skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone subdued enough that you can pull an arrow out of them is subdued enough that you can deliver a coup de grace with a knife or axe. It's demonstrably not an act of mercy to shoot them twice with the same arrow.

It seems pretty clear that it's a demonstration of how badly defeated the enemy is... that the enemy is incapable of putting up the smallest bit of defense.

The nuances of the message being sent may be a mystery to us, but the high-level message seems pretty clear to me. Some of the possible aspects of the message are (1) demonstrating military his military prowess to his tribe (2) demonstrating his bravery to his tribe (3) increasing the shame felt by the enemy as he died (4) demonstrating his military prowess to surviving enemies to demoralize them.

If the primary intent of the message was to emotionally torture an enemy through shame in his dying moments, then contempt and hate would appear to be the primary motivators.
My guess is that at least 10% of the CentOS yum repository traffic was immediately lost at the announcement, as it switched to Oracle.

When your house is on fire, and you have a very short time to save your prized possessions, haste easily leads to observable contradictory actions.
Ah, this makes some sense, thanks.
Nintendo Faces Another Class-Action Lawsuit over Joy-Con Drift in Canada
I know it's not much but I'm pretty excited about this. It gives me hope that things really will change.
It is worth noting that Akka Streams is an implementation of the Reactive Streams [0] spec, using Akka

[0]: https://www.reactive-streams.org
I think you're going out of your way to portray keeping a garden as some kind of herculean effort when in reality it's not very difficult and it can be done most anywhere except in the densest cores of mega cities.
Why does 3nm make a big difference?
Looks like he pardoned 66 people at the end of his second term[1], no names leapt out at me.

1: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/obama-pardons
One difference perhaps is that the term as used typically refers to algorithmic associations defined for, and out of the control of the user.

When you choose what Fediverse instance you use, or what other people to follow, you're getting what you asked for. When it's something else based on ad targeting and an opaque mechanism, it's a bubble you're in without your informed input.
Looks cool! Does it require Big Sur?
Wait, they value one SWE-year at $200,000,000?
But if an enemy is unable to prevent the victor from pulling an arrow out, it's both more merciful and less risky to the arrow and the victor to deliver a coup de grace with a knife, axe, or club.
I think I agree, harsh as it may be. But that doesn't mean the author's complaints are illegitimate—they're just a tad misplaced.

DRM hampers innovation and creativity in all sorts of ways. It locks users into specific platforms, and prevents anyone else from leveraging those platforms to build improved or entirely new experiences.

I'm not sure if this is still the case, but I remember when the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive were new, a lot of people were disappointed that they couldn't watch Netflix in a virtual theater (in high quality). The DRM made it impossible.
Reconsider your pricing strategy. $19 for the year will get you TONS of signups (if scaling is not an issue).
No you saw a conspiracy theory peddled by Rudy Giuliani, the man in charge of the Trump legal challenge to the election.

The video is so wrongly interpreted, Republicans were the first one to debunk it.
It's important to note, in a video, when someone leaves the screen or the room... you can't assume they've been sent home.

More info here: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/dec/04/facebook-p...
> 1. The invasion of Tibet (everyone seems to have forgotten
about this)

Tibet is strategically important to the Chinese.

It's a major water source and the origin of the Mekong, Yangtze, and Yellow rivers. Allowing Tibet to remain independent would mean that India could occupy Tibet, use it as a base for invasion, and cut off China's water supply. There were skirmishes along the Tibet-Indian border earlier this year; it's not a theoretical threat. Any great power would use force under these circumstances.
Wouldn't it be great though if there was such a platform where you could lose your cool with someone without having to be banned, moderated, etc. The ad-hominem part of the argument would be simply flagged as such. Kind of like Westminster parlimentary debate - insults fly all the time, but no one can be cancelled or banned.
Certainly this will lead to rather confused programmers.

F-strings certainly seem like opt-in behavior to me.
Netflix dates series by their last episode, in a deceptive attempt to make their catalog look fresher.
>Because if you can playback 4k video from Netflix with a browser under your control, then you can playback 4k video to a file and thereby create a cracked copy that can be pirated.

Can't you just record the screen to do this? Or split the signal in the cable or have the screen itself send the data on to another device. At the very least you can always just physically record the screen itself.

At the end of the day, you have to ask whether this is worth it. Does it actually help sales to offset the costs?
There is a balance here, you are correct, but I think we currently skew too far toward gatekeeping.

Too little gatekeeping means trouble finding the signal through the noise and time wasted on dead ends. Too much and good ideas get neglected or squashed for far too long. There is a cost to both.
They're called bridges because they connect the Matrix server to the other servers. They aren't independent. And reverse engineering protocol changes wouldn't be easier if they were.
Yeah, I would definitely like to see more HN-like sites for different fields.
Signed XPIs are valid for eternity*, and you can just re-sign it for free if you really care about it.

* Unless it was explicitly revoked (updates do not revoke the signature) or Mozilla broke something that affects everything.
It depends.

For many musicians it is not a career, but a hobby. A outlet for creativity. (That is me) In which case we choose venues that are like us. Our most recent gig was at our local Musicians Club https://youtu.be/URwzKL8pjQo?t=819

For others it is a important part of their income, so they should be paid.

Who should pay? If the punters pay a door charge the band should get it (that is the tradition here) if not then, yes, the owner of the venue pays it.
Jeff Zients, the ‘Mr. Fix It’ Biden put in charge of tackling Covid-19
Your proposed title is so great that I have created an account after a decade of lurking! However, I must suggests what I consider to be a more correct formulation :

Genetic variants associated with vitamin D deficiency appear to be uncorrelated with the severity of COVID-19
Ok. Donating to Wikileaks.
For what it's worth, black appears to do a reasonable thing and preserves the semantics of your quoted strings (as is promised by the documentation):

$ echo "'foo'" | black -
"foo"

$ echo "'foo[\"bar\"]'" | black -
'foo["bar"]'

$ echo "'foo[\"bar\"]+\\'baz\\''" | black -
"foo[\"bar\"]+'baz'"
Yup! I mean you can see why, it would be political suicide. But it also means that if you want real solutions, none of the centralist parties have the guts to do anything about it.
Yeah, debate clubs often have many of the elements I alluded to.

Re: curation - In school settings, for example, the curation is done by the teacher (rather than the students who are actively trying to "win" the argument). Curation is needed to avoid redundancy and to ensure factuality.

Impartiality is needed in order to not alienate the parties: it undermines respect for the tool if one allows loaded keywords to be put into it. Debaters' choice of words are often "tainted" by their biases (especially if they believe in what they are defending), and there's usually a more neutral way to rephrase something someone said. More generally, though, sometimes the best arguments don't always show up at the heat of the moment, but upon offline reflection, or based on careful research.

What would be cool is something analogous to the "slowest horse" puzzle (given two people, race them to determine who has the slowest horse - the solution of which is to have them mount their opponent's horse), but in a sort of collaborative setting. I.e. people would be teamed up so as to collaboratively come up with the strongest argument against their own beliefs.
Thats precisely backwards. Extinction threats on Earth come from the "modern" cultures not the ancient ones.
Reinforced repeatedly with career/publication steps, homeownership, children's expenses, neighbor buying a Tesla first, etc.
It could be upgraded rather than uninstalled.
There's absolutely an argument that, for many companies, if you're dependent on a long-term stable release for everything (especially in the absence of actual paid support) you're probably doing it wrong.
"The plural of regex is regrets"
Yes, Margaret Dayhoff was great. See this article for more:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-margaret-d...
I know you mean in terms of host OS, but as an aside, loads of Docker images are based on the "slim" Debian images.
I think this may be caused by zoning. If people were allowed to gradually grow an area rather than wait until things got 'rezoned' before a place can built up, we might see less of the 'big developer' type construction and rather smaller developers adding a duplex or a four plex and over time the city grows up rather than what happens right now.
People live. People die. Children are born. Children grow up, move out, and need places to live.

Neighborhoods change whether the buildings change or not, because of the natural cycle of life. Why should we place a premium on preserving buildings over preserving the quality of human life? Neighborhoods must change to fit the needs of the people, and not just the wealthiest or the ones who have been there the longest.

> no skin in the game

What does this mean? It seems rather pejorative towards those who haven't been born into massive wealth or have massive incomes that allow them to purchase property.
There's some confusion here.

* Dendrite ("the rewrite") uses about 5-10x less RAM than Synapse; it's in relatively late beta and you can see for yourself today. For instance, dendrite.matrix.org is currently sitting at 480MB of RAM, despite being in ~5000 rooms spanning ~150K users.

* Matrix is coherent no matter what clients you use, given there is only one version of the spec (and as it happens, we haven't broken backwards compatibility yet). Sure, some implementations might not have implemented all the features, but the features they do implement (assuming they're not buggy) will work reliably with any other client or server out there.

It's fine to dislike Matrix and pine for XMPP, but please don't spread FUD.
I agree that extension security isn't considered nearly as often as it should be, though my barrier isn't quite yours. For me, it comes down to developer trust and permissions. If someone I trust wrote a small, feature-targeted extension, I would probably be comfortable installing it. Similarly, if the permissions an extension has are tightly scoped to its use case, I'm more comfortable installing it.

Now that I write that, I'm not sure how permissions and upgrades go together. If an extension that had tight permissions relaxes them I'd get notified before they took effect, right?
> Everyone I know wants an M1 laptop, has bought one, or is waiting for a larger laptop with it in it. None of these people are nerdy types, but the buzz surrounding the M1 is loud.

Now go to the most fashionable nightclubs that are the hardest places to get in, in America's largest 50 cities.

Ask them what they think about Apple's new M1 CPU / chip and if they are planning to get a MBP/MBA/Mac Mini.

Now go ask the top physicians in those 50 cities. The top psychiatrists. The top fashion designers. The top <anyone who isn't intrinsically involved in technology>.

I bet you less than 10% of them even know that Apple released a new MacBook and MacMini.
If the people vote on something I'd say that is a democratic decision. Electing the U.S. president is a democratic decision. Referendums, where they have them, like in California, are democratic decisions. I would not say that quarantines in the U.S. have been democratic decisions.

Like I said, I think the word democracy is abused. Is the U.S. a democracy? The word appears zero times in the constitution. Is the Democratic Republic of North Korea a democracy, just because they say it is? Is Russia a democracy because people get to vote?

In the U.S. we don't vote on issues, we vote on which one of two factions will be in power any given year, the same two parties for the last 150+ years, increasingly the same people over and over, rotating in and out of corporate board rooms and the media, a political class bought and paid for, seemingly more concerned with keeping the population distracted rather than representing them, happy to take on more and more responsibility even thought the population trusts them less and less. Why the need to defend this hot mess and everything it does as democratic, when technically it is not?

Thanks for the Switzerland call-out, I'll be reading more about their system.
Reminded me of buffalo/bison jumps [0] where land features were used to hunt entire herds to great effect

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_jump
Well they work very hard to patrol that walled garden. And apparently famous people that could care less really like it.
"Luxury" rarely even includes adequate soundproofing. You'd find more people willing to pay more money for less space if they got some of the same privacy and noise pollution benefits they get in standalone houses.
Right. I've been following the qanon phenomena for a while. My real curiosity is whether January 6 fizzled out the energy enough that it no longer becomes such a large phenomena.

I'm sure we all know a few people who have slipped into sheer lunacy down internet rabbit holes and seem to more or less be literally insane from the various wild stories.

The best I can imagine is for it to occupy the same fringe space as other wild conspiracies from the grifters like David Icke and Alex Jones.

These people will always exist in society but they should be a small enough group that we aren't forced to deal with them as a political force.

We shouldn't have to spend time, for instance, showing how Vincent Fusca isn't the secret alias of a JFK Jr faked death... it's such a waste of public engagement.
Trump: Hey Tony, you know...they are kicking me out and I'm going broke; I need a favor from you.
Anthony: what can I do for you mr. President?
Trump: I will pardon you in one condition.
Antony: what that would be?
Trump: I will need some "financial assistance" from you.
Antony: ...say no more!
I don't understand what is happening with Avi Loeb.
I was not familiar with him before Omouamoua but from what I gathered he is a respected academic in the field. So how can someone like that be so disingenuous about this topic?

There is currently basically no evidence whatsoever that Omouamoua is an alien constructs. If we are generous we can consider this at most a plausible explanation among others (certainly not the most plausible), and yet he is just pretending like this is not the case and putting on the front page of his book definitive statements like "The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth", or saying that since all other possible explanation have been excluded (which is categorically wrong) then we must accept the remaining explanation that this an alien object.

What can push an Harvard academic to just disregard any scientific ethic and just go full-on junk science? Is it just a concession to sell more books or gain more fame?
Well... for the price of a Mac Mini, and some, you get a bare motherboard with a small amount of onboard storage (64G eMMC). No RAM, no video, no power supply or case. And it's not like you can just throw an off-the-shelf GPU in, either; neither nVidia nor AMD graphics cards work on ARM devices -- so if you're expecting something you can use as a desktop, you're in for a hard time.
But 00:00:00 does not represent the first second of your day. It represents a _point_in time, which has no duration.

The first second of your day is an interval between the moment your clock shows 00:00:00 and the moment it shows 00:00:01.

If 00:00:00 is the fist second, why it's not the first minute and not the first hour? Is the fist second is the same as the first minute and the first second?
As someone who has done both. Amen. We’re all (hopefully) trying to get stuff done and operating under different constraints.
Even more than that, Jupyter brought literate programming and REPL-style programming to the masses. Those ideas have been present from the dawn of computing (and have seen various proprietary incarnation e.g., Matlab, Mathematica) but it was Jupyter that thrust them to wide audiences. I was glad to see Jupyter mentioned as an important advancement in the scientific computing arena. In addition, for me, the paper was a delight to read. I have met or even collaborated with a number of people interviewed in the article. (I am also an org-mode / babel user.)
> Now if you just want to bring back the old art of rethoric instead of the negatively charged "political debates". You may have a bit more chance.

This is the idea.

> I think that's for the best, there are places other than HN to talk politics.

Such as? I struggle to find a neutral place to have an intellectual debate. Many reddits are very restrictive and because of the polarization of the US, its very difficult to find a place where mods can be neutral.

HN is such an intelligent and well-read community and it seems like there are a lot of people who would love to debate but plain text back and forth with ad-hoc moderation prevent it.
I don't disagree that it might not be the best thing to introduce to new users right off the bat. It's really nice if you force yourself to get used to it, but it's also cool to never use them. Not using them does give you four free homerow keys to map! But they're really nice if you can get used to them.
Learn JavaScript Correctly
I wasn't very good at solving integrals in grad school, so I bought Mathematica because I had the impression it could solve them. What I found was interesting. First, for all the integrals I dealt with, computers can't solve them using the rule systems that exist. Instead, you need a Physics Grad Student who knows how to solve integrals. Mathmeatica will just take your integral and spit out a more complicated one.

However, Mathematica is really good for symbolic algebra! I wrote a Python-Mathematica bridge many, many years ago, and learned that not only could it decompose numeric matrices, it could do it for matrices with symbols. Mind=blown.
What are the system requirements for self-hosting?
They'll offer you a full-time job and then you won't be able to work on it :P
Sometimes people want to move to a neighborhood because it's near their work, or the school they want to attend, or what have you. The pejorative terms come because people are putting property values and "feel" ahead of baseline viability of other people's lives. That's selfish as fuck and worthy of scorn.
>Why does this situation invite pejorative terms and scorn from people who have no skin in the game?

I try to avoid pejoratives. It usually isn't helpful in any political dispute.

But we all have skin in the game. Look at satellite images. Compare how much space the US takes up for houses and lawns to the pattern in Japan or Germany. Everyone laments living surrounded by concrete. But it's our own determination to each get our personal patch of grass that leads to the unending expanse of roads and driveways and parking lots.

Kant said that an action is immoral if it when realized contradicts the rational ideal ("an action is derived from a rule...") that motivates it in the first place. If our desire for minimum lot sizes and detached single-family houses is a result of our revulsion at the jungle of artificial infrastructure we find ourselves lost in, and our desire to reduce its impact on our health and comfort, shouldn't that qualify?
All of these are great fun.

The anglo-saxon name meanings are often plain, or at least so foreign sounding to our ears now that it’s easier to hear them as meaningful: Beowulf is “bee-hunter”, probably; etc.

Hebrew names are the interesting case where they’re so normal in western culture as “oh, a given name” that we often seem completely blind to their meanings. Adam, for example, probably means something like “humanity”, the collective noun. Israel is roughly “wrestles with god”. And Jesus Christ, as famously memed on tumblr, is modernizable as “oily josh”. (and in that form of his name, has already been translated through the greek first anyway!)
I mean like, why not? I think the issue with leafy greens is that they're fairly stable, travel well and grow well/quickly in greenhouses, so it's not worth flash freezing them.
Having used a Pi4B 4GB for a few weeks while setting it up a webserver and UPS controller, I can honestly say that it was just as good, if not better, than several desktops and laptops that I have used in the recent past for everyday stuff.

Maybe it would fall down as a development machine which needs heavy compilation, or as a video editor, but I feel it would suit most people, most of the time.

(Many people use low-cost laptops, which probably have as innards something which is not much better than the innards of a Pi4B. They also have a keyboard and screen which is not supplied with the Pi4B so they seem 'more complete' than a Pi.)
It’s quite difficult to actually get there, for one...
LIGO used my computer code (pyglobus) to move data around! I was very proud of that.
I don't know where you live, so this is a meta-point, but...

If you don't want density, move to the country or to the suburbs of a medium-sized city that does not have a housing shortage (thus far less pressure to increase density). In the post-COVID telecommuting age this is easier than ever before, at least for people in the industries that are popular on this site.

If you decide to move to a top-tier city or a rapidly growing boom-town, you do not get to complain about density.
Sources are available on github: https://github.com/figs-lab/datalegreya
The first second is one which passes between 0 and 1.
Counting time is 1-based.
Points in time (which have no duration) are 0-based...
I am sorry if I'm being pushy, it just gets extremely tiring to see all the same type of comments for years on places like here and on /r/linux. You don't have to listen to me if you don't want, it's just my humble plea.
...except the horse has left the barn and Bitcoin has already infiltrated the highest levels of business, finance and government. Even the IRS recognizes it.

What seems more likely is KYC regulation for transactions and SEC review for ICOs. If this happens, Bitcoin will skyrocket in value as it crosses into the mainstream.

(disclosure: minor HODLer since 2013)
Usually because they use the power of the state to veto development on land they don't own. You have the skin in the game question backwards.
In California with prop13 it’s even worse.

Not only do they not have “skin in the game” they barely contribute any property tax.

I think this article is a good example of what makes fixing housing so hard. If you have dumb NIMBY arguments on the left and the right, it's impossible to build a coalition of people large enough to argue for increasing supply. You end up trapped in the worst outcome.

For people that may not believe there are those on the left making the NIMBY arguments described here, see: https://twitter.com/nextdoorsv/status/1351373540298170368?s=... (specifically all the comments from @buildbackbettercities)