skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm not here to read your entire comment history

I wouldn't ordinarily expect that of anyone, except that you had already replied.

Perhaps we should define terms. When people use the term "white supremacist symbol" I hear something that is used by everyone including white supremacists to unambiguously signal white supremacy. A Nazi flag. A burning cross. Shaved head, bomber jacket, combat boots, and most importantly, white laces.

The content of these particular symbols stem self-consciously from their progenitors: putative Aryan heritage in the case of the swastika, the purity of Protestant Christian values for the burning cross, etc

A symbol that everyone uses - including white supremacists - to mean something else - "OK" - is not a white supremacist symbol by that definition.

Its history as a purported white supremacist symbol, a joke on a trolling board, doesn't follow that of actual such symbols

The movement to turn it into a white supremacist symbol is now driven largely by serious, earnest, white leftists, curiously enough. I point to the people who are constantly pointing it out as evidence as my evidence. Why is this, I wonder? It's curious.

> his written manifesto was a) steeped in 4chan memes and winks to those in the know

Assuming that's true, then it's even more evidence to me that OK is not a "white supremacist symbol" his own white supremacy notwithstanding. He, your best evidence that it is, this fellow who used it, is well versed in its origin as a joke.
Indeed, it's more like molecular assembly & disassembly powered by renewables. Here's a good explanation for a well-tested ethanol process:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/07/former-playwright-ai...
by 1993 series do you mean the 1993 season? I was confused at first because I thought it was from the 80s and just confirmed that it came out in 87.

Anyway, definitely an excellent show. I watched it a bit as a kid when it aired on G4 and I've been meaning to get back into it.
Lol is this a dadaist software project?

> breck7 is currently the BDFL: Benevolent Dummy For Life. But if you feel like you can be a better Dummy, please either fork this project and prove it, or just get involved and stage a peaceful coup. Breck would happily relinguish the BDFL title if a better Dummy comes along.

BECAUSE IF SO I HAVE ONE TOO! =>> https://github.com/TimDaub/daemybenscrypt
I was surprised as well, but we could reproduce it. Delete would not work, "normal" cut and paste would throw an error when pasting, but cut and switch off power -> file was gone.
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Probably why government around the world like lockdown so much.
Honestly so glad it's a paid service. I'm happy to pay for something I can trust to handle my messages, rather than using them against me to sell ads/send to shady data brokers!

Awesome work Eric, Tulir, and the whole Matrix team too!
It seems a dollar of government investment now is likely worth $5 of investment down the line, once we've fallen further behind. The US ought to be investing on multiple fronts to regain/maintain the lead here.

Best company I worked at -- small startup -- would always do 2-3 R&D initiatives in parallel. One would be conservative (guaranteed results). One would be super-high-risk (huge payoff if it works). Sometimes there would be one or two more. It was all a big hedge. Some panned out, some didn't, and when we hit the market, our technology was like science fiction. Competition didn't know what hit them.

That would run a fair bit of coin, but fairly little on the national scale.

(Footnote: Not a software company)
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I didn't realize that the syntax dated back to Ada. Though interestingly it doesn't feel off to me in the context of a 1-based index language.
Markdown is not esoteric. If anything, it's as natural as you can get. *Asterisks* to bold and _underscores_ to emphasize come naturally.

The one thing you have to learn is the bracket notation for anchors, and that's because it's needed to render the html anchor. Nothing stops you from pasting a plain link (and a lot of markdown parsers turn it into an anchor for you even)
I find zero-based indexing more natural. Consider the case of dates. Dates are naturally one-indexed. There is no year zero.

This means that the 21st century started in the year 2001. Likewise, the current decade started under a month ago, not over a year ago. If you think the 21st century started in the year 2000, as do most people, then that implies that the first century either started in the year 1 B.C. (ugly) or was only 99 years long (not a century). People naturally (and incorrectly) default to zero-based indexing in this case!

I would go farther and make centuries zero-indexed too. It's far more natural to say that the Nth century is everything in the form Nxx than to say it's (N-1)xx. Every time I run across a numbered century I have to stop and think for a split second to calculate what years it covers. I got this wrong on several occasions in grade school and was marked down for it.

Zero-based indexing works naturally for grouping things. One-based indexing does not.

This, of course, doesn't matter much.
Humans can't manage that on earth.
I'm not going to update to a new MacOS "named" release until it's been out for a while and probably has a patch release or two, agreed.

But I install MacOS patch releases as soon as they are offered. It has never caused me a problem I am aware of, and I don't want to miss out on security patches, or even just bugfixes and perf improvements.

Heck, I actually just upgraded a MacBook that was still on 10.12, which was EOL'd. But I upgraded it because it was EOL'd, and wasn't getting patch releases for security fixes, and I want those patch releases as soon as they are released!
Not now, not ever. I will always call out those that supported racism, bigotry, violence and Trump's admin did all that. The voice and platform he gave to the most deplorable people, has made me and others lose faith in all Americans.
Perhaps. I'm in the US, and I hear it from old-school devs sometimes.
This! Always baffled me. This probably is something from the colonial age when the population was tiny, conditions were harsh, labor hard, medicine nonexistent so producing a fellow colonist was considered an extremely valuable act, also requiring genuine dedication and courage.
Please, someone do this for email.
Hey all,

A year ago I deleted Facebook and Instagram from my phone. I didn’t like the attention hijacking, or the never-ending feed surfing, or how they made me feel.

Looked around for a more minimalist platform I could use to stay connected to family and friends. Couldn’t find one, so started building one.

Sundayy is a social network centered around mindful reflection. It is designed to be checked just once a week, on Sunday.

Mon - Sat: You’re prompted to slow down, reflect, and write about what the day has brought you. Once you reflect, that’s it. Reflections are kept secret. There are no feeds to check.

Sunday: Reflections for the week are revealed. You can look back on your friend’s and family’s week as they lived it; day by day, in their own words.

My husband and I have been building Sundayy together while using it with close family and friends. Has become a nice ritual to read reflections over a tea on Sunday morning, then call family/friends from there.
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The license is pretty clear, you can do anything you like with the language and the software that has been open sourced. If you want to write your own renderer, that's great! If you want to write a decent interpreter, or a rubbish one for that matter, again, that's great, that's your business.
At first, you have to trust us though we will perform auditing eventually. If you would like to use an open source Matrix client, that works as well!
I take posts from MirrorlessRumors with large grains of salt, but Nikon is certainly in a rough position here. The market for standalone cameras has been shrinking and the market that remains is largely moving towards mirrorless where Nikon lags. Nikon lags here so their customers are moving to competitors like Sony and Canon and because they're buying into an entire camera system moving back to Nikon will be difficult and expensive. It's tough to imagine a scenario where things improve anytime soon.
Do you have an exit plan?
> Make sure not to buy a Stinkpad (or any hardware) with non-replaceable parts!

Correct - that is why I bought a Thinkpad X1 Extreme - both SSD and RAM are user replaceable. Granted its not as thin as X1 Carbon but I don't need to carry it around much so that is not a big issue for me.
pandoc, emacs, and scripting are _not_ a realistic option for most writers. They're writers, not programming geeks.

I'm a Markdown fan, but really there _are_ better solutions for book writing that maintain the ease that Markdown brings. Things like ASCIIDoc.
Already in the works :) https://github.com/JojiiOfficial/Matrix-EmailBridge
We have had one for a couple of years and I am very satisfied with the performance. According to a plumber friend, we should be flushing the system annually which I haven’t done but will soon. So there are maintenance tasks and costs to be aware of.
I have this exact problem too! Having tried Beeper, and now using it every day, I can confirm it achieves this perfectly.

I now just check Beeper in batches (there's a great shortcut for cycling through unreads), rather than having endless apps to check.
Not quite. Trump knows they're more or less okay with him pardoning Bannon - it pisses them off, but at the end of the day it's water under the bridge. Whereas Assange getting pardoned would absolutely infuriate the "deep state" to an extent that's hard to describe.

Trump should have pardoned Assange, it's the only thing that would actually have taken a (small) chunk out of the "deep state" for real. Instead, as many of us saw coming, Trump's rhetoric about "draining the swamp" and "fighting the deep state" was always empty bluster.

Now Assange will die in prison (there's not a snowball's chance in hell that Biden pardons him, to state the obvious).
yeah it struck me as odd. Got downvoted like crazy for this, which is weird since I'd expect people to be leaning towards intellectual freedom here.

It's not as if I said he was not guilty, but rather saying that he would have a lot of information on self driving cars. Which is what he was charged with in the first place.
Oh, do! I also saw a few early episodes as a kid, but didn't really have a chance to get what they were trying to do; it wasn't until years later, when I had a chance to watch the full series straight through thanks to a friend's carefully made VHS tapes, that any of what I was seeing really made sense to me. Nothing since then has even come close to replacing B5 at the head of my SF TV affections.

Reflecting on that experience, I think the major flaw of B5 is that, in structure and intent, it was twenty or more years ahead of its time. Given the handicaps under which the creators then had to labor, it's even more remarkable how much they accomplished - B5 might have been the very first example of what we today call the 'binge-worthy show', made on a shoestring in a time when syndication and time slots and missed episodes were still problems that a show could have. This show overcame them admirably - even so, I can't help but wish a little for the chance to see what the same people could've accomplished today, with the kind of resources available for something like Stranger Things.

That won't happen, of course, not least because the show is niche even by comparison with something like Firefly. For the same reason, even a Trek-style HD remaster is unlikely - a shame in its own right, since the then-revolutionary CGI space effects are by far the part of the show that's aged most badly, and a shame all over again because the creators were looking far enough ahead to shoot in 16:9 and 5.1 surround throughout, which would give an HD remaster the kind of payoff that, if we're being honest, the ones done for old Trek shows never really have.

In any case, it's a small miracle the show got made at all, and another that it ended up being so close to what JMS intended it to be. Anyone who can enjoy TNG or DS9 today can, I think, enjoy B5 at least as well, and on that basis I recommend it without the slightest reservation.
It doesn’t work fine, UI resolution restricted, sticking cursor issues, no parallel tools available
Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

For context, CentOS was a popular Linux distro that tracked RHEL, being mostly identical except for not requiring a support package. Red Hat stopped supporting it, which put a lot of its users in a bind. This is intended to replace it.
It's been an age since I've worked in an agency, but back in the IE era, at least once a month a dev would ask to use a 'modern feature'. Something to support some a new piece of design from the design team, or save hours or days of dev, or remove the need for hacky 'fixes' that could be done cleanly with modern browser support.

So off to analytics they would go. "X thousand users are using IE8. We're converting at X%. Removing support for IE8 just means these people will shop elsewhere and we'll lose X thousand pounds a month. You need to support IE8."

Believe me, I wish it was as simple as saying developers are "part of the problem," because it would be an easy fix. But try selling that (without a huuuuge struggle!) to the person who holds the purse strings.

Sadly the new features usually only came on new sites. It's much easier to push it through when you're not cutting off an existing income stream.
Monte Carlo is a big omission.

https://laws.lanl.gov/vhosts/mcnp.lanl.gov/pdf_files/la-ur-1...
Sounds like an excellent setup as long as you don't mind the additional hardware.
Depends on where you go of course. I grew up in the middle of nowhere US, very low population density (huge county, less than 50,000 people total), and went to excellent public schools that had astoundingly good teachers that routinely scored high marks in comparison to their best peers in the state. The county and school system didn't have much in terms of money to waste (they did somehow find the money for a computer lab with a few dozen systems circa 1987, enough for each student while a given class was using the lab; probably a state grant). A lot of money wasn't necessary for a great education (which is a mistake the US education system has been making for decades now: just throw more money at it). I wish I had appreciated then how good the teachers were, I just kind of assumed most kids had access to nice public schools (we were poor and we had access to it, why wouldn't everyone).

I'd choose that rural public school experience every time over public schools in all US cities. It was safe (a school shooting was unthinkable), zero gang or weapon problems, the focus was always on education, classes were never too crowded (easy to get individual attention from a teacher as needed), and the teachers were great overall (90% older women with decades of experience). Toward the end of my years in that public school system, drug use did begin to infest rural American schools and you could see that was about to get a lot worse. The US has changed a lot in the past 30 years, I suspect my experience is becoming increasingly rare, but there are likely still a lot of nice rural areas (it's a huge country after all).
> ... proffering alien explanations for "canals" on mars, pulsars, GRBs, and FRBs to name a few

For those out there who, like me, don't know these acronyms:

GRBs == Gamma-Ray Bursts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ray_burst

FRBs == Fast Radio Bursts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_radio_burst
For one, to piss off Democrats and Biden’s administration. Snowden and Assange both revealed years of illegal activities and corruptions that occurred while a Democrat was president.
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Honest question: why did you expected that? They don't fit profile of people Trump help or cooperates with at all.
> I surely won't trust a book written in 1922.

It works because a large part of it is based not just on Chinese culture, but on human nature.

Its the reason that the Ten Commandments are still relevant today, because as Paul Mooney said, "It puts its foot in man's ass", or in other words, because many of the stories in the Bible were written by people with an understanding of human nature.

The same reason so much of the Constitution of the United States of America still works. Its written to humanity's nature, not current events of 1776.
That is only because subgame perfect equilibrium is applicable to chess. An imperfect information game like Poker cannot have that. Technology is not a process with complete information therefore the chess analogy in the context of technology cannot work. And as bananabiscuit points out, Leela Zero can get away with considering orders of magnitude fewer positions than Stockfish because of the extensive experience from past games encoded into its weights.

Another argument against ignoring the past is it's important to identify what things remain invariant in society as technology evolves. Allowing for a fuller contextualization, understanding and perhaps somewhat anticipation of the on-going changes and their effects.

Technology itself is based on leveraging libraries, tacit knowledge, internet threads and mathematical concepts decades to hundreds of years old. That's a kind of history. It's not uncommon for advancements to occur after revisiting old lines of research that were ahead of their time.
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No, it's not about the Russia collusion hoax (yes it was a hoax btw).

Simply put, Trump was threatened that if he pardons Assange, senate republicans (the establishment) would vote to convict.

I wish he had the courage to call their bluff, because them convicting Trump would fragment the GOP to an extent that is irreversible, IMO. Most people who aren't Trump supporters don't appreciate the extent to which Trump's base is not overlapping with the establishment GOP base.
> decentralized systems with no private ownership

aka anarchy. that turns out to be worse.
Holy! I don't remember the last time I was this excited for a chat app. I just saw your tweet and came to HN to post it but this was already on the front page haha.

Just a quick question (completely noob question, I apologize in advance), do bridges work like APIs? Where can I read more about this protocol?

Really looking forward to this Eric!
Here's the output of the command the parent told me to run on my Windows workstation:

> Get-NetAdapter -Name Wi-Fi | select -ExpandProperty MacAddress
Get-NetAdapter : No MSFT_NetAdapter objects found with property 'Name' equal to 'Wi-Fi'. Verify the value of the property and retry.
At line:1 char:1
+ Get-NetAdapter -Name Wi-Fi | select -ExpandProperty MacAddress
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (Wi-Fi:String) [Get-NetAdapter], CimJobException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CmdletizationQuery_NotFound_Name,Get-NetAdapter

I know the problem, I don't have a wireless card on this machine, but how is this different from you complaining that your network interface isn't called ens33?
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Doesn't your phone's email app support multiple email accounts? Gmail and Outlook both support mail forwarding too?
It's the difference between "I was born in 2010" and "I am about 10.3 years old".

Americans do this a lot too, except at a (pseudo) decade level, e.g. "are you a '90s kid?"
> I can't tell if this is sarcasm or if you're serious.

It is entirely sarcastic, mocking some of GNOME's more infamous design proclivities.
I think thats just word processors
I remember the huge controversy around the iPhone 6S which had a processor that was either a 14nm Samsung or 16nm TSMC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A9). Apple had used Samsung for the iPhone 4 through iPhone 5S. The iPhone 6 was TSMC and the 6S was dual-sourced (20015/2016, 5 years ago).

I'd guess that some of TSMC's rise to prominence was partly driven by Apple not wanting to help Samsung. Apple was really pissed about Samsung copying the iPhone - not just by shipping an Android phone, but by copying icons to make their phones seem as similar as possible.

You can definitely look back at MacRumors articles from 2014 and see that there's a bunch of Samsung/GlobalFoundries/TSMC "who will be able to make it happen" talk.

In fact, re-reading through these articles, it seems that people thought that Samsung and its alliance with GlobalFoundries would be the winner of the iPhone 6S generation, but it's possible that Apple saw better yields from TSMC and saw the potential there. When you're as big as Apple, you're going to be really deep with your suppliers and you're going to have a lot of expertise to judge suppliers and their future potential. Maybe it was a combination of seeing TSMC over the iPhone 6/6S generation that gave Apple the confidence to move away from Samsung. Back in 2015, analysts were still expecting Samsung to be getting future business from Apple like the A10X processor.

Given that Apple is a buyer that can move mountains, how much of TSMC's ascendency is potentially Apple committing to a lucrative multi-year deal allowing TSMC to invest a lot of money knowing they had guaranteed orders? One of the hard things in business is knowing what to spend your time on - what do customers really want. Google, for example, has spent plenty of time on things that weren't good investments whether that's Wave or AppEngine or Google+. If you know "doing X will definitely make me a lot of money" it makes it easier to invest heavily in an area - basically, you kinda get the benefit of hindsight ahead of time with a long-term deal.

I hope Intel and Samsung continue to do well (or get back into the race as Intel's position might be) since more competition means lower-cost processors over the long-run. But I think it's definitely important that you point out that only a few years ago TSMC wasn't the powerhouse it is today. While I believe TSMC is going to continue to invest and improve, Samsung is producing Qualcomm's Snapdragon 888 on its 5nm process and if you're right about Samsung's 3nm process, that should provide a lot of orders there too - especially if Intel is willing to outsource manufacturing.

https://www.macrumors.com/2014/03/05/a8-chip-underway-tsmc/

https://www.macrumors.com/2014/07/10/tsmc-apple/

https://www.macrumors.com/2014/08/25/tsmc-16nm-a9/

https://www.macrumors.com/2014/11/04/samsung-tsmc-still-comp...

https://www.macrumors.com/2014/11/17/samsung-apple-processor...

https://www.macrumors.com/2014/12/30/tsmc-chip-production-yi...

https://www.macrumors.com/2015/01/14/apple-diversifies-arm-c...
I'm thinking this news is related.

https://www.servethehome.com/red-hat-goes-full-ibm-and-says-...

I'd still prefer CentOS lived, this is probably meant to keep people from grabbing pitchforks.
The Bundy thing was 100% government needlessly escalating a matter, that should have been some lawyers negotiating a reasonable fees and promises to not intentionally graze on federal land. If that failed they simply could have arrested him driving in to town or some equally mundane action.
It doesn't sound like a bug. It sounds like a feature that was removed when people noticed.
Not by any definition.

You said he had pardoned fewer people than previous presidents. I said that the number of pardons had no bearing (on whether or not it's abused), and illustrated that point with a hypothetical.

At no point have I made up an argument as yours to attack.