skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me be very clear, I do wish there was an objective set of facts that are agreed to by both sides. But that doesn't seem to be true anymore.

> There are good statistics on the number of deaths and positive tests for Covid.

There is a significant segment of the population that believes the virus is a hoax, or not nearly as bad as the media says. Some of these people, even while dying from the virus, are still in denial, and yell at the medical staff about it.

Go watch some interviews with doctors and nurses. It will make you very sad and disappointed in humanity.
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Look for the BMW 1 or 2 series here: https://www.bmwusa.com/

They don’t sell it in the US, so my guess is they think it does. Which is why the cheapest US model I could find starts at $41,250.
1. Are you sharing this website with them?

2. How well do your AI after photos compare to the real ones?

Cool project!
Then what do you suggest? To we censor the news altogether? They report facts and usually they do it on a very editorialized way.

Hiding information from the population is what authoritarian states do.
How about the story that gave serious airtime to the book “In Defense of Looting” [0], which as the title implies, wholeheartedly condoned the looting and rioting that occurred during the summer protests.

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/08/27/906642178...
It's plain Trump admires Putin, and even fell in love with Kim Il-Sung. You can't box in that person as a normal human being, but have to see past the appearances what he truly aspires too. More and more people realize this now, but many of us have revealed this for many years already. Especially past victims will tell you horror-stories. What happened now was to be expected, and worse.
I’m not trying to be cynical but to me this is why the USA and Canada has economically sabotaged themselves. We can’t possibly catch up to the skill, tooling, and pure ability of the Asian countries making our stuff.

Tim Cook points out that many believe it’s about labor costs, and that’s largely a matter of arrogance in my opinion. Many of us don’t even realize how few of us here can actually make the stuff we design. Even if we could afford our own labor, we couldn’t find the people to pay to do it anyway. How will we compete?

I’m actually curious if anyone knows what the solution to this is. It worries me quite a bit. I don’t see a bright future for North America because we can’t manufacture so many things and I think it’s going to eventually bite us very hard.
While I do not believe Broadcom has released any documentation on the 3D hardware in the Raspberry Pi 4, you can figure out a fair amount by looking at the Mesa driver. In particular see the shader processor instruction packing code (https://github.com/mesa3d/mesa/blob/master/src/broadcom/qpu/...).

For vertex arrays, while in theory the driver could load vec2/vec4 F16 attributes into the vertex shader as-is, AFAICT the Mesa driver does not attempt to do this; they get converted to F32 as they are loaded from main memory. There would be downsides to getting rid of this conversion... in particular the hardware does not support F32->F16 conversions when loading attributes, so the driver would have to recompile the shader if you switched the vertex arrays to F32 (or perhaps more likely recompile the shader when it realises you are using F16 vertex arrays rather than F32).

In any case, the hardware does support zero overhead F16->F32 conversions when loading attributes, so you should not see a performance drop when switching vertex arrays to F16! The performance should go up slightly as less data needs to be loaded from main memory. If you're seeing an 80% performance drop something has gone terribly wrong!
would be tragic if the cloud providers start removing apps on a whim, as the app stores do. so far they've been pretty neutral (e.g. I think they didn't remove pornhub but they could have and no one would object much).
This is really false, or was true until Toyota and Honda came in with high profit, low cost cars in the 70s/80s.
IMHO blogs are documents, and HTML is no longer designed for documents but web applications.

Blogs need to go back to document publishing formats. It doesn't get more user-friendly than 1. WYSIWYG word processor; 2. Save As PDF; 3. Dump the file on a web host.

I'm switching to PDF/A: https://lab6.com/0#page=2
> made clear rulings based on the evidence.

At least some, maybe most of those challenges were dismissed on procedural grounds, lack of standing, etc. They never got to the point of examining the "evidence." Maybe the retort to that is the challengers should have foreseen that. But the people filing these challenges were not unhinged randos from Twitter. They were elected officials, lawyers, educated people. They aren't going to go into court with something they know is frivolous.

Given that a sizable minority (and likely unprecedented number) of the voting public thinks there was fraud in the 2020 election, maybe it would have been better to have rebutted the evidence rather than the process.

https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/20...
I'm not really sure how a longer clip or even a live stream is as reliable as a reputable source + those things. They can both be easily dubbed over and manipulated as well. I don't think it will be long before this is happening regularly.

If a reporter and publication release the evidence and also stand by it's authenticity, that definitely lends more credence and at least allow you to filter where information is coming from by reliability.
To my mind, this effort by Pelosi (if true) is more dangerous than anything Trump said this week.
This statement in the abstract is correct. The context in which it’s applied ... well I’m sure many actually believe Trump supporters are “literally” terrorists.

This technology was of course also used to identify those laying siege to various federal buildings over the summer, but I guess it’s okay now. This is to say that the context in which this technology is used obviously matters a lot and is directly related to who holds the reigns of cultural power. Yay.
Honestly I feel bad for the people who were duped into doing the ransacking. They thought their leader was telling them the truth.

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.
> Even if they're legally bound

They are not legally bound. They are legally bound to follow a lawful order. It's a personal judgment call what constitutes a lawful order, and in 99.9% of the cases people just follow orders. But when it comes to ending the world, I think all officers, without exception, will realize the order to nuke a random target is not lawful, and will refuse to obey.
Well, from the other side Jeff got the rest for being her spouse. They were married before Amazon was founded, so they were involved in that as a couple. And she also left job and moved for founding Amazon.
Some of the protest videos show peaceful conduct like this one. Others are extremely unpleasant to watch (NSFL).

I have no doubt that if some of the more radical elements in the crowd had actually gotten hold of someone, things would have gotten a lot more serious.

Fortunately that didn't happen, so thank goodness for that.
It's 0% decentralized. Banning the president on Signal would not be hard.
There seems to be a lot of benefits from it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_reflex
> She was talking about BLM protests, whose goal was not violence:

Maybe that wasn't the goal, as it also wasn't the goal of most of the Trump protestors. But there was nevertheless plenty of violence.

Just seven months ago, dozens of Secret Service agents were hospitalized after being attacked by BLM protestors attempting to storm the White House.

https://www.newsmax.com/us/white-house-secret-service/2020/0...

Recent events have really, really opened my eyes as to how the media covers events that it supports versus events it does not support.
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> I hate text editor plugins that automatically add closing delimiters

Glad I'm not the only one. The less an editor does automatically
to "help" me the better. I agree, a shortcut to close the last
opening syntax element would be nice, but for this to work
properly the editor needs to be aware of how all the syntax
elements interact, e.g. to differentiate between '<' used in a
logical comparison and the same symbol as start of an XML tag.
Or to correctly close an XML tag no matter if it has attributes.

I have a shortcut in Vim for three different kinds of brackets
but it's a bit janky. Still better than the automatic stuff the
typical IDE and modern editor does without asking, though.
Like the 4000 Amazon employees who get food stamps? I think she is probably plowing that money into leftist political organizations.
> Accepting Illegally obtained evidence is accepting legally planted evidence.

Whether evidence is illegally obtained is independent from whether it is planted. Or am I missing something?

Similarly with your second point.
It would not be a coup because it doesn't aim to oust the president. At worst the generals in question would be guilty of disobeying orders, and that's assuming the order was legal in the first place.
When can we move '1984' to the non-fiction section?
But, but, ... billionaires can't actually do anything positive with their wealth because they don't have money, it's all just in stocks!!!1!!
Yeah, that’s even worse. A perfect missile shield seems like it would save lives, but could negate MAD.
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> Hah... so, did you verify this stuff about MSM being a force to mislead?

Its obvious. If you look at what is presented, you are given lots of claims, but very few facts. Its just a load of evidence-free noise. What's to evaluate?!

Seriously, look a little deeper at almost any article. There is no actual information there. The question you should ask - critically - is how do I know this to be true? And if you don't know it to be true, why do you believe it to be true anyway?

UPDATE/EDIT

And, in other conspiracy news, I am unable to reply to comments below. "You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks." This will probably prevent me from replying for a few hours (last time it was 3 hours). Understandably, people will think I'm flaky and unable to defend my position, where I am happy to have a meaningful interaction and share a different point of view.

Ask yourself, should I be able to say what I have said, in a free society? Did you think HN wasn't part of the problem?
> If some instance of a federated system is allowing child porn or other criminal content to flourish then they should be shut down. Every instance would need to be held to a baseline standard for dealing with such content.

... so moderation, then?
Gallup poll numbers are at https://news.gallup.com/poll/1597/confidence-institutions.as....

I don't know that "people" in the original argument equates to "universally", but the only institutions that a majority of people have either a "Great deal" or "Quite a lot" of trust in are the medical system (just barely, 51%), the military (72%), and small business (75%). So small business is trusted more than the military, and basically nothing else is.

6% of people have a great deal of trust in Congress and 9% in television news which I guess are around the percentage of dentists who recommend sugared gum to their patients who chew gum.
I would want to know this as well, latest Thinkpads are not as user serviceable anymore, Lenovo said they will support Linux on some models. I wish Panasonic Toughbook 55 were officially supporting Linux, that's a great looking modular machine.
there is no secret to longevity, at least not one "the secret" key to everything.

the real secret to longevity is recreating the conditions are bodies function best at and upholding those conditions. because our environment is so radically different from the past, this requires a lot of discipline, pondering, and paying attention most of all.

our bodies evolved for a certain environment, and recreating that environment would do us good. (i believe that careful people lived long lives pre-industry.)

some of these conditions are regular exercise, occasional starvation, following environmental queues, supporting a healthy biome, and avoiding stress.

our approaches to health today are comical in their attempt to simplify and reduce a billion-year-old continuously-evolving system down to one or two simple concepts while ignoring all the harm we do to it at the same time.

to use a car analogy, it's sort of like throwing away your automobile's maintenance manual and saying, "i heard the key to car longevity is changing the oil often", and filling up the engine with olive oil.
In other words, Mint doesn’t store your passwords in plain text, it stores them reversibly encrypted. That is indeed better, because if someone hacks Mint’s database they might not be able to read your passwords. However, it has the same problem as plaintext passwords that if someone at Mint is untrustworthy, they can decrypt your password and pretend to be you. That system makes it inconvenient for you to protect your accounts (you would have to memorize new passwords for all of them) and difficult to apply for restitution later (because it looks like you were the one who logged in).
I think it's time to distribute (what's the proper word here?) first-strike power - what I'm trying to say is make it a vote with at least 2/3rds majority from a diverse group.

Importantly as we've seen with Trump/Republican rule it should not be game-able with just executive power (many times non-confirmed) political appointees.

I don't like writing two party rule into law (FEC as an example) but I'm not sure a better solution even adding judiciary is partisan control these days. Even NSC has been gutted and politicized by Trump.

It's harder to confirm a low level judge or actually confirm a cabinet level staff member in Trump's admin than it is to launch an all out unprovoked nuclear assault.
Then you’re not against censorship.
For years now I've been focusing on squat, standing press, and (when my elbows heal) pull-ups. My variation are pause squats (3 seconds down, 2 seconds hold, up fast), front squat, and now overhead squat. My variation for the standing ("strict press") is bench press, which I do 1X a week. I try to run 1X a week, sometimes 2X, but I'm inconsistent. I normally do 1X a week of deadlifts and ring rows but I have an elbow flare-up at the moment.

I do the three main ones (squat, press and pullup) 3X a week. No push day, no pull day, every workout is squat day. No machines -- evah! No curls. None of that. I do a small amount of accessory work for core, forearm muscles, and neck muscles, as well as PT work. I also spend a LOT of time warming up, probably 30 minutes. I'm in my lower 40's and recently tested with pretty solid testosterone of 670, and bloodwork is all good. I look way younger for my age. I also do intermittent fasting (really just skipping breakfast). I do drink, however.

There was a period when my gym closed during the pandemic and I had no alternative. I had to take a couple months off. Well, the muscles remained muscles (which does not happen so much with bodybuilders, who tend to get their muscles convert to fat pretty quickly), and after a few months I'm back to squatting pretty decently (I can do 1.6X my bodyweight for 5x5).

I absolutely recommend strength training for the older guy. Especially the PC nerd older guy.

I plan to continue weight training but cut out 1 day and instead learn proper calisthenics.
More like:

2016 US election had foreign propaganda interference (damn our algos weren't good enough!)

2021 Open violent attack on democratic process to certify president election.
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> This is the future imo

Not in USA they aren't. Too small.
Fact remains they have never deployed them. I am no fan of China, but Hey at least they say they won’t deploy as opposed to certain other countries (for eg. India’s immediate neighbor)
Anectdata of one:

Once Covid forced my startup to WFH, I started doing body weight exercise and using some cheap resistance bands I bought when I would have otherwise been commuting. Previously, I’d been a runner doing 3ish runs a week. I can’t tell you how much more energy and mental focus I have now that I’ve put on more muscle and am stronger.

The biggest change I made to get into the habit as a founder was giving myself the mental permission to work out instead of feeling like I should be working. And I’ve found that even with the time dedicated to exercise, I tend to get more done because I’m more focused. Lowering the barrier to entry with home equipment really helped me.
This is a very nauseating read.

Lots of

If you said this, you are wrong.

Great, but I didn't say the sky is green, I said it wasn't always blue.
I often read that editing a title is discouraged.

However: What should "384 ways to help?" tell me? It's clickbait.

The edited title at least gives me an idea what the content is all about. It's so good it actually serves as a summary.
There might already be nuclear weapons deployed in space, and almost surely already deployable quickly via a platform like x-37b
Mail in voting has already destroyed the secret ballot.
The cameras and machine learning thing is a money maker for Tesla. It will allow them to gather a lot of data, I mean, which Silicon Valley company will consider having thousands of eyes on the road at all times a bad thing?

Plus, expect these cameras to be the basis of expensive options and subscriptions.
What criminal act? He hasn't been arrested or impeached. His words were quite vague. If we just start assuming people are guilty then I fear our system has failed. This is really an issue for the courts (in this case impeachment) to decide.

It would possible apply to Facebook events, if those events have any description of violence.
Yes! Democrats and Republicans agree on more than they think. At least those in the middle. We've fallen into this trap of thinking we're totally divided when we argue on the margins about taxes and healthcare (and don't get me wrong, there are some pretty big divisions there).

But today we're not really arguing over the margins; the question before us today is "should we live in a democracy where the people decide the outcome of elections?" 90% of Democrats and Republicans will agree that yes! We should!

Let's secure our democracy, then we can go back to arguing over the tax rate.
I do more sport then before. Sport requires time and mind to do it. I have both more then before.
This is a lie.
I have seen so many people threaten the POTUS and talked about evading cops and support BLM riots without any regards to others.
High-five from the opengl-bash guy!

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Yes, in the tweets that stayed up.

This a big reason why I dislike censorship. It distorts everything, and removes evidence.
Really? Advocating the violent overthrow of Congress and the rule of law by a sitting president is less worrisome than trying to prevent that same sitting president from murdering tens of millions of innocent people in your name?
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I'd much rather we spent that money eradicating hunger and curable diseases first.
You can definitely still get a workout, and I get probably about as much exercise now as I did before. But I don't have anything like the same strength training equipment so I think I've definitely lost a lot of strength as I can't do any heavy lifting.
I look forward to hearing more about this!
Quite a few - a big part of working out and sticking with it is social aspect for some - if you can get that - fun workout group - you are golden and chance of sticking with plan goes way up.

Plenty of studies back this up [1]

Comments that downplay this may not be from folks with fun and healthy workout patterns

Anyways - at least for me it’s been disruptive

https://experiencelife.com/article/strength-in-numbers-the-i...
We need them (and oil drillers) in case an asteroid comes at us.
https://twitter.com/steipete/status/1346117909450518529?s=20 for perspectives from people/discussion, for the situation straight up: https://t.co/HNTP5BDY6x?amp=1

p.s. its dumb, but, thanks for coming back here and conversating. at a real low this week for sundry reasons outside the news headlines, having a small, normal, discussion where someone assumed good faith even after I failed to make a full effort to participate positively, was a ray of sunshine.
I disagree. Sure it doesn't cost much, but it's visually displeasing, has low range and little capacity. Also, I'm guessing the quality of the interior is somewhat reflected by the price.
one of those situations where I'm supposed to be
supportive of the use of facial recognition

No, it's not. This is the Hoan Ton-That supposedly protecting us from the crazies...

"Founder Hoan Ton-That’s has links to the far-right movement that move right past suspicious into obvious, according to HuffPo. He reportedly attended a 2016 dinner with white supremacist Richard Spencer and organised by alt-right financier Jeff Giesea, an associate of Palantir founder and Trump-supporting billionaire Peter Thiel. (Thiel secretly bankrolled a lawsuit that bankrupted Gizmodo’s former parent company, Gawker Media.) Ton-That was also a member of a Slack channel run by professional troll Chuck Johnson for his now-defunct WeSearchr, a crowdfunding platform primarily used by white supremacists; that channel included people like the webmaster of neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer, Andrew Auernheimer, and conspiracy theorist Mike Cernovich"

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2020/04/creepy-face-recognition-f...
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/08/politics/pelosi-letter-on-nuc...

All it says in the letter is that she discussed the process with someone at the Pentagon.
Give me the quote that justifies your statement that Trump was "Advocating the violent overthrow of Congress and the rule of law"
Usurping one of the three co-equal branches of government would qualify as a coup, we are not a kingdom or monarchy beholden to the executive.
It 3 countries establish colonies on Mars, there will still be only 1 government with real authority on mars and it will be the one established there. It's just too hard to survive there without local autonomy and cooperation.
It is because Twitter is an older platform and obviously has an active moderation team. It seems either Parler is unwilling or overwhelmed to clean up shit.
I cannot believe that if a deranged sitting President would task the Army (or whatever branch) with bombing a random country, the safeguards in place wouldn't be common fucking sense in all those involved.
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social media should also be considered infrastructure. but not only social media. everything we use online.

email is another obvious example. there are 1000s of email providers, but migrating is a pain. for example, I can easily switch mobile provider because by law I can keep using the same phone number. that should also apply to email. I write a lot more emails than make phone calls so the law needs an update. same for social media. I should be able to easily move from provider to provider. if twitter bans me, I can move to another one and keep my handle and followers and messages. why should twitter be allowed to ban people at their discretion? they are just a medium at this point. the content that is being generated has nothing to do with twitter. the electrical company doesn't care what I use their electricity for. I could be using it to commit a crime and they still wouldn't ban me (as long as I pay of course).