skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On multiple occasions I have been surprised and disappointed that [my installed flavor of] awk has no native support for 64-bit integers. That aside, I love awk and use it daily. That "awk in 20 minutes" guide was a life changer when I read it a few months ago.
"Trepanation had been abandoned by most cultures by the end of the Middle Ages, but the practice was still being carried out in a few isolated parts of Africa and Polynesia until the early 1900s."

Not exactly. As far as I know the latest known trepanations in East Africa (other than those in a modern medical context of course, with electronic tools) have been carried out in the middle of the 20th century.

I can't find the paper anymore so take this with a grain of salt, but if I remember correctly the reports seemed to imply that the practice was merely driven underground by the laws forbidding it, not stopped.

There is a possibility that successful trepanations are still being carried out with simple stone tools today.

One paper by an anthropologist described the process as rather relaxing by the way, once the initial pain of cutting the skin and ripping it apart wears off. The grinding of the stone against the skull supposedly induced a kind of trance in many who experienced it.
As is tradition (with Google)
You are choosing the most uncharitable reading which is not what he meant. How do I know that? Because, despite his meatheaddy appearances, he has consistently shown himself to not be transphobic, I watch his show. What he wanted to say is that her sex was biologically of male and that's why she has in this specific case unduly enormous advantage, to a degree that she is depriving others of fair chance at competing.
Public DNS is opt-in. DoH in browser tied to specific list of servers is lock-in.

Some people argue that there will be an option for that. However the right solution is to make that decision at OS level.
I had meant to write Quartz, not Cocoa.

I know how Qt works at that level. I did a bunch of work in the mid-naughts on the equivalent stuff in GTK.
> NY Times has a reputation and value beyond the value of a user's browser history.

It really doesn't. That's why they have to bully google/facebook/etc into giving them favorable/privileged treatment.

> That used to be how ads worked, and I think it is a better model - for both sides in many cases.

An ad model that favors something like the NY Times can't be the better model.
You can also review PCI, SOC, and other compliance and audit practices to understand why enterprise production environments are built the way they tend to get built. Also, look at some reference architecture plans and then imagine how you’d host 3-4 orthogonal designs in one enterprise. The overlaps will yield insights into complexity.

I’m in enterprise architecture and cloud migrations for big, highly regulated institutions, and came from $B e-com. We build for security and resilience across everything. Business, dev, security and operations teams don’t always have alignment and equal input in these designs (as in, enterprise security affects everyone, inside and out). That creates a certain kind of baseline for what you’re researching.
The UK should learn something from this.
Seems like that's the year of the Windows desktop with some Linux applications displayed.
New facts of international corruption and external governance of Ukraine
Another thing that Firefox (Mozilla) does is absorbing millions of bucks from Google on yearly basis.

Oh well, that's not a cartel. Mind you.
How much do the results of this study matter in real-life? I remember as a child they had a big "Buy American" push. It didn't work, mostly because people aren't willing to pay the premium to buy American, and a company that produces in the US will have to compete against a company that produces in China with far less costs. That's not a realistic or winning solution to say the least.
>Currently shadows tend to be more pronounced in Firefox relative to WebKit.

yeah, last i looked at this, negative spread was essentially useless for anything but the most subtle tweak because it looked so different in firefox and chrome.
Docker at this point is InstallShield infrastructure for startup production quality freewares
Not really. For many years, perl even shipped with a tool ("a2p" [1]) which would automatically translate awk syntax to perl -- there's very little distance between the two, syntactically speaking.

[1]: now available as https://metacpan.org/pod/App::a2p
> Generally speaking, bank APIs are for use by businesses that want to be able to pull bank customer data.

Generally speaking, yes, presumably because API access to checking and savings accounts is only applicable to businesses 99% of the time.

Most consumers, even programmers, don’t have a real need for API access to their accounts that isn’t already covered by simple CSVs or Plaid.
Apparently it's not as bad as you'd think. I can't recall her name right now, but Michael Pollan talks about a British socialite that trepanated her own skull in his book 'How to change your mind'. Apparently she did that and went straight to a party, and she's alive to this day. I think there's even a video of her doing it online.

The body's amazing at recovering from all kinds of stuff.
> you are also preventing people from reading what they want to read or hearing what they want to hear. That harm is far greater than whatever happens to the author.

When long-term under-informed people mumble over insane issues on a macro scale, sometimes a barrier should be summoned to simply get their point of view on record. Once you get to see their insanity, you can begin to sanitize back to common sense. imho
Roll Your Own Frameworks
Ok. But you cant have it both ways.

If this is the official position of google et al, that they should be free to boot people pf their platform. Fine. They are no longer pipes. They are editors for content.

As such. The agnostic pipes defense is no longer valid.

I would like to put my army of lawyers on attack mode to sue the sh*t out of them for copyright infringement, for trafficking stolen property, facilitating crimes etc.

You serve your dish and bow you must eat it.
> Can anyone share use cases for PyPy?

While unlikely to be a common use case, it's super handy to deploy onto Flatcar Linux because pypy is just "unpack the tgz and run," without dealing with a lot of crazy shared library dependencies
Content on open platforms like blogs and podcasts has two serious handicaps. First, it doesn't have any built in system for liking, commenting on and sharing content. Second, there is no low-friction way to monetize it except for advertising.

I don't see any easy, scalable solutions to these problems but until they're solved open platforms will cater to niche audiences.
This was general IT consulting back in the early 2000s. The customer was small, they only had three tower servers and only one had a tape drive.
$90 for E7-4880v2 ? Looks like dirt cheap.
Whose lives did Alex Jones threaten?
Possibly parent comment was a joke?
You're thinking of Skitch, I used that too before Droplr.
there's a lot of value for $5 though. many, many things you can do with an ubuntu droplet. digital ocean has excellent tutorials for a lot of them too. it's fun.
Not true. Publc DNS is opt-in. Pushing DNS with the browser is lock-in.

So who spreads the FUD then? Google and Mozilla combined effort (read Collusion) pushing this further warrants a thorough investigation.
I made this VS Code extension to help with manually entering Beancount transactions: https://github.com/aostiles/Beanquick
> he has brought a wide variety of people on the show

That is exactly the problem. You can't be "fair" and balance out Neil deGrasse Tyson by giving equal time to a flat earther.

I have no issue with Alex Jones being given a platform in a forum such as the Howard Stern show, which is intentionally not taken seriously. But Joe Rogan has stepped away from his comedy roots and is talking authoritatively about health, physical fitness, wellness, etc. and in the same breath peddling supplements from Onnit without disclosing he has a financial interest in the company.
you make the right point. A lot of people see this as youtube censorship, but the podcast was also available in its purest form: through a RSS decentralized feed.

Now it moves to a walled garden with content unavailable to the outside world.
I agree, this would dramatically simplify the situation
Because the types of people that would believe in Holocaust-denial in 2020, are the same types of people that are fed by conspiracy theories when things are banned.
> You know who else breaks norms? Alex Jones when he peddles lies and threatens lives for profit. He needs to play by society’s rules if he wants to play by society’s rules.

Sounds like a average silicon valley person to me. Google, facebook, twitter, reddit, etc, all of them peddle lies and refuse to play be society's rules. Uber and Doordash are busy destroying local economies and social cohesion to turn a profit. Amazon for all intents and purposes runs a slave operation in it's warehouses.

What really grinds my gears is that these companies engage in such blatant, open hypocrisy while trying to project themselves as some sort of saints.
I came up with a similar theory a few years ago. It's based on the idea of a Gaussian surface for information. The surface could be drawn around a rock or a person. In both cases, information passes into the surface from the environment (photons, vibrations, forces, motion, etc), is "processed" by the matter inside the surface, and emitted by the object after processing.

Things start to get weird when you play around with different time scales, and where to draw the surfaces. You might see a tree differently when you see it shifting and changing over longer time scales. It's also strange to think about drawing this type of a surface over different regions such as a classroom, non-contiguous regions such as every member of a family, or even conceptual regions such as mathematical functions, a scientific theory, or program source code.
>What is "conspiratorial logic?"

Making claims without having evidence for it, believing that shadowy cabals of people are somehow running the world or entire organisations (actually pretty much impossible in modern times), adopting scientific language but actually not understanding how science works (anti-vaxxers, 9/11 truthers, flat earthers etc..), making extraordinary claims or rationalisations without having an extraordinary good reason to make them, generally being paranoid and framing everything as some sort of power play, believing that everyone who disagrees with them is part of some establishment or has a hidden agenda, and so on.

>Believing that it's possible for humans to conspire isn't wrong, it's rational

Conspiracy theorists don't just believe that it's possible for humans to conspire, they believe that humans conspire all the time and use it as an explanation for claims that don't hold any water. Virtually 99.9% of conspiracy theories are wrong even if one or two happen to be right by accident, so it's useless as a way of approaching the world.
This was on HN about a month ago [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22957573
How much time is actually spent in the python runtime/interpreter? That python can glue some libraries together at a high level was never really in doubt.
> Whose lives did Alex Jones threaten?

Is this a genuine question? This is HN, so it should be. However, I’m not sure how you can be this far down into this chain and not know about Sandy Hook, since it is the very incident that pushed him over the line.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Hook_Elementary_School_s...
YES. It would be so easy for OpenSSH to fix agent forwarding. Just need to limit authority and/or ask for consent for a particular action.
It feels like this became the life-cycle of Internet.

The same thing happened with decentralized websites and blogs.then everyone got attracted by the managed platforms and now the web is more centralized than ever.
Ok, not my field, but isn't it based on OpenGL? Does it count as an implementation or an emulation layer? My understanding is that Microsoft is trying to give WSL a transparent access to the GPU using the regular linux interface and transmitting it to DirectX.

Using that with wine would mean adding two emulation layers before reaching the actual driver. I fail to see any use case for that.
Have not. Never heard of the Vala programming language before either. It does not seem to be a particularly popular application so definitely the kind where I would read the source first. Luckily it does seem pretty readable, so I will check it out, thanks!
Not OP, but I use Fiery Feeds on IOS and I'm happy with it.
The declarative package format on Windows is MSIX
"Spotify is currently not available in your country."

Take my euros goddarnit. Probably fights involving licensing agreements, or competition buying whole markets. I don't know if I should play at being an international spy and buy VPN just for Rogan or just pirate it out of the general principle.
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Replying because its too late to edit
EDIT: I'm struggling to find the source connecting lenses to dynamical systems. I might have misremembered, and was pretty tired, so take that with a grain of salt.
What are you talking about? We’re talking about a person getting kicked off of platforms for breaking rules of society. What do companies have to do with anything?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_fallacy
Shhh. No one is supposed to mention Hunter, remember?
Same here -- I perform the exact same kind of deployment you mentioned using CloudFormation. My only grief is poor rollback detection / control.
Does anyone have any inkling of what he was offered? Gimlet got hundreds of millions for a barely breakeven business - what is the Howard Stern of Podcasting worth on an exclusive deal?
The mixed reality headsets helping Covid-19 medics
I use CCL and a set of helper functions (that take continuations) so I can quickly and easily generate bits and pieces of HTML from my shell. I have previously written the same helpers in JS, Python, and Ruby, but there was a certain elegance about the LISP version and that's the only version I use and maintain anymore.

I doubt anybody knows how often I'm using LISP with this little tool because they only see the resulting HTML, but it's been a big help to me.
>Sanders’ campaign came under criticism from the DNC establishment after promoting Rogan’s offhanded nomination for president.
Sure it's a figure of speech, but especially in a time with record unemployment, food insecurity surrounding remote schooling, and fiscal uncertainty, it's not exactly the best choice of words.

Also, the reference to "doing what's best for his family" is often used to describe making ends meat, not making sure 30M a year doesn't become only 10M a year.

I think having both phrases in one comment made people rightfully see it as a bit strange (hence the response) given he's a multimillionaire.
This complaint is kind of a trope on Hacker News now -- which isn't to say that there aren't still sites using tiny gray fonts on light gray backgrounds, but off the top of my head I can't think of any sites that launched or were redesigned within the last... five or six years now, at least, that still follow that particular trend. Medium, for both better and worse, has led an awful lot of design since it exploded onto the scene, and as far as I know it's always had bigger-than-default body text that's near-black on a pure white background. WordPress's default theme going back at least to 2016 is the same way; ditto for Ghost; ditto for virtually every theme from Squarespace.

Again, I'm sure there are lots of sites still out there like this, but I just don't see them very often. My eyesight isn't top-notch anymore, but the only site that I routinely visit that I have to have set on a higher-than-default zoom to be able to read is (ahem) Hacker News, because it uses tiny black fonts on light gray backgrounds. (Except for the places it uses, uh, tiny gray fonts on light gray backgrounds.)
Indeed, I think I was just quibbling with the phrasing. Nothing to see here.
I'm not a reader of 4chan. I just know people that are, and I try to have empathy for other people's situations.
I came here to write exactly this about Louis. Hell, he was doing that long before he became a pariah.

I think that cries of "censorship!" from bien-pensant tech folks are largely overblown, and not only for the reasons cited in this thread. If some heterodox ideas of today truly will be part of future orthodoxies, they'll find a way - YouTube or not. A powerful concept that dies on the vine because it cannot get onto Facebook isn't a powerful concept.
You are right that a good kick will usually do the trick. However, a good bite to the calf from a goose, even with pants on, can be very painful. As a kid we had some domestic geese and the male was some sort of demon creature with serious anger issues. On multiple occasions it attacked me when I would be feeding the geese. While his bill was not too large, if he got purchase he would then do what I referred to as the death roll. He would twist his head around and put the weight of his body into the roll. I got a couple of good sized welts from that demon. He was a master of the sneak attack.
I don’t think anyone except fiber providers are offering more than 10 mbps upload.

Because piracy is an existential problem for Comcast (owner of NBCUniversial among others) there’s incentive to keep upload SLOW.

And don’t get me started on bandwidth caps. I remember doing the math and realizing I could hit my bandwidth cap in 8 minutes if my internet went the full theoretical speed.
Really enjoyed reading this one. A fresh perspective, at least for me
Was this incendiary comment really necessary?
I switched from OneNote to Notion a while a go, one major reason being the possibility to easily export notes in Markdown format. I think it's working pretty well, or am I overlooking something?
> Muslims did not invent and make anything.

Again with the absolutes, and again, no sources. You must be a great debater!

I am not going to waste my time here ;)
Who is “we” and how can I help?
Anyone can be a Debian package manager and publish their package in their PPA repository, mediasoup is a Node.js library, think of it as another NPM dependency for your project
And using the big E-commerce platforms. Reducing opportunity for a software developer with his own platform to connect to it, what is basically just a product feed + order confirmation endpoint.

And more useless noice on Facebook of everyone promoting their take-away.

Ugh

Ps. I buy local, the take-aways across the street. Not the 30 places from my old hometown.
Just because we don’t have direct evidence, doesn’t mean we don’t know anything. We can make educated guesses and talk about what is more or less likely. For example, it’s less likely that immunity will last for 7 months, its more likely to last for a few years. For the majority of people who catch the virus and have a mild response to it, it’s unlikely they will have long term negative health consequences. Just because we don’t have concrete proof yet, doesn’t mean that all possibilities are equally likely to happen.
After the Crisis, Big Business Could Get Even Bigger
I don't see your quote in this article. Is there a different article you are referring to?
I only know of small farmers who name their livestock, but that was back in the States.
This is a good reminder that sometimes the plaintiff in a major decision like this often doesn’t have the strongest ideological link to the issue at hand, but the facts of their specific case made it the best exemplar to bring before the Supreme Court.

If you read about the plaintiffs in famous cases like this and others, the defendant is much different than the picture we imagine.

For example, In Plessy vs Ferguson, the railroad company opposed the idea of racial segregation of rail cars, because it meant they had to spend more money on cars for their train, and they (along with others) recruited Plessy and staged the arrest of Plessy in hopes of getting the law overturned. They even went so far as to inform the arresting party of the specific charges to bring so they’d have the best case to challenge it.
This is a very anti-postmodernist post, where neither the author nor the commenters realise that their most insightful thoughts on the topic are literal quotes from "Crime and Punishment".
Nonsense. Nobody cares about the fact that he is willing to have a conversation with just about anyone, except the whiny cancel culture twitter mob.

We need more conversations with people we don’t (think we) like.
Missing the Mobile boat is a major blow to blogging, the way I see it.

Self-hosted blogging had passed on the format of ad-hoc notes while on the move, and basically ignored the entire category of mobile content creation.

It’s odd and sad to see that the desktop-first authoring trend is actually getting re-enforced these days in indie blogging community, as the tools are getting less and less mobile-friendly (another git-driven file-based Markdown static site generator, anyone?)
Tulsa Remote (2018)
I'll leave the epidemic of "men deciding to switch genders" to one side.

Let's dig in where you wrote:
"If you were born an average American male and you trained your whole youth... you'd beat a lot of elite women basketball players. There is no basis for a statement like that."

No. That is incorrect.

If I took some of the top 1000 male tennis players and pitted them against the top 50 female players you think the women would dominate?

Perhaps serving speed is more specific? Benchmark that. There's just one basis of discussion.

I'm surprised you think there's no basis.
I think you also have to take into account the political sustainability of a policy though. It might be better for a poor person to get $2 cash than $2 of bread. But the $2 cash handout will be perennially opposed by some voters. The program eligibility will be slashed, the program will be a political football at election times, etc... while the bread program will be mostly noncontroversial and allowed to operate in peace.
Hm, I guess you could make an civil rights argument, but it's a tough sell when it comes to the ladies' room.

There is a different take you may not be thinking of given that biological males' minds are naturally wretched and beyond contempt when it comes to everything dealing with sex.

Some percentage of trans-women are trans primarily because that's a kink for them. It's their kink that has erupted onto their public person and now defines them. Perhaps that percentage is vanishingly small. But I say they must exist given that those women started with a male brain and given the disturbing preponderance of bimbo hypno erotic audio that's targeted primarily at men who want to get lost.

See, there's simply no way to have this forbidden conversation because of the reactions. Oh well, fuck it, these are my observations and opinions. Into the breach!

I gather that one source of women's discomfort is when they suspect it's a kink. Maybe it's a shared glance, or inappropriate attire or utterances made. It's not like biological women get to interrogate their trans sisters as to why they've come to the bathroom today. If they've come to enjoy the sexual thrill of a taboo space, then that's a violation.

To a much lesser degree, men's bodies also stink worse than women do and make bigger shits that splash louder in the bowl - also very off-putting to women I'm sure. Not that trans-women can do anything about that, but it still factors.

If you don't agree and all trans-women's hearts and motives are pure, well then God bless.
The handy thing about LN is that we can have that model without having to trust the hub in the middle. If there's a disagreement of the state of the funds in the channel it falls back to regular bitcoin transactions to resolve it.

If such a hub does this too much then they'll have trouble getting others to commit funds to a channel to them.
Recoil – State Management for React