skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Masks will not allow us to get back to normal more quickly. The only thing that will allow that is immunity through vaccinations. Countries other than the US have implemented strict mask & border controls still do not have a handle on the virus.
I think it's the number of people they have to save in such a short time. Using the firefighter example, it would be like all of a sudden, the whole city caught on fire. And then once the city is out, the next city catches on fire and because there aren't enough firefighters there, you go to help. And then once that city is out, the next, etc.

Added on top of the fact they are worried they'll catch the virus and maybe even spread it to their loved ones. In the US at least, I imagine most nurses thought they would work with less or non-infectious diseases, like cardiovascular diseases, not an outbreak that could lead them to infecting and killing people they loved.

Again, I think there are just some variables that make this situation different than what they thought they were signing up for.
Based on their public communications, it's the former. They want to focus on rustifying Firefox directly rather than trying to integrate massive chunks of Rust code written in an external project.
Just replace suspended.png with a small image and the rest of the screen is not covered on sleep :)
I'll do this when I get some free time.

I feel a bit sorry for my initial flippant reaction. I just got a bit tired of services in recent times telling me to bugger off based on my settings and/or location.

I really like the design and the concept of the website.
9 out of 10 non-techy partners agree: The texting UX works better than the vendor's native app
Yes, cd, ls, mv, cp etc. don't help much in unknown territory.
Do we really have to created an account to donate ?

I donate to Blender from time to time and I like how they just put an IBAN on their donation page ( https://www.blender.org/foundation/donation-payment/ )

I copy paste the IBAN in my e-banking app, send, done.

Why here do I have to read pages and pages of privacy policy, create an account, give my email, etc.
I think/hope this will be reused for h265, VP9, and AV1.
I wouldn't say that. There are different kinds of "smart", and then there is "poor analytical skills". There are "smart" people, for many values of "smart", that still have such poor analytical skills that they think Covid is fake, the earth is flat, bigfoot is real, Elvis is alive, etc. Just calling them 'dumb' doesn't get to root cause.
"The city full of people most economically capable of moving anywhere in the country experiences population decline during a period when living in a city is less than ideal."

Well, Duh.

Edit: "It has to be mentioned that said city also ranks among the highest in remote-work capabilities."
The article doesn’t mention SWT :(

I used SWT to create desktop UI prototypes. The biggest issue of SWT is the distribution channel: to use the usual Maven repo you need a non-official package (this was around 2017). But other than that is a decent UI lib: it uses native widgets, it supports HiDPI, the layout using attachments are easier than Swing.

I wonder why SWT is not popular in the JVM (my guess is the decision to distribute it using Eclipse p2 by default, and the lack of visibility outside Eclipse)
Do you have a search engine that you prefer to use that claims not to store said information that I might try?
Libvirt Incremental Backup
Earth Class Mail defaults to issuing addresses in Beaverton, Oregon.

So if USPS is receiving a lot of Change of Mail address requests to Beaverton, it doesn't necessarily mean folks are moving to Beaverton.
The benefit of people throwing their code up on github is that it now can also be searched through. So if there is a configuration variable or a function you are wondering about - you can now find what others are doing. (And https://grep.app/ has a fast UI for this)
I feel like if one can hold out another year or two for the second iteration that will probably be a better long-term bet. My current macbook is about 6 years old.
Thank you for this comment.

One thing that I have noticed myself and some other engineers I know being susceptible to is the desire to view the world as systematic, ordered, certain, and understandable. It’s a desire to find the root cause to everything, to understand the reason behind everything, and to package that up into a chain of causality that fits within my mind.

The positive side of this is that many of these attributes are needed to be a good engineer. The negative side is, at least for me, trouble dealing with chaos or ambiguity in the world or anything that has an unclear explanation.

Maybe this contributes to being more susceptible to conspiracy thinking. I am not sure; that’s a question for social scientists to uncover.
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I don't know why you got down voted, this is actually an interesting thought experiment, and it's obvious what where you're going with it.

I suspect it would end up in the supreme court, interesting thought.
Good luck with that mate. Check out https://commoncrawl.org/
The litany of category and analytic blunders on display in that subthread is remarkable, but it’s hardly intrinsic to OOP, and mostly attributable to inexperience.
BBC News Releases Synthetic Voice Newsreader for Online Articles
https://www.npr.org/2020/10/08/921769579/wheres-everyone-mov...

Yes, NYC and SF are having slight population declines. It's not that bad though (yet). Most people are moving to cheaper cities a few hours away.
You can use an HTTPS "CONNECT" proxy to protect your VPN traffic in the same way (I assume that's the kind of setup they were referring to on port 443)
I honestly think migration out of cities will not make areas more blue, but will generally increase the conservative population in the US.

It's possible I have my causal arrow wrong, but at least in my youth, living in a city had a big impact on me because I was suddenly living and working with a much more diverse group of people.

Cities have long been hubs of exchanging ideas and culture. Many people who are moving back, at least in my anecdotal experience, are moving back closer to where they grew up. This might initial shift some of these areas a bit blue, but after 4, then 8 years people will return to a sense of regionalism, forget a bit how it feels to be in a hub filled with different experience and different view points.

Of course it is still possible that I'm completely wrong (I hope I am) and we'll see this shift out of cities get more people with conflicting political viewpoints in the same room which might help reduce some extremism.

Or it could be both. The center continues right but we pull back some of the more extreme right wing views out there.
Of course, we'd already know that if only we had a jump to conclusions mat!

It's a shame it wasn't a commercial success.
Yeah, this isn't like downturns in populations of other cities, like Scranton, that reflect deep systemic or economic issues.

This flight is a direct response to COVID, and I'd expect to see it reverse relatively quickly after the pandemic resolves.
Yeah, but uhhh shouldn't you change your view while dying?? I mean... That's just plain insane.

I'm reminded of monthy python: those lost arms?!? Just a scratch!
This has already been happening for a while. Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Georgia, Virginia were all solid red states, but are now turning blue mainly because of migrants from California and New York. As for the payment part - who has enough of an incentive to coordinate and fund it?
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$150k+ household income is not considered middle class in Canada.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-votes-2019-middle-cl...
I would want a 2, 3, even 7 day battery. Why not? I don't want to bother about charging every day.

But my worry is that with more and more efficiency in computing and battery tech, if Apple instead decides to reduce the battery capacity? Especially with no competition in sight, or competitors trying to follow Apple, we may end up with smaller batteries instead of more battery life. They seems to be doing that with iPhone. Also 18 hour battery life can quickly degrade to few hours if some processes are spinning the CPU continuously which can happen knowingly or unknowingly with several apps open (Docker occasionally does that to my MBP).

With several days battery life, I can even go for short travels without even bothering about how to charge it.
> An insanely large portion of the CO2 is simply us and our livestock breathing

Then explain why China, despite having more than four times as many people as the US, only has twice the CO2 emissions?

Can you even link a single study that puts anything but fossil fuel use as the primary contributor (by a wide margin) to atmospheric CO2? Because I couldn't in several minutes of googling.

> Presumably the world can much more quickly (due to vegetation) remove CO2 compared to those other chemicals

If that were true, climatologists wouldn't be so concerned about the problem, they'd just be telling us to plant some more trees.
Too bad the Census was conducted early this year instead of sometime next year as the events of this year likely have caused a significant migration event that will be difficult to understand fully.
This is the back story of the film Wall-E: https://pixar.fandom.com/wiki/Buy_n_Large
For the vast majority of people, "the network" is their ISP or a random hotspot, who should absolutely be treated as a hostile adversary.
You can do toe to toe best of the best speeds and feeds...

But I think the broader strategic outlook is: yes, the M1 loses on a few benchmarks, but the fact that it gets ballpark to some monster rig multiple times in price and power - is this not the whole picture of the Clayton Christensen disruption curve?

The other point is - Apple's Logic and Final Cut software are probably optimized for the M1, and they can likely achieve much of the capabilities of the monster AMD rig for a fraction of the cost/power budget.
My main problem with DDG is that there's no way to be sure they actually respect their users' privacy as they claim to.

Ideally, services like theirs would be continuously audited by respectable, trusted organizations like the EFF.. multiple such organizations even.

Then I'd have at least some reason to believe their claims of not collecting data about me.

As it stands, I only have their word for it.. which in this day and age is pretty worthless.

That said, I'd still much rather use DDG, who at least pay lip service to privacy, than sites like Google or Facebook, who are openly contemptuous of it.

At the very least it sends a message to these organizations that privacy is still valued, and they'd lose out by not trying to accommodate the privacy needs of their users to some extent.
They are not socially progressive, they are just left-wing.
Not to state the obvious, but "a few months ago" was the height of lockdowns.
Seems like a fun idea, but for some reason it seems to hide a bunch of second choices? E.g. I was seeing if I could get a black tank + black leather jacket + black jeans + black combats (what I wear daily) and it wont let me :(

Perhaps it's not really geared toward niche/subculture fashion?
I saw some people say there were two different strains. One that went East and one that went West. I don't know how accurate that is, but it may not be identical.
Well the reMarkable isn't an eBook reader. That is something it can do, but it's more aimed at note taking. You also have root access out of box, which is not something that eBook readers give you.
To be clear, I said that a 4800u @ 5nm (if one could simply scale a design like that) would only be marginally better. That the 5nm boogeyman is more incremental than the big advantage it is held as.

You replied that if you take the 4800u, switched it to 5nm, switch it to Zen 3...no actually switch it to to Zen 4 and a completely different chip, it would be lots better so what I said is "definitely not true".

I'm not sure this logic follows.
For IO, memory management and similar "low-level services" it's often fine to call the underlying operating system functions directly and with this also make use of more powerful features than the standard library can provide, such as async IO, virtual memory etc (or wrap those OS calls into your own cross-platform wrapper functions). There's also plenty of libraries which do this for you, like libuv (but integrating such big libs is often not trivial).

Same for string handling/processing, there are specialized libraries out there which do a specific job better than the rather generic standard library functions (this is also true for the C++ stdlib), one just has to find those libraries.

PS: I don't think that a "batteries included" standard library (like python has) would even make sense for C, such a library would need to be opinionated by definition, better to keep (too many) opinions out of the standard, as this road just leads to another C++ ;)
Yes, and your 12y/o laptop can happily chug along with nvdpau or libva.
Commentor is probably thinking:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_distribution
Fantastic! Unlike a lot of similar apps, this actually generated decent enough outfits. The pairings were good, especially the color combinations.

I do believe that the shoe suggestions are uniformly bad - sockless moccasins with camo pants is not a good look!

But for most people, I would say it's a great start
The only Zen 3 chips are desktop class, so Apple’s first generation ultra book oriented processor is trading blows with the best line of desktop processors. That’s a pretty big deal!
...maybe?

The Air form factor is already pushing the limit of what you can do with aluminium and still have high confidence it won't warp when you shove it into your bag, or have it fall over when you open the screen past vertical.

I could see them slimming down the battery to get more components in, maybe, rather than two day battery life.

Which would probably be the right call. There just aren't enough circumstances where not plugging in your laptop while sleeping is necessary to justify it.

Personally I'd like them to make a model with a cellular modem, with all-day battery life even reasonably far from a tower. That would be fun.
Super vulnerable moment... My open source pet project is an audio plugin that I developed to use in my own music projects. For whatever reason, it has become popular among a certain niche of musicians, and now I get reports of a rare bug that blasts their headphones with a high decibel noise. It's super unnerving that it threatens to damage people's ears and equipment, and I still don't know enough about why it is happening in order to fix it, because I mostly just wrapped an existing library that I wanted to use.
Anecdotal evidence is that heavily in favor of the "If I can work from home, I'm going to work from a less expensive home."

Which I find a bit surprising since a number of people at Google worked in Mountain View and rode the GBus from San Francisco. There is also the COVID factor which is to say if you can't go out to eat or drink at bars, there may be less appeal to living in the city. So next year at this time, post vaccine, will be an interesting comparison.

And of course the city politics are always entertaining, but perhaps less so as people get older and start families.

Personally I'm looking forward to all of the interesting data sets that include 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022. That 5 year stretch should be really interesting to dive into.
Maybe we’ve been reading very different breadths of science. Saying masks only work in a small number of situations sounds more like rationalization for not wearing one when we know aerosols are a major source of spread, and that masks significantly reduce aerosol transmission.
Yeah, I think the 45W laptops always run them, even if sometimes very slowly. The smaller laptops have been able to turn them off completely for a while, though, when not very busy.
Well, I don't wish to be too negative, but SF is really reaping what it sowed. Up to now the problems were just papered over by enough benefits for people working there to outweigh all SF's issues.

The government and people of SF squandered years of opportunity to clean up the city, make it more affordable to live here (is there pride to be had in being the most expensive place to live?), implement sound policies, focus on the right things, and get people to make long term better decisions. They did very little of that preparation. It's like building up points for when hard times come.

Instead, they continued to enable housing restrictions to drive up rents like crazy (acknowledging that this is a California-wide problem I admit), letting entrenched owners interests combine with ridiculous things like rent control and "neighborhood preservation", failing to take a harder line on open air drug use and crime, letting Muni and Bart become public toilets that charge optional admission fees where you also are at risk of getting stabbed, etc. etc. the list goes on and on. Overlooking quality of life issues in favor of being tolerant of anything that someone would object to having restrictions on or less charitable approaches to.

And now, as the reality of the virus situation has exposed what people really prefer to do, they fled, and the impact to local businesses, tax base, etc. will be felt for years to come. Parts of the city are lawless and a danger for people to venture into. Good thing that all the supervisors were concerned with gender neutral bathrooms while fewer and fewer people could afford to live here to enjoy them.

I'm not a conservative. I'm not a Trump supporter. But even I can see that SF shot itself in the foot.
He said he'd put their heads on spikes on the corners of the White House as a warning to others which is not a figure of speech. How is that figurative in any way other than he hasn't done it. Nothing Fauci has done deserves that sort of violent rhetoric either.
It's not the websites that get that assurance. Maybe read up on it.
Please don't perpetuate tit-for-tat spats on HN. I know it's hard to walk away but they're tedious (to everyone else, at least) and off topic.

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No; you're missing the point - 100% of the energy in an electric baseboard system is converted into heat. It's 100% efficient. There is no more effective way to turn electricity into heat than resistively.

A heat pump doesn't turn electricity into heat. It moves heat from one place (outside) to another place (inside); and can seem more efficient because the system isn't closed.
I appreciate this. It says to me that we humans are very emotional beings, whether we want to admit it or not. I think many cultures have a tendency to forget that emotions drive our behaviors, or are afraid to admit—feeling about feelings :-)

I wish we would spend more time talking about what people were feeling more so than what they were believing. Like you, I know many people whom I admire for their intelligence who seem to have fallen into a deep distrust of many institutions and individuals in society. How we feel can really distort how we think and what we believe.
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I'm sure there are many good uses for Hemingway, but we have to submit website maintenance emails to it and edit them until they pass before we're allowed to send them.

And we also have to give our customers 2 weeks notice of upcoming maintenance.

It once took me 4 days before a senior manager would agree to sign off a maintenance email. Leaving our customers with 10 days notice.

The expression "slaves to the machine" comes to mind.
Flaming other users like this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25121823 will get you banned on HN. Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules on HN? We've had to ask you this kind of thing more than once before. I don't want to ban you because you also post good things, but at some point protecting the ecosystem is more important.
The negativity, I feel is on the part of this whole critique. A bunch of guys came up with a tool for themselves and it turned out to be so good that it not only took the software development world by storm, but it pretty much killed all competitors stone dead.

Now it seems as though you’ve got a few moaners who have basically decided that this amazing and free technology isn’t good enough and they can imagine what they want but wouldn’t even begin to know where to begin implementing it.

If you can’t use Git, it’s probably not for you. Other alternatives do exist but they will never match git for features or community activity.

Most of what these people want could be achieved as you suggest, with a simple NFS share and system of folder numbering. Once you go away from the domain of text based code Git becomes a bit pointless ...
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Anecdotal of course but I left and don’t plan to return. I also don’t know anyone who still lives there that doesn’t want to leave. That was mostly true pre-pandemic however.
As I remember, they charged a membership fee for being able to download the whole article as a PDF.

It seemed somewhat reasonable that an article that would be passed around the department or on to your boss would require a fee.

I can't find any mention of it on their website, though. Am I getting my websites confused or did they drop it altogether?
For whatever is worth, I don't find warrior ideal either. I associate that with someone who is source of danger and threat.

Warriors around means that you have to go home shortest route and watch whether the room is dangerous.

Athletes have good bodies, but that is about it.
Oh I see, that makes more sense. I heard that RM1 was a great device, but with some v1 rough edges, and that a lot of that got smoothed out by RM2. And that jives with my experience, the RM2 feels very polished (some obvious feature improvements to be made especially in OCR and searchability, but the basic functionality works really well).
I guess Snow Crash is out in the wild.

Did he seem "normal" outside the covid stuff>
I wonder where Qt sits today as a desktop framework. I remember it was quite cool to use it and be able to run it in multiple OS.
I ordered on Apr 17, still waiting for my tablet to come. Two weeks ago I got a promise they are going to ship but there is no delivery yet. I am getting a little nervous about it.
> Emails end up as files on someone else’s server.

When I use my Gmail account to send an email to another Gmail user, this is obviously not the case. Many adults in their twenties have never used a desktop email application - at my company the younger new hires need some time to figure out how to use Outlook, and they're engineers. They've grown up with the cloud as a given, local storage as the exception, and centralized messaging apps as the default method of communication.

I'm not going to argue about whether way of thinking about computing is any better or worse, but undeniably convenient, and it's definitely the direction we're headed.
San Francisco population decimated -- succinct, correct, but sounds shocking.
> Added to my wife’s work schedule

There's your problem.

The idea that women have a moral right to enter the workforce being used as an argument against their necessity in the full time job of raising their own children is nonsensical.
It's much more efficient to bribe politicians directly than to funnel funds through unreliable potential voters.
I don't think it's that obvious, and I don't think it's about one's capability of moving. Otherwise every wealthy city would be dying.

This just looks like San Francisco isn't a very livable city outside of a few specific interests.