skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This "looking the other way if it's my guy" attitude towards violence as reached an unacceptable level. The Left and Right are both equally guilty in my view. You want to stop Systemic Racism, then end the fscking war on drugs. You want to stop White Supremacists, then perhaps we need to teach our children the simple universal spiritualist ideas such that people are to be judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin. People with money and power WANT Americans at each other's throats. It diverts the attention from how they have sold out our manufacturing base and jobs for short term profits.
You have no clue what they care about.
Sure, and people in that space do care more. But it's clearly not a blocker, even for the stuff you're talking about. It's not a hard requirement to get Rust code into Linux, for example. (Not to mention what my sibling talks about, which is very much already true.)
Apparently they are taking some sort of award from Darwin instead. ;)
the vast majority didn't know what was happening because they weren't even at the Capitol. According to the videos I have seen, there were people blocking the chokepoints so that others couldn't interfere with the ones who were breaching the door.
I share anything I think may help someone. There are times people don’t want my advice or help and I’m getting better at identifying that, so in those cases giving the Golden advice is saying nothing at all. I do this because I like seeing other people’s lives improve, even if it’s something trivial like how to get the most use out of a bar of soap :D
This is where I think Apple does really well by having lots of small teams that each focus on a particular product area (Calendar, Remote Desktop, etc).

Teams have very limited scope in exchange for enormous autonomy. “Inmates run the asylum” as my former manager put it.
I think some elements of the "I'm an engineer, this is numbers, I can do numbers, I can do this"-itis seems to flair up quite a lot on HN in particular because it self-selects a certain type of person.

I do like it here but it really makes me laugh sometimes.
I wonder, would these bans would have happened if the Republicans maintained control of the senate?
Twitter is flooded with calls for violence 24/7. Exclusively left wing celebrities openly call for violence all the time on there, nobody does anything about it. That has been going on for the past four years non-stop.

Actor Peter Fonda called for violently assaulting Trump's underage child on Twitter in 2018 (his account was not permanently banned), and that's very typical posting from leftist celebrities on Twitter these past four years.

Thousands of violent posts were in the "Hang Mike Pence" Twitter trend that was going on the other day. People have been openly calling for executions for treason and similar on Twitter in relation to the Capitol riots. There was widespread cheering and celebrating when that woman got shot in the neck by Capitol Police, I read thousands of Tweets that were literally cheering for her death, all on Twitter, and nobody gives a fuck.

The double standard by Twitter is beyond disgusting. It's psychopath behavior.
> I recall every news outlet spending bottles of ink explaining how massive BLM protests somehow weren't spreading covid but now the capitol protests are

It's actually been reported that a covid-positive individual was clustered with members of congress during the evacuation. I don't know why you think that isn't correct to report.
this was such a valuable post, raising questions about a shady mysterious new player that all other coverage had just skipped right over. so powerfully good. I think of it semi regularly.
Please normalize Remote First, fully asynchronous patterns and designs for work.
They may or may not have a point about whether or not some academic pursuits are fact based.

But their leap to "if X is banned and Y is similar to X and Y isn't banned then X can't be banned" is still wrong because it is not the similarities between X and Y that is causing X to be banned.

It is the fact that X is being used to inspire violent opposition to the government that is the source of the banning.

Or to make it much less abstract:

A bunch of people broke into one of the most important buildings in the US government, killed a police officer and wounded others who were trying to stop them, stole stuff including computers belong to high ranking government officials, broke stuff, humiliated the government, and had every appearance of being willing to cause physical harm to political leaders because of X.

X was supported by social media.

Social media hosts reasonably concluded that the government may cause them to suffer negative consequences if they did not do something to prevent this from happening again.

Because of Y, some people have gotten into fights on the internet and a few individuals have found their employment and social options constrained. The government is not nearly as interested in this.
Why would you gripe that a person uses your software but cares too much?
Error budgets and the legacy of Herbert Heinrich
We had a non-stick wok that showed up one day somehow (now there's a dichotomy and abomination rolled into one) and it's starting to flake. I'm really strongly considering carbon steel as a replacement, I've hardly used cast iron either and think it's time to take the plunge and convert.

One tip to add that the cast iron griddle maker gave me in the manual was to avoid putting lots of cold water on it while it's hot. You can wash soon after cooking, but use hot water. Otherwise it can warp.
In the same way designating certain market actors (whether they are private or not) as utilities would stifle their free speech. The best examples would be the telcos, water, electricity and post offices. Regardless of criminal past or ideological stance, these entities must serve all members of society, with the only caveat being on the condition of nominal payment.

This is the turning point where as a society, we need to decide where the new line for utilities needs to be, and what parts of the internet and financial systems are fundamental to maintaining the fabric of society.

What ever we decide at this crossroads, may end up haunting us for a very long time.
Well, my cast iron was a wedding present that my grandparents got in the 40s, so it didn't come "preseasoned", but it's also had 70-odd years of continuous use.

It's probably got "seasoning" on it, but it also is not at all "seasoned" in the sense that for example this article or the person I was replying to is meaning.
Wow, as someone who spent a handful of years drinking like a fish... I can attest, there is some very strong truth in that paragraph.

I agree completely, wish I would have learned it sooner.
Recently I had a discussion about an SV company with a friend in Texas. I mentioned to him, the company X is going to do great as they hire very good engineers. His question was - "what does that have to do good engineers?" Go figure ...
It's not clear why you'd consider our species particularly interesting for a reason other than intelligence. According to much of human history and culture this is what differentiates us from other animals.
As a liberal in big tech, I can assure you the primary motivation is that we are

1. horrified by trump, always have been
2. aren't concerned that trump will unilaterally end our business if we oppose him anymore
3. are extremely concerned about american democracy and our lives, given the way trump has convinced almost half the country that the election was rigged, which has encouraged them to almost kill an entire branch of our government

AND BEAT ONE POLICE OFFICER TO DEATH WITH AN AMERICAN FLAG WHILE CHANTING THE MUTATIONAL ANTHEM

we in big tech are not robots, sir.
Both sides have media working for them. Both are bias.

https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-ratings

The issue is people only ever consuming one side.
Lots of people are saved every year in car accidents while wearing a seatbelt.
Which is why I wear a seatbelt.
I’m sorry I’m not understanding the point you’re making, could you explain it in different terms for me?
Or that they were raised with the idea that if they want to get what a white person has, they will need to work twice as hard.
> As a software engineer, pleasant places to work at is where you are a problem solver, not a factory worker.

It’s not so cut and dried as that, now is it. The pressure from the expectation and need to bring leveraged value can be detrimental. sometimes, and highly dependent on the person, this is life destroying. factory work is fine for most people, i believe. even engineers.
It appears as if they started distancing themselves as soon as he lost. There was always a contingent of "Never Trumpers". Politicians are fickle.

It will be interesting to see what happens, more so because I expect widespread disillusionment from Trump republicans.
That’s just the tip of the ice berg... I call it the tyranny of project managers.

When I worked for a large multinational in SF, 100M+ users we operated very much in the “SV” style the article describes.

I got to see how our satellite offices in other parts of the world operate; EVERYTHING was in calendar, work was tracked in 15 minute intervals, meeting about meetings, and follow up meetings after the meeting, and a post mortum after. One project manager for every 3 engineers. Dealing with them I felt like I was looking some sort of Project Managers Gone Wild porn set

Then I moved away from the BA and found out most places are like this, it’s real bad
Are you saying all Republicans are fascists?
I’d argue it’s both. They’re acting in concert and not letting a good crisis go to waste.
Thank you both for pointing this out. I was unaware of this rule.
The SCSI2SD devices are what you're looking for in the case of SCSI disk replacement: https://store.inertialcomputing.com/SCSI2SD-s/100.htm
Wish somebody would tell that to the Emacs maintainers.
I think it has a lot to do with the two-party system. Many (most?) congressional districts are essentially locked to one party. Unless the incumbent did something egregious enough for their supporters to turn on them, why would their party not support them as their candidate? If they won by decent margin last time, they'll probably win again unless something major changed. Why make all the necessary investments to support a new candidate when it's cheaper and easier to support the incumbent? They would much rather put their money and time into the districts that might flip.
Big Banks to halt funding the Republicans who objected to the election results
They're just virtue signalling.
>Thinking about this design choice, I now wonder how many times I've had files mysteriously go missing on Windows and other operating systems simply because I used CTRL+X when I meant to use CTRL+C

Zero. If one CTRL+Xs accidentally, Windows and most Linux Desktop pickers change the highlight colour before the copy. At worst you can CTRL+Z it after or copy it back. It's not a 'destructive' operation since you always have one copy of the file.

It's a typical case of Apple deciding users are stupid and therefore should be limited, combined with the typical 'just everything Apple does' syndrome.
You really think there’s no one here who has studied law, politics, philosophy or history? Not everyone here is a big tech engineer. Not everything is black and white.
They're hostile to users who post bugs! It's an absolutely toxic developer community who rejects any reflection upon the quality of their product that could somehow indicate that there exists problems with their design vision.

It doesn't matter that they've made the UI harder to use for those with ability concerns, or that their market share is dwindling, or that they've steadily lost developers for most of a decade.

Everyone should give up and move on; I use MATE and am happy, others like Plasma and Xfce. There's plenty of vastly superior DEs with healthier developer attitudes.
Agreed. All dictators say this to their opposition - that they are just out to disrupt "peaceful" society. In China, "being peaced" is an internet slang that means silencing opposition by the government.
On the soap thing, I think a dishwasher is not OK since the soap is harsher. Can anyone confirm? I know there's also a risk of letting it sit and dry (i.e. rust) but that can be managed.
> armed mob

I donno if I'm just blind but I keep hearing 'armed' but I haven't seen any photos of the mob carrying guns or baseball bats as claimed by the media.

The only photo that showed anything was the guy climbing over the seats with zip-ties which were apparently taken from a bag left by a police offer?

Not saying you're wrong just feel like the photos / videos, vs what people are saying, seem to contradict each other.
Show HN: PH 2020 – A list of all the products featured on Product Hunt in 2020
Interesting, I'm having no issues here. Can you post the output in your browser's console as well as your OS, browser, & versions? Thank you! We also have a discord if you would like additional assistance! https://discord.gg/XWq3fgcRgs
It will likely be pleasant for the vast majority of people, who have no objectionable views one way or the other. It might even be better, not having to deal with the constant disruption.
I watched armed people storm the capitol with my eyes, as did many millions of Americans glued to their TVs and monitors that day.
What your missing is they are advocating for violence against people. Why is it is an issue to disrupt that?

No one is removing groups that say taxes should be lower. They are distancing them selves from a groups whose core policy is now attempt to violently overthrow the government because they lost an election. If I started discussing on this site how to kill government officials, I'd be banned pretty quick.
I'm inclined to agree with you. I realize that the term has been abused to the point of meaninglessness, but Fascist economics is defined by corporate monopolies in symbiosis with the state.
I'm all for making sensibly reasonable choices that eliminate pointless costs.

But somehow I also suspect that we're being incrementally led down a path of things shipped to us at lightning speed, that we didn't actually want or need, that raise the costs of everything else we buy, and contribute to the incredible amount of junk we have piling up in landfills, unrecyclable even though we're led to think they are.

I guess it also tells you how cheaply and at a profit things are being manufactured compared to what you pay for them, that they can absorb this kind of overhead.
> because they've almost inadvertently become modern journalistic entities

Perhaps not inadvertently..
As Chomsky[0] I think rightly points out, the suffering and grievances of trump supporters is real, but unfortunately they are unable to correctly identify the cause of their suffering. Evidence seems to support this as deaths of despair have been climbing over the past few decades[1]. This is something I rarely see mentioned in left news outlets, instead we are told trump supporters are only motivated by racial hatred.

[0] https://youtu.be/lJ84xM8YPpw?t=271

[1] https://i.imgur.com/ceAwn59_d.webp?maxwidth=1520&fidelity=gr...
>Blockchain, messaging no terrestrial sovereign can block.

But shooting down is certainly possible ?
Question before loading life saving in to spacecoins(tm).
Revoke Social Media's Legal Shield, but for the Right Reason
I am not saying it is better or worse, but I would say not one of them wants to be regulated as such. So they are setting themselves up for a result they are trying to avoid. Perhaps it is unavoidable, and actually for the better.
Gab does this- they run their own servers and payment processing. For better or for worse, they have remained online and seen a huge uptick in traffic [0] while Parler has been kicked off every cloud vendor. I suspect Gab will displace Parler as the QAnon crowd's platform of choice.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/gab-reports-growth-in-the-mi...
/reports gave me a 404 (or at least, "can't find what you are looking for" page) on icecatmobile (debranded firefox).
We've seen poll after poll for a couple decades showing that Fox News viewers have a weaker grip on the facts than other news consumers. And we've seen that the conservative movement in the US will cling to ideas that aren't embraced by any other major parties in the Western world. And that most Republicans will accept a lie like "the steal" with no evidence, and even despite ample evidence to the contrary.

I don't want to infantilize anyone, but I'm not going to pretend that most Trump supporters are fully understanding the facts but simply coming to different conclusions. They are clearly and proudly ignoring the facts.
> But political affiliation is not a protected class.

Just FYI, some countries have made it a protected class, e.g.: https://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1993/0082/latest/... (see 21(1)(j))
Information asymmetry is a motherfucker - and they have it all.
Conceptually all the pieces are there - modern computers have greatly enhanced capabilities and can obviously do much more - but you can often “black box” large segments of a modern when comparing to a classic.

And the classic computers run on “human scale” in that they can be understood both in the parts and a whole - perfect for learning.
I found this story pretty interesting -- on how it's largely the willingness and compliance of the students that sets whether you can keep classes going or not:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/world/asia/singapore-coro...
Because it wasn't a "revolution" or insurrection, that's inane. It was a bunch of bozos who rioted. What they did was just a massive embarrassment to the establishment that had written them off as buffoons.

Amusingly, we have decided NOT to use the word "insurrection" for the conversation Nancy Pelosi apparently had with the Joint Chiefs to subvert the nuclear chain of command based on nothing more than her personal whim. Stealing a podium? Sedition! Stealing nuclear launch codes? Meh.

Amazingly, this story is feeding on itself as it gets repeated. At first they were vandals, then insurrectionist...by next week they'll be an existential threat to life on Earth and people will be calling for the death penalty for everyone in attendance.

Control yourself people! The Bonus Army occupied the Capitol too and you've probably never even heard of them.

Fear not, the MAGAtards will be behind bars and the world will be safe for you to curl up with the writings of Trotsky delivered to your doorstep by someone earning minimum wage.
I think we should commit to opening borders completely by 20XX, like we have the Paris Climate Accord. That will force us to act.
There are instances where such freedoms are granted to individuals while on private property. However, it is limited to specific circumstances and only when a specific jurisdiction's laws require it.

Quickly looking this up brings me to the supreme court ruling, Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins [1], which involved laws that were specific to the state of California.

Notably, the applicability of this ruling was narrowed over time. Despite this, it has been brought up as an argument in situations with circumstances that differed from those of the original ruling, where questions of its applicability can be easily raised.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruneyard_Shopping_Center_v._R...
Haha, forgot about that. I was just learning how to code around that time, didn’t know better.
I'm surprised seeing these sort of comments on HN.

Implying Republican == fascist is the exact type of thinking this world doesn't need, and prevents any kind of nuanced discussion.
The CFR of COVID is less than 0.5%, and in the opinion of many wouldn't be worth the destructive shut-downs even if those shut-downs had the effect of preventing COVID deaths.
Few questions:
Have you compared the performance? With others (React,Vue etc)
Is it compatible with minification? Nothing breaks?
Better than the others in managing live dom elements?
It's all about the Benjamins. If they gave students enough forewarning they could pursue other options.
It's really unfortunately that you're getting whipsawed like this. With more warning you'd more easily be able to pursue internships or other opportunities. Out of curiosity, would you have been able to take the semester off had you known several weeks ago, vs now?

For context, the number of daily covid-19 cases has roughly doubled in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties over the last few weeks. That growth I imagine is the reason why the University administration pulled the plug :(
Biggest threat to whom?
Science in a High-Dimensional World
Mark Zuckerberg is selling a lot of Facebook shares in these days
The unified architecture, combined with the speed of the modules (4266 MHz LPDDR4X), combined with the close physical proximity to the CPU cores likely all contribute to the M1's memory performance.

In Apple's own words:

“M1 also features our unified memory architecture, or UMA. M1 unifies its high‑bandwidth, low‑latency memory into a single pool within a custom package. As a result, all of the technologies in the SoC can access the same data without copying it between multiple pools of memory. This dramatically improves performance and power efficiency." [0]

[0]
https://www.apple.com/mac/m1/
You are equating all lies to the be the same and that is not true at all.
We make people take a test to drive.

People should have to take a Civics based test to vote. If someone wants to vote but fails the civics test, they should then immediately qualify for a minimum living wage job to go back to public education and get paid for getting at least an 80% grade at whatever grade level they're working at (obviously with either enrollment at lower grade levels, classification as disability if unable to learn or medically impaired, and similar options also on the table).

The goal would be to make sure that an EDUCATED and Civically Informed public, able to use Critical Thinking skills is the baseline expectation for a functional society in which the general people have the civic duty to be involved in the processes of self government and representative selection for representative democracies.
I guess you either didn't read or don't care to acknowledge this part of the letter either, then:

"We strongly encourage you to not believe the vicious smears you might read about Gab which our partisan detractors in the media, who want to abolish American-style free speech, frequently publish."
- Re: file open dialog - repurposing Windows Explorer means that every time I want to open a file in an app in windows, I have to look for it, rather than just drag/drop from a window I likely already have open into the file open dialog (or from a quick-find launcher tool).

- "Basically you can actually do the things you often need to do. Conversely on MacOS if you need to do any of those things your only option is to use Finder which really sucks because you then have navigate to wherever you were in the app" - I'm having trouble understanding what you mean here.

- Don't get me started on sizes for accessibility reasons, that was partly why I had to switch elder friends to a mac after watching them suffer on windows. Things may have improved over the past few years though.

- I really want to see Microsoft or the FOSS community figure these things out, I dip my toe in once in a while but I think there's an evolution in cultural/governance/funding needed. Maybe the popularity of videoconferencing may help the FOSS world actually see how people work rather than just posting pictures of 'screenshots' and battlestations.