skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The Republican Party has moved to the left, not the right, since the 80s.

No, they've moved consistently to the right, the most dramatic manifestations of this movement being with the Contract with America in 1994 and Trump in 2016+.

> The Democrat party

It's the Democratic Party; the misuse of the noun form in place of the adjective is a weird tic of Republican activists.

> has moved farther to the left than the Republicans ha

Well, it's moved a little to the left recently while the Republicans have continued their journey to the far right, after basically moving to a position nearly identical to the Republicans of the time on economic issues and slightly to the left on, but deprioritizing, social issues with the Clintonian center-right neoliberalism of the 1990s.
The voting age in the US used to be 21, but some time during the Vietnam era it was rolled back to 18. The argument being, if you're old enough to fight in a war, you're old enough to vote for the politicians who decide whether or not to go to war.
I haven't seen any, but as a relatively early proponent of Vue(as in: I was there when v2 came out), I found Svelte even easier to get into than Vue.

Anyway Rich Harris' presentation is a good starting point:

https://youtu.be/AdNJ3fydeao
Really the prefrontal cortex is used mostly as a rationalization for what society is comfortable with as opposed to guidance.

Look at "charged as an adult". Suddenly a 12 year old stabbing someone is mature enough to stand trial when they can't even register on a forum without parental permission. I satirically suggest that any minor tried as an adult should retain all attendant adult status for sake of consistency. Which means that any minor charged as an adult who was acquitted or had their case dismissed should be able to vote against the DA.
And yet the crime rates in the UK are considerably lower than the US, could it be because guns aren't widely available?
Going on fantasy here, but imagine if the Prime Directive were real and that the Litmus Test for making First Contact was to do random random fly-bys at high speeds... only qualifying civilizations would be able to detect the fly-by, send a probe, and catch up to it.
Ubuntu 19.10 To Drop 32-bit x86 Packages
I don't get all the negativity. From a typescript perspective, this looks like a breath of fresh air compared to the component based API.
Absolutely correct to note his, but e.g. Germany is above the USA in that PPP list, but for €8 I get 3GB of data and unlimited phone calls and sms.
I didn't know about the Food Donation Act! Good to know :) After some brief research, I found that my native Ontario has the "Donation of Food Act" which seems to offer similar protections. More info for fellow Canucks at the link below.

http://www.nzwc.ca/focus/food/guidelines-for-food-donations/...
I wanted to try this for myself, but for some reason, the WASM target included with the RHEL distribution of Qt 5.13 is linked against a different LIBC than the GCC target, and hence does not run :-(
Chrome Suspicious Site Reporter: your site is not in the topk? Suspicious
Writers and Agents Are Still Fighting. Here's What We Know
Great!

You can donate to OpenSSH[0], whose "funding is generally done via the same donation framework" as the rest of OpenBSD, to which you can donate either directly[1] or via the OpenBSD Foundation[2]. If you're serious about donating obviously please check that these links are legitimate and I'm not a scammer. (I'm not affiliated with OpenBSD in any way.)

[0] https://www.openssh.com/donations.html

[1] https://www.openbsd.org/donations.html

[2] https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html
Uber is not a job
A ‘stress vaccine’ may be another step closer, suggests new study. When researc
imagine that - what is in the headlines today.. "Oregon Governor sends State Police after Lawmakers who flee to avoid Carbon Vote"
AngularJS vs. KnockoutJS: Differences and Similarities You Should Know
Fossil fuels produce less than half of UK electricity for first time
Jio is fascinating. I once held a talk at an event where their Interim CISO Karsten Nohl was also speaking.

The way Jio was built and what challenges they faced trying to build a gigantic mobile operator from scratch and building it secure from day one are a story i'd like to read a book about, but I'm already glad he held a talk about it.

The most interesting part was their realization that there was nearly no "new & secure" hardware available they could buy off the shelf, most came with old unpatched versions of software, many had components that simply had no update functionality at all, some had but required manual onsite intervention for updates, just what you need when you want to connect one of the largest countries on this planet. This was not third-rate stuff from China, he was talking Ericsson, Nokia, Huawei... the name brands involved in this space.

Fascinating and astounding what went on at this time at Jio and i'm grateful that sometimes people that deeply care about these issues get into these positions and get to fight these demons.
Besides being proprietary, the whole dual-GPU switching setup is generally more troublesome than a single-GPU design. Even on macOS you can feel a subtle delta in glitchiness between Intel-only and mixed-GPU machines.

Plus Nvidia drivers are the least likely to support Wayland in the near future.
If the author wants to write HTML directly, sure.

But, uh, kinda feels like the author's "reasons" aren't balanced in terms of comparing "maintaining a website by writing HTML directly" to "maintaining a website by using a static-site generator".

e.g.:

"But how can I then keep the style and layout of all my posts and pages in sync?"
Simple: don’t! It’s more fun that way. Look at this website:
if you read any previous blog post, you’ll notice that
they have a different stylesheet. This is because they were written at different times.
As such, they’re like time capsules.

...But if someone wanted to maintain/update consistent styles across a website with only HTML files, then this would be a point in favour of a templating system over writing in HTML directly.

Finally, you constantly have to work around the limitations of your static site generator.
Let's say you want your site to have a specific directory structure,
where pages are sorted under various categories.
With Jekyll, this is practically impossible,
and even though you technically can get it working if you really try,
it is only through much effort and with a source code that is
organized much more unintuitively than if you just wrote it directly in HTML.

While it's fair to say that you have to learn the idiosyncracies of a SSG to use it,
I'm not sure this is a fair criticism of Jekyll.

Seems that page output is determined by a 'permalink' key.
https://jekyllrb.com/docs/permalinks/
(Found through a quick search for "jekyll structure").
I find from my AB testing is that mobile users are much sensitive to changes to checkout.

A big one page checkout could work on desktop machines since they have the real estate to work with. This can be a poor experience on mobile as you need lots of scrolling to access all the fields and options.
so fox-cat?
Uber is not a profitable company.
You're not wrong, but the important point is that people using p-value tests don't really understand what they mean (what practical conclusions should be drawn from results), even when they do do the math correctly; and people consuming them really don't understand what they mean, or even how to know if the math was done correctly.

They mean a lot less than people assume, and in some cases, as you suggest, something different than they assume. (Ie, "statistical significance" relates to confidence that the results showed a reproducible correlation (and are never 100% 'proof' of this, just a level of confidence; and are totally ruined if you've been doing data dreding/p-hacking), rather than any kind of magnitude of effect).
Yes, I suppose everything looks backward when you swallow all the propaganda.
Toss in age of consent, drinking age, etc. It's pretty much a hodgepodge that's the end result of politics, pragmatism, tradition, and (a little bit of) biology. Presumably a unified "age of adulthood" would be more logically justifiable but that's not where modern societies tend to end up.
> The voting age in the US used to be 21, but some time during the Vietnam era it was rolled back to 18.

Actually, the rollback of voting age (which is a state policy with federal constraints) started in the WWII era, almost immediately after the draft age was reduced from 21 to 18 in 1942, with it almost immediately becoming a national issue and Georgia being the first state to roll back voting age to 18, in 1943, and President Eisenhower endorsing it as desirable across the nation in 1954.

The Vietnam era saw the completion of the rollback nationally.

> The argument being, if you're old enough to fight in a war [...]

No, the argument was if you are old enough to be compelled by the draft to fight in a war...
Using 200% and scaling the screen with xrandr has worked quite well for me on a 27" 4K screen. It's pretty much what macOS as well.
Can confirm - loved my Pixel C but had screen problems twice and rather than try to get a third one I just bought a Galaxy Tab S4 instead.

Honestly I think Samsung is going to take up the mantle here. DeX may not be the best UX ever, but it's much better than anything Google is doing itself.
No. It is safe to say that it is another OS. If kubernetes manage processes (aka containers) (including placement, resource management,etc) across machines, it can be treated as a distrubuted os. It can run on a cloud (on prem or public cloud).
But it is, what else could it be?
Just to clarify my understanding, the reason for doing this is so that random sampling / leakage of the contents of the RAM stops being useful, you need to specifically get the key (and then presumably a whole chunk of encrypted RAM to decrypt?)?
The simplest, most direct assistance would be if somebody got a bike with a carrier trailer, and just rode through nearby food deserts delivering care packages to people with food insecurity. People often can't leave their homes (can't get a sitter, don't have a bike or car, are disabled/elderly, etc) and this moves the assistance out of wealthy neighborhoods and into the ones that have difficulty getting food.

They could drop leaflets in mailboxes that people could check off if they need food, and then you could go back and collect the leaflets, and know who to deliver to. Or make the leaflets prepaid postage to just return via the mail.
I think old battery packs (and new ones for larger laptops) were generally cylindrical cells, and the new ones are flat packs which do seem to have more issues with mechanical problems (like Samsung's phones a few years ago) which cause swelling.
How a struggling airline made it by redesigning its systems around web APIs
We've all heard stories. Some journalists have even been able to get people on record. And still I have to ask why an anecdotal Twitter rant, something the user seems to specialize in, holds any water whatsoever and how it made it to the front page.
Most of the "Contract with America" is not a right wing thing (shown by the fact it had broad support and catapulted the Republican Party back to power), and Trump is not a right wing person. He's a barely middle of the road person who would have been considered quite unsuited to be a Republican in the 80s. The Republican Party of the 80s would never have nominated someone who would nominate a gay ambassador -- the Democratic Party likely would not have either. Washington in general has shifted quite far to the left since the 80s.

And "democrat" vs "democratic" is probably an autocorrect "tic". I'm also not a Republican, and certainly not an "activist" in any way. My personal beliefs are that almost all politicians are simply interested in power and say the things they think will get them elected -- and in general the striking differences between the parties are on which programs they want to spend the money that does not exist.

Bill would not be able to get the nomination of the Democratic Party today -- he would be considered far too right wing.
If people aren't familiar with it much of this myth making came from the story of 38 witnesses doing nothing while Kitty Genovese was attacked three separate times in a Queens apartment building. From the (much later) NYT correction of their initial flawed report:

>While there was no question that the attack occurred, and that some neighbors ignored cries for help, the portrayal of 38 witnesses as fully aware and unresponsive was erroneous. The article grossly exaggerated the number of witnesses and what they had perceived. None saw the attack in its entirety. Only a few had glimpsed parts of it, or recognized the cries for help. Many thought they had heard lovers or drunks quarreling. There were two attacks, not three. And afterward, two people did call the police. A 70-year-old woman ventured out and cradled the dying victim in her arms until they arrived. Ms. Genovese died on the way to a hospital.
> I also curmudgeonly think that Game of Thrones lost its appeal when it stopped being about political intrigue and became yet another silly magical zombie movie.

So the very first scene of both the books and tv show?
While I certainly wish for better conditions for these drivers (and in a grander sense, the entire gig economy), I also worry about the price sensitivity of riders when they go to use these apps: There are tons of users that will make their Uber vs. Lyft decision based on <$1.00 in fare difference. If these drivers get everything they want, I cannot imagine a scenario where fares do not go through the roof, which will likely lead to a decrease in demand, which will have a negative effect on take-home pay for drivers.

The drivers certainly deserve better, however, I think the toothpaste is out of the tube when it comes to what consumers expect and are willing to pay.
Looks great. Does this need a bunch of unlabeled training data to begin with, and then suggests datapoints to label, or can it also suggest labels for which data is needed next?
Most states are adopting graduated licensing so that more privileges become available as you get older. I think we will see a trend where the min age will be 18. There will obviously be some hardship provisions for provisional earlier driving but in the long term everyone will move to an 18+ licensing requirement. The minimum 18 age to vote happened b/c of the 26th amendment. FDR had lowered the age of military conscription to 18 but the general age to vote was 21 (it was determined by states at the time).. That lead to a 'Old enough to fight, old enough to die' campaign which petitioned for lowering the voting age to 18, which eventually happened.
Yep, I have 3 older models with swollen batteries.
It's still a script though. If there's a need for a script at all, one may as well do `php index.php > index.html` or use a static site builder as that will give a lot more flexibility.

Simplifying the process of creating static sites and avoiding existing tools has been tried many times and none of the solutions is really satisfying. In the end, most require "just a small script", but which is likely to grow in complexity over time. I guess creating static sites is not that straightforward so it makes sense to use existing tools to keep things simple.
I also like writing HTML in HTML. Example: https://www.jefftk.com/p/adventures-in-upstreaming

I do have a static site generation step, though, which takes in my raw html, wraps it into posts, builds index pages, adds srcsets to images, and generates RSS feeds: https://github.com/jeffkaufman/webscripts/blob/master/makers...

There are bits that are pretty hacky, but being able to put anything directly into the html, just the way I want it, is much better than messing with various converters. Simple HTML is really fine to write in.
Hm, I wonder if the symmetric encryption with a sophisticated cipher is really necessary in this scenario. The aim is require an attacker to read 16Kb of memory in addition to the much smaller key data, e.g. for each bit of the key, the attacker needs X additional, random bits.

Wouldn't it be possible to block-wise xor the random data onto the key?

Maybe use a windowing mechanism, where the window is moved forward depending on the random data (e.g. for a 16 bit key, xor random bits 0 to 15, then move forward 4 to 16 bits, depending on the current window; iterate until the maximum number of window movements necessary to go over the whole random data is reached [leak less bits via timing]; if the end of the data is reached, again start at the beginning, but with some offset to avoid result_bit_0 = secret_bit_0 xor random_bit_0 xor random_bit_0).
I agree that some sites have a reason for wanting to keep the look of all pages in sync, I think it's fair to point out (because most people won't think of it), that this isn't really all that important for a basic blog. You don't really need all your posts to look identical. There are some things, like what url the home page links to, that need to be kept in sync everywhere, but that isn't hard to do.
Okay, but if 1 of my 3 highest urgency vulnerabilities is known to have been exploited in the wild, and is easy to exploit, then I may want to focus on that one over the other 2.
I also wrote a program to check the consistency of all HTML files on my website. It checks if all internal links are correct and even does some checking on reverse links. Furthermore, it also has a mechanism for maintaining tags with blog entries. It processes the FTP log to determine which files needs to be uploaded and places these in an upload directory (while adding a BASE HREF to the HTML files).
Don’t felons lose the right to vote?
It may have been close to the sun, but it was traveling much faster than any other body we would use for comparison.
Note that “Democrat party” is not a weird tic, it’s a deliberate insult. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrat_Party_(epithet)
Well, the best solution would be to fix Wine for 64 bit platforms and applications. And use docker + wine for 32 bits ones.
Where do zombies violate conservation of energy? They do wear down eventually, and fresh brains are low entropy and also nutrient dense.
"I had a feeling it was bogus."

I've always ignored those sorts of things entirely, on the theory that I don't believe the entities in question are capable or willing to put the engineering effort to provide a number accurate to two significant digits at scale.

Also the numbers are often implausibly large. If there's "one" of an item left and "43 people" are "currently looking" at it, then the problem isn't that I need to hurry up and buy it, the problem is that you've utterly failed at one of your basic tasks, stocking correctly for demand. In general, businesses are actually really good at that; it's literally life and death for them, so the idea that every single thing on their site is just on the verge of selling out unless you get it now is just absurd.

I've been trying to train myself to ignore "discounts" too, unless I can prove to myself that there really is a difference between the "real" price and the "discounted" price and there is some specific reason that I'm getting the latter. Or to put it another way, "customers in general" don't get discounts. You can get a discount if you are "a price discriminating customer willing to hunt for coupon codes", or "a friend of the proprietor", or something specific, but you are never just handed a discount. Those discounts are discounts... they're just the price.
In some states.
Confusion on Self-Driving Cars and Driver-Assistance Systems Is Still Rampant
> And now you are suggesting that my assumption that you were implying that the government should do the allocating is also incorrect.

Wrong. Please read what I write instead of "presuming" what I might think.
I have trouble taking stories seriously when the person mentions they were almost in tears, I don't know why but it seems disingenuous.
> We drivers have zero rights. Zero. Uber/Lyfts' idea to start a driver association is going to do nothing for us. The culture of these co's is that we don't matter, that we are junk, replaceable, & deserve nothing. We have to fight together to win this.

Lots of those platforms have a simple business model: Outsource the risk to individual partakers, with that, lowers the price for consumers, but market it as"disrupting".

As long as the individuals to whom the risk is deferred to, are either locked in, or can cover their risks easy enough, there is no problem.

In this, Uber seems to be really pushing the envolope on the amount of risk they can externalize, before their individual risk-takers form a union or walk away.
Also, in French bat is called "chauve-souris", which can literally be translated as "bald mouse".
It's probably for the best if there's fewer people driving for rideshare companies, who individually make more money. The negative externalities from all those extra cars on the road are fierce, and if those single occupancy trips were charged appropriately then more trips would be taken by alternate methods.
Hackers used the letter 'I' to almost steal $2.5M
Kafka Operator for K8s
I'm really glad I saw this. These are the types of things that I think the media should cover. Instead, we get the same weather, traffic and political BS every day.

Unfortunately, it looks like few other people will see this on HN -- it's already flagged to the second page even though it should easily be the #1 post right now.
From the data we have about ride sharing. The bulk of rides are done either by people who drive full time or people who drive as a second job. If it were not for those two groups of people, both of which utilize ride sharing as a "job", one could speculate that Uber and Lyft would not be able to exist.

Please enlighten us about how Uber can exist if no one treats it as a job based on the data we currently have. I look forward to your insightful response.
I have a new-ish Dell laptop, and its battery spontaneously started bulging. It was right after I took it away from my desk after many weeks of sitting on the charging dock. First I thought I had accidentally cracked it open, pushed it back together, and a couple minutes later it cracked open again on its own.

Fortunately this was a "work" computer, the IT crew fixed it in a jiffy. But I wonder if it uses a similar type of battery, looked like a thin black pillow when the tech took it apart.
The very first paragraph in the article explains why this does not work...

Unless you mean building a 32bit emulation layer into Wine itself.
In the UK people can start their application to join the army at 15 years and 7 months and actually join at 16.

18 year olds have even passed selection for the SAS.
> the problem with infinity is that anything that can possibly happen will happen.

Not necessarily. There are different cardinalities (sizes) of infinity. Your statement can only be true if the cardinality of time is at least as high as the cardinality of all possible events; I don’t know enough math (or physics) to pin either of these down, but it’s not obviously true.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph_number
> That's not how security works. If it can potentially lead to a software like openssh leaking secrets, it is of the highest urgency, period. It doesn't matter if it thought to be hard to exploit and it doesn't matter if it was already found "in the wild".

Really? This isn't how security works? Yeah, I guess I forgot security is a 100% binary thing. That's why you never read actual security bulletins advising you when vulnerabilities are actively being exploited in the wild. It's insane to think that should matter or raise the urgency of a patch. [1] [2]

[1] https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current-activity/2019/06/18/Moz...

[2] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-1...