skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not only do they have customer service if things go wrong, they have customer service to take random requests.

I've submitted four "hi this is just a feature request, no action needed" tickets to FastMail over the four years I've been a customer. Every time, a person who appeared to have a clue (based on their responses) replied to me with at least confirmation of "sure, we'll think about it, might be a heavy lift" and they did two of them.
Sure. At the same time, is it really smart for them to just completely abandon the idea of independence?

There's a lot that a browser can do for a company. Google has built GSuite and ChromeOS around Chrome - the integration with the browser is absurd and right up Microsoft's alley.

Microsoft could build Azure Active Directory, O365, Windows, etc, around a next gen browser and I think they'd be smart to do so.
If I am staying in the US, want somewhere with a lot of land and outdoors. With a real winter. And affordable prices so that's just geographically what fits the bill. Norway is for family history, and New Zealand is probably mostly appealing because of how well they have handled the current situation.
We had a few minutes earlier this week where a machine saw packets in/out go to zero for no discernible reason.
This isn't the first epidemic to hit the US. Besides the well known 1918 flu, the US has had numerous cholera, typhus, yellow fever, bubonic plague and probably other epidemics in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

The state and Federal governments aren't really exercising any powers or imposing any restrictions on individual liberties that weren't used in past epidemics.
What is the hardest part of working remotely?
It isn't worth worrying about because you don't control other people. It is like a stereotypical fanatical vegan lamenting that they can become vegan but they can't make sure they never intact with a non-vegan.

If they somehow got on a deranged crusade about paper being an ill and attempted to switch to parchment based backing their complaints that everyone else uses paper would be just as insane.
It's so strange to me that voting is so political in the USA (yes, I realize the phrasing). It really feels like fundamental voting rights are constantly under attack -- whether it's against felons in Florida that don't vote the way that the leadership likes, or disenfranchising minorities.

For a "bastion of democracy and freedom", America has some major problems with its most basic rights.
> Second wave begins within 14 days of the protests and rioting.

Sure, and Memorial Day. MN didn't require masking until late July.

(They also reopened bars on June 1: https://www.minnpost.com/state-government/2020/05/what-to-kn...)

Again, why no spike in NYC?

There's actually evidence that the protests caused more social distancing in areas where they occurred:

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/06/30/black-li...
If you want a project for that, check out the Turbo Chameleon 64 - that piece of hardware can also emulate a lot of other systems.

https://www.c64-wiki.com/index.php?title=Turbo_Chameleon_64
I find the premise technical writing is under appreciated or is only a professional skill little odd.

Wikipedia and StackOverflow have proved that technical writing can be done by community and crowd sourced effectively with active moderation.

This model has and can work, even independent sites like caniuse.com have been able to good quality content and are used widely.
> 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

Because then trivial accidents become major costly repairs and/or result in totaling of the vehicle.

There is an advantage of having separate body panels, support pillars, bumpers, etc. It can all be replaced separately.
It already costs absurd amounts to repair a fender bender or some smartphone zombie driving into the back of a full aluminum Tesla, so if they make the whole chassis some unibody they'll just total the cars for the slightest damage?

No wonder insurance rates are that high.
We'll see. It makes doing salvage titles a lot easier if you can harvest one good frame casting and then pull from a bunch of other vehicles the other needed parts.

It is also an open question on what it would cost to make this casting as a repair part.
> What would be the use case?

Reading data from an excel sheet. A1 is “foo”, A2 is blank. B1 is =A1, which evaluates to “foo”, and B2 is =A2, which evaluates to 0. If you want to aggregate according to column B, you have to compare 0 and “foo”.
I’m confused what the dialectic medium separating the two charged elements is?
This is probably somewhat outside of the scope of the Core Infrastructure Initiative [1], but maybe that just means we need an organization of a similar nature for projects like this?

[1] https://www.coreinfrastructure.org/
My mother would not let me live at home while I went to college specifically for this reason. She commuted to school and worked a part-time off-campus job. She regrets that she missed out on a true college experience and did not want the same for me.
Precisely. Everyone fails to see what happen to Brendon was a coup: Not by equality-loving do-gooders, but by cynical MBA middle management who saw their opportunity to loot and plunder once the founders were out of the way.

Its pretty amazing they've been able to keep their street-cred alive this long.
This is exactly it. "Enough people get by.." "just enough are educated..."just barely getting through."

More evidence - the era of US exceptionalism is over.

> Even as it is, the US can continue to function for decades, even centuries, more or less. I just don't see it in terminal decline.

The UK still exists despite the demise of its empire. This is what is implied in the demise of the US as a worldwide force or leader.
I disagree about DDG :). For work-related searches I'm really satisfied with the results and I find answers quickly. I would even go as far as to say that it works better for me than Google's search.
I experienced it the other way around. When using DDG for personal use or results about local things I often tend to use the Google bang as Google has the better localized results.
I’m getting a non-functional page for that link. The page says that the content has moved to tlt21.com, but provides no links (I checked after disabling blockers on my browser too). If I go to tlt21.com, there doesn’t seem to be an easy way to find this article.
Double-double and quad-double arithmetic have even been implemented for the GPU as research prototype libraries (gpuprec [0,1] and campary [2,3] among other).

[0] https://github.com/lumianph/gpuprec
[1] https://event.cwi.nl/damon2010/gpuprecision.pdf
[2] https://homepages.laas.fr/mmjoldes/campary/
[3] https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01312858/document
> The number of users who have actually grown up with URLs in their childhood increases all the time.

Where do kids growing up with iPads even see a URL?

You’d be shocked how bad they even are at using a physical keyboard and trackpad in 2020
There's an out for the Catch-22: don't eat fish. Except for a very small few, it's unnecessary to eat fish at all, and is more of a convenience or form of entertainment (it tastes good).
Is that supposed to scare me off? It doesn't.
Enjoying this format and appreciate all of the presenters!
And WebRender. And there were plans for more…
Welders next to fireworks next to ammonium nitrate
Yes - I've been seeing failures this morning.

Searched around didn't see much on twitter beyond this: https://twitter.com/Flock/status/1294304262126804993?s=20

We think it's one AZ in us-east-1.
One of my favorite things is how it forces config and artifact locations to be explicit and consistent. No more "where the hell does this distro's package for this daemon store its data?" Don't care, it puts it wherever I mapped the output dir in the container, which is prominently documented because it pretty much has to be for the container to be usable.

Hell it makes managing my lame, personal basement-housed server easier, let alone anything serious. What would have been a bunch of config files plus several shell scripts and/or ansible is instead just a one-command shell script per service I run, plus the presence of any directories mapped therein (didn't bother to script creation of those, I only have like 4 or 5 services running, though some include other services as deps that I'd have had to manage manually without docker).

Example: Dockerized Samba is the only way I will configure a Samba server now, period. Dozens of lines of voodoo magic horsecrap replaced with a single arcane-but-compact-and-highly-copy-pastable argument per share. And it actually works when you try it, the first time. It's so much better.
Reminds me of a great phishing attack I saw the other year:

"https://support.google.com.verify.x82loo2a.com"

Of course, in a tiny url bar, you'd just see "https://support.google.com.veri".
Just out of curiosity - is there an explanation of how you can handle a fender bender that happens to affect the frame? Does the entire unibody frame need to be swapped out in that case? Is this the equivalent to soldering RAM to the motherboard.
Whats the point of having the crash rails and frame as one?
Vulnerability in website may have exposed data on Stanford students’ crushes
I'd happily pay a yearly fee to continue employing technical writers, engineers, and anyone else needed to keep MDN the reliable, source-of-truth, ad-free resource that it is today.
Agreed. Sounds like the Lotus Elise, where if the extruded/bonded aluminum chassis is damaged, the repair procedure is basically "remove everything from the chassis and swap it to a new chassis."
This is impressive engineering. I wonder what the turnaround time will be on this casting process (assuming the ideal 1 part casting approach)?
It's not new, but that was never really part of the sales pitch of why we should subsidize it.
Building Reliable Mobile Applications
Join the dark side. Drink some oat milk. Eat some soy.It gives you special powers.
Yeah, but you're going to copy that URL to your buddy. You're not going to read it out to him.
History Swipe
I'm not going to use a browser that lies to me about what web page I'm on.
> Why is it that we’re not tempted to give him a Halo test, but we are tempted to give that Algebra test and use that as a judgement? We’ll its because you actually trust the design and learning of Halo ...

Actually, it is because no one cares about whether the kid finished Halo. The kid could have leave Halo unfinished half way and it would be still same thing. There is no one who would be giving the kid the "proeficient in Halo" degree.

I agree also with other responses, in particular the one about Halo itself being the test. But even if Halo was not a test and allowed cheats, there still the aspect of no one caring whether kid learned Halo or not.
Navigating dorms often requires close contact (elevators, dining halls, shared bathrooms, shared rooms). Social gatherings in near-campus bars, fraternities, and on campus parties will invite infection, as party events at various summer hotspots have demonstrated already. Classrooms are probably the easiest venues of campus infection to mitigate.
Roboports chained together to form large logistics networks with construction bots and blueprints (whether of your own creation or easily downloaded) my friend.

If recreating a portion of your factory "feels too much like work" to do it really sounds like you haven't availed yourself fully to the tools the game gives you to do it.
Would you care to argument your case anyway? Your statement seems very black & white. Not every developer has cash to spare, especially those just starting out who might need resources like this the most. Same goes for companies that are just getting started.
What area are you in where you're not allowed to meet your friends? It's not banned where I am. You're just supposed to wear a mask and maintain distance.
Yes I have seen sporadic connection issues with various site scraping functions my app employs. I figured it was a widespread issue but I'm glad you made a post about it that basically confirms that.
> You’re part of the problem, not the solution.

I hate this faulty line of reasoning. It's a false dichotomy. You cannot simultaneously be either part of all the world's problems and/or solutions.
> Environmental sustainability doesn't "scope creep" for the same reason as other morality terms (eg justice). It scope creeps because of the nature of environmental sustainability. Affecting non-target species (bycatch etc.) tends to have unpredictable effects on target species... and longer time horizons yield more complexity. That's what ecosystems are, interdependent sets of population dynamics.

But even under this interpretation, the article doesn't attempt to argue that the bycatch is causing the mammal populations to collapse. Instead, it focuses on the damage inflicted on _individuals_. Incidentally, this is the kind of advocacy that often pits animal rights activists against conservationists, for instance when the latter resort to culling or even simply let a large percentage of a population die of hunger.
At the end of the day it’s just a very large die casting machine. To switch out the part it is casting requires making new dies. It is expensive so you don’t want to be doing that a lot, but these machines are going to be probably doing 500,000 units/year at least so it’s very worth it at that volume.
On the other hand, Chrome for Android killing off Duet a few weeks ago has made it actively painful every time I need to switch tabs.
See also: the “How to Vote in Every State” YouTube channel, which has a short video for each state + DC.

https://www.youtube.com/c/howtovoteineverystate

I like those because it’s sometimes easier to share video content with people.
No, not really. If I want to donate to achieve a specific technical goal (e.g. documentation about something completely apolitical) and nothing else that's not a political stance.
"Testimony" can be interpreted as the physical act of speaking, giving testimony against oneself under questioning.

How would being compelled to enter a passcode into a phone be considered speech?
On the model 3/Y, the rear casting will only get damaged in most severe collisions.
It is disappointing that Tesla uses much of its engineering prowess to design products that are inherently difficult for owners or small shops to modify, maintain, or repair. Taken directly from Apple's playbook.
School District Affects Your Home's Value
I'm not suggesting taking away their money. They built a trillion dollar company that's vital to the national economy. Yay! Now we (the people) buy it from them and it belongs to all of us.
I think there may be interesting alternatives. If you want everyone to pay their share then you're basically proposing a paywalled site. But is it necessary? A much smaller community with some combination of volunteers and funding could make a site for everyone. (One person is too small, obviously, since they'll burn out.)

But I do think this article hits on something important, which is the difference between activism devoted towards demanding things of others, versus activism devoted to creating an organization to actually do some work.

It seems like it would be quite possible (though there is a lot of work involved) for someone to create an independent organization that just works on MDN? You don't anyone else's permission. There are various volunteer groups that decide to fix various things on Wikipedia, without having any intention of running Wikipedia.

But someone needs to lead. Who will bell the cat? [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belling_the_Cat
If URLs get hidden in such a way, developers are going to stop caring about them. This is going to result in experiences like we get with apps like Facebook, which doesn’t have any conceivable way to get back to certain content. Think single page apps that never have any URL changes.

Of course the brass at Google is incredibly short sighted and clumsy in their approach. All the good people at Google are gone and we’re left with the dredges and it’s starting to show.
This has a ton of its own massive problems, including large impacts to ecosystems. Hotbeds of fish diseases and algal blooms, for example.

It's not necessary to eat fish. We can just do without.
Can confirm: Haiku, FreedBSD, NetBSD, and DrangonflyBSD kernel communities have been quite friendly and helpful.
Tell HN: YouTube have discontinued email notifications
I just logged on to my email to find no YouTube notifications for the past 12 hours, which is very rare/unusual.

It turns out that they have discontinued the feature, with little to no notice for users: https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/63269933?hl=en

As some one who relies on these emails and reads every single one, this is terrible...

Does anyone have any ideas for an alternative? RSS hardly seems ideal and is clunky for dozens of channel subscriptions. The YouTube front page also regularly misses stuff, especially from smaller channels.
They just need a killer set of dev-tools.

What, of course, they've noticed and were working for already.
don't get paid wages ...yet
This is so melodramatic. The vast majority of our interactions with the world are institutionalized to a point where one president can't unhinge them. The things the current admin changed were on flimsy standing to begin with. An under-appreciated truth about the Obama era was their foreign policy was mostly rife with ineffectiveness and lack of results. The current admin didn't inherit much.

Furthermore, our allies are pretty accustomed to America's always shifting between hyper focus and apathy towards the rest of the world. Think about things on a larger context, think 100 years not 4 years.
Considering the current climate surrounding the USPS, if you vote by mail you should drop it off yourself at the local election office.

The law in several states is based upon when they receive it. If it is postmarked in time but they receive it late, your vote literally gets thrown away.
I don't think dealing with files made people any more computer literate, nor is understanding the folder/file UI abstraction any more of a badge of tech literacy than understanding what "pull to refresh" might do on an iPhone.

We like to overdramatize the importance of computer literacy because we take it for granted that computers are our livelihood, not some principled quest of self-betterment to understand the world.

We're like a group of mechanics finishing each other's sentences over how everyone should know how a carburetor works, and then circlejerking over how we "failed the people" with the move to power steering. And don't even get us started on how push-button ignition set the public's car literacy back 100 years from the golden age of turning a key to really understand the inner workings of locomotion.
The saying dates back to before the discovery of the New World, when in fact no one in Latvia had potatoes.
Hmm that’s not true, nowadays most new things will start with small regions, typically us-east-2
£300?

That is some serious cash for a bit of nostalgia.
That seems to be what I typically see as well. I’ve seen up to 80k views over the course of a day.
The NIH and CDC have been around for quite some time. We're only seeing so much federalism because the federal government has refused to act on this topic. We've ended up with the worst of both worlds - the federal government is consuming a massive amount of our resources (income tax and money printing tax), while doing little or even actually undermining the states' responses.
Not the way you do it.
I was wondering about this, what else do they do than just go to Google and sell the search spot?
> But it does take a high salaried non-technical CEO to market the idea to more people, which brings in more funding for the project.

That's the same argument used to pay CEOs hundreds of millions ("they make us more money"). And then there are studies suggesting that the effect the CEO has on the success of the company is rather small - and of course, the CEOs who aren't successful still get paid unbelievable amounts of money.
Don’t use it :)
I would bet that most people on this thread have answered few stack overflow questions freely. Plenty of people contribute to Wikipedia , If I see simple mistakes in a project wiki or readme people submit the pull request because github makes it easy to do.

It is matter of UX and openness towards contribution. MDN never felt like it needed my contribution, not once I thought that a) I could actually add value b) my contributions were welcome. Until a couple of days back I and many others did not know even that MDN took wiki style contributions.
I don't have any moral problems with sales. Some people have money and less time. Others have less money and more time. Sales let each of those groups use the resources they have acquire the product. People with less money but more time can spend that time hunting for deals. Busy people with cash can pay full price.
"During the rise of the BLM movement, Trump appointee thinks Yale is racist against white people, oh and Asians"

There fixed the headline.
A more open China would mean trillions more in capital flight, a complete non starter for the CCP. If you genuinely believe that there is even a chance of a more open China, you have no been paying attention to the actions of the emperor for life.
Pings and upload speeds seem impressive (although as someone else said we'll see when under load). I come from a place (rural Canada) where a non-trival amount of people who live far away from town centers do not have access to decent internet. This will be a good alternative to existing satellite ISPs, or 5mbps (on a good day) land ISPs.

Also potentially amazing for people living off-grid.
Presumably there are also important local ordinances and local officials that are worth voting for, where your single vote counts much more.
Possible, but not to a sufficient extent to keep up with the ever changing needs.
The insurance on my brand new model 3 is around $80/mo? Not that high. On the other hand my friend who has a Lexus RX had some pretty minor damage from a fender bender and still it somehow cost $8,000 to repair so I don’t think this problem is unique to Tesla.
Digital distribution of video games history
...BOOM!
I haven't played in a long while and never quite got a rocket launched(can't recall why). Any tips for getting to that point very fast without feeling like cheating the phase?