skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Handguns are banned.

Shotguns are relatively easy to obtain a license for (albeit with a reference check, medical history check, criminal record check and in-home-interview by police).

Bolt action rifles (generally only .22) licensing is more stringent.

Anything beyond that is theoretically possible but in practice not.

Some 580k people possess such firearms licenses in the UK[0].

Depending on who you believe estimates of illegal gun ownership range from a few thousand[1] to half-a-million[2].

That’s dwarfed by most other countries, but none of those figures are anywhere near zero.

Gun crime is still generally considered to be a Big Thing and reported as such in the media. Something like this story is juicy enough to sell page impression and print newspapers.

[0] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/firearm-and-shotg...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/28/rising-number-...

[2] https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/4-million-guns-uk-stre...
Fraud should be punished. But bad investments are a result of far more than just fraud.

Also, punishing fraud, and creating a gatekeeper that every party needs to get approval from before being allowed to participate in a market activity, are two entirely different things. The law should be reactive. We shouldn't be denying people their liberty as a preemptive measure to stop crime.

>>fraudsters / unregulated securities

I just noticed this conflation. An unregulated security is a security that has not been approved by some gatekeeper. This is totally different from fraud, and these two shouldn't be put in the same category.
Agreed, true insight like hers would be valuable. People who have no stakes theire, just reflecting from a unbiased outsider perspective.
No cultural or counter-cultural pushing to reach whatever results fit ones current perspective.
It's not false. It's falsy.
The inline keyword does not tell the compiler to copy and paste the function body into the caller. This is a misconception. It has semantic differences with where functions can be defined without causing duplicate symbol definitions. That is all.

Forced inline, on the other hand, is telling the compiler to copy and paste the function body. This will not always improve performance because code has interactions with the processor and memory/cache which make things more complicated.
>They talked to me about it and I made them promise not to do so, and to always check with me before investing in any cryptocurrency. That's a bottom up adaptation that makes a couple individuals safer. Sure the government could have just banned them from investing in Ripple, but that's a crude (and Big-Brother-ish) solution that's going to have untold numbers of unintended consequences.

Your example is actually a perfect demonstration of how regulation could help. What if, instead of these older people having to happen to personally know someone knowledgeable about crypto like yourself, or knowing how to find one and not get duped in some forum, there were regulations requiring public disclosure of various information regarding cryptocurrencies and their backers? You know, like we already have for securities? Then these older people could research this information and decide for themselves what to do, which seems to be what you advocate.

This is the problem with ideological zealotry: it renders you unable to conceive of anyone as not being an ideological zealot. "Allow everything" or "ban everything" aren't the only options, never have been, and in the real world aren't. It's frustrating to discuss these issue with True Believers because the response is inevitably "Oh, so we should just ban everything then?"
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One of things I don’t like about loot boxes is that it doesn’t involve shooting avatars. I didn’t buy CoD WWII so that I could take sixty seconds to load The Headquarters, wander around, push the lever, wait for the drop animation, wait for the opening animation. Only to get a box full of shit I already have (I’ve just quit opening them now). I want to shoot shit, not stand around doing paperwork.

So in summary, if this is the direction games are going, I guess I’ll start looking at more board games, and get better on that mandolin. Because this is not how I care to spend even a minimal amount of my gaming time.
Extra Credits did a good video on AAA game pricing recently (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhWGQCzAtl8) that talks about why developers are going down the lootbox and microtransaction roads.

Their argument is basically that AAA games are just way too cheap. The price has been at $60 for a long time, and even though the market has expanded since then, it's still not enough to cover the development costs, which have skyrocketed. Finding other revenue streams has become a necessity. The alternative would be $80 or $100 AAA games.
There was a study at Mass General Hospital studying if pre-surgery carb loading reduced the need for post-op narcotics. (Not sure what the outcome was.)
> I guess I still[1] don’t understand the proliferation of simple static site generators

> It’s pretty easy (and fun!) to build your own

Seems like you answered your own question. :)
>What is this 38north.org? It reads like a DPRK propaganda machine.

Because it doesn't go well with the yellow "serious" media and official "experts" that shape 99% of the narrative?
I think you completely failed to read between the lines - the article is a criticism of rapidly increasing number of people addicted to pain pills in US and their excessive consumption across the country.
Tja.
I know, so you pay your taxes and now you might as well have been a day trader for the levels of complexity that adds to your tax accounting burden.

Not sure what my point was really — that's just about exactly how this plays out.
I've heard about similar issues in a somewhat older context; it took some training work to get 18-21-year-old Israeli draft soldiers to stop creating Facebook groups that reflected their unit structure, or at least to obfuscate the names. And there's been a lot of interesting work done by e.g. bellingcat.com to identify the exact Russian Army units and soldiers operating in Ukraine based on social media pictures taken out of theater.

OSINT is a very big field in military intelligence; with the amount of information everyone pumps out about themselves, some leakage of militarily sensitive information is bound to happen. As an organization defending against this type of espionage, you just have to try to minimize the leakage.
You can opt out to an extent by doing stuff offshore even without crypto.
You could make the exact same argument about the stock market. "Nobody is forcing people to invest in a stock as I'm artificially manipulating the price." Pulling a con doesn't automatically become moral just because it is done with a new tool.

Edit: whataretensor's comment was modified, which makes my comment seem quite out of place. The original text of the comment I was replying to was "Nobody is forcing anyone else to take part in these schemes. The people who would regulate this space seem to not understand it at all."
I mean it's simple. Once you see how the sausage is made you obviously don't want your kids involved. Fundamentally most tech products are made with the goal of exploiting human behavior in order to increase engagement with the product.
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So just like threats that have been made by US on various occasions for various independent countries, e.g.:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/sep/22/pakistan.usa

>It was not conditional. These were in response to support of UN security counsel sanctions following the ICMB launched over Japan.

If they were in response, they sure sound like conditional then.
They killed server because that was a losing battle: Apple was never going to "win" at servers. Despite all their effort they managed to score only a few modest wins, and the intense competition in that space made it a huge distraction.

Remember Apple started down the "server" road decades ago with their A/UX UNIX server (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/UX). Throughout the 1990s you could get a high-end Mac spec'd as a UNIX machine if you wanted, though I've only ever seen a handful in the wild.

The introduction of a special-purpose server was an anomaly, the Xserve had no specific predecessor, perhaps some kind of "go big or go home" effort on Apple's part.

While that system wasn't bad by the standards of the time, it couldn't compete with the likes of Dell, HP and others who offered way more flexibility on configuration and who would seemingly sell super budget low-end servers at a loss to lock people into their product line so they can squeeze them on support costs, a model Apple's allergic to.
Site was done in php with peak user load being around 200 simultaneously users. I had git on the webroot and a chron job that dumped the sql, and pushed the whole thing every night.
Could be to do with adding and controlling them from an Active Directory Domain perhaps.

A bank I worked for years ago had ATM domains (in different forests) and had policies applied to the ATM's.

They ran XP at the time.
Static site generators are more than suitable for non-tech users - they used to be called Macromedia Dreamweaver, Microsoft FrontPage; etc.

I'd very much like to see fullon wysiwyg static generators again; it could replace half, if not more, of the WordPress sites around.
Chains have data only for the times people visited their own chains (and might not have much info for counter sales), online booking services have a similar problem, movie review sites are much more limited in that not everyone writes a review for any movie they watch, leave alone all the movies they watch.
I think you missed the point of the article.
You must have a different Vivoactive than me, I have the Vivoactive HR with no metal buttons. The charging contacts are on the back and recessed enough that they probably don't contact my wrist.
There is no evidence that that is true. As Sowell points, numerous problems that motivated government intervention were getting better on their own:

https://youtu.be/ZppCmAiwpvI?t=28m28s

The cryptocurrency market demonstrates this in accelerated time. The quality of offerings is far better today (though still massively dominated by marketing hype/bullshit) than it was three years ago. The amount being lost to scams was also substantially more, proportionally, three years ago.
What about macOS? Are PWAs limited to mobile?
There are ~20 ATMs within a 5 block radius of my apartment (NYC), all in small shops that have no place for an in-wall ATM, and this is in a relatively low ATM density area of the city; there are thousands more like this across the 5 boroughs.

In aggregate these small freestanding ATMs are a huge business, it's unlikely they will harden their whole fleet by building in-wall installations.
In general it’s failing to disclose that gets you into trouble. Everyone knows that Elon Musk is not an unbiased source of information anout Tesla or their competitors because he doesn’t make any attempt to hide his investment.
True. How do you know they would've gone to see a movie though?

That's what seems weird about this whole gravy train - the various drivers of the business clash with each other. More movies per person, more data, but more margin loss. Fewer movies per person, more margin, less data. More studio deals, more revenue, less margin.

I think they're exploring various business models and finding where the sustainable value is. Will be interesting to see!
The major draw of Tethers is to allow people to "hold" "dollars" while avoiding anti-money laundering and know-your-customer laws. If you wanted online dollar handling services that abide by these laws, you get a bank account and send wire transfers and ACH transfers.
I had jaw surgery recently... while I wouldn't describe it as incredibly "painful", particularly since everything was numb (they have to slice through nerves for this procedure), it was really uncomfortable and stressful for a couple of days afterwards.

I wasn't at all ashamed to take percocet after the surgery. Could I have lived without them? Sure. Did they turn me into an instant addict? Of course not.

This story isn't about the crackdown on opioids since it sounds like it's more just a cultural thing in parts of Germany, but it does strike me that people experiencing legitimate pain are becoming casualties of our crackdown on "inappropriate" prescribing.
I'm not so sure. Developers may be excited at the chance to forgo the App Store / Play Store, but will users get onboard? They've had 10 years of training to download an app from a store. Will the flow for onboarding with a PWA be a complement to that, or just create confusion?
How are you opening a bank account in a foreign country as a citizen from Iran?

There are use cases for big money transfer and just "storing" money in BTC, not really for daily transactions.
I think this is old news, I believe several years ago they had a documentary about killer elephants kept away by bees.
No ads doesn't mean your data isn't being used for ads. It's likely being sold to orthogonal adtech businesses. i.e. the company collecting the data is rarely the one using it, it usually just sells it.
I always get in a arguments with my EU acquaintances over pain management topics.

The idea that is a "good" to suffer with pain instead of taking pain killers is abhorrent to me.
>That is not true. Human greed makes humans motivated to avoid bad investments as well.

Nope. For the same reason that people still commit crimes despite knowing the consequences, greed for possible profit will always be the more powerful motivator.

>That's why the market adapts over time to be less gullible.

No they don't, and never have. People just keep getting duped until rules and regulations are put into place. We have all of human history to show this.

You're simply expressing semi-religious beliefs about how things should work. We're concerned with how things demonstrably have worked and still work.
I remember like 20 years ago on the internet there was a lot of cool video/audio tech always being created and it was funny because it didn't really make sense at the time given bandwidth - but everyone joked it was the porn industry pushing all that money/development (fk, even my dad said that once - ok ok I think I turned out ok). It's funny how we get where we get.
You can still potentially make useful inferences without 3 points. For instance, imagine the configuration where there is a single straight road that leads to your home (center of the privacy circle) - you can just extend the line where the GPS tracks for 5/8 mile (the biggest privacy setting) and infer the location of the home. Similarly, if you have 2 straight GPS tracks leading to your home, you can infer both the center and the radius of the privacy zone.

You may not get the exact street address, but you could definitely figure the block or the street. Maybe not super useful in a dense city, but that could leak quite a bit about you if you live in a suburb or rural area.
I believe it covers sensitive materials only. Soldiers should not be punished through UCMJ for using Strava. That's ridiculous. Strava just should not be accessible within Afghanistan.
If you need to store non-trivial amounts of offline data then native is your only option.
Exactly, most people have done so for centuries. Of course with 99% reliability only, but no one cares about the 1% possibly added by blockchain (with a retarded additional computing burden to deal witg).
I have seen several over 100 years old wardrobes that can be disassembled and reassembled in minutes without damage because they are held together by metal fittings that hook into each other. Like the better Ikea stuff, but much sturdier, especially the actual metal fittings.
The wardrobe I remember best had three doors - it would barely fit through any door if it couldn't be disassembled for transport. It had a socket part, separate wall parts with aforementioned fittings, and a top part that could be slotted onto the walls (and doors with their simple stick and hole type hinges) after assembling them. Assembly and disassembly was as simple as it sounds, if not simpler.
> Limiting direct investment to the very rich (accredited investors) is going to do massive damage to the investing public in the long run.

There's a difference between investment (everyone can go via an online broker and trade with stocks) and dangerous speculations like IPOs or ICOs.

> That's why the market adapts over time to be less gullible.

"The market", if such a thing exists, does not learn. For an example, look at the tulip mania - in 1636 - and look where society is today, where people devise more and more elaborate fraud schemes and people are still believing it and sometimes invest their entire life savings into fraud, despite everyone and their dog blaring that they are investing in a fraud.
Are there some quick, easy and usable UI-frameworks for buttons etc. and other common UI-Elements? I am a bit out of the loop in the web-ecosystem, but the PWA look very interesting.
>There's a reason why the term "accredited investor" exists: it designates people with high enough net worth that even in the event of total collapse of their speculation they will not be a burden to society.

And it completely fails. Because the non-high-net worth individuals still de facto invest directly but they pay to do it via a broker. Thus the wealthy establish for themselves a rent seeking position and successfully sell it to people like you as "consumer protection". Did you honestly think that a law which codifies only letting the wealthy take advantage of certain opportunities would actually help society?

Praytell would you also be in favor of only letting "accredited intellectuals" go to college just to ensure that the middle class doesn't blow their life savings on a poorly chosen major?
USB devices get to move the mouse pointer, click, and send keystrokes.
> This is caused by the malleable, abstract thought-stuff of code, and it occurs even within the work of the individual coder: as soon as you master something, it should be abstracted into a library or framework - a product.

You can also turn this around: Maybe software craftsmanship is not about writing great code (for the reasons you mentioned; the article also doesn't phrase it that way), but about skillfully using existing tools. Peek into the open source libraries you use, disassemble the closed-source ones, take your time to really understand that occasional bug.

There are many tools that rarely change (extreme examples: Unix, RDBMS, programming languages), and grokking them is not something that can be productized. Yet I see few people/businesses making that investment; it's easier in the short term to treat everything as a black box and add more abstraction glue, and that's what I see many people/businesses do.
Embracing eventual consistency in SoA networking (Envoy)
"I took two ibuprofens that first day. In hindsight, I didn’t need them, but I felt like I should take something"

I have noticed the need to "take something" with a lot of American friends when they have problem. It's almost like a reflex.
At your stage, keeping data that you'd like to encrypt separated from data that you surely won't encrypt is probably be the fastest solution. It will be easy to encrypt it later, when time comes.

Encryption at rest protects from personnel misbehaving. If you use a cloud provider, it's their employees.

Similarly, encrypting data at application (backend) layer and storing encrypted blobs in the database, protects from your dbas/employees misbehaving, for example me taking a look at my friend's notes.

For encryption to be useful, as you pointed out, it's not enough to encrypt. You need to store your key(s) in a secure place, and release them only to production machines. You need to be able to rotate keys. You need access logs for auditing. And you probably want a development environment that uses different keys than production. In short, you need a KMS, a way to authenticate machines, a protocol to rotate keys, logs & alerts, etc.
Yeah but you're not seriously saying that the killer app that everybody is waiting for in crypto is " being useful for criminals ". If so it will be banned everywhere soon like in China and blockchain is just dead.
>It looks nice, but I guess I still don’t understand the proliferation of simple static site generators. It’s pretty easy (and fun!) to build your own that works exactly as you want it to.

Notice how these two sentences are contradictory -- or rather how the second explains what the first supposedly can't understand.

If it's "pretty easy and fun" to build X, then that would inevitably lead to a "proliferation of" X projects.

It just takes a person that built one to then share their implementation on GitHub to increase that proliferation, and that's a very simple additional step.

And it just takes any person who understands "opportunity cost" to want to adopt an existing static site generator rather than build their own.

Both kinds are in abundance.
So it appears you live in western europe, and you aren't concerned about north korea because there's no immediate threat, even though millions might die in US. Well, maybe you will have some empathy if after america falls, North Korea decides to target europe with russia.
The fraud will continue until we get more and more rules and regulation. I expect the governments will step in to regulate all of this. Once we have that we will have applications that work for the public .

But I think the real innovation will be in private blockchain systems . The Hyperledger group has some exciting technology . Taking business problems you know and seeing if it will work will be really exciting.

I recommend going through their free course https://courses.edx.org/courses/course-v1:LinuxFoundationX+L...

Even if you aren’t interested in private blockchain technology it gives you what you need to understand. From there you could just read the white papers of bitcoin and Ethereum .
Burger King introduced WhopperCoin in Russia: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/28/burger-king-russia-cryptocur...
K-Space is sufficiently general, because "k" is defined as the wavenumber (2pi over wavelength). That's simply related to frequency in nearly every case unless your medium is interstellar hydrogen or shockwaves in air or something. If you need to talk about frequency specifically you could talk about the period (inversely proportional) or the angular frequency (factor of 2pi).
The thing is, I saw a touch screen attending the "embedded world" embedded technology conference in nuremberg a few years ago...multitouch included. Why is this not more common? Especially for "rugged" devices?
You want money to be baked into everything we do on the internet?
Yes, that is how I understand it. But I am also still learning about it. It was interesting to see the margin calls during the 40% price drop of the crypto market two weeks ago. Basically, before the drop some people had enough collateral above the 175% threshold, but during the drop these positions entered the margin call area and the orderbook of the decentralized exchange was automatically filled with USD buy orders, so that they were forced to close their position.
Good luck opening a bank account in Geneva as a US citizen. Unless you bring really a lot of cash they won't touch you with a 5 ft pole.
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That’s not an option for most people and it has huge risks. Try buying anything big with no disclosed income sources or living well beyond your means and you’ll be getting caught by the people looking for drugs dealers, smugglers, etc. Most countries are pretty good at that.