skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's undisputed that Hunter was getting 600k from a ukrainian national gas company

It's unsubstantiated, at best:

"However, the Daily Caller News Foundation could not confirm the accuracy of this figure, as there is no evidence the payments from Rosemont Seneca Bohai to Hunter Biden are necessarily for his work with Burisma."

https://checkyourfact.com/2019/10/17/fact-check-hunter-biden...

Why repeat something with full confidence when you have no idea if it's actually true or not (because no one does) ?
No:

- A program running inside DOSBox sees the DOSBox BIOS, not the host computer's BIOS

- Even the host computer's BIOS was visible, the host computer's OS is responsible for preventing random programs (including DOSBox) from poking directly at hardware

- I'm pretty sure DOS viruses generally predate flashable BIOS, and even if there was a DOS virus that tried to flash your BIOS, it wouldn't know what to do with a modern UEFI setup
A see some data in my neighborhood which is weird.

Comparing same model houses only (same as mine), tax rates are in the range of 5K to 8K. But just a couple of the same model houses are shown as $800 to $900! If I didn't know this neighborhood I would jump to the conclusion that those houses have been owned for so long that their taxes are so low and curse prop13.

But, I've been in this neighborhood since it was built so I know the tax was never below 2K even on the first year of constructed.

So either these outliers are just errors in the published records, or is there some tax exemption program in CA for people who qualify to some criteria?

In any case, it does give the impression that the tax range for this model house is $800 to $8K (10x) when that is not true. It is really 5K to 8K.
Wow. He almost makes some salient points like maybe we should drone foreigners less, but it's drowned out by his complete ignorance of basic things like how party primaries work.
I'm really sorry for everyone here suffering. Just want to voice my support.
I wish you to get better and pain free some day.
> A functional democracy requires that all parties agree to abide by the result of the election and peaceful transfer of power.

(1) A functional democracy also requires a Democratic electoral system.

(2) A functionally-democratic tyranny is not better than the absence of functional democracy.

(3) But it's usually better than a functional elective anti-democratic tyranny, which is what you have when you have the feature you describe as necessary for functional democracy is present, but neither respect for the rights of the people beyond participation in elections nor elections on democratic lines are present.

So, yes, the condition you pay out is necessary (but not at all sufficient) for functioning democracy, but not in all cases (even where the other conditions for functional democracy are present) desirable.
Is there a correlation though between city expenses and property values for large moves in property value?

Just because property values double doesn't mean the cost of pothole repair doubles?
No, it is quite incoherent. Specifically, it fails to even offer what any physical theory must: a quantitative prediction. Compression, in your view, can be allowed to produce variable amounts of heating, for the same change in density. Since you aren't making a quantitative prediction, how is what you are saying even testable?

(The answer is that compression produces a specific amount of heating when it is adiabatic, and additional heating comes from dissipative processes that are occurring alongside the compression, but that are not themselves compression.)
“..while the team did code in many fail-safes in other areas of the application, it unfortunately only contained data validation on valid numbers”

Well it’s not like I’ve never made a mistake but that’s a funny sentence!
> At some point you are no longer asking what topics are offensive, but rather what topics are safe.

Isn't that the point of the thought and speech policing we're seeing lately?
I can tell already that I do this and I should stop. My wife just hasn't said it yet.

I just always default to problem solving....
On the other hand, it can be argued that 400 green votes to Al Gore would've unmade the Bush presidency and all the misery that followed.
My situation was unusual, so I'm not sure my solutions would generalize. Sciatica in teens is very unusual. The cause, likely, was a series of fairly involved surgeries I had had as a young child combined with overuse. None of the orthopedists I saw were particularly sure about the cause, nor were the physical therapists.

The long term solution was to avoid triggers and increase core strength. The short term solution was NSAIDs and correcting sleep posture (getting an 8-9 hour reprieve from loading the muscles that spasm remains very helpful).

Long-distance running was a trigger for me (particularly running slowly, oddly enough), so I haven't run in basically a decade. I used to run 5 days a week. It was pretty clearly part of my identity.

Years later, I picked up rock climbing (2-3 days a week) and my problems incidentally went away. Whenever I stop climbing for a while, I get periodic minor flare-ups. Fortunately, the short term fixes can nip this in the bud, particularly if I start exercising again.

I don't know the details of their situation, but I would encourage them to seek out a physical therapist. And to change therapists if it doesn't work. It took me a while to find someone that could actually help. I have no idea why the first therapists did not suggest improving sleep posture.
This carb refeed reset "tricks" your leptide hormones to burning through energy reserves rather than putting the body through a catatonic (muscle burning) state. This is why the "Cheat" meal or day is an important step to sustaining body fat loss through elongated periods.
Is there a non-paywalled version?

From the little that's visible, Jimminy Cricket that's insane. Would that make anyone who refuses to wire up state-controlled microphones a criminal?
Trading options on Robinhood
At the risk of being a jerk: Have you read the book The Mindbody Prescription by Dr. Sarno? [1]

I sound like an infomercial pitchman but that book changed my life. I had a massive structural issue that was either going mean a knee replacement or dealing with "you won't walk right ever again". Well, it turns out there was a third option.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FOTRPJQ/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...

It sounds woo, I know. I was so fucking tired of people giving me their quack advice too. This was the one thing that made sense. And it literally changed my life.
I think you are getting lost in the details. Databases are inherently complex and there are sharp edges as well as tricks you need to learn for each one. Beyond that row stores like MySQL and PostgreSQL are essentially interchangeable. The biggest technical success factor is whether you understand the DBMS well enough to use it effectively. The biggest business success factor is licensing: MySQL is GPLv2 and PostgreSQL is BSD.

Specific features are somewhat interesting but at this point not many teams are starting from scratch on MySQL or PostgreSQL. It's generally the case you already have experience on one or the other or both.
Why every SSH user should switch to using SSH Certificates
The "best" I've found so far (and gives you options to go 2.5GbE/5GbE

1: https://www.amazon.com/UGREEN-Ethernet-Thunderbolt-Converter... (USB-C)

2: https://www.amazon.com/2-5GBase-T-Ethernet-Controller-Standa... (Don't get the knock-off version of this, the brackets aren't the right sizes.) (PCIe)

The expensive ones I'm waiting to arrive:

3: Either a second hand Intel X520-DA1 card or the "refurb" from AliExpress

and https://mikrotik.com/product/crs305_1g_4s_in with RJ10 SFP+ modules. Then cry at how much you just spent.
But CIH infects PE executables not MZ executables right?
Wow. This is incredible. How on earth do people believe they have the right to tell people how to think and what to say in their domicile?

It used to be a funny parody or satire we used to assign to despotic fascist or communist regimes... but has this come back to bite us.

I'm not espousing hate speech. I wish people were civil and pleasant but that's not reality and we also disagree on what is hate (depending on perspective) --but this crime bill is beyond the pale. It's draconian. I'm not even sure China goes to this extent unless it's anti-government speech.

People don't know what they are doing to themselves.

This is right up there with communist states having husbands, wives and children rat on each other plainly to weaken citizens and strengthen the government.
Hate is somewhat subjective in some area's - it is only when it clearly leads to actions that impact others unfairly, does it become more clear cut. Otherwise it can open a Pandora box of interpretations.

For example: Is the Scottish word Sassenach offensive, as an English person I can laugh and appreciate it, others may not and take offence. Equally in today's society it is easy to take offence and that right there is how they class a hate-crime in some circles - if you offend somebody and by that, they take offence even if no offence was meant nor intended.
If he's a "tech executive", that implies Soylent is "tech"? Basically meal replacements are the same sort of thing as Apple, AMD, and Twitter?
People are stupid. This whole article is stupid. I didn't read it, I just can't believe someone would even think to write it. I also can't believe it is in the number one spot.
Exceptions in Python
Show HN: The Onion for Crypto
Children / partner / friends could record / live stream from in the home.
This is so fucked up I don't even know what to say. Maybe that's good, god forbid it'd be hateful.
Awesome article, I still remember Kelsey talks about CoreOS it was amazing, that got me introduced to containers and I have the privilege to be his colleague now. Overall great story except the title and the race thing, I find it irrelevant, he is just an awesome human being.
Burn it and distribute it in the atmosphere like coal plants do, and it won't be that big of a deal.

Can you do better than that? Sure. Leaving it sitting onsite until there's enough will to do reprocessing is probably better.
Transitions: The easiest way to improve your tech talk – by Saron Yitbarek
Alexa, google home, siri, they already subpoena the recordings for criminal cases.
You know what's funny? I've read the promo material, signed up, and there's little mention of how this program works, whether it's synchronous, async, or what? I'm assuming it's all async, since otherwise, it would be titled "Startup School for future founders who are comfortable with open-ended commitments, because they're young, single and unemployed."
Amazing right. Here we have a gigantic company making silly money paying employees silly money (mostly) and able to do so under the freedoms and protection of the US. And yet they go out of their way to pander to their employees about not supporting the very government and system that let them make so many billions. Oh the spoiled rich kid sad irony. So sick of all these self-righteous antics.
Close to 1k death per day today for the US is already a sizable number.
Maybe it's a sort of accident marker then.
I wonder if it's something like their out-of-bounds checks required true returns on a numeric comparison (e.g., if val < min ...) and since NaN-involved comparisons always return false...
I'd be a little careful with that chart. I was working with the raw data provided on this page: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm, and the CDC warns that even the data going back into August may be incomplete. I'd assume this data comes with the same caveat, so we may well see these numbers increase the reporting comes in.

Edit: from the asterisk on the page you linked:
"*Data during this period are incomplete because of the lag in time between when the death occurred and when the death certificate is completed, submitted to NCHS and processed for reporting purposes. This delay can range from 1 week to 8 weeks or more, depending on the jurisdiction and cause of death."
The huge ideological change that has occurred in the west in the last 10 years will be a mark in history.

When it seemed that we were constantly advancing towards more freedom, something in people's mind snapped, we stopped and then we started walking back in the opposite direction, towards more state control.

How much of this change can be attributed to social media?
Cool it with the hateful remarks... before the cops come.
I only know about him from the king of Kong (like many people probably) and I'm always wary of how those things can create a bias in editing, but man does he come across as a world class jerk in that.
I had something like this that landed me in the ER. I got a diagnosis of deferred kidney stone pain at the time. I too was all about which way to sit in a chair. I can't imagine that going on for weeks.
> I'm not even sure China goes to this extent unless it's anti-government speech.

How would you know? Wouldn't there be survivorship bias?
The movie Demolition Man has predicted this future with social distancing and (for movie purposes) automating fines for speech. The only thing missing is every restaurant being a Taco Bell.
Europe's speech laws are pretty terrible. It's one big advantage of living in the US: speech has serious legal protection.
On the same subject matter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24947247
I’m sure a coyote can survive in Times Square. Make it illegal to shoot a wolf, and they’ll do fine in Times Square too.
On the same subject matter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24948072
Thanks for the feedback.

The downside of having a local library, would be that the actual user agents db and any data used to generate the results would be stored locally.

I would say that providing a fast, cloud based API, would simplify the developer experience.
PG&E should be fined $166M for botched power shut-offs, watchdog says
There's very little substance in your reply. Why so dismissive? Especially if you didn't read it.
By practice. It's uncomfortable to just learn CSS.
Best way is to learn it while using it.
Yes Scarfolk used to be a great dystopian humour outlet - today it seems more and more like a training manual for government.

https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/search/label/thought%20crime
Here's the deal: I am not presenting my opinion as objective fact, nor do I actually care that you're a DBA. If anything, the fact that you are a DBA makes your opinion less relevant to me as an application developer. Simply put, you do not share my pain, and the people who have upvoted me, while your comment is currently gray as I write this, have.

The example was intended to show a scenario in which MySQL silently loses data. There are certainly situations in which this sort of data loss is acceptable. I've been involved in scenarios where it was not acceptable, I was surprised by the behavior, and I ended up with a bunch of missing data.

The problem here is that I was surprised by my database.
That should literally never happen. The correct behavior in this specific case is for the database driver to raise an exception or warning (exactly which should probably be a configurable option, defaulting to an exception). That way, if an exception gets raised in my application, at the very minimum, I have a traceback in my logs to tell me something went wrong, which allows me to fix the issue sooner rather than later.

As for your existence proof that "MySQL's behavior is ok," the fact that MySQL has a bigger installed base literally proves nothing. I guarantee you there are folks out there who are experiencing such behavior and being surprised by it, just like I was. There are people out there for whom this specific behavior is not a problem. And, there are people out there who are length checking every bit of text they try to stuff into a VARCHAR(n) or CHAR(n) field using MySQL, because they started with MySQL and they're basically stuck with it, unless they want to do major surgery on their app.
Isn't this exactly the plot of some Orwell story or something? The children are encouraged to report their parents' thoughtcrimes to the party. I'm actually serious.
I don't have physical pain thankfully, but I have severe tinnitus.

I'm unable to work for more than a few hours. I'm having a hard time to fall asleep.

The fear of it getting worse is generating a large amount of stress.
"Working" can be interpreted differently. 75% accuracy (?) is not that great for predicting a specific class (depending on distribution on course).

If you need high accuracy, let's say for e.g. estimating eco system performance based on specific plant distribution, 75% is very low (especially if you want to feed it into another predictor) compared to a professional field biologist.
It goes too much the other way IMO. One can peddle lies, half-truths,threats, bigotry and falsehoods and hide behind the banner of free speech.
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Woah man. Do you have a license for that free thinking?
Lexical scope allows nested spaces. Things declared in higher scopes are shared points of access to things declared in lower scopes but not the opposite, thus you have an active tree of of programming language references/variables in memory.

Lexical scope is optionally available is most modern languages now and is the default scope mechanism in lisp and JavaScript.

If the data is a tree and your scope mechanism is a tree there is an opportunity for one to directly represent the other. Doing so will eliminate much decoration in the code and thus increase execution performance and increase the legibility of the code.

This would not be for the faint of heart though. My professional experience tells me many people can not grasp trees at all whether in data, file system, or programming. You can try to dumb it down or abstract it away for the lost souls, as is common, but that is tech debt and an erosion of performance.
Yep, I totally agree there are ways to make social media competitive, and you’ve given some good ideas. I hadn’t thought about a UBI style fund for social media. Not sure it would work in practise with the global nature of social networks, but cool idea
I am exactly the same way. When people ask, I just say "I'm doing ok." and that is usually the end of the asking.
Huh? The article is about an actual bill and actual things a politician said. I understand you might think the bill and politician are stupid, but I can't fathom why you think it shouldn't be reported on. Isn't reporting on it exactly how that stupidity can be called out?

Maybe it's worth reading after all.
Lol. This was flagged within 1 hr. Talk about irony man...
Article is login-walled, so I’ve only read the first few paragraphs. For clarity, what actually happened here? I’m unsure whether a new bill is being discussed that says this explicitly, or a _suggested_ interpretation of a bill by a lawmaker, or a _legal_ interpretation of a bill by a judge/magistrate. Those would all have different implications.
Archived here: https://archive.is/3wpZR
> > If this was a meritocracy, you would expect a proportionate number of every ethnicity and religion represented in the workforce of large corporations.

Well no, that would be assuming that whatever traits help one be meritorious are equally distributed among all the populations, which seems highly unlikely given what we see literally everywhere else (e.g. athletic pursuits).

What I think is more important than nailing some magical quota or ratio or percentage, is ensuring that the individual is judged as an individual instead of as a subset of a group.

Regardless of how a specific trait is distributed among a human population, you are bound to find individuals within each group that display it. The problem comes when you discard individuals because they don't belong to the group you want, or when you take in individuals without the trait you're looking for just because they belong to the group you do want.
oh lord, a comment section about pain on a decrepit techie forum.. let's sit back and await the inevitable dang sticky pagination of ailments
I bet you could achieve it with three layers. First, run a "top level" Wayland compositor. Then, use XWayland to run an X session (with your favorite window manager). Then, use Weston's X client mode to run Wayland applications inside the X session.

As silly as that sounds, it might actually be a good solution. Red Hat gets to push their shiny new display server protocol, and I still get to make screen recordings and use my favorite window manager. I wonder how well it works in practice...
This is ridiculous. I highly doubt it would withstand review by any Judge who also knows the law. It won't last long. This is the same thing that leads to tyrannical governments like in China, Saudi Arabia, and Syria.
I'd say 9/11 was part of it, if not the start. And post-9/11 measures being the only 'normal' the youth today have ever known makes it less likely that demand for a return to normal will ever manifest.
Seems like they conveniently waited to fix Chrome bug before going ballistic at Microsoft.
That’s probably it exactly, I think something was just muddled in the way the article was written.
Why was this flagged submission flagged??
What should we replace consistent reliable baseline energy with?
I don’t know of any proxy in the wild that will cache anything other than GET or HEAD requests by default.
Just in case you're not aware, a pretty cool dude named Dr. Ian Carroll has been finding that a fairly substantial amount of POTS cases in EDS end up being a CSF leak, even though sometimes quite miniscule and very hard to identify. Not to say that POTS and EDS aren't a thing though. Very much is.

I was initially thought to just be suffering from POTS by some pretty well respected docs at Cleveland Clinic, but there were some outlying symptoms that just didn't add up. Ended up getting to see Dr. Carroll at Stanford and Dr. Wouter Schievink at Cedars-Sinai and they were able to visualize a leak, still in the process of trying to get blood/glue injections to work until I get through TOS surgery. After that it may end up coming to surgery for CSF as well.

Also, I hate to sound pessimistic but just want to try to give advice - from what I've heard anecdotally, TOS will slowly progress, especially in those with EDS. The younger you have surgery, the better the outcome as well. I tried to stick it out with some pretty seriously targeted physical therapy and bracing until I was 20 but shit just kinda hit the fan and I've had to opt for surgery.

There are 5-10 surgeons in the U.S. that are at the point of having really great outcomes, most notably Dr. Dean Donahue at MGH. I waited like 9 months to initially consult with him. As much as I loathe Facebook, here are some great groups with regards to knowledge of good surgeons if you ever decide to pursue that route. A bad surgeon for TOS is definitely a bit of a death sentence.

https://m.facebook.com/groups/15231937182

https://m.facebook.com/groups/205345126171314

P.S., apparently there's been a good amount of POTS cases induced by COVID-19 and not responding well to treatment. Doctor at Cleveland Clinic mentioned it to me, said they were a bit dumbfounded. Will definitely be interesting to see how things play out long-term, will hopefully end up giving POTS some more awareness it deserves. Also, I have great hope in Neuralink for EDS pain in the future. Hopefully.
I used to think so when I was younger, but boy was I wrong. No, freedom of speech to speak what you believe, right or wrong is worth not being subject to despotic control over your person, your thoughts.
It's a pretty binary thing though, with a little bit of gray area. Either you can speak your mind or you can't. I think the USA has a better take on it than Europe. Europe certainly Trumps us in health care and respect for science though and not being tricked as much by religious "leaders"