skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I still can't tell what their plan was. Or what point they were trying to make. Or how they expected to handle the legal challenge.

I like the idea one of the Dreamwidth people threw up: it was probably intentionally aiming to bait a court case:

https://twitter.com/rahaeli/status/1244257620548038656

(Thanks to 'Apocryphon for posting it originally on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22734145 )

This doesn't necessarily seem out of line with something Brewster et al. would do, and it is the simplest explanation, so I tend to be on the side of it.
Wow that app looks amazing. It's what I wanted my website to be.
Not just that, but there's been a lot of demonizing of any objective fact that goes against whatever narrative they're following. I'm starting to feel like even if you prove something was objectively wrong, that's still not enough to convince people even here on HN.
The Copyright Office "forgot" about the public interest. Basically, they represent the copyright owners. The best part is how they second guess courts.

Try at least skimming the article, though.
There's reasons to believe the supposedly adequate levels of vitamin D according to authorities are way too low. Additionally, it seems the risks of overdosing (for that particular vitamin) have been greatly exaggerated in two ways: not only are dangerous levels much higher than recognized, but the effects are milder. Other fat-soluble vitamins can be dangerous in high doses, which may be part of the reasons for this (likely) mistake. What we have is the typical conundrum of opportunity cost of not using vs. risks.
Ban Them All
Reinforces sentiment I heard lately from the AG. History is written by the winners.
Absolutely. The Western diet primarily has very little variety in it. 55% of our diet comes from boxes/processed food which is almost entirely made up of only 3 things: Oil, Processed flour, sugar, and maybe some dairy. The vast majority of our diet is: meat, dairy, oil, sugar and flour. Oil and Sugar have 0 nutrients. Highly processed flour has little nutrients, but it does have some: the problem it's super deficient in potassium, magnesium and iron.

So, the same eating pattern gets exploited day in day out and people end up deficient in the things you mentioned, plus potassium.
Let's say that there was the "perfect" non-lethal weapon. Kind of like a phaser from Star Trek set to "stun" mode.

Would that be a good thing? I imagine there would be a lot of cases where they just stun everyone because, why not?

For that matter, maybe just implant everyone with a lights-out switch.
Hmm.

<< Is it your opinion that the people who met with Zuckerberg were props

In a sense that he used them less subtly than Trump used the bible? Yes.

<< his intention was to positively influence the public's opinion of his actions with respect to the protests and civil unrest happening in the country today

No. The entire company is built on a more virulent version of old 'if it bleeds, it leads'. It is silly to think otherwise.

Would you publicly stand behind your opinions and reveal your identity?

Hell no. I shared an unpopular opinion on LinkedIn once. The mob immediately descended.

<<Do you feel your opinion is widely shared?

I have no data one way or another, but why would that matter?
Yep they come in a handful of sizes. The more common size for these protests seem to be around 2 inches in diameter.

To put that in perspective, try to make the largest circle you can make with your index and thumb (think OK symbol shape). That's more or less the shape of these things and they are effectively a thin layer of rubber with a solid steel core. The inside of your finger circle is the steel and the thickness of your fingers is the rubber.

Hope this helps.
Population cohort studies pivot to track long-term health effects of pandemic
Ahh man that's a tough call! My personal laptop is a 2014 that I bought in 2015 (or was it 2016?) for dirt cheap because it was on clearance. So I totally agree with you there! On the other hand, my biggest issue with the 2016-18 keyboard is the lack of inverted T arrow keys. It drives me nuts!
I've been brought in as an expert before. The ways it has happened for me are through personal network / recommendation and via Toptal (high-end freelance / low end consulting)
Sure, I get kind of lost trying to figure out what you are saying when you're addressing me about someone else's comments that neither of us may fully understand the thinking behind.

However you look at it, Tesla or not, 10 kWh leaves out a lot which was my original point.
Does this actually work? I tried (permanently) disabling updates on my Surface Go (running Windows 10) a few months ago but kept failing. The worst thing is, you don't know if what you did works or not, because you need to wait until the next update :D
This is a misunderstanding of why different bullets are used in different situations.

Law enforcement and other self-defense applications use hollow-point (HP) bullets to minimize penetration for the safety of innocent bystanders. The idea is that the bullet is designed to not fully penetrate the first material object it comes in contact with, though over-penetration can still happen. A full metal jacket (FMJ) bullet will frequently go through multiple walls and bodies until it depletes its energy, which is desirable in military applications; the design of military bullets enhances this.

The prohibition on HP bullets from the Hague Convention is a 19th century anachronism based on the capabilities of firearms from that period, modern rifle bullets have significantly different design requirements in any case. Modern high-velocity FMJ cartridges, such as the ubiquitous 5.56mm NATO, can undergo explosive fragmentation which causes much more damage than the low-velocity use cases for HP.

FMJ is typically cheaper and feeds more reliably than HP bullets, particularly in dirty firearms, which is a major consideration for the military since the advent of semi-automatic and automatic weapons a century ago.
https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda/en/latest/user-guide/ta...

Basically, use Conda to manage environments, use Pip to install packages. If you're using Conda to install anything, do that first.
The price increase is actually a price correction, Apple told. The price to upgrade RAM from 8GB to 16GB is $200 on other Macs, including the iMac and MacBook Air, and this change is meant to keep the fee consistent. Apple says it will honor the earlier pricing for those who purchased the cheaper RAM upgrade before the price change went into effect.

The 13-inch MacBook Pro was refreshed last month. Though the entry-level design remains largely unchanged, it now includes Apple’s Magic Keyboard, which replaces the maligned butterfly keys found on previous MacBook models.
i also purchase a used mackbook pro 15 inch https://www.asan.com.pk/ad/79849/macbook-pro-15-inch-early-2... 4gb ram, with installed graphic card AMD Radeon HD 6490M 256 MB, 2 GHz Intel Core i7
Anti-Ghosting
People who defend virtue signaling generally only agree with it when "virtues" they agree with are being signaled.

For example, what if instead of non-stop left-wing virtue signaling, enormous, multi-billion dollar companies were running ad campaigns with women who happily chose to keep their babies instead of aborting them. Stand with babies. Infant lives matter. Etc.

The left would flip their proverbial shit and demand that giant companies stop lecturing us on what is moral and what is not.

I was never comfortable with religious lecturing from evangelicals, and I am equally uncomfortable with lecturing from left wing secular religion (which is just as, or even more intolerant of dissent then the religious people).

You can raise awareness and raise money without wagging your finger and looking down on your peers.
Sure, violent mobs. But last night they used it to disperse a peaceful crowd so that trump could get his picture taken across the street they were occupying. Sounds like an egregious use of force to me.
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I have seen videos showing police shooting tear gas canister at peaceful protesters' head from about 10ft...
> The 28nm lithography half-node is almost ten years behind the state-of-the-art.

Is that bad thing? I mean, computers from 10 years ago still kick ass today.
Learning all the complexity at once is very, very painful. It is my least favorite thing about playing board games. However, once you play a board game often enough it can become a bit boring without more surface complexity unless you really find pleasure in playing it like it is a full time job. (This is why I don't ever think it is worth it to become great at chess... too much effort for too little reward.)

I think expansions are the sweet spot. Produce a base game, then add complexity with expansions.
If you really break it down, a font is just a pixel shader that happens to embed its own texture atlas.

(I wonder if we could achieve a win by actually having a font-format that is just an abstract pixel shader that could be handed off to the GPU driver for compilation? Either way, we'd probably just pre-render glyph tiles to a texture, so I'm not sure it'd make much of a difference.)
Microsoft, Nasdaq and Others to Set Global Tokenization Standards
It does help, thanks, and it's also terrible, because it sounds like the police would think "oh it's fine, these things aren't lethal" and then shoot people willy-nilly with what are basically big steel cylinders.
If the ice was above sea level to start, then it does create a void (OK, a space filled with air). The mountain of ice turns into liquid water and flows all over the earth.
Well, no "gillet jaune" died : https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2018/12/21/gilets-jau... (read the article : no death are linked to fight)
The main advantages of config as JSON for me as a developer are:

- Settings become more portable.

- Settings become more shareable.

That said, VS Code started with JSONC-based configs and now presents a UI by default (still editable directly as JSONC for those who prefer). It seems possible JSONC could be used to bootstrap a UI for Windows Terminal too if there's demand.
Gives me a "You are not authorized to access this page." response :/

Edit: nvm it is working now.
Here here to the avoiding toxic people. What I largely consider the turning point of my life was because the person who helped my out of a bad situation and pointed me in a better direction said something akin to

"You're a loser because you are hanging out with other losers. Who ever you spend time with are the people you are like. Why don't you try hanging out with some new people?" ~ K

Forever thankful for his words
> Does Freedom of speech include racism and hate?

freedom of speech just means the government can't create laws to censor you. free speech is not free from repercussions and it's also not guaranteed by private companies.
I didn't do a study of real estate valuation. I googled "real estate palo alto" and "real estate pittsburgh" and grabbed the number from the first Google results. (realtor.com)

I can tell you that I live in a small northeastern city, and a 3 or 4 bedroom mid 20th century, single family house is around $130/sqft in a nice neighborhood. In the burbs, it's about $150/sqft. When your mortgage+taxes is <$15k/year, you don't need to make crazy salaries.

I don't know bay area real estate, so looking at Gilroy, CA, which would be a hella commute to SFO, you're looking at $400-450/sqft for 3/4br single family. That's alot of cash.
Gettin' jiggy wit' Git – Part 1
I think there's a roundabout way to go about doing that. Essnetially create a lot of additional voice VFO's and then set each one of those VFos to have only 1 talk group with its priority set to 1. And then set the output of each VFO to a different VB audio cable in, then source would be VB audio cable out in audacity.

The hack RF definitely supports grabbing an entire 20Mhz swath of bandwidth that covers all the signal and voice frequencies.

Id be super curious to hear more about your setup, both hardware and software.
Or maybe, 10x that many people walk to lunch at work and foot traffic is actually down by 50%, but you're just seeing it happen in a different place.
why dont you think the dictatorship is the outcome of implementing at scale? e.g. if private property must be eliminated to have a commune, and most people wont give up their private property willingly, what other way is there to eliminate private property at scale except via dictatorship and martial law?
Honeypot post, don't get doxxed
I assume you mean "it is not ready for public use yet"?
> but you should be aware that this lineup of statements is a bog standard bad-faith rhetorical tactic, and may be [mis]interpreted that way

Aha, so that's what is happening.

Thanks a lot for the explanation.

This is one of the things that really annoy me here: every time someone make an honest argument and someone else assume that it is a

- dogwhistle

- a "just asking question" tactic

- etc

even when they have to misread or stretch the meaning quite a bit to arrive at that result.
same for me:
Gives me a "You are not authorized to access this page." response :/

but you might start to get downvoted on HN when this gets fixed
We still don't understand digital ownership and the copyright laws are lagging far behind against the consumers.

Before Internet, once you created something, the only way for someone to steal your "work" was to steal/copy an actual thing. In the digital age, everything is just ones and zeros. Law makers are clueless to what awaits us.
Finding Food Security Underwater
So the “exposed” it’s pictures with him and his daughter?
> Antifa aren't violent against just anyone that doesn't share their politics.

In my experience (as a mainsteam left person) Antifa consider anyone not on the hard left to be either 'fascists' or 'bootlickers'. Everyone else I know who has had any contact with Antifa has had the same experience. Many Antifa people would say this is an accurate view of anyone who does not share hard left political views.
My reading had been that they plan to build a nice configuration UI on top of the JSON eventually, but the focus right now is on the core functionality (and letting the settings stabilize first).
"Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it"

-Alternatively attributed (in one form or another) to Edmund Burke, George Santayana, and Sir Winston Churchill, and possibly your high school history teacher, as well!

Related:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_hole

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Historical_negationis...

Also, if you're criticizing or downvoting this (which I am completely OK with, BTW!), you're equally-and-oppositely criticizing and downvoting all of the links above.

I see myself only as a messenger... a simple "knowlege-mover"... I only move knowledge from point A (the links above) to point B (Hacker News)...

That, and I see myself as simple, humble student of history...

OK, now that that's said, you may proceed to downvote and criticize to your heart's content! <g>

In fact, I'd be glad if you did!:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

The Internet Archive is worth at least 1,000 Googles -- because of the History it provides... it's the closest thing to a record of our Civilization (through the years that it was active) that we have at this point in time.

Destroy History, and you destroy Civilization itself...
On the one hand, the latter avoid the weaknesses of the former, in that they can neither easily be 'taken over' by outside forces nor provide a single point of weakness for their enemies to target.

In situations where mob mentality can take over and chaos can create a "fog of war" this is not true! Even though most of the protesters want to remain peaceful, the amplitude of sowing chaos, and its potential to spark additional chaos within mass rally situations, are providing extremists that "single point of weakness."

Basically, against an organized opponent that wants to create chaos, mass rallies are kind of like packing together certain isotopes of uranium atoms. Even if most of the units are "inert" (in that most of the people want peace,) if enough individuals with activation potential are densely packed enough, you can still get the chain reaction.
Understood. Now what will you do with that information?
This has been my go-to debug method for years now. Find a critical section of code, drop the embed call there (with maybe a print statement or two leading up to it for context).

For stepping through code, I agree with your other comments that it is often too much for debugging. To recreate it when really necessary, I might sprinkle a handful of embed calls
Perhaps I'm missing some sarcasm, but the article states that two clocks, one synchronized to the earth's rotation, and the other keeping atomic time, they would drift by a total of 4 hours over 2500 years, not drift by 4 hours per day. Those are completely different things.
> Does Freedom of speech include racism and hate?

Yes? Freedom of speech doesn't need to be there for popular ideas.
Seriously. Who would be dumb enough to answer this question when they know their key security is non-existent.

Most people have their employer or work email on their HN profile.

Really people?
If the US Police was not militarized and/or had proper disciplinary procedures for officers there would not be any protests right now for them to have to deescalate

Honestly is not the training (or lack there of) that is the problem, it is lack of accountability, the lack of transparency, and the Military Tactics/Gear/Structure that are the problem
I mean, presumably Wal-Mart has excellent statistics on "shrinkage" from regular inventory checks like any store, as well as recording how often shoplifters are caught, and so they have clear data as to whether or not Everseen is an improvement or not.

And I don't understand what this has to do with COVID-19 at all in the article.

Finally, what do employees care about theft? It's not coming out of their paycheck. False positives from an anti-theft system seems like a small job nuisance at best -- not something to whistleblow with a "slickly produced video".

Nothing about this article makes sense to me, unless it's motivated by an Everseen competitor -- whether another company or an internal division of Wal-Mart that thinks they have a better solution. In either case, why would the general public care at all?
Thanks for finding that bug! The parser is confused. My pattern can match to that input in 4 different ways. So it is outputting all of those 4 ways. However only 2 are unique.

The two ways are:

- (200000 * 23323 * 2423 * 4223) + 30%

- (200000 * 23323 * 2423 * (4223 + 30%))

Now I'm not sure how to fix this.
Uber Hourly: $50 ride option lets you make as many stops as you need within 1h
yeah, I remember typing out basic listings full of peek and poke without understanding why and what they did with those memory locations.
(on commodore plus4)
The problem here is that the police are failing to distinguish between groups peacefully protesting and groups who are tearing things up. They're rounding up all the protestors. The police have a responsibility to distinguish targets. Their job is to police, not to suppress. Even in the middle of a peaceful protest they should be making an effort to police the protest by differentiating between people maintaining civil order and people who are not. They should not arrest or attack anyone who is maintaining civil order.

I think the biggest issue with police forces is that they're all basically trained to treat all situations with equal gravity. They fear for their lives even when it is not warranted. And because of that they respond more like a military force, with a level of violence out of all proportion to the situation.

The police are a bigger deterrent to peaceful protest in this country than any politician, and they have been since they came into existence.
Seems to be completely random behavior. Try refreshing 2-3 times.
Ask HN: Using pure function in Java Springboot impact memory usage
In production grade code what is the recommended split of pure & impure function/classes?

How to convince my colleague to write more pure function in Java?

All the example related to pure function are very basic one, any real world code example ?
If shouldered by the individual, an extra $1k over a few months, plus however much it costs to keep re-testing, and the cost of supplements or better food to correct the deficiency, is a staggeringly insurmountable cost for the people who need it most—the poor.

As you say, this directly impacts day-to-day wellbeing. It's exactly the kind of thing that should, if it's even moderately effective, be provided free of charge for every human being.
That requires that the protestors want the situation to deescalate as well. When they want to loot and burn buildings it doesn't work. Your options are to let them do that or use violence to stop them.
Speaking of the Internet Archive, what happened to the "MTV VHS Recordings 1981 to 1989 [video]"[1]?

That link was HN front page[2] material less than a month ago, and the link never worked for me.

[1] https://archive.org/details/mtv-80s-vhs-full-recording-colle...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23071867
Ah yes. Use OneNote 2016 (or OneNote 2010), which is free to download and use, not the Windows App.
Maybe they should be protesting Facebook or other multinational corporations rather than destroying the local bakery. Would probably do a lot more to further their goals. Like seriously, they can sit down and have a polite call with Zuckerberg, but they can't bother to show the same civility to their own fucking community?
Reflecting sunlight to cool the planet will cause other global changes
> ( 2000$ for those of us that are confused by decimals as positional separators!)

now you know how I felt for years... I'm italian and here it's "123.456,78 €" , not "$ 123,456.78"... and almost every application follow the first convention, but for programming I need the "dot" separator for floats and doubles, and then some apps just... my windows 10 calc app shows a "," as decimal separator, but it accepts the "." present in the numerical part of my keyboard
If you run on kubernetes it has first class support for secrets [0]. You can reference secrets in environment variables, or mount them as files in your containers.

[0] https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/secret/
I'm really sad I missed the boat so hard on Powershell.

I grabbed it at the first public release (beta? alpha?), and the thing was absurdly slow. Trying to `ls` took around 10 seconds. I nope'd out and didn't touch it again.

Now I have a coworker who uses it religiously (on linux, who would have thought!) and when I'm watching over his shoulder I'm astounded by how great it is.
> freedom of speech just means the government can't create laws to censor you.

No, it absolutely doesn't. You're confusing Freedom of Speech with the 1st Amendment, which is a single instantiation of the value of Freedom of Speech.
No surprise that it's got a large L1 instruction cache given that it's a VLIW. Those aren't known for small code sizes, though I wonder why we don't tend to see variable length VLIW architectures?