skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That might be correct when talking about _video_, but is factually incorrect when talking about _text_.

To understand why, just print an identical piece of text on 600, 300, 150 and 75 dpi on your printer and look at the printouts side by side. There is a significant downgrade in quality between each step, and anything below 300 dpi looks quite bad.

15.6" at 1080p is ~141 ppi[1] which is in the "not good" range. Your OS attempts to salvage the situation by applying font hinting (i.e. distorting your fonts to fit the pixel grid) and antialiasing (subpixel on linux, grayscale on the latest versions of windows & macos) - both of which are imperfect workarounds for the lack of resolution.

The MacBook Pro is ~217 ppi (1800p at 15.6"), which is better but still not perfect.

A 4K 15.6" screen works out at ~282 ppi, which is starting to be good enough to finally turn off font hinting and view fonts as intended by their designer rather than squished by subpar display technology.

[1] https://www.sven.de/dpi/
Fortunately we are farmers as well.

We do need to find a way to jump beyond the next Great Filter, but it won't help to bunker down and not grow.
Apple banned the channel, I'd be surprised if they actually wanted the sort of info you're suggesting they might be after. At the very least, it suggests Apple doesn't think there's much benefit in having that info.

What do you think Apple would even do with it?
I am pretty sure that in the real world a single timer at a time covers about 99%+ of the “timer” use cases. Besides I can set reminders to essentially act as a timer if I really wanted more than one.

But it’s certainly good to know that there is a wonderfully complex app out there with 32 years of development behind it that I can rely upon if I ever really need two timers and want to irritate a developer by running it on a platform they don’t approve of…
South Korea’s military recruits, a smartphone is their most dangerous weapon
> "people can exercise their freedom of speech other ways, like writing a letter to the newpaper or sending an angry email" (paraphrased).

That's what the founding fathers did, ironically. Didn't work either.
Yes, but iirc the best advice at the time of the viral video was invoke the 5th, but it has since evolved to do not invoke the 5th. Insist on your 6th .
The same way it's taught if you go to music school. Practice. Have music played to you, and write it down. Start with very short pitch sequences; this will require you, of course, to learn to recognize intervals accurately. Then move on to longer and more complex sequences. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Union leaders tend to be rewarded for doing the best thing for the union, which is not always the best thing for the workers. The principal-agent problem is hard to beat.
I've used Linux for a long time. Though primarily on servers these days, I've occasionally used it as my main desktop OS, and always end up going back to macOS because of three things:

1. battery life on laptops. Linux tends not to Power Management well on most laptops. Whether this is a hardware/ACPI thing, a device driver thing, or an overall ecosystem thing, I'm not sure. But it's noticeably worse than when running Windows or macOS.

2. as others have no doubt mentioned, trackpad. Apple's trackpad hardware and macOS's trackpad gesture support is so good, it's really hard to not have it. I can emulate some of it on my XPS 13 running Ubuntu w/ some additional agent thing that runs in the background, but it's only 85% there and not as smooth an experience.

3. desktop environment stability & consistency. this is _much_ less a problem than it was say 10 or 15 years ago as GNOME has gotten quite good and Flatpak/Snap/etc. are decent at containing various GUIs and their disparate dependencies, but there's still a lack of good integration with DEs across ecosystem tools generally. But also Electron has also sort of leveled the playing field a bit, so many desktop apps behave the same across platforms (for better or worse)

I would've said slow package/kernel updates, but there are enough solutions to this now, that it's not as much of a problem (Ubuntu HWE, Nix, Linuxbrew, or using ArchLinux)
I'm sick of these "Covid will not be eradicated" doom and gloom articles; it seems they are always peddling politics or a poorly disguised anti-vaxx messaging.

> The only human virus ever to be eradicated was smallpox, and that took 200 years

Bullshit; it would not take 200 years with our current level of technology and understanding.

Smallpox was declared by the WHO to be eradicated in 1980. The last naturally occurring case was in 1977.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox_vaccine

"The smallpox vaccine was the first vaccine to be developed against a contagious disease. In 1796, the British doctor Edward Jenner demonstrated that an infection with the relatively mild cowpox virus conferred immunity against the deadly smallpox virus. Cowpox served as a natural vaccine until the modern smallpox vaccine emerged in the 20th century. From 1958 to 1977, the World Health Organization conducted a global vaccination campaign that eradicated smallpox, making it the only human disease to be eradicated."

Really, if we honestly look at it, the actual eradication of smallpox took only 20 years. The 1796-195x years were just hobbling along with poor vaccines and half-assed effort.

Also, most of the focused effort was only the last 10 years of that.

"Smallpox was eradicated by a massive international search for outbreaks, backed up with a vaccination program, starting in 1967. It was organised and co-ordinated by a World Health Organization (WHO) unit, set up and headed by Donald Henderson. The last case in the Americas occurred in 1971 (Brazil), south-east Asia (Indonesia) in 1972, and on the Indian subcontinent in 1975 (Bangladesh). After two years of intensive searches, what proved to be the last endemic case anywhere in the world occurred in Somalia, in October 1977."

So, there is support in taking the viewpoint that when the effort was properly stepped up, it was licked in ten years.
I've not done a lot of negotiated purchases other than cars, and car salesmen are notorious for negotiating out of bad faith.
Garmin firmware 7.80 silently turns off temp for swim
That’s a good point. And for victims that may be the best way to move forward.

However, beyond helping any victims — which is incredibly important and should be the first priority — the type of productive actions we can take are limited if we don’t have understanding of what is going on.
I would guess it's to do with the abysmal performance before WSL2.
I have a System76 Serval WS with AMD Ryzen 9 3900 and Nvidia GTX 1660 Ti manufactured last year. The laptop's internal display went wonky late last week but an external display still works fine. It's annoying to reboot -- the GPU drivers aren't loaded yet when the boot disk passphrase prompt is shown, so the external display doesn't show the passphrase prompt (and importantly: whether unlocking succeeded). It's within a 1-year warranty for parts & labor. I'm currently talking to with System76 support staff to ship it back for repair. The process has, so far, been easy and straightforward.

In the past they had pushed a driver update that disabled the laptop display when multiple monitors are connected. I had recognized the problem since their system drivers are open source and was able to recommend & review a PR to fix [0]. It was nice to see that patch go in.

[0]: https://github.com/pop-os/system76-driver/pull/182
Show HN: You've all heard of stock photos, but what about stock text?
Hi, I am Alex and together with Zlatko we've started a project that will help ourselves and our fellow designers when struggling with microcopy or marketing slogans. I can simply describe it as "having a personal copywriter beside you".
They are not dead.

Sure, for people that can't work from home it has been harder. But Government support has been set at a level well above the unemployment benefit. That is paid to employers to pass on to staff so the employment relationship is continued with strong encouragement to pay at least 80% of the employees normally wages. While it has been hard for some it hasn't been impossible. There have been no reports of abnormal bankruptcy levels (business or personal) or mortgagee sales.

Some people have used the fact that the support is higher than the unemployment benefit as evidence that benefits are set too low.

In fact, some lower paid workers look forward to a lockdown as a 'covid holiday'. That has pissed a few people off.

But all of that is way, way better than asking why are thousands of Kiwis dead? Did my [Nan|Mum|Brother|best friend|insert other person you care about] really need to die, 'for the economy'?
A nice detail: this video is hosted on the new OCaml website (https://v3.ocaml.org/en), which includes its own peertube instance.
That’s how it has to work when there’s a kernel mismatch from host to guest. You’re implying more layers than there actually are.

- MacOS running a hypervisor

- A Linux VM with Docker installed.

- A Linux container running on that VMs kernel.

Containers on Linux aren’t virtualized (normally, you could use runV I suppose if you wanted). The only overhead is the extra disk space to extract the root fs of the container image and the namespacing.
> I was fine with Gov-mandated measures last year when we didn't have vaccines. But, I am turning against my own self from last year.

Several zip codes in the Bay are at what... 98% vaccination rate? I still don't get how the "much better" governments of Australia and New Zealands, held as examples through the pandemic, couldn't match the vaccine rollout of... the Trump Administration.
While they aren't _necessarily_ coupled, the bundling of an app-store and cloud services such as payments, notifications, and more, along with vetting (for security issues) does seem of value. One can certainly imagine third-party app stores including similar requires to apple. I can imagine a Yandex store, Tencent store, that both require you to use their payment platform if you want to host an app in their store. In fact, being integrated into a cloud-service-vendor's ecosystem might a reason to chose a particular store in the same way the Play and Apple are part of the decision today.
I don't get enough out of docker desktop for mac to be worth the 21 dollars a month, personally. It manages a VM and the port mappings/exposure of docker sockets on my behalf. That is something that can be replaced fairly easily and not cost me 5-20 dollars a month.

This on top of some of the decisions in the past year like removing the ability to opt out of updates, and the issues that pop up when I don't expect it (crashes, file systems, etc) I am more inclined to find other solutions.
I recommend reading the actual law before panicking. The article is pretty exaggerated. There is still judicial oversight to protect you from abuse, making this the same as most other laws in most western democracies.

https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display....
> So get up on your soap box, and get people to the ballot box.

I think it's important to understand the context of a statement like this as it pertains to the United States at least. At some point in the last 6 years, the average person on both sides of the aisle has felt as if they have some reason to be quite skeptical of the security of our electoral system. It has been one of the defining issues of two consecutive election cycles. Setting aside the question of whether or not that skepticism is warranted, the rather worrying fact remains: as a whole, our belief in the mechanism of voting is probably approaching an all time low. This is quite concerning.
Rule number zero of organizing in the workplace: never use company resources to do it, they'll get you every time
This problem, and distribution of talent, reminds me a little of Sturgeon's Law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law)

Despite the somewhat unkind analogy, the distributions kind of line up and it makes sense to me why the top 10% of workers on platforms like Outschool or whatever earn significantly more. In many cases in life there is a group of people/things/songs/movies etc. that are significantly better than the rest in their respective category (usually about 10%), and the rest fall into a category of their own. idk, this is entirely intuitive, but I'd say it makes sense to me that people, and their ability to do some task well, would follow the same distribution.
> You really prefer to manage finances on your phone?

The phone apps for my banks and credit cards are better than their sites. I'd want my reminders on there, anyway. If a "hey pay this bill" reminder comes in, I can take care of it as soon as I have a spare 20 seconds. I can check my balances in seconds, (almost) no matter where I am. Venmo's very handy and I don't think I've ever used it anywhere but my phone. Hell, I even do some (very, very much hobby-tier) trading on my phone. Basically all my actually-important personal stuff happens mobile-preferred or mobile-only. I'm not sitting down making spreadsheets on my phone, though, that's true—I do still like a desktop/laptop or an iPad + keyboard & mouse for office-productivity sorts of programs.

> Every single one of the activities in parens is far better accomplished on a desktop with a real keyboard and a large monitor IMO

... which other ones? How?!

"home projects, hiking, gardening, learning [...] communicating, navigating" phone wins at all of these, for most people, in some cases simply for the "it's easy to carry around" factor, but that's still a real issue. I'm not going to take a laptop hiking or use it to figure out how to get somewhere in an unfamiliar city. I'm not taking it out in the garden, I'm not taking it to the driveway to work on my car, I'm not dragging it under the sink while I fix a pipe, it can't measure things for me, it can't act as a level, or a flashlight, I'm not going to use it to take a picture of the label on the box of screws I need to buy more of when I run to the store later, or of the arrangement of something I'm about to disassemble, et c. I'm not going to sketch ideas on it (paper or iPad, for that, and if it's paper and it matters I'll capture the result with a phone camera).

As for playing music, composing, that sort of thing: iPads fit great on a music stand, they're easy to carry around, the battery lasts a really long time so they're not fussy, they can attach to MIDI devices for all sorts of purposes, and iOS has excellent software available to use in that context. Phones and tablets can replace a metronome and electric tuners. They can play accompaniment or give you a beat. For some music-related tasks, yeah, you probably want a laptop or desktop, but the things an iPad's good at, it's really good at, and it can usually at least do OK at the rest.
Ongoing related thread:

More wind energy was installed in 2020 than any other energy source - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28363813 - Aug 2021 (149 comments)
But a Linux-certified laptop runs windows fine… Linux is the issue
Oh it's not just non-techy, I think you/we overestimate the techiness of techy people.

I have yet to meet a single person, and yes they are all in the Bay Area tech industry, who knew about pi-hole before I told them.
The Amazon store used to have a killer feature where they gave away "bullshit excised" versions of apps (the "Actually Free" program), but sadly that has been discontinued and now the Amazon Store is a completely pointless cut down version of the Play Store.

It's a shame because the old Fire tablets were pretty good for kids, but now the malignant ad and micropayment cancer has returned so it's no good anymore.
I think the person in the OP edited their post. They no longer mention YoY changes which is what the comment I replied to was asking about and I responded to.

All I was saying is that you have to have context and something to compare the YoY to and you can't simply look at a YoY growth rate. It's literally meaningless to do so without comparables. It's like saying the velocity of something is 50, ok who cares unless you can tell me how it relates to some other thing. If a company grows 100% YoY I don't care without information relating it to other investment options. 100% could very well be really bad unless I know what is normal, below average, above average, etc.

So idk what's really going on here anymore. I think something has become confused that's causing this conversation to go in useless circles.
I'm mature enough to understand some people work harder / have greater output, etc. That's for my manager to explain. If I'm getting feedback that I'm doing well at my level but still being underpaid or not hitting the 90th percentile, than there's a disconnect between the feedback I'm receiving and the compensation.

There's another problem in the industry that new hires get way higher salaries than tenured engineers. This allows me to understand what salaries are being paid to new engineers. It's hard for me to believe a new engineer coming into the org is more productive than me. This further allows me to make a case against my manager to adjust my pay.
I can only imagine bad things happening if Windows and DOS disagree on filesystem aspects.
Maybe, but that should be their right. We need fixes but as long as you can buy a Senator for 4 or 6 years for $100K, we have no chance. Things get a lot harder if that same voting power for 1 vote costs $5M. The problem is that the people in power want to stay there and keep feeding at the trough. What we really need is the ability for public resolutions to put directly into law. Then we could have a chance for reform, unfortunately most states don't have provisions for this path.
Whats the advantage of your system over something like copy.ai
Because we use containers to share images outside our organization. This reduces the accessibility and thus the value of the entire Docker ecosystem.
Give everyone a unique job title, problem solved!
How many digits long does it have to be to pay for the time to move your hand to the numpad and back?
Sounds like an awful environment. If a CEO can't see the value in hiring good people that you don't need to micro manage and allowing them to decide if it makes sense to be in person or in office I don't think working at that kind of company would be fun.

Hire good people, entrust them with executing on core business needs, allow them to choose however they make the magic happen.
There's quite a bit of nuance in that recommendation. It's also very much about how you invoke your rights.
> <object> is not a satisfactory equivalent for this <model> tag any more than it's a satisfactory equivalent for the <img> tag itself.

The main reason for having both <img> and <object> is that <img> existed first, and removing tags is almost always a bad idea because it brraks existing sites.

> <object> is semantically a superset of both.

Yes, that's why given its existence, introducing new tags that offer a strict subset of its utility is unnecessary.
Yes, but if the developer is motivated by money they are more likely to keep their product updated.

Many (not all) small/medium open source projects just fizzle out when the main dev moves on and doesn't dogfood their own product any more.
Think prisoners dilemma. A car /house/boat purchase is basically a one-off interaction - you’re not likely to be dealing with the same salesperson in 5-15 years when you buy your next car - so the strategy both parties should use is different from the strategy when it’s going to be frequent repeated interactions as in a workplace.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oVOE5Hsl8E

I don't know about the French. For the most part, they protest for the wrong reason.
Problem with levels.fyi and blind is that the data is not verified. I have higher confidence from internal systems.
Competitive salary would help. Bay area pay for engineers makes even basic web dev one of the highest paid professional jobs in the country. But everything I see about EU pay is that its much closer or even below average income for someone with a secondary education.
Safari supports date pickers now?! Wonders will never cease.
That's not accurate. If you click through, it's a set of laptops starting at $906. The model at that price is

* AMD Ryzen™ 3 Pro 5450U Processor (4 cores)

* 8 GB RAM

* 128 GB storage
In the US, companies are responsible for paying 50% of the medicare and social security taxes for each of their employees.
Yeah, and I don't have to take his word for it either.
Serious question. How concerned should I be if my email is hosted by an Australian company?
You can end up with insane rules that ultimately benefit no one. An old boss of mine told me about a time he was working for a big auto manufacturer. They were rolling an update to a major system. It looked like everything went well, so people started to go home.

Pretty soon though, the team started to see issues with the update, up to and including a major LoB system going down. They immediately rolled back the update but found they had a problem- they needed some servers restarted to pick up the update, and the sole person who by union rules could restart the server had left for the day and wasn't picking up the phone.

Now there were people who technically had permissions to restart the server, but they couldn't cross the union rules. They spent over an hour (with the major LoB, business critical system down) trying to get in touch with the people who were allowed to restart the server until they finally convinced the physically datacenter ops people (who were still on duty) go physically unplug and replug the servers in question.

He couldn't disclose the total cost of the outage, but I was lead to believe it was in the millions of dollars.

A functioning owner/management/worker relationship might fight over how the earnings of a company might be split, and even how or what to invest in, but they should all be working to making a company successful as a whole. An adversarial relationship prevents the sort of cooperation and good-faith assumptions that allow the different parties to collaborate and work to everyone's benefit.

That being said, that non-adversarial relationship is a two way street, and ownership+management need to be participating in good-faith as well.
Gamers are known of playing at lower resolutions so they would get more FPS.
10 minutes? The 30-60 seconds Runbox (Norwegian) takes to deliver 2FA or other types of confirmation emails already bug me. Not enough time to do something else, plenty of time to overthink my choice in email provider.

Privately (Runbox is my employer's provider) I run my own server and desktop notifications of new mail are often faster than the page loads where it was triggered. Maybe I'm spoiled.
yes, but docker will eat whatever I give to it, leaving nothing for the actual containers or other stuff in wsl
If it wasn't for the possibility of COVID transmission, an office with remote management sounds like it would be a fun and conveniently located place to hang out and chill.
Thanks (to all).
Same here. Only use them to get to the store, out for food.

They great for when it’s too cold for jandals but you are too lazy to put socks on.
> What happens if that channel gets really nasty and some employees are bullying others (for any reason) or just anything bad comes of it?

What if the Earth ended yesterday? It doesn't matter, because it didn't happen. Also, that would be a disciplinary matter for those employees, not the chatroom.

> I just think recorded info like this hosted by the employer is inherently a bad idea and everyone would be better served if the employees ran some channel of their own hosted elsewhere.

Have you ever tried to get your friends to join you on some new social or messaging platform? And failed miserably? Yeah. Now try getting random coworkers to do it.

The entire purpose of banning this room was to raise the barrier against organizing. And it did so effectively.