skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can obtain emergency stabilization treatment at a hospital and nothing more, this is paid for by other's insurance payments. Perhaps you live in some idyllic utopia cut off from the rest of the country. Maybe you don't require any mail delivery as you live in an Amish farming community and eschew technology, or a whites only wealthy retirement community with your every wish catered for like the ad I just saw. The real U.S. is becoming a dystopian nightmare for a large percentage of people. Ignoring it is what is a bit much.
Welders set off Beirut blast while securing explosives
It isn't meaningless to all humans - we get screenshots sent in to our support team all the time, and even if the end user doesn't know what the URL means, the support team does. That quickly lets them recreate problems, find bad data, and give the devs enough information to reproduce bugs.
I didn't realize Germany had royalty or nobility or what have you in this day and age. Or is there some different meaning behind "German princess"?
That’s sad, since that seems more flesh that fat to me.

The real “fat” is the admin bloat at most universities. Most schools will continue to be in a precarious financial situation until that fat is cut, imho.
This is true, but there's no physical law that says humans have to consume carbon positive food, it's a social choice not something inherent to humans.
It's a culture war thing, it usually refers to LGBT or non-trad people/ideas/relationships. It's definitely pejorative.
This seems like a problem that is easily solved by ceasing to use Chrome.

How does the URL bar look in Firefox these days?
The US benefits more from its forward bases in Europe than the European countries do. This isn't 1976. Russia isn't a direct military threat at this point in time.

In south east asia the argument can be seen differently - but even so, the US protects SK, Japan, Taiwan, and Australia to keep open the South China Sea. If that benefit disappeared the US wouldn't be as vigorous in its defense.

The reason presidents prior kept NATO together was because it is an extremely strong alliance that can protect each other's economic interests. If the US loses NATO now, they are simply no longer hegemon.
I don't think people understand the vastness of resources that FB and Instagram have at their disposal. This is not a particularly hard problem. Yes it's not a simple SQL query. But they do solve it -- in fact this was a bug that they have already fixed.
> to reduce their permanent sense of inferiority compared to native developers.

On the contrary, you make it seem like native developers all have a superiority complex.

The world of already filled with people wanting to divide us, can we please not try to ostracize one group of developers?
Hmm.. Doesn't seem relevant to the quality or longevity of the project.
I remember getting sources from university ftp mirrors for Linux (still do for OpenBSD). I wouldn't be surprised if some of these repositories are now hosted by the 'giants'.
Even if we find out that being in a church has zero risk, asking a church to follow building occupancy regulations is still constitutional.

Building codes are precautionary, and they apply to buildings, which are in no way related or predicated on any regulations that apply to standing in the middle of a street.

Constitutionality aside, I don't think the current scientific consensus supports your opinion about risk either. Buildings recirculate their air, 50ft ceiling or not.
(From the name of OP I deduce he may read this.)

You should read the first
and second chapter of 'Probability Theory: the Logic of Science' by Jaynes. It offers a derivation of probability theory using only Logic and Boolean algebra as foundations. I found it delightful, I hope you will also enjoy it :)

It's somewhat more intensive than Taleb, but the derivations are really beautiful.
Doctor Who and the Curse of the Blockchain
I feel this is the consequence of the American style no responsibilities system. Why on earth should an 18 year old high school senior need a hall-pass to go to the restroom?

Signed a Swede who spent an exchange year in Texan upper middle class suburban public high school.
They're going to buy a i9 and reverse engineer it n produce it??
Deliberately getting Fortnite kicked off is political.

Well, yes. I'm fairly sure they're trying to prompt that "major shift in the landscape" you mentioned. And I suspect that if a few of the other big players who have been unhappy with Apple's policies join them, they might even succeed, regardless of the outcome of the current legal action. Apple can almost certainly stand to lose one big name game from its ecosystem. But a "high end" phone that can't access the major streaming services or play several of the most popular games starts to look more like a phone that "just doesn't work", particularly with the sub-par web browser it also imposes.

One app doing it does not yet have me worried I won't still have an excellent selection of software, all with spying and other anti-user capabilities significantly dampened versus other platforms, in two years.

As I and others have pointed out many times, if you're relying on an app store for your platform's security and privacy restrictions, your model is already broken. The OS shouldn't be permitting inappropriate behaviour by apps, regardless of where they came from. Trying to thoroughly vet every new version of every app to ensure it will never do anything inappropriate that it otherwise could is a losing battle.
What file types does Apple’s Archive Utility open?
I’m not sure why the App Store and third party apps couldn’t just co-exist.

There is nothing preventing your parents from continuing to use Apple’s sanctioned distribution system even if side-loading were allowed.

Why don’t we flip this question? As a savvy software engineer, I want to use my phone in whatever way I see fit and accept the risk of using unverified software. Why am I not allowed to? Oh right, bc Apple wants a cut of any profits that app developer may receive. The iPhone at this stage is a full blown computer and should expose capabilities as such.
I saw that, but I'm not convinced that the breadth of scope is what's interesting. The other targets of interest I mentioned are also often "big tent" or "broad umbrella" conspiracies that pull in many others.

Ie, Lizard people come from the Hollow Earth and are conspiring with Planned Parenhood and UN Agenda 21 to depopulate the planet; this is a believed conspiracy you can find on conspiracy boards.

What makes QAnon different is that it's a movement that exists largely as a result of the sophistication of modern social networks and the ability of small groups of people to wield enormous platforms on them.

The Anti-Vax, Birther and Sandy Hook conspiracies were sort of the early progenitors of this medium: they took the conversations off the aged PHPbb boards and various sub-reddits and on to the social networks. QAnon is often _the same people_ simply continuing to talk with each other.

They've just been learning how to use the tools at their disposal, and have become proficient at it.
Yes, I’ve noticed this too! I think the generation growing up with these systems have grown up into the forties and long for seeing them come alive again. A generational thing. MiSTer, FPGAArcade, Vampire accelerators and even AmigaOS 3.1.4, the whole retro RPi movements with RetroPie etc, and now this too! It’s happening on so many fronts. FPGA’s (like used in this project too) have surely affected this movement as well.
Completely agree, refactoring your layout is too expensive. What I typically do is just start-afresh with all the resources I have accrued from my current factory -- still fun!
>But will we be well served by that in the long run?

Mozilla brought in $3.25 BILLION in revenue over the last 10 years. If they'd saved/invested a majority of it then they could go for decades without any further revenue. The business model was sound if they didn't decide to waste money.
Facebook, Hate-Speech Rules Collide with Indian Politics
I think people look too much at our recent ills and project that to their view of American's place in the world. When looking at things with a historic perspective, I think it's hard not to see that we may be at a period where the American century is just getting started. The US still has a lot of advantages.

The best geography in the world for food, energy, transport, physical security. The best security apparatus. Favorable demographics. The largest group of dynamic and diverse people and economy in the world. Outside of North America, the American system does not need trade with the wider world to survive and prosper.

The United States is one of the very few countries in the world that does not need to consider security(food, energy, physical, etc) when it interacts with the rest of the world. That grants it huge flexibility. The US hasn't had a coherent foreign policy for 30 years. This domestic funk may last a decade, but some day Americans will figure out what they want from the rest of the world. Until then, the rest of the world should be happy America is taking a break.

I admit that I may be coming at this from too much of an American point of view.
It was Adams, not Washington, and the Sedition Act was repealed after Jefferson became president:

United States v. Thomas Cooper https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/sedition-case
Facebook and Apple have been driving those trends for well over a decade.
Connection issues between hosts, it appears to be across AZ. Internal traffic inside a VPC
I'd file that under "two wrongs don't make a right".

I think all government pensions should be responsibly funded. To do otherwise is basically tell our kids and unborn future generations that they can pay for our our lack of ability to make hard decisions. I just can't see where that's right.

I wonder why is it that only government workers have pension plans that everyone else knows are unaffordable?
> For example, if the government doesn't already know who owns a phone, then forcing a defendant to unlock it amounts to forced testimony that the defendant is the owner.

It seems that the government has to atleast prove it is your phone.
That’s my wish too. Unfortunately it’s very rare to find such a great team with a great vision for these projects.
Sure, they can change their mind and become a biologist. But in doing so, they throw away the two years. They have to start college from zero, because their trade-school classes don't translate into college credits.

You can start college at 20 as easily as at 18. The problem is that you get nothing for the two years (except, I suppose, you can work as an electrician to pay for college, instead of working at McDonalds).
Epic Games has absolutely no moral authority here as long as they charge a royalty fee to games made with their Unreal Engine.
there are definitely positives about html and being declarative for sure...at least in the beginning... but looking at the complex beasts that web browsers have become now (maintaining/optimizing js, decades of backwards compatibility etc) it seems in the end, only google and apple can fund them (microsoft throwing in the towel, mozillas recent cutbacks)... im not sure this is what we originally wanted from the web...

as you say though, self rendering pages would need an api to provide accessibility, and also html is much easier to grok than bytecodes (developer accessibility)

tradeoffs...
Without a counterfactual, it is hard to know what could have made it better. I'm personally very sceptical that we know what could have made things better. This is while still being dismayed at how crappy leadership has been.

So, I think we'll know more in a few years. Hopefully we learn enough that we make better choices next time. As things are standing though, my money is on prior exposure to corona and sars being the largest contributors to places that have "done better." And we aren't out of the woods, yet, as it were.

If that is the case, most of what we are seeing is just more evidence that the majority vote lost out last time. Such that now we are seeing the majority is still upset about that.
While I'm not one to get overly angry about it, cause it just kinda happens with a lot of projects as well as with a lot of Linux apps, no screenshots on the distro repo GUI app for a lot of software I tend to agree. It would make a nice contribution to their GitHub, but their homepage should feature a screenshot or two on the side or somewhere immediately visible to someone visiting their website, or at the very minimal a 'Gallery' page.
This is one of the most clever and engaging games I’ve ever played. When myself and some friends discovered it, it ate up hundreds of hours of our time in the matter of a few months .... per person. It’s basically visual programming with monsters.
Good point.

I think many of the people who weren’t well off only afforded this experience by taking on debt.

Besides, there’s more ways than just college to have that “real” growth experience. Military, mission work, peace corps. Hell, I’d even argue these are more of an experience because they aren’t built on the somewhat artificial backdrop of universities that can insulate you from the “real” world without all the debt downside
are you so sure about that?

https://m.startribune.com/mystery-surveillance-plane-that-ci...

https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2015/06/02/secret-aerial-fbi-...

since at least 2014, the FBI has a secret air force of over 100 planes that fly constant circles over the biggest US cities.

what do you think FBI is doing? joy riding?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/03/new-foia-documents-con...

those FBI planes are equipped with DRTBOX's--cell site simulators and wifi interception sensors.

in the TAO ANT Catalogue leaked by Snowden, it shows NSA SECONDDATE is manufactured by Harris.

Harris also makes DRTBOX, and Stingray.

wanna bet FBI is using DRTBOX in exactly the same way NSA used it in Iraq? wanna bet NSA is actually helping FBI run this little domestic program?

why would NSA and FBI surveill all US cities from the sky? because you dont need a warrant or even a subpoena. "reading the air" is free--it's public space with no expectation of privacy. and radio signals you emit through your phone or wifi router are also public space.

but what is FBI and NSA's endgame to run a real-time monitoring program over US cities?

back in 2004-2008 in Iraq, the Pentagon deployed something called GORGON STARE. it stiched together the video feeds from all drones and jets and satellites into a composite video watching entire cities.

https://longreads.com/2019/06/21/nothing-kept-me-up-at-night...

Gorgon Stare has come home to roost.
It's not that simple.

Less than 1% of energy comes from wind and solar and we aren't looking at more than 3-4% in 2030. Wind and solar require either nuclear, gas, coal and oil as backup. Nuclear is completely out of vogue and will take years to build.

It's not just concrete and air travel it's ships, trucks, steel production, anything that require large amount of heat.

You can't power a hospital based on solar and wind etc.

Fossil fuels are not going anywhere until we either get fusion or some sort of fuel cell technology, but they require som fundamental breakthroughs we aren't close to meeting just yet.

The problem is doing things at scale not just proving in some lab what is theoretically possible.
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"degenerate activism" -- really? You could have just stopped with the other two.
You are of course correct. I'm sorry about my outburst.

I've had too many experiences with "Haha linux on desktop bad nerd haha" people, and let it get to me. I apologize.
The example url in the article is:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL#Internationalized_URL

which is shortened in the address bar to:

> en.wikipedia.org

at the VERY least, I wish they would instead use:

> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL

Same for Twitter and Reddit URLs, specifically. Don't hide the username or the subreddit.
And the asshole who truly started the browser bar adware craze is leading one of those tech giants.
What to Expect from a Developer “Bootcamp” Program (2017)
It's the combo of SXG and AMP, and not what that combo can do today, but what it could do.
Ok. I need help recovering photos on Instagram
Once you play Factorio enough times you find that there are some general rules of thumb you can follow, in terms of resource consumption at various stages. Once you know those, it's partly just a matter of figuring out your scale milestones.

I do three stages, a main bus starter base which is enough to fill out the tech tree and launch a rocket, and then once I've automated most things, then comes the first megabase, which after enough time I rip up and build the modularized, distributed megabase (mostly solving the problem of keeping train traffic spread out and avoiding long multilane belt busses). The interesting thing is that building a megabase isn't necessarily just 10x-ing your start base, it's actually doing things differently because how you move resources around starts to become a problem in ways you didn't encounter at the smaller scales.
That's an argument to give up on Firefox and let the community take over, if winning the browser war was the only reason to exist.

If instead the opposite strategy is chosen, the one where Firefox is kept relevant, Servo and WASM would instead be strategically important.

This middle road is a risky one, which can lead to nowhere.
Possibly for including Trump's go-to 'a lot of people'?
If the US is in decline, when was it in a better position than it is now (COVID aside)? I think things in the US have not been improving as quickly as in many other countries, and the US is certainly behind countries like Canada when it comes to things like healthcare, but the US is certainly trending in a positive direction by most metrics. Just look at the crime rates over the last 20 years, or life expectancy, income mortality, median income - they have all been improving.

I often see people online act as if the US is some "third world" country, and while they certainly have problems, and probably more problems than many other western countries, there still aren't that many places in the world where it is normal to own a large house in a safe area with a 30k car and no concerns about how you are going to pay for food.
I have built an entire no belt factory. It works for the most part but damn it's slow. I do transition a lot of the technical debt from the green and red sciences so I can properly support the rest of the science development.
> companies that are competing for talent with the FAANGs

Which I think solidly includes Mozilla.
Seconded. Read Lasch (Revolt of the Elites) to make sense of what dyed-in-wool Marxists think of the Woke "ideology" (if we can even be charitable enough to use that word, for most of what they say lacks coherence). In fact, even the widely recognized coiner of the term "intersectionality," Dr. Kimberle Crenshaw, wouldn't explicitly subscribe to many of their positions.
Can the CSS be fixed so that the right side of the text fit in the window? https://imgur.com/a/hnRpLZH
> No developer or company is happy with the way Apple runs the App Store.

The App Store isn’t made with developers in mind. It’s made for the average user. And right now the average user is pretty damn happy with Apple.
I don't recall the model number anymore, but I also had an XPS13 for around three years at my last job. Had it running linux as my primary machine for web (and some mobile) development, and the only issue I ever had was that the onboard microphone sounded pretty bad.

I've seen a lot of bad reports, so maybe I just got lucky, but I hope not since I loved that machine and the XPS line would be pretty high up on my list if I was in the market for a new laptop now.
I think you're right in that it wouldn't be as meaningful for a school with departments with only 10 grads, but I think it's unlikely that a department's chair and faculty would care or even consider to mandate their grading to be curved in an effort to raise their student's GPA to compete with other departments. A difficult major is expected to have a lower average GPA than an easy major in any school, that's why latin honor thresholds are different for each department and different majors don't get considered for the same jobs purely on GPA.
I don't require that level of control.

I just want something similar to a restricted university donation fund. Another faculty at my alma mater had a mega donation a few years ago that was restricted to paying for new research chairs in business. They couldn't use it for anything in other faculties. They couldn't reallocate it to recruiting. I want something like that.
Formatting text output is not often a problem in the larger scope of a program, but having performance bottlenecks can be.
Haha yeah I know he’s a mess of a human being.
That's exactly what I said above just in fever words. What other interpretation are you thinking about?
Wasn't their business model mostly "We hope that Google keeps subsidizing us for no apparent reason?"
The main issue I have is why people think that switching from a profit requirement of 40% to maybe 10% suddenly means organizational theory and practices should disappear through the window.

Do they also insist they should be paying a 10th of what an Adidas costs for it because that’s basically the labor and material cost?
What are you classifying as “anti-science”. We might have anti-vaxxers and people who are redefining sexes in non biological ways (not saying there isn’t a valid non scientific reason for this), etc., but I don’t think people are anti science.

Basic health for people not covered I grant you that is a problem but it’s not a unique one in the world.

It does represent the people; however since things are more or less 50:50 but polarized, it’s impossible to please two diametrical sentiments simultaneously.

Once your economy is mature one cannot expect to have indefinite growth whereby descendants do better than predecessors. We can teach a better stasis if we don’t allow undermining (like shipping jobs overseas and bringing in low wage workers to upset the economic stasis.
I've been slowly moving that way for years. I started dual-booting Windows and Ubuntu, Ubuntu for coding and Windows for everything else -- but over time I've been spending more and more time in Ubuntu, until I looked up one day and realized I used Windows for gaming and Ubuntu for everything else. I was going weeks without booting into Windows.

And then last week after getting my computer back from repairs I did a clean install of Pop!_OS. No more Windows at all -- I have a fully Linux desktop.

Granted I ended up leaving unallocated space for a Windows partition (shrinking a LUKS partition was not very fun, it took me two attempts) for when I eventually want to play some game, but who knows when that will be.

Anyway, yeah, point is, for a sufficiently tech-savvy user, the year of the Linux Desktop has arrived. (And I could be wrong, but I think that threshold is actually pretty low. I'd guess that as long as you're not afraid of technology, you can handle installing Linux. Pop!_OS has a great installer and app store, too.)
The first time I used Safari and didn't see a full URL was the last time I used Safari. I didn't raise a fuss or take to twitter, I just stopped using it. I'm probably not alone.

In addition, Safari has a very small slice of browser usage in the overall scheme of things. I suspect the uproar would be just as vocal if their usage numbers were in the range of Chrome's.
It's easy enough for me to think of Mozilla as a professional association rather than a charity.

Would I pay? Yes, I can't imagine being in this field without MDN, and I don't necessarily care what they do with that fee specifically as long as the future of MDN and Firefox are secure.