skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At Waitwhile, we work on tools to eliminate the 1 Trillion hours that people spend waiting in lines every year.

Waitwhile is looking for a Frontend and/or Backend Engineer to build features, design and implement API methods, and improve the performance and reliability of our clients and systems as we rapidly scale our product and organization.

We build our app using Angular, Nodejs, Firebase, Firestore and Linux on GCP. We’re still a small cross-functional team who genuinely enjoys working together to make Waitwhile a better product and you’ll be our first engineer hire, which leaves room to really shape the work you will be doing. We are looking for people that understand that simplicity and reliability are aspects of a system to be carefully calculated with every decision made.

These are full time positions in Stockholm, Sweden but we are open to remote work for the right person in GMT to GMT+2.

More info and how to apply: https://waitwhile.com/jobs/
Georgia’s Ballot-Marking Devices
You are overestimating the difficulties of porting old stuff to wayland. XWayland doesn't have a prespecified EOL, it's just going to sit there indefinitely to support all the legacy apps. This means that there is no need to hurry with migration.

And the issues in X that wayland aims to fix are much bigger than the issues that python2 had when it got replaced.
Using Miro to Make a Sitemap
Should have gone double or nothing. Another week might have sealed the deal with the Capitol insurrection on 1/6.
> it shows us that people on the other side of the world are actually the same like us

It can if you are open-minded, less so if you are in an online community that aggressively demonises the out groups.
The preferred style for the titles is something like the name and the tag line "acanode: manage anything and everything that has to do with school from one app".

That's a little too optimistic, it may be good for the site, but here someone (I?) will complain, so it's better to remove "anything and everything".

More importantly, waiting list never get traction here. Wait until you have a MVP and can add an a few screenshots.
A tool to help write almost anything faster.

ScribeGen (https://www.scribegen.com/) is built with GPT-3 and can help content marketers, blog writers, or just about anyone get working copy to edit from as fast as possible.

The launch has been fantastic so far, but even if it's less successful than I hope the experience working with GPT-3 and other language metrics has been eye opening.
Apologies if I sound overly harsh, but you've got to listen to the feedback.

2 people complained about the same thing, and you gave feedback that was "it's over here, but not where you think it is" that's a UX problem in a README.

I went to look at the README me, clicked Sample App (with Screen Shots) and there's no screen shots. I gave up.

Make the screen shot, at least one, front and center on the main README.

2 were nice enough to complain, but you've got to believe so many more people would be interested if they could just see it.
Applying CV to detect sensitive data in images, redacting on device https://gorp.app/

The extent to which healthcare providers have to go to send production screenshots of their apps paired with my itch to apply CV, done at a YC hackathon a while back
You think that having to close an application in order to move it to a different screen is no big deal, but you think that wayland is lacking critical features? Features more critical than being able to move windows freely?

I really am curious what features you think wayland is lacking. I've been using wayland for years, both using Sway and Gnome, and the thing I've missed the most is xdotool, and perhaps there will be a standardization effort to replicate its functionality securely, but for now it's an understandable omission.

Maybe it's not fair to say that X is broken for mixed-DPI configurations, since I have managed to get it working with X, but it was quite unreliable, whereas on wayland it just works, save for some incompatible electron apps.
Your justification for not caring is a circular "because it is the most popular position". You still know it's wrong and have no good justification for it, of course people are going to shame you. It's not some media agenda.
Coronavirus Analogy for StarCraft
> It was originally called Wuhan virus

Was it? "called" In what way? In tabloid headlines maybe. But that was never a formal name for COVID-19, because formal disease names don't work that way. See "World Health Organization Best Practices
for the Naming of New Human Infectious Diseases" (2015) Link above.

You can call that "PC reasons" if you like, but IMHO that's trivialising the use of existing agreed best practices, that exist for good reasons. As others here have pointed out, if a politician prefers to say "Wuhan virus" or "China Virus" over "COVID", then they are deliberately using a loaded term for xenophobic purposes.
> This isn't true at the moment, it could be in the future.

Shell just lost a lawsuit because they did spill oil all over the Niger Delta https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/jan/29/f...

Took only a decade and a bit to even acknowledge that they’re liable.
100 x this!
That's pretty interesting, thank you.
Navy speaks up about its “UFO patent” experiments
Tesla's S&P 500 Addition Affects Fund Investors
Having read this, this also sounds like a plausible explanation:
https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/lanf94/gme_...

How I am interpreting this is that reddit's bet was too right -- these hedge funds were so exposed, and the momentum was building so fast against them, that it was about to create a liquidity problem that could threaten the stability of the entire market.
If there were one video we could archive to describe the world as it is right now, this would be it IMHO.
A book for setting up data engineering infrastructure on GCP: https://github.com/Nunie123/data_engineering_on_gcp_book

It's almost done, and I do plan to spend a little effort promoting it when it's complete, but it's been a great focus for me even if no one ever reads it.

I use a fair bit of infrastructure at my job that was set up by others. It was nice to go through the practice of setting it up myself.

I learned a good bit, but also it's nice to have all this knowledge written down in a place not owned by the company I work for. If I use GCP at future jobs I'm sure I'll reference this book myself.
But that's the thing though. For _you_ systemd had a concrete and substantial set of features, while wayland doesn't for many others it was the other way around. (I don't mind either, but there are annoyances in both).

The problem is that many are complaining that _their_ specific set of functionalities is no longer being catered for, or better not being actively developed. The great thing about linux is that you can do what you are doing and continue running Xorg as long as you want, it might be more work however.

Regarding your wayland would force a bunch of changes on you for no functionality, what are those specifically?

I would encourage you to try out wayland, for me moving from i3 to sway has largely been a seamless experience and I (tell myself that) see notable performance improvements for example.
10 Ways to fight back against woke culture
I've have created a Hacker News account specifically for the purpose of agreeing with you. Your post really nails it.

I follow some ADHD accounts on Twitter, and to parody a little:

"A dog with floppy ears barked at me. It think this is a typical ADHD trait - dogs with floppy ears never bark at neurotypicals."
If you have, for example, a profitable cross-platform mobile app, but your developers primarily use windows/linux and test on Android, then it might make sense. If all you need is to spin up a mac for the occasional build/test/deploy, then paying $85 per month is easier than having to maintain an M1 in the office that no one is going to regularly use, especially if your team is distributed and/or remote.
Oh, I use to think Online.net was the parent brand. Thanks for clarify. Didn't knew was a full rebranding. My impression was that was sub-brand something like soyoustart to OVH, in that case, I will keep away from scaleway too.
Coronavirus Analogy for Starcraft
My display scalings aren't 100% and 200%, however. They're 125% and 160%.

Can Wayland handle this? If not, what's it really solving?
This list is so full of utter bullshit. I am so sick of this nonsense. Some more examples:

> Wayland breaks screen sharing applications

> https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/6389 x broken since 24 Jan 2016 ("Closing since there is nothing we can do from the Jitsi Meet side.") See? Wayland breaks stuff and leaves application developers helpless and unable to fix the breakage, even if they wanted.

It's not Jitsi's freaking problem! JavaScript webshit doesn't speak Wayalnd or X. This should be implemented in the web browser, and, surprise - it already has been done for Wayland and shipped in Firefox and Chromium.

I'm not going to break down all of these, but it's just a bunch of vile horseshit. And you know what? I'm tired of debunking this crap. "Wayland devs break things and make everyone else deal with it." Xorg is broken and all of the user applications expect us to just volunteer to maintain a broken piece of shit forever. No matter how you slice it, someone's gonna have to do it, and there's plenty of shit that's permanently broken on X11 which works fine on Wayland, too. Fuck me, I'm so sick of this shit. My new answer to "I don't like Wayland" is "I don't like you." I'm tired of using reason. These people are like fucking flat earthers.
> Does this mean that the Go developers managed to work around this problem or that it was just a flimsy post-hoc justification for chronic NIH syndrome?

No, there is almost certainly a bunch of headache having to do system calls through libc for Go. It didn't stop being a problem, there just isn't another option in OpenBSD's case. UNIXs are tricky for anyone who doesn't want to use libc since they typically define that as the official interface to the system. Linux is the outlier here by keeping its syscall ABI very stable.
> You speak with your votes; if you vote a$$ hats into power, don't complain when they do this kind of stuff.

I think it’s gone beyond that, the electorate is a captive audience and we’re in a democratic death spiral. Like just today again with Palmer and $75,000 for The Nats or Costello in charge of Nine or the ABC backtracking on Invasion Day - all without me even mentioning Newscorp. There’s no hope of an informed electorate or a healthy media policy. The states need to step in as the only other authority left and tell the government that its already super shaky interpretation of section 51(v) has gone too far, it has usurped power from the real authority, and take it to the High Court if need be.

Like happened in Germany in 1961 with their section 73(7).
This comment is on most AWS stories. Bandwidth charges alone are usually significantly higher than you can get elsewhere.

My own guess - a bit of a niche product not super easy to scale do they set a rediculous price. If the governance wins are there - they may still sell some - they rarely do stuff w out customer demand. At least in govt contracting - if you are willing to jump through all the hoops, some insane markups exist.
That's not an equivalent monitor though. Equivalent monitor would have 6880x2880 resolution to achieve same workspace in HiDPI configuration.
> Just make a new property,

That's the easy part.

> and make those DPI-aware clients set it!

That's the difficult part. You are welcome to try, though!

> You could even make a small utility program that sets it on _other clients_, e.g. "windows created by these binaries get the DPI-aware property set automatically because I know it".

Yes, another hack to keep on piles on other hack. Why would anyone want nice, clean solution, when a hack does?

> E.g. can Firefox already screen grab from Wayland these days?

Firefox can do screen recording/screen sharing under Wayland these days. Hardware encoding for WebRTC is in the works; that's something they would not be able to efficiently do under X11 at all.

> Will Zoom ever do it?

That's the question for Zoom. If we kick them as Apple does, they will. If we lay down and keep piling hacks on top of other hacks, they won't see the point.

> And work with any Wayland display server other than Gnome's?

That's a question you have to ask the authors of any Wayland display server other than Gnome's.

> It is a mess, and has been so for a decade already. And that is why we get this article.

It is a mess, because some people are too hung up on their current ball of mud and cannot see further than their personal desktop. Then they write articles like this and try to drag down others to the level of their ball of mud.
seems to work well enough for me
Traverse (https://traverse.link/) - spaced repetition platform for connected knowledge.
It's a success even if it can introduce to just a few people to the joy of spaced repetition learning
If they think law is dumb or unfair or anything, they can negotiate with Australian government. But they should not expect favors just because of they have monopoly in the field. Again, Australian people will decide what good for them.
This is the nation that watched the Great Barrier Reef die right before its eyes, for the sake of avocado fields stretching across the horizon .. The 'smashed avocado' meme reflects Australians' disinterest in managing their unique, valued ecosystem for the sake of such creature comforts.

And really, as an Australian, you should be aware that there are too many examples of this attitude throughout our culture for it to be dismissed as a trivial meme. Its a highly effective one, because it reflects the truth - we'd rather 'have ours' and feel on par with our peers(^WAmerican Cousins) than protect our amazing environment.
I can recommend Hetzner. For non-production stuff I highly recommend checking lowendtalk.com / lowendbox.com to see offers from different providers.
WebSerial Communicating with Arduino
Just because I have a vertical screen doesn’t mean I’m on a phone
In cases like this, I would like them to offer a paid option to take the hardware to a data recovery specialist.

For example, the email could say:

"As the plan your instance was on did not include redundant storage, we regret to inform you we have no plans to recover the data on it. We will hold the server hardware for 7 days, and forward it to one of our approved data recovery experts on request. We can also send the data recovery expert encryption keys used for your account that they will need to recover data. There is a charge of $X for this service".
Prosperity is about having an abundance of the things in life that really matter. That only requires economic growth when there aren't enough of those things to go around. Right now, there are enough of those things to go around, and way more, if all the people doing stupid useless shit like working in advertising became farmers and makers. Our society is being held hostage by plutocrats.
Your feedback is very welcome! These things need to be improved ..
Because we still would be in trouble right now even if the emissions would reach an absolute zero. Additionally, contraction can make it worse because it destroys the budget needed for carbon removal.

I do agree that we've got some reduction of emissions during covid but the amount of public money spent to try to prop up the economy is massive across the world, I'm afraid that this will severely affect public spending for carbon removal technologies & public support for carbon taxes.
Thanks, totally missed that.
Yep. Only Mozilla makes it harder year by year. Here's from January last year, another hoop to jump through: https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/issues/2450

For all the talk about UX, why cannot someone be bothered to sit down and talk to the actual people who use the product and ask what the ux problems are?

At this point is there anyone left using Firefox except stubborn power users like me?
> The audience for Stadia are gamers who probably have a console or are into PC gaming.

FWIW, most people I know using Stadia are not the core gamers, but people who do not want to invest in a gaming PC or console (or worse, a gaming PC/console for each of the kids!). And they seem really happy with it, specifically because its a streaming thing, so I'm not as negative about it. (For myself, yeah, Gamepass would win if I'd get any of these things)
I have a project that adds Vim key bindings to anywhere in macOS: https://github.com/dbalatero/VimMode.spoon

I'd love to have more users only to get more feedback but ultimately I work on it because it makes me more productive!
I think the point of these super wide and straight underutilized roads is to be usable as landing strips. I think the swiss have some highway stretches like that too, but not in the middle of the capital.

The city itself is pretty sparse.
This seems to be the same as guardtimes (patented) hash-calendar? https://patents.google.com/patent/US8312528

I dont particularly agree with an obvious use of a merkle tree being patented in this way - but it is. Probably worthy of further research if you plan to use this.
It's a really smart move regarding sustainable growth. Males will refrain of signing up without an "healthy" ratio. Not doing it would just cause early abandonments and decrease goodwill. Everybody wins.
It does seem weird that an email is enough to serve a warrant.
Well I made https://www.lifepim.com which is a place where you can keep your notes and tasks online with a focus on privacy.

I love it - it works for me. I am the only frequent user, but I absolutely understand why others wouldn't trust an external website with personal notes, especially these days.
One of the things I noticed with fractional scaling on my 4K monitor that video playback occasionally looks choppy, which is slightly annoying because I don't want integer scaling because my other monitor is a factor of about 1.4 off.

That never worked under X11 either so not a problem with wayland, just it would be nice to find a solution.
Thank you! I'm glad they've inspired some interest :)
My comment didn't mention 'radical' or 'New'. The location of "belief" makes the sentence an accurate description of atheism or not.

Adding 'types' in front of the word just continues us down the path of words not really meaning anything anymore.

Are radical atheists just atheists that act like dicks about it? Don't call them radical atheists, just call them dicks. Is a New Atheist one that does interpretive dance to explain their belief that there is no god? That's just an unlikely combination of two things, one of which is atheism.

Eg. I'm a radical grammarian (a dick when it comes to grammar).
Cathedral 3-D (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1091590/Cathedral_3D/). It's a retro-ish FPS, basically an arena shooter where you have to survive incoming waves of enemies.

It's using my custom game engine, that was developed from scratch in C, the only dependencies are SDL2 and OpenGL. The engine and game were developed for the last 6 or so years (with breaks) in the evenings/weekends as my evergreen side project. The game was released last Halloween. I still support the game with patches after the release (both new features and fixes), one of them is expected to come out very soon. And to be honest I plan to do so in coming years. I was fun to develop and still is.
No. That's exactly what I'm saying doesn't happen with a rewrite, ever. You think you take all of the knowledge with you, because after all, you wrote the thing so you know how it works. But it just doesn't work that way. There is too much complexity to carry around in your head.

I'm sure many lessons from Xorg were carried over to Wayland, but "all" is an insane exaggeration. And I'm sure many new mistakes were introduced. It's inevitable with any new system.
A better guitar interface. Made it for me and it just kinda took off. Turns out not too many better options at this price.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KQJF1F4/
Tariffs and boycotts. The internet has collaborated to give mumble rap videos billions of views, I don't see why it couldn't drive cooperation among good actors to change something.
Exploring the Quantum World (Ars Series)
> Apple breaks compatibility at much faster rate than Linux world, and everyone is fine with it.

That's news to me. I have yet to read or hear the sentence
"removal of magsafe was a great idea", or "I love carrying
around this bag of $50 USB-C adapters". Or "this touchbar sure
is a gamechanger, who needs the F-row on a Pro device anyway".

> Apple decides and does.

And Linux decides not to break everything just because they got
a new favorite technology. I am not sure why you complain so
much about Ubuntu when you can just use another distro that does
things differently. Because unlike with Apple, you actually can
choose, and without buying new hardware.

Which is also the reason I'm not that invested in the whole Xorg
vs. Wayland debate; I am certain one distro or another will
still support Xorg for a long time, and who knows, maybe one day
Wayland is actually mature enough for me to use out of the box.
Maybe I am missing something obvious but isn't watching stocks, analyzing news and predicting stock prices so you can multiply your money, an actual work?

You do spend time and energy chasing an income, no?
> If we use the 7.50 mark the number of people in poverty has increased dramatically since the 80s.

This seems surprising to me. What do you think is the best source for me to learn about this metric? I found a lot of info on the methodology behind $1.9/day [0] but couldn’t find much by looking for the $7.50/day mark and how it has changed over time.

I found this guardian article referencing $7.4/day [1] but the link they give to Peter Edward on an ethical poverty line doesn’t work. When I search for Edward’s concept I find papers from him [2] but they seem to reference $2/day.

Edit: I was able to find a gapminder analysis [3]. They break income into four groups, less than $2, less than $8, less than $32, more. The shift in poverty is still positive so I’m not sure what measure is being used to show 1B more under $7.5/day. This may be due to demographic trends where that group is growing faster. It is important to consider the overall proportion, not just absolute number, as well as the alternative of where they would have been (ie, a billion under $7.50 is better than a billion under $1.9).

But it’s hard to discuss without source data and methods.

[0] http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet/methodology.aspx
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals...
[2] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/014365905004327...
[3] https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#$state$time$value=2020;;&ch...
Try to find any PC build that competes with modern console MSRP today.

If you're willing to build your own and buy second hand components on ebay you can just about put together a PC that is competitive with a modern console, at around the same price. But yea, if you're buying new from reputable dealers it's pretty much impossible.
its an elevated platform, the shadow is not visible because its falling on the steps.

here is a opposite view, https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EtNsnSxVEAE6hJo?format=jpg&name=...
As an idea, you could consider to use HTML5 elements in order to make it more semantic.

<dl>
<dt><time>2018-07-07 14:54:39</time> - <time>2018-07-07 17:12:05</time></dt>
<dd>Did this and that</dd>
</dl>

Native support for time ranges (e.g. through ISO8601 or a <range> element) might be coming soon in the HTML spec. Durations are already supported.
Because the entire linux graphics community uses the same API (GBM) and wayland is mostly built around that, but Nvidia insists on not using it for some reason.
Losing bonds sports fans
Monoclonal antibody treatments fail against Covid variants
Yes, it’s “just a convoy”, and you see normal cars passing by too.
Makes you wonder why she chose the road view angle