skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Andrew Lee has had legal control over Freenode since 2017. He gave assurances to the volunteers that he would not try to assume operational control. He affirmed that commitment as late as a few months ago. Now he has gone against that.
Well that’s what this is saying, some sunscreens contain unacceptably high levels of carcinogens. It’s not a huge logical leap to go from there to some people getting skin cancer from the sunscreen.
That doesn’t mean you aren’t also at risk of getting skin cancer from excess sun exposure.
A cherry culture is definitely better than a potato culture. Between humans however as a philosopher once said: The worm that he thinks is the better between his kind will suddenly became man.
Why Kakoune
That's the same honourable pursuit of self-interest that have built the modern world of abundance that we live in.
Not at all, but I do have much greater appreciation for the time that sound engineers took to cram as much frequency information into the fixed size spectrum box using level variation, panning, parametric equalizing, and compression. All of those things we had to listen for and critically evaluate in that class.
It is a major journal now.
Alyx is fun to play but the jokes and dialog are really bad. Previous half life games did a lot more with a lot less.
> That $77B that is now returned to shareholders can be spent on whatever those shareholders want. It isn't really Apple's money to begin with... kind of the issue with being a public company.

Apple and its shareholders are the same entity when discussing “whose” money it is. If shareholders want it used to do buybacks, they vote for company leadership to do that. If they want dividends, they vote for company leadership to do that. If they want to invest in travel to Mars, they vote for leadership to do that.

Saying Apple’s money belongs to shareholders is a meaningless statement. It belongs to the collection of shareholders as a whole, who have opted to elect in leaders to decide how to spend it.
Uh....

Melting USB-C connectors at 65W are already bad enough.

The problem is that there is no way to detect a bad contact, and they tend to be.

Few specs of dust, and you have 5 amps going to a single pin.

Even if you have split seconds momentary disconnects, you can get welds in contact pads, which will over time degrade the contact.

On other note, Intel may be increasing laptop CPU power budgets into 60W-70W territory to counter Ryzen people say. I think it makes sense now why they do it.
Kudos for the project, impressive trajectory.

-- m-x sent-from-my-emacs
Why should we care about people defacing fiction when the inflation of fiction is responsible for drowning out non-fiction? Even things intended to be non-fictional, like documentaries, are loaded with fiction.
This is an English vs. Spanish issue. When talking in Spanish, one shouldn't use America to discuss just the USA.

But in English, you'd confuse the shit out of your audience if you said, "I went to America on vacation, Santiago is a cool city."

Similarly, in the English world, North and South America are considered two continents. Being the same landmass isn't the definition of continent--otherwise Europe, Asia, and Africa should be a single continent.
> It’s two landmasses not one. They are connected by an isthmus.

Merriam-Webster's definition of landmass [0]:

"a large area of land"

Example of its usage in a sentence (also [0]):

"the islands of Ireland and Great Britain were once part of the Eurasian landmass"

So, you see, if Eurasia, including the British Isles, can be considered a landmass, surely using the Isthmus of Panama as a reason for America not being one is at least a little pedantic.

> Claiming America is what people call both North America and South America together in standard English is being pedantic.

I did no such thing. This is a strawman.

> Moreover, a colleague in MDF confirms Americans (US to be clear) are referred to as americanos, norte americanos and less so as “estadunidense”.

This is true. Americano(a) is probably the most common way to call the people from the US, closely followed by norte-americano. That doesn't mean it's not also used to reference people from the other American countries. Usually context can be used to make the distinction, or people can ask for clarification.

That said, nobody that I know refers to the USA as America over there, so this part of your argument is another strawman.

Quick side question: what's MDF in this context?

> In normal usage of modern standard English the combination of two continents in the Western Hemisphere are referred to as “The Americas”.

Perhaps. Also perhaps it's time to recognise that this can be seen as a form of cultural domination and change it.

In any case, you had said: "In the modern English language no such thing exists." and that's what I was refuting, so this is yet another strawman.

> Now, refer to French, German, Japanese, etc, and they all use a transliterated or translated version of American for people from the USA.

I have no idea why you are bringing this up as it doesn't seem to relate to the issue at hand in any way.

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/landmass
I think it's akin to the original conception of OOP in Smalltalk, where objects are passed messages. (I've never written ObjectiveC, but I believe that's its paradigm as well.) In that, it's similar to the actor model used in Akka and in Erlang.

If you think of a service as being like a class -- as originally conceived by Smalltalk -- then sending it messages and acting on responses is the very definition of OOP, at least according to Alan Kay, the inventor of Smalltalk and of the term "object oriented programming."

There's an interesting discussion of the definition of OOP here. https://wiki.c2.com/?AlanKaysDefinitionOfObjectOriented
Awesome. I am here for this.

I was introduced to the Advantage as a Field Tech by employee ID #3 at Google. 11 years later, I've bought at least 3 of them, and while I've yet to personally convert anyone else at work, I am so happy with these, and I'm looking forward to see what Kinesis do with this.
Lack of basic formatting (links, fixed-width-blocks, bold, italic, strikethrough) and media-embedding in a way that's non-terrible is a problem. HTML email partially solves that, but sucks and provides way too much formatting control. The threading's not great either. Otherwise I like email quite a bit. I'd consider switching back to it from chat programs/texting for friends-and-family communication if those problems could be fixed, somehow.
I've lost useful archives of chats multiple times in switches between incompatible systems: HipChat, Slack, Google Hangouts, Microsoft Teams.

I have not had this problem with email.
Court Orders Deep Carbon Cuts for Shell
I am also confused by the idea of a theorem that can be refuted. As far as I know, if something can be refuted by experimental evidence then it cannot be a theorem.
Yes. I prefer email than IM or any other medium.
EM Drive is back (UFO? UAP?) (2019)
Security through obscurity + walled garden. Brilliant move.
Yeah but hopefully you don't rub that stuff all over your face and just pump it into your car.
Freenode's largest competitor is likely OFTC, not IRCNet. IRCNet is a general purpose IRC network, Freenode is more open source and surrounding topics, as is OFTC. OFTC however is more strictly on-topic (off topic channels must be +s, which means they don't show up in channel listings).
As a child I had a subconscious assumption that Christianity wasn't rational, and maintained that view into my mid-twenties. Thankfully, I had the drive to do research on it, and an open enough mind to accept it, because I was ready to reject Christianity completely for a short period. I know this view isn't popular, but today, I see Christianity as the most rational philosophy/religion out there.

I think it's been wrongfully misconstrued as irrational by people who don't really understand the religion, inside and out.
Email preferred. Asynchronous by design and expectation.

I write a lot of long emails, essentially blog posts, about my trucking travels to a small handful of family and friends. Lots of photos inline with commentary.

Most of my other communication is via email, except when I really need my young adult son to read and respond. Then text is more reliable.
Excellent point. Note that Solomon "Sol" Epstein dies as a direct result of his engine working too well and pressing him against his seat such that he couldn't turn it off.
It is friction. No matter how little you think it matters, adding friction always loses people. In this case, they're the old-hands types; if you think your project would benefit from losing those in favor of newbies, sure, you can make that choice.

Like I said, messing around with someone's email verification nonsense probably with a captcha and stupid questions on top is likely more than I want to spend on seeing if someone who might help me with a transient issue is even available, so I am unlikely to do so.
Yes! Both for personal and professional communication. It is by far the best channel for me.

I bemoan all chat-like things for a few reasons:

- they don't give space to formulate thoughts well, so they push thus the problem to the other person

- the messages are very short, so it is hard to focus (unlike reading a medium-size email text)

- they expect an instant reply (again, either devastate focus or make it easy to miss an important message)

- there are (too) many such communicators (to name a few: Slack, Discord, Messenger, WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram); email is just email

- most of them mix crucial communication with noise (by design); I rarely get important information mixed with gossips, jokes and news in professional emails

Of course, I have to use such communicators (as fewer and fewer friends use email), but my preference is to restrict them to things requiring a real-time response rather than making them a default solution.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if reducing the price of a blockbuster flick by 50% only increased it's audience by 10%.
Great news. I hope the government grows a spine and does it.
HN is not the same place it was a few years ago.

It's a victim of its own success.
This seems to be true across markets and regulatory levels.

For example, browser extensions must be analyzed by neutral third parties because the code can not be trusted to be persistently safe with each new publication.

This is similar to different formulations across batches in sunscreen.

I’ve noticed in consumer products like backpacks, the hardware (zipper pulls, etc) can sometimes vary in the same brand and model. The company does not outwardly acknowledge variability, and it is not discussed in product reviews.

Apple made changes to its Secure Enclave Component unusually in fall 2020. [1]

Not every update of every product is going to contain a shocker. But with the rate of releases and rapid adoption of physical and virtual consumer products, we could use less unboxing and more hard analysis of what is shipping and it’s potential for harm.

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2021/04/12/apple-made-security-cha...
Early access? Some of the games released this way are very rough, but have at least a level or two worth of gameplay.
This is relatively true. spoiler alert Does not hold for the alien technology, which isn't explained well at all (proto molecule, gates, slow zone, etc)
IIRC that would require paying a license fee (which is one of the reasons it's not a popular font outside of weird situations like courts.)
Thanks for the info. Well, F-Droid is still an option, if anyone is interested.
I'm happy to hear your answer, if you want to share. This is why we're here: to discuss different points of view.
Yeah, but they took a fairly abstract perceived threat and turned it into a tangibly executed threat on that guy. I guess I didn't read the guy's entire opus of internet crapposts, but it smacks of witch hunt.

The far left (I'm a liberal but mostly an environmentalist and better-distribution-of-wealth liberal) can go ahead and do twitter brigades and online outrage mobs. Whatever.

But these witch hunts that get people fired in a country where there's no socialized medicine and no safety net start to get to the actual evil of a witch hunt running down someone unpopular and burning them. Yes, getting someone fired from a job can get them killed.
Not just the producers but the overall strategy. Right now, these media companies are competing on quantity because it's a numbers game and a marketing gimmick to showcase your "vast" collection, however mediocre.
If numerous Dell laptop variants and MacBook Pro were affected by some vulnerability, could still mean that the majority of the vulnerable laptops are MacBook Pros.

The interesting thing to me would be the ratio of shipped products by a brand that are affected. And maybe the total number of affected units.
Now at $1.15
this is some straight up thug shit maneeee
Just found my post on HN. Thanks for the feedback. And i think i need a review my responsive codes.
Apple initially banned the UE too, but court gave preliminary injunction to decouple UE from Epic since both are under different Developer Account, under two differently registered companies.
And some brands/products even have a 70% Std.Dev... seems to be more manufacturing inconsistency and bad quality control.
Pause -> get a snack/bathroom break -> fast forward.
…and then management asks you to make a Nintendo Switch version.
Honestly at this point I kinda feel like Valve is to the Steam store what Google is to search/ads. I do not trust either of them to follow through with any amount of support for any project they announce outside of the massive money spigot that is their core business.
I can't tell if this is sarcasm. Anyway, I think my exposure to gasoline is higher than to sunscreen.
> In the Bay Area, with PG&E at least, you can trivially choose your mix, and designate that you want only renewables.

For renters, that'll largely depend on if you get an individual PG&E bill. Large apartment buildings aren't always individually metered. Instead, you pay a calculated portion of the building's single energy bill alongside your rent. (Referred to as RUBS--ratio utility billing system--in the multifamily housing space.)
USB-C toaster when?

And since USB-C PD actually requires a micro controller we'll finally be able to run netBSD on unmodified toasters.
> But, getting into optimal setup in neovim/vim involves lot of configuration.

I haven't found this to be true. I've basically copied the configs from READMEs and have everything working.
Critical comments on this thread are receiving an unusual amount of downvotes in my opinion.
Email is really the only way for structured, asynchronous, long-form communication. Everything that requires more than a short paragraph and/or that you want to be able to sort/list/filter/group by (thread) subject, by correspondent, date range, keyword, etc. in the long term. You can cc, forward, flag as (not) important, explicitly control the (un)read status, and many other operations. Emails are like files, in that they are not tethered to a service, but you can move and copy them around in a robust fashion. I have email archives going back ~20 years. Try that with any other messaging solution (except NNTP and IRC logs I guess).

That being said, a native desktop client is a must.
>Edward Snowden Hails Court

Another great headline by Tom Swift
HTTP API is awkward to pronounce. Why not call it Web API?
It gets brought up because, at least from my perspective, none of the immediate mode toolkits are addressing this. I understand the desire to keep the code simple and only handle the rendering, but that is fundamentally opposed to the way some assistive technologies work. They need to access the UI as a state tree to even make sense. If the goal with these toolkits is to always avoid storing state information, that isn't ever going to work with screen readers. You can't push this task to the app developer, it really needs to be tied to the toolkit's internal hierarchy and focus handling.

My opinion for the last several years has been, if you use these toolkits, you might just have to accept that your app is not going to be accessible and is not really suitable for anything beyond highly specialized use.
It's a trapezoid!
Yep, HBO is the only streaming platform with consistent quality. It’s also the only one I pay for. There are approximately 0 Netflix originals that are on par with the ‘good’ HBO series, same for amzn and Hulu.
All: there was a thwack of threads about this, including several on the front page (yikes). I've merged them hither. That means there are 800+ comments and to read them all you need (stamina, and) to click More at the bottom of the page, or like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27286628&p=2

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27286628&p=3

(Sorry for the interruption. Comments like this will go away when we turn off pagination. Yes, you're right and we know.)

There is also the following thread from the other side, which I've unflagged, but not merged:

Freenode Exists for FOSS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27283964 - May 2021 (20 comments)
My favorite is Belter video call app called "Showxating" -- it shows a thing!
I remember this from a few years ago when it was posted to HN.

I remember it for originally shipping with a really good clone of the macOS windowing system down to the three colored buttons - when you clicked them the buttons popped out to make clicking the right one easy and it was really well done, had a native feel to it and was super fluid.

It allowed me to dream of running macOS on my iPad...

It was later removed, but I felt the need to mention that.
That is precisely my concern! Where in the world did you get that nonsense that capacity for chance and production is unlimited? So if an asteroid defense were(!) to be more urgent (don't say it is) than that might need the resources first.

Btw. spotting volcanic activity will not help you on a big eruption that changes the climate for millions of years (Deccan Traps anyone?). No sure anything will help us in such a scenario, to be honest
As a solution by anecdote:

My (by now) ancient laptop simply won't charge (or boot if cold) if the wattage of the psu is insufficient. This will easily solve that problem as you find out when the battery runs out of juice. I noticed this as it originally came with a 45 watt charger but after a processor upgrade the required power would be at least 60 watt.

Note that it will charge the battery when off with any charger, it is just slower.
Playstation Is Developing AI ‘Agents’ That Will Play Games with You
Crypto "market cap" isn't really comparable to the market cap of companies. Nobody would (or could) ever buy Dogecoin for 44b. But companies are usually purchased for more than market cap.
It almost did:

"The motion centers on iOS support for the Unreal Engine, which Apple has threatened to revoke as part of Epic’s broader loss of developer privileges. Epic has asked the court to restrain Apple from revoking that access while the case is ongoing."

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/23/21397369/epic-apple-fortn...
Honestly, I don't have any system I can access where "vi" is not actually vim any more.
I wouldn't say it was a 1:1 identical experience; registering was a pain as there was no process to take over user registrations or channel registrations from freenode.

But, assuming you did those things smoothly then it was pretty identical and as simple as changing your client config to connect to libera instead of freenode.
Not to pick a fight (just a student of spanish), but my spanish teacher would caution us against the categorization of permanent vs temporary and gave us acronyms instead because of examples like:

It is 1 => Es la una (describing time uses Ser)

I am an engineer => Soy ingeniero (describing a profession which can be seen as a temporary state of affairs)
And it's been removed from CMC since this morning.
Ahhh gotta love the bullruns, and all the junk that rises (to inevitably fall).

I remember when all these 'regional' coins popped up a few years ago. They were useless then, and are useless now. Buyer beware.
Including that one, which was downvoted three times in 0 minutes. Is that natural?

I suppose it is. It'd be more shocking if companies weren't shilling on these platforms. I have to admit I haven't been countering this with upvotes on my part, which is a fairly simple solution.

In retrospect astroturfing [0] is not the appropriate term, previous discussion on that here [1].

Shilling on the other hand is the correct term - but there doesn't appear to be a meaningful way to distinguish between paid and unpaid shills as an observer.

Perhaps my comment should've been more along the lines of "there are dissenting voices that have been buried," which on Reddit would be a callout that says "sort by controversial". Unfortunately, neither is useful for comments that aren't top-level.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19418177
Isn't there a difference between tradeoff's in the 1800's and 2021?

The benefits of fossil fuels is not the issue, the cost is. If today we in fact have alternative's that do not inflict such a terrible cost on human life, is it incorrect to say the choice is "bad".

The WHO estimates 7 million people a year are dying from air pollution.
https://www.who.int/health-topics/air-pollution#tab=tab_1
> but libera have people who know how to deal with IRC spam so it's not gone nearly as well.

That says it all really doesn't it :).
I wonder if this is some kind of reference to The Picture of Dorian Gray?
Artifact was just straight up a trash game.

I hate this new idea that every failed game is just "bad marketing"
It's hard to tell ahead of time. When I was a kid, our cat would immediately chew the head off mice.

We lived in a cottage. During the winter, when there were mice in the house, you might hear one rustling around the grill (I think that's a broiler to Americans) of the electric cooker, eating crumbs and whatnot. The easiest way to catch these mice was to put the cat up on the counter then rattle the grill pan around until the mouse jumped out, whereupon the cat pounced.

My sympathy for the mice was limited. Finding mouse droppings in your breakfast cereal, your bread nibbled into, footprints across your butter, etc. gets old pretty quickly, and we were poor. The nearest shop was 2 miles away, and we couldn't afford a car. Mouse traps didn't catch all the mice.
Some vaccines do need constant boosters, for example Tetnus. Its common to forget or otherwise skip these, and I suspect skipping COVID booster vaccines will be common too.
At the bottom of it all, different people have different values and there's no way around that.

And some people are hateful and aggressive due to their personal mental state.
Email 98% of the time. I also take care to explain very well to all my contacts, face to face, why I prefer email, how I work and so on. Practically everybody respect my choice and it really works. I can dedicate time to dealing with request and they don't interfere with other aspects of my work and personal life.

But I am flexible: sometimes a synchronous channel is needed, for example to mentor a new employee. There is nothing wrong with it as long as it's of limited duration.
AFAIK, the only thing Andrew unambiguously had legal ownership over was the domain names.
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It’s based on them neither being “prominent”, nor being “fact checkers”. Please produce sources to back your claims.

Also cite, why there needn’t be any arbiters of truth in a democracy. Maybe you have fully embraced the post truth age.
"It’s not just Shell to blame, it’s all of us"

I call bullshit. There are only two choices withing the control of an individual:

1 - get a green energy supplier, if one is avaliable and you can afford it

2 - stop eating meat

That's it. Majority of emissions are from industry and transport, we get no choice in that matter and the only way I can reduce them individually is to live in a cave.