skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems to be one developer's wishful thinking, without any evidence presented to back up the assertion. Pointing out "hey, here's a couple websites that do server side rendering" does not a trend make.

We're ripping out webflow, if anecdata counts for anything (it doesn't). Webflow occupies the barren middle ground of "too complicated for marketing people, too simple for technical people". I find it much easier to write html than to figure out how to get their UI to make the html I want.
I think they're using "accept" to convey "come to terms with the fact that it exists" not accepting it as an inevitable part of society. You can accept that racism exists, but still actively try to mitigate or reduce it.
Hundreds of Harvard Law students criticize plans for online fall semester
IIRC, there was a project within the VLC team to port a codec to rust (it was shown off at a con talk IIRC). I'm curious what happened to that project.

Also, it looks like the VLC Summer of Code ("SoC") 2020[1] mentions a potential project for fuzzing.

[1] https://wiki.videolan.org/SoC_2020/
> next big capital expense comes up it

Which is then fueled by cheap credit and already existing high levels of free cash flow. It's not a problem until demand dries up, which as you are probably aware, does not look like its slowing down anytime soon.
Trump appointee Pack fires heads of U.S.-funded media outlets
This statement:

"There is zero chance of 100% replacement of fossil fuels with renewables. Zero. Without a Thanos solution."

is utter nonsense. I mean, it's as if you're asking me what's wrong with a statement that the Earth is flat.
Phil Schiller: Apple Will Not Change Decision on 'Hey' Email App
So you did watch it? What do you think?
If you saw a stock quote with a red triangle pointing upwards, would you be confused? The orientation is meaningful.
My Accidental Grassroots Police Activism – 2.3k of us holding police accountable
About a three weeks ago, a blog post I wrote about my experience scraping and analyzing public court records data to find dirty cops got very popular on r/privacy.

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/gm8xfq/if_cops_can_watch_us_we_should_watch_them_i/

As a result, I started a slack channel for others who were interested in scraping public court records, in an effort to create the first public repository of full county level court records for as many counties as possible.

Now, less than a month later, 2,300+ journalists, data scientists, developers, and activists have joined.

We are now organizing this grassroots project, and I couldn't be more proud or excited. The dream of having comprehensive, updating, fully open database of public court records that allow for police officer and judge level data oversight is perhaps the first step in restoring trust and implementing true accountability for policing.

We need even more help with this mission, specifically web scraping talent. If you are interested, join like minded folks here:

https://join.slack.com/t/policeaccessibility/shared_invite/zt-fb4fl1ac-~ChWSpFs2R_mDKIDyLj2Og

Roles/skills we need volunteers for: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Pc_Vk8HQ0TXWVQsnJnL6MH4JdxoDVFCWHPXSFja6vKg/edit#heading=h.gqys9pa9hr4g

New subreddit for this initiative: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataPolice/
You are paying to access the pool of customers. You never had the pool to begin with so you aren’t paying to not “lose access”.
I Imagine it takes a lot for Finland to run low on paper products
> with a strongly predictable preference

No, your example has nothing to do with preference, your method (picking out of 4) just less random than picking from one (the first).

Preference is, when certain passwords more likely to be picked than others or at those passwords less likely to be stepped over to generating a new one. Wtih strong preference you regenerate until you got that preferred password, for example you prefer short words and the attacker know that, at first trying combinations with short words has better chance to cracking the password.
lol r u anti spellcheck 2? bcuz idk why old fogeys thnk thtz so imprtant, is juts stylistic choice, u know xactly what i'm typng rite now, if u r genuinely CONFUZED, CONFOUNDED, OR SEVERELY IMPEDED by this, prhaps ur not terribly good at reading. i cant believe thoz guyz want to interrupt my flow by mking me fix my spleling whn thz ar not even bugs, i hv close to 30 yrz of muscl memory.

I'm being facetious of course, but seriously, you are being very arrogant and rude with your suggesting that people who think stylistic standards are beneficial are bad at their jobs. Maybe they are also good at their jobs and genuinely have come to different conclusions than you and maybe despite your presumably high level of skill and experience, you're not great at developing a large team's productivity with your habits...
The smallest motor in the world – 16 atoms
PowerShell is horrible and confusing to use. Maybe I’m just dumb, but it was confusing to learn and super unintuitive.

If I’m running everything in WSL/2 why not just run Linux? I don’t remember the last time I had to use something windows specific - and word is available online for the sporadic times that needs to be used.
Okay I guess I just need to sleep and had to make it somewhat more clear: I never seen anyone using docker for deployment of any software for Linux Desktop. There are superior channels formats for this purpose.

Web developers usually need docker on their localhost just so it's work the same way as production environment. Though when you compare Windows on desktop and Linux on desktop you not gonna use docker at all.
> Advanced chips don't even give you advantages in cyberwar.

> If we lose all access to buying chips tomorrow, how does that affect our weapons?

Communication is a critical component of war. More processing power can enable better cryptoanalysis used in offence, and to a degree, better ciphers used in defense. Advanced chips definitely give advantages in cyberwar.
Sure, so that partly explains why electricity costs so much more in Germany than France. But for a lay person (ie me), I can't help but compare the carbon emissions and air quality between the two countries, and attribute the difference to fossil-fuel vs nuclear power plants?

Also, I always assumed the lower renewable costs have come from economies of scale due mainly to China exploding it's energy production (which renewables makes a decent chunk of)
Experts worry decline in US virus deaths may be temporary
The Gmail app is not tied to the Gmail email service. It can be used to access non-Gmail accounts. Google Photos and Google Drive both allow in-app purchasing of additional storage space billed through Apple.

Edit: Added statement about Gmail app working with non-Gmail email accounts.
> "unsubstantiated feelings" heh, that's a pretty ungenerous/rude way of putting it.

Thank you for the feedback. It wasn't meant to be rude, but I see now how it can be interpreted that way (particularly with the unedited original comment below, which was intended to be... not rude, but let's say, harsher than I'm proud of, a few hours later). Text is hard -.-

Asking clarifying questions instead is a good suggestion. Your answers are good, too; if I'm ever in the vpn market, I'll put Windscribe on my shortlist to research more thoroughly.

> I'm not sure if you read TFA

I have not and do not currently intend to. I checked in with the comments because I was curious how it would be received. I replied to your comment because I was frustrated at what seemed to be hypocritical criticism. I still think your original comment is light on detail/justificatipn, so I'm happy my reply, however rude and imperfect, lead to your second comment, which is the type of thing I was hoping to find when I opened the thread :)
This was a very nice article. It was one of the best web-related articles I've read in a long time. I liked it.
I agree on the ethos you are taking about. I personally prefer that choice, not everyone does.

You also have to understand when you buy into apple's philosophy the experience you sign up for is seamless where you don't need to worry about who controls what, that requires you to sacrifice choice ,

- I cannot choose to change my RAM or hard disk or other h/w to vendor of my choice on a MacBook,

- I cannot choose my own Desktop Environment or Kernel I boot in MacOS.

- I cannot choose how sign-in or payment is handled in Apple.

Payment handling allows them to provide the same experience to all apps for refunds or other problems etc. Is it worth the sacrifice ? depends on what you value the most.

Many people do not want or need these choices, Apple is designing products for those people, If you value your choices as I do, you should not be using Apple in the first place. I don't blame Apple for setting stringent rules to give that experience to people who are willing to pay for it.
A lot of it is time and culture gaps. These problems take 20-30 years to unfold so the people who create the problem are gone before the problem appears, and then the people who face the problem look at the budget and go "I dunno, in the past we made money when we took state subsidies and grew, we should do more of that." Suburbanization is a cultural phenomenon, and the result of a lot of social engineering and propoganda from as early as the FDR administration and continuing into the 80s and 90s. That makes it harder to question.

There's also the old adage of it being hard to get a person to see a problem when their job depends on them not seeing it. https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2011/12/12/best-of-blog-...
California? TBH, if the farming areas of California get seriously affected, the entire country is going to suffer. California produces a lot of food.
Of course the problem is that if your site becomes popular it will be overrun by SEOs pushing monetized vapid content. This is how people earn money, they aren't going to stop just because you want to return to a time before they ruined the internet.
An interesting angle I learnt recently that I hadn’t considered on why the landings weren’t faked: they didn’t have the camera technology to do it.

Apparently camera tech at the time for slow motion (for the movement in low gravity) made the ~hour long takes essentially impossible. I hadn’t realised that the recordings were single takes, but to slow down to quarter speed, maintaining ~30fps broadcast quality, would require 120fps cameras that didn’t exist, and more continuous tape recording than was possible by several orders of magnitude.

We really were in the very early days of video/TV technology, and it wasn’t until these technologies improved and we collectively forgot how they were that the theories really started to get going.

https://youtu.be/_loUDS4c3Cs
As a biologist, a field where open databases are the norm and deposition is required for publication, I was very surprised when I found out that the standard database of small molecule crystal structures was NOT open.
The only way how a WW3 could become an exinction level would be full Warsaw Pact - NATO war during the peak of the cold war; and even then it would be expected to be a horrible disaster, but not really an extinction level (e.g. killing 80% of population is a catastrophe, but far from extinction).

But now both USA and Russia have far less nukes (and with smaller yields) so now the effect of a full USA-Russia nuclear exchange would be much smaller - but we are not even talking about that; we're talking about China, which has something like 250 warheads (contrast to ~45000 warheads that USSR used to have, it's more than a hundredfold difference) - it's a sizeable deterrent, but it's not mutually assured destruction. MAD was the doctrine between USA and USSR or Russia; MAD does not apply for any other nuclear powers - China, France, UK, India, etc. A nuclear exchange with them is "only" mass murder, but nowhere close to an extinction level event.
We can expect 3-4% inflation for the next 5 years as a result of the Fed's stimulus programs.
This custom kernel only contain shim that needed to pass commands from proprietary component on Linux to proprietary drivers on Windows.

When it's come to graphics drivers Linux upstream don't accept any code that can only be used for proprietary components. So all this Direct3D and CUDA shims never gonna be merged.
Expenditures for McKinney TX [0] show streets as the third lowest cost department, accounting for under 5% of the city budget. The largest expense, like most other cities, is the police department, at nearly 25%.

While smart spending is important, it's hard to see street paving as something which threatens to bankrupt this municipality.

[0] https://mckinneytexas.opengov.com/transparency#/1687/account...
Yeah, except that ETF charges literally a ten times higher management fee than Vanguard.

If the Vatican really cared, it would provide its own index and low-cost funds in a non-profit vehicle. The Vatican already has a huge asset management operation, so they can't possibly claim that this they don't have the capabilities.
Facilitating Diagnostic Test Availability for Sample Pooling
Autocomplete Painting Repetitions – Siggraph Asia 2014
Looks like they'll have to sell, if they want to keep the name.
We have a Monroe doctrine in our whole hemisphere. AND we have bases surrounding like 80% of China's coast (Korea, Japan, phillipines).

Them, as a great power, wanting to have an open sea route that they control isn't really that outrageous as far as how great powers act.
>and they are certainly not above reproof, in terms of their ethics.

Well neither are the catholic church either so they seem to be a good fit.
Almost always? Source for that? Very interesting, I guess during a siege there's a tradeoff there. If your postern is on the other side of a mountain range, then definitely it's not so bad.
Yeah--we're basically second-order black formatters now. Not writing code that looks nice, but writing code so a tool that writes code will make it look nice.
Keeping an oral record detailed and accurate over a 900 year span is difficult for human beings sadly.
>My theory is that the high barrier to entry of online publishing kept all but the most determined people from creating content. As a result, the little content that was out there was usually good.

The barrier wasn't that high. Making a site on Geocities, Tripod or Angelfire wasn't that difficult. Writing 90's style HTML wasn't exactly writing a kernel in C, and most of those services had WYSIWYG editors and templates anyway. Few of the people publishing to the web in the 90s were programmers, so the technical knowledge required was minimal.

And plenty of people are publishing high quality content on the modern web, even on blogs and centralized platforms. I follow writers, scientists and game developers on Twitter, watch a lot of good content on Youtube, read a lot of interesting conversations on Reddit. The fact that people publishing content nowadays don't have to write an entire website from scratch has little to do with their personal passions (or lack thereof), whether they're interesting or (and ye gods how I've come to hate this) "quirky." That's like saying writers can't write anything worth reading unless they also understand mechanical typesetting.

As far as the old content goes, of course most of it was crap. Sturgeon's Law applies to every creative medium. Most blogs were uninteresting, many personal sites were just boring pages full of links or stuff no one but the author and maybe their few friends cared about. In both cases, between the old and new web, a bias for the past (as HN tends to have) leads people to only remember the best of the former and correlate it with the worst of the latter.
In the EU it’s illegal for a merchant to charge a different price based on payment method (iirc), but merchants are most certainly still charged transaction fees for card payments. SEPA transfers still incur fees too. There is a huge number of service providers involved in every single card payment, and that service infrastructure only exists because people pay to use it. It absolutely wouldn’t be strange for the 2-3% fee a merchant is charged for processing a transaction to be divided up between more than 10 service providers.
Seearch engine with top million (or less) sites removed
I/O performance is pretty horrific.
Yes, you would literally be better off buying the Vanguard fund and then just individually shorting out the companies you don't like in the appropriate ratio!
Cambodia demands £2,400 ‘coronavirus deposit’ from arriving travelers
I see the game console argument come up a a lot and I really don’t think it sticks.

Game consoles are not general purpose computers and have a much more narrow intended purpose. Apple themselves argue that the iPad is just as capable (or more so) than your typical computer, which means that we expect it to be capable of computer-y things which are inherently flexible and versatile, not hamstrung by Apple’s rent-seeking behavior.

This also isn’t about 100% transparency of Apple’s costs — saying it is misdirects. We don’t know their costs (though it certainly is below 30% of all revenue passing through in-app-purchases), that isn’t the issue. Requiring 30% of others’ revenue and being forbidden to even mention alternatives is another matter.
Plus ça change. :) I was just reading an article ("APL since 1978", [1]), which recounts the complaints of mainframe programmers when microcomputers were introduced in the mid-80s, because of how much harder it became to design application interfaces:

> Worse, the technical skill required to write applications suddenly increased dramatically. You needed to know about networks, how to deal with the poor reliability of shared files on a LAN — or how to construct client/server components to achieve the security, performance, and reliability that you needed. User interfaces, which were so simple on the mainframe, became an absolute nightmare as an endless procession of new GUI frameworks and UI “standards” appeared and then faded away.

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3386319
Remember when VLC was in the Vault 7 Wikileaks release? It turned out the CIA could deliver a media file which had a surveillance payload. It wasn't ever made clear if this required a special bugged VLC or if the main VLC was in fact the bugged one.
Sigh.

First, 2011 is nine years ago. Utility scale solar has declined in cost by a factor of about 5 in the last decade. Decisions made even then do not say anything about how solar would compete today. Wind has also declined considerably in cost in that decade, although not as steeply.

Second, the argument I was making was that renewables beat new nuclear. I wasn't arguing that renewables beat fossil fuels unencumbered by CO2 charges, or even necessarily existing nuclear plants in which the construction and financing costs are sunk. So your observation is irrelevant to the claim I made.

I have to wonder why you guys never notice that the anti-renewables arguments you make are such non sequiturs. Myself, if I found defending my position required I resort to bogus logic, would reevaluate whether what I believed was actually true.
This is super helpful! I posted an article here a few weeks about trying to build my own minimal alternative to GA, but I had no idea all of these existed and would happily have used one of these instead of doing it myself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23351323
Can you explain about paravirtualization?
I stopped using Firefox when they discontinued RSS support saying “it’s too hard and old and lame! Oh but here’s Pocket (tm) which costs money and has nothing at all to do with cutting RSS support”

I wouldn’t expect much different here.
"Youtube" Lawyer (Viva Frey) was making the same argument this week of such a contradiction.

Google banning Federalist from its ad network for having racist comments on its articles.

Google having plenty of racist comments on its own youtube, but still running ads on those videos.
I'm getting it on the first page as well, but I think you're missing some chronological logic: at the time they created the ad they couldn't possibly be seeing their own ad as the first results.
> How antifacist became a dirty word in the minds of many Americans is baffling to me. Also, the fact that people are taking the antifa stuff seriously and Republicans are just parroting Trump on the matter is ridiculous.

There seems to be a history of Antifa inciting violence in recent years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)#Notable...
Correct me if I am wrong but OP was referring to actively supported by more than half of the population in Crimea (pro-russian) but widely condemned outside. I remember reading the same when the war broke out and was used by Russian as justification to invade.

Whereas in Taiwan, recent survey shows only 4% identified as Chinese and 90% are willing to defend Taiwan if "China uses force against Taiwan for unification"
> we in general don’t benefit is incredibly naive

I suppose my relativity isn't from zero, but instead a sense of neutral pace. If I'm on a trek towards better lands, I don't benefit from a broken leg, but I still make progress.

To me, the concept that we're perpetually slowed down by the selfish behavior of those who generally do nothing more than seek power for themselves means we don't benefit.

I don't think there's anything that could stop humanity from moving forwards, so to say we benefit from impatient selfish jerk offs who cut the line, to build walls, and then extort resources from everyone trying to move forwards is... well, they paid a lot of money to put a nicely spinned narrative out on that.

How thankful we all should be to have been sold advancement. :)
The Gmail app is not exclusive to the Gmail email service. You can use it to access other email services. Google Photo and Google Drive which are tied to only Google services offer in-app purchase of additional storage.
> And that’s not all. I close my laptop lid when my laptop is docked. Windows helpfully sleeps the laptop even though external monitors, a mouse, and a keyboard are connected. There is no fix.

Right click the battery icon in the system tray > Power Options > Choose what closing the lid does > Do nothing.
I think you're mistaking my statements for a personal religious dogma. I'm just telling you the way the world is. We may or may not agree on the prescription for the world's ills, but it's irrelevant.

You're assuming consumption and community are mutually exclusive. They are not. Plenty of examples to be found to show they are not dependent (10, 01, 11, 00).

You ask why any of this is necessary to get these goods. I assume by "this" you mean the fossil fuel industry. It is necessary because as a high density energy source it has no competitive alternative. It's literally the best fuel source mankind has found in the strict terms of transportability and output relative to mass. Civilization's capabilities have grown in parallel with the improvement of its energy sources. Decreasing available energy means decreasing (or ceasing) growth/development. Do you want to be the one to tell China, India and Africa that they can't develop further?

Things we imagine are still constrained by physical reality. Technological progress for the next 100 years will still have unbreakable dependencies on high density energy. Unless a miracle happens.
Thinking Above the Code
How long does it take add a new IdP?
And what would be the process for that?
It’s not an impressions count.
Based on historical statistics, there's an approximately 5 in 8,000,000,000 chance of this actually happening, and if you've never talked to a Russian in your life, the statistic drops to 2 in 8 billion (those poor souls who were injured accidentally)
I think "extend" is a good safety buffer / canary in the coal mine, so I'd be happier if they stuck to "embrace".
The rule used to be it has to be the same price. Has that changed, has Dropbox received special treatment, or is the Euro market granting them the pricing exception?