skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I went to Cape Town the internet was awful. Super slow (at least for US/EU sites) and with very restrictive data caps (IIRC, 10GB per month). That was circa 2008 so perhaps things are better now
Seems like it’s about the same as other large countries? But a bit of a weird situation since no lockdown != citizens out and about having a party. People can choose to lock themselves down

Belgium 96.36
Spain 75.2
United Kingdom 68.07
Italy 62.46
Sweden 57.85
France 53.04
Netherlands 41.27
Ireland 38.54
Romania 33.86
Luxembourg 23.95
Czechia 23.92
Portugal 23.07
Bulgaria 16.59

Copies from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1111779/coronavirus-deat... excuse the bad formatting
> Managing people especially older people has been awful

I am really curious about this. What did you find awful about managing older people?

Generalising perhaps too much, I find older people generally easier to work with than younger people. They seem more sensible, like they have become comfortable with themselves.
> and learning "how your mind is a channel of the Higher Mind of the universe".

I mean, yeah?
> The one place that X could use some updating is all the sync method calls, that unlike RDP become quite slow if the network connection has any real latency.

I wouldn't say the one place, but it is a pain point.

(And actually, many of the supposedly synchronous things are not synchronous at the protocol level, but at the C library binding level -- xlib. Nowadays there's a much closer to the protocol binding: libxcb.)
Sounds like Evan O'Neill Kane. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/iEvan_O%27Neill_Kane?wprov=sfl... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-surgery?wprov=sfla1
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It's an approximate and somewhat mythical value, popularised by Ray Bradbury's novel. Actual ignition point varies bu 100+ °F. Experience this past year with sourdough baking --- on parchment paper at 290°C (550°F) --- shows that though the paper browns, it does not combust. (Possibly affected by thermal mass / moisture of bread loaf.)

https://slate.com/technology/2012/06/ray-bradbury-death-does...

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Indeed, this network transparency, I use it every day... It is the #1 feature I couldn't do without on Wayland.

But X11 has been stale so long it would really benefit from a back-to-the-drawing-board approach. From many points of view. Network latency, security etc.

But Wayland isn't it for me... It's too desktop centric IMO.
Climate change is a “controversial issue” so that line of reasoning is DOA.
Thank you for circling back on this.

It’s just stunning to me. I’m seriously considering trying it now.
Ubiquiti also has a great set of security products.
I’ve been a Spotify premium member for over a decade. I love their service for listening to and discovering music. I don’t want to be contributing to over-inflated ‘exclusive’ podcaster salaries that I never listen to.

In previous feedback to Spotify I’ve asked for a ‘hide podcasts’ option in the iPhone app. It’s unwanted clutter I don’t use.

Time to redirect the money I pay to the artists I listen to. What systems would others recommend?
Even one we reach net-zero emissions (which I agree, is proving to be an incredibly hard task politically) we still have the problem of a century of carbon emissions in the atmosphere. Getting our climate back to pre-industrial is going to require carbon capture ramping up dramatically later this century.

These projects will only make sense to operate at truly large scale once we've already shut down all the coal plants. I think what stripe is trying to do here is make early investments so that when we really need it to scale, the costs are low and the tech is mature.
Waymo Is Failing
When the state will be bankrupy and won'y be able to pay for the therapy of the people it wanted to save, people here will say "Well, at least we had 10% less Covid deaths than Sweden".
What do you think about the HD58X and HD6XX?
Yeah, I too would prefer that they fixed their bugs and focused in their UX for the dashboards. There are a lot of tickets in the backlog on github which have been there for years and aren't being prioritized... I can't imagine wanting to associate distributed tracing with Grafana which is a data visualizer...
Tends to be much easier on single folks. Good friend of mine and I worked at the same place for a while, and he moved in to a consultant role, doing a lot of 'on-site' work with clients. Initial review, few days working with team toward goals, writing up reports, etc. He did like the pace - rarely worked on the same gig for more than a few weeks max - but travel really started to wear on him, typically around 80% travel. Definitely takes a toll on family life.
There is indeed an official path for full linux support or at least in the sense that is outlined here https://medium.com/flutter/announcing-flutter-linux-alpha-wi...
To be polite, I think the target audience of these tools might not include you. While that workflow works for you and, apparently, scales for some very large projects like the Linux kernel, it isn't a good solution for an enormous number of people which is why tools like Github, Gerrit, GitLab, and others exist.
That sounds like uniformly bad code.
I don’t concede that social media is the public square; at most, it is one piece. It also seems to be one of the less useful, judging by the overall timbre of the engagement.

Even if true, what right does the govt or people have to reprieve the companies of their property rights? Nationalization is not generally in line with our system of laws in the US.
I've seen reports that it's somewhat common for the rich in China[1], so there might be some info on what it costs there, and maybe some extrapolation could be made. Either the "serve prison in lieu of me" or "say you were the one that committed the crime" version. There are weird perverse incentives at play in some of the laws of criminal justice system in China.[2]

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4339051

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10173395 (warning, the linked article describes very disturbing behavior and specific instances)
>Every time this topic comes up, a bunch of people bring up the things X has that Wayland doesnt yet have, or have in the form they think it should.

Every time this topic comes up, a bunch of people remind that Wayland doesn't yet have an accepted standard for basic features. Wayland is very good at some niche features like HiDPI or fractional scaling* , but more people (at least two orders of magnitude more) need screensharing these days when companies move to WFH.

* Yes, these are relatively niche features right now. e.g. Look at the Steam hardware survey: more people run resolutions below 1080p than above it - and that's in a biased sample, since gamers are more likely to have high resolution monitors! Now, it's nice to be future proof, but these features should not be prioritized over basic features.
Where I work, making code changes after an approved review is pretty normal. Particularly because we aren’t all awake at the same time (different time zones). It’s quite common to see “feel free to merge after fixing.” Otherwise it would take days to merge something.
What is the probability that everyone you work with is 100% honest, vs them figuring out how to be dishonest (in a "for the grater good" kind of way, as the comment you originally commented on) without you (or anybody else) noticing?
> The toolkit and Android Studio run horribly slow

I'm doing everything Flutter related with vim + CLI, so one doesn't have to work with android studio, even did so when trying a native Windows build (out of interest) a bit ago.

> And the output is basically this generation's flash.

I did some flash quite a while ago, and no that does not compare at al, similar to that it is not like Java. The closed comparison is possible Qt, from a built output.

> Some of the samples I tried on their gallery are mediocre.

That's true, and I never understood why they don't improve that, it hurts their publicity.

> I would honestly have thought that flutter is dead in the water - every personal experience I've had with it has been bad, there are objective facts about it that are bad, and yet so many people love it.

I thought about roughly the same a year and a half ago, a coworker then did some small private stuff with it, and we talked here and then, as the base premise still sounded interesting. Comparing it now to then it just shows how much improved and gives a glimpse to what more will be possible, and I now could imagine that it will stay and even become rather useful.

tldr; It's IMO far from dead in the water, but there's also quite a bit of work to do.
The problem, as we are seeing, is that lots of people cannot distinguish between fact and fiction let alone propaganda.

There is a non-trivial cohort of people who think "It's on <Joe Rogan, Fox News, etc.>, so it can't be completely wrong."

Actually, yes it can. It can be on CNN and be completely wrong--the probabilities are lower because people get fired over that, but it still can be wrong.

And this is before we even get into the whole "There are equally valid sides to an argument" problem in the media. No, no there aren't always two valid sides, and sometimes there's a dozen valid sides.

I'm not sure how we should deal with this.
My personal site is html/css only, no js or other frameworks on the pages. I don't count page views but can see bandwidth usage on the free firebase instance I use for it (firebase deploy from cli is my lazy method of pushing).
> there must be a reason that pros can buy two-thousand dollar lenses and three-thousand dollar camera bodies.

It's pretty simple. If you make your living with a camera, the marginal improvement of high dollar equipment becomes worthwhile, as it is amortized over a lot of pictures that you make money from.

For example, in high school, I had a soldering iron and struggled to make good solder joints. They were always globby, ugly messes. I read and followed the directions, it just didn't work out.

In college I got a job soldering circuit boards. The soldering iron was a professional one, costing maybe 20x what the ones I used in high school cost. But suddenly, it was easy to get professional results soldering.
I'm working on a tool [0] (mac only for now) that will let you manipulate browser tabs and windows – along with any other set of tabs and windows – that are intended to be long-running, and save and load your working context (running apps and their states).

Now to finish up and release that beta...

[0]: https://cleave.app
And i just thought my phone was the only device capable of having a secure enclave.
There's no Titan-"class"

A Nvidia card is Titan if it has the name and the drivers, and not if it doesn't.
Steve Yegge, a former Googler & GCP Customer begs to differ. From my experience GCP does deprecate a lot of libraries, SDKs, and APIs. None of which are covered in the SLA policy.

https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/dear-google-cloud-your-depre...
Don't know about your country/region but here the mitigations are put in effect because hospitals can't handle the pressure anymore.
I agree here. My best projects have been reconciling financial data, or automating reports for MSPs, or copying 100k products from one platform to another, or ...

You get it. Sometimes the problems are cool - like some of the financial recon projects I worked on required neat algorithms (not complex or exotic ones, but "fun" ones) to solve something in Python in 1 minute that a R programmer's (they weren't great) script took 10 hours to solve - but most projects are boring implementation wise.

Actually, most of my really, really good and valuable work doesn't amount to any more than comparing Excel files, and giving you a report on that data. Tons of companies need that.
as a user, this is the kind of experience I want on the web. any spa like page should always degrade back to web standards. and it should be lightening fast. and not spin my cpu fan or warm my desk.
Okay, if somewhat harsh :-).

As someone with north of 15 programming languages that I consider myself "fluent" in, albeit some latency involved in ones I've not used for a while, I always look for the idiomatic expression of computation. It is the difference between "writing FORTRAN in <x>, and writing an algorithm in <x>."

One of main the reasons I posted the question is that I found that design patterns I expected to be there, were not there, or were not idiomatic, and for whatever reason I am reasonably good at figuring out when something is "not quite right."

That said, I think it is unfair to characterize the choices of any language designer as either ignorant or wrong. As someone who participated in the design of Java I can assure you that the team "understood" why C++ did what it did. During that development, if there was any confusion, Guy Steele, whose office was three down from mine, would eloquently explain it so that everyone could understand it. That is not to say there weren't different opinions about "better" ways and "worse" ways to do things, Bill Joy was never a big fan of the Java choices and often took the opposing view across from Gosling. The language that Bill was designing was called 'Self' and it embodied his design choices, just as Java embodied Jame's design choices.

Me, as a systems guy, could really care less if Boolean was a first class type or just a uint1. I just want to write code that works.
Programming microcontrollers is very, very fun.

The first time you make an LED blink at different rates entirely controlled by a timer interrupt, there is no going back.
Launched 2017 for a measly $499
Not okay with planting trees; they will live on the whims of politicians and are too likely to be cut down later. It would have to be in the form of permanent reforestation, and I don't think anyone can credibly promise that.

The climeworks program looks like exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for, however, so thanks for pointing that out. My CO2 emissions are on the order of 10 tons per year, going by the average per capita number, so that would be around $10,000 per year, with no tax deduction available (my marginal tax is 40%). Also, looks like their pilot plant sequesters 50 tons per year, corresponding to the output of five people.

But it's very much the right type of idea.
Yeah no. I know of several cases where people have not even considered GCP as an option because of both Google's and GCP's support reputation.

Google has squandered their goodwill with the community the last 10 years, and it's always the current/former Googler's who can't seem to see it.
> 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.

Curious claim. Has there been any research that shows states are less likely to fail with universal suffrage?

> 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

See, that’s the confusion. You’re not voting for president directly. You’re voting for who you want your electoral college to vote for. In most states if you’re on the losing side of the vote in your state, your presidential vote literally means nothing.

Your individual vote in Vermont is not “worth more” than your friend’s vote in Washington because your both just voting in state level decisions about who the college should vote for.

The legitimate claim is about the number of delegates and (arguably much more important) the number of house representatives each state is getting.

Reiterated, there isn’t a lack of 1 person 1 vote equivalence in any elections I know of in the US (e.g. landowners don’t get extra votes). There are just elections people think are direct democracy when they are far from it.
There is a famous definition of consciousness by Thomas Nagel which states that an organism is conscious if there is something that is like to be that organism. I‘ve always liked that definition even though it doesn‘t tell us how and why it emerges. But nobody knows that anyway.

The amazing thing for me about consciousness is that it seemingly emerges from the gray matter of the brain. From the outside there is nothing that would suggest such a thing yet it exists. We don‘t know when and how exactly it comes into existence but there seems to be a connection between the complexity of the neural network and the things it is capable of.

Then there is the argument that consciousness may not be reserved for human or animal brains but instead is a state emerging from a system of sufficient complexity. What if there a consciousnesses out there that operate on time scales beyond our means of recognition? This is a philosophical point of view but fascinating to think about.
The future is Next.js with SSR first and selective client side hydration. Ignore the jamstack, it's going to lose and go away. Requiring a JS download first to show a dynamic site is a recipe for bad performance.
Pre-video call days, but... years ago, I had a phone interview with engineering manager. Had made it past initial screen, was ... interested in working there. Talking to the guy for a bit - I'm working on making all my points as best I can, trying to impress, then I hear "Noah, go talk to mommy - daddy's on the toilet!" I couldn't focus after that, and not sure he'd ever paid attention enough such that I had a shot anyway.
I’ve literally never seen this. Just tried to make it happen on my iPad with a few random searches and couldn’t. Maybe my adblocker (AdGuard set to block “annoyances”) has saved me this pain without even realizing it.
Yes, that is basically correct, except that ssh -X working is one of the bugs in X11 that Wayland fixes.
I have a ltd company registered at home and I got sent a pen with the company name engraved on it - nice spam :)

I also had a letter telling me I was the beneficiary of a few million dollars which was less useful :)
The GNOME Settings app allows you to assign global hotkeys under Wayland using the normal GUI [1]. Not sure about configuring those hotkeys in a config file like i3/sway, I assume it’s some dconf thing.

[1] https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/keyboard-shor...
Rooting a device does not enable setting a password for it. You can host sshd without root, or host sshd but disable root login. Rooting and setting a password, or opening remote command channels for that matter, are separate things. Root allows you to shoot yourself in the foot more than you could otherwise, but you do need to pull the trigger.

The default root methods just enable apps to request root, after which the user gets a prompt. It's like the camera, microphone, or any other special permission.
A lot of people are going to be upset about this, but realistically what is the alternative if you can't get the broader populace to adhere to strict social distancing, mask wearing, and sanitizing?

Seems to me if everyone took these measures seriously and genuinely made an effort to adhere to them we would be able to avoid this as the end game of outbreaks.

Other countries have curtailed massive outbreaks like this, it's possible to not end up in this situation.
Ask HN: Encouraging participation by girls in after-school engineering clubs
My ninth grade child is involved in the high school school robotics club. This program is almost entirely student-run.
The club has a minority but not unreasonable percentage of girls (30%), including in leadership roles.

My ninth grader has been asked (as part of a grant proposal) to develop ideas to encourage more female participation. When I search for online articles about this topic, they mostly seem to involve girls-only STEM activities, which doesn't seem relevant here. My main suggestion was to encourage an inclusive culture that is welcoming to participation from everyone (avoiding behaviors like talking over people, dismissing ideas from new members, or hazing type activities). Any other ideas from fellow HN readers about how to encourage girls to join and be engaged in technical high school clubs?
Don't make the mistake of even thinking about perf/dollar for top tier cards cost an additional $350-$800 for ~10% more improvement. Like the parent comment said, being the fastest is the reason these cards get bought not how good a deal they are. That being said I think the 6900 XT is far better than Nvidia were hoping it'd be. The 1st party benchmarks shown today had it on par with the 3090 (with "rage mode" and "smart access memory" in the comparison) which is certainly something unexpected from AMD.

Still it's more of a Zen 2 moment than a Zen 3 moment. From the lack of comments on RT performance compared to the competition (just that it was added to the hardware) it seems extremely unlikely the RT performance is at the same level. The cards also lack the dedicated inference hardware for features like DLSS or voice/video filtering. And the card still has less VRAM than the 3090. These are all minor but if you put them together it seems really unlikely we'll call the 6900 XT the absolute best performing GPU of the generationjJust like Zen 2 didn't topple Intel's claim of "best gaming CPU". We'll have to see 3rd party reviews and benchmarks to find out for sure though. What it does represent though is a huge upset in the 3070/3080 area where most cards are sold and a hint that there may be an Zen 3 moment coming for GPUs in the next generation where AMD really drives top tier performance to a new level after long stagnation instead of "just" coming close to taking the crown dead even.

Personally (and this part isn't going to be reflective of the average person) I was going to be a 3090 whale and I probably would still be if it weren't for Nvidia's shit stance on open drivers in Linux (one of my biggest gripes with my 2080 Ti). However with AMD being so close this round and me not having liked DLSS or RT on the 2080 Ti I'm willing to trade off for the 6900 XT. The $500 is a nice bonus but not really what's coming into play, like I said if I were trying to get perf/dollar the 6800 XT makes WAY more sense. This is similar to what happened with Zen 2, I was planning on getting the better Intel CPU for the couple extra FPS but I was fed up with meltdown type issues and Zen 2 was really damn close. Now I'm really excited for Zen 3 though :).
> Musical albums that liked to have names

The band 'Audiobooks' has taken this to the next level
Not affiliated with stripe here, but I'm guessing because tree planting can't scale up to the level of removal that's necessary and renewable energy is already pretty far down the cost learning curve. Stripe has limited capital compared to govts and large institutions and is being strategic about which projects need early investment to bring down costs.
> Windows & Mac are already on exclusively Wayland-style compositors

Only in a narrow sense; nearly all of the features one might reasonably consider fundamental parts of Windows/Mac are “out of scope” for Wayland. Wayland relies on layers upon layers of other solutions for things like central registries, interprocess communication, and negotiating hardware access.

From the Wayland perspective, this is all perfectly reasonable. It’s just how software gets made.

From the perspective of someone who isn’t already running a Linux kernel with evdev + KMS + DRM, we aren’t able to even find common language to discuss what being “a compositor” means to Wayland.
I meant to me it's practically dead, unless I can find alternative methods. One user already suggested a few promising ones but all it takes is for whatever organisation is blocking exchanges to find them and block them.

It's basically done on an account by account basis, at the banks and the card issuers. Which means any IBAN known to be associated with a crypto exchange, or any account you attempt payment to with your card.

It's cat and mouse game.

And I'm afraid they're setting a precedence for other European countries. Of course their reasons for this are to chase small time tax evaders while big time corporations like Facebook are being given massive tax breaks because some moron thought a datacenter would bring 30000 jobs.