skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gmail. Youtube.

Google.com is 34 requests and 2 MB resources. That page contains an image and an input box.

Original web.dev they rolled out was something like 15 megabytes in size (thankfully, they fixed that).

Google domains is 1.3 MB of JS for what is essentially a static site.

Their recent announcement about some advanced video compression they did (I immediately forgot, it was on HN). 55 MB with a 3 second video on it.

Material design. Just the front page is 3 MB of resources. Of them, 1.3 is Javascript. For a static page.

I can agree though that they have very slowly been getting better with some of their public properties. When we start talking about internal/private/customer-oriented pages (GCP console, GMail that immediately come to mind), they are just horrendously awful.
Problem is CAPTCHA is a hard problem to solve now days. It’s not like before when you can just display and image and ask what the letters are. It takes machine learning, lots of training data, etc.
That is a problem indeed. Everyone expects to not have to install anything and just freeload off of someone else's gateway and still have all the benefits.

If you don't install the client, it's not a decentralized system, you might as well run WordPress and call it a day.
What's your threat model? Maybe a CAPTCHA is not your only or not even a good solution. What about blind users? or with some other disability?

Think: rate-limit, IP rating/scoring, your own filter on messages, etc.
Working makes a lot of people happy. Stop glorifying your preferences and pop wisdom.
It's not obvious to me what "TeXmacs's macro arguments can be edited visually" means at a glance. It seems to mean: after defining a macro, in this case a commutative diagram, you can paste the 'skeleton' of a macro, and fill in arguments in the skeleton rather than having to write out the invocation of the macro. Here, each argument appears several times in the commutative diagram, and the diagram remains 'consistent'; changing an entry in one place changes all of the other entries that the macro defines to be the same. That's pretty neat as an effect, although not something I think I've ever wanted.

On the other hand, the process of defining the macro looks hideously painful, with a separate mouse hunt-and-click just to insert a macro argument. I understand the argument for structured text editing, but does it have to be mouse-driven? That is, do I have to use a mouse to insert macro argument A, or can I just type A within the macro definition, or is there possibly some middle ground where I can just type A, but pre- or post-pend some modifier key? (I've never used TeXmacs, though I've always been interested to give it a try ever since I realised it wasn't just "emacs + TeX"; I'm too wedded to the vim system.)
Scrubbing URL fragments from Sentry crash reports
I've been using it on SailfishOS through Android emulation and even there it's fine. This is on thoroughly mid-range phones.
The units of the graph are cases/day. It's a growth rate. If it stays constant (flat), then the total number of cases will increase in a straight line. If it decreases to zero, the active cases will disappear a few weeks later.
> The small square ones made out of little metal plates that are glued on there like there’s no tomorrow, the ones you are never intended to remove, like the intel one you’ve now seen so many times it’s invisible.

I've never had a problem removing those smaller rectangle stickers, and it's something I do to any computer I buy. For second hand computers there is a problem that you'll be left with a small discoloured patch.

> some of the solvents I used to remove the glue

A tiny drop of oil is usually good to get the glue off.

> Now I just don’t buy computers with ugly spam on them.

I definitely agree! I really do wish they'd stop using those stickers.
The Seismic Response in the UK to the Covid-19 Lockdown
Well at this point it needs to be spread at a rate that keeps the hospitals filled (at say 80% capacity). So it’s probably good that you have people disregarding the lockdown, because at the present rate, it may take a really long time to reach herd immunity (which they say is 80% with immunity).

Of course without widespread and continuous testing for the virus and antibodies, who knows how to achieve that rate.

I actually am getting an antibody test through Quest tomorrow for $119. That way I’ll know if the chest cold and mild fever I had 6 weeks ago (with still lingering cough) was allergy related or the virus.
Disclaimer: this is not my website. I'm not pro or anti vegan or vegetarianism (therefore clearly don't understand how loaded of a conversation this can become).

I posted this because I thought it was interesting. Didn't realize this conversation would devolve. I'll try to post more consciously in the future.
There are some absolutely huge changes in here. And they fixed my (least) favourite bug, which is that Line Height basically didn't work. Not to mention HiDPI. As a Surface Pro user, it's well worth the upgrade.
Perhaps as a library worker, you are more prone to notice articles on HN that have anything to do with libraries.
>Tesla is the auto giant leaving behind all the legacy manufacturers while also branching into energy products

Tesla has sub-1% market share in the global auto market and rapidly declining energy product deployment (they deployed 4x more MW 4 years ago than the did last year). Let's not pretend Tesla has taken over anything yet.
Successful couping seems to be a lost art.
The article says they make their home behind the book shelves of the library, and come out at night.
Ask HN: Will contact tracing lead to a Chinese style social credit system?
From a strictly technical perspective, having society in western countries change to make contact tracing common place, is this setting the stage to make it much easier in the future to implement a social credit system as being used in some Asian countries?
The author states something like:

Use XXX API and deal with bugs, incompatibilities, etc. etc.

What makes him think that this new API will be free of any of things he mentions above? As far as I can see this whole high performance graphics area has always been a wasps nest of various vendors each trying to pull the blanket to their side. I doubt adding "Web" to it will make life any easier.
I love Inkscape, and all I wish for it is to take hints from modern design tools like Sketch and Figma, so it would stop look and feel like it is still in 2005.

Sketch has so many small life-improving tidbits, that combined they make me 50 times more productive when drawing anything, than in Inkscape.
I'm not sure announcing products with no capacity to manufacture them should be considered "innovation".
Those kind of advises would make sense if they were parallel APIs, however neither WebGL 3.0 nor OpenGL 5.0 will happen.
Just FYI: google recaptcha works with screen readers too and blind users can use it.
Way to go ruining another sci-fi movie
If you calculate inflation using the same method they used in the 80s, inflation is currently just as high.
I suspect it has to do with the vast amount of worlds which exist inside the 1000s and 1000s of books. Take that fascination and mix it with our (many who read hn) fascination on how to store, quickly receive, and organize knowledge in better ways–everything from speed to aesthetics.

The people who do work a lot with massive amounts of data may mask what we do in a dry and sterile language, but I’ve noticed that most people who do this have a deeper secret love of knowledge and libraries and wisdom.
Inkscape is one of the most impressive examples of free/libre open-source software (FLOSS). It's developed by a friendly, transparent, well-run community of developers, writers and translators, testers, and designers.

As someone who has used Inkscape for well over a decade on desktop Linux, I continue to be impressed at how nice it is, how well it works, and how much it does. It's really a shining example of not-for-profit software development.

FYI, a short essay on the history of the project was just posted on its website: https://inkscape.org/news/2020/05/04/roots-and-shoots-inksca...
It is a graph of the rate of change of the total number of deaths, in units deaths/day. I.e., the growth rate of the death count. The total number of deaths is approximately the area under the curve, so if the curve stays constant as time goes on, the total area (number of deaths) increases linearly.
Show HN: Fwrap – A standalone CLI to use the right Flutter SDK version
Has to be fanless and new SSD or HDD, or you are buying trouble just to avoid setting up Plex or something.
How does this relate to Google Sheets "Explore" feature I've used it couple times and then got disappointed in one or two ways. But otherwise it helped me to quickly plot and analyse 3k rows.
Only GIMP 3 release left, to finally ditch GTK 2[1] and Python 2[2].

[1] https://wiki.gimp.org/wiki/Roadmap#GIMP_3.0

[2] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/issues/4368
I must say WSL2 has genuinely been huge for me, to the point where I've finally been able to ditch macOS for a desktop with a Ryzen CPU.

Honestly it's mindblowing how far Windows has come - if I were Apple I'd genuinely be scared of losing a large proportion of power-users as Windows becomes an increasingly viable platform for development.
There's a little tear down of how the SCiO works, which might be of interest - https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/scio-pocket-molecular-s...

It seems quite simple, in that it seems to use a light source and looks at the reflection using photodiodes with different lenses on top.

So as I understand it wouldn't perform as well as a spectrometer with diffraction grating and linear CCD, but would be interested to hear from someone knowledgeable about spectrometers about that.

But it does seem to use a simpler principle than a raman spectrometer, I believe this is the general term for the approach it uses - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-infrared_spectroscopy
Ford shares a year's worth of self-driving car data
Paper.js looks the best on my Mac on a 4k monitor 200% scaling. The rectangles in the others look like the are upscaled from a lower resolution. Canvas vs WebGL?
Creating a Choropleth (and Bubble) Map Using JavaScript, on COVID-19 Data
> *eg: once you reached a desirable physical shape, you can switch to 'maintain mode', and focus your energies to something new

It should be noted that this does not apply to intimate relationships. They cannot be shelved and picked up again as you see fit. They require consistency.

I have made the mistake of putting relationships in maintenance mode, and it did not work so well.
Does anyone know if this version of Firefox for Mobile can use self-hosted sync servers (even if using Firefox accounts)?

According to this GH issue[1] it is possible at least for the sync server part (not for the full account management), but I don't know if it made it into a stable release.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/3762
https://archive.is/skzZQ
> I used to rely on Github IP whitelist but one day i realized anyone can hit my Jenkins use Github.

That's a really good point but I guess you are talking about Actions egress right? Webhook in theory have dedicated IP ranges [1] and I think they are not shared with Actions egress, although TBH I haven't tested it.

[1] https://api.github.com/meta
Because hardware vendors don't want one. Lock-in when you are leading your particular niche gives big profits, so companies go for it.

That is why Microsoft, Sony, NVIDIA, Apple, Xilinx, etc. create their own platforms and APIs.
No free lunch, of course. Faster file access with WSL2 (vs WSL1), if you stay in the Linux world. But if you point it at Windows files (/mnt/c, etc), it's pretty slow.

WSL2 just moved the slowness from one side to the other. Accessing the Linux FS from Windows (\\wsl$\) is also slow.

That said, I am a fan, and get a lot of use out of WSL1. Since I don't use the Windows interop much, WSL2 should be a performance win for me.
the most recent one is, "The cost of reopening the economy, in lives", then there is a bunch of stuff that is not relevant and just happens to have the word "economy" in it, in the topic "Covid-19: Impact on business sectors and the economy" there is very little discussion about the economy, people muse about virsuses instead. The only recent other one that doesn't flat out have 0 comments is "Stocks Are Recovering While the Economy Collapses".

Great. I can see why any comment of a person asking to discuss this should be met with so many downvotes they'll get throttled, while everybody else demonstrates their ongoing inability to discuss it, pointing at non-discussions as proof it's been discussed so extensively.

9 days ago, "71 Percent of jobless Americans did not recieve their March unemployment benefit" received 24 comments. Twentyfour! Oh well, I guess the meat is in all those "guerilla subthreads" then.
How does it compare to real Linux distributions? Does it have a package manager? Is it like Debian? What are the limitations?
Whenever I get a new job I optimize for work and stop fitness for awhile. It’s a lot of load to focus on work, and also skip eating what I want (iced coffees, whatever lunch is nearby, etc). I also just want to skip the gym.

I never introduce fitness again until I settle into a new position. This is just optimal for me in terms of dealing with stress.

It’s kind of like refactoring code in a new codebase, takes awhile to settle in and figure out the new routine.
Also, it still runs on older versions back to 10.11
They say they are not making an AAA engine. They are looking for a simple way to get into graphics. They have no need for parallel, low-level APIs.
It's not 1st party. Up to the very recent, the whole SDK was a "LunarG SDK" for a reason - it wasn't 1st party either. It's basically just somebody packing up a bunch of useful libraries together.
> Smoother web development

Last I heard networking/sharing ports didn't work, has that been fixed or is there now a solution?
I’m genuinely unsure what point you’re trying to make.

Can you explain what a made up quote has in common with repeating a quote from the CEO of a famously data driven company on problems with data models?
Have they gotten networking transparency working to the degree that it was on WSL1 yet? I tried an earlier preview of WSL2 and ran into a bunch of issues here.
Exactly, it's a competition between approaches.

Here's a similar graph I like, with days since 100 cases on the x axis, and helpful doubling rate lines: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/infection-trajectory-flatte...
It is a real Debian (or, by default, Ubuntu). Original packages from Debian's servers are used. You're using apt, as usual.
That paints Apple in a wrong light. They agreed on the WebGPU Shading Language proposed by Google (!) (previously called "Tint"). This is something Google is interested in, as well.
That data isn’t about flu. Got anything specific about flu vaccination rates in urban vs. rural areas? The HPV vaccine in particularly is an issue in the culture wars.

That said you’re likely correct. I found this from cdc, with rates by state. At a glance, rural states have lower rates: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/fluvaxview/coverage-1819estimates.ht...

However, this gap could also be due to health system efficacy in general. So unclear if we might expect worse covid results in places with fewer/worse hospitals.
AFAIK Paper.js doesn't support WebGL and uses canvas. WebGL also applies anti-aliasing, which may be a reason of blurring.
Gas stoves making indoor air up to five times dirtier than outdoor air
If you aren't learning interesting and useful things in your current job maybe re-think it. Most people don't want to work >8 hours a day on technology related stuff and you definitely won't have time to sell/solve business problems if you're doing that all the time. Sure it's nice to learn new stuff, but better if there is a reason behind it and short sprints / clear goals
People once envisioned a fantastical future, where energy was practically free, allowing endless possibilities for transport and construction.

What almost nobody predicted is that information would become practically free thanks to the internet....
Thank you for your interesting comments. What does it mean to have another layer?
They are already paying them fairly. People willingly choose to drive for Uber over other things they could do.

If you force Uber to party significantly more then they simply stop doing business. You can have your corrupt taxis back.

It really grinds my gears when people use the terms "pay someone fairly", "stop exploiting them", and "pay them a living wage". These are all terms that on face value seem reasonable - pay someone enough that they can live off of it, but for some reason it's never enough. $34,000 a year puts you in the global top 1% by income. Apparently that's still not enough for many people in the US.
> As other people have mentioned, this was always supposed to be /possible/ it's akin to SSH. Sure, you can avoid some log spam and potential issues by firewalling it off- but it's meant to be possible to run it publicly, it has always been marketed this way so it's not "insane" that people did it.

I'm not blaming anyone, I'm just saying that if you put well-known software facing the Internet you are exposing yourself to more risks than not putting them on the Internet. And for a core infra software as SaltStack I don't really see a good reason to justify it. I don't justify either putting SSH publicly accessible unless you are a really, really small company or an individual.
> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

In this case specifically I'd just use the second half of your comment, the first half just detracts from the message and sounds petty.
Used Inkscape for all pictures on my PhD work and the papers. Love it.
Yup - all works now. If I start rails server I can access localhost:3000 from Firefox on windows, for example.
When talking about tiny 8-bit floats, it does waste a lot: if your exponent is only 3 bits, you've "wasted" 1/8 of all 256 possible values, which is a lot. With normal-sized floats, it's much less of an issue: 1/256 of the billions of possible 32-bit values, and 1/2048 of all possible 64-bit values.

(Also, the real "waste" is only on the multiple NaN values, since the zeros always "waste" only a single value for the "negative zero", and the infinities always "waste" only two values; AFAIK, both negative zero and the infinities are necessary for stability of some calculations.)
WSL2 is a full blown emulator / virtualization solution, so it runs a real linux kernel / distribution. The largest downside to me is no gpu passthrough from the host.
> He's giving almost all of his money to philanthropic causes

His current net worth is $70b, for your statement to be true he would have to give away trillions.
CNN Explainer: Learn Convolutional Neural Network with Interactive Visualization
It is an actual linux distribution. The default is Ubuntu but there are others (Suse, Alpine...)
The “techy libertarians” were the first hanging signs agains hand shaking and warning everybody willing to listen back in January.
Long thins strip of air between aluminum electrodes is electrically excited to produce ultraviolet light, but because it's very long and thin, it starts lasing action (photons travelling along the length of the channel induce air to emit more photons in phase and travelling in the same direction) which produces laser beam. It's essentially ultraviolet laser from projector transparency sheets, some tinfoil and high voltage source.
Anthony Constantinou Covid-19 Update
I edited it, but let me say I don't agree with your policy, because downvoting is reserved for high-score accounts. If it would be open to (almost) everyone, then it would be fine.

In fact, if you think about it, what is "petty" isn't talking about downvoting, but the ability to downvote itself. Flagging is fine, because trolls will always be around.
A react framework for monolithic applications (Golang and other languages)
The $60k Telegram That Helped Lincoln End Slavery
BLE contact tracing sniffer PoC
Scientists say now-dominant strain of coronavirus more contagious than original
That's great news, thinking about replacing my Ubuntu Linux install for Windows and having WSL2 if these changes and performance improvements are accurate. Windows Terminal looks pretty cool too, reminds me of Terminal.app on macOS with blurred backgrounds and theming too.

Very cool blog post!
I dunno. People read "The Dogs of War" and think "I could do that. Hold my beer and watch this!"
1. Open a margin account on Interactive Brokers.

2. Choose a target volatility level you're comfortable with (I like 20%).

3. Buy shares of BRKB. Buy enough such that volatility of your portfolio reaches your target volatility.

4. Every month, update your share amount to maintain the same target volatility.

https://alphaarchitect.com/2019/05/22/volatility-targeting-i...
VM Migration with VMware VMotion: How Does It Work?
Modern times, sure. The United States not so much. If you aren't sure about any other factor, you might want to be born in a society that provides most of its population with the tools they need.
Exact opposite here: if it's a bunch of grey boxes with unnecessary decoration, I feel the program is likely to be badly maintained.
Esports May Be Coming to the Big Screen
You could build a WebAudio synth / node chain with this, it's much better than looking at code.

Or set up CI pipeline with this.

Or in cases when you want end users to set up flows, but they can't code.
> "There are known cases of mass spread that didn't result in unusually high excess deaths"

You used Germany as an example.

Here's the situation in Germany:

Since 13 March, the pandemic has been managed in the protection stage as per the RKI plan, with German states mandating school and kindergarten closures, postponing academic semesters and prohibiting visits to nursing homes to protect the elderly. Two days later, borders to five neighbouring countries were closed. By 22 March, all regional governments had announced curfews or restrictions in public spaces. Throughout Germany, domestic travelling is only authorised in groups not exceeding two people unless they are from the same household. Some German states imposed further restrictions authorising people to leave their homes only for certain activities including commuting to workplaces, exercising or purchasing groceries.[10]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Germany

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Tell me, please, how does this support the idea that mass spread without extreme protective measures (as was the case in January or February) can result in no excess death?
>How are Tesla more innovative than other companies ?

People always seem to compare Tesla technology of tomorrow with what its competitors are doing right now. That's why Volvo "only" has level 3 self-driving, while Tesla has a fleet of robotaxis that are earning you money on its ride-sharing app while you sleep.

I joke, but a large portion of the Tesla fan base has no clue what is going on in the autonomous driving or auto manufacturer world outside of Tesla. Tesla has been a big innovator, but they aren't leaders in everything....not even close.
SciFi creators are also bound by the fact that their creations must be commercial successes. Touching on sensitive social topics can get in the way of that and it's the best way to get a lynch mob at their door. So even if one could have predicted in the '30s anything related to race and gender-related emancipation they would have been buried along with their work. Fancy futuristic tech? Yes, please! Radical social reform ideas? Solid nope.
You can even compile your own custom kernel for it. I've had to do so in order to run some modules that the WSL 2 kernel currently doesn't have.
The Miracle of the Internet Not Breaking
It's still an issue afaik. But, might be because my install is old and it doesn't update that by itself.