skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of it is that US immigration policy of late has deliberately been to make the US less appealing so fewer people immigrate. A natural consequence of that is people start saying "Wow, the US is less appealing."

Classifying it as "hatred" seems too extreme. If you quit a job, does that mean you hate that employer? Or do you just not want to work there anymore?
Warren Buffett Mulls $100B Berkshire Share Repurchase – Gurufocus.com
That's .org and the donation does not fund Firefox development or any other activity of the Mozilla Corporation.
Uh, not quite. Dynamic equilibrium (Eg: during chemical reactions) means something very specific & constrained, and doesn’t include any steady influx/outflux of energy, material, etc. On top of that, one can have not just flows, but also active regulation mechanisms which maintain homeostasis, possibly with periodic temporal behavior (which can never happen in “equilibrium”). So even though “equilibrium” and “dynamic” as English words might seem somewhat descriptive of homeostasis, I think the physics concept of “dynamic equilibrium” is distinct enough to be worth not conflating. Eg: entropy can be constant in a system in dynamical equilibrium, but (to our best understanding) homeostasis always generates entropy.
Not bad an idea at all! Hadn't considered bytecodes for layout algorithms, though I guess it would work with regular js as well, and I AFAICS Project Houdini is about providing the necessary core rendering API.
> geographic monopolies seem stupid.

These are products which are literally defined by their geographic origin.

Champagne is a sparkling wine from the Champagne region, that’s what it means.

Your logic means that there is nothing wrong with a “Californian Champagne” made in Texas.
KMS is part of secure managed solution: "The secrets in Secrets Managers are encrypted with AWS Key Management System (KMS), and every version of the secret is encrypted with a unique data encryption key." [1]

[1]: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/how-to-use-aws-secrets...
A Bayesian Shops on Amazon
I use a Jupyter notebook to explore how a Bayesian might compare two products on Amazon with the goal of finding the probability that one product is better than another.
While the goal and work of Unicode are admirable, I can't help but fear that they're setting themselves up for future problems. Take for example flag emojis [1]. At first it seems "just" complicated. But then it starts to become problematic: what happens when a country changes flags? What happens when a country ceases to exist? Or splits? Or merges into another? What about when there are flag disputes?

Imagine if Unicode has to start dealing with the temporal change that for example the Olson TZ database [2] has to!

[1] https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/06/quirks-and-limitations-of-e...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database
What are the chances that your company doesn’t pay enough to make it worth it? I know that the major cloud providers pay Technical Account Managers or the equivalent enough to get Americans to be at an enterprise’s beckon call day or night.

You can’t tell me that you couldn’t get a qualified Americans for 70% of what the major cloud providers pay.
If you think toxic race politics or major parties hating on immigrants are unique to the US, you're not getting a complete picture of life in other countries.
I'm a huge fan of your book. Is there anything you'd add in a revised edition 20 years after publication?
Something that amuses me is that we have this modern dispute over a product named for its region, when the region Champagne is itself named after another farming region, Campania in Italy. (Campania roughly means "happy/fertile countryside".)
It's not just the Trump administration that has an issue with TikTok. Joe Biden's campaign told its staffers to delete the app from their phones, and Senator Schumer publicly stated he wanted it sold off to a U.S. company.
Or, perhaps, the particular SDK you use to access their API?
Scratch the Surface of NodeGUI
I still use PowerPoint to do these! Will try this next time I am building one.
> > switch to a superior

> It is so superior that to this day, Downthemall - an extension which is literally all about downloading - cannot even let you choose an arbitrary directory to put the files you downloaded.

So much this.... the amount of bullshit extension devs have to do just to write basic features expected of desktop software is insane.

DownThemAll was a treasure, as was the old version of VideoDownloadHelper. They. Just. Worked. Exactly like one would expect them too. I haven't used DownThemAll since the transition but while VideoDownloadHelper stil does what is used to do -- technically -- its functionality is so gimped now that I've resorted to using youtube-dl
> leave your 500 years old hatchet by the door.

That's exactly what I did if you read up to my second paragraph, still ironic though. Let me paste it again for you:

> That being said, today's Spanish farmers are not responsible for their ancestors deeds.

There there.
I thought about creating a small library that would expose a static IComparer<T> ToComparer<T>(this Func<T, T, int>) extension method (and a similar one for IEqualityComparer<T>). But I so far just was too lazy. If somebody from the C# API team reads this tho.... :P

And while you're at it dear C# team, add .Distinct<TSource, TDest>(Func<TSource, TDest>, IEqualityComparer<TDest>) similar to OrderBy and friends, and various constructors to the generic collection types taking Func<T, T, int> instead of IComparer<T>. Yeah, API bloat, but good one in this case IMHO.

C# and the .NET runtime and the compiler(s) are still evolving indeed, and I would guess a lot of issues will be addressed and fixed in the future.

PS: the most annoying bit to me about the immutable collection library is that they are dead slow whenever I tried them.
NTFS read-write GPL kernel driver
> be the better option

When I say jump you say how high!
And as soon as that person got trained, they would jump ship.
Actually it's not stupid, it's about what's locally produced and the characteristics the product gets from the region (weather/soil/seasons/etc).

Something made elsewhere can be similar? Yes it can, it's a whine. Will it be the same? I doubt it.

The region is known to produced it since roman times, adopted by french royalty for more than 1000 years... but because it's a region shouldn't be entitled to it?

If Champagne is a whine, why not call it Californian Foamy White Whine?
If there's fury in Spain

Also I would add that it's completely disingenuous to describe this operation as "US Plans" as though this were some sinister plot by the US Federal Government to destroy the market for this beloved Spanish meat product. This is a pair of ventures which have been undertaken by Spanish-American farmers. These farmers are completely within their rights to raise pigs this way. As long as they don't call it jamón ibérico de bellota, they should be fine.
How many sources would you expect if there is no possible way to detect the fraud, unless the perpetrator confesses to committing it?

Previously mail-in ballots were generally limited to specific conditions in order to limit the effectiveness and opportunity of this type of fraud (e.g. coercion and voting for others).

That said and in my opinion it should be left up to the states to decide, but I also think there are better alternatives to limit the spread of covid (e.g. early voting by letter of last name; increased number in general and availability of outdoor polling locations; drive-thru polling locations; ticketing system where they message you when you are next or near next in line). I would also agree with federal grants to states to help fund such initiatives that actually provide a way to limit these types voting fraud that mail-in ballots do not.
Yeah, I read the article and just now went back and read the Minimal Viable XSS article linked as well. I am also rather puzzled.

This seems to be only useful if you manage to find a website with an XSS flaw and one that also limits the input to 20 characters? Are these situations really common enough to warrant this attack? It all seems rather arbitrary to me.
> I thought conventional wisdom is that they now have much stronger signals about how well results satisfy queries, from Google Analytics and Chrome.

Do you have any official source for this?
I remember they clearly saying that Google Analytics data is not used and will not be used for search in any way.
If California invested a quarter of it renewable investments into nuclear, there would not be rolling blackouts today.
As if non profits are limited by talent and not capital.
FDA finds new toxic hand-sanitizer ingredient, expands warning to 157 products
Hi Andy. I'm OP. As you spotted, I registered v i i i. fi with Gandi.

When your browser see the Ⅷ character, it performs the IDNA2008 process listed in RFC5895 to normalise it. The same thing happens in OS tools like dig and ping.

Hope that makes a bit more sense.
This single anecdote would make me reconsider taking part in something like that. If you have to quit your job to reasonably participate in it and they run it this way, then why would you take the risk of joining?

I'm quite surprised the author still had a positive view of them after that.
Almost forgot... if you make the early choice to use a walled-garden solution to create an MVP, you need to make sure you can develop it with off-the shelf systems to ensure that vendor-lock-in doesn’t screw you in the long run should the vendor raise their prices, get acquired, go out of business, or have a huge outage or hack that puts your customers looking for a new solution.
Hey there - very interested in corresponding with you but when clicking on your profile, there is no email listed. Is there some other way to start a thread? :)
I've also got a 2008 Macbook Pro that keeps proving to be useful; new batteries are dirt cheap too. Any links to patching or reasons for upgrading to Catalina?
Those are all things they could have fixed incrementially, over time, but chose not to.
Sure! Then let me then sell my own kind of iPhone. For Apple it's enough to write on the package that is made in California to make the consumers aware /s
What would be the criteria to say ML is becoming another commoditized skillset sort of like how cloud computing or mobile app development eventually became? I feel like there is a big increase in these types of resources that make it possible for anyone (with necessary background) to learn.
As Colleges Move Classes Online, Families Rebel Against the Cost
For your weekend reading pleasure:

Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) FAQ (https://unicode.org/faq/idn.html)

Unicode® Technical Standard #46: UNICODE IDNA COMPATIBILITY PROCESSING (https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr46/)

Internationalized Domain Names for Applications (IDNA): Background, Explanation, and Rationale (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5894)

Internationalized Domain Names for Applications (IDNA): Definitions and Document Framework (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5890)

Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) Protocol (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5891)

The Unicode Code Points and Internationalized Domain Names for Applications (IDNA) (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5892)

Right-to-Left Scripts for Internationalized Domain Names for Applications (IDNA) (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5893)
>FDA updates on hand sanitizers consumers should not use

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-u...
Companies being honest about what a job will be like is so critical. I recently had a company tell me they wanted me to wear many hats, lead a team, talk directly with customers, respond to customer needs and build things I believe the customer wants/needs. When I actually started working it was months of doing very micro-managed pre-defined projects the founder/technical lead already had in the backlog. I brought up the discrepancy between the job I was promised and what the actual job was (straight execution in a feature factory that didn't even have decent text coverage!) and they told me they couldn't give me the responsibility they promised up front.

Now maybe you read that and think I hadn't earned the kind of responsibility I was asking for. But 1) I had it at other companies previously, bigger companies than the last job 2) again, it was the type of responsibility they teased in the hiring process. I ended up leaving after a few months for a role at a company that actually offered me a leadership role with autonomy.
There are so many ways for Mozilla to leverage their core competencies. Unfortunately failed management with no means to remove them means none of that will happen.

Executive leadership at Mozilla is a disgrace that has now caused a tangible negative result on the future of the internet. The fact that Mitchell Baker still leads this organization is insane. An absolutely inept failure somehow still leads Mozilla. It’s absolutely crazy
If you want a really in-depth intro into the topic (with video lectures and guest appearances from legendary VM implementers!), check out CS294 from UC Berkeley that has been made available under a Creative Commons license: http://www.wolczko.com/CS294/

It‘s great for following along self-paced and has hands-on exercises for each topic. You should be a bit familiar with compilers already though.
Power distance
The pros and cons vary significantly based in the nationality and skin color of the applicant.
AFAIK a non-profit can't make the kind of search engine deal that generates the vast majority of Mozilla's income, and currently funds Gecko development.
It’s always the same. Information and packaging. If you don’t know which labels and exactly which denominations to look for you may be eating something that’s not exactly what you expect. And that’s sad because it affects the reputation of great products with a long history and dedication. But that happens also even in the country of origin. There are various types of Ham in Spain, some people have only tried the ‘worst’ (compared to the best) and don’t know which is the denomination of the best (100% iberian, black tag). Maybe you’ve tasted the lowest category one and you don’t like it but you can love the higher-end ones, the difference is quite big. Also, there’s olive oil sold as Italian, that comes from Spain. But it seems like Italians are the only ones that produce it.
There are articles about edulterated parmesan being sold in USA where they even found wood, there’s a whole mafia about that. All that while there’s great products being made by centuries old farms and hard working farmers. It’s OK if the US wants to produce ham but they should make it clear it’s not the same and avoid confusion.

PS: I think ‘5 jotas’ is the most international brand of iberian products, try their ham or other iberian derived products, they are one of the best available.
Other people in this thread have mentioned the pandemic, but I'd argue the highly publicised Black Lives Matter protests are having a big effect in pushing away foreigners as well.
>Chunking by textual grouping is great. Sometimes that is totally enough

Agreed, but much prefer object-first vs. verb first:

owner_info_get(...)

Having 600 methods that start w/"get" and 450 that start with "set" doesn't help docs or autocomplete.
I remember the Win32 API books were organized alphabetically and it would have been comical if it weren't so useless.
A one click eula is not a mutually agreed contract for most non lawyer use of that term.
What are you moving towards, if I might ask?
but not really removed, as I noted, just disabled for everybody except mozilla's own stuff

That's fucking infuriating. You should write up a blog post about how easily you were able to turn them back on in Quantum.
Besides resources, for companies that do not operate at an planetary scale like Google, Facebook et al., I'd argue we have reached a point where a lot of the common problems have been thoroughly solved in multiple ways for a while now and you can pick one. So it is not just to save time & money. Outside the core business and if the evaluation of third party products has been done decently well (which I think is more often the actual problem) there is often basically zero need or benefit to come up with something custom.
> As long as they don't call it jamón ibérico de bellota, they should be fine.

Why? In the USA that should be allowed, I believe. They just wouldn’t be able to export with that labeling.
I agree about learning experience. But when I need a tiny language, I usually implement them so they compile into something already implemented and supported. Not necessarily .NET bytecode, here’s an example where I compiled a tiny language into HLSL source for the Microsoft’s shader compiler: https://github.com/Const-me/vis_avs_dx/tree/master/avs_dx/Dx...
The message that they sent him to explain kicking him out is... really odd.

> The Remote RC Orientation Guide was written as a software guide for anyone in the RC community who was new to Virtual RC rather than as a full guide to the first week for new folks. We will add a note to the top of it to remind folks to check Community for the schedule of their first day, and we’ll add a link to the thread with the schedule to the ‘Tools for participating in Remote RC’ email.

So they are acknowledging that their communication was inadequate

> We only make exceptions to missing the first day when someone has an emergency

And they acknowledge that they have the ability to fix this at this point in time.

Yet they still kicked him out.
I'm a rather amateur bug hunter but, yes, some sites do use string length limitations as a way of filtering out dodgy code.

They shouldn't - but they do.

(See https://www.openbugbounty.org/researchers/edent/)
It does not come pre-installed by default. I don't know where you got your copy from, but it is kit the default.
At that time, “open” was applied to things that were based on published standards and portable, as distinguished from systems they were based in proprietary standards or tied to particular processor architectures. VAX/VMS was named to OpenVMS to signal that it supported POSIX and after the port to the Alpha.
Cheap gas is also the primary driver behind flattening carbon emissions in the USA. As we switch from coal (820 gCO₂-eq/kWh) to fracked gas (490 gCO₂-eq/kWh), our carbon emissions could fall by a lot.

But gas is a a climate wolf in climate sheep's clothing. The end destination (490) is wholly incompatible with all the IPCC low-carbon scenarios that actually mitigate climate change. So we're kind of lulled into a false sense of success as we shut down vast quantities of coal (yay) but also actually low carbon nuclear (11 gCO₂-eq/kWh) (boo) and replace it directly with gas.

(And I do mean directly. When Indian Point shut down in NY earlier this year, NY subtracted 1016.1 MW of low-carbon nuclear capacity and added 1016.1 MW of high-carbon fossil gas [1]!)

We need carbon pricing so we actually add market value to things that are actually low carbon. Shutting down nuclear to replace with gas is so backwards.

[1] See "capacity of electric power plants" spreadsheet from here: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data.php
Sorry I missed this, but am on a first-time trip to a rain forest in America, so my perspective may be temporarily biased (the air is phenomenal and the ASMR soundtrack is better than atmos fwiw).

Instead of "condescending", its probably just a clean canvas imbued with natural growth cycles (hence kindergarten, with nothing in-place to resist).

Saying "We the People have evolved" may be a stretch, but tenure and bad math are basic components of the rot-ops/rot-optics of prior innovations.
Show HN: My humble uptime monitoring service after year of developing
> Of that 150M tons of fish ~90 was from fish farms, you can't convert 29...

There are several confusions here. One is that those 150M tons of fish are composed of just fish. There are clams also, there are oysters, mussels, crabs and shrimps. You can produce 100M tons of mussels even if you have only 29M tons of flour fish available. They don't need it at all.

The other wrong idea is that fish farms equal fishes of non wild origin. This is not necessarily true.
I donate the money I make from my side project apps to climate charities. The amount of money I was making was too small to motivate me for purely financial reasons, but as a means to help the environment it adds an additional source of motivation for me to iterate on them.
are you using wasm? can you?
The one issue there is with developers that sell out their extensions to shady people. While I love the XUL era way more than this current trash, the security model with XUL would have done nothing to limit the blast radius and the update system would potentially install it silently

That said there used to be a human review system in place for extensions. I'm not sure if they do that any more
“In the USA they typically do something different: put the name in whatever product that barely resembles the original”

A cheese expert told me most of the Parmesan sold in the US is actually Asiago.

As a Texan I am all for calling this pork product jamon tejano or just Texas ham. Hell, let’s go all Texas and feed them pecans instead of acorns.
Hello everyone.

I’ve been developing this for quite a while, almost a year. Even though the idea is common, I started it because I just didn’t like how others services look.

It’s hard for me to find any USP for such tool, so I’m just keeping on fixing bugs & adding new stuff, and I’m trying to make it look good. I mean UI/UX side.

Right now I’m working on mobile version. Got almost 150 tasks in backlog...

Surprisingly the task of monitoring uptime turned out to be much harder than I thought!
Looking for your feedback, suggestions, maybe some feature requests!

By the way it was a hard time for me, I've also posted here on HN an article of how I used therapy in order to cope with problems while I've been working on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24091986
What's wrong with gliffy?
How good is this game as an introduction to programming for kids ?
I don't support highway tolls b/c they are regressive taxes. Trump and the Republicans have been trying to gut USPS for years. Now they seem extremely urgent to advance their plans.
Americans got the government they wanted. They didn't vote for competence, they voted for malice and dysfunction.
Notepad++ is still one of if not the best and most reliable pieces of software I’ve ever used. Better than sublime IMO. VLC coming in at a close second. These two are probably the last “snappy” pieces of software I use, besides maybe terminals.

I’m sure there are others but these are the two the come to mind.
> after 2013-12-04

That was 4 years after VPC was launched. So yes, while they do deprecate stuff on the rarest of occasions, they still give you much, much more time than GCP ever did.

Also, EC2-Classic is still available if you reach out to your TAM with a really good reason.
> Why people in US think that working a lot makes you rich, when the opposite is true?

Because many of us know people that worked their ass off and became wealthy. Does that not happen in Europe?
I used Firefox and Chrome simultaneously every day for many years on everything from a low-end laptop to pretty quick desktop. Firefox for personal stuff, Chrome for work.

Speed's always been similar for me, Firefox has generally been more reliable (partly due to being able to block so much crap, probably). Chrome used to break with alarming regularity and need a total reinstall. Sometimes there was a site which wasn't compatible with Firefox, and if I needed it I'd open it in a Chrome incognito window.

These days I've switched to Vivaldi for the work stuff (vertical tabs, "hibernate background tabs", tiling!), though I still debug JS in Chrome.