skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Don’t use gnome

This kind of response, though, gets to the core of why desktop Linux isn't a super popular choice. The defaults should _work_. Most popular Linux distributions use GNOME by default. We should fix GNOME rather than say people should know they need to not use it. If using KDE is the obvious solution to the plurality of problems someone might encounter, why isn't KDE the default for most distros? I'm sure there are political reasons too, but those are reasons that matter to the end user just as much as technical ones. They are, in fact, indistinguishable from that perspective.

Even if the solution is KDE (or something else), a person who switched will find that KDE itself has issues as well, and when someone encounters them, they will complain and be told to not use KDE, use GNOME because it doesn't have that issue. We can't continuously flip flop stacks just because we encounter particular bugs.

> maybe it’s a bug with the widget toolkit the app is using?

I assume that's GTK, and it's possible. I see the bug in Firefox, Chrome, and GNOME's terminal, although strangely not VSCode.
> I think the general opinion of both the Chicago and Austrian schools is that efforts to internalize externalities are generally a bad idea, and in the Austrian case specifically wrong on principal.

Would be news to me, feel free to cite.
Docker is not meant to be used for security.
Before leaving on my morning hike, I cleaned up some storage, getting 50G free on my MacBook, and downloaded the 9G installer while I was hiking. It turns out that I was still about 12G short in required disk space.

I mention this to save other people from lost effort.

A question: lots of my 256G of storage is taken up by remote mobile storage in ~/Library. If there an easy way to tell macOS to temporarily not keep local copies, and get them back later from iCloud?
I just did, and the first 6 answers do not really clear it up.

Do you have a specific source that can explain it?
My best guess is that this is a recruitment tool. GS has historically relied on a roster of digital agencies to do any sort of consumer-facing design. They've been trying to grow their in-house practice with mixed results. It's the same trend as the last recession. They can lure talent by offering a lot of money, but no with a creative itch is going to spend their career at a bank.
Yes, I’m going to downvote you, but only because you misunderstand how ad blocking works. uBlock does marginally slow down webpage render because it has to inject CSS rules (cosmetic filters) to improve blocking quality. If you don’t want this feature, you can disable cosmetic filtering entirely within uBlock’s settings.

The problem with AdGuard is that they charge for system-wide blocking which can be done for free with a hosts file or pi-hole.
GitHub new UI for repositories. More round and code is not in the center
Soli Sandbox
I've been a full-time Mac user for nearly 20 years and I'm kind of with jablan here. :)
Show HN: Create a timeline for realworld events, follow other timelines
Is the incestuous detail significant/material to the story or just eyecatching clickbait hooks?
Not many people discuss this. I have wondered as you do, "is a large reason there are more male CEOs etc because men as a group make bad life decisions more frequently than women?".

Anyone who has worked for a few years quickly understands that a large factor driving who makes it to the top is: Has said person made the choice to do an insane amount of work for a long time, to the detriment of almost everything else in life.

After working for a few years most people simply decide they don't want that. An educated guess suggests: what is given up + the chances of making it to the very top = bad decision.

(concrete example: Tim Cook - wow his life looks just awful to me, and he "made it" big time.)
Do you recall the title which contained the aforementioned apocryphal text?
> but chose to act like an idiot

Do people choose to have panic attacks? There are lots of documented cases of people who have panic attacks on planes and flip out. Are they "idiots" in your mind?
I don't understand how you can get anything done without fighting windows nonsense proprietary tools.
Another benefit is that the project pages seem to load faster than before (and _much_ faster than GitLab's project pages)
The F-Droid version is built by the F-Droid build machine, not me, so it has a different signature. If you have the Google Play release installed then Android will only allow upgrades that are signed by me. If you uninstall the Google Play version then you should be able to install the F-Droid version
Millions of preventable deaths? Do you have a source handy? I’m wondering how that aligns with the latest data.
> Linux is only free if your time has no value

Hah, that's great. I'll have to tuck that one away.
Vagrant gives this for dev environments.
People are cancelling their NYT subscriptions over this. I don't know how many, but a campaign to mass un-subscribe could be successful.

I also imagine that if he was doxxed and wasn't able to make a living as a psychiatrist anymore, many people here would probably fund him through patreon, or purchasing books or whatever.
I was looking for dev/production specs for QuestDB the other day and didn't see them in the docs. Being that it's in Java, which can be quite memory-hungry, what's the minimum and recommended RAM/CPU required to run it?
I love how reporting on the increasing number of cases in a pandemic that has caused over 120,000 American deaths can somehow be "for the clicks".
I honestly can't. And in any case, the real test is the individual characters in isolation.
"but are killed by police at more than twice the rate of white Americans"

That's a slightly confusing wording. More whites are killed by police than blacks, but due to the difference in the general population, the proportion of blacks killed by police is about 2-3X.

Nothing makes a police murder rate "acceptable" in the abstract, we should always try to improve on it, assuming we don't make something else worse. For instance, if we eliminate police, we will eliminate murders by police. But murders by others might increase by even more (I say "might" because it's hard to get exact numbers, so I'm just speculating), which would be a net loss.

The point about domestic murders is a good one, but I'm not sure if that applies to high-crime areas very well. For instance, over 100 people were shot in Chicago last weekend, and 14 died.
They are, but that number represents U.S. flights only and is pretty grossly underestimated. Flight volume hasn't changed significantly, but the passenger volume is way down which is a good thing for our purposes. There were 64,523 flights on March 29th (around the peak of the initial wave of lockdowns), compared to 154,000 back in January of this year. I'm using a dumpster fire of a source (Forbes) for those numbers but they can be found here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/gabrielleigh/2020/03/30/the-num...

Even if global flights slowed to post-2001 levels, we'd still be capturing vastly more data than the ~300 or so commercial imaging satellites. Our margins are fairly wide in that sense.
Thanks! Years now, though the project that has gained traction lately is HomelabOS. https://homelabos.com/

Not really serving industry, self-hosters and home-labbers.
Pre-existing! It's a fork of willamt's https://github.com/willemt/raft/, which has been around since 2013, and has property-based fuzz testing! It really does look like it's got its own extensive tests; I'm surprised we found issues.
Apple working with DuckDuckGo for Safari tracking prevention
Which of these changelog entries are you referencing?

https://github.blog/changelog/
Here's some recent threads where this was already asked:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22534520

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13721664

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16050294

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20204018
Can I reverse-proxy ports to paths?
Everybody must make some big chooses and commit to development path. Risks are huge. Intel chose not to use EUV and it was the wrong one.

People forget that 2 out of 4 companies failed in this round. It was not just Intel. GF completely quit the race of high-end microprocessor nodes in the middle of development.
Plenty of violence and impunity in European polices, especially in France, you don't hear about it because death are rare, but there is plenty of abuse that goes unpunished. women are getting raped in precincts in France for instance. The only reason one of these cases got out is because the victim was a Canadian woman and France couldn't cover it up this time.
People have been saying that MacOS was going to be App Store only eventually for over a decade.
I think people aren’t good at understanding statements that are not actionable or offer them no immediate benefits.
I do, and being a Mac user on Steam sucks. Epic is even worse.

Apple doesn't seem to be particularly worried about it.

For all the hate dumped on Mac as being a "toy" computer, it is a terrible gaming computer. I use it to do work.
United States vs. Swartz
You couldn't in 2018 either: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17384703

Nor could you in 2008: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=353731
Has a broken github link in website.

Actual link https://github.com/agrinman/tunnelto
Not too great.

Have been working on a startup idea as a solo developer for some time and everything was on track. MVP was almost complete and had a verbal agreement with an investor for a pre-seed investment which was going to allow me to fund a solid team (the team was ready to go as well). Then the pandemic hit. Investor bailed out, my personal savings got dried up as I've been funding myself for some time and bills started piling up.

Still pushed forward, got the MVP ready and collected some solid leads to reach out to. Yet, beyond this it's all pitch black as I got to find freelance gigs to pay the rent - which is not going well either - meanwhile pursuing clients, doing development, doing marketing, fixing bugs and a whole bunch of other things for my startup. It's a constant stream of fires that are waiting to be put out.

Have never been one to quit and don't think I will this time either but just giving up, giving up everything looks way too attractive.

Throwaway, because I don't really feel comfortable talking about these issues publicly. Thank you OP for asking, had been looking for an opportunity to vent. Hope we'll all pull through these terrible times.
Unless you’re building a social app for the connected youth, I can’t imagine a more negative signal for a mobile app than to be associated with Snapchat. Even Facebook can be quite dubious, but at least they have users in all demographics.
In case anyone is unfamiliar, on a mac in chrome or safari (not firefox for some reason) on any article, a double tap with two fingers on any row of text will smoothly zoom the page so the text takes up the exact width of the window - effectively hiding the margins while preserving the formatting of the text (ie. not reflowing the text)
The median user who sees their computer as a means to an end is using Windows and saves $300+ doing so and ends up with a computer that stays cool even if it clogs up with dust after a while.
> this is not about reform.

Agreed.

> it’s about having another bullet point on some stupid list to please the voters

Agreed.

> some of the same voters that were so disoriented to understand that obamacare is aca.

Disagreed.

The H1B system as it exists is not easily defensible, so Trump is basically unconstrained. It's easier to defend a system against executive abuse when the system is working as intended. There are things that Trump would like to kill by XO but which he will not kill because their popularity constrains his political capital. The less popular/functional a program is, the easier it is to justify screwing with it.

You're saying that other commenters don't realize this is a political issue. I think it's exactly the other way around: you don't realize how much political support for skilled immigration H1B abuse has burned in the past 10ish years.
Meh. I still can’t find most apps for my iPhone that I had on my mac. Sure there are lots of “webpages but in objective-c with notifications“ and the occasional interesting project that disappears after 2 years because the developer can’t work full time to keep up with API churn, but lots of arguably critical stuff is just missing.

There’s no IRC client with working notifications that doesn’t cost money.

I haven’t found a working gvim port (occasionally broken ones show up.)

I haven’t found an ssh client I like (has key support, has sftp support, has a vte that doesn’t suck) (and no, ish doesn’t count. I shouldn’t have to reinstall my stuff after having my files deleted with no warning every couple weeks.) This is pretty bad for an OS that’s been around for over a decade. I’m pretty sure both palm OS and windows had decent ssh clients after 10 years.

I haven’t found a replacement for wish (which is super useful for flinging together a quick GUI app when someone needs one)

There’s nothing that really replaces AppleScript (shortcuts is more like the goofy graphical automation thing OS X had that uses the same API)

There’s no Arduino IDE

There’s no sync thing port or anything that could even replace it.

No BitTorrent client, no useful mail clients (none of them can download mail in the background) no good alternative podcast/rss clients (see mail) no cron.

And of course lots of little tiny (and some not so tiny) shell utilities that are trivially easy to find on OS X are at best reimplemented badly in awkward apps and more often totally unavailable.

The Mac App Store is more empty than the iOS store but both are nothing compared to the OSX software library.
So Apple changed their OS numbering system. Is there any more significance to this event?
This is super nice, congratulations on building and releasing it.
It's great that you've got so many decent icons but I find having to go into my profile to choose icon sets a bit unintuitive, I only found that option by blind luck.
Also please implement a collapse all for the icon groups.
Not mountains, but California landmarks.
Because the files already looked fine for the most part. Assuming the JPEG is sensibly encoded the human eye probably won't be able to detect the quality improvements in a different algorithm.

So the only place they can target is where JPEG starts to break down: When you've cranked the quality knob down to 20 and you're seeing macroblocks and other artifacts in the image. But this is a niche use case as network speeds continue to improve every year.

The worst part is that they have to compete with free, and that's never easy, especially if you're talking about "well, it's still distorted, but the distortion is less displeasing to the eye", also you need to configure some pain in the ass licensing system and work out how to do the payments.
HN (and many, MANY other sites, including forums, product reviews, search engines) confuses "popularity" with "quality". If there was one thing on the Internet I could fix by waving a magic wand, it would be this idea that more people [liking|linking|upvoting] something means it is better. Crowdsourced curation doesn't work.
The article covers DNA sequencing that proves that part of the myth. The cultural implications are also discussed.
It's true if you want to run GUI apps more complex than xeyes (anything that draws text)
What a poor design, yikes. Did they seriously just use an off the shelf 'responsive' template and not think twice? We are programmers, this is code - give me information density!
I still much prefer Safari so I spent like $2 on an ad-blocker, not as good as ublock but my overall experience is still the best IMO.
I think “let it burn” was either meant figuratively or in the sense that the police won’t prevent arson.

I don’t think the implication was that police should be putting out fires once started, or that they’re doing that but selectively.
There’s a lot more options for high end laptops for Linux.
I compressed "I am going to work outside today," then put the compressed output in Google Translate. Google translated the Chinese characters back to English as "raccoon."
I don't think the solution is to break them up, but instead to give people back control of their data
Actually, I think that sort of reinforces the point: Europeans don't really treat their minorities better than their Americans, but their minorities are more, well, minor, so the problems are much more invisible. The "undesirable" minorities in the US (i.e., blacks and Hispanics) make up about ⅓ of the population, while corresponding "undesirable" minorities in European countries tend to be around the 10% range.
This is pretty much SOP (Delay, frustrate, cover) to a greater or lesser degree, for every police force that I have ever encountered.
Occasionally an overtly 'bad' apple is sacrificed, unwillingly.
Actually a majority of the (popular) vote did go to his opponent, but because of historical vagaries that majority didn't translate into a win for his opponent.
Yep, CS also already has their own font.
Is it a power-grab or an attempt by individuals to gain social status?

I think that it has all those trappings, but underneath is a deep addiction to anger, outrage and the rush of adrenaline that accompanies it.

There is also a sort of religiosity that your comment alludes to.

>Various thinkers have pointed out that leftism is a
kind of religion. Leftism is not a religion in the strict sense because leftist doctrine does not postulate the existence of
any supernatural being. But, for the leftist, leftism plays a
psychological role much like that which religion plays for
some people. The leftist NEEDS to believe in leftism; it
plays a vital role in his psychological economy. His beliefs
are not easily modified by logic or facts. He has a deep
conviction that leftism is morally Right with a capital R,
and that he has not only a right but a duty to impose leftist morality on everyone.
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> I'm amazed by the daft things people believe about Covid.

So are we all I'm sure, and I'm sure we all hold contrary views on some of the things we are amazed at other people believing. Degree of amazement in no way determines correctness of your own views.

> I just can't tell if foreign agitators helped it along, or if it didn't need any help.

Don't think it needed help personally.
> Just because Trump is saying something does not mean it is false - a large part of how he gained such a following is from tapping into a lot of real frustrations that people have.

Contrary: A majority of his statements have been proven false.
P.Z. Myers has been a bullshit generator for several years now. Here's him on Steven Hsu:

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/06/18/look-for-...

Money quote:

> I’m with Kevin Bird. Seeing the oppressive capitalist foundations of American wealth inequality getting shaken up is a good start. It’s not quite the change we saw with the fall of the Berlin Wall, though — we’re going to need to see Wall Street dethroned from its power and influence on government to be comparable.
On the flip side: does anyone still buy a low-specced machine and upgrade it mid-lifecycle? I've seen it less and less over the last 6 years and the last 2 years it hasn't happened in any work setting.

I know people like to have the feeling of control (do you really control your laptop if you can't replace your EC, CSME, AGESA, SSD FW, NIC FW, VBIOS) and the concept of shuffling parts around, but the need for that (at least in my circle) has pretty much faded.
And add the -b commandline flag to enable the memory and bounds checker.
Civil asset forfeiture only matters for personal property. Private property, such as investments, stakes in ventures, and so on, is not affected by civil asset forfeiture. I've never seen anyone have their business seized without trial, but people have had their houses destroyed without trial.
I don't like it. I thought the old layout was pretty much perfect, no need to change anything.
scripts on my computer with full access to ~/Documents/ ... Nobody cares if you break root and hack system binaries

This is exactly it. Unix is a multi-user system trying to cope in a single-user world and it's not working. The Unix threat model is students on a university mainframe trying to break into each other's accounts. It's totally unprepared for a world of single-user devices where non-technical people want to run untrusted software.
This reminds me of "Genchi Genbutsu" or "Go and See". Very basically it means there's incredible value in direct observation. Telemetry can help, but sometimes you have to schlep your actual human body to a place where another person is to see what they are seeing. Obviously this is much harder these days.

I think of the inverse as taking someone on a journey. You can't tell people anything, but you can give them context and show them things and maybe they will learn part of it.
In 1992 the military was used to put an end to the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles.

There is a spectrum between peaceful protesting and violent insurrection. Burning down police stations, murdering police officers, and stealing rifles from police vehicles is very, very far down the line to violent insurrection. In retrospect I don’t think we were quite there, but we were getting close to it. And ultimately, one of the purposes of the military is to protect our republic from violent insurrection.
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i don't understand your point about random npm account holders running their scripts on your computer?
> You can blame NYT but at least they have a clear policy, whether you agree with it or not.

Given that NYT has been happy to preserve Banksy's anonymity in their reporting, or that of Virgil Texas, their policy certainly isn't clear to me.
So you want to become a senior engineer?
- WebP was initially released in 2019

+ WebP was initially released in 2010
I live in Palo Alto - last weekend I cycled past some sort of art festival in downtown Los Altos.

There were hundreds of people packed together looking at and touching art.

There was a big sign that 'we'd get through this together'.

They're also opening up farmers markets.

I think we're going to see the number of cases rise again.
Cool project :) How would you compare QuestDB against TimescaleDB?
Since they've found a lot of ancient DNA there are many more questions that they should be able to answer.

One is how closely related were these neolithic people to modern Irish people and/or ancient DNA from later Irish populations. There are intriguing parallels between the story told by the DNA and Irish mythology about the origins of the Irish people, but I'm not exactly sure what the best way to match them up is. Knowing to what extent the passage tomb builders contributed their DNA to later populations might shed more light on that question.

A second question is since these neolithic Irish kings shared two relatively uncommon cultural traits with the Egyptian Pharaoh's: first degree incest and a strong interest in monumental architecture, and since both groups were near contemporaries (on a multi-millenial timescale anyway) , it would be very interesting to know if the two were genetically related in any way.
Will be interesting to see what happens in the next two weeks. Certainly most places have handled the bumps well so far, but some have not e.g. Texas hospitalizations are up
I'm curious if there's research into "better" primitives in Programming Languages in order to simplify writing distributed systems, analogous to how concurrency primitives beyond Mutexes, Semaphores, and Condition Variables (like Futures, Monitors, etc. or approaches such as Actors) can greatly simplify logic and enhance one's ability to reason about code. Or things like the Rust borrow checker.

The closest thing I'm aware of is TLA+.
The Segway Is Officially Over