skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This appears to an insider rant against suckless. It starts off like so:

> clearing some things up re: cat-v

> [context: this was produced for a particular community. if this doesnt mean anything to you, dont worry]

> i am not within cat-v, i.e. “one of them” or a particular friend of anyone within it, but it was quite formative for me (on the technical side) from when i was about 14 years old, and i would like to provide the requisite context to view the whole ordeal charitably, and clear up some misconceptions
suckless

> first of all, suckless are shitheels. fuck em six ways to sunday.
There's plenty of software where the source isn't available, and plenty of open source software where it won't compile for a different architecture without significant work because of runtimes or other dependencies
You really have to walk a censorship tight rope as a social media. You need to remove content that targets minorities and hate speech or face consequence, but only when it applies to the bottom 99% of society - apparently.

The fact that the EU seems to want control over who gets to express themselves freely, is even more troubling than the inconsistent rules applies by the media themselves.
I left some years ago. Yeah, not a huge fan of these "by the ways" but agree that having them would be less bad if there were a "don't ask again."
Google has monopoly on search, Amazon on online retail and to a lesser extent cloud hosting, Facebook on social media. Twitter on 140 character word dumps so that's maybe not at the same level bad as the others. Edit: Apple doesn't really have a monopoly on anything.
> you often wind up with multiple snapshots from the same repo

Either I’m misunderstanding you or you’re mistaken. You can’t have multiple versions of the same module in a go build.
I have a paid Slack plan and while I can find specific threads where I remember a lot of the details, I've never found anything that I didn't personally participate in.

Overall, I think search is a bad knowledge base management tool. It proves the positive quickly (search for "foo", see "here's how to use foo"), but never lets you prove the absence of documentation (search for "foobar", nothing comes up, search for "foo bar", nothing comes up, search for the previous codename "barbaz", nothing comes up... did you forget something, or is there just no documentation/discussion? you'll never know. the result is that people stop reading documentation.)
> It's the coordination that is terrifying.

Is it “coordination” if lots of companies have been contacted as law enforcement authorities following the connections out from the events at the Capitol and looking for assistance both in investigation and in forestalling the upcoming attacks they have said they have intelligence on being planned, and a bunch of corporate counsel have all had their attention directed to the statute on material support for terrorism at the same time and come to the same conclusion?

> When a group of powerful people says, "You have to let me do crazy thing, or the boogieman wins," you must forgive me for having doubts.

Sure, e.g.:

crazy thing = provide support to domestic terrorists

boogieman = evil corporations
If I'm not mistaken, the newer macs with the T1/T2 security chip ties the drive to the chip-- i.e. the drive cannot be decrypted without that exact T1/T2 chip hardware key (and possibly also the SSD key). Even if it's possible to duplicate the drive, I don't believe it's possible to decrypt it.

Anyone feel free to confirm or correct me.
The thing about languages like C is that they will teach students to do many things by rote that they aren’t equipped to understand until later. I’m talking about things like includes, using a compiler, << and other facets of basic I/O, defining a main function.

Python allows students to hit the ground running much faster. Once they learn the very basics, then it can make sense to introduce something like C, but not require them to temporarily ignore magic incantations with the promise they’ll understand them later.
I view the risk differently: A community is self-supporting and contributors are equal.

If one entity throws 1M/yr onto it, they could suddenly stop and the contributors go away and no other contributors can take over as they never were equals ...

(And yes, it's more complicated, first case can also lose key contributors who have keys etc.)
That's the single core improvement you have between Zen 2 and Zen 3, but Zen 3 also has sightly better power usage than Zen 2 and Zen 2 was already superior (allegedly - I haven't actually used a Zen 2 mobile device since nothing really premium was built with it) - Zen 3 mobile isn't out yet but I suspect it's going to be a much better experience for mobile just like Zen 2 was compared to 10th gen intel.
PyPi is hosted through Fastly, and pip installs were all failing in our automated builds this morning, so I would call that pretty major.
Did you read your Wikipedia list? We have a whole bunch of people shot by cops, a few looters shot by store owners, people shot in unrelated murders that happened near protests, people run over by cars that drove into crowds, some people shot when groups of armed racists started gunfights with groups of armed antiracists, etc.

This list does not at all support the thesis that organized BLM protests were intentionally violent.

* * *

Yeah, there was a time that a group of white BLM sympathizers heckled another white BLM sympathizer who was eating at a restaurant table on the sidewalk, and the heckling was caught on video. The people involved are obnoxious jerks (organizers and most others in the BLM movement also agree they are jerks).

Similar heckling by all sorts of groups of jerks happens all over the country on a regular basis. For example a bunch of MAGA folks were following and heckling Lindsay Graham at an airport a few days ago.

But you really think heckling at a restaurant should be compared to an armed mob breaking into the Capitol building, chanting for the Vice President's execution and for the overthrow of the US government, beating cops to death, ransacking offices, stealing sensitive national security materials, and literally shitting all over?
This is a bad analogy. The highway is heavily policed to combat those things, and they're nowhere near a central use-case.

I'm sure it was a small minority of Parler's activity that was death threats or planning/encouraging/inciting violence, but it seems like it was intentionally a safe-haven for those activities.

The highway has criminal activity, but is not a safe haven for criminal activity. Parler appears to have been to an extent beyond what is generally considered acceptable.
Many sites serves CSS from third party CDNs. They could get compromised
""I vote we whack as many Nazis as we can.""

The complete quote: "If we have to play an constant game of Whack-a-Nazi, I vote we whack as many Nazis as we can."

That is a reference to the game Whack-A-Mole. Literally, that would mean hitting them with a soft foam hammer.

"Oh, but for good measure... "The radical right is a scourge ... They need to be repeatedly smacked down until normalcy is achieved.""

owlbynight's entire quote:

"Our political representatives are corrupt and generally represent whomever gives them the most money, namely large corporations.

"We, the people, are represented through our wallets now by the corporations that control our politicians because social media has unionized us. We're able to use online platforms to leverage companies into giving us what we want socially by threatening them when they step out of line. The companies that led to Parler shutting down were acting on public sentiment as a boon to their brands, thus ultimately reflecting the will of the people.

"It's kind of like a single payer system for social justice.

"It's weird end run back to representation but I'll take it for now. The radical right is a scourge that, unchecked, will lead to us having no rights at all. They need to be repeatedly smacked down until normalcy is achieved."

I could be wrong, but I'm also not reading that as a call for violence, much less "hang and quarter". It's not a particularly attractive metaphor, though.
“The Dissident”: Takeaways from (and About) Fogel’s New Jamal Khashoggi Doc
Yeah... I thought it was pretty clear. While still hoping that we could build something (product & reputation) that users wouldn't want to turn off.
I'm incredibly interested† to see how this is going to affect kubernetes/client-go and friends.

† Deliberate use of a neutral adjective.
How a Presidential Rally Turned into a Capitol Rampage
Is Parler usually anonymous or something? What were these people thinking posting videos of themselves committing a crime?
Developed in "developed country" customary means certain things. Like a decent standard of governance, sanitation, education, healthcare, welfare and quality of life. All these countries I mentioned are roughly on the same level.

You don't have problems with access to clean water in Poland. You ain't going to die from hunger in Czech Republic. There are no issues getting education in Latvia.

And mythical Anglo engineering talent, please. They are approximately the same anywhere you mentioned.
The key here is not the format of communication, since you've listed email chains, chat, and forums in one list.

It's the fact that slack and discord are essentially walled gardens that do not allow for third-party indexing. Therein lies the problem.

If public discord servers were indexable you'd have no issue with it.
>the question of "where should the line be drawn and who should draw it" has already been settled

I think it should at least be a line open to challenge without being accused of being brainwashed. If that line cannot be questioned, we're skating on dogmatism. There are very few good reasons for a special guarantee of free speech (versus, say, a special guarantee to be able to eat fries) which stand up to closer scrutiny.

The only convincing reason for a constitutional guarantee to freedom of speech is mistrust in the government, but again, that depends where you draw the line. Food regulation is arguably just as important in our lives, but few mistrust the FDA as to call for its abolition, or propose a constitutional amendment banning all regulation of foods.

This isn't a matter of what the law is, it's a matter of what the law should be - whether it's a constitutional law or not.
Turns out the censors don't like to be censored.
The pyramids are landing pads for alien spaceships.
IMO Go’s escape hatch for screw ups is its superb refactor-ability.
"as long as people use the tags"

That's the crucial point here.

UIs need to help users to find the appropriate tags, often tagging is either included implicitly, which leads to forgetting or clunky, which leads to aversion.
It's not new at all. This is what religion and other ideological systems have literally fought wars over for millennia: people's minds
The cliché about "screaming fire in a crowded movie theater" misconstrues limits on the 1A.

https://www.popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-ha...

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-tim...
Hopefully they loosen the coin collateral requirement for nodes also.
Yeah, I think the same. If I started today, I would love to being with python or even Java/Kotlin as it's better to show the good things about OOP.

C it's great to learn the barebones experience with memory, and as a lang that runs in everything.

The modern use I could see for C++ it's usually too specific for a random learner. I would only recommended for people who like to work in game engines, simulations, networking, embedded systems or migration of legacy systems, and other edge cases.

But for learning, I think it's better to learn with a modern lang, as you will be less distracted learning the quirks of vitange language, and use that time to learn in parallel a lot of concepts outside the lang, like algorithms, devops, soft skills with teams, prioritizing requirements, etc.
> No one sheds a tear for Parlor, but lets also be clear about this, the social media companies just showed a token of conscience and it doesn't mean anything. They still didn't boot people like Cruz, Hawley and Gaetz and the numerous others still inciting the insurrection.

If following a constitutional process for protesting a State's results in a presidential election is "inciting the insurrection", somebody better start fitting Nancy Pelosi for an orange jumpsuit: https://www.c-span.org/video/?185005-2/debate-ohio-electoral...
Please also consider looking at the other picture of the same conference: https://suckless.org/conferences/2017/

"But Hitler also started his movement in the Bierkeller!!!1" ;-)
The city of Madrid, where I live, is currently full of fallen trees. I went for a walk a couple days ago and could count easily 10-20 just in the nearby streets.

It's been pretty chaotic, since we're not used to snow at all. After 4 days roads are still unusable, supermarkets can't restock shelves...The city's pretty much stopped.
Cancelled != civil disobedience

Everything else in your response is bad faith
Except for in Parler it isn't a soundproof room? It's literally a social media site where the admins (owner of the restaurant) can see what is going on. So it is the audible example I mentioned above.

The sound proof room would be more apt for the later comparison to signal.
I've followed Isaac Saul for months now and have been consistently impressed with his daily coverage. What did he do to lose you?
Just because it's high tech doesn't mean it isn't commoditized.
So, that's the top level. The 2nd level would be more analogous to individual email threads within those groups.

Once you get down to the individual conversation level, the fine-grained management bits you talk about are not good UX, they're band-aids for dealing with bad UX.
We do that in Australia too and its worked great. (Well, except for a notable quarantine breach 6 months ago due to mismanagement.)

The problem is all this is closing the fence after the horse has already bolted. The average person arriving into the united states is less likely to have covid than a resident. Currently 2.7% of the US population is infected with covid19, compared to 2.4% of people in the UK, 0.9% in Italy, 0.2% in Canada, and ~0% in Australia, NZ, Singapore, India, China, etc.

Almost all new infections in the US come from domestic transmission.
"Abjads, like the Hebrew and Arabic scripts, use letters to show consonants, but often don’t display vowel sounds at all."

Given that the link there is about tracing the lineage of "ABCD", how are those analogues of "A" pronounced, if not with a vowel sound?

EDIT: looks like there's a Wikipedia page for the abjad version of "A": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph , which suggests its non-vowel pronunciation is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glottal_consonant
ABSOLUTLY WTH! :D

I was experimenting things like 2 hours ago... with
a, b, c, d... things I usually don't do often...

Oh god, aliens are listening at me!
it's really a big-endian vs little-endian matter, if you think about it.

Starting with C means sitting down, thinking hard and taking the time to understand how the basic model of a computer works, along with all the issues and annoiances that come with it.

Starting with python really means leaving out the details and just getting into programming and maybe one day you'll wonder ow stuff actually work underneat.
San Ysidro is still the busiest border crossing in the world. It's nominally 'closed', but still open for trade. In normal times you don't need a full passport, either- just a passport card is fine, and realistically a CA driver's license will get you through without trouble. It kind of has to be that way- Tijuana and San Diego are far too closely tied together for much else.
Right this second, probably, but it'll become relevant again as vaccines start to clamp down on the spread.
of course it has RGB... :-P
Interestingly, even the UK doesn't get a lot of snow. That's because the gulf stream keeps it relatively warm for it's latitude.

One of the major concerns of climate change is that may disrupt the gulf stream which would be disastrous for the UK. Their ecosystem depends heavily on the fact that water from the gulf of mexico keeps them unusually warm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_Stream
> Unfortunately there isn't any such thing as "forwarding an email thread"

Mailing lists have for years offered mailing list archives that you can read directly in your client, exactly as if the messages had been hitting your inbox from the beginning. The bigger problem with email is that messages are not as easily addressable, unlike links on the Web.
They didn't "become" violent. It was an organized attempt to prevent the lawfully elected head of state from being certified and overthrow American democracy using violence.

Even the least violent among them committed a felony by entering the Capitol building. That someone else broke the window they entered doesn't make their entry any less illegal.
`Dictionary<List<Dictionary<string, object>>>, SortedSet<Dictionary<int, string>>>>`

This is not a problem with generics, but with C#'s lack of discriminated unions and/or tiny-types. Except what on earth are you doing with a dictionary whose keys are lists of dictionaries? I am quite sure someone has not modelled their domain correctly there. That's not something you can blame on the existence of generics - I shudder to imagine how much worse it could have been without generics!
Sorry I count 2 senators regardless of population as gerrymandering in my head... but you are right it’s not. It’s still part of the stupid setup though.
Any tips on easily making an offline copy of these? I'm afraid by the time I started some of these would go dark.
Well the generic programming model tends to favour using light weight abstract data structures instead of well defined types. Those abstractions are by nature leaky so many internal concerns leak out of abstraction boundaries into the caller and give them one hell of a bad time.
https://twitter.com/azforeman/status/1348648808390008832?s=2...

How would he even know?
Our Germanic linguistics professor (Elmer Antonsen in Urbana) had taught us the characters for runes were also optimized to consider the grain of the wood, for writing on wood.
The most technical thing I've used it for was a compsci textbook or a manual (either O'Reilly or similar) and it looked pretty alright under Nickel iirc. Depends largely on whether the code is rendered as text or an image.
This is the key excerpt, its quite shocking:

Crowdstrike said Sunspot was written to be able to detect when it was installed on a SolarWinds developer system, and to lie in wait until specific Orion source code files were accessed by developers. This allowed the intruders to “replace source code files during the build process, before compilation,” Crowdstrike wrote.

The attackers also included safeguards to prevent the backdoor code lines from appearing in Orion software build logs, and checks to ensure that such tampering wouldn’t cause build errors.

“The design of SUNSPOT suggests [the malware] developers invested a lot of effort to ensure the code was properly inserted and remained undetected, and prioritized operational security to avoid revealing their presence in the build environment to SolarWinds developers,” CrowdStrike wrote.

So how do we guard against this type of attack? How do we know this hasn't already happened to some of us? What is the potential fallout from this hack, it seems quite significant.

This must be why the Japanese Intelligence agencies prefer paper over computer systems. The digitization of critical national security apparatus is the Archilles Heel that is being exploited successfully. One example is Japan's intelligence gathering capabilities in East Asia, especially China, which is bar none. Japan has a better linguistic understanding of the Chinese language (Kanji and all) but also interestingly much of PRC's massive public surveillance equipment like CCTV cameras are made in Japan.

Even if they hire Krebs, I believe that if its digital, it can be hacked given long enough time period and unlimited state level backing and head hunting essentially geniuses of their country to do their bidding. I wonder how Biden-Harris administration will respond, it is very clear who the state actor is here. I'm very nervous about the ramifications of this hack.
Right, and that's where the question gets muddy

Though again, Go as a whole seems ill-suited for scaling to larger projects because of lots of other limitations on its type system, reliance on conventions, implicit-defaults, etc. Which makes it well-suited to (and often used for) things like microservices, where each actual codebase is smallish. Codebases like these will tend towards having less "library-like" code anyway, which means they don't need generics as badly. There's synergy here in the language design.

So I guess what I'm saying is: leaving out generics seems like the more "Go-like" direction, will dovetail better with its overall philosophy, etc, and isn't without advantages. But it would also mean kneecapping the language when it comes to certain use-cases that it's never going to be great for anyway. It's the classic "opinionated" vs "everything for everybody" dichotomy
The lack of major outbreaks post-BLM was something that made me go "Hmmm."
Well, it was a very incompetent coup. If Trump really intended a coup, he should have had friendly military embedded among the rioters. He shouldn't have said "now go home". It's a very half-hearted coup on the part of the president.

Note well: I am far from saying that Trump is innocent. He absolutely should have known that his words would incite violence. In the most charitable light possible, he's still clueless about the effect his words would have. (I could kind of see his intent being to use the mob to pressure Congress, so that they would be inclined to see it Trump's way. He may have intended the mob surrounding the Capitol, but not the breach... in a very charitable interpretation. Even in that interpretation, though, he still very dangerously misjudged the effects of his words.)

And Trump may well be guilty of more than that. He may well be guilty of attempting a coup to remain in power, and just not have had any idea of how to do it right. (I prefer that rogues be incompetent...)
To be honest, don't. People want to tell others about the great websites and it ALWAYS ends up ruining things. Reddit is going downhill major time and it is simply because it got popular, thus more of the population joined. Which magically lead to lowering of the content and also agendas being pushed (because it is popular, there is more motivation to do that). Even happens to quality subreddits as well.
It's a balancing act. We built it, to build trust. But talking about it too much would - we thought - highlight concerns and increase worries that we hoped (most) users wouldn't have.

As an example, we were very clear and upfront in the original product detail page that users' voices went to the cloud, as we were not trying to hide that. Even so, some people tried to play a bit of "gotcha" and fear-mongering about the fact, as though we were not being transparent.
Point taken. I will have to enable showdead and see what I'm missing. However that is not what was meant by "we". I have edited the comment to be more clear.
The headline doesn’t come across as misleading to me. I interpreted it as the temperature having been recorded somewhere in central Spain which appears to be accurate (granted my Spanish geography isn’t great). The tone also appears to be consistent with what else is being reported - that this is unusual or possibly even extreme weather.

I’m assuming your expectation was different. If so I’d be be curious as to how you did interpret it?
It's important to note that she only scraped what was publicly available. Otherwise, she might face prosecution.

As the article says, Parler didn't strip metadata from images and such. It's a forensic treasure trove.