skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've always had assholes who take things too far in society (Cosmo from Seinfeld/Michael Richards) was one of the first examples. He hasn't had work since and essentially committed social suicide as a response - which I think is becoming the new standard punishment and one that is way out of whack with who we are as humans. We give the appropriate social reaction, but I feel like it goes too far. People make mistakes, they always have.

But we're going through history with a fine-tuned brush and destroying anyone who doesn't fit into our modern conception of socially acceptable.

It'd be dumb to say the PC crowd is always getting it wrong. They do get it right often, but the pitchfork mob career/life ending response is where I part ways.

Where I differ, and I wish more people took a more rational approach to it, is that we're all flawed humans moving through a fucked up world. And we're unfairly destroying manu great minds and contributors in the process using some idealistic and unrealistic standard that none of us will ever achiever.

The end result is that the only people we allow to be leaders are milquetoast, authority-loving, angels who've never experimented in their lives.

This kind of this destroys culture. And the solution is to stop taking these small highly vocal mobs so serious and look at what they are. New idealistic well-intentioned Puritans 2.0.

We need to embrace the chaos and let people get offended again, and move on with our lives, because it really isn't that bad. It's not the way we reach progress.

If you want progress them embrace experimentation of all kinds, not some overton window with an ever growing list of things that are not okay. Or reevaluating the great people in history as if they grew up in the 1990s/early 2000s.

History is littered with mistakes but it's also full of great moments and experimentation and progress. The more we shut down this chaos every time we get offended the less great culture we'll get out of it.

If in the 1700s+ free speech had a clause where no one can get offended ever we'd live in the most boring and backwards world imaginable. The pseudo-progressives are attacking the very freedoms that allows progress to exist. And we need people will balls again to set up and push back. Because we aren't getting it from our university administrators trying to protector their jobs or from corporate pro-diversity divisions that are trying to keep up with culture, so you keep buy their products.

Top-down control of what is and what is not okay from culture is not that solution, period. Not doing that has allowed culture to flourish in the free democratic western states for decades and we're moving backwards, always with the best intentions, but too quickly to realize the side-effects and massive downsides of doing so.

/rant
I agree; for smaller components like labels and buttons, having some compound rules would help. They tend to be well-defined. I believe you can create composite styles in Tailwind.
So, because we don't have a forum owned by a state actor, by law, we don't have free speech on internet? Is that the conclusion?
Do you really think Facebook profited from this? I'd bet they took a million dollar PR hit if anything.
As far as I know, zinc pyrithione isn't available in any consumer product, because it is pretty toxic in moderate levels. Without it (from the article) "the concentration of free Zn2+ is maintained at a relatively low level by metallothioneins".

Zinc supplementation may of course help if you are deficient, but the study can't really tell if 'healthy' Zn2+ concentrations contribute anything to the inhibition of viral replication.
But that story (1) says they had sore throats. They do not consider a sore throat a symptom? So this is the new CDC? Ignorance is strength? War is peace?
You seem like you understand how to read twitter. Can you help me out?

I don't see the quote you provided anywhere on the linked page. What I see is this.

> so I was looking for a MicroSD to M.2 adapter (shut up, it exists, and I have reasons to want it) and I found something way more cursed:
M.2 (SDIO) to SD card slot!

It sounds like a reply to something, but I can't tell what, and then below it are a bunch of replies, none of which seem to be related to each other. I think I have a twitter learning disability.
The important point is that if cells get down to $100/kWh, then ev's could have sticker prices equal to ice's. That would cause ev sales to skyrocket, which is absolutely essential for saving the climate.
>https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/14/20965354/nsa-intelligenc....

>The NSA has stopped collecting location data from US cellphones without a warrant

uh, isn't that a counter-proof?

edit:

>https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/26/nsa-improper-phone-records....

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

not exactly location data

>https://www.wired.com/2010/12/realtime/

sounds like a great way to under-count people with poor credit or access to banking

>https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/not-just-nsa-dat....

Sure, it'd probably be cheaper to buy the data off some data broker rather than doing a census yourself, but how clean is their data? Are they also going to disclose their methodologies? Is giving a few private companies the power to control government funding allocation and distribution of congressional power really a good idea?
This sounds like Ebola.
Democratizing Spin Qubits
Disinformation and Disease
Conversations with Tyler is quite good - I don't agree with him on many things politically but he has a very idiosyncratic way of looking at things that has informed my own worldview
Using polarized light to put a twist on electrons
the US has been a rich 3rd world country, since Reagan.
There is no way Wall Street is using trades by retail traders as a signal (except maybe to counter-trade them). Also btw Wall Street can easily differentiate trades made by big players versus hordes of retail traders, because the banks and HFT firms are who executes the trades from retail brokerages. Retail brokerages like Robinhood don't have the authority to execute trades. They subcontract to a HFT firm who then uses the order flow to seek alpha (i.e., countertrade and run circles around clueless retail traders).
> the real problem was that the front and back of your computer are backward

If this is truly a source of friction, why bother with the case? Why not go au naturale?
I can't express how concerning this letter is to me. Some of the steps they're taking to prevent further spread of the disease are so unorthodox that I'm not sure what to make of them. On the one hand, it suggests that the Chinese government was not prepared to handle a pandemic (of any kind). On the other hand, it could mean that despite their best efforts and preparation, CoViD-19 is overwhelming their response. Any way you look at it, this is not good, and it seems increasingly likely that we're on the verge of a global pandemic with serious economic consequences.
A post here last year was lamenting how they pulled the plug early on a startup because OP had run the numbers to find they were paying something like $5 per signup but only making $2.5 per user.

The whole post all I could think was, "are there really people that depend only on advertising for new users?"
You can use it with WordPress for sure, as you have total control of the markup.

But you can't use it directly with Webflow. I don't know about Weebly.
And by extension, where you got your PhD and who your advisors were and who they knew.
You need to add Toilet paper to that list.
Solari Boards: The Disappearing Sound of Airports
I use a FT05 case for one of my desktops; besides being excellent thermally, having the motherboard rotated 90° with the rear i/o facing upwards is nice (also no gpu sag).
It has side effects, too. For example, I wanted to record a new screencast with OBS Studio (fantastic free software), but couldn’t capture any chromium-based application without disabling GPU-acceleration.

Only happens with electron apps.
Dust, noise, thermal and electrical danger.
Rentec is the polar opposite of "easy software"
Bootstrapped small businesses are as old as dirt. If you aren't going to scale, why do you need venture funding?

Venture funded startups may prove to have been a temporary kind of business made possible by the technological frontier of first the personal computer and then the internet.

If a new computing platform comes along the VC model will keep chugging, because you've gotta plant that flag as fast as possible.

I see the diminishing value of working for startups as a sign of the maturity of the internet. Rather than try to swim against the current, it's probably better to find a new shoreline. And inventing that new platform is a very hard problem.
Look at the second link for why it isn’t. Don’t believe spies when they claim to have stopped spying (after repeatedly demonstrating that they are willing to break the law to spy).

IP addresses are absolutely location data. The subscriber records of major network providers, both fixed and wireless, are known to the IC. An IP address is a street address and subscriber name.

Most states have programs to ensure that even the poorest have wireless phones, if for no other reason than to enable job application callbacks. Very, very few people do not carry any sort of phone, and all phone metadata in the US, including and especially location, is under continuous logging and surveillance.
I thought all the 'flap boards' had disappeared. It's something you take for granted and then they're gone, progress I guess. They've got a great look and glad to hear they're coming back for those who want a retro look.
Courts don't know how stuff like this works and congressmen are paid not to know. It's unlikely anybody will have the money, confidence, and time to bring up a case against Facebook, and they'd have a hard time going up against "expert witnesses" whose testimony amounts to "accidents happen."

Until fed-up former tech workers get into politics and apply their knowledge to the law, it's basically the word of the normal people vs billions of dollars.
> So is this C++03 /C++11 stuff just updates to this library, or is std::string recognised at the compiler level?

std::string is in the STL. So is std::string_view. There are language changes as well that enable some of the new STL additions but some are just STL updates and you could "backport" them so to speak. Or do the same thing but yourself.

Making std:: verboten these days would likely be a mistake, though. There's so many things that are just not controversial and not worth re-implementing. Like std::unique_ptr. Or std::array.

Most of the containers are still better off ignored, though, many of them unfixable. The least worst of them is std::vector and it's still _ok_ but even there things like absl::InlinedVector are worth a strong consideration instead ( https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/blob/master/absl/contai... ). Or boost's small_vector ( https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_60_0/doc/html/boost/contain... )
2 people equally confident in their own, completely opposing opinions. Every comment enabled website in a nutshell.
Meanwhile, all I want is a simple high-DPI gaming mouse with a USB-C (rather than USB-A) connector, and it still doesn’t exist in 2020.
> Does this mean a business shouldn’t aim to ever solve a customer’s problem?

I don't think you can extrapolate the case for a dating site to all businesses, especially to cases of tangible goods. A car salesman doesn't make a dime until I buy a car.

Dating sites are an interesting business because a happy customer is one that is no longer using their product. So how do you monetize that?

If you charge a one-time up-front cost, and a paying customer uses the site for months and never has success, then you end up with a disgruntled customer.

If you charge a monthly subscription, then you get a perverse incentive to not please your customer, or only please them enough to keep paying, because as soon as they enter a relationship, they stop paying.

Only charging after some sort of measurement of success (Like marriage) would be impossible to enforce.
The First Amendment doesn't define free speech. The First Amendment explicitly and exclusively prohibits Congress, and only Congress, from restricting free speech. Free speech exists apart from the First Amendment.

Youtube is not Congress, therefore the First Amendment does not prohibit Youtube from restricting free speech. There is no Constitutional law that I am aware of that requires all private entities, platforms and persons to accept all forms of speech, or that requires publishers to publish all forms of speech, nor is there a common, legally accepted definition of free speech which assumes the same. Private platforms and entities have always been able to restrict free speech, and continue to be able to do so. The nature of free speech, in this regard, either in society or on the internet, has not changed. Whoever runs the site, the newspaper, the tavern or town square gets to make the rules, that's always been the case.

That's the conclusion. Although I have no doubt the Orwellian slippery slope arguments are getting greased up I write this.
". . . these Magic-Eye moments single-handedly define faith for me."

A Unix fortune today gave me this great quote by German philosopher and theologian Paul Tillich:

"Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith."

The broader paragraph, on what kinds of certitude we seek in life and the judgments we must make upon them, is striking:

"The affirmation that Jesus is the Christ is an act of faith and consequently of daring courage. It is not an arbitrary leap into darkness but a decision in which elements of immediate participation and therefore certitude are mixed with elements of strangeness and therefore incertitude and doubt. But doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith. Therefore, there is no faith without risk. The risk of faith is that it could affirm a wrong symbol of ultimate concern, a symbol which does not really express ultimacy (as, e.g., Dionysus or one’s nation). But this risk lies in quite a different dimension from the risk of accepting uncertain historical facts. It is wrong, therefore, to consider the risk concerning uncertain historical facts as part of the risk of faith. The risk of faith is existential; it concerns the totaliy of our being, while the risk of historical judgments is theoretical and open to permanent scientific correction. Here are two different dimensions which should never be confused. A wrong faith can destroy the meaning of one’s life; a wrong historical judgment cannot. It is misleading, therefore, to use the word 'risk' for both dimensions in the same sense."

Matt Stone's essay resonates here I think . . . mathematics goes beyond historical judgments and gets to existential concerns too.
I agree but looking at the downvotes to my response, doesn't seem like the HN community agrees.

SSPL may have drawbacks and there may be a better license than SSPL but someone needs to invest time and effort for that - hopefully the big OSS guys will take a lead.
Yeah, I don't understand the structure that well either, but those below don't seem to be replies. To see the actual replies, hit "Show this thread" or "See replies" below the image.
Where can I find "the literature that is being published in real time"?
It depends entirely on the security. Sometimes users will pick far out of the money strike with little volume and be the entire market for that day, but major stocks like AMZN have such deep option pools and liquidity that even the entire sub buying the same thing would be insignificant.

Options are derivatives of the security so any influence on share price will be a very diluted reaction based on risk and general market sentiment which I don't think a few thousand users are capable of. They would need to carry serious notional volume (in the 9+ figures) or major hedging risk with their brokers for any price action to occur, and even that might not last beyond days or hours.
> The Reddit comments usually aren't long enough to be meaningful, and I think that there are now organised p&d teams, so that level of investigation isn't very useful anymore

The Yahoo comments usually weren't that long either. The key point was that while each individual post gave you, on average, only a little but of information, in the aggregate you got enough to narrow down who the source was to within 5 people. From there, you could usually narrow it down using "legwork" etc.
You need special router hardware for this to work.
I don't understand how people comment without reading the source. It clearly explains what happened - they had a feature in production that was disclosed to the user, and an update inadvertently removed the disclosure without removing the entire feature like they were trying to.
If you believe in the broken window fallacy and have time to kill, yes.
>Seats in the House of Representatives seats are apportioned by population, with the most populous states receiving the most seats.

People in the minority party in solidly red/blue states would want their state to lose votes in order to increase the representation of their party.
Some of us live where we oppose all of the current elected officials. In that case, it sounds like opting out is the only effective "vote" we can make in a FPTP system
Pokemon Sprites Generated with a GAN
This gave me flashbacks. In the 90s I had to work with a lot of strange hardware. They all had "standard" interfaces, but they weren't really standard at all.

Sometimes to connect my laptop to a device required a series of three or four adapters.

We also had kits in the office to make your own serial adapters, where you had to figure out the pinouts on each side and then build the adapter one pin at a time.
One thing I’m curious about is, why does a country need to do this in the first place?

From the example I’m familiar with: the last ever census in Turkey was held in 2007. There on, there is now a live, real-time count of everyone in the country. Why doesn’t that work in the US?

Surely US is capable of it, but I wonder if the blockage is inertial, political or just not enough of a priority.
I've never gambled before in my life. I've always been a very conservative indexer, but... I've got some spare dough. I have always been quite interested in the finance side of things, having worked under and been good friends with a dude with a graduate degree in Quantitative Finance, I spent years learning about random bits of finance stuff from him - enough that I knew a good bit about of some of /r/wallstreetbets' favorite investments, options.

I've been having a pretty good time perusing the forum and making bets of my own, even making a decent profit (relative to the money put in). I don't risk more than I'm willing to completely lose though. Some people on that forum are a quite reckless.
SSD reliability in the enterprise: This survey yields a few surprises
Down on the Farm That Harvests Metal from Plants
14% of recovered cases in one area (South Korea, IIRC) have become infected again, and one analysis showed that re-infection may be worse than the first time.

Sorry, I don’t have any citation for this, because it’s been days since I read it.
CDC: Possible ‘community spread’ coronavirus case in Bay Area
Or maybe they would prefer to spend their time finding people who are actually hard to enunerate, rather than wasting on someone who is just looking to consume their time.
If you’re interested in learning more about finance, I recommend subscribing to Money Stuff (free daily finance newsletter). Matt Levine does a great job of explaining concepts like these to a layperson and I love his sense of humor.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-02-26/reddit...
What is strange it the same people (IME) believe the 2nd Amendment is required to overthrow the government. It's amazing how subservient they can be when required.
Lack of horizontal realstate, inability to drill and screw it into the wall (it's not my wall).
Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519
FYI, there is a typo in the link to your blog.
same here. I mostly deal with text analytics, while the text PDFs do not create much issues, unless a crazy font is used, and the 2 column pages are a nightmare.

In case you are looking for an API to extract structure rich content like tables from PDFs or images, look into this https://extracttable.com (p.s. I contributed to it)
In short? Because the Constitution specifies how it must be done, any ambiguity is enshrined in tradition, and neither is realistically changeable.
I have a very hard time believing this will be as good as the abstract claims for anything but what the team at Google who developed this is using it for. The claims are quite extravagant and the case studies supplied were underwhelming (though I am willing to give them the benefit of the doubt that its been useful for tensor flow).

In particular, I would bet that MLIR is overfit for it's goal, which is not a problem for anything other than the claim that it's suppose to a more abstract setting for all matters of DSL and compiler infrastructure. Compilers often have many intermediate languages, so saying that Rust and friends have one on top of LLVM is not surprising nor convincing.
Address sanitizer and undefined behavior sanitizer are not intended to be security mitigations; it's possible to get around them and now you have bad things happening in your process again.
Five Important Things to Know About Wuhan Apart from Covid-19 – Pandaily
I kinda want something with a lot of microSD slots and it exposes each one as a separate disk. Then I could run a zfs pool on spare/discarded SD cards around the house.

The closest thing I found was something claiming to do something like SD slot raid-0. But the board does all the work, and raid-0 is terrible. And the whole point for me is that SD cards have terrible failure rates, so I figure zfs adds redundancy.
The quote seems to be about the compiler/environment being permitted to offer GC, ie. permits you to write C++ implementation on top of some GC'd runtime. It does not say anything about you as a language user having enough introspection capabilities to write an GC. As a side note it seems that one can (ab)use smart pointers enough to build essentially working tracing GC on top of that, I've seen that done and well, the performance is horrible, obviously.
Basic lottery is 1 in 14 million winning. I guess "citation needed", having that exact winner on hn is pretty low probability. This is an irrational comment in an irrational subthread. I'm not sure adhesive tape doesn't have high germs density but i'm pretty sure there is little correlation between your finger sticking to a material and a germ sticking to that same material. This message has no positive outcome besides making feel good while i press "reply", it's not intended for you to read it, it's intended for me to re-read it while thinking of this moment.
You can make C++ pretty: it's called D. https://dlang.org/comparison.html

Here's the D<->C++ intercompatibility project: https://wiki.dlang.org/Calypso#Current_status