skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the question is whether or not there is a high chance of someone committing a violent crime caused by playing video games, then you are correct. If the question is whether there is any causation link between violent video games and committing real life violence, then you need more data than what you are using.

We have roughly 380 violent crimes per 100k people each year in the US. Just to keep it simple, let's assume they are committed by unique people. Half of adults play video games and about half of those play violent video games. (Very rough numbers but the right ballpark.) So in 100k people, you have 25,000 who play violent games of some sort. Of those violent video games, if only a certain type can create violence, you may be looking at only 10,000 people or fewer (per 100k people) who are playing the games that could cause violence. It also seems likely that the ability to cause violence would be tied to genetic and environmental issues in the person playing the video games. On top of that, for the violence to manifest itself, the person would need to find themselves in a circumstance where it could manifest. (Being bullied at school, etc.)

It seems very likely that by the time everything that might have an impact on violence is considered, you might be only dealing with 1,000 people out of every 100k who would be in the at risk group. If the effect for the at risk group is very high, say 1 out of 1,000, you are talking about one more violent crime per 100,000 people.

It would seem that an increase like this could easily be hidden due to other programs to reduce crime like cleaning up lead pollution, or better training teachers to to identify at risk students.

(And please understand, I'm not saying that there is a link. Just pointing out how it would be likely to show up if there was.)
384 Ways to Help by MacKenzie Scott, Bezos' Ex-Wife
And maintenance. The biggest differentiator between American and Russian aircraft is that the American aircraft were better maintained. The Russian aircraft were likely more reliable for their given level of maintenance... but they were very, very poorly maintained.
Much in the way that I would recommend to anyone struggling with "Moby-Dick" to try starting with Melville's much shorter novella "Bartleby, the Scrivener" to get a taste for the authors' style, wit, and use of language; I would suggest a volume of Greene's short stories. In a few or a few dozen pages it is easier to see how he draws a character, uses dialogue, employs irony and humor to make a point or cause the reader to reflect. Once you have a feel for what Greene finds funny (or distasteful) it is easier to see how his commentary takes shape over the course of a longer novel.

A few stories that come to mind that might make good examples are "When Greek Meets Greek" and "The Destructors."
I've shifted a lot of purchases to Best Buy as well. I also ordered far more products directly from the manufacturer's web site this year. Many offer the same free shipping if you are buying anything of value.

I figure if Netgear sends me a fake switch when ordering directly from them it's time to give up on capitalism.
Unfortunately Walmart seems to be doing their best to be just as bad as Amazon. I had good luck ordering from them for the past few years but more recently it's gotten almost as bad. They now have a lot of fake/junk products being sold by random parties, plus I had a really awful experience with their customer service recently.

The product page for one item that my partner was looking to buy for her Mom's birthday said something like "Free 2-day shipping, receive it by the 4th". Well when she went to check out the only option to get it by that date cost $30+ dollars. I ended up getting on the phone with a support person who fully acknowledged that the shipping info was wrong but to my shock completely dismissed it as not being a problem.

I said that people were putting items into their cart based on false information and the response was basically a dismissive shrug. We went back and forth a few times to make sure I really understood his response and there's no doubt that he did not care that they were displaying false shipping info.

Since then I've been wary of buying anything else from Walmart.
> And gladder that it seems to work A-okay without JavaScript enabled.

There are no scripts on the page.
I think that's mostly just because it's not a sentence you would be saying that often. E.g. when talking about parents outliving their children you'd use it
For a stark reminder of the inequalities in Covid impact, there’s a nice map here detailing Los Angeles rates by subregion:

https://products.xtown.la/coronavirus

For non-LA natives, the west side (near the coast) is considerably more affluent than the rest, and sees much lower rates. Even places like Palms and Brentwood which are packed with apartments seem to be doing alright relative to the rest.
For APIs, there are tools to parse out comments (that the linter requires) into the API description. Doesn't give examples or much of a "when to use this" usually, but I've found it's better than nothing.

For me personally, even though I dislike these auto-generated docs since they're quite terse (and tend to display niche parts of the API just as prominently as the parts you likely want to use), I tend to find them much more reliable than more detailed guides precisely because they tend not to desync, so I often don't even bother with well-written guides anymore, since they are much more likely to waste my time (or at least be inaccurate).

I'd expect many other developers have the same level of trust issues I do, to the point that those shitty auto-generated docs are in some ways better than really nice, detailed docs, because they are easier to trust. I'm unlikely to break the habit of ignoring detailed docs/guides unless it's coming from some big project where they're uniformly good. Otherwise, reading them tends to be a waste of time IMO.
This is a approval for all of the people who said to just allow Hydrochloriquine for everyone, because after all, its a pandemic, and how bad can it be? (turns out, it gave people heart attacks).

Not only have AZ lied about their test plans (claiming that the two differing dose was deliberate in the first press releases), lied about who was at fault with dosing errors (they insisted that the Italians where at fault), "pooled" results with different populations to try and make a argument they were not testing for (which critically didn't include people over 55) - they just managed to get the UK to approve a dosing strategy that they never even tested.

It's a pandemic - and the UK has invested a lot in both loves and national prestige in this vaccine. But the shortcuts here may come back to haunt. Or it may be what stops this disease in it's tracks.

it's a hell of a gamble either way..
Oh, I concur. I want it measured against skilled, sober, attentive drivers, not "bad" drivers.
> It's almost impossible to go out with friends nowadays without having a conversation about buying a home.

Posted December 10th. 2020?

However you read this (callous about a worldwide pandemic or meaningless, spammy marketing speech), that is effortlessly the one opening sentence after which to disregard any opinion of the author's.
I understand it is legal, but I also understand that it has restrictions: mainly that it is legal only if the reason to reverse engineer something it must be on an interoperability or essential maintenance basis. I am not sure if "modding" beyond bug-fixing is legal in this situation (considering the time period).
I'm really confused by what it does after reading the homepage. I can share links with people collaboratively? Don't I just send them the link? It might be good to have an example of how this makes sharing links better because none of the features you showed seems like something I can't do already by pasting a link into an IM client.
There's an opportunity for them to communicate better with pedestrians than the average human driver. Drivers tend to assume that their intent to stop or not to stop is obvious and don't bother with a clear signal like flashing their lights or waving visibly.

From the pedestrian's perspective, it can be hard to see the driver at all (small movements of the hand can be invisible in sun glare; direction of gaze likewise), and also hard to tell what they're doing. Just because they're slowing somewhat as they approach doesn't mean they see you or intend to stop.
With intrusive you can remove from the list in constant time from the object itself.

With std::list you need to find the iterate to the node before you can delete it.
To be fair, I was like 10 years old back then!
I think you may have the same view. Making e-mails concise and to the point requires effort, and effort requires time.
The big problem with numbers like this is how do you measure it?

Tesla claims their system is vastly safer than human drivers, but currently it only engages in situations where it's already fairly safe to use. So should that system be 5 times safer than all human-driving, or safer than human-driving under the conditions the Tesla is able to engage?
I'm not so sure about this, as most people in the know were hunting down Saturn versions and 4MB/Action Replay carts.

There were a few games where the PSX version was ideal, such as Rival Schools, Battle Arena Toshinden and the mentioned Soul Edge, but that was because the ZiNc/System11 arcade hardware that they ran on was literally derived from the Playstation hardware.
Weird to even impose any restrictions at all outside of working hours. Can’t see how it’s any of my employers’ business?

How would they view working a second job? Does it matter in what field?
I have an older friend whose driving terrifies me, but who lives in an area with effectively zero public transportation or reliable cab service. While I don't want to see this person on the roads, the alternative is literally moving into a senior community (which would probably be the death of this person).

Frankly, if self-driving cars became .75x as safe as the average human driver, it would still a net safety improvement if got this person out from behind the wheel.
> I often heard YouTube comments claim that one got crappy Chinese products because of they paid cheap price. I don't have much experience in buying items directly from China (I bought a drill and impact drive from AliExpress, have been OK); want to learn your experience.

I think that's the nuance that other people miss. Cheap stuff is cheap for a reason and they break. We have all purchased expensive Chinese stuff that work well but we don't attribute them to China because of the shiny non-Chinese logo on them (i.e. Apple, etc.) Anker is a new generation of Chinese companies that is trying to build a brand and move up market. Their stuff have been superb but aren't bargain bin prices.
Ask HN: Why does YouTube think I am Russian?
I've recently noticed some peculiar trends occuring on my youtube account. It started some time ago (probably on the order of months), when my video captions started to default to Russian. Ok, no big deal - just some weird glitch. So I set it back to English. Then recently, I saw in my notifications that I had a response to some comment I left on a video - except the username displayed alongside my profile picture (only in the notification) was not my username, but rather "Katie Cherednichenko". This changed back to being my normal username on subsequent refreshes. Aaand now my captions are back to defaulting to Russian again (at least for some videos, none of which are remotely russia-related).

I am neither Russian, nor female, nor named "Katie Cherednichenko". The only russian-related content I've accessed in the remembered past was the video of anti-corruption activist and political candidate Navalny on the phone with one of the FSB members involved in one of the assassination attempts targeting him.

So does Youtube think I am russian simply because of a single video I watched recently? If so, this doesnt explain russian subtitles extending further into the past than the time when I watched that video. And the username issue I guess could be the result of a hash collision or similar? Or is this really just an indication that my account has likely been pwned?
Exactly. For the benefit of passengers, self driving cars should drive as well as a sober, attentive, well-behaving driver.

When I get into a car as a passenger today, I already get the benefit of riding with a better than average driver — I can identify and choose not to ride with people who are drunk, inattentive, reckless, etc. That’s the comparison that is a more reasonable baseline expectation.
I don't think it's useful to talk about global traffic deaths in this context. Since obviously regulation will change by country, the difficulty of developing self driving will change by country, and road safety varies enormously by country. The US is likely to get self-driving first, but is already way safer than the average country, and the countries where deaths are higher are less likely to be able to afford the roll out of self-driving cars.

In the US there are ~36,000 deaths from motorvehicle accidents.

To give some context, America could improve their fatality right by 5x by bringing themselves into line with the safety standards observed in Western Europe whose fatality rate is already at around 2.7 per 100,000 people.

It's also important to remember that self-driving is likely to represent the safest journeys - highway commutes etc.
>... isn't that where most of our problems originate?

Of course not. All our problems are rooted in the lack of resources (in a broad sense, like time or fun). AI is a weapon and will be used as a weapon to acquire those resources.
I haven't seen a definitive count anywhere. It is certain that not all flights involving the MCAS problem led to a crash. The LionAir crash flight was preceded by a flight were the pilots first experienced the MCAS problem due to the failed pitot on the plane; they disabled the trim system and completed the fight manually. It was the subsequent flight the actually crashed.
Friends was also shot on film, and cropped to 4:3 for broadcast. Like Firefly, Friends also had unintentional things (crew, microphones, un-dressed sets, etc) appear in the edges in 16:9. While most were probably edited out before the uncropped 1080 re-release; some unintended things remain, which I personally really like seeing.

Additionally, like Firefly's pure VFX, some footage in Friends also appears in SD in the HD release (seemingly either because the original film stock was lost, or it wasn't originally shot on film), with the zoomed 4:3 SD vs 16:9 HD sometimes changing mid-scene, and …that too I find a humbling reminder of the quality of yesteryear.
Vaccines are not treatments ether if you want to be strict about the definition. You can't treat something you don't have, right? They are medical procedures that have a risk/benefit ratio.
I mean united news cycles predated the cold war and wasn't an isolated American phenomenon and I'm not talking about America but the world so I don't see how your opinion is relevant to the topic other than to stir the pot.
Four-day week means 'I don't waste holidays on chores'
Weird article. People do not lose their shirts when leveraged real estate purchases go wrong, because it's the bank holding the bag and they can't come after the rest of your assets, only the securing property. Also, in certain jurisdictions, the property tax risk doesn't exist.

That said, I am also not buying a house, but my reasons are very different from these.
This reads like the author is trying to convince himself more than we readers.

Chances are, those that choose not to buy homes won't make alternative long-term investments, they'll just blow their income on consumerist junk. It doesn't matter if the SP500 does better than real estate if you just buy more non-durables with your income or opt to upscale their rental to live a luxury lifestyle.

Its a very easy analysis: when a homeowner turns 67, they can sell their home and use the money to subsidize retirement. A renter is probably still working at 67.
I used to chase bleeding edge Linux distros but these days, I nearly always reach for either an LTS release or a BSD for my personal projects.

Sadly, I got all my network appliances setup and configured with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS a month or so before OpenBSD merged their WireGuard kernel module. I'm too lazy to touch those servers given they're relatively low traffic, especially during Pandemic times as I'm always on my local network.
The worst time to buy anything is when other people are rushing to buy the same thing.
>> Production of both the ARJ21 and C919 have relied on foreign suppliers for parts to build the braking system, engines and hydraulic pressure components. Chinese manufacturers have been able to make the less essential components, according to industry observers, but they are seen as likely to require more maintenance and incur additional costs.

> How long before China also challenged the turbine and avionics market? They aren’t there yet but I feel like they have the economic capability to get there.

I don't know, but I think they'll get there sooner rather than later.

IMHO, China's "more advanced" economic competitors have established a pattern of self-assuredly resting on their laurels in some area (and focusing too much on ideological purity re: economic theory) until their leading positions have been undermined and they lose.
I do. Currently only in hobby fashion, but I also used it professionally when contracting for a company that was building a computation-intensive web platform on a Common Lisp (SBCL) backend. AMA.

Personally, I really like SBCL, it's my go-to implementation. I originally picked it because of performance considerations (hobby gamedev), as it compiles to native. But over time, I've learned to also appreciate the type inference and overall embracing the use of (optional by standard) type declarations to provide compile-time typechecking (as well as further performance benefits).
It is “very, very low” as the level where happiness tapers off. I know I can, and will, do a hell of a lot more with 140k per year than with 70k per year.
I couldn’t disagree more with the author. Experience and expertise are prerequisites, but starting a business is an excellent way to achieve personal wealth and satisfaction if you are so inclined. True, it’s not for everyone, but we need smart, talented people to start more businesses.
Exactly, same for Amazon pages that decide to sell the "new model" on the same page as the old model to harvest reviews. And then when I'm trying to figure out if it has better support or problems, I'm trying to pick through the reviews to figure out which one is talking about which version.

(Mostly a problem when also trying to figure out linux support!)
How should one interpret this? Facebook is too big to follow the rules, they should be fined for emotional damages to everyone on whom they have collected the shadow dossiers over the years.
I do think that Amazon is inexcusably bad at removing fake reviews.

However, I think there are some instances where Amazon probably rearranged large numbers of reviews because they found out the reviews were for a different item. It's likely that Fakespot can't tell the difference between mass censorship and legitimate removal. So you do have to take the results with a grain of salt and read recent reviews.
If everyone is talking about buying a home, sure sign it's time to sell one.
And how do you get in position to murder someone?
No one should buy a home they intend to make their primary residence purely for investment reasons. But if you are settling down with kids, and don’t intend to move for 5 or more years, then having a stable home with a mortgage payment you can afford is a completely rational decision. There are significant tax benefits to owning a home, and after 5 years you don’t have to pay capital gains taxes on your first $200K (?) in gains from a sale, which is pretty huge.

If your primary goal is just to realize some ROI there’s plenty of other asset classes that are much more liquid than residential real estate.
For media encoding you are essentially benchmarking the compiler. Sometimes makefiles force -O2 on BSDs vs -O3 on Linux, which should explain performance differences when using the same compiler.
Counterpoint, it's been proven safe based on all available data (which is more than for any other vaccine) and it reliably prevents serious illness even if it doesn't prevent all infections as reliably as the mRNA vaccines.

If we want the best possible vaccine, wait 6 months. If we want a safe vaccine that can end the pandemic as quickly as possible, this is the vaccine for the job.
It’s so widely acknowledged that headlines mislead, and also that people often only read the headline. Why does the editorial practice of shitty headlines persist so strongly? It seems like journalistic integrity goes so much further with article content than article headlines, so why do they put up with it?
The problem with comparing housing prices to the stock market is that if I were not putting $2500/mo into a mortgage, I'd be putting it into rent, not the stock market. So the comparison might work for a second home purchased strictly as an investment, but it's not really on point for a primary home that you will be living in.
I was just going to ask this question. Do you happen to recall where you read it?
I think Circumcisions are questionable, but are offered as a medical procedure.
My brand new M1 Mackbook Pro has only one working port. I didn't notice it until I tried to save something to a USB drive. Neither charging nor USB works on that port. Talking to Apple tomorrow. Hopefully still under warranty.
Edit:

It appears that some states have a "non recourse" law so your debt is limited to the property value.

>There are currently 12 non-recourse states: Alaska, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Hawaii Idaho, Minnesota, North Carolina, North Dakota, Texas, Utah, and Washington

https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/what-is-a-rec...

Original comment:

>and they can't come after the rest of your assets, only the securing property

That's not true. The come for the property FIRST. Then once they've sold that and it fails to cover the debt (plus interest and fees, plus the cost of sale) they come for whatever else you have.
Most that were eager will probably go on to use it. I suspect that some were eager so that others would vaccinate and that they themselves would be protected due to "herd immunity" but I doubt that there are many of them. I personally was eager for an open source vaccine, not any vaccine at all. Saying that everyone has been eagerly waiting for a vaccine is not very accurate, after all there are also the antivax people and these that simply do not care.
Show HN: TQL – Codegen-free and typesafe GraphQL operations in TypeScript
By design, democracy favors entities who care, and therefore lobby for change. Corporations do the majority of the lobbying and it shows.
What Happens When I Burn Money?
Gratitude Increases Commitment yet Unreciprocated Gratitude Decreases Commitment
You mean that era right after when Intel released the first consumer SSD, and suddenly everyone was rebadging flash with who-knows-what controllers?

Anandtech was the best site for that era with their testing.
It’s a children’s toy meant to be played with for a few hours. So $23 makes since since this is a simple toy.

The thinking that people shouldn’t pay low amounts leads to companies selling the same junk but for $100 instead.

Cheap things should be cheap, I think.
Do you think UBI would accomplish that, at least partially? It would ensure survival-level income, even for unemployed persons.