skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"of or relating to a political regime based on subordination of the individual to the state and strict control of all aspects of the life and productive capacity of the nation especially by coercive measures (such as censorship and terrorism)"

Is it only "total" if it's explicit visible control of some aspect of my life? An even more effective way to control my life would be to control the set of possibilities that come to my mind for a particular decision, because then I'll probably think the result of that artificially-constrained choice was my idea and may even fight to defend my choice from people who picked a different iOS/Android, Xbox/Playstation, PC/Mac, Reddit/Instagram than me.
I agree, and I want to rant it out a bit further.

People make a lot of noise about the Second Amendment, but, what, they gonna shoot down a predator drone with their semi-auto AR-15? They gonna stop a SWAT team from disappearing them at 3am? They gonna be able to lead a decent life if all of their bank accounts get frozen? Local police departments acquiring armored vehicles and driving around wearing tactical gear are slowly morphing into a network of sketchy paramilitary forces.

Whistleblowers, however, really are on the front-lines of protecting us from actual, meaningful government corruption, overreach, and misconduct. They're what head-off 1984 before it turns into 1984.

If you have to worry about stockpiling ammunition in your basement, things have already gone way too far. Whistleblowers and the press are mechanism by which we don't get to that point.
Fire up the wayback machine and find when the centos.org home page changed the mission statement. At this point it started to be about a different "us" than you think, an "us" that doesn't include you and me and presumably doesn't mind CentOS Stream at all.

In particular I started doing that and I got to the Sep 2019-Dec 2019 range, around the time CentOS Stream was launched. At that time this:

> For users, we offer a consistent manageable platform that suits a wide variety of deployments. For open source communities, we offer a solid, predictable base to build upon

was changed to this:

> CentOS Linux is a consistent, manageable platform that suits a wide variety of deployments. For some open source communities, it is a solid, predictable base to build upon.
> And it turns out that a strong positive correlation can be a good place to hunt for possible causality

I don't disagree, but I have yet to see a mathematically clean definition of "causality".
Most fossil-based electric generation is not oil; it's either natural gas (reasonably clean, though it does produce a lot of CO₂), or coal (terrible on many counts).

I'd say that killing coal would have a large effect. It would also put entire town populations out of work — a really hard problem, read about how UK tackled it in 1970s and 1980s, it was painful and ugly.
It looks more like a radar corner to me, rather than a cube.
Team up with Open Street Maps.
Biden has gone around bragging about how he created a very similar version of the Patriot Act.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/andrewkaczynski/surveil...

Was that Russian influence, too?
Except as a judge you tend to die a terrible death if you do indeed die owing to your occupaion[0].

[0]https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/16921-judges-face-threats-w...
Have you looked at org-mode?
A similar approach is (over)used for codegolfing, namely the PNG bootstrapping method [1] [2] [3]: your code is compressed into a PNG image and the bootstrap in HTML gets appended to the PNG file to decompress and eval the code. The exact method requires some experiments, as browsers change their rules to determine which is a valid image and which is a valid HTML.

[1] https://gist.github.com/gasman/2560551

[2] https://github.com/codegolf/zpng

[3] https://xem.github.io/terser-online/ (If you pick the packing method "Zopfli (DEFLATE)", open the zopfli options and change the format to "zpng", you can write directly to the "Minified (Terser)" input to download the optimized PNG. Yes I wrote that part of code and that required way too much algorithm: https://github.com/xem/terser-online/blob/5cc33125/compress....)
Can you explain to me what’s “unconstitutional” about this?
I love the way you've put this.
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Moreover this is not even a "plain JSON". While I don't think the OP doesn't make this exact claim, an arbitrary JSON with the `#render` bootstrap won't necessarily work because the JSON can contain valid HTML tags... Interesting as it stands, utterly useless in practice.
Distributed systems, in my experience, most often fall prey to "not invented here" syndrome.
Is it not possible for more expensive products to be better than their less expensive alternatives? I am not saying there is a causal relation here, and I agree that to an extent Apple sometimes just throws out something mediocre (like this appears to be; I won't be buying this since it doesn't seem like a good value), but I think your statement is quite dismissive towards Apple as a whole and a bit snide toward users to claim they are only buying it for the status.
Reminds of what horses did for us and what we do to them. Thanks for the great article.
My recollection is that the magic keyboard / trackpad insta-pair if you connect them via wire.

I didn't know that, thanks - I'll try that. It's still a pain, but less so than having to track my wife's computer down.

It does beg the question of why I'm going wireless at all, of course.
$150 is one month salary in quite a few countries actually.

My personal laptop has 8 GB, is 10 years old by now, I am not limited in anything I care about.
If it's a pebble bed design, easily.

Pebbles are uranium coated with multiple protective layers, extremely strong. They could be collected and reused if the launch vehicle plainly explodes on the launch pad.
>The fundamental problem isn't streaming, as much as it is that natural systems follow power law distributions. There will always be superstars that make the majority of the money, and tons and tons of wannabe artists that make almost nothing.

Well, for millenias it wasn't that way. So not 100% "natural".

It happened because of the extra distribution power recorded and now streaming music allows.

When you didn't have recorded music, musicians all around the globe could make a living in their local communitities.
I bet if you write your TeX in Markdown and then run the whole thing through pandoc, you’ll get well-set math in your PDF. I’ve done this with org-mode.
> If I was paying that much in taxes, that would mean I was a multi-millionaire, and I would pay those taxes with a huge smile on my face and then enjoy my vacation in Fiji, without any resentment whatsoever.

Easy come, easy go. When you are productive enough to earn a salary of several millions of dollars, your tolerance for being extorted disproportionately because of your productivity might be different. You might also be upset at the wastefulness of those institutions and individuals who performed the extortion and spent your money unwisely.
If the world is quickly changing then holding onto a bunch of sinking ships might not make a lot of sense. Look at a lot of the S&P 500 stocks. How many old world companies are potential targets for disrupting.

Look at oil. It isn’t in a good spot. Some of the largest companies used to be oil companies. But not anymore by market cap. They are still paying dividends while losing money. How? They are taking loans out. At a certain point that stops and more investors wake up.

But my time horizon in 5 to 10 years when picking investments.
I feel interviews are to blame. The interview is a place where doing this is often not OK. It signals to folks that that is expected day to day.
The slogan is the great reset. I wonder if it helps the elite to chose an authoritarian country. Makes them very trustworthy to find a reset.
I’m not clear why it wouldn’t be easier to line the ship with melanin. You’d be able to make a denser layer than with the fungus, even dried and compressed. And you could incorporate some of it into the structure, reducing the weight penalty.
Bookmarked, thank you
It's a violation of the fourth amendment. I'd consider it an unreasonable search.
For what it is worth, I have the Sennheiser Momentum Bluetooth headset.

I am an audio weirdo who used a lot of professional headphones over the years, and I like the Sennheiser sound. Too often have I been disappointed by "premium brands" that are not really in the business of designing headphone drivers and so their sound is subpar.

These Sennheiser headphones switch sources automatically, they are made from metal and leather, they sound great, they have all the battery I need and, most importantly for me, they have actual buttons. After using other headphones without buttons, I can't tell you how much better I like that "feature".

I think Apple can make headway with noise cancellation, battery and ergonomics. That will be enough for most people.

However, for myself, I am most curious if they will actually sound good, especially given that their marketing quip on that topic is - well let's call it "more than a few empty phrases".

Let's see!
Wouldn’t we have heard about this more from evidence presented in courts though? Like surely this is quantifiable if they’re actionably using ill-gotten evidence to prosecute.
It’s a propos that this article took ~10 seconds to load for me the first time, but <1 second the second time and <1 second again with the cache cleared. Unfortunately I didn’t have dev tools open to figure out why.
I'm sure I'm one of many who would be interested in knowing more about this, are you aware of any open sources on this?
I bet the majority those non hater people using InteliJ don't pay for it, and the enterprise customers are the majority of their paying customers, and most likely they also get some money from godfather Google thanks to Android Studio and Kotlin.

Speaking of which, if eventually Google ends up buying them, lets see how much love is left.
> The "ellipse" function should only take 2 arguments - a point and a size (or 2 points if that's your thing).

How do you handle ellipses with different eccentricities?

There are several equivalent representations of ellipses, one of which is the two foci and the sum of the distances from the edge to the two foci... so two points and a distance (or you could use two points and the major axis, etc., etc.) A pair of points don't uniquely define one ellipse. Likewise, a center and a "size" doesn't uniquely define an ellipse.
That's funny, I was just playing around with making popup-ads in README.md this weekend!

https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/tektronix.html
Amazon Fire tablets and Fire TV use Android without the Google parts and seem to be pretty successful.
no sign-up without a gmail account? c'mon man!
Email seems simple to you, but in fact it's an incredibly complicated protocol, so software treating it is likely to have many (exploitable) bugs. Also, there are attachments. Those are the classical way to hack many places.

Even if you got all of the issues caused by e-mails figured out, somehow you have to transfer them from one network to another. You'll either have to poke holes into your firewall or use USB sticks.

My point is: even in airgapped networks you usually want to exchange some data. The moment you want to exchange data, you have a path where a virus can be smuggled in.
Politics, NIMBY, risks of accidents, and radioactive materials pollution are unsolved problems. You could argue it’s sociology than engineering but a problem nonetheless.

I think nukes is the future but nukes belong in space; just build some fission on high orbit to perfect fusion, and bring the meat down over microwave or as bulk hydrocarbons or whatever that works.

Solar system has unlimited free meal supplies of raw materials on first-come-first-serve basis. It’s been said that extraterrestrially constructed spacecraft can be launched for free merely by gently pushing it out of dockyard, or at most shooting out of a maglev train, for at least half a century.

So build some gigantic fission satellites in space!
New versions of OS X and macOS have been released as full versions, but in OS X (ie 10.##) the App Store and System Preferences methods are absolutely in-place upgrades. Big Sur is actually a full system update via any method.

"For I'm not sure how long, OS installations have been effectively click and..." agree to legal contract titled 'Terms and Conditions' that, if anyone read them, would clarify a TON of technical misconceptions and speculations (but ironically does not provide much legal clarity).

I've recently installed OS X 10.10 - macOS 11.0 dozens of times each with no eyes or hands, and at least one of the people involved was frustrated every single time. People shouldn't have to have experience installing every release of the last fifteen years to install the latest without struggling.
Just do your linking in a final build step that 1: Only reads in object files and resources (ie rejects source code); 2: Bundles up all the object files into an archive; 3: Outputs the final executable alongside the archive.

You mentioned LTO. Don't the LLVM and GCC LTO implementations currently involve outputting compiler IR to object files, then running the optimization passes against the full collection of object files prior to linking? So they inherently collect all the object files together in a linkable form.

(Of course, it's probably more efficient to just dynamically link Qt and pay for a license if you want to publish for iOS.)
This prioritization of issues (where for a rational actor, economics will most often be at the top), is why democratic republic systems don't allow democracy to permeate less "important" issues.

Citizens don't get to vote on how much surveillance they want, they chose from 2 big bundles of unrelated positions, with surveillance-related positions buried within. The 2 parties might both have unpopular opinions on surveillance, the issue is comparatively not pressing enough to have any influence on their candidacy.
Chin-chin, How a Chinese drinking toast became popular in Europe
While QE is around, banks and rich people will need somewhere to stash the ‘free’ money government is giving them.

Bonds and cash have negative real rates nowadays so the only thing they can do is pump up equities, real estate and alternative investments.
Combine that with the breakthrough in protein folding and mRNA vaccines and we could have a rapid pipeline for custom, targeted immunotherapies for not just new bugs, but new cancers.
I got a kitty. She was very scared at first, and when I adopted her, she greeted me by drawing blood. But I knew she was scared, and we have built a genuine bond through the months stuck inside.

I also grew three avocado plants from seed. I gave them names: Hope, Courage, and Strength. I hope both of these will last for many years after.
'feel' and 'like' are pretty much in the same boat here, I think. I mean is the person you're responding to really going to claim to like something which doesn't feel good (esp. since it's about themes, and the OLED mention)?
I'd take 50 years in a heartbeat. I'm barely Linux literate and I have many many more pressing things to do than upgrade servers.

If you want to know more I wrote about it in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25348914
Loans should not be federally guaranteed. Let them default.
I have observed my wife writing her PhD in M$ word, and indeed when editing either pictures or references the whole pages would shift, requiring post editing all subsequent sections.
When I was writing mine I used markdown with pandoc to compile to either LaTex or pdf. When we compared our processes we approached the ground that text rendering shall be done separately exactly for the reasons of editing, as well as reference handling.
Unfortunately, when she started she wasn’t exposed to those methods, nor by university; and the steep learning curve did not allow to switch in time. Those addressed points will much likely make the experience of writing on scientific topics much more pleasurable and efficient.
There are winners and losers. People have a finite amount of disposable income and apparently most spend it all. You'll see the world change before your eyes again in 2021 when that disposable income starts shifting back towards other sectors of the service industry.. And when the rent comes due.
Currently prevailing constitutional law is that the right to privacy is an unenumerated right, one that is not explicitly set out in the Constitution but follows from common law and what the Constitution does say, especially the 4th and 5th Amendments [1]. That is the basis for Roe vs Wade, and so there's been a 40 year-long struggle by conservative lawyers that threatens this right.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_to_Privacy_(article)
I'd consider it an unreasonable search as well, but I'd also like to hear a court agree with me.
I've got student loans myself, quite a lot. However when I asked for them I made sure that the profession I choose is profitable enough that I will be able to repay them.

I'd never ask other people to repay it for me, not would I ask my government. I'm an adult and take responsibility for my actions.
It is possible to use plain TeX when using pandoc inside markdown documents.
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>If you only listened to one song in a month, should that band get your full subscription cut?

Yes, totally. That's why I pay my subscription.

>What if you listened to no songs, but didn't cancel?

Then the money from those should be put in a pool and handed to artists with actual streams that month, proportionally...
That is exactly my point of view. Good luck keeping it that way.
This stuff has been collected for as long as Facebook have offered pixels, widgets and SDK's for webmasters and devs to use on their sites/apps.
Not if it were part of the secret court proceedings happening under the same pretenses.
Triple negation in your opening sentence; impressive. I had to read it a number of times. Are you sure it says what you intended to say?
Honestly I was disappointed as hell with my airpods. I have to re-pair them every time I use them (often multiple times.) no matter if its with a mac, an android phone, a linux pc, or whatever. its pairing sucks. if anyone wants to buy this wait until you've verified from other people that it pairs well with your devices. a 500 USD headset SHOULD be able to connect well for that price and if it doesn't its most certainly flawed... note: that im using an earlier version of airpods so maybe this flaw is absent in later airpods? but i thought id share this negative experience
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this focuses on SRE parts which are not taught explicitly/comprehensively.
Four Kinds of Cargo (2012)
>What if you didn't just listen to one band for a month? If you mostly listened to one band, but then also to another band just once, should it be 50:50? If not, then you're somehow going by number of plays.

Going by ratio of plays of bands I listened to makes total sense.

That being difficult, even a 50:50 between my 100 streams band and one I listed for 1 stream is still better that sending those money to third bands...
New Logitech master mouse I bought does it really well. One button under to switch between three computers.
That said... I really hope we can move away from Bluetooth, it’s the least reliable and most errorprone thing on todays computers.
Your comment seems more about Christopher Hitchens than about Mother Teresa. Are we supposed to be shocked that the poster boy for anti-theism disliked Mother Teresa?
And as we all know, FreeBSD has enjoyed plenty of Apple contributions upstream.

Without GPL, all commercial UNIXes would be around and Linux would be just another school clone.
As someone living in an ex-soviet controlled state, I find it very offensive that you think the state won't ever use the data against a little cog.

They do. We even have a museum about the terror commited against the everyday tiny little cogs.
> Are large feminist organizations making those misandry statements

The official position of NOW on family law and the rights of fathers to have any sort of contact with their children when a divorce happens (much less the idea of fathers getting custody) has generally been pretty abysmal.

I can't find a current public position from them on the topic, so maybe they've gotten better. One can hope.
As someone that's been in wallstreetbets for 7 years. The memes were always there, and that community has been glorifying losses for a long time. Mostly around options bets during earnings season.

The only thing that has changed lately is that trading options become free. Options used to be prohibitively expensive. Oh yeah and a couple people killed themselves, the irony here being that people stop blaming the trader and blame the broker after the trader self harms? Convincing. But it definitely helped bring the attention from everyone that figured they had slightly better self preservation skills and could understand how settlement works.

I'm glad undercapitalized people stopped gravitating towards penny stocks.
This thread title is undergoing changes a lot of times
Sorry if it came off defensive, it was supposed to be a compliment to Paul and recognition of the different stages of the projects. I didn't see it as Paul attacking us in any way. I added that line because I was worried that someone would think I was attacking Paul's work. Paul was clear about what he was doing, his limited tools and limited budget. Further, as someone who builds hardware, I know how tough it is to get anything to work at all but I also know not everyone get that.
Because BSD is older than GNU, and NeXTSTEP was based on BSD.
To be fair, the Linux ecosystem isn't backed by billions of USD.
So you can expect some problems with hardware drivers that aren't given support by OEMs.
What if you have security glass as windows? Most of my windows go all the way to the floor (modern house), and so had to be security glass (regulation in Belgium, don't know if it's needed anywhere else). It's not extremely expensive, and gives an extra roadblock for burglars.
I am fairly certain from context that by "we", he means "white collar professionals in the US/Canada/Europe who make a very comfortable salary and have all of their essential material needs already met by an overabundance of choice"

But I also wouldn't say that shopping for cute handmade weird custom things is essentially an activity of some extreme elite. Once people in any culture have lots of disposable income they'll do it. Here's a video from a few days ago of shopping for traditional hand made jewlery in Kabul, Afghanistan. Language is Dari. Farsi/Persian speakers should understand it OK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LelKUITywE&feature=emb_titl...

If there were a sufficiently large population of Afghans with a reliable, secure online payment method, and HSPA+/HSDPA/LTE data services on their android phones, I have no doubt that those products would show up on the Dari language version of Etsy. At present probably less than 1% of people nationwide have any form of credit or debit card.
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Can personalised nutrition finally go mainstream?
A bit off topic, but I’ve always considered Apple the Disney of tech. What they put out is consistently good, and sometimes even great. While other studios might put out a better movie from time to time than Disney, their batting average is consistently higher than everyone else.

The same with Apple. With few exceptions, I can walk into an Apple store and buy an arbitrary product and be assured that it’s, at the minimum, good. Contrast with someone like Samsung who has great products but also really bad products. I can’t pull a random Samsung out of a hat and be convinced that I’ll like it.
Probably service workers. If the site has a service worker the traditional cache-busting hard refresh is just a normal refresh.