skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you look at the history of the web it's clear that the tendency has always been towards "shinier things". This "historic separation" was the result of technical limitations, see how popular Flash used to be for instance.

HTML and CSS standards were always at least 10 years too late. If you wanted something that looked modern you've always had to use browser-specific extensions, plugins or, at best, "beta" features.

Seriously, I know that nowadays many devs have started straight with web technologies and don't have a lot of experience besides that but if that's your case do yourself a favor and give a quick look at a proper UI toolkit like Qt. Would it blow your mind if I told you that you can create a complex treeview without having to use third-party libraries or reinventing half the wheel yourself? Crazy, I know.

If anything this "historic separation" and people who still hold onto it might be one of the reasons the modern web is such a messy patchwork of technologies, if web engineers had accepted that an open source Flash was actually the endgame and not a problem we might have saved us some time and some trouble.

To be clear I'm not saying that it's a bad idea per-se, I personally believe that the web is way too complicated as it is, I just feel like it's similar to arguing that "literally" shouldn't be used to mean "extremely" in modern English. Sure, I get your point, but I don't think it's a battle you can win.
Apple is capitalizing on user data. It limits on device storage and sells additional storage by monthly subscription. These are the rates:

United States4 (USD)
50GB: $0.99
200GB: $2.99
2TB: $9.99

That's:

~$240/terabyte/year
~$180/terabyte/year
~$120/terabyte/year

You can walk into a Walmart at 2am and buy a two-terabyte external hardrive for <$100 (I paid $60 for one recently but my experience may be atypical).

I've paid $10 for a 64GB micro-SD card. But no iPhone's have slots for them.

Apple is monetizing data by keeping it in it's ecosystem. Aka, vendor lock-in. It's been Apple's long term strategy for years.
From [0], the actual funding is a $150b fund from the Green New Deal, and $500m/yr in grants which will have to be allocated separately. The latter is puny from a federal POV. Note that the fund has a $7.5b earmark for Indian and Native relations, which is quite likely to find bipartisan support on its own and could be broken out into a smaller battle independent of Green New Deal.

Keep in mind that, even without this Green New Deal fund, much of the work he proposes is conceptually simple and cheap: Many folks believe that removing barriers to municipal and community-owned ISPs would be a profitable action for the USA on its own, and does not need further justification or funding. That is, it's seen as a problem of regulatory capture and corruption, and not of political willpower or constituent goodwill.

This is economic stimulus: The fund is expected to pay for itself by improving the lives of people around the country. If we use the 1/5 rule of thumb [1], then this is a wager that demolishing the ISP monopolies and regulatory capture, and supporting municipal ISP development and community-owned infrastructure, is worth $750b in toto, plus $2.5m/yr, over the next decade. [0] notes that there is an $40b/yr inefficiency in terms of ISP profit, so we could hope that over a decade, we might reap a $400b boon to the collective taxpayer's worth, and after paying back our portion of Green New Deal, and even if we only get 80% yield, that's still a $200b profit in our worth.

To be more clear: $20b/yr across ~100m taxpayers with cable bills is around $200/yr; Bernie's betting that he can not only improve our cable bills, but generally improve the wealth of the typical taxpayer/billpayer.

[0] https://berniesanders.com/issues/high-speed-internet-all/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauser%27s_law
Hmmm, great way to get more people into the subway
People can and should live anywhere they want. We however should not subsidize it. This way the true cost of living there is apparent, and if the services/resources they provide are needed then the cost of those services/resources will need to go up so that they can afford to live there.
Yes. I got that out of the article as well, but didn't bring it up.

In many applications it is important for support staff to be able to access your account in certain ways, but not other ways.
> Start socializing medicine and all that job growth and opportunity disappears.

Pegging growth to systemic inefficiency is monumentally stupid.

This is only a few steps of abstraction away from simply paying those nurses to dig holes then fill them back up, macroeconomically.
How is a down payment a fair comparison to all up ownership? If we’re going that route what’s to say he didn’t put down $5k on a $25k loan?

I can’t imagine there are many places in the US where you can purchase a home and car for less than $25k. Total purchase price, not down payment.
If only that argument worked in the Bay Area, where your best option is Comcast Cable and the electric utility can’t keep the lights on, despite being one of the most populated metro areas in the country.
Their main form of mitigation is sheer size. On a smaller ISP you can just get your entire uplink saturated by the attack. Even if you correctly drop 100% of the attack packets that reach you, your system is still unusable.
Is it any different from having roommates and sharing a kitchen or bathroom
We are accelerating towards a very dangerous time. While there is probably a lot of shady things that someone can do with a copy of your passport, I would rest assured that there is a very small chance something bad will happen to you.

Most of the information contained on a passport is already publicly searchable anyway :(((

FB is showing their true colors as always here though, removing things that shouldn't be removed and not removing things that should be removed.
I get the point, but this is pretty heavy on cliches.

Also, when a startup fails, a bunch of people lose their jobs and have to scramble to get their lives back on track. If an entrepreneur walks away from that saying "That wasn't a failure becayse I learned a lot!" they kind of come off as a sociopath.
Interesting. I lived in the PNW for 15, maybe more years of my life - AK, WA, and ID. Washington was certainly unique in attempting meeting people.
CSS is better in Firefox. They also used to ship a web audio api debugger. The new scratchpad is nice too. Does 80% of what I need.

But Chromes debugger and performance analysis still is a lot more capable.
Eucalypts are native to Australia (and most forests are full of naturally-occurring Eucalyptus), and evolved to not only survive bushfires but also replentish themselves as a result of bushfires. That's almost certainly why they promote and thrive in bushfires -- it's part of their lifecycle. There is plenty of other Australian fauna which depends on bushfires for reproduction.

But to your main point -- Australia has had eucalypts for tens of millions of years. It seems unlikely that eucalyptus is the cause of these extreme and very unusual bushfires. It's much more likely that the recent drought, reduced forest management, and similar factors are at play.

Environmentalists are right to be concerned about introduction of non-native species. The entire history of European colonisation in Australia has proven categorically that introduced species almost always cause unforseen and irreparable damage to the local ecosystem. For God's sake, we built three fences in the middle of the outback to try to stop rabbits from spreading. This is something that is so well known and simple that you learn about in primary school history classes.

But I do agree that California should probably stop planting non-local fauna in large numbers. Australia's biosphere has evolved with bushfires for millions of years, and California's has not.
But if the WASM was compiled from javascript or some other language that isn't very C-like then the de-compiled C or C++ code is going to be very difficult to follow.

At the very least with obfuscated javascript you are going from js => js => js. Rather then from js => WASM => C++.
Wildlife Studios raises $60M to expand its mobile game empire
I'm not sure that WASM actually is that analysis-resistant. It's more high-level in some aspects than the JVM bytecode for example.

For example, it doesn't support arbitrary computed goto:s. Instead it supports block-based control flow, where the semantics can either create blocks or jump out of them to lower down blocks. This makes it possible to construct a CFG statically, which isn't possible if it did support arbitrary computed goto:s.
Crack Down on Genomic Surveillance
It's a bit odd to think that fast food is indirectly sustained through national funding.

One tiny benefit of these kind of jobs, if you ever need something to do to earn money, they'll most probably hire you.

But it's not a great thing.
You realize you cannot make such broad generalizations about Europe? Cable internet has been available and very popular in several countries. And DSL doesn't have to suck, G.fast offers speeds above 500Mbps. Also FTTH rollout has started long ago in most countries.

Even in rural areas the coverage is typically pretty good when horizontal deployment is done by municipalities or local utilities. And you see the exact same thing in the US.
When you put parentheses around an atom, lisp sees that as a function call.

Say `x` is a function which adds one to a number.

Say `y` is an atom which is not a function—perhaps a list: `(list 1 2 3)`.

If you write just `x`, no parens, you point to the function without executing it. If you do this at your interpreter it will tell you that the value of `x` is “function something something.”

This is important because it’s what makes it possible to pass functions as arguments, and write things like `(map x y)`. Here `x` is not evaluated in place; it’s called later by the `map` function, once for each element of the list, resulting in `(list 2 3 4)`.

Now if you put parentheses around `x`, lisp will try to execute it on the spot. `(x 1)` is what other languages would call `x(1)`, and will return `2`.

You have to be a little careful about this because it means that if you put parens around `y`, which isn’t a function, you’ll get an error. This is why lisp has the ‘quote’ operator, which means “take the next atom as literal data and don’t try to execute it.” So `(quote (1 2 3))` will return `(1 2 3)`. This can also be written `’(1 2 3)`—which is nice, because this is effectively equivalent to `(list 1 2 3)`, and could have saved me some typing when I defined `y` earlier.

e: typo ; also, sorry for the ugly syntax, I forgot there was no inline code formatting on HN
How so? Somewhere between conception and birth consciousness arises. Gametes are clearly not conscious as far as we can tell, and yet a baby is. So somewhere in the physical development that happens in between, consciousness arises as a result. The exact point is a topic of much debate.

Somewhere between mortal injury and decomposition, consciousness vanishes. Live humans, yet to succumb to a mortal wound, are clearly still conscious, yet a decomposed corpse is clearly not. So somewhere in between, consciousness ceases to be. We don't know yet exactly when, but I'd while say we've got it pretty narrowed down, the exact point currently a topic of debate in relation to organ donation.

This is all to say nothing of the how of consciousness, or what happens in between, but it's pretty clear there is a beginning and an end to it.

These are pretty basic observations that anyone can make. As for any presence of "consciousness" before or after these points, well, what evidence is there? None I've ever seen, just conjecture and speculation presented as fact.
When I lived in rural areas well and septic has always been cheaper than municipal water/sewer.
DeepRoomba: DYI Deepracer Based on a Roomba, NV Jetson and a Pi Cam
Some games cost more on Stadia than they do on other platforms
Solution Privileged?
Within the last month or two, certainly.

You have to be willing to edit it, start renaming variables to describe what they hold, rename them again if they get something unexpected assigned, rename functions once you have a good idea of what they're trying to do, and repeat until everything has a name.
This is only true because the authors are trying to use a capitalist definition of work to a precaptialist society. There was a huge amount of time spent on household tasks like mending clothes, preparing food, doing repairs, spinning clothes etc.

The article also talks about how peasants took frequent rests, but this is because they were doing extremely physically demanding work, not because they had a chill schedule.

Edit: A great example is that in Mexico and the American Southwest one of a woman's traditional tasks was grinding corn by hand, which could take up to 5 hours for her families supply. Other areas of the world that ate grains and didn't have access to mills would have had to spend a similar amount of time.
What I'm thrilled to see is an optimization of binary sizes in compilers and libraries. Maybe <1MB native apps will become common (or few MB of code for single webpage will become standard)
On mobile Firefox with uBlock Origin addon is so much better than Chrome.
Does anybody know the state of the art for wasm tooling? I have used emscripten but are there any excellent 'higher level' tools? The worst part was writing the interface between the wasm and JS.
That would require you to continue to maintain the grid in suburban and rural areas. And then install more panels there, so they can generate for the city as well as themselves. It seems like it would be a lot more cost effective to just put the additional panels (or whatever other generation method) in a few centralized locations outside the city and then only have to wire those specific locations up to the grid.
I don't think I have ever used or developed a system with a login function that did not have the means to allow admins, or someone with appropriate privileges, to reset a password. I would regard that as a basic standard feature.
The “10x Engineer” Has Officially Become a Meme
Anecdote in the opposite direction: Varlam Shalamov was a Russian writer who spent over a decade in various Gulags and then wrote many semi-autobiographical stories about them. In one he observed that he saw many wives join their husbands in the camp after the husband was sentenced, even though the wife could remain free, but that he never saw a husband do the same.

I don't know what to make of that anecdote. Maybe it means nothing. But it has stuck in my mind ever since I read it.
Yes I agree and feel the whole article is skewed by averaging.

West Coast and Midwest rose by ~10 percent while East Coast and the South is still falling by almost 1 percent.

I wonder how much particulate matter is coming across the Pacific from Asia in addition to the fires causing a raise.

I also question how we could have dropped to Zero particulate matter. That seems wrong to me.
> Someone is generally classified as a smartass when the balance of intelligence is on the smartass side.

Sometimes that's true, when a dumbass is involved.

At least equally often, though, that's what smartasses tell themselves either to avoid facing their social deficiencies or because they lack the self-awareness to recognize them.
Good to know! Where do you find people speaking Cajun French in Louisiana? We went to the Festivals Acadiens et Créoles a few months ago, the only time I heard French was in the music, no one seemed to use French during a conversation.
on the one hand I think you are probably right in practical terms, but isn't this apologism for what is essentially gerrymandering at a large scale?
This sounds interesting, but personally, I am worried that this will just turn into yet another browser technology that will be used to abuse and track users. I really hope I am wrong.
jk: i think we need nochrome.google domain and also need noyoutube nogmail...
What are you referring to? The only FIPS I know are crypto standards from NIST, and they seem pretty reasonable. (Except for the EC RNG of course lol.) Even the NIST password recommendations are pretty reasonable IIRC, they recommend having no upper limit (or like 60+ characters) and not enforcing any kind of "you need at least 1 special sign and 2 numbers", except for a lower limit (at least 8 characters).
A complete sanction of everything Chinese will soon be a talking point, campaign point, strategic possibility.
Is a downpayment on a house the same as buying outright an RV?
> Satellite internet has historically been high latency and ultra-low upload speeds

please read any article on starlink, putting the satellites into low earth orbit makes a huge difference, no it isn't marketing bullshit.
It's important to distinguish between Starlink and the old kind of satellite internet - they are entirely different.

Latency will be on par with using a VPN a few hundred miles away (the satellites are in low earth orbit, not geostationary like previous generations). Upload speeds will also not be like with previous satellite internet, which often used dial-up for upload because the satellite+dish setup was not designed to receive signals from users on the ground.
Most people don't consider housing to be something that can be easily switched. Housing is typically considered best when it is not commoditized. (That's even before you get into the fact that housing is also hand-in-hand with wealth, and long term housing ownership is seen as an economic dream/right/baseline.)
While the culture is different, the difference I see, is that people in the NW want to keep to themselves, where other places people want to share.
I want to write a bunch of code just to see decent logs. Thanks for passing the work to me.
not so well in bulgaria, just not im serbia
Am I the only one that uses Safari?
At best, that has held in limited places and times since WWII.

At worst, it was an affirmation repeated, as with most affirmations, in the hopes that the repetition would make it true, which it doesn't, and for the usual reason, that it generally wasn't.
live well another day?
So it sounds like you're having to reverse engineer it, similar to any "binary blob".

Sounds very "open" to me.
The EU was founded with the explicit goal that increasing trade between European countries would prevent war.

It's impossible to prove causality, but Europe has never seen longer and more widespread peace than the last 70 years.
My at the time 8mo daughter was in the ER for breathing issues and had to be life-flighted to a hospital with better facilities to treat her condition. I'm thankful my insurance covered it, because the initial bill was $27,000 for the flight (excluding the hospital and ER visit costs).
Having to work is not slavery. Wild animals work and they're as free as free gets. Work is a necessity of survival, the necessities of life require labor to create/get and it's on you to carry your own weight, that's not slavery, that's reality.
The whole idea doesn’t seem sustainable without the affiliate marketing link clicks.

So if your lifestyle website isn’t popular, well, this isn’t an option. Anyone else would just run out of money (and you have to be in the top 10% of earners to have the flexibility to try this idea in the first place).

The website authors think they aren’t like those Instagrammers who “somehow” afford to do this, but in a lot of ways, they’re the same: they’re selling an idea and a dream that is not realistic for most people.
But isn't CPI is just reverse of IPC, and CPI just makes the IPC score being bounded between 0..1?
The west is constantly pushing for stuff like this in every trade policy with China and others...

There’s a limit to how much leverage any one side has on a sovereign countries policies (and how much they actually enforce them when they agree).

There’s also the question of the benefits of having China at all in these deals, some concessions and a growing dependence on western markets from initial deals is better than no deals.

Plus a wealthier China is good for the world and the billion people coming out of poverty, getting educated, and slowly becoming an advanced economy.
I've used Elementary for a while, beginning in it's beta, Luna and ending in Juno. These days, I just use Windows, as recent changes introduced quite a bit of instability and uncertainty into Desktop Linux environments.

Elementary does one thing and does it well: do UX right. Before getting to know Elementary, I've tried many Linux distros, you name it. I'd always have to spend quite a bit of time tweaking my new install, so it would actually look good and be useful. Elementary has good defaults, you can install a web browser, your favorite productivity tools, and call it a day.

The efforts of team behind the project have resulted into a quite consistent and coherent UI, something all other Linux distros lack. Distros maintainers have less control as they use DEs developed by other people. You can install Pantheon (Elementary's DE) into another distro but it wont feel as good as it does in Elementary. Finally, the other famous DEs, namely KDE and GNOME3, have awful design principles: GNOME3 with it's everything-big-tablet-like, lack of intuitiveness and excess of antifeatures; KDE with it's awful looks.
Rolls-Royce Pitches Nuclear Reactors as Key to Clean Jet Fuel
It's indeed a point of view. If I factor in the opportunity cost of my failures it's even greater and harsher.

The article paints is a hooray-optimist view of praising failure as learning which might help someone who just folded its dream startup, but offers no revelation.

It also fails to mention that you can keep trying as long as you have money. Few privileged people can spend its life trying to build startups and fail constantly.
1) This doesn't deal with botnets and other compromised devices. Would you want your ISP to terminate your service if you (or worse, your roommate) got a virus?

2) This would require ISPs to do even more invasive monitoring of all traffic to be in compliance. They'd essentially have to DPI everything, or even break TLS between you and your destination, to know if your traffic was malicious. No thank you.

3) Many ISPs simply don't care. A lot of malicious traffic comes from countries where ISPs will just look the other way for a bit of cash. I suppose we could come up with a system that depeers bad ISPs, but this would have tons of collateral damage to innocents as well as reintroducing the exact centralization we're trying to avoid (where's the "master list" of bad ISPs to depeer?)

Whatever the solution to bad actors online is, it isn't ISPs.
Yes, who cares about the forced labor camps and suicide nets around factories. I want my cheap plastic consumer devices!!
For those around New York City, this place https://www.nyrture.com makes great natto in Brooklyn. I've met them and they love what they do.
Sounds like a good way to introduce frostbite
How Plume Handled Billions of Ops per Day Despite an AWS Zone Outage
If this were a root cert, OSes and browsers could ban that CA. If you want this to work with SSL, giving the Great Firewall a domain cert would be enough.
My memory is that Bombardier expanded into territory they had never been in; outsourced to their partners a lot of details; had significant issues during major-part integration; and faced huge timeline crunches and overruns.

They also missed completion and delivery of air-frames on contracts with regional airlines. And other signs of "we messed up" on a project.

There seemed to be lots of complaints at the time (on Canadian forums and news-stories) about how the family that owns Bombardier would have been fired as C-levels in a public company based on this fiasco.

OTOH, I haven't heard anything about this in a long time.