skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I close my eyes and try to consciously see something, I see only black or maybe shifting colours. With my eyes open, and not consciously trying to form an image, I think I can see things I'm thinking about, though not in colour, but as soon I try to form an image, it slips away. It's odd - I'm not even certain I can see things unconsciously this way - I think I can, but I'm not really quite sure - the images are just on the very edge of conscious reach. This doesn't stop me being able to draw or paint reasonably well, and I'm really good at thinking about how three dimensional mechanisms work - I don't so much as form an image as just understand complex shapes without seeing them - but I still cannot just form an image consciously. To the extent I can, I'm more figuring out how I'd draw it than recalling the image itself.

The test from the linked article seems to assume people can visualize an actual image more than fleetingly, but that's not me. I'm pretty sure my subconscious is very good at visualization (I certainly can when I'm dreaming), but it's not a conscious thing for me, and the very act that the test asks for - think of a scene - is what causes any half-images to disappear.
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee (Ars Technica War Stories, 2019)
With remote work and the metaverse, not sure if where you are born matters as much.
Redshift -> Gammastep

Hot keys are handled by the compositor. Global ones especially. (Apps stealing keystrokes? Sounds like an anti feature)

Point stands. But I’d rather we work on improving things than just living with X11- it’s like continually adapting token ring networks instead of embracing star topology. It’s fundamentally difficult or impossible to fix.

The wayland authors (who are former X11 devs) talked about this extensively.
It's cool and all, but many games I play don't have direct wayland support, and performance through xwayland is not great.
> Yet Omarova said she was unable to express her views personally to many senators, as is usually the norm in confirmation hearings. She noted that despite making clear she was willing to meet with lawmakers as many times as needed, only one Republican senator, Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyoming, met with her.

Why do you think that might be?
hey thanks for the link! Yea I think refactoring into multi tenant isn't going to be terribly hard as long as there is some foundational basics there.
Needs a 2017 addition?
DPI scaling is undeniably nice, unfortunately I never got far enough in my Wayland journey to see the benefits. Screen tearing is an interesting issue to parse, but it's also perfectly fixable in x11 if you force the compositor pipeline. Especially since my main monitor has G-Sync, I've not really noticed any tearing on Linux unless I use a desktop that explicitly lacks a compositor on an integrated GPU.

I really like what the Wayland people are trying to achieve, I just don't agree with their methodology, and their results have spoken for themselves.
If your ideal world is for humanity to be exterminated, I'm afraid we are mortal enemies.

If it's not, you need to express yourself clearer.
Thank you for putting this into words. Wayland solves problems I never had, while creating new ones at the same time.
I'll stick to Xorg + openbox for as long as I can.
That does clean stuff up a bit, but still requires nesting if you need to access more than one value generated in the chain at a time. Go's pattern of val, err := ... is a little cleaner in that regard, but does have a lot of redundant if err != nil checks.
After reading this article you are given the choice to work with this person, do you say yes or no?
Relevant context: https://nypost.com/2021/09/30/bidens-pick-for-treasury-post-...
The part where she‘s being accused of being a communist is worth watching. America does not need enemies if it has senators like Kennedy.
I agree. I don't understand how people could want to be with someone who's only there because of ulterior reasons to love: public embarrassment, finances, messy legal proceedings. In a relationship, you are purely there because you want to be with another person. I get that a marriage adds stability, but it's because it makes extends a relationship into situations that only exist because of other reasons.
That's a great point. Unless there's some software you want to use that can't run on Chromebooks, there's probably not a compelling reason to switch.
Wow, we are very similar! Running PopOS on a new framework laptop and loving it. Agree it is good but not up to par with MacBook. I set up linuxtouchpad.org if you're interested in dropping by the forum or chat channel.
We don’t do clinical trials for the yearly flu vaccine update, do we?
You said none of this in the prior comment.

> In either case, it’s clear that the “doing less” approaches are bound to start with the people who are already doing the least.

This is not clear, and does not logically follow anything that preceded it.

If you constrain "doing less" to a very specific and restrictive definition of who/what this means, then perhaps. But as a general approach to solving certain kinds of problems, this can take many forms:

- Policy decisions

- Social movements

- Creation of new product categories that remove prior requirements for more

And it's also not necessarily always just a "thing", but a mindset, or another lens through which to consider options for solving burning problems.
A lot of people like the Pop OS desktop, COSMIC; I myself haven't used it or regular GNOME enough to say which one I prefer. (System76 said they're making a new version in Rust that isn't based on GNOME, but that's probably a long way from completion.)
In places with less snow it’s some times just a reflex on the ground rather than on a pole. I think those little matchbox ground reflexes are common in parts of the US at least?
Without weighing in on the rest, I'd quickly note that the name of the post seems mostly to be a reference to an (unrelated) visual novel called "Analogue: A Hate Story".
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And

let result = may_fail_who_knows()?
.use_value_which_might_also_fail()?
.use_a_different_way_that_might_fail()?;
I don’t think they literally reduce illness and death to zero, but just pretty close. I would assume they were using the same definition of “prevent” in both places in that sentence.
I don’t daily drive pop os but i theirs a couple quality of life improvements like slimmed down default applications, improved App Store, default support for battery profiles. Also I don’t believe they install any Snaps and instead use flatpacks when necessary. People like the theme too.
That would suggest OP has forgotten that Delta and the original Alpha are still here. You can't really let one go rampant regardless of how "mild" it may be, without taking the others that are not "mild" into account.

The reason we used to aim for "flatten the curve" is because the death toll in unvaccinated people wasn't expected change in the end, but the number of serious and/or deadly cases at any given time can be controlled to a higher degree, helping the hospitals avoid becoming overwhelmed.

Which is to say, as long as Delta et al are making their appearances known, there won't be much relaxing of the floodgates.
Are rocket scientists and brain surgeons smarter than everyone else?
Regarding WebKit, where there are several CVEs, is written in C++.
Your impression is wrong, infection protection is still on the table.
> Honestly why not?

It can have a scientific answer if you set a scientific goal for the planet. We get to decide what the purpose of this planet is, insofar as we quite clearly control the planet and its condition in most respects.

The planet may have the potential to produce more variations of intelligent life yet, given its seeming rich potential for such in its current more docile condition.

I think it may be a worthy cause to preserve the planet in such a condition that it can continue to act as an incubator for more intelligent life for a long time to come yet (many millions of years perhaps, or as long as it can until something catastrophic happens that humans aren't primarily responsible for).

Why that specific aspect? High level intelligent life (I'm obviously not talking about elephants or dolphins here) may be extraordinarily rare in the universe, and this type of incubating planet may be extraordinarily rare (that is, far more rare than is already suspected). So the scientific goal I've chosen to set for the planet is that I'd like to see other intelligent life spring up from this planet; you can disagree with that goal, that doesn't matter, I've set the goal and may choose to pursue it at will (bio-engineering, artificial intelligence, and so on) and so may a billion other people. The scientific reason to preserve the planet in a rich condition for safely incubating intelligent life, is that I would like to see what other types of intelligent life can be created. The question is: what other / how many other types of intelligent life are possible?

All scientific answers result from a person having a subjective reason for wanting to pursue an answer (I want to because of x y z). They obviously don't just magically spring out of nowhere, the goal is set by the self-interest of the person acting on it.
Vaccines don't prevent spread of Covid.
Technocratic conspiracies always fall very quickly to the mid-rank rain-dancing people unless the rain dancing is really complex and has really visible effects.

It's not even something to see as a risk, it's certainty.
The beacon chain has been operational for a year now. Progress is slow and steady.
Any fast change to the global environments is going to cause more extinctions than speciations. That is loss of diversity.

Their is no minimal time for extinctions, whereas the time to speciate significantly requires hundreds of thousands or millions of years.

Having the climate change in conjunction with pouring plastic into the environment, the CO2 effects on ocean life, overfishing, destruction of wild land and life, chemicals leaking into the environment, etc - and the problem multiplies.
Most countries are not doing very many full genome sequences, so confirmed cases of Omicron are very low. For this to coincide with a death is unlikely. Deaths also typically take ~3 weeks from infection. 3 weeks ago, there weren't many cases.

Omicron cases are 'suspected' via a partial match in a PCR test (widely done), but this isn't definitive.

End result: There are very few confirmed deaths.
Current state of the art:

func read_file(filename string) (string, error) {
return "", errors.New("oops")
}

func foo() error {
a, err := read_file("a.txt")
if err != nil {
return errors.New(fmt.Sprintf("read a: %s", err))
}

b, err := read_file("b.txt")
if err != nil {
return errors.New(fmt.Sprintf("read b: %s", err))
}

// do stuff with a and b
return nil
}

func main() {
err := foo()
if err != nil {
fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, err)
}
}

In a language with exceptions:

func read_file(filename string) string {
throw FileNotFound(filename)
}

func foo() {
a := read_file("a.txt")
b := read_file("b.txt")
// do stuff with a and b
}

func main() {
try {
foo()
}
catch (err FileNotFound) {
fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "file not found: %s\n%s\n", err.filename, err.Stacktrace())
}
}

With the current go error handling, you need to add the informations yourself in the string, not as a real data structure.

And before you say "you can add the filename to the error message in read_file()", what if the function is defined in a dependency you have no control over?

An exception is a typed data structure that contains way more informations and value to automate rescuing.

Delegating error handling to a try/catch block with a typed data structure allows the caller to care for certain type of errors and delegate the others to its own caller. With the current error type in Go, what would you do? parse the error message?
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Not all surveillance is satellite based. There are radar systems and sufficiently high-resolution camera systems that make it possible to surveil entire cities and later play the footage back.

Such a system was in use during the Kenosha protests, by the FBI.

In my city people routinely notice planes appearing on ADS-B services circling an area for hours, the tail number traces back to some shell company, and airliners.net photos show a plane with a clear-as-day surveillance package attached to it.
That is also true of most languages. Java (and Javascript in its attempt to copy it) are about the only languages that actually promote using exceptions for errors, and in hindsight I think we can agree it was a poor design decision. That doesn't stop people from trying to overload exceptions in other languages, Go included, but in terms of what is idiomatic...

However, the question was asking what is different about errors compared to other values. The add function above contains an error, yet I don't know of any language in existence where you would expect a stack trace bundled alongside the result to help you debug it. Why would that need change just because you decided to return a struct instead of an int? And actually, many APIs in the wild do represent errors as integers.
Omarova suggested the central bank could offer bank accounts to everyday Americans, which would represent a dramatic departure from the way the banking system is currently set up.

Enthusiastically this! The payment system is essential infrastructure, with the demise of cash it will become effectively impossible to function in society without access to banking. Meanwhile, this service is provided by for profit agents that can deny your business for no reason and rely on an arcane industry of background checks and trafficked personal data to select their clientele.

Mind you, I'm talking about free payment services, the process of receiving and sending money, and a possible free debit payment network operated by the government, that guarantees service to anyone. If you need credit, you go to a bank, they can and should make money out of this, not by simply forming a payment cartel extracting rent from all businesses and citizens.
Why do you feel you should be paid more because you feel you are doing more work? You are paid the least amount possible to fill your position during the hiring cycle. Your worth is what the market will pay you.

The fact that someone else is doing more or less with a higher title shouldn't influence your life at all. Jealousy shouldn't tell you when you should look for a job. If you are unhappy leave if you are happy stay. If your happiness is determined by what a random person is paid you will never be happy.
Question for the HN community: Is there a dataset (free or proprietary) which you regularly use for as part of your work?
Yes, 2020 M3 - I have had zero problems in 30K miles. I think there is a misconception that there are a lot of Tesla owners that are not satisfied with their purchases - It seems to me they are a tiny (albeit vocal) minority.
"Please log in with your Google account to view comments." ?
If we're only looking at deaths, only for vaccinated people - then yes.

If hospitals still get overwhelmed, that seems like an issue. Unless you say hospitals shouldn't treat unvaccinated people (doubt it) - unvaccinated people are going to be causing problems on the hospital system for a while still.
Its a programmable pll clock synthesizer(100ppm) pretending to be a crystal oscillator.
Ya, I have it on my Corolla. Nothing special.
I wonder if people here actually read the Discord chats.
There's literally nothing there that warrants outrage.
Speak up if you want different terms, the Analogue guy asked her multiple times for estimates/terms/cost and preferences.
If someone is an expert in a field she/he should be able to communicate the cost clearly. It seems to me she just got upset at a lowball offer, let tension build up and then backed out. Not very professional and honestly quite misleading.
Maybe Analogue should have known better but I don't blame them, this is regular business negotiations, you should not take it personally. Just say no and move on or name your price.
Well at least it wasn’t American MAGAtrends?
It would have been much faster if regulators and ethicists hadn’t been so squeamish about challenge trials.

In order to save dozens of lives that might have been lost in challenge trials, we sacrificed hundreds of thousands of lives so that we could wait for more ethically-sound vaccine trials to complete.
I'm sure that was included in the plan. It's a perfect application for solar power.
> Note that the Rust array declarations are also homologous to other types in the ecosystem, such as nested Option types or nested collections (eg: Option<Option<T>> or List<List<T>>).

To me, [[i32; 1]; 10] is homologous to Items<Items<T, ZeroOrOne>, Unlimited>, not Vec<Option<i32>>. To me, it make more sense to put the size before the inner type (either [1; i32] or [1]i32), since you need to index the array before getting an instance of the type.
Humans making it to other habitats beyond Earth will likely set off new explosions of diversity (in geological time) than another reset on Earth.

In contrast, if Earth life doesn't achieve the ability to colonize other bodies, it is doomed to have diversity of zero once the Sun expands, if a global natural disaster doesn't kill all life before then.
that makes sense. thanks for clearing it up.
> I see that you're not interested in debate based on facts but are driven by your ideology

That's an awful lot of projecting. Your use of logical fallacies is dizzying.
> and for what benefit? Some smoother graphics? I am on Linux, that is the least important thing.

This really sums up this side of the argument for me (though it doesn't address the security features of Wayland). If I want to watch an ultra high definition movie, or play a game, rebooting to windows is a miniscule price. Almost all of my work is done on Linux, and I value it because everything can be made to work, usually with little effort. Wayland adds some severe overhead to that work.
Meta-grumble: I am so tired of "-gate" being added to "controversy names". It continues to lose cultural relevance (as evidenced by your post) yet it hangs on.
Maybe for some cities, but Seattle is so difficult that there are THREE separate subreddits.
The Spanish Flu is a single data point. I wouldn't read too much into the 18-24 months stat.
Great Story.
We also have 80 years of experience with the flu vaccine opposed to 8 months
It’s not “banned” it’s just not approved yet. The US is making plans to buy tons of it in advance. Banned has a very specific connotation that is wildly out of place.
Yeah, how dare the OP warn us that a fly-by-night company is trying to lowball and screw over engineers. Or that this company has failed to deliver on a project for 2 years because they can't find people willing to accept terrible offers.
Why would I want to play my Skyrim character in Halo?
In 2030:

If only Intel had continued with Xscale in 2000s and become an external foundry. The world would look very different now I think.
Even if G*d didn't exist, one probably can't prove either way.
So, from a risk/reward payoff, it seems believing is a higher payoff than not.

And from a purely emotionless approach, if you're a Western religion (Christian) you don't have a high bar to cross. Just believe, no deeds or acts are required.

That is a high ROI trade either way. <shrug>

[Edit: I am not endorsing a specific Western Religion, I'm giving an example. I don't know Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, etc enough to say what the bare minimum is]
Pretty crazy how every single vaccinated person I know has tested positive for Covid since. I guess I and they must be outliers.

If there is some protection from spread, it's garbage protection.
The private sector would do it in a heartbeat if we eased the regulatory burden, which is almost certainly irrationally restrictive.
Cuomo's alleged behavior goes well beyond asking an employee out for drinks.
The WA query “Planes overhead” is very useful.
They might love building things in rust, but they REALLY love re-building things in rust.
I'd definitely not want to work on a desktop where I can't have an app set up a global hotkey. Do you never record with e.g. OBS, simplescreenrecorder or things like that ?
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I think you are talking about latency over the equipment in the same datacenter/intranet here which, yes, I do not count as web services but are more akin to 'sitting at the terminal'. If I could access Google Cloud Bigtable over the web from my home Mac at <5ms, that would of course be the biggest thing since the invention of the web :)
Moreover, just as you can stitch images together in space, you can stitch them together in time if you have multiple satellites, drones, dirigibles, etc. covering the same area at different times.
IMO, if you have evidence that someone has a disease that's treatable now but won't be by the time they'd figure it out on their own, not telling them is the most unethical thing you can do, and any red tape that would keep you from telling them needs to be repealed.
I agree and go further to say I've seen people with demonstrated contributions suddenly clearly being more valued when they get a title, to the point that nothing changes about what they do but others rate the impact as being larger after a promotion, to the point that they eventually are actually having larger impact just because others now believe they can / should.

I've also seen the opposite, perfectly fine engineers get worse after a promotion due to the weight of the title, without any other change to their work / schedule.
> It runs VM, this is not isolated with hardware.

According to your own link, these XSAs do not affect Qubes 4.0, exactly because it uses PVH (not PV) virtualization. See also: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/standalones-and-hvms.

> Mozilla has containers that people also barely use.

Does this mean that nobody needs security or privacy? It just means that it's too hard to use (not transparent to users) and probably that most users do not recognize the dangers.

> Password managers are fine, why would someone tire of them?

Well, at least for me plain text file looks quite a bit easier to manage. Thank you for the feedback, I will try to improve that.

The performance hit mostly comes from the lack of GPU acceleration. RAM is getting cheaper and more available with time. My laptop has 32 GB. Battery drain could be worth the added security and organization of the workflows. It is for me. I did not notice any problems with the audio quality.

> It would be much better to sell it as an OS on a remote computer that uses Xen

I am not sure what you mean here. Could you elaborate the use case? By giving the remote access to dom0 you are practically breaking the whole security model of Qubes. Although it is possible.

> Most of the benefits are done with less resource intense methods

It's a huge difference. When was the last time someone escaped VT-d virtualization?

> and learning a new OS for most of these features and mainly drawbacks is not a good pitch

Actually you do not need to learn anything serious unless you need some advanced things. Qubes relies on Linux VMs, and you just use all their apps and stuff. This could probably be another pitch point.
I think people use font models rather than just language models. The post office is perhaps the best example where despite a known list of addresses and intended format they still backup OCR with people.