site is built with React, NextJS, and TypeScript.

Tonight I'm working on adding matchmaking / lobby features :)

https://www.freeboardgames.org/
If you're taking an N95 out-of-rotation, you might as well follow best-practice: Dry heat. 30 minutes. 75-95C. They're a scarce resource.

It's annoying to see them going to people who don't use them right (a Republican senator was wearing one upside down). Incorrectly used, they're no better than a surgical mask.
Unfortunately, the answer seems "no" so far. Based on for example [1], the infection fatality ratio appears to be 10 times worse than the seasonal flu for people aged 30-39. Also, hospitalisation rate is higher (e.g. in age group 30-39, the study estimates that 3.4% of the infected people were hospitalised), which is higher (even for younger people) than the hospitalisation rate of the flu.

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S1473-3099%2820...
I had a totally bizarre experience when I tried learning dvorak and gave up halfway. I found that it temporarily broke my ability to type at all and I became computer illiterate for a day. It was quite surreal. Some months later I learnt Colemak instead and found I was automatically keyboard-bilingual. My brain must have done some rewiring from my first experience. Now I can touch type naturally in Colemak, and still roughly type in qwerty (I learnt colemak because I originally sucked at typing and wanted to start fresh.)
Fascinating to think that Unix is older than this teletype was at the inception of Unix...
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> your employees and executives will be subject to minimum 1 year sentences in Federal custody.

The bank will process applications very very slowly in that case.
This will blow your mind then:

A Majorana fermion (/maɪəˈrɑːnə ˈfɛərmiːɒn/[1]), also referred to as a Majorana particle, is a fermion that is its own antiparticle. They were hypothesized by Ettore Majorana in 1937. The term is sometimes used in opposition to a Dirac fermion, which describes fermions that are not their own antiparticles., from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majorana_fermion
You pay with your privacy.
Actual source: https://blog.reversinglabs.com/blog/mining-for-malicious-rub...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22906714
I run Windows applications that require USB hardware, and Wine does not support USB devices. so I was hoping for native Windows execution rendered to an X Server.
Try reading what this is about.
The problems with reliance on a giant framework are many. Yes, a noticeable decay of performance is one of those.

The biggest problem I see though is lost imagination. Usability concerns seem all but completely and generally forgotten unless a given framework deliberately provides a dedicated convention for a specific usability concern.

Worse still is that many developers reliant upon a giant framework absolutely cannot imagine developing anything that is not the exact same SPA as their last SPA regardless of any usability concerns or business requirements. It’s like when you’re a hammer and everything is a nail mentality meets the most myopically crippled tunnel vision.

I used to have great disdain for large frameworks because they result in degraded application performance with limited capabilities and substantial bloat. Now I primarily loathe them because they are the primary excuse for weak under developed talent to self qualify progression as a lack of career maturity under the perfection of inept disdain. The weakness and lowered maturity is self evident because their response to any negative mention of their favorite framework is contrived hostility often expressed by calling the target of that hostility arrogant without any consideration for the technical concerns present.
So it's just different windows sizes faded in to one and than displaying them as bands?
Not in US, but one of my friend who owns a US small business did attempt to apply in order to save his company, no dice.

Let's just say this thing is one of the biggest scandal in the history of modern USA. Clearly some banks did favour some "small businesses" over others by restricting application dates.
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> And communicate with it how?

The simplest approach is via a pipe to the process' stdin/stdout I guess. Of course you have to (de)serialize your data, but you would have to to the same if you go the HTTP route, which seems far more complex. Furthermore the suggested solution probably has a nice wrapper in the language's stdlib (e.g. `check_output()` in Python land).
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I would add some pointers:

* Sweden doesn’t have anything equivalent to martial law.

* the government have in general very weak power to enforce rules that effect the population and all changes to current law must pass through their parliament. (This has though due to the current situation been relaxed in certain areas, a decision that went through the parliament).
Hi,

I had trouble with url redirection. So I checked and found this method

var onTalkClick = function(url, vhost, vid, rindex) {
gtag('event', 'view_item', {
'event_category': vhost,
'event_label': vid,
'value': rindex,
'transport_type': 'beacon',
'event_callback': function(){document.location = url;}
});
return false;
}

This method doesn't seem to be working as intended on firefox.
that npr story is from 2014.
> I think there's a widespread sentiment in this country where if you get screwed over, it's on you, you should've known better. Everyone just passes the buck.

It's stems from puritan morals which shaped American capitalism, this is absolutely not surprising.
Ask HN: Delegation Balance as an IT Manager
I've had various roles in IT for over 25 years and currently am CTO in a 15 person startup. I seem to have a reoccurring theme in my career that I am a times 5 employee and can do everything. Development, devops, linux guru, marketing, business analyst, project manager, dba, vendor management, finance (MBA,CFA) etc. Great as a micro startup. Once there is outside money I get blamed by incoming staff for over-control and under delegation and not being available (as I am 120% booked)

- When I leave a place normally they need to hire 3-5 people to replace me and I feel like a shitty manager as people say I don't delegate enough

- I burn out

- There is a lot of technical debt because we moved so fast to hit business goals

- I have my finger in many many projects and am the kind of business guru in all of them (understand business better than sales and IT as well)

- recruiting is hard because I want to try to find people like myself which are rare and expensive.

I have justified this to myself as I am saving the company money. Any suggestions on how to manage this and avoid getting painted as a poor manager and better balance the whole thing? Maybe I should get out of IT and just hire people? Maybe I should just run everything like projects - but if I don't put my head in the weeds I don't fully understand stuff?
> It's hard to imagine that front line doctors didn't know about proning a month ago.

Where do you get the idea they didn’t?
Here are the 16 countries in the world without a covid-19 case
The 40% infection rate is an estimate for Stockholm, not for all of Sweden. The Stockholm region has less than a quarter of the Swedish population (2.3 million out of 10 million) but well over half of the covid-19 deaths (816 out of 1442). Stockholm is also the region with the lowest average age in the country, and the largest proportion of one-person households, so the fatality in the region might be skewed down.
A bigger scandal is why in almost all countries the financial industry uniquely requires one to go through private companies to access government resources.

Its as weird as if their were no government run schools.
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W.r.t to working principle/protocol, VNC is to X11 what MOSH is to SSH-Terminal, with RDP taking the best of both worlds.

The RDP-server, and -client implementations are mature on all common platforms, with a well-supported common minimum protocol version support.

For anything but localhost I try to use RDP.
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Ask HN: How to Perfect Your English
I guess my english level is pretty ok. I read most of the information on the Internet / books in english.

But I don't talk/write that much. Sometimes I don't feel that confident in my english knowledge.

Any good tips on how to be better at this? What I would ideally want is some kind of feedback mechanism that tells me when I made a mistake, for example in grammar.

What I can think of:
1) Grammarly - try to write notes in english and check text in Grammarly. But I don't like them having access to all keystrokes
2) Try to add a lot of stuff to Anki - I think a little bit to tedious

Ideally, I would have something like Clozemasters (by HN User) [1] but the database they use for english is pretty bad.

I am sure there are a lot of you for example from Europe or China that came up with some good solution to the problem of perfecting English

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13676105
I don't think that all sources are available. For example they have extended support and I don't think that they publish those sources.
Lua is a better fit for Rust, because it doesn't have the threading restrictions of (C)Python. With Lua you can run a thousand parallel vms in the same process if you want.

But the macro hacks are impressive!
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This gives me a 400 on medium. Does anyone have an alternate link?
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A good side effect of that style is that their videos look great even at very low quality settings.
Codeberg is basically gitea, right? I thought gitea would perform much better, because it looks fast, compared to gitlab, equally as github. Bitbucket performs slow even unbenchmarked.
If Firefox does not offer reader mode by itself, prepend about:reader?url= to the url to force loading the page in reader mode by the way.
My local only has three aisles so we’d have to loop twice, but it would be better than the “hold your breath and look the other way (as if that helps) death squeeze passeggiata” we’re doing now.
This is not how I see it. Carlsen lost one insanely long online bullet match on lichess.

He narrowly lost an online banter blitz match. This is not blitz, since also you have to talk while playing, which does not seem to suit Carlsen's personality.

In classical, you can often "almost lose", except that Carlsen does not "actually lose", as exemplified by his ongoing record non-loss streak.
Not everything is rosy though. Ministries buying 40m eur worth medical equipment from some company that had no revenues last year or year before that. One ministry paying double the price for the same thing as the other. And that's not even mentioning how many companies from prime minister's holding are benefitting disproportionately - subsidies, testing, hand sanitizer....
> his thing is one of the biggest scandal in the history of modern USA. Clearly some banks did favour some "small businesses" over others by restricting application dates.

Regretful, but now imagine what is going on here in Europe where these loans and funds are government-issued and plenty of them go lost in the ways of systemic corruption, tax-payed funded.
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Hey win!
do you recommend any good resources that can help get in the flow of reaching out to people and finding out about their problems and frustrations?
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While I've only got a single 3yo so far, and I've been mostly following similar approach as you, I find that this approach requires a lot of time (and energy) investment that is sometimes hard to get. My wife also works pretty long hours, so sometimes enduring arguments of the sort is extra tiring.

Not to diminish the work you did, but did you manage to do that along the full time work, or did you have to stop or reduce work hours?

Not to mention that this 3yo is happy to sleep for 7-8h every other night because there's so much stuff to do. :)
> hooks use closures for state and if you call hooks in wrong order you get the wrong values back.

Calling hooks in wrong order gets the wrong value back? Can you explain this one?
It's useful to think that way, until you add more options:

G: 5% chance one of your parents die, preparation costs $X

H: 3% chance you die, preparation costs $Y.

What at what values of $X and $Y do you prepare?
if you block third party scripts (from nyt.com in this case) it just shows the whole article
Two months ago I replaced my Macbook Pro and PC plus tens of wires set up with a cheese grater Mac Pro with most Bluetooth devices.

I was burnt by Bluetooth several times, but I really hate wires so I keep coming back. And then keep getting burned.

And it burns me more this time. I found the new generation of Bluetooth headphones like the Airpod Pro and Sennheiser Momentum wireless 3 tried to maintain multiple connections simultaneously, but they really have no idea which one to switch to most of the time. It's literally a nightmare.

I really like the wireless concept, could anyone enlighten me why cannot the industry come up and adopt a better standard?
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React classes don’t get destroyed and recreated each render. You can throw a console.log in the constructor, or save variables locally to the class, and see this for yourself.
Why on earth did anyone think that it would be good, or efficient, to go through a multitude of private companies in order to access public resources?

And why on earth do you still use cheques?
please perma ban NyT .
yep, but any helpful resources from your point of view that explain the most important principles and approaches? what people that have actually done it that you think one should follow their advice. I am new to this but I feel that there are a lot of low quality content out there by people who just talk on the internet.
For my personal system I use a tailing WM (i3) and actively use hotkeys, so I less affected by GUI degradation described in the article (though Firefox megabar is really annoying).

But for an average user IMHO best GUI design was in Windows 2000 - almost all changes done later made GUI look more modern (whatever it means), but less usable. And Linux GUI (GTK/QT) unfortunately follows this pattern.
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As someone who studied typography and who knows color by heart from both the scientific as well as the artistic side I can't believe people fall for the mumbo jumbo written on this page.
Right, and OpenCL has POCL. The original question wasn't so much if the technology exists but will it be ubiquitous and guaranteed to be present on whatever platform you run on.

Looking at SwiftShader - it looks like you can bundle it with your application? Is that correct? I don't see a way to bundle POCL though
Looks like the windows equivalent of the Gnome GTile window manager extension: https://github.com/gTile/gTile
I am new to this. Amazing stuff, thanks for sharing!
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I don’t mind the price. They need to fund development. More open source projects should do the same. And being rather niche on the Microsoft store means they’re already catering to a consumer that is under the impression to buy something whereas if this were a normal Ubuntu desktop it’s free.
I was scrolling on a laptop with a mouse which worked really well.
Thanks for the tip. I'm curious, do you know how some sites prevent the reader mode button from appearing?
I wouldn't call it ham fist

It's really no different than mapping an array except the array is is 2D instead of 1D. You supply data in one or more 2D arrays (textures). You then execute a function (fragment shader) which outputs the values for the result referencing the data in the input arrays (textures). The result is written to another 2D array which just happens to be called a texture instead of "2D array"
no one said crypto? stable USDT, EURT, Bitcoin?
Is it feasible to run cuda dependent code using WSL and this X Server?
Annoying to be sure, but you can circumvent the paywall by adding a period to the end of the domain name.
Yeah, the grocery stores emptying out in Korea and Italy is weirdly what set off the ‘this shit is about to get real’ alarms for me. Sold stocks, stocked up on food, told everybody I knew to get ready for 1918.
On some Windows versions (Enterprise and Server) you can do that with RemoteApp, a Terminal Services RDP extension, easily managed with this tool: https://github.com/kimmknight/remoteapptool (or through registry)

I understand your request to be: Run Applications on Windows, and get the output over network to a Linux machine running a graphical window manager, without having to "transport" a desktop surrounding your program.
Is that even theoretically possible? Unless you find a way to grow plants directly from electrical power, you'll need to rely on a light source and the (purportedly) less efficient photo receptors of the plants in the end. I guess you could modify the broad spectrum of light emitted by the sun into a more narrow spectrum that plants are most efficient at.
Wasn't one point also that generators and such are contagious?
Right but he basically asserted to everyone that a socialist revolution is coming to wipe them out. Is there something I don’t know? Should I be getting ready for this?
Add marketing-oriented metrics to the mix.
> Sweden doesn’t have anything equivalent to martial law.

This may be true, but is there nothing resembling any emergency governance procedure, either?
Just click the lock in the address bar and hit Site Settings. Clear the cookies with a couple clicks. Always works for me.
Nice. Can you please copy the output in the Usage video to the README as plaintext? I don't want to watch a video to see what it can do exactly. Cheers!
No, it's still terrible on my [Macbook Pro, Mac Pro] <*> [Airpod Pro, Sennheiser Momentum 3].

Every single device in the combinations is having crazy connection issues everyday.
I've given money to Canoncial for Ubuntu.

Also, RedHat stopped providing detail changelogs and started doing just one bug diff dump after Oracle started hurting their business -- where Oracle's work at the time was basically repackaging RedHat's work and doing "sed s/RedHat Enterprise Linux/Oracle Unbreakable Linux". RedHat did what it felt needed to fend that off.

Up until that time, they were publishing their internal repositories.
The air is so much nicer outside now. This whole thing has made me into an environmentalist. We should keep /parts/ of this lock-down forever:

* Those who can should work from home.

* Things should be delivered if possible.

* Air travel should be less common

And the quality time with family....

We do need to work out the economics, but lower consumption would be great as well, if not for the debt trap.
Adobe Acrobat had this style, even in 2003: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/adobe-acrobat-6
German here who moved to Sweden in 2006.
Since January, state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell has constantly made claims which turned out to be inaccurate, misleading or at least overly optimistic. Among the more devastating ones is that he in an interview on February 8 stated that "there is absolutely no risk for coronavirus when traveling to skiing vacations in the Alps/Southern Europe".
To me, such a lack of foresight as an epidemiologist alone disqualifies him from the heavy role he has.
Therefore, I don't take any claim he makes seriously. Sadly, he loves media appearance and seems to be giving interviews all day long, every day. So it's totally impossible to escape those claims. They are everywhere.

Shockingly, his display of (partial?) incompetence has hardly impacted the credibility he enjoys among large parts of the Swedish society. In fact, many people totally love him. That's something I just cannot comprehend. To me, it looks like mass hypnosis.

My personal stance by now is that I'm not following the Swedish Health Agency's recommendations, but the German authorities', which I consider more trustworthy and competent (based on the absence of a track record of false predictions, a respect of cautionary principles, and an absence of exaggerated self-assurance).
However, I don't like feeling that way. Usually I'm "emotionally" only reverting back to my native country when it comes to the Football World Cup :)
"Authors are extremely adamant about everything being pure"

I had the excact opposite experience.

Frameworks like Cycle.js and Callbags are pure and try to emphasize that, but React always priorized practical solutions higher than FP concepts.
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