skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, indeed! Currently you can already using the Prometheus remote_write API as discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25992392. So if you can collect your in-house metrics with Prometheus, then you could write to Opstrace.

Additionally, we are close to launching a Datadog API as mentioned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25994268

So stay tuned to our blog or newsletter for more on this.

Are there other specific APIs you’re interested in?
Geologists produce new timeline of Earth’s Paleozoic climate changes
thanks! That is something I'll definitely add at some point if the site ends up becoming popular. Most of that info can be easily found on sites like mountainproject or ukclimbing though so I didn't want to reinvent the wheel.
It's actually marked as "labor" or "for salaries". These terms should include benefits and overhead.
On a timescale of 2 centuries everybody is 'quite young', you included.
I’m always amazed at how quickly animals and insects can setup shop. I’ve experienced this a lot in commercial buildings.

At my current office, we’ve had crows peck through the roof twice.
He also maintains wlroots, which is the base for basically every non-gnome(and KDE?) Wayland compositor/WM.
RISC-V isn’t as interesting as you think
The information about there being directories and how to handle it is amazing.

Thank you for sharing. I’m filing this away in case I ever have to deal with an infestation.
Study provides first real-world evidence of contact tracing app effectiveness
J&J only announced phase 3 results a few days ago and will be up for approval shortly. the Astrazenaca vaccine's results were a mess of p-hacking and mixing methods (they reported a result on a half-size first dose which occurred by accident and in a non-representative population because it looked good).

Personally it makes me more confident in the FDA that they have yet to approve that vaccine.
The Growing Importance of Metadata Management Systems
Ubuntu Web 20.04.1
Rocket startup Astra is going public vis SPAC
What I miss here is the ability to pull the news offline.
I already set up slrn the same way I have the mainstream NNTP
setup, but nntpit doesn't support fetching offline articles.
IDK if it's due the NNTP implementation.

On doing a slrnpull:

02/02/2021 16:26:27 Fetching articles for programming.
02/02/2021 16:26:27 ***Error selecting group programming.
Code = 411: No such newsgroup

Edit, forgot the NNTPSERVER variable forl slrnpull, I'm dumb.

Still: on running

LANG=C NNTPSERVER="localhost:8119" slrnpull -d reddit

02/02/2021 16:28:46 **listgroup linux failed: Command not recognized
Someone in the XFCE camp needs to roll up their sleeves and get it working. This is not an easy task, KDE and GNOME have been at it for many years, but it is doable.

I don't use or follow XFCE myself, but a quick search suggests the developers are working on it, though they won't get there anytime soon. (most of what I can find seems to be from 4+ years ago, so not anytime soon could be yesterday for all I know)
>Under X11, you are basically running every application with root, always.

This is not even remotely true. You are able to snoop on events that use the X server - typically programs run as your user or programs that you have chosen to forward to your X server.

You are correct that the X server gets all events from all clients and therefore can log keys.
this is the right url: https://github.com/delta-io/delta
Maybe they will? I think somebody will still ship stuff to the UK. Or are the predictions coming true and the British people will now starve to death because of the EU trade embargo?
I tried to ask it a bunch of existensial questions. I think the folks at OpenAI have hard-coded certain scenarios into the code. Purely speculating of course.
> but it doesn't apply to the linux desktop, yet.

Microsoft has VSCode, Skype and Teams on linux, Zoom has a native linux client.

With modern electron apps, often even being able to be updated remotely, you have to start treating more and more software as hostile as well.

That said, even if you’d only have trustful software, you should still sandbox it, as if there’d be an RCE in a chat client you wouldn’t want the attacker to be able to elevate itself to root.
Mira’s Last Journey: exploring the dark universe
The Myths of Public Funding of Science
The talk was interesting but it also shows how the speaker is a little deluded that everything turns around technical quality of code and developers. X is used and preferred by many users and application authors because it is the standard and it works.

> so what is the 1 thing X does, and what is it doing well?

It provides functional and well-established(accepted standard) graphics server technology/libraries for any application that uses graphics.

I don't care if it takes 10 liters of blood to compile one version of X or whatever. I'm a user. All I care is that my desktop works as robustly as did it yesterday or 5 years ago. If that's not happening, I'm not interested in macros, classes, variables, declarations, structs, or any other geeky CS technobabble. That's irrelevant. And a product that advertises itself as being created to be convenient for the people developing it is a paradox. Don't develop it, then. Makes things even easier.

-- from https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/fedora-25-wayland-vs-xor...
Not yet. I just completed the script, slides, and code demo for part 1 today. It's three parts. If you're interested, drop me an email. It's my handle + gmail. When I start uploading, I'll give you early access.
In theory this is what css { font: caption } should do. There are other font shorthand’s for menu text, icon labels, dialog box text, etc. that should clue you in to how a particular system UI is scaled, if browsers are doing it right. (Of course they also might not because of fingerprinting risk)

Note that this is different from { font-family : system-ui } which doesn’t include size information.

Caniuse sadly doesn’t have much info on font: caption support.
Anybody care to point to a backgrounder? I enjoy a good rant better when I have some idea of the stakes.
As far as I know it's impossible to eliminate this virus.

The science we have so far says the virus is safer for children than the vaccine.
Welcome to free software stewardship. I too have had my ass reamed online for publishing and maintaining free software. I thought it was funny. How crazy do you need to be to shit post about a free product that has no strings attached? And yet....
> Sadly, KDE still doesn’t support it nicely under Wayland (so I moved to Ubuntu Budgie), but under X11 it’s entirely impossible to run it properly, as except for Qt nothing supports mixed DPI, or mixed refresh rates properly.

Sounds like a roughly equivalent situation either way? Personally I'd sooner use only Qt applications than have to use Gnome.
The 24-Hour Webhook: Post or Put Anything and Receive It by Email
Makes sense if you only need it for an hour every day to do a build and/or run a QA automation test. The billing on it is per-second.

Worth noting that they require 1 day minimum to play ball, so kicking the tires is not a per-hour option. There is also no spot market for them, and no reserved instance pricing either.

It seems like AWS has really replicated the Apple experience in more ways than hardware.
001. Becoming a Microsoftie (Chapter I)
>> Unless you plan to never run anything but Go on your system

That's actually exactly the use case for a lot of containerized applications written in Go.

edit: I've worked on multiple applications like this and there's the odd service where you need some other dependency, and then that service has to start running on Alpine Linux or something. But if the majority of your many "microservices" are pulling in bits of userland from a distro, they stop being "micro" very quickly which is a big deal when there's a lot of them. It's far preferable in that architecture if the entirety of your userland is your own binary.
Getting a Song on Rick and Morty Changes Your Life
> "you have good reasons to think that what you believe is true"

These "good reasons" always seem to be, "I'll feel lost if I don't adhere to and/or profess this superstition."

Atheism has no answer to this psychological vulnerability and feeling of "lostness", except to say "man up, woman up, this is life and these are its bounds."

My objection is not that superstition exists or that it comforts some people. My objection to the practice of superstition is that it misguidedly imposes itself on public policy.
I still have headphones I bough as a kid in the 90s
i like i3. i don't care to know about sway. I'll stay on Xorg until there's a gun to my head, thanks.
1) Either faith can be used in an argument, or it can't

2) If it cannot, then it cannot.

3) If it can, then I have faith that it cannot.

4) 3 contradicts itself so we are left with its alternative 2.
The fact that the DPA wasn’t invoked to spin up N95 mask production early last year has a real “crimes against humanity” feel to it.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct/Po... seems to be the document itself, not linked from any news sources I could find.
> Also, "if it would save just one life" is where you're going with the last sentence.

Please read again. If a virus is transmitted even once via a surface, it is then free to transmit onwards by whatever method is most efficient. This is likely to cause an outbreak whenever R>1.

Preventing an additional outbreak is more relevant in NZ than in the US, perhaps.
>the problem is that you can't pay for surgery even if you're rich, ...

Yes you absolutely can, here in the UK I've had private health insurance from my employers for the last 23 years of my career. I'm not aware of any country that outlaws paying for private treatment.
Ask HN: How did you get your first users in a B2B product?
The struggle is:
- big companies seldom trust startups beta products (they sometimes have open innovation programs but rarely paid)
- SMEs often are not too open with beta products
- so how the heck do b2b startups get their first users?
Mandatory video to watch for all X fans:

> Daniel Stone ~ The real story behind Wayland and X'

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RIctzAQOe44
> In the case of Wayland, the “vague authority” are a bunch of volunteers who have devoted tens of thousands of hours of their free time [...]

> We’ve sacrificed our spare time to build this for you for free. [...]

> You’re gonna maintain Xorg yourself, because we’re not going to volunteer our time, sacrifice our weekends and evenings staying up late for your sake [...]

This surprises me - I thought Wayland was developed mostly by people who were being paid full-time to develop it, at the various commercial Linux vendors (Red Hat etc.) or companies like Collabora. (And I thought the same was true of Xorg, and has been true for many years.) Is it really true that Wayland is primarily volunteer-driven?

It's true that most people are nonetheless getting Wayland for free (and, to be absolutely clear, harassment is unacceptable even to people being paid to work on the project), but the dynamics of the situation change a lot based on whether the developers are volunteers or paid by some company.
If it's not too much trouble, can you list the software you use which doesn't work on Wayland?
Huawei’s HarmonyOS: “Fake it till you make it” meets OS development
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https://boards.greenhouse.io/duolingo/jobs/5004318002
i'm using it because it empirically runs faster with less resources on my machine than other browsers i tried while rendering feature-creep websites at a good degree, plus it supports old XUL-style firefox extensions - i guess the 'freedom' part points to this.
The Android thing was a bit of a tangent. I did know that it doesn't use X.

The point was intended to be that Linux is becoming more and more lacking as a personal computing platform, relative to the gains elsewhere in the space. The display server is one part of that- the entire user/group permission model is another part.

The part of Android that is "hacky" is using a separate user for every app. That's obviously not what the Linux/Unix guys had in mind for the user mechanism, thus it's a "hack". It's not necessarily a bad thing and it's totally hidden from the UX of your typical Android user, so it's fine. Just interesting.
Were you running i3 in xwayland? I thought that legacy WMs were inherently tied to X, hence author of this post's own project, Sway
TL;DR: you're holding it wrong.
There are people working on it:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/next-generation-masks-ppe...
> I guess he's referring to this post? https://drewdevault.com/2019/02/10/Wayland-misconceptions-de...

And to numerous comments on HN and elsewhere.

The 'wayland sucks' movement is sooo annoying, even to me and I'm just a happy wayland user and haven't spent any of my free time writing those thousands of lines of code.
It’s just an aesthetic. It doesn’t really matter
After flying without a waiver, SpaceX gets FAA permit for SN9 launch
For point 2, seems Russian, Chinese and Indian are the most active player in vaccines export right now.
It's a code of conduct which "bans harassment on and off the site, barring behaviors like hate speech, the use of slurs, stereotypes or attacks based on personal characteristics, as well as threats of physical violence and ‘hounding,’ or following someone across different articles to critique their work". It also disallows introducing bias in articles on purpose. Enforcement is something they will figure out as a "next step", and there are no plans to increase the current abuse team.

No source link anywhere or link to more info, and frankly banning harassment and undue bias doesn't sound very new for Wikipedia to me. Not sure what impact this will have on this valuable resource. Perhaps someone should, I don't know, do some journalism here.
They guy took Navy for a ride. End of story. Chill.
People are dicks to maintainers of X11-based software too. I think people are just dicks.

It's one of the reasons I love stale closing bots. I don't have to pay attention to people who are dicks. I can just unsubscribe from their issues and let a bot handle it.
The prosecution was dumb enough to send such a shit document, they probably would have been dumb enough to drag him to court had he ignored it. I'm confident he would have ultimately prevailed, the question is, at what cost? Tens of thousands of dollars or more, in all likelihood.
You mean Brexit was kind of UK truck drivers smashing the trucks (because of cheap competition, and AI would be even cheaper, so more truck smashing)?
> Conversely, why did Astra Zeneca opted not to do it this way.

Because it's far more complicated (to manufacture and to distribute), and it isn't clear that it's necessary.
Tearing Down a Humidifier
>Supply-side economics has a dirty reputation. Since the late 1970s, the term has been associated with “trickle-down” economics: the now-defunct theory that cuts in the highest tax brackets would boost economic productivity so much that government revenue would increase and all of society, even the poor, would benefit.

Since when are these ideas "defunct"? Politicians currently serving in government advocate for these falsified ideas.

>We badly need health innovation to drive down costs. As I argued in Fortune, research on biological aging could lead to longer healthspans, compressed morbidity, reduced chronic disease prevalence, and lower medical expenditures. Additionally, consumer medical devices could lower the cost of high-quality medical monitoring, replacing the annual physical with continuous observation of health indicators. With better monitoring, serious conditions could be detected earlier, when they are cheaper to address. Other breakthroughs in biology, like mRNA vaccines and computer-simulated protein folding, could lead to quicker and less expensive cures for virtually every disease.

Or we could just pay for everyone's healthcare from taxes like most other developed nations.
Distrust. There are results now, but somehow approval already happened 08/2020. Chances are that if trial results turned out significantly worse the 2020 approval would be the last result we ever heard.
Yes, and it is frustrating to those doing real work, in all incarnations.

I try to not contribute, but even knowing about the problem I catch myself - it seems to be human nature.
That’s first step of capitalism.

When someone makes crazy profit, you’ll have fast followers.

More artist will switch.
Prices will drop.
At some point some artist will drop out and a rough equilibrium will occur.

Then one of the artist will lobby a law that limits the number of furry artist.

Prices go back up due to restriction.

People complain at high cost of furry art.
Licensed artist will lobby a new tax on all artist to subsidize the cost of furry art.

Now non furry artist are paying the furry artist.

Customers get confused on using tax vouchers on Furry artist.

Non furry artist who complain are now regularly attacked for not supporting the Arts.
That's because all three are similar, all three throw away some of the modular unix philosophy and replace it with a system that gives less power to the user.
Using a Radeon, it was crashing last time I tried on Fedora 33 last week.
You might have confused something here.

i3 is a X11 window manager and has no Wayland support at all.

Sway is a Wayland compositor that closely resembles i3.
That was a conscious decision by the XFCE devs. They stated they were not ready to do a technological overhaul, and update to GTK-4 (which does support Wayland) for the 4.16 release cycle.

As they just released 4.16 last month, we should see an announcement regarding dependencies for 4.18 anytime now.
Same here. I still remember the days of XF86Config. X.org was a great step up. And now I've never even noticed the transition to Wayland. Everything still works great.
> I always found systemd to be fine (I'm not a sysadmin, just prefer Linux on my PCs).

I mostly agree, although I prefer OpenRC personally. I was bit by

[* ] Stopping service 1:30 remaining

too many times to really like SystemD, although I tolerate it on my daily driver these days.
FAA approves SpaceX Starship launch and explains why they held it up
I don't think it's hotly debated. It's frivolously debated. Occasionally someone acknowledges that certain formulae or constants might actually be variable, but ultimately move on to assume they are fixed. But even in those hypothetical scenarios it's assumed that the laws of nature would evolve by some meta-laws. I've never seen it considered that there are no laws at all, despite the fact that this seems to me the most likely case. The existence of laws is supposed as a prerequisite for the method of science. I think calling it faith is apt because the idea that the universe works by "laws" is, at its inception, a religious idea! Newton after all saw science as a religious endeavor.
Ah, thanks! That makes more sense and that explains the "we".
Ok... but that's not a lifetime let alone two is it?
I’m using (except for firefox) 100% Qt applications under Ubuntu Budgie (which is a bit like elementary but with Wayland support).

The result is good enough for my use case, I don’t have to deal with toy applications and I can use the full crisp resolution.

And thanks to standard protocols, I can use KDE software like KDE Spectacle as screenshot tool or screensharing with Slack, Teams, Jitsi under Budgie just fine.
> It is more difficult to verify the claim now, but eyewitness accounts still exist

No, they don't. “Writings which were once widely considered to be eyewitness accounts but are today, even by most Christians, considered to be at best written multiple generations removed from the time at which any eyewitnesses lived and to have evolved from earlier accounts” exist.

> and can be cross-examined

No, neither they eyewitnesses (if any) nor the actual authors of the accounts (who, at least, clearly exist) can be cross-examined.

> Interestingly, there are accounts of Jesus' miracles from non-believers as well

The surviving accounts also aren't even purportedly first hand, a s often are much later writings based on lost originals that also couldn't be first hand accounts, and, yeah, we Christians aren't the only ones in history who have adapted and incorporated someone else’s mythology.
That amount of negativity on the internet is just astounding sometimes. Technology Connections has called for some positivity in twitter responses. He throws out random crazy suggestions on twitter, as he points out it was designed for. But there is always someone faulting it.

Yesterday I made a casual observation about something quite obvious, and more importantly, completely irrelevant. And without fail, the only response was that it was because of x and y. It isn't.

On facebook, the only way I ever get an answer is to use Cunningham's Law. And I even usually use the words "cunninghams law" in the comments. But it always seems to get me my answer.
There are bad actors. I don't know details but suspect that passport requirements help with deterring them. If Hetzner gets a bad reputation it affects all their customers.

Nice that you have options which meet your wishes. But I like the way Hetzner is doing business (not to mention the great quality-price ratio which is hard to find elsewhere).
Obviously I'm missing something here, because I was under the impression that, regardless of how big the stack is, the pages are going to be mapped (in the data structure pointed to by the CR3 register) when accessed and no earlier. Unless the allocation of the stack makes sure that it is mapped in its entirety upfront and stack access cannot incur minor page faults, which may not be so outlandish come to think of it. Can you please provide some clarification here? Thanks!
I understand that the 1 day requirement is from Apple and thus AWS requires that minimum too.
I bought my Sennheiser HD650 about 10 years ago, and was pleasantly surprised that I could order new ear cushions and new cord to continue using it after the audio started disappearing from the other channel and the cushions were a bit mushed.

I like the headphones because they don't wear me down on long continuous usage and the sound is great to my not-golden-ears.

They cost about 350 euros back then and now perhaps paid 50 euros to get them back into shape, so pretty good for a music lover. I have even used them in office space, even though they are semi-open. Luckily the sound isn't leak too noisily on my usual listening levels.
They were trying to transition to becoming CloudBees... but that name is already taken.
I don't even know if shaming works. Ok, it is bad to do thing X but I still can't do anything about it. I can now hate myself for committing a "sin", I can deny it entirely and hate you for shaming me or I can do something superficial that makes me look and feel good.

This is not a recipe for incremental change. Lots of people quit smoking through vaping because they can easily control their nicotine dosage and thus incrementally change their addiction problem. If you quit cold turkey you will just fall back to old habits.
If the vacuum is producing a force, why would it push outward from us and not in every directions, including toward us, canceling itself out in the process?