skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Those statistics compare it to a time when it was absurdly high though

That "absurdly high" time was three decades long, not a one-time blip. Prior to that (i.e in the 1950s) the rate was lower, but going back so long ago the country had a much lower population density.

> Maybe it is all just related to opiates but I've yet to see any significant study there and the numbers on a per-state basis don't seem to align with opiate-related deaths.

It's not surprising that those aren't strongly correlated. You get more overdose deaths in rural areas and more drug-related crime in urban areas, because rural areas have longer emergency response times and worse medical services in general, while the higher density of urban areas increases the propensity for robberies by addicts and territorial disputes between dealers.

> And there would be better studies regarding the nature of these crimes if there weren't corporate lobbying being done to block that research.

Meh. The problem is the entire frame is political.

Suppose you have a wife who kills her husband with a gun, a wife who kills her husband with a kitchen knife, a drug dealer who kills a rival with a gun and a drug dealer who kills a rival with a machete. There are two natural categories of homicide there, but it's domestic disputes and gang violence, not guns and knives.

But the CDC will measure what you ask them to, and what you ask them to measure is begging the question. If you ban red cars and then measure accidents involving red cars, they go down, but only because you're purposely trying to manufacture evidence for banning red cars, and purposely trying to frame things in a way where "ban red cars" is the default solution to motor vehicle fatalities. You can't really blame gun owners for objecting to research that uses that type of framing.

The specific example they used is a good one. Someone had the CDC study whether having a gun in the house net improves safety. The frame is explicitly set up so that if the answer is no, the presumptive solution is to not have a gun in the house. But it's a false dichotomy -- it ignores every other possible solution.

Suppose that it goes the other way if you keep the gun in a gun safe. Then we get a net safety benefit if people have guns in gun safes, so what we really need is more gun safes rather than fewer guns and maybe we should provide subsidies for gun safes.

Or the problem is really teenagers gaining access to firearms without adequate safety training, so we would save lives to add firearms safety training to the public school curriculum.

But the framing determines all of that from the beginning. If the only point of the study is to provide government authority to a predetermined narrative, you're doing politics rather than science.

We would benefit from having the science without the politics, but that isn't what has happened, so without some way to separate the science from the politics that is more effective than what we've used in the past, we can't actually get that. And politically-framed studies are worse than nothing, because they're partisanship masquerading as facts.
This is great! I much prefer coffee from the local shop but my routine always seems to go back to Starbucks/Dunks because it's so much faster and easier to order ahead.
That's amazing and awesome. Pro-tip: do not get caught deliberately lying to judges. It makes them twitchy.

The article was short, but the TL;DR is that Prenda made porn videos, uploaded them to torrent sites, then sued everyone who downloaded them. $6M worth of defendants settled quickly because they didn't want to have "lost lawsuit from porn producer" on their records.

They set up byzantine shell companies to obfuscate that they actually owned the videos, and flat-out lied saying that they represented people other than themselves. When that came out, it also followed that it's not really possible to infringe copyright from someone who is seeding the torrent themselves, as they're literally publishing that content for anyone who asks for it.

I literally LOLed when I saw this headline. It took a while, but wow, the karma hammer hit hard today.
Really appreciate the support!
The performance differences between Apache and nginx are attributable to more than that one design decision.

Besides, Apache is fast enough for most use cases.
Looks like you got the Hug of Death already :(

Cached version: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:g5z4hq...
Just to emphasize what lisper is saying, the core problem is exponential growth, even if we invent FTL spaceships, even if we invent warp drive, the core problem is still exponential growth.

We could turn the Galaxy green† and still not have enough room. We could fill it with Ringworlds, with Dyson Spheres, and still not have enough room.

The core problem is exponential growth.

† https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Millennial_Project:_Coloni...
I want to like Mastodon, but there are no like/retweet counts. I have no idea how to find the good content without sifting through mountains of stuff I don't want to read.
How does this differ from offerings like ToastTab or other modern POS services?
You shouldn't be getting downvoted. Sapiens is pretty mainstream anthropology repackaged in a well written narrative. It's everything that pop intellectualism aspires to be. Sapiens also frames a ton of issues in a way that doesn't assault the STEM ego, so that certainly helped its reception. Most engineers have an atrocious understanding of the humanities, but it's hard to blame them. Most people in the humanities are woefully undereducated in regards to science.

Being steeped in one field it's easy to believe you've got it all figured out. Engineers, of which I am one, are notoriously bad about speaking with confidence from a position of ignorance, but all of us do it.
The ethical issue has to do with medical consent. It terrifies me that so many here on HN think it’s ok to experiment on an unborn human being. “Hey, I just gave you cancer before you were born, but hey, it’s all in the name of science, so it’s all good.”
Erlang's VM runs a scheduler on top of a number of OS threads. If an actor blocks, that actor won't be scheduled to run until the blocking call is finished, but you won't consume a whole OS threads, and other actors will be able to run while waiting for completion.
0-255 (inclusive) are singletons, just to clarify.
I am not sure I understand your criticism here. Your original assertion was "The sentiment was the bombs would cause much less casualties on at least one of the sides", which you quoted a family member. That is fine, but I am confused what you want to know.

If you want to know what people thought, who weren't leaders, then assuredly most people thought the bombs would stop the war, but probably the same way they thought the fire-bombing would stop the war, and all other actions before that like basically wiping out the Japanese fleet. So, your family member's perspective is fine, but it doesn't tell us why the war did actually finally stop. Just what random people thought caused it to end.

If you wanted to know what leaders, who were making decisions about the war and trying to decide what to do, you could see from the Historian's report that many Japanese leaders were in conflict over whether to surrender and how to surrender before the bombs dropped, after the bombs, and after the Russian invasion. Even after the Emperor agreed to surrender there were still factions vying to prevent such a surrender for different reasons.

On r/AskHistorians, sources are not required to be given when composing a post, however they must be given upon request. If you are really interested in the sources and not my blase summary, I recommend just pinging the Historian directly for the kinds of sources you are interested in. Even if their post wasn't to your liking, they surely know where to find the sources you would want given their expertise.

For that matter, you could even open a question on r/AskHistorians itself!
Confirmed - at this point if it's not on Ritual (coffee, food, etc) I'm likely not getting it.
It isn't stereotyping, it is identity-politics.
Genuinely curious — what happens when Spreedly or TokenX are down, though?
Because on the internet it can be difficult to tell the difference between someone asking the question as some kind of "gotcha!" and between someone asking a legitimate question.

I tend to be a fairly sarcastic person so when I want to make sure it's unambiguous that I'm not, I prefix my questions.
FROM 16:36 - 17:02 STRIPE'S system saw elevated error rates and response tims with the API. THEY HAVE NOW RECOVERED And are continuing to monitor as per their tweets on twitter
Here is a series of videos that Yuval Harari (author) did that is enjoyable to watch

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfc2WtGuVPdmhYaQjd449...
Host reboots
Yeah... maybe "light" wasn't quite the right term to use here ;) I would hope that it could be somehow secured to the pavement underneath, but since this is Twitter-level content, there's not much for detail.
> That technique / hack is not necessary if you move data structures longer have to do elaborate work around to avoid copying temporaries.

AFAIK Eigen uses these scary template things to save RAM bandwidth.

When you write x=a+b+c for large vectors, lazy evaluation will produce code that sequentially loads a, b, c, computes the sum in a register, stores to x.

If you’ll use move semantics and temporary variables, the code will be compiled into auto tmp = a+b; x=tmp+c; This code computes the complete tmp variable, stores in RAM, then load again. For simple things like sum or component-wise multiplication of long vectors, RAM is way slower than ALUs.
Cool. This is very similar to Ritual, but they do restaurants as well.
The return of software vulnerabilities in the Brazilian voting machine
From the second item on their FAQ (https://projectvesta.org/frequently-asked-questions/):
> The Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) of the release of CO2 from mining, milling, and transport of olivine creates an approximately 4-6% loss on CO2 removed.

I'd still like to see the LCA.
Seems useful, but I would advise to make clear what is the period of the plans.

Is the $20 monthly yearly, one time?
Upvoted and agree with most of what you wrote.

But nitpicking:

> It optimizes for solutions that reproduce well (relative to competitors) in the short term.

That's only true up to a point. Natural selection works on ecosystems too, and ecosystems that are highly unstable and prone to self-destruct (which we might expect is highly correlated with short-term optimization) will eventually be selected out. So, sustainability is literally the only thing that can win in the end, if it can survive the instability of short-term optimizations.
> If they want to collect new info, they just add it to the all encompassing policy for “everything Google”

Well the policy is not a binary blob. Google does more than most services by providing a full archive of their policies, as well as a clear-cut comparison of each.

https://policies.google.com/privacy/archive

FWIW, their most recent comparison is nearly all clarifications, with only one completely new addition.
1. If the company has recordings, governments can hoover them up. And once one govt agency has them, sometimes other agencies get access.

2. Sounds like you're okay with Google using your private communication to enhance its products. So they can target you with ads based on your conversations with your spouse, children, or colleagues.

3. I just hope the algorithms understand context:

Your spouse: son, put down the gun and come to dinner. [jokingly] Oh no, don't shoot! Argh you killed me, now eat your peas.

You: we're going to kill it this quarter. They'll never know what hit them.

TV in background: "kept their body chained in a basement. That and more at 11"

Siri: O__o
If you fly from the US to Austrailia just once a year you erase all of your progress, but not every single individual flies that distance...
It's fashionable to dismiss Standardized Testing, but it can do Good
> We should celebrate this, not mock it.

I don't know what dystopian world you want to live in, but any time I see a company profit off sheer hypocrisy, I am going to call it out and mock it. They can have freedom all they want, but this article is generating clicks and revenues for Parent Corp, so they deserve the scrutiny. This isn't some public service they are providing.
When the morals of a company with a supposed high value of prestige becomes bankrupt (morally), when does the prestige of working there diminish? Ever?
Perhaps key personnel off on summer holidays?
You're right, there definitely isn't a need to stick to coffee - but the more we speak to owners, the more we realize how many coffee-specific features we could build to help them. We believe there's a big business supporting coffee specifically, but we'll never rule out expanding into other verticals.
That's exactly the sort of thing the GDPR is meant to address, actually. They shouldn't be able to force opt-in of a policy to access a service that doesn't itself need that information.
If you consider your cellphone to be a legitimate gaming platform, you are not the type of gamer who Nintendo is trying to sell this device to.

Also, it's mainly the social aspects of Nintendo games that get me to buy the consoles and games.
I mean, it does though. The atmosphere is a 3D volume. Parameters that you might be interested in solving for, like advection and convection, are 3D processes. Consequently, you will need a 3D grid to solve the PDEs describing these parameters.

EDIT: Ah, I see what you're saying. Yeah, I believe we fundamentally agree and our posts describe the same reasoning in two different ways.
This just says that since nobody uses it they might delete it, but it doesn't explain why nobody uses it. Presumably because it doesn't work well or is hard to use, but which, and how?
The End of History and the Last Man (1992)
I wasn't familiar with rental e-scooters before my latest visit to Ann Arbor, but now I am, because people leave them in the middle of the sidewalk. Fuck you if you're handicapped, I guess.
For other mitigations to climate change, see Project Drawdown: https://www.drawdown.org/
Unless you happen to have two of the same car in ICE and electric you're going to need to do some math to account for different brake pad volume and vehicle weight. There's a pretty substantial number of variables that would go into it. I assume you're using the same product line for all your pads.
Single class Javaparser for semantic versioning with correct precedence ordering
> On ARM we’d also run into alignment issues...

Just don't use ARMv5 or older. ARMv6+ supports unaligned access.
In my experience as both a student and a workplace educator (informal learning only, ex: "I can't figure out how to do a fuzzy match in excel, can you help me?"), I think you've got the emphasis wrong.

Educators know that not everyone needs a teacher, and most people don't need a teacher all of the time. The trick with high quality educators is two-fold, creating motivation for students to want to learn and stepping in to guide a student one on one when a student gets stuck.

While I haven't needed a teacher 50% of the time, I get stuck when learning. I then need a new perspective, or a new mental model, to get me thinking differently. This happens less and less as I get older, and find ways to replace a teacher with other stimuli.

A child isn't an adult. They need and want to have their hand held at certain times.

There isn't a substitute for a social interaction that goes beyond "did student 9471827 learn topic 14536?". Humans need to go over things multiple times to remember how to do it. Sometimes there's new learning. Maybe they think they know how to do it, but it doesn't feel right, and they need a partner or authority figure to say "yes, that's a good way to solve this problem or frame a perspective".

So to come all the way back around, I think most people know that we don't need a tradition teacher student interaction to learn, but we do want it at times, and the interaction definitely speeds up learning.

I'd argue even more anecdotally that a human will not trust a robot teacher unless they've had a good human teacher, and that the robot teacher resembles some characteristic of that teacher.

I realize that all of this is my opinion, but I hope it was interesting to you as a potential answer for the previous comment! Have a good one today
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Somehow I missed the part about them making their own videos until now. Which makes it that much more ridiculous.
Good question - we're actually focused on partnering with company's like Toast, Square, etc. Software like that is more robust than a single feature like order-ahead, they run the entire operation (point of sale, inventory, employee management, etc.). By partnering with them, we make it easier for shops to accept Cloosiv without needing additional hardware or software.
On the other hand, shouldn't management/leadership of journalism firms be held just as accountable for their actions as others?

I think we're too quick to give a pass to business/leadership people for unethical behavior we rationalize to be good for business -- in education, journalism and anywhere else.
Project Drawdown – 100 mitigations for climate change
Yeah,I literally use a blow torch for this.
Motherboard won't power down completely until display port is unplugged
Do you have any payment processors to suggest who don't take cuts that high?
TRIM is supported by USB mass storage devices since those are _also_ SCSI. It is the bridges that may not support it, and the same is true for USB-attached SCSI.

For USB-attached SCSI, what makes a difference in performance is support for USB 3.0 streams, which allow multiple transfers to occur concurrently (https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/driver-api/usb/bulk-s...).
Tired of EDI vs. API pseudo articles? EDI API is real
For years, the only legal copies of Married... with Children had the theme song (Sinatra's Love and Marriage) replaced with a soundalike. Luckily, between 2013 and 2015, Mill Creek Entertainment obtained the rights to rerelease the show on DVD and were able to restore the original music.

WKRP in Cincinnati got hit hard though. Still not sure if it's even possible to watch in it's original form, unless you find some old VHS captures from it's early syndication days.
It's a definition thing. In my opinion it's still a plug even if it's relevant (and that's how some other people seem to read the word too here). So just come right out with it instead of doing the "hey not to plug my website but let me just plug my website" thing
I'm all for Geo-engineering if it is done in the right way to further benefit all of society and the planet. Sadly as humans we have never all come together for the benefit of the planet yet, and I am doubtful we will in the near future.

My fear is that once people figure out how to Geo-engineer things with fine tuned results that it will eventually be used as a weapon.

Imagine if you could turn up the temperature of an area to create a drought?

Or flood/freeze out an area?

This could be done covertly as it would be hard to identify the exact cause if done under the 'radar'.

No bomb shells or traces left behind to place blame.

I'll pass on homo-sapiens ego presuming they are smarter than the planet and can fix any problem using technology and our brains.

Maybe for the first time in History we may be smart enough to mitigate the potential ill effects of the climate cycle, however this planet was here long before humans and will probably be here long after.

There was a joke once, about human's being the planets Herpes, which seems to be a good metaphor for our existence on this rock.
Figuring out whether it's 25% or 50% may require that.

Figuring out whether it's sub 1% or >= 2% probably doesn't.
With C++ even if your project follows this, there is no way to enforce this across your project's dependencies & wider eco-system.

With Rust, its entire ecosystem (however nascent) is subjected to the same strict rules. This is big plus when Rust eco-system matures functionality wise.
I think I get the worry and skepticism about geo-engineering but to be completely frank we've been (inadvertently) geo-engineering the planet at least since the industrial revolution, so I don't really think we have much of a choice, especially since we need to go carbon negative, not just neutral.

This olivine solution doesn't really look any less viable than CO2 scrubbers, if I'm being honest.
> if Stripe is dead, return fake success

Just a thought, might want to make sure that cannot be exploited by blocking the Stripe API when someone logs into your app?
The crash itself isn’t as important there, as being in the crash — the feel of the crushing steel, on your burning flesh
In the end what he's telling is half fact half myth, in that he's making a narrative to justify things which though convincing may not be entirely true or the entire truth. So as with all history to be taken with a grain of salt. But yes it was a very good narrative and I have read other books by him that are as captivating such as Homo Deus.
Outside of tech circles, no one is going to make an effort to even try other search engines

People used to say this about Altavista and Dogpile and Lycos before Google. Change is possible, but it's slow and hard.

Google is also the best at searches.

I disagree with you on this one. It used to be the best tool for searching. Now it's hit-and-miss. I've found about 70% of the time DDG works, and I only use Google when DDG turns up nothing useful.

Along those lines, other search engines don't have to be better at search than Google. They just have to be "good enough" at search. Then the competing search engine has to being in some killer feature so that the average person loses allegiance to Google and makes the switch full-time.

That killer feature probably won't be privacy, though. That's too abstract a notion for the masses.
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> Newspapers like NYT are one of the few institutions where workers enjoy a level of freedom from management in doing their work.

Eh, not really. They recently shuttered their daily political cartoon section, mainly due to a submission they published that was labelled as anti-Semitic.
London School of Economics: Journalism in the Age of Populism and Polarisation [pdf]
There's a tipping point with frequency. After doing hard exercise on an almost daily basis for months you start to feel like crap when you miss a couple days.
No draft online ?
Thanks for sharing, this is a sentiment shared by a lot of people. We used to do events at some of our early shops, and I lost count of how many customers said this to the owners of the shop, it really helps when they hear this from people they could sell more coffee to.
You would have the same sort of downtime as Stripe today.

But the tokenization wasn't failing for us in today's Stripe downtime -- just the API requests.
In my experience on services with billions of users - no one knows the whole thing. There are potentially thousands of hops in a roundtrip of a given system from the user to some source of truth and back. The larger companies grow, the more complex these systems get, the higher the load, the more likely we are to see a break. Systems break constantly, recover constantly, and very rarely does the user see it. So perhaps another way to reform this question is - why are the users seeing it now?
Cloudera goes open source (AGPL)