skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mass shootings are an incredibly small source of gun deaths. ~2/3rd are suicide and ~1/3rd are murder.

While the US does have pretty high gun related homicide rates, it is largely because proportionally more of our homicides involve guns. Our overall homicide rate is a fair bit higher than most european countries but nowhere near the top world-wide (about #90.)

However, much of this is concentrated into particular locations as the US does have many of the top 50 cities in the world by homicide rate (behind only mexico, brazil and venezuela).

Overall, US gun ownership does not present a significant practical risk unless you go to certain places. Concerns about gun policy (and the death penalty) by potential visitors to the US are thus ideologically, not practically based.

I personally think that our lack of collective support for our struggling cities/regions says much more about us as a country than our active shooter drills (of which I am also not a fan).
I keep telling the examples, memory corruption, typical C exploits.

Apparently the force is strong with WebAssembly advocacy.
The screen resolution of 3072x1920 (224.6ppi) is triple 1024x640.

Apple states that it also scales to

• 1920x1200 (3:5)

• 1680x1050 (48:25)

• 1280x800 (12:5)

which obviously are all fractions. With the small pixel size (0.1122mm) it probably doesn't matter that much.

The 16" display has a 16:10 aspect ratio.
zwkrt’s Tenth Rule of Startups:

Any sufficiently complicated tech company or venture-backed enterprise contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of a credit union.
> People like to complain about the "few bad apples" that make everyone look bad.

People who use this phrase to complain about poor treatment of police officers drive me nuts, because they're completely ignoring what it means. The saying is, "A few bad apples spoil the barrel". As in, if you don't immediately get rid of the bad apples, it causes the rest to rot. Which is exactly what has happened with most police departments.
I guess, though anyone I knew who used retina macbooks had issue with screen peeling off within 1-3 years of use.

There was a replacement program for a bit, so there was a possibility to change the screen, though after some time changed screens are peeling off too.

I know even an anecdote where almost brand new 2016 rmbp after working outside, had a spots of peeled off coating, because apparently light dust have scratched it. Thankfully Apple replaced the screen.
Are you referring to Widevine? Brave asks you if you want to install it rather than just assuming you want DRM out of the box.
You are erroneous in your belief that bringing politics into the workplace is a means to work against division. Quite the opposite. When politics are brought into the workplace, political discussion is monopolized by people with power (be it explicit authority, or social influence) and exclude people whose politics are opposed to them. Politics, by nature, tends to divide people which is precisely why companies that want to avoid a divided workforce don't allow politics in their workplace.
Google did few good things. But now it is trying to substitute The Internet.

Well thanks, but no thanks. I'll stick to my old luddite way of doing things.
For the same reason you cannot eat in a restaurant without specific dress, businesses get to decide on their own rules.
I don't think that's what they were talking about. I think they were referring to the fact that diamonds can be created synthetically in a lab now.

They said "manufactured" not "mined"
The CPU core?
Yes that is the only reason those things exist. In fact everything has been developed by the military! The military built all the telecommunications infrastructure, laid all the intercontinental data lines, and developed optical switches.

Oh you mean they developed a pretty basic protocol? Let's give them all the credit.

You can thank the GERMAN military for the space program.
That's what the industry looks like among early adopters, but most developers wait for clear winners to emerge on new niches before they commit.
https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2019/3

Unlike Java/C#, I would say github is a good indicator for Ruby.
If a few thousand well paid people are enough to double the rents is a city of 3.6 million people, this is not the fault of the corporations "paying too much", it's the result of poor city planning.
Ask HN: A friend introduced me to a client, now he wants a 25% cut
I work as an independent software consultant in a somewhat specialized area. A friend recently introduced me to the founders of a company that are looking for help in this area. It's interesting work and I want to pursue it. However, my friend is insisting that I bill his company at my rate of $X/hr, and he bill them at $1.25X/hr. The client appears to be fine with the rate he quoted them.

I understand that business is all about relationships, and I want my friend to be compensated for the value that he's provided. However, this seems pretty steep to me, especially if it turns into a long term engagement. In my experience, recruiters usually charge a one time fee, but his reasoning is that he's more of a staffing agency than a recruiter.

While theoretically I should be content with earning my rate, this has also made me realize that I should be charging more.

One possibility I'm thinking about is that we engage under his terms for a short term initial contract, after which point I start billing the client directly, either at my current rate or at his. However, I'm not sure how this might be received by both the client and my friend, nor what the norms are in this type of situation.

What does HN think? What is the value that a staffing agency provides to justify their cut? Is my friend being reasonable?
The benefits are a bit of a red herring here.

What you're proposing is that everyone should be subjected to spying because it may lead to some theoretical larger good. That argument also conveniently ignores the theoretical social and personal costs of that spying.

What I'm saying is that everyone has rights that include the right to not be spied on, and a theoretical larger good is not nearly a solid enough reason to strip me of rights.

Getting consent is a way to avoid this deadlock and make everyone happy as well as ensure that nobody get trampled.

Now, while I would never give Google consent for data collection from me, that's because I have zero trust in Google. However, if we're just talking about consent in the general sense, then it's certainly possible to make an argument that would get me to agree to share data. In fact, I do so with a few entities already.
This release is more of a "we listened" release than anything else. That's likely why they didn't parade it around with an October event and instead went with a private press review and press release.
You aren't really meant to have a "system" of earning and spending BAT that balances each month.

The budget of BAT you set each month comes from your wallet, and is essentially your personal donation to the various websites you use, it's not related to ads. This wallet can run out in the same way any wallet can run out, and you'd have to refill it.

The BAT you can earn from seeing ads is separate and unrelated to that. Maybe it goes into the same wallet but that's not important.

You can do none of them, one of them, the other, or both, but they aren't really two related features. They both just happen to use BAT as their money mechanism.
They are opt-in and you can disable them. It seems you never tried the browser. Odd that you'd need a new account to post this.
Not to mention, alot of energy is spent demonizing other countries for corruption meanwhile we have plenty of it here. Convince the citizens that everything is great here.
I would personally much rather allocate actual dollars instead of CryptoBuckOfTheDay backed by ads I have no desire to ever watch. Say, $20/month that gets allocated to sites I visit. The whole "reward people for watching ads" model just seems... wrong.
Yep, fighting windmills here.
Ok, I admit, saying it gets destroyed was a poor choice of words. But from your article:

>> Although milk as it comes from the cow is a poor source of vitamin D, fortified milk is considered an excellent source, especially because of its calcium content. Other foods considered good dietary sources of vitamin D are relatively rare but do include fatty fish, eggs and liver. Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin.

As for the "destroyed" part of my comment, I meant that both it and vitamin A are fat soluble. So when you "skim" the milk, you lose lots of the vitamins. You lose so much, that vitamin A has to be re-added. Again from your article:

>> As skim and lower fat milks became popular, the reduction of vitamin A levels with fat reduction became an issue since whole milk was considered a good source of vitamin A.

TL;DR - I should've said vitamin A but got lazy/greedy. Vitamin D, while subject to the same problem as vitamin A, is added as refurb explains.
That's true now, but it doesn't have to be. Before the retina MacBook Pro, the MacBook Pro used to be one of the easiest laptops to service. Opening it up, it was very easy to access almost every component.
When the Brave folks make their speed claim, it makes me curious if they genuinely don't understand the difference between above-the-fold page render time vs how long it takes for the spinner to stop spinning. Maybe they understand the difference but prefer to point people at the spinner because it's easier for them to make changes to stop the spinner sooner.

Last time I watched one of their speed comparison videos a few months back, it had several examples where their browser was actually never the first to render the useful page content, but was usually the first to stop spinning the spinner in the top of the UI (which, naturally, is what they choose to measure and report).
I had the opposite take on the same product decisions.

As a long-time Chrome user, I have a set of useful extensions that have become a part of my daily browsing experience. I found converting to Brave an easy transition since everything I’m used to in Chrome is still available, right down to the developer tools.

As far as I can tell, Brave is basically Chrome with built-in Adblock and anti-tracking, plus an innovative mechanism for user-controlled advertising and content-author micropayments. I’m very impressed.
Personally, I think that the American Dream was always an ideal to live up to, not something established that only exists in the US. If we deny someone's dignity and rights simply because they aren't a US citizen, then we've embraced injustice and broken our pledge of liberty and justice for all.

I'm not a lawyer, but reading through this:

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

Something stood out:

An applicant initially presents his claim to an asylum officer, who may either grant asylum or refer the application to an Immigration Judge.

So I think that the "Nanette Barragan questions Kirstjen Nielsen" video I linked shows that the border crossing agent committed a crime when she turned away people seeking asylum. She should have either: a) granted their asylum or b) admitted them to go before an immigration judge.

From there, the border crossing agent should be tried in court for her actions. In which case, she can either say that she is guilty and take the penalty, or that she was following orders and then the next person up in rank should go through the process until it reaches Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. In which case, she can accept responsibility, or claim that she was following orders from the president.

It looks like Kirstjen Nielsen resigned on April 10, 2019, a month after the March 2 video:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kirstjen-nielsen-resigning-dhs-...

We're seeing this a lot lately, where high-ranking officials are skirting the law, then resigning to shield the president. That's not how it should work in America.

I say all of this because I imagine if I was a border crossing agent, and I denied asylum to someone outright, then found out later they died because of my actions, I'd likely get PTSD and never recover. At the very least, I don't know how I'd be able to sleep at night.

Which is why I think I'm right as far as the spirit of the law, even if the letter of the law doesn't match up with what I'm saying.
I almost never use the function keys and I am a programmer. They made the right call on that one. Just because you use an editor that makes use of rarely used keys doesn’t mean that they are a universal truth.
Can anyone explain what this means for the future of Docker the company?
Now imagine the Borg with their advanced computers not being able to cause all Federation star ships to self destruct (BSG style).
This is Apple going all in on pro for this laptop.

The display is fantastic all around, 64 GB of ram, 8 GB of DDR6 VRAM, 8 cores, biggest battery FAA will allow on planes, 8 TB SSD, etc.

This will also be able to connect to Apple's upcoming 6K 32-inch display.

This is a very impressive update all around and it shows Apple putting a lot of space between their pro laptops and the MBA and iPad Pro now. The lineup is starting to make a lot of sense again.
See refurb's sibling comment and my reply. They have the actual source.
It's also critical that it be a currency not used for any purpose other than advertising. The point of BAT is to price attention: users have the option of opting out of ads, if they do so it means less BAT available for purchase, which raises the price of BAT, which increases the rewards for opting into ads, which means more people opt in, which leads to an equilibrium price. If they had used say Monero for this, they'd really be pricing drugs and then piggybacking on that with an ad system, which would destroy any market pricing mechanism that they get.
Sounds awfully close to flattr which didn't fly.
Mac Pro and Apple Pro Display XDR Available in December
A great engineer can still be incompetent in the face of a difficult (or poorly specced) task.
So you have your paycheck direct-deposited, and you pay all your bills on this account, so Google now knows your income, your rent, your indebtedness, where you have all of your accouts (mortgage, auto loan, credit cards).
There was a story a few months back about some British subdivision VP wired a million dollars to eastern europe because the CEO called him up and told him to do it or something like that.

It was the CEO's voice, but it wasn't the CEO.
No, it's not there, it's on the memo itself, in his own words, in a section literally titled "Non-bias causes of the gender gap in tech" if you'd like a more reliable source than Wikipedia.

>Extraversion expressed as gregariousness rather than assertiveness. Also, higher agreeableness. This leads to women generally having a harder time negotiating salary, asking for raises, speaking up, and leading.

Do you see it? The part where he says women are genetically worse leaders, and have worse salaries because they're genetically worse negotiators? Remember, the section is titled "Possible non-bias causes of the gender gap in tech", implying that women are paid less because it's natural, not because of sexist bias.

At any rate, I appreciate the patronizing "making well meaning but confused leaps of logic" pat in the head.
Am I wrong in thinking that "echo the biases they're fed" is a pretty complete, concise description for what "AI"/ML systems are supposed to do?
Does that show it's declining? It's proportion of pull requests, not absolute pull requests. Ruby could still be growing if the whole system is growing.
Matt Ridley rendered his entire argument specious and kinda stupid years ago: https://youtu.be/0BM_p5fWoI0
Not any good one that does it in hardware out of the box that I know of. There are mod kits for CS lenses for c920/930/brio, if you can live with a tighter shot. If you've an compatible RX100/A6000 or similar laying around, then an Elgato Cam Link like hanselman's setup above might be the easiest option.

https://www.elgato.com/en/gaming/cam-link-4k (1/5 the price of the blackmagic device above/below)

There's also some software "solutions", but I've no idea how good they are, probably not iPhone portrait mode quality.
I would guess they block the ads
Con: It's now easier than ever to fake someone saying something outrageous, and have that lie spread across the world long before the truth can get its boots on.

Pro: Humphrey Bogart can direct you to your destination!

I admit, it's a hard choice.
Well, that or you could look at it like this:
They made a new 1.6 inch macbook pro three years ago with all kinds of design, performance, and battery life but the keyboard turned out to be highly defective and the Touchbar's replacement of the escape key was super annoying, that laptop got generally lamented and trashed by the press and public. (If you are not a hardcore function key user and the keyboard has not broken yet, it's a pretty fantastic laptop, generally still the best at first, but obviously based on your needs and the worry of having the kb break)

So you can see this as an improvement to the current gen MBP.. or you can see this as a selling item to those who skipped the 2016 and still have a 2015 (or who had a 2016 and got burned). When you are drowning your goals are not to get on a ship or to go someplace, they are to get air.
I'm not sure what you're talking about. An asexual office is indeed one where sex is kept out of the office. Nobody really bothers to call their office "asexual" because almost all offices are asexual.

If an office instituted a policy where sex was allowed in the office, and now you have co workers having sex in the cubicle next door and making sexual advances towards you, then that absolutely is intervening in employees' sexual lives.
How is donating money to a campaign that passed with 7 million votes a "terrible thing to do"? Are we not allowed to have an opinion that is different from the intelligentsia?

This sort of thing does color my perception of Brave in the other direction. The fact that Eich refused to "confess and recant" in the face of internet lynch mobs and getting fired as CEO of Mozilla makes him rather brave in my estimation.
By default, they fail to load stuff like trackers, ads, etc.
If those are my choices, I'd place myself in the "sympathetic with his approach to debate" bucket.
Would it KILL them to build a regular keyboard with function keys? It's a $100 part...

I can't be the only software engineer who refuses to buy it on this one major issue.
I haven’t done it, but based on the configs I saw when setting up Brave, I believe that is an option as well.
Never written a line of perl in my life, but this seems like total satire. They talk about “machine learning” trends and apps and putting classes in “every school.” It’s exaggerated and funny. Check out their linked site, “Teen Perl,” which has nothing but a splash page.

http://teenperl.com/
What central currency isnt publicly tradable? Thats the whole point. US currency even says "for all debts, public and private" on it.
CASCONxEVOKE Conference Recap for LoopBack
Or lots of people playing FPSs on their MBPs?
New Pathways in Brain's Amygdala
I’m totally not regretting upgrading to this year’s 15 inch model.

Just a huge bit.

Apple do take your current model back for credit but given I’ll only get 900 pounds for it (presumably much more in the USA!) I guess I’ll stick to it for now. I’d be happy to pay a few hundreds for the upgrade; it’s unjustifiable to upgrade for full price minus a 900 pound discount.
I've been using Brave for several months. It's exactly what I wanted - A faster, chromium-based browser with sensible, privacy-conscious defaults.

I don't personally mind the Chrome Web Store default.
"There’s no meaningful risk of getting shot and the US is one of the safest places in the world"

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

The United States is Ranked 94th in the world by intentional homicide rate.

"The odds of dying in a car vs getting shot are relevant." Why?
I did not mention cars at all in my post so not sure how you bringing up cars renders my response illogical. Is your argument that individuals killed by gun violence would still be dead if there were no guns? Does this include victims of mass shootings in schools, churches etc.? By your rational, we should allow all countries to own nuclear weapons as the odds of dying in a car crash vs a nuclear explosion are far higher.

In 2017, over 15,000 people were killed by firearms (excluding suicide) and traffic deaths killed ~38,000. A car's primary function is not to kill, whereas a gun has almost no other purpose.

I appreciate the recommendation to get out more, but one of the nice things about modern technology is we always have access to facts wherever we are, and those facts indicate your points are very flawed.
In all honesty, I'm not sure how I feel about this model? I'm one of those people who has been out saying that the web needs a new business model. Well, here one is, and yet I find myself a bit hesitant to embrace it? It's probably just a matter of needing more information to fill in the blanks and explain the contradictions.

That said, my mind tends to automatically start strategizing the long game, and I'm uncertain how valuable people who have to be paid to look at ads are to advertisers? I mean, Certainly some advertisers would still be interested. But enough to displace the current model? I'm just not sure.
I don't understand why they didn't use a stable coin/transition BAT to a stable coin, the volatility of BAT probably keeps creators uneasy. Why sign up for a service where contributions can lose half their value overnight.
Have you had the same experience with their mobile browser? I found the desktop experience lackluster but the only browser that's run faster on my phone is Firefox Focus.
Just to clarify, I was not referring to unauthorized or illegitimate access. I was referring to company-sanctioned access.
There's a red abalone farm just a couple of miles away from my house. I've never had white abalone though.
My friend, whether you're trading naked or spreads doesn't matter on timescales of corporate rot are ~30 years; the contracts available to retail traders are like ~2 years out.
Nothing compared to when you get a house as a couple. Rational pricing and cost-benefit analyses go out the door when the emotional buttons hit on some overpriced place.
The day that public awareness/perception meets current affairs will result in a very interesting time in US history.
The synthesized voices sound similar but would probably not fool a good voice-print system.
> We leak a string from another process using Javascript and WebAssembly in the SpiderMonkey engine.

They leak in flight data, using a detached spidermonkey engine, patched to make performance.now() return rdtscp at a rate of 1B/s while the victim application is spamming a load string instruction as fast as possible.

This does not allow:

>any ad network can access any and all memory on your desktop

This allows any ad-network to access random bits on the cache line. If the timing mitigation didn't already fix this, it seems impossible to me to get anything useful from it, the precision and bitrate is just too low (which is why the exploit just spams load instructions in a while 1 loop).

>and the RIDL exploits don't require special instructions.

Weird, in the new addendum it says it uses TSX, and in the PoC it uses XBEGIN. Must be a mistake.
U.S. auto showrooms need more electric cars, environmental group says
That's sure not what I''m seeing here, it looks like a downward trend to me: https://www.pricescope.com/diamond-prices/diamond-prices-cha...
> The project's goal is to provide a platform-agnostic interface — without the generation of the graphical user interface.

As someone who is relatively ignorant about this kind of thing...what does that above quote ^ mean?