skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mr Church is entitled to his opinion but I take issue with two of his points.

As far as his list of Al Qaeda heavies killed by strikes goes, it had become even a staple of late night comedy routines at that point that the newest "Al Qaeda No 2" had been blown up. It felt like the military was writing the press releases for Stars and Stripes and distributing them to everyone.

And with regard to his link about the Muslim Brotherhood and settlement and civilizational jihad, the last I heard about Hizb ut-Tahrir in America they were trying to buy some 40 acre dairy farm in Wisconsin and failing miserably (no word about any mules)
You are also not supposed to step from sidewalk into road without looking.
~ I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

Large groups of people are so embarrassingly bad at predicting the future that I'm always impressed when they get it right; but trying to do so often has a lot of positive side effects. Being ready to secede is a stupid one, but as a metaphor for "something goes wrong and we can't rely on people 1,000km away to provide for us" it would lead to some excellent planning.

Modern society is extremely efficient, extremely cheap and profoundly untested. We've had commercial electricity for 15 decades, the internet for 3 decades and quality GPS for 2. These are not long times on the scale that a country's logistics channels operate at; because things so central to how we work need to be ready for 1 in 100 and 1 in 200 year style events. Excessive caution may not actually be excessive.
I like the touchbar. I don't love it, but I like it and use it. For a Mac at least, if I were choosing between two otherwise-identical laptops, and one had the touchbar, and one didn't: I would choose the touchbar version.

I'm a longtime user of vi keys. I use them in Emacs Viper, vim in a pinch, and everything I can that uses readline. As such, I use the ESC constantly and I truly don't understand why people find it such a problem for ESC to be on the touchbar. It's just a slightly different feel but since it's a reach anyway, having a low-effort key there works for me. I don't know if I'd call it better but it's definitely fine. I've been using a touchbar Mac for all work for at least two years (I'm on my third--I don't remember when I got my first but it was around then) and it just isn't an issue for me.

On the other hand, since I use an alternate keyboard layout (Dvorak), it's quite nice to be able to put an input method switcher on the upper right of the touchbar that displays the current layout and allows me to toggle it. It was critical for years to be able to do this just to be able to practically use Yubikey hardware tokens, for example.

I also like having a screenshot button with an actual icon where I want it and to discard some of the control locations of the hardware function keys. Similarly having a lock screen button next to the fingerprint sensor is useful.

This makes the touchbar a bit better than function key buttons for me. Of course I could remap or reassign function key buttons; but for me function keys are infrequently used, so the icons and being able to create my familiar and preferred layout is a help. I use a different platform with function key buttons for a personal laptop, and while I have a button for ESC the rest of the function keys are comparatively less useful to me.
> Stupidity is contagious. And Microsoft's idea of innovation is copying what the others do

Microsoft Office switched to the "backstage" menu in Office 2010, long before full-screen menus became a popular pattern. Office 2007 had the app menu, which is the same as the File menu in the Windows File Explorer. In my opinion, the app menu is far superior simply because it doesn't change the context and it's easily dismissable.

> The new way to have fun is to be in a meeting and see the presenter trying for 5 minutes to find something in the ribbon menu.

The Ribbon is far superior to the old teetering tower of random menus, toolbars, and panels. Everything is in a single logical place, with (almost) every button having a text label and many having intuitive icons. And now it has a search bar.
This is ridiculous. Trump's economic policy is a near exact copy of what Krugman has been advocating for years. See my previous comment with an itemized list of op-ed pieces by Krugman linked with major themes of Trump's economic rhetoric:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20647721
Why does it make sense to have independent grids?

In Europe most of our grids are already connected and there are plans to create a supergrid that stretches all the way from Finland down to North Africa (mainly to get connected to the future Saharan solar plants).

Usually the bigger the grid the more resilient it is and the less dispersion there is in demand.
The demise of TTS was truly unfortunate. I got a 'Kindle Paperwhite' a few years back but I still primarily use my 'Kindle Keyboard' because it has TTS and the paperwhite doesn't.

From what I understand, the publishing industry is to blame, thanks to their fear of cannibalizing audiobook sales. I will never forgive them for this.
Suppose they don't compete with each other at all, so they continue to sell 300,000 Model 3s and then sell 200,000 Model Ys. Suppose they do, so in that case they drop to 200,000 Model 3s but sell 300,000 Model Ys. Isn't the second case better for them, since they get more for the Model Y than the Model 3?
There were also Italian translations of Russian books, which were very popular slightly before my time as a student.

On the other hand one of my most prized possessions is a hardcover version of Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games in Russian that I bought at a flea market for less than $2.
It most definitely has.
Property is theft anyway.
There are some places like Subway that I used to tip the change from a cash payment. But now they all use credit cards and have no "tip dialog".

Restaurants usually have a "tip screen". But now I'm unsure where the tip goes (after the whole Doordash expose)
Hmmm, on second thought, maybe i shouldn't be involved.
One if my favorite season finales ever: https://youtu.be/xFgNZG3gmqc

The people with this view are also a big and growing minority: https://texaspolitics.utexas.edu/blog/texan-first-american-s...

> Among 18- to 29-year-olds, 40 percent identify as Texans before they identify as Americans, far outpacing any other age group.
My buddy described it like this: Texas is a bootloader.
Maybe I'm a unique and strange person but my preferred scroll behaviour when reading a website is to middle click and move the mouse. Speed varies as the mouse moves so if you move just a bit you can get the page to auto-scroll at your perfect reading speed.

Of course, it's broken in a lot of sites, because many front end devs apparently don't know or care that this exists.
This was months or years ago.
> The thing is, for those workers in "poor" countries, this is a step up.

Not if the companies can help it. Just because they're in a low labor cost country doesn't mean that they want to pay any more than the minimum they can there - they're not looking to give a step up, they're looking for the minimum cost to attract a sufficient workforce.

Everybody always talks about these jobs as if they are necessarily great jobs. They may be great, maybe if the company has some sort of local political arrangement that would stay favorable if the jobs stay good, maybe if the management is simply bad and is accidentally paying more than the prevailing rate. But, on the other hand, these jobs are often with awful subcontractors who pay bargain basement wages even for the area, cut safety corners, demand unpaid overtime, and have any potential union leaders killed.
You could also try Voilà to make reproducible standalone app from notebook
https://blog.jupyter.org/and-voilà-f6a2c08a4a93
I literally used the multiplier here: https://data.oecd.org/conversion/purchasing-power-parities-p...

As shocking as it sounds, PPP multiple is really 18x
RIP Good Times (2008)
>Mass shooters do not have a legitimate place in any first world system of governance.

Right, which is why those who commit such crimes are permanently and severely punished to the full extent of the law for the rest of their lives.

Its insane that I have to even state what should be blindingly obvious, but it is impossible to identify a "mass shooter" until the very moment they begin mass shooting, and you cannot lock up or restrict the rights of innocent people simply based on speculation or "guilt by association."

If you do not understand the underlying issues producing "domestic terrorists" then you cannot possibly hope to identify them.
Being a foodie isn’t about liking to eat, foodie is about enjoying different cuisines and having a discerning taste. Some people are okay with pizza/fries/burgers of any style, while a foodie would seek out specific characteristics and generally want more than just carbs/salt/sugar.

I’ve met people that go to a big city and stick with eating from the chains they know from home. They like eating, but they wouldn’t fall under foodie, as opposed to someone who is researching different types of food or cooking them and using various spices and ingredients to add flavor.
Just in case anyone wants to visualize all the things in the article here's the good tool for it: https://dlopuch.github.io/venture-dealr/
Why assume everyone knows an acronym instead of spending the extra 1000ms to type it out once for us?
Apple, United in Early Discussions to Upgrade SFO Terminal
Alternatively, private entities may still own the infrastructure, but be forced by law to rent them at reasonable price to whoever wants to start an ISP. I think this model exists in a few european countries at least.
Agreed that these mobile-esque designs are out of control but some remedies are:

- In iOS Safari you can tap the area above the address bar to jump back to the top of the web page.

- On iOS 13, you can finally press-hold the scroll blob and drag it in a sensible way.

- When there is a keyboard that lacks page-up/page-down/home/end, using the Command (Apple/Cloverleaf) key with up/down arrow tends to be equivalent to home/end.

- Fortunately a lot of web sites that have messed-up layouts still support Reader View, which can restore some sanity and standard controls.
AWS to Sponsor Rust Project
Just put the History menu dropdown in the toolbar beside the hamburger menu.
I don't think that help and handouts is bullying, and frankly I find it amusing that somebody would argue that
They released a Spectrum+ that has a much better keyboard.
Show HN: Synonym, explain and guess word explanations
PG&E says 850k could lose power Saturday as winds fuel CA wildfire risk
I don't think he's complaining so much as pointing something out.

All programming is abstraction. Even binary could be seen as obscuring the analog physical properties of the chip. What you have to decide is what level of abstraction best presents the things you care about, and sets aside the things you don't.

I personally always lean towards abstractions that are strong when it comes to correctness, even if that means they're leaky when it comes to performance. You can always go back and optimize later.

This is why I hate writing C(++). At the language level they may enforce correctness assumptions well enough, but abstractions written in them are incredibly leaky in terms of correctness.
Ah, a Mir book, what a nostalgia trip. A friend of mine gave me a physical-chemistry lab textbook (translated to Spanish) and it has been the best scientific undergraduate lab book I have ever used (as student and lab teacher). Very nice experiments and explanations. The only con is that, as with many soviet things at the time, they barely gave any recognition to the western european scientific legacy, so almost any principle you associate with a western European name(Boyles Law, Avogadro Number, etc) was named after a soviet scientist who supposedly discovered it first. To be honest I never bothered to research about how valid were those claims.
While I greatly enjoyed the article and its effort at historical synthesis, the author cites a fact that's not exactly true:

> Then in 1983 the Apple IIe was introduced, the first Apple computer to natively support an 80×24 text display, doubling the 40×24 default of their earlier hardware.

My family had an Apple IIe in 1984. It only showed 40 columns until my fater went out and bought an "80 column card" to upgrade it. He also sprang for a second floppy drive. So "natively" is a bit of a stretch there.
So you are talking about type of Notebook for Inline XBRL data rendering?
Text-to-speech.

Sorry, I assumed people here were familiar with accessibility tech. (If I recall correctly, the marketing material for Kindles used to use the term 'TTS', I don't think it's that obscure.)
Starlink Review: SpaceX’s New Broadband Service in 2020
I had a similar issue in SQL Server Management studio when importing a database from a backup file. The window was unnecessarily large and spacious and couldn't be properly resized, and the 'OK' button was perfectly situated just off my corporate laptop's piddling small screen.

For quite a while I had no idea what was happening, there was a verify/test type option which was passing and I thought would prompt me to continue but I didn't. Only after looking for tutorials online did I realise my buttons were missing.

I think I fixed it by trying to resize the window. It didn't actually resize, but did jumble around the UI elements just enough to get 2 pixels of the top of the button to click on.
Some people rather quickly see the reason than read about the leaves blowing on one crispy fall evening as a dog howled in the distance and the city lights twinkled beneath the moon.
Seems like you're stuck in the first step. The second is to realize none of that tech really fits your needs exactly, and to take advantage of that wealth of information to build something that does.
I also have Celiac but didn't assume that "you are" literally referred to you personally, but rather the very common alternative to "one is".
An assessment of resilience requires an assessment of the threat model. The U.S., as a superpower and direct rival to both Russia and China, as well as a country with comparatively low regulatory oversight of cyber security, has a very different threat model than Europe.
Snowden mentioned something about Android and iOS refusing to implement his idea about cutting network access to specific apps. He said they claim it's a security risk. What is the security risk and where can I see the discussion about this feature?
Well there's that.
Is there a way to make the font locale sensitive? Half of the planet uses dots instead of commas
> And this is an even bigger issue because several popular benchmarking tools were compiled with ICC, skewing CPU reviews in Intel's favour.

A benchmark whose speed also depends on a compiler is not a benchmark of the CPU, but of a combination compiler/CPU. If this is not written down (and, of course, also written down which compiler was used), it is a deception of the reader.
They made a lot of noise about building a new hq in Arlington. I can’t imagine they’re going to build it out at any scale now.
Cheaper air travel and the Airbnb effect. Without Airbnb especially there would have been a cap as set by the city using the total number of hotel rooms.
What Comes After Capitalism?
I read a book per week and don't notice any typography issues. Now, I'm sure it can be improved, and I don't doubt that a typography nerd could certainly spot issues. But "bad" seems like quite an exaggeration. I like to protest against this modern trend of exaggerating how "bad" we supposedly have everything just because someone can ID some improvements that could be made.
The noise is entirely different.

And the cheering morons who enabled the Iraq war mostly just want noise. They hated Obama, he killed quietly with maximum public respect to the nation/culture involved. They love Trump, who despite everything else is somehow pretty anti-war for a US President considering who he's surrounded by.
Why Texas Has Its Own Power Grid (2003)
Many of the standard introductory Soviet textbooks at the high school / undergraduate level in math, physics, chemistry, etc. were excellent, better than the most common western textbooks. They also sold them cheaply around the world, and they become standard classics in many countries.

I’m not sure how their more advanced textbooks stack up. But there were clearly a large number of world-class scientists and mathematicians there.
For the model 3 - you need a small dongle for J1772 (provided).

On the other hand Europe pushed back on Tesla and its proprietary charging standard and cars there have SAE charging ports instead of tesla ports. (SAE ports are dual J1772 + fast charge)

I wholeheartedly agree with your dashboard complaint. Used Model S? Autopilot + big battery + dashboard.
I'm not saying that a private utility is the best answer. I'm saying that a publicly run utility may not be any better.

Consider the following regarding NY, DC & SF subway systems:

"How Politics and Bad Decisions Starved New York’s Subways
Disruptions and delays have roiled the system this year. But the crisis was long in the making, fueled by a litany of errors, a Times investigation shows." 2017 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/18/nyregion/new-york-subway-...

"Metro sank into crisis despite decades of warnings Metro’s failure-prone subway — once considered a transportation jewel — is mired in disrepair because the transit agency neglected to heed warnings that its aging equipment and poor safety culture would someday lead to chronic breakdowns and calamities." 2016 https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/met...

"Past decisions haunt BART as it seeks voter OK for $3.5 billion bond" https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Why-BART-s-futur...
How about all the soylent junkies?
Hehehe They tried that with light bulbs in the US. The electric companies colluded to crush it and it became the start of planned obsolescence. I think Eastern Germany under Soviet rule made an amazingly cheap and efficient light bulb, but it didn't survive the fall of the Berlin wall - not enough money in it.
Really cool! But I had to play with the sound off, the sound for the bullets firing is quite jarring :(
The Spectrum had major limitations with the graphics, which I'll get to, but the 'sound' was nothing more than a single io pin on the Z80 wired to a piezo sounder (or the cassette 'line-out'). To make a tone you had to run an assembly program to toggle the io port pin on and off at the correct frequency. When you made a tone in basic your program paused until the tone was done.

The graphics were a 256x192 memory mapped 1bit buffer (6144 bytes). There was an additional 768 byte buffer that determined what the on and off color was for each 8x8 square of screen pixels. There were 8 possible colors, the byte used 3 bits to select the on color, 3 bits to select the off color, 1 bit to determine if the colors were 'bright' and 1 bit to determine if the colors would flash (alternate every second).

Many games would have a 'play area' that was monochrome to avoid the issues of so called color clash where differently colored sprites overlapped and fought over the color selection.

The further problem with the screen (and the major headache as soon as you wanted to do anything performant) was that the buffer was not laid out linearly.

The top line of the screen (y=0) was at ram address 0 (byte 16384 in memory, rom space went first) and spanned 32 bytes (256 pixels).
The next 32 bytes were y=8 on screen. Then y=16 etc.
Once you got to byte 256 you were back at y=1 on the screen. Next 32 bytes was y=9 etc.
Line y=2 started at byte 512...
If you're paying attention (and if you are just imagine what the code to blit sprites looked like) we've only covered the top third of the screen.
At byte 2048 you get into the second third of the screen (y=64) and the pattern repeats.

I loved the Spectrum (had the 48k and +2, with MGT +D and Swift Disk disk interfaces) but damn that screen layout!
I’m not sure, a lot of people think HQ2 is being built in the capital region just to support JEDI, and as others have mentioned the knock on effects in the ecosystem are much larger.
"Texas: Greatest Nation On Earth"
> I think it might be difficult to purposefully cripple AMD in an open source project.

It's not as explicit as it has been in the past, but the CPUID checks for very specific feature sets aligned with particular Intel models may not match AMD models, producing worse code on AMD models that support featuresets above baseline AVX2:

https://github.com/ispc/ispc/blob/master/check_isa.cpp#L106-...

That said, I don't assume malice here and I haven't investigated thoroughly. Most likely they just want to support their own silicon well and that's what they know.
It's possible they would accept similar support for AMD µarchs in the OSS project (or maybe not).

I wouldn't draw too much inference from the ARM example, as I don't see ARM as an Intel competitor. AMD, on the other hand, is currently very competitive with Intel.
And the ][e itself didn't come with one. My family upgraded our Apple ][e by adding an 80 column card.
> "but it's always 4"

Not on the Arduino. `sizeof(int) == 2` ;)
I have an Oasis, and have since the previous version came out (2017ish?). I was just saying today it's my favorite piece of tech. So lightweight, works great, battery lasts forever in airplane mode. I've been reading a book every 1-2 weeks for the past couple years because of it, and Audible, and WhisperSync.
Look into USP-grade acetone-extracted cannabinoids. Acetone is 100% VOC so it will evaporate away cleanly without needing a vacuum purge (I'd still heat it to 135F to boil off the acetone which boils at ~133F) and your body naturally produces it in small amounts, so a tiny bit of contamination isn't going to be likely to cause damage. It is cheap to obtain vs. compressed CO2 (the cost of the equipment required for CO2 extraction represents the bulk of the cost of the extract) so you'll also save money.

Many places that do CO2 extraction also don't use a closed-loop system, so many are just venting the CO2 directly into the atmosphere.
As a person whose parents emigrated from India and who used to live in Silicon Valley... yes, lots of people are not foodies and just ingest organic matter to survive... see the 'success' of brands like soylent and huel. It's disgusting, but people like it.

My wife had several colleagues complain to her that they wouldn't eat food if it were not for their girlfriends insistence.
Don’t block the box!

http://austintexas.gov/DontBlockTheBox
Amazon is firmly planted in NYC and are hiring thousands upon thousands. They just will sit in Manhattan and not Queens.

Also, the contract is going to the largest company in the world now...isn't that just "same same"?
Is it doing perceptual color calculations in sRGB instead of LAB? No wonder the permitted contrast ratios don’t match perception.
funding where higher risk takers get paid more but "controlling rights" remains with smaller invester(s), so I guess MS didn't want to give up any control by selling shares, other then select few.
Yep, and this is why electrical grid issues never take down entire regions of the US!

Like the 2003 Northeast blackout, for instance. [0] Things like that, where an error in one part of the grid cascades into massive issues elsewhere - those don't ever happen.

Sometimes, being big is a danger. Even when that's not the case, it can be worth accepting the same risk of each individual point on the map losing power if it means that (for instance) Ohio still has power while Indiana's in the dark and vise versa. I'd rather have one state in the Northeast lose power each year than have every state lose power at the same time every 15 years, if that makes any sense.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003