skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, our freedom to burn down a federal courthouse is being infringed upon.

Go live in China or Taliban controlled regions for a year and even try letting those words come out of your mouth again.
What happens when you need to perform other administrative tasks on your machine?
This has been a very real issue ever since 2001. I studied in the US and tried to minimize the number of trips I took abroad because you just never know what could happen once you are outside the country.
Agreed. As a high performance library function such tricks are par for the course, but you'd hope it wouldn't be sprinkled through ordinary code without good reason.

The best of both worlds would be having the compiler transform the canonical std:: version into the fast one under the covers, but that's far from universal with current compiler tech and languages.
PII is to be deleted after four weeks. KCDC has no need to contact trace after four weeks.

I agree with everything you said about Seoul, but that needs to be put in context (which we know, but HN mostly don't). Confirmed case numbers of Seoul in last 7 days (7/19 to 7/25) are 10, 2, 18, 16, 11, 19, 11 (total 77). Since total over South Korea in the same period is 168, it does make Seoul hotspot. But it is also far better compared to other countries.
It's not that incidental. From what I can tell, Strava's business model is about selling users more detailed analysis of and insight into their own health and performance data.
It's a Meow-nixed system, I know this: Purr-fect storm of 3k insecure databa
The police cover their faces, and make face coverings illegal. In the past, this has worked very well; the main change now is that we have a social expectation that law-abiding folks will wear face coverings, and in even more of an inversion, folks without face coverings are suspect.

In neither situation would facial recognition systems make things better for the populace.
I think there are some subreddits you can discuss this at
>You'd have to explain how you price artistic value before anyone can argue with that.

Nobody knows. Its what people are willing to pay.

Banksy sold his art at a pop up in NYC. Hardly anyone bought: (and one negotiated half price)

https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/video-banksy-set-up...
Can someone please help me with how to achieve the same thing on windows that works on any browser ? I tried some DNS blocking programs and can't get anything to work properly.
Not to take away from their success but their recent progress have been more like them catching up to Intel. It will be interesting to see if they can truly pull ahead though.
If I'd been a bit more awake I'd have called it 'anon' rather than throwaway (for privacy's sake), but I take your point and the reasoning behind it.

Of greater import, if you have something to say about my post, disagreement included of course, I'm happy to listen.
Attack of Ruby Stack Traces (2019)
Interestingly, that is also why the upthread comment complaining about our lack of freedom is so absurd.
Google should have its own legal department that can help you. I would ask your recruiter to connect you to them.
In the UK you can phone the police on a known-good number and ask them to verify a badge number. I guess you can probably do that in the US as well?
As a c-64 owner I envied the more featureful basic of of every other machine of the time!
Many international students actually come from those paradise climes. It's not a big draw for them.
Maybe we’re the bad guys?
Building your mouseless development environment
I like the comments:

1) "- How do magnets work?
- Oh, they're just a bunch of nano-magnets"

2) "Yes, but why? Still it's a description, not an explanation"

3) "To 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO0r930Sn_8 check it out. I really is that way"
In my state, most of the programs the community colleges offer are aimed either at credential acquisition or for transfer to a university; there are no four year programs. However, many of the teachers at these schools are also PhDs moonlighting from local universities where they teach upper-level subjects and the community college offers a handful of classes that are at the 300/junior level for certain subjects. The thing that's really missing from the community college curriculum that would shake up the university pricing model is the ability to get a Bachelor's degree. At least in my state, it doesn't seem like there would be too much of a stretch to accommodate the additional educational resources it would require. Some people go to a university because they want access to first-class facilities, professors, student networking, and the like. In fact, the tuition at my local university more than doubled after they managed to get their basketball team into the NCAA Final Four one year. But many people don't care about this kind of thing; they just need their 'certificate of passage of this particular social ritual'.
It's a great idea, but it adds on more work and it's often not clear how to do it. (I'm still not sure how to do it in Pandoc Markdown.) Anyway, more examples: https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1251320700608143360
Yes I was simplifying quite a lot. But "historical" wasn't just meant as "was there already", even though it plays a huge part.

As far as I know, marijuana was mostly made illegal in the 30s and earlier in the US, mostly due to racist origins and with arguments mostly opposite those of hippies (e.g., creating bloodlust).

I forgot about Caffeine, that's true, as it is often not considered a drug by many (or at least not taught as one). But it's also not one of a dulling effect, as far as I can tell at least.

That they tried to make alcohol illegal and failed because of it's societal acceptance is another indicator that the original claim is not so obviously true:

> It's more acceptable and state-sanctioned to sell drugs that kill people while keeping them subdued, than ones that keep them alive and open their minds.

Overall it feels more that the general Zeitgeist of regulating narcotics failed on alcohol but succeeded with often racist propaganda for other popular drugs.

But that's just my understanding and I am not very well versed in any of those topics, so I'd be happy to listen to a better explanation. (I wouldn't be surprised that anti-establishment gatherings with strong drug usage correlation wouldn't exactly make legalisation popular in the establishment. But the history article I read on that just now claimed that sentences were reduced during the 70s because of the wake of hippies.)
US-CERT lists the 10 most-exploited security bugs and, yeah, it's mostly Microso
Another difference is that you aren't using this data (which are collected anyway) to contain the epidemic. I can't figure out why.
Perhaps, but once you start generalising there are lots of grey areas and overlapping possibilities, which I suppose is my main point here.

For example, say you're working on a web app that controls some device. On the back end, you might not be talking to a database, at least not in the sense of SQL or NoSQL we usually mean in the context of web apps. Maybe instead you're integrating with some internal API that controls the hardware.

In that situation, maybe you're exposing that internal functionality to the front-end web app via some HTTP-based API, which might be substantial but is mostly a wrapper for the internal functionality with things like security incorporated. Who should be responsible for that middle layer? Do you have a separate person/team whose responsibility is just to bridge between the front-end code and the internal API? Should the person/team responsible for the front-end also be responsible for the HTTP-based API it talks to, and hand off to some other person/team who work on the hardware-facing code behind the internal API? Should the internal team also be responsible for the HTTP-based API?

I don't think there are any "right" answers in a situation like this. You probably have people with front-end skills. You probably have people with low-level hardware hacking skills. Some or all of those people might also have back-end skills. You've certainly got three distinct but related areas here. Depending on the project and the mix of people you have available, there are several potential ways to handle this situation that might be effective.
For a natural & organic form of noprocrast, one can also try cultivating a crippling phone / tablet addiction that reduces any device with a keyboard to “work”.

Actually works quite well provided you keep the drugs in another room, it’s a shame I’m an iOS developer.
I downvoted for the initial sentence: "I mean, the organized crime groups that sell these drugs do harm people"

By that reasoning every gas station should be closed for selling oil that came from Saudi Arabia.

How about them apples?
There is no evidence of this and this speculation is false.
Thanks. Great survey of all the talking points.

File under narcissism of small differences:

I've been equating RCV with Score Voting, not IRV. I'll review the literature and see where I'm wrong.

I do not support IRV. It's an election integrity nightmare for little or no gain over Approval Voting.

My introduction to election stuff was thru IRV advocacy. Then I learned about tabulation complexity.

Over time, my position changed to PR for assemblies and Approval Voting for executives. I now wonder if Approval Voting could (should) also be used for PR.

That's all to say my strong-opinions-loosely-held about voting systems is motivated by us forging a better democracy, not any particular implementation. I'll realpolitik support any path forward.
Remember when "Everyone's a Bitcoin Trader Now" and then December happened? We're still in the "Crypto Winter" two years late (and for the better).

The Dow can't stay over 26k forever while unemployment is high and nobody is consuming (both because of COVID-19)... the printers can only brrrrr for so long.

Make sure you've got a seat with both hands gripping when the music stops.
First-class men were about twice as likely to survive as third-class men, and first-class women were about twice as likely to survive as third-class women.
They can keep their tuition rates high, but online only schools should be allowed regional accreditation. Massive open online courses (MOOC) and other disruptive EdTech can offer equivalent educational instruction for a lot less money than traditional higher-ed options.
Justice Department Sues Regeneron over Payments to Copay-Assistance Charity
Bingo. Plus, as it pertains to LSD itself, what he said was patently false. LSD has always been largely distributed among intellectual circles for decent low prices and among hippie circles. Real LSD is not meth, and it's not heroin. It wasn't and isn't trafficked by cartels. Maybe fake synthetic chemicals being sold as "acid," but not pure LSD-25. It was a perpetuated government War on Drugs (tm) myth.
Just like gas station prices.
The reference: https://www.gwern.net/docs/nootropics/2020-haden.pdf
Ignoring the headline, it seems like the article equates quick, widespread adoption of these apps as “success”, and anything else as “failure”. Although it does note:

> Conventional contact tracing methods also haven’t been faring well.

Despite this, it doesn’t even bother to identify the many reasons tracing apps might not be widely adopted yet, in particular privacy concerns (although it does mention that “draconian” approaches are the only ones proven to work so far, as if that proves that privacy respecting approaches can’t be useful at all.)

Even more fundamental than privacy, though, is do people even know that these apps exist? Personally I’ve only heard some rumblings about the Google/Apple api, and not much more, and I’m guessing I’m far more aware of the existence of these apps than many people.

Ultimately, it’s far too early to declare “failure” on this front.

Edit: According to 9to5 Mac, there are still no apps in the U.S. using the Apple/Google API as of June 18. https://9to5mac.com/2020/05/19/how-to-turn-on-off-covid-19-c...
I mean I was interested in examples. People disagree about what counts as a “cancelling” so I was looking to see what the person I was responding to was referring to, with some examples.
> But this hasn't stopped congress from overstepping their constitutional powers for the past 6 decades at least

Should this be read as "they do have constitutional power, but I don't like it"?

I mean if it is, in fact, unconstitutional, then surely at some point over "6 decades" the Supreme Court would have gotten liberal or conservative (whichever is necessary here) enough to have put a stop to this.
This is so cool. Is this free to use?
MPAI – do we need it?
Just sign up with a different card. As a matter of fact, if I ever did a chargeback I would probably insist I get a new card number and maybe consider changing my address with the bank to be slightly different (maybe spell out "street", use my full zip, etc.). Might not be enough, but clearly Amazon doesn't care much about detecting fraud. And, anecdotally, I've had three different accounts over the years with various Prime promos and haven't had a problem.
Community colleges don’t offer much value. Even a few hundred dollars is way over priced because the degree won’t open hiring doors except in an extremely narrow set of jobs, like nursing and related care-giving - which would be better off as a standalone trade school.

The value of a college degree is networking and the brand name recognition that the university has, which opens doors when your resume is churning through automated recruiting systems.

Nobody expects that you exit college with training, skill or knowledge to be an effective employee, beyond basic life skills and vague understanding of how to comply with professional standards.

Using college to actually learn stuff is down to a personal preference. You absolutely don’t need to spend time that way, but you can get extra value if you choose to.

But the bulk of the intended value is to give yourself branding and signaling for marketability in employment.

You can think of a college degree similar to a “certified organic” label on food. It doesn’t really mean anything, but you’d be a complete moron to misjudge the fact that everyone else will believe it does mean something and shift all kinds of economic facts of life around that entrenched, generational belief, and use lobbyists, regulatory capture and media to constantly reinforce that stranglehold.
Intel is already behind judging by core count in every segment. You can't buy 16-core consumer Intel CPU, you can't buy 64-core workstation or server Intel CPU.
I think you ask a fair question here. The answer is in your own comment.

>...freedom to not wear masks and go to the beach during a pandemic.

>...they can now go out in public without worrying about transmitting or receiving covid.

People who are going to the beach probably are not worried about COVID. There's also a fair amount of debate among the technocrats about how transmissible it is on a beach.

Ultimately people just want the freedom to decide for themselves. Central planning isn't always the best for everyone. Fallibility plays a key role. If your friend is happy with her situation in China, that's fine. I'm sure beach goers also enjoyed themselves...
I don't believe they do either. For example, it's often said that the death penalty is used as a deterrent, though it is clear from the data that isn't true.

https://www.aclu.org/other/death-penalty-questions-and-answe...
My run of the mill state school has an endowment larger than than $500 million and still sent out emails begging alumni to donate to a fund to make sure students didn't go hungry in the early days of covid.
> The usual work-around is to encode the offending character(s). In this example, `!` becomes `%21`.

Yeah, that was my speculation:

> > Maybe a percent-encoding would have been the way to go.

> The HN software is RFC ignorant. Could you please send an email to the Web master so the bug can get fixed?

I try to be conscientious in general about reporting bugs I find in software, but arguing about the details of Markdown parsers is an endless full-time job with no reward. Of course you are welcome to do it if you think it's worth the time.
It implies that your friend lives in Hong Kong or Taiwan, and that China employs people to read Facebook posts from those places. Unless you mean that she sent you a messenger chat (which now has end-to-end encryption). In that case, she lives in Hong Kong or Taiwan and the Facebook encryption should not be relied on to protect yourself from Chinese monitoring.
It's the media team. They created an ambiguous URL given the context. When you're making a web page you control the context and markup so you can make it unambiguous. If you don't, and you're putting a URL at the end of a proper sentence, it becomes ambiguous.
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It's what it's for.
> for-profit, paid universities?

Asking alumni for donations is done very frequently by non-profit private universities, which you're probably confusing for for-profit. Harvard is an example of such a university.

I don't know if for-profit schools also ask for donations, but those sort of schools are generally quite disreputable and frankly low class. An example is the now-defunct ITT Tech, which was best known for spamming cheap cable television ads.
Maybe at one point. It's changed.
Most people aren’t suggesting literally banning the police, but rather either decapitating and reorganising (RUC would be an example) or dissolving and replacing wholesale (Stasi would be an example).
It's a lot harder to write a coherent response than downvote, but given there's so much misinformation around the internet, you could do nothing but try to correct it by replying, 24/7 and still get nowhere. Downvoting hides bad comments, and depending on your metrics comments that are based on a flawed premise should be hidden.

Buying drugs do not meaningfully fund terrorism. So to criminally prosecute someone for buying drugs because it might stop them from giving money to the "bad guys" is an abuse of both humans and logic. The bad guys only sell drugs because they're the only ones willing to break the law. If you cared about stopping them, you legalize recreational use so non-criminals would make the money. But the whole argument for prosecuting individual users is because "drugs are bad and you're bad for using them". The whole drugs fund terrorism was it interesting lie or propaganda, (depending on your view). And lies even when repeated unintentionally or unknowingly should be downvoted.
If you factor out chip size and clock frequency, they do actually stagnate. They add new features, but legacy rendering performance is improved by single-digit percentage points, I believe.

If you look at A100 compared to V100 for e.g. FP32 FMA performance (not tensor). 14.1TFLOPS -> 19.5 = +38%, for 2x transistors (16->7nm), +35% SMs and 250W->400W is not that great. Note that NVIDIA uses boost clock for all A100 numbers and seems not have published any base clock so far. So their is a chance that actual sustained A100 performance is lower.

Turing GPUs have rather large dies. TU102 754nm vs GP102 471nm. So comparing them as is, isn't quite fair.

On the CPU front Intel used to use rather small dies for consumers (and even use die shrinks to just cram more chips onto a waver -> more $$$), but now that AMD forces their hand, they are giving in. But of course a lot this area goes into extra cores, not single threaded performance (diminishing returns there).
Do you have a script to stop you procrastinating by writing scripts though?
The answer is simple. Propaganda. US children have been told about "freedoms" since they were old enough to go to school. When asked to define what "Freedoms" they have vs other nations, they stumble on multiple fronts. This is because so few own passports and have ever left the US and they instead depend on their FOX news for world views.

I've actually been to China many times, and can tell you that the US view of China as often posted here, vs reality is very far apart.
Calling the police's capacity for violence merely "the right to self-defense" is absurd. Qualified immunity goes so far beyond the rights of normal citizens that there really is no possible comparison. Not even the fever dreams of the most radical libertarian encompass qualified immunity for civilians.

The police in the United States are a paramilitary force, equipped with military gear, and in many cases with military training -- the only thing military thing they don't have is the uniform code of military justice, which forbids things like the use of chemical weaponry and war crimes.
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I've been watching the violent portion of these protests and have been impressed how much restraint the police and feds have shown. It's very interesting how differently these situations are perceived depending on your political perspective and sources of information.
Using a VPN because it's blocked.
Having no experience with it, nonetheless, the popular impression of LSD is that an incredibly small amount of it can be on something and inadvertently ingested, so I can see the perspective that making, having, or dealing it is an unacceptable risk of harm to people who didn't consent.

Is there some reason that's unrealistic?
My impression is there are a segment of technically-minded backend engineers who look down on frontend work - who cares what the damn thing looks like as long as it works?

I think the truth is, most engineers just aren't comfortable with A) working with stakeholders and translating requirements to specs, aka soft skills, B) any sort of design (which is actually hard!) or C) learning the HTML/CSS/JS ecosystem. Also, I found learning how to write frontend applications to be just as challenging as writing CRUD apps.
> is Rust really stable for use in building Production systems?

Of course. Rust code has been shipping in Firefox for years now, and most of FAANG uses Rust in production to some degree. The bigger question is whether Rust has the features you need. Async IO, for example, is still quite new. And some C++-like features like const generics are still in development.
All you see is the beauty of it
How long will Google keep supporting this API, though?

And, it's getting old, but why does Google need to know any notes I write down. My desktop computer and phone seem powerful enough to do any OCR with the right software.
It’s not weird. Anarchists are coopting the BLM movement to achieve an anarchist goal. Look at the Portland crowd, all white, all antifa.

They’ve tried to do this every year on May Day in Seattle, but it’s too hard when the police can crack down on the whole group. Now they’ve conned thousands of “normal” people to be their human shields.
That's exactly my point. Almost nobody, when debating under mutual good will and faith, would have much to disagree with any of the topics I've touched on. These are sensible, human-centered talking points that have somehow become branded taboo because any attempt to discuss topics that might cast an ounce of blame away from the conservatives is being branded as wrongthink and as "derailing the conversation".

It's funny how you yourself have immediately labelled me as being a non-left having read the comment that I made. Our most urgent threat may be the right wing conservatives at this very moment, but sooner or later we will face a real reckoning with what we thought were our most outspoken allies. Be careful with how you use the term progressives, because thought policing and book burning is anything but.