skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have any evidence that clear backpacks have a meaningful impact of deaths in schools from guns? Is that impact sufficient to warrant the culture of fear that is being incolcated into these poor kids?

It's not whataboutism, it's cost benefit analysis.
Cars are designed to transport people from place to place, and cause death as an unfortunate side effect. Guns are designed to propel bullets at high speed, and cause death as the intended primary effect.

There can be other conversations about the effectiveness of public transportation, and how the US infrastructure was designed around cars instead of buses/trains, but there is a pretty big difference beyond the number of deaths caused.
One school kid being run over by a car is far too many. We should ban cars!
They show you what they want you to watch, which is mostly netflix produced content that minimizes the per view overhead for them.
A couple of thoughts:

1. In the UK the number of people with private medical insurance was (a couple of years ago) around 12% (according to one source). I don't know anyone who has it personally, I don't (and I can afford it). Do you know what the figures are for other European countries?

2. Is it possible that having a (relatively) cheap and functional state provided health care system keeps insurance costs down? If you're charging some large amount of money for health insurance and the alternative is effectively free* then you'd think that people wouldn't bother with it.

* you pay for it anyway in taxes, it's not a lot of money, or it's free, depending on your income level.
Not it is not.

The only thing that is has done right versus Java is having AOT compilation since the begining (.NET always supported it via NGEN).

Not to mention that Java and .NET are platforms for programming languages, and already there Go loses big time versus what we have available on our toolbox.
But what does "taking it easy" mean?
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Ask Venezuela or Iraq or Iran or Hong Kong or basically any of the countries in the Arab spring how it’s going for them right now.
The contrasting pictures of the garage and the 'bigger space' are delightful!
I wouldn't be surprised if they're creating psych profiles of these students, and at some point the data will be sold (or "shared"), as always.
`go run` doesn't seem too hard to me.

https://golang.org/cmd/go/#hdr-Compile_and_run_Go_program
Someone looking to sneak a gun in would be hiding it in their pant's waistband or some other part of their clothes; inversely if they are looking to commit a public atrocity they'll skip the sneaking part altogether. Mandating clear backpacks is just as much security theater as is banning 4 oz liquid containers at the airport
I enjoy long walks (30-100km) so they take me from 4 to 18 hours. I see them as a kind of meditation so I don't listen to any podcasts or even music during that time. I feel it would be wrong somehow.
And if you see httpsterio's comment, that's 0,01% a day, 3,65% in a year, which is huge. Insurance must be crazy high to accept that level of risk on average.
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It's really upsetting to me to see how many folks here are asking who these people are. I think young engineers are losing sight of not only how computers and the internet started, but how underlying technologies work. Oh well peanut butter.
> Collison: when we sort of talk about the phenomenon of “progress,” you know, I think GDP or GDP per capita is a pretty good first approximation measure of it and it correlates strongly
——

I got confused when Collison said that there was scientific evidence that business productivity increases with improved management practices. That’s the thesis of business schools and management consultants. What’s the new idea here?

1) What’s the difference between “Progress Studies” and economics?

2) When businesses acquire their competitors, does this accelerate or inhibit progress?
>The fact the nuclear reactor hasn't been miniaturized to the size of a coin

But it has, or at least close to:

RTGs[1] weighting a couple dozen kilograms are used in space exploration and in rare cases in cold climates. Their main problem is low power density.

Nuclear pacemakers[2] of just a few centimeters across used to be a thing - long lasting and reliable. Also used thermoelectric generators. Replaced by cheaper lithium-based batteries due to high costs of making the nuclear capsule resilient against various possible sources of damage - like body cremation, car accidents, etc.

Nonetheless we have reached certain natural limit of nuclear fission, and only use of nuclear fusion[3] (or major scientific and engineering break-throughs) could change the status quo. The three main unsolved problems for wide scale commercial deployment of fission power:

1) radiation shielding - right now we only have passive shielding via use of structural materials, weights a lot

2) critical mass for active chain reaction (heavy and requires active management) vs passive generation via spontaneous fission (low power density)

3) operational safety and non-proliferation issues: a fission device requires radioactive material, and radioactive material is by its nature dangerous

Notably all three issues are either minimized or entirely absent for nuclear fusion.

Lastly, in typical nuclear power plant, the power generation facilities are usually of comparable size to, or even larger than, the nuclear reactor building itself - so miniaturizing the reactor would yield only diminishing results. High-temperature superconductors ought to be of some help here.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge...

[2] https://www.medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com/medtech-memoirs-...

[3] "Typical fuel pellets are about the size of a pinhead and contain around 10 milligrams of fuel." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_confinement_fusion
How long do US citizen stay with a single healthcare provider (/insurance)? If, say, only 50% are still with the same provider at age 50 as they were at age 30, there is a discount on the benefits of preventative measures compared to single-payer systems.
Does anyone know how much of such construction is re-construction, and how much new stock?

I have heard (but am not sure) that the pattern is more to buy some land, knock down the previous guy's house, and build your own. On a time-scale of 20-30 years, closer to how Americans regard cars (e.g. having to buy used cars is undesirable) than how they regard houses (once built they stay in use forever, although renovated).
" A lot of today's salaries are just not sustainable to live and retire off of anymore. You read stories about how several decades ago, a man working at a gas station was able to afford a house, car, and support his wife and children."

I just moved into a new place and had a painter do the walls. He started working at Safeway with 17, retired at 52 with a pension, has 2 houses and raised 2 kids. that sounds almost impossible these days.
I was once asked by a high school principle why programmers were such terrible writers.

I replied that all the good programmers I know are also good writers. That if you can write an essay, you can code. Because it's all just organizing your thoughts and communication.

Best job interview I ever had asked me to bring writing samples (not just code).
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am in the US, but even today many small and medium sized companies do not monitor internet

Every URL accessed via a proxy will be logged, even no one is actively reviewing those logs regularly
It's not just internet access though. They flag private emails as well, is that not a violation of privacy?

Also, I find this part highly disturbing:
“They don’t really give you a list of things not to do,” he said. “Once you’re in trouble, they act like you knew.”

This is eerily close to a typical oppressive state. See a troublemaker, make up a rule that you can prove they broke, punish them. Not a similar scale, of course, but it's still pretty bad.
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>A sickness where hatred for peers is harbored for years until it festers and explodes out in a violent way.

Could part of the problem be bullying? I've watched a lot of American movies and any time a school is depicted it has some pretty awful bullying going on. I've not heard of anything remotely like it elsewhere. Sure, there's bullying, but most of it ends in name calling or sometimes fights, rather than this harassment that goes on for years.
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Similarly the people who complain of unaffordable housing can simply move to places where they are affordable. Same logic
San Francisco DA elect:

Boudin was born in New York City.[1] His parents, Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, were Weather Underground members.[2]

When Boudin was 14 months old, his parents were arrested for their role as getaway car drivers in the Brink's robbery of 1981 in Rockland County, New York.[1][3] His mother was sentenced to 20 years to life[4] and his father to 75 years to life for the felony murders of two police officers and a security guard.[5] After his parents were incarcerated, Boudin was raised in Chicago by adoptive parents Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, who, like his parents, were members of the Weather Underground.[6] Kathy Boudin was released under parole supervision in 2003.[3][7]

Boudin descends from a long left-wing lineage. His great-great-uncle, Louis B. Boudin,[8] was a Marxist theoretician and author of a two-volume history of the Supreme Court's influence on American government, and his grandfather Leonard Boudin was an attorney who represented controversial clients such as Fidel Castro and Paul Robeson.[9] Boudin is also related to Michael Boudin,[8] a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and I.F. Stone, an independent journalist.[8][10]

Before law school, Boudin traveled to Venezuela and served as a translator in the administration of then-president Hugo Chávez.[12] After law school, from 2011-2012,
Proposition 47 is the real bugaboo, it moved from felony to misdemeanor thefts under $950 which includes damage caused by them. this made breaking into cars pretty much a free pass because window damage rarely could exceed that. becoming a misdemeanor meant cops have no real reason to follow up. throw in the requirement to prove the doors are locked, well its easy to understand

however the real dishonesty is from Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) who claims a bill to at least remove the requirement for prosecutors prove a car was locked before being broken into based on costs. As in, they are very willing to pass the costs onto individuals; hence there still is a cost but to government it does not occur unless on their books. As it was pointed out, how is it never a crime to enter a vehicle you do not own without permission?

Prop 47 lead to an increase in shop lifting because it set the limit high enough that it basically insured no one would get prosecuted. the common method is to send a bunch of people into a store at one time to get the goods in volume but with each individual being under the limit in monetary value if being young enough prosecution won't work either
>and it’s conditioning future generations to accept this level of surveillance as adults.

They will absolutely never be free of surveillance in a modern society, whether private or by government, anyway. Might as well get them used to it. They will always have devices on them that track everything they do. Society is beyond caring about privacy. Having toys and convenience is much more exciting. Hopefully they're also conditioning future generations to become docile slaves of their workplaces.
> All those also apply to subscription services

They quite obviously don't. Perhaps most notably availability at premier, which tends to matter a lot for TV shows if you have any desire to be part of the conversation about them.
As important as privacy is, the longer-term issue is values slowly devolving as each generation sees something as normal. Just as, if we don't resist the pressures, these children will grow up to consider this article's situation as normal and accept yet more encroachment, we adults accept what would repulse previous generations.

The environment, for example, though I could pick obesity, teaching to the test, or any number of other examples. The "Crying Indian" public service announcements from the 70s https://www.inc.com/joshua-spodek/remember-single-tear-anti-... reveal that the amount of plastic and waste that we once considered a crying shame, we produce monthly today, and is increasing.

We consider pollution normal that our ancestors cried at. Remember the first time you saw a picture of a beach covered in plastic junk? Now there are millions of such images. How many of us have plastic bottles next to our computers despite a tap giving healthier water a few steps away? How many of us ordered junk we knew we'd throw away manufactured twelve time zones away, knowing the pollution it would cause, but everyone else does it and that's just the way things are now?

We used to consider splitting atoms a crazy alternative to lower population growth. Now, especially in this community, people want more of it. Do you consider nuclear energy a solution instead of a symptom of deeper problems? Think of it from the perspective of the past, when there was more natural abundance per person. At the same time, think of how future generations may value greater encroachments into their freedom and privacy that we would consider unacceptable today.

The top post on this thread starts, "THIS IS NOT OKAY." How much that we consider okay today would past generations have judged "NOT OKAY"? If we would want future generations to claw back to now if these trends continued, should we claw back to a less-polluted world? To a more fit world? To an educational system that helps mature children into responsible, capable adults, not excellent sheep?
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Such a fatal failure is never the result of one person making a mistake.

It's always the result of many mistakes piled one atop the other, and you'll always find a bean-counter on the top adjusting an Excel spreadsheet somewhere to make the numbers come out in a way that pleases some executives.

Did they ever find the name of the accountant behind the fiasco?
> What advantages would a more complex memory model yield?

consistency
Really the ambigious apostrophed words are themselves analogous to UI design flaws. If most are getting the assumptions wrong then it is the interface which is bad.
Here's an alternative suggestion: try to find a set of the 4 books of the OU's MST124 Essential Mathematics 1 [1]. You'll probably pay more for them than a typical teach-yourself-math type book, but it's well worth it. They will take you from basic algebra right up to calculus, with a little linear algebra thrown in, and they're extremely well written.

You will have no gaps in your foundation with this approach - all the tricky stuff from basic algebra like negative/fractional exponents, simplifying square roots etc. will become very clear.

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I'm really curious why. This seems like an ok enough idea but hardly anything innovative. Is it just because the founders are bloggers and have a large following that it's getting traction? There's barely a description of what the product will be.
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I promise that this is asked genuinely and isn't some sort of veiled "gotcha!" (it's tough to tell on the internet sometimes); what was the reason for a change from Scala to Rust?

I ask because Scala already has a good type system and the JVM typically has good performance nowadays, particularly with something like GraalVM, so I am actually really curious to why you felt a Rust rewrite was a good idea.
This is like arguing whether Amazon is a tech company or a retail services company. The S&P say it's a retail services company, but we all agree it is powered almost thoroughly by technology in general.
3%? That seems fine, lock your bike to a light post and keep it overnight, I estimate the likelihood it's going to be stolen at 100%.

Of course, with both cars and bikes, police have much more important to do. That's the invariant: whatever the crime, there is surely something more worthy of their attention out there, so nothing is ever done.
Poor, emotion driven risk management as usual. School shootings kill very few people per year and are rare events (especially in places that can afford this tech) despite what the New York Times would have you believe. Why not focus efforts on things that actually do kill young people, namely:

* Car crashes (teach people to drive more defensively)

* Suicides (provide better mental health services)

* Violence that occurs outside of school (intervene to stop conflict before it becomes an issue, which would also help prevent these shootings)

* Opiods
That's diffused vs. focused modes of thinking.
I see it like a river entering a new landscape. In the focused mode the landscape has defined hills and valleys so the river has little choice where to flow. The Diffused mode is like a very flat landscape, not much is going on there so the water can access pretty much any part of it or keep changing the way it flows randomly connecting different points.
There's no law surrounding software engineer though, so we have no power over their own work. In civil engineering, if someone else takes your plan and still use them even though you still haven't signed them, they are the one responsible. You can do that in software engineering.
Is growing pie sustainable?
In 90s, if I remember correctly the Clinton administration even offered to built nuclear reactors in North Korea, if they would only bother to stop their weapons program.
If you experienced that yourself, or know people who have, how did that requirement feel? Was there self-monitoring or worrying, at the very least for personal hygiene or medical items?
Painful at first, but well worth it. You can ignore all existing code and only use it going forward.

django-stubs is black magic and helps a lot.

Here's an example setup that I use for my library:

https://github.com/silviogutierrez/reactivated/

the "sample" site is 100% type checked. Look at scripts/test.sh for running mypy in ci (and .github for the CI config)
Not to diminish the argument that it would cause huge problems. But federal law limits wage garnishment to the lesser of 25% of disposable income or income over 30x the minimum wage.
It didn't, async await is just syntactic sugar on top of coroutines/futures. You can define an sync function and get a coroutine back if you call it without await.

It's still kind of a mess though because you have two universes that are not really compatible, forcing you to rewrite everything that touches IO. For django that probably means a rewrite of the ORM, caching and middlewares.
>The clear backpacks are silly I'll admit, and also pointless.

My fiance is a high school teacher, in the past two months they've had a student come to school with a handgun and be expelled and handed over to the police and another expelled for having legit dealer quantities (nearly a pound) of marijuana (packed and placed in mason jars in her backpack) in a state where it isn't legal at a state level.

I can see why some might want clear backpacks.
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If we divided that 4.5B by the number of tech workers, where would we be at? If there are 100,000 tech workers in the Bay Area, that'd be around $45,000 per person of lobbying for affordable housing. If those tech workers saved $500 per month, they would earn back what their companies spent on them in 90 months, or 7.5 years.

Assumption, I don't know how many tech workers there truly are.
But a doctor is not tolled how to perform an operation. Whereas a developer in most all cases is. Just like in the emissions scandal of VW.
I think you're right; I mixed up what's planned [1] with what's available in beta.

[1] https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry... says "The current schedule is to release network boot first, then USB boot."
I'm Canadian. Almost nobody does this, although health benefits through work will usually cover the cost of drugs and dental. But nobody is paying extra for medical coverage outside of those areas.
Seems like you agree with me that this has nothing to do with guns and everything to do with the dysfunction of the school system.
Neither of the proposed single-payer models (Sanders and Jayapal bills) do anything like this.

I’ll grant that in the Biden/Buttigeig/Warren plans, there’s a lot of room (and incentive) to tank things like this or in any other number of ways.
But mostly in places that try hard to imitate SV.
You should give it a shot again now, I also ignored it for years but with my most recent upgrades I tried it out and in some simpler cases, it works well!
On Raspbian, yes. On Ubuntu, no. You can probably get the Raspbian packages to install on Ubuntu, but 64-bit Ubuntu is a little more complicated because Raspbian is 32-bit only.
Car burglary != car theft. The 70/day number refers to break-ins, generally a broken car window and stolen belongings -- loose change, usb charger, fuzzy dice, laptop, whatever.
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> Where did someone assume that the programmer was to blame?

I agree higher-ups bear the brunt of responsibility, but
the title of this post currently says "the programmer behind the THERAC-25 Fiasco was never found"
I work remotely as a contractor. Its both similar and very different from the OPs observations. For one, we're all senior so mentors and contacts with other groups are far less important. Communication remains key however.
Like the relationship between Descendent Studios and publisher Little Orbit. A virtually finished game gets frozen with no end in sight, developers work for free, and the publishers aren't available for comment...
Look at how that same argument fails to apply to suicide statistics being reduced by removing access to guns or falls from bridges. You're trying to apply a logical train of thought to an inherently illogical act of homicide.

But even if you can apply that, it doesn't work. The gun and ammo you can fit in a textbook is smaller than what can fit in a backpack. Backpacks are good at carrying things, that's why we - and school shooters - use them. So if someone wants to pack heat, they'll be less effective.

Maybe the effect from this is insignificant. But how sure do you have to be for the risk of dead children to be less bad than someone not being allowed a cute backpack?
This is exactly the problem. Lots of people love low or medium density cities because they make great places to live. And then other people who want the same thing start moving there, not asking what made it great in the first place. When lots of people do that, the prices go up and then the newcomers demand that they be accommodated at whatever price they want.

Also the hate against rent control here is myopic. Rent control is meant to protect those incumbents who were a part of the community prior to rapid growth / increase in prices. It allows low supply (protection of quality of life) to work without displacing incumbents when faced with rapid growth. Now we can argue about how effective specific implementations if rent control are, but a lot of folks misconstrue the underlying goals.
This can't be right. It's too easy to put drugs inside a book or pencil case. For that matter it's mostly the same problem for a weapon too.