skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not a Democrat and we weren’t talking about voting anyway. And these are the kind of sentiments Buckley continued on with after 1965, so please spare me the “different times”’pleading:

> In a 1986 New York Times op-ed (3/18/86), Buckley urged that ‘everyone detected with AIDS should be tattooed in the upper forearm, to protect common-needle users, and on the buttocks, to prevent the victimization of other homosexuals.”

https://fair.org/home/william-f-buckley-rest-in-praise/
>He seems to have a definition of "in private" which essentially renders his statement tautological. Of course the law can never punish anyone for a crime that isn't detected

Interesting change of rhetoric after being called out, since you formulated the bizarre question "where sodomy is allowed when it occurs in private?", before having the epiphany that "Of course the law can never punish anyone for a crime that isn't detected"

> But by that definition murder and rape are "legal" everywhere in the world, as long as they occur "in private."

You are really going out on a limb to make nonsensical statements. The law has quite naturally limits, one of them being: the inability to judge events that it can't detect or reach. “Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.” ― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
Law needs to be enforced by humans, who can only do so if they can perceive that event.

>Under that notion of privacy there has never been a time in history where sodomy or any other sexual act was forbidden.

Same point, limits of law.

> IMO this is not a useful way of thinking about legality or oppression.

What some consider 'oppression' today was the norm globally.
The problem is moral realism/anti-realism, since you can't prove your moral value judgments with science they will remain subjective and thus naturally be opposed.
right up until you can't keep up with the lecture and then it falls apart

And that's been my experience as a math student. Professors of advanced math courses tend to write very quickly for brief bursts and then pause to explain what's going on. The definition or proof they describe can often be subtle enough that you don't have much of a chance to understand it unless you've had the opportunity to preview the lecture notes before class.

Tragically, not every professor provides lecture notes in advance, and some don't provide lecture notes at all. Then if you're taking notes by hand you're taking a big risk that you might pause to reflect and miss noting a crucial step in the proof, leaving yourself baffled by what you wrote later on.
I actually don’t see this is a negative thing, and prefer it sometimes so long as the expectations are mutual. If me and another person are on the same page about only being in touch when the other needs something, and it goes both ways, why waste time trying to facilitate a friendship for the sake of it? Often I find those “friendships” lack substance and just serve to fulfill a social norm that it’s bad to ask for things only when you need them. Perhaps what I’m suggesting is that so long as the social contract is agreed upon (usually implicitly) between parties, there’s nothing wrong with having transactional professional relationships.
>We also agree that people prefer to donate money to specific causes they support rather than pay extra in taxes - I think this is a fair statement.

I don't think this a fair statement at all.

Imagine you polled Scandinavians and asked if they would prefer their government abolished socialized healthcare and returned the money to them, with the caveat that it must be given to charity. Do you really think they would support this idea, on average?

I would much rather the US offer a public healthcare system, and I would gladly pay a disproportionate amount of money out of my own pocket to fund it. It's desperately needed but far beyond any charity's ability to provide.
I don't think there's some blanket obligation to be mild mannered. By all means, use incisive language to describe bad things! The problem is with passages like

> but yeah, drop the ol' "Ma' Russians!" into the conversations, and heads explode.

This isn't an attempt to vividly illustrate the problem or an expression of righteous anger. It's just trolling - it accomplishes nothing but inciting people to yell back at you.
> the government assistance was directed to maintaining payroll and to actually support rent payments

There was substantial action towards both of those ends, more than any other country.

Other countries are not really as comparable because we're the only rich developed country to have failed so badly at containing it (early on, in the next few months some of Europe will follow us).

> delaying that obligation

Delaying the obligation is better because it means that people won't be evicted if they can't meet the payments even with the governmental support. I'll be honest - the landlords aren't my principal concern here.

> papering over very real risks to the economy which could cause massive issues down the road.

What massive issues? I agree that Fed actions impact equity prices, I disagree that that is a bad thing for the economy. If we had an equity price crash along with what we're experiencing, we would be in deep, deep recession by now.
Samsung Galaxy Tab Active 3 specs revealed
That's fair. If we use the high standards you mention, then neither story presented credible evidence (or any evidence whatsoever). This was a massive waste of time!
"From 2012 to 2017, rust caused more than $3 billion in damage and lost profits and forced almost 2 million farmers off their land."

I can't jibe these numbers. That's only $1,500 per farmer.
What are other reasons to not to prefer that approach? I am interested in technical ones.
Does that FPGA come with software tools that are backed by the FPGA vendor?
Yes, the difference between 4k and 8k text is easily noticeable for a 32" monitor, and I'm not particularly eagle-eyed. Text is sharper and finer details are better rendered. For videos and images I don't notice the difference in practice.

I had a 4k 32" monitor at work and found that it simply didn't give sharp, high resolution text, driven by either a Macbook or by a Linux box. And you wouldn't really expect that, either: a 4k 32" monitor is only ~140dpi, which is only marginally higher resolution than the ~100dpi screens we had for many years.

I think the best point of comparison for the Dell UP3218k monitor which I have is a Retina Macbook Pro screen: subjectively, it's a similar experience in terms of text sharpness and legibility (>200 DPI, glossy), just in a 32" form factor.

I suspect 8k at 32" is actually a bit higher resolution than necessary (~280dpi), but there's nothing else on the >30" high resolution monitor market other than Apple's 6k display, which is significantly more expensive.

Be aware that there's no Mac OS support for 8k displays, but Linux and Windows on a desktop with a reasonably modern NVidia GPU work great.
> This scratches a fairly specific itch I've had for quite a while now — portable DIY electronics

Just the other day I found out about WiPhone: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2103809433/wiphone-a-ph...

The project appears to be in a "limbo" state.
Strongly second Rustlings. I found it to be quite fun — felt like playing a puzzle game... the pacing of the course is very well done.

Once you get the fundamentals of Rust down, I recommend writing something multi-threaded. It's not that much harder than writing single threaded Rust and a good test of knowledge; in my case I wrote a tiny web app:

https://github.com/ylukem/pin-go
Gwern raised some cautions about the studies indicating that these moderate levels of CO2 have cognitive impacts. I haven’t read enough to have an opinion, but any HN readers interested in this should probably follow up on the studies he references: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21569947.
Back when the COVID isolation started in March, I put fuel stabilizer in our second car and filled up the tank (and hooked up a battery tender). I've driven it a few times, but the gas gauge still says "full" on that same tank of fuel.

Even with the stabilizer I'm thinking that I need to take it out for a long drive to use up the fuel. At the rate things are going, I'm not sure I'll need the car for commuting until next summer.
'This Does Not Look Good for Children': Fires Pose Risk to Young Lungs
Let's assume that was just a particularly hilarious typo for "Wales".
The paper Human footprints provide snapshot of last interglacial ecology in the Arabian interior [1]:

> Diatom paleoecology and sedimentary analysis indicate that Alathar was an oligotrophic (nutrient-poor) and shallow freshwater lake for the majority of its existence. This is consistent with similar-aged nearby freshwater paleolake deposits situated in the southern reaches of a “freshwater corridor” that connected the Arabian interior to the Levant and northeast Africa at times during marine isotope stage 5 (MIS 5; ~130 to 80 ka)

> The lake surface is heavily trampled, which probably reflects a dry season during which herbivores congregate around diminishing water supplies, and is consistent with sedimentary evidence for the drying up of the lake at that time. A total of 376 footprints were recorded, of which 177 could be either confidently or provisionally referred to an ichnotaxon. Seven hominin footprints were confidently identified... we argue that H. sapiens was responsible for the tracks at Alathar.

> Given their similar orientation, distances from one another, and differences in size, they are interpreted as two, or up to three, individuals traveling in concert.

> Elephants, in particular, suggest the regional presence of freshwater sources and substantial plant biomass, while the size of the tracks is suggestive of a species larger than any extant taxon.

> Some of the ungulate prints are consistent in shape and size with a giant buffalo, possibly Syncerus, a taxon previously identified at nearby MIS 5 sites.

The research paints a wonderful picture of this "freshwater corridor" during the MIS 5 interglacial. The question I have is what caused the ecology to dry out in our own interglacial? Did the Great Rift change enough in 100 kyr to impact the local climate this much?

[1] https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/38/eaba8940
Linux is missing drivers for how my laptop is set up. Something with raid or ahci, it's been a while since I messed with it. For the rpi you really need to go out of your way to hack on it. But that's different then being bored and deciding to break something you have. That's not the only way to hack something. Like game modding, seems more difficult.
> Then the law should have a "best effort" provision.

Yep, I'd probably agree with that.
> I used to work in tech recruiting. I guarantee you 100%, no one cares.

Sounds correct. That's why professional tech recruiters are best avoided. Have never seen anything but empty talk and bad matches from them. On either side, recruiting or being recruited. Unfortunately the bigger the HR of a company, the more similarities to outside recruiters.
Once Herostratus's name is brought up, I think it will be fair to mention that the temple he burned was built by Chersiphron and Metagenes.
Indeed. Also strange not to consider transfer payments and other (non-taxable) government benefits: How else are we supposed to be rebalancing against market-determined income?
The score to aim for appears to be 38%.

https://techbio.org is reasonably close, with 44%
How to Debug Your Team
Debugging Next.js
> > "Capital income amounts for two percent of income for the bottom 99 percent of households." (page 7 of the pdf)

> so 98% of capital income accrues to the 1%

No.

It's not saying that 2% of capital income goes to the bottom 99%. It's saying that 2% of the income of the bottom 99% is capital income.
I did the same in Portland in the mid 80s. X-1, The Shadow, The Hall of Fantasy, Jack Benny, Lone Ranger and Fibber McGey and Molly, the Whisperer and The Whistler were some I remember fondly. I think The Shadow, X-1 and The Whistler were my favs though. I actually have a ton saved that I use in Industrial music that I make :)
The Fed is independent from the government. But that’s theory. Can you explain more what the influences are between a given party in power and the Fed?
Yes, a WaPo narrative. And it's "a top google result".

Trump's crime is "refused to criticize people involved in recent deadly clashes in Portland". I assume he will also be charged with not jumping the gun on Rittenhouse too? Basically, support the opposition narrative or else.

Same thing happened with Charlottesville, Trump daring to suggest there where leftist culprits too. I don't see Biden criticizing the rioters and their enablers too harshly - must be that same brand of hypocrisy that allowed Biden to suddenly not "believe women" when an accusation was aimed at himself.

A quote from another WaPo article: "the president’s backers are rallying to defend businesses and fight back against Black Lives Matter"

so, "defend businesses" and "fight back" show the differing context. Trump is fanning the flames, but the fires where started by emboldened rioters. You think people will sit back as this stuff happens and not be divided? I'm not sure I even blame Trump too much - Dems engage in hyperbolic, divisive rhetoric just as much to vilify Trump and his supporters.
> Attitudes like yours

Why the personal attacks?

I am merely telling you what goes on. Its not my personal policy or my personal preference. I hated being a recruiter and pivoted out of it.

Do you think FB engineers personally set the policy to ignore rumours against muslims in India from spreading on their platform.
The tendency for creativity to happen when you are young has little to do with being young, and far more to do with being fairly new to an area of work. Creativity peaks after a few years of practice, in almost every field, because when you start out you do not know enough to be creative... and after some number of years, you get set in your own personal ways of practicing your work/art. There is a peak between those two points when you know enough to be competent, but aren't yet set in your personal ways and styles. Yes, many people hit that peak when they are young. But they also hit that peak when they are older, and try something new.
No! Change is easy to get without violence. It's a myth that violence is more effective, ok maybe if you want someones lunch money.
There's an interesting idea here:

If we consider that in the U.S., many large tracts of mall real-estate, formerly occupied by retail shops and large department stores (e.g., Sears) are now empty, due to such factors as Amazon / online shopping and CoronaVirus / Covid-19 -- then maybe one future potential use of this now derelict real-estate -- is that of large-scale "Recyling Department Stores", much like the one mentioned in this article...
What do you think about learning C++ over Rust
Because if we look at C++ it has a very mature ecosystem as it has been around for a long time and alot of companies are using C++
> OK but killing a patient by refusing treatment is also a legal risk.

Sure but I think a lot of people would not see "we're not sure it's safe to do the surgery, let's wait" as "killing a patient" especially when you're probably going to find it hard to find anyone who'll say it was safe to do at the time.
Logitech bought us in 2004, I think I stayed on for about another 12-18 months or so. I would have finished up around mid-late 2005. I have a ridiculous collection of early Harmony Remotes that I cant bear to get rid of :-)
Honest and good faith question here: assuming all electricity on the grid was nuclear, how much CO2 emission would remain? You can't just swap massive cargo ships to nuclear overnight. Would "just" making the power grid green be enough?
I don’t see any basis it could be disputed in the case of the diplomatic cables. This very witness’s testimony proves it (as his torture and subsequent efforts by the US to pressure Germany and Spain to take no action when the criminal nature of it was learned - it was only brought to light because of the leaked cables, as explained in this post).

These facts render it moot what you or I might personally think about his political motivations. Not only are such speculations not a basis for any of the charges, but the very evidence itself (the cables) requires us to see the humanitarian imperative that they be leaked and thus to view leakers and publishers as whistleblowers, setting all speculated internal motives we can’t prove (and which don’t supersede the moral imperative here) aside.

In the case of the DNC email leaks, I could see a better argument that it was political, but then it also wouldn’t matter. None of the Espionage Act charges or accusations of putting US agents in grave harm are based on leaked DNC emails, only Iraq War leaks and the diplomatic cables. It would be awfully hard to prove any serious harm from publishing the DNC emails - and also the standard for publishers protected in that case is much higher. Keep in mind all that is proved that he did is publish them (no different than tons of other news outlets).
Does it offer any delivery guarantees?
Justin could not agree with you more!
This type of information is actively suppressed and speaking about is shamed
First, Berkshire Hathaway holds AAPL. Ted or Todd probably initiated the position, not Warren Buffett.

Second, they are up about 300% on the stake. That equates to a P/E of 10x based on ttm earnings on AAPL and their basis. At the time, I think AAPL had a pretty modest valuation, also. The theory is that phones were cyclical and that service income would not offset the loss of income from devices. AAPL was widely discussed as a value investment around that time (as was Facebook).
Maybe you meant "no observational study"?
I am tempted to buy a few solar trail cams and place them in my favorite spots. I’d even pay for it, but I can’t quite imagine the enforcement process - I’m not there anywhere often enough, and the sheriff deputies are but they probably wouldn’t be willing to access my cameras.

There are even several groups in the northwest whose members would likely join me in that. But how do we make this work?
What is your prior knowledge? I ask because it's interesting you think learning a language is usually easy. Knowing the syntax is not knowing the language.
Its like the meme of sitting in a burning room and saying I'm fine. We are not fine. We are not good at all. We have moved so far to the right that the center of 25 years past is now seen as extremist left.
I actually switched to NextDNS and honestly I’m loving it
> openly advocating for violence

violence, or counter-violence?

The people burning down buildings in Kenosha aren't taking orders from Trump.
seriously, next they get to learn that if they forget to renew on time that means your domain is instantly sold to a foreign scalper.
1. non-local control flow can make it difficult to read

2. it also makes it difficult to handle nested errors (eg the catch() itself throws)

3. unchecked exceptions (and implicit propagation) means any function can throw something, at any time -- it's not defined in the API contract -- so if you really wanted to be safe and general, every function needs have exception checking. This is the same problem that null has

4. It also means it can change "under your feet" -- a library can add new exceptions to functions with no indication; this is also possible in rust, but its requires much more finagling by the author.

5. Checked exceptions like in Java are basically the same as rust's error-as-enum, but feature the other points.

6. At least in Java, not all exceptions are checked, but of course that doesn't need to be true.

7. Through developer ergonomics, Exceptions leads the natural strategy of try it, and rollback on failure. Rust Result<> leads the natural strategy of validate, then continue. The latter, IMO, is significantly easier/general/more sane.

8. Through developer ergonomics (avoiding a try-catch every statement), multiple statements are naturally rolled into a single try-catch -- undone when this turns out not to be the case. In the worst case, if you try-catch every statement in a function, its completely unreadable. It's also difficult to know which function throws which error, if you have them rolled up in a single try-catch, with multiple catches.

9. Exception's main job is to put errors in the background; Rust has the philosophy of putting errors in the foreground

10. The main benefit they have over return codes is that return codes are utterly arbitrary, and even less defined in the API contract, or the language itself, than exceptions. They lose out on the other points -- namely that they're significantly more complex. Result<> grants the natural ergonomics of return codes, with a higher level of definition than exceptions.

11. Try-And-Rollback is a generally valid strategy for single-threaded code; less so for parallel code (eg fork-and-join). Result<> fits that model more cleanly.

12. My personally most important point: exceptions are ugly and anyone who likes them is ugly too

That's whatever I could think of off the top of my head.
RPi3-powered AI (by Liverpool University) helps robots to sort through recycling
>Well Luddites are not suddenly going to gain traction.

Hey, I resemble that remark.

What if I want to gain sudden traction with my offering to productively reverse the connection of the internet to mission-critical devices?
Since this is ML-based, I'm getting the feeling that the real question this answers is: how average is your website?
What iPad apps do you use for note taking?
Is The Day of the Triffids really largely forgotten? Maybe I have a UK bias.
It's like you haven't just seen stocks tumble 20% in the last couple weeks.
> That's why professional tech recruiters are best avoided.

I worked as a recruiter at a big tech company not a tech recruiting firm.

Recruiting is just a big numbers game, it is nothing personal.
Its just the way it is.

Most people here hate white board, leetcode puzzles with passion but you cannot simply "best avoid" it if you want to get into a big tech company.

Do you really think making engineers with 2 decades of experience solve 'trapping rain water' in 30 mins is "basic human decency" ? Do you think they care if you write to them about that?
> The secret to networking is to "network" when you don't need anything.

I can’t emphasise this enough. Over the past decade I have built up a small network of mostly former and current colleagues. We all have mutual respect for each other, so if an opportunity or need arose neither party would feel bad about reaching out or being reached out to. After all, a positive outcome will likely be mutual.

I used to think that networking involved going to conferences and shaking hands with strangers in hallways while exchanging business cards. This was terrifying because I knew I’d be bad at it.

I was pleasantly surprised at being wrong.
This recently published study suggests vitD supplements alone provide some protection, even for acute cases. It’s a small sample population (n=75) and a pre-print, but it looks convincing to me (non-scientist, non-medical professional):

“Of 50 patients treated with calcifediol, one required admission to the ICU (2%), while of 26 untreated patients, 13 required admission... Of the patients treated with calcifediol, none died, and all were discharged, without complications. The 13 patients not treated with calcifediol, who were not admitted to the ICU, were discharged. Of the 13 patients admitted to the ICU, two died and the remaining 11 were discharged.”

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096007602...

Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24390451
From TFA

> if your application does not require a large display and a keyboard, you can simply remove them and replace the bezel with a full-sized circuit board