skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it's that bad, try to confront the bad behavior, pointing out what they are doing and why it's unacceptable. Usually the abusive people are not used to being confronted and calm down when it happens. At least for a while.
The FBI charges against the rioters, all taken from social media
I see, I guess I must just be on Nvidia’s happy path: I use a Debian distro similar to Ubuntu at work and Ubuntu at home with X windows and have experienced no problems; I didn’t know that there might be dragons if I try to stray from that.
Oh, I forgot entirely about the air-with-a-fan placeholder they launched already.

I'm curious: why did you buy it?
Oh that's a great idea I'm gonna point everything there! Thank you!
Same here, I threw them five bucks. I've been using Signal on a daily basis for awhile now, the least I can do is pay them something for it.
This? https://www.experimentalpi.com/PiBoy-DMG--Full-Kit_p_18.html

Or this? https://www.tomshardware.com/news/piboy-cm4x-srx-compute-mod...
Thank you billionaires for creating $1tn of value during these troubled times
The Jstor article that wikipedia cites as evidence of Petrarch "being the first to develop the concept of 'the dark ages'"

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2707236?seq=1

The same wikipedia article says that Petrarch noted for initiating the Italian Renaissance by way of rediscovering letters of Cicero who happens to have died in 43bc. He is then credited with founding Renaissance Humanism in the context of the above.

The above claims seem some plausible given the summary texts that mention Petrarch given by the page on Humanism given by the Library of Congress

https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/vatican/humanism.html

One recontextualization of the concept of the dark ages of the type implied by UncleMeat (my interpretation what was implied, not UncleMeats) is given by this publication by The University of Michigan.

https://www.press.umich.edu/15299

This is all very interesting, but I'd like to point out absolutely none of it seems to automatically leave the dilettante historian like myself from coming away with the impression that knowledge, scientific or otherwise, has not been lost in a meaningful way and thus throughout history did not necessitate some obsessed persons to resuscitate it.
What I miss about the MagSafe was that it would bump off if I adjusted my computer on my lap or my bed where USB-C bends and eventually breaks. I’ve never needed to replace any of the MagSafe chargers on old MacBooks and I must be on my third or fourth USB-C cable.
Big Tech Vaccination Passports
When your goal is to be away from people, not necessarily shelter or technology.
State-enforced debt jubilees.
Robots can't come enough. Just replace every human with robots and you can make 100x more money. Who cares about the rest right? More money > money
I have a cheap Thinkpad E-series from 2012 with Intel i7-3612QM 4c/8t CPU. At the time it cost a third less than a Macbook. As far as price was concerned it was mainstream.
It means that Clarity smart contracts always have all the data they need to validate Bitcoin transactions. Unlike wBTC and friends, there's no need to copy header hashes from Bitcoin into the Stacks chain. By extension, this means there's no need to worry about catastrophic corner cases, such as the copied data being missing or invalid, the copied data not being mined in the canonical fork, or the copied data corresponding to a minority Bitcoin fork.
Is not this a good reason to allow federation?
Identity Aware Sockets – zero trust
AFAIK it is basic and a common way to install packages in k8s. Usually the developers of a project with k8s focus like Prometheus provide a helm chart for easy installation. However it is a package manager and easy confused with a distribution. I recommend to read "Who's at the helm?" [0] discussed a few days ago here [1].

0: https://dlorenc.medium.com/whos-at-the-helm-1101c37bf0f1
1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25647753
I’m really excited for Ractors in this content and how/if they could improve the Ruby side
>> Off-the-grid remote locations is the obvious market

The difficulty is that while these reactors are, somewhat, portable they are still massive heavy things. Any "remote location" with a road that could carry one of these things probably has a power line running alongside that road too. It would be great to have one of these at any number of high arctic communities, but getting them there is probably not possible other than by ship to coastal ports. Even then, the crane requirements probably preclude most ports. They need to be lighter if they want to push into remote communities.
You can see the point though, right? I’m personally ok with the trackpad, but compare it with the “nipple” from the old IBM laptops. You could scan across the entire screen with the barest movement of your finger. The minimalism in that design was impressive,
Many communities have nicknames that are unusual
68.3% of people in China use third-party keyboards – many of them use Signal
A tiny payload from the world's slowest backend framework.

The Rails community has spent years resisting the future. Ember was an attempt to jam Rails into JavaScript and it's been a miserable, confusing, slow mess that every team utterly regrets.

Rails has spent years and years pushing server-side rendered partials. Now the Rails community has yet another "new" approach that involves writing yet more Ruby instead of JavaScript.

If you adopt any of these Ruby-for-frontend solutions, your future efforts to scale will be severely hampered as you've glued so much stuff down in Ruby. Plus you'll have trouble hiring JS developers, because who wants to learn something so unserious as this?

Write your web frontend in JavaScript. Either be a polyglot or create silos.
To verify, though: in fact, the M2 is skyrocketing in 2020, right?
I wonder why this is not more common.

It should take a (cheap) microphone with a known response curve and a sine wave generator to calibrate any number of speakers in a room.
I'm not sure how detectable fasting during daylight hours 10% of the year would be.
I'm thinking other confounding factors (like massive amount of fructose in diet driving obesity levels) in western countries would swamp that out.
Not to mention the Ramadan fast is only a modest form of intermittent fasting. The caloric intake for the day is quite high, often higher than normal due to feasting, and the hours of fasting are anything from 12-18 (while eating once a day would be more like a consistent 21h of fasting year round).
Have you tried or compared it to Rocket.Chat? I'm not sure how much I trust using a piece of software that have this "undocumented and misleadingly named env vars to disable" telemetry.
I'd be shocked if they went back to USB-A.

And, honestly, I'm glad with their push for USB-C, no audio jack etc. Most companies are stuck in the status quo due to the chicken-and-egg problem but Apple is willing to be the first mover.
Ask HN: What is the best resource/article to deeply understand US healthcare?
If they release a new form factor I would imagine the current “starter” M1 MacBook Pro with touch bar will be retired so this won’t be a problem.

Perhaps they’ll make Touch Bar an optional extra.
Possibly, but that strikes me as the path of most resistance. You are competing to create a more efficient market than one engineered by thousands of employees over a long period of time. I really doubt that one individual or even a handful of experts can create a mechanism design that's more efficient than what Goggle's developed for the better part of a decade and a half.

This is the issue with monopolies - They are the market.
I think a lot of this thread is people’s biases from what they are used to. I’m one of those guys who started on the command line and lived on the command line most of his life. I couldn’t imagine a more productive environment! I consider a bunch of xterms running vi to be the pinnacle of IDEs. But I did two brief stints at Windows shops and just couldn’t get really productive. The guy next to me who was scared of the command line and never went outside Visual Studio? He wasn’t stupid, he just had a different lineage and got accustomed to a different environment and workflow. One is not inherently better than the other.

That said, if you are a modern web developer, you just have to understand the command line. You have to know what /usr/local/bin is. You have to know how to install your toolchain. It’s inconvenient, but it’s table stakes. I don’t think it’s reasonable to say “Hey! I’m used to GUIs so people programming on the command line are wrong and I shouldn’t need to know about /usr/local/bin“
I read the book by Krakauer a few years ago. Tragically, he could've crossed the river he thought was blocking his way back to civilization by a hand-operated cable car only 800 meters away from his shelter. He wandered into the wild without a good map.

To his credit, though, there is the possibility that he was simply unable to walk because he poisoned himself accidentally [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_McCandless#Lathyrism_due...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25793072
Yes and no, I definitely write throwaway C# console apps all the time and just go through the hassle of generating a solution and boilerplate so I might use this kind of thing.

It's a bit heavy, I'd have to invest some time learning his framework but could be worth it. I've certainly written lots of command line parsing and logging code I'm not proud of.
I've always liked how many countries separate head of state from head of government, because I see the two as separate roles: one whose job is to be the most excellent person of that nationality, and the other to be the political leader, who may from time to time need to engage in dirty political shenanigans.

It seems an argument can be made for having the former be inherited, so as to avoid the inevitable politicization of the position that happens in countries where a separate head of state is also elected. It's not fair to either the commoners who can ~never be elevated to that position nor to the royals who can ~never leave it, but perhaps better for the country as a whole.
I would argue that 'is' or 'is not' censored isn't a useful distinction. The question I would have is what circumstances could compel the provider to de-list/censor the addresses, or their service-providers/supply-chain to drop support for them.

The hierarchical nature of the present Internet DNS infrastructure is fundamentally vulnerable to 'censorship'.
Hedge Funds for digging up lost Bitcoin hard drives
Didn't notice that, thanks for putting that on here. Where do you find information like that?
Nvida drivers are better than AMD one on Linux and windows.
Best way to find a job at a startup
Iran Deems Signal 'Criminal Content,' Removes from Local App Stores
This is a naive engineering argument in that it assumes a simple closed system when in reality it is an open system that does not even usefully approximate as a closed system. There are material tradeoffs being made that are not even acknowledged as a consequence. Several failure modes have simply been placed outside the system by definition to make the problem seem easier.

I am sympathetic to the idea of UBI but there is no trivial engineering argument for it. It is a system with many poor characteristics from an engineering perspective that would need to be addressed in any design that makes a claim of robustness.
By being incredibly stupid mostly.
Ask HN: What's wrong with asking for a TL;DR?
Whenever I ask for a TL;DR when there's a long article on HN, I'm downvoted. Why?

I think there is a legitimate value in short summaries of long articles. Often you can extract 90% of the value with just 10% of the time (and more importantly 10% of the energy). I'm mainly reading articles on HN to extract value, not because I enjoy the experience of reading.

Also, a summary can indicate whether it's worth it to read the full article. When it's unclear from the title what some heavily upvoted article is about, should you spend the time to find out and risk wasting some of your limited time and mental energy?
What originally got me into BTC was the rapid pace of technological discussion: a new application of cryptography and high-performance compute that promised an online financial utopia.

What BTC has BECOME however, is no longer about solving technical issues. Its now a money-making device... a financial instrument. With most people pointing out how much money they're making instead of how many issues they've solved.

Ah well. At least I learned GPU compute from this experiment. I thank the BTC community for this. (at least, those who were actual nerds and liked solving problems). The OpenCL code written by the BTC / Eth / Monero / etc. etc. communities was clean, usable, and easily experimented upon.

I got what I wanted out of the cryptocoin community. So its been worthwhile. It also taught me the importance of community values: seeing the nerd paradise corrupt itself into financial interests taught me a lot about human nature, and the evolution of communities.

Its not so much that "the nerds" got corrupted. The community got corrupted as money became more and more the focus. It makes me wonder how VCs keep a "technology culture" at the forefront of the actual financial markets (like YCombinator).
Gesture support is also incredible on macOS. It's the little things -- if I start the motion to "show desktop" by spreading my fingers apart on the touchpad, windows will seamlessly start the motion with my fingers. If I decide to abort the gesture with my fingers, windows on the screen match my motion exactly. I can also customize gestures like expose, mission control, desktop switching, etc. to my liking by assigning different gestures to different commands -- I've never used a Windows laptop or any kind of linux environment with that kind of customization, though I'm sure with sufficient work you could get linux to do something like that.
Amen, there is such a thing as "perfect design" if you are talking about the narrow envelope for designing a laptop. A screen, a keyboard, there's not a ton of headroom for adding widgets or decreasing sizes in the physical domain. Plus, there is such a thing as "timeless design", and you can see that Apple has already achieved it by the fact that most other laptop vendors are converging on their MacBook designs that are a few years old now. Apple itself took inspiration from timeless, modern and functional industrial design found in things like Braun appliances from the 1960s which, by the way, still look modern today.
Caer – A GPU-accelerated Computer Vision library (faster than Torchvision)
Some tasks are inherently complex. Ask a pilot.
I read that last week 8 million users registered on Signal, but it could be much more.
>Then the internet became much, much more, and became the most transformational technology of the last century.

I realize this is OT, but it'd be a fascinating debate, especially if you define the timeline as 1900-2000. The internal combustion engine, MOSFETs, nuclear tech, radio and information theory, the Haber process, PCR, the list goes on. All massive impacts.
You confused the numerator with the denominator. To get inflation we put a basket of things in the numerator, and currency in the denominator, then compute annualized % change in the said number.

Now if you swap (in the denominator) the USD for either gold or bitcoin you'll conclude we've been in a severe deflation in 2020.

(I do not agree with the above, I am just fixing basic mistakes in your reasoning)

If you would like your basket of things (the numerator) to consist solely of Bitcoin or gold then go ahead but you may as well put baseball collectible cards there, as it doesn't relate to people's consumption needs.
Thank you for sharing! This is very interesting.

Also, unsolicited but maybe helpful: if I have a link to a PDF on a site I try and call it out as a download in the description.

"A two page executive summary is also available for download"

I say this because even though browser settings can be set to NOT download PDF files instead of automatically opening them in the browser itself, for some reason that can vary from site to site. I click a link and all of a sudden I'm downloading something? Panic!
The unsettling truth is that he was deeply troubled, and, at times, an abusive asshole who didn’t necessarily warrant quite as much compassion from strangers as he was given.

I’m open to the idea that it may not really matter, and everyone deserves the dignity to not be buried anonymously. But there were a lot of resources invested in this case because he looked very relatable in photos. He was very different from what people thought of him, and what motivated them, and therefore the truth is unsettling wrt that effort.

This doesn’t mean the effort was wrong, or that he was a monster not worthy of compassion. He was clearly fighting some demons, sometimes winning, sometimes losing, sometimes unleashing them on others. It defies easy moral judgements, and I believe the article does an excellent job saying as much.

But meanwhile, thousands die anonymously and unnoticed every year, and their photos and circumstances of death are far less compelling, but many if not most of them would have life stories that do not include multiple episodes of physically and psychologically abusing everyone close to them.

Compassionate efforts often cannot be shifted according to utilitarian calculations (which is one argument for getting together and making them someone’s actual job, in a process usually called “government”). But stories like this do maybe serve to make some people think about the best allocation of such efforts.

(The other unsettling truth is that HN can read this story and come away asking what people could possibly object to in his life story, and why one should believe the spouses (plural) that describe his dark side)
Just in context, you're arguing against a random point I made in tangent to the main discussion here, but OK. If you feel you need something to knock against, hello. So...

No, not without evidence. Simply just evidence that you don't want to see or don't think exists, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. I get if you look at the same stuff and reach different conclusions. But you say you think not hearing about stuff is strong evidence against. I don't think so, that you've never heard of it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

You want to ask for "evidence"...can you really provide any evidence either way? Can you give me like a study that compares hunter-gatherer groups and shows a majority of them do most of their hunting during the day? No. So don't try to talk about evidence as if you're backing up your claims with it. How ridiculous.

We're both just thought experimenting. So...Comparing humans to other primates it stupid. We're an apex predator. Our ancestors even more so re hunting. Just think about it. What will we eat? When will it be easier to catch that? How do other super predators hunt? At night. We were hunting experts. Our hunting behaviors would probably be similar to other hunting experts. "Hunt at night" describes every spec ops outfit ever, as well as big cats.

We're evolved enough to hunt at night in moonless nights I'd say your "evolutionary evidence" which you claim supports your idea, actually fully supports what I'm saying instead.

You don't seem like you're open to changing your mind or learning something new here, so I don't expect you to respond and go, "Oh yeah, I hadn't thought of that. Good point."
And also that he basically left his life behind with no intention of ever coming back and hiked until he literally starved to death.
Congratulations. The teacher must be really happy.

My better half teaches online as well. Your setup goes the extra mile and leaves all other setups in the dust. Most parents cannot be bothered to make sure a basic setup is working.

For music education even a $5 lav mic would be a huge help.
Data retention and deletion are opposites. It's practically impossible to get both right. It's a target that you have to hit exactly, and being extra good at one makes you worse at the other.
His photo gets posted to /r/brooklyn every few months. I really don't know what this story resonates so well with people.

Every day there are reports of many new missing/homeless/dead people, why is this man more important than all the others?
It sounds like he was aware enough of these flaws that he decided to do something about it. That's a lot better than some people who go a lifetime without ever being self-aware.
"Bitcoin began as a cryptocurrency. It has ended as a cryptoasset"

And Slack was originally meant to be an RPG. Point is, this is not a bad thing. As long as Bitcoin and crypto is useful, people will build on it and evolve it, and I for one am excited to see where it goes as more and more people take it seriously.
That is unfortunate, and probably a sign of a feature that nobody at Apple (and few external users) bother with. Everyone I know uses two-finger right click and a very small subset of friends use ctrl+click.
To create employment and growth.
Signal is having technical difficulties
I am typing this on the M1 Air. I had the Pro with a Touch Bar before. I don't miss the Touch Bar per se, but I did like the ability to customize it for my liking. I also liked scrubbing on video or music software. The escape key is back on all MacBooks now including Touch Bar. I guess I am still on the fence about the Touch Bar and its usability. I think apple envisioned more developer adoption and novelty.
In 2012-2013 half the posts on the front page were about BTC and how it changes everything. Funny how the tables turn.
Question cannot be answered from the information given.

What ALL are you doing when you notice that your current system is slow. Do you ever not do something because the system would get to slow for the other tasks? These are the questions to ask

When asking what ALL you are doing, all is important. If the answer is one thing, then you want better single core performance.

If the answer is one thing in the foreground you care about, with several background things, then can you lower the priority of the background things? If so single threaded is better. However if the background things are important as well, then you want enough cores so that each background thing gets enough cores. You say devops is what you do, so odds are you are someplace here.

As a java developer, how complex is the project when you normally build? That is, is your normal development cycle make a change and build the one file, or make one change and rebuild a lot. The latter is helped by more cores. Java is typically a one change means one file to build, but if you often merge changes from a large upstream project it could be the other way. (C++ is almost always build a lot of things)
Alan, you’re just salty because Ubuntu isn’t number one, lol!
Everything looks better on a vector display. :-)
I deeply care about performant and small apps. I definitely don't want to have 100GB+ games on my disk, 150MB+ Electron based messaging apps, Docker images with 1GB+ node_modules/ folders, or even worse, Docker images with 600MB+ of binaries (looking at Terraform and it's plugins.)

However, I care even more about having apps/tools that help me achieve the desired goals, in an easy, clear, and elegant way.

If having bigger apps means that developers have more time to implement or improve features, and solve bugs, I'm all for it.