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> Why guns are the hot-button issue and heart disease isn’t plastered over the media 24/7?

Heart disease does get public attention -- check your breakfast cereal, as a banal example: odds are it touts its "heart healthiness" -- and gun control isn't 24/7 either.

But there are a few components to consider. One is that gun deaths are traumatic beyond the impact of just the death. The murder of someone you love, where another human being willfully ended their life, is a whole different thing to process psychologically than their death after an illness or even in an accident. Can we reduce those ripples of harm by preventing these murders?

That "willful" bit is important too: a gun enables a person to kill a bunch of other people. Should our society make that enabling easy? Heart disease isn't perpetrated by one person on another. And, yes, you can kill a lot of people at once with a car, too. But a gun's entire purpose is killing; aside from that and sport shooting it's useless. A car is actually better for just visiting grandma or picking up groceries than being a murder weapon.

And the most important point is to rebut the relative privation that you've presented: of course the other causes of death are a problem. That doesn't preclude dealing with this one. Gun control advocates believe that there are obvious, straightforward measures that we're not taking advantage of that can reduce gun violence. Are there such measures for the flu?
Super impressive and don't miss his youtube. The first video I saw he's setting up his circa 1996 scanning electron microscope, which he bought from eBay. I thought my optical CMM was cool but now I'm envious. Time to do some dumpster diving in Shenzhen. https://youtu.be/RJXio_jpc_Y
> as an idiomatic shorthand

Suppose a fantasy language has an ergonomic syntax to check existence. It returns a boolean. Additionally, implicit conversions to boolean for objects in the language is randomized for each runtime.

Isn't such a weirdo language still preferable to implicit conversions, even when compared to a language where "null" and "false" are the only falsey values? Because even in those languages the new user must internalize the simple rule and learn from context how it works and why it can be used with impunity. Whereas with my weirdo language the syntax explicitly conveys to all classes of user what is happening in the code.

Furthermore, I'd bet that even in your preferred languages there are less readable idioms that ninjas can leverage in the implicit conversions. In my weirdo language the randomized conversions would thwart the ninjas and keep the entire class of users free from their unreadable tyranny.
> In base 8 (if we'd had 8 fingers)

Seven fingers.

Base 11 is the natural base for a ten fingered person: Base 11 has a distinct symbol for ten, base 10 does not.

[A prime base has quite a few practical disadvantages... and their advantages are fairly esoteric...]
> He started to put the word “race” in scare quotes, calling it a “dangerous fiction. [..] Boas and his circle confronted a bigotry that was scientifically endorsed at the time, and they dismantled it by showing it wasn’t scientific at all; today’s nativists and racists generally don’t even pretend to a scientific respectability”

Apply principal component analysis to human DNA, and race pops out [1,2,3]. It seems odd the article wouldn't mention this well-known fact.

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Principal_compon...

[2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Individual-level_hum...

[3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:3D_PCA_plot_of_Xavan...
No, aerodynamics prevent that from being possible. But maybe you’re conflating with hypersonic cruise missiles, which are also being worked on but somewhat orthogonal?

In any case, the point of the nuclear cruise missile is that it can be essentially a drone stealth nuclear-armed bomber flying just outside of the other country’s airspace 24/7/365. Or a fleet of such drone missiles.
Sure, if you assume the only purpose of fingers is for counting.
samsonradu asks> "Can you please elaborate on why guns are so sacred in the US? Is it for cultural/historical reasons?"

FWIW use of the term "sacred" is somewhat iffy as many an atheist has picked up a gun to defend himself.

America was taken over and settled by Europeans who brought firearms for hunting and protection. There were already 20-100 million indigenous American Indians here: they covered the land. But the Europeans brought diseases that few American Indians had resistance to, and most (up to 90%) of the American Indians died of disease before they had so much as _seen_ a white man. Indian societies collapsed and re-coalesced from the fragments. Meanwhile...

https://www.cracked.com/article_19864_6-ridiculous-lies-you-...

Newly-arrived Europeans advanced into a "wilderness" that held the burnt-out remnants of multiple civilizations. Only the very earliest arrivals saw the destruction their diseases had wrought in front of their advance.

With the Europeans came ideas of real estate (ownership rights to land etc.) which the American Indian tribes previously maintained by allegiances and territorial behavior. Anyway, conflicts ensued, new allegiances formed, broke and reformed. This all involved conflicts, fighting and wars. In every step, guns were used by both sides (e.g., American-Indian Wars, Revolutionary War, Civil War).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_campaigns

Early settlers were often on their own. They often had disputes and unpleasant encounters with their own and others. The gun could be used for protection as well as an important food-gathering tool. Although the American Indians could do so easily, living in the wilderness without a firearm was difficult and rare for someone of European descent.

So the use of firearms goes back to the pre-colonial and colonial periods. Guns were always available in the New World and remain available today.
Original thread
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20659191
Question: how do prisons handle fires under these regulations?
Having a medical condition which causes bone density and arthritic issues, I’m certain my body will diminish far quicker than my brain will. Hiring a typist is the same conclusion I’ve come to as well, and ultimately it would inevitably become a pair programming session.
I'm not personally offended, I'm just making a definitive point that obviously there might be some other ideas that might work.

I appreciate your sympathies. Life sucks sometimes.
This was originally developed in the 1950's, and the successful development of SLBMs rendered it irrelevant, since as a cruise missile it would have been much easier to intercept than a ballistic warhead, as well as much slower to reach a target, and submarine launch also provided first strike immunity.

And this is what happens when your nuclear thermal propulsion system goes prompt critical on the ground. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_thermal_rocket#/media/... This was a nominal 1100MW design, the Pluto reactor was about half this output. It's insane that the Russians are testing this thing over their own territory.
Thank you for this sanity - I can’t believe people this this kid acquired all this stuff on his own.
It's not just an assemblyism, the near equivalence between 0 and false, and 1 and true is the thing that Boole wrote about for which Boolean values are named. I would argue that it's a math thing, not an assembly thing.
The author is Naomi Saphra. Probably not a "he". :)
The Trump administration actually did this with bump stocks with an administrative determination that bump stocks constitute an automatic weapon. Granted, it wasn't millions, but probably at least tens of thousands of people had a few weeks notice to destroy their bump stocks or be in felony possession of an automatic weapon. At the federal level, this is already more gun control than the Obama administration implemented.
Not the same especially with grip style but you can go a long way by strengthening your back. I'm talking of horizontal and vertical pulls (heavy rows, pullups, lat pulldowns, deadlifts to an extent).

In my unscientific observation, a lot of people have very weak posterior chains. My wrist pain has always (so far) been the result of a knot in my upper back or a weakness there.

Don't forget to foam roll, stretch and perhaps add in some periodic deep tissue massage to keep things from getting too tight cos that also brings problems
Kubernetes is still quite exotic for 99% of businesses.
I getting it from Jo Beda, the CTO of heptio (now VMWARE). More specifically , from his definition of cloud native.

A cloud native system is a system that manage its resources via an API. The vendor locking in this case is the cloud API. I.e. if I want a resource (e.g. a VM) , I need to use the EC2 api.

With kubernetes, I write to the kuberentes API which is open source, cloud vendor natural.

However, and this the key to my comments - kubernetes is the platform of platforms. It is an API platform and not just an API.

In the future (some would say near future), all of the cloud services will be offered as kubernetes APIs (via a set of domain specific CRD). I am currently working on the AI platform.

As for the big machines comments. I absolutely agree. However, I would like to ignore the actual hardware (banning some sort of HA that would require at least 2 machines).
They can be designed to emit no radiation, except somewhat trivial activation of intake air
The linked article says its unclear if he was actually on suicide watch: "There are reports that Epstein was placed on suicide watch following [his earlier suicide attempt], although this has not been confirmed by officials"
> Most people have some degree of accountability in their job. I think HN mods are an exception.

I might have thought that too before working with a community this large, but the degree to which we're accountable is much more intense than anything I've experienced in a job before. When every misstep is met with instant outrage and hard pushback, you learn to adapt to feedback quickly.

People think we control HN, and to some extent we do, but we are controlled by HN to an even greater extent. This is maybe the most important thing for understanding how HN works. HN consists of a big system (the community) and a little system (the moderators) and the two interact via reciprocal feedback.

There's a third system too (the software), but I left it out for simplicity.
It depends on what you mean. Typically you cannot get away from HF for the etching process but you definitely can replace the whole process with plasma etch/dep. Full plasma etch/dep fab line isn't really scalable and doesn't create optimal uniformity or layer thickness. But for a project like this, it's definitely doable minus the cost prohibitive equipment.
Well, the room had a window but as part of the decoration it was blocked off with plywood.
Its more efficient overall to use the available roads. As an LA native, taking the surface streets is a way of life.
It sounds like trump was involved in at least one instance. I don’t think any lawyer would advise against flipping on that turd sandwich while Moscow mitch is running the senate.
My resolution has been to use a trackball. Literally resolved all my issues.

Switched to a mouse for a while, 2 months in RSI came back. Trackball it is.
He raped children and was friends with many high profile people, including Donald Trump who is presently directly accused of raping children that Epstein trafficked for him.

Epstein was murdered / illegally allowed to commit suicide this morning inside the building linked above, so many of the people implicated in the child rape ring that he led may go free.

It's a major news story in the world today.

Citations: https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-unsealed-docum...

edit lol hn REALLY doesn't want this comment visible. I will not stop okay? Someone asked a question and they will get an answer. Ya'll can keep deleting my post and I'll keep posting it.

I posted this like 10 times and every time within like 5 seconds it is deleted. FUCK YOU SHITS for this. Who fucking does this? Why are you protecting the president from the direct facts that this man led children to him for raping?

This has been flagged and I've been banned and everything. Fuck ya'll so much for your constant removal of useful information.

You censor the SHIT out of this site

Who the fuck thinks any of this matters if you honestly can't explain the context that this man raped children and provided them to the President?!

Why the fuck does anything matter any more?

Fuck all yall who want to hide the president's child-raping lifestyle from people who ARE ASKING ABOUT IT.

Fuck yall sick motherfuckers.
Model 3 video on cooling the pack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU-u-tUjsXo
ECC DRAM support is physically present in the chip, and will work if the motherboard supports it, but it's _up_ to the motherboard to support it.

Some Ryzen motherboards are marketed explicitly as having ECC DRAM support (e.g., ASRock Rack X470D4U, ASUS Pro WS X570-ACE).

Other Ryzen motherboards have ECC DRAM support, but they don't advertise it as a feature for one reason or another (most of ASRock's motherboard lineup, many mid-range ASUS motherboards, possibly others).

Still others completely lack ECC support (many low-end boards, as well as high-end gaming-focused boards).

> what does enabled but not validated mean?

Basically, it means that it's optional. As described above, ECC can work or not work depending on which specific motherboard you get, and it's up to the system integrator to choose a motherboard compatible with ECC if that's a desired feature.

That's as opposed to "validated" ECC support in, say, AMD's Threadripper platform. In that case, if a company builds and markets a motherboard as compatible with Threadripper, and it lacks ECC support, they can expect to receive a nasty letter from AMD's legal team.
So a company that has gone private isn't owned by another entity? There are no external stakeholders?
I suppose that's true, potentially they could release a new firmware or OS that would enable this in the future.
"Epstein will be 'suicided' in prison before he talks" went from "conspiracy theory" to fact in a matter of weeks. When a certain mindset or perspective is able to see that clearly around the bend, it's time to start considering that it has some real explanatory power.

Although this feels less like a conspiracy than an open demonstration of power. "Yes, we run everything and we're completely above the law to the point we don't even need to hide it anymore. What are you gonna do about it?"
Thanks for sharing, this is great.
3 hours ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20661919
Maybe they can’t build a profile via ad tracking, because ad tracking isn’t as invasive/doesn’t collect data which can be tied back to a specific name.
Discussion from the front page right now, literally 3 hours ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20661919
In the UK at least the housing market is completely and utterly broken.

Nothing else is an issue at all. Everything else is essentially trivially cheap (excepting cases of disability).

A year's worth of food costs about as much as 1 month's rent on a small flat in London. (Many people increase their food expenditure, but the basics are doable for that).

Even in the northern towns 100K for a house is fairly standard. That's a ridiculous amount of money - a home does not take 5 man-years to produce any more.

The only thing anyone works for is rent, indirect rent (e.g. paying 5 quid a pint because of the pub's rent and the pub workers' rent and so on), their mortgage, whatever.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20661919
> I'll accept a solution that takes 30 years over nothing.

Guns last a lot longer than 30 years. 80-120 years sounds more like it. They are not going away anytime soon even if you do ban them (which wont happen).
Read. Network. Speak. Lead
Note: the 9th layer of hell intersection point is -40.
From the post:

> I went away to the UK. I brought my medical records from America, but my British neurologist did not read my records or perform examinations. [...] My GP read the note and informed me: He would not prescribe me painkillers. He would not send me for a second opinion from a neurologist, or treatment from any other specialist.

"Bad faith" is a vague term. Is not reading medical records evidence of bad faith? I don't know. But I'd sure feel dismissed if a doctor who hadn't read my records concluded without examination that the root cause of my problem was psychological and my GP refused to allow me to seek a second opinion.

I think you may be confusing the American diagnoses (which were of the "we don't know the underlying cause" variety - fibromyalgia, idiopathic neuropathy) with the UK diagnoses (which I'd paraphrase as "you don't have a non-psychological problem and we won't allow a second opinion").
The mythical Dune board game, once lost to licensing hell, is coming back
Maxwell, now owned by Tesla. I think Tesla will become a big player in the battery tech space
Huge fan of this -- will definitely replace my Tesla for this car!
Ask HN: Why are certain wikipedia pages 404s?
For example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brittany_Kaiser seems like it's purposely left blank. Is this like a feature that wikipedia offers to leave your name out?
Thanks for posting this. The article, and your post, also resonated with me.

I have small fiber neuropathy in my arms and legs, which causes constant pain and a feeling of weakness. I've had this for a few years now, and I'm very aware that it's only got worse over that period, and that I may later get damage to the larger nerves used for motor control.

Like you say, the pain and fear that coding (which is my livelihood and passion) may become impossible is quite terrifying, and a constant, nagging presence in the back of my mind.

I haven't tried any dictation software since the days of Dragan Dictate, possibly 1-2 decades ago, but I'd like to hope it's come in since then. It sounds like you really persisted with it, and I have a few questions about your experience if you don't mind:

1. Was the pace much slower, and did you get frustrated with it? A mouse and keyboard allows me to operate closer to the "speed of thought" than I would guess dictation software would

2. What do you say to move the cursor around, or switch between open files?

3. I'd guess there's a big difference between dictating a document and coding or working on the command line, as you're not always inputting "real" words. How well did dictation work in that regard?

4. Are any IDEs particular dictation-friendly?
In your reading, guns used to be able to preserve liberty, but now they're irrelevant because the state security forces can just brutally crush any resistance with their superior firepower? That's not good rhetoric, and it's not even true! Just look at the success all those tanks and airplanes and trillions of dollars had in Afghanistan, for example. I also disagree with the finer points of "guns means freedom", but I don't think yours is a valid argument.
I have a very similar issue. I tried to use Vocola and it worked for a while but then i kept straining my voice. I recently had to quit school because I've strained my voice and hands too many times to count. But its not just my hands anymore. Anything that involves any amount of real effort for more than a few minutes usually ends up injuring a muscle group.

Has anyone successfully come back from something like this? Life is getting pretty bleak.
> I personally don't find these shortcuts to be worthwhile

They are, because they are the difference between driving with the parking brake on or not. Other languages don't have this so that's why people might not see the value in it first.

> Writing `if x != 0` is not a large burden

If you're comparing what can only be an int value, then it's not a burden.

When your variable can assume multiple values, explicitly comparing it with multiple possibilities is a burden:

Examples:

- Your variable is optional and/or is a sequence that might be empty

- You're using .get() in a dictionary

One of the signs someone is unfamiliar with Python is doing multiple comparisons when only `if x:` would suffice
Lessons learned from idea to bootstrapped hardware product (2017)
This can be done with a special type representing "trusted" data. For example, Go has template.HTML representing data that's safe to render without escaping. Everything else gets escaped.
Black holes spin almost at the speed of light
None of this is how this stuff works.

>Huge amounts of cheap debt allow companies to buy lots of stock, driving up prices.

Companies don't use debt to buy stock. Taking on the debt to do that would depress the stock price the same amount that the buying would attempt to appreciate it.

>All of this causes massive asset price inflation.

This would be reflected in the CPI.

>Stock prices are detached from actual revenue

No they aren't. See UBER/LYFT/AAPL.

>so the FED gets to claim "there is no inflation"

The Fed does not claim that. They claim inflation is nominal near their intended target.

Finally, stop saying FED. It's not an acronym.
That is the old model S being discussed there. The “Raven” P100D has an updated battery pack and motor.
Take the time and watch the talk linked in the article, it’s pretty darn impressive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz3JeYfBTcY
oK is an implementation of K6 in Javascript. No views, but you can play with it in your browser and the documentation is pretty good.

http://johnearnest.github.io/ok/index.html

https://github.com/JohnEarnest/ok/blob/gh-pages/docs/Manual....

https://github.com/JohnEarnest/ok/blob/gh-pages/docs/Program...
Does it really matter when 80% of these will be stuck in bumper to bumper traffic on 280 near Sand Hill Road?
Ah I see, by "remove" you mean remove at an industry-wide level, eg through regulation. Sure that's a classic solution to Prisoner's Dilemmas
I would have thought that the most Tesla owners care about is how far they can project their image of wealth and sofistication

Unless you're getting the high end variants of the S and 3, it's not really projecting wealth and sophistication, but rather the opposite. I bought a Model 3 because it just makes more sense financially than say getting a BMW 3 series.
Big Tech’s Harvest of Sorrow
Disappointing, and 30-90? Nah. Even my RWD non-performance Model 3 with only 250hp or thereabouts 'feels' faster than my 300HP Golf R did from, say, 70-100mph. I admit, it absolutely feels relatively "out of breath", so to speak, above 95mph, but that's nothing HP can't solve.

I'm not saying there's no need, ever for a multi-speed transmission in an EV, but for 99% of the vehicles, it's likely pointless.
https://i.redd.it/lhg8owl4pkz21.jpg
The template mentioned in the delete note references this section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_...

Seems like the original author requested the page to be deleted.
Ehh, this is just factually wrong and discounts the histories of Europe and e.g. Africa in such a grand way that it's hard to even know where to start. If you wanted to restrict your claim to something like "nations have memetic characteristics that often follow from genetic lineage that don't make membership in that nation strictly genetic" then I'd be inclined to agree. But back to the point, sup-replacement levels of natural population growth is a recent phenomenon and it's hard to say what comes next - since we don't have any perfectly analogous historical parallels.
Exact same what? Teslas batteries are Panasonic, not LG.
Prison reform issues always make me feel so contrasted. On one hand, a lot of the people held there did awful things. The article mentions El Chapo, mobsters, drug dealers, etc. as some of the people held there. It's extremely hard to feel any sort of sympathy for those people. They've done extreme amounts of damage to communities and have done far worse to other people.

But on the other hand, no one should be sexually assaulted and beaten to death.
Maybe start here?

http://energystorage.org/membership/members