skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you call it when a bunch of idiots get brainwashed by Trump and social media echo chambers into believing the election was stolen even though republican officials and courts have clearly show there is not enough evidence to overturn a single state include Georgia that only had a 11k vote difference and those people commit murder and obstruct government work?
What if Verizon wasn't specifically created to host racist conversation but simply to have conversations, and that racist conversations just happened to be happening there (such is the reality of the situation, i'm sure people are having racist conversations on verizon phones).
The point is, you can't associate violence and death with either side of the political spectrum. Politics is a tool, not a causative agent.
> Maybe that wasn't the goal, as it also wasn't the goal of most of the Trump protestors.

People were talking about storming Congress months ago:

> “Will you and several hundred more go with me to DC and fight our way into the Congress and arrest every Democrat who has participated in the coup?” Holland posted on Friday. “We may have to shoot and kill many of the Communist BLM and ANTIFA Democrat foot soldiers to accomplish this!!!”

* https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/11/cops-n11.html

> One of Lang Holland’s posts reflected Donald Trump’s baseless allegations that the presidential election he lost to Joe Biden was stolen, and said: “Death to all Marxist Democrats.”

> Holland, who led the police department in Marshall, Arkansas, also wrote “take no prisoners” and “leave no survivors”.

* https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/09/local-arkans...

> In a popular thread referencing a Trump tweet promoting the debunked conspiracy theory of election fraud, one user asked, "what if Congress ignores the evidence?"

> "Storm the Capitol," was a popular reply.

> Five days later, on January 6, as pro-Trump militia proceeded to do exactly that, the mood on thedonald.win switched to jubilation and outright defiance of police, with thousands joining "watching party" message threads.

> "This is what Trump told us to do!" a top post in one of these threads read.

* https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2021-01-08/us-capitol-st...
As for banning restroom breaks altogether, there are students who are not on the record, with respect to disability services, that have serious bladder/bowel issues. Also, this can adversely affect these student's grades, as they have to purposely skip eating or dehydrate themselves hours in advance of the exam.

Personally, while I am registered at disability services, my issues are particularly severe. I have two rare immune-mediated neurological diseases affecting my peripheral nervous system.

If I hold my bladder, I literally experience something life threatening known as autonomic dysreflexia, which is just about the worst feeling in the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomic_dysreflexia

I also look completely normal, and I can walk. So, while I do not appear disabled, I am severely disabled, and I cannot hold it. I also have severe bowel issues too, but it's TMI. I am on a last resort medication for that.

My professors limit the amount of bathroom breaks (an arbitrary amount) during the exam, and sometimes it is inadequate, especially for somebody like me who gets extended testing time. So, I had to go to disability services and explain my situation (degrading) to be allowed to use the restroom as needed. I had to have another accommodations meeting over these rules.

As for a TA escorting me to the restroom and literally standing outside the stall. Yeah, it's degrading, but go ahead, be my guest.
'Ok, you've obtained a printing press and related supplies and are printing your own newspapers. But to distribute them, you first need to build your own road network, you're banned from our roads. And you'll need a power station, as you're about to get cut off the grid!'

Social media created a new type of platform. But people are forgetting that it also created a new and more vicious type of activism, too.
in browser (staying local) would be a requirement for my usage where i have export restrictions on my verbal communication, let alone what i am allowed to send to someone else.
Capitol Hill violence stokes ire at Facebook, Google and Twitter
Hi neighbor. Hoping for the same thing too! Detroit is probably the worst place to live in all of Michigan if you are someone who enjoys nature and being outside. I’m in the Woodward corridor and can’t wait to get out west into the woods.
MPEG-4 is not a codec - you probably mean AVC. WebM is not a codec - you probably mean VP9.
Extent of Safety Properties in WebAssembly
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In particular, Benedict's Rule is available online, and seems to me to clearly contradict a recent author who had the chutzpah to drag the saint's name into the title of his own work.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24588118

It is always worth attempting to engage with primary sources, if for no other reason than to be able to avoid wasting time with less than reliable secondary sources.
10 years ago none of the apartments in my building had ACs. they all have now (Romania)
Why not just use Firefox? It's far better than Chrome on mobile and it has extensions.
Yes. Not only that but fast forward, backwards, skipping. Crash with Javascript. High CPU loading because some other JS is messing with the Video in a way that shouldn't be. etc etc.

Someone on HN asked me what's wrong with HTML5 video. I forgot to reply as I was gathering examples and informations.
That can be done by a daemon.
With whataboutism, everything is OK then, as you can always find something worse to confirm your bias.

Besides, I find it disingenious to equate lies about election fraud without evidence leading to riot and assault on core democratic process, and people fighting/defending the right not to be assaulted and killed by armed police.
But that argument is besides the point of this issue.
> They had weapons

Are we talking about guns? I didn't see any report that any of these people had a single gun. Yes you can qualify a broom stolen from the janitors cabin as a weapon, but give me a break...

> armor

Wearing a pair of camouflage pants and a bicyle helmet does not qualify as armor

> bloodlust

maybe
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What you are describing is a contact of adhesion. https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/adhesion_contract_%28contrac...
It worked and was essentially instantaneous for me.
I think computation is still converging. It is too new to be expected to abide to universal standards. Cars, for instance have been around for over a century and they are still subject to change in standards, mainly because of safety and efficiency, just like software, but to a different degree.

We should, however, have these kinds of discussion because I don't think we should outsource this debate to corporations. But this shouldn't take the tone of contempt and resentment towards what we already have.
Landlords and employers are already very restricted in what can be in their terms, so there is certainly precedent for it.
yeah - me too. Been a life long issue for me.
I think this should incentivize people to build their own backend and definitely move off big tech cloud. I know it’s more expensive but it was routine in 90s and 00s
I've been in the "sequel" camp, but that changes now. I'm not passing up the opportunity to talk to co-workers about "my squirrel".
Taiwan is the center of the world semiconductor industry and far more critical to the US than Saudi Arabia. It would also be exceedingly difficult to defend from China. There is no point in provoking China into a war we would lose (because China’s military budget has been focused on preventing that for the last 6 decades, whereas ours is scattered across too many objectives) until we have a plan that can succeed.
Do you not understand how comment threads works? I didn't drill down on the original person (because while I disagree with them, they're willing to accept the logical conclusions of their justification), but on someone who insisted that my statement was absurd, even after I repeatedly tried clarifying it.

What a waste of time.
> While we do get snow every winter, it tends to be mixed with icy rain, not the powdery stuff you get in more northern climates

A good point, I've noticed that too - despite how close we are, the snow in Norway always seems different, more powdery and less slushy.
Make the charges and then not allow the defendant to speak.
It's supposed to be pronounced with a hard G [1].

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/gnu/pronunciation.html
We don't need "decentralized" anything. It's expensive, impractical and unnecessary. All we ever need is a few uncompromising brave people.

Trump. Assange. Snowden. Lincoln.

You don't have to agree with them.

Look at Rob Monster. He has singlehandedly kept several domains alive which would have otherwise succumbed to the mob.

If Trump had joined Gab back in the day, it would be huge by now with a lot of users, and not necessarily just those who agree with him... except he would still have his account.
> I don't think you know who Gandhi was

Half of this thread in a nutshell is loyalists who have a mediocre grasp on history.

Our government was established on founding principles that have been eroded and usurped beyond recognition. The loyalists cannot imagine that one day our elites in government - who care nothing about the people - will do something that even they think crosses a grotesque line. By that time, it will be too late. The power they've given the government in order to remove the bad orange man will not be given up without a fight.
> In my experience type safety is one of the most factors in terms of being able to produce code quickly, at least once a project grows beyond a couple hundred lines.

I think it depends on your domain. If you are working in a mission-critical space where every bit of static analysis saves hours or days of testing, then yeah, the more static analysis the better. If you’re building web systems software (things like Kubernetes) or even ordinary application software, then you get benefit from a little static analysis, but returns quickly diminish beyond a certain point. I think Go hits the sweet spot and Rust is generally excessive (development is slowed down much more than necessary). Swift might also hit that same sweet spot; I haven’t used it much. I have heard that it has some maturing to do before it’s ready for more than Apple GUI apps, but that might be dated information.
this adds nothing to the debate and is just noise, please stop
I don’t know where you live but in Finland the weather forecasts have been a part of tabloid sexy news for a while. People are eager to hear if we will have an early summer or a late winter and so on. There might be a case for doom porn but for me it’s as common as celebrity news.
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Oh no, they said the quiet part out loud.

Newsflash, the entire global west is sub-replacement and mostly has been for decades. South Korea just hit a stunning, absolutely suicidal TFR of 0.85. And it's only going to get worse.
You can't cryptographically verify that the system you are using doesn't have backdoors. For this, we rely on trust.

It is then only a matter of choosing who to trust with the backdoors into your system. You might have good reasons to prefer to trust a foreign government with the backdoors into your system, but that isn't true for the federal government.
Framasoft - the organisation behind PeerTube - is French
I submitted the reference from that article separately since it is very interesting.

To summarize, it doesn't support editing by his sister explaining his strange style. I would be more inclined to think his strange style stems from his health problems and reclusiveness and made it easy for his sister to edit "A will to Power" into nationalist propoganda which got a lot of people reading things into confusing passages in his earlier works. (Particularly as propoganda may have integrated his choice of terms with his sister's meanings into later nationalist works.)
> Thus they will always be surprised and grumble about the price. That just seems like human nature to me.

Absolutely. I see it the same way. After commercially programming for 19 years I've seen exactly zero progress in the human race with regards to that particular problem. It is apparently a built-in bug of our brains and everybody discovers it for themselves down the line (and 99% proceed to never fix it).

I think I recall one quote from a seemingly famous building architect (I think the guy who built the Fallingwater house, so Frank Lloyd Wright?) that was along the lines that you never put all expenses in plain view of the customer at first; you put a reasonable cost plan in front of them and then, after they are heavily invested in you, start giving them the other expenses (which are inevitable and not invented by you, let's accentuate that!). Many people call that a scummy practice but the truth is, EVERYONE is expensive, some are just better at selling themselves. So you have to give the customer the truth spoon by spoon because they prefer lies and truth is too hard to swallow at one bite.

And apparently that's how people tick. I don't like it either. But... blame the game, not the player -- as the saying goes.
This comment comes off as very, very, very... weird. A little condescension and a lot of pretending that the goalposts are there when before they were here (and still are, too); almost no "situational awareness" or acknowledgement of the actual context, constraints, and motivation behind making a choice about what to do. Syntax highlighting (esp. for attributes[???]) has _nothing_ to do with what we're talking about (trailing slashes, void elements), for example—and it gets worse from there.

The logical coherence of this response is in "not even wrong" territory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong
Because ancient authors were often aiming more at an oral, less of a literary, tradition, their arguments tend to be more clearly structured and signposted than modern commentary. A listener can't go back and reread, which forces the speaker to be more lucid.

(for a modern example, some of JFK's speeches could even be sampled into song: https://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2005/10/sing_along_with.html without losing their main points, eg
http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/KF/0510/jfk/05_-_Sing_Along_With_J... )
They probably didn’t set out to do this. To become the Ministry of Truth, but this is where they are now.

They’ve become Pravda. They’ve become CCTV.

The irony is probably lost on them. This is so sad. Welcome home ‘Granma’.
I don't think the word 'measurement' has any meaning in a context without a memory. And without consistency you can't have a memory.

In other words in cellular automata context aren't the concepts of 'memory' and 'measurement' isomorphic. I.e. a cell pattern {c} can be copied from region 1 to region 2, and from there any number of times.

Or have I misunderstood something?
The novice is less likely to learn from a direct reading of Plato's Republic than to absorb Socrates's arguments and ingest enormous amounts of food for thought.

The novice will then have the capacity to think more seriously about current or historical political questions and devise better responses or approaches to them (better for the novice and better for our societies).

Always go to the masters first - the Platos, the Keynes, the Freuds... They're by far the best exponents of their own thinking.
They are right about high valuations in general. Their conclusion is just looking back and assuming future is same as before, with little to no reasining.

What very high valuations mean is lower ROI in the future, only that. I'm 99% certain that Total Return (TR) from stock markets 2010-2020 >> 2021-2030. SP500 TR is 13.97% annualized for last 10 years (price return 11.64%). I'm surprised if it's above 5% annualized for next 10 years.

That does not necessarily mean rapid decline in valuations (as bursting or crash). It can be stagnated stock market. It can be market boom that continues next 5 years and then fall back little above 2020 levels.
Competition and organizing individuals is also a real thing, arguably there are ~74 million Americans who voted for Trump - which is arguably a large enough market size to cater a product to, which is exactly what Parler has done under the guise of a "free speech" app - which it's not:

'Stop calling it a “free speech app”. Historically Parler is harsher on dissenting political views than any of their competitors. Just, ya know, against the “other side”.'
- https://www.reddit.com/r/technews/comments/kts86k/comment/gi...

There's so much learned helplessness, victim mindset- and a sign of an unhealthy, non-critical thinking, more unreasonable population.
I'm curious to see what happens, but so far this winter has been _mild_ to say the least. Current forecast calls for 40+ on Wednesday and Thursday which is very-not-January-like.

A good snow would totally be fun, though. I just got new boots, too!
Not an American as well. Regarding alternative solutions, maybe people should try to soothe trump supporters in order to rid the extremists among them of grounds for committing violent crimes, and it should be done as soon as possible to avoid the impression of conceding to violence.

For example, Democrat leadership could promise to hold another election immediately after the vaccination is complete. In addition, to persuade trump supporters, they could consider getting rid of mail-in ballots, and legislating a Democratic version of voter ID law.

It's the democratic solution as well. Democracy should be about appealing to the largest possible percentage of population, and shutting up the other side is not a democratic solution to the current US crisis.
A secondary argument is it's time efficient, results come fast and you get the most health and strength benefits with the least amount of time investment compared to say low impact aerobic regiment such as biking. I've done both and have to say I agree that starting strength method is optimal for busy professionals. Also lifting heavy weights is strength training and cardio training. You can't lift heavy weights without getting a cardio workout at the same time.
Humans get into non-tech debt easily. And it turns out they get into tech debt easily too.
This is not only possible but has been done commercially.

I have a friend that contracted for a company doing y2k work. The main guy have written a system to parse cobol, do pattern matching to find y2k issues, apply transforms to the AST to fix the problems and the serialise back to cobol.

It supported a dozen of so cobol variants. I think it was very successful.
Climate change has always been a thing. The narrative is currently 'global warming' so 'extreme' weather events, even cold ones, are caused by the planet getting hotter. Possibly 'climate change' is 'accelerating' due to this warming, but is that really possible to say?

Here's what we know for sure: The topic is highly politicized and used a tool of control.
> Unfortunately the part about my department letting students go to the bathroom during exams with their phones was true, and is still true to this day

...what else can you do? You could confiscate phones before a test, but a student who was determined to cheat could have two phones.

Do you not allow students to use the bathroom? Do you give them a pat-down before and after they leave the room? Both are plausible strategies I suppose, but strike me as highly invasive.
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Big Tech is the new deep state
Note that with global warming the gulf stream can change course and so some countries will actually be cooler (not warmer) in winter.
Any institution small or large is capable of fake news or lying by omission. Many of the large institutions are at the will of their corporate sponsors or the political leaning of their consumers/subscribers. The bottom line is all that matters.
> What is cheating anyway?

Not abiding by the rules that have been set.

> Looking up the answers in one's books or phone?

Yes, if the rules have said that you are not permitted to do so.

> Talking to your fellow students?

Yes, if the rules have said that you are not permitted to do so.

> That sort of artificial difficulty shouldn't even be part of the rules in the first place.

If you are studying a subject that is intended to have you gain certain skills, then it is reasonable and appropriate to assess whether or not you have done so. Being able to recall certain facts and to carry out certain procedures without external assistance is sometimes/often included in the skills you are expected to acquire as part of the course.

> If your tests are so easy they can be solved via Google, they're pointless and it doesn't really matter if someone is cheating in the first place.

Suppose you are learning calculus, and your instructor wants to know if you can differentiate a particular function from first principles. This is an important skill to ensure you are ready to move to the next stage, but it's trivial to search for it on the internet.

This is just one example that counters your assertion.

> If people want an honest appraisal of their skills, a mentor who focuses on a single student exclusively is much better positioned to provide it.

True. Given the current trends in teacher numbers versus student numbers, that's unlikely to happen. So in the meantime we must do what we can with mass assessment, and try to make that assessment fair. Preventing cheating is part of that.
Might be worth pestering their support about it.
There are lot of knobs the networking team can fiddle with to improve things.

For the traffic flowing from Hetzner to your ISP it's under the control of Hetzner which upstream provider they choose - and the choice might be sub-optimal right now.
If the bottleneck is in the other direction you have to pester your own ISP about it.
Right, if considering south of the border, but here in NE Scotland, at least a little snow from Jan-Mar is pretty common. So we're used to it, have snowploughs, gritters and plane de-icers, but somehow drivers still drive like idiots, and airports etc still can't cope ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What is "FAAGT"?
Also it usually has excellent references to more in depth articles and sources if you do want to dig deeper.
Don't you dare equate BLM with the Right. BLM is responding to the very recent history of murder, oppression, and disenfranchisement by the police and government. It was captured repeatedly on brutal video this very year. And that's not even going back decades to the true horrors of history.

Whatever delusional "wrongs" the Right feels they've suffered from the government doesn't come close to comparing to that. In a true Godwin's Law type fashion, even attempting a comparison might be enough to end the argument.
Can you do the same thing with dicts and make it so d['non_existant_key'] does not create an exception?
Anyone know of a list of books that constitute the classics?
> the end-user becomes responsible for complying with the licensing and royalty requirements

Exactly. If you're using h.264 without a license in a country that requires it, it doesn't matter that some french people wrote the software for you. That's all they're saying.
The single greatest benefit of reading old books directly, and not via a modern intermediary, is that you realize the modern era is but one of many. More specifically, that past people had completely different worldviews and weren’t simply modern humans living 2,000 years ago. The past isn’t just a foreign country, it’s another planet.

When you read a summary book or a modern translation, you miss this entirely. Everything is filtered through the worldview complex of 2020 to a much higher degree.