skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is exactly what I'm struggling with. Intuitively, the idea of another person trying to injure me sounds scarier than a harness failing or tree falling. People can be a lot more unpredictable than gravity or metal fatigue. But then again, the safety of loggers and roofers depends not only on their own gear & diligence, but also on human co-workers who can be just as unpredictable. Versus violent criminals, at least the co-workers aren't actively and creatively malicious (usually).
The other side of the spectrum is that Linux is easier to use and more accessible then ever. Ubuntu, Elementary OS, Manjaro, PopOS, and Linux Mint have made linux more friendly then ever to "average" computer users, and each day more and more devices and hardware architectures are getting supported.
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>About 50~ police officers die via guns per year. The police kill about 1,000 citizens per year via guns though[2].

There's a KD ratio joke in here somewhere.
2,116 officers were assaulted with a firearm, but only 6.1% of those 2,116 were injured in the assault. That's approximately 129 firearm injuries. That means the rate of non-fatal firearm injuries is approximately 16.1 per 100,000. In 2012 the rate of non-fatal firearm injuries from assault was approximately 15.67 per 100,000 for the general population. When adjusted for the sex demographics of the police (88% male) the rate is 24.93 per 100,000.

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4700838/#!po=19...

Edit: It looks like the non-fatal firearm injury rate for officers is actually 23.6 per 100k. I had the wrong number in the denominator because not all police stations responded to the FBI survey.
This reminds me how shoemaker Kenneth Cole started, who also used "making a film" as a cover story:

> Wanting to preview his line of shoes at Market Week at the New York Hilton, but unable to afford the purchase of a hotel room or showroom to display his items, Kenneth Cole inquired about parking a trailer two blocks from the Hilton Hotel. Upon discovering that permits for trailers were only granted to utility and production companies, Cole changed the name of his company from Kenneth Cole Incorporated to Kenneth Cole Productions, and applied for a permit to film the full-length film, "The Birth of a Shoe Company". In two and a half days, Kenneth Cole Productions sold forty thousand pairs of shoes, while chronicling the beginning of the company on film. [1]

Which is why it's still called Kenneth Cole "Productions" to this day.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Cole_(designer)#Birth_...
I watched one of Louis' videos[0] yesterday where he doesn't think Apple's ARM transition won't make things harder. He mentions that CPU failure is rare, and replacement CPUs aren't easy to get today, because they are salvaged from other machines, and can't be ordered from places like Newegg or Amazon. Almost all of his repairs involve components that aren't the CPU.

[0] https://youtu.be/T_2LnFAGypM?t=175
One of my favourite things about RISC OS was the font manager: At the time, it was normal for every application to manage its own fonts (Macintosh may have been an exception), but on RISC OS, fonts were shared between applications. Not only that, but the same renderer was used for screen use and printing, so you really had WYSIWYG, unlike the Mac, which used different rendering on screen and paper (using PostScript for printing and something else for screen use), which resulted in subtle differences, including things that lined up perfectly on screen being not even closely lined up in print (that hit me several times when using the university Mac). Furthermore, the screen renderer used anti-aliasing, so edges would not appear as ragged (on the fairly limited screen resolution), and allowed characters to be positioned at quarter-pixel resolution. And you could scale fonts to any size, as they were rendered from cubic Bezier curves.

This was 1988. TrueType for Mac was not until 1981, and it used quadratic Bezier curves, which are inferior to cubic, and AFAIR did not use anti-aliasing and the hinting system was inferior to that used by RISC OS.

I really wish Acorn had licensed their font technology to other companies, but like many other of their technologies (such as Econet and the video codec used by RISC OS) Acorn developed these for their own use only. It is almost a miracle that the ARM processor escaped the Acorn-only fate of so many other technologies.
"Nelson Mandela" in the same line as "Genghis Khan". I am puzzled. That doesn't seem right. Citation Needed.
Yes - it looks like the system advances a certain number of scanline elements per CPU clock, so if you run the CPU clock faster than the video pixel clock you start missing elements.
I'm guess it's "Library of Congress"
Why Are Plants Green?
Just the other day I typed in the name of a company I wanted to find a product number for “foobar inc”, and I end up getting sent to their YouTube channel by Google :(
Might have been planned obsolescence, but the reason Intel Core Duo was not supported by Lion was due to Finder being exclusively 64-bit, and thus the OS going 64-bit only. Only the early 2006 black MacBook was affected by this, as all the later ones used Intel Core 2 Duo.

That means the breaking update came five years after the release of the computer, but Snow Leopard still had another two years of security updates (AFAIK). Personally, I don't think that's unreasonable.
I don't think so. Letting the manufacturer decide which parts of a system "belong together" will not enable an effective repair, as companies like Apple will just say that their whole logic board is a single unit and to "repair" it you need to throw it out and get a new one (actually that's exactly what they are doing already by restricting repair shops from buying specific chips they use on their boards; many board problems would be easy to repair with the right 30 cent IC, Apple just won't let repair technicians have those). That's a bit too convenient maybe. A better approach would be to see what is practically possible in terms of repairability without significantly compromising other aspects of a design, and mandate this to everyone. Another way would be to create fore-runner programs, where the most innovative and efficient solution becomes the standard for everyone to follow. This worked well for products like cars so I don't see why this wouldn't work for computers.

Also, saying "if you don't like their limits then buy the other brand" is not a strong argument against standardization and regulation of technology, that stance would basically give a free pass to manufacturers to do anything as long as there is customer demand for it. Any industry that can produce significant external negative effects like waste or pollution, which are not primarily experienced by the consumers (think of pollution produced by cars; not very inconvenient to each individual consumer, but harmful to people in cities due to the large number of cars), needs to be regulated based on environmental and sustainability factors as well.
Howdy crap... I just created an account on your website and added one random recipe (cashew nut yoghurt) that did not work on the original post site, and it worked like a charm!

You've got a new paying customer :)

I'd been looking for something like your app for a long time.

Ough, your PayPal flow is not working :( fix that and you'll have a paying customer haha
> private science-funding organization.

I don't know why this should not be opposed, stalinist may be.
> Windows 10 has, since it's inception, been a privacy nightmare

I know that's not necessarily what you would like and that you're surely talking about the general issue of privacy, but you can actually block telemetry and other stuff you don't want at the DNS level. A pihole is quite effective at doing so.
I think the stores were always about building the Surface brand and relaunching the Windows & Office brand.

Demonstrating touch interfaces in the COVID world simply isn't going to work anymore. The cloud has won, COVID killed prem.

Mission Accomplished!
Was it profitable? Doesn't matter.
Interesting. So it's better to have a character interact with the object and then br presented with action options?

I've been trying to learn game design.
iPhones still get many years of security updates after they stop supporting the last iOS version.
It also helps that the Himalayas have slowly grown from nothing over the past 50 million years. The ancestors of the bar-headed goose had the opportunity to gradually adapt as the mountains rose. (Not all birds can do this, even with their superior lungs.)

edit: I had assumed that the Himalayas grew gradually over 50 million years, but it turns out that the current growth rate is way too fast for that. It would take less than a million years to reach the current height. There must have been regular apocalyptic landslides in the geological history of the Himalayas to limit the height of the mountains?
I'm not sure that that's true in a vacuum, and in any case most of the super-high-wattage vacuum cleaners didn't have controls for that (maybe very high-end ones did?)

EDIT: Just noticed the accidental pun; by true in a vacuum I mean true without extra information, not true in a vacuum cleaner :)
I wonder if there’s a forum full of sewing machine engineers somewhere railing against how useless fashion is and how you can’t beat a good old fashioned set of woolen monk’s robes for warmth and functionality
It's not exclusive to brown people, nor does it happen more to brown people.
"not even" in the sense that the leaders in self drive aren't doing it.
I get that occasionally too...not sure why, but if you spam it it usually works after 3-4 attempts.
Not true for non-interactive simulations, some of which e.g. as used in Systems Biology, choose the time-step to the next event from a probability distribution. That is a huge speed-up compared to a fixed time-step simulation in which you choose whether or not an event occurs in the current time-step randomly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillespie_algorithm
Do you know the difference between and engineer and a designer?
There was a rumour that the AU government was willing to let VA collapse and hope that a foreign low-cost airline like Ryanair or Easyjet would enter the market. But it's unlikely any airline is in a strong enough position to make that kind of move at the moment. So they will likely offer a restructured VA the same kind of support as they'll offer Qantas.
https://www.cjr.org/cjr_outbox/nautilus-under-new-ownership-...

I just hope they end up actually paying all these excellent writers.
No way..

After backing and not receiving Punk Mathematics since 2010, I realized paying for something unfinished makes absolutely no sense at all.

I prefer to pay more and get something complete.
I'm no chemist, but that does not seem plausible. Fire needs three things: fuel, oxidizer (e.g. oxygen), and heat. [1]

No matter how much oxygen, the atmosphere would not ignite without fuel.

Forest fires would get epic though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_triangle
This is true, however without copyright I think many other things would change making the GPL a lot less necessary. For example, no one could prevent you giving your friend a copy of a program, so the market would change a whole lot. Basically, the thing about BSD that GPL doesn't like is that BSD permits proprietary software being created. Without copyright, there isn't really proprietary software any more, and less of a reason to keep source secret.

(Most of this thinking comes pre-web-applications, that does change the parameters a bit.)
The Secret History of Hypertext (2014)
A relative used to work for them. It's fair to say that the organization isn't widely known, but you could say the same for the National Geodetic Survey.
> By analogy, people are allowed to own rocket launchers as well (it's true!) but that doesn't mean every beat cop should carry one.

They can own rocket launchers the same way they can own private jets. They're comparatively rare, expensive as hell, and utterly unrealistic for the average person. It's a bad analogy.

Meanwhile, regular long-arm firearms and handguns are insanely common in the US, comparatively cheap, and often very practical to carry or store in vehicles. The US has a crazy level of per capita gun ownership, like 120 guns for every 100 people. Gun ownership isn't rare, and disarmed police are going to get killed haggling after heavily armed civilians.
there is sufficient money in policing, how it is being used is another matter
Just realized this is the first time my iMac will not support the next update (iMac 14,3)- if this list is exhaustive and not subject to change, that is.

Due to other crashes and issues I had already been considering the switch to Windows or Linux (I already use those operating systems for other PCs I have in the house).

I've enjoyed using MacOS as my daily driver until Catalina, and even then, there are things I still really like about it compared to other operating systems, but especially now that Apple wants to force me to upgrade hardware to run a newer OS, I'm not sure I want to stay in Apple land.

Maybe it's time.
You know you're comparing people fully armed and cautious people versus the general population, right? Also it's a biased comparison because the 2,116 could have been shot where the rate of "could have been shot" is much lower in the general public because obvious reasons.
That's a good point, but the corollary of that is, how many people were shot by the police but didn't die?

And going one step further, we've seen the stat for yearly police gun homicides but as far as I know there are no reliable statistics for how many people are killed by police by other methods. How many people are dying from chokeholds, from beatings, from having medical attention withheld?
Interesting proposition. A couple thoughts:

1) Providing the scope in a black box makes this feel far more like a blatant sales pitch, with little inherent value.

2) I'd recommend providing an example target (i.e I ended up just using amazon.com) so folks can have an easy way to give this a shot
iPhones’ repairability is fine, but your attitude of not caring about the environment at all isn’t.
Blink is quite popular on iOS

https://blink.sh/
The platform audio libraries that Webkit uses on MacOS and iOS are not part of Webkit.
Interesting.

However, there's really nothing special about Commodore BASIC 2.0. It was a very basic Microsoft BASIC; not as minimal as Apple Integer BASIC but not as good as something like GW-BASIC on the PC.

The Commodore BASIC 2.0 supported none of the hardware features of the C64 that weren't provided by the Commodore Kernal through PRINT statements. So you can clear the screen and change text color through embedding the appropriate control codes in strings or use ASC function, but accessing the VIC-II or SID had to be done through assembly or PEEKs and POKEs. So honestly making it a general scripting runtime can work easily.

If you want to use a real BASIC as a scripting language you want to check out FreeBASIC. It's an reimplementation of Microsoft's QBASIC with OOP and other extensions.
Thanks for sharing! I also want to make the JSON+LD stuff generic, but I have found that there are sometimes different renditions of that format. Though, now that I've looked at it, I only have 1 example of something non-standard, which doesn't include the @graph directive.

So that just requires some more research and testing. Perhaps someone enterprising will read this and make a pull request...

Saffron looks great, I had encountered it before building this for myself. Your blog post is quite illuminating - perhaps the first practical application of LCA that I've seen outside of an interview setting :)
I've seen so many videos of cops being beat up. These statistics are facts. By the way, I was being sarcastic.
Founders and employees aren't investors.
I just use an alias

myip is aliased to `dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com'
Oops, what part of the flow isn't working?
Unfortunately, the CTO that hired me left the company two weeks after I started which caused a significant cultural shift. I did my due diligence, no need for the virtual gaslighting.
Depending on the state, and depending on how problematic the individual animal is, you can. In many states you can shoot hogs whenever you want. Remember that whole thing where a bunch of twitter people who’d never been on a farm made fun of that politician for saying he had to shoot like 50 feral hogs at once? That’s a real thing - more than once I’ve been on an acquaintance’s ranch, standing up in the back of a truck or Polaris with an AR-15 chasing down dozens and dozens of hogs. They breed quickly and are very destructive! Texas tried to poison them and it didn’t work well enough.

Usually with other species like bears or wolves, you are only supposed to shoot them if they actually attack livestock (and sometimes not even then).
You can also join the dedicated Slack to ask questions for the live Q&A: https://slack.prisma.io
Perhaps they should be better at informing nearby citizens of the presence of these devices so that kids do not get injured.
Sure, but then I’m not sure it would be that valuable to law enforcement (maybe that’s the point).
I like this article very much. As someone who makes a living from R&D funding into hyped technologies, this made me do some amount of introspection.

AI, however much we love it, and however good computers are at chess and go, has done relatively little to increase productivity in already existing processes. Yes, it's nice to tell apart cats from dogs with F1=0.98.. but, what bushiness actually added image classification into their processes and made money out of it? Furthermore, as any one searching for specific stuff on Google and being frustrated by synonyms being substituted or search terms being ranked in importance, can tell you, F1=0.98 isn't enough to really outsource human "intelligent" work onto computers.

The same goes for big data.. yes, we love our fancy Sparks and Airflows and Kafkas, yes, I've pushed to build "big data" pipelines several times.. yes, fancy dashboards can come up. But any increase in productivity or quality of life could have also been achieved with shell scripts and a bit of patience. Uber your say? they use big data to foo and to bar...yes, but not in real time, for real money making purposes: even if you ignore the fact that they are still in the negatives, the computations that have to be done real fast for their service to be usable, are all "small" as in, they-can-be-done-in-a-mobile-phone small.
The only way to reliably prevent the situation where fast moving objects from moving through thin walls (or even thick walls) is to use continuous collision detection. Even if you step the physics engine at a ridiculously high rate (say 1000 frames per second), objects will still pass through each other if they're moving fast enough.
They only have to get from warehouse to airport.
Completely agree about Gopher. I still love it, but it has some real pain points.

Gemini, on the other hand, has links, preformatted blocks, headings, quotes, lists, etc. as part of the content specification.

By keeping most of the visual _formatting_ out of the hands of the author, the content can be rendered however the user/client wants to display (or hear!) it. It can be viewed raw in a terminal or it can be typographically beautiful. There are even some clever efforts to apply different styles to different sites.

The other appeal is to be able to _author_ content very easily. The text/gemini formatting is so simple/conventional, you pretty much already know it without trying. But its simplicity also lowers the barrier to building tools around it for authoring, displaying, syntax highlighting, and so on.

(Gopher is also pretty easy, but the menu format is an arcane artifact from The Old Days and annoying to write by hand. Content is "plain text" by convention, but there is absolutely _no_ specification about line wrapping, character encoding, etc. so it's not as simple as it looks either. The lack of links in content leads some folks to use menus as content - tooling helps, but...yuck.)
Does than mandate predate the creation of AWS?
A Trip to Antarctica Transformed My Life
> I get that - we've lost control of the device, but we now have ubiquitous access to computing - reliable, (relatively) safe access to the internet everywhere for nearly everyone.

Debatable. What makes computing so much more interesting than other tools is the ability to program them, to make the tool what you need it to be for what you want to do. 80s computer systems got this: they booted into a programming environment. 90s computer systems got this: they gave us HyperCard, VB, Delphi, etc and productivity software like Excel (which I contend is still the most widely used programming environment on earth) became programmable and extendable too. Turning first time computer users into programmers was a goal because that's what computers were for!

We don't really have computers like that anymore. What we have are appliances. Sure, they have a lot of add-on modules, but you're not encouraged to program them, to adapt them to your needs, you're encouraged to buy that from somebody else with money and/or turning over data. A lot of those "tools" seek to addict you to their usage so you can be peppered with advertisements.

You're consuming, not computing.
Or hyperbole. Macs are “expensive” or “overpriced”, at least to the populi.

I’ve always found that strange given the demographic of HN. I’ve never considered good tools to be expensive. Continuous lost productivity is usually more costly than “Apple Tax”.
That is a 7 years old iMac. Apple is not forcing you.
> The same applies to any quality brand mechanical wristwatch, be it Seiko, Tissot, Omega, IWC just to name some.

Thanks for mentioning these. Seiko is a brand I know, and if that fits the requirement then that's telling to me. My parents both had Seiko watches (different ones; mom had a smaller one, dad a bigger one), for a long time. At one point though, my mother replaced hers as it would've been too expensive to repair. For me, that watch was part of her identity, as I grew up with it.

My father was (virtually) blind, and he also wore an other watch which he could push to hear the time. That was also an expensive watch back in the days (end 80s / begin 90s), and did require a battery. It also said the time only in English, including PM/AM (we use 24 hours here, so I learned pretty quickly what PM/AM meant). Sadly, he missed the smart device era, though he did receive spoken books from the library for the blind, as well as the Dutch equiv of Consumer Reports (Consumentenbond). I grew up listening to these. And these watches I mentioned.
Good information, and beautifully put. Thank you.
What? PHP is a language primarily for backend web server code. Having async is huge for performance on the backend, which is mostly IO bound, rather than CPU bound.

So, I think you have it backwards. Async is unnecessary in many places, but backend is the place where it's very important.