skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
how do you manage items you don't get to?
and how useful to you would data of task completion by type, time, etc be?
Err, so he thought Lincoln would lose the war, and he was in favor of bailing-out a bank (who 8 years later went bust).

That's hardly enough to warrant the "who got almost everything wrong" title. In general the article is just bad writing...
reh appears to be defined as a salty surface crust found on the soil in parts of India
You can suffer 60% loss on HVDC long range transmission alone, and that's assuming you have the tech for it.

There's a reason why coal is hauled to power station, instead of being burned near mines.
This isn't an important distinction presently, but keep in mind this is for Earth life. If we someday encounter alien life, they may be different, which could lead to some trouble if people are not careful [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEeLhqNLhZw
Evolving phishing attacks target journalists and activists in MENA
Interesting question.

"Replacement in what sense?" probably deserves exploration.

The underlying fundamental concepts of the Internet are 1) packet-switched (as opposed to through-circuit) communications, and inter-connected networks, via BGP.

There's a lot that's layered on top of this which is seen as fundamental, but is not entirely so, most especially end-to-end connectivity and universal point-to-point access. The Internet formed under tremendously different conditions than exist today, with only a handful of nodes through 1980, and even as late as the late 1980s only a few thousands.

Roughly each order-of-magnitude increases since then seem to have come with its own set of additional headaches and concerns, mostly regarding management and mitigation of abuse. The idea of guarded borders has long been seen as anathema. I see it as all but inevitable, and the question is whether that's done well or poorly.

There are a number of earlier networking ideas which might resurface or be adapted for new use, and a survey of history might be useful here. (John S. Quarterman's The Matrix, 1990, is a fascinating time-capsule exploration of these just at the cusp of the modern Internet -- the World Wide Web does not even make mention, though "The Web, a national Canadian nonprofit conferencing system formed in 1987, does.

I'd also look at uses of the Internet and user needs.

Fundamentally, digital networks serve as communications and control media. Whether or not these need to (or can be) segregated is an open question, but splitting off, say, the IoT from other communications, might make sense, along with SCADA and military communications -- all largely control networks.

Splitting out video and voice from text and data, likewise. Much of high-demand comes from those.

As the Internet heads from the first billion or two users to the remaining five or so, questions of what technology, interfaces, and devices are appropriate for a set of digital newcomers may be worth consideration.

Or, looking at this differently: the degree to which those already here may be interested in maintaining a separate space for themselves. Not that this is necessarily equitable, but it may well prove to be attractive, say, in particular to minimise fraud and other malicious use or attacks originating from the global poor, who are in many ways justified in wanting some of the pie that's been denied to, or taken from, them.

How the needs, wants, attractions, and/or detractors or aversions affect technology development and adoption remains to be seen.
The Minsky accusation and others like it are questionable. There's precisely one accuser, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who claims Epstein was procuring underaged girls for other men in his orbit, like Marvin Minsky, Bill Clinton, Bill Richardson, Alan Dershowitz, and Prince Andrew. There's another accuser who came forth during the 2016 election alleging Epstein gave her to Trump. Everyone else alleges that they were abused by Epstein and/or Ghislaine Maxwell. Giuffre's story goes far beyond what anyone else alleged. If it's true, why do none of the other numerous victims have similar stories? Dershowitz has claimed Giuffre is extorting people.
T-Mobile Put My Life in Danger, Says Woman Stalked with Illegal Location Data
Sure, they always could get a license of some of the browsers, and still it will be hard to force people switch to that browser, simply cause people are used to work in a Chrome, or Firefox, or even Edge, this software is convenient, and mostly it works perfect. It will be very hard for government, and they will lose trust even more, it's kinda painful to use services that our government provides, it's usually slow, full of bugs and it's takes long time for them to fix it.

By mentioning VPN I meant it will be the way to get a normal software if the will block the downloads and updates for the certian browsers.

Of course user privacy it's other topic and I don't think that most of the people will pay for the VPN.
Don't comment about downvotes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
So we shouldn't care about overhead costs imposed on taxpayers because we don't care about overhead costs imposed on taxpayers?

If you're not aware, the reason we don't have "some sort of easy file card" isn't any choice by the IRS, it's a choice by Congress at the behest of the tax preparation industry.
Many reasons, but likely the most prominent is that Florida has long been the country's locus for pilot training.

The reason for that in turn likely has something to do with being extraordinarily flat, with good year round weather and close to major population centers.
That is pretty grim. Better, though, than the odds over the same time period for some WWII bomber crews. Which probably also wasn't the worst job.
Goldman Plans Hiring Spree in Trading (Only Coders Need Apply)
Where can a person check in that website all the paperwork and procedures that one has to undergo to travel from country A to B ?

Do I have to subscribe and make an account just for that simple information?
The title of the post says "explore visa requirements". So I go to the site, select "travel from USA to France" and hit the button. The only thing I see about visa requirements is "Visa Required: Yes". Nothing else. Not much to explore. The fact that a US citizen does not need a visa to travel to any Schengen country is besides the point.
Preview link
https://htmlstream.com/preview/awesome-dashboard-ui-kit/inde...
Okay, so the correct information is: Most countries can travel to Mexico without a visa (for tourism for 180 days or less). Separately, nationals of other countries which would require a visa can travel to Mexico without a visa if they have a visa or non-citizenship permanent residence from the CA/JPN/EU/UK/US.

Thanks, I appreciate the clarification.
I'm always sad when I see *nixes using FS as datatypes.

conf.d to indicate list of entries as files for instance.
Have a citation for those losses? I haven’t seen HVDC lines with losses above single digits.

“HVDC transmission has typically 30-50% less transmission loss than comparable alternating current overhead lines. (For comparison: given 2500 MW transmitted power on 800 km of overhead line, the loss with a conventional 400-kv AC line is 9.4%; with HVDC transmission at 500 kV, it is only 6%, and at 800 kV it is just 2.6%.)” [1]

Also, there are many coal plants sited right at coal mines.

[1] https://www.siemens.com/press/pool/de/events/2012/energy/201...
>>Some of the companies had sued government and mobile carriers for that connection issues.

Government shaking in their boots...a lawsuit will teach a dictatorship
Cognitive scientists have been studying the computational foundations of vision in depth since at least the 1980s (see David Marr's 1982 book Vision), and AI scientists have been using neural networks for computer vision tasks for at least as long. So yeah, I'm no expert, but this probably isn't the ground-breaking work the article makes it out to be.
> You're describing easier for a computer, which isn't really relevant. For a developer, parsing JSON is clearly easier than parsing a binary format. For effectively every major language nowadays, it's a single function call, and you're done, it's hard to beat that.

If you're talking about the ability of the human eye and brain to see the binary format and understand it, then yes. JSON is pre-humanized. I would say that it's pretty easy to write a visualizer for binary data if you know the format, and I would add that the time taken to write that visualizer is trivial compared to the execution time saved by using a binary file or protocol over JSON over even a short period of time.

> In practice, sending & parsing JSON instead of a binary format is not going to make your debugging experience here any _noticeably_ slower (if you have a DAP case where it does, I'd love to see it) and it is going to make development quicker & easier, and make the traffic inflight easier to debug too.

Debugging performance of a debugger is orders of magnitude larger than the time saved by using a binary file/format, you're right. That's a problem with debuggers, not with binary data storage.

> It's a tradeoff of course, but for most cases it's worthwhile.

Yeah for many cases JSON is a fine choice. For a protocol that goes between a computer program and another computer program (such as the IDE and the debugger process, as in the use case of the Debug Adapter Protocol) it is a bad choice. It's necessarily slower and more wasteful of bandwidth and CPU time than a binary protocol would have been. Debuggers are slow enough, they don't need to be made slower by using JSON.
How to write code away from distractions?
I was going to recommend Octavia E. Butler, but I see she is already on the list. The whole Xenogenesis trilogy is good, not just Dawn (first in the series). Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents likewise.

And Connie Willis' To say nothing of the dog is hilarious! It will brighten anyone's day.

I'll just have to starting working through that list, now.
Couldn't get arrow keys (or scroll) working on FF on Windows. If you select text and drag to select, the screen scrolls.
$20 billion a year would relieve a lot of people's suffering (I dunno, I could be wrong.) If people are simply numbers in a system, then yes, we can't "massively tip the scale" with $20 billion and we should ignore statistically insignificant strategies.
Webmin Backdoor
Code Size Optimization: GCC Compiler Flags
Ah, I misread it. Cheers!
Almost certainly Mars would have been seeded billions of years ago, w. bacteria hitching rides on ejected debris from asteroid impacts, when conditions were much more hospitable there. And of course it could have gone in the other direction also. Even autopanspermia -- where ejecta from a planet-sterilizing megaimpact later comes back to the cooled off world -- is a possibility.
Oh, this is wonderful. Getting closer to that multilang WASM world.
My understanding is that's how contactless (somewhat) took off in Japan. Though Japan as a whole is still even more cash-centric than Germany is. It wouldn't surprise me that the use of contactless cards at least in places like convenience stores and vending machines arose in part because credit card use isn't that widespread.
> “This isn’t a place,” a staffer told me while rolling a joint on a piece of rough-hewn garden furniture. “It’s a diaspora, a guiding light out of our collective darkness, an arrow pointing us toward the best way to be fully human.”

People who speak this way should be rounded up and executed.
And if you want Brazil’s Amazon to sink your carbon, why don’t you pay Brazil to sink your carbon? Or do you want them to do that for free while each of you burn 7 times as much as each of them? Well, good luck with that.
I will look into it!

edit: fyi it's originally because the information about Encryption Compliance is so confusing. I just use HTTPS and I'm pretty sure the documentation has gotten clearer in the meantime, so I'm optimistic.
The perfect OS is no OS. An OS is just specialized software that provides services, but by providing those services and only those services, you're locked into that OS, and all those services whether you want them or not.

And we have to do that because we don't want all our software to have to provide the basic services, but we don't really get that: we still have to provide all the libraries it needs, some of which emulate an OS anyway by providing a big, complex runtime.

So I don't think this is an OS problem, it's a build problem. If I can ask a machine what services it has, and ask the software what services it needs, it should be possible to find a minimal solution.

I think NixOS gets very close to this ideal, even though it's obviously built on a traditional OS. But if we're going to talk about the "ultimate OS" I think it's worth it to ask, "how much can we take away from this?"

And the reason to want that is simply driving towards the goal of making software components that are able to work together reliably rather than building these monolithic devices that only a handful of veterans can understand.
> even though its territory isn't being threatened in any way

It isn't threatened because of its powerful military; also why Europeans can spend all that money on healthcare instead of defense: a benevolent democracy to provide safety. Not to mention it stokes the richest economy and innovation.
> Wouldn't that be roughly equivalent to borrowing from future generations?

No?

It would be roughly equivalent to saying that income greater than $130K also paid Social Security tax.
OneUp: How to bootstrap and be profitable in a VC-funded market
But the major improvement that made everyone switch was process separation for each tab

Which IE8 had around the same time (It may have launched after Chrome, but in the contemporaneous betas, they both had the feature)

What made people switch was a combination of everything google did having the sheen of "cool" around it, and the fact that I.E development was slow and shoddy.
Watts thought of everything first. Another comment here (for some reason, downvoted to oblivion) was reminded of Echopraxia.
Right, and so by your own logic and based on your other comments, your version of intellectual critique is to lament that Subway doesn't serve pizza and spaghetti [I mean suuuure, they have meatball subs, but that doesn't make up for blah blah blah].

Can you even articulate why your argument matters? Your criticism basically boils down to a reductive (and racist and sexist) definition of "diversity" where the only measure is the proportion of white men, at the same time confusing racial and gender diversity with intellectual diversity. Do you know what a Red Herring is?

Anyway, why does this matter? Either there are no important difference between the races and genders, or the fundamental premise supporting the segregationist and ethno-nationalist POV is true. You can't have it both ways.
Console-as-a-service eliminates need to build tools for customer-facing teams
According to the Wikipedia HVDC losses are below 3% per 1000km. To have 60% loss you'd need to transmit the power halfway across the globe.
Agree, but: Most free VPNs are run by state-owned actors, may also in fact be honey-pots, which are now dripping with meta-data for literally everything you do on the Internet. Whilst that is not strictly worse than MiTMd HTTPS, it is still a step in the wrong direction.
There is a very interesting arms race happening in relation to targeting of journalists and activists over the past few years. From Finfisher to Hacking Team and NSO Group and even more sophisticated him grown stuff, it is getting harder and harder to stay on top of things. Governments and adversaries (including corporate intelligence) are deploying ever more sophisticated tools to try and gain access.

But it's not just about access, it's also about how they use the information they gather. For example lower level disruption seems to be increasingly spreading (disrupt their donors and reputation, damage their personal life), rather than high level (and public) attacks (beat them up, arrest them). I've worked on this for over a decade with 50+ organisations and we'll over a 1000+ individual journalists/activists and have started to put together a full strategic theory about how it is happening and ways to counter. Though to be honest I am a little concerned about what may be seen as a red team playbook (which is clearly not my intention). Also I'm trying to find the best medium and location to be able to discuss this.

For those on Hacker News who are interested in helping journalists and activists protect themselves in situation such as these. You might be interested in an app we built and launched called Umbrella. It's a free, open source app with best practice advice on how activists/journalists can stay safe at protests, deal with arrest, surveillance, send a secure mail or communication etc. We wanted an all-in-one guide for anyone who needs help. You can read more about it at https://secfirst.org or try it

iOS:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/umbrella-security/id14537153...

Android:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.secfirst.u...
> But, it would be great to have an actual fact-based answer as to what has happened.

This would be inconvenient to the business models of Big Medicine and Big Food.

Good places to start an investigation are the official advocacy for replacing saturated fats with deodorized vegetable oils [1], the holy war against sweet forms of sugar (mix of fructose/glucose) instead of waging war on starch (chains of non-sweet insulin-stimulating glucose), the advocacy for chemical non-caloric sweetners (sucralose, etc), the contamination of the food supply with imitation foods (orange drink vs. orange juice, etc), and considering whether fortified grains is really the nutritional panacea it is supposed to be.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10536349

edit: added "non-caloric" and "sucralose"
Problem is that first thing directly leads to corruption, so it's a rather poor excuse, and in practice simply legitimizes it.
> At the time I started using Chrome IE was the dominant web browser and firefox was losing the war [...]

This is false. Firefox's market share was continuously rising until Chrome came along (and Google marketed it aggressively). IE was still strong but already losing.
I think lgn are a very small part of the visual system as per www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_system (and also uni classes)
Just to check, are you ruling out hiring a freelancer?
One surgery had complications, they had to remove a large portion of her carotid artery during an emergency procedure. She was dead for a bit too long and suffered brain damage from it. The other time, she bleed out from a hysterectomy.
A good, friendly site for this info is much needed. But, as many have pointed out, this is a particularly tough problem to solve as the source of info is itself unreliable.

I checked India to eSwatini and was not surprised to find that the country was still listed with its old name, Swaziland. The visa situation for this pair is complex with a visa preapproval that's needed and a visa to be obtained in eSwatini not at the border but at an office in the city (which you are allowed to go to). And, naturally, none of this is documented anywhere.
Pretty cool. I am just wondering why they choose to color the runways from yellow to blue while using blue for mountains too...
Chrome indeed also uses a master password and keeps saved passwords encrypted end to end, just like 1Password, LastPass and Firefox Sync.
> Without DRM, I won't send you the file.

If you're going to claim control over my computer in the process, I would prefer that you not send me the file. If the price is accepting DRM then it would be better for everyone if the file never existed.
We've been using the Requestbin alpha for a few weeks and have found it valuable for us. Interested in other people's thoughts on this.
There is a lot of that, but I also see stories about people who have been held by the police and then let go, and people who have been interviewed about stigmatised health issues.

It's reasonable that they don't want these stories to be the first thing potential employers see when they google them.
I never understood this trope. I have not found this to be the case.

I think people who weren't around developing for the majority IE days are the ones saying this. It was just so much worse

For instance, before Edge adopted Chromium, it didn't have support for the web components/custom elements specification. Safari was one of the first browsers to have it properly (I think even before FireFox) beside Chrome (which had a reasonable interest in having it)

Also Safari mostly supports newer CSS standards, and they even propose some very good ideas to the W3C/WHATWG groups (like their Template Instantiation proposal [0])

[0]https://github.com/w3c/webcomponents/blob/gh-pages/proposals...
I like Joe Rogan and I agree. It's more conversational and that's what I like.
> The people who would be most impacted by rising petroleum prices would be those least able to afford it.

The people who will be most impacted by climate change and rising seas will also be those least able to afford it.

You can tax carbon and offset it with a tax credit, so it doesn't hurt poor households as much. British Columbia does it.
Mathe framework turns any sheet of material into any shape using kirigami cuts
How do I override that blacklist and forcefully whitelist that certificate?
> The codex, handwritten, allowed random access

So do scrolls. You're not supposed to open the entire scroll at once. The codex is better at this.

> but was still phenomenally expensive to create. On the order of a million dollars per copy.

This is nonsense. You can prepare a very expensive book, but you don't have to. The idea that books were necessarily earth-shakingly expensive to create conflicts with the known reality of commercial popular novels in the ancient world.
Garbage inflation? It was only about 90% in Theodore Sturgeon's day.
That is the plan! Also we are in the process of implementing api's for more accurate info
Well there's no way he gave up his entire stake in the company. I would assume he continues on as part of the board, or at least an advisory role.
I don't think Falcon is "old guard". It got stable just about 3 years ago.
That's rarely because of a lack of technology, though. Entrenched business processes, human bias, "old boy networks", fear of losing jobs, etc. are far bigger factors in things outside of SV often sucking. You can build the perfect solution for a problem at an amazing price and Accenture would still win because the people making the decisions want Accenture, not the actual best solution.
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> Why does the Southern US seem to contain the highest concentration of North-South runways in the world?

It has to do with prevailing winds. Thanks to the Gulf of Mexico, winds in the eastern half of Texas and the surrounding states pretty consistently blow south to north.
Why not use https://webkit.org/ to test against it? you can usually just get the version of webkit that mobile safari is based on and build it

Yes, it is a hassle, but it works well in my experience.

Also this:

https://webkit.org/blog/9395/webdriver-is-coming-to-safari-i...
The poorest are also least equipped to deal with the consequences of catastrophic global warming.
Uh, it says people drive on the left side in the United States. Also, there's some weird caching artifact. When I repeat the search for a different pair of countries, it takes me back to the results of my previous search
Er, they aren't out of left field, any more than naming Steven Pinker or Dershowitz is 'out of left field'. Gosh, how many names would you have to go down to think about those guys? Well - not that many when you consider that she's just naming people who were already known to have gone to Epstein dinners etc. That's not that large a set of people, and why would you name random people who had never had any kind of association with Epstein when you can pick ones you knew were at least around at some point and thus plausible?