skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When these attacks take on a racial or gender-focused hue, I think they end up having a terribly ironic effect: further isolating the group they sought to protect (e.g., POC, women, etc). That is, they win the battle, but lose the war. Each of these stories reinforces in my mind to not associate with those that are higher on the oppression totem pole. I know it is not their fault, and I feel bad for doing so, but the risk/reward simply does not make sense. It helps that I'm a loner anyway.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26612918 for the effect I'm speaking of. People will continue to distance themselves as (primarily American) society continues to be a flashpoint and Twitter a flashmob.
Precisely because most of the Intel was gathered before the war it could be inaccurate don't you think ?

Is it not likely any quasi military organization would move things around once war actually starts ?
> It's a really hard task to compare engineering to plumbing.

Hydraulic engineers would probably be scratching their heads at this. The intersection between engineering and plumbing is well charted territory.
All NVMe seems like a good starting point, but I'd hope that some day there will be a more capacity-oriented variant for people who actually know what they're doing with exabyte-scale storage.
I think the other comments have notes about the market cap, but wanted to add another detail I found.

Vimeo's annual revenue is $200 million [1] or so. It's not profitable yet. Meanwhile, Youtube brings in $20 billion a year [2] for Google.

I didn't realize how big the disparity was, but Youtube is 100x (!) the size of Vimeo at least in terms of revenue.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/business/vimeo-anjali-sud...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/27/youtube-could-soon-equal-net...
I was not being very deep here. It is mostly a matter of context.

The Socratic method is widely used in a scientific or technical context, where a person is expected to answer to outlandishly skeptical claims against their proposal. This is considered routine if it is (sometimes implicitly) agreed upon; but to an outsider it may appear to be extremely aggressive and impolite. Mathematics is an extreme case of this, were normal mathematical dialogue often takes this form, with one person trying desperately to find holes in the proof of another. But what is a good taste discussion style between mathematicians cannot be safely applied to "regular" people who will surely react as if you were attacking them in bad faith. This is when the hemlock mob comes to kill you.
HTTP GET is also idempotent in REST, and slightly easier than PUT (since you can just append any parameters onto the end of the URL with GET instead of inserting them into the HTTP headers with PUT)
> What can we do to fight it?

Build local power, sustainability and resilience. Essentially some of the things Strong Towns advocates for.

We probably can’t fix the massive systems, but we can strive to protect and decouple our local communities from them.
Dunbar's Number [1] puts a number of 150 as an upper limit for effective groups where everyone knows eachother - but these would presumably be active users, and it's not necessarily directly applicable to internet forums (but from my experience with irc and other communities, it does make some sense). I've been trying to start groups like this myself, but it isn't easy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
Go is not currently a good choice. The runtime is quite inefficient and performance is abysmal. Not to mention the huge binaries.

It'll get there, with time, but for now I'd avoid it for anything serious.

Tinygo is a bit better in this regard.
That doesn’t feel like a worldview that would result in a fairer society or better personal conduct.

If defending a person, in the face of prima facie evidence, has the result of preserving their reputation and status (and keeping the reputation and status of the accuser in their original state) then it doesn’t feel useful or good.
im new to this. why is safari not listed as an iOS browser that respects privacy? is it that it lets 1st party cookies exist? the browser itself i thought was not used for any data harvesting or the like right? also ITP?
Eh, I still prefer "Foot Heads Arms Body". Haven't managed to track down the paper that came up with it, sadly.
Muon: A Lightweight Alternative to Electron
It shows that witch trials haven't gone away; they never really did. They just became more technologically savvy in their influence, both publicly and politically.
Nah, we just need some real mods on social media. We have them literally everywhere else.
I dunno, all these you listed are pretty unique.

Babylon 5, Stargate: Universe, Colony, Aftermath, Continuum may seem have something in common with these roughly.

My memory also isn't very active. I would immediately recall the show you would name but I can't just list them. I have even forgotten about existence of the Westworld show although I enjoyed it and can probably tell what's next at any given moment of it.
I’m now gravely concerned about GitHub after reading this.

So now I should be excited about telemetry and that GitHub uses this in their systems?

This raises alarm bells into if I should be using them for my repositories at all.

Unsure if I should trust GitHub after this now.

Downvoters: I don’t understand here? So I should be excited about telemetry? Why?
I'm almost surprised at how unsurprising this all is.

A shocking number of people managers are terrible with both people and managing.
Finally I can watch Stargate SG-1 on Amazon Prime!
No, CPUs is more relevant. Linux runs on M1, and if they sold CPUs, someone would make a board they could be put on that fit in standard server form factors. For this type of comparison, people want CPUs, not the next version of Xserve.
They could, at the very least, enforce color coding. Colorblind people would still be left high and dry, but with the status quo everybody is up shit creek.

> How does it help when someone inevitably buys the USB-C cable with shape y when they need USB-C cable with shape x? [...] They still have to take it back to the store.

It helps because they know they have to go back to the store, and aren't left wondering if the problem is actually with themselves somehow using their computer wrong. As I mentioned earlier: "Some USB-C cables not working with some USB-C sockets leaves users feeling gaslit."
Worse: The default process leads to people selling stuff for whatever they can get (either the debtor, trying to avoid default, or the lender, trying to recoup losses). That drives down prices, causing more deflation. This cycle destroys both people and businesses. Look at a crash in the 1800s to see how this plays out. It's horrible. It's very destructive.
What shocked me the most was his listing of "the quality of my relationships with people" and what looks like people pretending to be friends towards him while sacrificing him for publicity behind his back.

I'd say the main point to be learned from this story is that you need to be very careful whom you consider a true friend, as opposed to just an acquaintance. Because they might not care as much about you as you care about them.
This September, Wiley & Sons will publish Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: A Strong Towns Approach to Transportation, a book written by Charles Marohn that is deeply critical of the standard approach to transportation used by many American engineers.

The complaint here is literally that the strongtowns founder has criticized other engineers. That's it (edit: the complaint also involves a technicality motivated by this criticism, see below).

The thing about this situation is that, in the US, a large number decisions that are effectively "policy", questions of how we live, wind-up buried inside supposedly technical/professional regulations - zoning, codes and other standards.

This situation means that attacks for "violations of technicalities" easily wind-up the means by which special interests maintain their position.
So, if i were to write a algorithm, that determines the new shoreline - and buys property there, i could profit from this when?
It's 5 amps at 48 volts, defined in https://usb.org/document-library/usb-power-delivery

That level of power delivery is negotiated after the devices are connected. The cable also has to advertise that it is capable of that power delivery.
The underlying assumption in this scenario is that global demand for fossil fuels without carbon capture and sequestration will remain constant. This is certainly not the case.

Shell can either start capturing carbon to lower their emissions, or perhaps they can sell to smaller firms. But those smaller firms are now under the same gun that Shell currently is. So investors in these smaller firms risk losing everything as well.

Already it is getting far far more difficult for fossil fuel companies to raise money for new extraction. Their stock prices have already taken massive hits.

Capital sees the writing on the wall, as does every single fossil fuel exec. It's not a matter of if extraction stops, but when. Many thought that there could be one more round of exploration, but this court decision is just one more huge hurdle for actually extracting anything from new exploration.

The tides are turning, we have alternatives to emissions now, the only question is if when we switch.
"Random people" doesn't mean "common people". It means people with no connection to the situation, or to the people involved.

On Faceobook, the only people who can flood my notifications are people have I as friends, or maybe friends of friends. On Twitter, it's everyone, including people who are just there to be abusive.
I'm glad to see the Libera folks _finally_ holding themselves accountable to some form of documented agreement (the Bylaws), though sadly it took a major, harrowing event like this. One of my major gripes with the old Freenode staff has always been how capricious their judgements were and how insular they were with each other (e.g. measurably treating the requests of admins in the "in-group" differently than the "out-group"), and having no definition of what it means to be a "member of the community". I'm still a bit dismayed that there seems to be no set of guarantees of due process offered to non-member network users, but I guess this is a start. I've thought about commenting on their Github repo but I'm afraid of the retaliation as the staff seem like an extremely passionate bunch.

And perhaps this is just an argument for a truly federated system, like Matrix. Rather than submitting to an operator, run your own infrastructure and federate with everyone else.
Chrome 91 breaks Ledger support of MetaMask
That's great to hear :) As you write more plugins, make sure to submit ideas to Neovim core about how to make Lua even easier and/or more integrated!
AFAIK Twitter already considers bots impersonating people (if not just all bots) to be against their TOS and actively works to hunt them down or remove them. The fact that they're imperfect and so your strategy might work some of the time has nothing to do with the proposition that OP is making.
I wish this kind of behavior was new. It's not, it's just the latest version of Vigilantism. It's the result of people believing that the rule of law is insufficient; of thinking that they are a better enforcer of what they perceive as the rule of law.

I'm not sure humanity as a whole can get away from this. Just being different is enough to trigger people's feelings of "other", to become the target of a mob fueled by hatred and fear. And everyone is capable of being different.

But, while we're not going to get away from it as a people, we can get away from it as individuals. Don't join the mobs. Don't react to the initial outrage that we feel when reading something. Sleep on it, and prefer to let the law deal with it (or work to change the laws so it can deal with it) over taking it into our own hands.
The M1 iPad Pro Cameras
>The board’s concern is pretty well precedented. Holding one’s self out as a professional engineer when unlicensed is bog standard violation for licensed AEC professions.

Yea that's the entire problem.
I agree with you when it comes to basic config. Vimscript is better for setting options, basic mappings and events. Anything more complex then that is a pita in vimscript.
Rack Mac Pros are targeted at racks that are mostly filled with audio/video equipment. Apple really doesn't seem to have any interest in selling server products again.
> The issue as described in the article is holding himself out as a “professional engineer” because that implies licensure.

I will guarantee you that is not how that vast majority of the population would interpret it. Very few people even know that there is such a thing as a licensed professional engineer.

Most reasonable people would take the term "professional engineer" to mean somebody who performs engineering work of some sort in a professional capacity.

Actual doing something should take precedence over some license primary used to gatekeep a profession and fill state coffers with licensing fees.

The fact that we still have guilds operating in the 21st century is embarrassing.
The Switch cable situation is always going to be a bit finicky, because their port is on the extreme edge of the spec's tolerances - it gets shorted because it's actually possible to cross the power into the wrong terminal, IIRC, with some wiggling. Safest to go with the official stuff, which people haven't reported issues with.
At the beginning of spring and summer, I need sunscreen to avoid burning in a surprisingly short amount of time. Later in the season when/if I've accumulated a decent tan I can go without. But I usually am not shirtless and therefore not tanning my upper body, so I need it pretty much no matter what if I go to the beach.
The grab bars on the Zarya also look like something you'd easily find in Walmart: https://www.nasa.gov/images/content/114306main_iss010e25228_...

Maybe when it comes to something as simple as a grab bar it's hard to get too imaginative in the first place?

Once you start _really_ looking for them, you can pretty easily pick out items on a set and go, "oh yeah, that looks like a repurposed so-and-so."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Butterfield#Criticism
Pretty much.

Or you'd want to show it to a beginner as a phased reveal. That might actually make an interesting evolution of the diagram, which I'm visualising in my mind as either a set of concentric circles or regions of expanding complexity, or a set of 3D-relief "peaks" emerging from a "feature sea", where the basic elements (say, the Insert mode entry points, h/j/k/l keyboard movements, and, um, how to quit, might be covered.

With more advanced functionality exposed as deeper / more remote regions of the map.
There are scientific papers from the 1950s which refer to CO2 induced climate change -- using the phrase "climate change."
Certainly, we can't all be experts in everything. I work in biotech but I only have a tiny area where I can feel comfortable making assertions. In any case, the articles you linked to are theories and speculation, not consensus.
> As a society we should really prevent anyone to have more than a certain reach, like for example 5k people viewing a post.

Why? What benefit does this provide to everyone? How is this not just going to silence minority opinion?
No kidding. Getting off facebook was game changing. I also just started blocking everyone strong on the outrage / offense scale (I used to be friends with a pretty broad section from right to left though I'm left). But everyone just lost their minds.

HN is one of the better places by far, and I think it takes active action by someone at the top to hold the line.

On here we also get extreme reactions still though - The only reason apple does X is because they are evil and want to spy on you etc.

One idea you see in nature and also developing countries is camouflage. You basically give your kids a very generic name so they blend in, harder to search etc. In developing countries people really operate with nicknames a lot more and sometimes have multiple "real" names.
FYI the author is one of the founding professors of the main ML course at Georgia Tech's online CS masters program:

https://omscs.gatech.edu/cs-7641-machine-learning
Ly-bār’-uh

Leeb’-er-uh

Lee-bār’-uh

Lib’-er-uh

I have no idea, and I don’t see how it can be construed as unambiguous.
If you haven’t been listening to their “On The Metal” podcast you are really missing out! https://oxide.computer/podcasts

It’s all fun stories from people doing amazing things with computer hardware and low level software. Like Ring-Sub-Zero and DRAM driver level software.
Goedel showed that 'less than', 'equal to', and 'more than' (ie pairing) are essential. Individual natural numbers are cute but not compelling. Even if God created them.
Looking at https://freenode.net/static/img/wikimedia-forced-move.png the forced part is by people on the projects. Honestly, that sort of stuff is the main reason I stopped using IRC. I can completely believe that someone decided to do that and it shows contempt for the community it says they want to have.

It's easy to say the community moved when you kick and ban everyone from a channel and create a new channel on a different network. But how many people actually moved? Did they just damage their own community over this?
The very same people that are complaining about cancel culture will without a shred of irony start to complain about moderator censorship.

I've touched on this in another comment, in another thread - if we are going to assume that people have the right to say whatever the hell they want, how do you reconcile that with the rights of a mob to pigpile someone for speaking their mind?

The short answer is: "You can't."

The long answer is: "You can't, because when two groups are in such a conflict, you either explicitly censor one, or implicitly censor the other."
Most interesting thing here that's if Microsoft cares about developers more than Apple why i should care about Apple
I don't see how discussing designs of public infrastructures publicly would in any ways affect the public's perception of the profession.

Pretty much all engineers I've worked with were VERY happy to discuss their designs.
What’s the Point of the Office Again?
I think an interesting question is: can you support people and wish the best for them even if they've done a bad thing?

With the exception of some particularly abhorrent things, I'm not sure I'd consider myself a friend to someone if I'm not willing to support them even if they're in the wrong. That doesn't mean lying for them or trying to pretend it wasn't bad, but I would expect myself to push back on mischaracterizations of them (positive or negative!) and help them navigate the consequences.
>I will guarantee you that is not how that vast majority of the population would interpret it.

I disagree.

>Very few people even know that there is such a thing as a licensed professional engineer.

>Most reasonable people would take the term "professional engineer" to mean somebody who performs engineering work of some sort in a professional capacity.

Where did you source this information?
I'm surprised that your insightful comment (questioning the very elephant-in-the-room assumption that we all must have content to consume) has not been voted higher by this community of hackers, tinkerers, and makers.

Indeed, why is this so central to our lives? Why isn't a different kind of shared activity more sought-after?

Your point about the sheer variety is also relevant -- there's just too many echo chambers of consumption for everyone now.

Overall, the creative force has nary a chance to flourish in such environs.
At least they're saying the quiet part out loud now?
It's not much different from compute power increases over the same time period. Once more is the norm then less becomes inadequate.
Replacing init.vim with init.lua is, imo, a mistake. Lua is not a config language. I'd sooner use bash. Once you start writing functions tho lua feels more sane.
Is there any source on the assertion that advertisers are correlating nearby phones and cross-showing ads? My instinct is that that is a step too complex and low signal for advertisers to take. I'd love to see data one way or another.
I also recommend iosevka as a great free font for development work with many available variations.

https://typeof.net/Iosevka/
Then don't buy a steam controller? Why release something you can buy. And you can choose the layout (analog stick) or size xbox/ps4,ps5

The controller is amazing and enables non controller games to be played with one. This doesn't stop me from using another controller for emulators.
I like it! Perfect for people valuing simplicity but lacking the time or skill to self-host.
Another idea, make it so that the more single family homes someone or a corporation owns, they pay a higher tax rate on all their properties. So someone who only owns two or three SF homes they maybe pay 1.5%, but if they own 20 they pay 5%. Similar rules could apply for apartments or condos but with different multipliers.

If set properly it'll be impossible for large landlords to pass those taxes on to tenants, because they'll be undercut by smaller ones and buyers who just want a place to live.
There used to be one, which was based on Slackware (of course). If i find the name of that distro i'll either edit this post or reply to myself :)

I tried hand-rolling something similar with slackware 11 or 12 (can't remember now).
I have an almost entirely non-visual imagination and internal narrative. Vi and then vim were pretty easy to adopt, and it’s still easy for me to learn new editor-as-a-language functionality. I started using it in the 90s and only figured out the visual stuff in the past few years (for block editing).
This is a good and much more balanced/nuanced outlook.

However (in my hypothetical scenario which was meant to challenge the utility of blanket statements of support), a message of support does effectively act as a counterweight to an accusation, and unless one possesses all of the facts it may have the effect of laundering the reputation of somebody who deserves criticism (though I’d argue that in most instances, cancellation is very very over the top as a penalty).
Making public transit suitable for unaccompanied children would involve an unacceptable, probably illegal curtailment of the freedoms of mentally ill homeless people to do as they please in public spaces.
You lack soft skills when you are clueless what you are doing. If you are asshole fully knowing what you are doing, or if you take pleasure on doing harm or if you think being aggressive makes one right kind of person, the issue is ideology amd values.

"I will offend you and if you object you are PC snowflake" is not lack of soft skills. It is ideology - one that specified who has right to object and who is lower on hierarchy.
Can imagine Logo programming lang for graphs.
I honestly am good with the article pagination.

The only part of the pagination that I think is a bit annoying is comment pagination, like on the monthly who's hiring. Two things about it, one it can be a pain on limited bandwidth/device loading, and two the "More" at the bottom isn't super obvious. I once had posted a job ad and couldn't find it on the page and asked admins, to which then I felt stupid when they answered. But they were super kind and just told me it had dropped to a second page and to press more to find it. I totally missed the More at the bottom prior.

So I would think solving the comment pagination would be nice for mobile loading and just making it more user friendly. But I also don't care if they never solve it, now that I know how it works it isn't a big deal.
How very, very naughty! Delightful, but not for me, thankyouverymuch!

I'm curious about why, though? What parts of vi(m) do you get to keep that this makes sense for you?
>Yea that's the entire problem.

How so? Do you prefer people without the requisite knowledge, skill, and experience to design and construct the infrastructure you and you family use on a daily basis?