skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are FBI reports that say the same thing, referenced here:

https://inpublicsafety.com/2015/01/tackling-the-obesity-epid...

and here:

"FBI: 80 Percent Of Police Officers Are Overweight"

https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2014/08/14/fbi-80-percent-of-police...

Why on earth would you come to challenge something without first checking if its true?
Yeah, but go tell the people in Fukushima.

And keep in mind that Japanese people are usually religiously meticulous about work, procedures and safety.

And still remains the problem of radioactive toxic waste.

Edit: I don't want to underplay your comment, but it's important to understand that when dealing with nuclear power all it takes is one major fuck-up to completely screw a whole region.
Absolutely agree with this. If blind auditions aren't best, then it's not really about the music, is it? My political position hasn't moved in a decade, but the left has shifted so far that they went past logic and reason. There was a recent article about scholars working to "decolonise light" as in the study of physics, which included investigating what knowledge about molecular physics tribal cultures might have that we missed because of our hateful focus on Europe.
Google just wants browsers to become more powerful cuz then more people will use Chromebooks. since everything can be done on a browser.

Why do you think PWA's are being pushed so hard by google? So people can build PWA's that also run on Chromebooks. No need for native apps
This is fun but I think it's a bit buggy.

Trying to draw lines parallel and close to more than one border generates a lot of nonsense. Try with a square almost as big as the canvas.
My experience is identical.

I answered a several dozen questions over a month, years ago. Now my answers have paid "dividends" for years, increasing my Stack Overflow Points. This is slightly odd, but I'll take it :)

But seriously, SO is a good tool for learning if you don't get excited by points, and just use it as a "this is what language/feature X is about" -- a method for zeroing in on your chosen topic.
I've been doing it for 10 years, it's been hard so far, but there have been satisfactions. Some money was made, a few lives were saved. I'm not good at getting attention (heh, that would help, wouldn't it?) but if people have questions, I will answer them here.

https://www.robots-everywhere.com/
Cause they’re “independent” contractors
That's unfortunate, maybe neither of them should be doing it?
There may be an asymmetry, but there's also a matter of choice and control.

You can (at least presumably) control whether you will break a contract (NDA or otherwise) in the future. You cannot control something that has happened in the past, and thus you have much less choice over your actions if you're blackmailed.
First I was going to mention that this is what I believe Nim does (and Nim is closely similar to Python with its own differences), but I also forgot about Cython which achieves this as well. I guess the purpose of this though is to walk through the process which is more interesting than just being linked to Nim or Cython.
To be clear their not that dangerous, but we are still talking extra deaths and accidents. Mostly from increased amount of time people spend on residential roofs. Roofing is about 30 deaths per 100,000 full time workers which is about double the average rate for construction.

Currently instillation is the primary, but not only risk. You also get electrical accidents and in rare cases fires. Plus an increased tendency for people to go onto a roof to check them out and or clean them etc. And some extra roof maintenance due to leaks from improper installation etc.

Personally, I don’t think it’s a major deal at the individual level. However, I thik it should be considered in terms of public policy.
The real disaster scenario is that you create a fission in the universe spawning universe in which you need a grand daughter which is provided by a doubly nested knot of 2 time loops with two variations each which self reinforce and end up providing you the grand daughter but continuously cause the apocalypse by disrupting electronics and quantum mechanics across the universe.
Unfunded externalities.
Discussion at Reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/amiga/comments/iezlzz/i_sure_didnt_...
You could just chuck them back in the furnace, I suppose: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czochralski_method .. but that's no better than using sand.
I find my biggest holdup is designing UI. I'm not a designer so while I can implement it, it usually looks a bit meh in terms of colors and layout. This costs me a lot of time because without a clear image of what it looks like, I find I don't know exactly what I'm building.
> Pretty much everywhere in the world, paramedics are allowed to inject sedatives when treating a patient.

I don't know how you define pretty much everywhere, but in the EU it's illegal pretty much everywhere. [0]

I know in practice those laws get ignored, but, as a paramedic or doctor, you could get into trouble if someone decides to sue over it. The reality is that the law isn't on your side on this issue.

[0] https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/chafea_pdb/assets/files/pdb/200...
> how is being an anesthesiologist relevant?

Uhhhh anesthesiologists are experts in administratering sedatives to humans safely. The connection here seems pretty obvious to me...
The old Skype client using Qt was similar to a Slack using a classic GUI framework. Compared to Slack it was barebones. You had a list of conversations and a view for the conversations themselves. I'm not saying it's bad; I'd probably prefer it in fact. But it's not the same product as Slack. This comes back to my point about Electron vs. others, maybe the reason Electron apps are slow is because Electron apps typically have more functionality. The easiest way to make a program faster is to remove code.

> However, you cannot develop Chromium with Chromium

Why not? You can run Visual Studio Code in the browser and edit the Chromium source code. Perhaps, given sufficient memory, you can also run clang in the browser (WASM) so you can compile and link in Chromium too.

> Because it looks ugly (i.e. non-native) on pretty much every platform.

I'm not sure if you're talking about Electron or Qt because this statement applies equally well to both. Electron, Qt, Swing, JavaFX, Flutter all take the approach of drawing every pixel themselves, not using any "native" widgets rendered by the OS vendor.

Anecdotally all the Electron apps I've used have been beautiful whereas the Qt/GTK ones look stuck in the 90s.
A few dollars in energy costs for a Los Angeleno to take a 45-minute trip to NYC for lunch & some meetings, & return in time to beat the evening commute traffic jams? Sign me up!
I don't think there's a coverup.

At this point trial design and regulations are decided foremost by politics.

Nothing will determine if the trial is successful other than serendipity, so in my opinion, while people should not suffer due to side effects, none of this stuff really matters.

Another way to look at this is, in a place that has no elections, like China, or in a place with unfair elections, like Russia, but a surplus of talent and money to develop vaccines, vaccine development is pretty unusual. (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/business/china-vaccine-co... https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/11/world/europe/russia-coron...)
Paragon stated their intent to maintain and support the code in their initial email, and added themselves to the maintainer files.

There's no drama happening here. Paragon guys are trying to give it "properly", and linux guys want it "properly", and the only thing happening is defining "proper" in this context
When we do inventory of books, about 7000 of them, it takes a team of 3 or 4 people scanning labels on the back of books, about 5 hours to scan them all. Add 3 or 4 more people in to watch the computer(s) for errors as scans come in. Then add an hour or two to pur things back to normal.

For a used bookstore with no pre made labels and books stacked and crammed I’d double the time. Then add some more for books that don’t have a barcode on them...

This is with laser barcode scanners and dedicated machines per device. Phone scanners are much slower.. either way, give me a crew of people, scanners, etc and we could scan about 10K books a day.
Why California Keeps Having Blackouts
Perhaps because you have to have a Medium account to read the article? I'd love to read it, but I don't love the idea of logging in to Medium to do so.
Why do you need VC funding? Plenty of people have bootstrapped businesses with no outside funding. Don’t ask VCs to pay your paycheck - ask customers to. Make something that’s worth paying for.
FWIW, I don't think history is proving this out. Apple and Google haven't exactly become bastions of customer friendliness, despite their competition in the mobile space.

Nor have ISPs, Online Retailers, repair shops, etc.
If we actually wanted contact tracing to work, we'd go with an all of the above strategy, including telling people when they get their positive test to go ahead and immediately call everyone who they can think of that they've had contact with in the past few days.

Analog contact tracing is great because if the tracer is good, they can help evaluate the risk of a situation -- duration of exposure, mask usage, distance, etc.

Digital contact tracing is great because it can potentially reach people who the case doesn't know personally or have contact information for. You're not going to be able to provide a phone number for the person sitting at the next table at the restaurant.

Self contact tracing is great because it can potentially happen faster.

Of course, in order for contact tracing to have much value, you have to have a place for people to quarantine. That seems to be the missing link in many places. There was just a story in the NYT about an immigrant family who lived in a two bedroom apartment with nine people. The mom caught COVID and tried to isolate by sleeping in the closet, but this was not successful. If governments want to get serious, they need to provide out of home quarantine free of charge. This was very successful in Wuhan as a mandatory program, but IMO you would get good compliance if you just told people that they should go to a free hotel room for two weeks and that meals would be delivered.
Maybe you're waiting in a room (or covid-room) while they're trying to copy your strange shitty disk for days on end. I can already see the 'The Atlantic' piece.

I'm wondering if it's not gonna be another 'good' reason to keep anyone they want to mess with for days. Oh sorry we can't read m2 disks we have to call the guy from the place that has the only converter. We'll keep you warm in the mean time. You didn't have a flight connection or a lawyer you wanted to call, right?
> They are sorted. Normal hash tables are unsorted, sorting needs lot of time and space. Nobody but python would do that. But once you went down this path, users start relying on this quirks and you cannot get away from that.

They most definitely aren't sorted. It's not a quirk either. Python dicts are essentially a tiny hashtable of pointers into an array of objects. For iteration, that array is traversed directly. That's where the insertion-order preservation comes from. It's cheap. It doesn't involve sorting.

> They are insecure by default. Only with some special cmdline flag they feature a randomized seed.

Hashes are randomized since Python 3.2 or so.

> Which is still insecure because the seed can be easily exposed by reading the memory of the seed.

Obviously.

> They feature special values for ints. 1 hashes to 1, 4 to 4 and do on.

That's a quirk of the hash function (which is a reduction modulo a prime), not the hashtable.

> Everybody using siphash is immediately exposed as having no idea about hash table security.

Well...
Article dated July/30th. Related HN discussion from that day https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23999542
Has Phalanx ever been tested against a supersonic missile?

Also, there is no way to install such a system on a fighter airplane.
I owned a 2003 bmw and there were many modules within it (for example, the rear trunk latch was its own module). With CAN bus electronics it’s super cheap and they design a lot of the parts to operate this way, and they don’t directly interface with the ECU. They could have a relay in the ECU that provides the power output to the heater wires and it will only operate if the CAN command has a signed payload that uses some key from BMW, and compromising that key or sharing it would be in violation of the DMCA, similar to the Sony PS3 key that happened many years back [0] or the current battleground of right to repair John Deere tractors. That would make it not technically impossible to create another replacement part, but it would violate copyright.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_homebrew#Priva...
I'm no fan of Warren, but a more charitable view would be that she wants people to have the right information, and let them form their own beliefs.
Not so fast, silicon that was already doped cannot be reused for semiconductor manufacturing. It mostly goes to metallurgy.
The form factor kinda reminds me of mostly misguided project I toyed with in early 00's. The idea was to get useful amount of computing power for massively parallel applications on shoestring budget by building 2D network of boards in this form factor that either contained “8051 on steroids” MCU or small-ish Altera CPLD.
Speaking of the web, angulardart got a major update a few weeks ago. And on the subject of web-app-on-dart, my personal site is written in dart (and the 'platform', as some people would call it, is open source for that matter if someone wants to use it or contribute).
Some businesses don't allow their corporate data to cross borders via devices, e.g. they can use VDI to keep all data under enterprise control except for pixel-level viewing.
It's not impossible that as solar tech gets better and cheaper older panels may be replaced for financial reasons even though they are still functional.
I once saw a friend nearly delete all their files using tip#3 from the thread:

> never use only * as a wildcard. A ./* would save you in most cases

My friend typod that for /* in an rm -rf command but caught it just in time. They seemed like unnecessary characters to me if it does the same as *, and I don't think they do it anymore, but now I'm not sure which is worse...

I suppose good backups just go a long way whatever you do.
I know that’s tongue in cheek, but I’d really appreciate having a NSFW text filter.

Some of my CX team is getting harassed by trolls who send profane messages and racial slurs through the Zendesk Chat interface. Zendesk does not have a way to filter out profanity (for Chat at least; there are options for emails or tickets).

I’ve found simple client side extensions that can censor words, but a better approach would use NLP to grasp the context.

“I hope you die” contains the same words as “My <product> got wet, I hope it didn’t die”, but with vastly different intention.
Then we're in agreement that Epic's breach of the developer agreement wasn't actually required to have standing or to bolster their antitrust claims.
Your own link seems to show hydro, solar and wind power as being safer. The conclusion after the chart though ignores those and compares only nuclear and fossil fuels. As far as pollution, the article seemed to again compare only fossil fuels vs nuclear.
Could you please stop posting flamebait and unsubstantive comments to HN? Also, could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for other users to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
You are discounting cave man with camp fire. Also nuclear _technology_ as of being controlled by humans is not as old.
Feeding the entropy source into software might take many different forms depending what is the password to (e.g. login/full disk encryption key on your computer, password manager master password, password to a specific online service, etc). For most uses you'll have to enter it as text, and have to enter it multiple times, potentially on different devices that you are accessing the service on.

For almost any real-world use case, memorizing the password and typing it in on a keyboard is pretty much a necessity. There are many kinds of inputs that don't allow another software like DiceKeys to enter the secret, so I'd still definitely rather stick with the simpler, human-readable option.
take your pick of "us vs them", "thin blue line", or "own the libs"
Your statement sounds like GPL is giving a "freedom", so like you could use GPL code in an MIT licensed project (sorry if I misinterpreted your statement); this is not true, see
https://www.tawesoft.co.uk/kb/article/mit-license-faq
"Can I use GPL-licensed code in my MIT-licensed project?
No. The project as a whole must conform to the terms of the GPL license and must be distributed under the terms of that license. Therefore such a project as a whole must be distributed as GPL, but can still contain MIT-licensed software."

So it is more like MIT licensed projects give you the freedom to use in a GPL project.
You can bombard it with neutrons to produce (radioactive) gold, though.

https://journals.aps.org/pr/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev.60.473 (1941)
Could you please not post in the flamewar style to HN? Especially not the ideological flamewar style? We're trying for something other than scorched earth here.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site to heart, we'd be grateful.
An article on alternative blade materials: https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2019/06/wooden-wind-turbines...
Not particulartly unlikely actually:

Some Examples:
- Philippines dengue vaccine debacle https://www.npr.org/2019/05/02/719366831/dengue-vaccine-cont...

- The rushed flu vaccine in the US in response to the 1976 outbreak
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_swine_flu_outbreak

Different underlying mechanisms (Dengue is a bitch where you get immunity against one strain but significantly increase the chances of a hemorrhagic event if you get any of the other strains for example)

Given how little we know about covid and its family (Sars burned out, MERS never got the investment it needed to understand), rushing is a very bad idea(tm). But so was pretty much most of the inept response so far, so yea...

Longer list from the CDC here, you can see a variety of causes from simple manufacturing mistakes (given how we did on producing rushed tests....) to complex side effects - https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/concerns-history....

Its worthwhile noting that the scale here is the most scary part. Most vaccines are limited to specific situations or age / risk / region groups and have years of testing and real world data behind it, following gradual rollout over the world - but the covid one will be applied universal to potentially billions in a short time. Rushing that is, well, an unfathomable risk.

Edit: Judging from the reaction this isn't what certain people wanted to hear. Well, we are in this mess because of exactly that attitude. Nature does not care for our wishes and we better grow up sooner rather than later.
The cost of solar has come down _a lot_ in the last few years. At this point the cost of a solar installation is dominated by the cost of the humans who have to deal wit the city to get permits and physically install the components on the roof. For a 6kw system (typical for a single family house in California) the cost of the panels is about $3000, the inverter is about $2000, the auxiliary components (racks, wiring, disconnect, etc) is about $1000. If you are doing it on new construction the install is basically free, but as a retrofit hiring a contractor that will work with the city to get the permits and install the panels is about another $1,000-$10,000 depending on who you talk to and how complicated the installation is (some people need a new electrical service for their house, which runs almost $5k in itself, etc)

That system should produce about 10,000 kw*hr of energy over the year, so the payback excluding installation would be under 5 years.
> You can change the text size on Hacker News

This I know. However, better-designed sites allow the user to customize the default font size.
AI is the weaponry we need to fight against Covid-19
> I'd love to revisit this topic -- power costs in Florida are very high.

Power /bills/ may be very high (due to hot/humid climate necessitating extensive air conditioning). But a quick google shows me power /rates/ in FL are around $0.11 per kWh - which is very low on a global scale (and on the low end of average for the US[1]). Solar costs are coming down on a per-kW basis, so the per-kWh electricity cost is the one you need to compare to find when it breaks even.

[1] https://www.electricchoice.com/electricity-prices-by-state/
I didn’t say that they should do this for security of the execution environment of the code, I’m not sure how you got to that interpretation. The GP said that there is output to tell users not to compromise themselves by blindly pasting unsafe code, which is easily prevented by disabling dev tools altogether, and there is no reason for an end user to have access to dev tools in an electron app. The other replies are probably what the GP meant and were related to the web version of discord.
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I grew up near Chernobyl and my parents still work on CNPP. So, I understand a thing or two about nuclear disasters
Are you serious? You snowdon leaks were propaganda?
Is it really true that it’s inert? I thought making solar panels was a pretty toxic endeavor, which is in part why so many are made in China. Is it just in the manufacturing or in the final product too?
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> Build Back Better - Biden 2020

I am now convinced democratic party is actually trying to get trump re-elected.

Worrying about trump's shenanigans in case he looses at this stage sounds pointless.

Strap in for another 4 years, while us rest of the world get more popcorn.
Intro to Traditional Japanese Instruments
Yes, this is the better answer. I sub'd Solr for lucene :facepalm:

EFK (fluentd) is gaining popularity as a slightly different, but essentially the same stack
You'd think they could be classed as a criminal organization for racketeering and have all operations forcibly shut down ...

... then perhaps they see the value of playing nice.
It may be (and, I guess, probably is) written with Microsoft’s help or even be mostly written by them, but I think that’s a personal statement by somebody who claims authority by specifying his job.

I also do not read anything there that will affect this round of this fight, which is about the question whether an urgent ruling has to be made that Apple should _now_ be forced to chance its stance.