skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should recognize them as fascist adjacent, as they rightly are.

Most of the things on the list are actively bad in any political system. Half of them are inexcusable. A few are essentially descriptions of populism being acted upon, and a few are typical reactionary features.

For example, current Polish governing party fits: 1, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14.
You obviously don’t have young kids.
How it's made: skateboard wheels [video]
VW's supervisory board has co-determination, which means that Union of German workers has half the voting rights. The Supervisory board monitors and approves corporate statutes, and is appoints the members of the board of management.

Even with such a democratic (closer to atleast) approach if whistleblowers are salted, I don't have much hope that quasi-secretive exec cabals are going to be more open. Outside a few niche startups, that eventually ditch any 'don't be evil' anchors.
Why should we overconsume balls like this. It's just more pointless resource waste. We need to be smarter about how we live on this planet - in the large and the small.

Tennis balls might be a small thing, but it is symbolic of the general thinking: just buy more of it, to solve whatever the problem is.
I have young kids and see nothing wrong with the posting.

Bad outcomes from Covid in kids are extraordinarily rare.
Question is, how many cores did we have to sacrifice to get AVX512? Intel moved from shipping 10 core CPUs to 8 core CPUs with AVX512. Clock speed may not go down much, but the price of that is a very high power consumption on AVX512 workloads.

As best I can tell, it would be reasonable to expect around 12 AVX2 cores operating on the same power budget as the current 8 AVX512 cores. Does the average user have enough AVX512 workloads to make that tradeoff worth it?
One thing I worry about here that I should probably do more research on: is colorblindness like turning off or lessening a color channel? Because I know for some graphical work I've done, if I do a pure grayscale by just turning down the saturation or something, the contrast might be good, but if I turn off one color channel, the contrast/intensity differences sometimes seem to vanish.

I do grayscale testing, but I worry that when I do grayscale tests for stuff like game graphics where there aren't clear contour lines, that I'm getting a false sense of confidence -- I worry that the test might not be an accurate representation of the level of contrast a colorblind person will actually see if they sit down in front of the non-grayscale version. Is that something I should be worried about, or am I just misunderstanding how colorblindness works?

If I do a grayscale test and the interface still seems clear/usable, how confident should I actually be that you'll be able to use the non-grayscale interface?
Yeah, annoying as heck.
m1n1 is our bootloader that bridges the Apple world and the Linux world together; it is also a hardware reverse engineering platform (remote controlled from a host) and now also a hypervisor.

The hypervisor feature is indeed single core, but that's just because I haven't bothered implementing SMP (would need a bunch of extra locking, but it's doable, just not really necessary for us).
I’ve been using it exclusively for probably over a year by now, the only problems I have is when crappy software has non-configurable hotkeys and conflicts with certain letters. And even then, AltGr instead of Ctrl+Alt usually works.
The "git configuration" that you mentioned is about his personal dotfiles in his personal git repo. It has nothing to do with the perl community.

> and the "yes" argument is explicitly racist and empty-headed.

If you are dismissing any possible "yes" argument before it is even made as "racist and empty-headed" I would say that you have withdrawn yourself from public discourse.
Same. The only times I drink sugary drinks are on the weekends. Otherwise it’s water for me.

Unfortunately moderation is lost on most people.
If you write for the web you are in denial. In the next 5 years either you'll be using an AI tool that you gradually feed input to and edit the output or you'll be replaced by somebody that is doing just that.

I'm curious how informed your opinion is by the way. You say you're a writer but that doesn't mean much in this context since this technology is very new and most people aren't catching on yet. Have you tried out the recent tools like conversation.ai? Do you use tools like MarketMuse?
"While PTFE is stable and nontoxic at lower temperatures, it begins to deteriorate after the temperature of cookware reaches about 260 °C (500 °F), and decomposes above 350 °C (662 °F).[58] Over 400 °C (752 °F) pyrolysis occurs and more decomposition becomes significantly more rapid. The main decomposition products are tetrafluoroethylene (TFE) and difluorocarbene radicals (RCF2).[58] The degradation by-products can be lethal to birds,[59] and can cause flu-like symptoms[60] in humans—see polymer fume fever."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytetrafluoroethylene#Safety
That's the kind of theory I was looking for, thanks!
What about the fact that Methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas than CO2? And with climbing average temperatures more and more of it will be released all over the Arctic due to thawing permafrost. Where 'Arctic' means Sibira, Alaska, Canada, not only north-pole.

Some say this is a feedback loop.

For some others this is an abstraction which has no concrete meaning.

Why?

Haven't you ever experienced an acoustic feedback loop, where the setup began to screech and howl because the microphone amplification was too strong and/or the speakers too loud?

I think now is the time where we begin to hear the first upswings of that, and it will get louder and louder.

Deafening.

Until we pull the plug.

Considering the inertia of the systems involved it's already too late.

So our plug will be pulled instead, sooner or later.

Except by sucking all that shit out of the air with excess electricty by whichever means, and turning it into something which makes it stay out of the air.

That may make it bearable, maybe.
You don't need to die from COVID it's enough if you have an severe accident and all ICUs are already in use.
I am also a big fan of yours Prof Might!
I am very passionate about genomics and rare diseases and your contributions (code, writings, setting up the PMI, and all the others too numerous to list them all here) in this oft neglected area have been very motivating and inspiring to me .
Wish more software folks were aware of and work on these important problems at the intersection of biology and software

p.s. would love it if you do a reddit AMA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton_email_controve...

:-)
I am in the same boat except my coworkers are not millionaires or so but they all got promoted and I am stuck with my role for 5 years now.
"accommodations will be made for "those few who are unable to be vaccinated," such as testing and screening."
When they are competing for a deal, they aren't talking to each other in this way. But it does happen that they will refer or intro you to others even if they themselves decide to pass, as long as they pass for a technical issue and not a bad idea/market/traction etc.

In your case it could be coincidence but I doubt it. More likely the junior VC (or the partner he spoke with) reached out to a friend or someone they know at the other firm(s) and said hey this looks interesting but we haver to pass for X reason. A VC's goal is to make money, even if you are a competitor to one of their holdings you being in market with a great product helps their holding too. People think the lack of competition is great, it isn't, having competition in market is much better. It lowers cost of client acquisition for everyone and increases awareness so it isn't all on one company (or VC) to fund. VC's know this.
Python got a huge uptake as developers tried dodging system requirements.

That is, it was not uncommon to have a requirement that you cannot install new languages. But you could pip install dependencies, as that did not necessarily change the full system.

So, since Python was already installed, it had a toe in the door that the likes of Ruby did not.

Granted... Dependency management in Python has revealed itself to be a minefield...
It seems like bad outcomes in kids from Delta are more common than in alpha.

Why take any additional risk? The downside of masking in schools, vaccinating staff and spacing out desks is zero.
Employment is a contract.

Contracts should be fair and reasonable, especially when one side cannot negotiate.

Penalties for breaching terms of a contract should also be proportionate to the damage caused.

What damages are there in the vast majority of cases?

Another view is that "you're being paid to give up these rights". However, if that is the case, are employees being paid for the time they spend on these games?

Terms which are unnecessary as they can't be enforced or are unreasonable as they have no impact on the business are unfair, and, in the UK at least, can be ignored.
The US is a democracy but it’s always been flirty with fascist elements. So it’s no surprise you can look at the American government, under any president, and see some fascistic elements at work.
I haven't used Debian in very long time. Have they converged on some alternative to the PPA?

Like if I want the latest GCC or OpenJDK.. surely you don't download some AppImage, right?
The problem is that there are far less ICUs for kids tham for adults so you don't need many cases to block them all.
> "Hospitals are licensed for a specific number of beds and most hospitals regularly staff fewer beds than they are licensed for. They can't use beds that aren't staffed. With the increase in COVID cases, hospitals are experiencing a shortage of people to staff the beds that they are licensed for," department spokesperson Lara Anton said in an email, adding that staffing agencies in the state are working on recruiting medical surge staff from across the US.

This wouldn't happen to be one of the places that fired people over the last 18 months, would it?
It's not Mach IPC, it's a bespoke thing only for the main DCP endpoint (they have a whole separate IPC framework for sub-drivers that have more sanely fully migrated to the DCP). It also has nothing to do with Intel, since these display controllers are only in Apple SoCs.

They do have a non-DCP driver they're still shipping, that runs all the same code entirely within the macOS kext. I'm not sure exactly what it's for.
A lot of companies and peoples jobs in government rely on complicated rules and processes.
They will fight hard anyone that tries to clean up the swamp.

Fair Tax is a way to mostly eliminate the IRS, and most of the tax prep industry. Everyone even gets a monthly check.

Not a chance anything like it will ever be passed.
For him that word has a different meaning and interpretation than to you.

> committed to .config/git/config

In his personal dotfiles repo.
It's like $1.32 per ball. That doesn't seem very expensive for fancy branded balls.
Interesting. What's the project leaders day job, if I don't mind asking?
> a bunch of non-programming members of the community and one programming member

That doesn't look accurate to me? The article has bullet points listing five people who left, all of whom are programmers.
It’s hard to tell sometimes what is going on. I just learned for instance that the cable modem provided by Comcast switched to NAT - and my router is also doing NAT - and my business firewall also does NAT. So at least 3 layers now.

If they are doing CGNAT further into the infrastructure, how would I even be able to tell at this point? I’m assuming someone would also block ICMP just so it would be less embarrassing, but who knows.

Comcast does generally seem to be moving towards IPv6 at least, which is helpful.
Optimal Probabilistic Cache Stampede Prevention [pdf]
RPMsg isn't really a standard, is it? I think it was added in Linux 4.11, in April 2017, way after this stuff was introduced in Apple devices.
> My point was that if governments truly cared about public health, they would have already for example banned smoking universally (or at least in situations where there is another person within X meters of the smoker), since second hand smoke is a demonstrable cause of premature death.

You keep failing to see the logic in this argument you are making. The point is that the government will allow the individual to make whatever medical decisions they want to to the extent it only affects themselves and the people legally in their care, like children. You are not allowed to make those choices when they harm the health and well-being of those that fall outside that purview. You can smoke all you want, and harn your kids with second hand smoke, the same way you can choose not to get vaccinated and harm your children by refusing to let them get vaccinated. But once your choice affects the people around you, your freedom is restricted. You can’t smoke in public areas. And now some governments are making it so you can’t be unvaccinated in public areas. There is no hypocrisy here, if anything it’s the only logically consistent stance. The only difference is that you can “turn off” smoking when you go into public, and can’t do the same for being unvaccinated. But that is an issue for the unvaccinated individual to deal with.

This isn’t even restricted to medical interventions. If I own a private race track, I can drive however I want to, at whatever speed I want, in whatever kind of vehicle I want. But as soon as I want to use a public roadway, there are a litany of restrictions to those freedoms I am subject to, from the speed and the direction I can go, to the type of vehicle I can drive, because not doing so can negatively impact other people. Every society on the planet has had some form of restrictions of personal freedom when they start negatively impacting other members of society in a significant way. And refusing to be vaccinated in the midst of this pandemic harms society in a significant way.
Or the Rwandan genocide https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_genocide
Maybe you're right, I don't know. What do you think why are technologies like React, GraphQL and NextJS growing their communities while hypermedia seems to be a niche thing? These frameworks are bloated and add a lot of potentially unnecessary JavaScript to we apps. At the same time developers seem to like the developer experience and trade this with a better technology like e.g. hypermedia APIs. Is it the usability? Lack of tools? Your tool seems to be thought out well. What's preventing it from becoming mainstream?
Over half of the fresh fruit and veggies at the grocery store is thrown out. I wouldn't be surprised it it was more like 95% for specific foods. I have a feeling that onions don't have this problem, but the Avocados, I see like maybe the same batch sitting for 2 days and on the 3rd you can't even pick one up because it's so ripe it's basically mush. Then salad bags, I imagine that shredded lettuce doesn't go to waste (it's popular for tacos), but pretty much the rest is probably thrown out.

What's the solution? I know that grocery stores make Guacamole that sits in the fridge and that helps it age slower, but the vast majority of the Avocados are just wasted.
That's not how words work. The entire point of using words is that they are well-known abstractions used when communicating to other people.
Did anybody ever recreate the C64 look with a Raspberry Pi inside the original case?
That number is not that big, IIRC just a few specific laptops. I haven't heard of any desktop mainboards with that issue.
I can’t understand why the US law imposes a jury of laypeople to make verdict about such a technical problem. Certainly the lawyers and attorneys will try their best to make the problem accessible for the laymen but nevertheless I believe people who don’t have at least a basic grasp of these things should judge.

It might make sense in civil or criminal courts but not in technical courts.
Yes! Most important thing is happiness balance between your job, how much you’re paid, your team and how much fun you have at work, and how you can spend your free time on what makes you happy.

For the same reason I never felt jealous about colleagues or people who won big money with Bitcoin or other magic techniques. Happy for them, but I’m happy with my choices too.
For those who would like to explore this subject in more detail, it was initially developed by the German Astronomer Karl Stumpff following the second world war. He later worked as a consultant at the Goddard Space Flight Center in the early 1960's. An English translation of his original report is available from the NASA Technical Report Server [1].

These functions were further developed at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory for use in the Apollo Guidance Computer. This work was published by Richard Battin originally in Astronautical Guidance, which is no longer in print, and later on in his textbook [2].

[1] https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19630000922
[2] https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Mathematics-Methods-Astr...
Of course it doesn't have a type class Sendable, that is not the point, rather the type theory behind it, and what those languages allow for, regardless of what they have in 2021 on their standard library.
The word fascism lost its original meaning. Not it just means “nazi” - or something bad. Not that fascist were good but they were different kind of bad than nazis.
Please see my edit. There were only 250 hospitalizations of children testing positive for covid (it's also possible not all were hospitalized due to covid since covid testing is standard) in the US in the week ending July 31st.
I know someone very closely and heavily involved with international logistics.

One of the major problems are the East Coast ports in the United States.

They’re relatively small and cannot handle some of the cargo ships that are used today.

Then other is the lack of labor, because docks are union jobs; the kind that pass on from generation to generation because of how good the work is.
Benevolent leader is the best case of government, it is just improbable and of course it is too risky for any dissenter, and the successor is never as good. So people go for inclusive forms of government, which produces average case results more often.
Staffed ICU beds are extremely expensive. You don’t staff them until you absolutely have to.

Unfortunately literally everyone needs ICU staffing now.
Why is it that in other countries most of the people in the hospital have already been vaccinated?
Fascism isn't binary, it's a spectrum. Trump was closer to the "Literally Hitler" end of the scale than Biden is to the "Literally Stalin" end, but many symptoms of fascism are endemic to American culture and politics.
Clearly there should be medical exemptions and Jacobson, the oft-quoted relevant Supreme Court case, even basically said so. But otherwise I don't have a lot of sympathy. They had a choice and their choice now has consequences. Before the vaccines came out, lots of people were kept from visiting sick relatives.
Call for Testing: OpenSSH 8.7
"the people actually doing the work on perl core don't seem to find the 'cruft' problematic."

There's the crux of it. It's open source, and the developers usually doing the most work seem to be the ones that are less socially... adjusted, while the 'community managers' and people broadly more interested in DEI are carrying less.

Seen it time and time again. I don't have answer to the situation in general.

"Code of Conduct" of course only exists when people have an interest in working together - which GNUesque projects seem to be more focused on.

Relatedly I observe opposite behaviour the plan9 related community generally - where everyone basically maintains their own patch trees. If you don't want to deal with other people or your changes aren't getting upstreamed for some political reason - it's not a big deal. You can just mail your patches to some friends and they'll use it.

In some ways Code of Conducts is another way of enforcing 'business' culture onto programming and hacking.

At the same time, these 'hackers' and major contributors should stick to their own medicine. If they're all focused on the code, then stick to the code. There's no reason to say something offensive, if your goal is to get a better quality code out there. If you think someone is a @$#%(@% or a piece of @$#%#@ or whatever cartoonishly evil phrase you want to use, who cares? just focus on the code.
Genuine questions. Is it more common because of the virus? Or coincides with rises in sickness from many reintegrating for the first time in about a year?

That is, my prior would be that as schools reopen for the first time in a while, there will be a spike in sicknesses. If you ever had kids in daycare, you probably saw the sickest were the new kids. First exposures.
Apparently: https://www.bartneck.de/2020/04/02/raspberry-c64-pi-computer...
From the article:

"Jones said there are some theories about why there's a summer surge this year.

'For the last year and a half, a lot of us have been in these. In masks. We were also social distancing,' Jones said."

In other words, as you said the natural ebb and flow of RSV has probably been interrupted by Covid containment measures, then restarted at an unexpected time as those measured briefly started to be relaxed. Which means that in a sense, the lack of beds was caused BY the mask mandate, not by a refusal to adhere to it more strictly. Propaganda and fear-mongering, over and over. Also:

"'We are all on team public health,' the judge said. 'And every person needs to understand that the enemy is the virus, it's not each other.'" Our enemy is clearly both, because "experts" and officials have been lying since day 1. And of the two, it seems like the lies have caused more damage than the actual virus at this point.
Worse than no.

A spending Bill has to show how it effects the budget.
Contrived example.

Say it spends a billion dollars. But it needs to be balanced. So they tax pork rinds at 99% to balance it.

Now the paper result is the bill is balanced. Ignoring the real world result that pork rind sales plummet.

So on paper everything is fine. In reality an industry is destroyed.

This happens constantly. They just try and keep it from being to absurd.
That was about the time, IIRC, that they went on a mission to make everything as simple to use as a Senseo coffee machine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senseo
IIRC west germany did end up welcoming some nazis back into government positions so from their standpoint it probably seemed fairly reasonable. There were still Nazis everywhere in postwar berlin.
Well if you google it the very first result shows that some studies have found a link in humans, others have not.

So in the case of mixed data, it's really up to the individual if they want to err on the side of cancer or not. Given the track record of underestimating the damage of things, I know where I stand. But it's your body.
>Are you suggesting CoL has nothing to do with political policy?

When it comes to factors that affect CoL, both parties are pretty much bipartisan in their approach.

>but they sure want to live wherever republican policy dominates.

Because, historical, republican states have smaller cities, which mean less demand and lower CoL. Someone priced out of San Francisco isn’t going to find it cheaper to live in Phoenix than Chicago. As a result, prices are already shooting up and will probably do so until there is an equilibrium that follows a supply/demand curve.
What is your opinion on liberals being compared to Soviet and Chinese communists?
Like pronouns?
My device my property my rules is pretty rich talking about a platform where you can’t run your own apps without Apple’s approval, you have no control over how the OS behaves, and there is built-in DRM.

Your phone has been Apple’s device since the moment you bought it and turned it on.