skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone on Fox News actually made a bit out of lying about Trump's stance on various things and people would say they agree with Trump's actual stance. I believe there are a number of people on either side that way. They believe the other side is evil and will take the opposite stance on many things just because of that.
Smalltalk and ObjC for a couple examples. I wouldn't be surprised to find out Swift was too, but I'm not 100% on that.
Yes. But I'd reverse these questions: why so much intelligence, with seemingly few opportunities to use it?
Please don't argue in bad faith, and actually read the links provided.

The issue here is that the current Postmaster General fired the administrators who were pushing back against the "optimizations" he is making and wants to make to USPS policies. The final goal is to privatize USPS, which has been a Republican dream since the Reagan era.
PDF format is useful if you want a hard copy.

But do any of you know how to use Pandoc (or some open source or command line tool) to convert a PDF to something easily readable on a Kindle?
As we were growing, we slowly converted a telco hardware server room into a real server room. Knocked out a wall to get enough room volume for a mini-split AC, removing the sprinkler head, moving the servers... And replaced all the wiring with plugs higher on the wall so that flooding wouldn't result in an electrical fire.

So when it came time to move our staging database over to the new wiring, the head of IT unplugged the UPS from the wall, the UPS complains like UPSes are wont to do in such situations, and in the time it took him to untangle the cable and plug it into the new circuit, the UPS dies. Bad batteries that the health checks didn't detect. Unplanned shutdown of our shared database. Whups.

And that is when management was taught about redundant power supplies, and periodic UPS maintenance.
> The JPEGed giant logo

It's almost like they ran it through jpegify.me on purpose as a joke, but really it's just another sign of the US's government technical incompetence.
Valproate must not be used by pregnant women, and women of child-bearing age need to be made aware of the severe risks. On top of that, long term therapeutic use is linked to PCOS and potentially infertility in women.

https://www.nice.org.uk/news/article/nice-publishes-a-summar...

https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg137/resources/valproate-i...

https://bnf.nice.org.uk/drug/sodium-valproate.html

> MHRA/CHM advice: Valproate medicines: contraindicated in women and girls of childbearing potential unless conditions of Pregnancy Prevention Programme are met (April 2018)

> Valproate is highly teratogenic and evidence supports that use in pregnancy leads to neurodevelopmental disorders (approx. 30–40% risk) and congenital malformations (approx. 10% risk).

> Valproate must not be used in women and girls of childbearing potential unless the conditions of the Pregnancy Prevention Programme are met (see Conception and contraception) and only if other treatments are ineffective or not tolerated, as judged by an experienced specialist.

> Use of valproate in pregnancy is contra-indicated for migraine prophylaxis [unlicensed] and bipolar disorder; it must only be considered for epilepsy if there is no suitable alternative treatment (see Pregnancy).

> Women and girls (and their carers) must be fully informed of the risks and the need to avoid exposure to valproate medicines in pregnancy; supporting materials have been provided to use in the implementation of the Pregnancy Prevention Programme (see Prescribing and dispensing Information). The MHRA advises that:

> GPs must recall all women and girls who may be of childbearing potential, provide the Patient Guide, check they have been reviewed by a specialist in the last year and are on highly effective contraception;

> Specialists must book in review appointments at least annually with women and girls under the Pregnancy Prevention Programme, re-evaluate treatment as necessary, explain clearly the conditions as outlined in the supporting materials and complete and sign the Risk Acknowledgement Form—copies of the form must be given to the patient or carer and sent to their GP;

> Pharmacists must ensure valproate medicines are dispensed in whole packs whenever possible—all packs dispensed to women and girls of childbearing potential should have a warning label either on the carton or via a sticker. They must also discuss risks in pregnancy with female patients each time valproate medicines are dispensed, ensure they have the Patient Guide and have seen their GP or specialist to discuss their treatment and the need for contraception.
I've tried several platforms for blogging over the years. This latest one promises to let me own the content, no ads, and I can set up a subscription program for folks who want to participate more. I thought about 2 bucks a month. It would be an experiment to see if when people pay they tend to argue less and post less low-effort stuff. I suspect this is the case, but it'll be interesting playing around with the idea.
That has literally been their stated position: https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/own-libs-was-snide-way...
Just in case the author shows up here, there's a confusing little typo in "Passing argv to our program":

_start:
popq %rdi
movq %rsp, %rdi
callq main

the second %rdi should be %rsi, which is confirmed by the explanatory test:

> If it's really that easy all we will need to do is add movq %rsp, %rsi after the popq %rdi we just added.

EDIT: now fixed
> But it's difficult to test this equipment

You could just, you know, pull the plug and see what happens?
SpaceX designed custom SoCs for their isolated offshore/offworld network of Starlink satellites, https://spacenews.com/spacex-accused-of-poaching-chipmakers-...

> Broadcom filed suit ... claiming SpaceX hired a number of Broadcom’s top engineers to develop “a family of sophisticated, customized computer chips.” The two companies had been working together on the development of advanced computer chips for an undisclosed project, but SpaceX ultimately ended the collaboration.
>The basics of life that consume the expenses of most people you had in the 1960s was significantly more affordable back then, and many would wish they could get that. You can't easily today, especially in health care.

While I agree with much of your comment, healthcare in particular is very hard to compare across different times. The quality of healthcare has improved dramatically, as has the qualifications of those providing healthcare.

Does a doctors visit for a flu in 1960 cost more even inflation adjusted in 2020? Probably. But the doctor is probably more educated, and the healthcare providers are more equipped and able to handle more complicated diagnoses. Current costs might not be in line with the increase in level of care, but the product offered in the 1960s is different to the product offered today.

There's also been significant changes to liability for healthcare providers since the 1960s that are tough to take into account comparison wise.
> This is no different to how car and cdr blow up in flames when you pass as parameter an empty list.

Depends on the Lisp in question, I guess. I don't know how it is in Scheme, but in both Common Lisp and Emacs Lisp CAR and CDR have well-defined behavior when used on an empty list: they return NIL, which in both Lisps is equivalent to an empty list.
Because the Fed sits on your money for 1-5 days so they can play with the float. It means you either need to wait out your transactions for this random length of time or take the other guy at his word that he send the money (LOL).
But she did intentionally lie to the banks which, based on this lies, committed actions that they could be prosecuted for.

The validity of the iran embargo does not play a lot into this.
Rickrolling with HTTP Headers
two things:

1) I think the pi is not particularly power efficient.

I got this impression from this (old) article:

https://www.bitwizard.nl/wiki/Reducing_power_consumption_of_...

2) I think the pi would benefit from a more robust filesytem layout such as an overlay filesystem to allow continuous writes to /var to go to ramdisk.

Openwrt has a layout like this and it prevents flash from being burned out and prevents most problems if power is abruptly lost.
Looks like Hazelcast kind of solution.
Two come to mind immediately: https://www.tomshardware.com/ does. German magazine c't at least did, haven't looked at their reviews recently.
I think that's where regulation comes in rather than taxes.

Think of it like this if I'm in an industry and polluting the river. Do you want to raise taxes on me so that I stop polluting, or do you want to just make that illegal?

When there are things that completely don't make sense I don't think taxes are the solution.

If I can buy a house which costs more than education in a lot of cases with a mortgage and then declare bankruptcy and not have the mortgage follow me for the rest of my life why can't I do the same with a student loan? Taxing the student loan companies won't solve that.

Similarly for the large disparity in prices for healthcare for out of pocket vs through insurance.
> That’s a narrow-minded view. Sure, environmental regulations cost oil and gas companies money.

And guess who is making donations, hiring nephews, and making up parts of portfolios. What the parent was saying is that externalities don't matter to these people because we don't value externalities as a society.
Other than fillable forms, which is sometimes very important, I don't see how PDF is much of an improvement over PostScript (which came first).
Your comment makes absolutely no sense. Sciter is not a browser engine nor it tries to sell itself as a browser engine light.
Sciter just happens to use dialects that are similar to CSS and JS sort of what XAML is to WPF or what QML is to QT.
This logic would suggest that all increases in population (labor supply) in the history of humanity should be pushing labor down, because more people are competing for jobs.

This is obviously, clearly wrong. Re-read what you responded to, especially the part about the longer term effect of increased consumption and GDP from higher participation rates.

What you say is only true in a very short-term, micro view (labor supply in a small town over a matter of days, for example), not in the macro timeframe that is the context of this discussion.

This is a well-studied area of economics and the field is not in consensus with your statement.
Of course. But is it government’s role solely to boost oil company profits?

Or should they consider these against long-term costs incurred by everyone? Surely there is a middle ground that works for everyone. It’s not as if major oil companies are struggling to survive.
"Building rome in a day" and the "Photo tourism" papers were seminal works but you're not really making a serious argument if you are claiming them to be equivalent prior art to this.

I get it, artificial neural nets make everything easy and boring...back in the day when you had to solve difficult linear algebra problems by hand and tweak descriptor matching thresholds for ages...those were the good old glory days of computer vision. ;)
If the alternative is epub i will take pdf any day.
Ask HN: What works of literature have you completed and which haven’t finished?
I am a physician in my mid-sixties. During a recent discussion with a friend, we compared which great works of literature we had read. We were surprised not only at some of the ones we had managed to complete, but also the ones we had missed, both tried and failed. In my case, I’ve read War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Brother Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, The Magic Mountain, Buddenbrooks, Before the Storm (Fontane), The Autumn of the Patriarch, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Vanity Fair, and Middlemarch, among others. I have failed at In Search of Lost Time (only finished first volume), The Divine Comedy, The Iliad, The Odyssey, Ulysses (Joyce), Bleak House, The Death of Virgil (Broch), The Sleepwalkers (Broch), Evening Edged in Gold (Lucky to have beautiful original 1980 translation) and 2666. These are a few in a much longer list of notable incompletes. What works of literature have you completed and which haven’t finished?
All restaurant menus in PDF are examples the complaint relates to. The less common case of actually printing a menu is well served by applying a print specific css. There's no advantage of PDF in this case, a menu doesn't need any of the additional sophistication that PDF brings.
2.5 SSD for frequent stuff and USB HDD, you have no more options.
I'm not sure how old you are, but it's been a very long time since that was true. You're right that the Clean Water Act was as a big success, but those successes were mostly realized decades ago. At some point, the cost of ever-more stringent environmental regulation outweighs the benefit. In many contexts (e.g., air regulation), there are strong arguments that we are at that point. That is, the cost of incrementally more regulation is very, very high, and the benefit to anyone is very difficult to discern. Whether or not you believe that's true in the context of GHGs largely depends on your overall view of the benefit of mitigating climate change, but your comments seemed directed toward environmental regulation as a whole, and whether any regulation has gone too far.
I'm not sure if this is meant to be snarky, but it's 100% true.

>They're just betting that enough voters in key swing states are on board with their alternative reality that they won't notice

The propaganda that is digested by Trump supporters solidly claims that: (a) covid isn't that bad, it's just the flu, (b) people who are scared of it are not really Americans, and (c) any noise about it being dangerous is just the liberal left trying to undercut Trump.

This is the world we live in. Put on Fox or any AM right wing station - those are the talking points. It's all so disheartening and just, I don't know, depressing maybe is the word?
I recently made a <chess-board> custom HTML element that should make this kind of thing really easy to build: https://justinfagnani.github.io/chessboard-element/

You can specify a board, the current position, and other options right in markup, like:

<chess-board
draggable-pieces
position="8/R7/8/8/k1K5/8/8/8">
</chess-board>

So it should be very easy to encode the position in a URL. You could also have more than one board for teaching moves.
It's about owning the libs... righteous indignation
Exactly, this is essentially 'thoughts and prayers' said euphemistically.

Luckily we have the average hacker news commenter to come in and fill us in on why billionaires aren't actually so bad after all. I just don't know what I'd do without this website sometimes!
While the comprehensive ranking of file extension reliably by Munroe 2013 does not contain .htm or .html, one can infer by the related file formats, that html content would rank below pdf's.

Randal Munroe, "File Extensions"; xkcd.com, 1301, 2013-12-09.
The Amazon Resume and How the Medium Is the Message
Hopefully that would end the monopoly of US tech Giants.
Will these satellites have to eventually be replaced with updated models when they implement the laser sat-to-sat communication?
You say it will never happen because it would devalue the brand, but acknowledge that the action they are taking right now devalues the brand.
There are failure conditions that are not immediately catastrophic. The reasoning being that if you come home after a work day (or even better, after coming back from your coffee down the street) and see that a device malfunctioned you will attend to it. As opposed to leaving it plugged in and turned on for weeks while you are not there.

A lot of devices will smoke before starting a fire, sometimes for quite a while until temps increase sufficiently for ignition. You would smell the smoke and figure out the culprit.

Turning off everything is still worthwhile while you are away. This is just risk management. It is a small risk (maybe you have faulty appliances or house wiring? maybe you live in an earthquake or tornado area? etc) but the mitigation is also not very inconvenient.

That said, if you can have a smoke detector pinging you (or a similar device - Amazon's cameras have a microphone that can alert you to alarms) it would be better. As you point out, stuff could happen while you are temporarily outside the home.
Donald Trump Deepfake Looks Real
$970 million[0] to Twitch and a storefront from which to buy games.

[0]https://kotaku.com/reports-amazon-to-buy-twitch-for-over-1-b...
I don't want to diminish that work, but most environmentalists were pretty confident that renewable energy technology would be much harder than it's ended up being. Prior to the last decade, the idea that renewables would be cheaper on a per-KWh basis was hardly a gleam in anyone's eye; environmental discourse focused entirely on why the higher costs of renewables were justified by hidden costs of depending on fossil fuels.
unless they force everyone to buy Apple phones ;)
It certainly is an interesting question.

From what I gathered, the initiative calls for companies to companies to respect internationally recognized human rights and environmental standards.

I don't think this means that the supply chain must comply with swiss standards an regulations. For example, paying swiss minimum wage in Vietnam would be crazy.

I think there is a big disconnect when people judge the working conditions in other countries by local expectations.
You get ad-less viewing on the one channel you use your Twitch Prime subscription on. It is also a decent benefit in that you can basically contribute a small amount of money to your favorite streamer also. If you were already going to pay for a subscription to someone AND you had Amazon prime, you basically save $60 a year ($5 per sub * 12 months).
The thing about the US is, it usually takes a generation or two to make it to the top (Kennedy, Trump) but some ambitious upstarts can do it without generational wealth (Clinton, Obama). Then, the kids (mostly) and grandkids (definitely) fade into obscurity. When was the last time you saw an old-world royal lineage fade into obscurity? (France, 1789?) So some great-great-great(^n) descendent of some conquerer of yesteryear has a guaranteed place at the table in directing the modern European nation because why, exactly?
Prior to this they released The Grand Tour Video Game, a tie in to their Prime Video series of the same name. It was also generally poorly received.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Tour_Game
Convenient self-education through books. Is it possible?
Every time when I am trying to learn any topic through books, I am looking for books’ selections that can help me to handle a topic and every time I encounter the same problems:

The majority of books’ selections is subjective

In order to make them objective, I should spend a bunch of time on analyzing a lot of selections, on searching the best books on the selections, on understanding why should I read the book and where I can apply what I read, and finally - reading a huge number of reviews - all these steps take me several hours to complete.

If I do not make them objective, I often waste money and time on shitty books.

I asked my friends, and do you know what? Of course, you know what, they have the same problems.

Therefore, I decided to create an app that can help me, my friends, and other people, who want to get structured and modern knowledge using the books.

The app brings together the best books. They are all organized by topics. Also, each book has a structured description to help you understand what is in the book and why to read it.

Why is it objective???

Our team analyzes information from all over the internet. Dozens of articles, videos, hundreds of reviews, plenty of conversations with professionals on forums. Thus, you get the most objective books’ selections.

If you like the idea – download the app and try it, maybe you will find something useful for yourself.

The app is in the MVP stage; therefore, I ask everyone who is interested in the development of this idea to give feedback in the comments on google play or here. Any suggestions and criticism.

If we unite ideas, we can make self-education convenient and better.

LINK -- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.LearnBay.LearnBay
Dell latitude laptops have OEM chargers that can run on 10-16VDC. The E6520 I use as a server takes about 6W to run at idle. Grab a 12V battery and a 5A SLA Charger, run your router/modem/server directly off the battery.

UPS's take about 10W to just power the inverter. This gives up a lot of the battery capacity not to mention the losses from converting your power 2 times.
Could you explain this for someone outside the US?
The demographics of voting are not so clear-cut (though income is correlated with votes), and the bigger gap is really between male and female voters.[1] There is also abundant evidence that people do not vote in their economic self-interest.[2]

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/11/does-yo...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_the_Rational_Voter
This is why I refuse to use google for most services. Support is absolute garbage.
The lyrics say gonna, not gonna to :)
Agreed. Still, it mislead me into thinking it was something else and had I known what this was really about I probably wouldn’t have clicked. While it is hard to tell that this technical term was deliberately coined to be click bait, there are certainly other ways to name it which wouldn’t be as misleading.
When you call $company support about anything related to their web applicaations, one of the first questions they're instructed to ask is "what browser are you using? X? Have you tried using Chrome instead?"

9/10 (maybe 99/100) times, the issue has nothing to do with the browser, but these questions have a strong normalizing effect. Even if the browser has nothing to do with it, people who don't know better will stick to Chrome, "just to be safe".
Working, Making, Creating in Public and Private
Isn't it already pretty balkanized? Different countries have different censors and copyright laws. I post a video here in the U.S., it might be legal here but illegal in the EU, or vis versa. And people in Europe enjoy tighter consumer privacy protections than me. And being in CA, I enjoy better protections than other Americans in other states, on the same 'national' internet. The internet has been balkanized for probably 30-40 years, whenever the lawyers first entered the chat. The countries that do highly censor content, like china or russia, censor all forms of media, not just the internet.
HoloLens 2 Online Development Workshop
Not accepting largely popular policy positions into their party platform is one.
I appreciate the etymonline reference but I'm afraid you've been breaking the site guidelines quite badly in repeated comments such as this one and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24101885. We ban accounts that do that because we're trying for a bit better than internet-default outcomes on HN. Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the spirit of this site more to heart? We'd be grateful.
Yep, sometimes there's nothing as loud as silence!
(a) What's CTF?

(b) Why do you think it's not popular?

But even without knowing the answers to those questions, in general I've found that anything that requires significant amounts of both theory and practice tends to have a very small potential audience, and HN is no different in that regard.