skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If that weren’t pressure enough, local officials in provincial cities including Chengdu, Harbin, Wuxi and Shangrao have entered the homes of quarantined residents and killed their pet cats and dogs, citing the risk that animals might transmit the disease.

That's technically possible, but pretty freaking bleak. China is hardcore...
Ruby2JS: An extensible Ruby to modern JavaScript transpiler
It is called Globish. It is not only about pronunciation but also grammar etc. Like word information. In Globish you have information as well as informations.
I’ve had similar experiences on Fiverr. I think you get what you pay for and this is a bottom of the barrel service.
It looks like there might be more factors at play here than that. Natural immunity does a lot better than being only vaccinated, which suggests there is some sort of issues related to quality as well as quantity of antibodies.
There's also a project[1][2][3] to allow Windows-like containers inside, based on the ReactOS.

[1] https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2809

[2] https://reactos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16480

[3] https://github.com/Jeeppler/QubesOS-notes/blob/master/ReactO...
In a similar vein, it seems what soured NSOs relationship with the US was this thing here https://www.ft.com/content/319e691a-9db1-46e6-b7ea-c89971575... (The secret Uganda deal that has brought NSO to the brink of collapse)
Not remote jobs, but was Einstein a time bandit to the Swiss patent office?

https://oxsci.org/einstein-at-the-patent-office/
OpenWRT was a reason I finally started considering TPlink routers, otherwise they are on my never buy list for this article and other reasons.
That's my MR and I haven't had time to complete it (particularly a compositor impl to go along with it), has nothing to do with being ignored.
Thanks! A great example of why "should share a root" doesn't mean "does share a root" :)
It’s not (necessarily) Chromium:

> "Instead of forking Chromium or anything else, we're building our desktop app around the OS-provided rendering engines (like on mobile), allowing us to strip away a lot of the unnecessary cruft and clutter that's accumulated over the years in major browsers," explains Weinberg.
There are REITs you can buy.
They're using OS provided rendering engines.

So Chromium based Edge Webview on windows, Webkit on Safari and what exactly on Linux ?

QTWebengine ? Gecko ? No linux support ? Who knows.
A friend of mine first wanted to get into computers in the mainframe era. He took his first program to the counter and the operator told him to come back tomorrow. He returned the next day and there had been a syntax error in his code. This won't do, he said. So he gave up.

Move forward a few years and he got himself a C64. Now we can do something with a computer!
3D-printed lifesaving device provides breath of hope
I have never obsessed about speaking foreign languages perfectly. I can speak English well enough to communicate with other folks, work meetings, but I don't obsess about perfect pronunciation and pristine grammar. Makes it much less stressful that way for me.
U.S. opens investigation into 580k Tesla vehicles over game feature
I'm unable to look it up right now, but there is an excellent video of a man touching a long grass stalk to (what I presume) is an AM radio tower. The grass burns, and in the sizzling you can hear the radio station.

In principle, I think it's approximately the same theory of operation as the razor blade diode -- which is also similar to a "Cat's Whisker".
Thanks for confirming this, negation is screwed up somehow. I ended up using !g for redirection for google instead, when I need to negate.

But in general I think result quality went off the roof recently, while google's went down for me. I really find it more effective to search on ddg now, for any matter, technical and personal. Google still has a huge database of businesses and integration with maps is awesome, but that advantage is so small that I switch to google less then a few times a month.
>so what is the 1 thing X does, and what is it doing well?

That... Isn't entirely fair. UNIX Philosophy is usually applied at the program level. You're talking the entire X stack, which, like it or not, started as "Network agnostic graphical computing" which was composed out of a handful of programs, and a protocol.

Now. We all know it isn't that now; and I don't buy that it's all X's fault. You have what, going on 40 years worth of dead ends there, that obviously someone thought was going to be important at some point, but which also were emergent outcomes of a bunch of companies doing, among other things, pursuing their own ends without tipping their hand to everyone else trying to yoink an idea or two. If you don't think X suffered for it, I'd like to point you at the rats nest of abstractions you end up having to navigate. And no, a compositor doesn't magically make it go away. Further, how many people here discussing/developing/opining have read, understood and reasoned about the source as a whole to the point of actually getting something working?

I'd wager not many. Next time I have a few months, it's on my TODO list. I have gone through the X.Org Dev docs a couple times though. Need to probably print it out and do some bookmarking to build up my haptic recall model for it.
article doesn't cover any more than the headline. more meat on the bones in this discussion four days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29592103
Deriving Semantics-Aware Fuzzers from Web API Schemas
I don't think most people would have any problem with people following their particular universum. What people do have a problem with is that many people are using their religious beliefs to justify hurting others, and as it is now, the laws are extremely lenient towards this kind of behaviour.
Understanding an outage: concurrency control and vacuuming in PostgreSQL
This. Anyone who is thinking of posting "but muh network transparency" or some other tired old argument needs to stfu, watch Daniel Stone's talk, and realize that literally everyone with knowledge of the Linux graphics stack feels the exact same way. X is the internal combustion engine of window systems: it's really bad and it's got to go; give or take epsilon literally 100% of domain experts have known it's got to go for decades; yet here we are still stuck with it.

You WILL be running a Wayland desktop in the near future. Xorg itself is already unmaintained abandonware. The next step is deprecating and removing X support from the major toolkits. Beyond that, who knows. Probably Xwayland itself will be deprecated and removed too.

Best to suck it up, burn your X config to the ground, and start afresh with Wayland. If it's janky, submit bug reports or PRs. Just rip the band-aid off already, because nobody wants to hear your hemming and hawing when the axe finally comes for X.
This is the idea behind stem cell therapy. You can reset specialized cells back to their "possibilities are endless" stem cell state and then attempt to coerce them to form the type of cells you want. Search for "induced pluripotent stem cells" if this sort of thing interests you.
How would one train an additional output neuron for 'confidence'?
For the list-bug, there is a workaround I think, if you go into the "Edit-mode" (or whatever it's called) where Enter won't immediately send the message, having multiple bullet points (by using Enter) still works.

But yeah, it's really silly how they manage to break things like this. One would think they have a test-suite specifically for their shitty editor to prevent things like this - apparently not the case. Welp.

It's not yet skype-levels of bad, where doing _anything_ beyond simple text was impossible, but it seems they're slowly getting their, update by update.
Don't forget about the time a Zoom software engineer conspired with China's intelligence service to identify and harass dissidents residing in the US. The engineer is currently wanted by the FBI: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/china-based-executive-us-tele...
It is very much a standard post natal package in Switzerland, and in France too IIRC. We had tons of visits for the first one, quite helpful, spread over longer period. Only 1-2 for second one, but it could be more if needed. The only difference is that they don't do cleaning, at least ours didn't.

They are called "sage-femme" in french (wise woman in literal translation). Most od advices were nothing new to my wife since she is a doctor, but even for her sometimes best practices brought something new and more efficient/safe. And of course regular basic checks on the baby are helpful without the need to visit doctor.

We never paid anything extra, covered by health insurance.
The problem is that Slack (paid for) is hard to argue for vs. Teams when Teams is basically free if you already use o365. Management just see that chat app X is costing us XXk/year when Teams is "free". Easy savings.
One those things that is s scarily beautiful
Lol. No it's not. No where near it.
You've just described your self as a developer, not an end user. End users are Sharon in HR or Bob in the warehouse.

The comment you replied to is referring to end users who are generally not-technical people and just want to get work done.

Your comment, instead, talks about the developer friendly features of Electron.
Vivaldi launches first browser for Android Automotive, exclusively in Polestar 2
I think people like(d) Zoom because its core features were pretty simple to use. Yes, they do really weird stuff like having app settings that you can change in the app but account settings that you have to log in to your web account to change, but most of those features are more marginal.

Google Meet, and this may have changed recently, lacked basic features like being able to quickly identify what window you are sharing. I've also seen far more call issues with Google and Teams than I have Zoom.

As for Teams, I don't have a ton of quarrels with the video meeting system itself but it's desire to jam 20 other critical workflow pieces into the software made it a huge mess, at least from my experience with it on Mac:

1) The calendar sort of works, but not really, and most features you'd expect to accomplish with a calendar actually need to be done in Outlook and not teams.

2) The chat UI is really cumbersome compared to Slack and it quickly becomes difficult to find anything if you interact with a lot of people

3) The document file system is a total cluster. Let's say someone chats me a file to look at. I click the link and the file opens in my Teams window. I review it partially and have a question for the person who sent it. I go back to chat, send a message, and then try and go back to my document. Guess what? It's gone and I have to load it again. What fun! You just have to get into the habit of forcing the files to open in their native app or load them in a browser. I'm sure there is a way to prevent this from happening but what I've found with Microsoft applications (at least on Mac) is that basic functionality like this is completely unintuitive compared to any other productivity software I've seen.
The OS-provided rendering engine is Chromium's engine on Android and Windows, and Safari's on iOS and macOS.
"Field" is a term I've heard come up again and again since college, in engineering-adjacent math. Over the years, I've occasionally looked it up and tried to understand the importance, but I've never found any literature that made much sense to my admittedly short-sighted mind. I'm putting this bluntly (and sincerely), but this seems like a decent time to ask a question I should have asked long ago during college: What is a field and why do we care?
not the same but "je m'en bas les couilles" works too.
Yes, I’ll admit that part of the article is was a bit unclear to me. On iOS for example, you have to use Safari as your rendering engine. Chrome, Firefox, and any other browser ultimately us that on iOS. Android the os-provided rendering engine is Chromium. For desktop OSes I didn’t get the impression that they’re building their own rendering engine and at this point it would be a hefty engineering effort to do so. My assumption is that Chromium would be the underlying technology most commonly employed here.
Here in Europe we already going with preventative measures however if the vaccines have a drop off it's normal to be going for boosters moving forward at least for folks with age 50 and above.
NFT Fortune Cookies by AI
Weird making a browser where its only selling point is that it respects users' privacy, and not making Linux a priority.
Gallic shrug

Why talk when you can physically convey the idea. I must say that this discussion makes me somewhat uncomfortable with the centrality of not caring in my culture.
Jetbrains WebStorm has find usages and goto definition features that actually work correctly most of the time, even for Javascript. It's a big step up from just grep'ing strings.
Lolwut [Version Version]
Oh Teams started doing this too now?
This was that one thing that made me absolutely hate Skype (other than being utter garbage in general) and that at least worked so far in Teams...

Looks like all commercial chat-software is destined to become terrible garbage, one A/B-test at a time.
author here, happy to answer any questions you may have about heaptrack :)
> "Don't use X! Use Y instead!"

> I believe multiple parties and players help us build a more open and standards based web.

How is choosing Firefox over Chromium going to help in that regard? And why do you think Chromium is a monolithic browser stack by Google? How is it monolithic? I see plenty of "Chromium parts" forked and used in different environments on their own all the time. Blink, V8 or mixed combinations like CEF ... Also what makes you think it's "controlled by Google"? You say you want more open standards, but funnily enough Mozilla is one of those ignoring most new widely adopted and open standards because of ... well, some developer simply doesn't want Firefox to support it. See the "Web Serial API" for example.
Motion Simulation
There's a lot of missing features like those mentioned above, is the reply option with a quote already working in Linux? Been using MacOS since the MBP14" came out and haven't booted by PopOS desktop since I'm not at home
What are the tests?
Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again
Console is flickering between "website is unavailable" and being up for my team. This is happening very frequently just now, reliability seems to have taken a hit.
One of the things that Haskell and monads bring to the table is typed side effects. Each action in a monadic computation has a type and cannot be freely mixed with other actions of different types. Of course, it's much easier and more convenient to go side-effecting willy nilly, as OCaml and imperative languages let you do, but that creates too many places for bugs to creep in and hide. Monadic programming gives you more control over what side effects are allowed when.
I stopped breathing until I reached the end of that headline
Now it is a matter of time to implement Reed-Solomon on a daily basis … within Quantum Computing.
Sadly misses important features like background blur and more on the MacOS browser..
I use aol.com lol
If improving DDG - or any privacy respecting search engine - would require extra funding, I just want to say I would be happy to pay subscription fees for a good service.
I recently started reading the book titled "Seeing like a state: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed" by James C. Scott [1] which talks about how starting with a simplified idea of how to structure a complex system (i.e. a system with many interdependencies) without taking into account details at the ground level end up in disaster.

Using that idea of "legibility" that Scott proposes, not accounting for indigenous "tribal knowledge" in planning for their "betterment" does not work. Common language that reflects this happening is when such knowledge is trivialized or rejected using words like "unscientific".

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Seeing-like-State-Certain-Condition/d...
Seeing some instances unavailable as well, with a "Some of the volumes attached to instance are impaired" message.

Spike on Downdetector: https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/ and https://downdetector.com/status/amazon/
For academic papers, I basically just copy the abstract or particularly hard parts of a paper into this prompt: https://beta.openai.com/examples/default-tldr-summary

For formatting, I copy from our spreadsheet instruction, and copy what the "markdown" format looks like.

Convert the following text to markdown format.

Text:
1. Open the app

2. Enter your USERNAME and PASSWORD

3. Go to the menu and click "Foobar"

4. Enter the following into the field [CORRECT INPUT HERE]

```
Markdown:
# How to Use Foobar
## Subtitle
- Open the app
- Enter your USERNAME and PASSWORD
- Select the menu and click <b>Foobar</b>
- Enter the following into the field <b><span style="color:green;">{correctInput}</span></b>

```
Text:
(your input here)

Yes, I know it's not really markdown. But you give it an example of input and output and it will figure it out as easily as a human can.

The problem we faced was that it was meant to be markdown but it's not easy to write the parser, so we had a different format of "markdown" on different front ends. You'd have something a little different on Android, iOS, HTML.

But the beautiful thing is we can keep the same input and change the output to whatever the parser needs. And instead of having to write up regex that detects [CAPITAL LETTER INPUT] and converts that, the AI can just recognize it.
I fully agree. I literally never felt this much hate and contempt for software as I do when I'm forced to use Teams every day. It's an absolute shitshow of a chat. And when I thought it couldn't get worse, they f*ked up ctrl+a selecting all text on Windows... I work in MS ecosystem, some MS products are great, some are really bad, most are ok-ish, but Teams is on a whole another level of bad.
It's so sad when Twitch streamers with 10,000+ Live viewers are forced to reboot for a Windows update
Ask HN: What questions do you ask yourself often/repeatedly?
im optimistic about this as well but it hasnt been long enough to tell for sure. Theres a lag in contracting the virus and death occurring, south africa is at its case peak right now so we need to wait a couple weeks and see if deaths follow. That and we need to see if Omicron truly outcompetes other variants, in the UK they have both delta and omicron for now.

That said, I believe we would be seeing higher rate of hospitalizations if this were as dangerous as the other variants.
Ask HN: Good Job for a Generalist?
Jack of many trades, master of none. What’s a good trajectory?
why don't you use sumatrapdf?
My app running on AWS is currently down. Having intermittent problems with console as well.
Can't wait to see what they offer I have been using Safari and Brave for quite some time now.

For work I use strictly Edge as it keeps everything from o365 together.
My EC2 instances are unreachable as well.
Your opinion is different than others', and that's fine. I'll vote for MPs and governments which limit the welfare to goods and services, and you're free to vote for MPs which hand out cash, no questions asked. And that's fine, because we are the taxpayers, and we contribute to these decisions through our votes.
Fantastic. For a more sinatra-inspired take, see also https://github.com/guigo2k/ganesh
I'm inclined to agree with this.
It's a funny question, like asking how to write a book with a computer, but perfectly valid.

You can access GPT-3 directly now. There's no waitlist, but there still are restrictions. There's some examples here: https://beta.openai.com/examples

You don't even need the API. Once you get access, it comes with access to the playground, which is enough to do anything you like.

If you look at the examples, it's very "no code". You literally tell the AI what you're trying to do and it tries its best. Most of the work in prompt engineering is writing something that can't be misunderstood. But you just have to explain to it what you want like you would to a child.
We have a meme - "when there is a pandemic and you don't know whether to close schools or cementaries, so you close Giertych".

It is almost a tradition at this moment - cases are rising? Quick, arrest him!

Okay, on a serious note - this won't change anything. Poland is very polarised right now politically. PiS voters won't care as long as the state gives them money, and the rest already won't vote for them no matter what.
Celery Task Queue: Groups vs. Chords
could steam introduce something similar?
Starting at Win7 the telemetry and invasive advertising ramped up to the point where I don't feel I can customize the Desktop to what I want without heavy tweaking.

And if that amount of tweaking is necessary why not go Linux instead.

So got rid of my Win10 install, went with KDE Neon+Steam. And now I wonder what took me so long.

I haven't tested my entire Steam library yet but my top 10 games run perfectly, some times with some changes to the Proton version but beyond that even workshop mods are available.

I am seriously impressed and can't imagine myself going back at all.

If only Adobe would release their software in Linux, then, I could ditch MacOS too.
And this is why MS is the king of enterprise.
Government Default Is Inevitable
It is a socat server, not bash. Basically a bash script calling socat.

Definitely not “pure”.
As a long time Linux user and one that has suffered through multiple versions of teams/slack/zoom/Google Meet I was pleasantly surprised with Google Meet (in chromium) for video calls. It worked flawlessly, adapted really well to a super wide monitor (actually used the space well), and had the background blurring/replacement features that get stripped from most linux clients, the only downside was that it didn't like screensharing in Firefox.
Postponed by one day due to weather. New launch date is Christmas Day.
This case is different in that the NSO sold the tech to a government of a (supposedly) democratic country, EU & NATO member.
> A dozen customers, all on snowflake systems which were constantly tweaked directly in prod with no documentation or audit process.

I've directly seen this at all sizes of companies. I worked at a billion+ revenue company and watched my boss edit stored procedures directly on production (for way more than a dozen customers). I ended up encrypting them in prod to force him through the build process I made.

The point is that there is wild west going on everywhere, and the size of the company is only one factor. There are startups with great engineering and big companies with terrible engineering. It's just the state of software right now.
Heroku Is Currently Down
Someone beat me to it. When I think of pure bash, I don't really think of invoking anything that isn't a builtin or a grammatical feature of bash. If socat is fair-play, almost anything you can spawn on a shell should count then.

edit:
on top of that, I already found a perl script utility in the repo: https://github.com/remileduc/sherver/blob/master/scripts/uti...
Can it survive long enough to produce offspring.
It's the multiplayer games that use anti-cheats that are the problem at the moment, as far as I can tell.
They reinvented CGI scripts but didn't actually implement CGI. Could have implicitly supported a lot of apps by default. There's some pretty decent CGI libraries for Bash, too.

Personally I use busybox's httpd (which does support CGI) for a small portable web server.
No, there is no such Russian saying. The closest is "it doesn't fuck me".
Precisely the last thing we need is more ads and unwanted features in Firefox.
Tell that to Jay Sidhu and BankMobile/bmtx. Started his SPAC when the Flagship acquisition of BankMobile was failing. After never being able to dump the asset from Customers Bank, his son's SPAC purchased BankMobile.
Are We Living in the Matrix?