skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tried Opera on Mac OS - half of toggles on the Settings page is not rendered - "Pref not found for element SETTINGS-TOGGLE-BUTTON in SETTINGS-APPEARANCE-PAG". It was so epic trash - removed instantly. They obviously don't test it on Mac OS.

Tried Vivaldi - render sites with errors (some images missing). 0 plugins installed. Not acceptable, removed.

Brave - I really hate person who run this project and how he is trying to sell his product by "if you hate google as much as me, use Brave", while using Chromium.

So, for now I don't see any Chromium-based alternative.
I think you are confusing security with privacy.

As far as security goes, I trust Google way more than any other site to handle my credentials properly, follow security best practices, use the highest level of encryption where applicable, keep servers up to date and patched faster than anyone else, etc. Outside of Google+, I can't remember the last time there was a major security incident at Google, when they happened, the impact was minimal (contrast this to say the Apple Cloud leak which led to the infamous "fappening", the Marriot leak, the Equifax hack, Target, etc). Breaches and 0-days happen, but as far as I know, Google is going to be the best it gets when it comes to security.

Now when it comes to my privacy, no. I don't trust Google as far as I could throw them.
> that would have been quite wealthy had they been allowed to rule themselves

Rural states are incredibly powerful, particularly on a per capita basis. There’s a reason our budget is littered with farm subsidies.

(There is an odd effect in many Republican elites courting rural votes from an urban address. But that describes a recent and party-specific factor. The American political system is built to balance urban and rural votes.)
Thanks for the link! I've looked briefly at LTE internet service but hadn't seriously considered it because I'm just on the edge of decent cell service. While my phone usually displays 1-2 bars, it's not even enough to make voice calls. I think due to the topography in the area, my phone can receive signal from the tower but isn't powerful enough to transmit back. It looks like UbiFi also sells 4G signal boosters and external antennas, and that might just do the trick.
Very similar situation in Ikaria (Greece) - https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/magazine/the-island-where...
Yep, I've been yelled at for both ways. Not putting any effort toward it at this point.
No; all of it is plausible.
Not to mention America produces way more food than it consumes. Meaning we could potentially have fewer farmers.
Vodka companies in Poland were even more inventive. One of them started a yacht rental enterprise (or something along these lines), and proudly advertised "łódka Bols". "Łódka" meaning a boat, and coincidentally rhyming with "wódka" (or vodka).

Another opened a horse holiday farm, whose abbreviation - "WTK", following the brand's well recognizable name - happens to sound pretty much like "wódka" :)
inmates are unable to receive used books in San Diego county jails. the books must be sent new directly from the book store. this greatly increases the cost of some books. also, due to state-local policies, some inmates do up to 6 years in county jail. county is quite a bit worse than prison in California....there's way less to do.
It doesn't seem to be working for me...
‘Cultural Marxism’: The Mainstreaming of a Nazi Trope
Eh, I would absolutely say "yes" to that, and qualify it by what that means for me:

- practical experience with embedded devices
- popular databases
- web frontend APIs and common frameworks
- popular backed platforms
- Dev OPs and other types of automation

A lot of developers specialize, and relatively few branch out from that. I use the term because I don't want to be stuck in a single role.
Canvas can bend more easily than rubber or steel, but deforming it still requires some energy. And while canvas would work for the walls, it wouldn’t work for the bogey, and anything rigid enough to work as a bogey would take lots of energy to bend.
> the second is not a good source.

That's the genetic fallacy. They link to a number of other sources from that article with supporting information such as a Connecticut College study and a Princeton University study. I would deem university sources "good" (although you're still subject to cherry-picking and the like)
Yes. It's odd that they wouldn't use a vesa mount if they are targeting this market that often uses custom display mount grids. Or at at least include the bracket in the packaging. You can use a vesa mount and still support custom mounting brackets. Like my Dell 4ks all support vesa but use an alternative hook to actually connect and remove the monitor from the base.
> What we should have is health insurance premiums based on risk factors such as obesity, even in public systems.

Next thing we know we're all constantly monitored for every single health metrics and pay more for every one that is slightly off.

"Bacon every morning ? Well sorry sir but that'll be $30 more per year. Oh and you drive to work instead of cycling, that's another $60. Our tracking system tells us that you were sitting more than 7 hours per day on average for the last month so we'll have to charge you $0.55 per seated hours for the next 6 months. You should also think about your monthly running goal, you only have 3 days left and 36km to go."

We could also stop insuring people when they start getting unhealthy. Imagine the profit !! /s

What we should do is better educate people about health and stop trying to get them addicted as much and as early as we can.
Elm Architecture for Android
I disagree that a web developer shouldn't know latency figures. It's pretty developer/project dependent.

I do agree that "EVERY programmer should know.." with regards to some specific software package or service is silly. Given that there are a million ways to provide services similar to AWS, and AWS is really only a means to an end -- I don't get why every programmer should be aware of the specifics.

Latency is one those things that hits almost all of CS. AWS isn't. "Things all programmers should know about AWS.." is , in my opinion, similar to saying something like "Things every programmer should know about the Python GIL." , it includes exactly the reason WHY every programmer needs not know it.

Not a amazon service user? Forget about AWS.

Not a python user? Who cares about the GIL.

I also agree that your linked PDF is overboard -- but it's one of those things that looks overboard now, but that kind of innate cpu/memory knowledge would have been a lot more useful when lower level languages were more widely used. Touching memory is just one of those things that seems to be on its' way out, and I, for one, am thankful for that.
Paul Graham is super active on Twitter these days
John Carmack on Systems Engineering (At UMKC-SCE in Spring 2017)
There are definitely some apps I have or currently enjoy that have not been updated in a year. I’d much rather have them than not.
> You can make a good argument that policy in the US is set by urban elites that favor city people and values, and result in an impoverished rural population.

You could also make an argument that policy in the US is set by politicians catering to rural voters by vilifying liberal values to distract from the fact that it's the corporations they really care about improving the life of at the expense of both the urban and rural mid/lower class.
Plutonium release is far less being less mobile and it doesn't have the biological issues strontium does.
> San Francisco has 70 miles of light rail (Muni), plus ~180 miles of commuter rail (BART + Caltrain). And it's not clear that Muni even counts as a rapid transit line. Most of it isn't grade separated, so it's got an average speed of 8 miles per hour.

Light rail systems are generally counted as rapid transit, even though the grade separation tends to reduce travel time a lot. Boston's Green Line on the T is also a light rail system, and is generally about 7-9 mph.

Furthermore, BART is generally counted as a heavy rail transit line, although like DC's Metrorail, the system is a bit of a hybrid between commuter rail and heavy transit.
Rude Employees
Instacart hires the rudest people. Denise Murray stole half of my grocery and basically threaten me. I will never go to the Publix at Brittan Plaza again.
I've had one catastrophic failure with btrfs long ago, and have rarely used it since.

I've had one failure with ZFS that required developer help (space map corruption) but I got all my data back.
John Stankey’s challenge: Making AT&T’s $100B bet on Time Warner pay off
The Caltrain downtown extension (DTX) is going to cost $10 billion (or more) because the planners have no real incentive to control costs, not because it has to.

First, note that the "Pennsylvania alignment" has little to do with bringing Caltrain from 4th and Townsend (where it currently ends) to the Transbay Terminal. Pennsylvania Avenue is not between those two points! No, the city wants to redo the entire line between 22nd St. station and 4th and Townsend, to increase grade separation for Mission Bay.

Which is probably a good thing to do in its own right, but it doesn't have to mean "let's just bore a huge tunnel through the whole thing", which is the most expensive option. See here for a much cheaper alternative that was summarily dismissed: https://caltrain-hsr.blogspot.com/2014/01/focus-on-mission-b...
The title of this is very misleading.

> Critics say the rule will exclude some of the most important research from consideration simply because it does not rely on data that can be shared publicly.

Is it really too much to ask that when a government regulator makes a rule, the science behind it be publicly available? Since when is transparency bad when formulating public policy?
Nokia and Ericsson looking into moving operations from China
The SSL implementation is the least of your problems. You’d need to have a private CA on your system that creates certificates on the fly. How do you secure that proper. You’d also have problems when reporting SSL errors between the site and the proxy to the browser because from the browsers PoV, the connection looks good.
The truth is people don't want reviews!

They just want a rough idea of what to expect.

Frankly - you should be able to tell by the pictures of the place, and photos of the actual plates (if they're legit).

That's 90% of right there.

The odd bit of bad service or extra great service I don't think is a huge deal. I've never thought poorly or great of a place because of the service, I always just assumed that was the individual server.

All we ever need is for 2 or 3 people with decent taste to walk in the place, have a taste, take a few photos and 'tell us what it is' - maybe point out what's good, what's bad a little bit.

And then maybe some 'editors choice' for the one's that naturally stand out.

That's it.
I've had decent luck tilting the laptop screen down a bit so that it reduces the distance between the camera and the window
The World, According to Apple [audio]
>It doesn't make a logical sense because if they are banning the ad-blockers...

To be clear, you can still block ads under Manifest v3. I don't know where this idea that you suddenly won't be able to block ads came from, but somebody is being dishonest about it.
That’s only true if you eat the same quantity of both. The other problem with sugar is that it doesn’t satisfy hunger as effectively as starch so you typically end up consuming more of it. The best bang for the caloric buck in terms of hunger satiation is actually fat and protein.
Reining in CEO compensation and curbing the rise of inequality
>> In the tweet that I linked to, we noted that failure to account for statin use can invert the causal relationship between cholesterol and mortality.

I didn't get enough from the tweets to understand how that was accounted for in the data. But I have questions.

By "inverts the causal relationship" I assume you threw "causal" in there by mistake. Nobody is going to think mortality causes high cholesterol. More importantly, if ignoring statin use reverses the slope to weaken the relationship "high cholesterol causes mortality" doesn't that suggest a lack of efficacy for statins? We know they lower cholesterol, but if that also reduces mortality the relationship (between cholesterol and mortality) should hold weather they are accounted for or not. Right?
So if I am understanding the results correctly, lowering cholesterol beyond a certain limit can increase morbidity. The results are not at all surprising. The science behind cholesterol and statin drugs is not settled science. Drug companies are making 100s of billions of dollars selling statin drugs, and this money flows to researchers too, so the truth is very hard to know. “It’s almost impossible to find someone who believes strongly in statins who does not get a lot of money from industry,” says Dr. Rodney A. Hayward, professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School. Read more here: https://medium.com/@petilon/cholesterol-and-statins-e7d9d8ee...
The project is inspired by Google Stadia. When watching Google Stadia demo, most people will question how good is the latency? Will gaming experience is affected by the network?

I did some researches on that topic and WebRTC seems to be the most suitable protocol for that purpose. Some News also guess Google may apply WebRTC protocol also. I limited the project scope and made a POC of Cloud-gaming with a Go Library of WebRTC. The result indeed surprised me on how well WebRTC performs. In a good network condition, video streaming is seamless and the latency is unnoticeable.
Convince most Americans that prisoners deserve anything but punishment.
It will be on an FPGA like device. We've already got a 186: https://hackaday.com/2017/11/03/386-too-much-try-a-186-in-an...
ZFS allows cheap inc backups with send/receive.
Speeding Up AI: where the main bottlenecks are and how to solve them
FF and Safari were the only browser that worked well on my 2009 MBP ... until FF went multi process, and then started using too much ram. Today I think its total ram usage is worse than Chrome.
I don't think that RISC-V is specified at the gate level. You don't want that if you are targeting FPGAs as the tools can't look at a tree of logical expressions in Verilog or VHDL and decide "oh you are designing an ALU" and map it onto the ALUs in a collection of slices.
> it's the corporations they really care about improving the life of

Villifying “corporations” doesn’t help this argument. Corporations are broadly held by Americans exorbitantly and moderately wealthy alike, and describe well-governed behemoths, insular family enterprises and start-ups alike.

The idiosyncrasy in rural voting is poor voters voting on social values and against their economic interests in favour of a rural rich. Politics makes the most sense when you boil it down to the people behind the structures and entities.
As I understand, the point of GDPR is to protect data and privacy of EU citizens. Therefore, you would have the same obligations to EU citizens even if your server was hosted outside the EU. On the other hand, if you don't serve EU citizens, GDPR might not apply to you even if your server is hosted in the EU.
Child molester and Microsoft shill, can't get much worse than that.

Edit: It pains me to do so, but I have to flag this story. There is no way I can fit this under 'stimulates intellectual curiosity'.
Lol. That's a good one!
“Oh, and here's the kicker. Everyone would pay for that new transit, but most people wouldn't be able to use it!”

You are being a bit shortsighted. Even if you don’t use it, you’ll benefit from less road congestion. The average speed on roads keeps decreasing.

Remove 25% of the cars and driver’s commute times will also improve. Fewer accidents, etc
Originally found in Red Yeast and patented. Red Yeast Rice lowered my cholesterol and TG dramatically. Has the same side effects (muscle aches) as statins if you take too much.
The GPL is written in such a way that the GPL argues that any plugin designed for a GPL-licensed application is itself GPL-licensed.

> If the main program and the plugins are a single combined program then this means you must license the plug-in under the GPL or a GPL-compatible free software license and distribute it with source code in a GPL-compliant way. A main program that is separate from its plug-ins makes no requirements for the plug-ins.

ok, so does Blender and a Blender plugin constitute a combined program?

> If the main program uses fork and exec to invoke plug-ins, and they establish intimate communication by sharing complex data structures, or shipping complex data structures back and forth, that can make them one single combined program. A main program that uses simple fork and exec to invoke plug-ins and does not establish intimate communication between them results in the plug-ins being a separate program.

depends on the definition of "intimate communication".

Does a process that spawns another process and then communicates with that process over a unix pipe constitute "intimate communication"?

There's no section of definitions that provides a legal definition of "intimate communication". It also does not provide a legal definition of "control flow". If one system sends a message to another system and then takes action based on a response, is that control flow? Does it depend on whether or not the systems are synchronous? It also doesn't provide a legal definition for "dynamic linking".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Com...

> The FSF thus draws the line between "library" and "other program" via 1) "complexity" and "intimacy" of information exchange, and 2) mechanism (rather than semantics), but resigns that the question is not clear-cut and that in complex situations, case law will decide.

honestly I'm not sure anyone actually knows because it hasn't been tried in court and there isn't established case law.
Hey! I hope this isn't breaking the rules (self promotion) but I wrote a blog post on how to change your new tab page: https://blog.nahtnam.com/p/my-new-favorite-browser

It is described under the "new tab page" section. I can't really comment on the privacy/advertising concerns but I do know that Opera providers a VPN for you (who know what they are doing behind the scenes) and have their own adblocker built in.
Good news :D
Report on the current experience of using IPFS to deploy a website
#1: Keep everybody accountable to everybody else.
#2: Foresee and prevent any technological/architectural minefields that could develop, and encourage best practices and technologies. Otherwise, leave architecture to senior devs.
The honor system was also used in World of Warcraft: https://wowwiki.fandom.com/wiki/Honor_system_(pre-2.0)
Also solar + battery is (very roughly) only double the rate cost right now, so you aren't really stranding people. I've been to farms with solar + battery only and it's totally fine.

Back in the 1936 (rural electrification act) it was electric line or nothing, you were upgrading from candlelight.

And it's $20,000 for a solar + battery system versus rate payers subsidizing (using your numbers) $95,000 for an electric line. It seems a bit weird.
Dehumanisation. Once a criminal and in prison, you have no rights. Even afterwards. It is an absolute shitshow.
We don't need such ratings systems for restaurants.

We need a rough idea of what's there, some photos of the place and food tell a lot of the story. And prices.

Maybe some 'editors choice' for the one's that stand out.

A 'guide book' made by a small, decent team is as legit as any public review system, probably more so.
Yeah but those enraged people don't count- those are just whiners who didn't understand the licenses they were licensing their own work under. Or they don't understand the point of FLOSS to begin with- they thought that releasing their stuff as FLOSS was some sort of business or career move that would somehow benefit them later, which is rarely ever going to happen, and will almost certainly never happen to someone who's only contributing because they think it will personally benefit them someday. To those people, a PSA- just because some CS undergrad with self-diagnosed Aspergers and a trust fund who's never had a job in their lives told you on Slashdot that putting stuff on Github will someday make you rich or famous, doesn't mean it'll happen, no matter how much everyone involved wants that to be the world we live in. There are tons of great reasons to put stuff on Github, but none of them are related to money or fame or helping one's career.

Anyway, so then, when someone else somehow makes money using their code and they don't get a cut, of course that seems like "abuse" to them. If they had any idea what they were doing they would have realized that that's not "abuse" at all, because other people using their code for any purpose whatsoever is literally the point of the license.

It's just as bad if not worse when anyone reflexively GPL's their work without understanding that, because there's a freaking holy hell of a lot more legal consequences to understand about the GPL than there are about say, 2-clause BSDL, which is basically just "this is copyrighted by me and you can't remove my copyright" and "if you use this and something goes wrong, you can't sue me". If they didn't understand such a simple license, what hope do they have of understanding the GPL? None at all whatsoever. People who've been arguing about the GPL for 20+ years rarely understand the GPL, at least not in its entirety.

There's nothing wrong with someone making their code proprietary or GPL'd or whatever- it's their code, and it's their choice to make. But it's also their responsibility to understand all the consequences of that choice, and it's their responsibility to understand why they want to release their code in the first place.
Blender is one of those projects that even people who aren't into FOSS have at least heard of. It's pretty nifty!
I just wrote a blog post on how to replace the new tab page altogether if that is something you are interested in: https://blog.nahtnam.com/p/my-new-favorite-browser

It is highlighted in the "new tab page" section
It hasn’t hit the official release yet, but I would. Otherwise you’re learning an interface that’ll go away in a month.

One benefit of 2.7 is that there are a more preexisting tutorials out for it, but 2.8 is getting quite a few as well.

I haven’t been following too closely on what the best new tutorials are, but I saw some linked here the other day: https://reddit.com/r/blender/comments/by7ejt/having_bounced_...
What's the difference between a jail and a prison? They're the same thing in my country.
I got a new computer recently (old one died), and because of this change I will not install Chrome on the new computer. I’m planning to use Edge for anything Google-specific like Google Docs or Sheets, and Firefox for everything else.

Unfortunately, my wife has a Chromebook and it’s hard to convince her that her very cheap, almost-disposable laptop should be replaced with something more expensive just to avoid Chrome. (And no, she did not want me to install Linux on it - sigh.)
This discussion is so played out.

https://ro-che.info/ccc/17
The long-term benefit of typing doesn't show up in examples that fit in tweets: if the desired behavior is encoded in the types, the checks appear for free everywhere you use them, and you don't risk forgetting to test something in the n+1th function that you remembered to test in the nth.
That’s what CloudFormation and Organizations are for....
A bit OT, but I wait for the day where bandwidth isn't a limiting factor and we can host machines doing computations anywhere, instead of having to rent out economies of scale.
With Kubernetes and other private-cloud-like solutions, wouldn't it eventually be meaningless to depend on centralized cloud clusters and instead host your own and tap into an equal-footing infrastructure.
Projects like vast.ai (no affiliation) are examples of the ideal I hope for.
I wish companies were responsible, open, and honest.