skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not quite that simple, because the American political parties are coalitions. For the middle of the 20th century the Democratic Party was an odd coalition that joined organized labor and northern populists with Dixiecrats (conservative southern Democrats opposed to civil rights), while the Republicans represented both northern big business (the Rockefeller faction) and more libertarian/doctrinaire conservative Westerners (the Goldwater faction). The antidemocratic people, the ones that manipulated the rules to keep a minority in power, were the Dixiecrats. They created all kinds of obstacles to prevent Black people from voting.

The parties reshuffled after the Democrats adopted civil rights and the rise of Reagan shifted the balance in the Republican Party. The Dixiecrats (and non-southerners who think like them) largely became Republicans, and the Rockefeller Republicans largely became Democrats. The factions that believed in minority rule still believe it, but they are under different party flags now.
Fred Eversley: Former NASA Engineer Now Sculptor Harnessing Energy
Doesn’t this exist with Parler, Voat and maybe Mastodon? With Voat, at least, the lack of moderation caused the site to become a cesspool and quickly abandoned. I would argue the network effect is only one reason that unmoderated social networks have not reached mainstream.
Funny, anecdotally as a full stack I much prefer React and it is all the front end devs telling me they "know Angular" and prefer it. In my experience, I think that Angular's templates using a .html file extension confuses a lot of front end devs into thinking they know Angular. (And in that same experience, they don't, not really.)
Distance to work is one of the best predictors of job satisfaction and turnover risk.
Vonnegut is brilliant. I have read almost everything that he has published and love finding new interviews like this.

It is very important to remember the Dresden bombing which was a horrible war crime. Unfortunately, even up to this day there has been little self reflection on the Dresden bombing from official government sources. Same for the horrible and similarly unnecessary nuclear bombings of japan. So it is a good thing one of the best American writers ever born got to witness it, so that it cannot be swept under the rug.

Another thing I got from the interview is that it must have been so nice to have these magazines to pay writers good money for short stories. Getting the equivalent of six weeks' salary for a short story is absolutely amazing. And this mind you is not some type of government sponsorship or charitable grant it is all free enterprise -- the magazine made money giving writers so much for their short stories. Most of the best american fiction writers got started writing stories for magazines.

I do hope eventually something like this develops on the internet for the modern world.
I switched to Linux after the TouchBar was introduced. I've been using it for work exclusively for 3 years. It crashes, hangs, and generally acts weird every day. It's not always greener on the other side.

The upside is 1) total customization, 2) if there is a problem you have a lot more power to fix it. There are just a lot more problems.

Here's a list of my daily Linux issues (NVIDIA driver required to use external monitors)

1. Resume from sleep causes browsers and electron apps to fail to draw anything. I have to close and restart them. I found a workaround for Chrome (turn on Vulkan) but that's not possible for Slack.

2. Periodically Linux reports I have no internal speakers and I have to kick pulseaudio

3. NVIDIA driver page faults several times a day requiring me to unplug, replug monitors and run xrandr to reconfigure the displays.

4. After an upgrade my system now boots to TTY and I can't figure out how to fix it.

5. Zoom annotations don't work

6. Discord audio didn't work until I found an obscure workaround.

7. External monitor detection doesn't work

8. The laptop display doesn't go into power saving mode ever

9. Usb devices have to be unplugged/replugged to be detected

10. Complete system crashes (hang with no recognition of any input, so no way to switch to TTY)

So, pros and cons.

edit: I should note that the last Macbook (2017 I think) would kernel panic randomly when connecting or disconnecting external monitors (like when going to a meeting).
I think the best thing that American civil society could do is force some changes legislatively at Facebook so that Zuckerberg isn't shielded from answering to a Board of Directors and share-holders. He's just another example of why dictatorial personalities with no accountability are deeply problematic for a free and more decent American society for the rest of us.
Can You Trust Your Computer?
Objectively Mac OS has had more serious security issues than iOS, so at most you can say the trade off is worth it to you not that doesn’t exist.

As to freedom, that was specifically used by the post I was responding to. But, if you’re unsure, consider it in terms of raw assembler vs python. Raw assembler allows more freedom, but that freedom comes at a clear cost.

PS: And yes I edited to specific wording a few times for clarity. That’s a holdover from the days when hacker news would eat comments that where being edited for to long. Reputation is a major concern for Apple as a business, but outside of the scope of this discussion.
Bannon’s actual quote:

> I’d put the heads on pikes. Right. I’d put them at the two corners of the White House as a warning to federal bureaucrats. You either get with the program or you are gone.

It’s silly to summarize this as Bannon urging Fauci to literally be beheaded. To “put [someone’s] head on a pike” is a figure of speech meaning to punish someone publicly as a warning to others, and the next line corroborates that intent.
As an alternative, we could allow all threats of physical violence to be shared freely across all platforms.
Why not just run the ARM images instead of the x64? Granted not everyone makes ARM images, but in a year or so I fully expect that all serious Docker images will have ARM support (not because of Mac, but rather because of ARM’s progress in the server space). And in the meanwhile, building the image yourself isn’t that hard.
So what do we do about folks who chanted "fry 'em like bacon", and "death to America" in the streets just a few weeks ago? Any punitive measures there, or nah?
Hinge took that niche now though
Ban them from facebook then.
Zuckerberg defends not suspending ex-Trump aide Bannon from Facebook
What the heck. You don't have to prove private key compromise for a CA to revoke a cert, you just ask them to revoke it. How in the world is this apple's fault?

As long as they authenticate the person requesting the revocation. In most CA's, this can be done by signing the request with the private key to prove control.

Now we are told that blame "MUST" be apportioned? "HP and Apple failed in their responsibility"

For all we know HP could have found a remote zero day exploit in their drivers, and was going to initiate a replacement effort or something.

The author also complains no CRL is available, but that's a good thing in these cases, if there is a mistake certificate status can be updated. So again, apple has an approach here that means it's not too hard to get folks printing again.

The author makes a case that a publisher can only revoke in the case of malware and key compromise. I can think of PLENTY of situations where revocation might make sense (and publisher may be still sued I'm sure) outside of that, for small teams and even for big teams.
It's like people forget the purposes of interviewing. "Can this candidate do the job we're asking them to do?". If the candidate has a proven, public, track record doing the things you're going to ask them to do, then you can skip the jumping through hoops part.

We use shitty algorithmic questions as a proxy for answering the above question (in the vast majority of cases).
You don’t have to argue for something if no one is objecting. There was fear that the Constitutional Convention, originally called to amend the Articles of Confederation, maybe, and deal with some of the practical problems facing the Union, had gone too far in proposing an entirely new Constitution.
>I’d put them at the two corners of the White House

That's not a figure of speech though.
Don’t Be an Evolutionary Programmer
Maybe change your efforts so you can see results faster and iterate on them? Perfection is the enemy of good, good is the enemy of fine, etc.

Maybe I'm interpreting too much from your comment, but I would guess the exhaustion comes from not seeing results worth the provided efforts, or not being certain the efforts are effective/efficient enough.
There's no question that software bugs are bad. But that doesn't mean we should expect consumers to ditch an entire manufacturer forever because it's physically possible for that manufacturer to have a software bug. Obviously, bugs are inevitable. I'm not making excuses. I'm just explaining why people wouldn't instantly abandon a manufacturer after experiencing a single serious software bug.
lol hyperbole defense hasnt kept muslims in this country from harassment from the state and its citizens.
Just Stopping Emissions May No Longer Be Enough to Stop Global Warming
Which part of the sentence "Calling for Execution of Dr Fauci and FBI Director Wray" is a silly figure of speech? That's how Steve Bannon's Facebook page reported on his banning. That's a verbatim quote.

Which part of the words "Calling for Execution" is a playful, fun idiom that former White House officials get to use?
I emailed before I saw this and got an offer of 3 months.

So maybe but not as good of one?
In this case, it means they are typing Unix commands into a shell. That suggests that their profession involves IT.
It's hard to take an argument seriously that claims that the "physics [of Drexler-style nanotech] is sound". As beautiful as those drawings are, atoms and molecules simply don't behave that way.

As for the "Stagnation" narrative: I don't see it. It seems to me that "Stagnation" is proclaimed by Dark Enlightenment types who measure progress by the height of the phallic buildings a civilization builds (ah, right, of course "a set of towers a hundred kilometers tall with a magnetic accelerator to shoot payloads" is not phallic imagery at all...), by the use of energy (most emblematic in proof of work cryptocurrencies, where value is created through the expenditure of energy for expenditure's sake), etc.

I measure progress by ingenuity. I see a world where a wristwatch has more computing power than the a supercomputer had a generation ago; where in-ear headphones or hearing aids can perform highly sophisticated signal processing on the fly, and where neural network based algorithms are currently improving performance by leaps and bounds.
By "matched brace style" do you mean:

while(true)
{
println("hi")
}
State Management Without Reducers
It seems to me they are incentivizing companies to ban their workers from working at home where they would incur far less Covid-19 risk.

Instead, they should consider taxing companies that don't let their workers work from home in jobs where they could. Sure that might bring them less money, but it isn't making it financially more worthwhile keeping their office seats full at all times.
Media monitoring companies have been around for some time. There are companies with people transcribing talkback radio and reporting to clients (including sentiment, etc) for companies and topics mentioned. Would be easier to automate in the age of social media too, so bound to be dozens of upstarts focusing on that.
If curious see also

2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11561711
> How many times have you said something along the lines of “I will kill you if you put that picture of me on Instagram!”

But his threat was much more graphic and specific. How many times have you e.g. emailed your friend’s whole family with a message along the lines of “If you post that picture online I will eviscerate you and then hang you from your mother’s dining room ceiling by your intestines as a warning.”

That is not normal friendly exaggerated banter, and would be pretty hard to play off as a joke.
Well, that depends, how many times did those people follow up and clarify that they were, quote "Calling for Execution of Dr Fauci and FBI Director Wray".

How many times and in how many ways is one allowed to intimate that they believe someone should be murdered before it's unacceptable to you?
Great, another person in the camp that hates parentheses at first sight. :) A language, and thus the taste of the language, is not just its syntax. It's the whole package. It just so happens that Scheme and Racket have a minimal syntax to enable more regular semantics and advanced macros.

I would recommend at least checking out Racket and giving it a chance if you've never even heard of Scheme. If you like Python's syntax, then you might be interested in the Rhombus project that the Racket team is embarking on or Pyret, both of which have Python-esque syntax. I'd also recommend F#, which has just as clean, if not cleaner syntax than Python.

It's hard to call Python's syntax perfection when it is missing piping and pattern matching. Python can't even do multiline method chaining without an extraneous "\" character or parentheses. Python also doesn't have a multiline comment syntax.
Would you really want a doctor who is obese? A mildly overweight doctor, sure. But obese?

I think it would depend on the specialty. I wouldn't really care if my radiologist is obese. He can read and interpret my scans just fine. Same for pathology, endo and renal docs. I don't think I'd want an obese ER doc as CPR is pretty tiring, same with my anesthesiologist- don't want them sweaty and out of breath while trying to put in an airway.
Less of individual message and more about total number of violations. Given this has been his day job, e.g., he ran breitbart, that says a lot about how tolerant facebook is to abusive community members.

He and his audience make facebook employees a lot of money and give them air cover in DC, and are a public bellweather for facebook, so not surprising to see the CEO+employees keep giving a free pass. Advertisers only protested for ~1 month and Biden needs to focus on basics like COVID death rate, so I'm not expecting externally-triggered change for 2021.
I’ve always chosen my doctor in the US. I’ve always had HDHP PPO health insurance. Even if you don’t have health insurance, you can call any office and make an appointment unless they’re a specialist requiring referral.

Many parents even interview pediatricians before choosing who to go with.
Goldman Sach’s 60 New Partners Are the Happiest People
And forum software that you pay per user, with only a 33% discount for being open source.
More like their state fixed particular issue, some move a lot between states, some settled on their first place. Some live all life in a hotel, some build their own houses.

It looks scary for outsiders — how to choose state? Building own house requires so much energy and time, why would anyone do this? Just rent an apartment, maybe change wallpapers and door, bring appliances. Yes, sometimes owner moves switches, adds cameras, puts advertisement, forbids all but own groceries where he takes 30% cut, but apart from that life is good.
> Pretty misleading to include it in the demo if Docker for Mac still doesn't launch next week right?

The M1 hardware hasn't shipped yet. Presumably this criticism is only valid if the hardware has shipped, which it has not. If Apple did indeed have a lot of involvement porting Docker, my assumption is that they'll release that with the machines next week (November 17, 2020), as opposed to before the hardware is generally available.
Thinkpad X1 Carbon.
It amuses me that the Dunning–Kruger effect shows up here. It has become such a cliche for people to reference it.
A Covid-19 Vaccine Could End Up Helping the Virus Spread
Burial: Unedited Transcript
There's a few mitigations that can be done for poorly-sharded data. Observability being the first step in the process. We've added a toppartitions method to nodetool to spot such monsters in the wild. The idea that you can just autobalance out of poor sharding methods is difficult in practice. Your "hot partition" could be because of a stochastic event ("the dress that broke the Internet") vs. a perennially "hot key" that, no matter where you place it, it's going to be hot.

https://docs.scylladb.com/operating-scylla/nodetool-commands...
True. It doesn't bother me that companies show me what they think I want to see based on a recommendation algorithm. It does bother me that they would decline to show me something that would otherwise be recommended because they, in their infinite wisdom, have deemed it bad.
It times out and the app runs, so the failure mode was considered.

They may move to edge servers instead of centralized datacenters now though...
There were many reasons for the split, but as far as I know this was not one of them. There was no patch backlog, and there were many reviewers on the Chrome team. I think it was a combo of desire for control and debates over various architectural approaches.
Yeah germany is doing fine I don't think American exceptionalism extends to death threats. Hiding behind hyperbole doesn't make you snarky just idiotic.
Well, yeah, the reasons for that are obvious. But that doesn't change anything about the validity of the argument.
>If you must know I was referring to contact tracing. I’m against it. I’m anti lockdown too. I get ostracized every time I bring it up.

Generally speaking, when you're pro something that provably kills innocent people, just because the alternative is inconvenient for you personally, you're going to get ostracized.

"I'm for drunk-driving because I don't like paying or waiting for Ubers and I drive a big truck so I'll be OK" - also going to get you ostracized. Has almost nothing to do with "cancel culture" and everything to do with: show some basic respect to your fellow human beings.
Inlining styles is download of a couple files and then a couple lines of webpack config. Almost all the competitors either already support it when you include the download file in your assests or just tell you to make the changes to your webpack config (or eject and do it in the case of something like Create React App).

I guess the "innovation" here is that they also support the download step?

Either way, fonts are bulky binaries that don't gzip well but do cache well in browsers when combined with central CDNs so this seems an anti-feature for reasons other commenters point out. Most common fonts are going to be faster to paint from the cached CDN than letting it bloat your bundle sizes.
Cool, let's put Mark Zuckerberg's head on a pike
What would happen if game consoles would need to open up? Price of consoles would go up and price of games would come down. Net result for the consumer wouldn't be that much different. Of course, the whole dynamics of game consoles business would change much more than this simplified example, but all in all it probably wouldn't be worse, just different.

However, there isn't just an option to completely eliminate walled gardens. There are many possibilities, like limiting what rules are legal, or requiring that equal rules/fees apply to all developers, or limiting max fees, or allowing small fee to be charged even if official store is not used, or requirement that all apps that are available via 3rd party stores are also available on the official store and that base price is the same (markup being the only variable)... I think platform creator should still be acknowledged in some way, just not by having a complete and total control over the platform.
I'm not an Apple user so forgive my ignorance here.

1. Do you need an apple account to use the app store?

2. Do you need to provide personal information to use an apple account (I'm thinking at least enough to get a credit card working for app purchases/subscriptions)?

3. Is the data sent to this anti-malware service linked to your Apple account or an apple hardware id? (Has someone wiresharked the data to confirm/deny)
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On iPhone your location history (they call it Significant Locations) is "end-to-end encrypted and cannot be read be Apple".

There's still the "Product Improvement > Routing and Traffic" toggle (enabled by default) but I'd be surprised if this isn't anonymized and/or scrubbed frequently.
Maybe this is naive, but I don't understand what Google's impenetrable moat is around search.

It's a hard technical problem, but not one with a concrete barrier to entry. And there are lots of really smart people solving really hard technical problems out in the open. On top of that, much of the recent progress in AI is open-source. Surely that could help?

I guess indexing at that scale takes a lot of hardware. This is the most plausible barrier that I can see, but it still doesn't seem insurmountable.

What if you rethought what a search engine is? Does it really have to cover all of the text on every page on the internet? Could it be more focused?

This just seems like a solvable problem once there are enough smart, motivated people. Which there appear to be.
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Nvidia's working on its own version of AMD's Smart Access Memory tech
If your boss says in a meeting "We need to get this done or heads are gonna roll" do you think he literally means he will cut off people's heads and bowl them down the hallway of the office?