skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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True! I've been playing Space Exploration (https://mods.factorio.com/mod/space-exploration) recently.
"Seagull contractor" :-)
Block Scheduling
https://www.wired.com/2012/06/torvalds-nvidia-linux/
>Sucks because students are signing leases, moving crap, buying meal plans, etc, right now. Aside from the obvious safety issues.

Follow the money.

The colleges are getting paid regardless. The local landlords, businesses, etc. that usually get to skim easy money off college students don't. The colleges have to walk the line between screwing the students by giving them all covid (bad press -> less money) and pissing off the locals, who will just use their voting power to use the local government to take money (less favorable regulator environment -> less money) from the colleges if the colleges don't let them skim enough gravy.
The way to guarantee a future without an alternative browser is to not use an alternative browser.
Just fyi, the google chrome plugin "Suspicious Site Reporter" reverts the url back to how it always was, with http:// and www and everything else. It's very lightweight and you can just leave it on, don't have to report anything or do anything with it.

Hopefully it remains this way _forever_, even with these newer changes as well.
What are they gaining from this that possesses then to fight such consistent opposition?

I don't see anyone stumping for this or any groups making any arguments for it beyond aesthetics, which is nice but surely doesn't outweigh all the vociferous opposition.

What gives? Cui bono?
I've been working in the RTP area for a few years now. There are decent tech opportunities, relative to the lower COL. However I got bored of the area pretty quickly - my goal is to move somewhere closer to outdoor recreation like AVL.
The author's major complaint is that they can't have their cake and eat it too.

You can easily live without tech giants! Stop using a smart phone, use a Linux PC/Laptop, pay for your few online services like e-mail, stop using the internet for shopping and everything else. You know, the way the entire world worked 15 years ago.

> Yes, there are alternatives for products and services offered by the tech giants, but they are harder to find and to use.

If life is somewhat difficult without giant tech corporations, this is inherently unacceptable? No - this is called living in the real world. You do very often have to choose between an immoral yet easy life, and a moral yet difficult life. This has been our constant choice for literally millennia. Every society has had to grapple with it. Entire religions are based on it. It is the completely unavoidable part of life that everyone is forced to participate in.

> If I were still blocking the tech giants today, I wouldn’t have been able to watch this week’s antitrust hearing online. C-SPAN streamed it live via YouTube, which Google owns.

So get a TV! I don't know if you know this, but C-SPAN is a TV channel! You can watch it without the internet! You can even make comments on it without the internet by calling a live show and speaking your mind! Amazing! (But, probably don't do this, as the average caller seems to have about the same political insight as the average YouTube commenter)

This whole premise - that life is impossible without tech giants - concedes that life is impossible without the internet. I assure you that it is not. It's up to you to decide whether that convenience and lack of expense is preferable to the alternative, which is doing things "old school".
Having looked at the intended design implementation, I'm not _super_ against this change, but I'm not fully onboard. And the concept of AMP here isn't lost on me, either.

I understand the stated goal of this is for simplicity for users and enhancing generic security. I feel Firefox already does this better. Let's take the following URL for example:

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/

On my work MBP with FF 79 and GC 81, this is what I see ([] signifies contrasted text color):

Firefox:
https://code.[visualstudio.com]/docs/

Chrome:
[code.visualstudio.com]/docs/

Chrome (after clicking twice in the address bar:
https://[code.visualstudio.com]/docs/

Chrome 86 (uses above formatting on hover):
code.visualstudio.com

In both apps, the dark themes provide more contrast that the light ones. I don't think we need to hide URL's from users, because what really matters is the very beginning of the URL which is always shown, and noting the root domain in a more contrasted, apparent way (like Firefox does) is to me a better solution to this problem. Spending time to improve the appearance of the important part of the URL will help everyone in the end, rather than taking the easy road of just isolating it.

Time would be better spent on solving horrible looking URLs in the first place and how URLs get represented in sharing (e.g. email clients, SMS, etc), which is where arguable most visual URL security concerns take place. If anything, I think I'm less likely to trust a URL like this (a simple Google search for "example url") when taking a glance in an email (removed https so full URL would show):

"://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=IJ82X6DoINCJytMP75Cn6As&q=example+url&oq=example+url&gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQAzICCAAyAggAMgIIADICCAAyAggAMgIIADICCAAyAggAMgIIADICCAA6CAgAELEDEIMBOgUIABCxAzoCCC46CwguELEDEMcBEKMCOgUILhCxAzoECAAQCjoLCC4QsQMQxwEQrwE6CggAELEDEEYQ-QFQkDJYxEdg3khoAnAAeAGAAbsBiAHBBpIBBDEyLjGYAQCgAQGqAQdnd3Mtd2l6&sclient=psy-ab&ved=0ahUKEwig-Nis85rrAhXQhHIEHW_ICb0Q4dUDCAg&uact=5"

than "://www.google.com/search?query=example+url"

If on mobile, go into landscape for the larger URL, unless there’s a better way to format it I’m not aware of. Didn’t think a code block was best for a massive oneliner.

A possible middle ground could be taking a look at limiting token visibility. But a larger discussion would be needed for that as well.
Ask Emacs to do anything and it will do
Thunderbird is okay because it was basically a finished project when it was forcibly emancipated. Servo won’t have the same luck.
But I believe, there are different types of "brain juice".

I run out of the one required for nasty bug finding, very soon, but when that one is gone (and after a short break to clear the mind) I can go on creating new code/architecture for hours.
> I found most of my bottleneck to be electricity. Since I played on deathworld, placing solar was tedious.

If there's a major criticism to be had over Factorio, it's that power generation in the game is rather boring, and the Power poles and Light classes are designed somewhat poorly. Solar just doesn't scale in Vanilla - it costs too many materials for too little power, when really it should be one of the easier scalable techs (but should still require lots of research since it's a no-consumable power technology).

You can get through an entire game of Factorio on nothing but coal power if you're diligent about when you expand, but most seasoned players will just burn the excess oil as power, since it's rarely a real bottleneck and oil's one of the most economical resources in the game to get setup - you build it once and... you're done. Forever.

And then there's the super ridiculous late gamers who have to build nuclear because once you start talking in tens of gigawatts, there's just no way to squeeze that out of anything else and remain even close to efficient; the nukes take an absurd amount of concrete, but you're usually swimming in excess stone anyways. Trying to get there on solar is an exercise in actual pain, since you'll mine most of the map just trying to build panels and batteries... so you have energy to mine the map... The bootstrapping never ends.

Some of the mods have done real work to make this better. There's a mod that has fusion as a late game tech which feels like cheating, but then there's modpacks like Seablock where you're forced to continuously rebuild power through your tech generations as there is no coal, your starting wind turbines don't make enough to get you past the first 10 hours, and each successive science step unlocks a new power generation technology that roughly feels in scale with that level of technology (from harvesting low grade algaes for biomass, to growing trees, to farming alien plants and extracting oils, and then to nuclear in the latest parts of the game).

But no amount of modding can fix things so you can have a power pole that is also a lamp, so you can use Brave New World and see things through the stupid unfixable dark night without also spamming the map with build-wrecking lamps (since that mod removes your character and thus your ability to build night vision goggles).
I completely agree that string interpolation is often superior to a format string, but it's important to note that they are not equivalent. String interpolation is generally evaluated in-situ and has full access to the local scope. Format strings on the other hand can be passed around and manipulated (even at compile-time) and can only ever access the data they're formatted with. strftime and strptime are a good example of a format string usage that can't be replaced by string interpolation in python.

D also has the capability of implementing string interpolation using mixins - though the resulting code isn't quite as neat.
That advice is impossible to act on. No one can be perfect at everything. So it's necessary to be mediocre at some things in order to accomplish the things one really cares about. So yes, I'm mediocre at operations. I want to get better, but if I tried to be perfect at operations, I wouldn't get other things done.

So, do you have any suggestions that can actually be put into practice?
That's not the whole story. Plenty of people moved from Firefox to Chrome, because they found Chrome to be the better browser.
My first thought when reading this was relief... For my mother.

I've spent most of my adult life trying to teach my parents to look at the address bar to make sure they're on bankofamerica.com and not some random phishing domain. That kind of falls apart though when it's... bankofamerica.comm.phishingdom.com/{random filler}/bankofamerica/user/login

HN users are fantastic at thinking all technologies should revolve around their niche use case.
Exactly. People are not extremely attentive to social status & class-adjacent stuff out of foolishness. This stuff has always been extremely important to everything job/money related.

Human society, and the economy are not rational. Assuming that they are is foolish.
Were the layoffs a consideration for the new funding deal?
> If they really are inescapable

I think you missed the point of the comment you replied to. It's not that "just live without them" is impossible under a reasonable definition, it's that the author is using an unreasonable definition.
Thanks for the eloquent reply!

During my PoC I did see that a lot of things that I traditionally do on the machine are now done external. But for me that makes it harder.

A practical example was: How do I get all my "fail2ban"-rules ported to "whatever this cluster-management uses"? Simple things like "if someone requests admin.php on this Rust-only API: ban it for 2 hours". I did see this is possible, but the amount of tools and their complexity was off-putting to me.

I really appreciate how you suggest good alternatives and solutions to problems I stated: I hope they'll help me or someone else moving to k8s in future.

And about:

> Traditionally management has been the job of the application itself.

Yes. Been there; hell, I even wrote rate-limiters for Drupal, and WordPress for our large customers on the Drupal, and later WordPress webhoster that I ran.

But I also understand how microservices is the solution to this.

However: Microservices does not require containerization, IMO. I'm running between 8 and 14 VMs on Linode and DigitalOcean exactly because of this: because stuff is "microserviced". I have a flock of Elasticsearch servers. A server that ingest, processes and then stores the OSM database weekly into that elasticsearch. Several postgres database servers. A statistics-server. Had an "avatar server", there's a dedicated url-shortener somewhere, A mailserver. Moving an authentication server onto my flock next week. I don't need k8s for that. Microservices are a good solution to specific problems but the underlying tech can easily be $6.99 VPSs managed with ansible.
If EV certificates were good they'd be great for showing alongside the URL, but they're both expensive for most (used to be $100/yr if you go for the cheapest vendor, now heavily discounted since the URL bar change made it lose value) and the legal entity verification doesn't work in a sense that company names aren't unique[0].

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15904513
> community project ... rise from affairs

By the looks of it, Servo is a project that failed to deliver a new browser engine after years of work. If there were a chance that the project could be turned around to result in usable software, I'm sure Moz wouldn't have killed it. Is it worth the effort to pickup the project rather than starting from scratch? I don't know, and would appreciate if contributors share their opinion, or come up with a roadmap. By the reaction of some devs here on HN ("don't worry, Rust is safe; no really!") unfortunately I got the impression that the project was treated more as a showcase for Rust rather than a serious attempt at a new browser engine (please don't take it personally; I know this attitude from the "100% Javs" days and consider it a junior dev trait). Also, the "rise from ashes"/Phoenix metapher is no stranger to Mozilla, only that Moz picked the remains from Netscape; the effort to code a browser from scratch (in Java) had failed as well; it resulted in the Rhino JavaScript engine which is still heavily used.
It's not the number that matters, it's the fact that apple doesn't allow competition. Everyone is fine with the app store taking a cut. They can make that cut whatever they want. But consumers should be able to choose an alternative if they're unhappy with the app store.
Xonsh: Using a Python Shell to Manage AWS Snapshots
I could imagine. An unhardened satellite is going to be a pretty soft target for EMP/laser attacks.
As a German I will never work at a company with a workers council again. I considered n26 for my next place, but I have no interest in the shit hole that's a workers council.
And if you thought that was not challenging enough:

https://rampion.github.io/RegHex/
I think the best bike shop is the kind of bike shop where you don’t notice “classes” of bikers/cyclists because people aren’t “presenting” themselves.
> conspiracy theories

2007 called. They want their deflection back.
I remain skeptical of lockdowns, but it was very common to close down schools in areas where polio was spreading.
Even Microsoft thought that with Edge.
I am not sure about life being impossible for a humanity that has managed to shake off the yoke of these cartels. The technology and know how are neutral. The issue is how technology is (mis)used, and what role does the desire to maintain archaic social and political order (of the stake-holders of East India Companies of the world) plays in the dystopian turn of the “liberating technology” of the internet.
Won't be if basic income becomes available :)
You’ve made some good points there. I guess it’s a balancing act and if the regulators go too far too quickly then we may never get to that long term goal.
Related: Cmd + Mission Control (F3) temporarily shows your desktop.

Hit it once, start dragging, then hit it again to bring back your apps to drop into.
I've just got to the point where i can use robots. How do you go about ghost building stuff? Do you have to use blueprints? Can the constrution robots just build anything for you if the mats are in chests?
The distinction is purely a classist one. But functionally speaking, going to nursing school (a trade school) and going to medical school (a professional school) are the same concept, but with one side rebranding themselves as to not be associated with the lower class variant of their work.

You’re right there is a legitimate distinction, but maybe we should stop. It is 2020 and thinking you’re “better” than other people for relatively arbitrary reasons is passé.
Certainly in the UK, the system went in the other direction: all the "polytechnic" technical colleges training people in practical skills got uprated to "universities" years ago, and the big Blairite expansion of universities was similarly not focused on "trades".

Why? Class. Having a degree and having been to university is such a pre-requisite to being middle class here, far more so than money.

It is also a common problem that certain influential jobs preferentially recruit from certain schools; so people apply to Stanford as a prerequisite for Google just as they apply to École Nationale d'Administration if they want to be part of the French government.
This is exactly why I forced myself to switch to FF quantum around 2 years ago.

Chrome is going downhill.
I haven't played much with any of this stuff, but one thing that I'm curious about is what is the advantage of having a container format like this, rather than just having a single giant HTML file (with embedded CSS & data: uri images)?

For editing this would be ridiculous, but for transport and presentation it seems much more compact and useful. It is easy to target as an output format for a variety of tools, without understanding a bunch of quirks of the format. It would be easier to render, since the application has to make all the decisions about where to place content and support reflowing anyway.
IMHO the answer here is to just never do irreversible migrations. (In other words: just leave old tables/columns around--if not indefinitely, then for a few weeks after they stop being used.)
Bikes isn't about being high techs, nor speed.
(otherwise, you need a BMW or an Audi)

If cyclists want something fixed fast (ie on a commuter bike), they buy the part on the internet, or on the way back from work, and mount it themselves in the evening.

Also, there is still a load of retro design in bikes.
I'm a student, and I don't have the hotest model from the most popular brand, for exemple.
I have a 1990s road bike, and a 2014 trekking bike with stuff like threated bottom bracket, for exemple.

Lastly, a shop that is able to tune a old headset with the 32mm wrenches, straighten a wheel perfectly, and know that your handlebar is probably 25 mm wide, and not 26.5mm like you ordered (or the vice versa), is greatly appreciated.
I've seen franchises that were unable to do that.

So shops with experimented people are the place to go.
The ice cream truck song has a racist past. So Wu-Tang's RZA wrote a new one
It's WYSIWYG, and I can edit existing EPUB files, which is always nifty.
Kinda wonder what happened after the yahoo buyout. Supposedly Mozilla could have kept all the cash from yahoo's search deal, but still solicited revenue from google by making them the default instead. Where did that money go, and why not just earmark it for Firefox?

https://gizmodo.com/yahoo-s-insanely-bad-deal-to-pay-mozilla...
Yes but Simon apparently wasn't laid off while jdm and nox were. It's not just the US servo folks affected.
Mozilla move to cut so many people involved in an alt browser doesn't help
Fidor (https://www.fidor.de/en/) is based in Germany and is EU-only.
A lot of farmers still do. Especially older ones. I don’t know about the USA but up here many older farmers operated entirely on in person deals with other farmers, farmers markets, and local grocers.

(Depending on how abstracted you want to get, but yes the farmer probably filled up their pickup for the morning delivery at a gas station that has a POS that connects to some service that interacts with AWS somewhere a long the line. Though the farmers I’d met likely used cash)
This is very nice to hear. Thanks for sharing.
Airbnb restricts under-25s in UK, France and Spain
It's like complaining that you can't cut Microsoft out of your life because every business you interact with uses MS Excel.
I've eaten less than 10 fish in my entire life. I don't like it at all. I haven't eaten any meat in 15 years. I don't miss it at all. I also don't miss any of the health problems that went away after I stopped eating meat.
Thanks for the example. It's the colour threshold. But with the brief number samples already posted I'm going to replace that that and generate two QR's. A low and high colour contrast.
First I used debian packages and maintained a (multiarch!) repository to setup my computers, then I used Ansible and had to first install Python and SSH on every machine, now I just run a script and I'm done in a few minutes and very few manual steps.

I found Ansible for personal computers to be brittle and cumbersome as reinstalls are usually for OS upgrades and those tend to have breaking changes.
I’m hesitant to think they just couldn’t figure out how to make it work. Giving that company the benefit if the doubt seems like a bad idea.
Also mentioned in the article, which does in fact reflect on the same experience.
Remote Work Is Reshaping San Francisco, as Tech Workers Flee and Rents Fall
Whenever someone writes a comment like this complaining that something is too hard I always want to remind them that that isn’t an excuse.
Same here. I ended up doing an image search:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=sigil+ebook+screenshot&ia=images&i...
Obviously you're being glib, but the truth is that a lot of the "old" production and supply lines no longer exist. So ordering from afar (Amazon or its moral equivalent) has become necessary for some basics.

(If you're suggesting that farmers and ranchers should go back to the days before production of plastics, hard goods, petroleum products, and rubber materials...well then they will cease to be farmers or ranchers, because 1700s-era tech won't survive market forces today.)

Similarly, no one can build computers in the US any more. Apple's Mac Pro project is interesting, but very low volume and mostly just an assembly effort.
There is a way you don’t seem to be taking this debate seriously. But in my view I doubt that means you are a bot.

For example your walmart analogy isn’t an analogy of anything in this situation and you don’t explain that.

And of now you are talking about Apple using common sense rules to decide what is an is acceptable, which of course is what they think they have been doing all along. People disagree on what is common sense.

The pattern is that you appear to be making interesting but flawed suggestions and then not taking seriously people’s responses to them.
I hear you, but simultaneously everyone (including me) has a certain limit to which they will be principled. If it happens like I mentioned, I will jump ship. On macOS, Firefox still guzzles battery compared to Chromium browsers. This seemed like a thing that, whilst not fixed, was actively being worked on. If I had to hazard a guess, that will slip heavily in priority now.
All cryptocurrencies live or die by “shilling”. Like with any software, it’s not terribly likely that any single one of them is entirely bug-free, but the loyalty of invested early adopters is what hides mishaps from the public and persists the hype.
Not sure why you're downvoted- that's how my friends and I would play multiplayer, with certain players taking "ownership" of specific raw material sources and shipping them to factories operated by other players.
UK bike shops had a tough time last year, I seem to remember sales fell by about 50%. Cycling had become very popular over the previous couple of years but I guess once you have a bike there isn't a great deal you need after that.

Most of the growth had come from sports cyclists. I get the impression most of this years boom has come from ordinary people. It's nice to see more utility cyclists out on the roads.