skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That s no longer a gothic cathedral. And considering that it's not a public building like the reichstag, what's the point of doing that modernist crap in a museum that is famous for itself. Norman Foster is 83 years old, and i think his ideas have gotten old too, like this yawn-inducing greenhouse. At least it could be something novel.
As does California, although you can't use it if you have capital gains or a few other specific things to put on your return.
> No one who has the ability to not be autistic, would choose to be

That's simply not true.
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One poll results that over half (54%) of all Americans believe the government is concealing information it has on 9/11. Eminem co-wrote a song about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polls_about_9/11_consp... https://blogs.chapman.edu/wilkinson/2016/10/11/what-arent-th...

Legit studies confirm that soy products adversatively alter testosterone in men. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15735098 http://cebp.aacrjournals.org/content/16/4/829?ijkey=4c972127... The meta-study from 2010 that is used to debunk the soyboy conspiracy also confirms that soy consumption lowers testosterone (just that it does not manifest the adverse effects associated with lowered testosterone) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19524224

PJW promoted and speculated on the chemtrail conspiracy (which is about weather modification, not mind control). The mind control part was later conflated and it makes the theory way less credible https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgellons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation_controversy. The chemtrail conspiracy has its roots in this document: https://web.archive.org/web/20090716000939/http://www.fas.or... which is about weather warfare, which the US already engaged in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_warfare

Paul Watson does not incite hatred or violence against Muslims (can't source a negative, so you please source your affirmative). He even criticized Trump for retweeting anti-Muslim rhetoric https://www.businessinsider.com/infowars-paul-joseph-watson-.... He is very critical of radical Islam, but that is hardly a fringe position in the West.
The whole idea of free speech rights rests on the assumption that speech can cause action.

There have been quite a few recent shooting sprees where the perpetrators either explicitly referenced online personae, or the investigation revealed they consumed these sources predominantly.

That’s not to mention the obviously far larger number of people who don’t get radicalized to the degree where they livestream mass murder, but where society still suffer because they live out their hatred in less obvious ways.

The idea that people aren’t influenced by what they read seems somewhat indefensible, anyway. Because if it were true, we could shut down the non-transactional parts of the internet without it having any effect.
I think the conflict is the idea of the majority claiming what "normal" is for everyone and the real problem being society is structured for this normal; not designed for the non-standard persons. The persons who think they should prize their difference are either deluding themselves of the negatives experienced or are seldomly at an advantage than the majority classified with the same illness. Maybe it's also needed to just get through a miserable day.
(tangent to scrabble per se)

I like the idea of "ze" (gender-neutral pronoun), but this is the first I've come across it. Hopefully it'll catch on as IMHO it's a big improvement over alternatives like "they".

While on the topic of "missing" words, when will our language finally get something reasonable for "you (plural)"?? Extant "y'all" (southern) and "yous" (NJ) are not cutting it!
Another great "intermediate" textbook (in my opinion) is Trefethen's Numerical Linear Algebra [1].
Much more readable than Golub's I would say, which is more like a reference than a textbook.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Numerical-Linear-Algebra-Lloyd-Trefet...
Thanks for the detailed technical answer. It helps; much appreciated.
The truth is that almost half of our non-sleeping lives are spent in the workplace. We are inherently social animals (if not the most social animal on the planet). You've pointed out that there are lots of avenues for socializing outside of work, but I think it may be important for humans to socialize in the workplace too since we spend so much time there. It seems like we are wired to want to gather around the water-cooler and chat. As you mention, there's something quite natural about "wanting humans around".

One way to achieve this need to socialize is to work out of a co-working space or coffee shop.
Thanks, so I did over-estimate my ability here. Where I live, taxation works differently, so I never assumed it would be this complex.
Such nonsense answer your AI is giving on SO!!! I hope it gets banned.
This seems like an ivory tower argument, people shouldn't want shared mutable state, so anyone suffering is doing so at their own hand.

At the same time, shared mutable state, specifically a fully shared and transparent (ignoring caches) address space is the least effort way to take advantage of multi-core CPUs. Hence, people will be using it. There is essentially no getting around that, and there are even some reasons for wanting it.

Being multi-process would solve a lot of issues, but so would settling on a single convention for endianness, rewriting C++ to use unique_ and shared_ptr where applicable, and many other nice to haves.

At the end of the day, the easiest road is going to be taken more often. If that happens road is lined with bandits and barely visible traps, that is a problem. No matter how often you tell people not to take that road, and climb a slippery mountain path instead.
It's completely untrue that "no one who has the ability to not be autistic, would choose to be"; plenty of autistic people are happy to be the way they are and would not want to change.

(Pedantic note 1: If you're super-duper-literal about what you said, and take it to refer only to people who actually have the ability not to autistic, rather than speculating on what would happen if autistic people had the ability not to be, then it might be true. Though I'd guess it still isn't; I bet there are some not-autistic people who would like to be slightly autistic.)

(Pedantic note 2: I suppose it's possible, for all I know, that autistic people who say they wouldn't want to be "neurotypical" are actually lying. But I don't see any reason to think they are.)
> You'd just calculate all the pairwise correlations and get nothing if they were solely totally nonlinear/interactions.

I don't believe this. Most nonlinear correlations also show up as non-zero (linear) correlation coefficients. There are really only a couple pathological cases I can think of where it would not happen.
Anything other than a phone call or a face to face should be asynchronous.

I think it's unhealthy to expect something different.
> Facebook is a corporation not a government agency and they have the right to control their own products.

It's always fascinating how quick people are to jump on the free market bandwagon when it suits their ends. Free speech protections also sometimes apply to privately managed public spaces, like malls.

> These individuals are free to shout their ideas in the public square.

Facebook is arguably the new public square, which is precisely my point.
The average price of cars might have risen, but have the average price of a given car segment (size, trim level) really risen?

I have the feeling that people are just buying bigger (unnecessarily bigger) cars, and the high trim levels are also very expensive compared to what they offer.

Here in HI, the best selling vehicle is the Toyota Tacoma, selling for just over $30k. That is inconceivable to me.
Roger Ver vows to fight new libel lawsuit over calling Craig Wright a fraud
Hilarious. With the exception of Farrakhan, Facebook (and youtube, twitter, etc) is largely responsible for these people having such large platforms in the first place. But of course now they'll unilaterally censor them to widespread acclaim, deflecting criticism from the left for their participation and profiting off such demagogues, and whipping the right into a further frenzy about censorship and giving credence to these people's claims that they're censored "for truth".

Everyone wins except the common man, who now must deal with the chilling effects of media and communication monopolies having the power of judge, jury, and executioner when it comes to speech. No need to censor people you don't like if you just capriciously censor people without warning or due process... people will censor themselves for you after that.

Remember the problem isn't that these people had platforms, the problem is those platforms accepted money to promote and advertise these people. I'm sure facebook loved having these people churning around their recommendation engines, they probably drove engagement like crazy. But now the backlash isn't worth the profit, so we all have to pay the consequences.

Remember that sunlight is the best disinfectant, and "deplatforming" these people might make them as personalities go away, but their ideas and propaganda will surely fester and grow in the darker corners of the internet. Milo is a joke even among the alt-right now, but his vitriol and invective continue to grow in popularity.
I think they slathered some "blockchain" on it, when they probably meant to say "cryptography"; the big value-add was that the records were tamper-proof - there was somehow no way to claim you were dropping a package off at my house when you were actually miles away.

Not sure how it worked, though. :(
> There is no genuine debate to be had. No one who has the ability to not be autistic, would choose to be.

That is definitely not true. I know people who consider their autism a strength, something that gives them different ways of focusing and understanding. For myself, autism gave me a lot of problems as a kid, but as an adult I've learned to cope with it very well. It doesn't really bother me anymore.

Your comment is symptomatic of the ongoing problem with the autistic community: high-functioning autistic people and the parents/caretakers of low-functioning autistic people refuse to acknowledge that the other exists. You have neurotypical people telling perfectly functional, happy adults that they're broken and need to be cured, and then you have those some adults acting like a kid who can't speak or dress himself at 11 years old isn't really a problem. It's maddening.
Chat is pretty asynchronous for me. I only read or respond to things when my name is mentioned or if there's something particularly relevant or important going on.

I just mute notifications for all but the most important channels, and sometimes even mute those while working. That way you only get a notification for @everyone-type mentions, personal mentions, and personal messages, which is not unlike email.
He didn't tell everyone to hold the same attitude. He said they're doing a shitty job, and he provided a great example.

Rude, but true, and I would argue helpful. Sorry you're not enjoying reading it.
On a web forum for programmers on a website known for funding startups there are numerous discussions about Google being inconvenient about privacy and some of them are thinking about buying Apple products. As opposed to rooting their smartphone and using MicroG.
"Try Slack with your team for free" should be become "Try Slack with your team for free with limitation of 10000 messages per month"
Edit: just kidding, KO is in, and a quick search says scuba is in as well. Yeah, I'm very surprised that UV is not.
How did you build the audience?

What sort of biz is it?
I feel like yours is the best description of the delusion of control many of us lived in, until we didn't.

I mean this honestly that unless you can detach in the ways people describe here, it will get worse.

Personally, I've noticed that my depth of thinking has improved since making time for contemplation. I was nervous initially about not having read everything - I was surprised and proud how people said "have you seen xyz" and I had. I'm not that person any more, but my skills as an engineer to solve complex problems has improved.
> And considering that it's not a public building

It is, in fact, a public building of the French State.
On PenTile-subpixeled Vive, where only green is full resolution, I was using a green emacs theme like base16-greenscreen-dark. But even on an RGB WMR, with custom subpixel rendering and tiny fonts... with centered circular regions of non-blurry pixels only say 500 px across, it just wasn't viable for me. I've heard of an ops person being happy, focused on terminals rather than on editing code. And as I'm on linux, and focused on programming in VR rather than games, I've been using custom browser-as-compositor stacks, with only low-level lighthouse drivers or optical tracking. Part waste of time, but part road less traveled. At VR a meetup yesterday, a well-informed speaker said "you still can't do X", and I was like, I've been trivially doing X for years now. There's been a lot of that.
You're being pedantic.

The point is, many people use that lobby. Sure, the owners can legally run 24x7 porn on the screens if they really wanted, but wouldn't we all be better off with no screens there at all?
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Farrakhan? He's been around forever. He's 85. He's the guy who set up the Million Man March in 1995. Compared to other 1960s black activists, he's not that extreme. Also, no way is he "far right". Far left, maybe.
Thanks for sharing, I like the structure.
I've posted this before but in my family we play serious Scrabble but with house rules that improve the game.

Rule 1: On your turn, but before playing your word, any letter in your hand may be swapped with any letter on the board, as long as the swap makes a valid word (some people already do this with blanks, we do it with any letter). Swap one letter at a time, as many times as you like. No points are scored for swaps, just for playing your word.

Rule 2: Dictionary may be consulted at any time to look up a specific word - however you cannot "leaf" or browse through it. Dictionary priority goes to whoever's turn it is.

The net result of this variation is that

a) the board remains MUCH more open the whole game - there are many more places to play, and the words played are more likely to be bingos or longer words, which in turn open the baord up even more. Often under official rules you get three or four letter words that just close down the future play possibilities.

b) high-point letters which usually are "luck of the draw" like Q and Z, now become skillful, since they will be reused by many players throughout the game

c) turns can take 5-10 minutes at a time :)

Source: my grandmother, who played these rules with the inventor of Scrabble back in college, before he had sold the game for mass distribution (they changed his rules to simplify them)
Work someplace where you defending your time is encouraged and made a priority.

Slack is the remote work equivalent of "butts in chair" management. If you need information, outline what you need and email the person; allow them time to respond. Document that in a knowledge base if the data must persist and be disseminated. If you need to hold a meeting, hop on Zoom and record it, while you have a participant document the output. If you need something immediately (and it better be important), you can call or IM.

EDIT: @frogpelt said it better.
Thanks for the offer, but I appear to be about 35 hours away by car at the moment. :)

Nearly moved to Foster City about a year ago though! Missed opportunity to borrow yours, I guess.

Maybe another time. If you're anywhere near northern Sweden in the next few years then be sure to bring it with you, just in case.
Ask HN: Choosing between a programming language you like and one you don't
Scenario: You're building a software product and you can choose the programming language to build the product.

You can choose a programming language from two options:

Option 1. A language you like and you're fairly sure you'll enjoy using. You'd be happy to build and maintain the code as it grows in this language. However, this language lacks some of the completeness of libraries and documentation compared with other languages.

Option 2. A language you don't particularly like but it has wide-ranging libraries, extensive documentation and many prior examples/tutorials that will help you out when you inevitably get stuck. Despite that, you don't particularly enjoy writing in this language.

Given that ultimately you want to successfully launch a product, is option 2 the only choice? Or is there a case for choosing option 1?
I am very much in favor of Free Speech myself. But I think the annoying thing people forget is that it's the job of society to determine what is okay and what isn't. The government isn't supposed to decide our morals, we tell the government what those should be.

Society is deciding that this is not stuff we want. Society is rejecting these ideas, and Facebook or Cloudflare when they dropped the Daily Stormer, etc, are deciding that this isn't what they want as part of their society.

If a bulk of society does want these ideas, these people will move to a new platform that supports them, and people will use them and make the ideas mainstream.

Stop complaining that society is rejecting ideas they don't like. It's literally how it works.
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I agree. Which points to a similar problem with this article. Dorsey suggests saunas, and Bowles takes it further, talking about "Faraday Saunas", making Dorsey seem more asinine when Dorsey never mentioned that in the first place.
Instead of implementing `ToString` directly, you should implement `Display`. A `ToString` implementation will automatically be added, and you get all the formatting goodness out of the box.
It's amazing and wonderful you can get an MIT education from watching youtube videos of their lectures. I've used them to fill in gaps in my education. Highly recommended, and it's to MIT's great credit that they're doing this.
Completely agree. You can work 80 hours and get less done than an efficient person doing 40.
Isegoria, the right for every adult male to free political speech(to address the assembly)?

Parrhesia, freedom of speech in the courts and assemblies(and outside public assemblies)?

No, I'm pretty sure it has always had to do with the governments and the governed. It seems popular these days to conflate the general concept tolerance with freedom of speech.

Tolerance has it's limits though as per the tolerance paradox. Freedom of speech says the government shouldn't draw the line, but society at large absolutely should be allowed to.

EDIT: Outside of specific venues and contexts what you could say in Ancient Athens society was much more rigidly defined and there was much less tolerance for breaking those norms than in the USA today.
> The cost of avoiding a hypothetical future in which I'm censored is accepting the real damage they're doing in the here and now.

What damage? Be specific. I think censoring people should require a considerable specificity as to their "crimes" before they're exiled.
I mean certainly it happens but the vast vast majority of hedge funds just deal in the trading of vanilla equities, options, bonds, and futures. And there’s less/not much to sue about for those kind of things.

There are some who deal in bespoke debt, swaps, CDS, etc, where there are often things to sue about. But it’s a less popular space compared to the former.
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I don't see a huge difference between #1 and #2, so I'll address them together:

Home ownership as it stands today does not provide financial security / stability because of the degree of leverage required for most Americans to own a home. It is funny how much basic financial advice boils down to "diversify!" but then we turn around and define the "American Dream" as levering up to buy a single asset that is worth several multiples your networth.

Home prices are absolutely not hedged against market forces, and the double whammy of losing your job WHILE owning a house whose value is down significantly from your purchase price is substantially worse than losing your job while merely renting your home.

When your house value is underwater, your only play is to stay and wait it out until prices recover. But if you also get laid off and can't make the mortgage, you can't simply move to a smaller / cheaper home like you could had you been renting. You'd be forced to sell at the bottom, or try to rent out at currently depressed rental rates to make up for your mortgage that was locked in from when your house was worth much more.

To own a home is to be in a state of constant stress over the value of your home, and the more levered up you are, the worse this gets. This source of stress is why I believe NIMBYism is so prevalent.
Thanks for being the most interesting place online. I have learned a lot of stuff I’d otherwise not know.

If you downvote, but the comment isn’t obviously spammy or silly then try to leave a comment to help the original commenter know why.

Not everyone is making millions, or has saved half their salary in a pension plan, or has published some seminal paper etc. There are a lot of high achievers here but it’s ok not to achieved too.

Enjoy life it’s great because it’s a miracle we exist.
I sure hope so; then I can actually get some work done.
Yeah I only mention pop_os because it truly is a painless process for a fresh install and that's worth calling out. Life is too short to suffer installing uncooperative Linux distros on modern laptops.
The OTP has the benefit that you can delay the 10GB transfer until later. For instance, you might be able to transfer 10GB safely today, but tomorrow you or your friend might go off to a dangerous place and you can no longer do the transfer and the data you want to transfer can only be generated after going into the dangerous place.

That all said, I still don't know what problem blockchain solves. Other than crypto-currency.
Why would that be better? I can't tell if you're saying PeaZip does or doesn't do that.
The abstractions inside Eigen are there to enable powerful compile time optimisations, such as compiling the addition of
three vectors `Eigen::VectorXf x = a + b + c;` in a single loop instead of naively allocating a temporary to evaluate `Eigen::VectorXf tmp = b + c;` then evaluating `Eigen::VectorXf x = a + tmp;`.

This logic is omnipresent in Eigen and is crucial to its performance. It is also used to have specialized versions of some decompositions when the matrix's size is known at compile time.
Amazon's doorbell company to start producing “crime news” and it’ll end well
I agree with your general point, but there are very clearly people who would choose to remain autistic, given the opportunity.