jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Well, it can only shoot at other iGun owner, so that kinda limits it’s usefulness.
Switzerland has the loosest gun laws in the world next to America.

They have laws REQUIRING able bodied males have a gun.

Also, The Swedes inteternally had a coup to overthrow the monarchy.

I can't imagine the monarchy turned over it's power due to love or because someone asked nicely.

I imagine there's a significant possibility the threat of weapons may have been present.
I think you missed my point. SVG coordinates are effectively arbitrary precision. 3.5 bits per byte of arbitrary precision, but arbitrary precision nonetheless. There are no small integers, only scalar or vector values.
My observations of how 3D printing is evolving doesn't align with OPs. Why go to great lengths to print pressure bearing parts while many of them can be crafted from off the shelf parts from your local Home Depot? Stock steel, a welder, and some airsoft parts can all be used as functional substitutes and a lot of creators have functional models from these methods.

In most parts of the United States a barrel (or anything other than the frame/receiver for that matter) is not a regulated part. You can order it online and have it show up at your door without ID or signing for it. Even in areas where barrels are regulated it only requires a few materials to electrochemically machine a barrel.
I am not a poker player. I do not care about the game nor the industry.

I do care about my rights as an individual in what is supposed to be a free society. Petition signed.
The page says "bonus points are given for each proper step forward".

So it appears they are optimizing for whatever their idea of a "proper step" is.
> What would prevent people from disassembling this, replacing a few parts and making new gun? Making hand gun is very simple once you have basic components, such as barrel and bullets.

Nothing, but why would you want to? The whole point is so you can buy a gun that only you can use (and not e.g. your kid). I guess a thief might still steal a gun and then disable the system, but making life harder for such a thief is a good thing even if it doesn't make it impossible (just like an engine immobilizer). But if you're worried about "bad guys", the point is just to stop accidental shootings. There's nothing in the system that would stop you deliberately e.g. shooting a cop with one (as long as you had the wristband on).
The article never talks either about "getting cold" (and being sick). How does it work? Each time I spend a few hours in the cold (e.g. at work in Sydney in summer, they keep the A/C at 19C), I feel like I have a mini-fever for 24hrs. Is it a natural reaction of the body? Does it go away after adaptation?
Because suicidal decisions are made during moments of intense stress? Suiciders want it to be quick and painless?

If you look at how Britain's transition from coal gas to natural gas reduced suicide rates it is not hard to imagine same would happen if guns were banned.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/magazine/06suicide-t.html?...
I basically agree, in that I disable auto-starting audio at all costs.

Truth be told, I don't bother going back and whitelisting sites that may be OK.
Foreign intelligence is used to interrogate/arrest/kill people. Only powers that are granted can be misused, we as citizens can take anything we want away from the government.
It does does raise the question. Why do American highschoolers need it, and why not them in the rest of the world. Why saddle students and parents with an additional 100$+ expense, when very possibly it isn't strictly pedagogically necessary.
Using pills to solve a moral problem is as ineffective and illogical as using food to solve sadness.
The author has a nice write-up on the motivation behind it here: http://jgaskins.org/blog/2015/1/17/clearwater-a-front-end-we...
I awkwardly said "I would prefer not to disclose that."

I later (after I joined) asked the recruiter about it and she told me that sent a message to her that I was either overpaid or underpaid. The offer (after some negotiation) came in 20k higher than my previous salary.
for most of the answers its giving me
"After seven and a half million years of calculation I have found that the answer is 42."
It also depends on the job. For a high-level executive position with a multi-million dollar golden parachute, sure a one or two year NCA is reasonable. For example, iirc Mark Hurd had to wait a year for NCA to expire before going to work at Oracle after leaving HP.

But for a professional developer/engineer position for with minimum severance it's completely unreasonable. It's like asking a lawyer to not practice law for a year after leaving a firm, or a doctor not to practice medicine for two years after leaving a partnership. That's your bread & butter, how you feed your children, and the idea of asking someone in that situation not to ply their hard-earned skills in their trade is nuts.

The only exception would be, and I personally agreed to this at my first job after graduating from college, is if the company provided an extensive training program that taught you all the skills you know. My first company provided three months all-day classroom/lab training while paying us full wages, then an additional three months of mixed OTJ and classroom/training. I was Econ grad and they taught us app development, and then asked us to sign a 1-year NCA that started on the date our training officially ended. They just wanted to make sure they didn't make a huge investment training people (and paying them full salary during training) who would then jump over to a competitor right afterwards, which was totally reasonable.

Later, another company asked me to sign an NCA that would go into effect my last day of work with them, but offered no training, professional development, or year-long severance. I and another new developer sat down with the CEO and explained the above, and she cancelled the whole program after realizing our side of it, which was very cool of her.

So yeah, it depends on the situation, type of employee, etc.
A few years back I worked on a project that had switched to autonomy from lucene. They'd had problems getting good enough results from automony so decided to plough some money into the problem and go for what was considered the best solution at the time. My impression now is that lucene has come a very long way, does anyone know how they compare today?
They are supposedly adding 9 new fulfillment centers this year after adding 11 or 12 last year to meet demand. They had over 50 fulfillment centers at the end of 2010. Thats most likely the source for the majority of their new hires.
>they are keeping a time-stamped list of nearby access points on my device, which effectively is a huge breadcrumb trail of everywhere

Read again. They are not. Its not timestamped when "you" where there, but when some anonynous iPhone picked up that particular hotspot. It got then uploaded to Apple and subsequently downloaded onto your iPhone, so that your iPhone can find its location easier.

Wasn't that kinda the obvious reason in the first place?
Sadly, Groklaw seems to have turned into a cesspool of Microsoft haters. Can't really hope for any impartiality when it comes to reporting on MS. It's doubly sad because it's such a good resource otherwise.
> Most technocrats, be they left or right, absolutely hate the 40% rule as well

Since technocrats hate any restrictions on their power....

Technocrats have had small successes but in the large they've been a disaster.

> Government by ballot box is terrible.

It's better than the alternatives.
That seems to be why the experiment outlined is so valuable. It would default both options and look at cross-switching.

A/B testing UX, basically?
He JianKui's Project is not to build the superman. the parent of the baby girls is HIV positive. He did that so that Parent is not going to worry about their babies is going to get the disease.
End qualified immunity couple with increased pay and benefits and more psych training and DEI training before hitting the ground.

It is a risky job and it should valued as such. It should be selective too.

We have bodycams, to reduce the chances of "he said, she said"
Try reading the very first paragraph:

«
It has a peach-colored cover, a chunky, 1970s-style logo, and a black plastic binding. It’s delightfully homemade-looking—like it was printed by a bunch of teenagers at a Kinkos. And inside is the sheet music for hundreds of common jazz tunes—also known as jazz “standards”—all meticulously notated by hand.
»
>overarching themes is that technology, in the hands of big business and bloated bureaucracies, does not make life better: in fact it makes it far, far worse.

That is not what I got out of the radio series and book.
In my opinion, it is rigidity, legalism, or by the letter vs spirit of the law what The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy warns against. This fits with the author's initial dislike of computers. The Vogon's are a perfect example.
They did, but there is still not a good way to return multiple result sets... I mean you can return cursors, but it's...strange.
This is a false equivalence of the first order. What makes JS impossible to dethrone is that whatever replaces it would need to be supported by a critical mass of web browsers, which just won't happen.

AI/ML on the other hand has no such restriction. Your new startup could build all their ML models in Java with DeepLearning4J and it would probably work fine. Python is used because it's easy to work with for experimenting, which is a big part of research and for production your can extract your weight and graph structure to run on TVM/TensorRT/ONNX. There is no equivalent vendor lock-in.
What is this setup.sh you're talking about? Got any links?
>will be able to support just 485,000 simultaneous users at 100Mbit/s across the entire US

I mean sure, but presumably more considering they aren't going to be super correlated?

Based on a quick search, it appears that average bandwidth used by cable subscribers (who only use internet and not TV) is probably a little over 1 Mbps (and that's higher than the median) so it seems like your figures imply the ability to handle around 30-40 million customers.
I didn't try to run a command, I ran this exact script: https://github.com/ct-Open-Source/tuya-convert/blob/master/i...

Actually you could be right - that script does run `python3` after apt-get'ing everything it needs. Anyway..

I didn't look into it any further because I didn't feel like investing any time into learning the 'Ubuntu way'.

I installed Debian instead and it worked perfectly without any grief. It also worked perfectly on PopOS when I used it a few days later on a different machine.

Canonical can make whatever changes they want of course, I've just become increasingly less patient when it comes to machines not acting how I have come to expect. So I'll just stick to what works. Oh man - I'm becoming one of those old dudes...
It hardly matters.

Every other industry has tools with finer tolerances than anything they produce. Except this one.

Then we blame each other for the quality of our output. It's madness of the first degree.
I work on enterprise software and in my experience what you are describing is not normal. It sounds more like amateur software development masquerading as enterprise software development.
I'll second talking to a local nonprofit over the USDA or USFS. At least in the PNW, these agencies are focused on extracting value from the land and their replantings are tightly-packed monocultures designed to be harvested again. They have about as much in common with a forest as a golf course has with a prairie.
Didn't appear to be on the advertising side of things (yet...), but I had a similar experience when renewing some free Azure credits (from Microsoft Dreamspark or whatever they're calling it now).

I kinda figured it was just verifying I was a human, but I've provisioned 10~ or so other VPSes and dedicated servers with a few different providers and never got a phonecall so it was unexpected.
At the extremes, both sides are the same.
First president in history to be banned from twitter
I am no trump fan, but reading the two tweets that got him suspended confuses me. Neither of those two tweets encourages violence in any way. What am i missing? The two listed tweets are:

“The 75,000,000 great American
Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA
FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT
AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE
long into the future. They will
not be disrespected or treated
unfairly in any way, shape or
form!!!”

and

“To all of those who have asked,
I will not be going to the
Inauguration on January 20th.”

So where do those encourage violence? First one lists how many people voted for him, and his idea that they support the country more than those who did not. Asinine, but not more inflammatory than most politicians say. The second is an answer to a question many have been asking. Also pretty harmless. Honestly, what am I missing?
> I don't understand what people don't get about the 1st amendment. A right to free speech, is set in stone in the US Constitution

It seems like you yourself may be having a little 1st amendment confusion, it has no bearing on private companies and only refers to laws Congress is allowed to pass.

The opening paragraph of the amendment:

“Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_Unite...
I find it funny the number of hackernews users who continue to defend or minimize trump's behavior and actions.

When a comment describing Trump as fascist (he is one) is flagged due to downvotes it's a bit odd.
Recruiting is simple because many moderate voices are labeled as "nazi" and consequently deplatformed and censored, that creates massive polarization and resentment.
You need to expand your bubble.
Not necessarily. Bitcoin is the easiest example but it works to varying extents the same way with any supply and demand product (like currencies as well): if someone discovers an issue with bitcoin, nobody wants to own it anymore. The first person to sell is probably happy, but as soon as buyers catch on, the value has disappeared without anyone receiving another penny. If a publicly traded company is suddenly not expected to make more money, its shares become worthless. Nobody received money proportional to the value loss.

I think you're mostly right in this case since we'll need solutions and we'll pay dearly, but value/wealth/money being lost isn't necessarily coupled to someone else getting rich. If people suddenly can't inhabit certain plots of land anymore, they're not selling it at previous market rates anymore; their value is just lost.
Yes. And I've not found a single "digital" voting method so far that fixes this entire chain of problems.
Western culture has relative "material prosperity" because our ancestors invaded all the other places on earth and fucked them up. See: Africa, the Middle East.

In places we didn't invade such as Mongolia and Japan, they're actually doing quite well.

Before you look down on the rest of the planet, consider that Europe is one of the best places to survive on earth. It's temperate, it's fertile, it rains a lot, it's geologically stable. Is it surprising that life is easy in Europe?

Compare that to North Africa, which is one of the least hospitable places on the planet: a huge desert. Installing western culture in North Africa would not fix anything.

Many people do in fact enjoy being "poor", as you put it, as long as they have everything they need in life. The western alternative to "poor" for these people is to work crazy hours in a factory. What kind of prosperity is that?
Vaccine is almost useless this year, I wonder if they need better analysis to guess what to use.
Cancer has lots in common with chronic pain, spine-related for instance. The main difference is that the latter kills you slower. Might take 30-50 years of agony before you go. So for those who think cancer death is sweet cuz it gives you time for reflection, I recommend breaking their back instead.
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I'll give just one example: sales and marketing.

Almost all of marketing today is zero-sum. Unless you're not coming up with something genuinly new and useful, you're competing for a limited pool of customers - and all the resources you put into it work only to undo the work your competitors do. You can scale marketing expenses ad infinitum for no marginal benefit. Political campaigns work similarly - they all cancel each other out (pg described it in [0]).

Note that this creates a whole lot of dependent industries. Graphic design, "growth hackers", printing houses, people manufacturing ink and paper, all are supported entirely or partially by zero-sum marketing. These can similarly scale up ad infinitum, using up fuel, electricity, time and labour we could put to a better use elsewhere.

[0] - http://www.paulgraham.com/charisma.html
Looking at fees I think you will be better off at Vanguard if you have at least 10K. You can also get Vanguard Target Retirement with 1k and expense ration of 0.18.
random comments:

There are a lot of scala books for different target audiences, 19 in various languages, (the 3 Manning Meaps are half-done chapter wise, :

http://www.scala-lang.org/node/959

http://manning.com/raychaudhuri

http://manning.com/suereth

----------------

Re: compiler speed: backgrounders on type inference,

http://scala-programming-language.1934581.n4.nabble.com/Part...

http://lampwww.epfl.ch/~odersky/papers/#Types

http://staticallytyped.wordpress.com/2010/04/17/solution-in-...

(see comments)

--------------

the type checker:

http://lampsvn.epfl.ch/trac/scala/browser/scala/trunk/src/co...

and specialization in 2.8:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4256273/why-did-scalas-li...

As an aside, you can't really declare anything a problem in scala til you've asked #scala freenode IRC, the mailing lists and/or stackoverflow and gotten their takes on your issue.
Certainly, you must mean the on-screen button.
One of my favorites, from:
http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?issue=64&id=4&page...

See: An almost invisible ssh connection

ssh -T user@host /bin/bash -i

This connects you to a box with no TTY allocation. If someone types 'w', they will not see your connection.
Ha! I'm flattered; hope it works for you.

On the science question, I'd be interested to read more about the science of motivation. It seems intuitive that reading the same thing over and over would tend to reinforce it in your mind. Isn't that the basis for propaganda and brainwashing in general? However, intuition and science are often orthogonal, so some hard data would be interesting.
Comedy sites come to mind
I wonder if I'm the only one irked that the Techcrunch graph's vertical scale was in words and the Mashable graph was scaled in characters. If the goal is to show a link between longer post titles and Twitter, wouldn't it make sense to scale them both in characters? As it is, I can't really draw any conclusions from the Techcrunch graph at all.

Also, it would have been helpful to have a control sample of, say, random blogs from some of the major blogging services to compare to the other two.
There was a study which pointed out that this only works if you have self confidence, then you can brainwash yourself with affirmations like those.

But if you are insecure, then affirmations actually make you worse of because it is like poking your vicious inner self-critic with a stick.

I'd love to cite the study but my google-fu fails me today.
When I lived there up to a couple of years ago, they were surprisingly accurate, even during fairly heavy traffic.

I can't recall the exact details, but from memory they use road counters at entries and exits to measure traffic numbers within sectors and, based on theoretical maximum number of cars per sector, predict whether traffic is capable of flowing at the speed limit or at some calculated reduced speed for each sector. The speed calculations, along with each sectors' distance, give you predicted trip time to the various exits on the display.

As I said, don't quote me, but that was my understanding.
s/Democracy and legislation/vested interests and cronyism/
I've reconsidered what I wrote above – you're right. I'd built a mental model of what "microservice" and "SOA" meant that apparently isn't entirely in line with what others are commonly using.

I maintain that it's not a panacea, and that complexity is pulled into other places (operations) where we perhaps don't have equally effective tools at this point. I'd also argue that it's difficult to understand the correct level of granularity (and potentially expensive to fix errors in this decision). But it's not the problem I made it out to be.
"Your general point, then, Lord Russell, is that it's illegitimate even to ask the question of the cause of the world"

"Yes, that's my position"

"Well, if it's a question that for you has no meaning, it's of course very difficult to discuss it, isn't it?"

Russell, almost with a sigh: "Yes, it is very difficult." Then: "What do you say, shall we pass on to some other issue?"

"Let's."

What struck me most was the calmness and politesse they both maintained, and the steadfast articulateness at the speed of thought. There seemed to be an unspoken, shared assumption that you never, ever raise your voice or betray any hint of frustration, let alone insult your opponent in public. It's hard to imagine hearing something similar on the radio today.

I'm also curious how much of the decorum was a sign of the times, and how much was specifically British.
I think there's an awful lot of truth in that. You could make the argument that customers of Enterprise Software (that we love to deride) are not paying for the awesome quality of the software so much as for the assurance that the company will pull out all the stops to support them if anything does go wrong with the software. On a psychological level, that leads to a good relationship. On a practical level, that means that the customer is paying not for a great experience when things are going well but for a good experience when things go wrong.
Isn't there an AI course taught somewhere that only uses AWK? Sure I remember reading about that somewhere.
I assume when that happens everyone would feel its effects, but it wouldn't be because of a tech bubble.

Based on reading around the past hour or so, I think the only ones set to lose right now are angel investors, the few wealthy with lot of money.
According to the thread about it on Reddit (https://old.reddit.com/r/gme_meltdown/comments/lrp639/why_is...), it's because:

Some hedge fund bought a bunch of calls and then pumped the underlying. Option sellers had to buy shares to cover.
This rather sounds like your management struggles to improve the bug reporting process, or that they don't care. Features can always be developed separately and parked in a branch or Pull Request (plenty of open source projects work that way). But it must be crazy to have ~24h turnaround time. If it's a more complex bug then you are looking at a week completely lost just waiting for the sun to rise on the other side of the world!
regarding the transaction cost, wells fargo charges me $15 to receive a wired payment.

If the use case is only large gold like transactions, the BTC use case makes more sense. Tbd.. shake it out.
Yes it is. You just write down "got 5 bucks from customer" and submit it to the tax office. Now one side is anonymous (customers) and the other not (merchant)