skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
2016 also had open violent attacks on democratic process to certify president election, remember? Riots, destruction of property in November and December 2016? Calls for electoral college voters to switch their votes. Ring a bell?
Because he doesn't actually give two figs about Taiwan [1], he just wants to piss in the cereal bowl of the next administration.

This is not a decision driven by foreign policy - this is a decision driven by domestic political squabbles.

It's similar to an administration running a deficit for four years, losing an election, and then having their party suddenly rediscover the virtues of fiscal responsibility and balanced budgets... Only to forget it the next time they take power.

[1] As you pointed out, if he did, he would have made this decision years ago.
An ISIS technical has more firepower than this. Oooooh 11 molotovs.... more than that were used in a number of demos this past summer...

It’s a willful exaggeration and narrative driving.
Hot war isn’t really an option with nukes. It’s all about trying to get your opponent to own-goal.
It's a Constitutional Republic, and the Federalist Papers go to great length as to explain why.

Just because you want to conflate the form of government with your favorite party that participates in it (the usual motivation behind the slip besides just laziness), it is not anyone else's fault but your own.

The rest, my inner pedant can live with.
Climber here, can confirm. I have never had to dig deep or play little tricks with myself to find the motivation to climb once the habit is established. I'm always looking forward to my next session, it's an intrinsically motivating activity. I've never been able to keep up a regular running or weightlifting routine for more than a couple months.
Were you in poor shape in your twenties or are you also taking HGH/test through your doc? The amount of testosterone your body produces at 20 vs 64 is massive.

Testosterone and no exercise produces more lean muscle, than exercising without it. Yes, it makes that big of a difference: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199607043350101

Thanks for sharing.
Linked wiki shows USTDC as inactive for about 40 years. Are there active US bases in Taiwan?
Also mindustry (1) which is a factorio-like game with tower defense elements. Great game and still in active development.

(1) https://mindustrygame.github.io
Interesting - if you had a parsing language defined, you could combine raw data with transformations, e.g.

float_name 5.75 DUP MUL float

so the transformed data gets loaded in. Could be cool for arrays or more complex data where you want to save the raw data and a record of how it gets transformed.

And I understand you are targeting a minimal implementation, but the concept could also apply to bigger datasets and higher level languages, e.g.

array_name 1 2 3 4 5 "x if x%2 ==0" array
> Another side told people that their country was being stolen from them and only they could stop it before telling them to go to the capital.

Was it or wasn't it being stolen? Do you have a debunking of Matt Braynard's argument? [1]

I presume not, since one hasn't been presented, because the evidence hasn't been examined or litigated, which is why hundreds of thousands of people went to the capital.

What should the American voter do if they believe there's a chance that their election was unfair? Sit it out? Would you?

Stop spreading the "very fine people" misinformation.

[1] https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/11/matt_braynards_...

[2]
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/03/21/trump_...
For those wondering why they should care about yet another image format:

https://jakearchibald.com/2020/avif-has-landed/

This is incredible.
So you keep saying, but I have to wonder what’s the total reach? If 20% are reading, are they then immediately retelling each to 2 more people? And what if every single news caster, PR agent, and manager is among the 20%?

Also, how much is too much? Is 51% the red line?

I think most fruitful approach is to borrow from the antitrust law - a business should be large enough to distort the entire market. Not quite certain how to apply the metric in this case, but that’s the idea.
> It's not ok to enjoy things that are dangerous to _other_ people.

Almost every activity you could possibly do, including being alive, has some negative risk externality to other people. E.g. if you are alive, you are more likely to spread a disease to someone else than if you are dead and buried in the ground. If you drive anywhere, you might possibly run into someone, but if you stayed at home they'd be safe.

If your philosophy is "you can never do anything that's dangerous to someone else", it's a hopelessly bad zeroth-order approximation that would completely cripple you if you actually followed it.
The “vast conspiracy” in this case is as plain as day, the furthest thing from unfounded. It is often sensationalized as “the deep state” but a more objective name is “institutionalized corruption”.

It is EVERYWHERE in this country, and if you don’t see it by now, you are probably never gonna see it.
Trump: 'Scaramucci should go to jail'

I love Yahoo News.
I really like this. Wish it had a little bit of a tutorial. In about 10 lives I haven't figured out what all the shapes/colors do, or how to use them, or why I'm getting almost insta-killed by guys who I seemingly can't hurt (maybe the damage bug).

Either way, very cool!
>>All of what you wrote is bullshit.

>>Claims made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

Technically, mediabiasfactcheck used no actual evidence to dispute the veracity of "here is the evidence", only an assertion of "bias" against the sources. The Brennan Center report only asserts that other claims of evidence are false, not the ones in link I posted. Also it's rife with other tedious rhetorical fallacy. I can't see how you can make the leap without support. In fact, your arguments and the way you present your arguments seem to impeach the honesty of your claim.

(edit, since OP is apparently assuming I am a concern troll because my point was not clear to OP)
Perhaps you have a polite and actually specific refutation to "here is the evidence"? Your comments seem deliberately demeaning and do not appear to have any actual substance.
You're comparing apples to oranges. It's very simplified on any EV since you're essentially attaching a 3 phase motor to a fixed gearbox and then either straight to the wheel or through a differential. This is not Tesla unique, but their paintjob and panel gaps are.

They definitely have strong points too, the software package is nice and their charging network is good, but that's where my compliments end.
There is no reason whatsoever to believe this election was stolen beyond unverified fabricated nonsense spread by the loser and his cronies and amplified by social media. Each state has measures in place to ensure a fair election takes place including, canvassing, the recourse of requesting a recount or pursuing litigation.

All these things already happened and it was proven over and over that there was no substantial proof of widespread fraud. If your fellow citizens cannot discern the difference between social media and reality then this does not create an obligation for the opposing side that scales upwards towards infinity with their level of insanity.

Its deeply ironic that before the election around 2/3 of republicans believed our elections were free and fair and now instead of concluding that their objections are grounded in bad faith you believe that the democrats didn't do enough to prove to their opponents that they didn't cheat. You have reversed the burden of proof and I reject your assertion. The burden of proof always lies with he would would assert a crime has been done not upon the accused to prove a negative. The alternative is utter nonsense.

Incidentally if we look at an actual source

https://morningconsult.com/form/tracking-voter-trust-in-elec...

10% of democrats believe we didn't have a fair election, 44% of independents, and a whopping 78% of republicans. On the overall ~2/3 of Americans trust our election was free and fair. The 1/3 will more or less be convinced by nothing as their feelings aren't based on reality.

These people will by and large just have to go through the next 4-16 years of Democratic control thinking the Democrats, the women, and the minorities are stealing their country.
Vast electoral interference conspiracies are an old tactic at this point. Impeachment is generally a more favoured response than revolution. Neither the conspiracy nor the resolution make sense, but that isn't a big deal in politics.

It is a stupid conspiracy, the gap in the popular vote is overwhelming and Trump was only ever going to get in on electoral college technicalities. But this meme that Trump is the first one to launch serious claims at the electoral system is misinformation. This is a direct mimic of the Democrat response to 2016.
> The UK's health services are struggling at the moment.

Are you saying the NHS is struggling with their doctors publishing dangerous recommendations? I’m not sure what you’re implying.
I have! Although to be honest I haven't given either of them a very fair shot since the UI and complexity are a pretty quick turn-off for me personally. It's hard to compete with the established community of either site though — maybe I'll figure out a way to integrate with one or both of them eventually so people have the option of keeping things in sync between Roosevelt and elsewhere.

Another nice-looking solution I've been trying out is Readng: https://beta.readng.co
This is incredible. It's been amazing seeing the incredibly diverse ways technologists have adapted to theatre during the pandemic.

My friends and I built an online theatre app (which we've now open sourced: https://thescatteredplayers.com/promenade/) and used it to stage two online immersive shows. However, I've been interested in seeing the ways people have adapted more traditional theatre for online attendance, and what you've got here is really cool (I also recommend folks check out Brendan Bradley's work with his FutureStages project: https://www.youtube.com/user/brendanabradley)

If you're interested in talking shop sometime, hit me up: chris dot uehlinger at gmail dot com
Extracting Guarantees from Chaos (2003) [pdf]
It is but I think my point still stands?
There's also lots of inertia around English. For better or worse, my default heuristic is that if I read something in Polish that isn't hyperlocal (e.g. country news, or research that's only done here), I'm better off looking for a text on it in English. In my experience, it'll universally be better. People doing best-class work usually do it in English, or are republished in English, due to sheer inertia of the economical and scientific dominance of English-speaking world.

So I for one would not be very interested in more balkanized Internet, simply because this limits my options to mediocre sources, whereas knowing English and having access to a global platform lets me find better material.
This should actually finally be fixed as iOS 14 rolls out, of course there's still IE ...

https://css-tricks.com/webp-image-support-coming-to-ios-14/
https://caniuse.com/?search=webp
Also most of the people that could rebel had been killed already. Moreover, although the soviets fell, China is pretty much alive and kicking disidents forty years later.
Well, except for that one Tesla, probably also not for kilometers flown ;)
It was already in the crosshairs; the government had its eye on it (just one example: [1]), the press has been making bold claims about the naked money printing, its reputation along with Bitfinex soured, and yet here we are again.

I have no strong opinion either way (although call me skeptical). I am baffled, however.

1 - https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2019/attorney-general-james-...
I’m not sure I want the media I watch 24x7 talking about snake oil salespersons. If it’s newsworthy - like say one of the snake oil salesperson actually provided an irrefutable or at least a plausible proof of snake oil working.
WhatsApp 2021
Whatsapp very good
>> Putting money into Bitcoin is a rational decision because others are irrational and bidding it up.

It all comes down to: investing is great if you buy low and sell high.

Let's just say this - if you aren't able to imagine the scenario under which your BTC (or any investment) crashes down to near zero, you're just not thinking well enough.

I can conjure up a disaster scenario just standing right now in my kitchen, and I don't even own crypto.
> US-China relations were OK under the Obama administration

Scarborough Shoal, 2012. All the major geopolitical problems with China can be traced to the strategic failure of this one event. It will define the next 20 years of US-China relations.
You would lose everytime, military officers aren't bloodthirsty villans.
Most of the robotics expertise that you're attributing to NASA is actually JPL. JPL may technically be a NASA lab, but it has been managed by Caltech since 1958, unlike every other NASA center. JPL employees work for Caltech, not NASA.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/about/history.php
"munmap" is actually expensive as it has to flush the TLB
America has enough nukes to take out every population center in Asia before the day end tomorrow. It’s sad but true that nuclear power is so incredible that people haven’t dared move against it.
It does feel weird to be much older than everyone else, but no one really cares. Post-docs are typically in their early 30s so you won't stand out like you would for an undergrad degree. Someone in my own cohort once asked me what year of my PhD I was in, and I was like, how did you not notice the middle-aged balding guy in all your first year classes, which consisted otherwise of nothing but 23-year-olds?

Outside of insecurities about age, it's the same for everyone. All that really matters is what you accomplish and how respectable you are. Many advisors actually prefer older students since industry experience usually results in much more productive students (at least in biology, I don't know how other fields work).

Financial considerations: pay is crappy, so it'll be tough to support a family if you haven't saved up. Health problems can also get expensive if you're in the US and they're only going to get more likely at your age. Make sure the insurance they provide is good when you're interviewing.

Otherwise: totally worth it. You can be 40 with a PhD or 40 without a PhD, but you'll be 40 no matter what.
Are page tables garbage-collected in Linux? That seems like a potential non-trivial leak source: up to 200MB for your hypothetical 100GB file.
If we take Parler as an example we will be left with the "Fourth Reich". I'll take your FUD if we can escape this one.
You're completely missing my point. Of course anyone with more than 2 neurons is on the side of "not lynching the VP". My point was that a company like Twitter should not censor people talking about the fact that rioters chanted "hang mike pence".
Aws is not internet infrastructure, not by a long shot. Even actual internet infrastructure is now free to discriminate however they please thanks to trump. Shouldn’t throw stones when you live in a glass house...
Keep in mind that a lot of investments are made in ensuring that these things don't fail. Not saying its not a great achievement. But it helps to remember that for most software shops, reliability improvements are often treated as 2nd class compared with new feature development, which reflect the reality that most software shops don't really need quite that perfect amount of reliability.
I think it's just coincidence. From what I am reading/getting from the news, is that the new administration will be just as harsh with China (but probably with less drama about it).
If you believe Trumps claims of malfeasance are true then the burden of proof lies with you. These matters were addressed in courts throughout the nation and 60 lawsuits failed to prove them.
Well, if they may have believed that if he didn't certify the election, then Trump would not have been the outgoing President.

Maybe you're right in that the word "coup" is not the most precise one to use, I think what I meant more than anything is that sometimes we see something as less serious violence because the action didn't result in as severe of an outcome as was intended. So maybe not coup, but terrorist attack or insurrection or whatever word portrays the gravitas but aligns better with the meaning of the action.

On a second note, I think we do this a lot in law as well—if I get into a tussle with someone and push them softly and they trip and hit their head and die, I will probably go to prison for much longer than if I repeatedly and angrily punch someone in the face and they don't die. I guess I'm just curious about how that works in our psyche.
You mentioned exposue to these companies; is that even possible without access to private equity?
Luckily, it seems like the industry is coming along with AV1. I'm not aware of any major companies opposed to AV1.

There's going to be a lag time before enough HW is being used that fully supports it but it'll happen eventually.
I started doing resistance training (amateur powerlifting) about 7 years ago and have found a number of things that keeps it going for me.

* Routine is what makes it stick, if my goal is to do three days a week and miss the first day I often times end up skipping the week. But once I've gone that first day it's easier to maintain the rest of the week and to keep that going in subsequent weeks.

* Exercising for exercises sake is a bad motivator (for me at least). I like powerlifting because I can see programmable gains; I can easily gamify it for myself.

* Rest is important you need energy to exercise and if you don't rest properly it can become too much of a drain.

I'm a big fan of powerlifting, it's something you can easily do alone but also share ideas on forms and programs with people if you wish.

The health benefits are good as well both mentally and physically.
I feel that way too. I'd say we're at a precipice of visible exponential growth of Balkanization. Why do I feel so? Possibly because this headline didn't surprise me. My reaction wasn't, "oh, that's horrible!" but "oh, another country doing that". National bans of social media platforms became normalized.
My first reply was flagged. My question, is it okay for user to say that they strategically support China more than Taiwan and would hope U.S policy eventually follow suit?
It’s about time.
> For starters, a right-wing coup that kicked off by taking outgoing-VP Pence hostage would be beyond ridiculous.

Are you aware that Trump through Pence under the bus Wednesday morning for being unwilling to use his (nonexistent) unilateral authority to discard electoral votes? In the (brief) time between Trump's speech and the seditious mob's invasion of the Capitol, there was already some commentary about increased threats to Pence's life as a result of the speech. As far as that mob and its supporters are concerned, Pence is a traitor as much, if not more, than the entire Democratic Party.
I have tried it a few times. Perhaps the worst physical feeling I have ever experienced. Almost made me afraid of showering altogether
Do you mean all he needed to do was set up a con-call with the generals? Holy idiocy, did he fuck it up!
For anyone who doesn't know... Although the Lenna reference image has historical significance within some fields (and that's part of the joke of the article), you probably don't want to use it in your work today:

> In 2018, the Nature Research family of journals announced that they would no longer consider articles using the Lenna image.[19] In the same year SPIE, the publishers of Optical Engineering, also announced that they would discourage the use of the Lenna image, and would no longer consider new submissions containing the image "without convincing scientific justification for its use".[20]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna#Criticism
That’s a nice thought, but I haven’t seen examples of that myself. And your claim of real-world use seems to be the opposite of what I found with a quick Google search:

https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2020/02/28/language-rankings-1-2...
https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020

Obviously this is far from scientific, but Clojure being a new, hyped language, it wouldn’t surprise me if that skewed people’s perception of how much it was used in production code.
Engram – Open-Source Knowledge Management App – Early Access
Id say the biggest thing was the void of dem leadership even acknowledging the riots. I dont have a rolodex of statements but the theme was encouragement of the protests despite them turning into riots time and time again. Thats specifically the reason they even went on for an entire summer. Can look to twitter trends which were never/rarely censored. Flip side is "walkaway" is not even allowed. Perhaps one example is AOC saying "protests are made to make people uncomfortable" If T said something like that after Jan 6 what would the reaction have been? Any sober person sees the double standard. Dont fight me here I'm just pointing out why so many people are pissed.
Any muted video can already auto play, irrespective of format.
That's not what this comment thread is discussing though. Nobody claims you can swim just as well at home as you can in a swimming pool. What is being discussed was this:

> I wonder how many people have been forced into a "sedentary" life style by COVID-19...

So to go from "you're forced to be sedentary" to "but you cannot badminton, so this is wrong" is a strange non sequitur.
Thank you for the discussion.
Something like this is my dream goal. I'd love to become financially independent so that I can then pursue what I want (namely, endless study in a variety of subjects) without worrying about financial pressures from the outside. Sadly, I've got close to 30 years still to wait, then to hope my retirement pays enough that I can move to a nice college town with a good library and use it and maybe audit courses/do many masters.
This is really great. I had thought of building something similar a few years ago, just never got around to it. Great work!
Pianos actually sounded differently back then, different keys were genuinely distinct.

https://wmich.edu/mus-theo/courses/keys.html

"When equal temperament became the dominant tuning after 1917, the aural quality of every key became the same, and therefore these affective characteristics are mostly lost to us"
Those who think it's "un-American" to go after someone's employment for political reasons are unfamiliar with America. Check history.
Sure, but they never delivered a $35K Tesla. They offered one, but no one ever got one delivered. They upsold some of the people and then cancelled the order for everyone else.
Fairly clear how this works for anyone who's ever paid attention.

Consider for how long US newspapers have chosen whether to publish letters submitted by readers.

This thorough discussion may help: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freedom-speech/

e.g. "If our defence of speech is that it is crucial to a well-functioning democracy, we have no reason to defend speech that is irrelevant to, or undermines, this goal."
Spring Boot 2.x and Mocks
So you’re building a non custodial wallet? What on earth does that have to do with a single thing you’ve been talking about? Isn’t that illegal in America now?

The reason I suggest an Econ course is you have an awful lot of misconceptions and deep seated misunderstandings of the current system. Much more than I can rectify here pro bono.

For what it’s worth I generally don’t think figuring out who to trust granularly is a real problem. Trust them? Do business with them. Don’t trust them? Maybe don’t. Or involve an intermediary who does like visa that allows clawbacks. We’ve been doing trustful business for tens of thousands of years. I see you’re fairly early along in your speed run of finance.