skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And Bannon appears to double down in his own FB post: https://www.facebook.com/SteveKBannon/posts/376710023761776

An alternative interpretation of his Facebook post is that he was quoting this:

https://populist.press/steve-bannons-twitter-account-suspend...

>> "Steve Bannon’s Twitter Account Suspended After Calling for Execution of Dr Fauci and FBI Director Wray"

Considering Bannon claimed: "Steve Bannon Under Massive Attack", and the next line (...After Calling for Execution...) is identical to that used on populist.press, and he included a link to the site (which seems to be broken), this interpretation (that he is quoting populist.press, as opposed to doubling down) doesn't seem too far fetched to me.

If, for the sake of argument (and I mean that very literally), he was actually quoting them (and therefore not doubling down), could Bannon, as you said, "...be assumed to be using "heads on pikes" as a euphemism for "getting tough / serious"?

For more clarity on what actually occurred, here is the link to the full story, and the relevant text and quotes:

https://www.thewrap.com/steve-bannon-suspended-by-twitter-af...

>> In the episode, posted Thursday morning, Bannon was discussing a hypothetical second Trump term. After advocating that among Trump’s first second term orders of business should be firing both Wray and Fauci, Bannon said, “I actually want to go a step farther but the president is a kind-hearted man and a good man. I’d actually like to go back to the old times of Tudor England. 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’re gone.”

>> Shortly after, Steve Bannon and his co-host Jack Maxey offered some additional thoughts on the matter that certainly suggested they might actually be serious.

>> “Just yesterday, there was the anniversary of the hanging of two Tories in Philadelphia,” Maxey said. “These were Quaker businessmen who had cohabitated, if you will, with the British while they were occupying Philadelphia. These people were hung. This is what we used to do to traitors.”

>> “That’s how you won the revolution. No one wants to talk about it. The revolution wasn’t some sort of garden party, right? It was a civil war. It was a civil war,” Bannon replied.
Deaths were low, then we locked down, then deaths were high. You're saying that's evidence that lockdowns can't possibly be contributing to deaths?
Try metabox. (https://www.metabox.com.au/). They have a wide range of laptops at various specs and prices and form factors and whatever else. A lot of the guys at work have started to switch to them and they feel nice to hold and fondle.

I'm currently in the same boat as you and my next machine will be from these guys when my (admittedly very new) Macbook Pro gives up or gets taken over by Apple.
society rarely reminds us about our important needs

i was happier with regular simple no hassle job rather than constantly being anxious and in hostile territory
> MS has GitHub and thus privledged ability to learn from new public code as it is pushed.

It only takes a moderate amount of resources to collect this for yourself.
Please go right ahead...
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The cause (on Debian/Ubuntu/etc) is often DKMS not updating the kernel module. It's often possible to find a better error message in /var/log/Xorg.0.log or in dmesg (for X11; I have never used Wayland and probably won't until X11 is completely removed, so can't help you there).
My guess (without having tried it) is Databrew is backed by a solid DSL, and you are really generating good clean code when you are using this "Low Code" tool.

And that works great—a great DSL + a visual GUI that edits that DSL. Because like you said you absolutely need VC.
> Steve Bannon’s Twitter Account Suspended After Calling for Execution of Dr Fauci and FBI Director Wray

For god's sake just look at that post. It's obviously something generated by a bot. This is what you take as the basis of accusing anyone who interprets Bannon's words differently then you of bad faith?
Correct on both points. (I do consider it a potential liability though.)
> Windows, have a much longer list of “shit _I_ put up with”

Yikes. This is painfully true. Maybe Apple knows they have a ton of breathing room here.

I’ll jump through a few more hoops to continue using the machines they make. Then again all I do is edit text.
This paper [1] looks at a nuclear war between India and Pakistan, with 100 Hiroshima sized nukes on the most populated urban areas in the country. Taking into account the amount of combustible material in the target areas, they estimate 5 Tg of soot aerosol particles into the upper atmosphere.

They apply climate models to that and get a mean 1.8 C temperature reduction and 8% precipitation reduction for at least 5 years. Using state of the art crop models they estimate the food loss over that time, with the strongest effects in temperate regions of the US, Europe, and China for 10 to 15 years.

It's not an end of humanity scenario, but it seems it would be a lot worse than any past volcanic eruptions. A lot of people would go hungry, and not just in the poorest countries.

This particular scenario seems particularly worrisome because both India and Pakistan depend on Himalayan glaciers for a large part of their fresh water, and climate change is hitting those. India and Pakistan already hate each other, so it is not hard to imagine a fight breaking out over dwindling regional water supplies.

Here's an article about that paper that summarizes it well [2].

[1] https://www.pnas.org/content/117/13/7071

[2] https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2020/03/16/even-limited-india-...
I'm not sure what I think overall, but the number of comments here equating a helicopter to a flying car using some kind of non-fossil fuel energy source is surprising to me.
Ironically, if tor was already running, the check would run over tor and not be traceable. But to start it in the first place it would be traceable. Damn.
For sudo scientists.
FWIW It seems to published in a journal with a company that also publishes studies showing how music can help Alzheimer's etc. Not a particularly reputable source.
>the greatest civic invention since democracy itself

According to what parameter? Is there any objective manner in which bicameral parliaments fare better than unicameral ones?
I don’t understand how they still hire talented people (who have plenty of employment options). I will think very carefully before hiring someone who previously worked at FB.
I used to be a MacOS user from System 7 to Sierra. I owned an iPhone from 2007 until a few months ago. I have completely switched away from Apple. It absolutely boggles my mind how popular Apple still is. Apple's quality is absolute garbage now, this latest incident is just a drop in the bucket.

I'm sure I'll get downvoted, but I just had to get this off my chest. Why people still buy Apple today, I positively can not comprehend.
Ok, but this doesn't answer the question. If this is the same behavior since Mojave, why aren't those users complaining about this outage on their Mojave and Catalina based system?

Presumably something changed, but so far I haven't heard an explanation that makes sense of it.
Target lists might not include Aunt Emma's farm, but probably still would take out any important industrial and rural targets: mines, mills, chemical plants, refineries, pipelines, textiles, machine shops, warehouses, granaries...

Civilization would look very different for sure.
I disagree. The german and japanese people were complicit.
> well to do enough

The 'rat utopia' in those experiments is actually a dystopia: plenty of food, sure, but you've got a large population crammed into a small space with nothing to keep them occupied.

That's not 'well to do'... it's cheap welfare block housing with no employment available.
>Firefox you can set up tab discarding (via extension) that unloads unused tabs

What Add-on do you use for this.
Embed social media in Gridsome site with remark plugin
> keyboard + trackpad alignment is wonky (it's off-center in a lot of cases! How weird is that???)

Those are laptops with numeric keypads, the trackpad is still centred relative to the "main area" of the keyboard (the home row and in particular the rest keys - the two keys with a little bump, F and J on a QWERTY) but it is off-centre relative to the body of the laptop due to the presence of the keypad.

Macs don't have numpads so if you've always used Macs it's understandable that you're not familiar with this type of layout.

In any case that type of placement makes no difference while you are using the laptop, because keys and touchpad are still where they are supposed to be relative to each other.
Stuff like this is why I haven't decided. Hopefully the new Arm laptops like the Pinebook or MNT reform will (eventually) provide better integrated experience. That route would be a lighter laptop + long battery mainly to remote into an amd ryzen desktop. LTE connectivity is pretty amazing these days. Though Apple still wins for fit and polish..
Yes. Oh my goodness, look through the open issues. Look at the pull requests.

What is the big O run time of the various functions? Sometimes someone pops in from a university and knows how to improve an algorithm and shrink its runtime, perhaps based on the latest graphics research, perhaps based on old research which was somehow missed.
I've been anticipating a new cairo release for some time. The same Mathias Clasen who wrote this email has done amazing work at getting Pango font rendering a lot closer to what is possible on Windows and macOS. The killer feature for me is subpixel positioning of glyphs [2]. He made these changes over a year ago. The result would be all GTK apps being able to perform much finer grained glyph positioning, potentially fixing a lot weird font positioning issues that bother me in GTK apps.

But for any distro to make use them this needs a cairo release with his patches built in. I found myself periodically visiting cairographics.org just to see if there was an update ready for the next Ubuntu or Fedora. Never done that before for a "boring system package"...

[1]: https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2019/07/27/more-text-renderi...

[2]: The topic of font rendering always evokes responses like "Fonts look fine to me" - good for you, but this actually bothers quite some people. See also: https://pandasauce.org/post/linux-fonts/
A Bloom Filter[1] could be used as a lighter alternative. You probably have at least one of those in your disk now.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter
> Norway has now criminalized "hate speech"

Did you actually read the article before reposting it? It's been illegal there since 1981. The article simply says it's been extended to include new groups.

Yes, I absolutely think hate speech should be restricted, and the laws of most countries agree with that, with the USA being a notable exception:

> A majority of developed democracies have laws that restrict hate speech, including Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, India, South Africa, Sweden, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom

Do I think hate speech in private should be restricted? I think _probably_ not, but I think this is for the elected legislature to decide, not an idea that is edict from several hundred years ago.
That neither of the two countries my family is from will give one set of us permanent residency, splitting the family across countries.

And the lack of countries that allow permanent residency without tying it to large investment or domestic employment.
Q is a perfectly good letter. Don't surrender it to the creeps.
> That's also the correct use of an Oxford/serial comma, yes?

In the off chance you were being serious, no. An Oxford comma goes (or doesn't go) after the second to last (penultimate) item, not after the final. And even then it's only used when there's a conjunction between the penultimate and last item.
I had “lost” that excellent talk. Thank you for posting this.
I'm not trying to convince you to switch at all. Choice of editors is just a matter of personal preference.

I'm just pointing out that all the features you've listed as lacking in Vim are built-in, widely used, and documented. And of course, these features can be used at the same time, there's nothing preventing you from doing so.
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Milk and sunshine probably cheaper
There's a practical lesson here: in contentious areas like politics, having a standard everyone agrees on—even if they don't agree on interpretation—is valuable in and of itself. The Constitution and its surrounding documents are foundational simply because they're foundational, not because they are the final word on political philosophy or practical governance. The Constitution just has to be good enough to supply a floor for the quality of a government that has any pretense of following it and, for the past few hundred years, it's done the job well enough to survive despite some fundamental failings.

And in practice, whatever anybody says, the interpretation of the Constitution has evolved massively over the country's history, even along supposedly originalist views. The most important ideas in the Constitution—say, the First Amendment—are intentionally under-specified; the full meaning of the First Amendment is not in its 45 words but in centuries of legal scholarship and judicial precedent. While the Amendment itself has a couple of centuries under its belt, its practical manifestation in American legal practice is at least as sophisticated and modern as anywhere else.
When products are turned into services, no one has an interest in things with a short life span. Everything is designed for durability, repairability and recyclability.

I think it actually incentivize the opposite.
There isn't any easy to get coal anymore, just as any other fuel.

We may be able to start low scale stuff to bootstrap renewables, but if we lose our knowledge, things get much harder.
5% is a Cohen's d* of 0.3 — a small-to-moderate effect by itself, but surprisingly large for a mere vitamin/hormone rather than a targeted drug.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_size#Cohen's_d
China’s political leaders are invested in avoiding their version of the French Revolution.
James Madison "Father of the Constitution" wrote the Constitution, Bill of Rights and co-wrote of the Federalist papers has a great insight in Federalist 10:

> It is in vain to say that enlightened statesmen will be able to adjust these clashing interests, and render them all subservient to the public good. Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. Nor, in many cases, can such an adjustment be made at all without taking into view indirect and remote considerations, which will rarely prevail over the immediate interest which one party may find in disregarding the rights of another or the good of the whole.

The reason why people look to the founding papers and value them is because they are breaking away from tyranny, greed, monarchy, almost mafia state like control. They have interesting takes that are true in any power grab and warnings.

You can't write a Constitution as good as when you just went through revolution from tyranny. That is what changing it like the push for a Convention of States is trying to do is a dangerous thing while so divided. We are in a state of uncivil war, not unity over an external enemy, though maybe we should be.

The United States has the longest running form of government, I'd say it was architected pretty well. The Constitution is a good guide for setting up a system that allows depressurization. Western liberalized democratic republics allow for depressurization and waves and cycles to flow, some intense, some wonderful, some problematic, but return or escape from those eras. Authoritarianism does not, eventually authoritarianism blows up when the loyalty and leverage break down, there is no pressure release.
> The HN crowd may seem fringe, but they are living in the future.

The other thing that really can't be discounted here is that a lot of the HN crowd are likely the default go-to people in their circle of family and friends for this sort of stuff, and in many cases they may also have major purchasing influence and technical decision making power in their respective businesses. Turning off one of them may be inconsequential on its own in the short term, but it could seriously add up to a lot more destroyed mindshare and significantly more "lost" sales over time.
Lenovo Thinkpad is another popular line, seems conspicuously absent from your list. They're known to have good resale value, and to work well with Linux. If you're getting up to the Precision line, the Lenovo P series workstations are also worth considering, though given they're actually professional-grade machines with Xeon and Quadro parts they'll be more expensive than a Macbook Pro.

There are also boutiques like System76, that white label, upgrade, and manage driver compatibility for Clevo laptops which may be worth considering, they just came out with a new Lemur Pro like yesterday.
Does there exist any scholarship that argues that nuclear war could cause human extinction, or is this just a refutation of a sort of folk knowledge that "obviously" nuclear war could lead to extinction? The author engages a bit with the scholarship surrounding the idea of nuclear winter, which is nice, but reference to an argument in favor of the possibility of extinction, it's tough for me as lay person to judge whether the author is refuting the best case for extinction, or just a straw man.
One thing I noticed is how little the interviewer spoke, and when he did, how short his questions were. Vonnegut does the majority of the talking while the interviewer just keeps laying down graceful transitions for him to expand upon. I'm part of a startup that's doing customer discovery, and this seems like a brilliant lesson in interviewing.
You missed "release new versions". Which apparently this project can't do anymore...
Remember having an absolute blast in high school with this. Oh, the things we did in the computer lab!
browsing some of these, i'm reminded of "Cool URIs don't change": https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
That's interesting, but they claim the effect was "substantial" and it was statistically significant, but they do not provide the magnitude of the difference. They do not provide the experimental group's baseline metric for cognitive function and the increase.

It also doesn't mention anything about how it controlled for patients' initial levels of vitamin D, or what those levels were. There could be a threshold effect, for example, where raising levels to X produce the result observed, or a linear relationship between D levels & cognitive function...

Certainly the full extent of things like this would require additional research, but the basics would be known just from the data collection on the patients and their results.

I'm not saying I doubt the research: I know vitamin D has some interesting and diverse impacts on the body, so this result would not surprise me if it's true. But the abstract was lacking in important details. (And unfortunately the university library to which I have access does not have this journal in its databases)
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almost no risks or real costs

I worry a little about risk compensation, or whatever the equivalent is for diet. That is to say, if I feel like I'm all set on vitamins & minerals via pills, maybe I don't need to try so hard to eat my fruits & vegetables anymore...
In aggregate, yeah, maybe. Individuals still get choices, though.

In the most sincere way, I implore you to prove them wrong. Even judging only by your articulate comment (and in a place like HN), you have a lot going for you. Be the outlier with the personality and drive that the studies can't account for.
The carting around and updating is made simpler with a tool I have found and love, free file sync. One of the few tools I buy into (even though its free).
Yup there is a JSON based DSL that the UI generates. You can export, import it as well.
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I think trust in your providers treating you well is required for low-touch SaaS sales for key infrastructure to work well. If you don't trust your counterparties, then you get long contract negotiations and minimum viable contract sizes balloon, as many potential buyers just won't be willing to be dependent on your company without assurances.
40% of COVID-19 related deaths are from people in LTC facilities [1] where the median life expectancy is 21 months (average is 29 months).

Now that doesn't mean we should entirely downplay the risk here, but there are alternative solutions that can allow us to take care of the vast majority of people who are seriously at risk from COVID-19 without absolutely ruining the economy and harming the majority of people's way of life in a manner that may very well be irreparable for a decade, if not longer.

[1] https://covidtracking.com/data/longtermcare
Well I mean, in Australia, that leads to skin cancer, so I'll just take some tablets thanks!
If nukes are used for extermination, yes, we don't stand much of a chance. If it is used for warfare, then the story is different. Normally, one does not really care about wiping the enemy's cities but would focus on military installations, military bases, navies, harbors...

A nuclear war would stop when one side can't fight anymore and surrenders. It may happen after deadly exchanges that would cost millions of lives but there is no reason to believe it would last until everyone is wiped out.
He's getting downvoted because people misunderstand what he means. Real debugging requires the xcode tools , not the built in 'web developer' garbage.
> And, personally, I have more confidence in a p=0.07 study than a p=0.048 study

Why on earth would that be?
There may be an issue with a hang in Big Sur. That may be why they don't want you recovering to Big Sur & instead roll you back to Catalina. Seeing things on Twitter about this.
This is what hacker giraffe used to print to 70,000 printers printing "subscribe to pewdiepie".
Activation, for example. An activated and running Windows system can turn into a nagging SOB by something as simple as enabling a motherboard's Ethernet adapter in BIOS.

A level of detail I value is that none of that BS is baked into systems I use. Doesn't matter whether those who did not do so were paid for it or not.
Interestingly, Apple covers more than sRGB, their panels are now being set to the broader DCI-P3 gamut. Whereas these laptops (at least in 2019) were slightly less than the sRGB gamut on testing. Except for the surface book,

https://imgur.com/a/6dGz3LO

I got these results from, https://www.notebookcheck.net/MSI-Prestige-15-A10SC-Laptop-R...
Grid operators and generators aren’t going to decommission generation that’s necessary for grid stability if renewables, transmission, and storage haven’t proven themselves as adequate replacements. Tasmania (Australia) electrical supply is served primarily by hydro, solar, wind, and an undersea HVDC cable [1], and they still keep two gas turbines available [2] (one combined cycle, one open cycle) for meeting energy and ancillary service needs (but their run time is fairly low, if you look at the OpenNEM graphs).

Check out South Australia as well on those OpenNEM links below; they’re also close to meeting all of their electrical demand with renewables and battery storage (should be there in another year or two, rooftop solar uptake rate has blown away everyone’s expectations, to the point where the grid operator nervously expects there to be occasions where they might see zero grid demand [3]).

A rapid transition to exclusively renewables doesn’t mean a loss in grid reliability, simply a different grid configuration, occasional curtailment of renewables, and storage (hydro where available, battery everywhere else).

[1] https://opennem.org.au/energy/tas1/?range=7d&interval=30m

[2] https://opennem.org.au/facilities/tas1/

[3] https://reneweconomy.com.au/south-australia-the-first-big-gr...