skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Yes, in principle I could export the list of tabs to a text file, and begin anew ..."

I came here to complain that, actually, you can't.

Or rather, it's surprisingly complicated to export a simple list of current tab URLs to a plain old text file.

You need to dig several directories deep into /Library (or whatever, depending on your OS) and then use JSON tools to export ... I've already lost most people.

Why can't we just have:

about:tabs

... which is nothing but a one URL per line, text listing of all of our currently open tabs ? How simple and nice and useful would that be ?

Go searching for "how can I export tabs" or "how can I save tab urls" and you'll see thousands of people trying (usually in vain) to achieve this very, very simple thing.
This is reinforcing my theory that the ideal mobility solution is a limited-feature cell phone primarily used for messaging and calls, and a full-featured tablet that you have to keep in a bag, plus a bunch of accessories that tie everything together.

Smartphones are inconvenient in size and don't fit in pockets. There's no great solution for running with a phone. They're fragile and heavy making them easy to break when dropped. They act as a constant attention drain alerting you to every tiny thing that happens. They have terrible battery life.

You could go back to having a flip/candybar/slider phone with multiple days of battery life on a single charge that can use all of your messaging services and make calls. Add a few Uber shortcuts, a media controller, and a nice camera and you have the perfect pocket companion.

You could have a nice tablet for everything else like social media, multimedia, games, and streaming, - even one that is functionally a laptop if you're going to need a bag for it. Let it run in a low power mode so that it can drive streaming music to your bluetooth headset and you can use your cell phone as a basic media remote.

Basically run the iPhone/Apple Watch model, but with more devices with strict (but customizable) limitations.

If you go jogging, let the cell phone consume more power to stream music so you don't have to carry any other heavy gadgets to stream to your headphones. If you have a smart watch, let it stream cached songs and make calls in case of an emergency and ditch the phone altogether.

And you could even have a regular smart phone in the mix if that format is the best for the situation, but I really hate constantly needing my giant phone when I go anywhere.
Possible, yes. Preferable, sure. Most likely outcome, no.

The Supreme Court isn't a coffee club. The justices being on their toes and constantly being challenged by opposing ideas will lead to better outcomes. Friendship is a process of synchronisation, it sits in opposition to the best outcome for the system.

And yes, I pay a lot of attention to Supreme Court decisions.
He was literally talking about consuming disinfectants. His fans somehow retconned that to a soviet study from the 70s that went nowhere, and somehow acted like that was better.
But perhaps it's the other way around? That the voters are led to believe there are extremes? And only extremes? Most reasonable people understand few things in the world are truly binary.

But when everything is framed as red v blue, what choice is there? That paradigm is topped with confirmation bias, media hyperbole and social media misinformation.

I have a diverse group of friends and colleagues. No one I know wants this.
If people voted for any of those things, there would be quite a different margin. So then, what DO people vote for?
I don't have a link but I know it's happened in a few other HN comment sections.

Of course we have no clue as to how HN's algorithm works and what they do to mitigate manipulation on this platform. I definitely notice corporate spam on certain topics from time to time.
"My extended family wishes for me to return to Italy for my own safety"

This is ridiculous. As long as you stay out of high-crime ghetto areas, you are as safe in America as most places, moreover, the crime rate has been dropping for 30 years.

Trump hasn't changed anything aside from possibly creating conditions for some protestors and police to be clashing.

Also - consider that a slightly conservative Supreme Court is not really 'out of step' with America, just one side of America.
She didn't suspend the election, she delayed it by 4 weeks. Her opponent in fact argued for that to happen.

And at the time they did have a new cluster of locally-transmitted cases.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53796434
> maybe they won't heed such warnings and decide that they need to win at any cost

Well, this is how you become what you're fighting against.
Nikola outsourced batteries on truck prototype
Agreed. I think the people who set up these contracted “decision centers” (things like user report reviews, fraud handling, adult content policing) subconsciously assume the workers will have the same loyalty and comfortable lifestyle that salaried tech employees get. Take contracted US-based call centers: a significant fraction of their employees will be home-insecure (staying with relatives or partners, or moving every few weeks), living out of their car, or straight up homeless, making minimum wage with less-than-fulltime weekly hours. A significant majority will be short-term employees who bounce after a few months or years. Even $10k bribe—especially untaxed—could be a year’s spare income or more. It’s a very different value proposition.
More complicated than buying a used car, but not horrible. The biggest issue is getting seller alignment.

On the cash front, ferry flights to the US are the biggest expense by far. A 777 burns ~$10,000 in fuel per hour, so positioning from (say) Asia to a boneyard in California adds up quickly... with crew, ferry insurance, landing fees & sundries you end up at $200-$250k. Parking runs around $3-5k per month in the desert, too.
Nope, not gonna happen, bunch of Chinese "operatives" in the US who are garning favor with their CCP - - - likely protecting their remaining families at home from arrest and prison.
I am working on this right now on a medium-sized project, and it's deceptively more work than we anticipated. While Vue's component API itself is remaining mostly backwards compatible with Vue 2, most of the "core" supporting libraries have changed their APIs: Vuex, VueRouter and vue-test-utils in particular.

After the package update and some very basic find/replace across our codebase, about half of our 600+ tests had to be significantly updated. If your tests regularly mock a Vuex store or a router, be prepared to be making a lot of updates.

If you're using some of the features being removed (filters, $on/$off/$once, etc) or make heavy use of custom plugins, it's not going to be painless.

Having said that, I love the direction the new API is heading and 95% of the changes we have to make are for the better in the end, so it feels worth it.
You want to split McConnell and Trump starting now. McConnell will throw Trump under the bus the moment he loses and has done the nomination. If Trump holds out he can bargain with the Democrats during the lame duck session on immunity.
https://nitter.net/guypbenson/status/1307119221692870659
~19 feet wide by ~12 feet high sure beats a used shipping container at 7' 8" wide x 7' 10" high, despite the ovalish shape. Probably terrible to hire some pilot driver service to move it about though, even if it is just the fuselage.
https://sci-hub.tw/10.1086/691462
Seems bad for the environment
I don't think you need anything that conspiratorial, it's not that centrist Democrats really don't want to get anything done, it's just that they really are basically okay with the current neoliberal consensus.
The CCP does not have any permanent strategy measured in centuries. They haven't even existed for one single century yet. More centralised and less democratic societies are better at long term planning, not because of some innate property of the Chinese, no matter how hard they believe it.
Used his political (not official) powers to shift the public discourse more effectively. He did not make much effort to attack McConnell's brinkmanship.
Ginsburg herself tarnished the legacy of the supreme court by becoming political

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/07/ruth-bader-ginsb...
It would be a proportionate and appropriate response, and hopefully restore an equilibrium in response to a constitutional crisis provoked by McConnell.
See also:

http://plantuml.com (been around forever)

https://code2flow.com/

https://sequencediagram.org/

etc.

Well, and all the GraphVis stuff too
As an immigrant to this country, you have no idea how good things are here in the US. It would be nice to trade those unhappy with the US with those that would be grateful to be here.
Do you think kompromat exists only for Republican senators? How would this happen?
Err - what? The whole reason the election has been delayed is because of community transmission in Auckland. Additionally all parties have agreed to the suspension. In fact it was the opposition who called for the intitial suspension.
This kind of thinking assumes that the ruling party can unilaterally make policy changes, which is not possible in the American system currently (e.g. fillibuster).

w.r.t Sanders: he lost in a small d democratic primary. It wasn't the leadership: it was the voters that chose Biden over Sanders.
This got picked up by the news in Australia [0], they also interviewed the author [1].

[0] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-19/tony-abbott-boarding-...

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/radio/melbourne/programs/drive/alex-h...
The first two are accurate because they are relatively clear.

The other two depend very much on how you ask the question. It’s nowhere near as simple as you make out.
That is, in fact, the actual practice. The constitution splits the appointment between the presidency and the senate. When the same party controls both, vacancies are filled immediately. Otherwise, the party controlling the senate can exercise its heckler’s veto: https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/08/history-is-on-the-sid...

What happened with Garland had happened numerous times before:

> In short: There have been ten vacancies resulting in a presidential election-year or post-election nomination when the president and Senate were from opposite parties. In six of the ten cases, a nomination was made before Election Day. Only one of those, Chief Justice Melville Fuller’s nomination by Grover Cleveland in 1888, was confirmed before the election.

By contrast, if Trump doesn’t put up a nominee, it will be literally unprecedented.
Field a candidate with a riposte then.

The Corbyn fans love to talk abut media smears but they neglect to mention that he never polled above 0% net approval in his entire term as leader.

Starmer, his replacement, is a man of intellect, principle, and service to the public - he is already doing better than Corbyn ever did - i.e. the media who didn't like Corbyn were writing amicable praise of Sir Keir (the mail love a nickname) even when he was making a mockery of their man (Boris)
> it's hypocritical

If Obama had a Democratic Senate majority in 2016, Merrick Garland would have been confirmed. That's the precedent.
SCOTUS is already clearly partisan if the newly departed justice's final wish is for a different president to appoint her replacement. Playing politics up until the end.
Parent asked how they could do it, not why. So I told how. Never said I thought they would do it. At this point, it wouldn't surprise me as much as it should though.
His power as whip is not absolute. It's not like a parliamentary system where they are actual consequences for not voting the party line.

Take a look at any number of votes in the past year. There are plenty of Republicans who don't vote on party line (Republican and Democratic)
> Except that it should frame its policies based on game theory if it ever plans to survive against China. Which is exactly what it's doing. The time to take the high road against bad actors is over.

I don't think the time "to take the high road against bad actors is over", but the time to take the complacent and hopeful road definitely is over.
>Six years ago, it rather famously discovered that China had been hacking into the Dalai Lama's computer networks

why does china care so much about the dalai lama?
I'm sorry, but this is wildly naive. It isn't "likes" that are causing the problem. It is things like the fact that one side appears to be in the early stages[1] of a UN defined genocide[2]. I'm not going to be friendly to you if you think lower taxes or some other excuse is more important than the human and civil rights abuses that party supports.

[1] - https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/09/17/hyster...

[2] - https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml
While developing a script I write them in short form then when it’s close to done I let vs-code help me convert them to long form. This way I write fast but leave a nicer product.
As someone from outside of the United States, no. The treasonous corruption in the American Republican party is uniquely much much worse than basically anything going on in the rest of the western world.

Edit: The clusterfuck that was Brexit was pretty bad though.
Just curious: does dem-controlled senate behave differently?
Too late. 2016 was the time to vote.

Also, why bother? Electoral College means my vote counts for shit and half the Presidents since I’ve been able to vote were elected by losing the popular vote. It’s tyranNy of the minority and it sucks. I still vote, but it feels more and more Sisyphean as time goes on.
My heart shuddered when I read the headline. I can’t be alone in the fear.
Uhhh, the Senate confirms nominees. Expanding the court would just allow Republicans to name more justices...
Most activities are bad for the environment, recreational activities are 'unproductive' and bad for the environment.
GeckoLinux – Linux for Detail Oriented Geckos
I was specifically replying to the comment "they aren't following the constitution or laws".

Sure, it may be very hypocritical to fill the seat before the election, but has politics not been hypocritical? And in "norms", the refusal to have a hearing on Merrick Garland is not the first example. Congress flouting "norms" goes back centuries.
I would assume also because people also just didn't live as long back then. Life was in general a 20 year term. Average life span in 1800 of 50 years. Today it's 78.6.

https://clickamericana.com/topics/health-medicine/us-life-ex...
https://www.everydayhealth.com/senior-health/what-life-expec...

Those probably aren't the best places for me to get numbers, but I think they're good enough for a rough example of what I mean.
People are probably reacting to some combination of unnecessary partisanship and the false equivalency. McConnell stated that appointments should not be made near the end of term while the White House and Senate are split between different parties. That is not the case now, so it's hard to see how you can call him hypocritical. You can disagree, but I think you could find a more constructive way to disagree than that post.
> Democrat senators Chuck Schumer and Harry Reid ...

*Democratic

Chuck Shumer, a Democrat, is a member of the Democratic Party.

When used as an adjective the correct usage is “Democratic”
"since 2000 a unanimous decision has been more likely than any other result — averaging 36 percent of all decisions. Even when the court did not reach a unanimous judgment, the justices often secured overwhelming majorities, with 7-to-2 or 8-to-1 judgments making up about 15 percent of decisions. The 5-to-4 decisions, by comparison, occurred in 19 percent of cases"

-Washington Post
I am not a finance or business expert but it is stated in the Quran that there is a clear distinction between "business" and "usury", where the former is encouraged but the latter is prohibited.

The implementation of it is opened for the interpretation of the experts based on the basis of this particular distinction.

Fun fact, Muhammad was a very successful businessman and has been doing international trading to Sham (modern Syria) since he was a very young boy. He managed to retire from business before he is 40 years old and it is due to his business success not because that he is married to his first wife Khadijah. Basically he is a business startup founder with Khadijah as one of his main VC partners.
Not if you give statehood to DC (and PR if they vote for it).
You're not wrong. 10 years ago I had openwrt everywhere. Now I run unifi. Very happy with it (though I wish they'd release that WiFi 6 ap they have in beta) but yeah I don't have control at that level anymore.
This is great, I appreciate the effort that has gone into it.

I have used git now for about 10 years, always via cli so I am pretty fluent with it and understand intuitively what is going on behind the scenes, but have only rarely needed to venture into the .git folders.

Working through the steps in this tutorial is helping to give a foundation to that intuition. I love the presentation format and would like to see more like this, and in other languages.

Is the tutorial itself available on github or elsewhere?
So now we’re claiming the entire US monetary system is going to collapse (and as a result most likely the worlds monetary system)? The more levels down we go in the comments here, the crazier the conspiracies.
The major opposition party and most of the minor parties wanted the election to be suspended. It wasn't electioneering, it was literally just making sure thousands of people didn't go to the polls during a pandemic.

Of course I will have zero surprise if the right wingers now start pointing back to it as if it was a bad thing, because blind opposition to everything is just what they do. But at the time everyone was calling for it.
What makes you so skeptical? I don’t think it’s off-message at all for this admin to order such a thing.
One way is to see which animals have self-awareness or have a sense of self. But that test is difficult because we can only rely upon our human-biased perspective and hence any test we developed will be skewed towards our way of thinking/being. For example the mirror test works well for humans, but what about animals that rely mostly on smell, sound, etc?

But even if they are self-aware it doesn't necessarily mean they would be aware of their own mortality. It's assumed that most, if not all animals, live "in the moment". So it's hard to imagine an animal that always lives in the moment to think about their own mortality.

It's mostly likely that most animals aren't aware of their mortality and they don't even have the capacity to even consider it. It would be like wondering whether an ant understands calculus. They simply lack the capacity.

And finally, what evolutionary benefit does the awareness of their mortality confer on any animal? In nature, where competition is fierce and unforgiving, I doubt animals who dwell upon their own mortality outcompete those that live in the moment.
There have been legal cases where convincing evidence has been presented, it’s well-documented. Your presumption that people aren’t looking at these things with suspicion is obnoxious and indicates that you are forming your opinion based on poor information and just not considering one side’s arguments at all because they’re “establishment or deep state.”
If this is anywhere reasonably price and has open firmware, I'm in.
Well, props for sticking with a truly unpopular opinion.

I’d like to change your mind one day though. My friendship with Scott was instructive here. He was a former HN mod. I looked to him as a mentor and a friend, though I’m not sure it went both ways. Regardless, we worked together on Lumen for years. When I was banned for a year from HN, he never once allowed our friendship (such as it was) to affect his duty to the site. The decision wasn’t his, and he wasn’t going to pull strings internally just because we occasionally wrote code together.

I get what you’re saying. And I agree that in the long term, it’s extremely important to set up incentive structures in the right way. But friendship — a word quite hard to define, if you think about it — is a part of the human experience.

The point here is that there are people with integrity. They do exist. And they can be friends regardless of other duties — sometimes unpleasant ones.

Now, my little story isn’t quite related. I wasn’t an adversarial peer, which is what you’re talking about. But your reasoning seems to be: if the incentive structure permits friendship, it compromises integrity. It’s a reasonable concern, especially over the course of decades. But the word “professional” reflects the fact that business comes before friendship.

It’s a fundamental truth that people will try to form friendships regardless of their occupation. Rather than change the incentive structure, as you propose, shouldn’t we recognize that truth?

The reason I related to your comment so much is, for a time, I felt exactly the same way: if business was any indication, it was a web of insider deals, “friendships”, and favors behind closed doors. I wanted nothing to do with that world. But two people with integrity can sidestep all of those concerns and simply... be friends. Even in the highest court of the land, which determines our fate.

(As a sidenote, you seem like an interesting person. If you happen to want a friend, or to debate hypothetical political structures, feel free to DM me on Twitter.)
That's literally not what the word precedent means. We're not talking about historical counterfactuals, we're talking about the specific defenses and reasoning that's given for a specific decision. When the Supreme Court makes a decision on the basis of precedent, they're saying that the way a previous case was decided should dictate how this case is decided. Likewise, McConnell's claimed "reasoning" in 2016 was that a supposedly controversial president should not be able to elect a new Supreme Court justice in an election year. If that precedent stands, Trump should not be able to in 2020.
That's correct, the country is fkd either way. If T. wins, he will cement his dictatorship. If he loses, even if removed from power, the country will be close to civil war.
“comparative phallometry” XD
I'm not OP, but to me that means:

1- Ideas don't make people - actions do. If someone is a good neighbor, citizen, friend and father/mother, a valuable and contributing member of their community, that their beliefs on abortion/politics/gay marriage/etc carry little weight compared to the years of actions and toil that they put in to make our society better.

2- The person who has the ideas you don't like shares more ideas that you do like than you don't. Most people want to see America grow, they want to see their children live free, avoid unnecessary harm, etc. The sliver of disagreement is small compared to the pie of agreement.

3- That we are all inherently flawed and primitive and therefore will be wrong 99% of the time. This means that even if you believe with all your conviction you are right on a point, you can remember you are probably just as wrong on more points than you are right on. It's called practicing thoughts of humility, it's a virtue we should all strive for.

Among others.
Politics and media have become extreme because they are dying "industries." The internet has (pardon me) disrupted both of them. Severely. They crank up the hyperbole in order to try to justify the need for their existence. That cycle can't go on forever. In fact we see the results weekly. For example, politicians aren't moving the needle so more and more people resort to protesting (and yes, rioting).

I'm not an advocate of violence. But it's easy to see the level of frustration and disgust wasn't being addressed.
Thank you very much for this comment!
Why is there no LED light when the camera gets power on a smartphone like a macbook? This is insane that smartphone manufacturers thought it was a good idea to not indicate when your camera(s) activated. I've never understood this antipattern...