skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know dude.

"You can't fish anymore."

"Then what are we going to eat?"

"Well, I presume that instead of going fishing once a day you can start a farm. Watch over and feed some chickens. Whatever."

And, like I said in my other post. If you can find a way to actually save the whales and let everyone still eat, then I'll be right there with you. But right now this looks like rich people who have time to go whale watching wanting the poor people who barely have time to get enough food to eat to stop eating so that they can still go whale watching.

Give me some actual numbers that show that people who rely on fish can actually farm to make up the difference and I'll be convinced. But right now I'm on the side of caution that says "let's not do something that might starve some percentage of 3 billion people" and the article is saying "eh, 3 billion people can probably find something else to eat".
And yet, it's still OK to say, "I would donate to this charity or organization if its executive compensation does not exceed a certain amount, otherwise I don't think my money is being used appropriately."

Also, when people donate lots of money to an organization, either as a personal grant or by bundling a bunch of donations they collect, they quite often do stipulate how it will be spent. If someone wanted to organize a drive for MDN, they would be justified in saying they want the money to appear as additional funds for MDN.
Too late for what, exactly? For the Border Patrol to abuse its 100 mile zone to act as a paramilitary organization? For the DHS to assault US citizens?
Etherpad maintainer here, thanks for pointing Room Service at me. Gonna give them a go :)
> If you put a number next to someone's name, then that person will try everything to increase that number

Damn true!
I am fascinated by their attempts to simplify manufacturing but this does bring up the question, how easy is it to change what this casting machine produces? Will they make similar changes to the 3? One question is will the heat pump design make its way to the 3 or are changes to the 3 just on hold.

I am curious how long they will go without changing the outward design of the 3 or Y. Most manufacturers find it necessary to iterate every few years to keep customers interested and show progress while Tesla shows progress mostly through features added OTA. They already have range numbers down for a significant lead covering a few years so they are not under the same pressure.

edit: This all goes back to Musk's question to engineers why can't a car be in as few pieces as possible using a matchbox/hot wheels car as example
Having dealt with all of these in production, I can tell you the strategies I've used to combat these things:

1. Solid code reviews. Anyone of our developers can halt a code review for any reason. We require 3 approvers on each review. Sensitive areas require reviews from people familiar in that area. We also have tooling that allows us to generate amounts of test data in dev that is similar to prod loads. This helps us catch a lot of time bombs.

2. Feature toggles to decouple deploy of code from release of code. This allows us to test our code in production before turning it on for customers. It also allows us to slowly rollout a feature and watch how the code behaves. This also gives us a kill switch to turn off the code if it is bad.

3. An incredibly robust testing pipeline. It takes about 50 minutes from commit to production deployment. We can also deploy previous containers very quickly for situations that require it.

This doesn't solve all of our problems. Some changes cannot go behind feature toggles (DB migrations, dependency upgrades, etc). But we do pay a lot of attention to design and rollout plans for database migration changes and such.

All of these things come at an extra cost to us, but it allows us to move quickly when we need to. But we're in a lot better place than we were when we were trying to do weekly releases. We have a good mix of team experience (sr vs jr) - and have a lot of discipline in our software engineering practices. We still have problems like I said, but these strategies have greatly improved our ability to deliver software.
Quite interesting.

What is the best FS for microSD cards in your experience?
Should roads be free to drive on? Clean water, primary education, or firefighting be free for public use?

I don’t think there are black or white answers to these questions. There are toll roads and freeways, for-profit but regulated water utilities, “free” education and firefighting funded through taxes. But all of these, like MDN, are public goods [1] where some pooling of resources makes sense. It’s not so much wanting them to be free as it is wanting shared low cost options.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good_(economics)
Thunderbird is pretty useful as well. Actually I would pay for Thunderbird if I was asked to.
My 2011 Camaro also has a HUD, and I’d hate to go back to a car without it. I only use cruise control very infrequently, so being able to see what speed I’m going without taking my eyes off the road is great. I honestly think it should be a mandated feature.
I guess we're far enough away from WWII for people to actually start romanticizing Nazis. Guess there's always a cutoff point for that kind of thing, but I thought it'd be at least 100 years.
I mean, if it's too much work you didn't plan ahead well enough (and/or you need to get to the robots so they can do the work for you).
Bad news: people outside the US have memories longer than 4 (or 8) years.

Even if the next POTUS does make nice, there will thereafter always be the memory of how rapidly Trump tanked the USA's relationships. As a result, nobody will be able to count on US cooperation/amity for long term planning purposes without building in contingency plans for a "what if the next POTUS reverses course abruptly" situation.

It might be fixable with a constitutional rebalancing to reduce the ability of the president to rule as an executive without congressional oversight, but that hardly seems likely short of there being a revolution or civil war.

So US "soft power" is probably irrevocably damaged, at least for the next 8-20 years.
Dear President Trump: Please

1. Pardon Snowden
2. Commission a statue of him, perhaps to replace Columbus on a plinth somewhere
3. Award him the Medal of Freedom
4. Appoint him as the Director of the National Security Agency

In return I'll vote for you. Such a deal.
US may lose will to police the world, but with Space Force and 11 super carriers - if you mess with 'Murica... KNOCK KNOCK!

Still 24% of WORLD GDP and Still Young and produces 2x food and sufficient amount energy including Renewables.

Read up on capabilities of US Navy - the underwriter of global maritime security and who is going to challenge with few exceptions.

If the World fragments -- somebody got to supply the weapons!!!
I've not seen anything across 4 AZs
The Chinese cannot lead with a RMB system which maintains the capital controls which they currently enforce. For an RMB system to take hold it needs to be freely exchangeable, and that would lead to trillions in additional capital flight from China. A complete non starter for the CCP.

The fact is that the dollar is king. Even the BRI, which many describe as China's master plan to influence the world, are denoted in Dollars.
Don't you? If e.g. Verizon spent plenty of money lobbying for murdering Kittens and beating puppies, would you choose to spend your money with Verizon instead of a competitor? Why, the quality of their product isn't impacted by their lobbying campaigns.
Why would we want a continuation of what isn’t working.

Let it die, rebuild from the ruins.
The author is a physicist as well.

https://mobile.twitter.com/aatishb
Not sure if you were asking about testing purposes specifically. To be honest, we don't have a testing stack yet. I am planning to use https://www.checklyhq.com/ for end to end tests.
At the cost of trillions of dollars and millions of jobs from Americans no doubt. Historically our international relations have been a disaster for the US and Trump is nothing new.
You have a responsibility to safeguard your donation to further your personal charity goals.

In this day and age charities can't expect blank cheque donations without specific goals and targets they are personally aligned to.

The project gives up some control when they accept donations.
Yea, actually fair, bit of a non-sequitur.

I meant to say that Google is well-positioned to take advantage of being a Walled Garden, and is doing so now because the model is being built out out elsewhere, both domestically (Apple, Amazon) and abroad (WeChat, Jio).
Where do you see the part in the license that discusses a licensing fee?
Well, that's your answer then: promise a sufficiently life-changing donation for Mozilla such that they're willing to negotiate with you.
I don't know how to think about the idea that the government is totally useless for technological problems. If we just accept that I think we're probably just doomed to be overtaken by more advanced societies. Agreed that we can't just dump AWS on the USDS or whatever tomorrow, but if we never plan for public digital infrastructure we're screaming towards some kind of Gibsonian cyberpunk future where the tubes are privately controlled.
The real problem is "hurting society" is a bullshit charge which lets you call yourself a hero for making Socrates poison himself.

The sophistry is all brain-hacking bullshit best dealt with like a poisoned drink - thrown in the face of the server.
Yes. You have a list of floats and you want to add n to the n-th element. Then n is both an integer (when indexing the list) and a float (when adding).

Of course the language can require an explicit cast, but in most cases it goes against the intuitiveness and simplicity that dynamic languages want to achieve.
There's a great podcast about this:
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/662/transcript

To me the most interesting part was about how Tip O'Neill and Ronald Reagan were pretty close friends:

"Then one day, I picked up the paper and read where he had made a statement about me that was pretty harsh. And I called him, and I said, Tip, I thought we had a relationship here, where we could do business together. And, oh, now, I read in the paper that you said--

And he interrupted me and said, well, buddy, that's just politics. He said, after 6 o'clock, we're buddies. We're friends. I did take it that every once in a while, when we had a meeting, I would visibly set my watch at above 6 o'clock."
I think GA with artificial neuron will be a good combination.
Here's Minnesota, home of the BLM protests:

Second wave begins within 14 days of the protests and rioting. Remember that there's an incubation period.

https://www.health.state.mn.us/diseases/coronavirus/situatio...
This was a dogwhistle, not unselfconscious use of a loaded term.
The absolute magnitude scale is hilarious: logarithmic and inverted. A value lower by 5 means it's 100 times brighter.
> Personally I find it better for non technical people, because they can focus on the domain only. For tech people you have the option to keep the full url visible at all time, which fixes the issue.

I think a large part of my repulsion to this change is mostly because Chrome has a history of removing options constantly. A weird default with a setting to get to more expected behaviour is fine, but I have no faith in them to not remove the full url visible at all time option at this point.
No, we at Microsoft don't make you pay for any of our own developer training material with a VS subscription.

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/benefits/#training?cat... - you can see that the learning materials you get for subscribing all come from third-party partners, from whom you could buy the same things separately.
AFAIK guest mode acts like incognito when it comes to storage behavior (changes stay in-memory and are not persisted to disk, and therefore available storage is noticeably lower than with a regular profile), so it will trigger incognito mode detection scripts on some times.
The Most Futuristic Toothbrush
More useful to me would be bufferbloat [1] tests. Any starlink beta testers on HN? Also useful would be nuttcp or iperf3 tests just in case they optimized / prioritized for sites like dslreports and other speed test sites.

[1] - http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest
Is it possible that if Mozilla folded or stopped supporting Firefox that the open-source community would continue to support it?
Some objective data:

Education: http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/topics/education/

US ranks higher than France, New Zealand, Austria, UK but behind large number of EU nations.

Health:
http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/topics/health/

US ranks 7th after Canada, NZ, Australia, Israel, Ireland and Switzerland. Ahead of Belgium, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, Finland, Denmark.

Civic Engagement:
http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/topics/civic-engagement/

US ranks 8th in the world.

Jobs/Economy:
http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/topics/jobs/

US ranks 4th after Iceland, Switzerland, Luxembourg.

I think the data shows otherwise. In terms of Jobs and Civic Engagement, EU nations fare pretty poor compared to US. US has a problem with the education system and it should be the top priority.
I'd be receptive to that view if hosted Microsoft SQL server were also crippled.
> degenerate

That breaks the site guidelines against flamebait calling names in arguments. Casual bomb-throwing leads to flamewars, and you started numerous flames with just that one word. We're trying to avoid that here, so please don't.

You don't need that to make your point, so please stick to the rules.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I have been in the front-page twice, getting around 5k-10k visitors in the same day, which should give you an idea.
OpenVZ "VPS" offerings are, in fact, just containers with a shared kernel.
Pig Experiment Challenges Assumptions Around Brain Damage in People
It's exciting, and at the same time it makes clear that even small accidents may cause a complete write off of the vehicle due to the unrepairability of cars manufactured with this technique.
Thanks that's very helpful - I spotted BBC Master on one of the pages so will do some more research.
First of all, parent is not arguing with anyone, they are building on gp’s comment.

Parent is using hyperbole as a rhetorical tool to make a point, not to distort or discredit a particular persons statements
What's exactly difficult in running the MDN? It's just a bunch of makrdown files contributed to by folks on payroll from Google and co. The content can be hosted on github and served via github pages. This looks like a $25/year operation to me (total, not from each MDN user). The real value comes from those folks on payroll who update MDN, but the big tech is already willing to pay for that.
So... Please help me to understand the math here.

My latest Uber trip was 10 minutes, 3 miles long and 10 bucks.

Assuming it's a typical trip and also assuming the driver spends half of the time getting to the customer, we have, $30 and 18 miles per hour.

18 miles is one gallon of fuel at $2.00 and, say, another $3.00 in car amortization.

Subtract fees, add tips and incentives and we end up with, give or take, $25.

That seems like a reasonable salary?
> my money is on prior exposure to corona and sars being the largest contributors to places that have "done better."

What are your thoughts on how Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Italy and Spain have handled things?
Related work elsewhere (2012): https://research.swtch.com/qart
See the Mister FPGA project for what's possible. It supports a huge number of retro PCs, game consoles, arcade games, etc. https://www.retrorgb.com/mister.html

However, this effort seems very wrapped in the Spectrum culture. I don't see any indication they want to deviate from that.
All in all Linux (the kernel) has a really toxic environment. If you like a more friendly community and still want to work on a Kernel go to Net/Freebsd, Haiku or OmniosCE. With Linux (the kernel) you are not allowed to make mistakes or ask (stupid?) questions.
You're mistaking repository with mirrors.

If Facebook is mirroring the Debian package repository you can still apt-get binary/source packages off another mirror.
How can we debate such a poorly sourced and clearly inflammatory post?

Anyone who starts a debate with "demise of the already broken US" isn't asking for legitimate discussion. There are plenty of legitimate criticisms and geopolitical analysis of the current issues but you're not contributing to the debate at all.

This is just "US bad" level of discussion that educates no one.
> how does a society fight something communicable like this?

Probably like all the other societies around the world who have fought it: have a citizenry that generally accepts collective action for the public good.

South Korea, New Zealand, Japan, many others - all the countries with the best response have a relatively high percentage of their populace who are willing to accept restrictions and "do their part" for their fellow citizens.

This requires, among other things:

- high trust in government

- low levels of misinformation

- robust education system that teaches the populace to think both critically and empathetically

Unfortunately, the USA has none of these. Distrust in government is at all-time highs, misinformation is at an all-time high (frequently to specifically cause distrust in government), misinformation is also funded with multi-million dollar campaigns. And in 2020 we still have problems deciding on how much science to include in our school curriculum.

I think some of these problems are particular to the USA because of our status as a global superpower (reserve currency, global military presence, etc), so there are many tier-2 nations with a strong interest in taking a piece out of the USA specifically, to make space on the global stage for themselves (Russia, Iran, China over the last decade, etc). This leads to well-funded and state-sponsored disinformation campaigns and meddling arriving at our shores. I would include all the industry-related misinformation and meddling from mega-corps here too, as many are rich & powerful as some small nations at this point.

These actions, combined with the political brinksmanship from both major parties (though the red side seems to have a stronger grasp on the major media outlets in terms of total viewership, so I place more blame at their feet), and further combined with our cultural history+tendency to individualism and the "rugged rebel" archetype, has created the current "COVID is a hoax, masks are tyranny" crowd.

These are the reasons why collective action, while not impossible, is extremely unlikely to succeed in the USA at present. I have no idea how to even begin fixing these problems, other than reversing Citizen's United and trying to reduce the amount of money in politics, which even then would be a decades-long process that takes further decades to produce measurable results. Even if we started now we MIGHT see positive change by the end of the century.
> Please stop these kind of assumptions - it just feels childish.

It was a genuine question, not an assumption. I was just challenging the way you were positioning your opinion. I thought my comment was phrased in a way that was polite and direct. I don't see how that warranted an insult.

I won't address the rest of your comment as I think bccdee did a fine job of saying what I would've said.
They could emphasize the FQDN without removing the URL.
It's right that people are paying for VPNs, but I'm wondering why. Most connections use TLS now, including DNS over HTTP. MITM attacks should not be much of an issue.

What's the use case for regular consumers? Is it about getting around geoblocking or using P2P file sharing without consequences?
Strong claim. Do you have a source for it?
Ask HN: From your experience, is Google Ads good?
Hello Everyone,

The past few days we launched our project Frontendor UI Library, and so far we earned $3.1K after it was published in Hacker News, which is very good for us, but this will not be enough to last long.

So we decided to do advertising campaigns in Google Ads, and as a start we will spend $1000, but we are a little hesitant how we should do that.

Do you have any advice or experiences that can help us?

This is our site so you have an idea what we are selling now : http://frontendor.com

Thank You.
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. I disagree with this vehemently; those who give likely do not want to micro-manage the funds. Rather, they want to ensure that it forwards the goals of the charity and is not spent on unreasonably large executive compensation payrolls or expensive private jet flights, etc.

For instance, we might recall people donating money to the Red Cross to aid Haiti after the earthquake that country suffered in 2010. We later found out that maybe 75% of the funds donated actually made it to the country.[0] The argument can certainly be made that some of the donated funds should go towards the overhead of the organization but it seems reasonable for people to be upset when a full quarter of those funds somehow gets lost along the way.

People are asking charities to be more accountable because such accountability is direly needed. When large charities break trust with the public, as in the case of the Red Cross (and many others, perhaps Mozilla, even), this is what happens. Laying the blame on those still willing to hand money over for the good of all strikes me as misguided.

[0]: https://www.npr.org/2016/06/16/482020436/senators-report-fin...
The Messy Nature of Dress Codes
I think a "model S Mark 2" is in the pipeline, from what I've heard on YouTube channels.

I think the model Y is already massively simpler than the 3 is (from watching Sandy Monroe on YouTube), but whether it will be possible to perform such a modification to the 3 isn't clear. My suspicion is that there's to e much complication in that area of the car (rear suspension) to make a straight swap to the Y style of rear bodyshell section.
All updates and patching start with us-east-1.

The main reason it has the most issues is because it's the guinea pig for production update deployments.
Do you happen to have a link to those studies?
That's what, being upfront about something makes users to trust them but it's Facebook we're talking about.
Yep. It's pretty much a given that if you want to compare Starlink to a good terrestrial ISP, you'll be disappointed. But compared to any other satellite ISP, Starlink should be impressive, especially in terms of latency. So testing and media coverage of Starlink should focus more on latency than throughput, and testing latency properly means testing latency under load.
All the votes i could cast this year that will substantively affect an outcome have already been cast in my state’s statewide primary, in which i cast an absentee ballot i mailed back last week. I voted in the presidential primary before lockdown, where my candidate was defeated.

I will for damn sure be voting in the general, but my local rep is running uncontested, my state has a polling average of ~+40 biden, and no local ballot measures of any interest are included this cycle, so all i’m doing is bumping the popular vote a bit in an extremely predictable direction as far as top of the ticket is concerned.

Downballot, we have a right to repair measure that I think is important, but not a lot else.

edit: just to be clear, I _love_ voting, I take my obligations seriously, it's one of my favorite civic activities, I am well aware of the importance of local politics. Mostly, I am equal parts relieved that we're here again, and only disappointed that the pandemic is almost certainly going to preclude my usual celebratory post-voting girl scout bake-sale brownie at my polling place.
Ah well, I'm a proud degenerate. Better that than a deplorable, I guess.