skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
James Watt, Reagan's Sec of the Interior, was pretty explicit about this belief. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_G._Watt

Given Watt's public pillorying, methinks the others learned to keep their apocalyptic beliefs on the down low. Mostly.

I really wish people on the "left" would learn that when people voice such beliefs to believe them, that they're not joking.

Edit: Oops. Just saw natch's reply. Sorry for dupe.
There is a MFA reset process that requires a notary and what not. Wouldn't be an issue for the average Joe but since I've moved 3 times since signing up for AWS, I'm not sure which address they need and not even sure I can procure sufficient documents with those addresses on them.
What about:

while((i = getchar()) != EOF)
putchar(i);

This type of thing seems to be "encouraged"...
The title is clickbait: the article is (mostly) about how PDFs are not suitable for reading on-screen. (Which is mostly true.)

Further, the arguments the article makes are gibberish:

"4. Stuffed with fluff. PDFs tend to lack real substance, compared to regular web pages. When you’re building out a web page, you can visibly see how long it’s getting and how far users will have to scroll to consume the content. Methods of structuring and formatting digital content such as chunking, using bullets, subheadlines, anchor links, and accordions help users efficiently skim and scan sections that may contain the answers they seek amid long-form copy. However, in PDFs, those techniques aren’t always used and content creators tend to favor quantity of content over quality and formatting. This leads to overwhelmingly long and inane PDFs."

"PDFs tend to lack real substance, compared to regular web pages." Really? Really? That's the argument Jakob Nielsen is going with? HTML is magically better?

"However, in PDFs, those techniques aren’t always used and content creators tend to favor quantity of content over quality and formatting." In HTML, those techniques aren't always used! They often aren't used. And HTML somehow enforces quality of content?
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Great post!

To op, for tools like Figma, what do you think the future holds? In what dimension will they evolve? How can they help you be more effective? Will they help you express your ideas in ever higher fidelity over time? [1]

[1] Biased questions, but genuinely curious about the op's answers given his deep expertise in the field (as the founder of https://mintdata.com)
Money (generally) doesn't buy elections.[1][2]

[1] https://freakonomics.com/2012/01/12/does-money-really-buy-el...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_the_Rational_Voter
Earlier discussion when this was rolled out in the US 4 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11196671

It seems like they are combining location data sold to them by mobile carriers with limited GPS data that they might be cobbling together from several sources.
I've had direct on coil and behind glass induction, and vastly prefer gas. I get way more heat, like far too much at max, on the gas stove, which is a good thing because I can actually control the level of heat output, rather than just the length of the oscillations between on/off on the induction stove. I have a few steel pans and a few cast irons, and for all of them the gas stove heats more evenly, offers finer control of the heat level, and can reach a much higher heat faster than any of the three induction stoves I've had the pleasure of renting over the years, some brand new. Gas ovens are better too, all the electric ovens I've had ran cold relative to the indicated temp, which meant changing cooking times and temps, and had a pretty embarrassing broil setting compared to what you have on gas (a proper inferno)

Sure, you have to take off the grates to clean, but after you spend those 10 seconds to remove the grates its no harder wiping crusted food off of a flat steel surface than a flat glass one.
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The site uses WordPress and the post author decided to include a thumbnail, scaled up to regular size, rather than using the original: https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/CleanNetwor...
The government is an incredibly poor & wasteful allocator of capital. Full stop.

The founders of the country would shudder at at the size, scope and over-reach of the government...

Also remember, income tax was introduced as a "temporary" measure... the country had roads, hospitals, and orphanages before that.
Agree, we need open source hardware (like RISC-V) to mature in order to eliminate this class of vulnerabilities. I haven't heard much on mobile class RISC-V SOCs though.
Is the fact “CNW has estimated that celebrity A has a net worth of $X” copyrightable? I sincerely doubt it.
Yes, you are of course right. This is a pain in the ass.

I was referring to the fact that you are being defrauded, which I understood as "being defrauded and loosing money".

I use GSuite since 2004 and the more I read about support the more scared I am. Good luck.
CTFs are security competitions between teams coming from many countries.

Those are some of "topics" that challenges/tasks during those competitions do cover: (stolen from dev.to)

Cryptography - Typically involves decrypting or encrypting a piece of data

Steganography - Tasked with finding information hidden in files or images

Binary - Reverse engineering or exploiting a binary file

Web - Exploiting web pages to find the flag

Pwn - Exploiting a server to find the flag

Generally it requires to be very proficent at CS and Computers in general to compete at highest levels

The more detailed description may be here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ev9ZX9J45A

Here's ranking of teams:

https://ctftime.org/

>https://dev.to/atan/what-is-ctf-and-how-to-get-started-3f04
>Methane’s global warming impact is front loaded,

Methane is 34 times stronger a heat-trapping gas than CO2 over a 100-year time scale. This is the timeframe we need to worry about right now to avoid the worst affects of climate change.

>...“technically recoverable resources“ is what’s possible to extract at any price making it a very poor measurement of economically viable reserves.

Yes, but technology improves and all of sudden they are viable. People knew of those big oil deposits in North Dakota for decades and then with fracking it became feasible to extract it. As I pointed out, even today China is going forward with making synthetic natural gas from coal (which is even worse for climate change than just burning methane.)

>...Considering natural gas is already more than twice as expensive as solar power it’s primary benefit is flexibility and the limited amount of solar manufacturing currently available.

The major weakness of solar is that having 100% capacity at noon in July on a sunny day in Arizona, doesn't help at midnight when you want to run medical equipment.

It is possible grid storage will become feasible in the future to cover the daily and seasonal variations of capacity for wind/solar, but if we end up having the grid rely on natural gas will make it very difficult to avoid the worst problems associated with climate change.
> P.S. and so is hydroxychloroquine ;)

Not any more! (The strains found in India are largely resistant these days, and other drugs are more appropriate.)
That phone is barely 2 years old from a reputable brand, I sure as hell hope it's still getting updates.

My older OnePlus 3 got updates for almost 4 years I think. Not bad, but it's not like apple's 5-6 years. Still, it was half the price of an iPhone with better hardware to boot so fair trade I guess.

I don't like frivolous spending on phones but I never keep a phone more than 4 years anyway. The progress of camera, microphone and speaker quality alone across 4 years is enough of a quality of life improvement for me to upgrade.

At this rate of Android security issues, my next phone will probably be the next iPhone SE but only if they update the display to a larger 1080p 90Hz panel and add an ultrawide camera lens, I don't care about anything else.
You can make Windows pre-process the command line args and expand globs so that main() works like normal on Unix. It just isn't the default.
"You can make a case for a full-on economic shutdown, like the Europeans, Australians, New Zealanders and even to a lesser extent Canadians."

The US is a Federal Republic so it's not a fair comparison with our Federal Government. I think the equivalent would be the EU mandating member countries shutdown. (I'm not that familiar with the EU charter but this is my understanding).

"worse than anywhere on Earth other than Brazil."

That seems to be subjective based on the metrics of comparison. If you want to make a claim like this, please be more specific and account for key variables such as population densities, count criteria, and ability to count/likely undercount (which applies to the US as well).
I agree that Twitch is great for streaming things other than gaming, but the monthly offerings given with Twitch Prime were always gaming related: skins, credits, sometimes full games, etc.

The included subscription is pretty much the only "not necessarily gaming" part about it. Naming it "Gaming Prime" isn't confusing in that context.
I'm building up my motivation for exerccise. Currently, I'm motivated enough to do one to two sets. the motivation stems from what I said above. I typically do 8 reps.

The issue with three sets is muscle soreness. I want a fully functioning body every day.
Data communicated as PDFs when it shouldn't be has frequently been a pain. Recently, I needed banking data that was _only_ available as bank statements in PDFs or an unpredictable web ui.

Consuming banking data as PDFs is a nightmare. The bank I was working with seemed to have spent _some_ money on its website (Regions Bank in the US, if anyone wants to know, but just so happens to provide .ofx exports for 19.95/month starting from the month you sign up, but not generated for previous months, although that's tangential). Meanwhile, my local bank that at first glance from its website seems like it's in the stone age provides a PDF statement that looks like it was made in the 80s (all monospaced font, no graphics), but they also provide a .csv export for transactions with seemingly no limits on date.

The latter bank approach signals to me that data is in the format it should be in. No more, no less. The former suggests The PDF and a pretty web UI is the de facto standard for communicating tabular data when it shouldn't be.

I get that PDFs online are a great alternative as a document that was originally meant to be printed and mailed, but it is a poor substitute for consumable banking data.
Dillo and Netsurf are much smaller than mainstream browsers. But it takes some dedication to use these as ypu have to forgo many web services that aren't compatible.

Another option is to use a remote server to run the browser.
Befunge is a fun language to play around with, though I prefer the esolangs article[1] on it.
Its rather enjoyable to play around with, almost like a puzzle.

Befunge-98 is also an interesting advancement on Befunge-93, allowing more dimensions (first, and third dimension), and adding a variety of more complex features. I haven't played around with it nearly as much.

The self-modifying behavior that you may do in Befunge is where I really enjoy playing with it. A while back I wrote a very simple 'controllable' little character in a grid map.
The language is relatively simple to implement (though Befunge-98 is way more complex), and I found it a fun project to do whenever I learn a new programming language.
Probably the favorite (online) interpreter to use is [2].
[1] https://esolangs.org/wiki/Befunge
[2] http://qiao.github.io/javascript-playground/visual-befunge93...
Melon jam (from jam melons) is among the best I have tried.
TL;DR:

"Hey guys, I'm the CEO of Uber! We have problems, our drivers are miserable. But u know what, lets fix everyone's problem first and then we fix ours, ok?"
In the first few line of TFA they mention not the seasonal pattern but the fact that it is going to be more difficult to find COVID cases in the background of flu and common cold that do have a seasonal pattern.
Where is SICP?
Good point, and also relevant user name :)
That sounds great! What's the app called, I'd like to install it.
I guess that's it. Some other asocial animals are pretty smart, because they need it for hunting, or something. (Although even the most anti-social mammals still interact with their mom!)
Its similar in many US cities with historical districts.
Changing your assumption of "default state" doesn't change what I said.

The point is that systems like this go through various analyses before being built. Reliance on outside services/components is one of those analyses.

Let's say that a critical component is an online service. Someone will do the analysis of what happens when that service goes away. If the outcome is that you can expect to failover to something else with acceptable degradation of performance, then the service might be used. If not, then the choice is find a more reliable service, build it yourself or do without the feature. And those last two choices will themselves be subject to another analysis.

One of the nice things about capitalism is that if there's a profitable gap in products/services, that gap will eventually be filled. All new CPUs need to cloud connected and require a service provider, but there's a big industry that can't deal with that? I guarantee that someone will corner that market and start building CPUs that don't need to be cloud connected and require a service provider. Either that, or sufficiently reliable cloud services, tailored to that market, will appear.
I mean, the average person doesn't really need much equipment if the goal is to lose weight (in contrast with the niche hobbyist market of building muscle). There's a ton of bodyweight exercises[1] you can use that require no gym or even weights.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodyweight_exercise
FWIW this is why it's a good idea to have two MFA mechanisms. If you can afford it I recommend getting 2 hardware tokens, and storing them separately (you can leave one in your computer, hard to lose).
The telephone transformed – into almost everything (1993)
I think many would be surprised at the trivial and childish changes that Google does to hurt web sites.

Many don’t speak out for fear of further being punished by Google.
That's exactly it. It also begs the question, if corporations already have liability insurance, what's the point of forcing all of its employees to get similar coverage. It really is just giving more money to the insurance industry.
Before everyone knew he'd lose until he won.

But this time everyone knows he will lose...
Care about the ecology is not just about the environment as if it were something separate, or abstracted. There is a very practical, pragmatic reason not to sh$t where you eat. At least, not without composting with charcoal, or using one of those ecovats to clean it first, before feeding it back to the garden.

As far as whether the planet or biology “care”, we will have to disagree and leave it at that. While I think the word “care” is overloaded with a number of meanings, many are human-centric, I do have beliefs that there is a planetary and plant intelligence. I don’t think the Universe is as uncaring as you think, though there are many, many unpleasant things.
Electrical Engineers, if they join the IEEE, are asked to uphold their code of ethics: https://www.ieee.org/about/corporate/governance/p7-8.html

Mechanical Engineers have a similar one (ASM).

This is not novel.
Because time is money? first class postage is only 55 cents, that's hard to beat from a dollars per hour spent perspective.
This is a thing I think people constantly underestimate... Intel's cores are not necessarily dramatically more broken than everyone else's chips, they just pay for more auditing and public research.
Well here are some reasons why .pdfs are better:

1. They are a flat format. Why is this good? When you text search for something it can be found, vs. in HTML where you can search only a single web page instead of a hypertext graph- I mean what would a complete search even mean in HTML?

2. They are also hierarchical. I can print a hierarchical schematic and navigate through it by clicking on sheet-blocks.

3. You can view 3d renderings in them. Someone can save their solidworks document as a .pdf, and I can open it and zoom and rotate the view in acrobat reader. There is certainly no standard way to do this in HTML.

4. There are no ads.

5. I can send somebody the complete thing as a single file. For a web-site I would have to send them a zip file that they then would have to extract- it's just not as nice somehow, though in theory it should be OK. This shows up in microcontroller documentation for example. Usually the chip TRM is a 1000 page pdf, but the software is a bunch of HTML files (a web-site really). It's inevitably easier to get the chip TRM than it is the software documentation.

Actually in this particular case there is more- the software documentation is generated as extracted comments from source code by doxygen and it is usually crap. Pdf documentation someone actually wrote, so it tends to be better.

When you get HTML documentation, there is often not an index.html file. If there isn't one, which document do you open first?

6. Every documentation as a web-site system has their own navigation method, whereas .pdfs have acrobat reader or whatever. Even on web documentation that has something like a go to next page or section button, it's hit or miss if it works well. For example, the placement of the next button will vary from page to page, so you can't easily just page through it.
> You need compiler support for it.

There are probably implementations that require compiler support, but it is not required by the standard and not true of many common implementations. Support is by the caller, as described in others' parallel comments.

> You cannot just compile it as a normal function and link it with a runtime routine.

You can. As a concrete example, for the following two programs,

int maim(int argc, char *argv[]) { return 0; }
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { return 0; }

the assembly code produced by gcc 9.3 x64 is identical except for the spelling of the identifier.
Taxing the rich won't solve for crony capitalism...

Tesla's $7b in taxpayer subsidies.

The armies of lobbyists who LITERARILY write legislation.

The regulatory capture affecting certain professions - https://www.npr.org/transcripts/592376568
You've piqued my curiosity. Technically, why does a mud house keep the interior cooler? Is it the material, or the design?
tragically, markets have a way to settle, such that costs rise to match cash flows.. so the easy (and true) accusation "It's much more profitable to keep these externalities" is part of the story.. profit is sometimes over decades with low margins and upfront investment (coal) .. telling people that the coal barons are simply paying their long term loans and legally-mandated retirement benefits, is not as appealing to outrage the public..

I agree that it is apparently a bonding exercise among certain capital-crowds to dismantle and mock environmental protections. The real world works like that.
I think it heavily depends on the individual. Personally I've gone from nearly sedentary to running ~35 miles per week (and lost ~15 lbs in the process).
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In the case of Gorilla, I think it wasn't quite the level of sign language that it learned, but vocabularies and phrases.

I had a psychology professor who was part of the research teaching Koko sign language. And according to him, what Koko learned was really impressive, more than they anticipated. But it was still fundamentally different from human language.

It was a long time ago, and I don't recall what exactly was lacking. It could be on the lines of grammatical structures, that for Koko, there was no difference between "not want banana" and "want banana not". She didn't have an idea of what the negation was directed at. In the eye of linguistic psycholinguistics, the difference wasn't trivial.

In contrast, human children, even with limited vocabulary, could grasp and even invent grammars.
Thanks for the long and thoughtful response! Sounds like there’s scope for a higher-value *aas product that offers some guarantees about co-tenancy, or at least response times.
47 minutes after posting this I've been downvoted to 0 points. Apparently someone wants authoritarians to flourish in America.
same here :-)
Perhaps that’s not a bad thing.
Hehe, my father has a rather big mole on his cheek and I remember that from time to time he cut it while shaving.. bloody mess!

Take care! :)
You're going to have to do a better job at steel-manning their argument before you can even hope to engage them on this issue.

Besides, post-2016 it appears the business elites have switched sides.
But it's so nice and composable! /s

#define DEREFERENCE(b) MULTIPLY(=, b)

int thing DEREFERENCE(ptr);
Hauser's Law says that revenue vs GDP in the US is basically static regardless of marginal tax rates. This implies that any increase aside from inflation would be unexpected.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauser%27s_law
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/learnwin32/wi...

You then pass it into https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/shellapi/... to get it split out if you need it.

I can see why they did it that way. No reason to waste cycles on something if you do not need it. Though most frameworks go and call it for you anyway these days.
Not able to afford several worldwide flights a week doesn't make him poor, but he seems like he probably donated most his money to the FSF.
I agree with the size complaint. Its unbelievably annoying when I have to embed a bitmap image in a pdf and turn some 75kb jpeg into a 26mb pdf for compat reasons
There was a big acceleration of cases in March (largely in NYC), and a second, even bigger acceleration (mostly in the Southern and Western regions) in June. Your point is valid, but there were two large increases in new cases that some people are calling waves, what would you prefer they be called?
Does anyone have a link to an actual writeup of which of these regulations are being rescinded? It's not clear from what's visible publicly on this WSJ article to a non-subscriber.
Sure, you are an experienced Haskeller so you have seen the sharp end of this. If this were a Haskell forum I might be proclaiming we have too many language extensions and the error messages are terrible! As were are on a forum for generalists I think the fairest thing to do is to point out as strongly as possible that, no, extensions don't mean that Haskellers have to choose to learn one of several incompatible languages, they don't mean you have to learn anything more than just another language feature, they're really not an impediment to being successful with Haskell in any way, and the fact that they are extensions at all is a quirk of having a language defined by a standard.
You are getting updates for the OS and kernel but not for device drivers. That's a big surface area for someone to hack your phone.
Also you will likely never be able to do business with Google again. So make sure you're willing to never use another paid Google service again.
int* a, b; /* wrong */
int *a, *b; /* also wrong */

/* correct */
int* a;
int* b;

/* moar correct */
int* a{nullptr};
int* b{nullptr};
Agree 100%. It is a tradeoff that detracts from ease of human interpretation.

Because C makes that tradeoff,

int *a;

is idiomatic C and

int* a;

isn't.

For C programming to be pleasant, you have to understand and agree with the philosophy at least while you're writing C.

Go developers changed this in a particularly elegant way. Here's what Rob Pike has to say: https://blog.golang.org/declaration-syntax.

I too gained a better understanding of the problem after going through a compiler-writing exercise.
THIS x 1000.

Walmart used to have a page for employees telling them how to apply for food stamps.

Those costs should be charged back to the company.