skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
US state universities have been very risk averse for more than 30 years now. Try to buy or even consume alcohol on campus these days. The story was very different before about 1990, when inebriated students wobbled about campus undeterred with drinks in hand.

When covid case counts mount on campus, there will be huge pressure from media and concerned parents to quash the threat instantly -- something impossible to do without extensive 24 hour PCR testing already being in place, which no school will have.

All it will take is images of one pretty cheerleader on a ventilator to instantly change policy for an entire region and all the schools therein. If enough parents lose faith, school will be out indefinitely.
Annalea Ilg of Involta: Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Started
Whoa, how long has 7z support been in there?!
Behavior-based popularity ranking on Amazon Video
I think sadly this mindset really limits their playerbase, and will ultimately expedite the decline of the game and online community.

Steam Sales have a massive effect on games - thousands of new players try the game simply because it happens to be 15% off today or whatever. Even the "Free Weekend" play converts thousands of players that find the game fun. It makes trying out a new indie-type game feel less like a risk.

Now that Factorio has real competition in this type of building game (Satisfactory - which I highly recommend if you liked Factorio), they might discover their principled stance against any Sale might waver a bit.

To each their own I suppose. One day, Factorio will be on sale... once the playerbase dries up and they desperately try to inject life into the game. Or not... maybe they let it wilt away... which would be a real shame.
They should fix this bug first:

> Issue 1084406: Reappearance of "HTTPS://" causes URL text to move as you are selecting it

> https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=108440...
My biggest problem with adding dates to To-Do tasks is that most of these tasks I don't even have bothered to set date against. So my first impression of this tool that combines calendar and To-Do is that it would create a mental burden for me to think about the dates/days when all I want is to quickly add a tasks to my list.
Jason Rohrer said Castle Doctrine would never go on sale but he changed his mind in March.

https://steamcommunity.com/games/249570/announcements/detail...
The recent mobile Firefox is worse in every way that matters to me:

° Breaking recent add-ons (for the few add-ons that exist). I added a close-tab icon to compensate for the bad tab-ui. It's gone now.
° URL-bar hiding is wonkey. Some overlays disable hiding due to recent phising attacks. Now, for overlays, it is always present and hides the bottom of the page. This is very annoying when links are hidden behind the bar.
° URL bar (2): where have my bookmarks gone?
° URL bar (3): no more editing the URL if anything was *ever* searched in the current tab. Instead it edits the search. The URL is inaccessible.
° After 'Open in new tab' there is an annoying delay for 'Switch' again hiding links.
° Tab selection is just bad now. Preview is broken. If anything is displayed, it is often the image of two sites ago, even if the page has rendered.
° Tab selection (2) no more moving the tabs?
° Tab selection (3) why waste so much space? Using only 80% of the screen. And every tab wastes two lines and a half of useful space. Why is only the domain shown? Why not truncated or cut in the middle?
° Tab selection (4): newly opened tabs are hidden, you always have to scroll up as the current tab is always first, older tabs are lower.
° about:config is broken. Certificate error. Certificate error is broken too. Thus no disabling reader mode.

These are papercuts, every day, every time I use Firefox. /rant
"The co-signers unthinkingly assume they are entitled to free content."

Oh sweetie, no.

I feel entitled to Mozilla's management being competent and not killing the company.

Appealing to developers is a precondition for that.

MDN does that.

But there are free alternatives. So charging for it would be counter-productive.

If Mozilla had shown even trace amounts of competence at business development, rather than acting like a freshly-minted MBA parachuted into a university's administration, I might be more sympathetic.

As it is I've formed a partnership with a violin manufacturer. Mozilla won't see any money from it but we're going to play them a very profitable-sounding sad tune as soon as we recover our initial investment.
There are some numerical upgrades which can be repeated indefinitely at increasing costs -- robot speed, mining productivity, damage for various weapon types, etc.
It always has been - us-east-1 is the biggest region by far, so scale problems tend to arise there first.
How a British lord accidentally invented the web
I use Firefox as my daily drive, and I still don't get what's so special about Chrome's dev tools, I test on Chrome and open the dev tools but I prefer Firefox overall. It's a damn shame they fired the Dev Tools team however, that is not a visionary move on Mozilla's part.

Depending on your IDE, you can make it just open Chrome when you boot up web projects. That's what I do, but I do normal browsing on Firefox, it helps keep distractions away even. Leaving Chrome with only work related things.
I'm a bit curious… how much traffic is the front page of HN?

(I was thinking of posting a "Show HN" at some point, but I just do everything on my own machines. Not sure how much traffic my desktop would handle before figuratively melting. The nice thing about my Show HN is that it would be a static HTML page, so that's at least easier; yours is necessarily dynamic.)
"I can have no job..." 50 million people in the US are on Medicare or Medicaid, and can and do absolutely receive those services, based on age or income level. The ones who cannot are those whose income is too high for those service and choose to forgo or cannot afford health insurance.
Breaking: The Mafia decides that it's okay for the Mafia to force you to unlock your phone.
Yes. They also have ~4-5% browser market share.
We can't even get normal multiple profiles, much less one that's a honey pot.
You're right that a sustainable economy will demand change. I think the problem is thinking that all the change will be bad. Some things that will have to change:

- More pubic transit on trains
- Less packaging and throw away plastic utensils so you might have to carry a fork with you or employ more dishwashers at restaurants
- Less meat and fish consumption, returning America to its more traditional diets modulo beyond meat type substitutes.
- More local production and transport instead of shipping things across the world
- Less non-essential work and the travel accompanying it
- More urbanization to make ecological systems more efficient
- Use of LED lighting systems
- Less "fast fashion" and wearing more durable clothing
- Use of electric heat wherever possible
- Widespread battery production
- Global solar network to ship sunlight power around the world
- Emphasizing power efficiency in electronics

Some of these changes are fairly disruptive, but extremely mild compared to the challenges humans have faced in history such as war and starvation.

Keep in mind that these so-called "modern lifestyles" that are most carbon intensive are lived most vibrantly by the wealthy (e.g. private jets, endless consumption of materials). Many people will not be hugely inconvenienced compared to their current life circumstances.
the entire concept of Firefox is exactly a political stance...
That’s all good but what’s wrong with fair proportionate funding? It’s not like the EU doesn’t benefit the same we do.
Love the easy way people can play with it, but it'd really help convey the concept if you showed an example calendar all filled out!
Bigoted dog whistle borrowed from literal Nazis.

Edit: interesting that there are so many downvotes. Consider yourself lucky that this seems absurd to you, because it's borrowed directly from Nazi "degenerate art" and "degenerate music" and used like this almost exclusively in modern alt-right contexts to mean those falling outside of their ideal (bigoted) worldview.
> storage prices being lower with a slightly smaller (steady) market for it from the major companies.

I suspect that big companies in the market help justify manufacturer R&D into larger and faster and helps justify production capacity. I think we'd have smaller, slower, and slightly more expensive drives without their demand. But, speculation only.
For end users probably, for enterprise I doubt it.
> it wouldn't have built entire f.....g cities on it!

So is your position that Jews are not allowed to live in certain places on this planet? Tell me more.
That own system needs participants to be useful for international deals, and USA can extend the same embargo to that new system, so that all financial institutions have to choose whether they break the embargo, participate in the Chinese system and be banned from the main USD systems, or pretend that the Chinese system does not exist and keep all their non-Chinese business functioning.
Is it really a company-wide strategy to manipulate the URL? The Chrome change was based on user studies that showed that people do not understand URLs.

The days of URLs as a data access key are gone. So many other things (cookies, etc) go into controlling what pages show that what was originally a 1:1 mapping between URL and content is now a many to many mapping. I'm not saying that's how it should be, but that's the web we live in now.
> Yes people bunched up and sweating all over each other and yelling is not a superspreader event.

This is a very testable claim.

NYC had sustained, massive BLM protests in May/June. Where's the resulting spike in cases?
A well explained article from Ars Technica discussing this. As ever, the comments are at least as insightful and interesting as the article.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/08/how-to-turn-regular-...
The thing about GA's is that the GA-part is easy -- it's the fitness function (the simulation here) that is the hard/interesting part. This problem has a nice evaluation fn - the duration of the sim - a lot of problems have what amounts to a binary pass/fail or it's not obvious where to do credit-assignment in your genome.
Respectfully you sound like a classic CCP propagandist.

No logic, no reasoning, just bashing the U.S while hiding china's crimes.

The biggest proof that the U.S has a future vs china, is that I have many great chinese engineering friends who have emigrated, ALL of them love the U.S.A and MOST of them are upset with the way the CCP has acted in regards to IP, human rights, and hong kong.

I don't hear the same about people moving from the U.S to china, please keep your CCP propaganda to yourself.
Just this. Epub depends on the same tech stack as the web. So, either you use an engine that supports that in full, or you are going to be missing pieces of the standard. Which means that most other reading software opts for missing pieces of the standard.
> Without a counterfactual, it is hard to know what could have made it better.

You realize there are dozens of other nations that saw the same virus, right? That seems like a nonsensical response to me, as if you're asking "Well, who could have known?". Well, Germany. Germany seems to have known. Also Japan, Korea, Canada, Australia, New Zealand (especially those guys)... Even nations like Spain and Belgium, which had disastrous early outbreaks got it under control at a time when we had a huge second wave.

You really don't think we have anything to learn from that data?

> my money is on prior exposure to corona and sars being the largest contributors to places that have "done better."

Uh... what? Let's ignore the pseudoscience argument and just talk demographics: you're saying that the United States, alone among all nations in the industrialized world, was unique in that it had no prior exposure to pre-existing coronavirii. Everywhere else in the industrialized world, every nation, had large pre-existing immunity? That's what you're going with? And you think that makes sense?
> >Are you willing to pay 50-100 euros/dollars per year to keep MDN afloat?

Yes as well. I consider myself pretty conservative with my spending but with regards to free things that benefit me, I am thankful, so I donate. I believe people should do more.
Democrats may profess to be anti-big-business, but in practice they clearly aren't.
> At least, these tend to be real subjects that students are actually interested in. The real problem is "Online Marketing" degrees, or most business degrees excepting accounting and finance.

I don't think that the data doesn't really support your conclusion.

I would define "success" or "usefulness" on the basis of something measurable, such as average starting salaries for a given major.

Even if business degrees are "fake" subjects, I believe they have higher average outcomes/starting salaries than most humanities majors.

Seeing as outcome and job opportunities are the real thing that the customers (students) care about, it makes the most sense to look at the actual outcomes, using a measurable metric.
Agree.... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21926865-the-accidental-...

The democratic process is screwed in my opinion, but yes...
From what I've read sales are not about making a lot of money in a short period of time, but are instead about seeding the community for more word of mouth. That games do best over the long run when they hit a critical mass where they get most of their purchases from people recommending it and sales were a strategy to ramp that up faster.
These companies are shipping new features every day. If they have the bandwidth to work on those projects then the failure to meet legal requirements is an issue of prioritization, leaving no excuse.
Why this soil scientist thinks regenerative agriculture is 'nonsense'
You're right of course, and my comment was oversimplified.

But supply chains for agriculture are a lot more complicated than sourcing seeds.

I agree with you that the current state is unsustainable. On a more general level, again, it's similar in manufacturing. Seeds or other raw materials, tractors or other specialized equipment.

Globalization adds and subtracts different kinds of resilience. Specialization only subtracts resilience.

Neither of our points has much to do with AWS though. :)
I cannot agree that "Containerization universally makes first server deployment harder". Even at single person scale, tools like Docker-Compose etc make my dev life massively simpler.

In 2020, I'd argue the opposite for most people, most of the time!

Also, if your container runtime is preinstalled in your OS as is often the case, the first run experience can be as little as a single command.
Comparing employees from reputable companies with recent grads that have at best internship experience seems a bit silly no?

There are lots of companies I would take an employee from in a heartbeat. Taking a recent grad is a gamble in most cases.
State government public health orders might have violated the 1st ("right of the people peaceably to assemble") and 14th ("No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States") Amendments. Federal courts have allowed temporary restrictions on the right of assembly in limited circumstances before but the facts were different in those cases. It will be interesting to see how the courts deal with legal challenges to current pandemic control measures.
http://archive.is/kZDYy
Imagine the scientific gains by observing a nearby supernova event “live” (you know what I mean). I heard most likely is that it would become either a neutron star/ pulsar or black hole depending on retained material in the innermost region following the supernova.
if you want to call yourself an engineer; or others to call you an engineer then:

>>I am an Engineer. In my profession, I take deep pride. To it, I owe solemn obligations.

As an engineer, I pledge to practice integrity and fair dealing, tolerance and respect, and to uphold devotion to the standards and dignity of my profession. I will always be conscious that my skill carries with it the obligation to serve humanity by making the best use of the Earth's precious wealth.

As an engineer, I shall participate in none but honest enterprises. When needed, my skill and knowledge shall be given, without reservation, for the public good. In the performance of duty, and in fidelity to my profession, I shall give my utmost. <<

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Engineer#Oath

So.. who here is a software engineer; a digital electronic engineer; datasystems engineer etc.
Can you live up to the obligation?
Not really a donation (more a purchase), but what I like with Humble Bundle [0] is that I can choose what percentage of money I want to give to which organisation. Usually there are 3 options:

- The developers of the software in the bundle

- Humble Bundle organisation

- Charities

Usually I send 90% of my "donation" to the developers of the software and 10% to the Humble Bundle organisation.

Perhaps charities should have a similar donation mechanism where one can choose what percentage of ones' donation should be spent on:

- Management

- Marketing

- Field workers

- Charity itself

- Other ...?

Given such options, I might choose to spend 5% on Management, 10% on field workers and remaining 85% on the charity itself.

---

[0]: https://www.humblebundle.com
< the new Chinese steal fighter and it’s resemblance to the F-35 steal[th] tech

Modulo that all stealthy fighters will look somewhat similar, you do know why the F-35 looks like the Russian Yak-141?

Yakolev was in a IP-technology-transfer with agreement with Lockheed Martin from 1991 to 1995 (approx) to show LM how it was done.

[1] https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/did-old-russian-jet-h...
Social interaction outside one’s household is banned and will remain banned for a long time. You could meet people illicitly but I’d expect a selection bias against conscientiousness in the pool of people up for meeting strangers right now. That doesn’t bode well for stable relationships.
My larger point was why If you have talented developers and hundreds of millions of dollars in new funding can't you simply give those developers the option to stay with the company and refocus their efforts on the new areas in which you seek to grow the business? It doesn't seem like that was even a consideration.

Also there were also far more than just Rust folks affected by this layoff.
Really? Get a C64 clone instead then.

The whole point is the renewed Speccy experience in a QL like packaging.
Django Async: What's new and what's next?
Some of it may just be familiarity, but it always seems like there are little things that aren't all the way there. Some of the CSS property selectors aren't as rich, last I checked the profiling tools weren't as powerful, that kind of stuff. Things you could live without, but I feel a certain amount of responsibility when I'm on the clock to not hamper my productivity by using a tool that isn't the best one available.
Separation Between WiFi and Bluetooth Broken by Spectra Co-Existence Attack
It's always fun to try to explain that in America intellectual property is seen as rightfully yours, on the basis of it being original, while in China they see absolutely no wrong in ripping off an original idea, in fact it's encouraged and seen as a form of flattery. Totally different ways of thinking, but people presume everyone thinks in the same way as they think, so it's an entirely foreign concept to them.
>MS just decided to give up their independent browser. I really don't think they're about to turn around and do it again.

Never underestimate Microsoft's ability to constantly change its mind.
Do you need a PC to play this game or does it work on any laptop?
At the risk of being a Starship Troopers "I'm Doing My Part!" recruitment video, I respect all of the plumbers, seamstresses, tailors, drycleaners, carpenters, &c that I have hired for help.

I know my limits of what I can do. I can sew my own buttons, do a shitty hem on something that doesn't matter. Repairing the plumbing on a bathroom sink I did catastrophic damage too is towards my upper limit; I was able to source replacement material and do the labor myself, but I consider myself fortunate that I was able to do that with only a week without a bathroom sink. Also, don't tell my landlord but now I do have a plumber's wrench on hand.

So I go to the experts. The tailor, the seamstress, the plumber. "This broke, I messed up, you can fix it better, yes next Thursday after 4pm sounds fantastic."

Yes, I understand the pride in doing things yourself. I also see no shame in shooting up a flair.
What diagnostic? It's not generally considered a mistake to access a member without making explicit use of this.

There doesn't seem to be an easy way to detect it using external tooling, either: https://stackoverflow.com/q/957766/
I imagine that black wealth is pretty lumpy. Blacks are underrepresented in white collar professions but overrepresented in elite sports and entertainment. There aren’t too many black small business owners. There’s only been a few decades to build wealth so blacks who have some probably made all of it themselves in the last few decades. That’s probably why the average looks better. But that’s all assumptions on my part and I have no sources to back any of this up.

1.5x is a huge difference in income. Imagine a 50% raise.
No, it will probably count as contempt.
In relative terms, I think it's safe to say the US was in a better position during the 90s than it is now. The USSR fell apart, China wasn't a real rival, our alliances were at their strongest, and we were running a budget surplus with undisputed control over the global economy.
I recommend that you build (or download) the UWP version of Servo: https://download.servo.org
It seems that it's become completely normal to dehumanize people amongst people on the US right.

It's become so normal that every other thread here will refer to "degenerates" or similar terrible terms for political opponents, and sadly the moderators seem to think this is normal as well.

If you're slightly to the left of Hitler and live in the US, you should arm yourself now, before it's too late.
Beta users of Starlink get downloads of 11 to 60 Mbps
And it worked amazingly well given that they've received over $3 billion from Google. Had they then used that money to plan for the gift horse dying it would have worked out for decades more. But the people overseeing it wanted to build an empire rather than a sustainable foundation.
Does anyone know if Darktable supports Fujifilm film simulation profiles like CaptureOne?