skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm talking about things like HSTS where the interface to purge HSTS entries that have become invalid has changed constantly.

Some people hit these which I had to solve for them because it was pretty opaque until Google started indexing the error message properly: https://security.googleblog.com/2016/10/distrusting-wosign-a... and this one https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/blink-d...

There are people whose entire workflow is constantly bypassing self signed certificate/browser warnings, and the interface to undo an override is persistently changing as well. The method to get the certificate details of the site you are connecting to (which helps for self signed soup) has also been changing constantly over the last 5 years for Chrome, but for browsers like Firefox have basically been the same thing. e.g. Chrome 56 https://www.ssl2buy.com/wiki/how-to-view-ssl-certificate-det... has a totally different procedure to what you can do in Chrome 75, where it is back in the site details drop down (where it was before Chrome 56).

Really it's any case that you navigate to a site and get the Chrome error page for a TLS related reason. Many people who administer enterprise applications are not technical people and so they don't even know this sort of thing is coming. They get other people to do the technical/software updates but are generally just there to keep the system alive and get value from the system, but Chrome doesn't clearly explain to them what happened and they go to IE/Firefox and it works fine. For most people this is the limits of their troubleshooting and they have no recourse. Then on top of it the procedure or documentation that they used last time (often generated by a technical resource they may not have anymore) no longer works and they are stuck. It's a very frustrating experience for a lot of people and I wish they handled it better.
I wish these types of sites were not allowed on Hacker News. I'm not paying for every little news site I read on here (or the big ones). I usually click on the link, realize it's got this crap on it, and bail back out. I don't want to read it and would rather it didn't even show up.

For a while I had updated my CSS setup so that these sites would have a strike through on them and I'd go strait to the comments instead of trying to read the story.
So far, but it's looking likely that continuing to consume them will render large swathes of our planet uninhabitable. A pretty significant externality!
To give you an idea of the mindset of some people, read about all the theories about who Shakespeare "really" was, particularly Mark Twain's.
I didn't realize that Wikipedia was case specific:

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

Vs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEER
I'm not sure what you mean by "drop a dime" in this context. It usually means calling the cops on someone, referencing a time long ago when making a call from a pay phone cost ten cents.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/drop_a_dime
FWIW, OK Labs was acquired by General Dynamics in 2012.
Or... you could make your own Extra Fancy case: https://twitter.com/mrm/status/1157820493098934272
The article is about renewables becoming cheaper and more competitive with hydrocarbons as we speak. Even in the absence of a carbon tax to pay back for its huge externalities. Do you have some evidence the fall in prices of ie solar will not happen even though it’s trending that way? That would be more interesting than your blanket statement.
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Louisiana has a large number of facilities that make chemicals and fuels from natural gas and crude oil. Those facilities dissipate much of the primary energy in the inputs in the course of making refined output products. I think that's where the high per capita figure comes from; it's e.g. energy losses in facilities making ethylene from fossil inputs, not the mere fact of extracting fossil fuels. Since that energy dissipation happens in facilities located within the state of Louisiana, staffed by Louisianans, I think it's fair to include those facilities in the per-capita statistics for Louisiana.

The other popular perspective is that those figures really "belong" more to the end consumer than to the producer. I don't agree, for reasons both philosophical and pragmatic.

Pragmatic: it is easier to track what happens in large production facilities than to track the ultimate retail fate of every gallon of gasoline coming from Louisiana refineries. Trying to trace production to millions of consumers instead of monitoring dozens of primary producers is a recipe for getting much less actionable data.

Philosophical: producers are (IMO) more responsible for the efficiency/pollution of production than consumers are. A consumer has no way of telling at the point of sale how efficiently/cleanly the aluminum in a laptop or plastic in a bucket was produced. Primary producers reap the profits and make those process choices about production; it's also producers who should most face the criticism for wasteful or polluting practices.
And bewilderingly enough, the US continues to give Pakistan military aid.
In my experience, yes, I see the misconception frequently. I think it stems from Microsoft using the name "Virtual memory size" for swap space in earlier versions of Windows.
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So, I don't normally do this but two of my favourite industry commentators (fin and tech) are doing a live stream thingy tomorrow - it's timing is bad for me in the UK but I hope to catch it

An event

Tomorrow I will be doing a conversation with Patrick McKenzie of Stripe Inc. about tech and finance topics. It will be livestreamed on Bloomberg Opinion’s Periscope, and on the Bloomberg Terminal at LIVE, starting at 3pm Eastern time tomorrow, August 7. (A recorded and edited version will eventually follow.)
> That's not quite true/relevant.

It’s actually extremely true and relevant.

> Matter can be turned into energy, energy can be turned into matter, theoretically at least.

None of these conversions are 100% efficient. The second law effectively puts limits on the efficiency of heat engines[1] that depend on the difference between “hot” and “cold” in the engine. At low temperature differences, the theoretical efficiency is extremely poor[2] and the practical efficiency is even worse.

Peltiers are not exempt from this either.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnot_cycle

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_engine#Efficiency
Much of the coal comes from a unique period in earth's history when there were many trees, but enzymes that could deal with lignins hadn't yet evolved. Which led to a steady and significant accumulation of carbon in that coal.

Humans, and much of the life we see around us, evolved in the subsequent periods of higher oxygen and depleted CO2. As we reverse that effect, we return the atmosphere nearer to how it once was - when humans and such weren't around. The planet and its life will be fine. Us and the multiple species on which we depend may well not be.

By burning it we are releasing carbon that has been stored for millennia and accumulated over millennia. It's introduced as though it were new into our carbon cycle.
My issue with this whole argument is that, in the U.S. there is also a right in the 2nd amendment. Either that right needs to be abolished or we're left in the push-pull dynamic of the rights-against-rights.

I personally dislike the idea of whittling away a Constitutional right through piecemeal laws rather than an amendment to the Constitution. It a disingenuous workaround, like a poll-tax/literacy test erodes a specific class' right to vote without actually changing their Constitutional right.
There are a number of stable prosperous multiethnic states. In the specific examples of Iraq, Syria, and Libya though, part of the specific rationale for the U.S. moving in to overthrow the dictator was that the dictator and his ethnic group were oppressing the rest of the country.

If democracy is instituted, and the ruling group was a minority, there will be resentment on the side of the majority for past treatment, and resentment on the side of the formerly ruling minority for their diminished status. This has a tendency to boil over into civil war.

This is exactly what happened in Yugoslavia, and we solved it by breaking up the country, and it has been fairly peaceful for twenty years. The main place where there are still problems is in Bosnia, and specifically because we left Bosnia together and the Bosnian Serbs want out.
Usually we vaguely mean both wealth and income when we speak of inequality, but in any case they are convertible. The high-wealth people aren't living on income. They are living on investments, which have taken a hit from the increased wages.

I specifically said "More recently" regarding the USA, so why object to it being over two years? Two years is recent. Things have gotten dramatically better for the less-well-off people over the past two years. This is something to be optimistic about.
Well, if you dig deep enough holes, they will. That's how over a million people live in the Rajasthan desert in India.
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Both of you have fat fingers.
I understand the point they're making, but I'm not putting forth the argument they're arguing against. I think companies should be banned from most forms of political speech because their goals are by nature typically harmful to their workers and often the public at large.

However, even if the laws were changed to do so, I don't think that this should count as 'political speech'. Terrorism and hate should not be considered valid or protected political ideologies.
You don't need guns to hand out drinking water, so if that's what your conception of "military" is, maybe you need to look outside your country a bit.
Not at all, the Koran is written in the context of Arabia at the time. This is not a matter of interpretation, the book itself references local customs and laws. Therefore, our understanding, the practice and everything else in Islam is crucially shaped by the society in Arabia, and the change it brought to it. I think it is best read and understood in terms of the Delta - the change - it meant to convey (but that is my opinion).

On the other hand, however, much of the Arabic language and customs are of course shaped by Islam. For example, one difficulty of interpreting the Islam is that the words that are used now convey the connotation that was coined by centuries of religious practice, and it is difficult to know exactly what they originally meant. In addition, much like the Bible (translations), it coined many terms and semantic concepts.

Overall, the question you pose it not answerable in any way. Interpreting the core - the Koran - does not have a unique solution. And even though Islam has taken great care to preserve the text, traditions and reasons behind them, it is not clear cut. For example, the large majority of Muslisms prescribe to the Hadiths as interpretation and additional norms, but there are also Hadidths stating that you should not do that, and the Koran is enough. But on that basis, many more interpretations would be possible. Paradoxically - and in contrast to Christianity - the Muslisms who rely primarily on the book alone, are much more progressive than the ones also relying on the traditions.

I don't think your question will find a true answer.
You couldn’t really expect me to understand all that from what you said. Thanks for explaining in the end but I wonder if your specialised knowledge and thought into this made it harder for you to explain the concept in plain language. Maybe it’s obvious to you, but it wasn’t for me.
Yes and no. The point is, you don't have a choice. And it's not as easy to BYOD and switch carriers as it could be. The fact that these guys can make that much money doing this proves how the market feels about it.
> Wouldn't it be better here for a privacy group

The other thing about those privacy groups? "Including some with ties to Google".
Maybe... I don't pay much attention to sales pitches. Just saw 'Read this article for free" and a login button and assumed as much.

It'll convert well for them at least.
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He also wrote what I suspect is the de facto Markdown parser for Racket, which is used in Pollen. (I thought I recognized his name dimly, and it's because I reported a bug in Pollen a few years ago relating to Markdown smart quote handling that turned out to be a bug in his Markdown processor -- which he fixed virtually instantly. https://github.com/greghendershott/markdown/issues/45 for the curious.)
A lot of this looks like the next iteration on the semantic ui [1] look (particularly the avatars).

[1] https://semantic-ui.com/
Geoblocked for Portugal...
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Sounds good. Regarding the no-framework output, I'm not against frameworks, I was just thinking for a moment from the perspective of a more traditional web designer who only incorporates bits of pre-made JS code in their design. Such a person might not even know what Vue.js is but may still greatly benefit from your service if it allowed them to convert their designs to just html/css.
Title is slightly misleading! Most of them are Islamic but not Arabic. Khawrazmi [1], Karaji [2], Khayyam [3], and Tusi [4] were all Persian. Ibn Haytham wrote only in Arabic though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_ibn_Musa_al-Khwarizmi

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Karaji

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Khayyam

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharaf_al-D%C4%ABn_al-%E1%B9%A...
Are there any cameras at a higher price with better stats, but still lower than $2k for a used Chronos 1.4GP/s? I wouldn't mind buying a $1k camera to get 720p 1000+ fps.
I too will be happy to see the clean energy problem solved. On the other hand, if big oil - and the countries that depend on it - implodes then we have a new problem. That's not pretty.
>It seems reasonable to me that the transition to renewables will make energy even cheaper

The transition to renewables will be more like holographic storage, month-long batteries, strong AI, and flying cars -- perpetually in the future, and with small scale, still mainly fossil-backed, wins touted as breakthroughs...
> This is ridiculous

All you’re saying is repeating what I stated — libav removed unclean code and focused on cleaning it up, even if that meant losing a lot of functionality.

At the same time, ffmpeg merged pretty much everything, even if that lead to worse code, or security issues.

Yes, libav was slower in patching, but the goals with which it started were good in nature.

> There was longstanding animosity between the project lead and other developers, due to a variety of reasons, mainly his dictatorial leadership style.

That’s nothing different from what I said, I just tried to phrase it more nicely.

> It wasn't cleaner, just less. It became more and more "less" when ffmpeg gained new (well-designed) features, and libav refused to merge them just because they were not designed by libav.

More isn’t better. FFmpeg is one of the buggiest and most broken collections of code on this planet. Clean code, maintainability, and so on are actually important.

Look at libressl — they ripped out 90% of the functionality of openssl, cleaned up the API surfaces, etc. And yes, right now they’re still slower to patch some kinds of bugs than openssl, but once they patch them, they actually stay fixed, while each openssl patch opens a dozen new bugs.
Possibly in the past, but at this point I think everyone expects touchscreens to be multi-touch, which this can't be, not fully. (Since a higher finger can obstruct a lower one.) It's an awesome gimmick, but no one would try to sell a touch-integrated product with only single-touch now.
It seems to be statistically correlated, at least from my experience. We used to have a really cheap plan, now grandfathered in with just a handful of users, and those are - to this day - the most vocal group of complainers.

I believe that for some reason, a low price creates more entitlement than a higher price. I have yet to comprehend the psychology behind this, but customers paying up to three times as much complain far less often.
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Cool so no actual privacy groups like EPIC. Glad they overturned it.
How are Pearson digital/DRM/controlled access books not rent seeking?

My son used some Pearson books in high school. He doesn't "have" them anymore.
Interesting in the UK your continuously responding with your name and hospital number maybe there is more turnover in the US system.

Though I am a long term patient with a chronic condition so that might make a difference.
Ah. Thanks. I knew something didn't feel right.
The first steam engines had problems with leaking steam - this problem was solved, and then we had the industrial revolution.

Identifying problems that don't happen to have current solutions, and then suggesting other people not spend their time or resources trying to solve them, sounds like you have an agenda.
The US gives more aid around the world than any other country on Earth. The US has been an advocate and global protector of human rights and civil freedoms around the world for over half a century. The US has toppled brutal dictators like Saddam Hussein and kept the global peace. The US has given more to the world through its scientific and industrial innovation in the last 50 years than any other nation over the same span of time.

China has basically just kept to itself and has a terrible record on human rights and civil freedoms.

Most of the complaints about the US focus on comparatively small mistakes the US has made which people obsess over in support of their bitter agendas.
50 real USD says it's some kind of cryptocurrency nonsense.
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Plant based diet?

Well, that means lots of HFCS and starch, fried in vegetable oil, of course.
According that Wikipedia page, COSPAR defined two categorization systems, one for missions, one for celestial bodies.

In their ‘wisdom’, they decided to use Roman numerals I through V for both.

Missions to the moon fall in mission category II, but the moon itself falls in target category V (more precisely unrestricted category V)
Now you regret not putting in exceptions.
I haven't used it, but I believe JIMP might work for you if you're looking for a JS solution to image manipulation

https://github.com/oliver-moran/jimp
If it was about honest discovery of scientific facts, then there wouldn't be the arguing there is now. In fact, outside of the US, there isn't much arguing (there are a few fringe climate deniers, but they're not mainstream). The problem is vested interests, and people burying their heads in the sand because they're unwilling to give up aspects of their lifestyles.
>Renewables can and do deliver cheap, reliable, scalable energy. The automobile is a really good example of that, and electric cars are quickly edging out internal combustion. I imagine we're no more than two decades from total electric car base. There is such a thing as batteries, you know.

The electric cars are still made, transported, maintained, and powered by fossil fuels and nuclear.

Renewables at the moment (and for the foreseeable future) can't handle changing the world's fleet (?), or even 20% of it, to electric cars...

Renewables are to projected to be around 16%-18% in 2040:

"Should progress continue at the pace currently forecast, the share of renewables in final energy consumption would be roughly 18% by 2040"

https://www.iea.org/renewables2018/

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/United_S...
Hijacking search results because they are sour the Yelp deal didn't go their way isn't competing LOL. They've already been fined billions for similar behavior.
Hardkernel saw this need and addressed it; their boards use an eMMC daughterboard with a standardized connector that I could swear I've seen picked up by a few other vendors now.

I wonder if they'll switch over to this on some future generation.
That sounds more like a failure to do humidity tests during development than a fundamental failure mode of capacitative touchscreens.
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It's already illegal twice over.

Anyone "forwarding" packets from a connection to an ISP is almost certainly in breach of contract.

Amateur packet radio service regulations state that you may not use it for applications that are available over commercial services.
> Primary energy consumption grows at about 1% to 2% a year, and that rate has trended downward, more or less, since the 1960s. That’s linear growth

How come? Even "just" 1% per year growth in consumption is still exponential: starting with consuming 100 of something this year, in 70 years you'll consume 200 per year, but after the next 70 years you'll consume 400 per year.

During the first 70 years you would have totally consumed 10000 of that something, and during the next 70 years 20000 of that total. In the next 70 years, 40000 of that etc.

For 2% growth, each doubling takes just 36 years.

More details, quoting Al Bartlett's "The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function" here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20552490
Some of both; people do care, but not everyone loves every feature.

I feel that small business owners tend to be less tech savvy and more open to conspiratorial thinking, which leads to a lot of attention to anything Yelp does. If you read the comments even here on hn, many are not about the actual thing in question and many make accusations of unfair practises which have neve been accompanied by evidence.

In this particular case, we redirect calls about delivery just for restaurants who have signed a contract with GrubHub (which presumably included language allowing GrubHub to do this), so that GrubHub can attribute orders as coming "from Yelp" and charge for them the same way as they do online orders. I think there's some interesting things to discuss there, but it's not an obvious "this is wrong" feature to me.

(and the delivery market as a whole is a little messy -- see the Doordash tipping controversy for an example of something that I do feel is wrong and I would not be happy working on)
There is still no official proposal, but there are some early draft / ideas:

* https://github.com/racket/racket2-rfcs/pull/88

* https://github.com/racket/racket2-rfcs/issues/3#issuecomment...

There is a lot of discussion in that repository that are not about syntax. For example "the big renaming" https://github.com/racket/racket2-rfcs/issues/49 and "more immutability" https://github.com/racket/racket2-rfcs/issues/22 .
The design of this website brings so many memories. Where did the old internet go?!
> present a document or report at the end.

Yep. Our research tasks either produce a document for the team to read and then discuss and/or user stories for the team to discuss, point and work on. Which happens depends on what the research is about.

Also, if someone is a manager/lead, make it a point to read, understand and ask questions about the produced document. Nothing demotivates more than producing something that isn't used.