skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unsure why the blog article itself is in an iframe?

https://public.amplenote.com/embed/TnE3JJDDy5QDo5aZAYtqyHz4?...

This plan has also has a huge flaw, that can be shortened to one letter: X.

> Add gesture support to the Xorg display server
> A "fun" fact: if all of this work was already done today, it would appear on Ubuntu as of next April's release.

I'm betting you a drink that next April's release won't have an updated X server package. I haven't been following ubuntu packaging too closely, but last major x.org release was in 2018, and the next one hasn't been discussed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.Org_Server#Releases

I expect Wayland to be the default on even more systems by then, maybe even KDE could default to it? Though Qt has been weighting them down with the transition, there are less and less rough edges remaining.

So, this is probably going the hard way, for little at the end. It sounds like it caters more to the author's system configuration of choice (well, it's their money, though not really).

As the author said, Wayland has most of the bits in place, we mostly need to tweak toolkits into supporting this (Qt, SDL, wx, fltk, Gtk?, etc). Starting there would lead early results, and the code path might be reusable is X is worth implementing later.

On the other hand, X.org probably nears its final release, so if you want it to be burried with multitouch support, it's probably a good strategy to hurry.

Let's see who is left in the X ecosystem:

* GNOME: moved on to wayland, mostly, though strangely not with Ubuntu
* KDE: moving along, a lot needs to be done in Qt
* i3: sway is mostly compatible and quite nice to use (typing this there)
* XFCE/LXDE: not sure, I think the projects have merged into LxQt, which has wayland support comming along. XFCE itself meanwhile doesn't have a timeline for wayland, but I think it's on the horizon
* Openbox/fluxbox/Windowmaker: you're probably not into wayland. But there's a myriad of Wayland compositors that caters to the same
* firefox: starts to work quite nicely, has hw-accelerated video decoding now under wayland.
* Inkscape: supports it as of the 1.0 release
* Gimp: On the roadmap for 3.0 with the GTK3 port (same situation as Inkscape)

Tablet support is here (mostly), network transparency now has an alternative, albeit quite young, with waypipe ("network transparency" has never been a fundamental issue with Wayland, waypipe was bound to happen, I expect a lot more rough edges will disappear once 90% of the users are on Wayland).

The missing pieces of the puzzle now are probably xdg-desktop-portal+pipewire support in the web browsers, that I often see people complaining about (and GNOME having their own screenshot interface doesn't help). That is coming. And the last piece, unified color correction with HDR support, I don't know that much about it to comment, but I've at least seen some work on HDR support for sway.
I disagree, money should be spent were it's most likely to generate new science. But the people spending the money must take into account that we're really bad at putting good odds on where that is.
I have the older Stab Lab model (Mk III) and have never owned a MacBook Air, but Googling the newest versions of both:

Star LabTop Mk IV [1]:

Thickness: 0.58 inches (1.48 cm)

Weight: 2.2 pounds (1 kg)

MacBook Air [2]:

Thickness: 0.63 inch (1.61 cm)

Weight: 2.8 pounds (1.29 kg)

[1] https://starlabs.systems/pages/labtop-mk-iv-specification

[2] https://www.apple.com/macbook-air/specs/
The US's contributions to CERN are equipment and services rather than money, but indeed they are a big contributor. They are certainly the largest participating country in the LHC by number of scientists.
I don't know. I mean, yes, I need 'blocked requests' and 'unlimited storage' for my extension (http://fraidyc.at/). However, at least I can give Safari users a taste of it - which could either:

* draw them into fuller platforms for using it. (or)

* pressure safari to support more of the standard.

Stepping stones.
Panning does not work in safari
My Intel MacBook Pro says 11.0 Beta (20A4299v). So, I don't think it's 10.6 for Intel.
Because currently Crystal is singlethreaded. You only get multithreading if you compile with -Dpreview_mt . I suppose it will be on by default at some later point.
I have savings but I’d rather see the problems with my current job fixed rather than bailing out. I don’t think they’re intractable, just that the experience is a bit painful.
Pre-industrial revolution levels were 280ppm, so a target of 350ppm is still well within "roll back the damage we've done", rather than "mold the planet to our whims"
Many, many, many more people in the US are shooting themselves or others than getting shot by police. We're talking like, 1K per year shot by cops versus 100 PER DAY of overall gun murder/suicide. Yes, police violence is a problem, but the 1K shot by cops is mostly an artifact of our crazy high overall gun violence problem.

Edit: so, to summarize, yes, I do think that our crazy high number of people shot by police per capita is because of and strongly related to our crazy high number of people shooting each other and themselves.
Snow Leopard (version 10.6) was the peak of OS X. Everything since then has been downhill. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Snow_Leopard
> I don't say "I'm sending you an SMTP message". I say "I'm sending you an email (message)".

Well, that's only sensible—you're not sending an SMTP message. SMTP isn't a message format. It's a wire protocol for passing along pre-formatted messages. What you're sending is a MIME message, over SMTP. (Just like you send HTML over HTTP.)

The distinction is even clearer in the email case, actually, because those same MIME messages also show up in other transfer protocols (POP, IMAP.)

There are actually a few email clients that use "MIME" in their names. But it's pretty rare.

Conveniently, though, "MIME" is short for "Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions", so "Mail" is actually in the name. ;)
It's a dropdown in Preferences. I have mine set to 3 fingers because my pinky is short compared to my other fingers. My wife has hers set to 4 fingers.

I forget which is the default.
I mainly program web apps on my MacBook Pro 2017, and upgrading to Big Sur hasn't changed almost any of this for me. I can still install brew and do my work. The UI is a rough around the edges in some areas, but I actually don't really mind, and some of the new features are pretty nice.
Have you tried this? https://github.com/bulletmark/libinput-gestures

I'm using three fingers swap for switching between workspaces.
But I agree with the comment above, the animation is key.
That family tree is wrong, right?

1. Unix was first, then BSD came from Unix... then Mach was built quite a bit later.

2. NextStep was then built by jobs after he was let go from apple by Mr. Soda man.

3. Jobs comes back to apple, brings NextStep- reads the tea leaves with OS7-9 and sets up NextStep as the successor with OSX. Apple branded NextStep becomes OSX.

Is my chronology correct?
I hate it. It nixed any contrast.
Fired? Let's not repeat the same mistakes we're complaining about. How about: that NYT writer should be persuaded and treated empathetically.

It's not the writer anyhow. It's the editor and probably a policy, though I'm sure they'd have no trouble bending their policy if they wanted to.

https://old.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/he95ak/blog...
GitHub is an established player in the technology space and has done a really great job at fostering its open source community.

You're right that GitLab is trying to differentiate itself as the best place to scale software, and so it feels like its focus is on enterprises. That's where the open source strategy also currently aligns. GitLab is making the best platform to help open source projects thrive at scale.

I'm the new Sr. Open Source Program Manager at GitLab and was recently hired to build out our GitLab for Open Source program (https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/open-source/). This program allows open source projects to use GitLab's top tiers for free, and it provides assistance to large open source organizations throughout their migrations. We are providing open source projects with GitLab’s top-of-the-line features, that enterprises are using, to help them along their own journey.

As I mentioned, GitHub is doing a lot of great things, and I think that GitLab used to be perceived as merely playing a game of catch up. This is no longer where we are today. We're fast at iterating on our product and are blazing ahead on creating a platform that enables cross-functional team collaboration, and industry-standard features for the full software development lifecycle. We're working on a similar strategy with our open source offering -- so that we're not playing catch up, but are instead defining a new standard.

As an open-core company, we have an open roadmap for our product and for everything else we do. If you have ideas for our community relations team (I'm part of this team), we welcome your feedback! You can reach us via our forum: forum.gitlab.com, and via community@gitlab.com. You can also read all about what we do and how we work here: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/community-relati...
Yes, lets further exacerbate class disparities by now only providing safety and security for the rich. At least this way we can stop pretending that we even care about the poor.
> In reporting out a story, it is the journalist's responsibility to obtain factual and verifiable information.

Yes, like the fact that a website called "Slate Star Codex" exists and particular posts in it say what the article says they say.

There is no reason why a story about the blog needs to include the real name of the author, when that real name isn't even revealed anywhere on the blog. The story is about the blog.
Might just be that most general users don't have a need for that?
There is no singular "spirit of open source". Ask a hundred developers, get a hundred answers.
> However, we are extremely confident that now is the right time to fix the name. We’re in the process of landing gigantic improvements to Riot’s user experience and usability which will unrecognisably improve the app. So unrecognisably, in fact, that we can shed our skin and celebrate our long-awaited transition into being a truly mainstream-usable app.

I can’t wait to see what they come up with on the name and the improvements in the user experience. I don’t know anyone in my circles using Riot/Matrix, and I’ve been hesitant to push it aggressively because the UI on mobile isn’t that great compared to the more popular apps. In some ways, this will be good riddance to the phone number based centralized platforms.
Most people probably don't even refer to the macOS versions by number but by codename.
yeah. pretty easy, right?
So, you understand that there are hundreds of thousands of people who have good paying jobs, who wait decades to become citizens right?

That whole time they're paying taxes like a citizen, but without most of the rights and benefits, and no representation.

So, there's a whole pile of people that your government is effectively disenfranchising, and harassing with this kind of activity. And it's disproportionally towards folks who have brown skin.

Oh wait, it's racism, and this is working as intended.
> Your opinion of "what works" is not universally shared by everyone.

Earth orbiting around the Sun wasn't either.

See the problem is not if you are a professional or not, but if the tool is.

If I do the laundry and the washing machine takes 4 hours to complete a cycle I'm still washing my clothes, but I'm not doing it using a professional tool

There's no place where I implied people using less than optimal tools are not professionals, I'm talking exclusively about tools.
Toward a Cellular Humanities
It worked before: https://www.history.com/news/black-panthers-gun-control-nra-...

>In 1967, 30 members of the Black Panthers protested on the steps of the California statehouse armed with .357 Magnums, 12-gauge shotguns and .45-caliber pistols and announced, “The time has come for black people to arm themselves.”

>The display so frightened politicians—including California governor Ronald Reagan—that it helped to pass the Mulford Act, a state bill prohibiting the open carry of loaded firearms, along with an addendum prohibiting loaded firearms in the state Capitol. The 1967 bill took California down the path to having some of the strictest gun laws in America and helped jumpstart a surge of national gun control restrictions.
These are microbenchmarks; they don't tell you much of anything about real world performance.
>Or, from another angle, it means that criminality in US is so much worse than the average EU country that it's ok to kill so many people in the name of safety.

Number of homicides in the USA in 2017: 19,510

Deaths per 100,000 population: 6.0

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm

Number of homicides in Italy in 2017: 357

Deaths per 100,000 population: 0.6

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Italy
> what the company perceives as a weakness: the paucity of apps in the Mac App Store.

I think that the issue with the Mac App store, is that it imposes restrictions on a once-free-for-all development environment. I know many app developers that have abandoned it, after giving it a damn fair shake.

Mac developers just got used to being able to wander all over the house, poking their noses into whatever they liked.

iOS, on the other hand, started off restricted. iOS developers have never known the freedom that Mac developers have had.

To be completely fair to Apple, the iOS model is the one that needs to be followed, if security and privacy are the goals, and I think that a big part of MacOS 11 will be to add restrictions.

I suspect that non-App Store apps for the Mac may be seeing the twilight.

I am not looking forward to the restrictions on the Mac, but it has been quite some time since I've stepped outside the walled garden, myself.
The Tiny Bank That Got Pandemic Aid to 100k Small Businesses
Which is then why police see it as OK to semi-arbitrarily incapacitate random people for life (by hitting them with rubber bullets, for which there are ridiculously many stories of people losing eyes or having internal organ damage--think about how you don't even want to be hit in your lower back with a fist for fear of it damaging your kidney--with studies showing like a 15% rate of permanent disability of some form from being hit by the things) and then tell sob stories about how a protestor threw something at them, which of course barely hit/hurt the officer because throwing things is really difficult? Yeah, no: I have absolutely zero sympathy for police officers taking this position.
I’d imagine China would more likely begin blockading Taiwan, at least until the US and the west responded. Given the strength of US naval power it’ll be a while before China consider even that.
Elevator-as-a-Service
I can’t really tell what this is. Is it just a drawing tool that applies styles, or does it procedurally generate dungeons for you? If it doesn’t procedurally generate, it would probably still be more fun to just use graph paper and some coloured pens
Sure, but in this case, the anxiety is coming from the fact that we are now competing for the same job in this company.

I have no doubt in my mind that when the company decides to go for another cost reduction, I will be the one looking for a new job.
Don't apply the american model of funding that has resulted in failed colliders to how CERN is funded. CERN manages it's own money, that's the only reason why it managed to build LHC. Also not finding any evidence supporting a theory that up to that point consumed quite a lot of mental power in the physics world is a very important result on it's own.

CERN is also an important tool politically that helps keeping EU scientists in the EU. I see you are mentioning a lot of other random fields that are fashionable solutions to other problems. Besides the fact that it's the typical whataboutism response that anyone interested in a different field tends to give when a project gets funding, it completely misses how the CERN model works. CERN does particle research. If a member state doesn't like how it's funds are allocated they can choose to withdraw support and use them elsewhere. It's not CERN's job to increase solar panel efficiency.
Okay boomer
Where did releases go?
Yeah, I agree; I've found it's much easier to explain (or learn!) a concept if you start from "why are we doing this? What problem are we solving?"
Kafka is a comic writer, of course. I think Brod (his friend and editor, and the man who refused his wish to burn his writings after he died) says somewhere that when Kafka used to read his pieces out loud to friends he would sometimes laugh so hard he couldn't continue.
You are making a lot of assumptions there. The most violent people in society will likely have interactions with cops (more often than your average person) so surely that must skew the odds a lot.
My cynical guess is that they used “page load time” as a metric to prove their new system was “faster”.

And maybe only tested internally on a faster system, or with hot-cache repository loads? It doesn’t seem to do it on reloads, though going away for a bit and coming back seems to cause it again (and, visibly, different parts of the page load at different times).

Anyway, It definitely reeks of “enterprise” so I guess Microsoft finally got enough people into github to steer the ship towards the iceberg.
Av1 images are way better, and you can already do them in Firefox with a video with 1 frame in it. It's a shame it hasn't been adopted as a singular format yet
Rubber Duck Debugging for JavaScript Developers
It's a tradeoff. There's nothing to stop you from taking a RHEL system and installing the very latest kernel, and there's a good chance that the resulting system would work fine. However, RH the company only supports their own versions, which seems reasonable. Also, and not unrelated, I believe RHEL kernels hold a stable ABI to the point that you can use vendor-provided (out-of-tree) drivers and not have them break on every release, which is something that normal kernels intentionally don't support. So you can use RHEL like any other Linux system, but you lose some of the advantages that made RHEL useful in the first place.
> It's very revealing in terms of what the end goal is.

I wonder what "end goal" you believe has been revealed, beyond the obvious: the reduction in unjustified police violence that is the subject of the protests. My sense is that you might have misinterpreted my comment.

Protesting police abuses is a political act, i.e., relating to the government or the public affairs of a country. This is true whether you're talking about a purely nonviolent demonstration or one that gets completely out of control.
One major difference that might explain the difference at least partially is New York's system runs 24/7 [0] where London's shuts down for 5 hours every night. Maintenance gets much easier when there's a solid block of time every night for smaller tasks.

[0] More or less, they've stopped during COVID but it's not a great time to do maintenance.
The goal of the fake job search is to avoid qualified hits, not to get them. If, in the fake search, we had found an American candidate with similar qualifications who would accept a similar salary it would have been worse than useless. Honestly reporting that would have sunk our employee's green card application, and we had no ability to hire a new person at all. The problem in a real search is finding talent; the problem in a fake search is avoiding accidentally finding talent while trying to "demonstrate" its absence to satisfy government regulations.
Not an economist, but I believe as long as they are willing to pay a premium for carbon-neutral energy, it's a net good thing as it increases the viability of carbon-neutral projects.
Rix is like "rixe", which means something similar to "riot" in French.
Dude no one has a problem with this if you pay market rate.

You can’t see where the discussion lives?
> Anyone, whether it's an individual or group of people, can be "Scott Alexander."

So what? The story isn't about who Scott Alexander is. The story is about the blog. Anyone can go to the website and read the blog (or at least they could before the NYT pulled this screwup). If the NYT wants their story about the blog to be credible, they just need to tell the truth about what the blog says.
The Mac’s iconic startup chime is back in macOS Big Sur
Is it really just new online norms? As a German I am astonished that this is even legal, let alone journalistic norm.

Here in Germany a “right to informational self-determination” is legally well-established going back to a judgement in 1983 and journalists know that they have to weigh freedom of press and public interest against this right. I am pretty sure that what the times is doing in this case would actually be illegal here, if they cannot justify why public interest in knowing Scott’s real name would outweigh his right to informational self-determination.

Does anybody know what the legal situation regarding doxxing is in the US?
I strongly prefer the internet of the early 2000s than it's cable TV version of 2020s in the name of "safety".
Transmeta died what, 20 years ago? All their patents have now expired.
Been using Linux for work and as my daily driver for 10+ years. Never had any problem that would make me consider jumping ships.

Professionally, I work with ultra-low latency systems for high frequency/algo trading and it would be impossible to achieve the level of tuning and performance that Linux offers on other OSes.

I'm interested in the types of issues that made the experience bad for you.
When did switching workspaces become four-finger? Meaning you can't use the three-finger option? Catalina? I have a MacBook Pro on Mojave and the trackpad accepts three-finger for the gesture of switching workspaces and the Magic Mouse has an option for two-finger.
It would need to be curated, though, the way levels in Mario Maker are. Otherwise you'd just end up with people posting porn and ads or troll creatures designed to ruin everyone's fun.
Successful valid studies? This summarizes the issues with all the earlier studies, even ones with zinc [1].

The problem with all the success anecdotes is correlation does not mean causation. The odds are low that I'm going to walk outside and die. If I walk outside while picking my nose and don't die, it doesn't mean picking my nose is stopping my death. The large majority of people recover from COVID doing nothing at all. Finding efficacy of any drug requires controlled studies.

[1] https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/miracle-cure-testimonials-a...
That was in the OS X early days, as Apple wasn't sure developers would buy into Objective-C, they jumped into Java as alternative, having their own VM and Cocoa bindings.

As it became clear that they would gladly use Objective-C, they killed the other horse.
I've been using GitHub since 2008. My default browser has JavaScript disabled for various reasons. It was not long after Microsoft acquired GitHub that the UI changed for the worse, but it was minor and still very functional. Now, it's terrible: the dates and commit information is missing, for example. I expect soon it will reach GitLab "quality": unable to view source code without JavaScript enabled. I'm still on the fence on whether to act on it now, for my own projects, or wait for the fatal blow. Since much of the programming world is on GitHub, this looks pretty bad for me.