skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or perhaps a complement to a legislative issue. Solid could be an easy tool/set-of-practices that allows companies to abide by data privacy laws.
> journalists barely scraping by, facing constant layoffs and a grim future as their audience slowly dies off and their authority is eroded.

After watching the hysterical, paranoid coverage of the Trump administration, and now the pathetic, fawning coverage of Biden, I can't help but feeling that they deserve it.
> when in fact the lead developers on Wayland are the actual Xorg maintainers.

Daniel Stone[0] incredibly funny and educational talk[1] from 2013 could help many critics who missed the 3 decade long ongoing discussion of why X is bad. We've talked about this already in the mid 90ies (when there were no alternatives) and now 8 years after this popular linux.conf.au talk, people still having troubles understanding why X has always been a terrible tradeoff for both security and performance (well for literally everything).

[0] https://www.fooishbar.org/about/

[1] The Real Story Behind Wayland and X https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIctzAQOe44

edit: BUT X IS THE UNIX WAY! << so what is the 1 thing X does, and what is it doing well?
It's a hoax that dates to circa 1400? We can assume that hoaxers, charlatans or con-artists existed in 1400.
TL;DR Just played Cyberpunk 2077 with no glich on Sway and Wayland on Arch Linux last night for almost two hours.

I am embracing Wayland and wlroot-based desktops. It is simpler, faster, and fits easier in my head.

Forgot to mention that I also just got my screensharing working under Wayland with Sway and Chromium for MS Teams (Have not tried with Firefox yet). Works like charm, albat with Pipewire. I have no gdm/GNOME installed.

Edit I: Mention the OS.

Edit II: Mention screen sharing.
You can't just migrate to Vue 3 (now)
The first DPI detector site detects my 55" 4K monitor as 442 DPI (5120x2880 at 13.3") when entering my resolution and diagonal size in inches gives me 80 DPI. The other one detects it as 192x192 DPI which is a much larger number. Maybe the first number means it should be 80x80 DPI but either way 192x192 is much larger. Maybe I'm missing something.
At least these sites have a desktop oriented UI. Modern Gnome just assumes you're always on a phone (even though the phones capable of running Gnome are still extremely niche.)
I'm fine with that if those extra measure are downside free. Except they are not, temperature check, mask, etc, incur extra cost, effort, inconvenience, annoyance, etc.

The question is whether its worth it ? For me its obviously No
TLDR: "So there you have it. I hate these stupid headphones because so much of their physical design is flawed…but they sound so wonderful that I can’t help but smile whenever I listen to things through them."
the problem is N95 masks are not available. Hospitals are still rationing them to doctors who are dealing with COVID patients. That is those with the greatest need/risk cannot get a N95 mask. There is some supply coming online, but it is slow.

Note that KF94 and KN95 masks are somewhat available, I'd recommend my friends use them, but not my friends' friends as supply isn't enough to cover the friends of my friends. These are the Korea and Chinese equivalent to N95, perhaps not as good, but still a lot better. There is also a European standard, but I haven't seen it anywhere in the US.
Wouldn’t that be an agnostic rather than an atheist?
If they block google for real, it may be a good opportunity for something like https://voteflux.org/ to take off. Because many unhappy people trying to tell the government why exactly they are unhappy is a perfect situation to promote direct/liquid democracy.
I'm not familiar with the internals enough to know if you're right about tearing being the compositor's fault, though I'd be quite surprised if disabling the compositor resulted in less tearing. But I do know that I experienced tearing using compton with i3 (though much less than i3 with no compositor).

If Gnome, KDE and compton all manage to get compositing wrong on X, and yet every wayland compositor manages to get it right, then maybe it is a problem with X, even if there is some arcane way to fix the issue.
Ask HN: What would you like to ask GPT-3?
Hey HN! Thought I'd try this out with the HN community. I wanted to know what questions did you have for GPT-3? Access to the beta API is limited at the moment, so I thought I'd ask GPT-3 your questions.

Thanks!
Potentially culture. There's a lot of supernatural events that are reported everywhere (not saying they're real). It's entirely possible that American culture means those kinds of events are more likely to be interpreted as UFO sightings as opposed to another kind of event.

A lot of sightings are also aircraft tests (IE: B2 bomber), so it could be that other nations test less alien looking aircraft. The New Generation Fighter in the EU looks like an F18, so a mistaken identity is probably going to skew to "fighter jet" and not "ufo".
Yeah I hope so. It's not in a good place with RedHat right now because they want to get rid of it anyway. This way it becomes obsolete even quicker, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I really hope some group will take it on board that really wants it. I think there's still a good usecase for it.

FreeBSD does support Wayland in a way but it's pretty primitive.
https://hostjupyter.com - a simple tool for publishing and sharing Jupyter notebooks.

Great thing is that I built it for myself as a way of sharing my data science portfolio (https://nbs.isaacaderogba.com/spacy-entities-model)! I decided to make it a general tool in case others wanted to use (and pay) for it. There's comfort in knowing that there'll always be at least one user.
> Any money is in selling bombs that are used, so you can sell more. Not much money in nukes

World nuclear arms spending hit $73bn last year – half of it by US.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/13/nuclear-weapon...

"The U.S. government is now estimated to have 6,800 nuclear weapons at its disposal, but America hasn’t actually built a new warhead or bomb since the 1990s. “It has refurbished several types in recent years to extend their lifetime,”...The B61-12 atomic bombs, for instance, are to undergo a life-extension program that will cost roughly $9.5 billion. There are 400 to 500 of these bombs... which means refurbishing one will cost about $20 million.

W-80 warheads, another type being refurbished, are estimated to cost $75 million each ... the total cost of the W-80 life extension plan will be $7.3 billion to $9.9 billion over 17 years."

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/08/heres-how-much-a-nuclear-wea...

Sounds like serious money to me. More details about which companies are making the most money and how:

http://www.nuclearweaponsmoney.org/corporations/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/01/02/20-companies...
>> But it stops some cases, which is much better than no cases.

Any test that gives a false sense of security may cause people to do things that they otherwise should not, such as travel. Spot temperature checks are not effective but doing them at airports makes people feel safer. Safe-feeling people travel more, spreading more virus.
I remember using this kind of service. The messaging platform I used to transmit the link tried to render a preview but that deleted the data because it was set to destroy after the first page view. Do you deal with that?
> They aren't though.

Remote desktop, game screen recording, screenshots, how do those work?
Instagram, how many chicks need to die before you fix the browser viewport?
Yeah, its pretty awful when the objectively worst president ever, who is nosediving the whole country, is being justifiably criticized over it in a "paranoid" manner, and the man who has to come after him and clean up all the crap is being pointlessly "fawned" over.

I want to live in the fantasy world you live in.
It is, as it is input latency stacked on top of display latency, stacked on top of internet latency!

Not to mention that 100ms of latency in TVs is constant usually, it isn't the case with network latency.
> Go devs, saying that it was technically impractical due to some of Go's requirements not matching the libc's semantics.

I've always considered claims like this to be bullshit. I've worked a lot with both libc level system calls and (for crash report generation) direct system calls bypassing libc. They're the same interface. There's nothing you can do with a raw system call interface that you can't do through raw libc --- with rare exceptions for things like libc not having system call wrappers for some new system call or legacy ill-advised emulation like in fallocate. None of these exceptions is a justification for bypassing libc for calling open(2) or write(2).

As far as I can tell, the real reason Go eschewed libc system call interfaces is that the Go developers want to think of themselves as "not C".
Hi everyone,

This is Irman Abdic, CEO at Bleenco. I am happy to answer any questions you may have.

-- Irman
Puzzle Panda – https://puzzlepanda.com

I recently just launched this jigsaw puzzle website!

The reason I originally built it was for a few family members who were tired of how slow other jigsaw apps were. I wanted to build something faster and easier to use.

Even if it doesn’t take off, I have a few players already that want me to keep updating it. I don’t mind since it’s pretty cheap to host and doesn’t require any maintenance. It also serves as my first attempt at running a side business with an optional premium subscription tier. And the last thing is that it’s an experiment for me to see how well Svelte and Rust perform in production :)
> External table in Snowflake only allows you to ingest data from s3 to their storage

No. External table doesn't do any "ingesting" whatsoever. You can if you want to but you thats not the primary usecase.

https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/tables-external-int...

" enables querying data stored in files in an external stage as if it were inside a database "

> I have not seen examples of "select * from s3://file.json" in the links you provided.

you cannot directly query a random file off of s3( not sure why someone would want to do that) . Snowflake is a database , not a python script.

You have to build a an external table

" create external table abc location=s3://dir-to-file "

then

" select * from abc "

> "external tables" in Snowflake are not what you think they are.

They are exactly what you think they are. Tables stored externally to snowflake.
Rural areas are getting slammed pretty hard by covid. I don't think that will put the brakes on urbanization all that much.
> Are there not indigenous peoples that live in harmony with nature?

Probably there are some somewhere. But most rely on completely unsustainable practices.

> Are they prosperous?

You've received some answers, but keep in mind that "poor" is a word we usually apply to people in much wealthier situations.
The search on youtube is kinda broken with all "suggestions" thrown into the mix, so I made a firefox addon called YouTube Search Fixer: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-suite...
Well it can be simple reasons like 'Wayland' alone which put 'Linux support' (How ever they define or scope it) in the backlog forever. The only apps I can see that will be prevalent and widely used and 'supported' on Linux are electron apps since chromium 'works fine' on Wayland.

At least with the phasing out of X11 that's one less component out of hundreds of hundreds of sub-components the user might have installed over the default install which we have to test for before another user complains about it.

This will just make investigating issues in the whole Linux desktop sub-system stack another multi-year safari hunt. No wonder Electron is the 'supported' choice for developing desktop apps for the Linux Desktop. Ugh.
A collection of deep-deep dives on various topics would be a fun thing for someone who can build a nice website to do (You don't want to see my attempts at being a designer).

For example, "What every programmer should know about memory" covers memory but what about (as you say) screens.
If you currently have elimination, it makes sense to deep clean potentially infected surfaces. For example if you're a New Zealand restaurant which seated the woman who subsequently turned out to be infected last week, when you got notified by the public health department you might want to clean everything just in case before re-opening, as well as having all the staff who had contact with her take a test, and so on. Such practices are costly, but a new outbreak would be far more expensive for everybody.

Where it makes less sense is if you have endemic virus and you're basically not bothering to even control that why bother cleaning surfaces when they'll be re-contaminated shortly afterwards? In fact several countries have this practice while also ensuring sick people who work as cleaners feel obligated to stay on the job to feed their families, so the people cleaning may spread the virus.

As to ventilation, that's expensive. One hypothesis for that New Zealand case is that she was infected through the AC at the isolation hotel. Another guest in that hotel tested positive and was transferred to quarantine but obviously you could be infectious days before you test positive. That hotel is being closed for an upgrade, but this is expensive and it's only practical for New Zealand to do this for their managed isolation & quarantine facilities, in a country with endemic virus you'd want to do it in every building.

Personally I just assume all surfaces outside my home are contaminated, and any humans who get within a few metres are infectious and spreading viral particles. But I'm lucky, I don't have to go out and do a job out there.
You can probably stop renting on the weekend and if you have an app with infrequent updates you don't need to pay every day. With the right workflow it is definitively cheaper than buying.
Yeah even on my cloud boxes it works great. They are physically close though.

Ideally if X was still maintained they could incorporate some of the old freeNX / X2go logic that makes it more robust against latency.

But I think this usecase is becoming more important again. In the early days of X it was great because we were all using terminals on single powerful machines. Then we moved to desktop and transparency was less of a thing. But now we're moving more and more towards cloud computing again which is not all that different from the old client/server model. At least not in the sense of having a separation between compute and I/O.
Interesting, i probably wouldn't buy the book for anyone anyway, but still, interesting criticism.

I really like the socratic method, i think everyone should be trained to use it on their own belief/knowledge during highschool, its a good autodefense tool and was usefull to me during the "gay marriage" debacle in France where a no small part of my familly manifested against basically something that had no impact on their lives at all. Loss of time and energy to fight against something that wouldn't change anything outside a couple except tax rate for gay couple, maybe.

Against theism, i only have two thing to say:

- Why should i believe your theism is better than the others (it helps that my mother loosely believe in Vishnu while most of my family is catholic on this side)?

- Would the existence of a god have any impact on how i already live my life? I already have a community (two even, not counting online ones), i'm already doing the most good i can, will my belief in any god change what i'm already doing?
You know there are downsides to being too clean. Your body needs some low level pathogens to fight off to exercise your immune system. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1448690/ The trendy term for this is maintaining your microbiome.
Honestly, I've been absolutely loving the feeling of these on my head, they've been ay more comfortable (for me) than e.g. the Sonys.
Show HN: I Built AirDrop for Visual Studio Code
Thanks! Yes, this is quite important. I plan for there to be a desktop version which allows you to backup/import/export your notes automatically to your own file system. Getting 100% markdown compatibility might be a challenge with some future features (like embedded images). Then there's the sync so you can jump onto different machines and continue.
dang: I did not mean for my comment to be snarky! I also did not mean it to be dismissive! I meant it as an honest, obvious question one should ask. But in hindsight, in the light of morning, my comment sure looks snarky, you're right. I wrote it quickly last night. Argh. Sorry. And thank you for taking the time to point it out.

philips: please accept my apologies too. The last thing I want to be is snarky.
There only has to be one objectively wrong answer to show that it's not all subjective, which is the point under discussion.
What a bad take. Hysterical and paranoid stormed the capitol. That wasn't "the media".
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Unfortunately, both Google and Apple decided to merge Bluetooth and Location permissions a while back, on the basis that bluetooth scans can be used to unmask your location (by fingerprinting known BLE beacons). This means that any app that needs to communicate over BLE is forced to request the location permission - even if they don't want to.

That's not to say anything about whether this app in particular is using location maliciously, of course. But all apps for BLE devices are in this boat :/
Except it can encourage people to be in public spaces and feel safe doing so.

I've literally had the conversation about going to a mall, and the person responding "but they're doing temperature checks at the doors!" as why it is safe.

The public has been [mis]led to believe that these checks work, and that may be the bigger problem than the checks themselves. I'm all for arguing "the enemy of better is perfect" except when you alter the general-public's behavior into less safe behaviors.
Yeah same here, just wondering.
Why Elon Musk Is Wasting So Much Time on Twitter [video]
Show HN: Dashboard for Green Card Processing Times
Because USA think they are the center of the world
This drives me up the wall. You would think it's such a common scenario!
Pale Moon 29.0
Wait, so sniffing on screen resolution is the way web developers distinguish desktops from mobile? That's just crazy.

There should IMO be a preference sent, "I'm on a portable, touch-enabled device". I'm guessing it doesn't exist because it would add a bit to the fingerprint.
One day. While today it's easy to write one in X and you don't have all the compatibility issues talked about in the article and up and down this thread.
How does it save the files? I don't see a save button.

Can it autosave?
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Mars Landing
Libc is absolutely the official entry point: it's libc that implements POSIX interfaces, not the kernel. If POSIX isn't official, what is?

Making libc the stable support boundary has all sorts of advantages to an operating system and basically zero downside. Only vanity argues for doing it the Linux way.
No. Just simple heuristics that work for most users at the expense of people who admit, like OP's opening statement, "I’m a weirdo".

Building responsive client UI is hard. In my experience here, the falsehoods HNers believe about clients is that it's somehow not hard. Or just a silver bullet away from being easy (like replacing JS with $faveLang). Or that resources are infinite such that every defect is explained by incompetence (except for, presumably, that HNer who is intimately familiar with resource finitude in their own life).
The real problem is that designing for different screen sizes, especially with responsive design, is very difficult.

For my personal projects, screen size is the factor used to determine layout. Mobile/tablet/laptop/desktop is irrelevant. My goal with smaller viewports is to make the layout as similar as possible, without the user having to scroll horizontally. Because I don't want to change the layout too much, I do not use hidden navigation menus.

Hamburger menus are terrible - I see them as a design copout.
I think the comment you’re replying to was saying covid theater is the cleaning and temp checks, not the masks.

As for masks, I still see people wearing bandanas and scarves all the time, and my understanding is these are much less effective than even a simple surgical mask. I think your bar is much too low, sounds like you’re saying as long as we’re doing more than nothing that’s good enough.

There’s no excuse almost a year in that there exist masks which are significantly more effective than what most people are wearing and we’re making no effort to encourage people to use them.
Greylock Files for Bankruptcy After Losses Spur Withdrawals
https://dunkadunka.com - Online drum machine and sequencer.

I've mentioned it here before, doesn't get any traction at all, but I still love working on it :)
Presumably ventilation improvements will continue to pay off in the future.

Which isn't to say that it is easy to just upgrade everything, more that we should account for how damaging an airborne virus can be when we construct facilities.
Author's proposed solution:

var dppx = window.devicePixelRatio;
var screenWidth = screen.width * dppx;
var screenHeight = screen.height * dppx;
The article implies that only "command line" Windows has is WSL, which is false. I like Windows CMD for simple things and for more complicated tasks can use Python, awk, and Unix utilities that have been ported to Windows.

"Prebuilt into macOS and Unix systems, and available on Windows through such tools as the free ‘Windows Subsystem for Linux’ and MobaXterm, the command line (also called the shell) is a powerful text-based interface in which users issue terse instructions to create, find, sort and manipulate files, all without using the mouse."
Air purifiers with HEPA filters can effectively trap the virus in the filter [1].
Air purifiers with HEPA filters aren't terribly expensive and DIY options are possible (e.g., [2]) although I have also read that this setup is not as efficient at filtering as a purpose-built air filter [3] but also probably much better than nothing.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/can-hepa-air-purifie...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch/kH5APw_SLUU
[3] https://www.wired.com/story/could-a-janky-jury-rigged-air-pu...
I really liked this idea, until I realized that the net effect would be a post here: "their inferior hardware lost my data and then they tried to extort 5000EUR to get it back."

While on paper it seems crazy that offering a customer an extra option could never be a negative, in practice it can.