skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I second using Wikipedia for translating, most of the time is better than using a translator or using a dictionary and sometimes is the only option for more technical or specific terms.

I don't use it for comparing between languages much because I'm bilingual and my native tongue Wikipedia is not that big, but sometimes is really interesting to see the different perspectives.
You’re getting downvoted but you have a point. The gov’t does a poor job holding private companies accountable, but an even worse job holding themselves accountable.
After hosting militia organization and planning pages, would Facebook be liable for the Kenosha shootings under this legislation?
Love blue tooth, it is how Hong Kong guys circumvented the internet censorship. Really looking forward to when, users realize to NOT rely on the internet, and an app should work without internet.
Arguing Machines: Human Supervision of AI That Make Life-Critical Decisions
California phasing out gasoline powered cars by 2035
> Rust is still a moving target with a single implementation, and no (present) way to get the guarantees needed for the embedded domains I've been involved in.

Absolutely. I've said it before, I will say it again, Rust will not be taken seriously as a systems language until it is specified. As I understand it years ago I was laughed at for this, but it is underway. I am grateful for this.

I forgot to preface my statements with I Love Rust, or, moreso, I actually love OCaml, and I love OCaml inspired languages, and I would love to write an OS in it (save ReactOS).

That being said, the desire to label it as the "premier systems language" (and no fault of the author, many before have tried to say this) is entirely not grounded in any sort of reality.
I look at the different language wikis all the time for that reason (and because I'm a native Spanish speaker who prefers the English Wikipedia), but it's just routine to scroll to the language selection list completely ignoring the controls of the left pane, that I may have used twice in the last 10 years merely out of curiosity.
> They say epub is some XML, ok.

Epub is HTML and CSS bundled in a zip file following a specific directory tree layout and containing a few metadata files.

Epub 3 is HTML5.

Open LibreOffice, create a doc, save it as Epub, and unzip the file. See for yourself.
Deaths have nothing to do with testing.

"We can observe trends from the number of deaths reported each year, on a weekly basis. When we see large deviations in the numbers for a time period, we call that excess deaths. Looking at 2020 since March, the raw number of excess deaths is 200,000 more people than a normal year. When we try to understand that, COVID-19 is the most rational and likely explanation. If you don't believe it's COVID-19, try to pinpoint why this year has been so different than any other. Why would a new disease that kills people not be the cause?"

https://hub.jhu.edu/2020/09/01/comorbidities-and-coronavirus...

Graphs:

https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid
Like almost every MediaWiki feature, there's a massive pile of Wikimedia drama behind it. They went through at least three major iterations, almost all behind the scenes, for exporting content for offline viewing, including PDF at all stages, and eventually kind of gave up.[1][2][3][4]

This also encompassed the mostly ill-fated PediaPress system to get printed books of wiki content collections, the Collections MediaWiki extension,[5] and various back-end rendering engines that came and went (some without ever being fully deployed in production).

All to have a link that, in the span from OCG to Proton, was made mostly redundant by browsers implementing "Print to PDF".

[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Offline_content_generator

[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ElectronPdfService

[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/proton/

[4] Confusion over knowing who owns or maintains the PDF service: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T247310

[5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T256071
You can develop and deploy a frontend and a serverless API written entirely in .NET.

Microsoft doesn’t miss a beat, huh? Where are my VSCode, GitHub alternatives, I’m watching you carefully, for all of our sakes.

No thanks MS, VSCode is nice and all, but I’ll manage.
It's minimal and clean because everything is hidden. This is not a good thing, as it's impossible to search or skim.
California to Require All New Vehicles Be Zero-Emission by 2035
Hydrogen has started to become more prominent since (most of) the world started talking about getting to net zero carbon emissions, rather than, say, 80% cuts by 2050. A net zero system needs to meet several needs which renewables and nuclear don’t meet well and which batteries don’t yet do much to help with.

The three biggest problems that come to mind are (a) meeting peak energy demand, (b) process heat for some industrial processes where there’s no current adjective to a burner, and (c) fuelling long distance vehicles like planes, ships and long distance truck and train routes away from big electricity infrastructure.

Hydrogen looks like a good candidate to be at least a part of the solution to all of these as it is currently expected to be the cheapest chemical fuel to produce at sufficient scale in a net zero manner. Multiple (proprietary, not all publicly available, but see [0]) predictions say that as scale grows hydrogen from electrolysis powered by dedicated renewable plant could reach prices comparable to those of natural gas in most parts of the world (not the US) today. The recurved advantage of hydrogen could disappear, but there’s no clear alternative today.

For (a) meeting demand peaks - a big problem in cold regions where space heat is a big part of energy demand and the occasional winter is very cold - hydrogen can be produced when the wind blows and the sun shines and then stored. This is easier in places with the right geography to store hydrogen directly (e.g. salt caverns), but hydrogen may still play a part elsewhere. Batteries are energy efficient, but very cost inefficient at long duration (in this case, months to years) energy storage.

For (b) fuelling industrial processes, hydrogen can usually be used as a direct alternative to oil or natural gas. Sometimes this would require new plant, sometimes not.

For (c) transport, batteries are more likely to develop to solve many challenges. Where they don’t (my guess: all but short distance aviation and shipping; very long distance trucking), hydrogen is the most likely chemical starting point to create net zero fuels - maybe hydrogen itself, maybe synthetic hydrocarbons, maybe ammonia.

Note that none of these is an immediate challenge anywhere today, so hydrogen is seldom a commercial solution. But they all will be to get a net zero future.

Now none of this means today’s hydrogen companies will be successful. In fact, based on past transformations, most will probably fail. And those that do succeed and grow, whilst technology driven companies, may well not be anything like either software developers or oil producers in terms of return. I’d guess a mix of smaller technology providers (maybe c.f. Arm if they’re very lucky) and something more like regulated utilities or merchant renewable developers: relatively low risk and thus return, capital intensive industries.

[0] https://about.bnef.com/blog/hydrogen-economy-offers-promisin...
Having your car be directly connectable from the Internet opens a whole can of worms for security.
Shredder Watermelon – Raw Chicken – Coca Cola Shredding Xperiment
lol, I speak French. Québecois French, but still.

I'm not telling you how it's pronounced in French, I'm suggesting how I pronounce it in English using French as a reference. I don't really think an accent aigu sounds anything like an accent grave.

I don't pronounce "cachet" as "cachè" but rather "caché".
Is there a free font that covers all the UTF8 emoticons?

Mozilla does have one, but Im not sure it cover all of them.
An interesting tidbit I found after some digging:

"Carve-Out for Actors Who Purposefully Blind Themselves and Law Enforcement to Illicit Material" The recommendations suggest that sec. 230 protections not be extended to platforms that intentionally structure themselves in a way to make giving information to law enforcement difficult or impossible. This probably bodes poorly for private by design forums with aggressive log flushing policies (I'm specifically thinking of things like 4chan, which claims to permanently and irrevocably delete data aggressively).
It costs ~$4.5M to train GPT-3. How big is your group of hobbyists?
I also find your first point to be a truly indispensable tool. How else do you know what they call carbon fiber in German? [0]

But the second is a touchy area. In fact, Wikipedia's co-founder recently wrote a blog post detailing how its neutral point-of-view policy has flopped, in the name of fighting false balance. [1] His examples are pretty embarrassing, but more important in that Google points human "Search Quality Raters" to Wikipedia to understand "reputation" and maintain a supposedly even political bias. [2]

[0] Kohlenstofffaserverstärkter Kunststoff, of course.

[1] https://larrysanger.org/2020/05/wikipedia-is-badly-biased/

[2] https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/guidelines.raterh... Pages 16-18
I think that most of them should remain platforms, but that recommendation algorithms should be treated as publishers. So a reverse chronological feed would be protected by 230, while publishers would be liable for the contents in an algorithmic feed. People can subscribe to whatever sketchy content they want, but it won't be pushed to people that didn't ask for it.
Analyzing Covid data with Benford's law
I've ridden in every model of Tesla (owing to a now-former boss who has owned every model of Tesla, back to their first, limited edition Roadsters).

If you think Tesla is the smoothest, nicest ride you've ever experienced, then I feel sorry for you. Most luxury cars ride far smoother, and even my 10-year old Camry is a smoother, nicer ride than the Model 3.

Teslas are fun, if you have the opportunity to drive them somewhere you can go fast and safely accelerate. Otherwise, they're quite stiff with the handling.

Their in-car tech is nothing innovative, and as far as usability, it's far less usable than physical controls. I can control pretty much every function in my car blindly. You can't do that on a Tesla (or any other car with pure touchscreen controls).
Which I believe is a reference to Dune :)
> The engine also supports AngelScript

Heh, if I didn't know already that FrictionalGames was a Swedish studio, this would have given it away
Wait, that's the Wikipedia Mobile layout, except with a lot more desktop functionality (and changes such as Talk Pages not being collapsed). They had this lying around the whole time?
Can you explain more why the section is particularly disastrous? I agree that it's a dumb name.

The section: (1) “BAD SAMARITAN” CARVE-OUT. Subsection
(c)(1) shall not apply in any criminal prosecution under
State law or any State or Federal civil action brought
against an interactive computer service provider if, at
the time of the facts giving rise to the prosecution or
action, the service provider acted purposefully with the
conscious object to promote, solicit, or facilitate
material or activity by another information content
provider that the service provider knew or had reason to
believe would violate Federal criminal law, if knowingly
disseminated or engaged in.
I have a contrarian view that as a private company Firefox has a freedom to do whatever with the money as they see fit . Just because they are a non profit, does not mean that they need to listen to recommendations on how to best run their company. They know that they would be dead in the water if not for google’s money. So their loyalty lies in keeping google happy and their money flowing .

If I was on the board of directors of Mozilla, my main ask from the CEO would be to ensure that the money flow from google does not stop.

If that means that google decides what features make it into Firefox so be it.
Great point. Visit any US neo-Nazi website and you’ll see language that one could argue is “threatening to a specific group”. But unless it’s “hey, everyone gather at 5 pm on Main St so we can start shooting people”, it’s still protected language.
The web/CSS is supposed to empower the user to make modifications to fit their own needs.

I have a Javascript bookmarklet to restyle a page if necessary. If I always needed it, I would set a user style sheet, or different default fonts.
This absolutely thrilled me. Right up until I realized that there's a closed-source, binary-only dependency (FBX SDK). I guess my dreams of playing this game (which I do, in fact, already own a copy of - twice over, actually) on Linux/aarch64 are still a ways off. AutoDesk indicated as of ~2017 that Linux/ARM support for the FBX SDK wasn't on their road map, and nothing seems to have changed since then.

Still- major kudos to Frictional for doing this. It's 100% an appreciated move, and very much in the right direction. The choice of FBX SDK is just, in hindsight, unfortunate, but that doesn't diminish the helpful nature of what they've done here.

(fingers crossed - maybe FBX SDK is just needed for the editor? Hope springs eternal...)
Definitely recommend the books (at least the ones written by the father, not the ones written by the son). The lynch movie departs quite a bit from the book, it's not a really bad movie per se but it's frustrating if you've read the books.

It has influenced a lot of games, books and movies so it's a classic well worth reading. The first third of the first book is a bit of a slog but it becomes very good after.
AlgoTransparency: Exploring YouTube’s recommendation algorithm
Indeed, go plugins were our initial choice (https://github.com/traefik/traefik/pull/1865). But you said everything about how bad/impossible the workflow would have been for users.
Building from scratch a go interpreter was not the easiest way, but this was the best solution regarding the UX.
Liquid Mode ?= Reader Mode. Ok. As long as I can still read Old PDFs, and the file size stays small. Why not.

I don’t see any way to improve tables in PDF. Most of the PDFs I deal with are invoices, statements, tabular reports.

As long as we’re on the topic of PDFs...what the heck is up with PDFs always asking if you want to save, even when you only opened them (no changes; using setting ‘Use only certified plug-ins’ & ‘do not show edit warnings’). Ridiculous.
Newsom orders phaseout of gas vehicles, calls for fracking ban
I wish I had bookmarked it. I tried to find it and couldn’t. I’m sorry.
What's stopping web sites from getting around all this with some basic changes to their terms of use?
Both AWS and Azure will still grow, but with macro situation as it is, a slowdown is almost expected therefore prices in.
A Battle for My Life – Emilia Clarke
I'd say it's actually easy to evaluate a leader, at least one with experience under their belt. You look at the performance of their organization. If they're a CEO, it's especially trivial: you look at the performance of the entire company. If they're a VP or Director of a smaller section of the org, you can still measure that section's performance, though it does get a little muddier.

At a decent-sized org it is nearly impossible to measure an individual developer's impact with any granularity.

I think this should also illustrate that evaluating a leader and evaluating a developer are two entirely different things that can't be directly compared anyway.
The idea is that the browser doesn't know whether you're accessing the static HTML page or a bank that failed to upgrade.
“In the new design, by contrast, the battery cells themselves will be the structural support. "It effectively glues the cells to the top and bottom sheet" using a "structural adhesive," Musk said.”

Sounds like a challenge for repairability.

Also, do the irreplaceable batteries in iPhones and MacBooks provide structural support, too?
> They have remained strong - like steelworkers - because the protections are worth joining

Do you think they would join if they weren't forced to join? If so why should they be forced to join? This kind of arrangement is illegal in Europe so it isn't required to get high union participation.
PEB-9783G2AR FlexATX board features 20x USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports
Can You Spot the Social Media Troll?
I thought the AWS console was bad but the Azure console takes the cake.

The whole thing is full of weird terms and workflows. For example, I tried setting up a simple static site with CDN and abandoned frustrated after a couple of retries.

IMO Google has the best cloud dashboard of the three big ones. You don't need to read a book or take a course to understand what's going on.
Honestly, if you liked any of them, it's probably worth your time to watch all of them, starting from the ones you've never heard of (which might be most likely to disappear from streaming services first). You might not like them all, but it can be hard to tell which ones won't suit your taste in advance. Each person seems to appreciate something different in them, or find them meaningful in a different way.
There is nothing like the story and atmosphere of SOMA, but some notable games in the ballpark of "unique, low combat, engaging story" are:

Obduction, The Talos Principle, Alien Isolation (some combat), INFRA (creepier than expected)
This is all so true. Law enforcement depends on the individual doing the enforcement at a particular time and place; the actual law and your interpretation don't matter. Justice depends on groups of individuals coming together to make decisions, as does legislating. All of these people are going to make mistakes, at best.

To bring it back around to the topic at hand, I think this enforcement action is a mistake.
Perhaps that was the case in the pre-HTML5 days, where each browser decided what they think they thought was HTML, and IE was a reference.
There is no free energy from renewables. Renewables are cheap, but not free. And we are very far from even having a 100% renewable grid.
Almost none of that money goes towards improving Wikipedia. A sizeable chunk will go towards unpopular software projects like Flow[1] and costly rebranding efforts against the community's wishes.[2] The article mentions an alternative, the Wikipedia Reward Board,[3] where the money (or other reward) would actually go to the person (or people) doing the editing work. Not every Wikimedia project has a reward board, but for the ones that do, you can make your monetary contributions go a lot further by using that instead of donating to the WMF.

1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Collaboration/Flow_sati...

2. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_open_letter_on_ren...

3. Wikipedia Reward Board: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reward_board
COVID-19 Testing at the University of Illinois
Yeah, that was the one weird bit to me. I definitely am one of these people and have only figured it out (somewhat) after 40 years. The soft No is the last thing you want to do. It's like playing cards (I hate to be so transactional about it) with yours on the table.
They could be contextual alternates, but they seem to defy any sort of logic to support that. Seems like a mistake/oddity.
This is not in the current proposal. It would basically ban end-to-end encryption. The current proposal is still pretty bad, though.
How are you going to revoke keys without internet access?
Eich is one of the worst humans in the software industry. Put aside all the social and political problems with him even technically (Brave) he values profit over human decency.
There are many things you can’t post online because you’d get in trouble.
The economy, and overall outlook at the moment, is artificially much higher than it likely ought to be simply due to the anticipation of the US election IMHO.

There's tremendous hope that it will somehow relieve many of the pressing issues. It's hard to imagine that even if Biden wins he will be able to pull off the near miracle Obama did with the financial crisis in 2008 to put everything back on course (i.e. pre-2020).

This recent cartoon is representative of where things really are:
https://miro.medium.com/max/6000/1*cAtDBHi0SpyuQKKU4sGCyA.jp...
Nice, it's sad to see blog spam of blog spam :-) Dang can you swap the link for this one? The current one is a repost of a techcrunch one which is a summary of this one.
Google adds threat detection to Chronicle cybersecurity platform
US unions are tied to a company so shutting the company shuts the union. There are some old exceptions like in the movie industry that were grandfathered in but you can't create new such unions.
So I think Wikipedia's bar for use is pretty low. To bring it much lower (i.e. to Twitter or Facebook levels) might reduce quality because people will be more willing to make changes while requiring even less time investment.

Wikipedia has wildly succeeded and mostly avoided the fate of other social media sites. We must tread very carefully to keep Wikipedia for future generations.
Bookmarked.
Steel production, where the hydrogen is a chemical reagent, might be one of the few exceptions where hydrogen is really the best choice.
It's definitely a useful tool for more technical oriented people too. Someone would definitely need to have his/her front-end chops in place to work with Pinegrow without frameworks.
i wonder when we'll see some good UI frameworks that eschew CSS/HTML in favour of writing pixels directly to the screen
That made no sense.
MS is in the business of making software easier to make, so it makes all the sense.

Are you sure you aren't a reverse shill? :)
Except the whole point of Wikipedia is that everyone is potential an editor...
See also virusshare.com for another similar service.
None of that has anything to do with carbon emissions, which do not increase with poor maintenance (unlike NOx or particulates). And they're all manageable issues, unlike the carbon emissions of petrol engines.
> I think that’s fine to ask social medias to choose between being a publisher or a platform.

Why should we force websites to choose between being a publisher and a completely unmoderated platform? Why do people keep parroting that line with zero justification as if it's self-evident? You are commenting right now on a website that is heavily moderated, a website that could not possibly exist if the admins faced personal legal liability for any illegal content an anonymous commenter posts on here. If you don't think Hacker News should be legally allowed to exist why are you posting here?

Nobody outside of a fringe group of edgelords wants their favorite Internet communities to turn into 8chan. But the legal regime you are suggesting would make any other kind of website that hosts user generated content effectively illegal.
Interesting, so the implication is that web companies are generating advertising from user-submitted content, therefore it's been read by the company, so therefore any cross-user communication needs to be reviewed by a person or a sufficiently accurate AI for endorsement through publication.

So in your framework, transmission of user content + advertising based on that content = culpability. I wonder if social media companies would figure out a way to legally prove transmission of a message without viewing its contents as a way to avoid culpability and maintain some level of profitability.
The Command Line Comeback
Isn’t Firefox’s market share artificially low because most FF users are blocking Google Analytics and other trackers?
RFC 8910: Captive-Portal Identification in DHCP and Router Advertisements (RAs)