skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SF during the recent wildfires caused by faulty PG&E infrastructure (local power utility) had the worst air quality index in the world, far beyond any Chinese (or Indian/Pakistani for that matter) city.
Most of the Mexico's federal budget isn't for protecting citizens from violent criminals, if I remember correctly the federal budget for "security" (police, army, navy, etc.) is less than $20 billion dollars.
In Australia, homicide has decreased by nine percent since 1990 and armed robbery by one-third since 2001, but recorded assaults and sexual assaults have both increased steadily in the past 10 years by over 40 percent and 20 percent respectively. Crime was already decreasing in Australia before the 1996 ban, however since that time violent crime overall has increased significantly.
IIRC, this is one of Warren Buffets main strategies and why he beats the market. He mainly invests in companies that are undervalued and with good cash flows. He doesn't have to risk the market coming to their senses like with shorting because even if the stock price goes down, he just holds onto it and rakes in those cash flows.
Xi editor seems so cool. I keep thinking I should try it sometime. And I didn’t even know it made use of CRDT. But every time I think to myself I should install it I just keep the tab open but don’t actually do it. Even though I use Vim and I write some Rust code myself, so you’d think I should check out Xi, and I think I should too but I just still haven’t. I’ve watched a lengthy talk from its author even, and I think that talk was nice too. Does what I am describing have a name?
...and war seems to be the most effective source of national will.
That's a bingo!

You can't really draw very much from the poorly framed data in this article. They selected these 6 countries by absolute number of deaths / guns, rather than per capita; mix suicides with homicides; and don't include the overall number of homicides, which (as I think you're suggesting) could be used to tease out direction of causality.

Moreover, n=6 lies in the realm of anecdote, not data. There are ~200 countries in the UN. If you want to know anything significant, throw all their gun ownership rates, homicide rotes, Gini coefficients, etc into a regression and maybe you'll be able to say something interesting.
Yes. the model is you stack things, and they form (cinder) cones, and the boring things are either buried, or slip off and fall to the floor, and what is left is relevant or interesting. It's very effective (at forming piles, at least)
A PN junction (ie, a diode) only passes current one way, so a sine wave applied across a PN junction gets turned into only half a sine wave, with either the positive or negative half clipped depending on the polarity. The fourier series of a rectified sine wave is mostly the second harmonic.

A natural nonlinear junction usually consists of a thin layer of insulating oxide between two pieces of metal. It only conducts when the voltage exceeds some threshold where the electrons tunnel through the insulator. When a sine wave is applied, both the tops and bottoms of the waveform are clipped. Because
it's symmetrical around zero, the energy it re-radiates is mostly at the third harmonic.
I'm with you, the default behavior is so counter intuitive.
They are probably nice but I think shipping them to Europe (where I live) would be very expensive probably :P
I get what you're saying, but I can't imagine the Kardashians lifting anything heavier than a toilet lid to upchuck their biscotti though.
Wouldn’t that mean the same thing? They decide to hurt (the impulse), and they grab whatever happens to be nearby.

That is, they don’t see a gun and decide to use it; they decide to use something and see a gun
That means you raise the prices of both cars to compare, but you raise the Tesla less. It's still misleading to show it as a reduction, unlike the incentives.
People have pulled off 51% attacks on altcoins that were arguably popular at the time, most notably Bitcoin Gold. However, note that a successful 51% attack doesn't allow the attacker to steal arbitrary balances. What it mainly allows them to do is to undo their own spending, which they can exploit to commit fraud on exchanges in the short term.
I don’t think that’s the problem. I wouldn’t use Python (especially 2.x), but I’d have no hesitation with using Common Lisp. It has lots of great features for programming in-the-large that Python simply lacks.
> most guns were not submitted for tracing in the first place

Kind of like claiming that fewer than 10% of accusations for a given crime are false, based on the fact that, out of the cases that prosecutors decide to bring to trial, over 90% result in convictions.
Qt is nice but takes some effort to make it do what you want it to do, just like any other c++ project. Once you get the hang of it though it can do just about anything, on any platform. At my previous job we had deployed a single code base QML ui interface across mac/windows/linux/android/ios. The mere fact you can do that and have it not look like junk everywhere is pretty cool.
That is their choice. The market will only correct if people make rational choices.
Holy shit! Now that I have changed the password, can you please tell me how did you guess that?
Because you haven't seen one does not mean it's banned. There is easily millions of legal handguns in private hands in Canada, probably another few millions illegal ones (including both the ones in criminals hands, and those in otherwise "law-abiding" families who never bothered to register them).
Person’s profile still there.
> Except, we've learned via a robust body of research over the last 5 decades that the market is largely efficient.

Oh? Care to cite some of that research? And let me preempt a few common citations which don't actually work:

1. Warren Buffett's hedge fund bet does not prove this. Among other reasons, he made a bet concerning the performance of a fund of funds, not any particular outlier.

2. Eugene Fama's research on the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) does not prove this (while we're at it, Fama would disagree with you that the market is efficient). His work applies the EMH as a means of studying efficiency, not asserting efficiency. One of the most common misconceptions of Fama's work is that it's descriptive instead of prescriptive.

3. When you actually do the math, the number of hedge funds that has ever existed is nowhere near what you'd need to explain the outliers like RenTech or Baupost. So the common coin flipping analogy actually doesn't prove it either.

I can save you a trip to look for citations - the "robust" body of research you're talking about doesn't exist. There is no such consensus. The efficient market is a model which only approximates real world conditions - it do so imperfectly, and in the best case it only works locally.

Here is an article [1] written by Cliff Asness on the topic of the EMH which might be educational. Asness earned his PhD under Fama and founded AQR, one of the more successful hedge funds. He also regularly comments on, and published, research. There remains a great feal of inefficiency at the macro level, even on horizons measured in years.

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1. https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b14zbgrj5pflsc...
> they’re lucky to have had a string of decently good leaders

Unless of course they're one of the hundreds of thousands (perhaps more than a million) of Uighurs in Xinjiang province who are being held in "internment camps".
I looked a Polar also, and although it looks good it doesn’t handle all digital assets.

With strong reservations I switched over to using a $12/month G Suite account because it offers a uniform ‘cloud search’ to find and access all of my digital artifacts.

After doing this transition I am happy enough having uniform access to everything, but Google has also fallen down flat on a few things: not letting my GSuite email account be a family member for the large number of purchases I have made over the years with my gmail account; the Google iOS app is really not functional with my G Suite account (no calendar interop, and other limitations). So, they are close to providing a very good $12/month service, but not quite there yet.

For Polar: expand the service to allow email with custom domain, cloud file storage, etc., and unified search, then they will have a dynamite product.
Genuinely asking: could you provide some specific example? What does CL has that Pythos doesn’t?
(Disclaimer: i never worked on neither)
I started using python 3 with mypy, which provides (optional) static typing, and my gosh has it reduced the time I spend looking for stupid problems by orders of magnitude.

I got a somewhat direct comparison when I mypy-ified a small program where I used a lot of async and await (basically implementing own event loops and schedulers, it was interfacing very custom hardware that handled very different but interacting streams at once).

So basically I did it because I was tired of not noticing mixing up "foo()" and "await foo()", but then the static typing continued to catch a myriad of other, unrelated problems that would have ruined my day way late (and often obscurely) at runtime.

For small ("scripty") to moderate sized things, mypy absolutely recovered my faith in it.

I also completely switched to python 3 after being in python 2 unicode hell just once. There are very good reasons for python 3.
I am also extremely curious! (I did not have this password, but would love to know why it was so common?)
I too spent most of my youth re-installing Windows on various machines. :D
There's many valid reasons for accumulating profits, such as planning buyouts or expansions. That being said, sometimes it can be done for reasons such as waiting for a preferable tax regime. Due to that, some countries have a separate accumulated earnings tax that is similar to individual wealth taxes to disincentivize accumulating without a business purpose.
With federal and state incentives the price drops below $30k for California which is Tesla's biggest market so far. People have also been willing to pay 5-10k more for Tesla than their previous cars. So Tesla just needs to stay ahead of the demand at each price point. It's not like people pay for their cars in one go they pay in bank installments. And the $150~250 savings in gas and servicing costs makes the monthly cost of ownership of $25k Camry and $35k Tesla the same over 5years. With Tesla ownership being cheaper after 5years.
I'm only guessing, but this could provide a clue: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.urbandictionary.com/define....
Windows XP..
Because bunch of us memorized fckgw rhqq2 yxrkt 8tg6w 2b7q8 for the very same reason back in early 2000s
It's the first few sections of product key for one of the original warez scene releases of the windows XP Pro gold master ISO.
Sorry to scare you! I didn't think you were still using it. Honestly, it was the first thing that came to mind in terms of "culturally important serial keys"
> The United States has a lower [homicide] rate

No it has not, the wikipedia article mentions "death rate". "homicide" != "death". About 2/3 of America's death rate is suicide. Canadians statistics show that gun control has no effect on suicide.
It's common enough it's in Urban Dictionary.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fckgw-rhqq2-...
I don't think that any form of formal specification will solve that issue. The only way to minimize the impact of it is to work on small iterations (agile) and be close to the client. One of the weakness in agile methodologies today is that the client representation (Product owner) is not aware of the client needs or too far from the client point of view.
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This article suggests the main externality from the USA contributing to violence and instability in Mexico (not to mention Colombia before the current peace process) is guns. That's laughable.

The first rule of clickbait is that it has to make me feel something, anything, whether it's anger, fear, warm fuzzy, or here, moral superiority. I can easily read this and think, oh, it's those hick gun nuts who are causing Mexican children to die and mayors to be shot. Doesn't have anything to do with all those drugs that I and all my friends have tried at least once, or with our puritanical legislators who think that protecting their constituents from temptation is more important than the lives of Mexican civilians. Carry on, as you were.
That sounds just like me. I wonder if you buy apps. There is so much value for me in cell phones (hm, or rather small computers), that i feel, even if it seems like i do not spend too much, that i get a huge bargain with these small devices: weather, nav, music, video, news, chat, photo, etcetc...
I think it is easier for developing countries in general.

Japan continued its huge infrastructure build postwar but even by the 1970s (Narita airport) it was more difficult.

The next iteration of their high speed rail (SC Maglev) has been in development since the 1970s, with a test track built in 1990. It is under construction now and isn’t planned to be fully operational until 2037.

Compare that with the bullet train, which began development in 1939, construction in the 1950s, and was done in time for the Tokyo Olympics in 1964.
That does happen, but less often than you're claiming here. Most of the time, it's easy to see how a comment violated the site guidelines or otherwise attracted downvotes. But it is less obvious to readers who agree with the comment, leading to the sensation that their views get unfairly downvoted.

There's still an interesting connection to minority opinions though: it's harder to express a contrarian view neutrally. Probably much harder actually.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fckgw-rhqq2-...
Well, the problem is we probably can't find anyone to sponsor to study to determine if once and for all, whites are prone to psychosis and mass murder via guns.
It's a pretty well-known leaked key. And then you said exactly what part of it you used. Not the smartest move.

It's like saying "My password is the first 10 characters of a really popular book about wizards" and expecting no one to figure it out.
One of the mistake I see a lot around this is when people start to write intelligent mocks. Usually this is where test bugs reside.
Word of warning, if you use an ad/content blocker like uBlock Origin, and block 3rd-party JS, then HIBP may give up on its k-anonymity mechanism and just sends your password to their server in cleartext.

Ensure you specifically permit loading jQuery from cloudflare.com, and check network traffic using a test password first.
> 2. The elements of the sequence are data blocks that are chained together via digital signatures.

This is incorrect. Digital signatures are used when (S) signing a transaction which must refer some precious transaction with a receiver address corresponding to the public key which verifies signature S.

Blocks are chained by their headers hashes. There are no keys nor digital signatures involved here..
Anyone actually doing this, please use https://www.muckrock.com for your FOIA. It'll save you effort and everyone else who wants the same information, too.
I knew about bootstrapping (e.g., from college compilers class) but I never really appreciated how you could build something using that same thing you’re building, simply by breaking the chain and providing a base case, until the second time I read AMOP.

The first time I read it, I completely missed the point. Now I agree with Alan Kay that it’s one of the most important books in the field.
I'm shocked. The country that leads the world in stereotypically American mass shootings, narrowly defined to fit our cultural context and exclude problems endemic to other countries, according to one study quoted by the Amazon Post and other left-leaning outlets, is the USA. Say it ain't so.
The rural areas of much of the US effectively have no police presence. In these regions, the primary law enforcement is the county sheriff (and a few deputies) and they may have responsibility for an area the size of a small European country. You generally don't see them unless you call them. Honestly, murder rates in many of these parts of the US are negligible and people tend to sort out their own issues -- the sheriff often acts as an arbitrator when neighbors can't. Sheriffs are typically elected, local, and have an enormous amount of autonomy within their jurisdiction.

I've seen more "police" in rural Mexico than I have in many parts of the rural US.
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see https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1409862/average-len...
Which gives you 1000/7.48, not 1000/2
Way back in the 80s, I looked into Pascal and C, and was dead certain that Pascal would win out. Oops.

Many years later I was dragged into writing C because it's the de facto language for microcontrollers, and my assembly language programs were getting too big to manage. So I've finally gained an appreciation for C, even though I'm far from being a great C programmer yet.

I've often got two IDE's running on my desktop -- C for the microcontroller and Python for testing my embedded designs.
Same thing with my first debit card. All the rest never stuck
It's probably the most famous software license key, it can even be found on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume_licensing#Leaked_keys
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Let this thread be a reminder for everyone to use a password manager.
Don't forget the rape!

100% of your Ys coming from one place is the opposite of "mutt", too. But the only way you can get to do race science is by coming to the conclusion "There's no such thing as race" first, and making the details sound boring enough that nobody asks.
I've done the same, though I never used it as a password. Back around 2000 or so I was experimenting a lot with hardware configurations and I had input my Windows 98 SE key so many times during reinstalls I ended up memorizing it unintentionally. Even today, nearly 20 years later, I can recall it perfectly. It actually came in handy a couple of years ago when I built a P-III retro gaming machine out of scavenged parts; I found a Windows 98 CD at work collecting dust on a shelf, installed it, and instinctively entered the correct key without missing a character.
This seems to tend to 500 when I run this experimentally.
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> “No population is, or ever could be, pure,”

Why this obsession with 'purity'? Isn't it obvious that, despite none being pure, some populations are more closely related?
I don't know of a single car that you can buy that takes 350kW. In fact I don't know of a single car that you can buy that charges at higher rates than the Teslas. And you keep doubling down on charging rates as if that was the single metric by which to compare manufacturers and conveniently ignore all the other stuff I've pointed out.
A company does not have to justify its business practices to anyone but its shareholders. A company should focus on serving its shareholders, not politicians.
grep is for searching for stuff

sed is for editing streams
Ask HN: What today only as closed-source but one could have as a side-project?
Kind of a bummer, doesn't look like we ever find out if his project worked or not.
I didn't know the well-known part. Besides, I was assuming that this was only of the multiple, multiple keys. But, it's funny how popular it is, and that so many had a reason to memorize it.
>> I’m curious just how messy those wires were in 1960’s China. Sounds like they weren’t a huge investment and could be scrapped when it was time to actually build something.

During electrification of America, American cities were tiny. This vast emptiness enabled massive planned wiring of cities to hubs and power plants from great distances. China was already massively populated. The fact that they have so much electrification within 20 years is just amazing.

>> Most of the infrastructure we’d probably agree we need today (trains, renewable energy, whatever) isn’t enabaling radically new possibilities like the first highways or energy grids did, even though it’s clearly worth building

I'm not sure how you get this. Trains are a proven great enabler. Beijing to Shanghai is 4.5 hours for 800 miles. LA to SF is 5.5 hours for 400 miles. 4.5 hours without having car ownership quite literally enables people and goods to move around more rapidly, causing opportunity to meet capital and talent. I cannot describe how important this is.

Renewable energy was a chance at creating another brand new manufacturing sector. The number of electric buses in Chinese cities are just mind boggling. It creates this massive industry of manufacturing and supplying parts, research, education in universities, smarter companies. America literally hemorrhaged this in favor of supporting rich buddies in oil.

I'm sorry. Maybe its time for enough Americans to travel abroad to see how rapidly these countries have developed from their almost medieval lives only 40 years ago.
You can only see 5,000 stars in the WHOLE night sky away for city lights.

So I'd call them fake, you can never see a scene anything even a little like this.

It's the same as false colors, sure it's still scientifically correct, but these photos are take to show the earth, if people can't see them this way they are Fake.
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I had this presented to me by a coworker. I like the general idea of presenting a map for value chain but I'm sceptical because it seems to me that it is mostly based on the opinion of the person who draw the map and the perspective he is seeing.
There's a big difference between the two. Tax evasion is breaking the law to pay less tax. Tax avoidance is working within the confines of the law to pay less tax.

Putting money in a retirement account is a form of tax avoidance, but it was provided and is working as intended. The issue is not the definition, it's that legal loopholes allows unintended tax avoidance. The way to correct it would therefore be to close the loopholes, and many of the remaining loopholes span international borders and are tough to close without negative unintended consequences.
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I would probably do that if the time investment was worth it. For example if it was something I was using on a day to day basis but not for leisurely/exploratory reading.
Because there's a certain critical mass during the descent where 51% attacks are possible, but coinholders still have value to lose.
Doesn't India actually have a fairly low Gini index? Lower than any country in South or Latin America, save Uruguay.
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The generally accepted theoretical / abstract term for a winning block hash is 'dynamic membership multi-party signature'

To call the solution to a block a 'signature' is not incorrect.
We're still doing that with AI today. Each step forward is seen as signs of imminent acceleration towards AGI, when we really have no idea yet how hard the problems are that lie ahead. It's encouraging to know that it isn't a new phenomenon.
probably very few, if the old testament or the huge proportion of ancient skeletons that died violent deaths serve as any guide. which is why I think this story by Reich is very tone deaf. It's hard to see how a 90% population replacement promotes feelings of unity and hand-holding.

One imagines a superposition of a video feed of the invasion of the steppe-people on horseback, stampeding the native defenses, cutting the male children's throats and raping the women, with a video a David Reich being like "we're all a little mixed".
As far as I know, China's grid and power plants are not run by the government either.