skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By NON-COMMERCIAL, I thought non-profit. But still they need to earn something for hosting (if they are paying).
Only that Firefox is a much more valuable brand than Mozilla
CLion Q&A Session on Reddit: CLion Today and Tomorrow
By total emissions:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/01/climate/us-bi...

good quote:

"The New York Times asked Climate Interactive to calculate when Americans would have run out of fossil fuel if the nation’s population had somehow, at the beginning of the industrial era, been allocated a share equal to those of the rest of the world’s people. The calculation was premised on limiting emissions enough to meet international climate goals.

The answer: Americans would have used up their quota in 1944, the year the Allied armies stormed the beaches of Normandy."

China is emitting more than US right now. But that doesn't change the fact that US has polluted more overal.
I guess that I formulated that poorly : Having to default to one of the UTF-16 instead of UTF-8 is another complication that makes it harder to do Unicode properly. (What happens when you paste UTF-8 into a UTF-16 file ?)

And I guess that they have to follow the lead of Matlab anyway, at the risk of going into another direction... EDIT : Yeah : https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?57103#comment7

Speaking of which, I should check how Scilab deals with it!
It's not that we can't be bothered to flash Linux, but that we can't be bothered to deal with the incompatibility issues we will have after we have flashed it.
As soon as I saw the article title, I said "That 23% doesn't mean anything by itself - I need to see the numbers".
> It would be great if that was provided and had a stable ABI + .so for the rust code that I could install through a .deb or .rpm instead of building through cargo.

This would be a great option. That's effectively how our build pipeline works anyway - we compile the polar-c-api [1] crate to a dynamic lib and embed in each language. If we made this available through package managers, we could also provide an alternative installation for, e.g. Python that didn't even need to use the precompiled wheel.

> It would be great if `serde` was opt-in through cargo features,

We rely on this for the FFI, since we pass events/messages back and forth as JSON. We _could_ make it opt-in for people using it in Rust projects though. Would that work for your use case?

Running our test suite [2] takes about 9 minutes. 4 of which is running (a) the pure Rust tests, (b) compiling the C library and running Python, Ruby, and Java tests, (c) building the WASM library and running Nodejs tests.

That's why I'm a little surprised by the time. You're right though, I didn't factor in the slowdown for the macos builds.

> Not trying to be overly critical, just trying to give a view! Compiling on other people's machines is expensive, a good way for me to buy into something like this instead of doing it myself (which is how I'm doing it right now!) is to reduce the dependency tree and make building stupid fast/easy.

Thank you! I appreciate the feedback. We did go out of our way to make it as easy as possible to install from whatever language package manager (e.g. pip install oso will take seconds). We weren't anticipating people would want to compile it themselves from scratch, so it's a helpful perspective to get.

[1]: https://github.com/osohq/oso/tree/main/polar-c-api

[2]: https://github.com/osohq/oso/runs/1540314680?check_suite_foc...
AWS now sends emails if you commit access keys, even better they are catching loads of other sensitive info having privileged access to the GitHub API. Cool and creepy at the same time, right?
Centos moving forward is "rawhide" (aka. the testing branch) for RHEL, where packages will eventually make it to stable after some testing.
Damn useful but at what cost? Unfortunately we often don’t know the cost until 10 to 50 years on. It’s impossible to close Pandora’s box once it’s open. Look at DDT https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-coast-ddt-dumping-ground... and mercury in the food chain and and and and
This is cool, but it would be a lot more helpful to see how to run it on the git log directly in the readme, vs with JSON input. If that's possible, and you can brew/apt/choco install it, I'd use it for sure.
I replied in the other comment - cumulatively Americans have polluted more than any other country.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/01/climate/us-bi...
It could be good for Debian too
From the sibling comment.

> The major threat to the internal validity of our findings is that surgeons may selectively operate on sicker and more complex patients on their birthday, perhaps because those patients cannot have their procedures delayed. However, this is unlikely to explain our findings because we found that patients who underwent surgery on the surgeon’s birthday were similar in all observable characteristics to patients who underwent surgery on other days. Furthermore, severity of illness as measured by predicted mortality, and the number of procedures performed per surgeon, also did not differ based on whether a surgery occurred on a surgeon’s birthday compared with other days.

> we found that patients who underwent surgery on the surgeon’s birthday were __similar in all observable characteristics__ to patients who underwent surgery on other days
Good question! (The limit is 80 chars.) The answer is to truncate, not rewrite. However, truncation isn't always natural. One shouldn't start abbreviating words, for example, that don't normally get abbreviated.

In cases where there isn't a natural way to truncate, a better option is to look at the HTML doc title, a subtitle, a heading, or sometimes even a photo caption, that say accurately and neutrally what the article is about. There's often also a sentence in the opening paragraph that can be used. Sometimes none of those exists, but you can find a representative phrase lurking in the article body. The key is that it be representative though, not cherry-picked. There's a bit of interpretation involved there, but you can nearly always pick out the general-overview phrase if one exists. They have a distinctive quality.

Rewriting should only be a last resort. When we edit titles, we always try to use representative language from the article and rather than to make up language ourselves.
I've transferred 5-figures of fiat a couple of times and it always makes me sweat. Sure those transactions make me sweat with bitcoin as well, but the difference is that the process is 100% transparent.

Plus the incredible annoyance of having to go through the KYC/AML procedures everywhere to do any kind of meaningful transactions. And still risk getting flagged for fraudulent transactions and possibly having your funds locked/confiscated.
Well, RHEL consists of open source software. While not all of that software is copyleft, it has AFAIK always been part of the reality and the very premise of Red Hat that someone else can take that, too.

If a community project itself stopped providing what it has been providing for free, people would probably be disappointed if they had started relying on what was provided. They might also become wary of relying on community-supported projects. But they would probably not be upset in the sense of being angry. Most people wouldn't feel entitled enough for that.

I think what makes people upset in this case is that Red Hat sort of adopted the project, giving it a home, and then stopping to provide what that project had been providing for people outside of Red Hat.
Where does the 80-90% number come from, though? Is that just you speculating or has someone come up with that estimate?
The blame for the situation lies squarely at the feet of the federal government. If you are going to shutter businesses and put people out of work, you need to pay the business owners and the employees who you have affected. Staying economically viable vs staying medically viable should have never been a tradeoff people had to make here, and Americans should all remember that when the next election rolls around.
Let me just say to all those out there who have left academia and went into industry: academia would be happy to have you back!

I went into "academia" (or close to it), doing software engineering for a telescope being built. Astronomers are a great little community out there, and they really need help writing code. A lot of them aren't familiar or have experience with best industry practices that could save them so much time/money/heartache.

Bunches of projects are hiring, and if you have creds, and industry experience, that will only increase your value. I'm sure you could find a job at any of the wonderful facilities wherever you want to be around the world!

Sometimes you have to look at the grass from the other side to realize it's greener, and that's fine. Some day I may go back to industry and get paid again. But it's all good fun anyway.
That's weird, I could have sworn I shared the link

https://gist.github.com/capnmidnight/b61dcecf587949d6adf1dc4...
> Companies don't do things to be nice.

They do if it gives them a market advantage. If Goodyear can market tires that are more "sustainable" or "eco-friendly" than their rivals that will resonate with consumers who focus on such things (many of them, particularly millenials and younger).

We saw this with trans-fats in food. They aren't prohibited by the FDA, but most producers have eliminated them and have "Zero Trans Fats" emblazoned across the package labeling, because it sells better. Seeing this effect also with high-fructose corn syrup.
We're still several VR hardware iterations away.

Oculus, Vive, Index - these are like the pre-iPhone smart phones. They're bulky, slow, they kind of do their job, but they're not something everybody wants.

VR has to get better. The resolution and FOV are terrible. The gameplay paradigms kind of suck because movement is such a pain.

AR honestly seems even further away. Pokemon Go and all the other AR trinkets are clunky toys. I can't ever see holding up a device for anything other than picturing furniture in a space, and none of these apps even work well.

An AR headset outside of industrial/military uses is a pipe dream that will rely on miniaturization and being fashionable. Google Glass wasn't cool, and nobody is going to wear a bulky HoloLens anywhere. There's a lot of work that needs to be done.
Depends on how you measure it. The government keeps shifting the goalposts and the current measurement is little related to what a consumer faces. Inflation is measured differently today from the 90s and both different from 80s IIRC.

For further reference:
http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts
potential value in the long-term. but real liability in the near-term.

if the company doesn't want to, or thinks that it can't tolerate that risk over whatever the difference between near & long is, they'll cut the liability loose.

to me, this hints at instability in the market and IT sector, which, c'mon, we already know about. so it's likely more of an admission that times are tough, and RHEL/IBM is looking out for themselves.
Using the normal "we" would imply you and the readers of the comment. The royal we implies that you personally (and whatever entities you're in charge of) will hold polluters liable. The royal we seems to excuse the audience from responsibility.
Load of crap.

Republicans were willing to negotiate on a smaller package.

It was held up by the speaker because it made Trump look bad.
landoflisp.com mirrors:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180113072302/http://landoflisp...

https://archive.is/1WIG8
Inoreader has newsletter subs built into it as well.
I've been using Thunderbird for close to 15 years and 2021 is probably the year I'll stop because of how poorly it works with Office 365. It's kind of a bummer but hard to get that upset about it because I really don't like email to start with.
Agreed with you, the best Firefox experience is on Windows. Hardware acceleration is on point, always very snappy rendering with no lag. Can't say the same about FF on macOS or Linux, where the experience is worse.

Support for CoreAnimation compositing was added last year. Support for hardware acceleration on Linux was added this week.
For small/new companies, approx $15/head/mo for 365 (however it's branded now) is pretty hard to argue with. That gives you sharepoint/onedrive exchange & teams, and all the usual word/excel/outlook etc.

You can go quite a ways with that before you would get close to breaking even on even a single dedicated IT person. Assuming their cloud services etc. fit your business needs of course - but that's an awful lot of companies.
It's a hard sell for an older (early 40's) gamer like me. I have far more games I want to play on my expensive PC than I have time for (or likely ever will). To consider investing in a new gaming technology it would have to be more enticing than the abundance of stuff I already have! And a lot of the games I'm eager to play are sequels/remakes of things I already know I enjoy immensely, so to draw me away would take something big.
I suffered from asthma as a kid, bad enough to put me in hospital.

As I got older, it just kind of disappeared - by the time I was 15 or so, I was only very rarely using inhalers.

As an adult, I've travelled a lot to India for work, always staying in big cities, which are filled with 2-stroke rickshaws and are always heavily polluted (e.g. Mumbai, Pune, Delhi). Often a kind of horrible, acrid, thick smog descends after dark when the temperature drops a little. Every time I travel to such places, I have to take my inhalers because I really feel the effects of it! The first time this happened, years ago now, I was really quite shocked - how many deaths must this cause? How could the government allow this, and how could people stand it?
I think this is representative of a bigger problem within the developed world: the top problem on many people's mind is "Other people have money and I don't." This manifests in a lot of other areas as well: stock market speculation, people asking for government handouts, folks looking for get-rich-quick startup ideas, glorification of the "side hustle", etc.

And I think the root cause of that is that productivity growth in areas needed for basic survival - housing, health care, not getting screwed (legal) - hasn't grown nearly as fast as productivity in consumer goods. Combined with population growth and the entry of the developing world into the developed world, it means that more people are increasingly chasing the same limited pool of houses and doctors, and basically all disposable income goes to them. The focus on get-rich-quick schemes is a rational reaction to being stuck in a game of musical chairs where there are not enough chairs to go around.
People keep saying this all over these threads, and I can't grasp why.

The difference is that a free RHEL without support doesn't exist, while CentOS does.

You can get RHEL for free through various developer focused programs, but that is most certainly not the same as having an unencumbered ISO available for unlimited downloads with no EULA or sign-in requirement.
Increasing prices can be seen in several places, most visible of all, the stock market. CPI is not necessarily a sure indicator of an expanding money and credit supply.
Neither.

BTC will drop as it goes past $20k+ (Remember the Dec 17th 2017 BTC drop. Exactly 1 year ago.), TSLA will drop when it initially enters the SNP 500.

Put it on Palantir (PLTR). Thank me later.
Transferring international remittance on a weekend. good enough for you?
This is incorrect, and based on misinformation from 2018. In 2018, Brave users could tip unverified content creators with BAT. Those tokens would go into a settlement wallet until claimed by the intended recipient. This was a bad design.

Within 48 hours we had a new build of Brave out which held the tips locally, in the browser. The tip would be attempted for up to 90 days; if the unverified publisher were to verify within that time, the tip would be sent to their wallet. If the 90 days passed, the user's BAT would be released within the browser to be distributed elsewhere.

You can read more about these changes in our blog post from December of 2018: https://brave.com/rewards-update/.
When they introduced one of the efforts in April 2019 I noticed within a few weeks the difference – it has got better, but there’s a long way to go.
Rongxin here! This is freaking awesome to see how far it's progressed.
> Being able to use greek letters as variable names would be incredible

I've seen people do that in Haskell, I think. I've no idea why that's desirable. It's difficult to type up. It only adds complexity. Is it to be able to use variable names like they're used in mathematics? That's optimized for easy handwriting, through terseness, but because of just how terse it is it's incompatible with autocomplete, so it actually offers a much worse writability/readability ratio in an editor. Why use a miniature vocabulary of symbols when you can use English? I'd always choose `delta` over `Δ`. Actually, why use greek at all?

I realise my insight is a bit condescending. My background is plain programming. I've had to implement some algorithms from papers. I guess I'm venting having to interpret those symbols, where terseness was favored over readability.
>Maybe a year ago this would have been worth it. But the resources should be used for mass vaccination instead.

Given that it will be at least 6-9 months before an appreciable fraction of the population can be vaccinated, frequent testing still makes a whole lot of sense.

As to the effort/expense, you'd think we'd be able to walk and chew gum at the same time, no?
One big area where Firefox could win is privacy. The problem is that currently most of their money comes from Google, which means privacy will always be pretty limited. Perhaps £5/yr fees would fund an alternative?
> a fully open source GPL licensed, self-hostable, webmail server application that fulfills the same functions as rainloop or roundcube, implemented in the Thunderbird name. Maybe it could have its own new GUI to run inside the browser, or it could offer an optional "traditional" GUI that is similar to the Thunderbird desktop client. This has a possibility for a natural symbiotic relationship with Firefox, as the best and most optimal web browser client to view the webmail.

If this shares neither the thunderbird feature set or UX, why does it have to be called thunderbird? I still use thunderbird because it's UX efficiency for dealing with large volumes of mail blow away the Gmail and Fastmail web interfaces.
I wouldn't have a problem with the testing at my school if they didn't basically forcefully evict you (and by forcefully, they just threaten you being a student there anymore if you don't leave) or tell you to go into quarantine housing. Which requires you cannot leave your apartment for 14 days. Period no exceptions. And they only give you 4 hours to do it. Even several people moving one person's stuff in 4 hours is absurd.

It's like these bureaucrats don't know human psychology. Youre essentially shaming people to a leper colony for a short time just to save face. It wouldn't be so bad if they just told you stay put. But the administration doesn't want to risk seeming incompetent so they heard the sheep in the way that's easiest for them.
This might be a silly question, but how would you filter stuff "emitted" by tyres?
The decision-making class can avoid the worst impacts of air pollution, such as by living in nice low density areas, but they can’t buy their way out of danger of Covid infection, so it’s a lot more scary.
Maybe this is true for your country, but not true here (there is even a limited number of years you are allowed to work in academia by law)
Technology is not the problem.

Flashback to 1995. I'm a 17 year old PFY invited to beta test a VR headset from a local company. My Uncle was an investor and I was technically savvy and the target market.

I had a copy of Descent that supported VR, and while it was a bit of a hassle to get setup, I got it working. The experience was incredible. After the first use I said to myself "this is the future". I had permission to test the headset for two weeks, and I wanted my friends to see it as well.

So I invited them over that weekend. And that's where the problem set in. When one person was using the headset, they were gone. You couldn't interact with them in any way. They might as well have been in a different room. Then I said to myself "this is not the future", and haven't touched VR since.

There is no amount of technology that can get over this problem. It's not about FOV or resolution or immersion. It's a social problem. If you live alone at home, and want to plugin then great. But if you live with someone, its distant, weird, and kinda creepy, to have the other person in a headset and unreachable.
and this is the pattern we see in the wild mostly.
The Dynamic Window Manager can also be controlled by a client program (which you can call from a file, which you can make execute from your ~/.xinitrc) with this patch (which I don’t use, but it looks like it can do most keyboard things but no mouse actions): http://dwm.suckless.org/patches/dwmc/
And of course this explains the death of the open web, as it is zero cost (to you) screen time.
Again if you are talking about words like 'incompatability' then you are probably closer to the enthusiast techie type 5% than the 95% majority.

That majority doesn't even know about Linux or what flashing even is. They just bought a box from bestbuy/amazon so they can access the internet and email. They stick to the manufacturer defaults and would be stuck with Chrome, Edgium or Safari.
Unfortunately the pressure has nothing to do with the energy cost of evaporating water.
Creative Coding Manifesto 2021
yahoo finance is okay, not 100% replacement but easier to look at overall and has many of the chart tool google removed
It' a possibility that inflation on cheap mass goods (like food nowadays) is unlikely to happen, instead most of the money could go into assets. This means inflation for rare things like stocks, quality housing, gold, bitcoin and expertise services (digital skills, craftmanship,...).

Of course, this would mean accelerated wealth concentration on a minority of people and be a challenge for society.
You want the real reason? Fixing air pollution quickly would disrupt the global economy on a long term scale. Capitalism doesn't like that.

Edit: Y'all so predictable.
I don’t know, we all owe Germany quite a bit for their solar subsidies.
I don't know about anyone else, I'm pretty far from being a germaphobe in everyday life, but the idea of returning to packed trains and busses turns my stomach.

I'm sure this will pass in a surprisingly short amount of time but for the moment I'm glad that I can work from home and doing so has the lowest environmental impact I can muster.
That is true, however routing funds (donations) from foundation to corp is hard, thus only very little $, ¥, €, ... of the money donated go to browser development, while the brand is tightly tied to it. Browser development is funded out of corp budget, which mostly is Google's money for being default search engine. Thus I can't even donate to browser development ...
to rile indignation is a false assumtion, it is somewhat pointless to comment/complain on HN, rather than go to the source and let them know thier actions are concerning.

the source in question has a somewhat expansive web presence, and activity, in any event thread is dead, and good thing too.
Not every currency is as stable as the USD and has the US federal government backing it up.
Instagram Lite is a 2MB app that removes Reels, Shopping, and IGTV
I'm saying either it will exist and come from Red Hat or somebody else will make it. It's inevitable.

But economically speaking, it's cheaper for Red Hat to not pointlessly rebrand their own product. CentOS as a Red Hat-owned brand is stupid.
If you're looking for a simple, polished, developer-friendly alternative, check out Radar (https://radar.io). Think Twilio/Braze/Amplitude/Segment/Radar vs. SNS/Pinpoint/EventBridge/Location Service.