skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally believe that at some point civilizations will stop using their bodies and live in something like computers or whatever it will be by then. So we may already be living in a highly networked universe without noticing it.

With all the technological progress I can’t imagine why someone would want to deal with our very flawed bodies in the long run. We are already getting more and more of our experiences though means like TV and the Internet and I don’t see that trend stopping.
Yes, but in this case he wouldn't have gotten an email since the UPS failed right when the power went out.

I actually had the exact same thing happen to me a few months ago. A power flicker so brief that it didn't even reset any of my clocks, but it caused one of my cheapo standby UPSes to give out.
Simple, stop outsourcing manufacturing to China. Companies regularly get contracts which require an IP transfer in return for cheap mass labor. Of course there's IP which is stolen, but that's the cost of doing business when manufacturing at home has been shuttered.
I am not sure why you got downvoted. This is absolutely the interpretation you can easily reach after reading it. Maybe readers perceive Orwell reference as too dramatic?
Germany gives contractors/freelancers unemployment benefits.
Corporations are inherently organs of government, being incorporated under a specific jurisdiction and receiving liability limitations in return. At the very least, Huawei is an arm of the PRC surveillance state in the same way that Google is an arm of the USG surveillance state.

The problem is not that the claim is false, but rather the one-sided focus on it that justifies the USG surveillance state continuing to turn on its own people. If this were just some defense contractor pork for internal USG networks nobody would really care, but it sounds like they intend to fork most common Internet features while dictating how they operate.
I think it's because the car companies don't want people meddling, draining their car batteries with poor power management and degrading the lifetime, and then coming to them and asking them to repair the damage.
>Often low-income families would live in smaller houses for less money if they had the choice, but building smaller and more dense housing has since been restricted by planning codes, often with the intent of excluding poor people.

I'm conservative-minded on regulation for exactly this reason; my parents and grandparents were allowed to live poor yet we're obligated to pay substantially more in housing because of restrictions and requirements that purportedly address safety concerns that I'm willing to risk.
Few times a week in summer and twice or so weekly in winters here (India). It's not that uncommon in developing countries to have outages. Many of them are also arbitrary (not related to infrastructure failure) but saving cost, political reasons, social events, etc.
Charity events have always had a suggested donation amount for this reason. If a project doesn’t suggest a donation amount then they intentionally or unintentionally ignoring conventional wisdom.

Disturbing a donation pool is interesting but not far off patreon.
States reject tens of thousands of mail ballots
I got so much exercise trying to install Slackware from >20 floppies. Disk 5 has read errors. go copy another, start over from disk 1. Disk 8 has a read error.

(By the time I was done I didn't have enough disks, so I had to go to the lab in the middle)
I think the current administration has seen major success, in part by being inflammatory and is just trying to keep up the publicity.
This is more about Huawei in general. Russia, for instance, doesn't have a technology provider of similar magnitude and influence.
Not a valid comparison since those are core products of both companies. Google hasn't and never will open source Search.
Capitalism says let people do what they want. If one guy undercuts all the others and says he's ready to do it on his own for cheap, let him, he's probably better at it anyway. This lets the other 9 figure out what they want to do, maybe launch a startup or whatever, there's no shortage of things that need fixing on this planet.
YouTube works fine and has for years. Earlier this year Google started blocking some requests and due to the use of a redirect you often need to create a `New Identity` to get around it. It _usually_ helps if you visit the youtube.com homepage first, though.
You don't solve that problem by creating pretend work or paying above market rate for work, instead that is what social safety nets are for (everyone should be able to eat, work just means you can eat better). Especially these days, and moving forward as automation takes over more lesser skilled tasks.
Do administrators speed mail delivery?
My APC 950VA also died on me unexpectedly, although I suspect a power surge: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2020/08/02/1800

But the main point in the article is worthy: UPS manufacturers have been skimping somewhat on functionality, features and quality over the past few years...
Choose Inspiration over Imitation
Well, AWS and scalability is incredibly useful for game launches; while Fall Guys might be a bad example, you can easily see where well-architected scalability would help. Being able to burst up to 100k+ concurrents at launch and then drop down to, say, 50k, or 20k, is a massive cost savings compared to buying (or leasing) capacity for 100k users and then having most of it sit idle.

I dislike AWS for most projects, since, without any sort of large-scale discount or negotiation, it's vastly more expensive than dedicated hardware, but if I were launching a game like Fall Guys I'd want to launch in AWS, and then migrate to dedicated hosting or hybrid-cloud once things are more even-keeled and you know what your usage patterns are like.

That said, that's not specific to AWS. I can get the same thing on Azure, Google Cloud, Tencent Cloud, etc.
I guess I'm confused. I clicked the link and read through it really quick. I didn't really have a lot of strong opinions. This seems to be a response to how powerful China is becoming and that's scary for many reasons. This almost seems like a natural reaction of one government trying to abuse the internet and another government trying to protect it's citizens. It might even be irresponsible for the U.S. not to react. Obviously, there's no mention of Russia, but let's shelve that for now.

I wasn't totally alarmed by what I read. Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but I take this as a sort of stamp of approval that a cloud/network/platform isn't compromised by China. It doesn't seem to say, "Only use the U.S. internet" as other commenters have mentioned. The stamp of approval seems to be global (if you look at the list that was mentioned it's worldwide, not just the US).

When I came back to look at the comments I was surprised to see a lot of noise. I feel like something must have flew over my head and maybe someone can explain it to me. I went ahead and read the link again but slower and I still don't understand the reaction I'm seeing on HN.

Maybe it's some sort of state of idealism. People want the internet to be a place that's free from tyranny or government, but that's not what's happening. China/Russia/US/whoever is abusing the internet to gain an upper-hand. The best solution is to reinvent the internet, which I know there are a quite a few projects going on that are trying to accomplish that, but in the meantime what is a government supposed to do? Let other governments siphon their citizen's data without a cost?

Again, I could use an explanation as I must have missed something that a lot of other people are finding very obvious. When a top level comment just says "Make sure you vote in November". I don't understand the context.

Disclaimer: I am definitely not voting for Trump and dislike pretty much everything the administration has done. Yet, I do try to look at everything in silos.
Vaporware from the start. Very hard to find information about now, I suspect it was dropped as a project without any kind of announcement.
In Gov't or consulting reports the content tends to start somewhere around page 20-30.
Love this idea, can’t wait to try it out!
State's 2020 budget is $52B. It has direct-collaboration access to DOD and NIST.

We should expect our national-security infrastructure to be more resilient than commercial infrastructure, not less.
Prime Gaming will still display ads all the time?
Because people don't want to ride in poor weather? Because the terrain is inhospitable to their current fitness level? Because the terrain is inhospitable to any fitness level? Because they may only have 45 minutes to ride and want to spend the full time riding? Because they live in an area with a lot of pollution? Because they have medical issues where they worry about getting stuck away from their home? Because they just like tech or just don't like being outside?

There are plenty of completely legitimate reasons.
BZZZT

Pedant alert: Fish and Chips is not originally British! (It's only been a staple over here since the 1860s.)

The chips had their origin as Belgian frites, and the fish is from Sephardic Jewish immigrants from Holland, who picked up and modified the recipe for pescado frito. (Fried fish could be eaten cold the next day, so was suitable for shabbat.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_and_chips
The problem here is that if someone dies while using your medical device and you have a "warning hygeine" process then there's a sound legal argument that you knew there were problems in the device that you chose to instead paper over and ignore. It doesn't matter that it makes sense to software engineers. What you have to consider is how a "jury of your peers" will react to you calmly and rationally explaining that a newer version of the compiler added some new warnings, but you decided that because the code has been running just fine for decades that it's totally okay to not address those warnings. It raises questions about how seriously you're actually taking software quality.

Take your "misleading indentation" warning. If you choose to ignore that warning, you're setting yourself up because I can make a great argument that you don't care that the indentation is misleading. And in fact that you're ignoring the hazards of following misleading indentation which is that another person reading your code could misread it and introduce a defect. And that in fact your policy is to allow some defects, including a possible defect which has killed the plaintiff.
People made non-insignificant amount of money driving around and looking for hailing hand. Maybe not in the US, but that worked in Russia.
The NSA barely acknowledges its own existence. It's not exactly known for publishing direct intelligence for public consumption.. The Mashable report you link was only possible because of the most notorious leak in the history of the world (Edward Snowden), who is currently a fugitive of the US government.

Have you tried searching in wikileaks though?
Yeah, but who is actually going to read a 7000 page report on torture or surveillance? (Assuming these reports were actually published, which they were not)
I think part of it is moving most manufacturing to China had companies like Molex move as well (cheaper). Molex builds the molds for items (I’m sure other companies are doing this to). That means the Chinese are reviving the designs BEFORE manufacturing even starts (US or China or India).

My understanding from the tool & die industry is that’s only been happening the last decade or so. IMO that’s the real issue, because it’s decimating the ability to manufacture here and sure design can happen in the US, but if you can’t build the molds for the latest tech here then it doesn’t matter. Those designs are given straight to China, no need to reverse engineer.
Why should he pay more? They signed a work contract. And if that contract says don't unionize, then maybe they shouldn't be surprised to be let go when they try that.
That Molex story is great. Can only imagine how much magic is in some of those molds... trying to think through many molex connectors in terms of relief angles, tolerances, and manufacturability boggles the mind.
How can you have either without the other?
Health benefits-wise, I think a government approach would be the best. Gig workers are "self-employed," meaning they're paying the 15.3% tax on all earnings + personal income tax, so why couldn't that go towards government health insurance?
Been running a 2010 MBP for the last few months hosting bitwarden, a samba file share, a DNS server, and a ton of other stuff. It's been pretty great so far, so much so that I dug out another old laptop and set it up as a pi-hole for a friend.

Have you any suggestions for increasing the amount of storage one could address? I can't find any Thunderbolt 2 or FireWire enclosures so I'm sadly limited to the two USB3.0 ports. Right know my plan is to resort to putting a high-capacity 2.5" hdd inside the MBP and adding a usb hdd in addition to the one I already have. But that doesn't strike me as ideal for some reason.
ListFromText – turn any text into a useful list
KeePassRPC Plugin Vulnerability: CVE-2020-16271 Warning message
When KeePassRPC (version 1.13.0 or higher) detects a previously authorised client which uses the same encryption key as the one used during a successful exploit of the first related vulnerability fixed in KeePassRPC 1.12.x, we display a warning message.

In the current version of KeePassRPC, this reads:

Your KeePass instance may have previously been exploited by a malicious attacker.

The passwords contained within any databases that were open before this point may have been exposed so you should change them.
Joseph Stalin Was Russia's Greatest Bank Robber
I think a problem that most people are making is comparing uber to an idealized alternative.

Of course people would choose a stable, easier, and better paying job opposed to gig work. That job doesn't exist for everyone.
This doesn’t remotely support your accusation
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Gorillas can use sign language, dogs can use speaking buttons, I’m sure dolphins or orcas could be taught something we would recognise as language, maybe even chimpanzé
Ya.

One needful use case was (is?) variable data printing, allowing mass customization, like direct mail. Pretty much the same technical progression that happened in user interfaces going from absolute coords and static layout to dynamic layout managers.

The fix was so easy. Just retain some of the source document's meta data, eg this group of glyphs are a "paragraph". The PDF object model was explicitly designed for exactly this kind of extension.

IIRC Some specialty vendors had some goofy work-arounds, like a post process tool for manually marking paragraphs.

But Adobe could never be bothered.
In theory CSS has specific controls for laying out the "print" format of page page so your browser's print action should do the right thing.

However in practice many websites don't put any effort into this, which is probably an indication that they wouldn't put any effort into a custom solution either.

> I wonder how difficult it would be to write a tool that can turn a PDF into a usable webpage.

I was looking into this but it is basically impossible. Since PDF is basically a collection of images (with some "fancy" stuff on top) you can get the basics, such as text and headings, however you won't be able to do much for semantics or layout. All web-based PDF viewers I have seen just render each page to an image and put invisible text on top for copy-paste support.
I feel like the article does not address the stated question.

arg(ument) c(ount) and arg(ument) v(ector) is what I was taught.

edit: After a re-read, the article is about where the actual values come from and not the historical semantic meaning of the variable names.
You can't move around the many millions of dollars in advertising without the government being aware of it. Good old fashioned investigative work and arrest of anyone knowingly contributing to wirefraud is sufficient to stop clandestine apps from growing to the size of tiktok.

Sort of like how the CFO of Huawei is currently in jail.

Creating orwellian straw man arguments is not a productive method of conversation. Please stop.
It's also ridiculous to paint any of this like a meritocracy. America is a land of private kings and peasants. There is a finite amount of wealth in the borders of this country, a finite number of jobs, and a finite number of C level positions, and probably a thousand vastly more qualified people for every CEO out there.

We don't choose to stratify our wealth based on any intelligence or merit or skill. For every doctor, lawyer, scientist, or business executive making serious money, they aren't there because they crossed some intelligence bar; there would be 1000x as many of these positions if intelligence were the only bar. These knowledge workers we value so much and idolize in society were simply born in the right place at the right time, and opportunities snowballed from there. This is a land of blind luck, highly influenced by who your parents were and what color your skin is.
> Linear and limiting

When I'm trying to learn something that is not short and simple, linear is good.

Far too often when someone tries to present a long and complex subject via HTML, they don't provide an easy way to go through the entire thing in an order that is pedagogically sound.

It doesn't have to be that way...but it usually is. I'm not sure why.

Instead, they provide each page with a sidebar that links to other pages, turning the whole collection into a directed graph of pages full of dead ends and regions that have no links to other regions.

You reach some page where the sidebar links to X, Y, and Z, which are all things that depend on what you learned on that page and you are now ready to learn. If you follow the X link, you may end up learning all about X but may never again see the links to Y and Z unless you remember that a dozen pages back you saw them and purposefully seek them out. It's very easy to not even realize that you missed a whole major subtopic.

In a linear format, such as an actual book, a PDF, an EPUB, or even a plain text file, the author or editor makes a decision on how X, Y, and Z should be ordered. Maybe they decide X, followed by Y, followed by Z. Maybe they decide X, then Y, then things that depend on both X and Y, then Z, then things the use X, Y, and Z.

Different authors might pick a different ordering, but they point is they have to choose something. Whatever they choose, you just keep turning the page and you'll hit it all.

For a big subject, maybe you don't want to hit it all. I've seen math books address this by having a list or diagram in the front giving you alternate orders to go through a subset of the book if you just want to learn just a subset of the subject.

In theory, HTML should be great for this, especially HTML with JavaScript. You could have a page that lets you select from different learning paths, and then the JavaScript would put "Next" and "Previous" buttons on each page that take you through all the pages on your selected learning path. You could still have the sidebar links, but if you follow one the JavaScript could add a "Return to Learning Path" button so you can always get back on track.

But until more HTML authors put in the effort to provide a linear path through the material that books/PDF/EPUB/text formats force their authors to provide, PDF and to a lesser extend EPUB will remain the best option for most people trying to learn a long and complex subject online.

(I give PDF the nod over EPUB because most EPUBs do not have mathematical notation that looks as good as it does in PDF. I don't know if this is a technical limitation of EPUB itself, or of the EPUB readers I've used, or of the authoring tools used to create the EPUBs, or simply the authors didn't know how to do it right).

A good example of HTML authors putting in the effort is "The Feynman Lectures on Physics" online edition [1]. That shows you can make a website that presents a long and complex technical subject that works as well as a book or PDF, yet adjusts well to a variety of different screen sizes.

[1] https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/
It’s very hard to understand why the current administration has such an urge to roll back environmental regulations. I grew up in a time when rivers were red or green depending on what type of leather the factory upstream was processing at the time. The only fish you could see were dead. Breathing in cities was hard. Environmental regulation is a big success story that improved the lives of countless people while companies could still make enormous profits. Why try to roll that back? If anything we should get even more clean.
This was actually done over 12 years ago with a feature extraction called SIFT and approximate nearest neighbor kd-trees at the university of british columbia. It was turned into a product by microsoft. There are youtube videos that show models of the notre dame cathedral recreated with photos from flickr.
Twitch has a LOT of issues with their culture and moderation
Yeah, but what about the airport, in particular, the security line?
This is another example of the system trying to move to individual workers the failures of the economic elite. It is not the software engineering profession that is putting in risk the world, instead it is the unscrupulous drive for more profits coming from investors and CEOs.
> Can we comprehend them? From what I've read about it, consciousness in octopuses has to be completely alien to ours...

What is completely alien is the evolutionary path compared to our own. What feels familiar is the connection you feel with these animals when they interact with you. They seem to be caught in a comical struggle between fear and curiosity. It feels human.
Edit: I stand corrected.
Hmm, absolutely.

However, the infrastructure and scenario may be wildly different from your average (modern) big tech company.

There's always the notion that your national infrastructure needs the security applied as an afterthought, VS maybe more careful planning and less heavy "legacy" dragging them down in the tech companies.
That's exactly what the parent is criticizing. The problem with save page is that the HTML you save still contains tons of links to server resources, particularly CSS and JS. Of course those links will work if you look at the saved page immediately after you save it. The problem is that if you come back later, sometimes even just the next day, they no longer work. A lot of JS file names are auto-generated random numbers, produced by packaging systems rather than humans, which change whenever the developers edit their JS. They aren't designed to be stable.

There are tools that try to fetch those links and update the HTML to point to the local copy. But those tools can only go so far. JS is allowed to fetch new files dynamically, and there's no reliable way to look at a piece of code and automatically figure out what it's going to fetch when you run it.
In the grand scheme of things society needs things like bridges, electricity, water, roads as necessary prerequisite for Walmart to have shoppers and therefore an income.

In the same fashion society needs people that make enough money to meet their basic needs like food and medicine so that they may spend their additional funds on higher margin items that actually keep Walmart afloat.

Businesses and the wealthy people that own them are vastly the beneficiaries of such policies as maintain a healthy functional society in the same way as they benefit from roads but for any given business if they can shirk their share they can keep the difference so they are incentivized to forget.

It is strange that you consider paying their share a gift rather than a due. It seems worshiping economics is a barrier to understanding it.
> Software engineers at a certain level of their career and with relatively uncommon skills can pick and choose what companies they want to work at.

What percent of software engineers does this statement apply to?