skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not a straw man. OP was talking about the demise of the US. Demise compared to what? Seems China is the only "rising star" that can take a similar position. How are you going to measure the demise if not comparing to the closest thing to a peer?

And I disagree too, and not focusing only on China: is there any other country, in the Earth, closer to true autarky, than the US? NOT saying the US is close. I'm asking: could any other country be as independent as the US of international relationships, including trading? Strong internal market, plenty of industry, plenty of new technologies and talent, plenty of resources, can feed itself, has clean water, access to 2 oceans, access to space, vast amounts of land, strong military with unparalleled projection...
If one was interested in buying a print copy, will those be generally available (lulu?) after the campaign ends?
Interesting. So the browser-compatibility section is not crowd-sourceable. I never read it, though. It does appear that there is no incentive for a browser engine to report that they are incompatible with something, only that they are compatible with something, but perhaps doing the latter implicitly implies through omission those for whom they are incompatible so that degenerates to "browser vendors will not report compatibility".

So be it. I think the rest is standards translation plus examples.

For this sort of thing, content isn't king, content is pawn. Back to w3schools or whatever, I suppose. Not the end of the world.

I think if it came to it, this could be BountySourced (or whatever the acceptable solution is now) and just suck up the fact that we won't have compatibility. With Evergreen browsers that's a moving target anyway.
I wonder if it will have location-modulated pricing; $80 wouldn't be competitive where I am.
Thanks for sharing the donation link (I always trust charities recommended by locals). I donated a bit.
Doesn't that link show that the how backups related to GDPR is still up for debate? The accepted answer that says they are included has 3 upvotes and there is an answer that says no they aren't included that has 2 upvotes. Either way, the legal requirement is a separate issue from what Instagram is actually doing. If that download tool is automated, I am rather confident in saying that it isn't combing through year old backups to get data.
Before I got my auto-darkening mask when first learning GTAW welding I had a few close calls. The window is so dark you simply have no sense that a fire has started until it may be too late, you can't see anything at all unless it's the brightness of a lightning bolt.

Even with the auto-darkening window the field of view is substantially reduced.

I wonder if in the future welding masks will integrate fire alarms.
We just voted by mail here in Fl (for the August 18 elections) and we were able to see when our ballot was received and counted. No delays. Some cities fortunately do have this figured out.
This doesn't make it any more clear whether weld repair poses a practical danger for most people in most circumstances. If it's the case that metal stress near the point of welding is the where it's more likely to fail, that still doesn't tell me how much more likely to fail. For all I know it could be the weakest part but still such a trivial difference as to pose no concern.

And the point about welders leaves a dangling, open ended implication that invites anyone reading the sentence to just go ahead and assume that poor weld jobs leading to immenent danger are happening all the time. But are they? Or is that just being noted as a hypothetical possibility? I'm having a hard time telling whether a possible or probable danger is being asserted here.
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How much time did the driver invest to get to the point in time that the ride was available? There is a lot of waiting involved with driving for Uber etc.
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It's a custom web platform I built, a new edge case bug was triggered just as I published this post. Will fix later today.
We're not discussing things fine if different people mean different things with the word.

That is how communication dies and people misunderstand each other.
I’m sure they could have destroyed the fireworks and sold the fertilizer to some farmers if they really wanted to. That would quickly pay for itself.
From the US outside looking in there is an ironic mirror of the usual commentary about US vacation time or lack of national healthcare. "Why do you accept this irrelevant bullshit?"

I have seen an apparent consensus that the upper class schools and such focus only on prestiege and signaling and then when they are placed in management by other from the background make a complete hash of it while thinking promoting someone who actually knows what they are doing would be an unthinkable faux pau because they might wear brown shoes in London or worse not coordinate their belt and shoes! It doesn't even seem to be a matter of capital given the fact there are apparently plenty of impoverished "patricians" and working class wealth to invest in and they were marrying into money from outside their silly class frameworks for generations.

It seems to be utterly useless on every level yet society still persists for some daft reason. Why not do away with it? Not in the "Get the gulitiones, senseless violence, and the full circle revolution started!" way but "A ignore the useless twits to stew in their own resulting irrelevance." way.
I mean, they currently make ~$450 million per year from Firefox due to their search deals (mainly Google but others in other countries). In the past I think they had Bing bidding for the deal as well. No reason for that to not continue if they maintain Firefox marketshare.
> I consider it a mistake on the part of Python to go with self rather than this

self makes more sense though. And smalltalk used self. And so did (obviously) Self.

The most important part is to not use both (which of course is what PHP does).
I would like to see a kit from SpaceX which provides a solar powered Starlink to LTE bridge. Such kits could be installed anywhere, and provide service to places such as farm communities (install them on top of grain silos, for example). That way Starlink could be available to more customers without them having to have their own premise equipment (beyond an LTE hotspot).
> many URLs are meaningless to humans past the domain.

I'd argue this confuses meaningful with degrees of legibility. And also that it ignores how certain significant margins of users do learn this stuff.

`item?id=24156986` is immediately meaningful at least at one level: you know at some level you're looking at a specific item resource under the domain news.ycombinator.com. Processing which one requires a lot more attention and you're probably not going to build up a mental directory of corresponding numbers with discussions, and so that particular meaning passes beyond the threshold of legibility, but that doesn't mean the number itself is meaningless, anyone who's made a habit of paying attention to URLs knows what it is, just not that final layer of correspondence.

And it is not just web developers who know this stuff. I've seen laypeople who are just longtime browser users who have a pretty good idea how URLs like these work, not because anyone formally taught them how paths and query strings are spec'd, but just because the affordance of the URL bar is there and they've seen enough URLs correlated with browsing behavior to learn it by observance/association. The same way most people pick up language itself.

The URL bar teaches some people who care to notice how URLs work, which makes URLs work better as a social tech. And it doesn't require anyone who doesn't care to do so.

We lose that if we remove it. It's not a small loss.
My comment was meant to be additive and not in conflict with any of your statements.
> > This has been their plan for decades,

> Democrats controlled the house continuously for 40 years until 1994,

1955-1995, actually, and yet it is still true that the current Republican effort (which also includes gerrymandering, but also all the other factors list by GP) has been in place for decades. (1995 was two and a half decades ago, and the Republican strategy being discussed started before they took control of the House.)

And, yes, some of the other bits besides gerrymandering also used to be Democratic strategies, especially racially-targeted restrictions on voting rights before the parties switched sides on race issues in a process that included Johnson's embrace of civil rights followed by the Republican subsequent exploitation of that and pursuit of disaffected ex-Democratic racists as a core voting bloc.
I mean, I was upset when Google moved the certificate details from just click on the lock to click on the lock and go into developer tools and do some other bs I've forgotten since I'm no longer working where I need to confirm certificates. However, I figured that the number of people checking certificates was very small, so trying to use our weight to change Google's mind was fruitless. Fighting against hiding the URL seems a lot more tractable --- although, I just took it as a sign that Google doesn't want me to use their browsers, so I stopped.
It depends very heavily on the type of metal. Metal strength is primarily determined by the shape of the microscopic grains making up its structure. Pressing, stretching, and squeezing those grains is one way to shape them. Chemical processes are another.

Production method matters a ton in steel, where a LOT of strength comes from the way the metal was formed, and is only fully lost when the steel is near melting temperature. Alloy steels don't care so much how they were formed, but they're usually too expensive.

Aluminum is different, and cast parts can be very strong if they're heat treated properly. The most common aluminum alloys (pure aluminum is nearly useless) are made with copper. Copper causes smaller grains to form as aluminum solidifies, and then over time it precipitates out from the bulk material and ends up in the borders between grains of purer aluminum. When stress attempts to pull grains past each other, the copper atoms act like wedges and keep everything from moving.

Because the copper creates the grain shape itself, you don't need to work aluminum alloys to make them strong. Aluminum is semi-noteworthy (but far from unique) in that it loses strength very quickly when worked. You need to change a bunch of alloying elements to control for shrinkage (or at least delay until the part can be ejected from the mould), viscosity, temperature, oxygen tolerance etc. but I don't know much about all that. I know cast alloys are weaker than the strongest extruded alloys, but not by that much. There aren't problems with brittleness etc like you can get with steel.

Also note that "cast iron" is a metal in its own right, and is NOT just steel/iron that has been cast. Cast iron is the highest-carbon (1-3%) alloy of steel, and that is what makes it weak and brittle- not the fact that it's cast. That much carbon causes a bunch of ceramic and graphitic phases to form all kinds of weird (but extremely cool, metallurgically) garbage.
Still vague. In my opinion containers are not for everyone, it has to be a very specific scenario. Most internal things can be achieved with VMs easily.
> I really hope they make a car that looks different soon.

The Cybertruck definitely looks different.
SSME’s? Or does it count if the water started off in separate pieces?
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Now, this makes the reason for layoffs and the blame on COVID-19 much more suspicious. I thought Google had really shrunk the search engine deal, due to Ad revenue slow down[1] and may be the pandemic reason was indirectly true.

I just hope that the 're-structure' wasn't dictated by the Google itself.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24141592
Thank you. My house is 4km away and didn't sustain any damage. However other buildings within the same range had their glass shattered. The blast was even heard in Cyprus (234 km).
NASA's ARIA team mapped the likely extent of damage:
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-maps-beirut-blast-dama...

I also went up to the hospital's helipad today and can see the massive crater in direct sight: https://imgur.com/FAtIo4F
11 to 60 is actually really good. If you look at the total throughput on a residential connection, even a gigabit fiber connection, they will almost never burst above about 30mbps download. For most people 4K streaming is about the most bandwidth intensive thing they'll do, and that only requires about 20mbps per stream. As you indicated, video conference streams really don't use that much bandwidth (although they are very sensitive to latency.) The only real exception to this on residential networks (even during Covid with everyone working from home) is big game updates.
While I totally agree with your sentiments, there is a large section of the population that don’t even have the bad option of Comcast. I hope they put some curbs on adoption by those who have alternatives. Source: farm owner in the middle of nowhere KS. We have fixed wireless, but if it was hilly here we’d be stuck with Hughes and their geosynchronous satellites. The latency is huge - the speed of light isn’t fast enough.
What does this mean for other on-demand type of businesses like Handy (on-demand cleaning) that also employ Independent Contractors? Would they bring on their ICs as employees or would it be too cost-prohibitive and thus they'd opt not to operate in California?

Finally, California tends to set trends for the rest of the country. Would we see other states go the California way and change classification of ICs to employees?
An AvE aphorism:

If your welds sound like bacon you’re doin’ just fine. If they smell like bacon, partner, you’re on fire.

Given he has covered a couple of deadly crane collapses, I'll be surprised if he doesn't end up talking about this accident too.
I'm as left wing as they come, and I'm all for affirmative action. I think that a lot of state money should go to help impoverished neighborhoods, and to specifically aid their people to attain a higher education. But directly biasing the admission process seems bigoted and risks tarnishing the reputation of the very people it should be helping. I do not understand the rationale behind that.
No. In a forever-existing universe, as you go back in time, entropy could asymtotically approach zero (or some other limit) without ever actually reaching it. It doesn't have to be zero at some point in the past.

In fact, if it is zero at some point in the past, then what happened before that? Did it not increase before that point, or was it less than zero before that point?
A quick google says Alphabet has $18,000 million in cash on hand and $101,000 million in marketable securities. But Mozilla was the one documenting standards while Alphabet is breaking them by doing whatever was in its interest. At best Alphabet might work with Apple ($200,000 million cash on hand) and Microsoft ($133,000 million cash on hand) to coordinate the way standards were going when that's in its interests.
I wish engineering education paid dues to _engineering processes_ that cause situations like you listed above. I wonder what kind of process failure happened in Lebanon.
How should a startup reach out to learn about the discount?
"Local positions like judges, DAs, etc are also important. In some sense probably more importany than federal politics"

Not in this election they aren't.
Thanks so much for your comment. There are some examples here: https://github.com/lodenrogue/genetic-algorithm-js/tree/mast...
Cloudy days will 100% affect internet speeds. But it's also possible for them to have better equipment at LEO due to lower launch costs to overcome that affect.

It's kinda funny because cloudy cover are a smaller portion of signal loss at GEO, (most loss is due to distance), but it affects that signal quite a bit once satellites are tweaked to get signal to Earth. Most GEO satellites try to have something like 95+% uptime due to average cloudy days in an area, which means they account for those really bad days where the clouds are just too thick. They use weather stats to project how much cloud cover each region will get so they can build bigger beams for that area.

In the past those beams would cover large areas (Like the entire USA). Now they're getting smaller (State Sized) so they can tweak how much signal could go to say Washington vs. Idaho. They're always trying to make this stuff better. But those newer sats at GEO cost 300+ million dollars per sat and are expected to last 20+ years. So it'll be a while before this new generation of GEO sat is out there.

The workaround would be. More signal power at the satellite (costly), or you as a consumer get a bigger/more powerful receiving antenna.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Beirut_explosions

Interesting history on why there explosives were stored in the port in the first place...
I helped early on to review this plan for Alex and the Vectorized team, so I’m very excited to finally see it be released to the world.

Vectorized consists of quite the lineup of engineers (https://vectorized.io/team) and anyone who gets to be mentored by them will be gaining a huge advantage when it comes to Distributed System design and implementation!
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And even in remote areas, building out VDSL2 networks with relatively decent speeds (200Mbps down and 100Mbps up[1]) would be better, honestly.

Most homes already have a phone line and can support a DSL network... and in some countries a phone line is mandated by law, so the infrastructure already exists.

But, DSL is not nearly as "sexy" as thousands of satellites...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDSL#:~:text=VDSL%20offers%20s....
It's not easy, but you can.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuAMczraBIM
It's not just that. Even if everyone is just as nice, a low-friction online environment allows the few bad actors to access more marks more quickly.
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This article had a major thread two months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23516088.

It has been updated, apparently to mention an animation technique in the URL bar of Chrome 86, but that's apparently not SNI (https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22significant%20new%20informa...) since the discussion here isn't mentioning it. So I think we have to call this on the dupe side. See also https://hn.algolia.com/?query=follow-up%20by%3Adang&dateRang... for how we moderate these.
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In my opinion, this is both unfair and simplistic. It implies that people will only donate to a charity if they have control over where the money is spent.

To be clear, I didn't meant to imply everyone does this.

I'm just saying that many people do, and it's challenging for charities. It's one of the reasons I find charities provide options to direct giving to specific efforts, as it offers the donor some measure of control while still allowing the charity to manage things at the macro level.

> We later found out that maybe 25% of the funds donated actually made it to the country.

I think you've misread that headline? It reads:

"Red Cross Spent 25 Percent Of Haiti Donations On Internal Expenses"

Further, in the article, we see:

"But Grassley's office found that 25 percent of donations sent to Haiti — or nearly $125 million — were spent on fundraising and management, a contingency fund and the catchall category the Red Cross calls "program expenses."

What that says is 75% of donations did go to Haiti, and 25% did not. This is the opposite, I believe, of how you described the article?

Nevertheless, the American Red Cross doesn't exactly have the... best reputation in the world, which is why I'd probably not give to that organization at all, but rather would direct my funds toward organizations that are better managed (and then trust them to allocate those funds appropriately).

> People are asking charities to be more accountable because such accountability is direly needed.

Accountability != micromanagement.

My comment was about individuals micromanaging their giving, not about demanding transparency about how the organization is allocating those donations.

The latter is just basic due diligence, and is something we should all expect from NGOs.
A good starting point: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
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As an American, I have to say I agree and it is sad and frightening to see.

It has been a long-time coming that the US has been getting more and more stagnant and unable to do certain things. It's like we've been on a freighter headed for an iceberg, and the rudder is broken so we're all just watching it in slow motion. Look at infrastructure projects, healthcare, college costs, housing, global warming, etc. They've been obvious, impending issues for decades and we've just sat by and done nothing while they become bigger and bigger problems for more and more people.

Still, at least in my opinion, America has continued to have a "superpower" of innovation in other, less constrained areas. Many of the brightest, most ambitious people in the world have continued to come here and do amazing things, as they have for the past century.

And when things have been truly dire even fairly recently, like the '08 financial crisis or even 9/11, we've managed to take action and address it. In hindsight there were obviously major flaws to our responses to those things, but they were over-reactions rather than inaction, and were arguably still better than doing nothing (with the notable exception of the war in Iraq, but that had a lot of more complex causes and wasn't necessarily America's direct response to 9/11).

For me personally, this is what makes the current moment so devastating to watch, and why I have started feeling like this time is different. We've had one of the top 5 biggest threats of American lives in all of history with Covid-19, and the federal response has been just ignoring it. On top of that, we're now going full steam ahead on shutting down or severely limiting immigration. That strikes me as just about the most idiotic, and profoundly un-American thing I can think of.

These things take time to cause major shifts so I am hopeful we still have a couple of years to correct the course before the effects start to compound too much, but it feels like a particularly fragile time and the future could go either way at this point.
They could just color it differently or show it in bold text.

Hiding the rest is clearly motivated by something else.
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Highly structured and rule driven practices are key to all safety. Hospitals, military, airlines all depend on a rigid set of safety instructions that are followed without exceptions.

Same goes for explosives. Many governments around the world set various different rules around storage of explosives, and the Beirut port explosion was a result of ignoring pretty much all of them. It's an example of what happens when the government isn't there to do its job.
Maybe numerically, but Chrome alone has 70% marketshare. When you consider that edge runs off of the Chrome engine, Google controls like >80% of how the world sees the web essentially.

If Chrome adds a new feature, everyone else must adapt as well.
I don't get what you mean by backwards.

py3> [chr(0x07c0+i) for i in range(10)]
['߀', '߁', '߂', '߃', '߄', '߅', '߆', '߇', '߈', '߉']

js> [...Array(10)].map((_,i)=>String.fromCodePoint(0x07c0+i))
['߀', '߁', '߂', '߃', '߄', '߅', '߆', '߇', '߈', '߉']
May end up being a good use for a VR headset. Pass-through video with HDR support.
Following your link looks like that the press they are going to use is this one: https://www.idragroup.com/index.php/en/solutions/machines/gi...