skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firefox and Thunderbird are not wild applications in terms of dependencies. They're happy to work with whatever libraries you have on the system. I'm not sure Firefox 82 requires significantly newer versions of the libraries required by Firefox 68. It's same for Thunderbird.

In that case you have two choices. You can either use a PPA or just download the .tar.gz release and expand to a folder under your home folder. I did the second one a lot. In our system room we have a computer which runs CentOS 6 and used for mundane tasks. When I have to work there and have some extra time, I just get the latest Firefox release and untar under my home folder, and continue using that.

I'll have to go there tomorrow and will try Firefox 82 just for fun.

Canonical pushes its users a lot and, I always hear the same thing: "It's just one package", It's well explained. No, just no. When I apt-get something, I expect an apt package. Not a silent install of snapd and and a snap, and a lot of under the hood tweaking to hide what they're doing.

If it's a universe package and it is not supported at all, why they're declaring it as a play pen and doing their testing on that? It's not supported, OK but, it's not declared for testing.

The problem with Snap is not the idea. It's centralization, it's trying to dominate the space, it's the silent pushing-forward and portraying it as the only way. No, it's not.

A lot of companies are pushing a lot of ideas because they like it internally and, they push it harder when they experience pressure because, they see themselves the only people with the right opinions and it benefits them to dominate the space.

I already don't like Canonical because of a lot of things but, they're becoming the thing they wanted to dethrone. The bugzilla's #1 bug was Microsoft's domination and they're just trying to their tactics and, integrating to anything they were against, because money.

With their every action, I move one step further away from them.
I think it's more a testament to the length of time they support their devices for.
In the video, the whistleblower also claims the UN argued in court that it has a right to lie about these activites to its member states.
US citizens are taxed on their worldwide capital gains (and income).
Many jurisdictions do, and all jurisdictions should, test every machine with a reference set of ballots and verify the correct output as part of commissioning. This is intended to detect errors of this type.
I'll file this version under sound control.
Doesn't OpenJFX address that? It still depends on the JVM after all.
>They're sending you traffic.

Irrelevant traffic for every metric I care about.

>Imagine Twitter or Facebook without link preview

That's exactly what I'm saying. Either I care about what that person thinks might interest me or I don't. The link preview abstract is shit anyway. Does the site title and the 2 sentence abstract really sway you? If someone wants to send traffic my way, writing an interesting abstract is not too much to ask.

>it's much harder to use and overall reduces the change I'll click on a link

Maybe you should re-evaluate who you follow on twitter? I frankly could care less about facebook.

>Do you think only Twitter and Facebook should be allowed publish previews?

I think previews are worthless regardless, I thought I made that clear. Either you care about me linking it to you or you do not.

*EDIT: And just for fun, here is the link preview stuff from my latest skype call with my brother: https://imgur.com/a/yO5OP36

Look at all the value those previews added.
When looking to rent an office in the Los Angeles area, my wife discovered that the city of Beverly Hills taxes a percentage of your business income, so she decided not to locate there. If I recall it was a flat tax, not a "luxury" tax either. Yet plenty of businesses thrive in Beverly Hills. So this example is an "actual" which does not support the claim :)
Your description made me think of California as the Xerox of the US
Why do the estimated vote counts keep going up? Why has this process dragged on for days. Where do they keep losing ballots? Why isn't there a deadline? Why are only these states still counting?

Great resource BTW!
Cynically, PA's (Republican-controlled) legislature have a vested interest in doing everything they can to make vote-by-mail as arduous and sketchy as possible. Disenfranchising voters in Philadelphia and its suburbs is the only way they stay in control of the state.

We're literally seeing a race right now between the vote counters trying to finish the count and the leader of the Republican party suing to stop the count and invalidate as many mail-in votes as he can (because he knows they are likely to be overwhelmingly for his opponent).
Well done. NC looks like something might be wonky; it's reporting all the blocks as 50.0% Trump and 50.0% Biden. Which is possible I guess, but it seems more likely that there's a bug somewhere.
Quick calculation puts the final score at 295/243 for Biden.

To put that into perspective, less convincing than Trump's win in 2016, slightly more convincing than George W. Bush's re-election.
Everyone works but the empty lot.

I was not aware that Henry George was from San Francisco.
> All of these businesses operate on less than 180 miles round trips per day typically inside the US. In Europe distances tend to be even shorter.

Yes but you are referring to the small urban trucks used in last mile deliveries. The article mentions heavy duty trucks. Even in the last mile delivery case, a limited 300km range is a problem because that means the same truck cannot be shared by workers in following shifts. Or maybe operate autonomously 24/7.
I fully agree. Unfortunately, and as I mentioned, those in charge (of that decision) benefit wholeheartedly from the status quo.
So, effectively kick the productive people out of offices and move the homeless in? Sounds wise.
One would have been voting down on this stupid measure. SF has a child's notion of how to fix problems. Rich CEO bad? Tax companies for rich CEOs. Tenderloin full of shit? Create a whole new division of people with more taxes to clean up shit. It never addresses the root cause.

There won't be a Bay Area exodus anytime soon but you bet a startup is going to move out of SF when it starts to get big. The additional taxes will only hurt the companies that have a firm root here and will discourage future companies from forming in SF.

Sf wants everything to remain exactly the same in a world that's changing faster than ever. It's time to encourage new residential units, properly tax land/property, and start actually proactively fixing its problematic neighborhoods.
https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/macintosh-programmers-works... describes Macintosh Programmer's Workshop (MPW) as "a Unix-like integrated development environment for the Mac OS."

http://www.math.columbia.edu/~om/mpw-88.pdf is a presentation by 2 of the authors of MPW. (Richard Meyers, Jeff Parrish)
To be frank, conflating healthcare and higher education is quite a mental leap. Yes, they both have problems and are "free" in other countries - in either case, nothing is really "free".
Another reason SF companies are leaving: restrictions mandating lower maximum elevator occupancy (e.g. 4 persons) is causing long lines at some high-rises, making it hard to get in and out of the building -- esp for quick breaks, food pickups, lunch, etc.
Section 1201 prohibits making circumvention technology available to others. Sharing source code, or binaries, that are "primarily designed" to circumvent copyrighted works arguably violates 1201. It is not a defense to assert that no one ever used what was shared.

An MP3 patent, such as 6,009,399, covers methods and apparatuses for encoding a digitised audio signal. Writing source code that uses a claimed method is arguably not infringment but as soon as anyone besides the patent owner or her licensees compiles the source code and tests the binary, then there is a much stronger argument that infringment has occurred.
There was a native FORTH environment that came out fairly soon after the 1984 Mac announcement.
> The efficacy of herd immunity strategy for combating Covid has been thoroughly debunked.

No, that's actually what the US is doing. Besides that, there' hasn't been any science evident in either the WHO or CDC advice.

Wishing something was true doesn't make it reality.

Can you construct a logical argument?
Mexico’s Right to Mobility amendment can shft road safety talk, save 1000s lives
As upper-middle-class professionals we tend to assume that city institutions are here to serve us, and that the things we find unpleasant must be failures.

The ability to pitch a tent almost anywhere, free from police harassment, is pretty great if you’re homeless.

Likewise the public transit system is pretty great if you’re a transit worker, or someone who wants an indoor third space but whose appearance/behavior/smell would tend to get you thrown out of Starbucks, or if your best alternative is to walk.

San Francisco isn’t failing. It just values these people and their needs a lot more than it values the comfort and convenience of tech workers. If you don’t like it, vote for a moderate instead of a progressive in your next BoS election.
Show HN: $599 Self-install solar lithium kit for apartment renters
when you paste a link on reddit and it autocompletes the title

update a bookmark title, or check if it exists.

is it not self-evident that a link being crawlable is useful?
But sixty men could make sixty post-holes in sixty seconds.
I share that perspective, but then I guess it comes from using VI (then VIM) for a long time. When IDEs came along, I appreciated what they added in terms of references and build integrations, but as far as being editors of text, they didn't do much for me. Managers of complex text, yes.
> I don't believe that in most sane juridictions a court would keep a suspect in prison indefinitely when the suspect claims to have forgotten the passphrase for a bitcoin wallet.

I think you overestimate the sanity of jurisdictions.

See RIPA for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_silence_in_England_an...
Facebook Has a Metric for “Violence and Incitement Trends.” It’s Rising.
What do you mean by risk capital? Legal shark loans?
Landowners are a minority in the city. The divide is deeper than just property values because 100% BMR units are obstructed the same way.
In Michigan Plot to Kidnap Governor, Informants Were Key
Votes can arrive by mail later without being opened. Also counties may misreport how many ballots they originally had.
> Why isn't there a deadline?

there's a balance to be struck between counting every last mail-in ballot and concluding the election in a reasonable amount of time. it's probably worth erring in favor of counting everyone's constitutionally guaranteed right to vote, even if it means a week or two of nail biting over the outcome.
Same here ... Went back to look at that image after the parent comment!
A New Breed of Digital Archiving and Preservation
> You can find "some" people calling for violence in any group

Uh, no, you can not.
Batteries are expensive. Iron is abundant and cheap, and these seem much less difficult/costly to build than to create a dam, for example.

It also seems like it can make use of existing infrastructure and save money there.
Twitch Caps Streams to 480p for uBlock Users
Why do the misreport them? Why don't we know?

And I also don't really understand how mail can arrive later. In my state of Oregon which has mail-in only voting, ballots must arrive by 8PM on election day. That's it. Why do other states allow it to go past that? This is crazy. It's election day, not week.
>Clock speed: Up to 1.8 GHz

So clearly this must be possible to run DooM on.
Amazing, thanks for sharing a source!
This has been a very poorly handled acquisition. Quantopian team gave very little heads up to the community before shutting down their service. Curious what is the play here. Seems like Robinhood would put their service behind their Robinhood Gold and provide it with direct application of strategies on your portfolio.
UX Designer here with a long history in developer services.

Build what your customer needs.

Most often for PaaS offerings that is actually a robust, well documented, and principled API design.

CLIs come in a very close second.

GUIs tend to add real value for observability and operational management, but very little for composition or configuration.

Use the right form of experience for the workflow, data, and familiarity of your customers.
Very nice! I've needed an easy to use SVG editor for making simple icons before, especially with grid snapping, and wasn't able to find anything like this.
Sigh... more ill-thought "policies" voted as propositions.

I wonder, when will the balance change such that it no longer makes sense for any relevant company to be based off of San Francisco.

I wonder, how many bad regulations does San Francisco have to come up with before it finds itself in Detroit's shoes? It is harder for San Francisco, since the weather here is phenomenal, but not impossible.
Roughly 50% of voters in this election voted for Trump. His approval rating amongst his own voters is in the high 90%'s. If Trump is saying that the election is fraudulent and undermining the Democratic institutions of this country, then by definition all of his supporters are complicit.

How is 50% of a nation's eligible voting population thinking that their future government is illegitimate not a societal failure?

You gotta hand it to Putin. Two more election cycles like this and the US is toast and he never had to fire. a single shot. Turns out all you need to do is weaponize social media and use it against a country with low education standards like the US and you win.

Meanwhile we are building multi-billion super-carriers and investing in stealth technology and all Putin needs is a troll farm in St Petersburg whispering that America's biggest threat is BLM, Socialists and Obama/Biden/Democratic boogeyman.
An island that's still roughly the size of the US.

An island of people who for the overwhelming majority stayed inside, social distanced and had a positive attitude to removing the virus. But we weren't without our mistakes, Victoria allowing a black lives matter rally really shot themselves in the foot with eradicating the virus. They would've been in a much better state earlier had they not had that rally, given there was a large number of communication transmission following.
Why? This constant finding of ballots, along with the allegations of not being allowed to observe the counting by international election watching groups, and the withholding of counts (see AZ and NV), makes the process seem extremely opaque. This is what I expect of a 3rd world country, not America. It was not difficult to get your ballot in on time. They've been out for weeks.
>Why has this process dragged on for days

>Where do they keep losing ballots?

Because a process that had never been trialed in many places was used at the national scale.

>Why isn't there a deadline?

There is for the ballots being mailed (varies by states). There isn't any practical deadline on counting as long as a good faith effort is being made. Realistically we're probably looking at recounts in several of the key states.
VSS - I was using it as well but I bought some product (forgot the name) that was a server facing the Internet and handling all the communication to VSS on behalf of multiple clients.

Perforce - I used it too but after their upgrade killed the repo I got rid of it. I understand that it could've been my fault but still ...

After that it was Git
To me it sounds like the latter, a classic server, which I agree... After getting comfortable with containerized deployment, "classic" servers are a huge pain
I suspect most states are still counting, but no one is watching. California for example has 2-3 million to count!
Other states have the same requirements, and many of them have counted their votes.
Having zero downtime updates is quite nice. For example, I can set FluxCD to pin to a feature release of Nextcloud, and it will automatically apply any patch updates available. Because of the zero downtime updates, this can happen at any time and I won't have any issues, even if I'm actively using Nextcloud as it's happening.
It is understandable that you want these issues fixed. But do you think those who don’t use these services should be burdened with the cost of fixing them?

In Europe, social costs are borne by the middle class to provide a safety net for the middle class. In the USA, we expect the wealthy to provide for all of society. It is highly irrational.
I used to live in the Tenderloin in 2013 and it has actually improved a lot since marijuana was legalized and public restrooms added in - back then, there was a guy on every street corner trying to sell you something, and certain alleyways/corners where there was daily cleaning for piles of human waste. It's become much less dangerous but still quite depressing to walk through.

I started talking to people living on the streets and my opinion is that the problem can't be fixed by throwing money at it. Some people don't want to get free treatment, a shelter bed, or transitionary housing because of drug addiction, mental illness, a dog who can't accompany them, etc. A lot of them travel to SF because of how much we spend on homeless people, and it used to be pretty common to find people reselling food bank donations on the street for a fraction of grocery-store prices.

If it was up to me, I would tell people that they either need to accept help to get back on their feet (I've witnessed the Homeless Outreach Team doing great work) or leave the city. However, espousing a "get tough on homelessness" attitude would be vilified by our political climate, so it won't ever be up to me.
Brazil's court system under ransomware attack
Create a secondary company to house all the low-wage employees.
To be fair, the title does say "New US mortgages". Way to own it ;-)
SERV, open source bit-serial RISC-V CPU claiming to be smallest RISC-V CPU
Do you blame them? How many cops need to be exonerated for the blatant murder of our fellow citizens before "disband the police" actually starts sounding semi-reasonable?
I knew the republicans in certain districts were making complaints about being denied access in ways that stretch what is plausible under incompetence alone but I didn't know any international groups were complaining. Can you provide a link?
My understanding was that darcs fixed the model but had fundamental performance problems at _some scale_. I think pijul took the same concepts and tried to streamline them. And this rewrite does that...again?
> Because a process that had never been trialed in many places was used at the national scale.

Sure, I get that, but didn't anyone foresee that this will call into question the legitimacy of the election.

To recap, both candidates have claimed victory at this point, despite no major media outlet calling enough electoral votes.

This could have been prevented by simply not changing things at the last minute. Instead, we've set the stage for an extremely contested, ugly election. There is no landslide, as everyone expected. This is the worst possible outcome.
I definitely picked this one up from math professors talking about proofs
> Why do the estimated vote counts keep going up?

The same reason they are estimated counts in the first place, there's not hard counts of ballots before the, um, count of ballots.

> Why has this process dragged on for days.

Because its a manual process that normally takes days.

> Where do they keep losing ballots?

They don't, that's why the estimated numbers go up, not down.

> Why isn't there a deadline?

There is, both in federal and, usually sooner, in state law.

> Why are only these states still counting?

Only those states are still getting national attention, many states are still counting but once the result of the races of national interest were clear, no one outside of people interested in state races that might still be in doubt was paying attention.
“Build what your customer needs” is spot on and needs an additional emphasis.
Well, yes, but the point is that tech recruiters are very willing to look at people who have done 3 low-status things, and 1 high-status thing. The article complains about recruiters who insist that resumes reject any sign of low status.

If your resume has nothing interesting on it at all, then it's going to be hard to get an initial phone screen at a tech company, because there are so many resumes just like it.
godep deserved to be scrapped for purely technical reasons (no matter how much the people who wrote it whine about it).

Do you have a second example?
Sweden here, all manual on paper. A first count in 2-3 hours the night of the election, then a complete recount the following weeks in all districts, no triggers or conditions to keep it simple and use the same process for any result.

You can observe the vote happening, count on election night or recount as long as you follow the instructions and don't interfere with it in any way, this includes adjacent rooms.
Charlie Chaplin used visual effects for death-defying 1936 movie scene
If you mean Bernie Madoff, no.
> Why are only these states still counting?

They aren't the only states still counting. They're just the only states where the further count can possibly change the winner.
There's currently little recourse or penalty for abusing the DMCA. What should be done is make companies liable to the user affected for issuing a willfully abusive request. If companies faced the same $150000 penalty willfully making a false DMCA request as exists for copyright infringement they would think twice about doing this.
The new codebase is apparently in Rust. Perhaps the parent is being sarcastic with respect to the quantity of results here: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=rewrite+in+Rust
You only have to learn 1 interface (albeit a complicated one) to use Docker/k8s compared with 1 interface per service to run them manually.
Right, but capital gains tax is calculated based on the profits relative to the currency in which it was bought and sold with. You have to sell the bitcoin or exchange it for another form of recognized currency in order to pay capital gains on it. This is more or less how stocks work as well.
Interestingly, my tweets criticizing Proctorio still remain online, despite showing their beautified source code: https://twitter.com/SoatokDhole/status/1304621579540795392 https://twitter.com/SoatokDhole/status/1304623361461547009

This tweet thread culminated in a blog post: https://soatok.blog/2020/09/12/edutech-spyware-is-still-spyw...

They'd definitely have an incentive to remove my tweet too.

Among other legally questionably things Proctorio is doing (besides their use of DMCA to silence critics) is claiming to be FIPS 140-2 compliant... but they're not listed here: https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/cryptographic-module-validati...
In my home state of Oregon, ballot results are released pretty much immediately, because the ballot deadline for receipt is 8 pm on election day. The same was true of California when I lived there. Why are the rules suddenly changed? Did no one foresee that this would cause one of the worst elections in American history?
A lot of people here misinterpreting the CEO tax —- it applies to revenue made within San Francisco, and is not dependent on the location of the company. So no, it should not impact the decision of a founder to base their company in SF.

The doubling of transfer tax on property over $10m however... that has a very real impact on a founder who has already made some money.