skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, that is the client side. I went back and looked at the documentation, I was wrong and conflated two ways of doing it:

- X forwarding over SSH: this only requires changing X11Forwarding in OpenSSH sshd's config

- Plain X over network, which is secured with `xhost`, insecure, and needs transfering the magic cookie or other authentication information

So, not nearly as complex to setup as I recalled, though it's much simpler to run a nested wayland compositor (which waypipe does) than a X11 server (which xpra does). The difference between X11 and Wayland remote access thins when xpra is involved.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37157097/how-does-x11-au...
That doesn't make any sense. Does it mean the profit from the deal should be written off as business expenses?
The natural language for numerical and mathematical sciences has been, is, and will remain Fortran, unless a language is invented with the same nice rich vectorized and parallelized math-oriented syntax of Fortran and its speed, in which case, it will be most likely called Fortran again.
You are asking us to literally draw conclusions from hypothetical benchmarks where the opposite results will exist.

I am sympathetic to the idea that things needed to start over. I'm annoyed with the lack of honesty and self critical approach. As framed by you, Wayland is above criticism. Which immediately raises my suspicions.
I don't generally just browse apps so like if you know what you're looking for and go to it it's the same as if you searched an exact name on the apple one -- but if you're just browsing around it's got a lot of lower quality stuff.
I wish it were that simple. HN just seems to have gone the way of reddit, where downvoting is disagreement. And of course, 3 minutes after I post this comment, it's downvoted.

I don't have a methodology, because I'm not a pollster with dozens of people at my disposal. I am just bemused and annoyed that things like 538 continue to be taken seriously when they continue to ignore sociological, historical, and cultural factors in favor of an overly-complex quantitative model.

Re: the upcoming election. I don't think we can be sure, yet. Certainly it will be close, and the Biden at 90% to win estimations make no sense to me. Biden is a much weaker candidate than Hillary and he continues to make blunders (i.e. I guarantee that his comments on fracking in the last debate just lost him Pennsylvania.) Trump seems to be finding a lot of allies in strange places, e.g. African-American celebrities. That may be an isolated incident, or it may signal some big unexpected changes.

At this point my estimation is Trump-Biden 55-45, for the simple reason that people tend to vote for economic issues and Trump has a better "perception" on this issue. "It's the economy, stupid." as James Carville put it.
that would be the client side
Many liability risks are not passed onto customers. Banks, for instance, if they used your logic, would charge you extra for their own incompetence if they were unusually frequent victims of fraud. What happens instead is these industries filter for competence, as table stakes for participating in them.
You said this on another comment, it's disingenuous to say that just because it was bad before that it's not bad now. Apple really shouldn't charge 30 percent for doing basically nothing except gate keeping.
Sounds like a great product that could be very useful.

> Drops lets you create a landing page for your upcoming releases

Why should they(content creators) not just use their existing website to capture data and send every time they drop something new?
Have you ever tried Pypy? I know when I had issues with GC and some memory usage (specifically dealing with large datasets as well, I was parsing large MySQL query results -- many millions of rows) Pypy didn't really drop memory usage much, but it did give me an almost 10x speedup. Enough that I went "oh, guess I don't need to use a different language."
>For something like the invasive ice plant already covering the West Coast there seems little hope.

Perhaps little hope for widespread eradication, but important areas can be cleaned up.
> There unfortunately is no other option.

Gnome could stop being unreasonably obstructionist, but that indeed seems unlikely.
It’s not because western companies never do the wrong thing (ignoring the specifics of your example). They do and I specifically address this in the long form blog post I linked.

They’re not comparable because the western companies are not doing this due to the threat of retaliation from their own government.

There’s more nuance here (which I address in that blog post). I wrote that so I wouldn’t have to rewrite the same stuff every time this issue comes up.

The reason I said it’s not comparable to companies operating in western democratic countries is because otherwise the first reply every time I write something like this is a false equivalence about how the “<insert western country here> is the same if not worse...” which is just not true.
Freedom is a dog whistle for, 'I'll do what is I want, unless I'm forcibly stopped.' Personal responsibility is a dog whistle for, "We don't care why or how things got the way they are, we are taking it out on you."

Consequently, children are policed, or they won't stay in their classes. And, there's no collective understanding of a better way to handle the situation.
Acquiring DDG wouldn't give them much of a head start as its value is mostly anonymizing Bing searches. Apple could just work out a deal directly with Microsoft instead.
It's a lovely language perfectly suited to building network-oriented services in market-driven organizations.

It's basically the only language in meaningful use that optimizes for the right things in this context: productivity at the team scale (rather than the individual scale) and making things easier for code readers (rather than code authors).
Government Cameras Hidden on Private Property? Open Fields
They are locking accounts for people who "don't have enough account activity". You literally can't create a Facebook account for just Oculus. You have to post status updates on Facebook to keep your account in good standing.
It's worth mentioning that Apple's human review can be very incompetent. They rejected an update to iSH on TestFlight (https://ish.app) because the reviewer thought that the app's shell prompt was a "blank screen".

That said, in general, I appreciate the greater average quality of apps in the App Store.
Sure, and maybe that's a reasonable position to take commercially, though I note that Apple does use end-to-end encryption for various specific categories of data on iCloud so the argument about being user-friendly with recovery options is not without its weaknesses.

In any case, iCloud still isn't fully secure, and Apple isn't very honest about that in its marketing. It also doesn't give those users who do value security and privacy more highly the opportunity to use iCloud with real security, while simultaneously making it unnecessarily difficult to transfer data using other, more secure methods.

As one potential alternative for discussion, you could instead construct a system where users had the option of keeping keys entirely under their control, with suitable backup options, or of creating an online emergency recovery system where partial key data was given to Y trusted friends and recovering that data from any X out of those Y would be sufficient to reconstruct the key. Each friend need only know that they are agreeing to be an emergency keyholder for someone, and no-one else other than the original user and the keyholder need know that the relationship even exists.

The UI for a system like that could be extremely simple. Turn on the emergency recovery system. Identify a list of friends you want to trust. They each get asked if they're willing to help, and you either get a list of people who all said yes or prompted to choose more people if anyone declined or couldn't be reached. Once you've got enough, everyone who is a trustee carries around a suitable fragment of the other keys on their own secure device(s) in exactly the same way that their own key is held.
These are appealing arguments. But our industry is flooded with appealing arguments losing to pragmatic compromises.
Looks like you're leading the charge solo chief
Anecdotal, but I have never met a Trump supporter that was shy about who they were voting for, this year or in 2016.

If anything, Trump supporters have been extremely vocal about who they were supporting, to the extent that they frequently violate social norms and try to takeover events and gatherings to make their political affiliations known, like this week with Among Us.
What do you mean? There is plenty of places where you can get a coffee and hangout or even pull your laptop and do some work. I am not talking Starbucks, but family coffee shops. They have books, board games, cards and WiFi. Often also a selection of home made sandwiches and cakes.
I don't see what there is to lament. If this is necessary spending (it seems it is) and there is other necessary spending, then it seems we must pay for both of those things.

I guess we could wish that the hornets never arrived here, but the life of a government is solving thousands of problems like these. If not the hornets, it would be something else. The uplifting moment is that this was a successful containment. Money well-spent :)
That sould fepend on how good Wine itself works on MacosX, which it was not originally built for.
I don't know what you're trying to get at. We can sit here and argue and say they should have done this and they should have done that, but that doesn't help anybody who wants support for them at this current moment.

And please don't exaggerate, non-GTK applications do work in GNOME. Qt5 has native CSDs that will show up in GNOME. If the application is a game or something that doesn't support CSD then the experience is somewhat degraded but they still work. You can resize and move any window by holding Super and Left/Middle clicking. I won't pretend the situation is ideal but I also don't believe it's totally unusable or on a bad trajectory at the moment—like I said the other libraries are working on getting CSD support too.
I have not said that Wayland is above criticism. I have said that the criticism which has been raised thus far is largely invalid, and that the benchmark you pointed to is flawed. If you insist on using flawed benchmarks as evidence for the inferiority of a technology simply because no less-flawed benchmark exists to provide a counterpoint, you are wrong.
You're so scared of the country you live in that you are publicly recommending to your fellow Americans that they don't host a project on a (gasp) German website like codeberg? You have completely lost perspective, or you are a mindless rule-follower, or a coward, or some combination of all of these.

I also find the Aaron Swartz case extremely sad and depressing, but what he was doing was very different from using a European website in the way the website owners intend.

> with only downsides.

Of course there are upsides; that is the whole point of this discussion: the upside is that the resources will be available to all people in the world.
> The only thing your comment shows is that you're obviously not Swedish, because you obviously have no idea what SCB is

This is the best attack you have?

I’m from Sweden. Prove to me that Sweden has done better than Norway, Finland and Denmark - we have death-rates between 11 and 5 times higher than those countries.

I have no idea why you seem to think this is some sort of positive result, but your nationalism seems to have blinded you to simple facts.

Btw I’d rather you argue against posts that disagree rather then the instant downvote.
Antarctica is clearly doing something right, I'd suggest we emulate them. A a well-funded coalition of wildlife experts should be deployed to determine what special conditions have conspired to produce such a resistant ecological niche.

Hemelin, Germany on the other hand only found a temporary solution to the problem when the anonymous Pied Piper visited the area. Perhaps he was unaware that some rats can swim up to a mile and simply drove the local rat population to the surrounding area. Regardless, the example clearly illustrates that music-based solutions to the problem are, at best, temporary.
The link posted by OP is from Passivetech which just parasites other peoples work. They literally pirated an article about piracy

Proper link: https://torrentfreak.com/github-reinstates-popcorn-time-code...
I think the best the pill can do right now is to at least making some disturbance to change the balance and hoping it produce desirable outcome.

Yes basically throw something at the wall and hoping it stick.
One thing to note: 538 uses a t-distribution (and calls out on regularly in their podcast that this yields much heavier tails than a normal distribution). Even 40,000 samples is not enough to characterize the tails.

So, it seems to me that the entire article is predicated on a faulty conjecture, namely that 538 uses a mixture of a normal distribution with an independent heavy-tailed one. (It's not explicitly stated what the author thinks the base model is, but I think "normal" is a reasonable guess.)

I'd be interested in seeing a reverse-engineering analysis of 538's choice of distribution parameters, and extrapolation from there to see if these pathologies still arise with (much) larger samples.

...

That said, ultimately, the choice of how fat to make the tails is a modeling decision, and how the models behave outside the regime of interest isn't as important as how they behave within the operating region. There are key ways we can evaluate goodness of fit once we have results (e.g. bias, MSE) which we can use to determine just how wrong the model was as a predictor, and chances are pretty good that we won't see, say, Trump winning NJ, so we won't actually be able to validate the tail correlation with the vote in PA. But we will be able to validate the correlation in margin between PA and NJ.

Maybe 538's tails are too fat, and every prediction in the 80-95% range ends up going as predicted. Or maybe they're not fat enough, and some races in the 99% bucket end up going the opposite way. Point is, we won't know for sure which models were the best predictors until we can verify the predictions.

(see: all models are wrong, etc. Newtonian mechanics work great as long as your objects are big and slow, for instance.)
Love it. It's not perfect, but hasn't failed me yet.
No, I don’t think I’m moving any goal posts. Op provided a list of items, and my question is very simple - what is the net impact? What has Trump actually achieved? What is the result?

From your last comment, are you implying no action can be taken that isn’t simply symbolic except for a land invasion?

Interesting that you turn this into a personal attack. If you agree with the OP, that’s okay. The goal has always been delivering results, not empty, feel good rhetoric that makes you “feel” good. If it’s about your feelings, then okay, I’m sure his strong man rhetoric is good enough over any actual policy shift.
I don't think the type of person that forgets to register is the type to reliably show up at the polls, so I doubt this is going to have a big effect.
I have worked directly and indirectly in inpatient mental health settings intermittently. The parent poster's view is correct with regards to my experience.

Yes, for some people antipsychotics, antidepressants, etc. are a godsend and the difference between living a mostly normal and productive life vs. jumping off a bridge, dying in a homeless encampment because they cannot feed themselves, or committing violent acts against others. To clarify, none of these are hyperbole or exaggeration -- those are two extremes on outcome with mental health issues and antipsychotics can be the difference between the two.

That being said, many, if not most, physicians I have worked with agree with the parent comment. For many patients these medications are not effective and are used as chemical restraints [0] rather than with the goal of normalizing their mental health. Eventually the logic becomes "we'll never fix them, but we can sedate them so much they won't hurt themselves or others" so dosages progressively increase until the patient becomes more sedated and somewhat zombie like. This isn't hospital specific; I have seen it across 3-4 different hospitals in different states. Neuroscience and psychiatry is a very young field and the truth is that we do not know what causes mental health issues or how to deal with them. The chemical imbalance theory is just that, a theory, and more importantly, one with very little scientific proof and backing [1].

[0] https://www.medicinenet.com/what_is_an_example_of_chemical_r...
[1] https://www.healthline.com/health/chemical-imbalance-in-the-...
Have you checked out nb at https://github.com/xwmx/nb?
>XWayland apps are unresponsive in the upper half of the second screen (4K at 1x scaling)

Seems to be a bit of a dealbreaker for people who want to use 100 percent of their screen instead of only 75 percent.
Statistics and the Replication Crisis
It's interesting that the "news" site advocating for censorship all across youtube, facebook, google, etc is also shaming zoom for "censorship".
Quite impressive for a high school project.

Kudos!
When Your Workplace Gives You PTSD
Bees aren't the only pollinators out there. Yes, they are super important, but others exist. https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/animals-ecology/incredibl...
Outside of major metros, in the US a lot of towns only offer up to 5Mbps down, and only then if you pay out the nose. Not sure if it matters for X forwarding, but upload caps are also ridiculously low even on otherwise reasonable connections.
Red pilling is a term allegedly coopted by the alt right, and these days the definition is closer to the snopes definition than a matrix reference, which is unfortunate.
Ask HN: I don't use an IDE, should I be using one?
I've been at my job for about 1.5 years, and I don't actually use an IDE. Basically I have tmux with one vim window and 1-3 terminal windows. Whenever I want to see the results of a change, I'll just switch to a terminal and either reload in a repl, recompile, or rerun tests. For things like linters and autoformatters I just manually run those things too. If I want to find a definition I'll just do some ripgrepping, or search google/github if it's in non-internal libraries. If I find myself jumping way too much I'll generate a tags file.

Am I leaving a ton of productivity on the table? Most of my coworkers use something like vscode, or at least hook an lsp server onto their terminal editor. On the other hand, I don't feel significantly less productive, and a small handful of coworkers seem to do the same thing. In fact, it feels kind of liberating not having to think about a bunch of tools; when diving into a new part of the codebase I can just start grepping away. I also feel that not having an IDE forces me to build a detailed mental map of the codebase.

For reference, I'm 23 years old, mostly working in C++, Python, and Haskell, and a touch of JS. I imagine I couldn't do this for everything, particularly platforms highly integrated with a specific tool like mobile dev, unity, or fpga.
Zuckerberg on the downside of banning targetted ads
"It's true that making it more difficult to target ads, would affect the revenue of companies like Facebook.

But the much bigger cost of such a move, would be the reduced effectiveness of the ads and opportunities for small businesses to grow. This would reduce opportunities for small business so much, that it would probably be felt at a macro-economic level.

Now is that really what policy makers want, in the middle of a pandemic and recession?

The right path, I believe, is regulation that keeps people's data safe, while allowing the benefits of this kind of personalised and relevant advertising."

- Zuck, Facebook 2020 Q2 Earnings Call

Source: https://youtu.be/xm3DtoGcrow?t=347 (timestamped)
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I agree with all of that, but the very crude issue here is one of sunk/capital outlays vs. unit costs.

Good software requires incredibly investment, even if the 'unit cost' is nothing.

Books aren't sold for $25 because of the cost of paper.

I think we are wired to think in such material terms, which is why maybe why we have an instinct towards the notion of 'free' software as being somehow special, when really it's not that much different than many other things.
Habits Maketh the Man (and Un-Maketh Him, Too)
I don't think this is true anymore. DDG results have declined significantly as they have become more mainstream.
In the early 2010s, there were a whole bunch of distributed issue trackers for git. They all died out due to various problems, such as working across branches, polluting the commit history, extra commands to keep synced (including not getting retrieved with the initial clone), not having a web view for project managers/bug reporters, etc.

I think this was the most popular one: https://github.com/aaiyer/bugseverywhere
> I wonder then why many countries enforce them in open spaces. Note, this meant as a honest question.

Well, first off, I’m not sure that many countries have. But for those who do, I suspect a big part of the motivation is initial high rates of people claiming they forgot their mask when they get to the shop and insisting they be let in anyway.
I'm not sure if "wheelchair accessible" and "accessible with a double stroller" fall in the same category. If they do, then Sweden is pretty wheelchair accessible.
This is a weird comparison to make: Leila Khaled vs Tiananmen Square Massacre. While I both don't agree with Khaled and also think that she should have had her event, there's a large difference between canceling someone who is currently advocating for violence and student protestors. Khaled is a self proclaimed freedom fighter who hijacked 2 planes. Tiananmen Square Massacre is students getting shot by their government. I'm not sure how you equate these things unless I am gravely misinformed about Tiananmen Square and it was really a rebel group of students that were freedom fighters advocating and participating in violent actions against the government. As far as I know, that's not the case. Comparing the two removes any actual context between these events. There's this large scale difference. You can't just say because X country isn't perfect that Y country can do whatever they want. Scale matters. Nuance matters. You also can't call country X hypocritical based on people complaining about country Y because, at least in western countries, you'll find those people are often complaining about similar things in their home country X (meaning ideology is consistent). I'll even say that criticizing America is a national past time (and how democracies work, you only improve by finding your flaws).
wikipedia has the advantage that they can deploy a banner informing people about stuff in an instant. From some googling, back in 2015 Wikipedia had half a billion monthly users - that is massive reachout capability.

Anyone daring to put up a fight with Wikipedia risks being flattened by outrage.
DKMS allows for drivers to be installed without breaking the kernel signature. And Ubuntu and Red Hat and Fedora are all MS-signed (as will anyone else willing to go through the process, which is really only feasible for large orgs but is mostly just bureaucracy). So most hobbists will never need to mess with mokutil.
You must be doing facebook wrong. Millions of people use it to just keep in touch with their family and friends, and couldn't care less about the self-obsessed "influencer" crowd or collecting "likes", or any of that childish stuff.
Frontend development is pain in 2020. But it gets better
Beyond being complete gibberish, of course their dumb ass phones produce as much "radiation" as an ipotato.
There is a book: The Art of Procrastination: A Guide to Effective Dawdling, Lollygagging, and Postponing https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0091YL5KK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_ul...

Full disclosure, author is my dad.