skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly I'm just really hoping Trump gets re-elected solely to piss off the left.

"Own the libs" as they say.

This has been a four year constant tantrum and it does get old.
pretty cool & nice to see ISP issues accounted for
Ruth Bader Ginsberg Dead
As a warning, I just lost all my OneTab state. Not sure why, never bothered reading the code either. Make sure you do an export every once in a while.
The daughter may be lying. We have no evidence that this was RBG's desire.
That kind of collaboration can’t exist if there are two sides who believe that most issues are zero sum.
I'm wondering which side it's going to motivate more, honestly.

I could see it both ways. And I could also see it not actually being a driver in turnout at all.
It's past time for Democrats to stop "taking the high ground" and acting like their policies actually matter. Moral victories are hollow when your democracy is being gutted.
See also: Theranos.
I agree, this lens looks like a Fresnel lens taken to microscopic extremes:

the new fisheye lens consists of a single flat, millimeter-thin piece of glass covered on one side with tiny structures that precisely scatter incoming light to produce panoramic images
You, I and everyone else knows that this was a pretext, not a precedent. You can dress it up however you like, but the fact is that McConnell was going to do whatever he wanted no matter what.
I could have just as easily pointed out that Maduro didn't allow the opposition to run in 2018, or that Venezuela has been starving since 2012, etc, but the your comment coupled with news of the recent report was too much of a contrast not to point it out.

I'm not going to keep commenting about this though. Ultimately, I can't convince people who do not want to be convinced. The Western far Left supports murderous clients much like the governments it condemns - probably moreso. But the West's governments are actually elected, and they operate in the real-politick world. The far Left does its support for tyrants voluntarily as part as its struggle against other Western factions - treating the locals as pawns even more than the Western governments do.
If it was controlled by Democrats I 100% guarantee they would.
If you think it's better out there, please reconsider carefully.
How about with an LTE model? I’m thinking that with a pair of AirPods and an LTE Apple Watch, I may be able to leave the phone at home while still being able to text, make phone calls, get directions, and even order a taxi. Maybe even stream some music.

Anyone with experience doing this?
That's a despicable (let alone false) thing to say and you should be ashamed of yourself.
Woah, you can transport a 747 with another 747?
A "State" in the USA Senate sense is a deprecated aristocratic entity created by the King of England.

The Senate exists to protect the interests of a few 18th Century slaveowners. That's why it was created and how it was used up to the middle of the 19th Century (Missouri Compromise).

The non-existence of an imaginary line across the middle of California is not a justification for the minority to control the majority.

There's no way to defend the Senate without defending slavery.
And that, people, is how you tell a joke on HN.
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There are almost a dozen GOP Senate seats up at risk. A vote before the election gives them a solid victory to campaign on to their base, which might be enough to keep those seats in the GOP in November.

Waiting until after the election does nothing to improve their electoral prospects, so for McConnell there's no point in waiting.
Assange lawyer says she saw Trump ally offer to arrange pardon
Here’s GoDaddy’s response, which denies this occurred or has ever been their practice: https://www.godaddy.com/garage/godaddy-felons-io-unregistere... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24523901)
Ask HN: How did you find your lawyer?
Was it a friend's recommendation? A good yelp review? Their website? What made you choose?
> Even if they offered an affordable ultimate Office package with everything, they'd recoup the development costs and even profit.

Mind sharing the development & support cost numbers, and the sale numbers for the Office suite that you're basing that statement on? If not, maybe a Fermi calculation to show that it's a reasonable statement?
I think the concepts are very interesting of Erlang but I still don't understand it fully. And also about the multi-node os only an internal network scenario is not like a cloud mesh thing. You would need docker.
Can confirm. Read source material, completely changed my perspective on the American System and what it was intended to be.

Both parties are a blight that should never have gotten enshrined the way they are.
> All the baggage you speak of was entirely unproven

The best any reasonable person can argue is that Kavanaugh was being less than forthright. His demeanour resonated for many with what a guilty man would do if caught. Worse, he seemed to think he was above these proceedings. Consider this exchange [1].

> Note during the last year of Obama the democrats did not have the majority, so it's not really a fair comparison

Sure it is. If hearings were held and a vote held on the Senate floor where the nominee failed to secure nomination then that's that.

The problem was that McConnell wasn't sure he could defeat the nomination. Having a vote would put a number of GOP senators in a difficult position to vote down the nomination. So rather than risk a vote he might lose, which would have a political cost, he simply refused to hold hearings let alone a vote.

If you think that's the same thing because the Democrats didn't have a majority you're at best delusional and at worst intellectually dishonest.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=autkkRE2GhA
Oh well if he hasn’t done that surely the republicans would’ve sat on their hands this whole time
Can't echo this enough. It feels over the last decade that we really have lost this. You see so little actual discussion taking place any longer. Everything is rhetoric, it is tiring.
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No, the fundamental issue is that McConnell was the first and only Senate Leader to ever prevent a vote on a SCOTUS nominee, so there were no confirmation hearings at all.
A non violent process through which differences are settled, ideally with at least a veil of integrity, or you’re likely to get the violence it was aimed to prevent.
40e6 people in California aren't a bloc. The blueness/redness of a state is nothing more than the arbitrary balance of urban vs rural population. States are "purple" in actuality.

The major geographic divide in US politics is urban vs rural, not state vs state
> The Constitution splits the nomination/confirmation process between two political branches. The process is supposed to be political!

The founders explicitly said that they didn't intend the system to be partisan, and indeed warned against the dangers of partisanship.

Of course they themselves formed parties a few years later. They weren't as wise as everyone seems to think.
No, it's nonsense because only Kentucky votes for McConnell
Why is Jsx a hurdle? Because you need a transpiler?

I find it the other way. Vue has a big learning curve. Learning their special directives and double binding gotchas takes a while.

While jsx is a very thin layer for existing Js. All control flow is good ol js. The tags just translate to createElement/h calls. React (class based React) was easy to pick up.
A 4-4 deadlocked vote in a “Bush v Gore” type of situation would be a constitutional nightmare. It’s absolutely in his interest to fill that seat.
What's more "unnecessary partisanship" then refusing to follow the Constitution because the President is of a different Party (a concept which is not part of the Constitution)?
"Position in the market"? Broadcom makes STB chips that trivially dwarf all the shipped Pis. Heck, the first Pi was based on a bunch of chips from an aborted project. The RPi folks are, unfortunately, lucky that Broadcom even gives them the time of day.

Not that I disagree with your overall statement -- certainly I've found myself explaining to folks in a commercial setting that while Raspberry Pi might be a great way to a quick prototype, you're going to need to reimplement against some other hardware. Really what you're getting with the R-Pi is the community that goes with it, who have so far been very loyal to that series of devices.
> disproportionate share of power/representation than their support across the electorate.

Both the democratic party and the republican party only represent a small fraction of the electorate, for your information.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/25/american-pol...

"As they go to the polls in a historic presidential election, more than six in 10 Americans say neither major political party represents their views any longer, a survey has found."
Wife: Does this shows up on rad... err, satellite?

Husband: ...yeah.

Wife: So we could become a bombing target.

Husband: ...No?

Wife: You don’t think they’ll mistake us for an airbase?

Husband: We’ll be able to use this, in the summer, as a place to get out of the heat!
I look forward to the day when SCOTUS has hundreds of justices...
I like reading aloud—but I find that when I do it, my actual reading comprehension goes down. I noticed it just now, again, when I tried to do as the title suggested and read the BBC article allowed. I had to re-read several paragraphs, because they went in one ear and out... well, my mouth.

I wonder if the word recall task they mentioned in the article would continue to hold true for remembering larger paragraphs. Because I think that's the problem—I have to spend two much mental energy reading the whole sentence without tripping up. If it was just a list of words, I can see how it might be different.
I was responding to the request, "Please tell me the last time a democrat-controlled senate confirmed a Supreme Court justice for a republican president in an election year."

If you're trying to be thorough, though, you should probably mention that Reagan's first selection for that seat was controversial because of his involvement in the the post-Watergate "Saturday Night Massacre," as well as the general suspicion that he would try to reverse Roe v. Wade and other civil rights-related rulings of preceding decades. Reagan's second selection withdrew his name from consideration before even being nominated, so I'm not sure why he's even relevant here.

I get that you're trying to make a political point, but there's simply no evidence that Democrats would have behaved like McConnell's GOP (perhaps more aptly described as the post-Gingrich GOP) did in 2016.
One is transportation, the other is an amusement park ride.
Props for being one of the few people to realize it's a tooling problem. The "umm why would you have so many tabs?" you always get on HN is a reminder of why most people are so bad at UX. Most people just can't see outside of their usage.

You're onto something here. I have a lot of tabs because it's a history of one thought to another. It's not just a set of tabs, it's a sequence of locations. Keeping them open is how I can remember to go back to them, how I can keep my state in them, and more.

I can envision a much better UX where your tabs become some sort of history entry where they are frozen in time (serialized to disk) and can be rehydrated. And you can easily scrub back to them even once they've been unloaded from memory and frozen. And you can create different sessions for different things, a window/session for today's HNing, one for today's work, one for play, etc. And you can reach back into historical sessions to load their state. And merge another day's session into today's because it had some outstanding tabs you wanted to get back to. And there'd be good ways to visualize this.

I know some things like tab groups and tab sessions exist. I personally use Firefox with tree tabs to get something like this. But there's more UX thought that could be put into it instead of just wondering why someone would want a bunch of tabs.

One of the main reasons I'm reluctant to close my browser and trash my tabs is because the exact sequence of tabs, what's open, the order they are in, the state on each one (like being paginated to page 58 in some in-browser book scan UI) is a snapshot of by brain and digital "desktop" at that moment. You're right, browsers do very little to help.
I believe the "flat" was meant in contrast to "curved", as in typical fisheye/ultra-wide-angle lenses.

> the new fisheye lens consists of a single flat, millimeter-thin piece of glass covered on one side with tiny structures that precisely scatter incoming light to produce panoramic images.

With a thinness of a millimeter, I'd say that's flat. The "tiny structures" are in the form of a film, which further qualifies as flat.

> Their new metalens is a single transparent piece made from calcium fluoride with a thin film of lead telluride deposited on one side. The team then used lithographic techniques to carve a pattern of optical structures into the film.

> Each structure, or “meta-atom,” as the team refers to them, is shaped into one of several nanoscale geometries, such as a rectangular or a bone-shaped configuration, that refracts light in a specific way.
I upvoted (hopefully to preserve the OP) but don't think "It's a bad idea"

If anybody from ycombinator is reading - it seems insane what a post can be down-voted into grey and then the void, whilst it has active commentary beneath it.

"Posts" can have a status applied to them, but the far more important thing is the "thread" where different views collide.

Pulling posts, breaks the thread.
Careful with that extension. Last time I looked at it, it hoovered all your browsing habits. Seems like it still does considering their privacy policy

>Non-Personal Information collected through your use of the browser extension and desktop app includes:

>Browsing history information (URLs/domains visited)
Internet Protocol address – but note that we permanently delete and hash the last portion of your Internet Protocol address before storing it, thus preventing us from having the ability to use it to transmit any information to your device or to otherwise identify you.

I think it'd be easier to just build the extension yourself considering the needed functionality is pretty straightforward (webrequest blocking + a minimal interface to add/remove URLs).
I agree that it's a shame when unpopular but reasonable and well-stated posts attract a lot of downvotes. Even if you assume that most such positions will be wrong, some won't be, and if they all get downvoted to oblivion, it encourages group-think.
>> this lens looks like a Fresnel lens taken to microscopic extremes:

Except I don't think it is. It's probably more like a diffraction grating or a hologram. You can actually make a flat lens by creating a hologram of a real lens and it will be flat.
This blog post seems to discuss what you say: https://rosenzweig.io/blog/my-name-is-cafe-beverage.html
> I'm not foolish enough to believe that people with guns could win a civil war in the day of modern weapons

I know HN hates opinions like this, but I'm a very staunch 2a supporter. My position is that citizens should have so-called "weapons of war", the same automatic weapons that the military carries with tons of ammunition. Joe six-pack should be able to walk to his local gun store and buy an M60 if he so pleases. In such a case, there's a very good chance that civilians could win a civil war.
Not to mention that you're probably not going to diminish the remaining scrap value by "blowing it up" in movie terms. A fireball and debris cannons aren't going to do nearly the damage of real explosives. Worst case you're basically pre-shredding it.
The Larrabee cores were intentionally simpler than even most 2010 CPUs.

Yeah, modern semiconductor fabrication is pretty much the pinnacle of human achievement. My favorite video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFhc8R_uO4
How many people were killed by wars started in the previous administration? I'll let you ponder on that.
> consulting regarding your current employer

The 6 defendants weren't Amazon employees.
> It's completely possible—and I say preferable—to hold starkly contrasting political or legal views, but still like one another. We need more of that. It's how we stay one cohesive nation, instead of warring factions.

This works as long as both sides are acting in good faith, and everyone involved (i.e. everyone in a society) is on more or less equal footing. If either of those conditions don't exist, fixing them is more important than maintaining the civil discourse. That's true for many reasons, and one important reason is that in those situations, insisting on the equality of reasonable political positions with unreasonable ones is an effective defense of the status quo, which makes the problems harder to fix.

Neither of these conditions exist in the USA right now, for the record.
They pivoted to HPC when the GPU thing didn't work out, and it has since been discontinued.
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> He pardoned war criminals found guilty by our own military courts.

I am unaware of that, do you have any reference?
In India we have a fixed retirement age. Of course extensions can be granted on an exceptional basis, But in general you serve till a fixed retirement age and retire.

It also makes sense. Cognitive ability deteriorates with age. And you don't want very old, with illness to rule on important things.
If anything Reels is 80% watered down and merely a shorter Instagram videos or igtv. Nothing about the reels experience compares to be honest...
I believe if we dug into things deeper, we would find that "non-trivial code" here means "code that doesn't need unsafe". Developers of rust and std do a great job to cover all the "non-trivial" cases by the std types. Everything covered by them doesn't seem non-trivial anymore. So... here we are.
Disclosure: I work at Amazon on building infrastructure for AWS

For the bare metal instance configurations (where the instance size type in ".metal"), there is no hypervisor running on the processor.
Or how we get a long overdue new constitution.
Having followed a lot of the recent SCOTUS cases, I can say that if you think the law is leaving less room for interpretation nowadays, you are sorely mistaken. Look up the "Armed Career Criminal Act"--it's an example of what seems like it ought to be a simple matter of interpretation (look! it defines "violent felon"!) into a headache (okay, the person has to have committed a crime whose state-level common-law interpretation in 1984 had to have required at least this much force, and I'm sure I'm still missing some details there).
I totally concur. Double the seats on the bench.
I stick to POSIX in my dotfiles precisely because I carry it around on many different systems and that’s the only thing that can keep it sane.
It is very easy to feel this way when you material life isn’t affected by oppressive people like Scalia. I hope you listen to someone with a uterus in the next few days.
Then we would defer to the ruling of the lower court.
360 cams currently use two back-to-back fisheye lenses... It would be great to make them even smaller.
I work at a different large tech company and there are absolutely internal ways to report any kind of suspicious contacts. I'd be shocked if every large company didn't have at least some way.
Yeah, absolutely. IOS is very restrictive in terms of what you can achieve on it as a developer or a power user. But it's an amazing device for artists and content creators. Packs enough CPU power for their needs. My wife has been considering buying one for illustrations etc. Now with the new iPad Air supporting Pencil 2, the choices are even more confusing. She is torn between getting the pro or the new Air.
Well, your browser without TST is going to handle 1000 no better, so it's not really about TST.

For example, there are many solutions to auto-suspend old tabs so they unload from memory.
Seriously, they just spew ultrafine particulate on anyone unfortunate enough to live downwind of a flight path. The health effects are dramatic, especially if you have a preexisting condition like asthma. The world doesn't need more flight paths scarring new environments until we are using cleaner energy sources to travel on them.

https://envhealthcenters.usc.edu/2019/02/ultrafine-particle-...

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/es5001566
If anything th me parliamentary system has fewer checks and balances since the execute and legislative branches are one in the same.

Not to mention the Canadian senate just rubber stamps everything.

I think the corruption is much better hidden in Canada and plus the lower level of political engagement, you end up with a seemingly better system, that is in fact no better.

And SNC-Lavalin was a mockery of the separation of powers. The PM tried to pressure the minister of justice to go easy on a company that was also a big fundraiser. Jesus, the US has seen that blatant amount of corruption since Nixon (maybe the Iran-Contra).
Which wars exactly?
McConnell prevented senators from voting on a candidate they would have approved. This is hijacking representatives' voice because you're afraid to hear it.
Ok, not always. Depends on whether any bacteria survived and whether the immune system was able to handle it.
Thanks for speaking up - you're a chill dude
Technically, he probably made the mustard gas himself with our money while getting billions of dollars from us for a decade of the Iran-Iraq war.
I completely agree with this! I used Solidworks heavily for years and am so accustomed to drawing some lines, adding some constraints and dimensions with custom hot keys and boom I have my drawing nice neat and tidy exactly as I need it in no time.

These days I don’t do any 3D modeling but I’ll need to jump into Inkscape every now and then to do some graphic design or 2D UI mockup type stuff and I wish I could easily replicate the Solidworks drawing workflow.

I’ve found that I can get pretty close to the workflow I’m looking for in FreeCAD, but then I don’t have any of the artistic stuff I need. And obviously Inkscape has all the artistic stuff, but building a drawing with constraints and dimensions isn’t possible...or certainly not easy at least.
fish shell has been burned in the few places it strictly implements POSIX.

The most vivid example is test, aka /bin/[. POSIX specifies that, if test is invoked with one argument, you must "Exit true (0) if $1 is not null; otherwise, exit false" [1].

This means that `test --help` is forbidden from printing any help. It means that `test -d $argv` expands to `test -d` if $argv is empty, which then must "succeed" because "-d" is not null. It bites users over and over again [2].

Implementing this POSIX piece has resulted in more headaches, not fewer. I regret implementing a POSIX-conformant test, I wish I had just picked mostly-compatible but also-sane semantics.

1: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/t...

2: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29635083/fish-shell-chec...
Life expectancy at birth was low because many people died in childhood, bringing down the average. Those who survived childhood lived much longer lives.

I used the historical list of US Supreme Court justices [0] and averaged the lifespan of the first 20 justices. The average was 67 years. Maximum was 91 [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_justices_of_the_Suprem...

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