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> Of course, you know that guns are more effective at killing people - especially large numbers of people.

A knife is quiet, you could probably kill more people with knives, a gun is loud and everyone nearby will hear it, probably what a crazy shooter would want is to strike fear into victims.

> You're more likely to use the gun to kill yourself or a family member than you are to use it to kill an intruder.

Since neither of those two are a viable option for myself, I'd rather have a gun, and only ever shoot it at a range than not have one and watch the worse possible scenario unfold before me.

> Killing someone who breaks into your home is most likely an overreaction in any case. The chances are very low that they've broken in with the intention of harming you rather than merely stealing something.

I don't know that, and I don't have to kill them if I pull a gun on them unless my life is in immediate danger. There's cases where a mother held the intruder at gun point until cops showed up to make an arrest.
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Currently #4 is Jessie's blog post announcing the company too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21682405
Or they will observe the world doesn't burn down around them with this level of surveillance in place and will come to find it normal.

Which may very well be fine; perhaps it's a useful normal.
Thank you for your answer, it's really helpful since I don't have any experience doing this.

I will try to follow this 'guide', it sounds better than my non existing plan :)
How did outreach.io know which company I'm from, seemingly from IP address alone? We have no IP allocations, only domain names and DNS records.
Most game developers have no revenue stream beyond their publishing contract. Of course these contracts look exploitive. One side has no leverage, and is basically an all in one out source shop.
I think US healthcare is poisoning people. Every office-dweller is on proton-pump inhibitors, SSRIs, or both. In most cases, the PPIs are there to treat people who have wrecked their GI tracts by popping ibuprofen once or twice a day. Every older person is also on statins. Then there's the oxycontin dominance in the red states.

People constantly going to the doctor over side-effects and dosage level adjustments. Doctors just see them as walking wallets, and prescribe a new pill to cover the old side-effects with new ones.

Your liver and your kidneys can only take so much--see the dialysis centers popping up all over the place...
To copy my earlier comment that I think was posted before you sent this:

Cantrill is one of the people responsible for dtrace, and more or less the only Sun-alumni who's not retired or disappeared. He also was the CTO of Joyent.

Frazelle was one of the people responsible for Docker.

I think Tuck is a finance guy who used to be a sysadmin? And he was COO of Joyent for a while, apparently.

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It seems to be a server company. This is somewhat significant, because one of Cantrill's previous endeavors was at a company famous for making a once-great architecture that got killed by x86, one of the few remaining UNIX server operating systems (that was later effectively killed by Linux), and physical machines. Tuck is from Joyent, which was one of the first companies to really "get" the cloud, and Frazelle was from Docker, which should be modern enough for you to understand why it's significant.
"VPNs are not the type of consumer product you EVER want to have acquired by ANYBODY."

That's why I encourage these types of things to be set up as public-benefit companies, non-profits, etc chartered to do the good things and not do the bad things. At least, the obvious ones that keep recurring. General principles plus a pile of specifics as examples of them.
There's also an entrepreneurial angle:

If you don't have to worry about health care, it becomes much easier to start and run a small company.
Pirating is easier in the same way an FTP server is easier than Dropbox.
I don't think it's guns, there's other countries where you have gun rights that don't have this problem. Then there's countries where guns were forced out of citizens hands and the government went rogue (Venezuela).
I actually disagree with you about shares of companies. They should accurately reflect the value of the underlying company. Wanting everything to "go up" all the time is part of the problem that we face throughout the economy, not just in housing. Just as city councils have conspired to rig the process for housing, forces like central banks have rigged the process for all types of investment assets (including housing!). This will become a problem as a generation of savers/investors is unable to generate positive returns on investments to fund their lifestyles and retirements.
"Restrict more, different rights to make us safer^tm"
A better title then would be “Oxide Computer to build servers for compute infrastructures.”
"> interface{}

I certainly agree on this one. It is a weird feature and often a 'smell' when found in Go code."

The feature itself is not a problem. Every major static language has the equivalent. It's often called something that involves the word "dynamic".

Having programmed in Go for many years now, I don't find myself using it very often in my own code. I've come to think of this as something said by either people who have never used Go at all, or people who used Go briefly but insisted on programming Javascript-in-Go or something. The latter is definitely a Bad Time... but it's always bad to program X-in-Y. If your code is shot through with interface{}, you either chose Go for something way outside of its domain, or you are not using it correctly.

"> comments that affect code generation

I agree that they should have introduced syntax for this, assuming you mean compiler flags (or w/e they're called)."

This is another criticism that I think mostly comes from people with a checklist criticism set of Go, because in practice, this is of negligible concern. It doesn't come up often, it isn't proliferating (i.e., it's not like with every point release we get another two or three new kinds of comments), it's literally never been an issue of any kind for me in the last six years. It's a complete non-issue. I am far more annoyed by, say, the fact godoc doesn't give me basic markdown than comments affecting compilation has ever annoyed me, and that's just an occasional minor annoyance.
Take a look at https://energy-charts.de/power.htm : pumped storage peak discharge hardly ever reaches a level of contribution as high has biomass and that is basically all the non-fossil dispatchability that we have. Meanwhile, biomass is running as baseload more stubbornly than even nuclear.

Making the biomass contribution dispatchible would be huge.
The constant use of smartphones has become a pretty central part of US culture. Shouldn't school reflect the environment the student is being taught to live in?
First of all, making something illegal does not make it disappear, and you're also grossly overestimating the occurrence (as are the people calling for clear backpacks) of school shootings. The vast majority of shootings are between criminal gangs - making the guns illegal will not magically make criminals into upstanding citizens.

Consider that the news cycle and FUD have created a terrible availability bias in our country that increasingly leads to draconian actions like those mentioned in the article.

https://quillette.com/2019/11/29/the-availability-heuristic-...
That's far less explanatory.
After using GCP and AWS for years and paying exorbitant amounts as a student, I was thinking of just switching to some old Dell rack server.

Glad that Oxide will hopefully allow people and companies to utilize their infrastructure on components that may not be so old/may be easier to use.
HDI is a composite score of which housing is an element. It includes all sorts of things like access to water, access to health care, etc, etc. I'm suggesting that continuing to develop the US through the addition of housing units would likely not lead to an increase in population but rather a decrease as tends to happen with development more broadly. I'm unaware of any studies which correlate specifically housing with fertility in isolation.

Maybe I confused you with two definitions of "development" in the same context -- developing houses, and human development / HDI of which housing is diffuse factor. See [1] for more info if you're curious.

[1] http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/human-development-index-hdi
I know for a fact BofA was doing it 10 years ago, because a family member tried to show me a YouTube video on their work laptop and it was blocked by the BofA firewall, even though they were at home. I doubt that there was a reprimand or anything, but I bet it was logged somewhere “just in case”.
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Stacked vs horizontal makes differences for some uses and not others. If we are vertical I care is you start a kitchen fire as I have to evacuate just in case, Horizontal makes that need much less likely. There are a lot of hobbies that include large objects that are easier to have in horizontal development (any collector of large objects, a grand piano).

Though the number of people who do that is small in the scheme of things. Grand pianos are often moved via crane - if you only do it once in a lifetime the cost isn't much but if you move regularly it is expensive.
It is an interesting aspect of human psychology that more people are afraid of a mass shooting in a school, though far more students will graduate knowing someone who died in a car crash than someone who died in a mass shooting.

... but it is how human psychology works, so the school must account for it.
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Please don't sour the discourse by providing a false choice.

There are a lot of options (opportunities) between residential zoned single family dwellings with huge setbacks and love hotels.

Simply progressively incrementally upzoning areas, on a fixed 30 year schedule, is The Correct Answer. So that (for instance) Seattle would go from 75% zoned residential today to 70% in 2050.

That kind of long term planning makes the market predictable and protects current owner's investment and plans. eg Maybe someone wants to stay in their house until their kids go off to college, or stay in their house during their golden years, and it'd be nice to know they can afford to stay.
I've worked in games for over 25 years. This sort of arrangement is very common. Note there are bad developers and publishers so both get screwed at times.

Relationship building in games is very hard, there is a lot of distrust. Milestones can be very hard to pin down as a task being complete is very subjective (when are player controls done? when implemented or when they feel good? what does feel good mean?). You can meet every milestone and deliver a game that isn't fun, you can miss every milestone and deliver a best selling game.

At it's core the industry is trying to use the Hollywood movie model for financing, designing and developing games. It's not working, they are far less linear, far more interactive and significantly less well known as an art form.

There are no (or few) unique problems in videogames but they do tend to be in the extreme compared to the other arts and engineering problems.
> There is no drive for infinite growth, that I have found.

What about Carbon emission projections. Isn't that proof of 'drive for infinite growth' ?
>The real question is why are the US ranking so high in violent crime and murder rates compared to other developed countries

This question has been asked time and again and the gist of the answer is that the people who make their living moving around illicit substances drag up the average. For people who don't associate with drug trafficking the US is basically on par with Europe.
His same argument means there were never any hackers if you compare it to the entire human race.

There have always been very few "true hackers". That continues to be the case. It doesn't mean they died out, it means that nothing has changed other than that it's harder to find them using the same search terms.
>Eighteen months on, the researchers found that, as expected, the families who got the money used it to buy lots more food and other essentials.

>But that was just the beginning.

>"That money goes to local businesses," says Miguel. "They sell more. They generate more revenue. And then eventually that gets passed on into labor earnings for their workers."

>The net effect: Every dollar in cash aid increased total economic activity in the area by $2.60.

Amazing. This is almost like what happens when (poor) families receive a tax cut.
I recently went from 1.11 -> 2.0 -> 2.1 -> 2.2 over the course of about a week, deploying to production each time we had all test passing to ensure there wasn't anything amiss. There were actually relatively few changes to get there, the upgrade to Python 3 was a bigger (albeit still manageable) change. I'm expecting very few changes to get onto Django 3.0, will probably wait till the first bug fix release though as it tends to catch a few things.

The best thing to go is run the dev server with `python -Wd` to get the depreciation warnings, and fix them before each upgrade. Worked perfectly!
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Your argument is very, very weak whataboutism. Just because people die of other things more frequently does not mean that you are not supposed to prevent deaths. Your argument suggests that we should not be bothering with a justice system at all, because far more people die of cancer and heart disease than are murdered or crippled, therefore it would be dumb to put any money down for preventing and prosecuting murders.
Thanks for the clarification and details - I was kind of unclear on why Axions are not considered to be weakly interacting and therefore not WIMPs and my comment is based on what I found in my brief search.
Indeed. As someone who works in the arts, it’s quite apparent how much easier it is to survive for my friends and colleagues in Canada and Europe. Even discounting the public funding for the arts many of them receive, simply not having to worry about healthcare and medicine costs as a freelancer makes a huge, obvious differences the length and viability of their careers.
> I'm a little surprised there aren't more weird OSes going around these days, now that everything runs in the browser except text editors and fancy video games.

Don't know what you're talking about, but I've used plenty of text editors and played fancy video games in a browser.

The day will come when your can run a hardware emulator in your browser and use to it run your hobby OS or even a C64 image for you to hack on.
In San Francisco what the rest of the US considers middle class incomes are not enough to afford a place to live.
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Plenty of people would love to live in a micro-apartment. Just because it would make you feel poor to do so doesn’t mean it should be illegal!
Blackberry's stock price went up 10x in the year after the first iPhone was released.
I had a few endpoints that had to handle url parameters, query parameters, http headers and bodies which could either be json, form data or files, handling all of those options using type annotated parameters ended up being pretty messy and I ended up just using the starlette request object.

I was trying it out for a machine learning service that had to send back large dense vectors and I hit some other performance issues (like https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/issues/360#issuecomment-...), due to the coupling of validation with serialization.
The other part is some of that "waste" has industrial uses. Think medical isotopes, RTG's, clocks, etc.
Indeed, it is only a problem in the sense that it is not a perfect solution.
Why? It names the company and what they do and what they sell for.

The current title conveys 0 useful information. Don’t know who those people are and a “computer company” could be anything.
There are still 6 times more guns per person in the US than in Switzerland. Looking at the numbers also shows that Switzerland is far from being an outlier in any way, so I'm not sure why the Swiss system is more interesting than the Austrian system or Swedish system in that regard.

There are just way too many guns in the US (i.e. "it's just way too easy to get a gun in the US").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_g...
>Allende's Chile wasn't USSR

I didn't state it was.

My answer is for popular conspiracy theory about CIA as the main reason for socialism's failures.

Nevertheless, "promise of Latin American" is a little bit too rosy description for the gov't which ended with hyperinflation through printing money.
Sorry, I tried searching for what you mean by "ISO C++ memory model", I can't find authoritative usage of that term. I find a bunch of references to fences and std::atomic, both ideas of which Rust has supported from the start.

I also can't find any details on the CUDA project you mention, it seems counter-intuitive to me. At least with graphics data, it's mostly just large buffers of structs, defined with vertex attrib pointers or whatever. What advantages would a more complex memory model yield?
Most laws restrict some right to make us safer, and most laws succeed at that. For all the vehicular homicides in the US, there'd be more if we didn't require driving on the right-hand-side of the road and not driving on the sidewalk.

The question is always where the tradeoff point should be, not whether there's any tradeoff.
Yes. Though if they were easy to find they'd be overrun with people who don't feel that what they found is worth protecting.
I don't think I've ever been linked to a site in Iran before. Odd.
Indeed. I mean, "left" and "right" do an awful lot of work. "Left" simply means anyone who isn't opposed to the current order, or it can mean one of several particular ideologies. "Extreme left" would tend to mean communist.

But green communists are a real thing, so while I would prefer to say "some of the extreme left is anti nuclear" or some such. Or perhaps more relevantly for the OP's point, "many greens".

Because not all greens are left, and not all leftists are green. Indeed, many contemporary Green voters in Australia are positively mainstream in terms of their economics. I think in Germany they can even trend right. And in east Europe, they're outright right.
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The domain susam.in has been transferred back to me. I've updated the original Gist post with recent updates on why this issue occurred and how it was resolved: https://gist.github.com/susam/3cb42e571c4ab12987b286791bdfe9... (see the "Updates" section).

Summary: The Shadowserver Foundation contacted me by email and informed me that my domain name was sinkholed accidentally as part of an operation they were performing. They have now examined my domain name and found that my domain name should be excluded from their operation. They worked with NIXI to transfer the domain name back to me.

Thank you, everyone, for your support as well as for the great quality of discussion on this thread.
I imagine being able to go to a doctor without worrying about whether they can afford the copay. Wellness is as much about needing a coach as it is a medical practitioner.
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Interested in reading about agencies that used to (mostly) build web applications in Rails but then switched to (mostly) Django.

I find the productivity somewhat higher from a business point of view, to turn around projects for customers when using Rails instead - largely due to the gem ecosystem and the way community libraries tend to play well with one another.
How do other countries get along so well without the right to bear arms, and have they paid any less blood than the US for the society they formed?
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you raise an interesting point that caused me to look deeper into the 990s filed by ISOC and PIR. So, I share this in case you are curious (or getting sucked down this rathole like I am:)).

In 2017, ISOC created the Internet Society Foundation (like PIR a wholly owned subsidiary of Internet Society). PIR was a cash machine, generating ~$75M in cash, which they recorded as having been paid out in grants. ISOC split that so that ~30M showed up as revenue on Internet Society's 990, and $43M showed up on the newly created Internet Society Foundation's 990 as revenue. This may have been to avoid ISOC failing a public support test? (I'm operating at the limits of my understanding at this point and haven't taken the time to dig into this question). I am going to speculate that the proceeds from the sale of PIR will also go into the Foundation.

Interestingly, the ISOC 990 does not show their ownership in PIR as a material asset on the balance sheet. One would think that a wholly owned sub that has $90M+ in revenue and throws off $75M in cash would be treated as an asset of value? It's possible there is something about non-profit accounting that makes this okay under GAAP - not something I know much about, but it caught my eye.

I don't know how to evaluate the self-dealing question - I have dealt with some of the other issues here (eg disposition of non-profit assets, unrelated income, etc) as a non-profit founder, board member, or treasurer, but I have never wrestled with a self-dealing issue (thankfully!), so I don't know what the courts would look for there.

Edit: source here is 2017 990s for Internet Society, Internet Society Foundation, and Public Interest Registry, pulled down from Guidestar. 2017 is the most recent year available for all three.
Well, if you keep fearmongering about this stuff, what do you think is going to happen?
How possible is it that the only programmer was a minor and that's why we never got any testimony or explanation? I've heard stories of companies or governments hiring extremely young programmers to do some pretty serious work. (John Romero comes to mind)

Edit: It would also explain the lack of provable credentials.
Your suggestion is not in opposition to repealing zoning restrictions. You can do both, but one should happen first.

Zoning laws restrict what builders can build. Subsidies take funding. I find it unpalatable to have a portion of my income taken to solve a problem caused by rules which can be repealed for free.

An extreme example would be subsidizing gold plated homes. Gold plating adds no practical value and makes the house needlessly expensive. Tax dollars should not fund gold plated houses.

Replace the concept of gold platting with suburban zoning.
Is there a startup that does this?
It's really simple! Perhaps not worthy of Show HN. I've just been working on it throughout the day, tweaking the word lists to try and make it produce interesting ideas. Still 90%+ nonsense, but if you click for a while, some interesting ideas come up, I think.
The US private healthcare system has lots of problems and I'm not trying to defend it. However, the public European model is very misleading. The reason is that most people who can afford it pay for private insurance, even in Europe. Otherwise they need to wait months for a doctor appointment.
I still have no idea how to get/run/make/compile/deploy Go stuff. Sure, there's some GOPATH, some packages, dep? go get?

I have no idea how, but 1-2 years ago when Kubernetes was new I tried it, and somehow got it to build (obviously I must have been using the stuff from the README) - but I haven't learned it.

Whereas with Rust? It's cargo. Done. That's up. Or rustup if you don't have anything yet. With Java? It's IntelliJ or the OpenJDK.