skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
chromium is open source because webkit (khtml) was open source

many useful parts of android are closed, and open source versions of most apps are languishing (calendar, contacts, dialer etc)
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I think there's more to the story than just anglocentric oversight.

English translations are more likely to be unencumbered by copyright, and US copyright is often shorter (or more specific) than in other countries which can apply separately to translations. You can see this on https://babel.hathitrust.org/ where English translations are available but, say, Spanish editions are only available for search—you can't read them.

And because there are a lot more scholars using English, English translations tend to be more numerous and higher quality and more available than the original language. You see this a lot on Project Gutenberg where there's a super polished English translation and a non-existent or crappy original-language transcription.

For example, can you get a Spanish copy of "One Hundred Years Of Solitude" for this without legal issue? Maybe Harper Perennial was willing to cooperate with their English edition and others weren't? I don't think things are as obvious and straightforward as we like them to be.

I've run into all of this while "remastering" old Spanish works. English dominates culture, and not in a bad way. The only reason some new editions/transcriptions of old non-English works exist is because an English-speaking scholar was interested in it or a professor remastered an illegible edition to teach his Spanish language class. And now it's the only version of that work that's not behind a paywall. And you'll have to re-transcribe a messy scan of a book from the 17th century if you want a digital copy in the original language.

Anyways, has Github stated why it's English-only? Did they not have a good reason or are we just guessing that they didn't know that other languages are important (like we, HNers, people of culture, know)?
Just curious, why? Is it a tactic to quarantine content that has potential to start flame wars from other content?
I look at the bay area, and I almost feel the opposite in faith of 'smaller' governments constantly failing prisoner dilemma coordination problems with NIMBYism and a lack of an ability to make a asia-level metro area transit system. Small governments get little sunlight.
schemaorg/schemaorg/CONTRIBUTING.md
https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/blob/main/CONTRIBUTIN... explains how you and your organization can contribute resources to the Schema.org W3C project.

If you or your organization can justify contributing one or more people at full or part time due to ROI or goodwill, by all means start sending Pull Requests and/or commenting on Issues.

"Give us more for free or step down". Wow. What PRs have you contributed to justify such demands?

https://schema.org/docs/documents.html links to the releases.
> easily actionable

up to interpretation what easily means. We can definitely make things simple (easy to comprehend for uneducated and/or lower iq). But "easy" seems to be expressed by compliance and that seems to be the trick.

it's simple to not eat (ie fast) one day a week. it's simple to lace up your shoes and go for 30 minutes run. Yet neither of those are "easy" to get someone to do
Try P90X 3. About 15 30 minute videos that definitely keep you in shape. About half don’t need any equipment, and a quarter only need a pull-up bar.
I was trying to be generous with the 50%. I believe it will be around 65% when all is said and done.
Curious as to how you come up with the 100k number. (We're in general agreement.)
In general it shouldn't be the case that working part time disqualifies someone from earning unemployment or disability checks. It's pointlessly punitive and reduces health, happiness and productivity for the entire labor force.
I think the "going from famines and plagues to riches within a few hundred years" was referring to what happened in Europe. As far as I know, those were not issues in most of the former colonies (before colonization).
it's us-west-1! :D

we've had a ton of instances fail at once because they had some kind of rack-level failure and a bunch of our EC2s ended up in the same rack. :(
That was just one way of phrasing it. You could just as easily put it as, "For every piece of cooking equipment, clean it and put it away."
I use Obsidian (which is inspired by Roam). I know some people may use the graphs, but I personally have that functionality disabled. The real important bit for me is the fact that I can have bi-directional linking. For me, graphs are a cool toy, something I can go "ohhh, neat" and then never use again.
What I don't understand is how that isn't a taking.
Is it really another "series of tubes moment"? Is it not true that a system crucial to the majority of economic, social, and political(!) activity in this country ought not to be running on hardware/software known to be designed/manufactured by what has proven to be a "malign actor"?
23andMe will use your DNA to develop new drugs or treatments to help the general population. If you're comfortable with that, cool, take the test. If you'd rather get paid for the gene pool you own, good luck.
not really - how many software and hardware engineers do you think you need for this? probably minimum 10, maybe 20-30 realistically. At SV salaries (you need the best engineers, right?) that's $9m USD/annum.

You need to ship at least 50 of these devices to break even. To get a proper margin and cover all the other costs (manufacturing, sales, marketing, compliance, accounting, yada), you're probably going to need to create and sell a couple hundred, every year.
I couldn't agree more with this. Thanks for distilling that so well. I've been trying to articulate variations of this point for a long time.
> What I don't get is the suggestion that PDF should be replaced by HTML. The purposes of the two formats are basically orthogonal and replacing one with the other is doomed to failure.

Isn't "the purposes of the two formats are basically orthogonal" actually the entire point the article is making? Literally the first line of the summary:

> Research spanning 20 years proves PDFs are problematic for online reading. Yet they’re still prevalent and users continue to get lost in them.

From the second paragraph:

> The [PDF] format is intended and optimized for print. It’s inherently inaccessible, unpleasant to read, and cumbersome to navigate online.

The bolded statement in the second paragraph that's clearly meant to be the One Important Thing to Take Away:

> Do not use PDFs to present digital content that could and should otherwise be a web page.

Your comment here is eloquent, but the article's argument is not "print-layout documents should be replaced by hypertext," it's "print-layout documents are a poor fit for reading on screen-layout devices." When you conclude:

> It's all a matter of opinion over whether you prefer print-format documents or hypertext, and that's going to be very application-specific.

Aren't you essentially restating the article's thesis?

I don't want to read an article online that's a PDF for largely the same reason that I don't want to print the web version of the same article rather than a PDF. It's generally going to be clunky. The print page size and dimensions are not going to be my screen/window size and dimensions. I certainly don't want to read two- or three-column text on screen, which may require zooming in and out and scrolling back and forth on the same "print" page. And God help me if I'm trying to do that on my phone or iPad mini.

The article isn't saying "PDF is terrible and nobody should ever use it"; it's saying "PDFs were meant for specific applications and in nearly all circumstances, online reading is not it."
Yes, if the entire world shuts down completely, or, if you shutdown completely a single country and after the virus is "dead" inside the country, then never allow any incoming travel (even returning citizens) until the virus is dead everywhere else.

Obviously none of these are practically possible.
"APC Customer Support said that the power strips might actually be weirding out the battery."

I think it's more likely that you purchased a guerilla-remanufactured unit that was properly sealed and packaged to look brand new (with hologram stickers and anti-tamper seals, etc.) but had an old, already dead battery that was reconditioned just enough to last a few cycles after purchase.

Did you buy this directly from APC ?
Somewhat related: This semester we got a Moodle in the university. Sometimes the students write the homework in paper and upload a photo to the site. But the maximum files size is 1Mb, that is like the average size of a photo of a paper, so half of the time they have a problem. So if you want to diversify later, you can try with photos. (Good luck getting students to pay for this, but it may be a losing lead.)

Some questions after writing my unrelated comment: [Instant Edit: I tried it now.]

Can I choose a smaller size? [I only can choose bigger sizes. Can I choose smaller sizes?]

Do you add a watermark? [No]

Do you preserve sound? [Yes :), and I can mute it too :).]

More feature requests after trying it:

Can I change the resolution of the video?

It would be nice to see the options before I click upload file.

After I download the video it is not longer available (as promised). Perhaps it would be nice to add some javascript trick to change the link from "Download xyz.mp4" to "You have already downloaded the video. Click here to upload a new one."

The name of the video is uninteligible. Perhaps it should be something like "8mb.uploaded_file_name.mp4".
The hardware probably has to be tested just the same. I don't think that gets you anything, except more complexity and more testing.
I usually work for mega-large corporations and I have been for the past 15-20 years. How can I phrase it... I HATE wearing suite & tie. I work from home in any chance I get, I dislike the 'uniform', and I prefer casual/sport/comfortable clothing. This is why I like Finns.. they don't give a crap about 'norms'. The go for comfort, whatever feels good, and rock on!
Also discussed 6 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22297507
I used to go to my apartment gym for their freeweights and treadmills. I ended up buying some elastic straps and can do all the movements you need to work the same groups as olympic lifts, they go up to 150lbs of resitance and only cost $40. Never going to a gym to share some sweaty gross equipment with smelly grunting people again!

I also bought a road bike and have been biking all over town and keeping the car parked. When I first bought the bike I had to pull over and lay on my back on the sidewalk after 4 miles, just completely dead and gassed. Now I do 30 mile rides without any trouble, in my mask mind you for all those mask wearing complainers. I also try to run all my errands on the bike and stay close to the neighborhood if I can help it, and honestly since I can lane split around traffic and park effortlessly, I make about the same time as when I ran errands with my car.

For those who are having trouble finding a bike, it seems here in LA all the local bike shops still have plenty of bikes, and there are always second hand bikes being sold on craigslist and other sites. While dumbbells and kettlebells are hard to find, resistance bands are plentiful and you can do all the same movements with a little creativity.
Why would one check if the new syntax is available rather than just use browserslist? https://github.com/browserslist/browserslist-example#babel
The Right was smart to latch onto coal. It will never come back, so they can complain about it forever. We all know that they love to sell nostalgia.

And their target demographic isn't too interested in facts, so they'll never learn the reality that it was deregulation lead to a natural gas boom, which lead to the free market dealing the death blow to coal. So they can keep selling evil job killing regulations as the reason for the decline of everything great in this country.

Renewables get the headlines, but those coal plants are mostly being replaced with natural gas ones. The media reports "renewables overtake coal for the first time," which gives the false impression that solar and wind are displacing coal. But that's not what's really happening, which is that those former coal plants now burn natural gas because it's cheaper.
The screenshot’s help text suggests an explanation which makes more sense than the speculation: if the site has a paywall and you subscribe through Apple News+, this populates the embedded web view’s cookies so you don’t get hit the paywall. It can’t do that to the system Safari any more than any other app but it can for an internal app.

If their goal was intercepting traffic it wouldn’t require a subscription.
I might like to have, in a better version of C:

- GNU extensions, such as zero-length arrays, ?: with nothing in between, and statements inside of expressions

- Less confusing syntax for types

- Full LLVM features

- Non-Unicode

- Both normal include files and token macros, as well as namespacing and hygienic macros supported too

- Standard macros for testing alignment, endianness, etc

- Macros that can call compile-time execution of codes which can deal with the AST

- Reduced runtime requirements

- Support for setjmp/longjmp with catch blocks; if you longjmp past such a block, it should execute the catch block to clean up as needed before that block jumps again back to the target of the longjmp operation

- The goto command.

The worst thing about C is I think the confusing syntax for types. Pointer arithmetic and goto are both good, though, so keep those.

I can do without automatic memory management.
> Putting a very high tax on wealth would have the benefits of a one-time infusion of tax revenues, AND a future disincentive for the ultrawealthy to seek to enrich themselves infinitely using business practices that take money from everyone else.

This point relies on a false premise. The ultra-wealthy aren't taking money from you. They're mostly creating wealth that didn't previously exist.
Distributed Works – The company behind Dkron
Is it interesting?
Most software is just about shipping stuff quickly and replacing things with the next big thing. Most normal projects are maintained and updated on the fly as they mature, until they become abandoned and die. Without this throwaway approach, we would still be stuck with technology from 2000 at best.

Nobody can afford to develop software that lasts this long without constant maintenance, bugfixes and updated. We are not NASA. And if you look at the costs and development time of projects that require things to last this long... It's astronomical. Any market opportunity would be old news by the time you shipped, and any venture capital you might have gotten would have been sunk into the early planning phase.

I have been part of several projects from start to finish and you just keep getting surprise ALL the time. There isn't a single decision you can make that doesn't need to be revised a few months later. Planning all of this upfront is close to impossible and a reason why the costs of doing it are insane. This can work better in other environments, like Aviation or Space Travel, since things are more predictable than building a webserver for a changing customer base and feature set. Still, even there costs are still astronomical and innovation moves at a snail's pace.
"But forcing that at all times is a big annoyance."

Agreed. The cyberpower devices do let you "silence" the alarm, but even with the alarm "silenced" the UPS will begin rapid beeping as the battery nears depletion.
I still don't understand what these systems give that isn't provided by a simple wiki with auto- and bi-directional linking. People are getting extremely excited by Zettelkasten, and Roam, and Org-Roam, and Obsidian, etc, etc, etc, and no one seems to be able to explain to me why it's not basically just a wiki.

You use Obsidian ... how is it different from a wiki with auto-linking?
So? There's nothing wrong with diskettes as a medium. They're not used much any more, but they work OK.

F-16s still use PCMCIA cards to load combat flight plans. Obsolete, but small and reliable. Also big enough to handle on a flight line while wearing gloves. An SD card would be too small. A USB stick might accidentally get plugged into something it shouldn't be plugged into.
Certain equipment has had a run, but you can get resistance bands all over the place. I bought 150lbs of resistance for $40, and I just looked and there are still plenty in stock.

I think people have to get more creative with their physical fitness. You don't need freeweights to achieve great results.

Here is an excellent guide:

https://yoga-horizons.com/pdfs/Fatmans-Guide-to-Cable-Traini...
Off-topic, but shouldn't HN be looking at their commenting style and implementing some sort of sub-comment/ replies collapsing style a la reddit?

I collapsed the first parent comment and there's no other to read as the entire discussion now is based on that parent comment.

I think collapsing comments after a limit of replies or votes is reached will help with the contribution of new perspective to the discourse instead of everyone else following the train of thought of a single parent comment.

https://imgur.com/M4qMWog
The article deeply resonates with me. I have been annoyed so often by a website splitting content into PDFs that would have been perfectly fine as HTML. I suppose this happens because the content department makes nicely (sometimes) layouted documents first to print and give someone to review _and then_ someone decides to throw them up on the website as an afterthought.
The EU - as political body - had nearly no say in the measure in Europe.

Germany - a EU member - is itself a federal republic. Here, it's not the federal government but the state and local country/city governments who managed the crisis (e.g. the government agencies tasked with ensuring public health as largely organized on the city/council level).

This sometimes results in diverging rules, but at the height of the crisis, everyone (even across party lines) sat together under the moderation of the federal government and came up with common rules to minimize irritation by differing rules.

To summon up, I don't think its fundamentally a problem of the political organization but of the political climate. The US seems to be far beyond the point where anyone would expect the people in power to actually come to a consensus across party lines.
I'm down with paying for tools when creating value, not when learning. We probably even agree. I do not expect many experts to appear at my doorstep if the tool is proprietary. SAP was an example of that.
I think there's an argument that "do" is just a placeholder for the body of the loop, i.e. "clean this item and put it away". If you flip the order that the body and the iteration are expressed so that it reflects what most programming languages use for syntax, it would be "for each piece of cooking equipment, clean it and put it away". There's no "do" here, nor is it needed.
No, the article is wrong: the low end UPS devices are bad on quality and functionality and lead-acid batteries in UPS devices is a lot shorter than some people would expect.

I still have a few APC Smart UPS's bought in 1999-2000 running in my house; at the same time I had a few cheapies that broke after a few years, sometimes in spectacular ways (electronic exploded melting part of the battery case); I will not name brands, it is not worth.

Since 2000 I changed cases full of batteries, usually every 2-3 years. The good thing with the APC Smart series is that it works even if it gives an alert that the battery is bad, but you will get a few minutes of power instead of 30-60 minutes (my server & NAS is very low power, 5% of the UPS capacity). I also set the server to shutdown when the battery is reaching 50%, so I never deplete the batteries. At the same time, the UPS on the water pump is usually running on batteries as much as it can, so I need to change these batteries after 2 years. I have both the server and the water pump in the basement, the temperature is around 16-20 degrees Celsius (winter-summer), when I was keeping the server and the UPS in the house the battery life was at half (~18 months). The heat and the deep discharge cycles are effectively killing batteries.

I had the same type of battery on my motorcycles, one lived about 8 years and a second one 6 years, but in very different conditions: it was warmer, but almost no discharges.
Back in the day I played FG on a Geforce 2, but things changed a lot. But you can play FG on lowest settings at 1024x768 in a 2008-9 laptop perfectly.
Indie creative web discussion with Brendan Schlagel of Hyperlink Academy [video]
You may find this a fun read:

https://lichess.org/blog/Wqa7GiAAAOIpBLoY/developer-update-2...
https://archive.is/72cwb
One in 10 ballots rejected in last month’s vote-by-mail elections in New Jersey
One neat thing I learned is that `argv` and `envp` are contiguous on Linux. You can change the process name that appears in `ps` by modifying memory that `argv` elements point to. If you need more space, you can also skip NULL-terminating `argv` so that it will read on into `envp`.

Chromium, for example, does this: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/master:s...
Note that there are materials that resist lightsaber blades: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Lightsaber/Legends#Lightsab...
I needed to understand linkers and object loaders for something at work recently, and I can't recommend Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective enough![1] It answered a lot of questions I'd always had about computer systems.

I jumped straight into Chapter 7: Linking and learned so much that I read a bunch of other chapters for the fun of it. E.g., Chapter 7 covered that the `_start` symbol mentioned in this post is just a symbol in your executable that the Linux executable loader knows to jump to, but it's not the only special symbol!

The chapter on linking also covered how loading and linking dynamic/shared libraries works, which was also really cool. I wrote up some of the things I learned about that stuff too.[2]

[1] http://www.csapp.cs.cmu.edu/

[2] https://blog.jez.io/linkers-ruby-c-exts/
Just because something isn't accessed often doesn't mean it isn't relevant & worthy of keeping around. There's a pretty big long-tail of highly specific institutional knowledge which may not be needed daily but is still important to document & have searchable for those few times it's needed.
I was just pricing a UPS for home office use this week as we have frequent outages where I am but became a little stuck when I realized that to get a UPS that won't barf when my generators come online moments after an outage, I'd need a double-conversion UPS, which is $$$$. A little stuck for a reasonable home office option given this wrinkle.
Yeah noise is why I didn’t go with surplus servers, and the power requirements. Proper servers are actually pretty cheap, less than these tiny towers even. But the power and noise is just too much. Plus less horsepower is actually more interesting to me so my workloads have a hope of hitting scaling limitations.

The tiny tower I have on the way is one of these: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/desktops/thinkcentre/m-series-t...

They’re available in a bunch of configurations and on multiple sites so you can look around for a good deal that fits your needs. I found one with an SSD for additional power savings.
A change from an IFR of 1% to 0.65% would still mean 25M fatalities. And that's a CDC IFR from a country with vast, vast resources. As this circles the globe looking for firewood, it's going to burn a long time.

I'm extremely skeptical of the link you provided. Small sample size and there's no other supported data to indicate an IFR in line with influenza.
Hacker News has made your comment fairly difficult to understand ;)