skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You really should consider watching the youtube talk that was linked in some sibling comments, it explains it in more detail than I could in just one post. For me personally, the real bad issues are things like the core protocol being synchronous, the coordinates being limited to 16-bit, the inherent raciness and insecurity of various things like window properties and server grabs... There is a lot of legacy functionality there too like colormaps, window borders, bitmap fonts, all the core drawing primitives, all the core input stuff.... Newer applications are not using any of that, and often with that legacy stuff the the only specified behavior for edge cases that clients expects is "do whatever Xorg does" which makes a rewrite pretty impractical. It would be interesting to see a secure rewrite of the X server in Rust or some newer language like that, but doing that would probably take many years for little benefit, I'd advise against it.

Side note, I don't get the hate for dbus, it's a rather simplistic message bus, orders of magnitude smaller than the X server. It would be much easier to implement your own dbus daemon for example.
True in general, but Pinker does so from the preface, so not valid as explanation.
Novavax Confirms High Efficacy Against Covid-19 Strains in UK and South Africa
> few people want to make the lifestyle changes necessary to do that.

I didn't have the will to make lifestyle changes until I had a serious bout of sciatica. I needed that external motivator of torturous pain to be able to commit to changing my eating and fitness habits.

Two and a bit years later I'm down 12Kgs and slim and healthy (but, ironically, still have back pain issues that requires minor surgery to alleviate).

"Don't worry, it's only for the rest of your life". If you can come to terms with that, you're ready to start.
GOP lawmakers push bill to punish Wall Street for fossil fuel disinvestments
The difference between Mac and PC keyboards is a real usability problem. If you're used to PC's or Linux, moving to a Mac and dealing with their shortcuts is painful, and vice-versa. The worst is using a mixture of both Mac's and PC's on a daily basis. Moving back and forth between platforms daily means you either have to get used to hitting the wrong shortcuts or use a hack to swap keys around on one platform so you can have standard shortcut key positions across platforms.

Different people will have a preference for one layout vs the other but, in reality, the layout that feels good is what you're used to.

The PC and Linux worlds are not going to adopt Mac keyboard layouts. As the one oddball computer manufacturer that uses their own layout, perhaps it's time for Apple to offer PC keyboard layouts as an option on their machines out of consideration for people who have to use multiple platforms.
That’s exactly what Startpage does. Everything’s proxied on their own infra in different countries. IIRC we were the only ones allowed to do that because we had a legacy contract from Google.
I always wondered why the grammar notes were so hidden in the app. I didn't even know they existed. Does anyone else know resources that list language grammar rules in one page?

I hope this is relevant enough to plug, but if anyone's learning a language because they have a partner that speaks it, I'm working on a project for couples learning each other's languages: https://learncoupling.com
What I really want, though, is Mac-style character-entry in Linux. It's so much easier to type accented characters in Mac.
I use winrar because it can add a recovery record to the file, so if the file gets corrupted some years down the line I can hopefully repair the archive. 7z cannot do this, unless you create extra par2 files next to it afterwards.
Welcome to my world
Clearbanc. Wayflyer. Capchase. ARRSquared. Payability. Shopify. SaaS Capital. Timia. Captec. The list goes on. And on. And on.
Maybe a n00b question, but will this give me Emacs keybindings in text fields on KDE? If so, I might be able to tolerate switching to Linux now.
I once had that on a bigger scale, also with a Dutch bank...

Shortly after I relocated from the Netherlands to Australia, my house was broken into and my Dutch debit card stolen. The bank would only send my new card to my local branch, which was 20,000km away. And none of my friends could pick it up because they insisted on verifying my id.

Very frustrating...
If you switched from vim to evil-on-emacs, you didn't really switch to emacs. You switched to something akin to a best-of-both-worlds.
Yes the request would turn into - please remove the maintenance window, instead of "make the maintenance window not have downtime"
If you have a lot of hardware in the same facility, configured in a way such that you can hotswap and load balance and do all of the other things you might want, you only call it a "mainframe" if it's from IBM, who is I believe the only player left in that business. Otherwise, you call it a "server farm", and pretend that it's an entirely different beast.

A mainframe (in recent decades) is essentially a proprietary, high cost, tricked out server farm in a box (which is often big enough to be a small building, btw), which might make sense in a few cases but mostly is not as good as a much larger, non-proprietary mainframe, called a "server farm", which is supported by several competing vendors.
No problem! Unfortunate it didn’t get more traction.
I don't really use CSS frameworks personally, I find they tend to complicate things. Though I realize this philosophy may not work for everyone's use-case
> 1000$ is not a lot of money

Yes, it is.

I can't imagine spending $1000 on a fun thing or a joke and I'm single.
In fact, unrar has been open sourced by WinRAR themselves. Or rather, they made the source available, with certain conditions, i.e. not using it to reverse engineer the rar format.
I was thinking of the Science Museum (in London) exhibit along with quotes from the likes of Doron Swade. The article is just fairly quoting this stuff.
Twice as much!
My main computer is a mac but I have to remote into windows machines often and switching between is horrible. I've remapped my gaming pc to mirror the mac layout because the instinct is so much stronger than whats written on the keys.
I read the “what exactly does this do?” section and still don’t know what it does. Maybe I’m just dumb, but there doesn’t seem to be any “user story” to succinctly describe what the heck this accomplishes... I just use ctrl-c on windows and cmd-c on Mac, it’s not that hard. But maybe this is way bigger than just... remapping win-c to ctrl-c? Idk? There’s no story about this utility directly in the Readme...
I assume that came from "would be"; "wild" is trivial to explain via autocorrect, but "beef" is trickier. Maybe something like "wold bef".

---edit---

After further study, I'm pretty sure the original message was

"I dream of such a system that could be fitted on or in my body and would release poison if not acknowledged.

Should I become incapacited, the decision on how I end would be truly mine. "
Funny thing I learned is you dont actually have to have the original registration card, you can also have a facsimile (which i take to mean a photocopy).
Agreed, as I had an LG before that, and loved it; our trick was wait for year end new models essentially the same to come out, and Best Buy to discount the prior year models.
I once owned "firstname.to" I figured it would be easy to tell people my email is firstname@firstname.to and have them use it, spell it right, and remember it.

Nope. It confused the hell out of people.
> It's not like it's impossible to adjust, but it's very nice to have command+c do the same thing, everywhere.

Yeah, I would sum it up as reducing the number of discrete shortcut sets to remember to the bare minimum, instead lumping as much as possible into the global set.
The Effects of Message Content on Perceived Performance
I assumed a cosmic ray flipped the quantity from 1 to 65... and then one got "lost" in the mail.
What the heck are you people saying that could end your career?

I say things that would get me fired but not things that would prevent me from ever getting hired again.
I used to get annoyed by the differences between platforms and apps. I had my Windows desktop tweaked out just so, and I knew how to set it up that way on a new install in a matter of hours. It kept me tied to Windows for longer than it should've. Then I went switched to Apple and stuck with it for many years, learning a new way. Then, just like with Windows, the rug was pulled out and I had little say in it, and I finally went to GNU, where I have some choice.

Over the years, I've been through so many platforms and apps, back and forth, so many times, all with their own conflicting shortcuts and different input modes day-to-day, that I've just accepted it as part of my "mindfulness practice" to always be aware of where and how I am before I press or click anything.

Reminds me of Altered Carbon, just a much more geeky version.
> nothing makes people disappear faster from a GitHub thread than asking them if they want to contribute the code changes themselves.

Sad, but true. Everyone wants good software but very few users are willing to contribute anything. Even if it's just to test an unreleased version.

I think open source projects need to think more about their "funnel" that turns users into contributors. Even if it's just for minor tasks, like docs, translation or testing.
This whole "the winter was cold, global warming must be a lie!" nonsense has been around for longer than I've been alive, and I think it's a consequence of outright distrust of the scientific establishment. Don't you think the "lie" of climate change would be the scoop of the century for a scientist? Do you think that all the world's scientists are conspiring together?

A quick google search would bring up plenty of scientific literature about why global warming causes more extreme weather events. This past February (and several of the last winters) there have been incidents of instability of the polar vortex which are directly linked to the melting of the polar ice caps. Those areas get hot (in recent years, over 90 degrees Fahrenheit) and it blocks out the cold air [1]:

> While the polar vortex is well documented, its behavior has become more extreme as a result of climate change, according to Ullrich. He explains: warming of the Earth has led to the loss of Arctic sea ice, transforming a highly reflective icy surface to a dark absorptive surface. The change is warming higher latitudes and reducing the temperature difference between the warmer mid-latitude and polar regions. This weakens and destabilizes the polar jet stream, causing it to dip into lower latitudes, bringing polar air farther south. Ullrich expects future climate change to further weaken the polar jet stream, bringing rise to more extreme and unusual weather patterns.

[1] https://climatechange.ucdavis.edu/climate-change-definitions...
I think we are going to have inflation. But it doesn't need to be Venezuela-style.
It's one of the most prevalent origins of the term
I get what you're saying and I agree up to a point but I don't necessarily believe the distinction is necessary. LOVE2D is very "easy to use", easier than Raylib in my opinion, and probably has the most extension documentation I've seen for a game framework.

https://love2d.org/wiki/Main_Page
Does this go well a standing desk?
Yeahhhh - I feel like if people had to qualify their opinions and comments on tech with in what capacity they've been working on it (professionally, personally, in 100 person organizations, 1000+, etc), then 90% of all internet arguments on this sort of thing would end before they even begun. ("I think all JS-related tech is stupid! Also my main exposure to it has been through looking at the Github page for React once..." oh boy.)
It's okay to agree to disagree haha, at the end of the day what works best for you personally is what you should use!
I wrote one [1] a while ago.

[1] https://akr.am/blog/posts/a-guide-to-compiling-programs-on-w...
Hmmm, I wonder if the ratio of "insane billionaires : insane people in mental institutions" correlates to the ratio of "sane billionaires : sane people (presumably not in mental institutions)"?

Are you more or less likely too be a billionaire if you're insane?

(Is there even such a thing as a "sane billionaire"?)
> about a contract that explicitly says for EU members

...which would have some British businesses grandfathered in and therefore have a loophole that some enterprising lawyer can no doubt make a great deal of hay with.
If by "metal language" you mean a language that produces machine assembly, then Julia is also a metal language. Both Rust and Julia use the LLVM compiler infrastructure.
There is nothing to be confused about, my friend. I am against police abuse no matter the colour of the victim. I am also against trial by media. I will grant that likely Chauvin acted in an abusive way by restraining Floyd by his neck. However it remains to be seen (1) if his motivation in doing so was racial, (2) was intended to cause death (3) and if was actually the primary cause of death. Before any facts had been determined the media decided that a black man was suffocated with a knee to the neck. Instead, these issues should be adjudicated in a court of law by a jury who has followed an adversarial exposition of both sides of the case and heard expert testimony on the various issues.

I am not an expert but I do know enough physiology to know (1) if a person is talking (saying "I can't breathe" then they are also breathing). (2) human necks are very strong. (3) it is very difficult to both block the entire blood flow to the brain and airflow through the trachea outside of using tight ligature strangulation (e.g. garrot or hanging). The trachea is actually quite strong. It is supported by muscles on both sides and is a ribbed cartilage tube. In studies of hangings that do not involve breaking the neck (i.e. in short drop hangings) almost all cases do not show signs of mechanical asphyxia, i.e. blockage of the airway. Rather the proximate cause of death is ischaemia of the head, i.e. occlusion of blood vessels. Thus it is exceedingly unlikely Floyd died because he could not get enough air into his lungs. He may have died from bradycardia if there was excessive pressure on a carotid sinus with fentanyl induced hypotension being a contributing factor. My point re. police brutality, however, still stands. It does not matter to me the race of the victim or the exact mechanism of death, whether or not it conforms to the sensational narrative that the media latched on to, why does it matter to you? Maybe because you are more emotionally invested in selling a "police are racist" narrative than in the truth.
It's hard to get a fixed answer because there is no fixed answer. Only government jobs have a strict predefined salary, private industry everything is negotiable.

The role may be advertised at a certain level but most of the time there is flexibility in going up or down a level based on candidate experience and how badly you make them want you. So 80K-180K can be a perfectly feasible range for the same job posting.
Lifestyle and mental health disruptions since Covid
>>Owning a domain-name is not some fundamental right or need. It's an artificial thing, whose operation is, in many countries, paid for by taxpayer money.

Owning real estate isn't a fundamental right or need either. That doesn't mean property rights have no relevance or value simply because of their "artificiality". Property rights exist whether it is for houses or for domain names.

>>The entire history of the Internet, and related inventions, are also filled with a lot of taxpayer funding(CERN, DARPA). IMO it's a flaw in the system that allowed domainparking in the first-place, there should have been a built-in way to mitigate that issue.

DARPA was no longer involved with the internet/ARPANET by 1984. CERN had nothing to do with the Web besides the fact that one of its physicists made a GUI and a markup language. They both have nothing to do with DNS, URLs/URI, or IANA/ICANN. SRI/INTERNIC, a private research institute, was responsible for it's creation. As far as domainparking is concerned, the built-in limitation used to be the number of IPv4 addresses. But with IPv6, the point is made moot.
'Minecraft' library helps you dodge news media censorship
I've used Puppeteer extensively and its the most unstable tool that I've come across in recent years. Its full of race conditions and the waitForSomething functions will sometimes work, sometimes not.

It's usable, but it's very aggravating and uncomfortable to use.
Sure it does:

1. The .eu TLD is supposed to signify that a business using it is part of the EU. That means EU consumers will know that EU regulations such as GDPR apply, they're unlikely to pay import/export taxes, etc. Allowing non-EU businesses to use it dilutes the purpose and value of the TLD.

2. The EU wants to avoid making freeloading look like a viable strategy. If Britain is able to leave the EU and still reap all the benefits of being an EU member, then what's the point of other nations staying in the EU? Domain names are obviously only a minor benefit of being in the EU but there's a reason this policy is being applied mostly across the board.
as a person who loves Macs and their keyboard shortcuts, I'm really excited to find this project! and as somebody like yourself, who has to work on both platforms (Apple/PC) every day, I'm very happy it exists. would the answer to your problem not be a reciprocal library for Mac that ports over (or makes possible) your preferred shortcuts? I believe this already exists, which should be good news for you.
Netflix is trying to crack down on password sharing with new test
Culturally and politically influenced by Britain sure, but to say hk is culturally British is just nonsense.
Not sure how good wear leveling is across brands of SD cards, but given the much larger SD cards available today, it may be a factor.
1. No animal host has been found.
2. At first appearance virus was very contagious to humans.
3. Wuhan Institute of Virology published research on Bat virus genetically engineered for human lethality before the outbreak.

Lab leak hypothesis has more evidence than natural origin hypothesis.
similarly, there are serial returners who purchase with the intent of returning later.

All these business costs are passed onto other consumers... and while maybe not illegal, businesses essentially have Terms Of Service just like any other private entity.
A university I know has an old Nortel PBX. The telecom room is absolutely massive. Filled with cabinets, bix panels and stuff. All of that is at least 35 years old and is still in operation to this day, but a transition to VOIP is planned.

I have to respect the reliability aspect of those old systems they were built to last a generation.
I did this on a smaller scale - moved cities, but retained my income level - apartments are 20% cheaper here, but that only bought me some time, because real estate appreciates at a rate of 8-10%.
Apple’s MO all along has been lock-in to their ecosystem any way they can make it happen, whether it be through their usability, their OS, their App Store, or iTunes.

They don’t want to be interoperable because then you might realize you’re paying a huge premium for an inferior product.
You can pay for the backup but who is going to pay for the restoration
The problem with your scenario is that the recipient of the payload is not trustworthy.

Instead of the recipient being your partner, it should be a trusted 3rd party who could be instructed to provide the key to your partner in the event of your death (it would then be up to that 3rd party to verify that you are in fact dead). You could also add all kinds of caveats here like the 3rd party should only provide the key to your partner if your death wasn't suspicious etc.

Essentially, the recipient of the key needs to be trusted. Hopefully someone who cares about YOUR legacy, not lining their pockets with whatever the contents of your sarcophagus might reveal.

You can't assume everyone is a bad actor, otherwise everyone would be murdering their parents :)
If you've refilled a prescription medication... You've gone through a cobol system running on Z/OS.
7-Zip developer releases the first official Linux version
> If you want the developer to manage and monitor your installation, why not use a hosted version

It's a pretty common use-case for companies. They want their stuff on premises(for a variety of reasons), but don't want to deal with maintenance.
That depends a lot on your privilege level. Yours is apparently extremely high.
> Otherwise, you call it a "server farm", and pretend that it's an entirely different beast.

Well, server farms don't usually expose a single system image. You can't set the OS to "migrate" workloads seamlessly across hosts the way it can migrate them across CPU cores. Linux is now getting some of the underlying features that are needed to enable this use case, but integrating them into a coherent whole will take some time.
You sound fun
The average HN user can pull that off, but not the average netflix user.
When using a standing desk, I prefer to use a glute squeezer device to switch modes. It feels much more natural, and improves the muscle tone as a bonus.
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They are although often it's not even an intentional bluff. It's just part of the HR offer letter template so there it is. You want more time just ask. Never seen a company (either as interviewer or interviewee) say no.
It seems like you may be talking about the no-fly list (which I think is controlled by FBI's TSC with some partnership with DHS) while GP may have been talking about NTSB/FAA safety sharing programs.

I suspect NTSB/FAA are much more effective at correcting bad info than no-fly list which is managed by people who like to think they are fighting so much evil the harms of their policies are justified.
From reading the litepaper I have the same understanding.

It's even worse becuase if you were in contact with the nodes directly you could simulate unwrapping on a fork - here they would not suffer any economic consequences.

On the other hand there's no guarentee your partner can contact any of the node owners. The protocol doesn't provide a mechanism, nor does ethereum so it only takes 1 to not respond.
I feel like Emacs needs a footpedal more than vim... but this is cool too.
why not use python as the configuration language then ?
Thanks for that... you seemed to be future me, and it sounds exciting!
I am trying hard these days not to resort to "judging heuristics" and jump into conclusions about people, but when I see someone calling themselves "Designer, hacker, investor, nomad.", it's like immediately know their type: the "fake it till you make it" entrepreneur wannebes. He also links to his GitHub everywhere, but he made literally no contribution whatsoever in the last 2 years except some README fixes.

"Cool people don't say they're cool".
You could do that but such an X server would not really be any practically different from Wayland. You would still complain that it broke your old clients, and newer clients would still have to maintain two code paths for the newer server and for the X servers that didn't support DRI3. (DRI3 is not supported when running X clients over the network for example)