skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Australia has had a gun registry for many years. This has not happened to it. So in Australia this database is fine.

USA may implement it differently or in a less secure way, but it can be implemented effectively.
Volt looks like a cool app, I'll be trying it out this week.
No I wasn't. PoE+ can support half a dozen LED panels off of a single Cat6 run.
That works for kids, not spouses. It also doesn't work for medically indicated diets. (If one of your kids has allergies, etc.)
I’m more interested in leaning about the concepts here and if they apply to employment offers.

Certainly more interesting than yet another conversation about the costs of the legal system favouring those with money, don’t you think? That one has been done to death.
I drove in Bucharest a few months ago; I did not notice this. But might well be as this is all anecdotal anyway; I have been in the UK many times, I have been in Bucharest once (I did not like it compared to other cities in RO).
Doesn't all this come down to whether an individual (or culture, or society) views humans as fundamentally different from non-human animals?

You are replying point-by-point to another poster, of course, so your post shouldn't be expected to fully cover your perspective on this, but you only mention "humans and all animals suffer and experience pain" as evidence for non-distinction. That strikes me as a little sad -- surely there is more to life and more to the human (and animal) experience than pain and suffering?

The "pain and suffering" usefully separates some living things (animals?) from others (plants?), allowing us to continue surviving without only eating fruits. But why is that the line?

Couple other points:

> ...everyone who is able should be vegan. There is no physiological need for animal products, so there is no need to take away another sentient being's right to live. We are out of survival mode. It is no longer necessary for our species to kill to survive. As humans we have the amazing gifts o awareness, intelligence and moral agency which we should use to reduce the suffering of all beings - human and non-human.

This doesn't necessarily follow. To be intentionally provocative: just because we can avoid taking away another sentient being's right to live, doesn't mean we should. Reasonable people disagree on, e.g., the death penalty, incarceration, and other avoidable, intentional harms inflicted on other humans.

Plus, if there were such a physiological need, would you be ok with killing animals?

> For humans, calories from plants will always be more efficient than calories from an animal.

Not strictly "always" -- there are ecosystems where the peak efficiency is "land grows grass" -> "animals eat that grass" -> "people eat those animals". (People, unfortunately, can't eat grass.)
You can set the language version and go back to pre linq, pre async days.
There should be an App Store rule that you can only ask for a permission once, if the user declines you can't keep pestering for it unless they've actually invoked an action that requires the permission.
[update] Dassault Systemes purchased Matrix One about 10 years ago. They still use their Graph based DB kernel in many of their products. From my understanding, this DB kernel was written in the early 90's and targeted PDM (Product Data Mangement). They now target a broader category of PLM (Product Lifecycle Management). Again, there is no way to purchase their Graph DB Kernel last time I checked which is a shame because its so awesome to develop with :(
Who in the media wonders that?
I originally agreed that the headline was sensationalist, but then I saw that it was from Bloomberg and that PG&E’s stock was down after hours. In this case, I think that considering the existing “PG&E is bad” narrative is legitimate when writing the headline. Bloomberg’s product is market-moving information, and whether or not this accident was PG&E’s fault, it did move markets.
First follow Great Scott's instructions for making an Arduino capacitative switch light.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWR9Q_pTagw

Then enable it to be integrated with C# code:

https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/technical-articles/csharp-w...

Voila! A C# light!
Funny how you can be right about future facts (world population) but wrong about the consequences.

Make Room! Make Room! [1966]

The world is overpopulated at 7 billion people, with 35 million people in New York City alone. The inspiration for the film Soylent Green (1973).

Maybe not surprising, but worth noting anyway just how pessimistic these stories are.
It’s vastly more than 1 bit - if I recall correctly the amount of bits of info you get is something like log(1/P(event)) so if P(dnt==true) is less than 0.5 you accede 1 bit of information. It’s logically probably closer to 10bits of uniqueness assuming .01% of the population have it enabled.
> But it's definitely a wasted effort if the goal is to write a light weight chat client...

That’s vacuously true, because there are always more goals besides just writing a light-weight chat client.

I find most of what I do is balance different goals, objectives, and concerns against each other. Even if you only have external business objectives, you at least consider both the short-term and long-term.
But most of them live in food deserts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert
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In some deep sense, what you are saying is true : for example, if an infinite sequence of numbers is sufficiently dense, then it has arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions.[1] On the other hand, Rankin in 1990 constructed a set with positive density which does not have long geometric progressions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szemer%C3%A9di%27s_theorem
The thing that's actually terrible is that there's tipping on Instacart in the first place.

Uber didn't used to have tipping, it was added later. I'm not really sure why, it makes the experience as a user worse, I'm not interested in thinking about that, just pay the drivers Uber.
"We're sorry that we got caught."
The question is: which direction does the arrow of causality go?
There are untold numbers of pipeline explosions that either stay confined to local reporting or are forgotten almost immediately after they happen. Here's a severe one that happened down the street from me several years ago that never made national news (Link 1). Then you have the explosions that sent suburban Massachusetts into a complete state of emergency, damaging 131 homes, injuring 21, and killing 1 person (Link 2). That event is severe enough IMO that it should have sparked a national debate on the state of our critical utilities as it paralyzed everyone living near one of America's major cities (these were the suburbs many people in Boston commute from or have family/friends in) for several days and led to massive heating crisis due to paranoia of another distaster just a few weeks ago (Link 3). Gas explosions are lethal, and apparently, surprisingly common despite being a weekly/monthly occurence as far back as I can remember.

Link 1: https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/2014/01/11/enka-exp... (search for pictures, it was a massive fountain of flames for several hours)

Link 2: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/12/regulator-ties-pipeline-work...

Link 3: https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/east-bay/national-grid-...
For a more sane assessment of issues like this, see

http://julesandjames.blogspot.com/2019/01/blueskiesresearcho...
Location: NYC

Remote: Yes.

Willing to relocate: No.

Technologies: Python, PyTorch.

Résumé/CV:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/9h4wip221uyhb56/Xavier_Garcia_FINA...

Email: xgarcia238@gmail.com

Math PhD, experienced with ML and research. Strong coder.
May I suggest these to your spouse?

https://www.luckyvitamin.com/p-555407-luckyvitamin-easy-iron...

I have to take iron but I struggled for many years, most iron pills cause me lots of digestive distress. These ones don't, at all. I even can take them on an empty stomach. Pretty much a godsend.
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> Closed languages wither and die, and yours seems well onto that path.

This is unnecessary harsh. The author has already said it will be open sourced later. I can understand the reasons to not open source now. Managing an open source project is no small work.

Second, notwithstanding V's slim feature set, it's already more successful than 99% of language design attempts out there in that it ships. It certainly succeeds in letting the author to build his other projects faster and easier. It fulfills the author's own needs. I'm sure Perl and Python started that way.
Isn't that a consequence of the public portrayal (aided by the media) that PG&E is bad? Have you seen retractions regarding the Tubbs fire, if so, have they been commensurate?
I'm a long distance trucker. A few weeks ago I heard a couple truckers talking about a day long nationwide work stoppage, to occur this coming April. I'd never heard a thing about it, and I have almost as much internet as I want, through my phone (as long as I'm not driving).

I don't use Facebook, so that's probably part of the reason I hadn't heard about it. But also, news about my industry is beyond the last things I'm looking for on the internet.

I just drive. Your brother probably just does his maintenance and stands his watches, and keeps up with friends and family on Facebook, most of whom would not even notice an article about something as foreign as the military.
> PG&E Corp. has contained a natural gas leak from a pipe that exploded on Wednesday along a major thoroughfare in San Francisco, engulfing in flames a stretch known for its bars and restaurants.

I am the only one slightly annoyed with this writing style? I often see things like this, an it feels they want to be a bit more sensationalist but getting 'bars and restaurants' as close to the 'engulfing in flames' phrase as possible. This seems to trigger me as a reader to subconsciously tie the two together (engulfing bars and restaurants in flames) when that's not actually the case. Is there a term for this method of writing?
I would disagree. Seeing corruption everywhere is your brain trying to assign order to chaos.

The reality is that big military bureaucracy is among the dumbest of organizations and is capable of feats of illogic almost impossible to appreciate.
Easter Egg from Google?
Really? C# seems very balanced and coherent to me. What seems messy to you?
It's great to stand on the First Amendment but that doesn't imply an obligation to do so. Arguably, removing the functionality for broadcasting DWI checkpoints falls under the rubric of "don't be evil". What's the social utility in allowing drunk drivers to escape detection?
> No GC, but you don't have to manually release memory, like Rust but much easier.

That description could fit Fortran 77.
> fit into a single C# expression

Mostly unrelated - but this reminds me of a project I did years ago to put an entire raytracer in a single C# LINQ expression.

https://github.com/lukehoban/LINQ-raytracer/blob/master/READ...
Why not C-flat? We already have a C--, to pair with C++.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

(Note to the pedants: Although C-flat and B are enharmonically equivalent they are not the same.)
To be perfectly clear, I don't necessarily _blame_ redmond or seattle. I just think the convolution around "who funds what and who deals with the pragmatic result" is both unnecessarily opaque in this situation, and not a question I've heard any good answers to. This is why I handwaved at this problem as "things we're less good at." Going to years of township meetings and getting effectively shrugs and "we know this is a problem but no plan to address it outside of waiting for more upper tier funding" doesn't really engender much faith in this category, unfortunately.

(also, I was under the impression that the allocated growth targets were "set on high by the powers that be" and handed down to the townships?)

Good to know I'm not _totally_ in left field with my remembering of those meetings though... (I'm fascinated how you "Called around a bit" though, civ-e/govt work? I wish I could get those sort of answers as a resident :P)
Honeybees can learn to carry out exact numerical calculations
The closest analog to lembas bread in spirit and function is Icelandic rugbraud: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rúgbrauð. It was vital when I was cycling, one slice seemed to give me a ton of energy, probably because the stuff was sticky with syrup. For pure function as a homemade energy loaf, there's also logan bread: https://sectionhiker.com/logan-bread-recipe/. I've made that very recipe and it's really good and it keeps well for several days.
I'm increasingly convinced that there is no non-coercive way to do it, hence the question: Can anyone think of another way to align incentives other than legislating ethics?

I think the current state was inevitable, assuming there wasn't some coercive legislation preventing it. Even then, would people just go do business somewhere else and continue what they are doing because the new system is just viewed as a cost?

No simple answers.
They are intended to accelerate a small projectile at high speed using combustion gases as the prime mover.

I don't want to turn this into a political flamewar, but please don't assume malicious intent as the primary motivation for a tool's existence. That's like saying lockpicks are only good for burglary, axes for dismemberment, or knives for stabbing.

Non-violent guns:
https://www.navalcompany.com line throwing shotgun

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flare_gun
Flare gun

And blanks are used to sink things in concrete.

It's a tool. It has a function. The function of the tool is independent of the intents of it's wielder.
If natural gas somehow never took off, and today you were trying to pitch the idea of running pipes full of poisonous, explosive gas to every house, you’d get run out of town.
Rent a Dumpster Dayton
The contempt that tracking companies showed to this feature killed it. But it also provides the perfect ethical justification for me blocking trackers and their ads. You didn't listen to me when I politely asked you to respect my privacy, so now it's scorched earth.
[more info] Some notable customers of Enovia (eMatrix): Boeing, Honeywell, Tesla, Bombardier, Airbus.

Disclaimer: I don't work presently work for Dassault. I just really like their DB kernel ;)
> At least on FB you can unfollow the main offenders.

Bingo. Works great for overly vocal political friends, and the pushy MLM friends, too.
The Deadliest Quake of 2018 Was Among the Fastest Ever
The two tribes of working life
Machine shops are very loud (plus you'd be wearing ear protection) and a lathe/mill that vibrates noticeably is either broken or incapable of performing the very task its designed for.
Most people who use "open source" in reference to software have never heard of OSI or its OSD, and could not recite its detailed points. Their understanding might not be in conflict with the OSD, but it's not in precise conformance with it.

For instance, oh, "The license may restrict source-code from being distributed in modified form only if the license allows the distribution of "patch files" with the source code for the purpose of modifying the program at build time. " Most people, including developers, don't know what a "patch file" is, so how can this be part of their definition when they use the term "open source".

Here are much more authoritative definitions, which are far briefer than the OSD's seven points:

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/us/open-source

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/open-source

(Both would have us hyphenate the term.)
I thought your own post was the red herring.
Yeah. An equally hysterical article could be written about web servers recording your IP address and what page you visited.

Maybe this is a bit much, but developers do need some data as to how their app is performing in the real world. You might have some metrics that says 0% of visitors to your order checkout page on FooPhone 1.0 are completing orders successfully. With a screenshot, you can immediately see that that screen doesn't even work on that device. It doesn't sound like a tragic loss of privacy to me, but rather an important tool for developers to help smooth over the reality of massive device incompatibility.
I'm a big fan Mattermost but it really needs to spend this money on:

-making decent mobile apps. I know the current Android one is awful
-introducing end to end encryption for conversations
Key 'grafs:

> Although the Fitzgerald radars did not show them, more than two dozen ships surrounded the destroyer, all close enough to track. Three of them, large vessels off the starboard bow, posed a grave danger to the warship. They were closing in. Quickly.

> But the ships didn’t appear on the combat room’s key radar, the SPS-67, because neither Combs, nor Woodley, nor anyone else, realized that it had been set to a mode designed to scan the seas at a greater distance. With the SPS-67 button taped over, only specialized technicians could change the tuning from another part of the ship.
One can reasonably argue that if Apple has a bounty program and therefore finds information about critical security vulnerabilities in their products valuable, that one should prefer to sell information about such to them.

However the situation is that they do not and thus the absolute economic fact is that Apple considers such information utterly without value. Given these there are no obligations upon hard working security researchers and they are free to sell to someone who does find such information at the least trivially valuable. In fact it would be utterly unethical to do otherwise. A man is worthy of compensation for his labor provided that labor has value. If one party finds his labor of no value that is not a problem. If some other party, such as the NSA, finds it valuable then they have the right to sell it.

Obviously there are (unethical and disingenuous) trolls who will bring up scenarios where things are illegal. We are not considering those. Implicit is that this is an economic transaction. Which can consider ethics, such as the right to be paid for valuable labor. But does not extend to the right to commit crimes. The constraint here, obvious, is that we are discussing legal commercial transactions for legally performed work.
Oh, I see what they did, they broke up CS into a bunch of subject classes and did not include separate archive links for those.

This (hand-made) URL gives you the humongous archive for all subject classes:

https://arxiv.org/archive/cs.AR/
Despite the evidence presented you continue to think that California, Minnesota, New York, etc. are not subsidizing states like Mississippi, Alabama, etc. Perhaps no amount of factual evidence will dissuade you from your current belief.
Its a completely pointless setting. No user would chose to be tracked and no tracker wants to shut down their business. You don't need a setting for it because everyone wants the same thing.
The messy part of C# is the way it does function overloading. (Speaking as someone who likes C#.)
That's funny I had 3 LEDs die in a week and they were all great value. I believe I bought them 4-5 years ago. I've also had a cree die. Overall though waaaay better than incandecent or even compact CFL.
Ignore the fad tech, get a good, serious, bulletproof base in actual computer science -- I mean, LOW LEVEL stuff--

I can’t agree with this. Most businesses aren’t doing anything that require leetCode and deep algorithms knowledge. After a certain age, what’s important is to know how to drive business value and how to either save the company money or make the company money.

Also, be well aware of where a technology falls on the hype cycle and keep your skills current with it. Whether you are looking for a job or not, see what other companies are looking for and make sure your skills are in sync.

Also, knowing how to speak the language of business is just as important as knowing how to talk tech - if not more so.

Finally, networking. Network with former coworkers and get to know local recruiters.

I’m 45 and I am not seeing any signs of ageism. My former manager is in his late 50s, self demoted to an individual contributor after his kids graduated and is now a full stack React/C# developer on top of Azure. All of the people he hired at our former company were 38+ and we are still developing, switching jobs, and are very much in demand. None of us are in management.
Good question. I haven't mentioned memory management because it's not done yet. I know for sure there won't be a GC or reference counting.

I want to do something similar to Rust's approach, but much much simpler. It's not an easy task.

Right now the language handles very simple cases. Small strings are placed on the stack, local variables that are not returned are clean up automatically.

Globals are not allowed, function args can't be modified, so that helps a bit.
Well, a bit more relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Bruno_pipeline_explosion

"It was revealed that PG&E had done pipeline replacement work on Line 132 along parts of the San Andreas Fault zone, near this area, to reduce the likelihood of the pipeline failing from an earthquake. However, the replacement was stopped short of the area that failed in 2010.[48]

On January 13, 2012, an independent audit from the State of California issued a report stating that PG&E had illegally diverted over $100 million from a fund used for safety operations, and instead used it for executive compensation and bonuses.[49]"

So basically, if there's a gas-related fire, regardless of cause, you can point at PG&E and say "deferred maintainence".
Ask HN: What are some creative decentralized lending ideas?
Inspired by thread here: https://twitter.com/mmay3r/status/1093289126202228736?s=21

What are interesting ways to bring lending to the distributed world?

Keep in mind you might want anonymity, while also having a clear, accurate picture of a debtors ability to pay back the loan.

What are the most creative and/or viable possibilities you can think of?
It's only a stupid premise if you take the feature for face value and assume that the people behind it expected it to magically solve all of the tracking problems on the web. Alternatively, consider that it's a great opportunity for all those companies that "value your privacy" to put up or shut up. Then tools like Privacy Badger [0] get to call out advertising companies that assert that they only track consumers because that's what consumers want while explicitly ignoring the industry standard opt out mechanism.

[0] https://www.eff.org/privacybadger/faq#How-does-Privacy-Badge...
Leave it on whatever the default is on firefox. Thats the best way to avoid extra identification.