skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
zerohedge , like drudgereport.com before it , has finally sold out. whether it was forced to sell out or not, it is hard to say.

zerohedge has never had a 'premium' or 'membership' option until today, the day where it became clear the deep state were taking over the government in force.

zerohedge used to be a contrarian treasure hole. today , I have witenessed a sudden change in tone of the article coinciding with an announcement that there is a 'new' membership option.

Along with an anomolously bad change of the font type of the site which is both distinctly uglier and distinctly less practical,
this is fairly clear evidence of new ownership, or some new 'deal' that the current management is making in transitioning to cashout of the website , allowing it to die.

for true contrarian news, you will now search elsewhere.
I'm actually tempted to start a series of blog posts in this vein for Ruby. The book Ruby Under a Microscope [0] covers these topics (and more), at least from a cursory glance of the blog series, but it would be nice to refresh that material in my own head for Ruby 3.

[0]: http://patshaughnessy.net/ruby-under-a-microscope
I’d question what was the point of rushing this out?

The vaccines are gonna be supply constrained for a while. The same number of people will be vaccinated on Jan 31 (or the day before the next batch of vaccines become available) whether we start today or a few weeks from now.

At this point the more important consideration should be not doing anything that might even slightly reduce public faith in the vaccine.
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It really does seem out of line for much of the media to have dismissed or delayed accurate information about Hunter Biden prior to the election. It seems pretty clear this effort was designed to avoid upsetting the election.
To be fair, this was an extremely basic analysis on a relatively minuscule amount of data, where the form and format of data and the method of analysis has been prescribed months ago.

There was no decision that shouldn’t have been made ahead of time. Either it met the predefined criteria or it didn’t.
I was in the Quad Cities (Iowa/Illinois interface) in the spring and there was a bank robbery pretty much every other week. Turned out to be the same guy each time, but as an East-coaster who's not too familiar with the Midwest there was a couple of months I was convinced that bank-robbing simply never died out in the heartland.
FDA Clears Pfizer Vaccine and Millions of Doses Will Be Shipped Right Away
Many people can't afford the extra cost of home delivery. And there isn't nearly enough home delivery capacity to support every shopper.
The theory when the first Apple 5nm chip was announced is that Apple took the power efficiency gain.

>The one explanation and theory I have is that Apple might have finally pulled back on their excessive peak power draw at the maximum performance states of the CPUs and GPUs, and thus peak performance wouldn’t have seen such a large jump this generation, but favour more sustainable thermal figures.

Apple’s A12 and A13 chips were large performance upgrades both on the side of the CPU and GPU, however one criticism I had made of the company’s designs is that they both increased the power draw beyond what was usually sustainable in a mobile thermal envelope. This meant that while the designs had amazing peak performance figures, the chips were unable to sustain them for prolonged periods beyond 2-3 minutes. Keeping that in mind, the devices throttled to performance levels that were still ahead of the competition, leaving Apple in a leadership position in terms of efficiency.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16088/apple-announces-5nm-a14...
Huh, been running Fedora on my Latitude 7280 for years without any sleep/wake issues. Starting to feel like I might be lucky.
Fights were more common, bullying was rampant but people seemed lighter and happier like nothing was pent up. Probably just rose colored glasses though.
We still don’t know if the vaccine prevents transmission. So that may not even be true.
> Who are "them" and "these people" here? Republican voters? The Republican leadership?

I had in mind white supremacists, QAnon, Boogaloo Bois, etc. I don't think the people making false and baseless claims about the election being stolen from Trump can easily be dealt with this way, because too many high-status people have joined that bandwagon.
> Sure, there may be 53M infections, but how many of those untested positives will go on to get a vaccine? This will actually hinder herd immunity, wasting limited vaccines.

Oh, ideally you wouldn't vaccinate people who are already immune, but saying it hinders herd immunity is a bit silly.

I find it's always helpful to do thought experiments at the limit.

Do you think reaching herd immunity requires more doses A) in a population that is 99% of the way to herd immunity, but that 25% of doses will be wasted because they'll be given to people who are already immune, or B) in a population that is 1% of the way to herd immunity, but only 4% of doses will be wasted in this way?
After the Phase 1 data was back, arguably it wouldn’t have been a bad call to give doses for free and gamble on the efficacy even if it turned out to be below 50%.
Right, and how many have we had since one of the most exceptional years on record? Also our flatter land tends to avoid temp adversions that trap smoke and really reduce air quality.

That said, the pollen is terrible.
22 References and like 5 pics. TFA was about UI.
The issue with the mirror is we don't get the important stats to make decisions. E.g. number of contributors, issue changes due to custom issue tracker. We are still thinking on how to add information from such cases in automated fashion, ideas welcome!
Not if they don’t need the cash. The underwriters price shares based on analysis, but the market prices shares by supply and demand. If you undersell the demand, you get a price rise, which becomes the new ‘market’ valuation. Worst case, they traded $3.5B cash for $50B in equity.
That is a bug, will be fixed soon.
Justin Talks How He Lost He's Privacy for Money and Fame
> thereby avoiding risk of stranded costs for consumers and investors

This is what bankruptcy is for. If you’re investing in coal plants at this point, you should understand the risks.

Stranded consumer costs are solved by bankruptcy as well.

The local power utility goes bankrupt, their stock goes to zero, they don’t pay their bills, and the court allows them to continue operations and emerge from the other side in a solvent form.

Except if it’s PG&E. They should just fail and be forced to split up.
There have been a lot of signed witness affidavits, but nearly all of them have been thrown out in court as not credible, and 0 of them have lead to victories in court.

What irregular ballots are you talking about?

https://www.democracydocket.com/
They are expressly NOT protecting democracy. There are serious problems with the election, and lots of evidence of fraud - intentional or otherwise. This is stuff that should be investigated and openly discussed, not swept under the rug.
We don’t have either where I live and life is good.
IIRC, "child porn" wasn't the main point of the editorial. Revenge porn and other "amateur" pornography released without consent was.
No where on earth. If freedom of speech and press are over here, and it certainly looks like it is over here. Then why not move to China or Singapore? You could have the same level of censorship, but a more effective political system and more opportunity to grow wealth.
Oh, I might be misremembering because I was very small but I could have sworn I used AOL as an ISP and used web browsers (maybe Netscape Navigator?) to browse the web on AOL (maybe version 5 or 6?) in addition to their own weird portal thing which in my very vague memory was a lot like what you are describing.

Is my memory completely false here? It's very possible I'm conflating things from earlier in the 90s with things later in the 90s.

I can't seem to find the book (?) that you're suggesting in a search.
It is definitely difficult especially with critical dependencies. We are looking for any criteria to identify these in automated fashion. Parallely, for ones we know about those are we are trying to run our automated tools on. E.g. glib, cairo, harfbuzz are all continuously fuzzed as part of OSS-Fuzz - https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz/tree/master/projects
Ah the Motorola 68040. The last CPU I could wrap my head around. I still have somewhere is a drawer the full line of 680x0 CPUs.
Now they just shoot people
I have the messenger app on my phone.

I stopped all exposure to FB content except dm via the messenger app.
No idea where you are. In US, things opened up and returned at such a rate the ripple effect is wide.
To be clear, I'm RHEL and CentOS _adjacent_, rather than actively _in_ them. But I think (rough launch and more than a few communication issues) aside this is generally gonna be positive.
Ooh, that's good. As I said, I haven't looked in over a decade but I was surprised to see that before.
I mean obviously this was not the case, since they announced they would definitely approve it but not for a few more days. We are talking about government bureaucrats here after all.
It was likely due to disapproval over the inclusion of people age 16 and 17. At least two of the four dissenting votes have confirmed that this was their reason and they would otherwise have given their wholehearted approval. [1] As GP points out few in that age group will be in line to get the vaccine early anyway.

[1]: https://www.statnews.com/2020/12/11/podcast-pfizer-covid-19-...
Frankly? I don't care. Let the Stormfronters, incels, et al go off and rage somewhere where I'm not.
Anecdotally I've heard just that come out of peoples mouths...

"It's cheap here in Texas but why don't you have ___thing that costs millions in tax dollars___"
I don't know the specifics but I would be surprised if this isn't one of the areas under consideration.
That is extremely interesting. If the FBI is correct that Allen is not the correct suspect, then it's a very strange (though not computationally rare) coincidence.
This doesn't really accord with any of the research and literature on the topic that I've seen, from the initial studies of forum bbs community lifecycles to more modern online marketing community analysis.

Do you have any quantitative analysis to cite for this or is it just your feeling?
More like jet.
Highly disagree and you should stop pushing that narrative.

It is your basic human right to decide what happens with your body. And I can not blame people to reject the current vaccine situation.

Don't push the shaming narrative, it is pathetic.
People who can’t afford the cost or just don’t want to pay the exorbitant cost will avoid going, even if it means their lives.

Having chest pain? What if it’s just indigestion, you don’t want to go to the ER and have a $5000 bill. Oops, it was a heart attack and you’re dead. This is an actual discussion I had with one of my parents. Luckily, in that case it wasn’t a heart attack, but this is the patient-hostile system we’re working with.

The thing I always say is that when you allow health organizations and insurance companies to be for-profit, profit is going to be prioritized over health.
#2 can happen. It happens when a person is shown that whatever they are feeling isn't the result of something inevitable

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C22&q=red...
They're a firehose of hyper-partisan swill not supported by facts.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/newsmax/

"Overall, we rate Newsmax Right Biased and Questionable based on the promotion of conspiracy theories and pseudoscience as well as numerous failed fact checks. (M. Huitsing 10/8/2017) Updated (11/12/2020)"
> Pushing these radicals onto radical websites only further radicalizes them.

Alienation. Yes, this will create some self-feeding echo chamber elsewhere far away and out of sight. I am fine with that. The only people bothered by that are thought police who cry that somebody online might have a disgusting opinion.
They consider Trump less a threat than mainstream democratic politicians, who they consider to be "traitors".

That's why they are all appearing on right wing media, a shared enemy.
Completely agree.

They got rid of things like the_donald but if you dare look at comments sections you see things like cheering the death of people who spoke out against masks or lockdowns.

They got rid of the right-leaning toxicity.

They specialize in, profit from, and are ok with left-leaning toxicity.
No, your body perceiving something in there is the main problem, if even 10% of the effort spent on finding the covid vaccine was spent on understanding how nerves work and how can we modify/intercept nerve signals we could tackle this issue among many others to make pain a thing of the past.
TIL we can create polls on HN
Lynx isn't the fastest web browser. This is:

'void main() {}'
Because Orange man bad don't you know.
It took roughly 48 hours to develop the vaccine once China published the genetic sequence. The actual study design was nothing particularly impressive. This was by no means a “entire world” effort.

I think the untold story of production and distribution could be interesting, but most of that is yet to be written.
It's also the case that if you were to screw up on the first approval, if the first vaccine actually wasn't as safe as it needs to be, then most people will be scared of vaccine #2 or #3, regardless of their safety, regardless of how they were produced. And that would cause a huge setback and prolong all the stupidity for years, potentially.
One thing I didn't see mentioned is to just have some extra routes in /tests/* that are only enabled for tests to call or return data from arbitrary back-end code.
Because Facebook doesn't care about anything other than a buck?
That's an aggressive goal for the next 20 days.
> webcamera, CCDs pick up enough stray electrons to be reliable source of entropy.

Ironically, this is the same setup as the lavalamps, but without having to pay for the lava lamps.
Reddit had a bipolar shift around 2015 before the election. Thats when the main subs were astroturfed and gamed like I had never seen before.
Trump was the POTUS, what did you expect from left-wing media?
Yeah I would expect that Microsoft in the late 1980s was paying much more modest salaries for software developers. That job didn't really start paying crazy salaries until the VC money arrived with the Dot-Com wave.
Bullshit. This is exactly the kind of targeted censorship that works very effectively. I’ve seen it work on multiple platforms anecdotally.
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Oh I totally agree it's strange, haha. The cost tends to be magnified in Node land since everything is a million files.
If you want good support for this I recommend getting a lenovo. My X1 yoga 4 has been the perfect linux laptop. Sleep wake works flawlessly
It does seem though that the subscription economy and DRM was invented by Tech Companies and then copied by companies in other sectors. It seems highly likely the Electric Monarch will not be have right to repair support and will probably be acquired by one of the existing companies if the tech works, no?
Regulators need to independently verify more than just raw calculations. The incentives to hide or falsify data can be enormous.
I'm not 100% sure either. I think maybe GP is suggesting that rather than being stalwart champions of free speech as you implied, boomers are just more racist and want to be free to say racist things.

Fortunately for all of us, it's not the general population of millenials or boomers who decide what speech the government gets to prevent; it's experienced justices, who tend to take the constitution much more seriously than the average person.

The statistic that 40% of millenials want laws preventing statements offensive to minorities is kind of baffling to me. Do you think they just don't understand the constitution, or do they want it rewritten to allow this kind of law?
I always assumed it was to make deciphering just a little more difficult by having correct solutions include nonsense words and mess with the distribution of different letters.
Hydroelectric has been a viable form of seasonal storage for a while. Unfortunately, it stores energy when it’s rainy, and releases it when it’s sunny.
This has all been debunked?: https://youtu.be/rri6flxaXww?t=4916 (from Phil Waldron)

I'm not here to deny elections but I dont think much of it was including the machines going live on the net when Dominion said they didnt. They witnessed the packet traffic to international servers.

With regards to "debunking" on sites like Politifact you need to be careful. For instance they say the Smartmatic technology was not used in states that are being challenged when thats just not true. The tech is the same but runs under different banners and is all owned by Dominion. Also they focus on if Hugo Chavez family owns Smartmatic as the thing to debunk. Obviously thats not the case or the main convincing argument that is even being made. Its that the technology was used to game elections in Venezuela and that adopted tech is used in elections around the world now (why else would it be acquired unless they wanted the tech). There are no code audits because Dominion claims IP protection. Does that mean election rigging is happening? Not necessarily. But people have every right to ask that question and you should ask it too no matter what side you're on.
They aren't going to go out of their way to emulate mobile Firefox on desktop Firefox, but if they use mobile Firefox as I do and notice bugs on their pages, they will fix them.
unprovable/unknowable and subjective analysis. Youtube banning people doesn't radicalize them, radicalizing content delivered to million of people on youtube radicalizes them.

A point so simple it feels silly to point it out, but here we are.
Sort of a paradox personally. I think the algorithm has gotten better, not perfect, about recommending me less batshit insane videos. And I appreciate it.

But things like the Hunter censorship absolutely cross a line and are enraging. Banning (even loosely defined) hate speech is not the same thing as being the arbiter of truth.
Oracle to Move HQ from California to Austin, in Latest Loss for Silicon Valley
It's obvious the media is favorable to Democrats(consequence of geographic/social/class composition).

All of the Big Tech efforts to suppress expression of the possibility of Hunter Biden being involved in corruption were twisted and dark - and incontrovertibly with all this news dropping.
> If we are truly doing that, then we need to avoid all institutions and policies since they all have some bigoted background, and there's no path forward because everyone can just unsupportively call anything racist.

I believe this was my original point. Go back and read it again.
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Surely the conservatives will believe in the freedom of private enterprise.

YouTube can do whatever they want on their platform. For example, they can ban model train enthusiasts for no reason at all.

Love it or hate it, there's nothing un-American about a private company doing whatever they want inside their area of control. That's kind of the definition of America.
Even then, there will be plenty of electrical noise to provide entropy.
My favourite part of this article (disclosure: I've made almost this exact comment before elsewhere):

> The see-and-point principle states that users interact with the computer by pointing at the objects they can see on the screen. It's as if we have thrown away a million years of evolution, lost our facility with expressive language, and been reduced to pointing at objects in the immediate environment. Mouse buttons and modifier keys give us a vocabulary equivalent to a few different grunts. We have lost all the power of language, and can no longer talk about objects that are not immediately visible (all files more than one week old), objects that don't exist yet (future messages from my boss), or unknown objects (any guides to restaurants in Boston).

Does this mean a commandline is always better, because it's more expressive? No, it's a trade-off between this and ease of learning:

> The GUIs of contemporary applications are generally well designed for ease of learning, but there often is a trade-off between ease of learning on one hand, and ease of use, power, and flexibility on the other hand. Although you could imagine a society where language was easy to learn because people communicated by pointing to words and icons on large menus they carried about, humans have instead chosen to invest many years in mastering a rich and complex language.

There's a neat coincidence that illustrates this tradeoff. While this article says:

> If we want to order food in a country where we don't know the language at all, we're forced to go into the kitchen and use a see-and-point interface. With a little understanding of the language, we can point at menus to select our dinner from the dining room. But language allows us to discuss exactly what we would like to eat with the waiter or chef.

Joel Spolsky's User Interface Design for Programmers (an excellent book, looks like it's available online in full on his blog: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/10/24/user-interface-des...) says:

> Using a command-line interface is like having to learn the complete Korean language just to order food in the Seoul branch of McDonalds. Using a menu-based interface is like being able to point to the food you want and grunt and nod your head: it conveys the same information with no learning curve.

I'm pretty sure it's a coincidence that the same example of a restaurant in a foreign country is used, but despite apparent contradiction, they make the same point: The text interface requires more time to learn, in return for being more expressive and powerful. Whether that's worth it to you depends on how long you intend to live in that environment, and how rich an experience you'd like to have.
coreutils is in the top 200 list, c_top_200.csv:coreutils,https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils,C,90,0,240,5,2.2,50,1...

There will always be edge cases and scenarios we are not taking into account, please provide feedback on issue tracker and provide any suggestions so we can account these.
That depends... did covid last over 10 days?

Ok, math is off, but covid is going to last for at least 2 more months with death rates like this and that accrues.

Also, do you know what they call it when I kill your grandmother 2 days before she was supposed to die of old age?

Murder.

Just because someone doesn't have much life left makes it no less of a tragedy when they die early.