skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet, viewing that same myriad of videos, I see the exact opposite: That more hatred, threats of violence, and actual violence comes from the alt-right / white nationalists / MAGA provocateurs (depending on the video), and antifa simply returns that antagonism. Of course there are examples both ways, but speaking in terms of averages here, it doesn't even seem like a close call. Antifa's reaction's aren't always right, but neither is belting a guy who spits on you in a bar, yet I can't blame the puncher, and the bias is obvious if somebody gets up on a pulpit and claims moral superiority over the despicable violent puncher who viciously attacked the poor innocent spitter. I wish everybody could be Ghandi in the face of the ever-growing tidal wave of hatred, mockery, and gleeful threats of violence, but it's unrealistic to lay the blame primarily at the target's feet when they fail to rise to that level.
This kind of links to Alan Kay's insights on remembering content: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11809285

Same thread, on not taking notes, but capturing ideas:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11852959

I'm a long time Luhmannian Zettelkasten fan, but thus far all my efforts on keeping one myself have failed. I still admire this method, though; maybe it's just optimized for a different brain than mine. I have had better success with Lion Kimbro's latest (2004-ish, I think) method for indexing paper notebooks. Thanks to a short correspondence with him (really nice guy!), I even dug up his blog posts on that:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130304042318/http://lion.poste...

https://web.archive.org/web/20130304042836/http://lion.poste...

He outlines his "new" method more thoroughly and with images in the book "Mindhacker" by Ron & Marty Hale-Evans (Hack no 17 - Write Magnificient Notes).

Kimbro's eralier book "How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought You Think" has been on HN earlier, eg: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8078819

All in all, I suppose it is just a matter of whether someone is a "free-form guy" or tends to prefer more complex, e.g. hierarchical notes. I would like to be more systematic, but I guess in reality I am not.

I want to think that for me the perfect note taking technique is a well built-up "memory palace" + guilt-free forgetting. In other words, taking as little written notes as possible and retaining important things in my head as visual (often metaphorical) images. There is a world where that would keep all relevant ideas and connections always floating on top. And everything irrelevant would magically sink to the bottom of my brain. How easy. Unfortunately I have yet to visit that world.
Who would have guessed that people was going to get pissed off at the police chocking to death some black guy in broad day light? Mean, that happens every day...
Or in 3.7 and beyond:

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I meant paying someone else via a subscription service to do it. Clothing is important for signaling, and there is definitely utility there, but I would think there are other ways that are cheaper/easier/more reliable.
It's simply not true. Install Ubuntu or Fedora, run Gnome 3 and everything "just works". You can't use Arch as an example here - it is intentionally very basic, and takes a lot of effort to learn as you do almost everything from scratch. While many people appreciate that level of control, it is unnecessary if you're just trying to get work done.
> We have to get away from the "bad apples" theory and start thinking about "bad barrels" that spoil the apples within.

The phrase that "bad apples" is taken from is "A few bad apples spoil the bunch". It's one of many phrases that has entered the common consciousness in partial form with the exact opposite meaning of its original intention.
He could probably hear it in his head to an extent.
AFAIK actual recorded weather data is available only with individual country's met dept and few international agencies like NOAA; but I wasn't able to get recent global data from NOAA. Few private weather API provider like Weather Underground which uses crowdfunded data using actual sensors but obviously their global coverage is small.

I tried to use WU for my COVID data research and it didn't have data for the Chinese cities.
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You can create a personal account with Azure or Microsoft more generically with your work email address, eg you@work.com. Because this was set up by you, you could conceivably change it to you@freemail.com.

However your organization may then do a deal with MS for Azure, or MSDN subscriptions, etc. And they’ll issue a login with the same email* address you@work.com — you now have two accounts tied to the same email, one which you created by yourself and one which your IT department created for you. There’s no way for you to change this second one. Typically authentication for the second one will happen via your org’s single sign on.

So the answer to “is this account personal or issued by your IT dept” really means — did you create the account yourself? Or was it provisioned for you by IT?

* Many orgs by default don’t use email to log in. Instead a “username” like jsmith is used instead. However while interfacing with Azure it seems to be a best practice to use email.
Linpack is a floating-point benchmark focused on linear algebra operations. Coremark has some floating-point-heavy benchmarks in its suite, although a common criticism is that the footprint is too small to exercise the memory system.

So yeah, the "Maximum MFLOPS" row looks suspicious.
In many areas, rural and urban, with corruption and machine politics, police, sherrifs, and their unions are one of the blocs mayors and councilmembers avoid being on the opposite side of.
However, taking 3 vitamins is almost entirely harmless.
this is an article about people faking social media profiles and you're going to post personal anecdotes within minutes of making an account? hmmm...
Based on the sound, I think that's mostly steam. Some smoke, of course.
I do the same, but with Gatsby.js, and Namecheap.
IEC/UL 60950-1 allows for up to 3.5mA of leakage current to be "accessible" to the user. There are a lot of variations and factors that affect how you feel the sensation of current through your body (how moist your skin is matters a lot), but even microamps can be painful in the right situation.

I love a lot of things about macbooks, but I don't love the non-coated metal for this reason. In addition to the (for me) unpleasant feeling of current, the bottom feels hotter than a coated surface.
Nice idealism. But human beings have trouble managing that kind of platform. Every idiot's lies look just as legitimate as expert opinion. Other idiots can search for confirmation of their biases and find any number of hits that way.

Call it what you like; we're not coping very well with unrestricted dissemination of disinformation. Folks have gamed it at the highest levels.
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One issue with vitamin is they don’t get absorbed well without certain foods. Worse yet, some foods could even block absorption.

Calcium absorption is one of the trickier vitamins to get tight.

If you’re taking vitamins specifically because you’re deficient, make sure you’re eating complimentary foods with them.
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It's pretty hard to get smell information on the web! Thanks for your response.

Perhaps you're a super-smeller (that's not a pejorative!) and experience smells differently, too.

Now, what sort of look will my wife give me if I order a piece of wet towel from Chicago on the web?
99% of the notetaking tools I've tried were completely inaccessible for screen readers.

In the end, I went with a much simpler, zettelkasten-like approach. All my notes are stored in a single wiki.txt file, stored on Dropbox for easy editing and in Git for history and as a backup. The file has very little formatting, two blank lines to separate notes, a line surrounded by single blank lines for headings and a "-" for lists. New notes are always appended at the end, and my journal for the current day is always my last note. That makes it very easy to append stuff there.

I use hashtags for organization. If I consider a note relevant to an idea, i just put #ideaName in there, wherever it fits. I find connections by searching for #ideaName via the search box of my text editor.

The system is very simple, very portable and works pretty well for me.
I'm not sure if readers of HN are familiar with the concept of a "police riot", but that is clearly what is happening in many places now:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_riot
You'd think police should be highly motivated to stop their coworkers from murdering people and getting away with it, but here we are.
> Personally I always use a Magic Trackpad 2 so I no longer have to take this into consideration.

I never got it to work with Windows except for just pointer motion and left clicking. No multi-touch, gestures, etc. Not even right clicking. Does it work properly now?
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> The numbers I cited from the CDC for Covid are symptomatic fatality rates.

I guess the CDC are using symptomatic case fatality to mean the IFR then? Or else it doesn't make any sense.

> Any number of different sources; 0.1% is the generally accepted estimate of overall IFR for influenza in an average year. Here’s an article that tries to be as fatalistic as possible, which still cites an overall IFR for flu of 0.1%:

That was exactly what I was talking about, they use this source from the CDC
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2017-2018.htm
which again is explicitly talking about "symptomatic cases"
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Most people are deficient in one vitamin or another. Take magnesium as an example, 50% of people in the US are deficient[0]. Get your blood work done and get targeted supplements.

[0]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5786912/
Thousands are monitoring police scanners during the George Floyd protests
IoT labels will help consumers figure out which devices are spying on them
I had some flu thing in the beginning of February and I had this weird symptom where anything that contained vinegar (like ketchup) had this terrible acetone-like taste -- I almost brought back the bottle to the store for a refund.
Vitamin D's potential was the first to become widely publicized in early February, followed closely by Zinc.

I haven't heard much about B12 or magnesium effectiveness, as I must admit being out of contact, but they are popular supplements even in non covid times.
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Look, I want to be clear. I think the Democrats had a case, but didn't pick their issues correctly at the impeachment. I also think the Republicans completely missed the point that their candidate had totally shattered pretty much every historical bound of decency in terms of responsible, dignified behavior as expected of a President. If that vote had been much closer, we might see a bit more restraint coming from the President's office right now. That didn't happen.

I just want to be clear that there is nothing that makes me more nervous than a President who is shown no sign of being second guessed by the Legislature, especially during a crisis. It wouldn't even matter if roles were reversed and it were Hillary in the White House with Democrats in control of the Senate. I'd still be calling them out.

It is so easy to get carried away by the reins of power. Most people do not realize just how well equipped the Government is to go full authoritarian if it came down to it. The only thing that has kept that from happening has been our value system doing a fairly decent job of keeping that tendency in check. Or at least it seemed to be prior to 2001.
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Many are toxic (vitamin D included) in unsuitable amounts, that’s probably too strong of a statement.
> A universal problem with "leaderless movements" is that they quickly devolve to the lowest common denominator level.

The police have loads of leaders, and they've devolved pretty fast too. I'm not sure if leadership is really a decisive factor.
The purpose of copyright is to provide a temporary monopoly to creators for their works to encourage them to create more and thus transfer more to the public domain.

Currently, it takes greater than 2 average lifetimes for a work to transfer into the public domain and copyrights have been extended something like 12 times due to Disney's lobbying; there is a strong argument that that current copyright law is forever.

What interest does the public have in copyright that transfers nothing into the public domain? The "mainstream media" is in fact a publishing oligopoly of 4 companies (Ref: Media Monopoly by Ben Bagdikian). Furthermore, a 20TB HDD can store enough movies you can watch 3 a night for 2 decades; in 20 years time it'll be possible to store every newspaper clipping, TV Broadcast, movie and song on a desktop computer and in 40 on a thumb drive.

Congress and Businesses have neglected the publics interest, and due to that the public is using technology to wipe their arse with the law and rightfully so. The "Legal and Business frameworks" are outdated, orwellian cultural astroturfing exercises supported that are counterproductive to the operation of a disciplined, free society. Go read Vietnam and Korean era Psychological warfare manuals and tell me they are not blueprints for how a modern news org works.

When Mickey Mouse is free, I'll respect what you are doing. Until then, don't come sobbing to me. Nobody cares.
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A couple of footnotes: This has been known since 2015, https://multimedia.scmp.com/2017/graphics/ZhuriheBase/index....

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Now we pick politicians based on feelgood promises they make, which they do not intend to keep. This way we avoid "tyranny of the majority" only by lying to the majority of people which cannot lead to a stable situation. If you believe the majority of the people are stupid and will vote for policies harming everyone, then we need some other mechanisms to allow different people to experiment with laws, find compromises, or give different weights to votes of different people.
The current mechanism of pretending everyone has equal vote, and not allowing that vote to be heard by making voting artificially hard, will not work forever.
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I went to the AVR as soon as I found it. Much nicer.
It is a lie, to be involved and advocate violence on demonstrations - but later to claim any actual violence was done by provocateurs. And it also is a tactic, even though mostly not a conscious one.

At least, this is my experience with large parts of the german (radical) left movement.
It is allmost surreal, when you follow the left wing online news ticker about the demonstration and everything that happens. Police and fascist violence there and there and again there!
And when you also follow neutral mediums or the other side, or are even there to see for yourself. Because then you can see quite some leftist/antifa violence or threats of violence, as well.

The agressors are allwas the others, the police and fascists, never they themself. And sure, police and fascists do use aggressive violence. And in numbers probably a lot more. But not only them.
So it is a tactic. It is propaganda.
I have seen all three sides (antifa, police and fascist) use it. And was quite some of that violence in fact done by covert police? Possible. But usually with the applause of the crowd.

(And the german right-wing movement is of course even worse at being hypocrites, because no one there is officially a rassist or a nazi and they get angry, if you point out rassist or nazi-ideologie arguments they made)
Is Google censoring 'Falun Gong' voice typing?
Unfortunately, planning for the long term makes you uncompetitive on the nation state scale in the short term, which can threaten the nation state’s survival/prosperity.
I'll just work at my shitty job until I win the lottery, die, or get fired. No one is entitled to happiness, so as long as I can pay my bills I guess that's the best I can hope for.
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> Was this known early on about COVID?

Metanalyses have shown that Vitamin D supplementation is associated with a reduction in the rate of upper respiratory tract infections and its severity.
Complicating the picture is that city policing has been trending toward safer interaction, while rural and more notably suburban areas have been trending towards more dangerous policing.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/police-are-killing-fewe...
Voting and "promoting" change hasn't worked either.
Sure:

- The timing attacks were the most surprising to me -- particularly because how easy they were to exploit once you collected enough statistics.

- Finding the seed / predicting upcoming random numbers from popular PRNGs by reconstructing internal state. (Interesting side note: I had to implement the Mersenne Twister from wikipedia, and my code literally looks like line noise: https://github.com/0xfe/cryptopals/blob/master/prng.go. Reversing the tempering code made me lose a lot of hair.)

- Modifying encrypted data reliably on AES-CBC and AES-CTR by flipping bits!

- If you use the same values for IV and key, you can recover the key with a little math.

- Determining block/key sizes from ciphertext using statstical analysis worked surprisingly well.

- Number-theoretic algorithms like DH, RSA, DSA, are sensitive to their parameters (like choice of primes, generators, etc.)

- The padding oracle blew my mind: https://cryptopals.com/sets/3/challenges/17
People see it as less analogous to Solitaire, and more analogous to the McAfee crapware you get bundled with cheap PCs.
Vitamin D deficiency is very common especially in people who spend their daytime hours inside and also in dark skinned people living in northern latitudes.

In the UK doctors recommend everyone takes a vitamin D supplement in the winter.
Many things are almost entirely harmless, but before recommending you do them anyway, you probably want to look at whether there's any point.

Turning round in a circle three times before you leave the house is almost entirely harmless, and there's no evidence that doesn't stop you getting coronavirus...
Where were/are the rest of "the police" to denounce, arrest and charge, and update policies and practices to prevent this from happening... every. damn. day.

What do we have instead? 3 other "the police" standing by watching and not doing a thing. Being accessories to murder, that they would gladly arrest anyone else for doing the same. Followed by days of police brutality towards peaceful protesters, "the police" showing their itch to start shooting, throwing 'white power' signs and grinning, etc...

Come on.
As a recovering mathematician, this fills me with joy. It would be great if it were implemented as, say, a LaTeX package, so the code to your diagrams could sit right in your documents (like how TikZ works). Still, either way, amazing work!
Kuesa 3D Studio is a product allowing a team to integrate realtime 3D in an application, trying to create a smooth workflow for the communication between the designer and the developer, centered around the glTF 2.0 format.

To give some insight on the technical aspect of things, one of the main reasons you would want to use Kuesa is to be able to easily integrate
glTF content in a Qt and especially QtQuick app, and be able to access all the parts of what's provided in this glTF data in a reactive way through QML.

e.g. here is some code example from the documentation: https://kdab.github.io/kuesa/kuesa-car-scene-example.html

The main point is that Kuesa enable a workflow where someone sends you a glTF file with whatever name for animations, etc...

You quickly introspect them through the provided glTF editor (part of Kuesa 3D Studio) and check that the rendering is correct with the chosen materials, envmap, etc (as designers extremely often expect things to look just like their beautiful Blender or 3DS renders :-)).

Most importantly, you use that to devise what names were used for animations, materials, meshes, scenes, etc - basically which part of the asset will map to which feature of the program you're writing.

Kuesa 3D Runtime (basically, the "core" execution engine that integrates with Qt and Qt3D) then provides the following:

You load the glTF asset through something like

Kuesa.GLTF2Importer {
source: "my_asset.gltf"
}

and then you can start referring to the subparts of it and connect them to e.g. UI controls, external inputs, by using fairly simple code.

e.g. you can have in your file defining the 3D scene:

MyScene.qml:

Scene3D {
// ...
Kuesa.AnimationPlayer {
id: rightDoorAnimator
sceneEntity: scene
clock: Clock { }
clip: "DoorRAction" // a glTF clip name
}
}

and then a simple UI such as :

MyUI.qml :
Row {
property var MyScene scene

Button { onClicked: scene.rightDoorAnimator.running = true }
}

and likewise for all the common material properties, meshes, etc.
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just a personal note, I had many many respiratory tract problems - tonsillitis, flu, cold, at least 3 times a year. I always thought it was something natural, given the seasonality of these diseases, especially in winter. but after a routine blood test, my doctor prescribed vitamin D because mine was way below recommended. since 2017, when i started taking vitamin D supplementation, only a mild flu is what I had in 3 years, so to me that article is no surprise, of course in a personal experience level.
Rough, cold and politically charged: why do we love to hate concrete?