skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think most applications (including computers, except GPS receivers internally) should just switch to UT1. A rotation of the earth takes a day, and a day has 86400 seconds. Done. (Fine, a second is not exactly an SI second, but close enough for most practical purposes, and computers can handle it.)
Apple instructions for mitigating ZombieLoad, up to 40% performance hit
I don't believe this is the consequence of Trump being racist.
Ah yes, 'salmoning'[1]. Clearly dangerous for interactions with cars, and also a real headache for cyclists going the right direction in the bike lane - who gives way, and how?

1: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/05/15/3124556...
2.7V still seems to be a challenge for larger applications, and I probably shouldn't be surprised that carbon nanotube ultracaps are the same potential (voltage) as the older charcoal based ultracaps.

You run enough capacitors in series to get to even 48 volts and you've lost a lot of the capacitance. And with automotive applications at >200V...
I used both Laravel and Symfony but I ended up with the second. I didn’t like the way Laravel’s ORM has its models structured plus the Symfony PHPStorm plugin is a miracle. Your mileage may vary and this is just me but I never quite understood why people ended up loving Laravel so much vs. Symfony.
This is exactly what I was looking for and was my only qualm about writing a voice assistant! Will check this out
If you're interested in stuff like that, might want to Google some of the news about Idaho's "regulatory reset". I think I have a relatively extreme opinion about how minimalist our laws and government should be and even I'm nervous about how it's going to go, but it will be interesting and I hope it goes well.
Do you think induced demand might be a problem? It's been shown that by increasing the size of highways, for example, you increase traffic:

https://www.wired.com/2014/06/wuwt-traffic-induced-demand/
I don’t get what you’re trying to express. Is there anyone at Apple who works only on Mac OS? The senior most such person is the de facto boss of Mac OS.
Virtual kidnappings are rattling families across the US
> but shooting "fire" in a theater isn't

There are legally recognized limits in the US, but that particular example isn't a good one.

(https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-tim...)

> But those who quote Holmes might want to actually read the case where the phrase originated before using it as their main defense. If they did, they'd realize it was never binding law, and the underlying case, U.S. v. Schenck, is not only one of the most odious free speech decisions in the Court's history, but was overturned over 40 years ago.
I thought it was strange that none of the press on this story had anything to say about what the text means. If you've "decoded" something, shouldn't you be able to provide an English transcript? Why bury the lede?
In terms of body count, more people have been killed in the name of science than in the name of religion.
Your comparison is invalid.
edit: I mixed up yearly statistics vs "lifetime likelihood". I'll leave what I wrote for posterity

If the US population is 328,000,000, and each of us has a "1:11,125 odds" of dying in a mass shooting, that would seem to indicate that there are 328m/11,125 = 29,483 "mass shooting deaths" in any given year (I'm happy to accept corrections on my math here, maybe I'm completely missing something). That's patently false, and quite a spurious definition of "mass shooting". My definition of "mass shooting" is an unprovoked attack for terroristic reasons. i.e. NOT a { jealous spouse/drug dealers/gang bangers }. I don't keep an active tally, but I would estimate the number on an "average" year to be about 50, double that during the year we had the vegas shooting. 50/year puts the odds at rougly 1:6,560,000, or about 40x less likely than getting killed by a lightning strike.
what are people's experiences with NoScript vs uMatrix? i switched from uBlock Origin to uMatrix, and that works pretty well and can block e.g. iframes, too. but i'd be open to blocking all Javascript, which uMatrix doesn't do by default AFAIK
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I agree with you, but a lot of people are happy to take the money for doing nothing. Sometimes this is driven by lack of capability - if you're not good at much, not very driven but still want a great income and lifestyle, this sorta hits the sweet spot.

Also a lot of these people lie to themselves about their own importance, in order to have a (false) sense of self worth (but they're okay with it).
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Fair point. A blanket renewal is nearly as pointless as no auto-expiration.

There is a solution though: write fewer laws. Ideally so few that citizens can reasonably be expected to know them, or at least so they can be counted.

I wonder if a society can function with a max of 1000 laws at any one time?
Rental car tax applies to locals as well, though.
What are other popular canonical coding questions/puzzles?
One of the problems right now is the sheer size of some laws that get passed a matter of hours after their final draft is released, with no good way that I know of for people to diff the various versions and catch things. Already no one's reading all the laws.
I once worked in a place where they wanted to hire a few contractors to help out, and I had to help phone-interview a few. I remember one guy whose resume claimed he was an expert in C++, so I simply asked him to tell me what a "class" was in C++. He couldn't answer.
(I'm a co-author of the blog post)

Many functions of the kernel are still effectively shared: memory management (e.g. reclaim, swap), thread scheduling, etc. The application is simply limited in its ability to interact with the shared kernel, and functionality related to system APIs is isolated. Arguably I think this is closer to the ergonomics of containers, but with compatibility and performance trade-offs.
Somewhat related: is there a lib or common api for these IFTTT type actions at this point or is everyone building them from scratch?
Yes. The only reason I notice I have color blindness is because it is pointed out to me. Outside of that, I would never know I have it. It is at best worst a mild annoyance once every few months.

On the other hand, eye corrective surgery does not correct to 20/20 unless your vision isn't very bad (to your fighter jet pilot reference, it says your vision must be correctable to 20/20). There is also a lot of side effects to corrective surgery. One is you suffer from dry eyes for the rest of tour life. You can also get halos at night and have permanent damage to night vision. This is on tip of the fact that corrective surgery is not permanent, age will revert the issue.

If I had a choice between the two, I would much rather take naturally good vision with colorblindness versus bad vision without.
I do not understand the attack on "thoughts and prayers." There are plenty of people sending "thoughts and prayers" who also support gun control. I get that it calls out the hypocrisy of Christians who don't support gun control, but it also seems like an overly broad attack.

What does someone who both believes gun control is necessary and wants to send "thoughts and prayers" do? I think the idea of gun control is a target at a solution while thoughts and prayers are meant to console the individual.

Anyway, it's just something I found super annoying. I had someone who I know lost a loved one (not due to guns) and I struggled with what to say. It's a simple thing, but I realized I didn't know how to attempt to console someone anymore.
Why TAI and not UT1? Who/what really cares about SI seconds?
Finnish has a unit of distance that means “distance a barking dog can be heard.”

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/peninkulma

I like rural places fine but the constant barking kills me.
He's accused of war crimes and torture. Uber and Lyft approved him to drive
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Or rather a lot of people are unhappy and express this through constant outrage masked by a facade of happiness and "good vibes"
> Worker safety laws in the early 1900s were such that people more regularly lost fingers or even limbs in heavy machinery.

If it's regularly happening, it isn't a "low probability" event.
In my opinion the framework matters more than programming language. One typically doesn't need the "odd" or "fancy" features of a programming language if the framework is well designed and/or a good fit for the shop's conventions or needs.
Lightphone makes a dumb phone that lets you swap out your smart phone for a while https://www.thelightphone.com
> “How can you ask for so much? It took you only a minute to draw this.”

translation: I expected to pay $5 for this napkin drawing, and later sell it for $10,000. Then you asked me $1000 for the drawing. That means you just tried to steal $995 from me. Outrageous! You are a thief, Mr. Picasso!
Bomb making instructions are generally protected speech.

Distributing such instructions with the intent to further a crime makes the speech unprotected. But, each element (e.g, knowingly intending to further a crime, and so on) has to be proven in a court of law to strip the speech of its protected status.

From the statute you linked:
"...with the intent that the teaching, demonstration, or information be used for, or in furtherance of, an activity that constitutes a Federal crime of violence;"

edit: typos
Propane fridges actually burn the propane for heat, so it's not using it as a "refrigerant", just as a heat source.
Soraa.
Pretty much yes, combined with having to fully audit the software top to bottom every couple of weeks for every patch, piece of firmware, etc with pressure to get into production fixes for issues that affect customers service.

From my experience in the industry, most of the protections being offered are hand-wavy things, like a software patch from Huawei being scanned by a desktop virus scanner for viruses or remote access gateways that record the screens of external employees accessing equipment where the demo I got for the solution the security prime couldn't figure out how to actually view the screen recordings. Huawei employees weren't allowed to give us any USB devices either. (I didn't work with Huawei routinely, although I know many who do. I tended to work with Cisco, Nokia, and several smaller vendors).

The only model I could see sort of working is forcing them to hand over the sources to an industry group or government entity, that is then responsible for auditing, building, and signing the software. But there are so many moving components slipping something past that is still plausible, and many barriers towards that sort of model.
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Would a propane tank pose any danger to occupants during/after an accident?
Tech giants pledge unprecedented [joint] action to tackle terrorist content
In the US there are courts I can go to, and the government can get a smackdown and cease its unlawful conduct. Can you show the same for Chinese courts rebuking their government?
There are arguments that induced demand is a myth: https://www.cato.org/blog/debunking-induced-demand-myth
Please don’t. Trump is one of the few people standing up to China, and China is threatening to invade my country, Taiwan. China is building up its naval forces and artificial islands nearby. Xi jing Ping has said unification is ultimate goal and force is an option. US intelligence said recently Beijing is preparing to invade Taiwan.

Because of China, Taiwan is barred from attending WHO.
I got hurt plenty as a kid with quite a few scars to show for it. None of the injuries were life changing though. Some of the dumbest things we did would probably trigger a SWAT team today. Bottle rocket fights (do they even sell bottle rockets anymore?). BB gun fights. They always lasted until that one kid would pump his up more than once. We also lived on a river and started taking the John boat out around 12 or 13.
20 years seems a little too much for the crime that doesn't involve violence. 2 or 3 years and a solid fine should be fair punishment in my opinion.
Cisco is the Oracle of networking gear.
Following up here. For a new jet (new type certificate), there is a minimum amount of required flying to get rated- in this case, you can put many pilots through a $15 million simulator and not put any wear and tear on your shiny new jets. When the option is sim vs real flight, the cheapest option is the sim.

But $15 million is still expensive. A major selling point (possibly the biggest selling point) of the MAX jets was that Boeing convinced the FAA that they were similar to old 737s and did not need a new type certificate. That meant for the many pilots already certified to fly the 737 they would not need to do any flight training to transition. All those currently certified 737 pilots could fly the new jets just by reading a manual on an iPad for an hour. That is a huge savings in training cost even compared to powering up a simulator. The simulators still exist because new pilots still need to get certified need to log flight time- the iPad app is not good enough for them.

Regarding simulator accreditation, I believe Boeing does that themselves. They hand the FAA a stack of documents claiming that they tested the simulator with the same flight profile as a real jet and it handled the same as the real thing. The FAA basically says, "as long as you're not lying about running the test then the simulator is acceptable for training." This is how the FAA handles most certification- they do not do their own testing, they just accept manufacturer test results and documentation. As long as the documentation claims to meet standards then it's all gravy. In general this system works, because if someone crashes your plane and a whistleblower says that you did not actually perform the correct test procedures then you are in hot water.
The Merry Go Round?
I'm not sure tritium-laced drinking fountains would go over well with Disney's safety team, nor their guests.
ECB vs. CBC Encryption (2012)
Well, I have a dozen kids, and I agree.

Of course, part of the reason for so many kids is to minimize the percentage of my family that would be lost if one did die. My wife's uncle had the postcard family, one boy and one girl in a cute little city house with a picket fence. The daughter died, and the father completely fell apart. He lost 100% of his daughters. It is too late for him to create a replacement.

Most families today are tiny. I think this has affected our perception of loss. The risk of 100% loss has become so great that people can't allow the risk of traditional play.
Companies don't seem to realize that the bad practices they engage in are actively harmful to themselves financially. Maintaining that office that doesn't produce as much value as it destroys in expense. Not investing in IT infrastructure (whether real or virtual). Not actively working on making communication efficient and valuable. These things don't just get on peoples nerves, they cost money.
I'll re-emphasize the table I linked before, though I agree with one of the other responses that the OP meant that the benefits are marginal on an overall basis so my response wasn't strictly addressing the comment.

https://postimg.cc/pmQCfdZq

They absolutely distinguish between poultry and beef, though they don't distinguish steak from hamburger. They specified exactly what that breakdown was in the table and I doubt that it's random.

137gm red meat, 57gm poultry, 22gm fish per day on average per person using the "meat-based diet" model.

Assuming that pork and beef are both "red meat", the USDA availability chart (couldn't find consumption) is here:

https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/gallery...

and what I see is about 100 pounds of red meat, 65 pounds of poultry, and 15 pounds of fish per person per year available. 100 pounds of red meat per year is 124gm/day, and the ratios are a little off but not by a ton. They definitely report what their diet assumptions were though... my guess is they had a more robust model diet from USDA they used than the chart of clearly not quite the right dataset I took that from.
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> Known as Syn61, the bug is a little longer than normal, and grows more slowly, but survives nonetheless.

Why is this? If AGC is identical in function to TCG, and the same holds for the other replacements, shouldn't the new organism function exactly the same?
> There is a add to black list button for websites you find and don't want to seed.

That doesn't sound very completely uncensorable if someone can identify a potentially tiny number of seeders and punish them (via DDoS, legal action, social shaming, or violence) for continuing to seed a particular site. If that works, there might then be no seeders left at all.
> Yeah, Ruby uses the doublequote/singlequote distinction from Perl, but Ruby tags variables to interpolate with #{}, while Groovy and Perl use $.

Huh, I could have sworn that I remembered that Groovy has taken it from Ruby.

Incidentally, Ruby uses just # for variables, it uses #{} for arbitrary expressions. A common style prefers #{} even where # alone works, though.
Budgeting is basically forecasting, and in most businesses it’s not much better than guesswork.

There are ways that are arguably better, like bottom-up budgeting, but they take a lot more work, and are arguably more subjective.

Internal information systems can be so poor that the best prediction of next years budget is last years budget.
Climate Change is a new religion.

Just like in those old-timey religions, we blame all of our natural disasters on this god, even when there is no evidence of a connection, or, in fact, evidence to the contrary. Hail storm? Climate change. Cat 5 hurricane? Climate change. We must have angered our God.

And,just like those old-timey religions, we must sacrifice to appease our god. Recycle or god will become angry and send another storm! Buy an electric car or god will raise the sea level and wipe you out!

And, just like those old-timey religions, we ostracize the heretics. Deniers! Compost them!

And, just like those old-timey religions, Climate Change is messianic. It will be here in a hundred years! No! Fifty years! No, twenty!

And, finally, just like those old-timey religions, Climate Change is an enormous self-serving lie that relieves our guilt and fear by allowing us to engage in an energetic debate about something that we can't easily do anything about.

We are in middle of an enormous mass extinction. The oceans are filled with plastic. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are becoming an existential threat.

These and many other environmental crises are immediately solvable, but that would require us to admit that our economic and social systems are broken and actually make changes.

So keep worshipping Climate Change like it won't get fixed automatically when we're all dead from all the other fixable environmental problems for which we have actual evidence right now. It's much better than actually doing something.
My comparison of the dangers of nuclear power to a paint bucket of uranium?

As someone who grew up in Boston I have lived within 40 miles of a nuclear power plant for a decent chunk of my life. The times that nuclear power has caused disasters it has always been closely tied to mismanagement and human errors - which are solvable problems if we're open about the costs to utilize nuclear power in a manner more similar to France.

I'm pretty sure you're more likely to be killed by a particularly ill mannered seabass than a nuclear power plant explosion (It definitely, for realsies, looks like being struck by lightning is a much more common way to die, but the specific counts are hard to dig up)
Yeah, I am just trying to understand the reasoning. Is it the founders or the investors who benefit more from the half hearted secrecy ?
AFAIK the D compiler is basically this.
>I don't think it's useful to add conditions to UBI - if you want to spend your UBI on a car and I don't agree with that, it's tough luck for me.

I never said conditions like that should be added, only that we shouldn't give out enough UBI for people to live a luxurious lifestyle, which is what rural life really is in America, in a way. Think about it: what would happen to poor, rural Americans if we jacked the price of gasoline up to European levels, where it really should be?

>Living in a long Urban center where the grocery store is a 2 minute walk away is a luxury.

It's really not, it's simple geometry. If you pack people into a dense urban environment with tiny little apartments and remove the luxury of a car and lots of land, then a 2-minute walk to a grocery store becomes almost automatic. It's a tradeoff: you simply cannot have a 2-minute walk to a grocery store if everyone has a separate, freestanding McMansion with a giant yard. Anyone with a basic understanding of geometry should understand this. Put everyone into tiny apartments in high-rises and a quick walk to the grocery store is easy to accomplish (make sure the urban area has mixed-use zoning though).
It's by no means a constant, permeating stink. Sure, there are some neighborhoods with open air food markets that can be smelly, or some that are downwind of waste processing centers (most of East Williamsburg), or smelly because of wastewater (parts of East New York and Canarsie), but for 95% of the city, you're not going to smell anything unpleasant unless you're leaning in to sniff trash bags.
Personally, I'm in favour of christ_church.
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Playgrounds are still really fun for kids and they aren’t maimed as often. I think this is fine. Even with modern safe playgrounds it is stressful keeping young kids from hurting themselves.
It looks like Packagist has a private commercial offering: https://packagist.com/

And it even looks like the code for Packagist.org is open source, although not meant for self-hosting as there is no docs, support or BC compatibility guarantee: https://github.com/composer/packagist