skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
STC rating, or as you point out maybe a more expansive take on noise attenuation, is going to be high on my requirements list next time I look at an apartment. I think that and general sanitation (i.e lack of rats, roaches, bedbugs, mold) are the things that have the most acute effect on livability. And not having to walk on tiptoes is nice too. Unfortunately new construction is all about making a building cheaply, but soundproofing is almost impossible to do after the fact unless you want to gut a place.
Did not check the speed. I want to use it during debugging/developing so speed was not something I was thinking about.

It is not a very elegant solution thanks to limitations of preprocessor __VAR_ARGS__. Basically there is a compiler builtin function __builtin_types_compatible_p() that checks if the argument is of a given type, then there is another builtin __builtin_choose_expr() that can do something with the result of the former. Using those two builtins I construct an array of type information and pass it to the actual printing function which is using <stdarg.h> and the array of type information to print stuff.
Not very surprising, is it?

Right or wrong, "top" colleges are considered better equipped to get you close to the wealth and power needed to live comfortably.

This isn't much different from travelers going west and buying claims in search of gold.

Almost the entire collegiate system in the US is fundamentally broken. It is siloed and just as much pay-to-play as the rest of this country. The soaring costs, low returns, and behemoth mis-allocation of resources towards college football are examples of this.
There is always the option to let the issue sort itself out. To allow space and time for a solution to emerge.

We should be careful not to fall into action bias. E.g. the thought that we need to do something, anything, since that can lead to counterproductive solutions.

I've begun to look at information problems like this not too differently than viruses of thought. Right now these viruses are running rampant because we've never had to deal with anything like them before on such a wide scale. It seems perfectly possible to me that over time we will develop social standards that immunize us from these viruses. More and more people will begin to disregard clickbait, outrage-inducing headlines, etc. They will simply become less salient the more and more we experience them.

Reframing the question at hand around this metaphor: What would an effective vaccine look like for these thought viruses? I'm not at all sure, but I can't imagine any kind of partisan response that would work, since these viruses infect left and right alike, and many people will bend over backwards to argue otherwise. Until we can face that fact honestly, I don't see how we could even begin to have a productive conversation about a solution.
It combined several long running conspiracy theories into one. Because they had been around for so long individually, combining them somehow made them more believable. Connecting seemingly disparate dots together added credibility because it explained everything conspiracy theorists believed.
That exercise is monorepo migration. Every target has to work with nothing more than "buck build" or "bazel test" or whatever, or you can't check it in. And anything that runs in production must be checked in.

I'm not sure whether it was really worth it for us, but it did solve that problem.
Here's Ferlinghetti reading "Dog": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk8cMyCUnoo

It really evokes San Francisco to me.
I feel the same way about rent control. It's not fair for society at large to make property owners eat the cost or the lost potential income alone. I am aggressively pro rent control and pro eviction moratorium during the pandemic, but I am for a (progressive) tax to fund these programs. It's just unfair to make yourself feel good by supporting these programs when you don't have any skin in the game.
I'm not naïve though, I know that if you raise taxes to fund these programs as a society as opposed to a property owner having to fund it alone, those programs will lose their popularity. This is a case where most people's support for these programs is literally all talk. And yes, some property owners are scum and/or large corporations and people will game the system. But then you address that with oversight with teeth.
None anymore, I'm heavy on the audio books for the moment.
An (sadly? or rather realistically) that is what it boils down to, people who read the classics, read the classics, whether at Harvard or elsewhere. People who are critical thinkers, are critical thinkers, again whether at a college or elsewhere. People who X, X. To think that spending money (and increasing amounts of it) will change this is sheer insanity. Sure, you might get a few that otherwise would have never Xed to now X, but is it not just fundamentally inefficient? For every p that now Xs how many are still as lost? What would one do next?

Concerning the nurture component; Change their parents? Take the children away to be raised by a government?

Concerning the nature component; Alter their DNA?
> they simply want to avoid paying Apple's App Store fees

This is often repeated on HN, but is not true. They want a cut of those fees for themselves, which is why they want to run their own store and payment mechanism.

This is definitely no more aligned with the users than Apple.

Arguably it’s less aligned, since they don’t care what users experience with the platform is.
I don't mean real peak, I simply mean cyclic peak. It will fall and rise higher, but why buy on high when it's going to go back to low which is almost guaranteed with something like crypto.
I can't claim to be authoritative either, but it's what I read. I feel fairly safe in claiming that there is no tradition of women changing their names on marriage, though.

For the example, I used the names of two historical people who did historically marry; I picked them based on Soong Mei-ling being mentioned in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_titles#Women , under the title I wanted to talk about.

For Chinese address in general, the example posits a woman named 宋美龄 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soong_Mei-ling ), whose family name is 宋 and whose personal name is 美龄, marrying a man named 蒋介石 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiang_Kai-shek ), whose family name is 蒋 and whose personal name is 介石.

Chinese titles appear after the noun being titled, not before. So the ordinary address for 宋美龄 (before or after she marries[1]) is 宋小姐 ("Ms. Song"), where 小姐 is the courtesy title for women, and the ordinary address for 蒋介石 is 蒋先生 ("Mr. Jiang"), with 先生 being the courtesy title for men.

The 夫人 ("Lady") title is unusual; it is applied to the name of the woman's husband, not to the name of the woman herself. (Compare an American letter addressed to e.g. "Mr. and Mrs. John Smith".) Thus, 蒋介石's wife can be referred to as 蒋夫人, regardless of what her name might be.

Wikipedia suggests that the title 太太 ("wife") is also applied to the husband's name.

[1] I'm following the convention of government forms here, in which 小姐 and 先生 are opposed options for how the form addresses you, and 女士 doesn't appear. The wikipedia section linked above states that 小姐 applies to unmarried women and 女士 applies to married women. My -- limited -- understanding is different; I see 女士 as being used to convey a higher degree of respect, such as in professional communications. For example, I was once advised by a Chinese person to address the mother of a child I was tutoring as 孟小姐; I can only assume that the use of 小姐 did not convey the fairly insulting impression that I believed she was unmarried.
"That’s what they need to address, picking and choosing opinions to block is a fig leaf move that’s more likely to backfire than improve anything."

Counter point - before social media that is exactly how it worked for the last 100 years. Newspapers, radio stations and tv stations were picking and choosing opinions to block.

This entire problem is actually being caused by the total removal of editorial discretion from sane people.
OP said UX, not UI.
M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short periods of time
The sad part is how politicians and organized groups are seemingly afraid to change their direction for fear of voter retribution. Comparing datasets across states and regions, it is not entirely clear to me which had the most effective policies. I would like to see an official CDC report that identifies which policies worked and which did not. I don't think we're going to see a report - because it would become an instant political hot potato.

Eviction moratoriums in 2021 - a full year after the start of the crisis are nonsensical. Individual owners such in the article will eventually lose their properties to deeper pockets - further entrenching wealth disparity.
This exactly. I read the essay and said to myself “meh”. Having a phone that I can’t mess up is actually pretty dang nice.

High performance computing is definitely locked down. An M1 Mac is pretty dang nice.

But for general purpose computing you don’t need those fancy graphics. I’ve been thinking of microcontrollers as the equivalent of our 1980s general purpose computers more so than the rpi. The rpi still requires a lot of software. An mcu just works. And we can create a nice little gpu for it with an fpga.

Big corporations aren’t locking you out of this world. They are actually helping you get this awesome stuff for pennies as a consequence of the massive supply chain.
> "When the product is free, you are the product."

This only makes sense in software because your your data is being harvested for insights that can be used for profits. It doesn't make sense at all for vaccines.

How would a country profit from making its population sick? That's trillions of dollars of lost productivity....

Your entire line of reasoning is just really fundamentally unsound.

The research around the efficacy and safety of these vaccines, performed and peer-reviewed by thousands of professionals with actually relevant training, has yet to show that there is a reason to be concerned about the vaccines. The risk to benefit ratio compared to letting the pandemic continue unabated definitely favors vaccinating the population.
It was made more specific in Brandenburg v. Ohio but it was not overturned. ie, if someone is falsely yelling fire in a crowded theater which is "speech brigaded with action" then it is a situation where a person could be prosecuted for speech. They used that very example.

Edit:

People can read it themselves: https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/395/444

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_v._Ohio

Fire in a crowded theater is specifically mentioned as the sort of case in which a person could be prosecuted for speech.
Clearly some landlords are getting hurt due to some tenants taking unethical advantage of the situation. But I think we need to wait to draw broad conclusions until this can be systematically analyzed at the macro level, rather than doing so from the one-off anecdotes in the article.
> Almost all of his reporting is taking a microscope to US left media and policies

No, it's not.

It's mostly targeting the Democratic Party establishment and centrist media. He’s still playing the role of a leftist critic of the elite centrist establishment.

Of course, it's hard not to notice that though he will still ritually make perfunctory negative comments about the Right in the course of doing so, the content of his criticism is carefully calibrated to match current right-wing narratives about the same outlets as he is criticizing.
I was wondering the same thing, so thanks for putting this together. My one suggestion would be to include only the adult population, since I'm guessing their data / surveys only include adults.

196M (approximate adult US pop) / 3 / 500K (COVID-19 deaths) ~= 130

But the numbers, i.e. average American knows somewhere between 130 to 219 people, seem a bit high.
Unlocking the bootloader on your phone will make the phone fail the security check required for online banking and other apps. Therefore, it is not something that the general public can really take advantage of. It is great that Sony provides unlocking, but it will remain the purview of a small community of nerds like us, and it does nothing to improve accessibility to general computing for the masses.
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You could make the exact same point towards the renters who were banking on their job to pay the rent. One is called a mortgage while the other is called rent.
I don't watch MSNBC (or any TV news for that matter), but I'm curious how their reporting has changed since Biden was sworn in. It's easier to report facts that 'speak truth to power' when your bias is opposed to who currently holds power.

Biden has delayed, compromised on, or walked back nearly every campaign promise he made. Has MSNBC been calling out these discrepancies between campaign rhetoric and implementation? I would be surprised if they were making substantive criticism of the Biden administration.
UML statecharts are OK too.

The structure diagrams, much less so, and I still think "really?" whenever I see a use case diagram. Adding a stick figure and lines and circles to something that should be expressed in sentences and paragraphs is just absurd.
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Some repos have already successfully used the vote method and that feels like a pretty solid defence.
Microsoft made/is making Outlook into a PWA.
I do agree the colours in the article were garish, but I'd say that is less because of the HSV/L usage and more the author's choices (including choosing to make complementary colours in this way). The ability HSV gives to easily be able 'rotate' colour, (even though it's around a deformed blob nothing like a circle), and increase and decrease saturation makes it quite useful.

I agree that human-picked (where the human very often will be selecting in an HSV-based picker themselves) probably yields a more pleasing result more often (tastes can vary a lot there however), but I think there are some quite solid possibilities with code using HSV too, without having to go the whole-hog with colour-science. Makes it heaps easier to just play with colour for one thing, and code can be just for fun/exploration sometimes I think that's a good thing.
USPS unveils next-generation mail truck with electric drivetrain option
The delusional fantasies aren't just YouTube though. It's in Fox News, it's in the op-ed section of the WSJ, it's propagated by political leaders. The entire conservative movement in the US right now is steeped in delusional fantasies. I don't see how this gets better.
Luckily that changes every 4 or 8 years.
They killed a cop? Wow, I only read NYT's retraction of the story, if there was an update on the retraction then it missed my radar. Can you point me to a link from NYT claiming that rioters killed a cop?
It would be interesting if someone from China could comment on censorship in China. Is there a fraction of people who agrees with it or is almost it universally disapproved of?

Some of these arguments for censorship made in this article sound eerily similar to how we justify censorship in the West.

> Our role was to make sure that low-level content moderators could find "harmful and dangerous content" as soon as possible.

Without context this could apply to any Western social media platform. Of course in the West its companies not politicians who call the shots, but the language to justify the actions is certainly similar.

I'm not trying to equate Western censorship to Chinese censorship, but in the West it's certainly fair to say many people are happy and even welcoming of censorship – is the same in China?
They wouldn’t steal the cookie, they’d just have the script send the requests as the user directly.
Not sure, depends who you ask. But almost every deep learning and RL innovation opens a can of ethics worms...
A burned out teacher friend of mine once told me: “Primary education, at least in the USA, is a daytime prison where we send our children so we can go to work.”
In the early 80s (I think 83?) I did a week long summer computer camp at a local community college, and it was all on the PET. I recall having to do an interview because I was too young for the camp so my parents had to get special permission. We had just bought a VIC-20 at home, so I was even able to bring my cassette drive in and save the BASIC programs I wrote at school and run them at home.

The thing that impressed me the most was we got to run the classic Colossal Caves "Adventure" on the machine. Spent hours playing it at camp.
I've listened to lecture courses from The Great Courses (Teaching Company) on literature, history, music, philosophy, and science for 20+ years now. I get to learn what I want, at my own pace, etc. The lecturers are good, and I can replay or repeat lectures as I like. Many advantages of taking college courses without the hassles you ran into.
I was joking with my friend that we should make and sell heaters that are miners in disguise. The customers would not notice the difference
There's a difference between working to eat, and investing. Investments have inherent risk, and if you can't bear that risk, don't overleverage yourself.
A simple solution would be to require car companies to make the horn as loud inside the vehicle as it is outside.

However, general motor traffic noise - tyres, engines, displaced air - is loud enough to be a serious problem anyway.

I don't know how we solve this. Car dependency is so ingrained in our collective consciousness; is it politically feasible to find a way out?
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> Individual owners such in the article will eventually lose their properties to deeper pockets

How do we know that’s not the actual goal of those policies?
Small cars make more sense in other cities. It's a digression because the thread above is more on why they couldn't work in cities where they would be beneficial overall, especially as a transition tool while (re)bootstrapping public transport. While I can mostly only speak to the American experience, obviously China is seeing some niches today, and parts of Europe that aren't quite as well adapted to biking and public transport may see them as well.

I can mostly only speak to the American suburban diaspora, and small EV cars could be an incredibly useful transition tool where scales are far too big for comfortable biking (much less walking), little to no public transportation exists, but small enough with some speed limit changes to common streets may be perfect for small EVs in theory. Which is why most of the other conversation above (and in related threads) is about the challenges in using it as a transition tech in America: that family size averages might be too big to be comfortable in small EV cars, that Americans have grown accustomed to cars being the only generally available means of transport whatsoever between destinations, that Americans heavily rely on primary vehicles for long tail secondary functions (hauling, cargo, long distance trips), and that the American "dream" is entangled with this notion that one's primary car should be able to serve every part of that long tail of rare/unusual secondary functions, and that every American is indeed trapped in the tragedy of commons that vehicles "must" get larger and deadlier to feel "safer" and "more in control".

It would be wonderful if America were able to rebuild cities to be more like Amsterdam/Copenhagen/Oslo magically overnight so that biking and public transportation would serve most uses. It's just unlikely to happen magically, much less overnight, and small cars could be a convenient transition tool to bootstrap something better. (But probably won't be given current American sociopolitics.)
PoW is just a filter to prevent denial of service attacks, to ensure that if you're a bad actor, you'll waste electricity to send bogus messages.

But if the DLP is easy, then anyone can fabricate proper ECDSA sigs, and you're not wasting electricity to send bogus messages, you're wasting electricity to send valid messages.

The point I was trying to make is that there is no migration path from ECDSA. You can't fork bitcoin if the DLP is easy. It's just game over. Proof of work becomes irrelevant.
For those reading and not familiar with Gridcoin and BOINC, I should note that BOINC is separate from Gridcoin. The threads about BOINC are indeed related, but about a slightly different topic. Just wanted to note that since I have seen some confusion stemming from it in the past

Separately, would it be possible to change the submission link to something with a little more information such as gridcoin.us? I have been lurking for a few months and I notice that you have changed some links in the past. Not sure what the guidelines are for changing links, so let me know if me that's not something you think is needed or can do
> there's nothing personal or sentient in a strain of cancerous cells

There's countless trillions of her cells, with her DNA, in research labs all over the country. She never consented to that, and her family isn't happy about it. We can't know her wishes because she died of that cancer, but something like this would never pass an ethics review board today.

There is a long history of black americans being subjected to medical procedures or experiments without their consent (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study), which makes this particularly problematic.
I agree with you about the software part, but I mostly meant the hardware. What I meant by gaming PCs was that there is a market of modular computers, mainly but not exclusively serving gamers. You can still build your own computer from parts you ordered on the internet. You don't have to put Win 10 with a bunch of games on it. You can install GNU/Linux. I have done precisely that.
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Relatedly I read the top colleges try to get students they know they'll never admit to apply, because the more that apply, the more they can reject and the more selective they become.

Selectivity is a status symbol, so you want as many as possible to apply so you can reject as many as possible.
I don't understand the vitriol towards Apple. They are selling a closed (eco)system, definitely. But many people have lived through the virus-ridden 90s and early 2000s and want the confidence that comes with pre-approved software. Who over the age of 30 doesn't remember doing tech support on crappy Windows computers for family for years? Is that still needed for those family members with Apple computers? Not in my experience.

I also want the ability to choose and use an open computer - and I can still do so. I have both Apple and non-Apple devices. Apple hasn't destroyed my ability to build a Linux box. Chill.
> There are quirks - the COP is different for lower temperatures, and becomes 1:1 at around 5F (-15C).

It depends on the unit. Some (Mitsubishi FE12NA) have a COP of 1.75 even at -10F / -20C. See Table 6:

* https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy11osti/52175.pdf