skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally when I tried both (I used a dozen of different terminal emulators to test them out and see which one I like the best) it boiled down to the fact that I had some test file for Unicode characters that Kitty (and I believe Sakura?) were the only terminals that could render it properly, Alacritty was second best but it was pretty broken. Other than that feature wise I didn't feel like either of them was missing anything (for my personal use case). Alacritty has a bit faster startup time though which can be noticable.
To be fair, judging by organizer's reaction [0] it seems that the problem of spam this year is much more widespread than last year.

[0] https://twitter.com/MattIPv4/status/1311421301291200512
Especially given that other states basically volunteered to be guinea pigs and just... reopened with their only protection being loosely enforced mask laws. They have had outbreaks but not the mass death people predicted. Can we just lockdown fully or reopen fully, enough of this halfway shit for who knows how long. 2 years now? That’s a significant portion of our time on earth.
I'm pretty sure eventually it will be.
distribution > product
Can't believe the article doesn't have samples of this man's amazing work.

https://twitter.com/MechiValle/status/1311323302883930128/ph...

https://twitter.com/MechiValle/status/1311327158795743232/ph...

https://twitter.com/MechiValle/status/1311327628624826370/ph...
I was referring to the thinness and resulting length of travel allowed to keys, which afaik are still extreme. TBF i've not tried one of the latest models yet. But as I said, I'm now a bit skeptical. Trust in quality is hard to regain after so many disappointing years.
I use pihole to block sonos, tv etc phoning home but while still allowing them to play music or videos from spotify, netflix etc. it works pretty well
Most of the bug fixes in the 68010 seem to be with things like virtual memory and virtualisation, which is only really important for things like PCs and workstations, and they moved onto the fully 32 bit 68020 and beyond when available.

For things like embedded systems that continued to use the 68k, they don’t need the bug fixes, and the speed boost seems minor. I guess either the market didn’t see the need to change, or Motorola didn’t price it competitively enough to be a viable choice over the basic 68k.
I suspect that people with older Android TV's who cant upgrade the os or play services, will be able to install the Google TV app to circumvent the lack of updates, similar to Play Services separating from Android.

My phone app (Movies & TV) updated to Google TV automatically.

I'm just kidding myself, theres no way itll work that cleanly.
Actually makes sense from the perspective of Google's mission of "organizing world's information", as finding stuff to watch these days reminds of pre-google web.

Problem of course is that in practice Google nowadays is really about "organizing world's ads", so I am sure they will find more than one way to screw this up by insulting the intelligence of people using it.
I learnt about this technique in Triumph of the Nerds[0] long time ago.

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115398
Oh yes, I wasn't disagreeing about that. I said as much in an older thread about another group of people attempting this same thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23968008
+1.

Combine that with KV stores like badger or rocks that store things in lexicographic order - ULIDs really comes in handy to have a random ID but still be able to do a scan in sorted order
Ah good, hopefully backdrops can be enabled too. I do enjoy the random selection of artwork.
For sure. Matrix is sprouting this too (there was a GSoC project this summer for it, and the Hydrogen Matrix client is also properly embeddable, unlike Element) - but with Gitter becoming a Matrix client we could do so from that side too!
A wonderful example of this was some Linux kernel code that ended up causing a security vulnerability. It was something approximating:

int foo(struct data *data) {
struct member *member = &data->member;

if (data == NULL) {
return -EINVAL;
}

// Do stuff
}

Assigning a value to member is just a matter of taking data and adding the value of member, so won't explode if data is NULL since it's not actually dereferencing that address. But this is still in undefined behaviour territory, so gcc assumed that we must know that data could never be NULL and optimised out the check.

This sort of thing is why I have definite feelings about the use of C in security sensitive contexts.
I just got an email from Google saying

> The Google Play Movies & TV app on Android mobile devices in the U.S. is now Google TV.

I'm not in U.S., though, so I guess no rebranding for me...
Because then you don't have to pass a huge framework library down the wire along with all of your custom code? Look at it the other way, if you don't get a big advantage over web components by using React, Svelte, etc then why would you use them? Web components are natively supported by modern browsers. Using a fairly simple base class like Lit-Element to provide some template niceties and lifecycle hooks gives us all the extras we need. We've figured out a really nice top-down functional state pattern for data that eliminates the need for two-way binding and requires very little "framework" level code - it's probably like 100 lines if you take out whitespace and comments.
... and it's wayland-native!

Just a quick question while I'm here - what really is the point of using the GPU? Surely the CPU is adequate for a terminal's modest needs?

... I have an NVidia POS on my lappy but I don't game or use the GPU at all - in fact I removed the drivers so it doesn't drain the battery at all.
I'm a layperson, but there seem to be a few problems with this:

1. Mouse models are not perfect simulations of human biology

2. Cost as has been mentioned multiple times

3. Patient response to treatments depend not just on drug formulation, but also disease state and progression

4. Even mice likely have population dependent responses to drugs

Given the above, a "combinatorial explosion" of drug cocktails tested on mice would likely only tell you what's safe for a given strain of mice, not what's safe for humans, much less what's effective. Factor in disease state, dosage, mouse model impedance, and the numerous other little things that go into using drugs to treat illnesses, and the "grad student brute force" approach begins to seem a lot more intelligent in comparison. Especially since some of those grad students are already using AI to reduce the search space of interesting drugs.

EDIT - my wife (PharmD) adds that if you're targeting diseases with this approach and not just general safety, then a lot of diseases have no known cause, but they do have treatments. That means there's no good way to simulate this in mice because the cause is unknown. Diseases are being discovered every day for which there are no known causes. Furthermore mouse models require manual labor. No way to scale that up.
Google is somehow worse than Microsoft at naming
No, not "idiot user". No one is imprisoned. In the same way that people choose to be part of organizations and groups with rules and limits to what can be done, people choose to use devices that are slightly limited in exchange for reliability and security. I don't want Apple waste time and resources to need to support the people that call the call center to ask for this supposed code and most people using their devices don't either. If they did, wouldn't the market make that movement?
> What actually happens is Amazon shops around for enormous public subsidies for its HQ, bankrupting local and state govnerments.

I'll offer a different take: taxation (and budgets) are just the price we pay to society for a basket of services. There's some optimum price / optimum basket. This competition allows different societies to lower their price (taxes) or lower their basket of services based on the democratic needs of that society. Some societies will value job creation more than short-run costs to the budget, and others will not. It's not surprising at all that the city that didn't have a whole lot of jobs chose the former (via the democratically elected government), and the city that already had a lot of jobs (NYC) chose the latter, also via a similarly selected government.
I find his replies polite, firm and to the point.

Just because his position does not match other folks, it does not mean he is wrong.
It's also how procurement works in the public sector. Either of their own, or with a help of an external consultant, public sector workers will create a set of requirements that are tailored to fit a particular desired supplier, with a bunch of extra bullshit requirements thrown in so that technically allows other competitors, and doesn't look obviously illegal.
A substantial fraction of "serious" OSS is now developed by paid, fulltime contributors paid by big vendors (I work for such a company). A casual contributor has a much higher bar to overcome in terms of understanding the codebase and being able to create a useful contribution. But a typo is easy to fix and probably won't spend weeks in pull request ping pong hell.

Many repos have a sharp bifurcation between tiny PRs by passers-by and big chunky ones by the fulltimers. The space between is a desert.
I only use WhatsApp to talk with my Indian friends and colleagues. I don't use much social media, though.
Instead of a testflight link that could literally install anything, it would be good to build a landing page to show what you're building.
Interestingly, C++ does have an asm declaration.
this is Google catching up to Roku, Amazon, and Amazon (and maybe Xbox and Playstation as well.)
I think what would be quite effective is to simply stop giving away t-shirts. Or give them to everyone who registers. But I've seen how long engineers will wait in line for a free shirt at a conference and it is astonishing, so it's not a surprise to see what they are willing to do for a t-shirt here.
Many governments have already lost the trust of their people.

Some countries are about to get brain-drained. They will be left full of fiat money, full of psychopaths, no brains, no humanity.
Interesting. Thanks for the information. Might be a project for a cold night this winter, or we just are pretty happy with Rokus now.

I'm certain the onset of the problem didn't coincide with a new router, and I've gone through a couple since it started so I assumed that wasn't the issue.
No need to be shy! Quality work is quality work, no matter when it is submitted, and earlier is usually better! If DO is going to give out free t-shirts, there's no reason to purposefully deprive yourself of them just because someone wrote a blog post.

The Julia Language [0] gets some spammy issues/pull requests as well (not only during October) and while we have the benefit of dozens of maintainers such that it's bearable, I definitely sympathize with the issues OP is dealing with. Opt-in could be a good idea, although as usual, the issue is scaling and verification.

[0] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia
Arguably, payment systems themselves (credit cards) are the richest, most deterministic, and among the largest data siphons available.

Back in the late 1990s a friend working for the leading back card reported a conversation with another worker with defence experience. Defence's was talking of how an IC associate expressed jealousy over the size of the bank card's data trove: "you've got more information than we do".

I'm unsure how reliable this is, or was, but the conversation was at least a casual acknowledgment of the possibility at the organisation.
If you want to support the project and get something from it, a good way is to get yourself a hosted server from Element. The cheapest plan is $10 per month for 5 users, and includes things like a custom domain.

https://element.io/plans-and-pricing/pro
People definitely are losing trust in the government. Absolutely.

And yet, this article has a very clear axe to grind. And who is it written by? Oh, someone in county government, who doesn't like what the state government is doing. You know, author, you might be part of the problem...
That was my initial take, especially given Gruber’s consistently pro-Apple stance, but I think it’s intended as the exact opposite. That post was preceded by one where he was expressing disgust at the inept management of the App Store—in this case, a blatant rip-off of a popular app that Apple should have caught and didn’t.

Gruber has been frustrated by Apple’s poor management of the App Store for a while now, so I think his point as far as Marina Bay was: they’ll spend millions making their physical stores pretty, but they don’t seem to give a damn about one of their most important digital ones.
Gadgets maybe not, but I think having a job I enjoy is quite important to my happiness.
I thought it was going to be announcing a product that plays ads while you’re on hold.
Here’s the issue with your issue: if you are using WSL2 (or other various win10 configurations involving hyper-v), then windows is not running on bare metal anymore. In this scenario, windows is just another guest operating system subject to a hypervisor. Windows is a VM, and your in-VM firewall applies to the VM in which its running.

This is how you get real linux “on” windows - the on part is an illusion, trickery to make using linux transparent and integrated. By comparison, WSL1, which is still supported, is “just” (it’s actually pretty impressive in its own right) syscalls translated to the NT kernel.

Microsoft could do a better job communicating this, but I don’t think any of their design decisions are bad in this regard.
Because Linux is my OS of preference in general, so I play games on it as well.

But it's good to clarify a few things to avoid confusion:

1. You can use Nvidia on Linux, including for gaming. Nvidia's problems are related to lack of support for modern features (Wayland use cases and so on) caused by the fact that their blob driver in not upstreamed. But it's usable otherwise.

2. AMD drivers are open source and upstreamed, that's why it's a common preference for Linux gamers. Performance of AMD is very good on Linux (amdgpu, radeonsi, radv/aco and etc. all provide very good performance). That stereotype that "Nvidia drivers are faster" has been false for quite a while already. When comparing same classes of cards, AMD is totally on par with Nvidia if not better.

3. Besides native games, you can play many Windows only games using Wine + dxvk / vkd3d, Proton and etc. Performance in such cases usually is slightly lower than on Windows, but not significantly. The only problems now remain mostly with intrusive, rootkit styled "anti-cheats" that don't work in Wine, but I personally wouldn't even touch such games, so that doesn't bother me.

To sum up - using Linux for gaming is totally doable, as long as you want to use Linux in the first place and don't want to use Windows.
I remember when the OP came into the CL community and it was not long after myself, and we both came long after is hey day.

I dare say that not many in the community are from some bygone time.

The fact is CL has by far and away a more sophisticated runtime environment than the vast majority of dynamic languages, with small talk being a stand out exception.

Some of the language aesthetics have not aged well, not talking parenthesis but rather the hideously long symbol names.
Show HN: Boost Debt Collection Using Machine Learning
On Gitter? Element gets this right at least, so once we move Gitter over to being entirely Matrix backed it should be ok.
Careful criticizing libertarianism on here. This is the hive.

A lot of survivorship bias on here and folks who want to think everyone can pull themselves up by their bootstraps, get rid of taxation and large government etc etc

It completely neglects marginalized people.
Alternate history fiction idea: Telegraphy was expanded to allow individuals to make asynchronous communications without an intermediary. Replacing telephones, for the most part, are machines like an ASR-33 teletype with a receiver for voice calls, on which people can do things like instantly place orders or book travel -- in a pre-WWII setting.
I take a Ronin approach in these matters and never walk into a place I don't know how to walk out of. If there are any horror stories from would be leavers to be found online, it's an absolute deal breaker, no matter how attractive the proposition is otherwise.
I thought the same thing... Looked at the domain and confirmed it.
Do you think the outcome would have been different without COVID and WFH?
It's open source, innovation is not necessarily tied to money. It may or may not be tied to it or helpful in some way. It does open a whole bunch of questions up though, like who gets the money, what if an individual contributes more work than the paid employee and the salary? I've seen situations where people are upset about where grant money is allocated and who it's allocated to, so I imagine having a person paid a salary is susceptible to similar possible community problems.

That's not to say money necessarily causes a problem, just that it can, and introducing a monetary incentive into a system that was working well with non-monetary incentives (traditional open source) might complicate things.

Another way to look at it is that open source is primarily a social system and context, and mixing a financial system with a social one often leads to problems as different aspects of our lives cause friction we're generally ill-equiped to deal with. Just look at any of the reports of people that have won large amounts in the lottery and had a negative outcome in their social lives.
Patents. SSE2 and some other extensions are mandatory for x86_64, patents expired only recently.
Then your workflow is different from other people who do need this feature.
That and low interest rates and looking for a place to put money, plus the Warren Buffet multiplier.

There are only 3600~ companies on the US markets [1], half of what was there in the 90s. There aren't many places to put lots of money.

The rise of private equity (PE) really has taken lots of the growth out of the public markets but since there are so few, and low interest rates, people are looking for returns. Lots of it is also pump and dump schemes loading up stocks and then short and distort. The problem is the growth is tapped on public markets now, PE drains it before it gets there, so more volatility games are being played. Couple that with less spending purchasing power in the lower/middle and that adds to the games as investment in new consumer focused companies isn't working as well when purchasing power is drained, M2V has hit a precipice [2]

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/where-have-all-the-public-compa...

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2V
I used to work helpdesk at an ISP, and we played the local classic rock station as our hold music. One of my best shifts was when a customer I put on hold asked to be put back on hold because they were really enjoying the songs they were playing. Done!
The difference is that web components provide browser supports low level APIs which frameworks can use to make isolated components.

Sure, you can get the same effect in React. But that only works if everyone on your page is playing by the same rules and using React.

I can drop a web component into some legacy page which is full of old school jQuery and global CSS styles and my component will be isolated and work. Try the same trick with React in that situation and it will likely conflict terribly and get stomped by the old legacy code.
Ok, makes sense, but what is the workflow like, then? Would one close the bug along with the fix to the code, or...?
Judging by the names in the screenshots and linked github profiles it sounds like a lot of spammers are Indian students.

Thousands of students are all trying to get a low effort contribution in to have an extra line of "experience" on their resume and a T-Shirt from a western Silicon Valley company as signaling? Judging by the poor quality of the contributions, and the fact it's on GitHub, maybe folks studying IT?

That type of academic spam isn't new sadly [0].

[0] https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/41687/what-is-b...
I would invest all of it into Snowflake stock, of course.

The shoe shine boy told me about it....
> To make this more complicated/interesting - Google renamed the Play Movies and TV app to "Google TV." I'm guessing so you can have Google TV on Google TV?

The e-mail I got from Google specifically mentioned that Google Play Movies and TV on Android mobile devices was being renamed (and in US only), so maybe it is still Google Play Movies on Android TV? It would still be weird, though, so who knows...
I still don't understand why nobody seems to be able to answer the question that everybody would want to know the answer to, which is:

Is it possible to get at the encrypted user data of
a locked MacBook or not?

*

Yes or no, please...
This reminds me a bit of this exchange (parent and child comment):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22407343

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22408905
Not OP but I find the interface to be quite ugly and dated. Also some apps are missing (might be a region issue, though).

Google TV seems to be the most complete solution now. Next to Apple TV and Shield.
Alpha Support for Envoy on Windows (Envoyproxy.io)
It's pretty easy, but if I'm looking at your Github to look at your work I can't find anything if you've clobbered your true history with a message.

I don't ever see that as a negative signal, but I do see it as a positive signal if I can just read your code, so if you write good code in public and you hide it, I can't find it.

Of course, whether you care is up to you, but if I find solid code there I'm going to recommend skipping technical evaluation if you're considering working with me.
While I don't like Nth degree media (you know, the types of articles that link to other articles which link to other articles which link to the primary source), I'm also not a lawyer and find it tedious to read legalese. One of the jobs of journalists is to take information, make it explainable, and put it in context.
"We" (the customers/Google) cannot solve it that way, only the service provider can.
My hypothesis is that the horrendous music is on purpose, as a way to get you to hang up and stop bothering them. Sure, the 2-hour wait times could just be because they're too cheap to hire enough staff but what reason could there be to make the music so bad?
If I ever used a phone I’d really like this feature.
US Department of Transporation says the avg. American drives 13.5k miles per year.

Using an average mpg of 21.5 mpg (if the average age of a car is 12 years), this comes to ~628 gallons of gas per year.

EPA uses 33.7 kWh per gallon for ~21,160 kWh in a year. Divide by 360 * 24 and you get 2.5 kW continuous, so it seems plausible.

EU numbers based on [1] come out to ~1 kW for driving?

[1] https://www.odyssee-mure.eu/publications/efficiency-by-secto...
Yes! Better to iterate, even dramatically, on a clear product vision and brand than to keep pitching "same but different" products like Google TV, Android TV, and YouTube TV (or Google's various text and video chat apps). Users get confused and fragmented and they won't want to commit to your new products.
Call centers are going to have to become more accommodating about this. If they make customers wait for hours but can't wait seconds for someone to get on the line, they should be considered effectively unreachable by phone.
Seems like jewelers could be well served by working in some kind of specialized fume hood. The neighborhood jeweler I went to for an engagement ring was just grinding away in a little back room.