skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To clarify, this is related to Red Hat Enterprise Linux the distro, not Red Hat the company. Fedora 29 (released a few days ago) has a KDE spin, and the project has made no mention of discontinuing that. https://spins.fedoraproject.org/kde/download/index.html

Full disclosure: I work for Red Hat (but not on RHEL or Fedora).
Trending topic is a bit of a misnomer. Twitter isn't identifying "topics" here, per se; they're just extracting the most common substrings verbatim from recent tweets.

A human editor might see a topic like this becoming popular and summarize it as "Synagogue Vandalism". They wouldn't just present it as "Kill All Jews" with no other context.
Wow... and "fuck you", Red Hat.

After 20+ years of being a loyal RH / Fedora / CentOS user, I guess I finally get to switch to a different distro.

Anybody have any recommendations for a RPM based distro with good KDE support?
I disagree, when apple released the iphone, they changed the face of what smart phones would ultimately become. The touch experience they pioneered really shouldn't be overlooked, and add that on to future technologies like the ipad, where both were deeply immersive devices that people were able to generate new and exiting feelings towards.

Since then, apple has migrated from being a brand focused on the shear love of using technology to essentially any other luxury brand (I disagree with the premise that they aren't still inventors in the engineering sense, but they certainly aren't innovating in the way they had prior).

The closest thing we have today would be something like Alexa, where people young and old can be deeply immersed with a new, and further humanizing, piece of technology. Apple certainly had a head start with Siri, but they were never able to keep up and clearly misunderstood what people are getting out of digital assistants with their homepod since it's too much of a luxury sound product rather than something more utilitarian.
I see it as evolution, they all explore the feature-scape and find interesting and new ways to interact with your computer. Or they find new development models or new ways to make money. Some distros are short lived but their ideas may live on as things that stick and increase in frequency in the next generation of distros. I doubt KDE would look as it does without Gnome and vice versa. Ubuntu was also at some point yet-another-distro. Etc.
Scoops are usually considered first reports of true stories.
I was making a joke about how it is a very conservative publication. "Fair and Balanced" was Fox News' motto for a long time.

Not that being conservative invalidates everything contained on the blog. But, you can find blogs who claim our government is controlled by shape-shifting lizard people on the internet, so a single article from a biased source isn't a strong argument and having an article titled: "The Democratic Party Is Working To Destroy The American Way Of Life" is pretty telling.
I would 100% prefer the change. That's how most of the paper maps I used at the time used to be, and it was wonderful, because they were more useful tools.
Most wireless headphones don’t really call attention to themselves. AirPods are truly, terribly ugly, and do. Granted, taste is a subjective matter.

If I’d ever noticed someone wearing the ridiculous Google Pixel Buds, I’d probably do the same thing. Life’s too short to waste on poor technology — and Bluetooth headphones are a poor replacement for headphones (and keyboards, and mice). I’m reminded a bit of those ludicrous TV infomercials: ‘Aren’t you tired of the hassle of tying your own shoes? Try new Velcro TieMasters™, and never tie a shoe again!’
For people who disagree, the CSS zen garden approach lives on on my blog-theme compilation: https://classless.alhur.es/
How about this: The source used is generally considered to warp the truth to suit its own narrative. Both Vox and Vice are widely considered fair, but tend to publish articles that would be of interest to there leftist audience. This source is not credible, more in line with Jacobin or Daily Kos.

https://www.adfontesmedia.com/intro-to-the-media-bias-chart/
Your last sentence is pure speculation. There was never an equivalent rise. The spike is due, in part, by the ACA’d requirements that covered more than the original plans covered. Some of use didn’t want to cover those costs. When I priced a plan before ACA, $300 family of two. Closest plan after $750. I didn’t qualify for credits. So I had two mortgage payments:650 for house 750 for medical. SMH.
> Though it took me a full week to convince them to use a framework, Rails, instead of hand-rolling everything around a custom EventMachine loop... The loop never even worked, but it was “cool”. Give me boring and powerful any day.

Funnily exactly that choice was what made me reject the request to help with development early on.

Not building on SMTP was a wise choice in hindsight, given that it turned into a pretty monopolized protocol since then - most people have a hard time to get their mails delivered from a private server nowadays.
I mean is it, or maybe you thought I meant a Hindu Nation in the US? There have been many incidents reported in the US and world news about the rise of Hindu nationalism and its antagonism towards the 20% Muslim population, here's an example.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/rising-hindu-nat...!
It’s pretty clear that some people on the left would complain about abuse on Twitter unless abuse tools were 100% effective, which is not achievable.

And simply implementing such tools would draw the ire of people on the right, including the party that currently controls the presidency and the congress.

Twitter is in a no-win situation here.
I have tried every possible bid from zero to 10x the average price. I have also prepared custom presentations, documents for my bids. Zero return.
I cover my healthcare costs by adding it into my bill rate. Same way I pay for every other employee benefit I don't get as a contractor (like vacation, disability, 401k match, software/hardware, SE Tax, etc).
They also seem to drop Ansible and making it available as subscription/product only?
Oh yeah, wow, I'd almost forgotten about them. I haven't touched SUSE in probably 15 years. Guess it's time to give it another look.
In their pursuit of 'intellectuals' Khmer Rouge targeted anyone wearing spectacles. Do the Cambodians have better eyesight than comparable populations?
Yeah... it's interesting. XKCD is such a large body of work, (hehe) that for almost any discussion, there is an apt XKCD.
Windows isn't cool because of BSODs, constant restarts and waiting for it to update, and Candy Crush advertisements in the start menu. And the hibernate/sleep function worked terribly (at least for the longest time, don't know if it's fixed now), compared to Apple's fold down the screen when you want to go and open it back up to what you were doing and it works all the time.
> but this did not irradicate Nazi thought, it just pushed it underground.

I think it's reasonable to push Nazism underground rather than let it go mainstream and gain some steam. There are enough idiots who would think it legit and instead of eradicating it would grow.

But I agree with not sweeping things under the carpet, ignoring them won't solve the problem but keep them somewhat contained for a while.
> Steve once said netbooks were dead, then released a laptop in exactly that form factor (11 in MBA). Clearly there was market demand for it, and I assume their must be demand for both sizes here as well.

Just a point of clarification on netbooks. Netbooks were a flop because they were bulky, slow, hard to type on, had terrible screens, and came with minuscule trackpads.

The air was none of those things, and was the progenitor of a new class of laptop that would be known as "Ultrabooks".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg0F5JjKmhA
Tesla explicitly declared in their official filings that Elon twitter is a source of material news about Tesla Inc.
Well, it's going from a laptop based dual core CPU, to a desktop based quadcore CPU. Not a great reason to increase the price dramatically, but it is a big difference in terms of performance.

The other thing I think people are failing to realize, is who is the Mac Mini for? It used to be for Windows switchers who wanted to plug in a small box to their existing mouse/keyboard/monitor situation. It was an introduction to the world of OS X. Nowadays, who uses the Mac Mini? Developers who need to compile in Xcode, and probably some creatives. The device serves a much different purpose nowadays, since most of your casual Apple users can get away with an iPad or a MB/MBA.

Personally, the new Mac Mini really appeals to me, regardless of price. I've been using a 2012 era mac mini machine, and the current bottle neck is the CPU. If I can spend $700 today, and have a capable macOS device for another 6-7 years, with some RAM upgrades, I think that's well worth it.
and the project has made no mention of discontinuing that.

...yet.
Steve Jobs was, among many other things, both good and bad, an irreplaceable human being. The Apple that created the Apple II, Macintosh, iPod, and iPhone isn't coming back.

That having been said, of the two post-Steve Jobs Apples that we've seen, this one is still pretty damn decent. They aren't killing the entire company by throwing all their software engineering resources at a Second System Effect technical quagmire like Copland, they aren't selling laptops that spontaneously burst into flames like the PowerBook 5300, and they aren't investing in solutions in search of a problem like OpenDoc. They also aren't selling dozens of indistinguishable products that are only distinguishable by arbitrary four-digit product numbers.
Its sad state of affairs that companies are tying and locking down their hardware to specific software:

You cant modify the new Xboxes or Playstations.

Some Android phones are dependant on the manufacturers customised version of the AOSP.

On Macs it is not easy to install another operating system, like you can do with a PC (although I have managed to get Ubuntu 18.10 running on my Macbook Pro 13,1)

Consumers are going to be really challenged at some point and think, "hey, I have very little control over this thing I bought. Am I ok with this or am I going to start hacking?"

We could see another renaissance like you had in the early 80s with hackers sharing and porting software onto the weird and wonderful computers they were building back then.... who knows?
so you're saying "that's just, like, your opinion"
Trending has connotations of acceptance. When wearing jeans is trending, for example, it might mean that jeans are “good” and “acceptable” to wear.

The “trending” you’re referring to would be better described as “high traffic”. There’s a hundred thousand people on the roads rushing to get home right now, that doesn’t mean that traveling by car is “trending”.
This notion of free speech that would even allow calls of violence sound immoral to me.

Calls for violence are not protected free speech in The Netherlands and I guess most (West) European countries.

You would get fined or even jailed if you would say shit like this in our country. And I'm happy for it. Because it serves no purpose to incite violence. There's no debate to be had. There is nothing that can be debated upon. What is there to debate with people that call to kill all Jews.

No, people can still have their free hate speech, but ideally not on any major social media outlet or news outlet if possible. And anyone calling for the murder on another person belongs in jail.

Shame on Twitter for letting this slip through.
"Economy is doing well, wage growth is above inflation for the first time in decades, 3.1% as of today's jobs report."

Why not give credit for that to the previous administration?
The point of SMT is that it is quite low overhead. You're not duplicating most of the core, only the physical register file and the TLB units (I think). The execution units and caches--where most of the die of a core goes--remain unreplicated. In terms of area tradeoff, you're not looking at "we'll give you 2 more cores if we disabled SMT." For the Pentium 4 (quickest I could get), adding SMT is a die overhead of 5%. Your realistic trade-off for area constraints is on the terms of SMT, or better out-of-order parallelism scavenging, or more L2 cache.
The most common way to do such a thing that I am aware of is to move from a small company to a FAANG company, especially when that involves moving to Silicon Valley from somewhere else.

Moving from academia to industry can also result in a large pay increase.
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Maybe using a laptop on a couch, or trying to move after standing up.
I forgot something! Actually, this isn't the @apply I was thinking of.

Tailwind comes with its own @apply: https://tailwindcss.com/docs/functions-and-directives/#apply
Sounds like a good description of Valve after Steam too. Used to focus on products and invent new series, now mostly cashes in on services and microtransactions relating to its older works.

Wonder if this is a trend, especially for larger companies.
> In summary, if you want to learn about the Eiffel Tower or the Golden Gate Bridge, it may be better to pick up your smartphone, open up Wikipedia, and save yourself the expense.

I enjoy travel more if I've studied the place I'm traveling to. If I haven't had a chance to read a book about the city before arriving, the first thing I do as a tourist is visit the history museum.
context:

The grandparents original line was

"People just love trolling them because they overreact. Idiots think they're antisemites."
Before getting the AirPods I agreed with you, Bluetooth headphones were much more hassle than they were worth. But the AirPods do really eliminate all of the inconveniences I had with Bluetooth headphones. As for whether they are worth the cost difference over wired headphones, I suppose that’s a personal preference, but I love the freedom, and since I walk many miles every day listening to audiobooks not having a cord to get caught on things or needing to be routed through clothing is a benefit for me. Also when I’m walking with my girlfriend we can each wear one AirPod and listen to something together without needing to stand within a couple feet of each other and have the awkwardness of a physical tether via a wired headphone splitter. I realize your comment is more snarky than practical, but it might be worth getting one from an Apple store and then returning it within their return policy just to have a chance to play with it and see how far the technology has evolved, it’s much more improved than you might expect.

And even if the airpods aren’t worth the investment for you personally, the fact that Apple is innovating here will hopefully push other manufacturers to innovate and maybe someday all Bluetooth headphones will be as painless, even ones that are significantly cheaper.

As an analogy, I hated the iPhone in its first few years on the market. I was perfectly happy with my windows mobile smartphone with its QVGA resistive stylus-based touchscreen, enormous thick physical keyboard. I thought everyone that paid $800 for a sexy but functionally limited iPhone was a sheep. But Apple forced the smartphone industry to play by a different rulebook, and now I’m pretty excited with the levels of innovation that happens across all manufacturers.
That too.

Microsoft allows venders with terrible design teams to sell their product and customers associate Windows with these product lines. Microsoft cannot control their brand.

Apple controls the entire stack so they're able to constantly deliver a quality experience.

If all Windows machines were like the Surface Book then this conversation would be different.
> It feels like Apple hate is becoming a meme.

Hasn't it always been, though? This probably comes off as conspiracy-theoretic, but I feel like there's a real financial incentive to keep their stock prices as in-flux as possible to allow for proper buy-in/cash-out gains.
The principle of the European Union is based on democracy, and you can vote for an European party that would better defend your view at the European level. In my opinion, a country leaving the EU is equivalent of saying that democracy doesn't work and this message is dangerous. For information, less than 50% of Europeans voted at the last European elections in 2014 [1], it only depends on people to build a democratic Europe.

If you disagree with your own country's laws or current government, you are not allowed to say "alright, my house is not from this country anymore, and I wont pay any taxes". In practice, you will still use all the infrastructure everybody else contributed with their taxes, plus the healthcare, and you will still want to trade with other people.

Country's problems won't magically disappear after leaving the European community, the European Union is made to find collaborative solutions between countries, taking into account each countries' interests and capacities.

Now, you can legitimately disagree with recent EU laws about online ads for example, but as another European myself, I welcome this regulation. So we are 2 Europeans with different opinions, and the best way to solve this is democracy, if we still want to trade together in 25ish different countries.

I agree with you about politician salaries and bureaucracy, but I only see it improving in the future, when information will be better communicated and people more interested in Europeans scale issues.

Anyway, we achieve balance by participating and talking, not by closing the doors in front of difficulties.

[1] turnouts for EU 2014 election, by countries : http://www.europarl.europa.eu/elections2014-results/en/turno...

Edit : If you disagree with your current country government, maybe you will have more success at the European level, which in turn will balance your country government. Also, European politician salaries are transparent and follow a strict procedure : http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/faq/13/salaries-and-pe... so maybe still expensive, but it could be possibly less corrupt than some of the individual countries themselves.
> VCs or startups trying to lose money? For what purpose?

VCs trying to lose money on either an individual investment, or else on their entire portfolio. Some reasons why this happens:

- New VC funds engaging in 'logo shopping', where they invest in later staging companies everyone knows about so that they can put the logo on their webpage and establish credibility, even if they know the investment probably isn't going to be profitable at the valuation where they invested.

- VCs are often misaligned with their LPs. E.g. the VCs are taking 2% management fees on a massive fund, and know it will be ten years before anyone knows their returns so they don't have much incentive to try to be good at their job.

- Special situations. E.g. let's say Saudi Arabia is happy to invest in things like Bitcoin mining or Uber even if they think those investments will lose 10% of their value, because the only thing they really care about is hedging their risk of having their bank accounts frozen by the U.S. government.

- Cases where an investor puts money into a startup and takes a board seat with the goal of purposely killing it so that one of their larger portfolio companies can purchase the assets in a fire sale.

- Cases where a VC comes up with some scheme to try to shift LP money from their newest fund into a startup from their previous fund to artificially inflate their returns.

None of these are necessarily common individually, but collectively things like this are common enough to distort valuations across the board and make it so that looking at what other people invest in and at what valuations isn't a great way to make decisions.

edit: Consider also that if you look at the statistics about how the vast majority of VC funds lose money, these all come from before the 10x growth in early staging funds that we've seen over the last 10 years.

As a startup founder you only need to start one of the best 1,000 or so startups of the year to do really well. But as an investor you need to invest in one of the 5 or 10 best startups of the year in order to make a ton of money for your fund. And the best startups often (but not always) have a ton of people trying to get into the deal. So if a startup could get 25 term sheets and only 1 in 25 of those investors are crooked, then the other 24 investors have to then decide whether they're going to gamble that this investment pays off anyway even though it's priced at way over what is economically rational. It's maybe a little more nuanced than that, but that's the basic idea.
A Heretic's Guide to Deplatforming
Ask HN: Favorite Wikipedia article?
Does anyone have a Wikipedia article that they wish more people would have a chance to read?
Obviously it was Democrats who secretly deployed Novichok as part of a false flag operation.
I think it'd be interesting to create a simple game based on the model, allowing players to experiment with interventions like you describe.

> We chose the main elements of the architecture (agent traits, networks, hazards, group identities, etc.) with the goals of the model in mind. While many other variables and factors are relevant for mapping a phenomenon as complex as religious conflict, we aimed for a level of abstraction that captured the most salient and empirically-researched mechanisms that bear on this type of intergroup conflict. In the remainder of this section, we describe the architecture of our model including: (1) the entities within the model, (2) the process used to initialize the entities, and (3) the rules that dictate the interactions among them.

> Our model is made up of N agents separated into two groups interacting in a two-dimensional landscape. The two groups of agents are: (1) a majority group and (2) a minority group. The disparity in size between these groups can vary from negligible (2 agents) to extreme (N-2 agents). Each group is composed of individuals who share a set of distinctive supernatural beliefs and ritual behaviors.
Who said anything about a conspiracy? It's a basic premise of journalism—if your outlet is embroiled in a war with a certain subject, you need to disclose that so your readers can properly contextualize your recycled lightweight column.

I don't think there's a conspiracy. I don't know whether Bloomberg or Apple are right. I didn't comment on that. But I do think this article and the lack of a disclosure is a horrible look for Bloomberg.
Who cares? Let's just pick one - any - and standardise on that one so we can maybe move towards a consistent look and feel. They're all sort of the same; just different enough to be annoying and frighten any occasional/non-technical is away. Gnome is good enough? That'll do, let's use that then.
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A few words of what is behind that link would be nice
40%+ of smart phones sold in the US are iPhones There is no exclusivity in owning an iPhone.
Before the NES: The Founding of the Nintendo Playing Card Company in 1899
Tailwind and CSS-in-JS are not mutually exclusive! On the contrary, they're a terrific match!
I saw screenshots of KDE 1.0 desktops [0] in a local computer magazine. I thought it looked very cool and wanted to try it on my machine. This was many years ago.

I'm not sure if KDE was ever very popular, but these days it seems to be hard to find anyone who actually uses it.

[0] https://www.kde.org/screenshots/images/large/ganroth.jpg
For some idiotic reason the native version of Postman does not support authentication against corp proxies. As a result, when using it at work, behind a corp proxy that requires authentication, the native postman doesn't work!

The only version that works is the Chrome App Postman, which simply uses the Chrome network stack, which obviously works behind the proxy.

Boooo to Postman.
Ew. Ew ew ew. And here I was, thinking that water sanitation was a third world slum/war-destroyed country issue...well consider me informed.