skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In about 25% of all cases where firearms are involved they are military firearms (pistols or rifles). That does not include suicide unless connected with some sort of violent crime where a firearm was involved.

The "normal" suicides trough a firearm probably have a higher rate of military firearms because people probably choose the firearm with the higher success rate. Also because suicide is more likely to be committed by younger persons and younger male persons usually do own a military rifle. If one completely finished military service and you want to keep your rifle you can do that. It will be converted to a semi-automatic rifle. This then would not count as suicide my military firearm anymore. Depending on military function this can be anywhere between the age of 30 up to the age of 40.
Am I the only one impressed by the text generated? Sure, it doesn't have any understanding but are you factoring that 1. most people on the world do not know that Rust is a programming language and 2. a single person can not have that much general knowledge. Sure they can know about Rust borrow checker but will not be able to expand that much on another subject.
Perhaps Airbnb saw how Uber went almost entirely unpunished in its pivot from ride-sharing to taxi company and thought they wanted some of that.
I agree, but I feel it's justified using Electron in this case, because Markdown can be combined with any HTML. So when you need a rendering engine, you might as well use Chromium's from Electron.
There are even two subsequent standards: the Nullenergiehaus (zero energy building) and the Plusenergiehaus, which is better by having the ability to generate more electric energy than it needs.

However, those buildings are not as amazing as they might look. The "better" the standard, the greater the effort. What people didn't really took into account was the energy needed to actually build the house is becoming very large. At this point it takes the same amount of energy (embodied energy, called grey energy in Germany) to erect a Passivhaus as it will need operating over the next 50 years.
Hoboken is so interesting. It was once a fairly poor neighborhood, but as real estate in NYC became what it is, many moved to Hoboken and now houses that were 300k when I was younger are 1mil+. The views are astounding.
It probably is related to laplace transforms... Pretty much anything oscillating can be analyzed with a laplace transform.

I'd guess in your case it's because each LED has it's own constant current power supply, and when the battery voltage gets low, the power supply becomes unstable, but the exact flicker rate depends on small variations in the components it's made from.
New MRI Study Finds: Screen Use Negatively Affects Children’s Brain Development
The thing that's consistently baffled me with projects like this is why technical milestones aren't encoded in contracts.

In your example, if they can't demonstrate a PoC container or automated environment creation in x% of the schedule, the contract is terminated. With similar milestones throughout the project.

It's like traditional PM project pacing goes out the window when dealing with contractors.

It's not a secret these shops put the least capable people on contracts they think they can get away with, so why not better incentivize them to bring a more skilled team?
Cardano, although still not ready for primetime, seems like a likely candidate.
EDIT : I do work for IOHK and I am biased.
Honestly diet is the cure, not an antibiotic (screwing your flora is no long term strategy). They are just doing their job the right way.
In my opinion, this is the point at which FaaS becomes viable
Probably the Dark Enlightenment.

It's a good term though...
The film division is really not dead though, which must be pointed out.
And now for years the UK can't figure out how it wants to leave, which people had no vote on.

- Do you want to have a border in Ireland?

- Do you want a border between Ireland and the rest of the UK?

- Do you want to lose money for the NHS even though we had a bus saying the opposite?

- Are you just going to say "no" to everything, but not have an idea what to do instead?

Then maybe, just maybe it would a good idea to ask voters to choose again between leave this way, that way, another way or "who knew this could be so complicated, let's not do that".
This isn't actually an attack on their political stance though, it's just attacking their personal morals.

In my opinion, if you say that a company unfairly avoids costs of regulations then it makes perfect sense to use them and transfer that saving to your own pocket. You're just confirming that you really believe it's an unfair market.
Oh, an enterprising prosecutor could subpoena his way to the foreign buyer of the number, but it's sooo much work for such a little scam. The prosecutors, like everyone else, have to optimize their return on effort.
It's interesting how the first paragraph in particular reads like a deflection of the original question, somewhat akin to a middle manager avoiding exposing their lack of domain expertise in response to a technical question by giving a vague answer.

There were heaps of semantic pathways the network could have chosen such as guessing what a borrower is, or maybe even weighing the significance of "borrower" more than rust in the original question because it has no clue what rust+borrower is; but it instead picked the safer option of deflection. Fascinating stuff.
Alright, but i m expecting "Actually, it was only one Tether Trader" tomorrow.
> Most citizens are army reserve and regularly go for training.
FTFY: Most male citizens are forced to serve in the army and are forced to regularly go for training, or pay a hefty fine each year.
Your numbers look strange. Did you quoted from a $10000 xeon platinum very few people use?

In my current desktop PC, it’s 700 GFlops theoretical compute versus 50GB/sec of theoretical RAM bandwidth.
This is a common stereotyping to assume. The quality of work you get from outsourcing is directly proportional to the amount you spend.

If you need talented people you have to spend more money. It's as simple as that.
I'm not predicting the future. cwkoss is (by assuming Bitcoin will never surpass $20k)
Kodak knew and they tried, but they misread how fast the transition would go. They thought there would be a period for hybrid film/digital devices, for instance.
It is coming from NASSCOM, which is a lobbying arm.

Value bloat is what people want, and NASSCOM does just that.

Take that news with loads of salt.
Good timing for Softbank, they are bleeding billions with their investments in Uber, Slack and WeWork
It should first remove paywalls. The same opinions can be found in tens of blogs, most likely with the same arguments. IT's a bit rude to the publishers that we re posting paywalled content here, often with bypass links.
Blocking cannabinoid receptors affects zebrafish development, study shows
> The average American "small-government" ruling class mentality chronically starves public goods and the commons from widely available resources, and then points to the failure of said services and goods as a reason why government cannot work. Eliminate this vicious circle and you see massive benefits; Chattanooga's municipal ISP has been extremely successful and popular.

You can't just use this as a blanket defense. There are plenty of inept and corrupt local governments that are well-funded as well.

> There are numerous examples of industries and market sectors where a public option coexists with market options

It's not rightfully a "public option" if one of those is funded by taxpayer money and is capable of operating at a loss, whereas the private ones have to sustain themselves.
Also mentioned in a recent HN story:

A Cybersecurity Firm’s Sharp Rise and Stunning Collapse - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21376203

Warning: long read!
I do a variant of this, login+company@domain.com (or more often login-company@domain.com as + is often rejected at html forms).

In my experience, catch-all email (*@domain.com) increased number of spam as spambots send out emails to randomly generated adresses (john@domain.com, stephen@domain.com, anne@domain.com).
> optional chaining and null coalescence are core language features of some very good languages

They are features of Maybe/Option too, just in a more consistent extensible way.

val a = Some(thing)
val b = a.flatMap(_.part).flatMap(_.subpart)

val c = Some(None) // look Ma! a nested option!

> While JS might get this stuff one day

I appreciate the attempt at pedantry, but TypeScript general only implements JS language features or TC39 Stage 3 proposals.

> I hope they do the pipe operator next!

Great example. After many hundreds of upvotes, the status is "waiting for TC39". [1] I.e. it will not be implemented until JS has it or is close to having it.

TypeScript is typed JavaScript, end of story.

[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/17718
If large scale operations are what's being considered wrong, then why not target that specially? E.g, if you use short term rental on more than 1 property, then the taxation on the 2nd one is going to be larger and larger until it's no longer profitable.

For people with just 1 investment property, they will still be able to rent it out short-term as it is possible today.
Gitlab is investing hard on looking good in the press, but forgetting to fix their critical bugs. Their CI/CD feature is useless due to the bugs that are never fixed as they are not prioritized. One example is this 1-year old critical bug in CI/CD:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/issues/4119
(Gitlab CI/CD jobs finishing midway with Success)
Al Jazeera has a long report on YouTube [0] covering the allegations around Charleston, I know that they can be biased against the US but this report is quite eye opening. Even more given the interview with a VP (or director, can't remember exactly the position) being cut short by the PR person involved, the reports from workers inside the factory stating they wouldn't fly a plane built there, etc.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvkEpstd9os
Personally, I'm just waiting for non-nullable types. After getting used to them, it's hard to imagine going back to a language that doesn't have them.
So we know what happens when you put the magnet at the anode, now what happens if you put it at the cathode? Hell, what happens when you put magnets on both?
I don't disagree, but were they always like that, or more so as the proprietors faced increasing cost pressures and competition, and became jaded?
Then those who want to rent out their houses should be treated as hotels, taxed as hotels, regulated as hotels and obey zoning rules as hotels.

Because they are in fact, hotels.
Counterintuitively, the rule was in effect during more of the Trump administration than the Obama administration.
Good points. Though to be honest, the EU has plenty of de-facto restrictions on free trade in services.

(Unilateral) free trade was a pretty popular policy back then.

In practice, the decrease in transportation costs we have today dwarfs the difference in tariffs.
The global live chat market is booming: key industry statistics
That's only because amry-issued ammo is free. The ammo you buy for shooting at the range you have to pay and they must prevent that people use army ammo instead.
You can buy amo and take it home anytime you want if you are at least 18 years old.
> energy needed to actually build the house is becoming very large

Why is it becoming larger? I would have assumed that we would use less energy rather than more to build buildings nowadays given the advances in technology.
They certainly did:

> In 83.1% (n = 1112) of the 1338 suicides by firearm between 2000 and 2010 in Switzerland, the firearm could be categorised as an army weapon or a non-army weapon. The army weapon was used in 39.1% of these suicides.

https://smw.ch/article/doi/smw.2018.14646

But that is not surprising. Suicides often happen out of an impulse and then people use the best available and easiest accessible means to kill themselves. And an army weapon fulfills those conditions much better than anything else people have at home.

I don't know if there are already newer studies that take into account that the ammunition isn't storaged at home anymore.

I also couldn't find any numbers on "family tragedies".
Why not? If you don't want that, get a hotel room.
Do you have a source for those figures? Given the very low energy usage of a passivhaus, 50 years worth of energy sounds like a good deal. But perhaps it would be more useful to compare like for like. How many kWh do we need to erect a passivhaus and operate is, vs a non-passivhaus?

I was also under the impression that many passivhaus implementations made heavy use of wood, and thus end up sequestering carbon for the lifetime of the building, but I don't know if that's mandated by the standard or just a preference of some builders.
How to Meditate: A Quick Guide for Beginners
open ended questions are just better in general.

Describe your next steps...

Please create a step by step project plan in {tool name}...

Another issue is waiting two weeks. Never, ever, wait two weeks. With any outsourced team you need much more frequent check-ins otherwise you run the risk of being blind-sided by huge project delays.
One thing that I often miss when reading about this stuff is benchmarks. So it's faster than Prometheus? Prove it. So it's faster than Postgres, or TimescaleDB? Prove it.

It should be trivial, and the fact that it's not there and what you find instead is terms like "Uber-scale" is slightly worrying.

I'm not trying to take anything away from the achievements made here by the guys at Uber, but anyone seriously considering using this in production would probably need a better contrastive comparison between alternatives.
The end result of people following the Munroe idea is an almost perfectly polarized society where everyone who disagrees with the dominant idealogy of a location is ejected.

Almost every internet forum I've been on that allowed politics has in the last ywo decades gone from a lively mix of people of diverse political views debating each other to political monocultures that spend their time talking about how evil and stupid their political opponents are. This results in the inhabitants having basically no understanding of the beliefs, world views and motivations of people outside their bubble and near complete ignorance of any facts that might be evidence for said views.
Show HN: Relé – Make Google PubSub Integration Easier for Python Projects
Well said. There is certainly a place for the xkcd comic. It can be used to argue for the right of free association as well as corporate censorship. That progressives picked the latter as favourable shows a staunch regression in the quality of thoughts.
Hey in terms of search, one issue I've had a few times now is the inability to find things in certain sections of the docs because of the way everything is presented on a single page.

e.g. just now I'm implementing webhook handling for subscriptions. So I drill down to the section that lists all the events - https://stripe.com/docs/api/events/types this is massive and I don't want to read everything, so I cmd+f to find "subscription"... oh stripes taken over my default search but no worries I can hit cmd+f again and use the browsers search... I type "sub"... now the page has jumped way up to https://stripe.com/docs/api/expanding_objects... ffuuuuu...
If Biden is actually guilty, wouldn't we want him to be investigated before possibly becoming the President?

If Trump didn't push for this, who would? It's the same as when Obama called on the FBI to investigate Trump.
Show HN: Duramap – Disk-backed, thread-safe map in Go (built on bbolt)
YateBTS Introduces YateUCN – Cost-Effective LTE EPC Solution
Telecom solutions provider YateBTS introduces the cost-effective LTE EPC solution - YateUCN.

YateBTS is a technology company that develops LTE Radio and Core Network equipment for MNO and MVNO. The company has the production-line equipment and a line of testing equipment for both Radio and Core networks. YateBTS recently published an article to explain the LTE EPC technology and its wide range of features and benefits.

Evolved Packet Core (EPC) is the Core Network of LTE (Long Term Evolution). The LTE EPC has a “flat” IP architecture that allows the network to handle a great amount of data traffic in an efficient and cost-effective manner using Diameter protocols. The functionality, durability, and ease of use have helped it to gain worldwide acceptance.

Titled " Evolved Packet Core (EPC) " (https://yatebts.com/solutions_and_technology/lte-epc) the article aims to explain in plain English what LTE EPC is all about. It also covers its components and the solution equipment provided by YateBTS as a company.

The report also details the network architecture and the nodes that form the LTE EPC architecture. PGW (PDN Gateway), HSS (Home Subscriber Server), PCEF (Policy and Charging Enforcement Function), and SGW (Serving Gateway) are some of the nodes mentioned.

One section lists the Evolved Packet Core products offered by YateBTS, including YateHSS/HLR as a solution for HSS/HLR and YateUCN (Unified Core Network) for the other nodes.

More information about the EPC products and other solutions offered by YateBTS can be found on their website.
https://yatebts.com/solutions_and_technology/lte-epc
What Are My Rights Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)?
The current film company is not the original Kodak. It appears the Kodak imaging division was bought by the UK Kodak Pension Plan (I kid you not) and they still privately own the business. They share the "Kodak" brand name with the Eastman Kodak Company, and the HQ is in the UK.
If by bad take you mean unfounded conclusion then yes, because you've provided no evidence or argument to support the conclusion.

If by bad take you mean unpopular conclusion then maybe; it depends on who you share the unfounded conclusion with and whether they have information or biases that support or contradict your conclusion.
"We" do. But who "we" is, and how strict those rules are will depend heavily on where you are.
If sound propagation has a negative mass, couldn't this same effect muddy the dark matter/energy numbers?
I use the facebook API but don't consider myself a facebook partner. I'm fine with "API user"
Association between gifts from pharma group to drug prescribed by French doctors
> you have to spend more money.

i'd go even more broad:

its not just about money, its also about time. You can get good returns on junior team members but you need to put in the time to coach/teach/guide/manage just like anything else.

more money just means that you're paying someone else to put in the time. Which is cool, different models work in different scenarios.
Maybe we can use a riddle here? Ask someone "will you tell a lie if I ask you a yes no question?"

(I think I screwed up but you get the idea!)
Pretty sure that billions in Europe have three extra zeros.
Is the template something you could share? I'd be interested in seeing it, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

In the paste I've created text expansions for journaling forms I've wanted to use, then just dump them into the app I was using. Unfortunately I don't have those anymore.
This sounds way worse than it is.
You get exactly 50% less to pay if you did 50% of your service + you pay less long because you start to pay when you drop out instead of directly after you turn 18.
Paying 18 to 40 is clearly not the same as paying 30 to 40.
> People incorrectly think that a drop in iPhone sales means fewer people using iPhones. ... Apple is already working to make themselves less dependent on the 2 year upgrade cycle.

We should not be cheering this initiative, it's a sign of bad things to come. It means that hardware innovation is slowing, and to compensate, there has to be more software innovation. Software innovation is relatively easy to copy, and the most profitable business models involve selling personal data to advertisers. It'll be harder for Apple to compete in this market, and they will be strongly tempted to make compromises with user privacy to satisfy growth and revenue expectations.

However, the root cause of this, is that hardware innovation is slowing, which is largely due to the death of Moore's law. Few are thinking about the profound changes that will arise if Moore's law does indeed come to a complete stop, Apple's business strategy is just one small example. If Moore's law does hit a dead-end (it's currently on its last dying wimper), there will profound affects through society, our economy, and our general expectations for the future. It's frightening that more people aren't sounding the alarms about it.
I agree, this is more of a correction by the market
Interesting that this comes up now in 2019. I'd say, while a Passivhaus is not the standard in Germany yet, you can simply go and buy one, like you can choose a special version of a car and simply order it. Passivhaus is still cool, but nothing extraordinary from the future.
Wow, this is a trip to the past. The Ogre community was one of the first online communities I ever joined. I mostly lurked around it until I realized that I didn't really want to put up with C++ :). Nonetheless I am happy this project is still going strong.
Thousands of Scientists Declare a Climate Emergency
I witnessed an outsourcing process first hand, where Cognizant was supposed to come in a handle X, Y and Z tasks (pretty much all IT services) in a large energy company.

By the time it became clear, that they were not able to deliver on their promises at anything that resembles an acceptable level, most people with actual skills were no longer around (FTEs and contractors).

My second best suggestion would be to let an outsourcing partner take over small areas and do a gradual transition as you monitor their performance and quality. The problem is, that these companies have specialized "window-dressing" consultants, that are actually smart and have real skills. As soon as the contract is won, the people with skills are moved to the next contract, that needs to be won - and they are replaced by extremely low-paid resources without qualifications. By the time the company realizes this, it is too late.

I felt quite sorry for these under-qualified people. Imagine going to work every day, barely eeking out a living, while being completely unable to deliver on what you are supposed to do, all while being shouted at by some local slavedriver/manager with a large moustache - for doing your best.

...So the reason I said "second-best" is because I do not believe there is any reason to do business with the Indian outsourcing companies at all, unless you are an exec whos bonus depends on "outsourcing x % to low-cost countries" - and you do not give a fuck about the company as a whole.
In the AV industry, the enterprise versions usually lag the consumer versions by a couple years. Their sales are driven by awards and independent ratings, so all resources go towards making sure that year’s consumer versions are optimized for the tests in time for the release. Once it’s done, they start backporting.
Link to the paper as the one in the article triggers a security warning for me for some reason https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1...
The Story of Sandworm, the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
Puritans wouldnt let kids be marketed to, at all.