skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The actual story is the election of a monstrous moron to a post where his actions can materially negatively effect the future survival of civilization as we know it.

His reelection would be likely to be the end of democracy as we know it as he corrupts the entire apparatus of government on which undoing the damage he has done depends.

Unable to win fairly we have seen unprecedented voter suppression and an entirely expected smear campaign.

Faced with a situation where this smear campaign endangers our nation and its people fighting it isn't scandalous it is noble.
> The NYPost has issued much fewer retractions than NYT and CNN, yet, Twitter does not attack those institutions.

Yes, I claim the reason is a lack of accountability. You claim the reason is impeccability of reporting. I think the reputation and style of reporting is relevant to deciding which of those factors is more relevant. You're free to disagree with that.

But please don't call it a clever shift. I'm having your conversation here.
For sure. But pharmacy is very competitive and at some point it's a losing game.

For example - Walgreen runs about about a 4% margin and profit runs about $4 billion (all very rough numbers).

The problem with theft is that its a total loss so it can really chop into margins - these are shelves that you build a supply chain and staff to stock and then get zero.

Someone walks in with a backpack and just fills it full (maybe 50 - 100 individual items). Meanwhile you have 20 customers buying a few items (1-5). So you sell 100 items at 104% of all in cost (4% positive margin) and 100 walk out the door (if only the knapsack guy steals) at 0% of cost. Your margin is negative immediately (-40%+).

Walgreens actually has budgets for theft store managers try to work with in (pretty high ones actually). But theft the way it happens in SF - you need to understand there are no consequence, the only folks to get in trouble would be employees trying to stop it.

It also drives away customers you do want (older people filing scrips will go to what are perceived as safer locations) and moves other sales to online / delivery etc.

They are robbed while TV crews are filming about robberies :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FmN4e1fNUo

SF talks a lot of crap about Amazon, but if amazon offers a safe / delivery to your garage / car / inside door pharmacy service it could be game over for a lot of players.
Maybe. If the property values completely collapse and they can get cheaper leases, I could see it, but that's sort of an after the fact issue.
Watt(energy) = Volts(voltage) * Ampere(current)

e.g. USB phone charger rated for 5V/2A = 10W, laptop adapter for 19V/65A = 1.2kW, electric heater rated 110V/15A = 1650W

Voltage and current are like height and width of a 2D box named wattage or energy, and you can stretch or shrink the height thus changing width, but not the total area
Actually, you do. Your rights as a citizen are in no way related to how or whether you vote. Freedom of speech does not hinge on your voting record. This line of thinking also erases the voices of disenfranchised voters, residents of Puerto Rico, prisoners, houseless people, etc.
>Further, under §512 (f) the RIAA's deceptive claim is liable for sanctions:

This is wrong, because they didn't make a 512 claim. If you read the letter, the only part that's asserted under penalty of perjury is that they're authorized to act in behalf of their member companies, which is true.

> RIAA are not injured due to utilisation of a non-member's mechanism.

They're injured when the tool is used for copyright infringement. No issue with standing here.

>Any potential copyright infringement which might occur through use of youtube-dl is at the volition of users, not the software's authors, actions would properly be directed at such users for individual acts of infringement

This ignores the fact that circumvention itself creates liability in the right circumstances.
Run something like Zoneminder or Shinobi (https://shinobi.video/) on hardware that is on your local network. Use their hardware compatibility list to select a suitable camera that is known to work well.

The author of Shinobi has recommended to me the Reolink line of cameras, which appear to be just about the only wifi cameras available anywhere that do both 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz wifi. Virtually everything else I can find seems to do 2.4GHz only.

If you don’t want to run Zoneminder or Shinobi, there are other packages on other platforms, such as Bensoft SecuritySpy. See also: https://alternativeto.net/software/shinobi/
> Tonal language speakers (e.g. Mandarin) have absolute pitch with higher frequency, possibly because their ears have needed to train to distinguish tones in this critical period.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/speaking-tonal-la...
The Logitech C920/C922/C930 series with autofocus are OK for personal or small group use. Of the consumer USB webcams, I haven't found any other makers' to be as good. Only 1080p 30Hz, but any more is demanding too much of your recipients' bandwidth and hardware in the general case.

Advice from my wife, a photographer:

- if you're still having picture problems (after setting the camera's anti-flicker to 50Hz/60Hz as appropriate), put diffuse illumination on your face e.g. a full-screen browser window on http://blank.org; or for more control--colour temperature as well as brightness--a cheap LED panel and desktop tripod (from a photo supplies shop).

- turn off any "smoothing" or "beauty"features in the cam's software.

- likewise, don't use any fake background features. Pin up a plain bedsheet behind yourself if you think your place is too messy to be the background.

Anyway, once there is a picture of any kind, in my experience most people care more about the audio being unclear or laggy, so you're well ahead.
If unrestricted machines are restricted only to people with money, it perpetuates our unjust society that creates a prison-like, behavioral nudge, policed, and restricted experience for the poor and a free democratic state for the rich. This is just another manifestation of the economy producing this result via individual consumer choice that manages to simultaneously enrich everyone at the top.

The way to stop this is through legislation and protest, but it's a battle because the state likes locked down computers too.
I don't think there is an argument humans want otherwise, we want ceilings as high as possible. Multiple stories.

It is only a matter of cost. To clean, temperature, regulations, building materials, the fact it is bespoke.

An argument of height vs floor space if you acknowledged the trade off however would be interesting. Are we choosing footage when really we would prefer height.
One of the golden things about gaming consoles is that software is typically written with the exact hardware in mind and there are pretty big costs on both sides of the vendor/buyer relationship.

You have the opportunity to be able to know exactly how all of your customers will run it and you have a good chance of having the extra $ to actually give a damn about performance.
"I don’t think everyone who lives in San Fran wants do life in San Fran. They’re here because that’s where the jobs are."

I live in San Francisco and I want to do life here. I moved here very specifically to set down roots and raise my family in the SFBA.

I have the option to live anywhere in the world and I believe that the confluence of the west marin national seashore and the city center of San Francisco is unique in all the world for contrasting landscape, and energy boundaries, all within fifteen minutes driving.

On top of it all, Squaw Valley - the set location of all my childhood ski heroes - is just three hours away.
Why do certain companies succeed as a remote company (Gitlab comes to mind) and others wouldn’t? I think you’re probably right, but I’d like to understand. Will working from home force a change in management style?

To compensate for lack of socialization in the office, I notice that companies like Gitlab organise corporate gatherings were all employees can meet in person. Open Source projects teams meet at (the fringe of) Fosdem and probably at their yearly conference a second time.
Free Course – Create an FPS Controller in Unreal Engine
What exactly is the information that was reported? Is there an actual claim in here, or is it just an information dump, so that someone can point to it and say, "just look at all the corruption" without actually making any disprovable claims?
Yep, I’m shocked that it had to be bloated to 40min before they even thought about fixing it. Anyone who has used Jenkins for nontrivial builds must have had the experience of staring at the slowly expanding session log screen? It doesn’t take any “profiling” to realize git clone’s taking forever.
> Generally, "don't shoot the messenger" only applies if you a messenger bearing objective truth, at least as far as you (the messenger) are aware. In this case, however, you are a messenger repeating someone else's representation of what might be the truth, without actually knowing the truth for yourself.

You asked "Has the dailywire been known to be untrustworthy in the past?" apparently without googling it for yourself, then when I provided the answer that multiple news analysis sites would've give you, you attacked me with 'both sides'-isms. When I provided a specific source and asked you to take it up with them, you continued to attack me for "repeating someone else's representation" without "knowing the truth myself." I knew it myself, and I backed it up with citations.

Some unsolicited life advice: it's pretty rude and insufferable to ask people questions on the internet and then attack them when they do your research for you. Maybe think about not doing that.
Wall Street bailouts, letting corporations exfiltrate revenue to off shore tax havens, defunding the IRS, oddly specific tax loopholes, tax cuts on the wealthy, letting lobbyists write the laws. That's just from thinking about it for ten seconds.
This isn't a 512 notice, so you can't sue under that. My guess is you can't get any damages because the letter is quite careful in its claims and no judge is going to find that it's in bad faith.
> Content moderation is a form of censorship.

It's really not. Not legally or in the common use of the word.

If I kick an abusive troll off my message board that is moderation. If a judge orders someone not to use a computer for two years, that is censorship.

To conflate the two is to make the term "censorship" almost meaningless. Platforms all over the web filter spam, pornography, abusive behavior, off-topic posts, etc all the time. It's not censorship.

Similarly, if Twitter was legally forbidden from marking tweets with their fact-checking tags, that would be censorship.
My current desktop is getting on about 7 years old. I used to build new computers every year or two, so the idea of getting almost a decade out of the same box is wild and represents how much PC tech has plateaued.

However, I have a nice laptop from work and I really like my work setup, where I just connect a couple ports and instantly have a couple more big monitors, a good keyboard and mouse and other stuff.

So I've really been considering replacing my desktop with a decent laptop at home. I've also seen some benchmarks that are putting fairly commodity systems within spitting distance of what my old workhorse can do, meaning if I invested in a decent laptop I could probably keep about the level of performance I have today, but gain portability.

Then in the last few months we got the new Nvidia 3080 line (with AMD's RDNA 2 coming soon), the AMD 5000 series processors, new classes of SSDs like the 970 Evo Plus which have performance that used to be what we saw with DRAM.

All of these combined in a new system are going to be an entirely new class of desktop performance that my old system won't even come close to touching and portable machines won't touch either.

So I'm thinking of going with a new desktop sometime next year once inventory and prices stabilize, and if I need it a rock bottom budget laptop for traveling. Target price <$3k all-in.
And Joel Kaplan, head of Facebook Public Policy was one of the people involved in the "Brooks Brother Riot"[1] that shutdown the recount of the 2000 election and took over from Karl Rove in the GW Bush Whitehouse.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_Brothers_riot
IMO, by far the most confusing thing about lisp syntax is not code data duality, but instead that when you actually dive into the specs for these languages, its actually still really complicated and full of edge cases. A "toy" lisp can be simple sure, but "real" lisps aren't.
Being practical, the extremes are bad.

It should be possible to hit the ceiling with a normal fly swatter. It should be possible to stand on a normal chair to change a lightbulb.

As long as those requirements are met, taller is better. Height minimizes the risk of impact with light fixtures.

That comes out to be 9 to 10.5 feet.

Note that staircases are special. People do not merely stand on each step. People leap up and down the stairs, so extra height is needed to reduce the risk of impact and a serious injury. The ceiling right at the bottom of the stairs, on the landing, is commonly far too short.
Right, so you scapegoat your opponents so everything evil becomes justifiable.
How do you manage varroa?

My method has got pretty cheap - oxalic acid is about as cheap as it gets for treatments.
Thanks that’s very interesting. I’d never heard of these. They seem expensive but you get the millennium aspect (not something a spinning magnetic disk can claim).
Hydrogen arcjets are going in between 1300-2000 seconds ISP, and are 30%-40% efficient, which is huge by electric standards of electric propulsors, and are can be done with tens of newtons thrust, with 100+ newton per engine deemed possible.
Because they've been cowed away from imposing enough taxes and/or budget discipline to run the cities.
To accept the legitimacy of the principle of freedom of speech is to make a value judgement. If you want some pure criteria you can use to make content moderation decisions, then the purest criteria is no content moderation at all.

You can remove obvious spam (e.g. viagra advertisements posted by bots) and still adhere to principles of free speech. Advertisements posted by bots are not written by human beings acting in good faith in the pursuit of truth. And I mean that very broadly. Even trolling can be done in good faith.
An unhealthy obsession with CI/CD is the usual culprit.
Likely zero damages because nothing RIAA did creates liability for them - no false statements that I can see, just tenuous but plausible legal claims. Certainly nothing criminal there and absolutely no basis for disbarment.

You can file a declaratory judgement claim, and a precedent there would be useful. You just wouldn't get any damages.
If you're going to obstinately insist that the NY Post is serious journalism, just because they happen to publish an unfounded accusation that you happen to like, maybe you should investigate the history of the publication.

Wikipedia [1] for example cites several sources critical of the paper's veracity. Here [2]'s an article citing employees of the NY Post complaining about the flimsiness of the reporting.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Post
[2] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/10/new-york-post-inside...
My bigger concern with SF is property crime and homelessness. I don't feel safe in this city. It's been getting worse every year and there is no end in sight. Major conferences already relocated because of it.
I've found wild passion fruit growing on my farm in East Texas. It had plenty of fruit growing on it.
I use it to watch twitch on devices that can't use the browser, and to watch videos from free TV services here in Australia in the same way, such as iview.

I do rarely use it for youtube, but given it supports so many websites, I think 'swiss army knife' is a pretty fair description.
Color reproduction sucks in LED though. So if they do more than brushing teeth with bathroom mirrors they could be still rocking good old incandescent.
Supercharging TensorFlow.js with SIMD and multi-threading
My assumption is some or all of those more than people thinking it's "fine," that it's deficiencies more than complacencies.
That's why I use a desktop-replacement laptop. Lots of USB ports (and display ports), large built-in monitor but I use a docking station for a larger one, usually bring a mouse and the keyboard is full-sized (includes numpad) and the dock also has a keyboard, has a spot for an optical drive (I just refreshed, so my new one doesn't have one installed, but that's an easy buy as there's still a slot), it has 2 hard drives (and you can get multi-terabyte hard drives, now).

Upgrading stuff and costs are both really significant for personal use (which is why I am typing this from my home desktop), but if money is no object, I just get a desktop-replacement laptop.

I hate the whole "let's just make laptops like tablets" thing, where "like tablets" means "no ports."

I need ports for all kinds of stuff, including driving robotics and interfacing equipment. Which is also why having a laptop is nicer than a desktop. It's really great to have a built-in UPS and be able to move my office easily.

EDIT: Just checked, and it's easy to upgrade RAM or replace the battery, and I have room for a 2.5" hard drive and actually 2 NVMe SSDs (they make 8TB ones) plus an optional SIM card and a PIV card and SD card and the built-in camera and microphone array are really nice to have nowadays. But I do love desktops. You wouldn't think 10 USB ports is that important, but nowadays everything uses USB, so it's nice to have for pure convenience.
The formal Scheme syntax spec is, what?, a few pages. Far smaller than any other "real" language I'm aware.
Life on earth is heading for an ecological apocalypse and all we can do is obsess about taking a holiday on Mars (bangs head against wall). Talk about fiddling while Rome burns.
In simple terms, colonial hangover is still there despite countless discourses over racism. Anyway, enjoy reading Prof. Raju. He has dobe a conference on the issue of Academic Imperialism, which is worth a watch on youtube.

My favorite talk by him is on Calendars.

A Tale of Two Calendars - Dr C K Raju

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvpuC7Dg4e0

> It is rather unfortunate, and certainly extends beyond the realm of science.

yes, euro-centric biases extend beyond sciences. Here is one take on Kant's humorous belief about us Easterners by a professor from Singapore.

Western philosophy is racist

Academic philosophy in ‘the West’ ignores and disdains the thought traditions of China, India and Africa. This must change

https://aeon.co/essays/why-the-western-philosophical-canon-i...
I guess it just depends on California's vs Texans definition of hyper liberal. I don't know what level of liberalism it would take to get dislike from the average Texan but I know it has to be miles away from declaring that arresting shoplifters is racist.
Sure, a battery does that. You could charge a battery slowly with 60 W for an hour and then discharge it quickly, powering a 1000 W device... but it would run out in a couple minutes.
Time to Turn SF Full Libertarian?
SF should aggressively pursue open carry.

Sf should get rid of Herr Breed.

Its time we take the power back. Fuck these libtard fucks. Let's show them how real Americans work.
Progressive free speech? Megacorporarions cannot censor, but people on their lawn can? Everyone uses the "would you like it if you couldn't censor your local coffee shop from nazis" or whatever example, but that intentionally ignores power dynamics that can be accounted for. Censorship's moral hazard against democracy only really comes into play at scale, so we can provide protection accordingly.
Nobody's forcing Uber/Lyft/DoorDash to close up shop, despite their cries of poormouth. There are also lots of free and discounted disability shuttles out there, but that probably depends a lot on location (though so does the availability of gig-taxis).
[Following your advise I did find some Tripp-Lite that are almost reasonable]

Thermals referred to the power electronics which do get hot.
Yes certainly better to get equipment designed for it rather than risk burning down the house.
For the curious: 7500 steps is about 3.8 miles, or 6.1 kilometers.
I’ve done compile time crc32 string hashing for similar reasons with a raw array as a lookup table.
I see biology as some sort of alien technology we have been trying to reverse engineer but still have a long ways to go before fully understanding it. It's literally everywhere, we are made up of it, but we still can't figure it out.
unfortunately what those shareholders want is the highest possible overall profit extraction from the areas they operate at any cost, which is anti-social and bad.
Thank you for sharing, this is the type of content I come to HN for.
What I’m told you need heatsink for PCIe SerDes and maybe CPU on it but NAND likes warmer temperature
bruv we've got enough people to work on setting up the lifeboats while bailing out the ship
The speed bump in option 2 isn't that big of a worry, right? Its the classic sotuation of once you are big enough to habe the problem, you are big enough to afford to solve it.
Seems like a large portion of people in this thread at least are more concerned about lowering cost of living while still being in a large active city than about local polotics, even if those things do tie together
I tell you what: if that comes to pass and I'm working remote, I'm looking forward to getting a sweet lease on a 150-200 sqft solo office with a nice view.
(same way as all space craft)
Squelching small business will also doom the economy to mediocrity.

And 'within reason' if government focuses on making an environment for small business to thrive, this will often help big business too. But the same is not true if the focus is reversed.
Sure some people live in SF because they want to be here. Others live (in my case lived) there because of a job. I don't care for SF the city, but I do like the greater bay area.

Having said that, your driving time estimates are incredible optimistic. Squaw is not 3 hours from SF, not even with no traffic (this scenario doesn't really exist) and good weather. Getting anywhere in the bay area also takes significantly longer due to traffic which is pretty bad most of the day.
Thanks for sharing, it's much better written than the article in the post.
You need to pause and explain to me how Bill de Blasio is “progressive.” Being a registered Democrat means nothing.
To be honest, I don’t get the rush to move to different planets? With the absolute plethora of benefits earth gives us, is it really hard to just save what we have than think about these far fetched ideas. Suppose that due to some way we actually figure out a way to move to Mars, would it be better than leaving what we have? I would rather prefer living rest of my life on the dying planet that is earth than move to other planet.
By extension advertising to iPhone users is more valuable as they have more money or are more willing to spend more money.
I think the question is, what is the information? The story seems like spaghetti, thrown at the wall to convey a sense of corruption, with no disprovable claims being made.
'Mexican Chernobyl' clearly primes the reader to expect a nuclear reactor disaster, like, you know, the Russian Chernobyl. I'm Mexican, know about this cobalt source case, and yet I wondered if the article was about a disaster in our sole nuclear reactor, Laguna Verde, that I didn't know about. 100% pure clickbait.

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