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Tangentially related; question to those who are pro-choice: why is regular abortion okay but sex-selective abortion, aborting downsies, etc. not? My understanding of the pro-choice argument is that if a fetus is not yet a person, it's not wrong to kill it. Why is it more wrong to abort a fetus because it is a boy/girl? I am pro-life and so view this differently, hence not understanding the reasoning here.
Try from a new profile or incognito.

I saw the described image but after I visited the site directly I couldn't see it any more when redirectly via hacker news. Saw it again when I opened an incognito tab.
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This is a silly no true Scotsman argument. A screen of information is a screen of information. There's nothing that can be displayed on a desktop screen that is somehow incompatible with the pixels on my phone or tablet, which both have higher resolution than my desktop.
> My point was not to make UN the policeman, but to get countries to agree to change the founding principles of UN

No your point is to force your ideals onto others. Hence the overuse of the word “discourage”
I'm looking at a career change (possibly to tech), and I can't help but wonder: is there a way to be one of these managers, but without being a coder first?

Weird question, I know. But I'm an advanced beginner of a programmer who knows that I'd make a better manager than a SWE. Almost would prefer to just leap-frog to management since, as it is, I'm already looking at a career change and know my strengths.
https://www.finra.org/rules-guidance/rulebooks/finra-rules/2...

Try CTRL+F "suitability" for a five-second read of why the casino comparison doesn't apply here.
The authors aren't exactly cloaking themselves in glory either, to be fair.
Perhaps they can replace the image with an obviously wrong image (and smaller in size), and then wait for someone to complain
I get that the maintainers do what they want, but following semantic versioning should prevent this kind of problems.
It's probably too early to say if the vaccines have had any effect on the mutation rate, since wide-scale vaccination has only just started ramping up.

You'd think it'd be easier to say whether people are getting reinfected after catching COVID the first time, but the testing data is sparse enough that there doesn't seem to be any confirmation on whether it's widespread or just isolated cases. Most notably in Manaus, Brazil, where one of the new variants has been spreading.

I'm definitely not qualified to make anything other than wild guesses on this subject, but everything I've read suggests that scientists are scratching their heads as well. Conventional wisdom is that the spike is the easiest to target, so whether the human immune system picking the N protein is a mistake or brilliant move seems to be up in the air. Some reading: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41577-020-00480-0

Mutating to a less severe variant: Given that SARS-CoV-2 already has delayed symptoms and a high percentage being asymptomatic cases, I'm not sure there's much pressure to make it milder. Also the overall spike design is what gives SARS-CoV-2 its higher infectiousness compared to the original SARS, so one would hope that mutations to it (to avoid existing antibodies) would tend to make things less effective, although unluckily the virus has been discovering some new configurations that are both more infectious and also less protected against by the existing vaccines (especially the 60-70% ones). Paper on infectivity of variants: https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674%2820%2930877-1.pdf
These results really make me want to try out ASP.NET Core.
Year added. Thanks for catching that.

I changed the title earlier to the first sentence of the article because it seemed more factual and neutral.
I'm not on the team that handles this, but I highly doubt that this is the case.
Brilliant, take a page from dark patterns and make the font white on white or light light gray.
Common asthma treatment reduces need for hospitalisation in Covid-19 patients
I haven't been following this, so I don't have a lot of context, and a quick google doesn't tell me if he had student loans or much of anything about the context of his life.

Some initial thoughts that may be wildly off the mark:

1. Is it pertinent that he was a college student in a world where student loans are eating the futures of students while not giving them the good careers they thought it guaranteed?

2. Is it pertinent that the rich have gotten richer and the poor have gotten poorer during the pandemic? It's kind of a winner-take-all economy and we just crap all over everyone else and then blame them as lazy whiners who need to try harder and basically tell them "shut up!" if they try to point out "I'm doing all I can and it's never enough because the system is broken."

3. If you aren't one of the "winners" you get kind of this dystopian reality where you can't get health coverage, you can't get housing, once you are homeless no one wants to hire you so escaping seems nigh impossible, etc.

4. We have raised the ceiling on our economy and put in no floor. Then we wonder when folks slip through the cracks.

5. If you have overwhelming real world problems such that it makes you think suicide is your only option and you try to talk to someone, you will most likely be dismissed as "mentally ill" for being suicidal.

This is tragic and I assume Robinhood does need to handle things differently, but I can't help but wonder what this says about or how this relates to other societal issues in the US today.
What if the people who call out the names they don't like are the ones trying to score cheap political points? That seems more likely to me.

We could have controlled this virus a lot better in the beginning if it wasn't for cheap political point scoring of the form "the real problem isn't the virus, the real problem is anti-Asian racism"

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/20/us/coronavirus-racist-attacks...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/02/25/shen-yun-co...

Almost half a million Americans have died from the virus. To my knowledge, 0 have died from anti-Asian racism from the virus.
.. and to pin dependencies, or expect the occasional CI breakage. (you could argue a major version bump would've been nice instead of a minor one. but i don't even want to open that can of worms.)
I’m seeing the nut sundae on iOS mobile so I wouldn’t get too happy yet...
Lye is actually a very common household chemical. It's used in cooking and even grooming products--quality shaving creams have sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide. You can easily buy large containers of the stuff everywhere, including your local hardware store and, traditionally, grocery store. (These days you may need to go to a speciality grocer to find food-grade lye in bulk.)

The nice thing about lye is that it's typically sold in solid form, excepting in one of the most common household products, drain cleaner. Drano is sodium hydroxide in solution with aluminum, with which reacts in the presence of water, presumably to help mechanically break up clogs. Solid lye tends to be safer as there's less chance of ingestion, and less chance of it lingering on your skin--it turns your skin to soap.

Much more dangerous is stuff like sulphuric acid, which you can buy (at least in California) in concentrations of over 95% at the hardware store as Rooto and similar drain cleaners. That stuff is nasty as its in liquid form, easy to spill and even inhale as an aerosol. Also not a good idea for pipes despite how they're sold because such acids are hell on cast iron--i.e. what main sewage drains are made out of in older buildings and in jurisdictions that aren't favorable to PVC.

There are so many ways for evil people to do evil things it's amazing (and, frankly, fascinating and even instructive) that it doesn't happen more often. I'm curious to see how the situation will change as it becomes easier to be evil while remaining anonymous and remote. Still, I imagine it would be extremely difficult if not impossible to actually cause significant harm by changing the concentration of lye in the water suppler. For example, I'm skeptical that there would be enough lye in the dispenser at the treatment facility to cause serious harm. The worst effect would probably be disrupting the pH of the water system and possibly causing other ill effects, such as by leeching lead or rendering antimicrobials less effective.
That already exists in the form of yield farming.
As you move into team developed, non-trivial, real-world production apps, you move further down the list.

Even if you use the top ones in the list, you will have to build abstractions in code to handle software complexities. Those abstractions will reduce performance.

I do wonder, if we could use AI to dynamically remove those abstractions, to the extent possible and transform abstracted, multi-layer code to simple functions / compile targets, improving performance. Sort of like looking at the project, at this instant, and folding all database / processing code into higher performance code that reduces function calls or object instantiations.
Sadly I agree. The idea that someone willingly applied to have options trading available and is in fact an adult should be enough that its not the trading platform's fault.
We've created this bizarre feedback loop of treating older and older people to like children, which causes older and older people to act like children.
Ok it’s not just me then. I felt like I was taking crazy pills when reading the replies, and the ones to the sibling comment thread where they pivoted to talking about personal security with magic links when this entire conversation has been about companies implementing user management solutions.
How about this for common sense: Don't kill yourself. Especially not over something as trivial as money.
SafeLife: Safety Benchmarks for Reinforcement Learning (2019)
It's unfortunate that some platforms got dropped, but OTOH all these platforms seem to be 30 years old, niche, and discontinued by their original manufacturers.

If someone has antique computer that still works, that's great, but they shouldn't expect to have the latest software for it.
I wonder if anyway has attempted a more qualitative study on this. Asking exactly what attributes attract and what the person is thinking when they look at images of men and women.

Do gay men think the same as women? Is it a spectrum?

For straight men it seems mostly tied to women’s ability to carry children, coupled with a genderless beauty evaluation (e.g. symmetry) and then some measure of femininity (which is kind of like anti-masculine maybe). Femininity is really hard to quantify but it’s definitely a “know it when you see it” kind of thing.
Thank you for informative post, however I feel you are being unfair to the kid.

"this man's failure to do less than a few minutes of googling" is true if you know what to google, but not if you are clueless.

Setting up OAuth is a few minutes of googling to me, but not to the boss of my boss.
This is not my experience. Could you share an example?
Not as a frontend for traditional financial instruments as far as I know. Yield farming just trades other crypto asset, doesn't it?
I am curious what they did - can you share high level details? EG: if you're a developer, did they add more technologies, or what was the type of thing?
The biggest danger of using genetics as a reason is that at some point someone is going to say, "we have unequivocally ID'd the genes involved and we can ensure your offspring are of the orientation of _your_ choice". Or in more authoritarian regimes, the state's choice.
In my mid 20s I was in a serious bike accident. My shoulder was fractured and suffered repeat dislocations. One of my fingers was broken. I couldn’t work in my normal flow at a keyboard. And I was a flat broke contractor so I couldn’t afford assistive technology or downtime.

I had looked into “half keyboards” that mirror the other half of a (usually QWERTY) keyboard while holding down the space bar. But they were far out of my budget. So I mustered my strength and hobbled a software version good enough to barely work.

This was my first time building anything native for any platform (Mac in this case) and my first time writing anything that needed to account for allocating memory. It was small but riddled with bugs, and would crash with reckless abandon.

Normally I’d debug and fix it, but with it crashing I could barely code anything at all! So I just waited for it to crash and relaunched it. And then I automated that. It got me through a monthslong recovery and kept me housed and fed.

I considered open sourcing it and developing it to maturity, but there are patents involved. I didn’t want to risk it. But completely unrelated to the software itself the one lesson I learned (which sort of reflects the linked wiki page, especially mention of erlang) is that the crash-relaunch behavior was safe because my program was almost totally stateless. It was basically transparent enough for my usage that it didn’t matter whether it crashed or not (other than occasional latency).
s/smart/open minded
weird. not sure why you and my comment is being downvoted.
> For straight men it seems mostly tied to women’s ability to carry children

I think this is far from clear
And company's need to take more responsibility for their own actions as well, instead of blaming their users for being stupid. Predatory and aggressive behavior isn't made acceptable just because the person you preyed on was foolish.
I largely agree with you and think that my views fall closer to yours than the GPs. I'd endorse free speech absolutism as probably the best system in the vein of "Democracy is the worst system of government except for all the others". That being said

> Even if, like me, you think conservative ideas are generally worse than liberal ideas, you should want conservatives to rally around the best, most respectable conservative ideas rather around the worst ideas. They aren't going to convert from bad conservative ideas to good liberal ideas by way of coercion or suppression; rather, the best hope is for conservatives to see their best, most respectable ideas face off against the best, most respectable liberal ideas so that if/when they lose, as many as possible feel that their side's ideas were given a fair shot and they perhaps leave with a changed opinion (even if only incrementally).

I fully agree with this sentiment, but I think it misdiagnoses the biggest problem facing speech on the right. As I see it, the main problem is not ring wing views being drummed out of centrist publications (though this undoubtedly does happen and is a problem). Rather, it is instead 'respectable' conservative ideas being driven out of rightwing circles in favor of anti-intellectualism and conspiratorial nonsense.

I acknowledge the context of this article is bad behavior by censorious figures, I'll admit it is a serious free speech problem, but unfortunately I must dispute that it is the most important.

I think the mirror of this on the left manifests as performative wokeness, e.g. using whatever leftist language is at hand as a cudgel to settle political scores.

> It shouldn't surprise us that abandoning objectivity and neutrality for relativism and activism in our epistemological institutions would degrade trust and result in a rise of extremists; this is not only intuitive, but it's a historical pattern.

I'd moderate this statement slightly. We never had objectivity -- that's just an impossible yardstick for humans in human institutions. What we had was something like the pretense of objectivity, which was probably good enough for what we needed. I don't think people are wrong to point out that the old standards of objectivity were X which is problematic (where X might be white, or male or cis, or christian, or upper middle class, etc.) I agree that, granting this failing, explicitly turning to subjectivity is a bad response. But I think that needs to be explicitly argued to our friends on the left who might be tempted into the left's censorship spiral, and to just sweep it under the rug as an assumption will make them distrust your argument.
AIQC: Open source batch hyperparameter tuning for Keras
The process is more involved than it seems at first, nasty toluene is required and only mentioned once in the methods section.
The chemical treatment is a bit different, but I would expect similar results and difficulties as NileRed found when following the previous method from the same research group in 2016: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adma.201600...

Also the drastic change of 1 mm thick balsa wood from rigid to foillike around 00:27-28 in the "Movie S2" of the supplemental material is quite surprising:
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/suppl/2021/01/25/7.5...
anyone check if it's stegnography?
I feel this comment is a mean platitude, given that most people on HN do not understand options trading and probably you are one of them. I am.
>That's your definition of free speech and censorship.

It's both the US legal definition and the correct definition, because anything else becomes self-contradicting. Forcing someone to say or support another person's speech is never Free Speech. And that's what denying them the right to not speak, not help, and not associate with someone else means.

>Namely, malevolent self-serving actors, sometimes represented by major journalistic institutions, are whipping up the social media mob, during the time of mass hysteria, to destroy the lives of political and cultural opponents, as well as anyone that gets caught up in that drag net.

What a load of hooey. This is just you having a pathetic meltdown over other people's exercise of their freedom to not like people being gigantic assholes.

>Is that a problem? Are we OK with that? Do we have permission from you to talk about this as a problem?

Of course you don't need my permission to be a snowflake and spout garbage, that's your Freedom of Speech after all. And in nobody needs yours to call you out on it, dislike it, refuse to support you, refuse to have anything to do with you, and encourage others to do the same. And you can do the same, and try to rally others to your point. And they can counter. And around and around it goes, that's the point.

>We know why she did that and what her aims were.

Do we now? Do we know about Greenwalds anti-speech agenda too?

>Is that OK for a NY Times reporter to do? Is that something to highlight as an issue?

It's her freedom of speech to do so, so long as it's actually true as opposed to defamation. It's ours to criticize should we wish it, to shame the reporter, to refuse to further support the NYT, or of course merely to dismiss it as silly. Or for that matter some people may honesty think the reporter has a point. But to believe in Free Speech is believe this is all a process that should play out without anyone being shot.

>Or are you still stuck arguing semantics and definitions of words while missing the entire point.

I think that's your projection. This is a matter of fundamental principle and the application or not of hard power, not semantics. It is you who are running away from that.
This is only true for heat pumps where the useful heat transfer occurs at the 'hot' side. In the ideal reversible case, COP_heating = T_h / (T_h - T_c), and is always greater than 1 (as the heat from work done is added to the heat transferred from the cold side).

For refrigeration the situation is different: we are interested in the amount of heat _removed_ from the cold side. In this case, for a Carnot cycle COP_cooling = T_c / (T_h - T_c) and is NOT always greater than 1.
It’s such a hard balance between regulation to protect the people vs freedom of will. I’m not entirely sure what’s the solution is but RH is definitely inching towards user exploitation.
If someone is 20, it's more likely that they have no idea what they're doing with options, and a brokerage has a regulatory requirement to ensure that options are suitable for the customer before approving an account for options trading. It's not a bright line; age is information that can be used to make a reasonable determination about whether the customer is cognizant of all the risks. At the very least, they should call and speak with young customers before approving.
> NAT and firewalls weren't used much at all and servers would just sit on public IPs.

All 3 of these are more or less coming back with IPv6.
> It's also interesting how the result heavily depends on the path taking during the gradient descent rather than merely the end result. This is somewhat counterintuitive when for the equivalent gradient descent only the end result is seemingly important.

I don’t understand. What do you mean here?

I only (quickly) skimmed the article but it says that the limit is equal to a (not the) zero of your gradient.

The result should be the same for every trajectory leading to the same zero. Put another way, it doesn’t depend on the path if it leads to the same zero.

I would say here that not all zeros are equal though. :)
Ask HN: Graph to visualize all big websites on internet?
I remember there was an online graph some years ago, (not sure if was a node graph or a simple bubble diagram) that the user could zoom in and out and show the most used websites with the number of users.
Or maybe was a ranking from Alexa, but I remember there was a possibility to filter the view by country.
Someone remember the url by any change? Maybe is on archive.org
Day 2 has this as one of 9 submissions on it ;

Google Acquires YouTube For $1.6B : 12 points - no comments

Right below ;

MySpace: Not a purely viral start : 9 points - no comments

Apparently the same ^ could be said of HN.

Think about that when starting a new venture. Puts things into perspective.
Not sure how many brokers you have applied to lately but -

TDA, Fidelity, Webull, Interactive Brokers, Tasty works, ETrade, and more all make options just as accessible as RH.
That... seems unlikely. That implies a woman's reproductive system knows and remembers or at least keeps a tallies of the sex of the offspring it has produced...
How can they have remote access without any access controls and logging?

an operator noticed someone had remotely entered the computer system that he was monitoring

How could they not know immediately who it was (or at least, whose credentials were used)?

Do they even know that it was a hacker and not someone trying to type "111.00 ppm but either they or the software dropped a decimal and typed "11100"?
HN Googlebot:
<see story about Google>
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So a dark trick to get people to X to feed the surveillance/ads/guillotine/CIA/NSA/CCP/Vladimir Putin machine?
Trees lock away carbon (A tree's mass comes from the air, not the soil) and produce a useful building material. If we could produce a way to make "bricks" from the atmosphere, that would be a game changer.
Not sure if it’s considered rude to squat on someone else’s thread but since you’re looking for ways to get feedback on your newsletters, I wanted to introduce you to https://moogle.cc which was made with this exact use case in mind.

FD - I made it.
pyca/cryptography replaced C code with Rust code without bumping the major semver. This broke people's CI because it removed support for certain platforms which Rust barely supports or doesn't support at all. People are arguing over this change in the github comments, but the problem from my perspective is just with semver. The maintainers didn't do semver right.

Edit: the maintainers didn't do semver right because the maintainers didn't do semver
Can Artificial Intelligence restore 85-year-old Popeye cartoons?
Yeah, it's pretty easy to get level 3 trading option these days. In fact, if you select level 3 and answer incorrect, they even prompt you and say, hey that option won't let you get verified for level 3.

With older brokerage firms, they use to call you up after you signed up. You would have to chat with them on the phone before they unlocked your account.