skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lyricism and agony of Death and the Maiden (D810), particularly in the Andante, gut me every time. Personally my favorite chamber work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0Y3gHKywTQ
Excellent article, and a compelling proposition! Thanks for sharing this.
HK police use national security law for first time to block website
I'm not really a fan. But I must say, he asked for a protest, not for them to storm the Capital. He probably wanted to stir it up, but never thought it would go that far. I have not seen any explicit tweets where he asked for that.

The other thing I want to mention (in demonstrating the two standards) is that the dem leadership cheered on protests in the summer with battle like language which turned into far larger and more consequential riots that somehow we dont talk about anymore. Many lost their livelihoods and some their lives. These went on for months, not 6 hours. Those riots by the way were encouraged by dem leadership but somehow have not been penalized on twitter or even critiqued. The unlevel playing field that essentially a cartel is laying out which we see time and time again is what people are getting fed up with and I can sympathize.

mullingitover - You might be correct that the claims were hyperbole. But I don't see a difference between the two sides in falsely justifying a protest that turned into a riot. For instance, the police brutality is not acceptable (and the imagery was terrible), but it was also mostly an astroturf and amplification of reality before an election to rally voters when you actually look at the FBI statistics of racial deaths in the hands of police. Both sides encouraged protests with battle like language. They both turned into destructive riots. One side was penalized.
Well, forced is maybe too strong of a word. If people have the kind of exercise they enjoy and do consistently
but are now prevented from doing it - it's fair to say that they are sedentary due to COVID.
No, I don't think any of that. My starting point would be:

(1) Someone has a long-established relationship with an internet service.

(2) That service makes an arbitrary and unexpected change to the nature of that relationship.

(3) That change causes material damage.

Then the site can be sued.

I don't think that would cover the current Trump business, they've been telegraphing for years that he would be banned eventually. But it might close the door to more damaging abuses of power where they strategic on timing and opens up some review of how clearly they are giving notice. Might help with the app store complaints.

That specific idea isn't going to be good - I've probably missed a bunch of relevant stuff - but maybe the idea can be salvaged and implemented with only mild damage to the internet ecosystem.

> Sorry, I think you actually do want a new law, not to modify this one.

There isn't really a difference, but sure. I don't care if changes are implemented as an amendment or a new bill.
Maybe not a random country, but I would give even odds that if Trump ordered an air strike against San Francisco they'd do it.
Alexey Navalny: “ban of Donald Trump ... is an unacceptable act of censorship”
Your thesis and supportive arguments contradict your conclusion.
TLDR: you're right

'In common parlance, randomness is the apparent lack of pattern or predictability in events' [1].

It doesn't mean there is no cause, but we can't predict the outcome of the random process [2].

In some case we can't predict it because we don't understand it, in others it is inherently unpredictable according to our model of the world.

As for radioactive decay, specifically: 'According to quantum theory, it is impossible to predict when a particular atom will decay, regardless of how long the atom has existed'[3].

That only means quantum theory can't predict it, it doesn't mean other theory won't be able to.

It's just we're stuck with quantum theory for now, because it has been verified by all experiments done so far, and not yet disproven by new experiments.

Every theory has a lifetime as long as it is not proven wrong by experiment. And cause and predictive capability are directly tied to particular theory/model you're using.

so 'random' might mean:

1) we have a good coherent model, consistent with empirical results, and a particular process/phenomenon is unpredictable according to our model.

or alternatively

2) we don't have a good model/don't understand the cause and therefore can't predict the outcome a particular process/phenomenon

both 1 and 2 leave space for a new theory to come in, and be able to explain the cause/make the prediction and eliminate 'randomness'

so essentially you're right.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomness

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_process

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_decay
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25438443

also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23991169

and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25437978
.. reading through this paper, the researchers apparently listened in to, and joined, groups on chat media that were called pump and dump `in their names`, and advertised advances and payout by the measured number of others they bring in to the groups !! So its not that hard to detect that !

however, the research actually watches transactions in real time, and predicts events in real time, which is slightly different to my ear..

This paper cites ".. to the moon" as published in Crime Science journal.. and uses it as a baseline to show performance characteristics of their own filters. The authors claim various measureable advances in their filters.
Scopes Trial (Wikipedia)
Don't all pesticides kill bees?
Look into the dividends of the space race.
MAD is funny this way. Not only you have to keep up with your enemy - you have to stay in lock-step with them. Go ahead too fast - in offensive or defensive capabilities - and you're just provoking a preemptive strike. A better missile, or a better missile shield, or a better submarine detection technology - all can trigger the end if developed deployed too quickly. It's already beneficial to be open about what you can do; I wonder if we reach the point at which it will be beneficial for the country that's ahead to just give others its tech, to keep the parity going.

As for other planets, I suspect the early colonies will be completely defenseless from Earth, but if they reach sufficient level of development and self-governance, they'll want to rapidly develop capability of hurting Earth as an opening move for declaring independence.
I think strengthening/mobilizing anything on a regular basis helps prevent issues - I definitely have fewer neck and lower back issues after getting active 5-6x / week.

But the 10+ hour days still kill. Need to break those up with mobility.
I'm in south-eastern Canada. Just now I checked the temperature of the water from my city water company I measured it at 8C. The current outside temperature is -1C. The water couldn't be lower than freezing or pipes in homes would freeze.

I agree cold, hot, warm are all relative. Somewhat related I've seen people from hot countries worry about "cold weather". To them ~20C is cold compared to 35C hot day and was blamed to be the cause of colds and flu. Often perpetuated in movies and TV too a tired old trope. So yes to someone in a hot country a "cold" shower may be considered warm to someone from a cold climate.
Conservatives complained about Obama defunding the military too. They knew he didn't disband it.
I personally think the problem most people run into is starting exercise and dieting at the same time. You should exercise to get healthier, and you should diet to lose weight. I'd start with one long before the other.

For myself, I never got into exercising (for more than a month), but I DID lose 80 pounds in one go strictly by dieting.

I do want to start, though...
I'm working on detailed 3d visualizations of streets using WebXR (A-Frame and three.js). Still "half baked" :)

Repo: https://kfarr.github.io/3dstreet/
Example use case: https://17thpreso.glitch.me/
Traffic signals WIP: https://aframe-ped-signals.glitch.me/

Would love to collaborate esp. with those interested in learning 3d web dev, urban planning, etc.
Guinness World Record holder Stig Severinsen just did an AMA on reddit - single breathe 22 minute swim (physical exertion).

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/kppxkn/i_just_set_the...
I would like to create tool to analyze, interact and compute with
arbitrary dimensional data. Shall greatly extend human capabilities.

General overview: https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth/
Ideas for computation: https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-data/
3D engine demos: https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-3d-demos/

Because it is done on my little free time, it might be ready somewhere
in the next 50 years or so.
I wouldn't bet against it but I would expected it will be out 2 years later, 2024.
Alternatively, the market for premium subcompacts is sufficiently small that it doesn't justify the cost of making them comply with market regulations?
Then why did they file the cases? Did they not realize that they would need to present evidence under oath?
Let's not split hairs.

When:

You have the world's largest megaphone.

You bring tens of thousands of hardline supporters to the Capitol on the day that officially seals the transfer of power.

You and your henchmen spend hours forcefully lying and claiming that the entirety of the national election apparatus is in a conspiracy to steal the election.

You tell them to march on the capitol to 'fight.'

You are inciting a riot.

When, as the capitol is being ransacked, you double down on the lie and continue to say the election was stolen, and to say you love them, you are continuing the riot and you are trying incite nationwide unrest.

This isn't complicated or "a matter of opinion."
You have to pay more attention to what both sides were arguing.

In 2016, side A was arguing that the inputs to the election (voter opinions) were manipulated by foreign agents. This claim was 100% proven true by the Mueller report. Whether this actually changed the results of the election is impossible to say (I am of the opinion it was Comey's announcement 11 days before the election which tipped a close election toward Trump). But an effort was made, and that effort was for the benefit of the Trump campaign, and was explicitly supported by the Trump campaign. See: Mueller report Vol I, or Senate Intelligence Committee report on Russian interference in the 2016 United States presidential election (5 volumes).

In 2020, side B was (and still is) arguing that the output of the election (the actual vote total) was changed. This has been shown to be false by repeated recounts, audits, investigations, court cases, etc.

If you think these two scenarios are identical, look a little closer.
I hear this opinion on Reddit as well. Yes, it is possible to get "tons of exercise" on your own using body weight, but it is not the same as barbell strength training. You are much more limited because actual strength training is a somewhat scientific process of progressive overload--adding 2-5 pounds per workout to an exercise. You cannot do this easily/precisely with body weight exercises, and additionally there is a reason the barbell is shaped as it is--to maximize the ability to support and balance the weight.

The argument that nobody "needs" gym access is akin to arguing nobody "needs" restaurants--they can all just cook their own food. Or nobody "needs" grocery stores--they can just grow/raise all their own food.
Trump voters were only 75 million out of 245 million Americans over 18. That’s a lot less than half.
Humans Have Gotten Nicer and Better at Making War – Issue 94: Evolving
I wouldn't take that plan seriously. It probably wil be a huge waste of money, and yield no results.
Excellent points ... I would also point out though that a lot of the money donated represents wealth that they "earned" through fancy international corporate tax avoidance schemes that are taught to students at business schools like the MIT Sloan School of Management, among others, which famously produced this crook:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-08-14/mit-sloan...
An Invisible Tax on the Web: Video Codecs (2018)
About as seriously as anything in geopolitics - i.e. not at all, unless enforced by a credible threat from other countries. But it's a nice, zero-cost gesture.
StyleGAN2 implementation enables user to change attributes in images
Twitter is a private company. It's their decision who they do business with, or is it not?
Yes. I live in the universe where it was actually Pence who approve sending in the Guard.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/us/politics/national-guar...
Staying ahead of the curve – The business case for responsible AI
> willing to do anything to stay in office

So far he has tweeted, initiated legal actions and abided by the rulings.

Where is your evidence that he will "do anything to stay in office"?
Good luck defining what counts as “political” speech.
A single Concorde crash drove that aircraft's safety profile down from the very best to amongst the worst per passenger mile of any aircraft.
No. Likely there are better references, but here's one:

https://www.perfectbee.com/blog/bees-and-pesticides-what-is-...
> A grave crime was committed this week

Like in 2011.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Wisconsin_protests

And 2018.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/protests-buil...
Tops photonic convolutional accelerator for optical neural networks – Nature
Sadly, the statistics on drone attacks paint very different picture.
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Yup. Another thing about our current system that I only realized after talking with folks who do politics for a living about what they do: the fact that elections are close to 50/50 isn't a sign of a deep and fundamental divide in our country, it's that it's financially not worth getting much past 50/50. If you are currently at 48%, it's worth changing your platform a bit to get 51% of the population; if you're at 51%, it's not worth changing your platform to get 55%.

More directly, if you're polling well in 40% of districts, poorly in 40% of districts, and competitively in the rest, it's worth focusing your attention only on the competitive districts, until you get to 50%. It's not worth paying any attention to the ones you're not competitive in.

Other voting methods (approval or ranked-choice) will reduce this effect and make political parties more representative of what people actually believe, instead of designing the system such that we have two parties that do the worst possible job of each representing 50% of the people.
To clarify preworkout I use .15-.2 of a gram of extract smoked out of a quartz nail and water pipe. I use a similar amount in the evening. I no longer combust any flower and breath much easier because of it. I did use RSO an edible concentrate on the begining to get through the pain in the evening I was eating 150mg-200mg thc in a gelcap in the evening. Vape cartridges are an option but I've never found one I liked. It's fair to not I have a very high tolerance and most people would not know I was under the influence, most people could use far less.
“A problem I had was letting perfect be the enemy of good”

That seems to be a big problem in the West as far as healthy living goes. People often either do nothing or they get obsessed with finding ever better methods until they get exhausted and get back to doing nothing . A little of bit very pedestrian exercises and eating reasonably ok food goes a long way. No need for being perfect.
Get a dog or two. Large ones. Takes the decision out of your hands. I have to exercise twice a day if I don't want everything in my house destroyed.
It’s all fun and games when it’s happening to people that someone hates until it comes back around.
Ask HN: Why Cloudflare still providing service to alt-righters websites?
It's incredible that the MPEG-LA mafia has gotten away with 23 patents on a system of mathematical operations. Math is explicitly outlined as non-patentable. While this extends to all software patents, I'm astounded that even this very narrow case hasn't been challenged on its face. We can't move to unencumbered codecs quickly enough.
> But I must say, he asked for a protest, not for them to storm the Capital

He's not completely stupid, at least in the short term. I'll give him that.

The fact is, however, that he made breathtaking, wholly unfounded claims of a vast conspiracy that if you believed them would lead you to believe that a revolution was in order and completely appropriate. Then he turned them loose on the Capitol.
But without going deeper you are likely to have preconceived notions like "mmapping a gigabyte file into a memory actually uses a gigabyte of memory, oh noes!" I can totally see the thinking behind this case.
> And terrorists, really?

I use the word terrorist because _many_ of the people involved in the group brought guns and bombs, were prepared to take hostages, and voiced their intent to murder members of the government. For example:

https://nbc-2.com/news/national-world/2021/01/08/police-foun...

Additionally a large noose and cross were erected at the scene. The former is a symbol of violent white supremacy in the United States, and the latter is both a religious symbol and a frequently used symbol of an existing terrorist organization, the KKK. Some of those involved were self-professed followers of a known conspiracy cult (QAnon). Also at least one speech during the event quoted Hitler.

It's hard not to use the word "terrorism" to describe what happened that day, given the breadth of violence, both implied and actual, and the wide associations with cults, terrorist organizations, religious organizations, and despotic figures. All of those things are hallmarks of past terrorist acts both within and outside of the United States.

Not three months ago another event occurred, which Wikipedia describes as a "domestic terror plot": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretchen_Whitmer_kidnapping_pl...

I see little difference between that, a group of individuals plotting to kidnap and murder a government official, and the events at the Capitol which involved groups plotting to kidnap and murder government officials.

> is just a way to trick a few more people into taking your ideas seriously enough to read to the end of the paragraph.

That was certainly not my intent, and I don't believe your comment addresses the best possible version of my argument.
They have (estimated) 1/10 the nuclear stockpile and limited delivery vehicles, it's mostly credible as second strike. That said, the launch hardware and command structure is mixed with the conventional rocket force so any conventional attack on Chinese rocketry is indistinguishable from first strike since no one can be certain whether attack is on conventional or nuclear assets. This ambiguity is by design. Doubt is when China moves towards nuclear parity.
> This had nothing to do with Parler's political leanings

I think we're going to have to agree to differ here.

> Facebook's userbase is very right-leaning

Really? It seems to me that just about all adults on on Facebook (I can only think offhand of one person I know IRL who isn't). Thus FB will have the same political composition as the population.
LenPEGs average compression ratio has sharply fallen since journals started discouraging the use of Lenna as a test image

The field is ripe for disruption by finding the new optimal image to use as the special case
We do not have "two sides." Many on the two dominate groups believe there is only "the other side" but there are people that believe facts, science, etc. are more important than either side. It would be naive to believe even those that value truth highest are without bias, but it would not be naive to conclude that we are better off trying to combat polarization, and avoid simplifying our labels into "us vs. them", "right vs. wrong", "fact vs. fiction" because these labels are too simple, too broad, and ultimately inaccurate.

I do believe that the arguing, the battle... it's a distraction, in a sense. It's an amplifier. It's a self-reinforcing polarization engine.

Maybe I'm just saying what you said, but I think it's important to break down the concept of "two sides" if you want to have any hope of finding common ground.

How many of you (in the U.S. if not abroad) want the best for the United States? Who among us want it to be a strong nation full of employed, educated, healthy citizens? Who wants to revisit the tenants of our founding fathers, learn lessons from the past while being willing to try new things and accept changes? Who wants this stark divide to be behind us?

Who wants to deescalate from violent rhetoric and focus on proven methods of finding and sharing truth?
AVIF support enabled by default in Firefox 86
PDF is the last way I want to consume content, especially on a smaller device.

I want to read the content, so just give me the content, not a pretentious image of it. Just give me <p> and image tags. Basic data.

I don’t want your “document”.
Only after divorce.
There is io_uring as an option
For me it’s the opposite. I can spend the time usually spent sitting in a car( which is very bad for my back) being more active.
Oddly enough, the US has the same pregnancy mortality rate as places like Latvia, Moldova, Romania, and the Ukraine. Tied for 56th out of 186 (there are lots of ties)
Add to the coward list: tech, media and Hollywood.
Where are you situated? Discrimination based on politics is illegal in the United States? At least for now..
So most of their claims were wrong. Motor vehicle theft was up 50%. Robbery, burglary, and other theft were down. There were 5 more cases of arson.
It's also not just about gyms. People who did sports (even if it was just playing badminton with buddies) have nothing that's even close.
Gratuitous provocation and name-calling are not dissent. You can express dissenting views without doing those things, and users here are required to.

There is a link, though: people with minority/contrarian opinions are sometimes so frustrated with the majority that they lash out in frustration in ways that break the site guidelines. People with majority opinions don't usually do it that way. They're more likely to be self-righteous. Either way, though, users here need to follow the guidelines regardless of what their opinions are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
He has said he will not attend the inauguration. He has said there will be an orderly transition of power, so that implies he acknowledges Biden as the president-elect, or at least realizes that he's out of challenges. True that he has not disavowed the fraud claims, and probably never will.
(To be precise, HEIC is HEIF with the primary image guaranteed to be compressed with HEVC.)
I think sometimes we judge events based on the outcomes not on the intent. If one of those people who got inside the building gained access to one of the members of Congress or Vice President Pence and took them hostage or harmed them, would you think that it were closer to a coup attempt? There were reports of how the National Guard seemed to be getting delayed because of not having the approval of, I believe, the President through the Department of Defense, to enter. As a person sitting here in my home, some of it looked rag tag and yet 1) I don't know what happened behind the scenes and 2) rag tag groups can cause a tremendous amount of chaos, e.g., if bombs had gone off outside the RNC or DNC.