skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Those European nations that don't allow gay marriage collectively represent several hundred million people.

Please, be more precise with the numbers. What is several? 2, 3? Because Europe has several hundred million people in total (where several equals about 7).
IIRC (1) Those guns are all bulky rifle-style things which are great when you're defending against an invading army but not so useful when you want to shoot some of your classmates, and (2) There are lots of guns around but access to ammunition is tightly controlled.
I use the TenX debit card. You can stock it up with Bitcoin and pay everywhere where VISA is accepted.

Super nice to impress your friends by buying burgers with yesterdays gains :P
IMO it would be important to differenciate between 'no legal marriage' and 'no legal partnership'. At best both would be legal but the latter is legal in a lot of places that forbid actual marriage but sometimes runs down the the same benefits (taxes, adoption,...)
Aussie here. The Australia Tax [1] is absolutely a thing here: for example, it's difficult to buy decent kids' shoes for under $100 (!), whereas you can walk into any Payless in the US and walk out with a decent pair for $25 or so. Check this out if you don't believe me, and note that this is not a high-end retailer or anything, it's a chain with an outlet in every suburban shopping mall in Australia: https://www.shoesandsox.com.au/school.html

There's a huge slew of reasons for this, but it's a sum of very high rents and wages, a small market and a general lack of competition. Ebay, Aliexpress and Amazon US are consequently very popular, but most retailers are international so shipping is slow and, for anything bulkier, quite expensive. (Also, the deals aren't quite as good as they used to be since the Aussie dollar has depreciated against the USD.)

So, if Amazon can build a local operation here that -- for the first time in Australia -- has the trifecta of low prices, wide selection and fast shipping, they will crush the competition, online and offline. Which is why local retailers are scared shitless.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_Tax
No.

There was no Net Neutrality up until 2015.

Net Neutrality still allows ISPs to sell packages giving you access only to specific websites.
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Here's an HTML version of the paper:

https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1712.01815/

Table 2 is broken, but the rest is much more readable if you're on a phone.
200MB is still a small model and 4MB is almost the double of an average web page (including images). 10MB web pages is really bad, more for countries that are still developing their infrastructure.
Yeah honestly I, and a lot of other people, are welcoming pretty much anything that'll result in Gerry Harvey getting a flogging after his hypocritical and self serving b.s for years.

His campaigning for eliminating/lowering the tax-free threshold on items bought overseas online was based on so much spinnning of the truth it's a wonder he didn't catch fire.
That means that you better have safe defaults in a language, rather that opt-in linters.
> Crime has seen a huge increase in Britain

No, it hasn't. We've seen better recording, different definitions, better detection, and there have been several operations targetting gangs and street violence and weapons.

Importantly: police recorded crime statistics are not reliable, and so we don't use them in the UK. We use the ONS, which doesn't rely on police recording.

> "Knife crime also increased by 24% with 12,074 recorded offences from 2016 to 2017."

Does this only mean wounding using a knife, or does it include people carrying a knife?

We have strict knife laws in the UK, and there have been several police operations targetting people who carry knives. So the figure you quote includes people who were carrying, but not using, knives.

Here's what ONS says: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeand...

> This fairly flat trend continues that seen in recent years, with no significant year-on-year change since the survey year ending March 2014. However, the cumulative effect of this downward trend has seen a statistically significant decrease of 25% in the latest survey year compared with the year ending March 2013. The longer-term reductions in violent crime, as shown by the CSEW, are also reflected in the findings of research conducted by the Violence and Society Research Group at Cardiff University. Findings from their annual survey, covering a sample of hospital emergency departments and walk-in centers in England and Wales, show that serious violence-related attendances in 2016 showed a 10% fall compared with 2015 and continue a generally long-term downward trend.
I remember hearing that Firefox’s recent engineering work is actually directly based off game development.
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Rollup never worked for me; all kinds of strange errors crop up when I run the bundle it generates
It's interesting how you do the same thing you get mad about other people doing. You say that less guns equals less gun deaths... well duh. Then you go on to say less handguns equals less deaths and this actually isn't true. As it stands, in the developed world more guns does not equate to more violence or more deaths. Obviously there are more deaths due to guns because people have access to them but the argument that we should ban guns because you don't like them even though they don't cause problems is absurd.
For what I know the UN is also the reason that countries that culturally include marijuana banned it like India, Cambodia and Thailand.
Actually that is why you should like web in current form. Google blocked native youtube app, but kept youtube web accessible from amazon devices. IMO there should not be be proprietary app to access youtube or any other service, if the same experience could be delivered for everybody via web.

If I owned the Youtube, I'll block Amazon too. They're practically taking advantage and not want to give anything back. Don't want to sell google appliances, don't want to participate in youtube ad program. Only word that came to mind is to describe such a attitude is leech.
Resources don't grow to the infinite, there are physics limits to everything. Be aware of that. You can see the perfect example in CPUs, now we are adding cores but peak speed In a single core don't grow very much in new generations as they did few years ago. With the web it is going to be similar at some point (even the TCP protocol has some limits that forbid to reach top speed with current connections for small transfers).
Exactly. And people advocating stricter gun laws can't afford NOT be open about this. "We don't want to take your guns, we want to change attitudes so your grandchildren won't wan't to own guns, and most importantly won't feel the need to own guns".
That said - gun show loophole is just that - a loophole. Should be fixed.

I think those who want to keep responsible gun ownership also need to realize they have a lot to win from stricter regulation. With the current culture of short-sighted and reactive legislation, the next ban will be rammed through congress after the next terrible shootout - and that's not the law gun advocates want. I think they are mistaken if they believe they can just use the NRA as a roadblock to keep people buying AR's at gun shows forever. I don't think the political climate a generation from now allows that.
The other thing which has made importing shoes and other clothing items difficult is now that US brands
sites won't ship overseas, and they've started blocking shipments to known reshipping services too.

I can still buy three pairs of name brand shoes from a US purchasing service (who purchase from the brand's own site) and have them shipped to Australia for less than the price of one pair on that brand's site here in Australia.
Fewer guns does not equal fewer deaths in the developed world. You are doing exactly what you claim to be against. Cherry picking data to suit your narrative.
Just checked what is going on and that is indeed the case. Rust booleans compile now to the i32 type (though there is no guarantee that will stay like that in the future).
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Pharma grade heroin from the state is a thing in Switzerland. It works pretty well actually and turned a big problem into a small controlled one. Most addicts even have normal jobs.
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> the title of the article itself was confusing

Isn't it a joke?
Also known as frequency illusion https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
It costs considerably less than the current war on drugs, which is both expensive and ineffective.
> I think (entirely without proof) it's likely that many of these organisers were/are holding large quantities of bitcoins themselves and have become unwitting millionaires.

I suspect (no proof either) many early bitcoin adopters sold most of their bitcoins long ago. They cashed out when their capital reached a significant amount, long before becoming millionnaire. For instance, I suppose that if today my BC portfolio were worth $5000, I'd sell them (because I certainly would not buy $5000 worth of BC today if I had none).
Building the actual assembly line is the least of their problems, it's just money and Apple has it by the truckload.

The bigger issue is finding enough skilled people for the factories, China is pretty much the only place in the world with enough trained workers in the scale that Apple needs them.
I'm not on Twitter. You want to share some quotes?
>I remember lively discussions with friends circa 2012. None of us bought. We'd be centi-millionaires?

Most people talked about it, few did buy. But the feeling when you've bought and lost the ability to recover your wallet is even worse then not having bought some !

I actually did buy some, but lost my wallet, like so many

I know my adress, and the coins are still there, but I can't do anything about it, not idea where my backup wallet.dat is..

I mean, it's pretty tough to keep track of your digital assets for years, while your mind in thinking about work, friends ect..
The "Did you win the Putnam?" comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079

The whole thread is pretty hilarious. In another part of the same thread there is this comment:

we're in a similar space -- http://www.getdropbox.com (and part of the yc summer 07 program) basically, sync and backup done right (but for windows and os x). i had the same frustrations as you with existing solutions.

let me know if it's something you're interested in, or if you want to chat about it sometime.

drew (at getdropbox.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35103
What products do you use then? Chinese-made Android phones?
Something not based on cherry-picking statistics.
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Well, since D is garbage collected, it really exists in a different world from C++, so I'd say that no, it is not qualified to be in the running for a C++ 2.0.
Clean water tests would be a better example for your point. Or something to that degree. Less death rate could just mean other preferred drugs or even just cleaner ones.
> then in theory, it should be very difficult for someone to reformat and fency your stolen laptop.

The solution is to attach a SPI programmer (eg a RasPi) and flush the UEFI variable store. UEFI will reset to factory defaults, incl Secure Boot.

The complicated part of that is opening the device.
Please, provide complete context. As far as i remember Microsoft client skipped ads. That was the reason of blockage.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
There are no coroutines in C++17. Also not included: modules and concepts.
More safe defaults also means I have to think more about escape hatches. Sometimes ignoring an error is the intended way of operation, although rare. Same goes for some other parts of the go coding standards. Sometimes you need to violate them and having to first use some escape hatch like Rust's unsafe is annoying.

I'd rather just keep track of linter complaints.
I think that only people who don't understand that PoS can't be done trustlessly, and don't understand why that is an issue, say that.
Analog computers are good at solving tasks like differential equations for numeric (analog) variables while mining bitcoins is mostly about computing a hash function and it is a digital problem. Yet, some old ideas could be probably be useful if appropriately reformulated.
I'm a Sysadmin and I have started learning Rust this week. I'm not interested in writing network servers or distributed databases or such. I'm hoping to kind of dumb things down and use Rust in place of Python for sysadmin stuff.

I'm very curious into fast Regex, log parsing (string parsing in general) and building easy-to-use command line utilities that are safe(from leaks), crazy fast, and not occupy high level of memory.

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You are actually making the false equivalency. You have the right to live free from discrimination, but not racist speech. These things aren't on a scale to be balanced, they are orthogonal, and each are balanced separately.
To the mooon, lambo.
Oh sure, I despise the ubiquitous hand-outs of plastic bags as much as anyone, I was just making that comment to give a reason for the weight-difference in spite of the perceived over-usage of packaging in Japan. I make it a point to refuse plastic bags whenever possible (which is pretty much always). I find it incredible that they are still considered the standard mode for packaging your shit. If shops would only give them out when asked for it, the number of used plastic bags would surely plummet.

One anecdote I found amusing is when I was in Yosemite: I bought a couple of t-shirts and told the lady at the check-out she doesn't need to give me a plastic bag for them, since I have my backpack with me anyways. She was pleasantly surprised and thanked me. It's one of the most well-known national parks in the US, where they make it a point to educate people on taking care of your environment, yet they hand out plastic bags with every purchase in the souvenir shop.
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Destruction of environment because of this silent killer is very noticeable in last 5 years. Drastic changes around. I wonder how next 5 years will look. Will be interesting.
Don't you worry, there are plenty of spaces left for insects.
And human life, it is worthless.
You might be interested in this essay by Umberto Eco about Casablanca: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~drbr/eco.html

I think the author of this article is right that La Marseillaise is the most important scene in the film, but for some reason the line "I remember every detail. The Germans wore gray, you wore blue" affects me the most.
> I'm very curious into fast Regex, log parsing (string parsing in general) and building easy-to-use command line utilities that are safe(from leaks), crazy fast, and not occupy high level of memory.

Ever tried to use Perl?
Both are very obviously war criminals. Hitler's actions were obviously more egregious but war criminal is just a person who commits one or more war crimes (regarless of scope), which they both (amoung many, many others) did.
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Yeah it does, Australia. That's the prime example of fewer guns = fewer deaths.
Amazed how quickly this thread devolved into Sex and guns.
As well as a fresh mind, they also have survivorship bias on their side.
cigarette packets should just be much more expensive
> Since the ISPs must consider the interests of their customers.

Hahahahahaha

That's a good one!
Anyone doing/done it?
I'm stuck on level 2. Found flag but don't know what to do with it, where to send it?
Geographic location makes sense. If you have an application that is quite local it might make sense to not display ads elsewhere. Removing it from other stores is not really a solution because there might be tourists who would still like to be able to get it. Gender makes sense too because let's face it, there are lot of applications that are specially targeted at women or men.
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His point was, if you're hijacking an Alexa, those recordings are now illicit and not submissible in court.
As a chess player I find the win rate astonishing.

Given the drawish tendency at top level, among human players, in correspondence chess and also in the TCEC final, I thought that even absolutely perfect play wouldn't score so well against a decent Stockfish setup (which 64 cores and 1 minute per move should be).
Anyone doing/done it? I'm stuck on level 2. Found flag but don't know what to do with it, where to send it?
This will canibalize part of your organic traffic thus even if the cost per install is lower than your users lifetime value this is not obvious.
After quick research, this seems to be incorrect. Non-gun homicides are unaffected, but total homicides increase.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/guns-an...
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Don't you feel like the "impenetrable ending" is one of the best things about 2001?

For me the outlier on that list is Lawrence of Arabia, which I'm sure is a very fine film but I have yet to stay awake for the entirety of it.
The theoretical maximum speed of 5G wireless is 10,000Mbps with a 1ms latency - a 300MB file would download in 251ms. That's current technology being tested in the field at the moment. Real phones will use it in a couple of years. We won't get that speed, but we'll get quite close in major cities. Today's flagship desktop computers have 16GB of RAM, but there's no particular reason why they can't have 10 times that much. Servers already do. Phones have 4GB, but again they could have much more. CPU speeds are fast, but a neural networks run on GPUs which are considerably faster for that task (remember this isn't training the network, it's just running one you've downloaded).

This is what's actually happening right now. This is the near future.
Even thought I live there I only have a limited understanding. But from what I can tell a) ammunition is sold over the counter to everyone with a license. b) you are talking about the military rifle. Which is by far not the only gun you can buy (again I don't know the exact limits, I assume automatic is somewhat banned)
they have a bit more than cables, eg snes classic mini

https://www.amazon.com.au/Nintendo-Classic-Mini-Entertainmen...
Apple store had search ads for a while now, does this mean that they are out of beta?
That is what I thought, I got my thoughts tangled up, the one I downloaded was 1.1Gb, which seems standard for an hour of 720p.

Mind you there is the option for other Attenborugh fans to download the audio only track
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The web is fine, the "closed garden" experiences are in native apps ecosystems.
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> As it stands, in the developed world more guns does not equate to more violence or more deaths.

Sources? Do you mean "more guns" or "easier access to guns"?
A huge potential loss is in the marriage market, where being a plumber isn't as marketable as doctor/engineer/lawyer/financier. Also, big loss is wear and tear on your body from manual work, higher risks due to driving all the time, variable hours due to emergency nature of work, and finally, it doesn't scale well. Plumbers are well compensated, but is it enough to give up the chance to earn much more in businesses that scale up much easier?
Right, and there are many variants of this scenario that other people can think of. It all stems from the same basic problems above. Punishing cheaters is necessary, but not necessarily sufficient.

The difference from a PoW model is that when mining is essentially free the incentives are different. If it doesn't cost you anything to try it makes game theoretical sense to do it speculatively.
In a memory constrained environment, we recently noticed the throughput/latency tradeoff being made by the GC, but having to say that this behavior was not obvious in the first place and we had to dive into the source code to understand things better (which is a good benefit of go being open source, as already stated in the article).

The bottom line is that the scavenger will allow the OS to claim free memory only at least 5 minutes after it was GC'ed. For us the solution was to "force" releasing the free memory to the OS [1], and even since then things have been much smoother in the context of our particular app.

On this topic, there's an open issue [2] to look at making the scavenger more prompt and aggressive.

[1] https://medium.com/samsara-engineering/running-go-on-low-mem...
[2] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16930
I think app store is fair game, if the adds are well done they can actually be useful. Overcast adverts prove this.

I think they need to invest heavily in making it very very difficult (impossible?) for copy cat type apps to appear in search and making sure that adverts are clearly marked as adverts... It will just turn into a shit show otherwise...
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Yeah, this actually sucks hard because WP pretty much died since it had no apps. Technically it was a viable phone.

Now if Google can block their major apps for a behemoth like MS, imagine what they can do to some smaller companies.
Prohibition is one of the most pernicious ideas within our society. It enables people to prey on the weak and vulnerable. Whether we like it or not, people will seek out chemicals to make their day better, be it chocolate, coffee, wine, or heroine.

Governments should be recognising this base behaviour and ensure that those chemicals are available safely and taxed appropriately. Treating drug addiction as a medical condition and not a criminal activity is the first step. Something many countries fail to even recognise.

The war on drugs is a complete failure.
I can't see how this is different from payola. (Saying that Google does it too is not an argument, btw.)
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