skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fitbit open sources IP-based protocol stack over Bluetooth Low Energy
Medium post associated: https://medium.com/indooratlas/why-use-bluetooth-for-contact...
the problem with noncommercial licenses is that there is no commonly accepted definition of commercial. a simple definition of "you receive money for your work" excludes the vast majority of potential users. you get grant money? that's commercial. you post videos on YouTube? that's commercial. and even if it isn't, you may spend a significant amount of money defending a lawsuit. for this reason, any competent lawyer will tell you to stay far away from NC licensed material.
Mass is too difficult for a DIY recipe, specially for small amounts of things or for unusual items. I think it's fine to say "1 tablespoon of salt", but for a small increase of reproducibility I'd prefer a saturated solution.

Here in Argentina the cooking recipes we don't use "cups", we instead use mass for some materials, like flour or sugar, 200 grams of flour is something like a small glass or something. You can buy a measuring glass that has the marks for the common cooking elements like sugar, flour, water, ... assuming a standard density.

Also, the cooking books have a very inaccurate conversion table that says how many grams has a glass full of each material. (For an ideal glass of 250ml probably, my glasses are bigger, something like 300ml or 350ml, so I have to fix the numbers.)
That depends, more prudent companies will have cash on hand (and good credit to borrow more) to buy the less prudent companies at fire sale prices.

A bailout rewards the less prudent companies at the expense of the more prudent ones who cannot take advantage of their junk competition.
> Is it supposed to expand, cartoonishly, beyond the confines of the existing bar, when you select it for input?

Yes.
WSL gives you a full Linux distro. You can use Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, from the top of my head. These are default options. There are others available. Additionally, you can bootstrap to other distros. I know Arch was an early target.

WSL1 replaced the init process. For Ubuntu, at least, snaps were not enabled, at least out of the box. There were occasional issues early on where the syscall translation was not perfect. For me, at least, these were all ironed out after a few revisions. Unsure if there were still edges I didn't hit.

WSL2 takes advantage of virtualization technology, so should be an even better Linux experience.
List of economy and covid related threads, excluding articles that apparetnly criticise opening

* U.S. Economy Shrinks at 4.8% Pace, Signaling Start of Recession

* Coronavirus-afflicted global economy is almost certainly in recession

* Bolsonaro fires health minister, calls to reopen economy

* Covid-19: Impact on business sectors and the economy

* Germany's Covid-19 expert: 'For many, I'm the evil guy crippling the economy'

* US factory orders plunge 14.4% as economy grinds to halt

* US GDP shrank 4.8% in Q1 as the coronavirus dragged the economy into recession

* JPMorgan-economy contracting by 40% in second quarter, unemployment reaching 20%

* Coronavirus Ravages China’s Economy–and It’s Just Getting Started

* Trump faces 'biggest decision' on re-opening economy

* Ray Dalio: What coronavirus means for the global economy

* To save the US economy, policymakers need to understand small business 101
You can run various Debian distros. It works like it should. You can run an x server and get a GUI as well.
They pulled one in Bolivia just last year.
Unless you're in CUDA, then it's a "kernel." But in OpenCL it's still a "compute shader"?

Oy vey
From what I understand, there is a discharge along the length of the electrodes which would excite the medium (air) in the gap. Now photons are being emitted randomly in all directions. This means also in direction along the gap. This is important since these photons will interact with more of the excited medium and thereby stimulate emission of additional photons, leading to 'lasing'. As long as there are excited molecules (or atoms) left, this is a self-amplifying process. (Lasers are basically clever contraptions to keep these excited states populated)

Notice that there is no resonator with mirrors at each end as you would see in other lasers.

It is also a UV laser which means you can not see the beam without it interacting with a substance that can convert UV to visible light. That's dangerous because you could inadvertently look into the beam (via reflections from somewhere in the lab!) and take eye damage.
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Friend's father was like that (and a very successful man). He died at 52 from a heart attack while running...
Using passport verification of the project, can be a real person verification interface.
Shipping compiled shaders is a feature request that pops up from time to time in gfx-rs land [1]. So far, we have been skeptical about this. Something like a serializable pipeline cache would help, but not entirely solve the shipping binary size. Although, is it really important? "Hello Triangle" may be a few megs, but the code for shader translation is a constant addition to it, so extrapolating this 5.2Mb value is not useful.

Currently, both Dawn and wgpu-native use SPIRV-Cross for translation of shaders. The plan is for both is to migrate to in-house translation. In case of wgpu, that would be Naga [2]. Sometime in the future, you could be able to include it with only WGSL -> AIR (Apple's shader IR) code path compiled in, without anything else. Could be good enough for the code size? :)

[1] https://github.com/gfx-rs/gfx/issues/3117
[2] https://github.com/gfx-rs/naga
I use Inkscape from a long time, and it's generally a very good experience. The only thing I tried to do recently that didn't work was to open an .eps file provided by Google (the official Google Play button - they do not have .svg files, but even Apple has for their App Store). It couldn't directly open the file, I searched for tools to convert it but nothing worked. The only program that could open it was Adobe Illustrator, from there I could export it to .svg. I'd hope Inkscape could open .eps files AND Google to provide a open standard format for their vector files.
This is the exact reason why I use Brave on IOS, it has built-in adblocking that works really well.
The 1.0 version for macOS is a preview release and it still has performance issues, but performance fixes are coming, according to the macOS download page. Honestly, I'm so blown away with the beautiful native macOS support that I'm perfectly content to wait a bit longer for better performance.
It sounds fancy but it's just a VM with a bit more polished Windows integration.
or, you’re like me if you imagine yourself to be this person who’s good at all the things, and become exhausted just thinking about it...
Yeah, I saw on reddit last month a possible insurance scam in which 3500 rental cars caught fire in an overflow parking lot in florida because they are all sitting around unused [0].

[0]: https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/05/us/airport-fires-cars-trnd/in...
> fundamental cause of the decline is the English Wikipedia’s increasingly narrow attitude as to what are acceptable topics and to what depth those topics can be explored, combined with a narrowed attitude as to what are acceptable sources, where academic & media coverage trumps any consideration of other factors.

This is a result of the state/traditional media asserting more control over internet propaganda. Year by year, what is acceptable on wikipedia, forums, social media, etc have narrowed. Followed by the strong arming of these tech companies into privileging authoritarian/authoritative sources.

Look at what happened to youtube. There was a time when they had great recommendations and you could go into a "deep dive" of youtube for hours. Now, the recommendations has no depth and focused on "late night shows", establishment news and pre-screened content. Google search is no better. Reddit is just advertisement/pr ( celebrity X donated 5 masks to a hospital ) garbage and propaganda.

It's pretty impressive how easily and quickly a handful of "bankrupt" news companies could control trillion dollar tech companies. What you could write, say, etc and what you could watch, hear, etc has been limited in just few years. And the trend doesn't seem to be stopping. Just 10 years ago, nobody could've predicted this could happen.
> E.g. using vim as editor, the modified file is actually written as a new file under the same filename.

I don't know much about the internal workings of vim, but I do know two things:

1) I use vim exclusively (on linux anyway).

2) I have been bitten by this exact problem.

I guess I can understand why bash works this way.. it means that it can handle arbitrarily long scripts without having to read the entire script into memory at once. But purely from an everyday usability perspective, this is a really bad design decision. Anyone know if there's a way to force it to read the whole script into memory on startup?
> Those pain points were solved in WSL 2 by embedding a whole first-party Linux VM inside Windows

Wait so now it's just a regular Linux virtual machine? I thought it was a thin translation layer between the kernels? Kinda not as impressive now.
Surreal. One couldn't make this stuff up.

I mean, if I were watching one of those brainless action movies late at night and a bunch of tough mercenaries paused to post a tweet about their secret plan to overthrow a government, I would think the plot had turned so unrealistic that I would have to stop watching. There's a limit to how much one can suspend disbelief.

The thoughts on my mind now are:

Is this really real? Could it be a hoax? For humanity's sake, let's hope it's a hoax. But apparently, yes, this is real, and no, it doesn't seem to be a hoax.

So... what, exactly, were these people thinking?
Check out GunDB as a replacement for Firebase.
It might be really difficult to avoid runtime shader translation without some other solution (e.g. populating pipeline caches ahead of time).

For example, to provide MSL, there needs to be assumptions about exactly which MSL version is supported, all possible values of specialization constants if the MSL version is less than 1.2, all the details of which pipeline layouts will be used at runtime, etc. and all of these also have to match the internal logic used in Dawn or wgpu.

There's some more discussion about this in gfx and wgpu, e.g. https://github.com/gfx-rs/gfx/issues/3117#issuecomment-57045...
NARRATIVE VIOLATION ALERT

I'm actually from Ogden, and I love it so much. The population is probably about 33% hispanic.

https://www.ogdencity.com/1466/Demographics

I love hackers like this. So awesome to see.
Could you please stop breaking guidelines by commenting on downvotes? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Three things:

1. What you find interesting might not interest others; if you want to force a discussion on someone, call a hotline;

2. The comment wouldn’t have been heavily downvoted if it weren’t written in this “I’m woke and you sheeple aren’t” tone. (I didn’t even downvote that one for the record.)

3. Vote swings are a thing.

Also, just for your info, “so many downvotes...” a comment can be downvoted five times before it’s dead, so any non-dead comment hasn’t attracted a lot of downvotes. “They’ll get throttled” that’s nonsense, throttling is based on thread depth and comment frequency, not votes.
"Instead of asking whether someone is gritty, we should ask when they are."
I think you have still multiple options here. You could contact the FSFE, use the channels they usually on (IRC, Riot/Matrix, Friendica, Mastodon etc.).

Try to contact other hackerspaces (https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/Poland). Mostly they can help out with stuff which could be needed in the long run.

What equipment do you have? 3D Printers, Sewing machines etc? You could make masks. That would be needed and is good publicity.

Make a nice website and emphasize on the benefits of membership (own jabber/slack/whatever account, email, cheaper seminar fees and so on).

What is your focus? Do you a theme (like spaceship or just makerspace?). Concentrate on that. Just ask for help with different stuff. If people see they can contribute to something then i think they will come.

Well just my two cents.
Hm, okay. That doesn't sound impressive anymore.
This is simply not believable at face value. The author's article history is a party-line, narrative-embraced point of view (Trump is ready to gamble with American Lives, Honor Labor by compensating it, Feminism should make you uncomfortable, et al). That doesn't make her wrong obviously, but it indicates an inclination towards group-think I find untoward.

Regardless, even if the presented facts are "true" (whatever that means), there simply must be more to the story.
Yep. Apache beam with fraud detection heuristics.
What are you saying, that the font was rendered too small? This is a configuration problem.

You might consider setting your browser's default font size to something appropriate for your DPI.
Big fan of WSL, get power of Windows and the full power of Linux combined. Can easily switch between gaming and development.
Asking for a friend, would such a thing disrupt the connection between his neighbor's phone and said neighbor's Bluetooth speaker when he puts it next to his fence in the garden?
I think you could use a bit of reading up on real modern linguistics.
Here's the thing: either you're simply naive to the tactics of anti-vaxxers and unaware that your comments play into their hand, or you're actively advancing their interests.

Yes, it's important to consider the risks of any medical treatment. Your comments make it seem like that hasn't been done, as if doctors and public health officials are just pretending that side effects don't exist. That's simply untrue -- rigorous clinical trials and careful reporting mean that modern vaccines are really quite safe. When you lucidly compare the incidence of side effects against the impact of contracting illnesses that vaccines prevent, there is only one reasonable position to take.

Your initial comments about thiomersal are pure FUD. You acknowledge that there's not real medical concern there, but choose to bring it up anyway? What could your motivation possibly be? If you'd like to discuss it objectively, here's how to do it: Someone with a financial interest who is no longer allowed to practice medicine falsified data in an effort to mislead the public about a supposed danger of a preservative in vaccines. Many people siezed onto that lie, despite the clear evidence that it was flawed, and continue to espouse it, causing lasting damage to society.

> So you act when damage is possible, long before there's conclusive evidence.

The damage that's real here is the damage caused by anti-vaxxers. That's actual damage that's caused harm to real people in the real world. Your comments help advance that agenda, which is why they are harmful.
There were 4 "standard" distros in the Microsoft store IIRC
K, do you even know what you're talking about when you bring up market-oriented JSON-oriented delivery subscriptions? I mean, c'mon...
Cloudflare recently moved away from Google's reCAPTCHA to hCaptcha.

Announcement: https://blog.cloudflare.com/moving-from-recaptcha-to-hcaptch...
Discussion on HN:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22812509
A just in time compilation technique for server-side rendering
I've done exactly that. I had some issues with WSL but WSL2 does what I need it to do. Specifically what I need it to do is cross-compile the linux kernel (among other things) for embedded devices. This works flawlessly.

Almost all my work has moved to WSL - the remaining bit (like UART and JTAG access) could be done with better USB support. So I'm definitely hoping for that!
> Then on the flip side in the Bay Area we have a bunch of tech workers, working from home and being comfy yelling that we cannot open up businesses and everyone is going to die that goes out.

Based on polls, most Americans are for shelter in place and are afraid of economy opening up too soon. The people who are for opening are not concentrated within groups who lost jobs, but are rather spread out over the society.

The thing about lower paid workers is that they are also the most affected by Covid, most likely to get it, more likely to die from it and more likely to know someone who dies. More affected by healthcare price too if they dont die but merely need hospital. You can see that in stats from New Yourk too - middle class people able to work from home and just not as much affected as those who work in low paid jobs.

The place where I see most pressure for opening economy is HN - Bay Area tech workers. People here dont work in meat plants nor in essential services nor in Amazon. Their employers wont have them working in close proximity with other people even when those are having symptoms. They wont get Covid and wont spread it to elderly relatives regardless of whether economy is open or not.
We do a really good job of outsourcing slavery to colony nations.
Yeah don't get too excited, it's just a VM. The disk usage doesn't automatically shrink with usage, and I'm not sure if RAM does either (interested in knowing if they've done anything related to that), which were what I found most useful about WSL1. I wish they'd instead put all their effort from this into legitimately fixing the issues in WSL1 instead.
Works for me, what's not mobile friendly about it?
They say GPU passthrough is on the backlog in their post build FAQ. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/wsl-2-post-build-...
Llama antibodies can beat SARS-type viruses
https://archive.vn/Bgd6T
Congratulations! I've been using you for at least a decade, been more user friendly for me than Illustrator with as many features and only getting better. Thanks!
https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/15/why-dropbox-decided-to-dro...
I've also switched from Mac to a Ryzen desktop. So far the experience has been extremely good and performance is amazing. Been working with clojure and react native on WSL2 several months now.

I didn't want it to be this way though. Apple has been continuously pushing out laptops that are not what I want. My Mac is also notifying me nonstop about 2FA authentication and iCloud storage, and I can't seem to turn those off. I used to eagerly await their keynote events to see what cutting edge innovations they will announce. There have been none I care about since Steve passed.

The lack of a decent modern laptop (I just want a proper keyboard without touchbar, some ports, with a decent cooling system) and MacOS becoming more buggy and annoying has pushed me to find an alternative.

WSL1 did not cut it for me, but WSL2 has taken Apple out of my mind entirely with regards to my development environment.
Maybe, but just the last August bootcamp of new hires was north of 100 people. If Airbnb wanted to do this for a while, I'd imagine they would have hired less even around then.
> If you have critical risks that only engineers can understand, then you have extremely poor engineering leadership.

Or extremely incompetent PMs. I've had one PM be confronted with the documentation of something where it clearly said "don't do this, it's wrong and will ruin everything" (which, totally by coincidence, is what he was told by someone on the team before). He still demanded it to be done because he had heard a talk at some conference where that was recommended. It took getting the CEO into the issue via back channels to clear that out.

Imho the percentage of PMs, POs etc that have no clue what they are doing is much, much higher than in any technical role. If they're good at bullshitting, they can usually talk their way out of being blamed for their failure and switch to a different company later.
Do you think the team is opposed, unaware, or starved for development resources?

Inkscape isn't "it". It's "us".
You also need tons of work on top of steroids to bodybuilding. Steroids by themselves don’t get you big. you can all the anabolics in the world and remain farT.

All these examples are very poor, bending reality to prove cliche folk wisdom, it’s actually kinda funny.
OT: is that level difference to baseline in the logo intended?
Lots of love expressed here about Inkscape and GIMP.

I am curious - does anyone here use Krita? How does it compare to either? What is its place in the graphics toolbox?
Librarians are the original data scientists.
It's not quite a regular VM, like what users themselves can create, but deeply integrated. But it's based upon Hyper-V, that's correct.

It is technically less impressive, but much easier to maintain and stay compatible for Microsoft.
University research group here.

Simply, _cost_

Our compute servers crunch numbers and data at > 80% util.

Our servers are optimized for the work we have.

They run 24/7 picking jobs from queue. Cloud burst is often irrelevant here.

They deal with Terabytes or even Petabytes of moving data. I’d cry paying for bandwidth costs if charged €/GB.

Sysadmin(yours truly) would be needed even if it were to be run in the cloud.

We run our machines beyond 4 years if they are still good at purpose.

We control the infra and data. So, a little more peace and self-reliance.

No surprise bills because some bot pounded on a S3 dataset.

Our heavy users are connected to the machines at a single hop :-) No need to go across WAN for work.
At step 1 I was half expecting this to go towards /r/wallstreetbets and some terrible jokes.
How is that working out?

One challenge it seems ever locale is dealing with is a large faction of people who cannot see the forest for the trees, so to speak. It seems everywhere I've lived, there are large factions of folks who cite individual trees in their neighborhoods as fodder to shoot down environmental projects.

I've seen light rail, bus lines, and other public transit; bike and pedestrian facilities like sidewalks; dense sustainable housing on transit corridors; PV and passive solar energy projects; contaminant removal and other soil/water quality mitigation efforts; and a slew of other projects backed by environmental organizations and non-profits get shut down because of neighbors defending individual trees. It's gotten to the point where I've become very cynical towards efforts to "save the trees" because so often it means "save the trees in my direct viewshed, even if it means cutting down hundreds of trees outside of town to build sprawling subdivisions there instead."

Are there places that are getting this balance to be healthier? Fostering a love for an urban canopy while also a general recognition that some trees coming down is necessary to repair ecologically poor planning decisions of the past 70 years or so?
Very cool. Reminds me of the times in middle/high school when I used to hunt down computer repair shops and scavenge old or spoilt dvd/cd drives to build lasers. The diodes harvested from drives that could write to disks were powerful enough to burn through black tape and even light matches! All you needed was an LM317T voltage regulator and a housing for the diode if my memory serves my correctly. Fun times, as long as you stayed safe :)
Here's the diagram - https://i.redd.it/po98dksksjx21.png

It's only running alongside Windows in the sense that it's running in Hyper-V, which Windows itself effectively does when you have Hyper-V enabled. What is special about this Linux build is that it's specifically made for running alongside Windows since it needs to integrate with the Explorer and other Windows components[0].

0: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/shipping-a-linux-...
Ansible (originally known as "Fedora Unified Network Controller" or "func") was made for solving the problems automating Fedora Infrastructure.

Puppet did not make Fedora Infrastructure administrators happy. So func was designed around solving their problems, and expanded its scope as people found it useful. Then it was renamed to Ansible, the developers left Red Hat to create AnsibleWorks, and the rest is history!

So yes, it was made for sysadmins. :)
X410 is an X server that works so far very well with my WSL (1).