skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> including textual information that would be written as Markdown (with a WYSIWYG editor) directly in one or more cells. I thought that it would be an easy way to create complete financial reports, for instance. The landing page's images still reflect that.

> But as soon as it launched, I noticed that no one was using it for text-heavy reports.

I think the issue with that approach is that text-heavy reports don't perfectly overlap with the web. Speaking for basically all Wall St investment bankers out there, we spend our days generating reports from Excel into PowerPoint.

If something existed for Excel + PowerPoint that worked similarly to RMarkdown + Rstudio > PDF, I think it would be a game changer, even if only used to generate a few of the more "automated" reports.

There you go, free killer business idea for you ;-)
Please consider adding support for non-qwerty keyboards (we don't have wasd, but zqsd). MDN has a very good example for this: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/KeyboardEve...

Very impressive demo otherwise!
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Similar story here in Fayetteville Arkansas. I’ve been enjoying a truly gigabit internet for $80/mo since 2017. AT&T and Cox still don’t have anything remotely close to the gigabit speed in residential areas.

https://www.ozarksgo.net/internet
I live in one of the Idaho communities that would be most greatly affected by the removal of the Snake River dams.

If you're interested in the counter-argument, take a look at the Washington Grain Commission's fact sheet:

http://wagrains.org/snake-river-dams-facts/

I think the most productive thing that could be done for the debate (assuming you believe that removing the Snake River dams would be a net-positive, as I do), is to focus on solutions that allow farmers to get their grain to major ports, cost-effectively without relying on the dams.

Take a look at this fact sheet on the ratio of barges, to trucks and trains required to move the same amount of grain:

https://www.pnwa.net/factsheets/CSRS.pdf

A single barge-load of wheat going down the Snake would take 538 trucks. Nobody (besides perhaps trucking companies) wants to put that many additional trucks on the road. However, a train car with 140 cars could take the equivalent of a 4-barge run down the Snake.

The latest comprehensive economic impact study performed on the issue is this one: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TDDHFUn5eNoQyH251rscHiKvfRS... - which broadly concluded that dam removal would be a net positive economic impact for the region, but would (as with any major shift) have winners and losers. As long as grain farmers are among the losers, I expect that lower Snake River damn removal will be a non-starter from a standpoint of local support.
Another good option is your local library system. They almost certainly have the dvd, and for free too.
When it comes to this stuff, simply look at what China is doing. It seems to be ground zero for future censorship methods.

The next approach is probably VPNs, although they won't last forever. Governments could always just pass a law outlawing encryption (China has banned VPNs) or compelling services to allow them to man-in-the-middle for any connection. Once it becomes illegal to hide your online activities, there's very little you can do and remain legal.

That said, tricks also exit for hiding data in plain sight (see steganography [1]). Then you end up in this weird territory of illegal numbers and representations of them [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number
>I personally appreciate the headline saying "town" in a colloquial sense

But that's the problem. It's not a "town" in a colloquial sense for anyone who grew up outside of major metro areas. If 170k is not enough, then there are no cities in Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, nor South Dakota.
It seems to me neither your case nor what parent comment describes is about convenience, but merely about not wanting to pay too much for all the streaming services. I mean I don't think you would pay 10x more for netflix if it had everything, right?
Gimp is garbage bro. A window for each tool? That your WM manages? Okay where is that tools window or layers window or what if I’m editing 20 icons and one of my icons was covered by a browser window. At least old photoshop would remember z order and bring them to the surface and keep tools on top. Gimp May have fixed this one issue but it’s an example of why paid UX design wins 99 times out of 10
People will pay more than that if it actually had everything on it.
Cordova can access native features on phones via plugins - database, camera, sensors, etc. As well as use different designs for Android/iOS with the same code via Ionic/F7.
This is true of releasing code in general. Changes that accumulate over time actually increase risk whether it be desktop or server-side.
While I disagree with briandear, I don't find it sociopathic.
(It's like the PG said - be aware of what the Taboos/unspeakable ideas are in society.)

I live in Canada as an immigrant, love it here, would never move, and USA health/insurance system frankly baffles me, even having lived there for a year previously. Don't even remotely understand why people put up with sheer complexity and opaqueness.

But I appreciate people like the GP [briandear] that eloquently and clearly help me understand alternative perspectives different to my own. I think it's a very valid, very core discussion of values and goals: is it equal care for all, or do we prioritize it? And I agree with GP [briandear] that shying away from this core discussion muddles the issue. Sometimes it feels like USA builds ever more complex systems to mask the goals and direction of its health care system, rather than a simple system that would fess up and do whatever it's meant to do efficiently :-/
It's considerably better than that. Some examples:

The first time I went to China, I tried to pay for something with a debit card and my account got locked. I had to call the bank to OK it.

Subsequently, being in China has never been a problem, though I don't bother to tell the bank where I am at any given time.

On the other hand, after a trip to Georgia (the US state), my card information was apparently skimmed and used to make a fraudulent purchase, in Georgia, a week later. My legitimate purchases on the trip triggered no alarms, but the fraudulent one triggered a phone call to me alerting me that the bank had detected suspicious behavior on my account. I'm still amazed they could tell the difference.
So you (like 95% of the commenters here) prefer Gitlab be cause it’s cheap.

Bodes well for the business model. Commodity pricing only works when the market gets bigger as the price goes down. Otherwise, it’s just a race to the bottom.
> Pork? Probably because they noticed pig herders/handlers got various diseases.

Right. So it would be a religious codification of "common sense", as suggested by the original poster who suggested that the same might have happened with people getting unwell from milk.

For whatever it's worth, the theory I've read about pigs was that they simply weren't a good match for a nomadic lifestyle in an arid region. People still wanted to keep them though (presumably because they taste good), and it took a religious prohibition to keep them from it. No idea what the historical consensus is.
I had the same experience, but I did see quite a few positions in the list that were catered towards juniors or entry level positions so it seems like it would still be really helpful for some people.
> That means a carbon tax.

This seems like the most sensible route, rather than trying to dictate what is 'ok' and what is not.
Why not just use promises?

side note: legit question, I don't do web/app dev
I want a standard package for IoT stuff: a smaller form factor Pi Zero with battery and connectivity running a normal OS.
Yup, you can think of ISO GQL as the future of Cypher.
Her name is Xiaoning Sui, she had $400,000 in cash to wire around, the whole thing was setup through a translator, and her alleged primary residence is in Surrey, BC.

Rest assured, this person is a mainlander washing money in Canada.
If you want to steal, you're going to steal.

In terms of video streaming choices ... yeah, it's going to be the case there will be a few of those. What's the alternative? Netflix gets a monopoly?
We used It's Learning in "high school". It had login without https at the time, and on the school wifi it was then easy to listen and get other's credentials. Some people got hold of some teachers' credentials, and tried to remove or alter some minuscule data.

One guy however, decided to sell grade-editing as a service to others. Of course it was noticed by the school, and it became a big deal with police involved and everything. Happy ending, though, the two people I know that was involved got master's in compsci a few years later.
> Also, the name is of course justified, but it will be a mess to search for due to (Facebook) GraphQL.

Google's GQL [0], which is older than either, doesn't help the searchability, either.

[0] https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/reference/gql_refere...
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> my first question would not be about the origin but about the embedding itself. The user's input is rendered in the web frontend of blackboard? Why?

I think Blackboard sees this as a convenience feature, i.e. students submit assignments as, say, PDF documents and they can be viewed directly within Blackboard without the extra steps of downloading. Just silly that it works with anything that can interact with web API, but maybe that was requested specifically?

> Is the client js generally allowed to perform http requests outside of the origin domain?

EDIT: By default, yes, but I'm not sure what restrictions can be applied. (I'm misremembering how CORS even works so I took out my previous paragraph.)

In any case, Blackboard probably provided other tools they could use within the domain as well. For example they could probably trigger some sort of user-to-user private messaging and send the token in the body.
My cellphone (pocket computer) needs 10 Wh to run all day. For the same amount of energy, the lights in my office will run for 6 minutes. I'm not buying this "must decomputerize" pitch.
I don't know about doing this directly with v8, but when used in the browser, the code will be cached after being compiled a certain number of times.
The GQL project just started. Since it is going to be an ISO standard, the specification is only available for members while under development but may be purchased from ISO once final (Same as for SQL, though you can find copies on the internet).

GQL will be a declarative language in the spirit of existing property graph query languages like Cypher, so that gives you an idea. I'm sure as the project proceeds, various artefacts (software or otherwise) will become freely available.

If you want to dig deeper, gqlstandards.org links to some documents that are copyright Neo4j and have been submitted to the standards process.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16CUhVI1PQ4hBlhD80_Ys...
Stop computering in places where fossile fuel is used for electricity. Build datacenters next to cheap renewable or nuclear energy and access cold air and water. There are hundreds of abandoned industry sites near lakes and rivers in Northern Europe for example.
Nerds geeks and dorks like me have never had an easy time in life. Now we have mobs to consider.
Linked Data tends to live in a semantic web world that has a lot of open world assumptions. While there are a few systems like this out there, there aren't many. More practically focused systems collapse this worldview down into a much simpler model, and property graphs suit just fine.

There's nothing wrong with enabling linked data use cases, but you don't need RDF+SPARQL+OWL and the like to do that.

The "semantic web stack" I think has been shown by time and implementation experience to be an elegant set of standards and solutions for problems that very few real world systems want to tackle. In the intervening 2 full generations of tech development that have happened since a lot of those standards were born, some of the underlying stuff too (most particularly XML and XML-NS) went from indispensable to just plain irritating.
On the attacker's extra tries. that's assuming a straight username/password combo with no additional data.

For UK banks at least, I can't think of a single one that's only username/password.

The better ones are 2FA, the less advanced ones will at least have something like username+password+"some kind of secondary secret" so straight online brute force is unlikely to be successful.

Also your attacker shouldn't know about the impending lockout, so unless they have some way of knowing when a user has logged in, they'll end up locking the account (well assuming username/password ofc)
Arguing about which definition should be used for something is a common theme in Culture Wars, but I think it's a pretty unproductive one.

(The whole reason people argue about those definitions is so that they can get their preffered associations/affect attached to a particular thing by pulling it under the umbrella of a particular word. This is done to manipulate the ignorant masses who can't separate connotation and affect from denotation.)

See also: non-central fallacy

There's also a somewhat related but different thing you are doing the same thing by using the term "sexual abuse" rather than "sexual interaction", they convey the same information but the former includes a value judgement.
It's called deplatforming / cancelling / damnatio memoriae by someone called Selam Jie Gano. Every system of power needs executors.
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https://s3.amazonaws.com/artifacts.opencypher.org/M14/railro...

See http://www.opencypher.org/resources for more.
>No surprise. Even we (HN) predicted this the moment the first content company withdrew their content from Netflix.

Did you need to predict anything? Why would you think that Netflix would get to be a monopoly for all content delivery?
Phones like this already exist. See, for example, The Light Phone: https://www.thelightphone.com
yes, but the masts, wifi, network and servers to support that consume a lot more than 10Wh
I absolutely positively could not agree more.

Majority of my managers have heard the word somewhere, tried to infer its meaning from dictionary definition, and started using it arbitrarily. Most frequent phrase is "We need to be more AGILE!", which 98.72% of the time simply means "We need to whip the workers more and have them work harder, faster, longer.... somehow".
Follow the money. How much money does these orgs give FB?
We’re overfishing everywhere. China has gone all the way to West Africa:

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-47698314/is-china-s...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/opinion/china-wants-fish-...
I wonder if you can factor the number 15 on it yet. Actually I don't wonder; I know for a fact that they can't do it.
This has been my experience as well. I've also applied for job listings that required a degree and still interviewed (and received offers).

I think the degree requirement is often interchangeable with professional experience.
> Yet, systems such as the NHS are at the brink of financial collapse.

The reason for this is the Tories are defunding it and taking stabs at it. So that NHS becomes unpopular with public and could be privatized into US style healthcare.

Its straight out of neo-liberal playbook, de-fund/cripple public institution, replace management with 'your' people who further japerdise the institution. Start PR campaign against institution to ridicule it and when people buy the PR, cut it up and sell it off.
No, the reason is that `xor ax, ax` has a shorter encoding, because it only takes 3 bits to encode a register on 32-bit x86, and far more bits are required for a useful immediate move. It would be ridiculous to have a short encoding for `mov rN, #imm` where the immediate has to be in the range 0-7.
I recently rented a movie on amazon, and then I didn't have the option to get english subtitles, only subtitles in my native language.

I wonder why that is, and I'm assuming it is because of some cumbersome contractual relations.

On a DVD I'm pretty certain I could have gotten English subtitles.

So now I'm paying, but I still get sub-par content?

I ended up using a plugin to add the subtitles back in, but that plugin works on pirate streams too. Could've pirated it in the first place.
Great article. Loving the idea of micro front ends.
never left >:D
Only 8.4% of prisons in the US are private and for profit.
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I have both Prime and Netflix, and depending on region there is plenty that neither of them have.

Video store is not an option - there are none. Sometimes I've resorted to ordering, but it's gotten to the point where it feels like enough of a pain compared to streaming that I have on occasion bought things on Prime that I have sitting in one of my DVD boxes rather than spend the time to find the DVD.
Glad to read this. Never used inkscape beyond the CLI tools. I hope they continue to keep this chunk of their software mature and growing, too.

Here's my all-time favorite thing to do... transform font types to paths inside svgs (so one doesn't need to hold that font asset in CDN, ...) :

inkscape -T -A tmp-hack.pdf orig-w-custom-fonts.svg

inkscape -l final.svg tmp-hack.pdf
AFAICR for the UK anyway Lloyds is not a straight username/password is it?

Also with PSD2 coming along they'll be doing MFA now, I'd guess.
My little village (around ~1200 people I believe) in Central New York is currently exploring its own municipality owned internet. They sent out surveys to all the residents a few months back to see if there's a large enough interest.
But if a website breaks, you can get more idea about why it happened by comparing your current browser's calendar version to the latest update. For example, you will know you are behind x years of updates. With semantic versioning, you don't know how old you have not been updating your installation.

Since there are more websites than extensions, the utilitarian approach would be to choose 2019-10 over 76.0.0.
It's not about whether it's legal per se... the article is written with a sense of "Can you believe this insane law was still on the books until recently?" It really doesn't seem particularly insane, or even bad, to me.
Perfect example. I have Netflix, Prime and Hulu. Thats already too many as most have a bunch of crap and a few shows I like, some have duplicate content.

I watched One Punch man on Netflix and can also watch on Hulu. Season Two was released on Hulu. Well that works for me but what about people who had Netflix, Like OPM and now want to watch season 2?

I've been binging Star Trek. I'd also like to watch the new series on CBS. Of course CBS had the bright odea of starting their own streaming service. The cost is $5.99/mo with commercials or 9.99/mo without commercials. No.

So all the idiots taking their toys home and starting their own streaming biz are driving piracy. I used to download TV shows all the time but streaming made that unnecessary as I could pay a little money to have legal access to plenty of things I want to watch. No one wants to juggle multiple streaming services just to watch a few shows. People don't want to go back to spending $200 on TV and internet. I'd rather spend no more than $25/mo on tv and $50 for >=100mbit internet. Thats an ideal number considering I spend less on electricity each month.
How much do they use compared to 24 hours of constant, valueless office lighting?
way too long of an article and obvious to anyone who knows about politics and political discourse over the past few decades. the window shifts. views that were not controversial become controversial, and the other way around.

>But dictators aren’t the only ones who use mute buttons. Given all of the obvious benefits of free speech, when a culture or a movement or an individual citizen seems threatened by free speech, the first question you should ask is: “Why? What are they so scared of?” Free speech is a tool that helps us see what’s true versus false and right versus wrong—so if you believe truth and virtue are on your side, a vibrant, open discourse is your best friend. And if someone is trying to repress free speech—that tells us something important.

this does not seem to apply to social networks and YouTube. tons of ppl and content creators have been censored or terminated for making certain content and remarks outside of the overton window.
The pluses about a carbon tax is that it also affects the more invisible ways that we are killing the environment - hating on big tech is cool, hating on the car you use to get to work isn't as cool. Both should be taxed relative to their emissions.
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You don't have to take my word for it. There's recently been a push for expansion of Romania's broadband network to more rural areas. At an investment of about $110 million US, it will reach an expected 150,000 additional households, for a cost around $730 per household. Compare that to the US, where the estimate is closer to $3000 and as high as $8000 per household, a 7 to 11 fold increase over Romania. [0]

Nearly all aspects of infrastructure build out are heavily weighted towards labor costs. A 2009 rule in the US required large projects use union labor, and just that marginal increase in labor costs increased infrastructure costs by around 15%. Anecdotally, I had a home addition some years back. Materials costs about 20%, labor about 80%.

Also once built, the capital expenditures for something like broadband drop to negligible rates while the labor cost of maintenance & administration just keeps on going, maybe not as high as the initial build but you need new & different workers too-- sales reps, account managers, etc. Given that prices tend towards the marginal cost of production over time, in this case being mostly labor, it makes perfect sense that a country with 1/8 the labor costs could offer a service at 1/5 the cost in the US, the difference in those proportions accounting for the marginal capital costs of maintenance.

[0] https://www.telegeography.com/products/commsupdate/articles/...
The author also doesn't mention black holes, but there's a huge one at the center of our galaxy which will gladly do away with us and all our problems.

Electron arguments aside, computers need matter and a lot of that matter in them is rare, which requires things like strip mining and other non-Earth-friendly activities. If we manage to pull off a walking/talking/joke cracking AI, it and its little AI buds will likely demand every erg of power they can get. Sorta like my dog at dinner time.

Also, the amount of compute we are creating is accelerating at a non-linear rate, which is why there was a discussion about Bitcoin using so much energy at such and such a point in time in the future.

The speed of networking is not increasing at the same rate as compute.
This is chapter six of a much, much longer article; (which is not yet all published). Make sure you read it with that understanding, this is not intended to be read in isolation.

https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/08/story-of-us.html
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may drive HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH

.onion tpb is easier to use and much clearner than ever
I'm personally fine with paying for them all, just hate that they are all separate apps with wildly difference experiences. I LOVE how I can get HBO as an add-on for Hulu, and have it all in one place to manage my "watch-list", ratings, tastes, etc. It's super frustrating you won't be able to get Disney+ as an add-on (for ad-free Hulu), as well. In the future, if there is just a universal app where I could get Netflix, Hulu, HBO, Disney+, and Amazon Prime, that would be the most superior experience. Obviously I doubt such an app would ever exist, but what they don't get is that it's more about convenience/hassle than the cost.