skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since the libinput upstream is one guy and nobody stepped up to help him, good luck with long-term maintenance of your fork.
Here's an idea.

Imagine you have a way to build von Neumann probes that can boost themselves to some high fraction of c (say, 0.9). You start pumping them out in your home system, and send them towards some stars - not necessarily the closest ones. You keep sending them. There's now a shell expanding at 0.9c that's shaped by your production capabilities. Of course, the probes will spend time accelerating and then decelerating towards their destinations. But even as they decelerate, other probes, going to further targets, pass ahead of them.

Any probe that lands in a system sets up a facility for building and provisioning more of itself, and sends those to further star systems, adding to the wave. Meanwhile, any technological advancement could be transmitted at the speed of light - so the probes receive improvement instructions as they fly, and the entire shell keeps upgrading itself as it expands.

What's the aggregate speed of that shell? Less than 0.9c, I think, but I'd say it's still a high fraction of it.

The main warning sign we could look for, assuming there are no crazy unknown physics allowing creation of silent drives, are deceleration plumes and associated thermal emissions. But then, civilizations like ours should be easy to spot from a distance. Don't bother with radio waves, just look at the spectral lines of the planets in a system; if you spot high concentrations of chemicals that don't have geological rationale to be there (such as oxygen in our case), this implies something is keeping the planet away from equilibrium - likely some form of life.

If we go by Dark Forest theory, the standard procedure upon detection of such "life signs" would be to send updated instructions to the von Neumann probe heading towards that system: "don't decelerate, ram the planet (or the star) at 0.9 c". If there's anything of use left there, another probe will come later and consume it.

So, by the time we spot the evidence of the von Neumann probes, we may just be about to get hit by a relativistic kill vehicle at the vanguard of the expanding shell.

(I'm tempted to build a toy model and play with the parameters to see how much of an advance warning we would have.)
I wish I could fix my bugs at work with machine turrets and lasers.
> significantly

I'm guessing you'll get no more than 400W of power on-car solar. I'm guessing 1-2 rooftop panels with a sub-optimal angel.

A Model 3 uses 0.24 hWh per mile.

That's 13 miles of range from baking in the sun for 8 hours? Best case?
/shrugs

Elon had a history of cutting things fine, and Tesla are throwing lots of money into R&D and expansion. Those gigafactories have to come from somewhere.
> It's too early to draw conclusions while we're still in the middle of the frenzy.

100%. We're certainly not yet after the fact.
To add to this, most of the farmer organizations protesting these reforms had themselves been asking for them for years.

Just one example: https://twitter.com/BKU_KisanUnion/status/110167401066691379...
Zoom: Activation of end-to-end encryption is currently broken (no-op)
I didn't argue that it wouldn't be a good (or "killer") feature, i argued that it could be a feature that is provided at a different level that lets the word processor focus on word processing (ie. what word processors are and should be about) while simultaneous/collaborative data editing is also provided for other applications (e.g. collaborative spreadsheet editing, or image editing, list editing or whatever else would make sense).
Technical solution (damping pads, door closer) seems like a good one, though it might alienate your roommate if there isn't consensus on implementing it.

Often door-slamming isn't intentional, just a side-effect of the way the door closes (either it slams naturally or has to be slammed in order to close reliably and completely.)
That law is being constantly broken is a conspiracy theory? Really now? A crime has not happened unless there is a court decision for it, else it's a conspiracy theory? You realize how weak this logic is?
Gamma squeeze has to do with options, short squeeze has to do with just stock.

Therefore the gamma squeeze has a timing component, while short squeeze can happen at any time irrespective of when options expire.
Given that over 60s are well documented to have lower melatonin levels, sleep less deeply and less at night it's easy to imagine why they might benefit more from naps.
I'm curious how you plan to compete.

Microsoft and Sony have a large catalog to offer, Amazon and Google have large data centers, a lot of money to throw at publishers, and a good path to integration with streaming (Youtube and Twitch).

Geforce Now has shown the hostility independent efforts will have to face.

I also believe the target audience is mostly users who can't or don't want to afford dedicated hardware and will want a good collection of games with a subscription.
There's a notable difference between:

1) a media outlet that repeats government lies about why we are fighting a war (or how it is going)

2) a media outlet that ignorantly repeats mistruths that are present in the (sub)culture

3) a media outlet that makes up its own lies

We used to mostly have a mixture of 1 & 2, but we now have to contend with (3) as well.
> Games will simply use more power as the average user's rig becomes more powerful.

But the need for lower latency is increasing as well (a la VR)
Your theory is, at best, completely orthogonal to event in the tweet. Dropping the medieval literature department is secretly a plot to produce activists who seize the means of production by purging quantitatively minded people? I would seriously reconsider the underpinning of my world view if it led me to such a conclusion.
Streaming also does away with the hassle of downloading updates and managing storage space. I would happily avoid loading up my macbook with games even if it could run them.
I don't think there's necessarily a contradiction between a weak form of the efficient market hypothesis and the quite evident phenomena of reflexivity. Inefficiencies form, the agents seek them out and in so doing remove them. The question is how fast the inefficiencies are removed and how costly they are to discover. There's decent evidence that the inefficiencies can take quite some time to disappear. The tougher question is how costly they are to discover and exploit. Unfortunately, it's hard to gather evidence on that, because of the confounding variables (trade secrets and competition, selection bias).

Another way to put it: You might be the best poker player at the table, but you might not be enough better to beat the rake. Or, sure, you can count cards and win at blackjack, but the casino ensures through table limits that on average they'll still come out ahead. Card counters will spend too much money finding a table with a good count that they won't win enough back exploiting the count to make up for the cost of information. On average.
All I know is the gnome settings has a scaling section and everything respects that scale.
But bleargh, why do Wayland proponents always seem to bring up keyloggers? That’s icky.
This is nothing new. I had a Shearson account back in the early 1980s and bought an oil company stock that was undervalued. One of those leveraged buyouts occurred when I was on a short vacation, and I did not find about the expiration of a buyout offer (no broker bothered to call me). Later I found out that Shearson had sold a lot of shares from their customer accounts to get the benefit of the buyout offer, and replaced them with lower priced shares after the offer expired. Later, Sandy W., the head of Shearson was hailed as a financial genius. This was nearly 40 years ago.
Anecdotally this seems true. Dick Cheney is a hard core neo con but having daughters who were lesbian made him a lot more understanding on the issue of gay rights.

John McCain was similar but his personal experience of being a POW made him a life long advocate against torture.

There’s a famous video of Christopher Hitchens who used to believe that water boarding people was justified in some cases. He volunteered to a mock water boarding session and immediately bailed and said it changed his view on water boarding.

Anti immigrant attitudes are sometimes found among those who have the least contact with immigrants. The cities which are cosmopolitan and full of immigrants are often very pro immigration.

This feels like a very HN zeitgeist where people are just data processors who come to conclusions by analyzing data.

Language is a broken tool. There’s a difference between reading about and seeing the floor plans of the Sistine chapel and actually being there and gazing up at it.
If Signal was the only alternative to have an internal messaging tool, sure, it would make sense to invest time and money on it to keep it up.

But it doesn't. There are options. If I had to choose, I would rather invest this time and money to collaborate on the existing protocols that do have the goal of being fully open. Matrix and XMPP can do the things that I want and there are plenty of people working on them to overcome the present issues and challenges for mass adoption.

Why should I swim upstream by myself if there is no special reward for this kind of effort?
Can someone explain the following to me.

Normally brokers block all trading ( buying/selling).

But only blocking buying it, seems manipulation to me.
No, mitigation measures have had no effect:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2020.6043...

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5...

etc. And there are many more.

I know it doesn't seem to make sense, but lockdowns have had no impact on mortality. This is seen when examining all the data. Consider Sweden - very little government suppression, and it's got a basically average outcome. In fact when analysed properly they don't have much excess death in 2020:

https://softwaredevelopmentperestroika.wordpress.com/2021/01...
How the 'Unconscious' Directs Our Experience of Architecture
> The "Wayland Way" is for the compoisitor to relay information (monitor-reported scale, etc) to the client, and have the client figure out how to scale itself correctly.

FWIW this is also the "Xorg Way" (RandR provides all the necessary information), it is just that clients do not bother.

Ideally the window manager would use the information provided by RandR to set up default scale levels for each monitor and then send notifications to the applications whenever the window changes monitor to alter their scale levels (this would also allow for custom per-window scale level that is applied on top of the per-monitor scale level in case someone wants to scale up/down a specific window - e.g. scaling up some notepad-like editor for a screencast).

This does require each client (and toolkit) to support arbitrary scaling... and window managers to agree on such a message, though i do remember an email about this topic being posted on Xorg mailing list some time ago. AFAIK Qt should already provide the necessary functionality for this.
I can't seem to respond to the sibling comment directly, so I'll comment here to say that ripping a CD or DVD is making a copy of it, which isn't what this thread is about.

You can't rip it, but you can sell, share, or do whatever you want with the original copy you bought and own. That is true everywhere in the world.
>but everything has worked almost flawlessly.

Its because everyone having issues is using X and likely 2 monitors with different dpis. On wayland its pretty much flawless unless you use 2 monitors at different scales and load an X application.
The DTCC requirements are all about protecting brokerages (and other counter parties) from each other. Basically (and I’m not an expert in this) it’s a risk sharing scheme where if Robinhood (or any other broker) goes under all the other members cover the positions.

I don’t think it has anything to do with margin vs non-margin accounts for instance. It’s just a formula where you split up the outstanding shares by the VaR as I’d get a capital requirement.
Well stated, and I appreciate your response. People expect that there are detailed plans and the proper way of rolling out the vaccine, but having seen the massive failure of coordinated response in 2020, this is obviously not true. This scrappy response by the team may be flawed and lacked oversight, but its better than waiting around and watching hospitals throw away unused vaccines.
Debuginfod, the Elfutils Debuginfo Server
>It would be nice if distributions would do a better job of handling this for you

They did, its called wayland. If you want to use a legacy tool you shouldn't expect it to work as nice as the current generation software.
Ask HN: How do I learn about energy?
I frequently find interesting discussions about energy on HN: the decreasing cost of solar, advances in battery technology, whether nuclear is good, bad, efficient, inefficient... I am always intrigued by these, and would like to learn more. Is there any resource you could recommend? I'm thinking about books, podcasts, publications... you name it.
If you want to extend this topic of reasoning, try Erik Angne’s
Course in Behavioral Economics

https://www.amazon.com/Course-Behavioral-Economics-Erik-Angn...
I have audible subscription and can say it is the definition of dark pattern if you have unused credits. either keep buying credits with the hope of someday using them or cancel and lose them all.
But it's on by default, just like Reddit apps are required to have NSFW filters on by default.

I dunno if it's possible to do this kind of filter on Matrix.

That said, if they go with this argument, the precedent would have to apply to all other unfiltered, federated messaging clients, including those for IRC and email.
I don't know of any Wayland implementations that let you do that, it wouldn't be hard to hack in, but Wayland applications should not be using that information to decide scaling. They should be using the wl_output.scale.

In X11, you can do it with xrandr --fbmm. Technically you can also set this information per-monitor but I don't think a command line option was ever added for it.
Justin, that event you are talking about, I assume is ESENT event 642? If so, that was literally - MY fault. Not the ESE teams fault, but _MY_ fault. Feel free to reply here with your flame. ;-) I can handle it. Really. :)

In the server cloud business all the events streams (and we have several) are rolled up into optics web reports and analyzed and sifted for potential emergent issues and health metrics ... in this case, an event useful to our cloud server business leaked into the events of our Windows client business. This is (in my biased opinion;) less about being "server grade", and more about not being "properly embeddable" ... as generally embedded components should be quiet.

This is part of the challenge of making a DB engine that services two very divergent scenarios. This is the smallest of those challenges. How much memory we can allocate being the largest regular conflict ... Office 365 would not even notice if ESE allocated an extra 1 MB per process, but that would boost our Working Set numbers by 40% (from the last numbers I remember seeing) for each Windows Client Service using us.

Anyways, I have fixed the code to not log that event on Windows Client. It should clear up once that patch gets out.

Cheers,
Brett Shirley [MSFT]

P.S. - Oh and I am sorry if it caused you any stress. I know it sounds concerning, but it is truly innocuous. You can ignore it, and hopefully soon you won't see it.
Is an element in the viewport with React hooks
There is some deep analysis of Swedish mortality for 2020 here:

https://softwaredevelopmentperestroika.wordpress.com/2021/01...

The summary is that when controlling for population growth there was a very small amount of excess death, that made 2020 comparable to 2012 or 2013 (depending on if you also control for age structure).

NB: due to an unusually non-deadly 2019, which will naturally increase 2020 mortality even without COVID, Swedish stats must be used carefully if the goal is to answer the question "how deadly was COVID in a country that had very few mitigations". Regardless even if you don't control for that additional factor, it's clear that the outcome was very far away from the 'expert' predictions of 100,000+ deaths from COVID alone, on top of all the normal deaths, which would have more than doubled the usual death rate.
Is this all really throwing specific? Don't punching, hammering or other biomechanic also benefit from this? I'm not arguing the anatomy, just the "rock throwing" part.

I mean, throwing a rock might come in handy from time to time.. but it seems insufficient to be a driving force.. to me. Spears maybe.. We even have evidence of neanderthal spear making... but that's 1.5m years later.

You can make a living with a spear. Feeding a family by hunting birds with rocks seems near impossible. Seems like much less of a game changer than clubs, spears, digging sticks, etc. I can imagine a population dependent enough on these to create evolutionary pressures.

This is not an educated opinion... just a layman's speculation.

Meanwhile, I also suspect that hunting plays a bigger role than currently fashionable. Chimps are basically bound to live where figs grow. They need a variety of fig trees, because different varieties fruit at different times. No figs, no chimps. Their diet defines their range.

Most modern foraging cultures rely heavily on food plants that require processing: cooking, soaking, pounding, grinding.... We're not very good at digesting plants. Even chimps aren't great at it.

Assuming earlier ancestors were chimp-like, I think they had to have widened their diets beyond fruit... That means either meat or harder to digest vegetables.

Paranthropus (a divergent family of human-like species) do seem adapted to a wider vegetable diet. Their skull was crested, like a gorilla, to facilitate gnawing on uncooked roots, leaves & such. Homo & Australopithecines don't have such features. It just doesn't seem as likely that we evolved the ability to eat a wider vegetable range than chimps, and then regressed to a narrower range again.

The invention of fire is often referred to as "an external digestive system." You don't really need this for meat. Fresh meat is digestible. Even chimps can eat fresh meat, and we're more carnivorous than chimps. I think cooking, and other processing methods reintroduced us to vegetarian diets.

It's actually really surprising that we don't know what these early species ate. For most animals, diet defines lifestyle. A species that hunts or scavenges for most of its diet is subject to totally different pressures than a fig eater.
Best summarized in the motto “We can remain retarded longer than they can remain solvent.”
for debian and ubuntu i think you meant apparmor not selinux

except for fedora they don't support selinux well
It's this kind of defeatist, responsibility-shifting attitude that holds Linux back from becoming a widely used desktop platform. What's the worst case with a fork, it stagnates and remains mostly identical to the upstream?
A) no they, and most brokers will let you start trading as soon as you “deposit” money even though you have many days to reverse those deposits. But:

B) your shares trading immediately is a fiction. It takes days for those trades to settle. And any subsequent trades you make with those funds are all subject to credit risk. The central clearing house collateral rules are about risk management around that multi day float.

I think but am not an expert on this that the DTCC times explicitly require the capital to come from the brokerage not the clients. I don’t know why but can guess that it’s because it’s the brokerages taking on the risk not the individuals.
Goto stack for building SaaS is the one you know the best.
A single company owning and having their fingers in everything from search engines, operating systems, phone and laptop hardware, self-driving cars, payment platforms, online shopping platforms, cloud computing platforms and a myriad of other things. I'm of the opinion no single entity should be allowed to be in control of so many things.
>I was able to get per-monitor scaling to work

X11 is not capable of doing this properly. Wayland is and as you probably know, nvidia refuses to support it which is out of the control of linux developers. You can get everything working if you use the open source nvidia drivers but then they run slow as shit because nvidia blocks them from setting the clock speed on the gpu.

Basically every problem falls back on nvidia and the linux desktop people have done everything in their power to make it work.
I think it's fair to care about it for precisely the reason that you don't get it. This problem doesn't get as much attention, and is more likely to get worse because of sentiment like this :(
Every chocolate box I've seen had a description of each filling like this:

https://mmmaladdin.blogg.se/images/2011/2006_aladdin2_161188...

And they have had it for a really long time, here is old version of the same box:

https://cdn3.cdnme.se/cdn/8-1/3120698/images/2012/aladdin_80...

Why would you sell candy without telling people whats inside them? Most people don't like all fillings.
But isn't a narrative that both the producer and the consumer know is fake guaranteed to be a waste of time? If there's going to be a narrative there should be a real one.
I've got 4K display for my Linux machine in 2017; Fedora+Gnome+Wayland worked fine at 200% scale back then.

That's 4 years. After those 4 years, there are people still trying to make their X11 square peg fit into the HiDPI round hole.

X11 is dead. Nobody is going to retrofit HiDPI into it as it is in Wayland. In another 4 years, it is still going to be as annoying as it is today to fix up X11 desktops and apps; maybe even more so.
Those death figures are not deaths from COVID. They are deaths of any cause within 28 days of a positive test, and thus over-count, especially when the elderly who are (to put it coldly) "scheduled" to die get a positive test and then die "on time". It makes the COVID death stats useless because what's actually interesting is not how many people die in vague proximity to a positive result on a trigger-happy test, but rather how many people could have been meaningfully saved. Life years lost, in other words.
EU has a same-but-different "Exhaustion of Rights" concept. But WTO organisation does not have any provisions for this principle.

Asia-pac countries do not have this provision at all, unless enforced by US-trade agreements.
I tried Django but I liked Laravel better.
Because I knew it better.
Exactly.
If you actually use a modern config like the defaults on Fedora it all just works. 100% of these problems come from people trying to use the proprietary nvidia drivers which is filled with issues.
> Algos/data structures are used as a proxy for problem solving and how fast someone can learn.

A piss poor one if you ask me. The truth is that it’s a skill where you need to internalize what various low level data structures buy you to know when to reach for them.

Most of the code I saw at Google was boring ass proto transforms based on business logic. Knowing when to use a map vs an array was about as complex as it got for 95% of the positions.

Additionally, knowing the algorithms/ds (as all Googlers are supposed to) did not help for that normal work. A bunch of folks I worked with in the open source world produced better structured, better tested, and more performant code than many of the internal folks but they couldn’t join Google because of the algo/ds bar.
SNES world.