skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, that was a lot of meandering I had to read through before Harris actually got to the point I think you're referencing. But I don't see him present any evidence. He starts by hand-waving away people who believe the opposite of what he believes, and then just basically says "only about 1000 people in total are killed by cops in the US every year, so this is a non-problem". Which... no, sorry, that's not how it works. And the thing he links to literally has a section heading titled "Black Americans are killed at a much higher rate than White Americans".

... and then he goes on for many paragraphs about several police shootings of black men, and how awful and unjustified they are, so... he seems to agree after all that this is a problem? Finally, he tries to muddy the waters by essentially claiming black people seem to "deserve it" more, because apparently black people are involved in more crime than white people? Which, again, doesn't seem to be very well supported by data.

So... I don't really get why you're using this link to try to refute what I said, because it does not do that, at least not in a logically consistent, evidence-based manner.

> But your claims aren’t back by data either.

I believe they are. Let's look at some actual data that we can easily read, rather than attempting to extract something useful from a meandering 15,000 word podcast transcript that rambles on forever.

This[0] shows that out of all US police shooting deaths from 2107 through now, 27% were of black people, and 49% were of white people. But black people only make up only 13% of the US population, while white people make up 60%, so that sounds pretty disproportionate against black people to me.

But this data is only for shooting deaths; likely someone like George Floyd, for example, wouldn't be counted in that data as he wasn't shot.

So let's take a look at this study[1] from last year (reported on here[2]) that suggests blacks are 2.5 times more likely to be killed by police than whites.

I could go on, but I'll let you educate yourself further if you're so inclined; "police killings statistics by race" is the search I used.

> people echoing talking points completely divorced from the data, as you have done.

I don't believe that's what I've done; Harris' own views seem completely divorced even from what little data he presents, if one can be expected to actually find data in that nightmare of a transcript.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-de...

[1] https://www.pnas.org/content/116/34/16793

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-06/race-and-...
i would prefer "bust" for state-owned space agencies.

if anyone's interested to go to Mars, contribute money or labor to a private project or create your own.

there's absolutely no reason why an earth based government would use its taxpayer funds for BS activities outside its borders (in outer space, in fact - total lunacy - no pun intended), while the same organizations cannot fix roads or anything else for that matter, while they continue to take money for such services.

take your own money, give it to private companies and explore space on your own dime if that's what you want to do. how can anyone be so clueless to call for more government spending, let alone on such nonsense?
CL used to support RSS search feeds.

They quietly dropped those this past September.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24840310

https://forums.craigslist.org/?ID=309670165

https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=searchFrameMaker&SQ=rss&f...

https://forums.craigslist.org/?act=searchFrameMaker&SQ=rss&f...

Even the demo feeds are mostly broken: https://www.craigslist.org/about/rss
The suggestions change based on what you watch, though. YouTube shows me lots of accordion videos.

It doesn't have to be mainstream to get the flywheel started, just well-liked by some niche.
I also like GNOME, but only with a couple of extensions installed. It totally blows my mind that the way Dash to Dock works is not the default behavior.
> I'm not going to .., beyond stating..

So basically, you only want to state your own opinion, and not hear the many that disagree with you?

Then why not put it on a personal blog, rather than a site intended for discussion?
> "For educational purposes you may read its source code, but you may use it only within my web site."

Nicely put, fair enough license terms :)
The one thing I wonder, can you explain why the Vue wrapper around React Native (https://github.com/GeekyAnts/vue-native-core/stargazers) seems to be more popular than Vue NativeScript (https://github.com/nativescript-vue/nativescript-vue/stargaz...)? I’m confused by why Vue developers of all people would use a Facebook/React stack for native development, so I assumed there had to be some advantage to using React Native.
Long time Linux user, not much of a programmer for context, but.

Gnome 3 literally shouldn't even be called "Gnome." Probably MATE should. It's not that you have to keep every little thing, sometimes you do have to backwards break; e.g. sure, Python 3 is still Python. But Gnome's model broke so much that it really shouldn't have kept the name.
as pornstars?
In this case it actually means the executable has a signature that's been revoked. This can be bypassed by running:

codesign --remove-signature Nv2-Mac.app/Contents/MacOS/Flash\ Player
> It's called the patriarchy for a reason

That reason being, this is what many feminists think. And the rest of society don't call it the patriarchy for a reason too.

There are plenty female Catholics, even if there priests aren't (what about nuns?), Politicians/police follow societal cues. AFAIK, nofap has little to do with disdain for porn, and the people involved hardly represent society.

> as explaining how the current social system is organized

highlighting that the industry is run by men is otherwise irrelevant; unless you are blaming this fact as relevant.

> Not understanding that

There is nothing to "understand", this is just your opinion, not established fact. People do indeed make jokes about "fragile masculinity" etc - and those people are feminists, and there are plenty of jokes at their expense too (and afaik "snowflake" is usually applied to the left).
The pages are considerably optimised, including dithering images: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about.html
To be charitable, you could call it misleading laziness. But the article was published long after all the papers were de-anonymized, so it seems perverse to explain that the submissions were originally anonymous instead of just giving the authors' names.

Furthermore, the journalist managed to write an entire article about a workshop without once naming it, giving a link, or even defining backpropagation.

Edit: I want to say that I understand it's hard to cover an area that you're not an expert in. But if the journalist had googled the title of the articles he was writing about, he would have found the authors' names. Instead he gave the reader the impression that the articles are still anonymous.
I was referring to hard drugs! Legalize cocaine, duh!
> Isn't an iterator that outputs data to its recipient container not an iterator, but rather some type of filling API?

Sure, but it makes sense for this api to have the same interface as an iterator so that existing iterators can be used without an adapter.

> Isn't a random access iterator not an iterator but rather a slice view?

It is an iterator that supports additional functions. You can use a random access oterators with functions that take output iterators, forward iterators, multipass iterators etc. Of you had untelated concepts for each use case the system would be more complex.

> Isn't a contiguous iterator a leaky abstraction in that an iterator is just an interface that shouldn't expose how the data backing it is stored?

Seeing thought abstractions and specializing algorithms is what makes STL style generic code efficient.

And it is not inconsistent at all. Stepanov has written in grat details about the theoretical fundations of his design.
It has been proven to be a weak point in their implementation with previous exploits, and it's likely to be the case here - it's a good guess at least.

Will be interesting to read a write-up.
That’s not entirely correct. Mine’s running Catalina and was running the latest version of Xcode as of late summer, which is the last time I powered it on. Big Sur just dropped support for this model.

See: https://eshop.macsales.com/guides/Mac_OS_X_Compatibility

But you’re right that this means this particular model’s days are numbered. Shame! The quad-core Mini from this era still works quite well!
> However, feminism is a (very) broad church

and yet, feminists will talk about feminism in overall positive terms without qualification. If it's a broad church, it can't be all positive.
I had a company offer to arrange a purchase of some of my (non-public) stock as I was leaving. They knew of an investor that wanted to own more shares and brokered a price that was well above the most recent 409a, so I was able to exercise everything and sell off exactly enough to cover the tax consequences of my "gain." Not only did it let me exercise options to get stock without having to come up with a bunch of cash, but it gave me more confidence that I actually wanted the stock. Very cool move on the company's part, in my opinion. I have no idea how common this is.
I have Retina/HiDPI everything, but I still sorely miss the speed of a real text mode, and, for coding, would miss nothing about high-dpi font rendering.
For reference, here is the bug: https://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/3685

Reading further down, it's hard for me to see a demand there, I see a heads-up about an upcoming deprecation and a suggestion of what to do about it. The reason the system tray support was deprecated and removed eventually was because nobody was keeping it up-to-date.
Are you trying nightly builds? Or some suspicious distri (Like KDE Neon)?

KDE is rock stable in my experience. Runs for weeks or sometimes even month (between kernel update reboots) without any crash or this like.

I'm running Debian Testing. So it's usually not the newest release of the desktop. I guess this makes it so rock solid for me.

Anecdotical story regarding stability of a DE: I had to use Windows 10 lately. I think the compositor crashes quite often if one has to may open windows. :-D
In Mandarin, 好久不见 háo jiǔ bú jiàn. It's not really word-for-word; the Mandarin version breaks down as very-longtime-no-see.
I was reading this comment dozens of times while trying to understand its implications.

When reflecting on myself, I think I have problems with both cognitive and affective empathy. From my perspective it's hard to differ between those because I think a lot of what makes the "reactibility of a person" is intertwined and feels like a really complicated maze that needs exploration to find a potential solution.

The problem is though, that when you try to explore "this maze" in a situation; usually people get very upset for me behaving not in an appropriate manner. So I guess that it's very hard to figure out when these exploration parts are appropriate; and when they are not.

> leaving them susceptible to being tricked, or unable to pick up on, say, whether or not a person is interested in dating them.

A lot of times in life people tend to exploit your character; and even when you realize it's just friendship or a distanciated acquaintance relationship the hard part is still saying no when people ask for your help. Oh so often you help them; and when you need their help once for a little thing like helping you to move something around - years later - they're suddenly not your friends anymore.

I often think that what keeps my sanity intact is "keeping a score" subconsciously... how often I helped or made space for somebody; and how often they did. While this is the jerk part to other people; it's a necessity for me to not get exploited by others again.
I think a more subtle, and perhaps salient, question is how many people not trying to sell something understand what's important? It's very easy to mistrust the motives of someone trying to do customer education.

You're right. It's obvious that price isn't the only signal. But perhaps it's more readily comprehensible in many cases, especially when other signals are potentially less trustworthy.
I tiny codebase means there's less to maintain.
Lode Runner 3D was pretty cool, with some imaginative and surreal art.
Do you think offensive black hats employed by governments aren't closely monitored by their employers?

It doesn't matter whether the attacker works for China, Russia, the US, whoever – they are likely sitting in a very secure building owned by a military branch or intelligence agency, absolutely everything they do is closely monitored by their superiors (spy agencies love to spy on their own spies), they aren't allowed to take personal electronic devices into the building and they are physically searched on entry and exit.

Do you think, working in that kind of environment, they'll find it easy to steal their target's bitcoin?

Do you think their superiors will look kindly on agents compromising operations for personal financial gain?
I would not extend this situation to every desktop environment.
Capitalism should not see gender or race differences nor be forced to buy from certain suppliers of... Buy from the best service provider to meet your needs. Full stop.
Thank you for sharing this one. I was looking for a course like this! BTW this course is now offered on edx.
If you're using an old enough MacOS X (I think 10.12 or older), DTrace has similar functionality. Unfortunately it has been broken in recent MacOS versions, at least unless you disable SIP.
Except going into caves is a valid survival strategy because caves are naturally warm. If you had no heat at the surface, going subterranean would make sense to sell warmth.

They weren't going into caves to die, quite the contrary, they were going into the caves to survive.
Yup. When the price at the end of the day is negative, you get money both when you originally sell, and also when you later buy.
Handling input options and displaying output is a little easier in python. It also let's you hack the tools quick and run any changes instantly.
> This is because since it's on a single line, it is all buffered (packed) before we get it.

Usually. Depending on the environment. It's probably worth pointing out here that Python isn't controlling that buffering - print could have its own buffer, and it could be read that way, but it doesn't.

And buffering-to-newline is a common behaviour, but not necessarily a guaranteed behaviour. You may still wish to flush after a newline, depending on the platform.

Unless you're in REPL, in which case Python often tells the environment how it would like it to buffer, as part of the readline implementation.
The change from GNOME 1 to 2 was much greater than the change from 2 to 3, and there were people who complained (and attributed malice to GNOME contributors) on both occasions.

The project has a point of view: that software freedom should be accessible and usable for everyone.

If that doesn't excite you, cool. But it has improved the entire FLOSS / Linux stack over the last couple of decades, whether you use GNOME or not.
If morals aren't relative, which ones are correct?

To me, moral relativism means that I understand other people have different morals than mine and I have to respect that. It's not some excuse to toss morals out the window.
FWIW, I have a PinePhone and Plasma is just all-around superior to Phosh; faster, more responsive, and uses less battery. I don't even like KDE, but such as it is, Gnome on mobile is not great.

Ten years of pushing touch UI design on us, and it's... Still five to ten years undercooked.
You seem to have mixed up an objection to the API with an objection to the user of the word "iterator" for something a bit more general than the normal/original meaning. That conflation isn't terribly helpful. Words can have more than one meaning. So long as everyone's on the same page, that's OK.
> Files are not stored on the disk, but are uploaded to the peer-to-peer IPFS network instead.

IPFS is just a fetching tool, when you "upload" to an IPFS node your files are just sitting on your local disk until someone else requests them. It's not cloud storage.
Are there $100 or $500 commercial units? The best reviewed rice cooker by America's Test Kitchen is $30.
I miss the ability to gift an important post with something like Reddit gold...some sort of double plus to indicate something personally valuable to this particular reader...very nice.
I'd argue Canadian software engineers are lower class
It could impair prosperity for Asians. Comparing raw average income alone isn't sufficient to settle the question. Consider the counterfactual possibility that Asians might be even more prosperous with even higher income if not for structural racism. I fact, it seems that Asians do make as much as 8% less than others in comparable jobs [0] though that difference may disappear somewhat for Asians born in the US, indicating a more complex dynamic than discrimination on appearance alone.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_pay_gap_in_the_United_S...
I get the error "simul -- Bad symbol namespace".
Lighthouse Winter Video
It's worth it to try to implement in a low and high level language, to see the huge differences in how they can be implemented. We all know "C is fast" but it takes a project like this to go "OH. It's because the high level language is abstracting me into a corner." It was a trip when I first realized how much high level languages can limit you.
Whenever I hear statements like "incredibly complex and sophisticated attack" I'm reminded of the 2011 Comodo (now Sectigo) hack where the company said it had "clinical accuracy" and "likely to be a [Iranian] state-driven attack".

Days later, the perpetrator released a "manifesto" (and several other documents) all but confirming that it was the work of a lucky amateur.

Moxie (of Signal fame) has a hilarious account of the story in his 2011 Blackhat talk "SSL and the future of authenticity" (starts at around 5:00):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UawS3_iuHoA
Cool read
You can still simulate the old ways without electrical circuits. Just put one of these seemingly primordial devices on your stove and adjust the heat and time to your likening.

http://www.umic-all.com/products/kinsei_kamadaki/index.html
If somebody likes Doom, that’s basically the polar opposite of "story-rich, choices-matter game” — in the opening scene of Doom (2016), an NPC attempts to deliver some plot via video call; to which the player character responds by punching the computer screen and immediately going back to shooting demons in the face :P
German has no word for "silly". "Funny", "stupid", et c, yes, but no "silly".
I did a bit more research, and found that it wasn't an official SolarWinds GitHub repo. It seems to have been an employee's personal repo containing company code that they accidentally made public.[1]

The original URL of the file with credentials in it was https://github.com/xkozus00/mib-importer/blob/master/Src/Lib... .[2] That is, the credentials were part of a utility/library that was only being referenced by the project, but it was still included in the repo.

SolarWinds historically hasn't provided a tool to import arbitrary MIB files into their product. Customers seem to submit them to SolarWinds support, and if support agrees, they seem to use internal tooling (presumably the mib-importer) to import them into the official MIB database.[3]

Building some sort of official release data could easily require the use of a signing key, and a company that uses "solarwinds123" as their code-publishing password seems likely to use the same key for multiple purposes, but I didn't find any conclusive evidence, and it's certainly possible the two incidents aren't related.

[1] https://savebreach.com/solarwinds-exposed-ftp-credentials-ba...

[2] The Wayback machine has a few entries archived, but none of the interesting/conclusive information, see: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://github.com/xkozus00/mi...*

[3] https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/NPM/c...
Alternatively, we could get the boot tape out and rebuild the root filesystem, but neither James nor Neil had done that before, and we weren't sure that the first thing to happen would be that the whole disk would be re-formatted, losing all our user files.

I've not used Unix on an early VAX before, but every other OS I've used, including DOS, Windows, Linux, and macOS has the option to use a "recovery mode" shell if you boot from the OS installation media.
I have read a developer complained that Windows Phone/Mobile development was the most annoying one (foobar2000 developer, he was developing for Windows 10 Mobile). Also the closed source nature of Windows (Microsoft only open Windows Phone source code to Nokia with Windows Phone 8) makes Nokia phones hard to differentiate, the gap between Windows Phone releases, as the usual Windows releases was 3 years apart while Android was improving every year.
Ah. In that case, while I certainly respect your opinion that user freedom is by far the most important thing, I don't share that opinion, so we're likely not going to agree on the rest.
It doesn't help the situation that a Thunderbolt port's icon is a bolt of lightning.
You mean like secret service agents: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/former-secret-service-a...
There have always been radical people on both the Left and Right over the decades. But how much traction do those radicals have on getting elected politicians and on actual policy?

It used to be that the GOP had little time for people like the John Birch Society. Now there are Qanon 'followers' (?) being elected under the auspices of the GOP party ticket.

Vox's Ezra Klein recently released a book on the matter (I have not yet read it), and going from this review, while there has been a shift on the Left, it is still the case in 2020 that the problem is generally asymmetric, and the majority has been on the right:

* https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/05/polarization-republi...

After all: there are people on the Right talking about a martial law and a military coup to 'correct' the election results.
Interesting. I used text mode daily for many years on a succession of 3 PCs and did not notice any slowness when I switched to graphics mode (around 2006). I am pretty sure graphics mode is slower, and I didn't notice only because the slowdown does not bother me.

Similarly, when I switched from Terminal.app to Emacs's shell mode for interacting with Bash, I didn't mind the fact that it was much slower (because "cursor control characters" and ANSI color codes are processed by Emacs byte code rather than much faster objective C code) whereas other users here on HN find Emacs shell mode unusably slow.

I am usually the first person to be annoyed (e.g., by the flicker from many brands of LED bulbs) so it is refreshing to find a tech trend that annoys someone else before it annoys me because I have the luxury of sitting back and watching them lobby for reform before the trend continues far enough to annoy me :)
It's very strange to qualify the "of color" designation on the basis of socioeconomic parity.

Are multi generational pockets of poverty-stricken caucasians granted "of color" status by Thurston County?
A middle class is a political choice. The post war rise of the middle class was because of conscious policy choices made by the architects of the new deal and their successors.

The policies that supported the middle class have just been slowly undone in the wake of the Reagan “Revolution”
Everything is rallying to new highs. Tech stocks are doubling or tripling up in a quarter, or even just a month, just based on a single earnings beat.
> In JP it’s commonly called “flavor salt”

In China, 味精, "essence of flavor".
The official docs say the same thing in fewer words:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#print

I definitely recommend the official Python docs. They are well written, and you'll find lots of useful nuggets like this.