skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As kortilla mentioned, while you may have a different experience, the statistics are pretty clear. Also, not all firearms are equal, and while I can't back this part up with stats, my general experience has been that rural folk are much more likely to own more effective firearms: many own a semi-automatic rifles chambered in an intermediate cartridge and some own semi-autos chambered for a full rifle cartridge. Both are a lot more deadly than grandad's pump-action shotgun or a 22 lr plinking rifle, which is closer to what most city folk seem to own. All that aside, most rural people use firearms more often rather than keeping them in closets "just in case" and therefore will be much more effective.
The comment sin question were

This is either something written by GPT-3, or the human equivalent. Zero substantive content, pure regurgitation. and

I think this was written by GPT-3.

I think you've misrepresented the tone of those comments, and saying that the correctness of their matter-of-fact opinions is unrelated to their validity is strange to me.

It's not just that these commenters said 'this blog post is no good' but that they correctly identified its artificial nature. It's like the difference between dismissing a photo or social media profile as fake and correctly pointing out that it uses an image from thispersondoesnotexist.com.
Funnily enough, the PlayStation line uses WebKit as the engine for its web browser
Because they can trust the work of their peers as having met some agreed upon standard, or are you saying academics are bad and hackers are actually egalitarian as a general rule?
Interesting article, I grew up in Amsterdam and have been biking most of my life. As I moved to Berlin I didn't for the first few years as the roads just weren't up for it.
At some point I ordered a MTB online, got me back into biking for enjoyment (as opposed to commuting), however quickly noticed a gravel bike would make more sense. I bought a gravel bike from a LBS and sold my MTB, however the service was absolute garbage. Everyone who worked there had no clue and were purely box movers.

I would love to find a local bike shop that cares, but seeing everyone and their dog in Berlin bikes to commute nowadays the LBS have their customers for the choosing. A friend actually dropped off his bike 4 (!!!) weeks ago at a LBS because he had a crash with a car and needed to know what was actually broken, they called today to let him know it was ready for pickup, just to be called that they couldn't order the part they needed to repair it.

Sadly, a lot of shops are like this, so the author of the article is correct in choosing his audience. I know a lot of guys I ride with who refuse to spend 15% markup more to get it local and installed directly but will whine endlessly because they can't do it themselves.

I took it on myself to be able to maintain my entire bike myself, which works well too. Sure it was a pain to figure it out but the gratification is worth it too and now I feel confident that on a longer ride (I prefer multi-day) I can repair the bike on the side of the road without stressing out.

The market also shifted, many tech from MTB transferred to road/gravel like thru-axles and disc-brakes. Parts are dropping in price, but if you have an "older" bike it's more of a pain. I opted to go for an "entry" bike with thru-axle, 105 and disc-brakes. I replaced almost every "cheap" component and sold it used for nearly the same price as the sale component cost.

However if a LBS would be as good as my local car shop I'd be there more often then I'd have to be... he did say he considered getting into repairing bikes as cars are less popular, and I figure if you can service a V12 how hard can a RD be?
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31ms isn't too bad compared to the 20ms I get on bonded vdsl2.
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If you can really guarantee that there are no other threads running, surely you can explain that guarantee to the compiler so that it can make use of it.
Django is obviously surpassed in raw performance for more basic applications and APIs, but there definitely isn’t a lot of “magic” in Django.
But collective punishment is OK when we do it, I'm told.
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I don't know if I agree that Apple fell into a trap. Epic definitely got what they wanted but Apple made the right move. They were already being investigated for these practices. The payment model was definitely going to be brought up in congress already.
At least now they can try to make the point that they enforce the rules consistently and don't play favorites with big companies. It looks way better than "Apple has unfair rules that it only enforces for the little guy".
I was trying to be neutral but your response is much more accurate. :P
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Cool project, although I was hoping this would be about Intelligent Dance Music..

edit: (I'm not just making a joke, I do a lot of generative music and synthesis in Python and C++..)
It's bullshit (I'm on a Dutch Works Council). The Works Council decides over matters within that country. So anyone in that country is (more or less) represented. Could be a bit more difficult if there's multiple legal entities, especially if some of those are too small. A German Works Council can hold all of their meetings in German. A Dutch Works Council can hold it in Dutch, though German one can really force more things to be in Dutch. The Dutch Works Council has non-Dutch members, the meetings are in English, etc. If a change is also about something outside of NL we do not deal with it. Similarly, if there's some change in some other country we might not even hear about it (which is totally fine!).

If the weird statement is a fake fear about employees in another country: setup a similar Works Council in that country. An employer can easily give additional rights, meaning: setup a Works Council-like thing in a country where you aren't required to have one.
GIL gets released on blocking calls. CPU intensive is synonymous with non-blocking calls.
> * Baker calling a former conservative employee's views "traumatic and damaging" in their obituary - https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2018/08/07/in-memoriam-gerva....

She went a little far in what she said publically, but she wasn't wrong. I knew Gerv from very early on. He was a convert to christianity and as most converts, was vehement in it's absolute correctness to the detriment of his relationships. But, when you think you have an absolute truth of life after death on your side, people become a secondary concern.

> * Promoting BLM and anti-racism content via Pocket and their homepage

So, I will admit that I don't see there being any valid stance besides being against racism, and for treating all human life with value.
It may in some ways have helped. It forces deep concentration and prioritizes simple and elegant solutions over needlessly complex ones.

Information technology is powerful but I sometimes wonder if we are grossly misusing it.
They can also use a shutter, for the cases where postprocessing really isn't an adequate answer.

The more light-sensitive the observation is, the longer they're integrating, ergo the less harm that a fast transient satellite pass will do.
Nobody has a right to go to college.
Jettison the Cargo
Three possibilities:

1. All the bay area companies
realize they can employ the best talent remotely from around the country (globe?) successfully. The SF pay premium drops.

2. Bay Area companies pay according to cost of living, many remotely. Some people move, some stay. SF pay premium holds.

3. Everyone realizes the pre pandemic normal was right all along and having a lot of talented people in the same building matters a lot for company success. SF pay premium holds.
>The answer is simple, protection from them taking it by force

What if you have a factory that produces superior robots that can repel any uprising against you?
Most of the time people are impressed by analytical skills, it's not really justified in my view. Those skills aren't taught as much as they used to be. You can still pick them up, but it's mostly on your own now. (Probably still easier than Laplace had it, though.)

Anyway, just skimming the article, it sounds like Laplace simply applied standard normal mode analysis for the wave equation in the atmosphere. This is rather basic stuff that you can learn in an undergraduate partial differential equations class.

In my Master's (8 years ago), I took a class on perturbation methods and asymptotic expansions (e.g., "method of matched asymptotic expansions"). These are approximation methods that were very common before computers became mainstream and can be very accurate. These methods are becoming rarer and rarer in fluid dynamics. I think they're still used extensively in theoretical quantum mechanics.
And in the short term, the proven developer will be significantly more productive than the 2-4 recent grads and require much less work to manage.
What if people who control UBI decide you are no longer worthy of receiving it?
I stuck some smooth tires on the 30 year old mountain bike I was riding around town. It's amazing what a difference it was. It wasn't that expensive or hard to do either.

Of course it made me run headlong into the fact that the bike was geared to go up hills and I was hitting the top gear of it even on relatively easy rides.
The specific meaning of “the police don’t have to keep you safe” is that you cannot win a lawsuit against the police because you were the victim of a crime.

Most communities hire police to do emergency response and would treat a failure of 911 the same way they treat a failure of water or sewer. San Francisco just values this less than other places.
Lets hope that Falcon can serve as a good alternative in the future https://www.falkon.org/
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The world trembles as a world-class AI researcher takes an interest in a factory automation game :)
I think I disagree at the fundamental level. There is no dividing line between artificial and natural. Artificial means made by people. Language is always made by people.

Language evolves naturally. It's very hard to control and thus not under control of decision makers. As you said, some people try to introduce terms such as "cow rape." It doesn't work easily though. The term feels unnatural.

Language is also natural to us. We're wired for dealing with its complex ambiguities. That's why we have no problem using the word "natural" to communicate things that have a very abstract relationship to the core meaning of the word. Natural beauty. Good natured. It comes naturally to me.

This is how language works.

The evolution of language also reflect values. The term cow rape is more likely to off in vegan subcultures.

It is also, obviously, used intentionally in rhetoric. The term "sustainability" was spread, intentionally and unintentionally by those in green circles.

The key point about the word "sustainability" though, is that it does mean "environmentally friendly." This is not a lie. This is the literal (meant literally) definition. If you read about sustainability in the newspaper, or it is discussed by legislators... they are talking about the modern definition. That means it is the literal definition.

In terms of dishonest rhetoric, lies... Insisting that "sustainability means continuation without disruption" is a lie. It's a lie in the sense that it is untrue. This isn't what the word means in most cases, including this one. It is also a lie in a more abstract and important sense. The purpose of the argument is not to argue about words, but to take a conversation into the weeds.

Insisting on the archaic usage also almost always reflects values, intentionally or otherwise. Cow rape is marginal enough (at least currently) to trigger a neutral observer. To be triggered by the term sustainable, you usually need to really disagree with the implication. In this case, that we should protect oceanic ecosystem protections from commercial fishing more.

I also think these things are important to point out when seen. Taking a semantic left turn to avoid substance is, to paraphrase one famous campaigner, the "flood with shit" approach. It's effective, insidious and Orwellian. It worked a charm here.
Turing actually asked a slightly different question, that I think is a lot more interesting. From Computing Machinery and Intelligence by A. M. Turing:

> The object of the game for the interrogator is to determine which of the other two is the man and which is the woman. He knows them by labels X and Y, and at the end of the game he says either "X is A and Y is B" or "X is B and Y is A." The interrogator is allowed to put questions to A and B

> What will happen when a machine takes the part of A in this game?" Will the interrogator decide wrongly as often when the game is played like this as he does when the game is played between a man and a woman?

Somewhat politically incorrect, assuming men and women should ever be distinguished, but much more revealing about how exactly people see themselves.
I wouldn’t call that rule skirting at all. Just good networking!
Recap: It's a pretty useless idea.

Almost all people are producing content for a company, product etc in which they are not the target customer and hence are not doing searches for.

It would have been useful had they explained how to methodically discover long tail keywords that aren't being satisfied with good content for any subject.
Abolishing the monopoly on the post is a bit like the government "abolishing the monopoly" on national defense.

It's a Constitutionally-required service the government must provide. The risk of privatizing it may very well be too high to justify the dollar savings.

For example, the post has a mandate to deliver successfully (somehow) to every location people live in the country. What will private enterprise do if that's not revenue-positive?
> Google hasn't made much progress getting away from "page rank".

Is that so? I thought conventional wisdom is that they now have much stronger signals about how well results satisfy queries, from Google Analytics and Chrome.
I enjoy working too :)
I'd like to start slowly wrapping it up, but, ok, I'll answer this one too.

I won't argue about fairness of comparing {not allowing same-sex marriage} to {skinning small animals alive}, but even in that case your analogy should be about "someone who was arguing back in 2008 for keeping skinning small animals alive legal" while you voted to make it illegal (note, that votes split almost 50/50 back then, BTW, so that's a lot of people you choose to never work with).

And, since you asked, yes, I know for a fact that some people I work with (including both superiors and subordinates) have wildly different political opinions on some topics than I have. With some we never discuss it, with others I'm comfortable enough to argue about that and even laugh them off sometimes. More than that, even some of my friends have strong opinions on which we differ. And with some we may go into mountains, and tie into the same rope (which, if you are not familiar, kinda means "trusting our lives to each other", quite literally), and not hate each other 100% of the time, because of some of our political beliefs don't match.

And if all of that is a problem to you, yeah, I totally can agree to disagree with you, I can even respect that, as long as your disagreement doesn't mean hunting people down, because their opinion doesn't match yours. Now with that I kinda have to disagree.
Trust is important. Hackers are naive and will rediscover the old lessons.
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Ohhhh yeah it's possible they're extremely lazy and just pushing the entire new build to you and not the "diff".

If the game is 55GB, and the update is 55GB, and the game remains 55GB after the update.... ^.^

But if it's a 600GB game? Well then dunno. But I don't think any game has reached there yet... CoD is getting closer though
> Ecosystem diversity, interest in servo, refusal to let “chrome win”, privacy support baked in

Barely worth any money.

> Why would you fork Chromium if you’re interested in Firefox?

Free maintenance (worth a lot of money).
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That’s wildly inaccurate, the largest percentage of fish come from aquaculture not wild capture. ~90 Million tons of fish sounds like a huge number but quite a lot of that’s ends up as animal feed etc. Pork by comparison adds up to ~120 Million tons per year and people actually directly consume the majority of it. People get well over twice as much protean from cows than wild fish. Add in chickens for 130 Million tons per year for even more perspective, before looking at plant based sources.

Serious analysis shows wild fish are critical for a few communities, but have a minor role in the global food supply.
> I've had coworkers who would put this before every method call, because...?

Because then I can tell it's a method by only looking at the call site.
A large element of factorio is that as you scale up, you generate more pollution, and then slaughter the native population of the planet because they try and stop you from destroying their world.

It's an aspect of the game I think most doesn't seem to give a lot of thought.
If 10 round magazines were in any way 'unsafe' - then we wouldn't use them.

To characterise the extremely marginal degree of 'safety concern' when using a weapon which is 1000x more likely to cause harm through the means that it was designed for (i.e. shooting, getting shot) is a little ridiculous, especially in the context of the objective of the legislation.

While individual laws may be pointless by themselves, the fact is the US is basically an unruly, unlawful dangerous place with levels of violent crime completely abnormal for any civilised country. Even if you account for a number of 'danger areas / ghettos ' with anomalies amounts of crime, it's still bad.

The wide and easy availability of guns ostensibly destined for the hands of otherwise lawful gun owners is a big factor in what makes all this extreme violence possible.

So if we want to have 30 round magazines and all those other things widely and easily available, open carry etc. (i.e the US is nothing resembling 'Switzerland') ... then we have to 'pay the price' and live with the consequences: about 10 times more likely to get shot and killed then if we lived in a civilised country without guns widely available, and without gun culture.

The civilised places which have managed to live without widespread gun ownership have demonstrated that it's almost entirely a better option. Nobody is clamouring for guns in these places or contemplating that they need to follow America's example in this regard. In fact - just the opposite. Basically, America is looked upon as a complete failure when it comes to these things.

What could work well? 'Well regulated Militias'. That might just work fine - rifles in the Armoury, keys held by the Sergeant at Arms. Not much but hunting rifles at home, locked up safely. Funny that ... 'Well regulated Militia' ...
Hold on, there's some inaccuracy here. Only one of those comments got pushback, and that comment wasn't simply matter-of-fact; the problem with it (from my point of view anyhow) was that it added a gratuitous insult ("or the human equivalent"). That made the whole thing read more like snark than straightforwardly raising a question. The other comment was more matter-of-fact about calling GPT-3 and didn't get any pushback.

The problem is that the cases legitimately overlap. That is, "sounds like GPT-3" gets used as an internet insult (example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23687199) just like "sounds like this was written by a Markov chain" used to be (example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19614166). It's not surprising that someone interpreted the first comment that way, because it contained extra markers of rudeness. That may have been a losing bet but it wasn't a bad one. Perhaps the other comment didn't get interpreted that way because it didn't throw in any extra cues of rudeness—or perhaps it was just random. Impossible to tell from a sample size of 2.

Not to take away from the glory of lukev for calling it correctly. I just don't think the reply deserves to be jumped on so harshly.
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For niche searches they might not simply have enough statistically significant data for "time on page" to be a useful metric.
There is at least a little bit of truth to this joke in that Apple absolutely prioritizes their efforts with XCode based on the needs of App Store developer. This is also true about their APIs too.
It is so, but it is largely now either "brand authority" or "backlinks" now. They aren't as sophisticated as they want you to believe.
Ohhh I didn’t know that! Your project looks cool! I saw you used popcorn.js, that’s definitely a good way to go. It’s an interesting problem to solve for sure :)
Because it’s not just a hardware business, you get their software platform, and a wide range of services too.

Epic also charges people to use their software platform.

Unreal engine costs money for developers to license.

Why shouldn’t Apple be able to charge developers for their platform when Epic can?
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FWIW, Google Assistant can now use custom list apps (and Keep is an option), so "ok google, add cheese to the shopping list" is a thing again. Under assistant settings, it's in the Services / Notes & Lists heading.
Incredibly timely, thanks!
Then it’s no longer universal.

What are you trying to say/ask?
Well don't leave us hanging, what's the other one?
1.5 hour commute is remote? I have done that for years. I would consider 3 hours one way remote as I have done that too but couldn't last more than 6 weeks before being burned out.
Voting is working. The problem isn’t that (voting); it’s voters who don’t care and vote while uneducated on the issues.
Rarely used in a crime. https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2018/06/motorbike-gang-member-...
This stuff sat there without exploding for seven years, and was only set off because of two unfortunate coincidences. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enschede_fireworks_disaster happened in a western country with a reputable company that followed the regulations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Richard_Montgomery is still sitting in prime position to destroy London's financial district one day, with no-one taking responsibility for clearing it up.
Because it's a sale?

Getting on the front page of Steam is a massive boon to any game. Having a sale, even if small (not unusual on Steam) is often enough to incentivize people to try it.

I've not played the Demo version - but usually demo's are pretty limited. Free Weekend's tend to be the full game, multiplayer and everything. It's a fantastic way to get a ton of new players instantly - and many (myself on several occasions) become paying customers as soon as the weekend ends. Basically, it's letting the game sell itself at that point.

Steam Summer/Winter Sale is huge. That's why it's silly for these developers to totally write off any sale forever. Very foolish and not wise. Then again, they did say that over 4 years ago... and "they" do say to never say never.