skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, the KMS docs need some love. I'm trying to help with that. But note that even with EGLStreams you'd still be using KMS. And GBM's API is pretty small, basically just gbm_bo_import/gbm_bo_create/gbm_bo_get_*.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24886783
> Who says apple hasn't built a viable alternative already?

They certainly have been hiring people who know how to build search tech.

>Apple has hired Google’s chief of search and artificial intelligence, John Giannandrea

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/03/business/apple-hires-goog...
…yes, and? I said that. Quote:

“salaried job with direct deposit”
Personally I don’t think “low taxes” are “reasonable”. We live in a complicated society and we all benefit when we collectively pay people to do a huge variety of important jobs which are hard to fit into a pure-profit system. Cutting funding for those exposes us to a wide variety of risks and eliminates many future opportunities, in the long term harming us all. The Covid pandemic is a perfect case study in the way that e.g. public health infrastructure, expertise, and political support can save hundreds of thousands of lives. (While we are talking about San Francisco here, it’s worth noting that SF and the Bay Area has done by far the best of any US city / metro area at containing Covid and preventing needless deaths of residents, despite some failure especially early to properly target testing resources toward poor/minority areas full of “essential workers”.) But infectious diseases are only one of the many risks that individual people cannot adequately understand and protect against on a personal basis, for which it helps to have collectively funded public institutions.

Instead of income or property taxes, some places raise money via sales taxes instead, or other regressive schemes. Some places raise money by questionable fines on their own residents. Some places make money off the back of wanton environmental destruction.

Some just accept shoddy local services. (When you compare the US to other wealthy nations, it’s really shocking how poor our basic infrastructure and public services are, even in the richest US states and cities.)

But most low-tax areas of the US are substantially supported by federal-level transfers, for example from federal highway budget, from military bases and defense contracting located there, from federal agriculture subsidies, from federal welfare and healthcare funding, from social security payments to people who retired somewhere different than they lived while actively working, ...
Why would they be allowed to exit China? The government has a stake AFAIK and so they have a say in the matter.

If Google or Facebook received an order to take something down from the US government and they decided not to do it, Would leaving the US be a realistic option?
Linux is nice, but as soon as new LTSC is out I will probably switch to it to use WSL2.
I live in NYC and lots of friends have left town for upstate New York or similar places. But I'm waiting to see how great they think these places are after they have eaten at the same 5 restaurants for a year. And once live culture returns to NYC and other places, how will they feel then?

Of course, the other way to look at the de-campers is that they were going to move to the burbs inevitably. Which good for them, but cities are injured, not dead.
And honestly, it's doing a decent job.

Happy to see Ubuntu make the switch, it'll pull in a good number of daily users and we can iron out the last few remaining issues.

Frankly, Wayland has been excellent to me. It's hard to describe how nice it is that I can't remember the last time I had to open an xorg conf file to try to get monitors working, or get even basic functionality from my touchpad.
I started using Golang 8 years ago and introduced it to the company I worked for to build several web services from scratch.

The reason it was adopted quickly was that building RESTful Web Services or gRPC Micro Services is relatively easy because all the libraries needed are native to the language. Of course I was building .net SOAP web services for years and knew the customers' needs. Another reason was the developers knew first hand how inflexible was configuring IIS with its web.config and the efforts needed to make it work.

Then the adoption of Kubernetes was easy too because it was written on Golang. The next transition to GCP was natural too. Basically being backed from Google made all this technology development and adoption a natural and I'm glad that I made this choice early.

Another reason I'm using Golang is that my recent project is mobile-GCP solution making possible to get information about 80mil/100GB US Property database in iOS App:

https://topinvestor.app

One of the reason this functionality was made possible because I managed to create Gomobile embedded database in iOS which is much faster than SQLite or CoreData for my purpose - creating geodetic solution - tapping on the map is retuning lat/lng which are two numbers and creating just one number representation of location suitable for key-value datastore.
> The golden age of personal computing in the 1980's is long over.

When an article starts with a statement[1] like this I know I'm in for a whine-fest about how everything sucks now and we need to Make Computing Great Again.

What the author wants is a ThinkPad P Series or a Clevo clone. I don't know why the author is making the assumption that a more modular, utility-focused laptop or portable device doesn't exist. They absolutely exist. Just don't be mad that it's a niche and that other people who just want an appliance have different needs than you. Don't be mad that other people in the world aren't necessarily any more interested in computing than they are in fixing their car.

It's also entirely inaccurate to say that the 1980s was a freedom-loving general purpose heaven. In reality, users still bought into ecosystems and proprietary technologies, perhaps even more-so than today.

For example, remember when you had to worry about what format your floppy disk was formatted in? Remember when the same productivity program on a different platform had different save formats? Remember when different platforms had different ports and physical connections for things as simple as a mouse? It's not like Amigas and Commodores and Apple ]['s were just oozing interoperability with each other.
Hrmm. My latest PC motherboard has the usual 2x 16550 UARTs and a wealth of other headers for various serial protocols. The optional BMC board for same has a ridiculous abundance of GPIOs, too. And a parallel port on a PCIe stick costs $20.

It seems like the bit-banging abilities of these current PCs are as good as they ever were.
Ah - I'm mostly on pretty urban routes, so relatively frequent stops/slow downs is definitely a factor.
> Houses, heating, cooling make us resilient to outside temperature and weather changes

Heating and cooling necessarily heat the exterior of the heated or cooled environment more than they do heat or cool the interior. As the temperature warms, you need to cool your interior space even more, pumping yet more heat into the surrounds. For one, all that energy has to come from somewhere. For two, hopefully you don’t drive the system beyond a point where your heating and cooling can keep up.

> There are people working on plans to colonise Mars - while that might not be viable in the short term - we are talking about making an environment without an atmosphere suitable for life - and there's no reason why this shouldn't be achievable. Reducing reliance on systems such as plants requiring bees for pollination should be trivial in comparison.

There is a huge, vast, expansive, unimaginably large, ridiculously wide chasm between “working on plans to colonize Mars” and “actually colonizing Mars.” In the meantime, we’ve got ~10 billion people dependent on the existing ecosystem we’ve got here. Keeping that global ecosystem healthy enough to support those people without massive die-offs or total chaos, without the benefit of any globally organized effort to speak of, is deeply and profoundly not trivial, probably much less trivial than supporting a very small population on another planet.

Plus, even if we do manage to colonize another world without first learning how to maintain the one we have, what exactly is the end game? Hop from planet to planet, destroying any life we find or create along the way?
You seriously do not think San Francisco and New York have attracted business development?

This is yet another version of the classic “No one goes there anymore, it’s too crowded”
Usability Mistakes Most Designers Make on Checkboxes
Diving deep into baseball statistics has actually changed how the game is played. I understand your sentiment overall, I don't agree with your sentiment because there are valid use cases for predictive analysis in polotics, but regardless G whether I agree or disagree about political polling - using baseball analytics as an example is not appropriate.
Right now it isn't -- if you look on Zillow, apartments are in places about 10 deep trying to be rented. There are also a bunch of new apartment buildings that came online, and are sitting basically empty.

But yes, your statement is true. What SF needs is a revamp of its zoning and "neighborhood preservation" policies that are not setting it up for resilience against things like this.
It's worth pointing out that the other thing 538 does besides political polling is analyzing the performance of sports teams. Americans are just drawn to the horse race. (See also: American Idol, which also involves voting.)
This is the worst strawman argument I've ever seen. The problem is precisely that corporations (especially badly managed ones) have been able to bleed the stimulus coffers dry, and they will continue to do so, because we have a system of government which caters to them.

Direct payments and rent forgiveness are not "printing money", they are limited, specific relief packages targeted at people in need. These are people who are about to be evicted, homeless, in medical debt, etc. These people need help, or the consequences will wreak havoc on a colossal scale.
Generative art is an interesting niche. It has some points of contact with the demoscene of the olden days (the eyecandy part mostly) but the emphasis seems to be on easier to use tools (like Processing), maybe even aimed at people new to coding, as opposed to the technical depth and proficiency most appreciated on the demoscene.

Also I think most generative art works I've seen consist of a single scene, as opposed to a demoscene production that has more of a music video clip vibe.
Typical office leases are 3-5 years. This is just the tip of the iceberg. So far <20% have been up for renewal since the pandemic started, and even fewer since it became clear that things were not going back to normal within a few months.
Related: NYC commercial mortgage backed securities are going to crash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX1uzbAOnXc

Is it possible to short mortgage backed securities?
Honestly, I can’t imagine that commercial real estate or cafes and restaurants and similar are doing so great in Austin right now, either. For the moment, commercial real estate and businesses dependent on office workers will be suffering pretty much everywhere.
Apart from what others have said, I think it also good to have independent polls to shine light on fraudulent elections.
For example, see what happened in Belarus recently where public polling is banned.
New Zealander here - a lot of people are using Oxalic acid and glycerine on paper strips and are getting great results here - me included.

The paper is a plasterboard jointing paper and 3-5 layers are sewn together and soaked in a solution of about 40% Oxalic acid, 60% glycerine. Used like conventional mite strips they need replacing more often but seem to work really well.

Randy Oliver has been trialing other delivery methods in California.

My hives are the best they have ever been this season, with a very strong start.

http://scientificbeekeeping.com/
What they need to add is a physical electric switch to turn off the cam/mike.

In any case, because of all my remote collaboration these days, I bought a decent mike on a boom to use, and my colleagues say it is much better. Still have to find a decent camera.
Insurance does help the victims - without insurance, the victims are unlikely to see any meaningful compensation from the company who failed in their data safeguarding duty, as the company will simply be bankrupt, the compensations would be far more than they could possibly pay unless they have insurance that will fund the compensation payments.
> velocities don't add like that relativistically and I think you'd still see it as travelling at 1.0c

Not indefinitely. Sure, if you accelerated for a short enough time in the direction of the neutrino, you might still be within your measurement error and so not have learned anything. But that just means you need to accelerate for a longer time. For any given measurement accuracy, you will be able to calculate how long you need to accelerate, by your clock, to definitely distinguish the two cases. Relativistic velocity addition does not change that fact. All it changes is the details of that calculation; yes, for a given measurement accuracy, you need to accelerate for a longer time, by your clock, to definitely distinguish the cases than you would if velocity addition were linear. But that doesn't mean relativistic velocity addition makes it impossible to distinguish the cases at all, ever. It doesn't.
Wait, I was under the impression that GitLab was originally a Dutch company (it appears to be American now)? Are the labor laws in France that much more lax than in the Netherlands?
Yup, I've been running the ozone AUR release of chromium for a while, and outside of a couple remaining rough spots (mainly menus used for extension development/debugging) it's been great.

I run a 4k display and a 1920x1080 display side by side, and X is utter garbage at handling it.
The UK authorised this, years ago, because it's obvious that our economy is transforming so that fewer shops and offices are needed but the population is still growing.

The homes built under these rules are generally poorer quality, they tend to be smaller and more expensive to run than an otherwise equivalent new build home. But they are homes, and it's not as though San Francisco has too many of those.

At the extreme of what can be done, Birmingham is a British industrial city, and once upon a time as it began to take off there was enormous pressure to build homes so they constructed what were called "Back to backs". These were groups of homes packed together "back to back" so that you only had windows facing out one way, the other three sides of your home were walled in by other housing. They were squalid and almost all of them were torn down, although the World Wars diverted resources so that the last of them ceased to be homes only in the mid-20th century.

But historical preservation means Birmingham still has one set of Back to Backs, most of which is a museum you can tour to see how they were lived in during different periods, but one home was instead converted into a fairly nice two person overnight apartment you can hire. They plumbed a modern bathroom with shower and toilet, kitchen and so on, and of course in the 21st century we can light interior spaces cheaply and easily so it doesn't feel permanently gloomy, also of course it's just one couple in a double bed for one or two nights, whereas these would have been homes for families of eight people for a lifetime...

So yes, if there's money you can add everything. A Back to Back as constructed has zero running water, let alone sewage, unlike an office building so they'll have had to use modern narrow bore sewage pumping and other expensive tricks to make it work, but if the building would otherwise sit empty...
Cannot say Wayland works smoothly on my triple-monitor setup. One of the monitors sometimes stops working randomly, and wakes up to display Plymouth screen when I reboot the thing.

Dell Precision 7520 with an AMD GPU. The degree of flakiness is different depending on whether you're on Plasma or GNOME, but it's there nonetheless.
Gap System for Computational Discrete Algebra
The iMac pro is pretty well spec’d
Yes, GitJournal can tag notes, and it stores them as part of the metadata header at the top of markdown notes.

Tagging is one of the paywalled features in the mobile apps. It's such a core feature that paywalling it seems a bit mean, but OTOH it's a great project, and this is the feature that converted me to a paying customer. It was £32 (~$42 USD) - not cheap, but this permanently unlocks current paywalled features, and any added over the next year. Pricing is hard, but I do wonder if the high pricing will ultimately be detrimental.
The amount of raw power you can drive will "always" be contingent upon your ability to dissipate heat. And the second law of thermodynamics being what it is, that ability is relative to the space you have (assuming you're using similar cooling technologies in both cases).

Laptops being power-conscious, they're usually much closer to the point of maximum efficiency on the power curve. In that sense you get better performance per watt. But that's negated by the increased front cost.
had fun playing with this. If anyone knows of a simple Python library to hide stuff in .png files without relying on Pillow or ImageMagick, let me know. A quick google didn't come up with anything.
Not the OP, but here in New Zealand the issues are greatly exacerbated by hive overstocking, migrant beekeepers (eg a truck brings in 100 hives one day, and the additional extras in those hives are spread to local hives), poor beekeeping, American Foul Brood and a low sale price for honey.
> It's depressing how conventional it has become for a relatively intelligent population, like the HN audience, to only know about criticisms of IQ and basically nothing about its positive value.

What do you consider it's positive values? All I'm aware of is how it's used to judge people. Unless you consider that a positive thing.
I suspect it's a timestamp flag or using something developed for HLS. I'd definitely appreciate the write up!
You need to purchase an AMD graphics card for Wayland, though.
At about 150 sq.ft per employee (https://robinpowered.com/blog/new-office-determine-right-off....) that means 80,000 employees vacated office space.
They can do this without Analytics as well! By timing how long before they come back to search.
Ask HN: Part-Time Remote Software Development Internships
I currently work full-time in an engineering-based career field and am interested in turning my long time passion for development into a career. I am a new father, full time student graduating early 2022 located in the Midwestern US and feel that the pursuit to switch careers will be much more successful with an internship under my belt.

Due to insurance reasons an ideal internship would be full-time with hours after 4PM CST, or part-time the same. I'm reaching out to see if something like this is ideal for your team or one you may have run across. I have experience in PHP (CI, Laravel), Python (Django, Flask), Ruby (Rails), Node, C++, Java and highly prefer C#/.NET at the moment. I am fairly well versed in the full stack, TDD, Agile Methodologies and version control (git). It's a shot in the dark - but for the right situation I think I'd be a great fit and am eager to add value to any product for the experience of working with awesome teams.
I'm not the only one. It's industry consensus.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/22/1007539/gpt3-ope...
One million, seven hundred seventy-one thousand, five hundred sixty-one. That's assuming one crayfish, multiplying with an average litter of ten, producing a new generation every 12 hours, over a period of three days.
Implement the window system in the web browser and be done with it. Sheez.
> How the hell are you supposed to keep knowlage like this?

By talking to people on a regular basis?

This problem isn't new and even affects open source. Which people in the Linux kernel are experts on which USB drivers? You can look at commits, but that doesn't always reflect the reality on the ground of the people with the actual understanding of the detailed bits of the hardware. Unless you sit on the mailing list and chat server for a couple weeks, you won't figure this out.

Big companies used to have this problem all the time back before ubiquitous communication. Some group would need knowledge about Subject A. They would appoint Person B in the group to be the liaison with Expert C who was in some other division--they would have to talk on the phone, fly to the the other division, etc. to maintain that knowledge Over time, Person B would become the "local" expert and would probably become a global expert as well. How would you find out who the experts are and where they are? You would tap your network and start walking it.

Humans network--that's just how they are.
One thing here is that sensitive data getting stolen does not necessarily mean that the data controller was negligent with their safeguarding.

There definitely are highly publicised cases that happened just because of gross negligence in handling that data. But to some extent, every system is vulnerable, and there are also attacks that are, using your gun and car analogies as an example, the equivalent of stealing the gun from your safe or taking your car at gunpoint while you're stopped at a red light.
Just curious, what was your browser again?
> And the managers, who subsist on meetings and in-person interaction, seem even more anxious to get everyone back in their desks.

I recently quit my job so I could stop being a manager and return to IC, exactly because of this. In a WFH climate managers have to work twice as hard to stay competitive in the political games.
It's pointless to add Paypal's closed pay-by-email here don't you think? You can only pay pal from another pay pal, so you can just use paypal:// scheme..?

Thinking about it it's also pointless to have multiple target types. Most traditional banks can only do IBAN or ACH. Although digital ones like Monese, Transferwise and Revolut can do any so maybe there's some merit for them.
Bee careful when talking about wiping out invasive species. Honeybees aren't native to north america. Nor are the majority of crops that they pollinate. "Invasive", by government definition, means not just foreign but also economically dangerous. Conversely, screwworm is native but we chose to wipe that species from north american because it was economically dangerous. I haven't heard anyone talk of allowing it back.
I think aggregate for the country is almost meaningless, these things are very local.

Toronto residential rentals are dropping but not that quickly. Construction has not slowed and condos are popping up like mushrooms. Prices seem stable for now

There is A LOT of hiring by US companies. Canadian labor is so cheap compared to CA. Every startup past series A seems to be opening a Toronto branch. This is awesome news as it will drive salaries up.

On another positive side we do not have homeless shitting on every corner. Drug addict camps are pretty small and localized and Winter is Coming. Plus courts are actually letting city clear the encampments.