skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
one of those legitimate needs is self defense. Which pretty much includes everyone that wants a gun for self defense and they absolutely need to match the firepower that they may come up against so they have a legitimate need for high capacity magazines and semi-automatic weapons.

Don't get me wrong I am not against regulations, but I will say I am leary of them given the absolute ignorance of the people that want to implement them.

Here are some common sense regulations that I think would be effective.

Handguns should be the most restrictive class, they are the most deadly and kill far more people that the emotionally manipulative narrative of AR mass killings. I believe everyone with even a misdemeanor should have to prove some form of reform before they can gain ownership of a handgun.

I believe the age to purchase a gun should be raised to 25. You don't see many people over 25 committing mass shootings or participating in gang violence.

I believe felons caught with a firearm should get an mandatory minimum of 20 years. They know they are not supposed to have them, they are up to bad intent just given the fact that they have one and they are the most likely to use them.

I believe if you buy a gun and provide it to another person that is not eligible to have it, you should be charged with all crimes that person commits.

I believe the instant background check should be available via a web page, where you enter your serial number and once validated that it is a valid ATF gun, you enter the purchaser info and it give you a yes or no on transfer. I believe if this is available and you transfer a gun to a person that is not eligible, that you are liable for their crimes.

I believe that a medical professional or a consensus of family members should be able to suspend your right to bear arms for a set and predetermined amount of time. If they petition a court (not the local PD). I believe that the accused should have the right to a medical tribunal to challenge said suspension.

Finally I think we should repeal the ban on automatic weapons after instating the above mentioned regulations. It's a stupid law and short of nearly point blank shooting that the mob did in the 1930's a full auto weapon is sub par to a semi-auto. I thing a removal of this ban would show that the powers that be are not out to grab the guns. Which is a valid concern given Beto's recent comments on the subject.
What I would like to see in a study is the effect of meditation practice. Are meditators living longer, accomplishing more, being happier?

I have seen many long term meditators and been one for 20 years and am not convinced they are more fit for life. Instead of developing their lives and careers they developed their practice and missed out on opportunities. Most of them are alone at 45-50 y.o. with a lousy job, living frugally. What was the benefit?

If meditation was such an advantage then societies where this is a traditional practice should be more developed and happier, but this doesn't strike me as being true. Being too detached and contemplative can have downsides. Is hacking your brain to feel ecstatic useful for life, or just a shortcut to rewards, like drugs?
USB Shield. To ground or not to ground?
I just had my Tesla
Model 3 serviced. A rear window needed replacing due to a rock chip. Mobile service came out, two bolts to remove the door panel, two for the glass. He was done in 20min. Whatever they’re designing for, it was obvious that Tesla is 1000x better than GM when it comes to rear windows. I recently replaced the rear window regulators on a GM Pickup. What a nightmare compared to the Tesla. They might suck short term, but their designs for trivial things like windows are amazing.
it's nice to see someone who shares my opinion that there is intense complexity that lies underneath the surface of what appears to be superficially simple. it seems to be a pretty rare opinion to spot in others, as a lot of people seem to see simple and complex things as diametrically opposed rather than seeing a more hierarchical relationship between the two. you can easily simplify any complex interaction or concept, but that doesn't make the level of detail that goes into it any less vivid, it only hides it for the sake of communication.
Serious game developers often do not use STL as a matter of habit and principle.

That goes for most of your points about standard libraries. If you are developing code that you expect (or hope) to run on Windows, Linux, Nintendo consoles, phones, PS4's and Xboxes and expect to know the real performance cost of operations, you will be writing all of your own standard libraries anyway. It is very much a problem of "...the complexity of non-standardized often-inconsistent idiosyncratic platforms and libraries for achieving the same things."

> Complexity of implementation is not complexity of use.

And that's where the language complexity comes into play. Game developers who are bootstrapping need to implement and use these pieces. If you are simplifying your life with C++ features, you must know the ins-and-outs and you cannot rely on new language features because you don't have a choice of compiler in most cases.

> I find looking up language features, and quirky 'clever' api's incredibly tiring. The ideal language would be one I can memorize, and then never have to look things up.

This is a fair ask and is definitely more accurate of C than C++. What you might write is longer, more tedious code, but that is its own trade-off.
Ask HN: Do any companies not do coding challenges?
Coding challenges are a useless metric IMO. They also waste time. I waste time failing them or passing them only to take a tour and see it's a sweatshop or bad cultural fit or get lowballed.

Any companies out there that bypass all this nonsense?
You can write in powershell or c# to write own cmdltets. C# is more preferred way it seems.
Seems to me the thrust of the actual paper is:

> To demonstrate quantum supremacy, we compare our quantum processor against state-of-the-art classical computers in the task of sampling the output of a pseudo-random quantum circuit

So it's better at being itself than a classical computer simulating itself. I suppose this is _something_, but there's no demonstrable business value to doing that.
Actually the rate was capped until the supreme ruled otherwise https://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/marquette-inter...

Traditionally there were hard ceilings on acceptable interest rates in most circumstances.

After the Supreme Court ruling however this was no longer the case as companies could setup shop in a friendly state that had high interest rate ceilings. This is the reason so many lending outfits are based in South Dakota (on paper at least) as they were the first state that took advantage of this.

Now when FICO became a thing in 1989 it’s one expressive goal was to maximize this opportunity to give lenders an optimal (e.g highest) rates they could charge customers for their loans. It doesn’t help the consumer at all in this regard.
How do you define "worth"? As far as compensation goes, working with the legacy systems that nobody else wants to touch is a great way to rake in money. There are plenty of Java shops that aren't reminiscent of Dilbert's office.

If you value working with cutting edge technology there are new and interesting Java platforms, but you would undoubtedly be better off learning something more modern.
That's cool. If I'd gotten that money at 22, the world would have a reddit-like that weighted the clout points that you could give to someone else's post inversely to how similar you were to the other poster (based on the style and content of your previous posts), thereby helping to alleviate the echo chamber effect found on other discussion forums. Not that I could have actually gotten it off the ground even with funding.

I think the point is less that every recipient will have good ideas than it is that you're increasing the chances of idea + execution + funding falling into place once or twice for transformative initiatives.
Click “web” at the top?
Ehm why is this newsworthy? It was repeatedly shown to be nothing..
Only 62% of 18 year olds have a drivers license[1]. That's not nearly enough to rely on it as a national ID.

[1] https://www.statista.com/chart/18682/percentage-of-the-us-po...
Kudos. An amazing app! Nice job.
>According to the scientific picture of the world, absences do not seem to be fundamental building blocks of either the concrete (physical) world or of the abstract (mathematical) realm.

Sorry for nitpicking again, but aren’t holes in concrete, along tear-tension lines and in pipes there for exactly physical reasons?
Software engineering is hard and easy
Better emotional regulation may be a clear positive, but it’s not without it’s isolated effects. I, for one, found it more difficult casually socialize due to my calmer demeanour and non-engagement in risky behaviours like late nighters or excessive drinking. I’m not just saying that being “too responsible” can affect your social life, but it can also affect your ability to connect with “common folks” due to your (perceived?) existence on another plane of being.
If folks want to experiment with a tiny, bare-bones unix-y OS on relatively modern platforms, xv6 (used as a teaching OS at MIT) is ~10kloc of C for the kernel and a handful of userland programs: https://github.com/mit-pdos/xv6-public

More information, docs, etc: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2014/xv6.html

A few years back I did a quick port of it to x86-64 as a project to learn more about 64bit intel (having been in the ARM world for some time) which was fun: https://github.com/swetland/xv6
Doyen in particular is extremely shady with many of the same people from the scandalous Trump SoHo deal including the man who brought a harem of underaged prostitutes on Atatark's yacht. It's amazing how small the corrupt class actually is and how bad international law enforcement is at stopping the wealthy corrupt.

https://theblacksea.eu/stories/football-leaks/the-football-l...

https://theblacksea.eu/stories/football-leaks/football-leaks...
Makes sense since those with that kind of rate tend to be people with their lives a little more out together.

Not to dismiss the point though, but it’s also extremely anecdotal. I don’t know that it would actually hold true statistically that this would be the majority case.

Escpially given I myself have been under 750 and I have never had these issues
Balkanization of the real estate market into the hands of less savvy, more competitive operators might be a good thing, actually?
You’re misunderstanding me. Imagine that you are a phone company. You buy a bunch of phones wholesale from various vendors, and you want to lock them. You can’t do this by loading a regular app on them that locks them, and you can’t do this by looking at the phone and saying “abracadabra”. You do it by using some protocol by which the vendor (Apple) allows you to control the lock state of the phone.

That protocol exists at Apple’s whim.
> My wife and I take no medications and are healthy.

Unfortunately, that could change overnight. Even young, healthy people can get nasty diseases, be in catastrophic accidents, etc. I knew a young, healthy person who went in for a routine checkup and ended up diagnosed with cancer.

While a single hospital stay might cost you $100K, being diagnosed with a chronic disease that requires years of treatment and follow-up could be much more expensive. And especially if your condition leaves you unable to work, your bills might bankrupt you.

> when we don't actually foresee needing anything but emergency hospital treatment for unexpected accidents

Life is inherently unpredictable. Things happen to you that you can't foresee.
IDK, the closest approximation of full employment we've seen since the second world war has been the product of low interest rates.

Conversely fretting about debt in the way you describe, with a concern about the value of present investment in physical infrastructure for the future, has proven over and over again to be unfounded (tax cuts are otherwise clearly a case of leaving money on the table now that will not benefit the future). You'll see.
> I think it is utterly fascinating to watch the world change and watch morals and mores change, but still see power reconfiguring, like mercury falling into a groove, to maintain power and bend law to its service!

Absolutely beautifully put.
>Most of the west is not corrupt.

That's laughable.
> You can remove it. I don't use and don't see it on Win10.

Not the parent - but a question on this. I was using Win10 as my main OS 'till quite recently. I always had the task bar on autohide, but was frequently annoyed by it popping up (when icons for running apps flash). I tried a few registry hacks but nothing ever worked. For unrelated reasons I'm back on Linux now, but am still curious to see if there's a solution to this.
That's not what I'm saying, the leaking to a journalist is the defection.

The leaker is on the best behavior to impress their new handler. They're suckers and getting played.

An analogy to what Snowden did: How would you feel if you had a significant other that promised themselves to you, but behind your back, connected with someone else, some jester/stranger/charlatan. Hurtfully, you find they were eager to move mountains for them, and all the while criticizing your mere existence as a person. It'd be safe to say they've broke their vow, even though they haven't officially acknowledged yet.
Deutsche Bahn hasn't ordered cabin-style train wagons (little compartments for six) for the new ICE, only open floor train wagons.

(I'm sure there is correct terminology for those types, I just don't know the terms).
I have a similar issue. I am tackelling it by combinimg daoism practice and reading with vipassana to work on socializing and intimacy.
> That’s basic economics.

Oh really. Because to me it sounds like a statement about human motivation patterns, and some huge assumptions about it that are, quite often, wrong. Just like cats, humans can be motivated by:

* food (or food-equivalents in the form of flipping some bits in a bank)
* social interaction (60% of cats as long as not starved!)

...also, unlike cats (AFAIK), but very frequently (also AFAIK) humans can be motivated by:

* self-expression
* perceived benefit to society.

If not for the need for self-expression, there would be barely anyone working in the games industry. And pretty much every company's internal relations spew more-or-less thinly veiled nonsense about how spying on customers is good - or at least acceptable - actually. That's because the last part is an _enormous_ part of motivation for many.

> Claiming that the top performers will continue to innovate and lead when they are compensated the same as the bare minimum clock punchers is extraordinary and requires evidence.

...except non-unionised companies often tolerate bare minimum clock punchers, and, conversely, unions often penalise those. Good relationship with management can easily allow slacking, and unions have more interest in company's survival than some nomadic C-level.

You're making things up and then demanding others to provide evidence. Some of us actually worked in an office for more than a day, you know.
You would ignore any other weird logo. Yet you feel conpelled to defend this one. You are making my point for me: Objectification of women has a special protected status in society.
not sure about other managed runtimes but in Go you can disable the automated GC scheduling and schedule it yourself. The GC runs in sub-millisecond time. https://blog.golang.org/ismmkeynote

the point isn't "Go is good enough", because I don't know if it is because the requirements are not stated particularly clearly. If the GC took zero time, duh, it would work and people could use it, it would save them some error cases and make their programming lives easier. If the GC took 3 seconds, it doesn't work. There exists some latency value under which a GC is fast enough that there's no sane argument for -not- using it. What is that value? That's the question at hand.
tl;dr: "The railroad anticipates the change will save it about $2 million a year."
Why ask this of humans? I am sure even the world doesn't know why it exists.
You are describing 'zero cost abstractions'. Except that they are anything but zero cost. Game developers and low level programmers shy away from them because of their impact in compile and build times, debug build performance and stack trace bloat, increased cognitive load, reduced refactoring ability. Even std::unique_ptr has runtime costs in release builds that a raw pointer does not.

In game development performance is a feature and anything that makes performance and memory usage less deterministic is frowned upon, like a GC. But iteration times are still paramount and things that make compile, load and link times longer and make it more difficult to debug are also frowned upon. Yes, we'd like to have our cake and eat it too :)
It's not just hospital rates. It's also visits to a doctor, lab tests, urgent care facilities, drugs, etc. Providers who are in your insurance "network" negotiate rates with your insurance company that are much lower than the retail rates. The difference can be a factor of 10.
No. Sony used to make phones that have the jack, are water resistance, and even have removable battery.
Why not Consider a 10 day vipassana course?

Vipassana practitioners believe in generating their own truths as the nature of the mind reveals itself through meditation.
Also check out Sky Guide[0].

It's an iOS app that (among many other awesome things) tracks 250+ satellites - and can send a notification before they pass over your location[1].

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sky-guide/id576588894

[1] https://www.fifthstarlabs.com/support#satellites
> At 10 minute frequencies, with standard 40 foot buses, the lane capacity is about equal.

At 10 minute intervals at 40 MPH, you have 35200 feet -- more than six miles -- of empty lane between each bus. At a 15 foot car length and one car length between each car, you could fit more than a thousand cars in that lane instead of that one bus.

Even if every car has only one occupant and not one of the bus passengers are people who would have taken the bus if not for the bus lane, buses don't carry more than a thousand people, so you've reduced the carrying capacity of the road.

Using two minute intervals would still be consuming space that could fit hundreds of cars, so to be worthwhile you would have to have very large buses, they would have to be entirely full on every trip, and every passenger would have to displace a whole car, which is implausible because some people would have taken the bus either way and some cars would have had more than one occupant.

Moreover, if you would fill a bus every two minutes then you have enough density to justify operating a subway, in which case you still don't have a bus lane.
Honestly what's the point in prosecuting these crimes? Like objectively, in comparison, with precedence, with philosophical consideration to every reasonable extent, there is practically no point in expending the amount of effort that the justice system exerts on these types of crimes.

It almost makes you question why the justice system is motivated or incentivized to prosecute these types of crimes, to expend more judicial insight and energy, to display the overt and given power of government against a crime that has essentially harmed no one to any practical degree.
Ditto. I was skeptical and it took a while to pick up but was worth the wait.
And for that matter it's from back in the Woz days when Apple published schematics of everything, so no need to reverse engineer their hardware.

But the film seems to be about marketing to 80's pop nostalgia. And things like 2600 aren't part of that.
Fungi Basidiomycetes can be used as computing devices
I did my undergrad at a school with very relaxed admissions requirements and never got into any schools that use “holistic admission” like Harvard (or for that matter Duke, where I got rejected) does.

It’s clear to me that any attempt to make these admissions criteria is doomed to fail because *there is no good definition of “qualified”, and there can’t be. I’d wager if you dropped any 75th percentile student from NC State at MIT they’d probably perform well enough to graduate. Not 5.0, but with enough grit they’d do it.

I think more people should accept that all selective admissions is at some level social engineering. Making it more “equal” is a noble goal - but it’s still social engineering. These efforts would be better spent improving institutions that lead to actual class mobility rather than arguing whether 20% or 30% of Asian applicants to Harvard should get in for nebulous reasons.
You are a life saver. I've been searching for a decent podcast program for years.

That's not to say I haven't found them - I used Pocket Casts a years ago, but for reasons I don't understand every few years the paid ones (which I have happily paid for), seem to be struck by an irresistible urge to change the UI. Sometimes it is better, sometimes worse but mostly it's just different for no good reason.

Maybe it's just me getting old, but I'm tiring of things changing because the old design was getting "stale", and completely over pretty interfaces driven by gestures that aren't immediately obvious. Include them if you want, but always give me a menus that make everything the app can do easily discoverable. If I have to look up a manual or google how to do something your UI design is a failure as far as I am concerned.

AntennaPod seems to have the perfect UI - old fashionably obvious. It looks like it harks from years ago and it works so well they never changed it - perfect.
I’m far from a blank slatist or a socialist, but as someone who is generally considered “untalented” on the HN scale of things please continue. What is objectionable about this viewpoint?
My understanding is that when you buy for a particular carrier/line, it does still have to be activated on that carrier/line before it will work.

It could very well be that if he set up the phone with a Verizon SIM, it would immediately be unlocked. But this is a single data point based on what sounds like someone relaying information from Verizon tech support and a remote girlfriend having tech troubles.
Ask HN: What is like to work for AWS outside US?
I have in sit on my table two offers from one government agency and AWS both in the cloud team, and I’ve asked a lot around about what KPI they use and how is like to work for them outside US.

I couldn’t get that straight from the interview process and I believe in the public opinion.

Any feedback I appreciate it.
Came across this long back: 2 + 2 = 5 for very large values of 2.

Maybe Bezos read this recently and decided to use large values of 24 to compute number of hours in a month.
Surely you have atleast a sketch of the law in mind?
$15 million....what's that, an olive in the salad of US military? Have USA buy it...
I will post more as i find the resources;

I have a health resource, stemming from obvious stress hormone reduction.

Its a Sunday morning here; i will leave you for now with a registration website for a 10 day course: https://www.dhamma.org/en-US/courses/search

(It is near free, fees are commute, white clothes and a very optional donation, finishing a course is considered payment enough)
Density is too low because urban housing is artificially expensive.
It is such a shame to ripoff students. He masterfully gained the attention of top ML researchers like Goodfellow, Jeff Dean, Yann LeCun (and many others who follow him on Twitter) to make it look like he's famous/noteworthy. I wish the news about this scam reaches those researchers and even better would be public condemnation on the scam.
PS: (From my interactions with many of the top AI researchers including the ones I mentioned, I know that they care about students and original research so I don't think they would have anticipated such behavior)