skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correct font metrics. Like every button in the UI has enough room for the text and if it doesn't I should be able to file a bug and have it fixed.

The kneecapped scrollbars in Ubuntu drive me nuts. (Can't click on 'em unless I set my mouse sensitivity to 10 pixels per cm, but they don't seem to save any space in the layout really)

Then there was time my window manager got into a fight with Eclipse that positioned menu items off by a few pixels and I couldn't click on them.

Running headless with no X I think Linux is great, I use it that way all the time -- if I have a choice of an OS to ssh into I prefer Linux, but if I am going to run a web browser or PyCharm or something, the Windows experience is as good as MacOS and head-and-shoulders over Linux.

The issue I see is that Linux users think it is superior in every way because it is "free as in speech" and/or "free as in beer". The people who maintain it don't share my opinion of what is a feature and what is a bug but the people who maintain Windows mostly do share it.
I for one like the simplicity and straight-forwardness of both, your company and your product name.

I also like the tool. From what I see this seems to help a ton operating safe environments if used correctly. Will definitely give this a try.
Tapestry 5.6.1 Released
You say "political flamewar", I say "pertinent fact about both the article and contemporary politics, stated with some editorial spin but not excessively so".

I didn't know about the Aliso Canyon gas leak, or that Kamala Harris was Attorney General at the time (and apparently did nothing about it).

I'm quite sure you canned this because of your commitment to quality discourse, not out of a desire to memory-hole something important about a candidate in a hotly contested election. Nonetheless, you did both, and I'd like you to show a lighter hand in future.
Can't companies just purchase and register a heavy duty truck in Nevada but operate it in California?
It really depends on the location. In Norway the supercharger network isn't that interesting because other networks are more developed.
YouTube is irc of video distribution.
Yes, VNC. Multiple variants available. Remote devices might be available with some of them, otherwise there are other options for that like usbip.
I have the exact opposite experience...

I can't stand the GCP console... especially the networking UI's

I'll take either AWS or Azure's console any day... though really I spend most of my life trying to avoid the console and just automating somehow.
Our leaders need to be ballsy enough to make unpopular decisions to solve climate change. In the short term, things will be harder, more expensive, jobs will be lost. That's because the externalities of life have been free for our society. We need to be brought into a green world kicking and screaming.
thank you for sharing knowledge
RaspberryPi Expansion Board
Many site authors have an active interest in retaining the full control about what the user can do on their site, even against the interests of the user.

So even if a functionality could in theory be delegated to the browser, I think there are real incentives for sites to implement it themselves if this gives them more control about user behavior. A website just being WASM + canvas would actually be in the interests of many site operators.

I don't think the presence or absence of the "import HTML" feature would change a lot in this incentive structure, so this is more of a tangent. However, including the feature would at least have sites that don't want to go this way some support.
Will it mean a reduction in price? Since Lenovo is not paying for the Windows license fee for those laptops?
The Final Airbus A380 Has Been Assembled
yeah unfortunately i can't afford an electric vehicle until i can afford a house w/ a garage which seems like a prereq to charging it.
It's also not clear what zero emissions mean. Is the supply chain zero emissions?
> we (Californians) actually do live in a fairly direct democracy

California has direct democratic elements. It is not a direct democracy.

There is a lot of writing and research on why direct democracies are probably not a good idea for all questions, from antiquity to the modern era. One field that dies with proximity to democracy is law, e.g. the ancient Athenian system of trial by popular assembly. Another is the management of commons, e.g. fisheries, forestry and, I would argue, our atmosphere.

Note that such delegation doesn't mean usurpation. It just means the elected leaders negatively consent to, and constrain, rule making. This is the basis of the agency-driven civil service model, which first–to my knowledge–flourished in China before making it West by way of the Middle East.
nice! but why don't you just calculate soft shadows the way they occur physically by sampling an area light source instead of a point light source? You can basically run the same algorithm again and again with light source points in a circle from the center of the light source, then alpha-fuse them together? Am I missing something?
Do you think priests are forced to marry gay couples now?
You've written as if you disagree with me, but I don't think you do.

It is very important when discussing political issues to make a distinction between state and local control over issues. I live in a community that is desperately fighting any attempt to build more, denser housing. They are working hard to find loopholes around state initiatives to build more housing.

This is a case where the state should be more controlling, specifically by preventing cities from interfering with the creation of housing. Cities should not be allowed to pour amber over historical districts.
No, the reason is probably just as stupid as it sounds, they don't want to investigate the claims so it's easier to close the channel and keep the music publishers happy.
> $3-4,000 worth of solar panels

Is this a useful metric in California? In the states where I have lived, the total installed system cost has always been the driver, and the panels typically are only one component of many there.

$3-$4k sounds reasonable until you realize that you need to spend $25k on top of that to be able to use your $4k of panels.
It's true, editors generally write headlines, often without the input or approval of whomever writes the article.
SimC: A dynamically typed high level front end for C
Probably time to seek another monetization strategy. The person behind Piano in 21 Days has been incredibly successful doing this:

https://theonlinecourseguy.com/
If you want latest bleeding edge support, install Arch or one its more friendly variants such as Manjaro. They provide updates everyday.

One thing to note, as Manjaro is a rolling distro, don't be surprised to download about 400Mb per day in updates
Paulada NA Globo
They were absolutely abhorrent, but weren't as bad as the German caricatures of Jews, or the Roma, or the Slavs. I said closer to the thruth, not close to the truth.
Tesla announced yesterday they intend to have a $25k electric vehicle in 3 years.
Much of the discussion in your first link seems very old. There is a link buried in there to this discussion in 2015, when it was suggested that the trend may be reversing (based on the questionable decision to focus on “active” editors making more than 100 edits a month). It would be surprising if the growth in internet use over the past decade had not increased the number of Wikipedia editors at all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...

I’m suspicious too, but I agree with the grandparent that we should tread very carefully. Wikipedia’s success probably has at least something to do with the fact that its development has been extremely slow and isolated from commercial web development trends.
There is nothing in the article that mentions anything related to politics.

Why don't you read the article first? I guess it's too much to ask of anybody these days.
ServiceNow founder Fred Luddy sells $13.2m stake in 'defining enterprise softwar
Meh, the maintenance costs on the PGE website are highly overrated. It also assumes your insurance costs for a Tesla are going to be the same, and they aren't. You also don't get a Tesla for 27000 net of incentives, unless you make so little money that it doesn't make sense.
A great link to similar issues at Wikimedia is in this article. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has...

I wonder what the boards of these non-profits are doing and who has the power to change the boards? Typically for-profits have shareholders and non-profits have members that can hold accountability - but im guessing both Wikimedia and Mozilla don't have this stakeholder accountability :(
I'm certainly not an expert on this, but wouldn't one need to consider the peak power draw rather than average power draw?

I'm reminded of various articles about toilet flushing during breaks in sports broadcasts, e.g. [0]

[0] http://hoaxes.org/weblog/comments/90_million_people_flush_to...
The monster's AI is amusing to read, and its behavior has a surprising amount of depth. Really explains its scary, clever and unpredictable nature.

It has over 15 different behavior states:

Idle,
GoHome,
Wait,
Patrol,
Investigate,
Alert,
Search,
Eat,
Hurt,
Hunt,
HuntPause,
HuntWander,
AttackMeleeShort,
AttackMeleeLong,
AttackRange,
BreakDoor,
Dead,
Flee,
Stalk,
Track

States:

https://github.com/FrictionalGames/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent/blo...

Implementation:

https://github.com/FrictionalGames/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent/blo...

There's also naming gems like "mindfuckevents"

https://github.com/FrictionalGames/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent/blo...
Yes, because the database is the custom schema + the data being managed by the library, not the library itself.

The library is properly an example of a DBMS: database management system, it's only "a database" informally to lay users.
VW has to charge an extra fee in case anybody will find out about their new control software.
As of 2017, California had statewide emissions of 424 million tons CO2-equivalent [1]. "CO2-equivalent" emissions include the global warming effects of CO2 plus methane, nitrous oxide, and other gases, normalized to the global warming potential of CO2. (For example, emitting a ton of nitrous oxide is roughly equal to 298 tons of carbon dioxide on a 100 year time horizon [2].)

Using California's Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventory Query Tool [3], I searched for transportation, on road, light duty vehicles only, CO2 only.

For 2017, the emissions were 58 million tons from light duty trucks and SUVs plus 58.4 million tons from passenger cars.

The total of 116.4 million tons is about 27.5% of all California emissions. Since according to [1] the transportation sector accounts for 41% of all CA emissions, light duty road vehicles account for about 67% of California's transportation emissions.

Heavy duty trucks account for another 32.3 million tons of CO2 emissions.

[1] https://ww3.arb.ca.gov/cc/inventory/pubs/reports/2000_2017/g...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_potential

[3] https://www.arb.ca.gov/app/ghg/2000_2017/ghg_sector.php
> an electric car uses less power than it takes to air condition a California home.

The recent blackouts demonstrate that California doesn't have enough dispatchable power to support the current air conditioning footprint. We need to add more EVs and more air conditioning on top of that.
Ask HN: Rise of the HR Recruiter Phone Screen?
I'm looking for a new job currently. What I'm noticing is that when a company wants to talk to me, now they almost always start with a "recruiter phone screen" (with someone in the company's internal HR recruiting team). However, if I think back to previous times in my career when I've interviewed -- maybe 5 years ago and further back -- this was not common at all. In the past, the first call was normally a technical screen conducted with an engineer or hiring manager.

Has anyone else noticed a trend nowadays where companies now start with a recruiter screen instead of a technical screen?
> I don't know why you'd expect it to be an A53 or A76 core.

Your reading of my words seems mistaken. Under no point do I allege that Intel should be using a Cortex-A core. I'm simply pointing out that Cortex-M and Cortex-A are grossly different.

Read the thread again: many people here are confusing M and A cores: as if all ARM chips are the same or something.
Good god, I'd hate to see what the Discord or Slack of video distribution would be, then.
Digital sharecroppers keep running into problems with YouTube, but the alternatives are barely better. That is, not as heavy-handed, but much worse in other ways.
Congress will not likely accept this law without major changes and the DoJ, unless we wind up tossing out the Constitution entirely (which could still happen sadly), cannot create law.
Tous les nouveaux films et les premières sorties de cinéma
> The study found that 63% of Norwegian households with electric cars also have a fossil car or hybrid car, down from 70% in 2017. The survey also found that among respondents having only one car in the household, one third (32.4%) are electric car owners, up from 26.3% in 2017.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_electric_vehicles_in_N...
I'm not suggesting it's a good idea to drop CMake for one of its obscure rivals, that's why I put You should still probably use CMake. I don't want to have to learn an obscure build-system to work on someone's project, and I won't ask others to do the same for me.

To revisit the points I made in the old thread [0]:

We pay a price for fragmentation; it's better we all agree on one system. (Although I think it's fair to say that autotools has had its time in the sun at this point, I don't see a big problem in using it for Unix-only projects.) CMake can work very well, with impressive portability, if a project's CMake scripts are rock-solid. I plan to continue to use CMake, despite its considerable shortcomings.

If CMake did the following things, I could probably forgive the atrocious scripting language:

1. Overhaul the documentation. Every unit of documentation should be accompanied by an illustrative example; dry rambling essays are not the right format. Do what Microsoft do with their .Net documentation.

2. Official design-patterns for common tasks like Find modules. They shouldn't each have a character of their own. These scripts ought to be very consistent, very boilerplate-driven, and very boring.

3. Rework the officially bundled CMake scripts so that they all follow the current best-practices to the letter. As it stands, there's nowhere to go to see what real CMake scripts are meant to look like.

I would suggest a linter/improved errors and warnings, but I don't know if that's practical. I would suggest replacing the entire scripting language with something less awful, but it wouldn't do to throw out compatibility. Stability is a must-have for this kind of thing.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24209573
What catastrophe? Did you miss the California fires 2 weeks ago? Improvement in farming also clearly came from improvement in agriculture, you seem to imply that the rise in climate temperature is the only explanation.

And no, there is no evidence that temperature has ever increased that fast.

And even if you keep denying the impact of climate change, think alone of the change in AIR QUALITY in a place with so many cars like Los Angeles. The increase in air quality alone in big urban centers is worth it on its own. It's already been improved quite a bit in recent years (at least in the west) and this can only get better. I live next to a big road here in my city and I just can't wait to have less emission vehicles on the road.
As someone who has been responsible for large cloud budgets, I wonder if Google is aware that their "support strategy" toward both content creators/contractors and customers across the entire brand has completely ruled out GCP for me.

GCP might have great support. They may not have automated bots suspending accounts. They might actually follow the DMCA counterclaim process instead of some weird process on top of it.

I'll never know: I restrict Google products to casual, throw-away contexts. I've imagined myself trying to explain to my boss or a client "They won't respond" or "They say they can't provide any information." Just typing that freaks me out.

Anyway, if you want to be a huge corporation living under one brand umbrella, you've got to take the good with the bad. Google is for entertainment stuff and toys to me.
Which is 10 years farther out than this car mandate.

I just wish people would read about France, which despite their current stupidity, rolled out 34 reactors in something like 10 years back in the 1970's. Thereby not only going energy independent, but nearly 0 emissions. Now during the past decade or so, not only are they one of the cleanest (if not the cleanest) countries in the world, they have some of the cheapest electricity in Europe, and are also the largest net exporter.

So, if anyone in politics actually had a brain about this, they would drive a similar mandate through with a < 10 year time-frame, so that rather than powering all those batteries with natural gas, they would be carbon free.

But, no, in the USA that wont happen until we get to the point that all the 1d10t politicians (and their supporters) start starving due to food production problems or massive wars.
Thanks for the pointers. I found those pages before, but they didn't seem very understandable to me, as the reasoning seems to boil down to "the feature can be replicated in JS, so we won't need it", so I was wondering if there was more behind it.
Imagine if you showed up to a self-storage facility one day and find a different lock on your unit. You go to the manager and ask what the hell is going on.

> Oh, you? Yeah, your unit was full of stolen goods, so we seized it and changed the lock.

> There was nothing stolen in there! What about a bunch of banged up furniture and old cans of paint made you think it was stolen?

(the manager stares blankly)

> Well?!

(crickets)

> Can I at least take back my stuff that you didn't mistake for being stolen?

> We burned it all and sunk the ashes in the Mariana Trench. There is no recourse. As far as we're concerned, you don't exist. Have a nice day!

> Gee, thanks... ᵃˢˢʰᵒˡᵉ

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If we ever come up with a digital bill of rights, one of the amendments should include being given a grace period to retrieve all of the data that you stored with a service in case they decide to terminate your account. It's absurd that you can store your data with a service one day, and in the next it's all gone because reasons.
Sounds like we'll have a $30k car in 6 years
If we are lucky, someone from Google/Youtube with some connections can get this fixed after seeing this.
I've followed the tech sector closely since before I started my own entrepreneurial ventures, so I feel like my BS detector for valuation and VC is probably more finely tuned than the average person. Not to toot my own horn (well, maybe just a little bit), but when I started seeing the veritable avalanche of Quibi ads on Youtube months back, my first reaction was to say out loud to my S.O. "this thing is going to fail so hard."

It seems to be almost a law of physics that there's an inverse relationship between the quality of a startup's product and their ad-spend. (Especially pre-launch)
Super.so: Supercharge your Notion docs
Ongoing discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24570690

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24571019
If your bank runs a trading desk, you have to expect traders to be aggressive.
Yeah, that’s not suspicious at all.

Also, the DOJ really should back off here. They’re an article II department, their job is enforcement and not legislation. If the law should change, that is emphatically congresses responsibility. They can recommend all they want, it should be valueless though.
I was talking with some one in Prospect/BECTU (IATSE) and she mentioned her first job was on Coronation Street helping the older actors onto set and making sure they didn't trip over any thing.

I was/am on the same committe (SOC)
You still have your keycard in your wallet that doesn't runs on batteries.
Try a consumer genomics company like 23andme or nebula
Afaik macos ships with zsh now, which supports that feature.
Very nice projet, need to give a try
one could dream that it would be Arch
This is just the general trend with things running on Google owned services. I don't think I've ever had to deal with a more customer/user hostile company. I've had an Android app get payments blocked and had to deal with repeated back-and-forth resending of the same documents over and over before they unblocked it. I never did get an answer on why any of that was necessary or why it was impossible to ever speak to anyone about the details related to the issue.

It's bad enough they just wholesale kill services that people love and rely on. The whole "the algorithm has decided to kill your account with no explanation" risk makes it feel like we're already dealing with a dystopian reality in some respects.
> It astonishes me how far behind aviation is behind surface transport when it comes to sustainable fuels. They still use leaded gas!

It's important to qualify this: jet fuel contains no lead, and constitutes the vast majority of commercial aviation, and hence of emissions.

Jet fuel itself is kerosene, with some additives that aren't superb in raw form, but nothing so durable in the environment as lead.

A sibling comment does a fine job of explaining why avgas still contains lead, and to be sure, a plan to phase that out except where absolutely necessary would be welcome.
Workplace from Facebook exposes customer data publicly
Apparently no: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/32640/what-is-the-...
I’d argue internal applications are _the only_ acceptable use case for Blazor. I only mention it because this quote from the article strikes me as mildly disingenuous:

>
An app like this can basically scale forever, cheaply. It can put the browser to work (which was basically hanging out waiting for anglebrackets anyway)
>

It’s no more scalable than any other SPA framework as an Azure Static Web App, but it does require shipping a .Net runtime to every user. I’m surprised there’s rarely a mention of this important consideration in the discussions I’ve seen around Blazor.
Update: This is no longer the case. I can not reproduce this any more. Great!
For manned travel, travel time matters too.
Is Firefox doomed? Mozilla is slashing work on core technologies around browsers and seems to be focusing more and more on social activism tooling.
d4 could be accomplished by making an email to report complaints to. Doesn't seem especially onerous.

f9 is suspicious how? This document is not intended in anyway to prevent anti-trust actions, so why is a specific exclusion suspicious? There's a lot of public push right now to act on anti-trust issues for large tech companies, so there's no secret there.

5c... is more complex, and I'm not sure it means what you think it does.

c2A does seem particularly problematic to me in the context of trying to combat disinformation which is neither illegal nor obscene, nor violent.
It does indeed feel like they supplanted regular television in some sense, and is catering to "the establishment" more and more each year.

Before the focus felt like it was more on exposing people to new up-and-comers, or random viral stuff. The viral stuff is still there, but so algorithmically driven, and catering to the lowest common denominator that it just feels off.

I have no clue how to find new channels with interesting concepts anymore.
See also https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/interactives/party-id-t...

Democrats have always outnumbered Republicans, but the gap was much wider mid-century. The gap has narrowed considerably, but mostly because of declining Democratic party affiliation. Independents now outnumber Democrats.
Actually curious if in 10 years, Linux will slowly become the defacto Laptop, PC and Workstation Operating system of choice