skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am also afraid of the "fear of people" trait that we all have gained during this pandemic sticking as well. Before pandemic, me and my friends were able to just share a bar/cafe table with 5 random strangers and have a beer with them, nowadays it feels it is impossible for me to do something like that.
While this has been playing out a while in Australia and elsewhere, I think anyone who presupposed non-partisanship and openness by large social networks and other conduits of information knows after the Twitter, FB, YT and others’ hamfisted approaches to setting narratives dispelled that notion and gave reason to every government to review the influence these players have on the respective constituencies.
xdotool isnt the only issue. FFS read the attached article.
I guess I should have known better

>>> This blog entry discusses the reporting of child pornography -- but does not go into details about any pictures or descriptions. If you're easily disgusted or saddened, then don't read this blog entry.

So this line just casually thrown out here

>>> Some times of year are worse than others. For FotoForensics, the period from Thanksgiving to New Years is the worst. I think that's when creepy family members spend more time with the kids.

My stomach just dropped.
“You are overestimating the difficulties of porting old stuff to wayland”

The same is true for moving away from win32 GUI API. How many times has Microsoft tried?

I have experimented with wayland and considered submitting patches for various 30-bit color issues, but the community is so catty. Everything is met with snark. It reminds me so much of trying to help a damaged person who doesn’t trust me, which is so weird and off-putting, in this context.
We don't need to boycott Wayland
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That MAD continues didn't seem that known on HN earlier today. (I didn't know it either.) When I wrote the GP comment, it had half a dozen sibling comments from different people, now all deleted, talking about MAD in the past tense, as a crazy thing that was believed in long ago.
It's OpenBSD's plan to eventually shut down any other option via system call origin verification. So golang has to bite the bullet at some point.

"The eventual goal would be to disallow system calls from anywhere but the region mapped for libc"

https://lwn.net/Articles/806776/
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That is just a hypothesis. We know little about the soundness of the evaluation of all likely vectors for this case. Also, "if it would save just one life" is where you're going with the last sentence. Diverting attention into non-existent or rare transmission vectors removes attention from known transmission vectors, which will increase infections.
I'm asking for specifics because I actually can't think of any apps where "undo" would make sense, but is missing. I'm probably not creative enough. But that's why I asked for examples. These are the things I thought of:

Text editor? Those have undo.

Image editor? Also have undo.

Video Games? Depends. Should you be allowed to "undo" in a game of minesweeper? Probably not- it kind of ruins the game. Should you be allowed to "undo" in Chess? Probably not. Should you be allowed to undo in Solitaire? Maybe.

Chat client? What would you undo? Can't unsend a message.

Web Browsers have back buttons, to the extent that those can undo.

I could see file managers maybe having undo. I honestly don't know if the popular ones today do or not.

What apps are missing undo functionality for you?
The most effective thing is to eliminate close contact with anyone you don't live with, but is something all of us can't do. So reducing contact and wearing a mask IS the most effective and realistic measure.

I find apalling that you call it "safety theater". What is YOUR big solution?
> The better question is why aren’t we ventilating

Industrial places: they have AC but unfortunately the way most if not all of these are built they're germ spreaders rather than germ catchers. Retrofitting or modifying existing installations is expensive and the tradespeople doing this kind of job have been in high demand everywhere since years now.

Schools: same as above - ACs or ventilation in schools exist mostly in new buildings which have had energy efficiency requirements respected during design, retrofitting is often impossible (e.g. due to low room heights), and the "there are no tradespeople" argument from above also applies here, with the added difficulty that government jobs pay pennies compared to what industry puts up. To make stuff worse: many school buildings have outright broken windows - in Cologne / Germany for example one in five schools has windows that don't open, sometimes for many years (https://www.ksta.de/koeln/keine-lueftung-moeglich-trotz-coro...).
Just because it's old doesn't mean the text is meaningful.
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Not so long ago, I had to use screensharing from Chromium, which I tried from Fedora (I think 31 or 32, it was less than a year ago). It didn't work; all I got was a blank screen. Logging out and back in to Xorg fixed it. That convinced me that, at least at that moment, Wayland was simply not ready.

Apart from that, I depend quite a lot on things like xdotool, for which I'm not aware of a (generic) Wayland alternative.

If these issues are solved, I may try it again, but overall I'm pretty sceptical; around mid-2019 I tried GNOME on Wayland and there were some pretty wild rendering bugs that I didn't have on Xorg. The compositor being responsible for all rendering also meant that when doing something like opening the app menu, the cursor started lagging, but that's probably more of a GNOME problem, but it still concerns me.
You can. The standard is new, but it exists, and now works on Gnome, KDE and wlroots based compositors https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PipeWire (read past the intro paragraph to where it talks about the various backends available)
Reading between the lines - because there was some suggestion that surface transmission might be a problem, this is largely now thought not be be the case, but it’s a relatively low-cost measure that was already put in place and increases public confidence, even though broadly speaking it’s likely to have a minimal effect on transmission rates.

Cleaning high-contact surfaces was not an unreasonable precaution to take; it’s probably something we will slowly stop doing now as the pandemic starts to ease.
The evaluation of SPARQL patterns is PSPACE-complete.

Which means that for trying to approach the problem of writing UIs (working on a realistic hardware) that adapt to different ontologies you need to restrict the set of possible solutions...

That is, to limit the number and place constraints on the ontologies you accept.

The ActivityPub ecosystem is a glaring example of this.
ActivityPub defines a set of baseline requirements (and a basic ontology) that all implementations need to support.

Once you meet the baseline, you can use linked data tools to extend the standard. Applications that understand your extension will also interact with it in the UI, those that don't understand your extension usually just ignore it.

But you need to specify base requirements (set the baseline for an extensible standard)! You can't just throw totally random ontologies at devs, it won't work. I think this is the error Solid makes.
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What do you mean by high DPI monitor? I have a 32" 4K monitor, is that high DPI? It works perfectly in X for me.

I don't see any screen tearing when moving a window fast across the entire screen either, if that was the concern.

I also could set up large enough font sizes in cinnamon and browsers.
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It looks like you're largely selling a fancy installer for software primarily developed by another company, Grafana Labs. They offer both open source, hosted SaaS, and paid-for "enterprise" versions of their software.

Why should someone choose Opstrace over purchasing from them directly?
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Not relevant but at one company, they had a community manager who was into healthy food / digital nativism / positivity / youth. I'd be working and feel her staring at me. I'd look at her in case she said something and I was too focused to hear the first time (it happenend all the time. She was the kind to send you a Slack message and immediately tap on your shoulder to tell you to reply. There were many who explained to her this was not good). She'd keep staring at me and then say "Oh my god. You're sooo fucking old".

It was hilarious that she was actively having this thought and felt too burdened to keep it to herself. I also was 28.

I remember she was handling hiring and would come to the CTO to tell him : "There's this candidate who just applied, but he is like really old. He's 30 years old".

This was delicious. Her mind worked in an intriguing way. It was as if she was talking about someone who had a contagious disease and was too afraid of them giving it to her.

The whole profile was interesting.
IMO: if you don't treat your phone like another PC and run postmarketOS (or similar) than you shouldn't use a "smartphone."
Almost everything in the iOS and Android ecosystems is pathologically malicious.
Of course there is, I'm not denying that - and Google, Facebook and Apple frankly could be doing a lot more, but they aren't really. Their actions are exceedingly superficial.
I understand that but if they're going to go down that route for OpenBSD why not bring it to all platforms? While I can believe that going the raw syscall route can be easier than dealing with libc idiosyncrasies, it seems to me that maintaining both interfaces depending on the target OS would be trickier than just cutting your losses and going the libc route everywhere.

After all as far I can tell it's not just an OpenBSD problem since famously they got breakage in MacOS as well.

I must admit that I haven't taken the time to analyze in depth the pros and cons here, but Go's history of NIH coupled with the fact that basically every other mainstream language manages to work by binding the libc leaves me very perplex.

In particular some of the points raised in the blogpost I linked seem fishy to me. For instance errno being a global: this is in no way a Go-specific problem (multithreaded C couldn't run concurrent syscalls if it was true). In practice errno is thread-local instead of being a true global. It's explicitly documented in the man page:

> errno is defined by the ISO C standard to be a modifiable lvalue of type int, and must not be explicitly declared; errno may be a macro. errno is thread-local; setting it in one thread does not affect its value in any other thread.

I can believe that there are other issues I fail to consider, but again it works for everybody else, what makes Go so special here?
The author of that blog has this to say early on:

"This post is about why I dislike AES-GCM’s design, not “why AES-GCM is insecure and should be avoided”. AES-GCM is still miles above what most developers reach for when they want to encrypt (e.g. ECB mode or CBC mode)."
> pressing a button on a lift shortly after someone with Covid-19 used it

If you rode in the lift shortly after someone with COVID-19 used it, it seems that airborne transmission is quite plausible.
Fauci and the WHO said the same thing. Only mask if you're sick or if you take care of sick people around you but you don't need to mask if you're healthy.

Edit: [0] is a archived version of the WHO public advice about when to use mask from late april. It probably was up even longer:

> If you are healthy, you only need to wear a mask if you are taking care of a person with COVID-19.
Wear a mask if you are coughing or sneezing.
Masks are effective only when used in combination with frequent hand-cleaning with alcohol-based hand rub or soap and water.
If you wear a mask, then you must know how to use it and dispose of it properly.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20200421063423/https://www.who.i...
> Like happened in Germany in 1961 with their section 73(7).

Could you elaborate on this analogy please?
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They're continuing to say we shouldn't wear N95 masks, to save them for healthcare workers. This has always seemed to me like a short-sighted and reactive approach, instead of proactively starving the supply of infected people by masking up everybody.
> we can hope that it’ll balance out and that the best ideas will win in the marketplace of ideas

In other words, if I and my "adversary" are wrong, it will all sum up to being right. Right?
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The flu and cough season alone was responsible for ~20 in 100 employees going off sick in Germany 2019 (https://www.barmer.de/presse/bundeslaender-aktuell/berlin-br...), with an average sick time-off of 14-22 days a year.

This is a lot of lost productivity, even when one takes into account that the 2019 flu season was nasty (I was off for two weeks too, hardest hit in about one and a half decades for me).

Side note: I assume you're American - just ask yourself how many of your friends and colleagues go to work while symptomatic because you don't have mandatory sick days that don't count against regular vacation and so end up spreading contagions... I agree that the sick days number in Germany seems quite excessive but I rather had a loss in productivity than getting sick from co-workers and ending out sick for weeks.
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The article is really not as definitive about it as I was expecting from the title.

Basically it’s “we don’t really know, we don’t even really examine most sources of infection, we’ve never done controlled trials on it, you can find the virus on lots of surfaces, most of the time it’s probably not infectious but sometimes it could be, there have been a few documented cases of infections from surfaces”.

It’s clearly a lower risk than airborne transmission but it seems like we can’t say with much certainty how low.

The only estimate of a risk probability mentioned is a 5 in 10000 chance of being infected if you’re out in public touching things. Not even sure if this was from a real study or just an expert’s back of the envelope calculation. I don’t know exactly the parameters involved but if you had taken that chance every day for the past year you would have had a 17% chance of getting infected at some point which is relatively significant. And seems like it would be likely worse at times the outbreak is at a higher peak, or if you’re an essential worker taking that chance multiple times a day.
Aside from being just unpleasant also a major source of infection (norovirus, rotavirus, etc often called "24 hour bugs"/stomach bugs/erroneously "food poisoning").
I don’t think that’s all of it. I live in a region that eliminate the virus locally (nova scotia). They deeply care about success and have taken effective measures.

....but they still largely focus on deep cleaning rather than ventilation! And they emphasize the six foot rule in their contact tracing.

I think the true explanation has to do with first impressions. People seem to have stuck on whatever they first heard in Feb-April. And it is harder for an institution to change its mind than for an individual.

On masks, for example, I think the mantra of “masks protect others, they don’t protect you” has stuck even though other types of mask also filter incoming air. People just don’t update their beliefs too easily.
The imagery on the website is going to be well received in any marginalized white community in Arkansas, as will be the references to Atlanta and Detroit. It's finest virtue signalling.
What, 4AM instantaneously? I'm sure they arrested key people at that time, but there's no need to barricade streets etc (as shown in this video) until later when things are under control and you can start worrying about public unrest.
Deputy Leader for 13½ years of the party in power, then make him chairman of the second largest media organisation in the country for 5 years now.

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In order to limit buying the CDC pushed the lie that masks would not significantly affect the chance of catching COVID in a non-hospital setting. Then when that became too obviously wrong and PPE supply increased they changed their tune. This cost me a LOT of trust in the institution — that they would lie to manipulate mass behavior. Even early in the pandemic, the Asian countries which got the pandemic under control all required masks, and they have experience with coronaviruses.

After the above fiasco I don’t trust the CDC or any U.S. local or federal government agency to say that COVID won’t spread on surfaces when they are motivated to say so to save significant money and resources by skipping disinfection protocols.
> IMO the only way for this to actually work is to have the language/compiler force "exceptions" to be part of function signature. I am not aware of any mainstream language which does this.

Java. Also Swift.

Rust also counts if you squint and call Result a checked exception and panic an unchecked exception. It's a little different because you technically can ignore a returned Result- it's just a compiler warning, rather than an error. Similar for Haskell and OCaml.
Covid is not really airborne in the sense it doesn't float by itself but travels through micro droplets of saliva, which is... (dramatic pause) a bodily fluid!

How on Earth, after a year, you are so ignorant about it?
Some of these are actually rather quotable.
Thanks for this. I'll look into it. I never dug deeper into the interface than: does it work with my phone and ... does it work. It has done both so far, but if I can add CarPlay I'll do that.
Well, the article says "operable" which just means there's a thing that works. But it doesn't say how well.
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A small suggestion: to update the project description from

> A library for creating native cross-platform GUI apps.

to

> A library for creating native cross-platform GUI apps in [C++/Lua/Node.JS]
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Thanks for replying, I’ll check out this book and learn about how it’s measuring poverty. The concept seems about inequality though, that is different (although important) than poverty.

This quote mixes the two concepts “ Since 1960, the income gap between the North and South has roughly tripled in size. Today 4.3 billion people, 60 per cent of the world's population, live on less than $5 per day.” and doesn’t provide context on whether the percent of the worlds population living in less than $5/day is better or worse than in 1960.
Not the CDC, but surgeon general was spouting this garbage in March.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/02/29/health/face-masks-coronav...

CDC is referenced in the article too, but this tweet was just egregious.
That kind of story predates journalist unions. The owner of the newspaper has a financial interest in selling papers, and more people are workers than owners.