skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I/We are using the latest 7.3.0 with Prometheus, however most of the issues are more general. I think they'd be hard to prioritize as they are so minor (outside of perhaps a "minor bugs only" sprint or similar, as some projects do). But they do add up very quickly.

To illustrate, here's some of the paper cuts that instantly come to mind: mod-s not working in panel editor, gradient fill incompatible with series overrides, various missing tooltips, missing query error reporting and syntax highlighting in variable editor, variable editor needing many clicks for most common actions, hidden variables can only be changed by repeatedly opening and closing the settings, some dashboard settings pages being easy to accidentally close without saving, g+[key] keyboard shortcuts randomly not working, random scroll jumps with multiple queries in a panel, switching between cursor modes with mod+o is super slow, Prometheus autocomplete not working when editing existing queries, clicking the dashboard name filters by folder while clicking the folder name shows all dashboards, adhoc filters silently don't work, etc.

The "not responding" one specifically happens a lot while editing queries. It'll randomly decide to evaluate the query while I'm typing, get thousands of results and lock up.
This assumes there is no elasticity to where people live. For many people there is a cost at which moving to a higher COL area for an adjusted salary makes sense. Or in general someone may be looking to move for the right job at the right price, etc.

>Cost of living tends to follow from the prevailing wages in the area, not the other way around.

I tend to agree with this, but I think there is also a dichotomy of destination cities (where people with lots of money move to because it's nice, not necessarily because they will make more money there) vs. non-destination cities which can distort prices absent of wages. See: Vancouver, parts of LA, parts of the NY area, Miami, etc.
They aren't quite a monopsonist, but the difference for most companies is academic.

You've never sold to walmart, I have. If they put your physical product on the shelf you'll sell a lot of units. No one else has the shelves walmart does. If you are not on the walmart shelf there is NO way to get the same number of units sold.
Pitfalls in Random Number Generation (2014)
In the context of pandas, 3 GB of (raw, uncompressed) data could easily require 30 GB of RAM, and that kind of overhead adds up quickly.
What an absolutely amazing idea. This hits me right in my interests. Kudos & good luck!
I believe everything that ever lived has a story to tell (or that did not live, even https://youtu.be/HOPwXNFU7oU).

I imagine a Borgesian world where all the stories that could ever be told are available to all the future ages of time. What incredible things could we do, as a people, if we truly were able to process in some way the lives of those who came before us, and knowing our own stories could be shared with generations to come? Narcissism notwithstanding, as for me it's the ordinary lives that have so much to offer us, in aggregate.
The ones that matter do.
‘A Place for Everything’ Review: Ordering the Universe
Agreed. What I was trying to convey is that reducing new emissions to ~0 is a necessary win condition. It's not optional...and it's also urgent because those emissions reproduce. We're going to have to cut emissions to 0 anyway, so the sooner we do so, the better...by a LOT.

And besides being urgent, it's also something that we know how to do. As in, today. We have the technology! (It's called massive carbon taxes). Or at least we're much closer technologically than we are to any sort of clean, insanely efficient sequestration tech.

Perhaps this is obvious to you, but if you read the replies to my comment you'll see a number of replies where the tenor is "it's impossible to enact carbon taxes to reduce our emissions so let's work on sequestration instead."
I'm quite happy to see fewer libraries being developed.
> the grid is still awash with coal power!

Not really, coal is quickly vanishing from the US electricity sector due to cheap natural gas and renewables. I see no reason that trend won't continue. Source: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/electricity-...

> So, does it makes sense to deploy this in areas with a ton of green energy available on the grid? Maybe... but those areas have lower PPM carbon in the air, so it's not the right place to run the machine anyway.

Global carbon dioxide concentrations are not evenly distributed, but the distribution has much more to do with climate patterns than where the emissions happened. The atmosphere is fairly well-mixed. Across the whole globe, concentrations are significantly higher than pre-industrial levels. Source: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/82142/global-patter...

> Perhaps instead of all this wasted effort and engineering time, we could just replace the damned coal plants and stop emitting carbon itself.

Once the world reaches net-zero emissions, we can't celebrate and say we've stopped the problem. We just stopped it from getting worse. Carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere for centuries, if we want to return the climate to pre-industrial, massive negative emissions will eventually be necessary. Engineering work on negative emissions will not be wasted unless we give up on that goal completly.
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What new features have even been added to X lately?

It is fine. It is done. Maybe something better will come along at some point, but we could just keep using it like this indefinitely.
> Hell, I'd be happy if there was just fewer bugs.

There are strategic and tactical issues here.

Tactical issues are obvious. Wayland's problem with screenshots and all the bugs from not having a decades long lineage.

Strategic issues are less obvious. As this blog pos alludes to the standard X server is reaching a maintainability crisis where long term devs don't think the project is a good idea.

I think Wayland is a tactical mis-step myself for reasons you and GP mention, but I think now that the bad has been covered someone needs to mention the good:

The reference X server cannot practically be replaced. The reference Wayland compositor quite possibly isn't ever going to get established before being replaced. This is an excellent thing - it beings evolutionary pressure to the display system.

Wayland has problems, but unlike the current X ecosystem the problems can be fixed by replacing bits of software. The Wayland protocol seems light enough that Wayland+1 can implement it as a compatibility layer. When the dust settles, leaving X will have been a good idea.
Also, the new Xbox store written in React Native: https://twitter.com/reactnativemsft/status/12903403919679569...
> Geo-fence lets the car know that the road has been mapped so that it can correlate its sensory data against fixed data.

Yes, I get that, and my point is that updating the geo-fence fast enough to account for changes in the ground truth which invalidate your map is an unsolved problem.
If you are unproductive when coding C++, you are Doing It Wrong. Good C++ code flows like water. If you are finding it complex, you have gone down a side alley, and need to get back to the wide, sunny boulevard.

I frequently sit down and write 2000 lines of C++ code, and when it compiles, it works. Aim for that.
I've never used Wayland. Are there inherent advantages that make it preferable, even if the community could successfully revive X? (And assuming Wayland's deficiencies were addressed-- speed as an example, from other comments I've seen)
I built a MAME box recently and specifically purchased a dual-joystick (X-Arcade) so I could play Robotron.

It's still fun. Love the graphics, it creates an exciting environment that is claustrophic.
Searched BASIC programming on Google and if also returned results relevant to the actual programming language
Google stops selling Nest Secure, still offers support
It's hopeless. More than once I've seen claimed that "gerrymandering" affects the Electoral College and got Trump elected. Yet more proof that the word, like "fascism", simply means "anything I don't like".
It's surprising to me that the moon is speeding up and getting further away from Earth. You might think the energy extracted to make tides would have the opposite effect.
Thank you. I am putting The Golden Age on the top of my reading list. Any other recommendations?
It seems to go on sale pretty often, but never as low as $5 in the US: https://steamdb.info/app/286160/
What's funny is that the railroads of the US were mandated to implement this (PTC) by the end of 2018 and have almost universally blown the deadline.

Caltrain tried to roll their own implementation, got caught with their pants down, and iirc are now trying to save face by switching to one of the standard vendor developed systems
Whistler, BC
Agreed on the need to invest in carbon capture now. My main argument was that a) reducing emissions to ~0 is going to be necessary even if we invent some insanely efficient carbon sequestration tech; b) the longer we wait, the worse the problem gets, in an exponential way. Emissions reproduce; c) Therefore the bulk of our effort should be spent trying to get emissions down to 0. Because if we fail at that (a task that we know how to accomplish), then no amount of sequestration tech will save us.
Kinda tempted to see if Oregon would let me register [REDACTED], LLC

Only 100 dollars...

Edit: Someone beat me to it. Reg #1330411-94
Ask HN: CTO to-do list for new software product startup
Looking to compile sources that succinctly present best-practices for starting a software product startup from scratch, specifically the tech components (codebase(s), infra, tooling, etc.).

For example,

"A checklist of all things to consider for CTOs of SaaS startups.": https://github.com/stockandawe/saas-startup-cto-checklist

"90 Day Plan for a CTO in a New Job": https://www.rajiv.com/blog/2016/04/19/90-day-plan-for-a-cto-in-a-new-job/

The goal is to define my own checklist/roadmap to build the code/infra/tools foundation to support a growing team of engineers turning a hacky MVP into full-fledged, deployed product.
I'm definitely not trying to downplay Asimov, but reading a >60 year old book to learn more about biology might not be the best use of your time. There has been an exponential (I'm not using this word lightly) knowledge gain in the last decades. The function of cholesterol won't be the only thing that's completely outdated.
What makes this a great piece, in your opinion?

I feel like it's kind of cheap and doesn't really back up any of the criticisms it seems to level against him. It makes claims that he's hindered "serious" academic research regarding ESP but doesn't really back that up with any kind of evidence that shows the research is serious (how serious can it be if it hasn't produced any evidence?).

I don't disagree that Randi wasn't flawless or perfect but this kind of hit piece is both silly and pointless.
Like little Bobby Drop Tables: https://xkcd.com/327/
May I recommend CopyQ as well? I moved to it when Plasma changed Klipper some time ago and I am quite glad I did. Can even install it on Windows in a portable fashion.
I can't shake the feeling that I can do so much with it yet I'm barely scratching the surface as user, it's quite powerful.
It is also important to note that the 6-12 seconds and 7-14 seconds reported in the paper is for the garbled text CAPTCHAs, not for image labeling tasks (fire hydrants, cars, etc).
As with anything else, use your intuition, read between the lines, follow the incentives/money.

Based on the rating they give it does seem like a questionable source.

But if you want to go down that rabbit hole of who is or who isn't a questionable source based on some fact-checker you will eventually reach the question, how do we know that our fact-checker isn't biased? who funds the fact-checker, are there any political motivations over-ruling journalistic integrity, etc. And then eventually you arrive at a fact-checker that fact-checks other fact-checkers. And you can keep going down that rabbit hole forever or you can learn to use your intuition.

I will also say this:
Even a broken clock is right twice per day.

And in the same vein,
Even a questionable source can write an article based on facts every now and then.
WebRTC is okayish imo but be prepared for tons of complex templates.
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/903/
There’s much that can be said about Twitter’s moderation policies, but entirely orthogonal to that, this quotation should be mighty upsetting to anyone who hews to the basic tenets of American constitutionalism regardless of your political leanings.

“Who the hell elected you?” The implied statement here is that, because you (Jack) aren’t elected, you can’t decide what people read; the corollary being that, because I (Ted) am elected, I can decide what people read. This is entirely backwards! “Congress shall make no law,” says the Constitution. It’s precisely because Ted Cruz is elected that the Constitution says he cannot make laws deciding what people read. That’s the entire point of the exercise!
Did this change his mind about general anesthesia?
AMD’s newest graphics cards: RDNA2 power from $579 to $999
Billy Mitchell’s Donkey Kong high-score case will move forward to trial
DLSS 2.0 requires motion vectors as an input to re-project the previous frame, so an equivalent of that at least can't be implemented in the display.

DLSS is also a rather heavy computation, taking 1-2 ms per frame on high end GPUs. That's a serious amount of processing power to put into a display and doing so makes it exclusive for that use. On the GPU those tensor cores can be used for other tasks when they're not doing DLSS.
But how hard is it to port Dart to a new architecture?
Try doing this without AR -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKNbRRRFhqY

In the past it would require hiring an entire vfx team. And this is just interacting with more or less static content. Things get even more interesting with dynamic systems where you adjust one parameter of the system and the entire world around you changes.
Why would the ‘caterer’ need to be in a VR experience themselves for that?
>These can run basic GC'd apps just fine

LOL, this explains why every embedded GUI I encounter in these "smart" devices is awfully sluggish and a pain to use, delivering 5fps at most. Thx for the clarification!
>no solid ground to claim that any Git platform is a copy of another

I think that's fairly obvious. I guess I didn't explain clear enough the point I was trying to make in the original post. I kind of regret writing it now.
> asking us to leave his spam up for "just a few hours"

What... why? What is their goal???
The entire field of Metascience (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metascience for a basic introduction) exists to examine the question of whether people who think they are doing science are really doing Cargo Cult science.

Their conclusion? Most ARE doing Cargo Cult Science. Particularly those working in psychology and medical research.

Let that sink in. Because it really, really matters. And given that it is true, perhaps you should stop objecting to the characterization and start thinking about what would be required for that to no longer be true.

Now you said, If you think that more research dollars should go to the second group (and I would likely agree), cool. Well, that is a mild version of what I am saying. I am saying that the decades long refusal of the field to fund or allow publication of any alternative lines of research is a genocidal crime. I mean that quite literally. They wasted billions of dollars entrusted to them and caused millions of unnecessary deaths.

This is not to say that amyloid research should not have been pursued. It was the leading hypothesis for good reason. But doctors have learned the hard way the importance of giving both a diagnosis and a differential. And then to look for evidence for the differential.

Researchers need to be better at doing the same thing. And as long as they are apathetic or, as you have been, openly hostile to it, they will continue doing Cargo Cult science. No matter how impressive the procedure looks, they are failing to do the basic things that are likely to make it work.
Same goes for the Robinhood integration, sadly.
Oh interesting. I didn't realize they were soliciting submissions for those. That's a cool idea, I'll look into it, thanks.

I'd probably have gotten the Moonlander if it was available when I got the ErgoDox, especially because of the thinness. Having slightly fewer keys wouldn't bug me too much though... it would be easy to move some functionality I'm using now to a different layer. If I had one, the easiest adaptation would probably be to move PgUp/PgDn/Home/End to my arrow layer on both halves, which I've actually been thinking about anyway.
Amazon launches first online store in the Nordics, gets off to rocky start
<b>Be</b>, <strong>be</strong>, but don’t <head>be</head>. That's an illegal act of violence.
> compensate.com

This Finnish nonprofit has some legal problems in Finland. The authorities interpret that their promise of compensation is too vague to be seen as their customers receiving something for their payments. So the nonprofit would need a permit for asking donations, instead of selling compensation, and they hadn't applied for the permit.

https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-11138597
> How does that work once the idiots are in charge of the budget?

Society collapses and we become a failed state - but states fail all the time, universal suffrage appears to minimize the number of states that need to fail.

> Well it does. The confusion is about what you’re voting for.

When it comes to voting for president, my vote as a Vermonter is objectively worth 2.63 times as much as my friend from Washington - additionally the FPTP voting approach and winner take-all electoral college causes a lot of other oddities that make my VT vote essentially worthless when compared with a resident of PA.

There are a few ways we break 1 person 1 vote equivalence and while we can argue whether that's a good or bad thing you can't argue against it being the case.
Covid mean death age in France is 81 years[1].

Average death age in France is 82 years[2].

Basically, we are destroying our economy for people who would, on average, die of something equivalent in the year (be it flu, infection or cancer). Meanwhile, there are 1 million more poors in France since the beginning of the year and the deficit is soaring at > 20% GDP.

But yeah, that was worth it, right ?

[1]: https://www.lci.fr/sante/coronavirus-sante-publique-france-e...

[2]: https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_pays_par_espérance...
>- DLSS. It started out as a gimmick but with DLSS 2.0 it's just 70%+ free performance improvement with the only downside being somewhat limited game support.

Watch Dogs Legion comes out tomorrow and I've been benchmarking it today, as have many others in the subreddit. DLSS is sometimes improving things but is also quite often leading to worse performance, especially if RTX is set to ultra. I have no idea if the issue is game specific or not but I'd be curious to know which games use it well.
RTX 3090 Benchmarks for Deep Learning RTX 3090 vs. 2080 Ti
Go has nothing on Python in this regard. I write Go every day, and come from a Python background. I often describe Go as the strongly-typed, more performant version of Python. I say this mostly because my Go code isn't too dissimilar from my Python code (structure, naming, packages). But I still drop into Python if I want to do something quickly. I don't really know why. Maybe it's the Go tooling, e.g. unused variables cause compilation errors, so things like this slow me down. Or maybe it's because Python just offers _so_ much out of the box, e.g. all the data structures you'll ever need (list, set, dict, tuples), and all small things you take for granted (like writing "is a in list", which would require a function in Go). The REPL is Python's killer feature.
What were we talking about?
Try reCAPTCHA’s audio version (the headphones icon), it’s much easier than guessing what images it wants you to click (if you speak English, have headphones, and are not hearing-impaired).
All of Europe seems to be quite a stretch. I am earning north of 100k euro as IC in the Netherlands, most of my peers are doing the same here.
I also know quite a few people in Ireland, Germany and Sweden doing better than me.
>Even a language like Ruby, which tends to hang near the bottom of any performance-oriented benchmark, is thousands of times faster than BASICs that people were learning to program 8-bit home computers with in the 1980s. That's not an exaggeration, I do mean thousands.

I don't buy it. Unless we're comparing the computers BASIC ran on to computers today.
In another era, “+++ATH” would have been a good name.
IMHO driver monitoring should be separate from any test which is meant to evaluate L2 self driving features. And any trained pilot knows autopilot does not do everything and that you should be prepared to take over if needed , if you perceive autopilot to be "AI-magic" you should not blame others for your own ingnorance.
So they are going to go up against companies like Uber that break the law?
Yeah sure, I'll make sure to remember that in December when the sun is barely above the horizon even at noon-time.

I seem to remember reading that you don't get much UV light when the sun is below 40 degrees. You don't have to go far north for the sun to be kind of useless in winter.

An interesting side-note, there's a theory that Europeans are so white because the gulf-stream makes it warm enough for farming grains despite being quite far north.. and so you don't get much Vitamin D from the sun all of winter, and you don't get it from your food (like the Inuits do, from eating a lot of fish), so white skin is a "hack" to try to maxize vitamin D production, despite the obvious downsides.
Just because Amazon shoppers may ignore prices elsewhere doesn't mean Amazon can "set" prices.

It may mean Amazon understands their shoppers' price sensitivity, to be sure, but I can find almost anything on there elsewhere for less, or also for more.
Apple Developing Search Engine as Google Comes Under Antitrust Scrutiny: Report
Which is a terrible name considering they already have a Virtual Super resolution feature (https://www.amd.com/es/support/kb/faq/dh-010)
> Nor is, "We might be in violation of GDPR and we might not--we have no idea so we're going to just block you."

It’s not something to be proud of, but it is something I am sympathetic about. Modern laws (not just GDPR) are long and the language is often hard to understand.

I believe that laws must be simple enough to comprehend, or else they will not be comprehended and thus will be violated even by people who want to follow them — the phrase would be better if it was “ignorance of the law cannot be an excuse”, because that works both ways.
It depends on what you mean by offset. If you're okay with carbon stored in the biosphere by trees then there are plenty of programs. If you want to put carbon back in the geosphere (since trees eventually rot or burn) sending money to climeworks is the best thing available right now. Their DAC + geologic storage approach is expensive at around $1k/ton, but highly credible.
It's almost as if these things have always existed.
That might require a bit more effort on the part of a company I know, who would have to register their logo "moz://a".
How does this differ from the "VESA" linux driver?
One of the best games at the arcade when I was growing up.
I have a chronic medical condition which often causes prolonged, severe abdominal pain.

There have been times where, if I had the training and knew that self-surgery would lead to quick relief after only another few hours of excruciating sensation, I might have been willing to give it a go.

And I would have probably passed out from the pain and bled to death.