skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the most consequential difference is that sourcehut is built on top of existing tools for distributed development with the goal of avoiding lock-in. Instead of replacing the distributed tools traditionally used in FLOSS development (mailing lists, patches) with centralized ones (issue tracker, pull requests), the goal is to provide an interface that makes it easier to use the tools of the distributed model.
We often wonder the same thing.
> Everyone is so negative, pessimistic, judgemental, sarcastic in tone, confrontational, and self righteous. People are posting so much shit it’s unbelievable how much time they waste of their lives there. One huge thread after another, people crying for attention.

> I was part of the problem too.

Not to be overly personal here, but doesn't this post veer close to describing itself?
I am beginning to wonder if social media may have had its heyday. Specifically I’m curious as to whether Facebook and Twitter will start to be used less and less by people, but who won’t abandon it completely.

I do wonder if this might make them less useful for advertisers.
> 2. Lambda has provisioned capacity.

I know little about lambda. Provisioned capacity, as in an instance running 24/7? Like a server?
Everything is modular and "vendorless".

To put it another way, if I want to use the CI, then I can drag in sources from anyone. GitHub, GitLab, raw HTTP, etc. Multiple projects. Then build against not just the usual suspects, but also BSD.

If I want to open up an issue tracker without it being connected to any project, I can go ahead and do that. I can also make it frictionless and have user's without an account go ahead and open up/comment on issues.

And I can self-host each of these "modules" myself, with full documentation on how to do that.
Covid: UK government requests guidance on Vitamin D use
Show HN: 15FPS to 60FPS using RIFE open source repo
What's the benefit of moving from Rails to Node and React productivity-wise? On the backend side, Rails comes with an ORM, authentication, templating system and many more out of the box, while on Node you'll need to mix and match a bunch of 3rd party libs or roll your own, which might be a good thing depending on your priorities but certainly kills productivity. On the frontend side, you can always use react with rails backend, but developing traditional template-based ui is usually faster than developing a react app and you can take advantage of rails templating/rendering feature to speed up development.
I imagine the builtin email support might be the single biggest selling point, if you're into that kind of workflow...

Also, the simplicity is certainly appreciated.
This reply should be made into billboard and placed in front of every "Data science bootcamp" out there.
I am very sorry to break it to you but the only reason they disabled Github issue tracker is... https://bugzilla.kernel.org/describecomponents.cgi

Also, having a mailing list does mean to have a communication channel open and AWS SREs (for the sake of argument only) do not need to pay to join that mailing list and post some questions.

Finally, I think this one of the few instances where "You Are Not Google" fully applies.
I don't think that could help, because you have a person with many followers and in their mind they think they are doing a good thing to spread "the message" so they would push their message to as many people as possible.

I was thinking you could have say a way to tag your posts or shares so your professional posts and personal posts could be separated but the "activist" would ignore the tags so they push their message to everyone. So as other suggested you would need a filter on client side to get around people that attempt to push some to everyone.
Not a sourcehut power user myself but for me personally the user experience and aesthetics is way superior. The web client made me think about how tech directly relates to user experience, by having no javascript and minimal style means there's less chance to fuck up, everything is super responsive and simple, there are a lot of features but very well sorted and clear. Also I always prefer softwares that have a lead dev who I respect.
Ask Ukraine about the practicality of disregarding defense as a necessary evil.

It’s hardly naive to assume that, since there has always been conflict, that conflict will continue for the foreseeable future.
ideological purity.
Visuals is a very broad term.

As you can read in my comment I agree with you. For example working with text in Gimp is just horrible. And Inkscape is very good untill you need it for CMYK.

But this thread is about owning your PC. And then I think all those trade-offs can be overcome. Sometimes this means thinking in other directions. For example the choice to design in CSS instead of Photoshop.

I don't think you can say: 'I cannot get away from Apple'.

But you can say: 'I choose to stay at Apple because I think it is more convenient'.

The choice is yours.
> On the server, there’s a reason Amazon built Firecracker and Google built gVisor instead of just using the Linux sandboxing primitives. I think calling them “industrial grade” is pushing it when they’re rarely used as the first line of defense against code that is expected to be actively hostile.

actually firecracker is not a sandbox. it's basically qemu/libvirt and a minimal implementation of devices. it's qemu-kvm with a http interface and way less devices.

the reason why they rewritten qemu-kvm is because qemu-kvm contains a lot of code that is not needed and is way more bug prone. and also loading a kernel is way faster in firecracker since they optimized the kernel loading code.
If you ran it would pypy would it be faster?
Awesome project - I'm also working on a similar idea for an on-premise ASR server! Any reason you decided to go with RNN-T?
This seems like such a huge power grab. Make Google the arbiter of who is secure or not.

I can think of no good reason why an app ought prefer it's own CA store to the OS's. The OS ought manage these things consistently for users, give an effective cental management system.

I can think of one rotten reason why this happening. Android. Android's unmaintainability. Dependence on the manufacturer to provide OS updates, including to our CA store. There's no way toaintaom an Android phone's CA store.

in the Android case, Google's unwillingness to let the useraontain or repair their system has boiled over, in this one particular spot, to the point where Chrome MUST take over, reimplemt the basic systems provided by the OS. Again, because the OS cannot be maintained.

The timing is not coincidence. Android users have no way to update & support Let's Encrypt if they are on old devices. Chrome stops depending on Android. Perverse changes to have to make, from an OS that these days usually can not be unlocked & user maintained, even when the software on it begins to rot & not receive updates. What an ewaste anti user nightmare locked down Android devices have created. This is computing hell.

https://letsencrypt.org/2020/11/06/own-two-feet.html
> King Philip IV of France took a practical approach in dealing with a similar problem.

AFAIK his problem was slighly different—he owed them money :)
Lambda is a product for big non agile companies who want to show they can be agile.

If you are a single developer there are barely any reason to use it
I completely understand the sentiment and I'm mostly there too to be honest. The one thing I fight to keep sight of is that there have to be more people just like me out there. People who deeply appreciate FLOSS work, who use it all the time, who's life has been greatly improved by it, who are willing to pay for it when they find something that is valuable, who learn lots of valuable design/implementation lessons from it by studying/hacking on the code.

For those people I don't want to hide my code. Please consider a "source available" approach (at least for the "core").
The only community you have is your friends, and your friends usually have similar beliefs to you. So the space where you could have people with significantly different political views meet on the same terms is gone.
On the contrary, this year credit scores have been rising and interest rates falling despite borrowers, in reality, being at a greater risk of default today than maybe any other time since 2008.

Maybe the real service provided by the credit data sharing is how data is used almost everywhere in reality: marketing?
Well, let's add some actual context that the article lacks.

1. The live vaccine has significant practical benefits, which should not be overlooked as has happened here.

Yes it's cheaper, which is often the thing highlighted in text written by industrialised countries where the price for the killed vaccine is not an obstacle to using it. It's cheaper to make and it's cheaper to deploy in the field.

But it's also actually more effective at inducing immunity. There are at least two reasons for that, let's start with the most obvious - this is literally the virus (albeit attenuated) so it's the best possible template for what your immune system needs to fight. It's not just fragments, or a similar shape mimicked by something else. Next, it's ingested, your immune system will first run into it in your gut, which is exactly where a "real" viral exposure would begin - whereas the killed vaccine has to be injected into a muscle.

Having an oral vaccine also avoids objections to needles and similar interventions which may be a problem in some cultures - everybody eats and drinks.

2. This is currently considered important news in the industrialised north only because of coronavirus vaccine development, normally approximately nobody cares about polio cases in Sudan. But today I see several articles purporting that this is somehow relevant or has important lessons for us preparing for distribution of a COVID-19 vaccine.

But that's nonsense, Oral Polio Vaccine is a live vaccine, it always did this, it's been known it does this and that you need to figure out a plan for how to get from "No wild virus" to "No polio" possibly via internationally subsidised deployment of the killed vaccine for many decades.

In contrast there are no existing or planned COVID-19 live vaccines. This isn't a zombie movie, fragments of non-working coronavirus can't magically re-assemble into a working transmissible virus and infect people. A protein designed to be like the "spike" used by a coronavirus is not a whole working virus, any more than pebble shaped like a shark tooth is a whole working shark.
> practical knowledge of data science

This is key. What do companies actually want when they hire a data scientist? Actionable products that make their business better.

What does it take to produce actionable products? A data strategy (collection, ingress, normalize, enrich, store, expose), a compute provisioning strategy, data engineering (pull from source system(s), land in target stores in a reliable, available, automated manner), data science, and data application (reporting, integration with target systems, app development).

Which of those components do they typically have? A data scientist. Because they just hired one.

Career-wise, the more unifaceted your skillset is, the more you're limited to employers that already have all the other pieces in place. Which effectively limits you to very large enterprise (~T100).

Start to be able to fill some of the other roles yourself, and you can compete for and succeed in smaller and more interesting opportunities.
'Working' Remotely? Selection, Treatment, and Market Provision of Remote Work
Ask HN: What is Linux story on ARM macbooks
With macbooks being several orders faster than any other laptop it may not be that bad of a Idea to run Linux on MacBooks. How good can ARM MacBooks run Linux?
I would love to see a spirited and challenging debate here. I won’t hold my breath though :-)

There are many merits to more news outlets hitting the public dialog.

I think we need more investment not just in news but in search and social platforms.

I would go so far as to argue that bifurcation is more beneficial than a unification.

Because unification seems to lead to monopoly, and that’s not good for anyone except the monopolist.
This. I don't understand why people make websites purporting to offer products to the public, but refuse to provide basic information like price or how to buy the alleged product. Is this just a concept sketch?
Thanks so much for all your great work!!!
They suck because this is not the default path or the path of least resistance. Without intentionality and vigilance, your Facebook/Twitter feed does inevitably turn into shit because that’s what their engagement algorithms push you toward.

I think it’s great that you’ve tailored your content so well. But you’re the exception rather than the rule.
Where did you learn they were fake people? The article doesn't say it. The article definitely says they contacted several of these "fake people." Maybe they were candidates that had no intention of winning, is that what you are failing to communicate?

Over 1000 people ran for US President in 2020. Are they fake people even if they had no chance of winning? Even if they had no legitimate strategy to win?

I love when disappointed political people blame a 3rd party for their loss when the fault lies with themselves. Get a better message. Connect with the voters better. Don't be a stinky candidate and those votes will be cast for you.. The votes aren't a priori yours.
I wish more supported WebAuthN - it's so much lower friction than OATH TOTP or SMS. I've got everything on 3 yubikeys (including OATH TOTP) and I feel much safer than when I just used Authy
Is Plasma Mobile up to running on tablets now? I got an MS Surface Go 10 months ago and at the time Plasma Mobile didn't support auto screen rotation, so for now I'm running Gnome. (I'd like to switch.)
I don't fly wingsuits, but from a bit of quick research it seems that 180 MPH is fast even for a wingsuit.

The article itself mentions typical horizontal speeds of around 62 mph.

The Wikipedia article on wingsuit flying says:

> A typical skydiver's terminal velocity in belly to earth orientation ranges from 180 to 225 km/h (110 to 140 mph). A wingsuit can reduce these speeds dramatically. A vertical instantaneous velocity of 40 km/h (25 mph) has been recorded. However the speed at which the body advances forward through the air is still much higher (up to 100 km/h [62 mph]).

Even mentions another jetpowered attempt with hydrogen peroxide rockets reaching a horizontal speed of 160 mph, back in 2007.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingsuit_flying
Damn sorry, I hope it gets better for you. In that case I can definitely see how not having to leave the keyboard is of upmost importance.
So you think Trump is the first POTUS to make objectively false statements and have those amplified over mass media?
A Remembrance of Forrest Fenn
Learn to get the Twitter algorithm on your side! https://ibb.co/3BFQZhb

Look at how many negative words are in this post of yours and hopefully see the irony of what you’re saying. Twitter isn’t magic, it can only give you what it thinks you want from what you give it!
how we have got to the situation where 2/3rd of the people answering the poll claim to be clinically depressed.

Well, they might not be claiming clinical depression, which technically would require a clinician to render a diagnosis. Though many people may also not understand that distinction.

As for the large number, it may simply be that people who see the title of the post & aren't depressed just say to themselves in a slit second "nope not relevant to me, not clicking on it". In that case, most of the people who answered "yes" to depression were self-selecting as people for whom it was already relevant, i.e., people experiencing what they consider depression.

It's a problem with surveys in general. I hate doing surveys, but a huge portion of my job is data analysis, and most people are bad at creating surveys especially the design of individual questions. But the initial problem is "How do I get a representative sample when people that choose to do the survey may not be the same as people that won't". There's ways to minimize that effect, none of them great-- look at the the presidential polls as an example.
Your link doesn't even refer to the files. It's just a vague warning about "Russian disinformation".
if you think that's what they're actually charging you,

I never claimed that.

The typical electrician

Maybe you rather mean 'the typical electrician I met' or so because I know for a fact the rest of that sentence does not apply to the ones I met myself.
> ... they also wanted to mobilise the US government to lobby against it via trade representative offices and embassies.

Seems like they're copying the RIAA and MPAA approach for that bit.
Interesting!

OK so it's not common wisdom but expert wisdom:
Quoting Pcwalton (working on a next generation 2D renderer: pathfinder)
How do Skia and Cairo compare?
Skia is way ahead in terms of performance and GPU support.

A lot of major projects like Firefox and libreoffice switched from Cairo to Skia and got significant performance gains.
How much faster in average is skia vs Cairo? A lot but precisely I don't know and it doesn't matter much.

I just gave up trying to compile SKIA. Come on, don't make it sound like it's a hard task, on the github issue from blend2d someone gave to you a repository that include a Cmake for skia which should be straight-forward.

Claim:
he will not publish skia benchmarck until it's new "more parallel" version of blend2d is ready which imply he is skeptic that current blend2d is competitive with Skia.

Claim denial:
I'm the author of Blend2D and I have never stated what you claim I did.

What you actually said:
I think comparing with GPU implementations would make sense after multithreaded renderer lands, because competing GPU implementations use the whole GPU hardware whereas the current Blend2D software-based renderer only uses a single thread.
Would make sense easily translate to I'm not interested in doing it until there is a point in doing it which is: a fair comparison.
Source: https://github.com/blend2d/blend2d/issues/36

Otherwise all you say is just unfounded, sorry.
Original statement:
Blend2d is still slower than skia
Backed by expert wisdom comparing skia with cairo showing huge performance gap.
Blend2d own benchmarcks not having a that huge performance gap with cairo (but it has kinda with the multithreaded mode I give you that)
Then the logical reasoning become basic transitivity/equivalence relation
To state that what I said is unfounded is a low effort refutation because it is too categorical. In all honesty my reasoning has weakness: I don't have precise quantification of the lead that Skia has over cairo (maybe there was some benchs on the NVpath paper?) and multithreaded blend2d do have a quite significant gap with cairo.
So optimistically, current blend2d might actually come into the ballpark of Skia, it could even outperform it but probably not by a huge margin.
And keep in my that the baseline performance I expect from skia (very old benchmarcks and expert wisdom based on old benchmarcks) has probably improved since recent years (e.g one could think about more AVX512 use, the Vulkan backend, etc)

So I'll transform my original statement in an equivalent one consequence wise:
Blend2d is still slower than skia to: Blend2d has not shown evidence of being faster than skia, nobody should use it until this evidence become available.

I'm not going to contribute, sorry.
Your last paragraph is interesting and that would be quite of an achievement of you if Skia tried a JIT compiler.
Every time I see this on HN, I always feel the need to thank Khalid.

This time is no different - thank you Khalid!
I guess this always devolves into philosophy, but yes, the future is actually unknowable.
If you're making software, you can achieve market penetration in an afternoon by signing a deal to bundle your app on a phone or social media platform.
That's an easy one. Switch on the light, network disconnects. We had this happen at our office. There's obviously much more happening on an electrical network other than 50/60 Hz, like transient response to switching loads on and off, RF noise from spark loads, dimmers etc.
I'm a Vi/Vim user since 2000, when I started transitioning from my ISP junior tech support job into a corporate support/sysadmin job. Vi was what everyone used, so that's what I was taught. I was just shown the basic 5-10 key commands, then I was on my own. Life got a whole lot easier when I invested about $15 in a Vi cheat sheet coffee mug. Never looked back.
Wow, I've not seen codeshelter.co before but that is an amazing idea, thank you so much for putting that together!

I've already got a handful of projects I maintain, but I've got a little more bandwidth. I'll take a look at the list ;-)

Don't give up on that! Code Shelter will grow. We just need more awareness. I'll help with that.
Where are the cables?
I am not a twitter user really. I check it maybe once every 2-3 weeks at most. But,.... It really depends on who you follow. I follow a few indie game dev friends and unfollow if one of them starts posting political stuff. My feed is mostly cool info about indie games in unity, unreal, pico-8, some graphics info. Very little bad stuff except for twitter itself with it inserting ads and trying to get me to follow "popular" people I have zero interest in or posting "trending" crap. Some of that I've managed to ublock origin away though of course it's extremely frustrating that both twitter and facebook obfuscate their css
I don't think it ever held as a fact, it's really dependent on location.

If you compare web developer at FAANG to a random embedded developer, of course embedded is a joke. (A better comparison might be workers at Intel/AMD and I don't think they are terribly treated).

If you compare jobs in another city/country, maybe a city that has a bit of defense or aerospace industry, embedded is not necessarily that bad compared to other tech jobs available.
I probably have some mild symptoms as I’ve been inclined to have most of my life, but some low hanging fruit for me is to stop using my phone to read the news or listen to political podcasts as much, get better sleep, eat better food and not eat as much or too much before bed, go for more walks or get some mild exercise, spend time outdoors, call my friends and family, and spend some time doing nothing or chill things, even things like laundry or cleaning, where my mind can wander just to internally recalibrate. I’ve been putting my phone down more and it makes a huge difference. If I’ve done all those things (or feel incapable of doing/changing any one of those of things) and I’m still feeling symptoms for two weeks then it’s probably time to talk to somebody. Working remote and not being able to get out as much has really messed with my normal routine of getting dressed, eating breakfast, going to sleep at a normal hour, so it’s something I’ve had to get better about and forgive myself for not being better about and remind myself that it is still different than normal and that is why I don’t necessarily feel normal.
It is a feature that's currently being worked on actively. You can follow the work here: https://github.com/zulip/zulip/pull/16131
Tap on the date, click on favourite.
Is there any setup of Plasma Mobile that supports VoLTE?
At anything over 10k, you can get a perfectly good custom solution.

Source: the fact that I have a reputable, insured, etc. carpenter working on a floor-to-ceiling built-in bookshelf rig all along one wall, with a fold-out Murphy bed style desk incorporated that should be perfectly fine as a work space. Total cost at big city prices: < $9k.