skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that what the goal is? I've had so many goals that I didn't realize were intermediate goals until afterwards.

I was thinking the ultimate goal would be to find the edge of the map and wall everything off.

(I still haven't met my goal of really understanding rail signals)

I also wonder if there isn't more in store. For example, I don't see what paving and reinforced concrete floors are for. Will there be wheeled robots, or (sigh) burrowing beasts that can go under walls?
nit(to me, maybe not to them): Audrey requests the use of 3rd person pronouns. Out of curiosity - how does that work in Chinese?
Am I reading this right? They're talking about potentially disenfranchising almost half the population of the US?
From your source, a NPV of ~$680k in accumulated earnings over 30 years is the average return. That is ~$22,600 earnings per year. I don't think that is a good return by any means.

Am I reading the chart correctly? If so, I don't see how your link favors your argument.
If you want Chromium and care about ad-blocking and privacy, Brave might be preferable. It lets you disable the crypto features entirely if you don't care for that side of it.
Because you don't know what to expect from people with certain mental issues. If I see someone pacing outside my office while screaming to the devil and hitting his head, I will try to avoid him. Sure, maybe he will continue to have a mental breakdown without getting me involved, but I don't know. Now, I don't mind calling some authority other than the police, but I would prefer that if the person with the mental breakdown gets violent it will be directed at a professional who knows how to respond
Maybe the source(s) want to remain confidential?
Oh, you're right, that was the distance to the previous city. 30 kilometers it is. Even more incredible. I've seen a 30 ton truck hit by a tram (Overtoom/van Baerle crossing for the locals). The tram didn't even have a dent in it, the truck needed to be lifted out in bits and pieces.
Ah, yes - that's a new setting in VS2019 (I use VS2017 as my daily driver, but sometimes use VS2019).

It looks like VS2019 will only let you style static members in bold - or not - and that's it. You can't use a different color or italics - just bold or non-bold. Hmpf.
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So your answer is "yes, I believe it's worse than those wars during those previous presidencies"?

If I come up with numbers of deaths of innocents during these time frames, and Trump's are lower, will you agree that those extra deaths are not as bad as the mail being slow and the other stuff you complained about?
I love django, have not used it in years though. I've been in JavaScript land.

I'm consistently surprised that there are not awesome web frameworks in JavaScript similar to Django
I worry more about increasing it past the laffer curve.
Then that needs to be clearer as to what it means.
Will not upvoting you help obscure and preserve their culture? I don't know, I guess it's too late for that.
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I think you can get on the front page without a sale?

And well, such a small amount doesn't really grab my attention.

> Steam Summer/Winter Sale is huge.

Isn't that because of the big sales? I wish the Summer/Winter sale didn't have any small percents so there's less noise!
Because you find that person annoying. That’s what the police is for. Or maybe not, but it certainly works in many cases.
React is lovely for interactive applications, but using it for documents is like using a .exe to print some text because you're "most productive" in whatever programming language.

You're welcome to distribute your documents in the form of huge JavaScript executables, but you shouldn't be surprised when other developers point out why it's silly (or refuse to run your code).
So would it make sense to think of a microstate as a region of phase space, a point and those points "very close to" it? And "increasing number of microstates" just means a larger number of these regions have non-negligible probabilities? In continuous terms you would see this as the distribution flattening out. I might be having trouble visualising what we're integrating, since if it's a probability the integral over the whole phase space can only be 1, right?
The older folks that accept the existence of the pandemic wouldn't be voting for Trump anyway. It's a doubling down on the same con.
Indeed. It's in the top-ten listed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ammonium_nitrate_disas... , being close to as large as Beirut 2020. Note also e.g. Texas City 1947

Though I see different estimates of the size of Oppau 1921; the material that exploded was under 500T of fertilizer (17% of Beirut), which means it should be under 250kT of TNT equivalent (I've seen AN assessed at 42% as explosive as TNT by mass). But based on crater size, it looks like estimates are more like 1-2 kT, similar to Beirut. Also, windows blown out "more than 25km away" is pretty similar in blast radius to Beirut (I've seen "15 miles" quoted, IIRC), suggesting a similar magnitude.

It's actually remarkable, comparing against other blasts of similar quantities of material or less, how few fatalities there were in Beirut, especially given that it was inside the city. Brest 1947 is larger with less fatalities, but they had towed it out to sea three hours before it finally exploded.

Though I think that, when it comes to non-nuclear explosions, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion is still the title-holder. What a privilege.
I haven't gotten that far. you can make a lot of the stuff cleaner. I think mining makes pollution, I don't know if the modules will curtail that. But I don't think nuclear or solar+accumulators generate pollution.
Genuinely curious, what’s the difference between a truck, a van, and an SUV? Demonizing trucks, to me, feels like demonizing “assault” weapons. And trucks have arguably much more positive utility than assault weapons. How can you effectively regulate vehicles with a flat bed on the back? Some people need utility vehicles, period. I suspect it’s more than simply a case of “they were perfectly happy with their trucks”.
Well done! I like how you handle multiple scenes, it's easier this way vs e.g. how clipchamp does it.

I'm the creator of Glitterly - https://glitterly.app/ a similar video editor but more focused on pure feature videos with zooming and transitions. Initially for exporting videos I tried a similar approach but with canvas. By recording the canvas with captureStream and exporting the video, but I wasn't able to get a satisfactory non-laggy output.

What upcoming new features are on your roadmap for Tella?
> Almost at zero interventions

"Almost" doing a lot of work here.
Depending on how old your kids are, they might enjoy playing Factorio with you. My daughter is 3, and she is always up for playing "The Train Game". She mostly enjoys telling me what colours my trains should be and where I should drive them, so I need to use a more train-based system than I would otherwise.
Why not just stick to the version you're accustomed to?
There are repeated comments in HN threads who purport to be Mozilla employees or ex-employees and lament that the organization(s) have become little more then a vessel to inflate the fame of those in the exec and advocacy portions of the mess.

That... Seems plausible given what departments were and weren't cut, and how opaque their spending is.
The race for effective AI war machines was always inevitable, but portends a horrible future.

I don't see how to avoid it. When states see their adversaries researching murderbots, how can they decline to maintain a balance of power by doing the same? In the context of competing states, how can the ethical discussion about murderbots have any influence?
What is 'stupid' is having millions of guns everywhere, willy nilly, people carrying them, threatening each other, cops afraid to pull people over.

It's utterly clear to anyone who's bothered to live in a few different civilised countries, and one of the most shockingly 'wrong' thing that a lot of smart can't grasp. It's more of a case study in 'perspective and information bias' than it is guns.

Ratcheting up the laws for use in 'gun crime' will help a little bit, but there are no situations in which the widespread availability of guns won't result in quite a lot of excessive violence.

There is no way around the math: zillions of guns means excessive gun crime. That's it. People get angry, vengeful, stupid - when they have easy access, when we have 'gun culture' - they turn to guns. Where guns are sparse, and there is no gun culture ... they don't.
Hi, do you roll your own visualizations or are you using an off-the-shelf product to measure your own business metrics?

I’ve always been curious how companies like your monitor their business metrics?
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I'm not saying it was a good move, but they didn't let go all of the security people like that one tweet kinda implied.

https://twitter.com/arroway53c/status/1293867434374569985

https://twitter.com/jvehent/status/1293511397649854464
From the outside (non-American) I struggle to understand how Trump doesn’t get blamed for this issue he’s making such a fuss about.

Trump is President. He appointed the Postmaster General. He, and his appointee are responsible for the post office.

He could have spent the past 4 years fixing this problem, building the best postal voting system in the world.

He could have spent the past few months (since he brought up the issue) fixing what he saw as the issues. Getting mail delivery up to scratch. Funding the post office effectively, hiring more staff, fixing the ‘arrived too late deadlines’, what ever it takes, in the name of ‘make America great’.

But he’s done the opposite at every opportunity, and continued his temper tantrum about the problem.

Who is this guy?!? If you’re not up to the task of doing the job, “you’re fired” (it’s his bloody catch line). There is no one else to blame. You are the top dog, you have all the power and control you could ever want or need.

I can see how other issues get bogged down in politics and personal opinions. But this one? If the election is a shambles, it happened on YOUR watch. Under YOUR post master general. Running YOUR post office.

I’d be interested to hear how and why this is seen differently, and what opinions are on the ground in the states.
Having done some IR work in college while pursuing a mainly CS degree:

Even with decades of professional experience as a diplomat or analyst, your sample size of countries and international situations will be very small. Having both a theoretical understanding of the underlying dynamics, and a broad view of the whole problem space as it has been explored historically, is qualitatively different from the lessons you get on the job.
So, what is there left to do?
It was a totally unnecessary detail. In my opinion it was dog whistling. Replace Syrian with "African" or "Jewish" and it shouldn't be any more or less outrageous of a detail to add. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24162563
The USPS relies on sending junk mail because it's treated like a business and not a service. We spend billions on investment in infrastructure like roads / bridges / power, yet those are never treated like a failing business.

The solution is simple, fully fund the USPS then stop relying on marketing mail income and focus on delivering packages and letters like it's the 21st century. Have the most cutting edge routing equipment / IT staff for package tracking ever.
Yeah we need better alternatives so that people use the most efficient mode of transport in any given situation.
You can copy existing sections of your factory with Ctrl-C and paste ghosts with Ctrl-V. There's also a paste buffer that you can scroll through with the mouse wheel.
After 30 years of catastrophic climatist propaganda practically no one has been affected in any meaningful way.

I couldn't care less.
I have a choice:

$80/mo for Local ISP DSL - 10 Mbps down, <1 up

OR

$100/mo for LTE hot spot for $100+/mo. 25 MBps down, 5Mbps up with data caps and throttling.

The local ISP says they're installing fiber but they're only installing it where the federal government subsidizes or completely funds it.
"free market" is a lie that republicans tell their children.
What makes you assume that the google deal will fund the previous burn rate for another 3 years?
The shape of the package prior to explosion is going to be a pretty big factor in how long the explosion took to consume all the material. A slight change in shape or density can have a large effect on what the shockwave will look like, and can make it asymmetrical.

Take a roll of fast burning cord and set it on fire when rolled out: a slight fizzing and some minor damage to plants. Wrap 10 turns of it around a tree, set it on fire and you'll have a cut cleaner than the sharpest axe cutting your tree clean in half.

The Halifax one is just terrible. I went to the memorial site when visiting the city just before it was removed. Incredible but true: the city lost the memorial sculpture.
Still 10 seconds. I have 0 seconds deploy for some ‘cowboy development’ I do; it is now a competitive advantage :) 10 sec (and for almost all setups I have seen it is vastly more that than) is a lot while devving and deploying for test. Each their own, but just fixing bugs live with my client (Zoom + me live on the test server fixing many issues in an afternoon) is vastly more efficient for me. Obviously committing from the test(now dev) server to github will result in ci/cd to the staging server, but workflows where I work on my local, commit, ci/cd to test and then the client tests is vastly slower and I do not like it; it feels like a waste of my time.

In my main business I am forced (regulatory) to do it all by the book; vastly less enjoyable for me.
The last Blockbuster is offering a sleepover on Airbnb, not the other way around.
The article keeps cherry picking particularly hard hit countries as a comparison to Sweden, instead of e.g. its closest neighbors Denmark (comparable hit to GDP, less than 20% of the deaths) or Finland (smaller hit to GDP, less than 15% of the deaths). https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/2995521/10545332/2-1...

And as for Stockholm being "on the verge of herd immunity", the Swedish Bikini Immunologist Team predicted the same in April: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/22/no-lockdown-in-sweden-but-st...
Did you get copy/paste going?

That was when the creative:tedious ratio got rebalanced for me.
A rough back of the envelope calculation. I could be off by a bit but regardless, you don't fire people in a situation like this. It is indecent. 400 to 450 million per year is what the article mentions. 400 million divided by the former 1000 employees leaves 400K / employee on average. That should be plenty.
I remember as a teen I'd go on Digg and open all the articles in separate tabs so that by the time I was done reading the text ones some of the images would be loaded on the ones with pictures. We've come a long way.
Plus, it seems like the fewer interventions are needed without being zero, the more dangerous the system might be. I can see being lulled into a false sense of security if you have to do nothing most of the time - it's the times you need to do something (especially quickly) that you won't be paying attention and you end up under the semi or in the barrier.

Exciting, but literally "bleeding edge" stuff here.
> I can't help but think the founding fathers probably wrote the second amendment with single shot muskets in mind.

Others have mentioned the state of small arms development at the time, so I'll take a different approach.

Elsewhere in the Constitution are provisions for the issuance of "Letters of Marque and Reprisal". These basically commissioned private ships to serve on behalf of the US government and take enemy ships and cargoes on the high seas. For this provision to be usable at all, private ship owners must have been expected to have appropriate arms at their disposal - muskets, sure, but also swivel guns and cannon.

If private individuals were expected to have access to ships armed with weapon able to bombard coastal towns and fortifications... how much sense would it make to believe that those same individuals shouldn't have access to effective small arms?
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom” is a quote from the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard. Would recommend looking at their works!
> Lebanon had the second largest number of Syrian refugees after Turkey

And the most, per capita. (1M Syrians to 7M Lebanese means 13% or so of the people in Lebanon right now are Syrian refugees; Turkey has 3.6M across 83M, or 4%)

In both cases, the burden that these countries (and others like Jordan and Germany) are bearing, in response to the humanitarian apocalypse that is Syria right now, is very impressive. But 13% is absolutely staggering.
> These methods are becoming rarer and rarer in fluid dynamics.

Why are they becoming rarer is the question. Have all the tractable asymptotic problems been solved?
Old liberals might not want to go out during a pandemic, but old conservatives are convinced that it’s all pretend and even if they thought it was real they’d still go out and expose themselves to corona in order to win.
What is the point of "Non-capturing catches"?

These kind of features would make debugging harder as people just ignore the actual error object and write weird common error message which could be useless.
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I wholeheartedly disagree. Two spaces and the One True Brace style is my preferred way of working. Blocks are easy to identify based on indentation. This is exactly why auto-formatters are the best solution. Then there's no need to have this conversation. Some of the style choices we have at work are not ones I would have chosen but I'm quite comfortable with them now thanks to auto-formatting
They don't mention the 1947 Texas City fertilizer and oil explosion on that graphic. Maybe because it was a series of explosions?

It was really big though.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2H_ZNzTrCM
This is exactly what I did with rlhitboxes.com. I'm still the most-up-to-date source for the info, even though Epic née Psyonix put up a page with the same info after I launched. They haven't kept it updated as they release new cars.

It's just a pet project, but it's consistently in the top 5 of any given relevant search phrase.
Having been there, and having bitten often enough, I can confirm that most compilers just try to generate the most conservative code possible for volatile accesses. Their semantics are crazy/inconsistent, so you can't reason about them, and high performance code won't use them. Nobody will ever be interested in making them work/perform well.

C++ atomics in their various memory models are different in that they have well-defined semantics, used in high performance code and people do care. You're right that there have been bugs (and probably still are), but at least you can _argue_ that something is a bug if there is a coherent definition. Optimization of atomics, such as merging barriers, is still in its infancy.
It’s interesting you mention Walmart. Walmart has failed spectacularly in trying to enter the German market. Their treatment of employees probably was a factor but probably not the most important one though.
These zero information statements and intellectually dishonest marketing is what keeps rust a fringe language.

> it's just that you're not used to doing things properly, and Rust forces you to do things properly.

Many patterns that rustc refuses aren't inherently wrong. They are because 1) you have to aid lifetime inference and memory management unlike GC languages 2) All safe patterns can't be verified by compiler, especially if threads are involved.

The cult like mentality of rust spammers on hackernews is making many people sceptic about it. Rust is actually well designed language for what it does. But stop pretending rust is God.
I was hoping for a replacement for Redhat IdM...
They don't get radicalized, they radicalize themselves.

And everyone knows the warning signs, not just teachers.

But usually that crap has to be tolerated because... we know why.

Who didn't know any of this anyway? Like we needed a PhD to explain that to us.
Buy land on hillside terraces, I suppose.
> The Arctic has been warming at least twice as fast as the rest of the world for the last 30 years, an observation referred to as Arctic amplification.

I didn't realize this (or at least, am surprised it's _twice_ as fast). Apparently the key factor is loss of sea ice. Can anyone ELI5?
I remember watching a TV ad where Michael Jordan around the age he was when he retired played 1-on-1 against himself as a college player. This was 15-20 years ago & I wrote an essay for high school English class on how that ad shows we can't believe our eyes when it comes to what we see on TV. It was visually much more convincing than the examples I see here, so I can't help but think deepfakes haven't quite caught up with professional editing, at least not yet.
You said this down-thread too, and it was just as incorrect the first time.

1) People do not just carry guns around with them in the US. That's factually untrue, and illegal in most places. Even where open-carry or CCW is legal, these are flatly not the people committing gun violence. There is no evidence of that at all. In fact, these tend to be the least likely people to actually use a gun over some argument or whatever. It's not 1843, it's not the wild west - there are no poker room gun fights or high-noon gun duels.

2) The guns commonly used in gun violence were obtained illegally. Turns out... criminals do not care about background checks, waiting periods, approved gun rosters, and more.

3) When an "otherwise lawful" citizen does use a gun to commit violence, it's usually murder, usually of someone they know (wife cheating, etc). Without a gun, a knife would be used, or a car, or poison, or whatever. Even your "civilized" country examples have this exact same problem - crimes of passion as they are often called.

4) One of the leading stats for gun related deaths are suicides. Without guns, you still have suicides (see Asian countries with zero civilian-owned guns, yet people jump out of buildings).

There simply is not a problem with legal gun owners running around committing acts of violence. It's simply not true.
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That's a good point, if the tram was broadside to the explosion that might have just done the trick. Even so a tram is pretty compact and solid compared to a truck, semis have low density when empty, the tractor/trailer combination is more like huge sail attached to a relatively light frame. When they're loaded it's a different matter. There was a movie a while ago of trailers like that being tossed around by a tornado but they were all empty.
I feel like people saying 'who cares' haven't been looking. And also like affected places aren't crying loud enough. I was driving through Daytona earlier this year, and stopped just to see their coast. It was gone. The wooden steps leading down to the non-existent beach were half covered. That is, you couldn't even get to the bottom of the stairs. This is a beach people used to park on.
Yes that is correct. They won’t feel bad about it either.
Where do you think the article got that number?

Hint:

They just made it up.
> Many of his subsequent posts have been fairly downvoted.

> He frequently takes an absolutist stance, often assumes negative intent, and is at best abrasive.

I don't disagree about this. Having gone back and reread many of his comments, they do come across as aggressive, even if I agree with much of the contents.

> It’s your call but I would be hesitant to use anything by him. How would he respond if I report a bug or open a feature request?

I don't know to be honest. That being said, his absolutism/idealism make me a little more comfortable with using his software, as I can be reasonably sure it's being held to a high standard.
FYI you can revert to the old EdgeHTML-based browser, with a one-liner in an admin console.