skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like you.

There's been a total over-correction away from religion and we've lost sight of why it evolved in the first place. Social scientists have long known that there is nothing rational about the decisions we make, and certainly not in groups. Religion may have led us to quite a bit of violence in the past and might not have given us self-driving cars, but simply understanding the universe is not going to be enough to save the world when we are all still driven moment to moment by our emotional predispositions. We need a way to engineer and shape our emotions and and our collective psyche - something religion evolved to do. Science is a valuable tool for good, but it is limited by our own lack of virtue in how we use it.

I think a lot of people dislike that idea because religion, unlike science, doesn't offer us any certainty. We're addicted to an illusion of certainty in a world where our actual lived reality is always uncertain. We need to get over that. Certainty is a lie.
Not WPF per se, but if you're looking for something similar check out https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
It's easy to fool the audience, but for the pianist it's still night and day. And I don't mean just emulating the control input, though that's not easy either, but more the subtle haptic feedback from the entire instrument- that makes you feel like it's not only you playing the piano, but also the piano is playing you.
Don't understand the whole "how awful it was for Godaddy to pull out". That's their choice, and Epik have decided to take Gab on, isn't that how the internet works. Freedom of association?

I would however prefer that we live in a society where no one would "welcome" Gab, but we sadly we don't yet; something to work towards I guess.
>If microplastics were dangerous like those things, it would be pretty obvious by now.

You're right, it is pretty obvious

"The chronic biological effects in marine organisms results due to accumulation of microplastics in their cells and tissues. The potential hazardous effects on humans by alternate ingestion of microparticles can cause alteration in chromosomes which lead to infertility, obesity, and cancer."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28815367

"Not only is the potential migration of the plastics throughout our body a concern, but the additives in plastics may carry health risks. Many of these additives are known endocrine disrupters. According to Dr. Herbert Tilg, president of the Austrian Society of Gastroenterology and chair of the UEG Scientific Committee, microplastics could possibly be one of the factors contributing to inflammatory bowel syndrome or even colon cancer, which is on the rise among young adults."

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/10/22/659568662/mi...
I'm not familiar with the Heideggerian critique of cognitivism, or of Hubert Dreyfus' work, but some of your quotes sound agreeable. I am not convinced however that the frame problem and related issues are unsolvable. The way forward is to program, measure and improve.
Uber has its issues when it comes to corporate citizenship, but I have to give them credit for this. On the other hand I'd like to see them give their drivers the chance to vote. Imho all employers should be forced to give employees paid time to vote (an absentee ballot doesn't take all that long).
Wow, I had no idea! Thank you, I just deployed a fix.
Google has enlisted NASA to help it prove quantum supremacy within months
"If you spend the majority of your time working to abuse your fellow man, I don't respect that, and see no reason why I should."

Oh, please. Someone setting up a targeted Facebook or Google Ads campaign is not 'abusing their fellow man'.
I've been dealing with Hashimoto's symptoms for more than 5 years now (and possibly Addison's). All my thyroid and adrenal hormones were completely out of whack and I suffered greatly. Went on various combinations of hormone replacement, tried various diets, spent tranches of money on supplements and alternative therapies, and have seen close to about 20 different specialists. Everything I've tried at best gave me clues about my condition but has never brought me anywhere close to normal. I suppose because I was never treating the root cause of it all.

Recently I went to an internist who ran an infectious disease panel on me. HHV-6 came up very high. Since then, I've gone on valganciclovir (Valcyte), an anti-viral that is not FDA-approved yet for treating HHV-6 but has shown promising results from studies[1]. Stanford has also been at the forefront of this research when it comes to treating CFS patients with high titers of HHV-6.

I don't have a success story yet but it's been extremely promising so far. I've only been on this treatment option for a month and my sleep has never been better, it has been moving the needle on some of my most stubborn of symptoms, and I finally feel like I'm making progress.

It also makes sense as a root cause. I donated my kidney about 5 years ago and that's when everything started to go downhill. Even though HHV-6 is a virus that almost every human being on the planet has, my compromised immune system at the time likely allowed the virus to re-activate to become a persistent chronic infection.

I hope this helps. In general, there has been surmounting evidence of viruses behind many chronic diseases. Just the other day there was post on Hacker News linking Alzheimer to the Herpes virus[2].

1. http://hhv-6foundation.org

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18265115
It's still not in what he wrote. Perhaps you see it there, but it's not. In fact, it's the opposite of what he wrote.
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> the wrong perspective for shaping society

Who says I want your shape for my society?

> The correct and highest thing to optimize for is not the maximization of free speech, but the minimization of suffering.

Why should we minimize suffering? Should we get rid of all pointed knives and force the world to eat their steak with plastic cutlery? Then again, steak causes it's own suffering, maybe we should feed the world with baby food.

What does it mean to suffer? Is losing a sparring match suffering? Is coming in last place in a race suffering? What about when someone calls me ugly or fat? What if someone really doesn't care for cats?

Why do you have some special right to design my world? What if instead I got to design yours?
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So my next concern is for some of the people, that's half the problem. Are they going to get a free return trip? Probably not. So this is effectively 50% off, not necessarily 100% free.
Not saying that Dodge doesn't make power. Mopar power is for sure a thing. The Demon and Hellcat in particular are awesome feats of engineering. Now they've come out with a 1000 HPE crate motor, too (the "Hellephant").

But F/C reliability, construction quality, etc. are known issues. As the other comment shows via JD Power rankings, F/C has poor QC. However, as those rankings show, Ford isn't amazing in that area either.

But, I'd challenge the "best performing and cheaptest" statement. The 2018/9 Ford Mustang GT peaks at 460 HP and 420 lb-ft of torque, starting at $35k. One could argue the new mustangs are less "muscle" and more "sport" cars, but I'd say it's still muscle.

p.s. I'm not affiliated with any automotive company.
This is the first I've heard of Nix. A quick search reminded me that it has nothing to do with Nim, and turned up NixOS that I have heard of.

Here's a good description of why I should care:
https://yakking.branchable.com/posts/what-and-why-nix/
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The evolutionary trait that has a male mammal just ejaculate whenever they can with ease, whereas a female mammal has to wait for the appropriate period to conceive and then pass several months to give birth and carefully feed milk and raise the child. Which makes the former wanting to play around as much as possible, while the latter not so much so.

Man, for similar reasons (and the male of the species in most such species) is selected, where woman selects. It's easier for a man to be rejected by potential mates, than the opposite.

Most of our urges are not rationally defined by us (or even our species alone) -- they are millions of years old.
i agree, it should just be a paid holiday nationally. im optimistic that if people were given a full day off, they would understand why and the rate of civic participation would increase.
MDMA 'cures' sufferers' PTSD in a few weeks during study
The counterpoint to this, and the economic value therein is PG's Schlep Blindness piece.

http://www.paulgraham.com/schlep.html
The copy of Word and Excel on your laptop have cloud integration. You can do collaborative document editing a la Google Docs through the desktop copies or the web app versions.
Two brief points:

1) Just because the Ubiquiti founder came from Apple, doesn't mean that Apple should be in the quasi-enterprise networking space that Ubiquiti is. Apple's networking gear was always aiming to be simple, plug-and-play hardware for people who don't want to think about networking. That's pretty much the opposite of Ubiquiti's products.

2) When Apple was still doing things like networking, we had a lot of people complaining that their focus was spread too widely, and their core products were suffering.
Language changes over time, you can’t use an outdated 18th century term to refer to the modern linguistic meaning of a term.

Now days we call the useless bits philosophy, 200 years ago back when people took Phrenology as a real thing that was not true.
> opportunities and levels of education...

Plenty of opportunities and education without being sent to a private school. IIRC there was a study on kids and race and found that black kids and white kids did the same through most of elementary school, but the white kids get sent to summer camp, have an easier time scoring par-time jobs, are around people with broader vocabularies, and family and friends in different places which can score educational or employment opportunities down the line.

I didn't grow up particularly well off, but my dad had a subscription to The Economist, Time, and the local big-city newspaper. He'd read us articles at dinner and then we'd discuss, or just let us read them later -- which definitely had an impact. Grandma bought me a chemistry kit one year in middle school, which helped my science grades later.

None of this stuff was super expensive, certainly no where near private school costs, but it can absolutely make a difference.
Right. It's definitely them violating copyright since they're distributing. Imagine if I just copied all your blog posts and put it on a different site with my advertisements on it. That's copyright infringement too. This is no different.

They will probably be auto-DMCA'd soon.
> "Everybody" can't adopt it

Oh, but they can and do. The difference between 100 and 1000 resumes is not material—both too many to look at. What I've found is those in the second bracket simply throw out those without a degree and then cargo-cult common practice.
Can you provide a bit of detail on how you block them?
It would have been interesting to see the result with Intel SSD
So is your position that the chemical mentioned in this article is harmless and the concerns groundless? The article said it's now widely found in Americans' blood and that 110 million americans are exposed to levels considered unsafe.

Not being snarky. If there's another position consistent with the article I'm interested to hear it.
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Most "support groups" for specific medical conditions are awful. They frequently wind up being places you can't actually talk about what's effective lest you offend or hurt the feelings of the sickest and most miserable members who typically are willfully ignorant and broadcast a "Why bother? It won't really help anyway" attitude.

I'm not sure how to find or create a group for really discussing pro active caretaking in the face of a serious medical condition. There seems to be no place that actually gets done. You get that kind of discussion amongst very healthy people -- weight lifters, marathon runners etc -- looking to push for extra performance. You don't get it among people who are supposed to be terribly sick and defying that expectation.
Are you willing to pay 10, 15% extra of your income

Without hesitation. I want to live in a healthier America.
Yes, like 10x of water in those kits.
If WPF is coming in .NET Core, does this mean we are going to be able to run WPF apps on Linux and Mac?
What is the intended interpretation of Er?
Here's a counter-example. For folks that do intermittent fasting, there's the need to track when you start and stop your fast. It sounds like a simple stopwatch app would solve this problem.

Yet an app like Zero (which is fantastically designed) is still incredibly useful, and has 54k+ reviews, and an average of 5 stars on the App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/zero-fasting-tracker/id11683...

Apps designed for specific purposes often trump general purpose apps that don't focus. We feel this is a similar space where a specific kind of solution is better than a general purpose one.
This is mostly just an insult. It communicates the negativity that you feel toward people with another opinion, but it doesn't contain any substantive thoughts on why you feel such a stance is justified.
This Ethereum Token You’ve Never Heard of Is Hogging 10% of the Network’s Gas
I have built my own wireless bookshelf speakers using a combination of GE5654 Tubes, TPA3116D2 [0][1] and customized woofers and tweeters (Rosewood finish) [2]. I have to say, it really came out much better than I expected. [3]

Here's how I did it:

Last year, I visited Taiwan and China, I basically went to scout for speaker suppliers. I shortlisted a couple, but I realized, the popular they are, the pricier they are - regardless of the quality. Then, I realized something shocking. Actually, most speaker manufacturing is done in Nanjing (and one more location starting in N, forgot). These factories just stick the brand names on top and license it to these "big brands". And you pay a premium for that. So, I visited one direct supplier in Nanjing. It was a very small shop. I just walked in, placed an order for a pair. The whole set of 4 speakers (2 woofers and 2 mid-ranges) costed me in total of $200 US roughly. I purchased two 6.5" aluminium cone woofers and 2 golden capped full ranges. I like woofers with large Xmax, so I bought these for bass units.

You can purchase from AliExpress too, although it's slightly pricier. But most speakers from China, contrary to popular belief, are very very high quality. In fact, the consumer audio space such as Sony, Samsung, etc. use much lower grades than what's normally found on AliExpress.

As for amplifier, buy a half-decent board. Strip out all the cheap components, spend 3x the price of the board on really good quality components. For the TPA3116D2 board, this place is a good start [4]

Hope this helps. Cheers.

[0] https://www.instagram.com/p/BplhIIqHNhl/

[1] https://www.instagram.com/p/Bpl71mUHLbm/

[2] https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm02F4OgAwX/

[3] https://www.instagram.com/p/Bppl-dsHWuW/

[4] http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/diyaudio-com-wiki/252663-tpa3...
I think that depends how you define "behind". HomeKit has some functionality gaps at the moment, and less hardware supports it, but what it does do, it does tremendously well and with higher security bars than some of the competing technologies.
I got it the second time, but then again I already knew the answer. A nit: "a value can have multiple states" seems a bit confusing when we're talking about immutable values? Perhaps start out saying something about union types instead?
It's genuinely interesting to hear this is the case. I mean, I don't disagree with you that it's important to have out in the open regardless. But I honestly just assumed from the start that Opal would just generally be a badly implemented feature checkbox not something dependable. For this case of crypto code it didn't seem trustworthy if it wasn't open, standard and trivially auditable. Unlike Apple for example these products don't have the kind of marketshare, clear public profile and constant open as well as covert attacks that would be necessary to grant a higher degree of confidence despite being closed, the barrier needs to be lower given the lower profile. So I've never used the hardware crypto in any SSD, it's always been through software on top, although in fairness that has become easier to do as AES-NI has become more universal in CPUs. That has given a lot of the assurance and speed of a dedicated hardware crypto chip while still using higher level software.

I guess in retrospect it's quite reasonable most people would trust it, or for that matter not think about it at all but rather trust Microsoft or whomever to be getting that right for them and that checking the FDE Box in the GUI would mean what it said. A good example of having personal blinders on for me, I'm too used to just ignoring Opal entirely since the day it was introduced.
I was forever trying to find enough old car batteries to get more volts when I was a kid for precisely this reason.

That was until I nearly burned the shed down charging one up. I was confined to alkalines then. Boo hiss.
>My gosh, if you want to connect with people from anywhere, the first thing you can do is talk about sports!

Exactly the social crutch I was lamenting. This phenomenon is indeed real, and it’s pathological.
I've had a lot of luck (good and bad) with the ESP8266 wifi module for little applications similar. I'm interested in trying something like ESP8266Audio[0]

[0]: https://github.com/earlephilhower/ESP8266Audio
The Rust ecosystem has a team that tries to fuzz as many crates (rust packages) as possible [1].

Unlike C/C++ and like Python, fuzzing Rust code is not really about finding memory bugs but more about finding logical errors [2].

To do this, a project has been set up with 83 (so far) targets fuzzing the public API of 48 (so far) important crates [3].

All those targets can be fuzzed using any of the three major native code feedback-based fuzzers (AFL, LibFuzzer, and Honggfuzz).

[1] https://github.com/rust-fuzz/targets

[2] see the trophy case: https://github.com/rust-fuzz/trophy-case

[3] https://github.com/rust-fuzz/targets/blob/master/common/src/...

Disclaimer: I'm a member of this team and the author of the honggfuzz crate that makes honggfuzz work with Rust code.
Apart from the deaths, if a permanent universal flu vaccine was invented it would save the USA over 10 billion annually, forever. A good ROI.

Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/30/the-flu-costs-the-us-economy...
> The scientific method IS the best tool our species has when it comes to determining truths about the laws of nature.

I agree.

But I also believe freedom is better than slavery. I value wisdom over ignorance. And I believe those things without any proof. The scientific method cannot prove to me that murder is wrong, and yet I hold it to be true.

So despite the fact that I agree with the power of the scientific method, I'll cop to truths that I believe without proof.
It’s nonsensical and of no benefit to society for the child-free to absolve themselves of any and all stake in how families are supported.
Passion, or workaholism?

Or perhaps it's because a single income isn't sufficient anymore to support a household, and people without a partner still need to pay rent/mortgage.
Naproxen sodium is merely a more stable version of naproxen. It’s effect and onset are identical. You just need to adjust the dosage. 220mg of Naproxen sodium is the same as 200mg of naproxen. As far as nexium, it’s not an extended release tablet, it just has an effect that lasts for 24 hours as it’s a non-reversible blocker of proton pumps in the stomach and it takes about a day for the body to make more of them.

Point is, aleve and nexium taken in an equal dose is almost identical to vimovo.
Wow. I rest my case.
When I left, L4 was SDE1, L5 was SDE2.

Sometime after I left there was a big push to get more and more L5s on board, at the point than in some teams L4s were effectively sidelined (and found themselves with little no ability to advance to L5 depending to org politics, in some "high growth" ops teams they made for convenient beasts of burden...)
You make very valid points about determining the actual outcome we prefer and channeling solutions to achieve them.

There is some nuance. For example, a $5k tax credit might help me level the playing field today, but that $5k difference still exists for social security calculation.
And you could find similar examples in the US as well. E.g, the least violent state (Maine) also is the least racially diverse.

Like you say, it's not hard to believe that homogeneity (whether race, religion, culture, ethics, politics etc.) causes less conflict. Naturally, that's an awful justification for a terrible practice.

But you find many tunnel-visioned "the statistics justify the means" arguments: minimum wage, gun control, privacy, etc. Proper laws are not just about statistically good outcomes.
I dont know how it works where you live, but I can just log onto my bank web page, and reverse the payment if i dont agree with it. Then I can block all charges from that company until i activate it again (or never). All it requires from me is to log on every 2 to 3 days and check the account. That is something you should do anyway to quickly catch any fraud.
I’ll believe this when I see riots in the streets where the local clan win a championship, and/or when spectators with no relationship to the players routinely come to blows over which clan is better.
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You might as well email them the letters.
I agree that it'd be better not to buy synthetics as they stand, but that requires manufacturers to shift their production to natural fibers. I think regulation / remediation sounds like a good way to encourage that shift. Consumers buy what's on offer - if everything in the market was natural fiber, consumers would choose accordingly, otherwise they are likely to choose whatever meets their needs (which maybe low-price, or high-fashion, but without more education and alternatives, won't be cleaner water).
I highly doubt it. As far as I know WPF is way too entangled with Windows.
So they added Span<T> as a big thing ...

> (Span<T> is) at the heart of most performance-related improvements in .NET Core 2.1. Since it allows managing buffers in a more efficient way, it can help in reducing allocations and copying. We consider Span to be a very fundamental type as it requires runtime and compiler support in order to be fully leveraged.

Small struct that is declared as

public readonly ref struct Span<T>
{
private readonly ref T _pointer;
private readonly int _length;
...
}

which is exactly what I am using in Sciter (https://sciter.com) for 10+ years:

template <typename T>
struct slice {
const T* start;
unsigned int length;
...
}

https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-sdk/blob/master/include/au...

Such small thing definitely speed ups many areas and surprisingly quite a lot, parsing in particular.

Nothing new under the Sun, eh?
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