skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's be very clear: Trump did not "incite" an "insurrection".

The dude was trying to hold a rally. Shit got out of hand much like in the George Floyd riots, but to a much lesser degree. In spite of the relative magnitudes of the death and destruction in those events, the insane leftist media has somehow decided to paint the George Floyd riots as understandable at worst and freaking obligatory at best. At the same time that they paint the capitol building riot as an historic tragedy.

It's absolutely batshit. It completely beggars belief that anyone can't or won't see it, yet here we are.

And THIS is the primary reason we're seeing division in the nation today. It's not the handful of radical racists. It's not Trump's stupid tweets. It's the completely irrational and insane reaction by the left to anything that is not within their narrow and ever-shrinking Overton window.

So go ahead, make excuses. Tell me you're the good guys and we're the bad guys. It doesn't matter anymore. As long as you continue blinding yourselves, this division will grow and eventually break this nation, probably sooner than later. Frankly, I don't care anymore, and neither does half of America.
A problem I had was letting perfect be the enemy of good. I wanted the perfect workout program and wait for my fridge to be stocked with the right foods, the day to be correct so my arms won't be tired when driving and my leg won't be too sore to push in the clutch. Eventually I just did it and sorted out those other details later.

If you're in the same position I recommend immediate action. Like just go do 50 squats or 10 pushups or something. It feels good and in a month you won't have excuses for why you didn't start - you'll have progress.
Lifting Self-Imposed Restrictions on the U.S.-Taiwan Relationship
No one, especially Russia is interested in a nuclear war. Disarmed okay, but for what? Nuking a size of the US or Russia is ending the world, even without nuclear subs or allies striking back.

That Russia plays the US right now like a fiddle: hell yes. Disarming the nuclear weapons: not important. It is at best distraction.

Actually, I am pretty sure, in that regards they would prefer more stability. Putin plays the MAD game already longer than any other ruler currently in control of nuclear warheads.
Does it introduce itself with “Hi, I’m Olaf and I love warm hugs”?
> The Ada philosophy has it right: readability and correctness far outweigh writeability.

Given the popular success of Ada I'm not sure I would call that "having it right" except in very specific circumstances
Maybe Uganda (and other countries) will start thinking about replaceing US-run social media with home grown solutions.

Given that open source and federated replacements for Twitter[1], Instagram[2], Reddit[3], YouTube[4] etc exist, this would not be a massive undertaking.

1: Mastodon, https://mastodon.social/about

2: PixelFed, https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed

3: Lemmy, https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

4: PeerTube, https://joinpeertube.org/en/
If people are using your services to plan criminal acts you have an absolute right to kick them off.
If you are characterizing crypto as irrational or a thoughtless temptation, I have to imagine you are comparing it to traditional investments like stocks, bonds, etc. Maybe you are right there, maybe you aren't. Personally, I've done terrible at stocks and wonderful at crypto, so i disagree due to experiential knowledge.

If you are comparing crypto to USD savings, it is quite obvious from a 10 year chart which one is irrational. Even if you completely write off the growth of crypto entirely, it is quite easy to beat negative value growth.
Implicit and optional tags have been part of HTML for decades. A valid HTML page that uses them is completely unambiguous. Nothing prevents it from being parsed and converted to an XML‐compatible document on the fly by tools.

Writing HTML in an XML‐like fashion has its own quirks since HTML is not parsed the same way. Can you add elements within an <img></img>, or self‐close a <span/>?
To which I might add that the POTUS who removed most troops f/ Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq; and who held off on retaliation for Iran's shelling of US bases in Iraq -- would appear to be a very low risk candidate for starting a nuclear holocaust. So, we might ask ourselves why this narrative is being pushed as POTUS and many conservatives are being purged from social media. Its almost as if there's something else taking place.
An elimination that isn't immediately followed by a conventional World War 3, that is. Nukes are what keeps our world of uncooperative humans mostly at peace after all.

Nuclear weapons are themselves just a test for us, too. If we want to grow as a species and civilization - truly grow and reach out of our gravity well - then nukes will become just firecrackers compared to what we'll end up dealing with. Orbital velocities being what they are, any interesting interplanetary or interstellar tech will require us commanding similar or larger levels of energy on a regular basis. Which is why I suspect MAD doctrine is with us to stay - now with nuclear weapons, in the future with asteroids and power plants of large spacecraft.
People talked about defunding education and the military for years. Both for and against. Everyone understood what it meant.
Russia just recently introduced laws that would allow to fine Youtube and social networks if they hinder propagation of important information, so according to them not only banning their propagandists, but even removing them from suggestion lists is prohibited by law. Of course they probably don't have means to enforce this law, but it's an interesting strategy.
Occupying a government building for a few hours to disrupt a ceremonial activity isn't an attempt to "overthrow the US government". The capitol isn't a game of Capture the Flag - you don't get power just by standing there. At most, the occupational of the capitol was equivalent to a sort of political panty raid. Silly, yes. Meaningful, no.

You have bought into a hysterical narrative, at least as fantastic as whatever insane narrative the QAnon people have bought into.
Another example (same speech):

> And after this, we're going to walk down and I'll be there with you. We're going to walk down--

> We're going to walk down. Anyone you want, but I think right here, we're going to walk down to the Capitol--

> And we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women and we're probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them.

> Because you'll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong.

> We have come to demand that Congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated. Lawfully slated.
Deno can run both JS and TS no problem.
Would Tesla roll a new MCU for a $25K car or possibly reuse the one from the 3/Y? The CPU in the current MCU is custom, if they wanted to limit software development cost on it, using the same MCU might make sense as well as economies of scale and what not.

The cameras on a Tesla are used for Front Collision Alert, Lane Departure Warning and Lane Keep Assist as well as Sentry Mode. The backup camera is required by law in many places now. Removing those would limit the number of advanced safety features they could offer.

I wonder how much cost savings would be realized by removing the nonessential cameras? I know automotive grade parts tend to cost more but are we talking about hundreds or thousands of dollars in savings?
You can give away a lot of money while still making more, particularly in a year like 2020.

I don't think they thought they were agreeing to give away half of every future dollar.

They are giving billions away, and trying to look for ways to condemn what they're doing is only punishing a good thing. Never punish a behaviour you want more of.

PS the tax deduction thing is envious garbage - you can only deduct the amount of tax on the dollars you donate (ie your top marginal tax rate). So you have to lose a LOT more than you "gain" through deduction. You don't come out ahead.

And you should never have been taxed because you didn't keep the dollar.
> So it's fair that you cannot get an MRI done paying for it?

Yup, while the system is being subsidized with public money you can't just setup something competing while taking advantage of the public system too.
I'm also a huge fan of solarized, so I know from some styling
experiments with LaTeX documents that solarized just has a bit
too little contrast for normal text documents. Which is why I'd
recommend adjusting the text brightness - it still looks
relatively similar but helps significantly.
Hell will freeze over first. Trump will not show at inauguration, he has not acknowledged Biden as the next President or that fraud was insignificant in the election.

Anyways, whatever he says, he's got zero credibility, follows the most pathological path of psychopathy, though is expert in massively duping people for his own crimes and frauds. Though, he's so bad and incompetent in everything else, he relies on enablers around him that he later can backstab for his own mistakes.

https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-99178053752
Holy hell. To anyone reading this; if you believe everyone not in your bucket is in the other bucket, and there are only two buckets.. I would caution you to step back and consider:

1.) Everyone not in your bucket is NOT in the other bucket

2.) Everyone not in the other bucket is NOT in your bucket

Your arguments just appear to be a bunch of straw men to me. I can't identify a single one of those as mainstream viewpoints. Nobody I know who voted against Trump holds them. I'm personally a "liberal" that owns guns and am against bans an buybacks.

People, please, be warry of people trying to convince you there is a binary set of beliefs and it's all-or-nothing.
Ask HN: Smartphone Friendly OS?
I have a bunch of old phones that I have slowly been introducing into my daily activities. One struggle area is most modern apps are just not available through the play store (or equivalent) for those old OS versions.

Is there a phone OS where I could potentially compile apps for and run it on my phone ? I do this for linux on my desktop and VMs. I have no clue where to start for phones.
Every time you run a dynamically linked program on linux the system linker mmaps your program + libraries into memory.

You may not personally see mmap used, but it is used quite often in software you use.
The most interesting thing to me is that the gifts are unrestricted with no reporting requirements. (Also unsolicited)

An enormous amount of philanthropic money ostensibly meant to support the marginalized ends up spent on paperwork and "middle management" to do applications, book-keeping for allocation and reporting requirements, and reporting -- and the salaries for the people doing all that, who are not usually the 'marginalized' intended to support.

Eliminating all that with unrestricted gifts with no reporting requiremens is huge -- and very unlike most of the "data-driven" "entrepeneurial giving" that is all the rage.
How do you consume the weed for your runs and exercise in general? Edibles, smoke, or vaping?

Just wondering.
Facebook and Twitter might do well to just ban politics entirely at this point. It costs them a lot to touch it.
It's not a personal judgment for what is a lawful order. It's only a personal judgment whether you follow an order. Soldiers aren't the legal arbiters. The legal process will determine if it was lawful only after the fact. Society will also judge after the fact. Both have means to punish you for picking wrongly.

But the safe bet today is to refuse any unconsciousable order because the next administration likely won't punish for it.
Didn’t prevent USA wars in the past, why would it be different this time?
Odd. I watched Trump's speech and I watched and heard him tell protestors to literally go home and not engage in violence, and then it was reported Trump activated the DC national guard to defend the capital. We must live in different universes.
Her Wiki was recently changed to call her that too.
That's it? That is your evidence that Trump was going to initiate a military overthrow of the government?

I do think was careless and even erroneous in many of his assertions but that is miles away from advocating for the violent overthrow of the government.
why would banking not be avaliable via www?
I agree with your overall point that we need to revitalize our voting system. The Center for Election Science has made a convincing argument for approval voting as a method to de-polarize elections [1].

[1] https://electionscience.org/library/the-center-squeeze-effec...
Fruit and cold showers!

Every interview with a centenarian asks "what's the secret of your longevity?" They answer and we all nod and stroke our chins and think maybe there's something to that cold shower thing after all. Or whatever. If his secret had been that he drinks three Dr. Peppers a day, or that he does a headstand for five minutes every morning at sunrise, our response would be the same.

He no more knows the secret of his longevity than a gambler knows the secret of a hot streak. Like every centenarian, he's on the mother of all hot streaks, that's all. Our impulse to find some causal agency that we can understand and adopt is no different than a gambler's. When he said "fruit and cold showers", it's no different than saying "if I stand on one foot and close my left eye when I throw the dice, I don't crap out."

I have to think that he knows this and he's just humoring us because he knows we want an answer other than ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. After all, we are all just children to him.
So you'd rather the current government make this decision? You know, the government run by a president who directly incited all this "hang mike pence" stuff, right from Twitter itself?

While the rioting was happening, the president tweeted "Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!" And his lawyer tweeted "[Pence] will face execution by firing squad. He is a coward & will sing like a bird & confess ALL."

I'm not sure if those are the people we want making these decisions.

Like I said, I don't like any of this. I want to live in a world where we don't have to decide between the government and large companies, neither of which I particularly like. But alas, here we are... and currently, Twitter is the one on the side of "not lynching the VP", so I guess I'm on their side.
Because no test reliably disproved the null hypothesis that it is random (in a particular way, events being poisson distributed)

https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/340552:

Science doesn't tell us the reason things happen. It provides a way to develop models which predict what will happen. For all we know, Zeus himself personally causes every radioactive atom to decay when he sees fit. Science cannot disprove such a claim.

What we can do is use the scientific method. In the scientific method, we pick a "null hypothesis" which is what everybody expects to happen, and an "alternate hypothesis" which is the interesting thing we want to test. Then we run an experiment and hopefully show that the null hypothesis is highly unlikely, while our alternate hypothesis is good. In the case of this topic, the usual null hypothesis is "radioactive decay is random."

To date, nobody has been able to develop a test which can demonstrate that they can predict the timing of radioactive decays better than random chance. That's not to say there's not some local hidden variable, or a cherub that knocks the atom about to cause it to decay. It just says that nobody has been able to provide such a theory which does better than the "radioactive decay is truly random" theory does.

So, there may be a perfectly non random reason, but if so, that reason is similarly random. For example, if one hypothesizes a particle that ‘hits’ atoms that causes them to decay, those particles must hit atoms with a particular random distribution to explain the data we see.

And yes, t radio-active decay could be driven by a 100% predictable random number generator, but if so, we haven’t noticed yet, so that random number generator must be very, very good.
What GANs do you use to generate stock images?

Do you have a GPT-3 key?
I've been reading a bit of Noam Chomsky this afternoon, not a person I'd agree with politically but many of his observations ring true regardless.

"The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political and economic elites, through the technique of flood or flooding continuous distractions and insignificant information."
How is that an example of violent overthrow? Stating that Congress should act in a particular way is advocating violent overthrow?
For two years I had been suffering back pain from muscle spasms around my scapula, and pain in the joint between a rib and my spine. It would start every day at 12-2pm, and continue for the rest of the day.

I worked out (incl. DL, Squat, running), but had to stop because it exacerbated the pain.

Physio/Doctors/specialists/X-ray/MRI came up with nothing.

WFH exacerbated the issue.

It was impacting my life every day: I could only work for ~3 hours per day, and walking/driving became painful.

I'm 95% better now, and working on rehab.

Here's what helped (thanks to a spine physio):

* Avoiding craning my neck: raise monitor, raise phone.
* Frequent breaks.
* Scapula mobility.
* Deep neck flexor exercises.

I think this started when I heavily used my laptop on my couch, which relied on craning too much.

Resolving this has been my highlight of 2020.
http://www.nochrichte.ch/ A hackernews for swiss news with a touch of RSS feeds. I had no users, adwords didn‘t work so I disabled most half implemented stuff. Now it‘s just a swiss news rss.
Tesla has over 2 billion miles of autopilot driving data. I am skeptical of the suggestion that more driving data will accelerate or open the door to significant progress. I could easily see more data reducing efficiency and increasing overall costs.

"which Silicon Valley company will consider having thousands of eyes on the road at all times a bad thing?"

Any company that doesn't want it or need it? I'm not sure I see the obviousness. Just because something is cool doesn't mean I want my company spending money on it. What am I missing?
How to detect a cryptocurrency pump-and-dump:

1. Is someone trying to sell cryptocurrency?
2. You found it.
> I want to preserve inequitable outcomes in policing because society is stronger with inequitable outcomes - permits good life for high percentile individuals and constrains operations for low percentile individuals.

Thanks for being clear about your perspective. Do you think there's potential for abuse with different rulesets for different people?

> Demarcating crime from uncrime is Sorites paradox.

I disagree. The measure of a crime is subjective and objective. Subjectively, the victim notices they have been wronged. Objectively, there is a claim by a plaintiff against a defendant. A claim either exists or it does not, there is no sorites.
Valve actually used cdak (http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=55758) to demo their prototype headset.

It was a specially optimized version to be able to run at full framerate on the hardware of that time. I have looked for it but it doesn't seem to be available anywhere.

There is a Shadertoy version but without the optimization and last time I tried I actually had to tweak it a little to make it compile.
Regarding multi-tenancy: The CRD schema is global but versioned, so it's annoying-but-manageable with multiple tenants.

Controllers can be scoped to a namespace without requiring cluster-level permissions, no?
> the CIA's secret campaign to turn American art into anti-Soviet cultural propaganda

This is perfectly credible. But extrapolating that example of government influence over culture to the premise "media is 100% under the control and direction of the government" or, furthermore, a hidden or shadow government... is stretching well beyond a logical conclusion. (It would have to be a shadow government, because mainstream media and social media were not going along with the Republicans led by Trump, when they were in power over several branches of the U.S. government.)

You need a lot more evidence to dispel the notion that this is "not a conspiracy."
Also not an expert, but I wonder how they will then sell other Tesla cars for $80,000 with the same logo on it.
Any chance you could get the vr cameras to recognize a physical keyboard (not necessarily plugged in) and map the virtual keyboard over the top? Obviously it relies on the user sitting at a desk. But it would provide physical feedback.
> The fact remains that the President gathered tens of thousands of people and, with a torrent of lies, weaponized them into an attack on the United States. Just because it failed doesn't make it any less grave of a crime.

I cannot fathom why you keep saying this. Please present some evidence.
As a visually impaired person please don't. I like being able to resize text and still have the document flow properly instead of endlessly scrolling back and forth.
But if one reads Parker's terms of service (TOS), they reserve the right to moderate illegal content, as well as claim unlimited global usage of any content uploaded to their platform. Thus while their ethos was largely anti-moderation, their TOS seems to put responsibility for their platform in their hands---at least in my non-lawyer eyes.
I built a search engine designed to balance against clickbait, SEO abuse etc. https://www.pageref.org/.

Also, no ads or tracking.

Works well for some things, but needs improvement, especially for technical or specific queries.
I built a small voice communication portal I'm calling Rally Call [0] that will be submitted to the Digital Ocean/Dev hackathon tomorrow [1]. Rally Call is intended to be a backup group communication portal that can be used in emergencies and situations where use of cell phones is lost. It is essentially a group voicemail-box that runs on Twilio. If you and your group had the foresight to sign up for an account, you could use Rally Call to let others in your group know your status ("Hey everyone, I'm OK. I made it out and am staying at a friend's house") or to organize ("Let's all group up and meet at uncle John's house in two days."). You dial in from any touch tone phone and enter your Crew's Account PIN to access the account where you can listen to or record messages for the group. Only one Crew member needs to register for an account and can share the dial-in number and account PIN with anyone they want in their Crew.

While the project's intent is a backup comm system for emergencies, it could obviously be used for any number of purposes. I still have a couple things to button up before submitting, but it's mostly done and should be a solid MVP by this time tomorrow.

[0] - https://github.com/chrsstrm/rallycall
[1] - https://dev.to/devteam/announcing-the-digitalocean-app-platf...
"Buying tulips is a rational decision because others are irrational and bidding them up"
In that case you have no idea how the money is spent, right? Maybe it’s an improvement, but I’m inclined to say better the devil you know.
> Yes, it could be that project after project after project using cmake is just "holding it wrong", and that's why it doesn't build on aarch64, openbsd, intel x32, MIPS

what are you talking about ? take for instance kcachegrind, it builds with cmake and works on every architecture that debian supports (https://packages.debian.org/en/sid/devel/kcachegrind).
I also never had issues with x32 when I used it, nor on freebsd. Can't say for openbsd but I'd be surprised it does not work there - this seems to point that other than a minor path issue things just work: https://www.sizeofvoid.org/posts/2020-03-29-how-to-build-qt5....