skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm really tired of this argument that people are irrationally afraid of black rifles and simply don't understand the machines they're purporting to regulate. These are devices that were designed to be field stripped by 18 year olds in a jungle. They're not that complicated.

The Mini-14 (for example) has a wooden stock, and looks like something out of Little House On The Prairie, in part because it was brought to market at a time where the M-16, a descendant of the Stoner AR-15 design, had acquired a reputation for dreadful unreliability. In an urban environment, it's just as problematic as an AR-15; what's your point?

Another almost perfectly unhelpful argument is the irrationality of assault weapons bans. This is the Nelson Muntz of firearms regulations argument. The original AWB proposals were sane and straightforward: they intended to regulate any semi-automatic long gun with a detachable magazine. It was the 2A crowd, and particularly the NRA, that fought off gun control advocates to the absurd position they occupy now. It's not some article of faith among gun control advocates that grips and barrel shrouds are actually important. The NRA is the reason we ended up here, and now they're telling us to stop hitting ourselves.

Also, another example of a firearm with a wood stock? The AK-47.
If add retentions with automatic backup to bigquery or cloud storage we'll get infinity messaging with very reasonable resource usage
I just bought an Honor Magicbook for $600 that's plenty powerful for a development laptop. My first development PC (Pentium 166) cost $3500 in the mid 90s, so factor that with inflation.
Two words: dilution and liquidity

This typically happens at big companies, though.
You give the individual too much credit. If the majority wanted to take away your guns, they would. The majority also can take away your right to self-determine, that's the entire basis of law and criminal punishment. If laws were based on fundamental moral truth they wouldn't change, and yet laws change all the time, that's one of the fundamental strengths of the US constitution (because time often shows laws to be unjust).
I like working and dont think I could ever retire and relax type deal. But I also tend to overwork myself by always taking on more and eventually get stressed and 'need' a holiday which has 2 positive effects;

1) Some downtime is good, see somewhere different and hang with family/friends etc

2) After a bit I get bored doing holiday activities and remember how much I like to work. I think this is actually the most positive benefit of a holiday.
Ask HN: How to implement a time capsule in software
Is it possible to implement a time capsule in software? For example, somehow (cryptographically?) enforce that the contents of the software are not readable until a date in the future?
Those toys let them imagine they have power. Take that away, and they might accidentally realize that they don't and get angry at the real boots stepping on their throats.
Kotlin is less orthogonal than Scala. For example nullability in Kotlin is a special language feature that can't be abstracted nicely, when in Scala it works just as any other monad.

Also I don't agree it is like Rust or Closure. Kotlin got majority of features from Scala, and contrary to Rust or Scala it does not offer anything innovative. Kotlin is just Java with nicer syntax. Scala and Rust are more complex, but these are the few that move the needle.
It just seems orthogonal to me. Some people experience superdeterminism viscerally and then they take a pill and the feeling goes away. It's not scientific or unscientific, it's more of an attitude. Also, given the regular appearance of such a feeling in disturbed minds, it seems like a basic feature of human cognition, like say, the capacity to taste salt or something.
Superdeterminism isn't a radically different way of thinking about experimental results as a determinist.

> To continue with the coin flip analogy, consider a classical world where a coin flip is perfectly deterministic, given the initial conditions. In the usual way we think about determinism, it's still possible to test whether a coin is fair. Just flip it a bunch of times, a little differently each time, and see if you get a ratio close to 50/50. That's standard science.

Every person understanding determinism will assert if you can repeat the same conditions of a previous coin flip, you will get the same outcome of the previous coin flip (for the next flip) and until the conditions are altered to make it so. The "conditions" being all the "external forces" acting upon the coin as it flips and lands.

We all understand a coin flip is 50/50 for us, since we're not perfect machines at replication. We would need to be able to analysis how to flip a coin the same as a previous flip and manipulate the environment of the coin flip to the previous flip if required.

The foregoing understanding is beneficial for scientists when it comes to experimentation. I understand why people can assume "God/Nature did it" would be worrisome. I still think you're making a big leap with what you originally asserted.
Seriously, WTF is a study from a US agency doing behind a paywall? That ought to be illegal! So here.[0]

0) Osborne et al. (2019) Decadal variability in twentieth-century ocean acidification in the California Current Ecosystem. https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-019-0499-z
For fun, I'm going to rewrite all of the examples in Scala:

1) Main

def main() = println("Hello")

2) Variables:

val y = 1

3) Options (nulls are discouraged):

val name: Option[String] = None

4) Null 2:

//If bob is not null, get his age, or get a default age

val age = bob.map(_.age).getOrElse(0)

5) Elvis operator

Kotlin:

val result = nullableVariable?.someMethodCall() ?: fallbackIfNullMethodCall()

Scala:

val result = option.map(_.someCall()).getOrElse(defaultValue)

6) String interpolation in scala seems to be exactly the same as kotlin:

val name = "John"

val lastName = "Smith"

val text = "My name is: $name $lastName"

val otherText = "My name is: ${name.substring(2)}"

In addition, you can also have:

val longString = s"""

|This is line 1

|This is line 2, my name is $name

""".stripMargin

7) This shows the same multi-line strings as above, but its unclear if you can have variables in multi-line strings like I showed above in Scala

8) Ternary operator:

val text = if (x > 5) "x > 5" else "x <= 5"

Some bonus stuff which scala has:

9) Case classes:

case class Person(name: String, age: Int)

10) Pattern matching

person match {

case Person("bob", 13) =>

println("Matched bob with age 13")

case Person("sally", _) =>

println("Matched sally, age unknown")

case Person(name,age) =>

println(s"Matched unknown person with name $name and age $age")

case x:_>

println(s"Matched unknown item: $x")

}

10) Equality which actually makes sense, i.e

val foo = "foo"

val bar = "foo"

foo == bar //true in scala, no need to foo.equals(bar)

val bob = Person("bob", 13)

val other = Person("bob", 13)

bob == other //true, based on values

val list = Seq(bob)

list.contains(other) //true, based on values

11) .par collections / way better higher order functions

val list = Seq(string1, string2,...)

//Do a parallelized search on list to find all strings <= 3 chars in length:

val shortStrings = list.par.filter(_.length <= 3).seq

12) Try:

val riskyOp = Try( doSomethingRisky() )

riskyOp match {

case Success(result) =>

println(s"Op succeeded with result $result")

case Failure(e) =>

e.printStackTrace

}

Disclaimer: I wrote all these in the HN textbox, please excuse any typos
Have you seen this entry in Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garri#Health_implications

> Garri is made from cassava which contains hydrocyanic acid .../... can lead to .../... worsening of ulcers.
The Index also has relief adjustment, which is high on his wish list at the end of the article.
This reminds me that in say, a *BSD ports tree, you end up pulling tarballs from the internet, extracting them and running make. (Granted there can be a hash on them so that's some verification)

But an exploit using that would likely sooner just write something malicious in the Makefile if it wants to compromise the build machine. Targeting the compiler for such a goal seems like it would be harder.
Once again, you prove me completely wrong. Thanks for the detailed correction.
Absolutely untrue, Scala is completely backwards compatible with Java - you can use all your java code in Scala and even write scala as mostly a better Java.
I worked at a ski resort and used an automation script to reduce my night audit role down to an hour of work per night. I used the remaining 7+ hours to learn how to code.

Then I got a job in tech.

I have been automating my roles since I started working and have never had a problem telling people about my tools.

Never seemed wrong to me to become more productive through automation. I estimate my tools replace 15 hours of work per week.

I still end up working well above 40 hours per week so these tools just keep me barely above water.

The only thing automation seems to give me is more productivity, which eventually lands something else on my plate that I need to automate and the cycle begins again.
Well, no. That is the same kind of error as Zeno's paradox.

One assigns a prior to a class of hypotheses, and the cardinality of that set does not change the total probability you assign to the entire hypothesis class.

If one instead assigns a constant non-zero prior to each individual hypothesis of an infinite class, a grievous error has been committed and inconsistent and paradoxical beliefs can be the only result.
Well, semantics...SCOTUS refused to hear. But by refusing, it was an implicit support -- but I wouldn't call it a ruling. A ruling would be more along the lines of indelible -- this was more a filibuster.
They have that, it's called "moral relativism"
Well: less code means less bugs doesn't it?
Here's the trouble with that argument:

> Gun control on the national level will not stop the flow of guns across national borders. It's dishonest of you to suggest otherwise.

People smuggle drugs into this country at scale. The same people who are among the most likely perpetrators of homicides. If prohibiting possession has no effect and prohibiting importation is similarly ineffective then it's hard to see how a national prohibition would do much more than a state one.
People compile unread code all the time. Having them send the binary back is a little unusual though. But nothing says the resulting binary can’t open its own socket when its first run. There are lots of exfiltration options.

Getting them to run make as root would be pretty easy. People are already conditioned to run “sudo make install”.

A good mitigation is to install software by user so root privileges aren’t needed at any step of the process.
>The fact that guns are “designed to kill people,” while swimming pools aren’t, is beside the point. Such word games can be played both ways: A gun is designed to save your life when no other tool will do the job. Swimming pools are just for fun.

(Sam Harris)
Eh, Red Rising is a dystopia in that it is not equal for all, in that the low colors are essentially slaves.

The author is a history buff, and describes his motivation for the society as looked back on mankind's history and seeing that it's not a gradual progression towards becoming better, but a cyclical process oscillating between egalitarianism and authoritarianism (fascism).

Either way, it will be a damn good story to see play out as a series. Despite the first three books being from only Darrow's perspective, the characters rival Game of Thrones IMO.
No surprise, coming from Nix!
I see superdeterminism as more like breaking the information limit, each particle is aware of the rest of the universe and can thus predict how things will be done everywhere. I don't believe that packing that much information in each particle makes sense, but it shows that superdeterminism doesn't require that a god manually determined the result of each event in the entire history of the universe.
> I'm really tired of this argument that people are irrationally afraid of black rifles and simply don't understand the machines they're purporting to regulate.

Given that more people are killed with hands and feet than are killed with rifles of any kind, "assault" or otherwise, yes, it's an irrational fear.

Source: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-...

For 2018, the numbers are:

Rifles: 297
Hands and feet: 672.
The Wikipedia page uses WHO data, which is age-standardised. It's unclear if this explains the entire difference.

The WHO explanation is here: https://www.who.int/data/gho/indicator-metadata-registry/imr... and their data is here: http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.main.MHSUICIDEASDR?lang=en
A pension is very unlike a 401k. A 401k is an investment account that you, the employee own. A pension is an account the employer owns, m along with a promise they’ll pay out of it at a certain rate.
Getting Started with SwiftUI
> overengineered code

False, scala is really concise.

> slow compile times

A few seconds slower on average, you mean

> worse compatibility with other JVM languages.

Its completely backwards compatible with Java.
Rifles have none of the legitimate uses that gun advocates go on about so its a low reward but 0 loss situation to ban them.

Unless someone is proposing you need to defend your house against a zombie invasion.
Great to hear this has sparked your curiosity.

Reach out if you end up having any questions!

As to the risk of specific dialects being too difficult to understand: this isn’t the case in practice. There’s a few of reasons for this, but the main one is that, you can’t deviate from lisp’s simple syntax too much — as soon as you do, it’s no longer a lisp, and can’t use macros in the same way
> (Peacocks signal with their tails that they are healthy and strong, even though they have no society they live in, so no inequality and class struggles).

And yet many animals have very little sexual dimorphism and exhibit very little sexual competition or selectiveness, so it would clearly seem to be a result of their evolutionary niche or environmental factors that lead to one behavior or the other. The most common example being the differences in form/behavior between the chimpanzee and the bonobo. The difference being that the bonobos live in relative abundance because they are not subject to competition with the gorillas. Likewise if humans did not face the intense artificial scarcity imposed upon us by strict social hierarchy and economic inequality, we might see our society shape itself much more like bonobos than chimpanzees.
The next generation of Xbox is just called Xbox
Description of the LCS35 Time Capsule Crypto-Puzzle
Do you think people advocating gun control haven't considered these numbers? Heart disease kills more people than crime of all sorts. We still generally want police departments.

Is there some book or FAQ these arguments all get sourced from? They always seem to be the same ones. At this point, I'm not even annoyed that people disagree with me about firearms, but just that their arguments are so boring.
Apple WWDC 2000 Session 120 – Carbon Overview [video]
Better performance with bursting enhancement on Azure Disks
I’ve spent years working 12 hour days.

Right now I can’t bring myself to do much more than an hour a day. I’m not going to attack myself for it.
In a container or not, running a compiler-as-a-service as root is never the right way to run a compiler-as-a-service.
Pre Order of Trinity Now Available for VOD or Download Coming on Christmas Day
ryeights gave a cite below, but consider this:

If the First Amendment had been written as "A well-educated legislature being essential to the governance of a free state, the right of the people to keep and read books shall not be infringed", you would argue, what, exactly?

That only the legislature had the right to books?

That only "well-educated" people had the right to books?

No, you wouldn't. Neither would anyone else, because that would be a tortured interpretation of the language.
One person not being able to sell their skills is a personal problem, a significant number of people who can't find work with their skillset and a significant number of employers unable to find people with skills is a market failure. We're at a market failure and there is economic loss as a result.
Microsoft announces OpenChain 2.0 conformance for open source
The meaning of amendment itself is plain enough that many who argue for certain interpretations seem to be doing so in bad faith. As for why it has rarely mattered, at the very least until it was for-sure incorporated it had a much more limited importance at the national level since states could pretty much do absolutely whatever they felt like.

In any case, the militia clause is clearly an explanation and/or justification for what follows. It's the "why" they decided to include the amendment, and could just as soon say "because bats have wings," for how much bearing it has on the other clauses. Though I do agree the whole thing has way too many commas.
>>> there was no accountability or impetus to actually change my behavior

That’s what you need to be talking to your therapist about. “I don’t seem to be taking any action to change myself, I’m waiting for others to change me.”
Instagram using new AI to help stop bullying
Medical Supply Items That Are Helpful to Own at Home
Announcing the PowerShell 7.0 Release Candidate
Today I bought a t-shirt in a physical store and they asked for my surname, "for the receipt".
Even if you exclude "natural causes" the point is still there. Terrorism is ludicrously over-represented in the media, even compared to homicide. Homicide is half as likely as suicide but the media has it reversed. Drug overdose is preventable in ~100% of cases and kills three times more people than homicide but it's completely ignored.
Again, what you said is textbook determinism that I and almost every scientist agrees with. Superdeterminism is much, much stranger than this (it's not just saying quantum mechanics is deterministic, which e.g. Many Worlds also does).
Inkscape Version 1.0 About Screen Contest Winner
The person I replied to mentioned it as something existing.

And shit in a restroom is an unpleasant thing to see, but it’s a facility set aside for the explicit purpose of shitting. The explicit purpose of a bus includes transport without shitting. I find it hard to imagine that you can’t conceive of the idea of people being exposed to shit and the types of people who have no issues shitting while on a bus. They’re not mentally stable people and they’re quite possibly dangerous.

And no, we should absolutely not destigmatize shitting on buses or in places other than toilets. It’s not only disgusting to look at, but that’s how you spread deadly diseases. It’s a problem the Romans knew how to handle—let’s not set ourselves back in time 2000 years because some mentally unstable person might be offended.
Most languages with Either/Result have some form of monadic composition and type inference. This lets you basically ignore the error condition until you get to a level where it's appropriate to handle it, and the compiler will check the error types for consistency without you having to specify anything explicitly.

Either/Result has often been found to be untenable without these mechanisms, as well. Rust first added the try! macro and then the ? operator because it was so tedious to deal with raw Results otherwise.
That's the same glyph that got a guy killed.
https://gizmodo.com/a-cellphones-missing-dot-kills-two-peopl...
Google Analytics experiencing problems currently
V7.0.0-RC.1 Release of PowerShell Core
It used to be the case that programmers were simply another step up from "power user", and as such would've already become familiar with such aspects of the system. Now, people are "learning to code" with barely any basic computer literacy, and the situation is even worse thanks to opaque locked-down platforms like mobile, so that a lot of them unfortunately have only a vague notion of what a file is, much less the whole "devices are also files" paradigm that underlies Unix (and to a certain extent, Windows --- but how many Windows programmers know about CON?)

I've surprised some coworkers -- ones who are definitely not inexperienced or just learning -- by e.g. using /dev/stdout as a logfile, or even /dev/pts/x to have multiple logs directly written to separate terminal windows. They all "knew" that devices are files, but never thought about actually trying to use them as such.

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18349847
Yes, but in order to actually explain the results of existing experiments superdeterministically, this "implicate" order must be vast. It has to link the results of spin measurements, coin flips, radioactive decays halfway across the world, and the twinkling of the light from a long-dead star, all of which are sources of apparent randomness used together in experiments. All of this has to work in concert.

If that really is the right way to think about the world, then absolutely nothing of science can survive. There is no such thing as a controlled experiment.
I've been contemplating bear spray to fill that role. Deployed in the confines of our home, it would put both us and any assailant in a world of hurt, but nobody has to die (and, if turned against us, we might suffer far less).

Even bird shot, fired from within our house, could easily kill our nearest neighbors. They're less than 10m away, and separated only by plate glass. The buckshot that my father has selected for home defense could easily reach them through their interior walls. I've already dealt with enough death in life.
Assume there are 75 planes that will not be delivered. At an average of $125m per plane, that’s $9B or 7% of their assets. They can simply payback that money with all cash on hand and everyone is whole.

Boeing stock is down about 3% today which lines up with the numbers above. Boeing is not going anywhere. Maybe shave another 10% for them to remake the MAX (new 7x7) and fix their image problem and by mid decade no one will remember how to spell MCAS
Titan-M? https://duckduckgo.com/?q=google+titan+chip
Disclaimer: The below applies to people without families.

I think some (talented) software engineers would benefit from going through a phase, at least once in their lives, where they quit and travel. And then try to do something on their own. And fail. Because you learn something super important.

Life goes on and things usually look up.

After that happens, you might decide to change how you live. You could take more chances, go on more vacations, devote fewer hours to your employer and more to your self, and generally live with less fear. Remembering that you can make a $100k+ income virtually at will (again, assuming you're reasonably talented) is tremendously empowering.
Azure ARM Template, what’s new for 2020
Of course, I am giving examples of extremes.

But in general, I’m just saying that cars have low barriers to obtain here, for whatever the situation may be. That situation is sometimes necessity, but not always. This is not a phenomenon that only exists in places without public transit.

I also wanted to convey is that the concept of “affordable” isn’t exactly comparable across cultures, classes, and backgrounds.

As you may know, cars are a status symbol in the US. My roommate in the example above absolutely considered himself able to afford a car. Even though we lived in a place with a viable bus route that would have taken him everywhere he needed to go, his car was an essential enough part of his identity, lifestyle, and status that he decided to prioritize it as he did.
Yes lactose intolerance rates in northern Europe are extremely low and they increase as you go further south or east. Looking at a map of the rates is quite telling. I guess it figures that it's thought to be a mutation that conferred benefits during harsh winters