skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has any other President - Republican or Democrat - actively tried to make it less effective? Why are we pretending that the current administration is normal?

This isn’t a difference on the margins about whether you believe in supply side or demand side economics.

If you look back on Presidents or politicians on either side of the aisle. We have never seen anything like this during my lifetime (born in 74).

I didn’t agree with all of the policies or proposed policies of Republican or Democratic candidates on either side. But it was more like seeing your favorite sports team win or lose. I didn’t feel like they would or did do long term harm to the country (except for the deficit).

I would say the same about any of the other candidates in 2016. If they had won it wouldn’t have been the end of the world.
> Was it "data" ?

Yes. The fact that you couldn't interpret it doesn't mean that the consumer of your output couldn't have if you'd passed it through without going out of your way to destroy it.

There is a large, enormous class of software that cares detects specific sequences meaningful to it that exist in ASCII, and copies other parts of it input directly into its output without really caring to modify it. If you don't intentionally destroy your input, this will silently Just Work with many encodings in actual use.
Any data shows US near the top? Are you sure you looked at data at all?

Here is data from top sources referenced in the wiki:

Education: ranked 40 of 72 in mathematics, 25 of 72 in science, 24 of 72 in reading

Health: ranking 42nd among 224 nations

Standard of living: ranked 25 out of 151 countries for 2018

Politics: ranked 45 out of 180 countries

Peace: ranked 121 out of 162 countries

Economics: ranked 17 out of 178 economies

Reference: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_rankings_of_th...

(You might be able to pick slightly better ranking based on your choice of source, but yeah, we are no where near the top. If you filter for developed economies we are near the bottom or have already slipped through the floor)
Being the most popular thing doesn't necessarily make it the best thing.

We should be looking at "native web apps" as a stepping stone, a proof of concept for the architecture and design patterns of the web, but necessarily the platform itself. At the end of the day, it's just an XML document, stylesheet and escripting language running in a VM. There's no reason it has to use a browser engine and HTML.
> It was interesting to see a huge spike in selling back in early February, and then again a couple of weeks ago.

Any idea if this is planned share selling? Six month gap between the spikes would suggest this methinks.
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Funnily enough, the biggest obstacle to HSR in the US is all the restrictions we've put in place to protect people from corrupt or otherwise authoritarian officials. Uzbekistan doesn't have to worry about environmental impact reports or people complaining that the rail line will hurt their property values...
What if you had a legacy or emulation mode where it ran Chromium or WebKit for non-compliant pages?
> I don't know how to stop this type of creep.

For one, it would've helped if Firefox didn't drop the ball in the late-00s, when Chrome became the de facto best browser around. Google + Chrome did more bad for the web than Microsoft + IE ever dreamt of doing. Having the very same companies that make browsers vested in certain web features is a big no-no, but that cat's already out of the bag.

I'm not really sure if we can put it back in.
> old styling mechanisms would be removed

But... my beloved <marquee>!
>It is impossible to actually run a grid off a renewable (esp. Solar) energy power-plant in any stable manner.

I agreed with that before Tesla's Big Battery experiment - and that leveraged established tech. I can't wait to see how sodium or one of the other, in-dev materials eventually supplant lithium, on a massive scale.
> Instagram does do facial recognition

I wouldn't be at all surprised if it's true, but still...do you have a source for that claim?
Yes, and that is something that some software developers feel entitled not to do while expecting others to pay for their services.
I also have no idea what they do with all these tabs. I routinely close my tabs at the end of the day.
Choose:

- A decent, ergonomic keyboard

- Reduced productivity, pain/discomfort, physical therapy, wrist brace, etc...
Thanks for the reference and the comment, I really do appreciate it (and I’m not being sarcastic), but evidence of foot structure mutating 40,000 years ago as a conseuqnce of wearing shoes only undermines my theory if floors can be definitively placed later than that. As for the 7,000-8,000 year ago shoes, that’s well within the horizon of architecture, of which the earliest example we are aware of is Gobekli Tepe which is considered to be 13,000 years old.
Question: what's the advantage of Kosmonaut over just forking Servo and continuing to maintain it?
Segregation was rarely government mandated in the north during that time period, but it was often formal; many sports teams, property covenants, and unions prohibited black membership.
The key insight about the NeXT logo is that it had to be iconic and memorable and invoke culture -- which it is. It's mission was not to satisfy some tech nerd's OCD about what looks techy.
Unless you write the database yourself you can't call yourself a software engineer sorry. You are just vendor ops.
The alternative is what most people don't want to accept: That we should become less dependent on the web.
If you want it from Adams himself, here’s a link to a blog post:

https://www.scottadamssays.com/2013/11/18/goals-vs-systems/

Alternatively, as a ~5-minute video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwcKTYvupJw
I think feature creep is the #2 issue after adoption, and I think the solution is to adhere to a strong set of priorities, namely: simplicity.

Take your example. In 2020 there are already many ways that video can be decoded simply, efficiently and with excellent quality. We don't need to accept marginal user experience improvement at the cost of simplicity. So we don't accept changes to the standards at the expense of cost implementation complexity.

It's about having a different mantra. Instead of an emphasis on backwards compatibility and bleeding edge user experience, there's an emphasis on a democracy by simplicity.
They don't own anything, they just feel entitled to do as such, dictionaries and country specific language regulation institutes do.
Oregon has had voting by mail for decades. We're only worried about being suddenly disenfranchised.

And don't worry, Republican legislators in Oregon can and will throw as many tantrums as they like, as long as they don't interfere with voting.
> Hidden variable theories don't satisfy the bell equation.

No, local hidden variable theories don't [1]. De Broglie–Bohm pilot wave theory [2] is a non-local hidden variable theory.

[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_nonlocality

[2]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Broglie%E2%80%93Bohm_theory

[3]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlXdsyctD50
My favourite example of the thousand-yard-stare horror of web specs is Manish's "Font-size: An Unexpectedly Complex CSS Property". It's awful and hilarious and just keeps getting worse and worse and worse.

https://manishearth.github.io/blog/2017/08/10/font-size-an-u...
> Shutting down nuclear to replace with gas is so backwards.

This is the highly-regulated free-market at work. Based on price signals (created by incredible market distortion), gas is less expensive than nuclear. Fans of fission should lobby for (modest) carbon taxes and to end the exemption of fracking from the Clean Water and Clean Air Acts. With those two changes, very quickly the tables would turn.
Consistency is key. If the kid ask you something and you say no, don't change your mind later. If it was no, it should still be no. Same thing for yes. If you say yes then change your mind, your kid will probably complain.
> Makes sense, right?

No, because it's an entirely different scenario. It's not at all similar to making some blood pressure medication.
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I remember the guidelines at one school specifically stating that relationships between undergraduates and professors are forbidden but leaving out graduate students. I imagine because your grad students are more like coworkers and it’s more likely a mutual relationship will blossom.

Oh well, more evidence on the side of keeping sex out of your work life in general.
Maybe Azul[0]? It uses the Mozilla web renderer but instead of HTML you write DOM in a react-style way.

[0] https://azul.rs/
Huh, sorry about that. What browser are you using? Mobile or desktop? If you email me (author@browser.engineering) I can manually add you.
A lot of ATMs sit in places like convince stores or strip clubs or other places where you might need quick cash. They are profit centers for those places, because those places get to keep some of the fees collected.

They are also very very insecure. You can literally just walk around behind them and attach stuff without anyone really noticing.

I was renewing my registration at a DMV kiosk, which is like an ATM that spits out registration tags instead of money. The machine was broken, and the supermarket said to just call the number on the side. I did so, and they told me to unplug it and plug it back in. So I went around the back and did exactly that. No one questioned me.

Then they remotely logged in, messed around on it (which I could watch them do on the display) and it was fixed.

But my point here is that no one questioned me when I went around back, no one questioned a mouse moving around on a touch screen, no one questioned random control panels coming up, and the people who owned it (the DMV) didn't seem to care about the information leaks they were providing me.
> but none about security so far.

97% of users don't care about security issues that Rust can solve in principle.
> through freight

Did they confirm this? I could also see issues with someone asymptomatic who was quarantined, but was at the 99th percentile for incubation period. With an R0 near 1, with enough people, you could miss the virus for even a few months.

It's really hard to contain, and NZ will likely be dealing with case like this on and off until there's a vaccine.
The main problem is the mess that is called html/css. You can't "just" build a simple browser with limited resources anymore. And by limited i mean thousands of man-years of work backed by a multi million organization. I don't know if it is a calculated taktic from google to rapidly expanding and driving the web forward (i still hope the intention – at least at the beginning – was in good faith) so that nobody starting today from scratch could ever catch up. But i guess everybody that started to build a simple hobby web browser knows how unachievable this task is. If we ever want competition in this field again and don't want to handover the web to google, we need to start from scratch or at least start to massively deprecate stuff. And by the grave of Alan Turing start by making a website fail to render if the html is not correct.
Even when the obvious thing is right, there's a difference between an obvious conclusion arrived at by guessing and an obvious thing arrived at by scientific inquiry. The former is highly subject to bias, and indistinguishable from the wrong and obvious guess that accompanied it; the latter is less subject to bias, and can be distinguished from its wrong variant.

(To put it maybe more pithily, someone who believes an obvious thing has given me no new information, but someone who proves an obvious thing has given me new information. There's a reason science places so much weight on reproducibility, even though, eventually, it's just giving the 'obvious' result!)
While about 1/3rd of the phone screen covers technical topics, quite a lot of it is “behavioural questioning” to see how well your experience aligns with Amazon’s leadership principles (ignore the “leadership” name, they apply to everybody). Same with the rest of the process, so I’m not sure how much a cert would take off to be honest.

I think there is value in certification anyway, as per the AWS certs, but not as a “let’s skip part of the hiring process”, maybe just edges you on the CV screen perhaps.
Curlie is the largest human-edited directory of the Web
>Go back to the ‘50s and ‘60s and you can actually see things change.

The time just after World War II was kind of an economic anomaly for the U.S. Our population of about 4% of the world generated something like 50% of the worlds GDP, most other industrial economies were still rebuilding.

It might not be accurate to consider that period as a baseline for purposes of economic comparison.
I'm trying to help people host their own websites instead of trusting their social data to big tech. It started as an open source blogging system, but I think it takes a hosted option to be sufficiently accessible. Still a very new project: https://simpleblogs.org/
This was the interviewing technique that impressed me most when I listened to Joe Rogan (the few times that I have). Shutting the fuck up means that you allow the interviewee to steer the conversation, and if you'll allow me to torture the metaphor, you quickly learn whether they're able to confidently navigate the conceptual terrain or promptly drive into a ravine.

I've even tried it myself a few times in social situations and the quality of the conversation often shoots up.
No, that is a different statistic from the one I’m talking about. The one I’m talking about was a survey of security bugs in Firefox, including the private ones. This one (and the Microsoft one) show an even higher number!

(Here’s a quick reference I found, I don’t know if pcwalton has more details https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12876603)
Yes I think so, all of them have bugs that web developers have to work around, again should we look at Chrome's bug database or maybe AdWords has a better source of information for such workarounds?
Who? The lawyers who signed off on it? The PMs or engineers who followed the legal advice?
And the murder rate is half of what it was in the 80s. A number of cities no longer look like third world war zones. Etc.
> It is impossible to actually run a grid off a renewable

It is equally impossible to run a grid from only nuclear power. These assets can't "load follow" which is why in the US the 1970s build-out of nuclear power was contemporaneous with the build-out of pumped hydro storage.
Why is this only happening in California?
Sometimes, a group makes no poor decisions, or no none that actually matter, but their goals are overcome by events, and they fail. It's not about what Mozilla did, it's about what Google did; Firefox is simply not going to win against Chrome in terms of marketshare. Of course they can still win in terms of making their browser more awesome for the people who actually use it!
This is not true. There is no rule that states you must offer the same price when signing up if your service is multi platform. The rules only state you can’t discourage In-App purchase. I use several services where I signed up on the website because it was substantially cheaper than in-app.
ntfs-3g is pretty slow with a max throughput of around 80-140 MB/s when using an SSD.
In a visit to the Portland protests, for instance, Callaghan shows that the attendees don't neatly fit into the narrative you see on TV. Fox News' Tucker Carlson, for example, calls the protestors "Biden voters," yet many on the streets disdain Biden. There's something to what he's doing.

I don't know if Tucker Carlson is the gold standard of journalism that you want to exceed.
No joke I was visualizing a marquee scrolling by as I was typing those words.
I've been writing to my NTFS volume for around 5-10 years I think, out of the box with Linux Mint. (Or maybe an extra package from apt-get, not 100%). Extra options needed and possible data loss when writing used to be a thing, but a long time ago.
Title IX is some weird shit though, and I doubt that any US company holds itself to the same crazy standard.

For example, under Title IX if your colleague shows up with a black eye one day and says they got it from their roommate then you are required to report it to the university.
Very happy Firefox user here.

Google can take a jump. Chrome was relevant (in terms of quality 10 years ago). Irrelevant now.
> The vast majority of people in this country are hired at will and don't get anything like a long trial to stay on and are subject arbitrary firing with no real due process.

Is that good?
This was my exact question as well, and I wish the article did a better job answering it. There was a linked article that explained how it worked with physical access, i.e. popping the top of the ATM panel (it said the physical lock that keeps this down is like a "bathroom lock" and easily picked), and then there are USB or SIM card ports you can interface with.

For the remote attacks, though, like the one where it said could result in many ATMs at the same time being hacked, I don't begin to understand where the attack vector starts.
How do you solve a problem like Privacy Shield? US and EU policymakers kick off
> So he started a relationship with a student after she had mostly finished, but hadn't walked to get her diploma yet, and he issued her grades during that time that were considered perfunctory. Every professor knows tenure protects from almost everything except sleeping with a student, especially if you are their advisor or involved in their committee.

I have a few teachers and professors in my family, and get to hear stories about tenured professors and the antics they get into. According to them, there's one thing that tenured professors know they can't do and that is sleeping with their students.

> A bunch of innuendo that he was only fired over it because he mentioned opposing some kind of affirmative action in a hiring committee, but he doesn't prove that was why and doesn't give the committee "due process" to defend themselves.

The author ran to a rag that would publish his story without doing any investigative journalism behind it. He knew the audience would take what he claims at face value, and low and behold, that is what's happening.
I recently read the book Principles of Power Integrity for PDN Design and it talks about the same problem from a perspective of a board designer. The authors mention that in the vast majority of chips, due to the bond wire inductance alone, board-level bypass is useless at frequencies above 100 MHz. The only solution here is adding on-die capacitance, otherwise it's not possible for a modern chip to operate correctly. In practice, the on-die capacitance is often minimum due to its high cost, only effective at frequencies above 100 MHz, leaving an anti-resonate peak around 100 MHz, thus the problem can never be eliminated (unless a better package or more on-die capacitance is used, which is not implemented due to its costs). And the author showed how you can break almost every power distribution network of a FPGA, by switching logic circuits in code at the exact anti-resonate frequency where bypassing is least effective. Although it's usually not a problem in practice (until you get "lucky"...).

And contrary to popular beliefs, it's impossible to remove it, no matter how many bypass capacitors or how much buried capacitance exists on the circuit board. In a complex chip like FPGA, PDN is critical. The author suggested that the best thing the board designer can do is a workaround: using bypass capacitors of multiple values to "tune" the PDN - this was done as a rule-of-thumb in the old days, and today it's often seen as a bad practice as it creates multiple uncontrolled resonate and anti-resonate frequency spikes when capacitors are combined with parasitic inductance (similar to the case of the 100 MHz peak, but at board level), so at some range of frequencies, impedance is actually significantly increased, which is in conflict of the goal of decreasing PDN impedance at all frequencies. But in the case proposed by the authors, it's done in a controlled manner - the PDN impedance is intentionally increased by carefully creating a flat, slightly higher impedance region around 100 MHz to dampen unwanted oscillation (with simulations and measurements) when it's inadvertently excited.

Also, sometimes changing the timings or operating frequencies is required, so the impedance peak of the chip PDN is not excited, even when it means the end-user must redesign firmware, microcode, or HDL code.
Its like 1 or 2 million squares out.
https://imgur.com/HT7ysXX
Either you ship steel, or you ship biological material - you're shipping things either way. (And if you can do ISRU, then steel or just plain cast iron is available)
I talked about something like this in my comment. One solution I was thinking is that even if it's a parallel engine don't you still save on resources if some of the most popular sites use the simpler/faster layout because the memory/cpu overhead is significantly lighter on the new layout? And the bigger/popular website has a motivation to update if it's actually faster and more responsive.
The US is at or very near the worst among OECD countries in: infant mortality, child poverty, child health and safety, life expectancy at birth, healthy life expectancy, rate of obesity, disability-adjusted life years, doctors per 1000 people, deaths from treatable conditions, rate of mental health disorders, rate of drug abuse, rate of prescription drug use, incarceration rate, rate of assaults, rate of homicides, income inequality, wealth inequality, and economic mobility.

also Maternity/Paternity Leave, Paid Sick Time, and Paid Vacation

In many of those areas (incarceration rate, rate of homicides) the US is doing vastly worse than other OECD countries.

Explore the data yourself - https://data.oecd.org/
I can imagine this being used for a desktop app with limited web access: pages using only html and css will be correctly displayed; pages requiring js would be degraded. This way you can safely extend desktop app with access to web resources.
I think so? But I can't decide whether this hypothetical simpler web should strictly be document-oriented. I don't think the issue is that the web is now half application, half document oriented. It can still be both?
> a set of poor choices recently.

Care to give a link? Last time someone actually came through with links to their allegations about Scott Adams, all of them were false, misleading, taken out of context, etc., except one: the old sockpuppet incident from nine years ago.
The last browser I worked on was xhtml-basic, meant for cellphones.

We got most of the standard including CSS compressed down to 85K, using every trick I’d ever heard of and a few we invented.

By far the most fun I ever had at work, and top 2 for nostalgia.

But it got cancelled, and I’m not sure anyone else made a real go of implementing it, alas.
As far as students are concerned, a bigger problem than administrator pay is professors who are more interested in teaching than research, and even when professors are interested in teaching, they might not be good teachers.
Many (if not most?) companies will fire over a relationship between a boss and a subordinate, or order them to work at separate locations and not be in either's chain of command. He resigned so we don't know how it would have even played out.

The process sounds kafkaesque in his telling, but most people subject to at-will barely get any process at all when they are fired.
> Why would they try and stop you if they weren't sentient?

Are mosquitoes sentient?
I've been able to read/write NTFS for years via NTFS-3G. Am I missing something? Check it out if you haven't already.