skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It’s talk like that that leads to violence.

> It’s talk like this that truly disgusts me.

And yet it's the left that commits the political inspired violence. Where were the angry right wing mobs burning down our cities when Obama jammed through the ACA or his own two SCOTUS picks?

It's the fringes of the left that are so weak minded that they cannot communicate in response. The lack self control and the leaders, e.g. Pelosi, lack the moral compass to even condemn that behavior less they lose the support of the rioters.

> And it only comes from the right.

I'll take strong words in disagreement over a Molotov cocktail any day of the week.

> So much for united we stand. There is only one side: American. And if someone is causing half of America to lose, is actively working to make that happen, I'd say that's evil. Wouldn't you?

There's definitely sides. It's politics, not a kumbaya circle. There's sides reflecting conflicting political ideologies for the desired direction of the country. There's also explicit winning and losing when the power dynamic changes, particularly in the case of a life time appointment like this.

It's not about winning or losing as a country. It's about the general direction of governance and jurisprudence moving in the direction that you agree with. And in that conservatives have definitely been winning.
I think you're reading too much into my correct use of language. The fact that it was an accident doesn't make the people who did this good people.

> Then your defense is "I'm not a monster, of course I didn't purposely hit a pregnant woman."

The question of whether or not I'm a monster is irrelevant to the fact that hitting the pregnant woman was an accident.
IANAD, but reasonable algorithm looks like:

If you can test, test. Look online what normal levels should be - you'll find several options, pick the higher ones (look for Vitamin D Council for an upper bound recommendation)

If you can't test or you test below optimum and you can sunbathe - do that. A lot. It's inherently safe as far as overdose goes. For skin cancer, it's usually worth the risk, and definitely worth it during the pandemic (unless you have specific reasons to think you're higher risk).

If you can't test and can't sunbathe... in normal times I'd suggest to supplement except in summer. But in Covid times, I'd go with light supplementation during summer (<1000 UI daily) and higher dosage staring autumn (~2000 UI).
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> I would hate to have to reason about the 250 possible errors coming from every single library underneath my app

That's is why I think exception are bad: the programmer usually ends up not thinking about the errors that can occur (and they often cannot even do it if they wanted because exceptions can come from anywhere) and just propagates to the user, who often doesn't even have access to the documentation of the underlying library, and must perform Google search on some cryptic error message, just to discover that the program is failing because some log formatting library he doesn't care about cannot have access to the configuration file it expected. This is a terrible user eperience.

And yes, checking 250 different kinds of error can be tedious (but it should never be so high anyway), but at least with sum types it's doable because the type system is here to help you cover every case. And then you can manually check which error is a reasonable one to return to your user and which is a recoverable one that should need no external intervention.

If the USB drive has been pulled out too quickly, just tell it to the user instead of returning a “aborted: did not have the rights to write to the file” exception.
Well if it makes you feel any better, I've been using a dating app daily for the past two months and the last time someone actually matched and messaged me was early August lol
The empitome of American Imperialism.
The USD losing value relative to peers is helping the market as well. Most companies generate significant revenue overseas but report in USD. As the dollar falls in value they end up with more dollars when converting.

If the dollar continues to weaken then I’d hedge towards the markets continuing an upwards trajectory.
What sort of evidence would you like to see?
There was recently a case in Amsterdam where visitors of a large night club didn’t get infected before 11pm. After 11 the club had to close its windows and people got infected.

Whenever there is a study about VitD deficiency, it could simply mean that it has something to do with time spent outside and temperatures. Isn’t COVID less likely to transmit outside?
So the libertarian position is now that conscience cannot be protected by contract law between consenting parties?
It would look like a gallon of milk or a box of cereal. (Many foods are fortified with vitamin D. Check food labels for the level they provide.)
Agree++. They are good at hardware and should stay that way.
It could do, but there are other known effects at work (such as temperature and humidity) that are known to contribute, and that would also be correlated with vitamin D levels. You’d need to do a study to tease out the causality and the relative contribution of all those factors (if one hasn’t been done already).

Edited to add: this looks like a reasonable review of the literature: https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-virolo...
Isn't that what we constantly do with our phones: keep them around just in case, for when we inevitably get a text or call or think of something to text or get the urge?
I think dokimos is way cooler :-)
Rpi4 and still no usb version of bootloader. What am I missing?

# rpi-eeprom-update
BCM2711 detected
BOOTLOADER: up-to-date
CURRENT: Tue 10 Sep 2019 10:41:50 UTC (1568112110)
LATEST: Tue 10 Sep 2019 10:41:50 UTC (1568112110)
VL805: up-to-date
CURRENT: 000137ab
LATEST: 000137ab

I wish this was better documented.
I’m not really a fan of P/E ratios versus something like PEG or PEGY [1]

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/pegratio.asp
I believe the factors are alleged to be many, including dry air in heated rooms which irritates nasal passages, many people often huddled indoors which contributes to infection spread, and so on.

Cold temperatures are, of course, involved in all of those, but very tangentially. (Unless one persistently lives in poor heating conditions, which combined with cold outside would likely take a toll on one’s immune system—from my, non-doctor’s, understanding.)
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Is there not a linter that can autofix this? Seems like it shouldn't be a human responsibility.
The difference is that it goes beyond being okay with a policy consensus. The current presidency is an exercise is dismantling the checks and balances in the US government and an experiment in pushing the limits of propaganda and keeping the public complacent in the face of crimes committed against them by their government.

For example, they had to have known that McConnell would kill the Trump impeachment. But they went ahead with it anyway. The only explanation I can see for this is that they wanted to somehow signal their opposition to Trump with their core voter base, while wasting and effectively discrediting the usefulness of a last-resort tool for asserting their authority.

And what is Biden campaigning on? What is his campaign even doing [0]? Where are the attack ads branding Trump as an anti-American grifter? This feels like 2016 all over again, except with the added danger that we already know how dangerous Trump is, and if he wins again he'll have nothing to lose -- and his handlers in the halls of power will take full advantage of it. They know they are ruining America and they simply don't care, they'll just run to the bunker when shit gets bad for normal people [1].

[0]: https://sirota.substack.com/p/where-is-bidens-ground-game

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimdobson/2020/03/27/billionair...
The Zim dollar ceased to be legal currency in 2009, they're purely collectible now and the value is rising because they're not making any more of them. (Maybe they should?)
Yes. I imagine just getting someone to cut off the fuel-tanks-througout wings is a challenge. Moving it afterwards is likely very hard.
I agree, I was framing more of a "is this possible situation"?
What are your specialties? Place I work has openings for .net and java web app devs and full stack
"Democrats aren't people anymore as far as I'm concerned"

"It's time to stop arresting these filth only to have them released the next day and start just putting them down"

--seen literally yesterday in a popular politics IRC chatroom, to general agreement. I think many people don't entirely realize how bad it's gotten.
I’m sure it would suggest using better pictures on wikipedia.
https://www.caredash.com/

96% of users are expected to like your site.
https://myraah.io/index.php/visualmind/report/aHR0cDovL0Nhcm...

We use Bootstrap at CareDash with larger hero images on landers with clear calls to action. This structure tends to perform well on A/B Tests too as it leads the user to the action meant to be taken.
Same here. My failures of the week are forgetting to season my chicken properly (like how do you forget that...), I bought shoes which are too large (I got my feet 3d scanned to remedy that in the future), did not take old electronics for recycling (apparently the container where you leave it is closed on weekends) and for the second week in a row I failed to finish a book I'm reading (I decided to abandon it altogether since it's boring)
Considering wirecard, I'm thinking that an Ernst-Young audit isn't all that hard to pass. My question is, at what point does engaging EY become a negative signal?
Nvidia has had many members on the c++ standards committee for a while.
I doubt a baseball is on the same level. It's not magical, it doesn't connect to everyone and everything you know, and everything you don't. A baseball is a mere sphere, out of context on a desk. A phone is something we check 60 times per day, which can vastly affect our emotions. A play sphere from a dying game surely doesn't elicit such a range of possibility as a modern marvel of addictive programming, something that needs to be buried in the bag to prevent distraction?
New REITs allow property owners to set buy-back price
You may want to make the demo section work on small phone screens.
Otherwise looks cool :)
Screenshot of what the notification looks like: https://i.imgur.com/LHfKkDh.png
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Howdy HN

A teenager I am close with would like to become a computer engineer. Whet resources, books, podcasts, camps, or experiences do you recommend to support this teen's endeavor?
I have a zillion plugins and vim is still snappy. Plus, editing requires so much less effort that it'd be better even if there was lag, which there isn't.
I guess, you're talking about library code. Libraries should use Result on their API boundaries, that's for sure. If library internals wants to use exceptions-panics, I think that language should allow it, because that's an implementation detail and compiler should allow modules with different panic configurations to co-exist (for example library can use unwinding panic, but as soon as it leaves library boundary, application will abort if it's configured to abort on panic). If it's not possible to implement in a sane way, then I'm OK with libraries forced to use Results as the only error-handling strategy, because I'm more concerned about program code.
You have been able to do that for a long time with UVA.
you'd be able to `nslookup foo.com <your special server>` on

You don’t need to tell nslookup to use a special server. If you control the SOA for your own domain, the normal DNS server will happily exfiltrate your data for you.
? I'm shocked the question needs to be posed.

All Chinese companies have CCP organs within them that the CPP uses to ensure the company adheres to party policy.

They are using the internet and all it's operating entities as a massive surveillance and enforcement machine.

Try posting a TikTok critical of China, or saying something about HK and see what happens.

The data from Chinese apps can be accessed by Xi & Co. whenever, for whatever purposes, including finding out who your friends are so they can be sanctioned/imprisoned as well.

Now - TikTok USA division - that's another story and it's hard to tell how far enforcement goes. Definitely it's censored and definitely there are elements of propaganda (you can tell from the content) but it's not hugely obvious. As far as data mining, I don't have specific information but I don't see any reason why they wouldn't have access to it just like WeChat.

FYI This is why WeChat is 100% banned and there's no option for them while TikTok has an option to cut off from the parent company.

[1] https://thediplomat.com/2019/12/politics-in-the-boardroom-th...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/25/china-business...
While I disagree with Shapiro on his LGBT views, I'd hardly consider them extreme. His views on that topic are totally in line in traditional conservatism.
It’s otc. You want D3 variant, rather than D2. There is some disagreement about dosage - FDA RDA is 400IU daily for adults, but there are reasons to believe it is way too low.

Personally, I’ve taken 10,000IU daily for years with only positive effects (also Some K2 and Mg - they likely work in tandem). Deva Boone’s blog describes a case where 5000 IU /daily over years was too much for one of her patients. Do your own research.

There also reason to believe it should be take early in the day (say before 10am), as vitamin D is a derivative of sunlight (among others) and taking it in the evening/night seems to mess the body’s internal clock. (Google “gwern vitamin D” for more)
But do users really enjoy full size hero images?
To set the frame of reference for the parent's "not cheap" recommendation, the model they use seems to retail for $300-$400, based on a quick search.
That link doesn't support your statement. Tor is more anonymous than I2P.
Please knock off this racist shit. All humans metabolize vitamin D in the same way; we all would suffer rickets if not for vitamin D, we all make small amounts of vitamin D with our skin and sunlight but we need more in our diet, etc.

The spectrum of skin color does not indicate a massive deficit in vitamin D production or uptake; rather, it is a delicate balancing act between slightly reduced chance of rickets vs. slightly reduced chance of skin cancer. Skin color doesn't guarantee protection from either.

The "nice cheap vitamin" you can take daily is fortified milk, if you don't want to take vitamin D supplements directly. We pair vitamin D with vitamin A and calcium in milk in order to try to improve bone development.

Edit: Over ten karma lost so far in this thread, for calling out racism and explaining why it's bogus. Thanks HN; you're a huge disappointment.
Declutter your screen with one click to safely share it on your presentation
you think tiktok does not/can not collect your location data? You think all groups of people are equally trustworthy? You think it's better to have to trust more groups of people rather than fewer?
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I am trying to learn Rust few weeks, but it seems to me a very hard language, to be honest, I never thought only learning a language will be this hard. I am following books and few youtube tutorials. Any suggestions?
Running 32 bit x86 code on a AMD64 machine is possible on most operating systems which supported both of these, and has probably more to do with AMD64 supporting that execution model.
The thing is: that hardware isn't very usable without good software, and an easy to use software stack at that.

That's what NVIDIA understood and made them what they are today.
> the best scientific ecosystems are Python and R.

That is debatable
In a systems language, implementation details matter :) You may be compiling with panic=abort because you do not have a useful unwinding implementation, and so a library cannot depend on it existing, even if it's only internal to the library.
I do sometimes wonder about the environmental impact of the entertainment industry. Destroying something for the sake of entertainment seems ... I don't know ... wasteful?

In this case, yes the plane was probably mothballed anyway, and yes actually blowing it up will give a more realistic result in a shorter time than CGI. But were the environmental impacts even considered when making the decision?
Out of hundreds of applicants I screen, very few even have the skill to implement a standard algorithm with recursion in a language of their choice that I explain meticulously.
Our family takes vitamin d supplements. I’m not sure what the ultimate efficacy is but the low risk-high potential reward seems compelling. My kids think the yummy gummy versions are a treat anyway. Just be aware that like most things you can take too much vitamin d. By all means take some supplement but don’t overdo it or the low risk part of the equation changes.
Related Wired and NY Times articles linked further down the Twitter thread: https://www.wired.com/story/best-algorithms-struggle-recogni... and https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/technology/facial-recogni...
Deputy Director jobs in the UK Civil Service aren’t actually that senior. They tend to pay around £75k, or $100k US, which is a pretty decent wage for the general population but not quite at levels.fyi rates.
Oh no, you're telling me that reduced contrast impairs facial recognition algorithms? This is clearly racist.
Wee need imagination now more than ever
So what does the real minimal setup look like? Will text ("This website uses cookies") + a button ("I agree") work?
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Did Unity come out of a game?
Not really.

Facebook is not doing what WeChat is doing, not remotely close.

Facebook allows people to communicate, and censors some stuff that is hateful. You can say anything you want 'against America' on FB. The US government does not have access to FB data without jumping through a lot of legal hoops and process, and even then, it's on a case by case basis. The US government has no influence over FB otherwise.

WeChat is an organ of the state, they have internal staff who are CCP members who ensure party loyalty. They censor absolutely anything and everything they want, they can promote systems that are 'pro-China' and ban others. They can use any and all data for purposes of control and suppression (social score etc.). If they have such apps in foreign countries they can access sensitive information, photos, communications, censor and effectuate propaganda.

Those are not very comparable entities.
It's not racist and to say as such is just stupid. The model might be a poor but it has no concept of race.

And actually think implying that the authors of the algo and model are racist equally stupid.
With nvc++, they are converging towards a standardised source code standard: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/accelerating-standard-c-wi...

However, this notably doesn't cover binaries, which are GPU vendor specific in that case, so AMD for example would have to provide a C++ compiler implementing stdpar for GPUs targeted to their hardware.
But is that a skill that is required for lots of positions?
Yes, but that's due to aerosols being much more volatile outside than inside.
Its easy to criticize this crappy, trash, algorithm. Before one declares something trash, they had better have an alternative that fits the use case.
A review of SARS-CoV-2 and the testis
We can do so much better than this

Racist algorithms, and faces that we miss
Could it be that just both, vitamin D deficiency and covid-19 risk, are much higher for people that stay inside most of the day (e.g. have office jobs)? Vitamin D is created from sunlight. Covid-19 is transmitted by aerosols. Is there additional evidence that Vitamin D supplements may help or do we just know about the correlation?
Yeah. It kind of is. If we trained as much for black faces as white faces, the algorithms would be better. Moreover, the background contrast for white faces is frequently worse (against backgrounds of white walls).
Note for moderators. The original title was too long. I could not shorten it coherently, so I just cut off the intro. Here is the full title if you would like to add it:

Testicular pain as an unusual presentation of COVID-19: a brief review of SARS-CoV-2 and the testis
Melanin increases the relative specularity of skin so I'm jot sure what you mean by this.
Your US experience differs from my non-US one, at least regarding how courses are named. Even when they focused on, or dealt exclusively with, our corner of the world, they were called just "History" or "Geography".

Though I didn't mean to imply the rest of the world wasn't covered in them, but it was covered in far less detail. As ksaj noted, in other countries, Music Theory also has a local focus. The only difference is those countries don't feel a need to represent the whole world, or guilt when they don't.

And trattoria just means something like "small restaurant", so it would again need an "Italian" prefix to distinguish it from other kinds. But since it's in Italy, and with an Italian name, they don't feel the need to do that. And while restaurants (often) aren't limited to typical Italian food, their menus would often earn them the label of "Italian restaurant" outside of Italy.
I thought he was being cheeky to be honest.
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well I guess we have to exclude the staples, right? operating systems, infrastructure, messengers, browsers, navi apps.

I love:

org-mode

autohotkey (windows)

firefox add-ons and userscripts

an alternative keyboard layout (and QMK for a hardware implementation)

kodi

calibre

sumatra pdf

well and including historically: I learned programming through macromedia flash
It’s a bit on the nose, wordy, and already implied but I’m not totally against it ;)
Note here that your binaries will continue to run even on future driver versions - and future hardware - that's what PTX is for, as the standard libraries are statically linked in.

It's just your object files that aren't compatible, so that you can't mix and match libraries built with different CUDA versions into the same binary.
While I doubt that this was the intent of the programmers responsible, it doesn't change the fact that people are being discriminated against because of their skin color.
The other vendors are to blame for sticking with outdated C and printf style debugging.
Soviet era math problem books? Buy a few reams of paper too!
There is also the question of what constitutes 'racist'. In earlier times the threshold/definition included malicious intent. In 2020 more people, myself included, are prone to include cases of benign neglect/inattention.
Yes, this means you should measure your blood Vitamin D and supplement whenever it shows up as deficient (much more likely in the winter). Yes, correlation does not prove causation, and yes, the recent randomized controlled study[0] may have problems too, but in aggregate the evidence is overwhelming. Don’t forget!

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096007602...
I'm curious, what did Rust developers think was wrong with exceptions? I'm pretty happy with them in other languages, as they allow me to focus more on the "normal" path in my code.