skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>So universal background checks stay dead, despite massive bipartisan support.

The trick is that laws like this tend to contain certain types of other things that have nothing to do with the matter at hand.

A reasonable universal background check bill is not going to pass if it also comes bundled with things like red-flag laws or registries attached to them, which then leads to "but they won't compromise" from both sides of the aisle, so nothing gets done.
Or you get one side ramming something through which ends up defining "transfer" such that it actually criminalizes things like letting your kid shoot your gun even under supervision, which is very difficult not to see as an intentional act to degrade the culture of gun ownership merely because it is done by the people who constantly complain about the culture of gun ownership.

It's also a privacy concern if the system isn't set up properly; while countries like Switzerland have successfully mitigated those issues in the way they run their background checks, the difference between the average Swiss and the average American when it comes to gun politics (mandatory military service helps as does being a small nation) makes it more likely both sides of the issue aren't just going to try to screw each other over at the first opportunity.

Of course, the background check law is not one that is seldom if ever pursued (until it becomes politically expedient to do so), so maybe they should just enforce the law they do have instead of declaring the situation unworkable from the start?
A fair point. Also true for any front end that relies on an API to populate its data. Hacker News for instance will use a similar approach. If they concern is that sometimes API's may go down and data won't be displayed you can of course chose not to use API's in your front end. If you're not that bothered like me, that this is just. "one" way you "could" use Twitter as a CMS for you blog.
Yet billionairs don't invest in this, they make rockets and fancy cars. Fancy phones..

You don't care, just admit it. They know it.
Maybe. To me Communism has always been an utopia. A class less society where we all can indulge in different kinds of work and pleasure together with our equals in society. As Marx wrote, a society where you can "hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic".

It might not be possible in the real world, but it's something to strive for.
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Lovely stuff. Thanks!
If I wanted to get into these now, could you recommend any particular magazines (title and/or vintage) or time periods that are good starting points?
I played Firewatch in a single sitting with my fiancée a few years ago. It was a really nice shared experience and it's what made me realise that these days I much prefer games I can finish in a few hours.

For a long time I had the tendency to stubbornly force myself to finish any game I started, which meant I was spending a lot of my gaming time not actually having fun.
There is nothing particularly robust or renewable, or "future" about it.
One can act hypocritically toward a belief and yet still maintain the belief. In fact it's baked into many religions.
Been super eager to get one of these after reading the announcement last time on HN. Placed an order right away! $25 for a TS-100/80 like features with a RISC-V processor?! Sign me up! To be honest, I have no clue why I need a RISC-V chip on my soldering iron...but seems like it'll be worth the $40 (with shipping) worth of entertainment.

Edit: Seems like this batch has a GPIO + JTag breakout board!
This is patently false. Apple fanboys also go to great lengths to demean users of other platforms.

Case in point: Your labeling of users of other platforms.
What does it have to do with, then, if not "feeling safe"? Honest question.
I’m puzzled. Why then do rents seem about 20% lower than last year? I just found a new flat in Bayswater, London which I could not have afforded a year ago. There seems to be huge oversupply at the moment, just from what I’ve observed in the last 2 months of house hunting.
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If you haven’t already read The Communist Manifesto I highly recommend that you do, it’s super short and easy to understand. Even if you’re an anti-communist you should read it to get a better understanding of what communism is. There has been so much anti-communist and anti-socialist propaganda for decades in the US that many people don’t even know the first thing about communism and socialism and will just shut their minds to any possibility that maybe communists and socialists are advocating for good, just, and equitable things.
All: come on you guys, this is an interesting historical article full of fascinating detail. Please respond out of curiosity (if you have such a response) and keep the rote ideological sniping somewhere else. If you're responding generically to the word "communism", you're not functioning in the intended spirit of this site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If you want to get into the intended groove, the way to do that is to relax a bit out of your habitual identification (pro-communist, anti-communist, whatever) and take pleasure in stuff you didn't know before. People, including Engels, Marx, you, and me, are complicated. They have interesting contradictions.
I would have guessed “gloves”, but that’s i18n-able
Google Patent Search: x86, RISC, Microcode
Validators will need to run a computer with reasonably modern specs (at least 1TB SSD, 8-16GB RAM, multiple cores) in order to collect fees and not have their funds slashed. IIRC you need to have at least 70% uptime to not lose any funds, and to be a good investment you need 99%+ uptime.

If you consider that modern systems with the required specs can run on 10W, you should get ~90kWh in a year.

Transaction-speed wise, there is a lot of talk about 100000+ TPS, but the general consensus seem to be that this will only be achieved with extra L2 support and that a more realistic number for "pure on-chain" throughput is in the high-hundreds / low thousands.
This video from Game Maker’s Toolkit is an excellent overview of the topic: https://youtu.be/gwV_mA2cv_0
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Yeah lovely stuff. I'm working on a similar "thing" using Octokit. I like experimenting with things that aren't supposed to be used as CMS's as CMS's
For the ignorant software only folks like me: why would a soldering iron need a CPU?
I grew my startup revenue just focusing on Street Advertising (Use Case)
> Why should we subsidize those who download tens or hundreds of TBs?

Why should those who download tens or hundreds of TBs subsidize the rest of the people?

End-user equipment, underground cables, and ISP's routers ports are the same regardless on the bandwidth. Construction work is expensive, you need American people to lay cables in American soil, can't outsource to India.

Compared to these costs, bandwidth is borderline free, even in the long run.
While I would love quality discussion about politically charged issues like this, it seems like we can't manage to stay respectful. I think it might just be natural to follow suit with the divisive conversations happening in other forums.

What draws me to HN are the thoughtful, genuine discussions about topics around technology, science, and business. While not perfect, it often seems to dodge the political divisiveness and focus on common interest. I hope we can find a way to keep that spirit of camaraderie and shared interest.
The irony is that you can now often recognize sites being designed with Tailwind the exact same way. They tend to use a certain font, they tend to slightly overuse the card metaphor with a rather specific corner radius and box shadow...

When looking at this site I immediately though: aha, this guy has been using TailwindCSS to design the website... (until I realized that in fact yes, it was designed with Tailwind and the author is also the author of tailwind itself.)

So I guess it's the same as bootstrap at the end of the day. Both provide you with options to customize them. Most people don't.

That being said: Working with tailwind is amazing!
> was the key leader for decades, and is basically its mascot.

RMS was and still is the GNU project leader.

> It's been a very long time since RMS was able to marshall a group of people to work toward that goal.

He gives talks all around the world, trying to warn people about proprietary software and getting them involved in Free Software.

> GNU is internally managed on a private mailing list.

But this little kerfluffle was on a public mailing list, as was requested by the various maintainers who wanted to oust RMS. It was open for anyone to follow along on the gnu-misc-discuss list from 2019-10 and forward. The discussion doesn't really support your "it has been a long time coming" assertion.

> For a long time, key GNU projects have either effectively quit GNU

If you mean Gnome, it still has a lot of those who support GNU, or aren't even aware Gnome is not GNU. There are enough of them the Gnome leadership only raises issues when it allows them to raise their own profile and public visibility, like what happened during the MIT debacle.

> The only change is that now they are doing it in public.

Thankfully, so everyone can read for themselves how claims that what is going on in GNU is "not good" is very subjective and more of a "not how I personally would like it to be".

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-misc-discuss/2019-10/...
Which is one of the worst designed APIs in Java:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/1969651/130659
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Both can be bad you know.
Surprisingly so, I use uv4l¹ for capturing 720p60 and 1080p30 and it has worked well, though I don't know if this method would work in your use case, since all it gives is a raw h264 stream over http, and a browser preview into it.

¹ http://www.davidhunt.ie/raspberry-pi-high-quality-camera-set...
Oh man, this takes me back.
Added Show HN at the start of the title.
To control when/how it turns on and off, show status on a display, ... It being programmable is a bit of a gimmick for most, but the usual caveat applies: You might not need it, but if you want/need some customization it's very nice if your hardware actually allows you to add custom firmware. (E.g. for the TS100 there were some features that as far as I know first featured in custom firmwares, e.g. flipped display for left-handed users)
"The estimated calculations presented in this work prove that the total power produced by us was 0.0414% in 2000 and 0.0577% in 2017 of the global solar power reaching the Earth’s surface"[0].

So even if Bitcoin mining were to cause global electricity production to increase by an order of magnitude, it would still be a rounding error compared to the amount of global warming caused by the Sun directly.

Thinking about it thermodynamically, though, in a future where Bitcoin mining uses only excess solar and wind energy, it wouldn't be adding any heat to the planet because that energy would have become heat anyway.

[0] https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12/16/3069/pdf
5th UberEats cyclist killed in Sydney in 3 months: Analysis and photos
That was win win win:

* seem ethical by not "accepting" gift

* give the worthless gift away and make the recipient be in your debt
The Pinecil has a barrel jack as well (at least on the website, not sure if this holds true on the product)
It's actually a reminder that most people think that when the state violates their fundamental rights they have a right to get their rights back by any means possible.
How do you understand that the entire world was communist until 10,000 years ago?

The natural order of the world appears to more closely resemble capitalism via the "eat what you kill" philosophy.

I imagine you are imagining close-knit tribes that would share resources freely internally. If so, would you agree that tribe members that leech off of the tribe and don't contribute were likely expelled from the group?

We certainly all do seem to have this innate fear of being abandoned by our group, so I think it's fair to say that we're adapted to avoid this outcome.
I enjoyed the long running "Asimov's Science Fiction" and "Analog Science Fiction and Fact" the most, but the newer "Clarkesworld" was also quite good. If you'd prefer a large tome, go for "The Year's Best Science Fiction" by Gardner Dozois. Ooh, and can't forget http://escapepod.org/
Currently reading his biography (he's the most famous person of my hometown :), good timing to see an article about him on HN!

Since Engels always was "the second Violine" (behind Marx), he could get away with a hedonistic lifestyle without endangering the communistic movement too much.
While many may describe him as a typical "Champagnersozialist", IMO in Manchester he realised that the right action of an individual is not enough to introduce a widespread change:
The owenism he experienced in Manchester was the proof (a socialist working class movement in England whose founder tried to establish good working conditions in his factories).

With this in mind, it was simply more effective for the movement to let Engels finance Marx even by running one of those capitalistic cotton factories they criticized & being financed by his family.
(Instead of directly rejecting any participation in the capitalistic lifestyle (including its hedonistic pleasures) and thus having no food on the table, which means that Marx could not have just worked on "Das Kapital").

TL;DR; by doing effective altruism benefitting the communist movement, he meant to help many more workers than by living by example.
Same, super excited to have something on my desk rather than setting up my Weller! I would argue this is closer to a TS-80 than a TS-100, which cost usually around $75.
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> Proof-of-work incentivizes cheap & renewable energy investment.

Energy will become cheap even for malicious actors, so bitcoin hash difficulty will have to go up in order to keep it costly for them to fake transactions. Which means energy usage goes up too. There's no way to avoid "work" in a proof-of-work scheme.
> Each time this happens, Stallman seems a little bit more sane.

He always seemed sane to me. If anything, it's the people who knowingly use non-free software (or develop against non-free APIs) who seem a bit insane.
I wonder how this ALU works. From what I remember ALUs use lot of XOR gates because an adder is simply a network of XOR gates with carry propagation.

How could a NOR gate do one bit addition?

Add two bits ... XOR ... NOR

0 + 0 = 0...........0...........1

0 + 1 = 1...........1...........0

1 + 0 = 1...........1...........0

1 + 1 = 0...........0...........0
The article itself is basically the same thing. It seems almost entirely fixed on describing Engels as a rich womanizer who secretly adored Christianity. It has a section about his life in Manchester that doesn't mention his life changing experience observing the slums and factories, and contains lines like

> “The middle orders must increasingly disappear until the world is divided into millionaires and paupers, into large landowners and poor farm labourers,” Engels wrote, in terms that might well have been appropriated by a Democratic presidential hopeful in 2020.

edit I looked up the quote, and it is Engels describing what he sees as the natural conclusion of the Industrial Revolution unless a total change of societal conditions occurred. Not something he was hoping happened or criticism of Britain enriching merchants as the article suggests.
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Or:

guix install ungoogled-chromium

This CLI difference is in part due to the underlying design, which is not just about syntax (parens vs. braces) but more about abstractions and composition.

For example, the Nix language doesn't have the ability to define new data types, and it doesn't have a "package" or an "operating system" data type. That means that all the entries in Nixpkgs look alike, which in turn prevents building a "package-aware" or "OS-aware" user interface.

The Guix CLI "knows" about packages and versions, and package transformation options are an example of how the CLI can take advantage of that abstraction.

Likewise, the "guix system" command knows about services, which gives it convenient introspection capabilities such as "guix system extension-graph" and "guix system shepherd-graph".

It really isn't about parentheses vs. braces. :-)
Wouldn't be surprised if this will be used to block programs coming from non western nations.
Pompeo talked about creating a "Clean network" to keep foreign non allied nations hardware and software out of it.
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It does it by this CSS:

main > * {
display: none;
}

main > *:last-child {
display: block;
}

main > *:target {
display: block;
}

main > *:target ~ * {
display: none;
}

Which hides all children of the <main> element except the last element, which is the default page. Then when an element is targeted by its ID it's displayed, otherwise it's hidden.

It saves that into a CSS file and injects that into the <head>.
I haven't seen any subsequent work from Mickens on session replay. Many commercial tools like Inspectlet, Fullstory, LogRocket, etc., are available, though.

Mickens has done subsequent work on web page load times with Ravi Netravali.
I used to work for a company that produced Flash Memory developed on NAND gates. Later, they attempted a product line of FPGAs... you keep calling this a CPU, but it seems similar to a FPGA. How is this different than a FPGA (if at all)?
Android just has a working terminal without bypassing anything. You can enable one in developer options or just install a third porty terminal like termux.

Android and iOS are really not equivalent here. Similarly you can install apps from outside the play store normally. No root, no unlocked bootloader, no funny business. Just a big difference in how each OS treats its users.
> 3. Suspend and battery usage are, in general, still a decade behind the competition.

For suspend there's been some regressions a few years back, but I use it all the time now on both Dell Latitude and Thinkpad X without any issue.

Battery usage is way better with Linux than with Windows, at least on the Latitude where I can easily compare with my Windows 10 using colleagues. It's not even close, and I also avoid the constant fan noise ;)

Now there's one thing to keep in mind: if you don't use a pre-installed Linux distro (which I don't, I use Debian stable) then you are the system integrator ;) No way around this.

But on well supported models like the Latitude and Thinkpad at least this integration is very easy: for me I just install the "tlp" (The Laptop Project) package, and because I only use SSD I aggressively idle the disk. This configuration I did years ago and simply reuse it. Done.
There is very heavy integration between libdispatch and the kennel on macOS. In fact, when porting libdispatch to non macOS platforms for Swift on Linux, the developers were surprised that they couldn’t just unilaterally introduce changes into the Linux kernel in the same way that they had done on macOS itself.

As a result on Linux platforms, the libdispatch libraries are a software bolt on that doesn’t have the same level of tight integration (and therefore performance) than on macOS.

Given that libdispatch existed in macOS with kernel integration a long time before the Linux library port was added, your claim that it was cross platform doesn’t stand up. It was macOS first, with kernel integration, and then a separate compatibility layer afterwards for non-macOS platforms much later.

Source: I helped out with the porting of Swift to Linux when at Apple.
I've never noticed HTML based layouts being slow unless someone explicitly designed a slow UI. The bigger problems are slow startup time and excessive RAM usage. Running multiple browser instances is not sustainable.
No, we don't. In CyberCraft (software development company from Ukraine) we have found out more efficient ways to stay relaxed. We practice different kinds of sport together, try yoga and meditations. Such an approach helps to get rid of anxiety, stay motivated and control the mind.
Just wanted to point out that it draws up to 20 kilowatts. If it really is as fast as "10,000 GPUs", that means it's using 2 watts per GPU equivalent. Pretty impressive!
You now can use a SQL-compatible query language with DynamoDB
Enterprise SaaS question: Pilot customer
We are building a MVP for enterprise SaaS, focused on Proposal automation. Questions:
1. Looking at our customer`s Decision Making Unit, users want features for time and effort savings via collaboration, while decision makers want to focus on features for risk of proposals. There are 2 different sets of features that address these 2 aspects. For MVP, what is more critical? Easy to build user features (but with caveat of not being paid) or time-consuming to build decision-makers focused features, with more likelihood of getting $.

2. When and how to raise $ for Beta product development, as we are building clickable wireframes now and about to lock-in the first Pilot customer in next 30 days. We do not have any revenue today.

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A.
This is so Greg Egan.

(An Australian sci-fi author who likes to layer realities computed/simulated on top of each other - give Diaspora or Permutation City if it sounds like your cup of tea.)
That only influences start up time.
> MS 2020 is far away from MS 2010.

I haven't seen evidence of this. Their OS is at least as user hostile as before and they desperately seek developers.

If I have a specific technical problem I have to slay hundreds of sales people before I find someone with real expertise.

That they aren't as dominant as before is probably due to the fact that they have few developers and need to regain some. Financially Office is probably the largest income and sure, the standard corporate AD solutions are wide spread. But their cloud tech seems to be restricted to very large companies and I haven't seen much of it.
Isn't mackeeper malware?
This is because Texas is a shall issue state where generally, you apply, meet the specified requirements, get a background check, pay your fees and the state will issues you a permit. If you pass all the checks you get the permit, no other considerations are made.

New York is a may issue state which generally/usually means a local law enforcement official will make a judgment call. Some have a blanken no issue policy, others sometimes waive that blanket no issue policy if they can be persuaded.
$2.5MM per CS-1 unit [1]

To amortize hardware cost over a year, it takes $2,5MM/8,760hrs=$288/hr

Add electricity, infrastructure costs and margin. Should be perhaps below $500/hr to rent in cloud.

[1] - https://www.anandtech.com/show/15838/cerebras-wafer-scale-en...
Unfortunately not really, as 4-AcO-DMT would definitely fall under the Federal Analogue Act. And if you order it in the mail (as is common with "research chemicals") they'll tack on charges for mail fraud and trafficking across state lines.
I learnt this the hard way the other day that this is the case with Postgres too. Its very jarring in my opinion that we have to write date(1, 0, 2020) to mean 1st Jan - the date and year are fine but we suddenly need to minus one in the middle
I wrote this after I heard of the cyclist killed in Sydney last night, which occurred on my street.

I did some analysis of what I think are contributing factors to the crash and photos of the scene after it was cleaned. I've added several content warnings describing image content. Please let me know your thoughts.

My thoughts are with the family and friends of the deceased.