skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should care less about the murder rate by nation and more by city or neighborhood. Chicago and Detroit are thousands of miles away from where I live - what relevance is the murder rates in those cities to me? Someone living in Alaska would have to cover a quarter of the surface of the globe to reach Key West Florida...why would they feel impacted by the crime rate there?

Go look at a heat map of per-capita gun homicides in the US. This is not a "national" problem. Communicating this has been very challenging for people who live in Chicago in particular - everyone thinks the entire city is a killzone, when in fact there are perfectly safe neighborhoods, and other neighborhoods that are a warzone. But if you were to only see the citywide statistics for Chicago murders, you wouldn't even leave the airport.
HTTP Referer (A Misspelling of Referrer)
The key point is not predestination. It is the locus of control.

Under Catholicism, the church enjoyed a monopoly over interpreting and proclaiming the word of God. The Catholic Church secured this monopoly by encoding the bible in Latin, and requiring priests to know Latin before they could participate in religious dissemination, the source of which was the Vatican.

Protestantism, enabled by the printing press, changed the locus of control to parishes, and ultimately, to individuals.

Rome no longer held a broadcast monopoly on the word of God. Suddenly, the bible was in English. And German. And French. And Dutch. And Belgian. And American. It was possible for congregations to roll their own sermons, without instruction from the central authority. It was even possible for an individual preacher to break the shackles of the institution by speaking his own interpretation of the bible to his congregation.

From the article:

> Americans still have a profound faith that our individual destinies are in our own hands. That’s why many people who have only the remotest prospect of ever making their way into the top income-tax bracket nonetheless favor keeping that tax rate low, and why people who have no chance of inheriting money from a taxable estate passionately oppose “death taxes.”
The problem is deeper, though. You shouldn't need rent control to feel secure in your housing. Rent control is a band-aid that can be helpful in areas that are essentially broken when it comes to housing.

Ideally we want to set policy so the situation doesn't get so bad that rent control is necessary. Even without rent control, you shouldn't need to worry every year, because the housing market should be sane and there'd be no reason to expect more than a token increase in your rent.

Obviously the ideal is far from reality in many places. But rent control is not a solution; it's just a useful mitigation that papers over problems (and unfortunately often creates new ones).
Please don't take HN threads into racial flamewar, or whatever kind of flamewar that is.

Just because an article contains a provocation doesn't mean you have to take it, and certainly doesn't mean you have to haul it in here and provoke a repetitive flamewar yourself.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If we have, it was unremarkable.
You can buy the hardware from retail distributors now. $2500: https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Ultraleap/USX/?qs=wnTfs...
Why would the people who already live there care about some sob story about schools or work? There are lots of good schools, and lots of jobs where you can live near work for a reasonable cost. It's not as if they're walling you into Gary, IN.
Yes. It will only leak the page offset of the database you are asking (over torrent).
Makes me wonder if he ever thinks about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Dragon_(rocket)?
IMO major consequences from this repeal has been very slow to roll out due to states threatening to implement their own local NN laws, which would create a really painful, fragmented legal web for companies to have to traverse. Some ISPs are doing some stuff, but nothing too out of control.
Thanks for sharing, it’s really interesting to hear your firsthand perspective on how people end up in these circles.

Btw, the downvotes are not related to the specifics of what you posted. It’s simply that there are a bunch of people on HN who downvote every single comment that’s somehow critical of Trump or the alt-right. They come back even into old threads to do this. It’s absurd.
You are against retaliation on the part of whistleblowers or organizations? It sounds like you are saying that if a person blowing a whistle is “told no” by the organization whose actions bring the whistle forth, that person should just drop the whistle. This doesn’t seem to make sense outside an incredible credulity for the organization’s ability to evaluate their own behavior. Is that a fair summary of your assertion?
That's only one of the variables.

In USA there are more non-gun murders per capita than total murders in Australia.
The article is indeed confusing on that point. Calvinism in particular holds predestination and free will in tension - via primary and secondary causes. There have always (since long before and after Calvin) been Calvinists and Arminians so it seems strange to say Protestantism 'turned away' from predestination.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predestination
[Non-scalable stack]

DB: Google Sheets

API: Sheety

Web: Ionic/Framework7

App: Cordova with above

Built and tested with hundreds of daily users, but will be expensive to scale and probably has to replaced at some point.

[Solo-scalable]

Back end/DB: Parse Server + MongoDB Atlas + Heroku. No API needed.

Web: jQuery

App: whatever you know

Built and sold one company with this stack, and done some low budget contracts with this. A little more expensive and buggy to start with, but easy to scale to over a thousand daily users.
It can be legal if it’s hyperbole. Lots of people say things like “I’m gonna kill him” without actually committing a crime.
Going off Google translate, Japan doesn't seem to be any more strict than San Francisco. To evict a "no-fault" tenant in San Francisco, it must be done in a court and the tenant gets financial recompense (and like Japan, wanting to sell the unit is not a valid reason to evict). I'd argue that San Francisco tenant protection laws are stronger than Japan's. Likewise, going off [2], in Google translate, a Japanese landlord can increase your rent as long as they are increasing it to "market rate."
US gun ownership has been rising substantially, yet the homicide rate dropped by more than a factor of two between the 1990s and 2010s. In fact, the mid 2010s saw the lowest homicide rate in over 50 years.

By comparison, contrary to popular belief, several European countries allow people to buy firearms with similar availability as the US. The main examples that come to mind are Switzerland, Serbia, and the Czech Republic. The last one also permits concealed carry of firearms - something several US states prohibit.

Widespread availability of firearms is likely a magnifying factor in areas with conditions that lead to crime, but plenty of areas with widespread gun ownership like much of rural America have low homicide rates.
Here in Australia firearms have been highly restricted since 1996 and that move has certainly seen a reduction in the homicide rate:

https://knoema.com/atlas/Australia/Number-of-homicides
Trump Pardoned Anthony Levandowski
For me partial support is a key feature. Not having to send read notifications, not having to look at bs like stickers and the ability to ignore chat deletions is really great about bridging :)
Building a Kubernetes Container That Synchs with Private Git Repo
Multiples of phi will do this even better.
Most suicide victims choose the most convenient method available to them and it isn't a deciding factor in their choice to suicide to begin with...
I'm with you, the relationship between brown and orange is anything but obvious.
Perhaps it is time to start a new, grassroots replacement for the W3C.
If there’s demand for a hundred fancy houses and two hundred plain houses, but the government only permits twenty houses to be built, all twenty are going to be fancy. There’s profit to support building every variety of house, but we need to stop making it illegal.
I donate blood. The American Red Cross sometimes gives away small gifts ($5 Amazon Gift Card, windbreaker with ARC logo, etc.) to promote donation. The are now testing blood for COVID so I've had one free negative test so far.

There are different tests that you can get from places like LabCorp or Quest Diagnostics - doctors working for these places prescribe the test. Anyway, since ARC is testing your blood anyway, it seemed like a reasonable incentive would be to test your blood for Vitamin D deficiency. Or testosterone or cholesterol levels or whatever you wanted from a menu of choices.
Hey, would you be open to selling the front end code you've used to stand up your course? Very curious of your billing backend as well!
I started with vimtutor, then installed IdeaVim in all my Jetbrains IDEs, it took me about a week to reach the same level of efficiency I had before.

I don't understand how some people can say the learning curve is too steep. Sure it's a bit annoying at first, but it quickly becomes natural, and you don't have to use all features at first. It has allowed me to improve my touch typing a lot. Learning a programming language is a lot more work but hardly anyone ever complain about it.

It's been maybe two months and I wouldn't think of using anything else than vim for serious code editing.
"Trust for software" is largely reputation based - I don't have the time to read all the code to Blender; I trust that Blender.Org people are Nice TM or that at least someone Nice TM has read the code.

Once you burn your reputation by "selling out" the first time. Who will trust your new forked version?
In the USA, not true in the UK, for example.
Selecting lats requires a bar.

Any workouts for them without equipment?
I'm more weirded out by the YIMBYs who are progressive in their national politics, but talk like libertarians about housing and development.

Like, some people who would scoff at trickle-down-economics in the context of tax policy seem totally on board with the trickle-down story of housing, where you build more high end condos, and everyone moves to a slightly nicer place, and so there are eventually more affordable older units at the lower price range. Surely housing is the slowest context in which you could hope that that long chain of events finally leads to the desired outcome.

If we actually care about housing being plentiful and affordable ... shouldn't we start building at the low end of the market where the need is the most critical?
I get the concern, but they're probably not super brittle because chat apps still need to support old clients. I'd worry more about getting blocked entirely.

I remember chatting with the Meebo founders about some of this. They didn't really have an answer to why AIM, YIM, and MSN Messenger wouldn't block them beyond it being bad for their networks. On how they'd make money, I don't remember hearing any interesting answers. They never really figured out the money thing and ended up getting acquihired by Google.

The did have a crazy-impressive web UI for the mid-2000s; for a while, that know-how was probably their most valuable asset. The need and the market still (and have always) kinda exited, but the players changed a lot in the last 15 years. One of their business ideas was to pivot into a commercial support chat app. People use them today, so maybe they were before their time, or maybe B2B was never in their DNA.
yes, I worry a lot less about people shooting themselves than shooting me.
There shall be only one! Me!
The Emotion Machine: The Self (Draft)
We've reverted the title to that of the article. The submitted title was "In a 24-1 vote, Google vetoes Web Privacy Working Group at the W3C (2019)".

Submitters: please follow the site guidelines, which ask "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yep, I've been using this for months since I don't have access to a gym. This helps me get a decent workout in with a pair of free weights. Probably still not the same as with the equipment at a real facility, but it's a great tool.

Edit: I see the author is in this thread, so thank you!
Gearslutz is changing its name following an online petition
The actual announcement was at the original site https://www.gearslutz.com/board/gear-free-zone-shoot-the-bre...
No. Adium does everything inside the client app. This used a matrix server so you can connect from multiple clients even if the source network doesn't support that.
I disagree based on the trends, especially in the US where few, if any, new coal plants are being built and most existing ones are scheduled to be converted to natural gas or shut down. But let's assume that a significant amount of coal will continue to be burned over the next 20 years. Do you think we should stop innovation in other sectors until we are off coal?
Vaccinate CA
>The US is large enough to give each individual (person, not household!) 7.4 acres all to themselves. There is plenty of space here.

But we don't live in 7-acre communities. We live in quarter-acre communities. Transportation, power lines, etc necessitate a certain level of density. And "small" metros with a million people already begin to sprawl in many places. The arrangement of that density is the hard part and ultimately if you want most people to be closer to green space it means you need to densify in some places.

Plus complaining about the distribution of work is not really useful; you might as well protest the weather! We can't change that in huge ways quickly and have to work with the economy (and, for that matter, often, the infrastructure) that we have.
The W3C operates on consensus, which means if any member is opposed a proposal does not go forward.
There's two ways to connect discord. One is a appservice. You got a bot user that relays everything and you get messages that are basically "BotUser: <Alice> Hello world" using the official API. This is currently allowed, but doesn't allow access to 1:1 chats. The other is "puppeting", the bot logs in as Alice by Alice providing her credentials and hitting endpoints the actual Web app uses. This results in a less obvious, nicer experience for people on he discord side but is the one that is banned
Too longwinded I guess.

Absent any counterargument, I stand by the premise that app stores and extension marketplaces are teeming with junk, that curation has failed as a model.

It wasn't always like this. It doesn't have to be like this.

We just need to build something better.

Maybe the above path isn't the way. Ok, what do you think would be a better way to fix the current system?
Orange is a shade of brown. We have a great many words for "brown", and "brown" is not named in reference to an object.
I think this is a really weak argument, for two reasons. Firstly, a 1-2% rent decrease on the short term for a 10% increase in a supply at 500m?? This is pretty ridiculously low, if this is the best that can be done it's barely worth mentioning.

The important thing here is that people leaving a city due to unavailability of housing thus stopping the growth in the price of housing is something that we only just see happen, it's a lot less delocalized and it's a long term process, so I really don't see how the real world effect of zero from increased supply is supposed to counteract this second order effect.

The second issue is that while in theory neoliberal YIMBYs are often for public housing, when their plans are put into practice this part is completely ignored. If you see a crucial aspect of your plan being ignored, which is also by far the hardest to implement, and yet don't put it front and center to stop this, it's clear that you're okay for trading that off. Which means that the real world effect is for rent to just keep on increasing.

Whereas cities with progressive solutions (which also include increasing supply, but fittingly with the weakness of the effect don't make it completely central, often seen much more than 0-2% temporary decreases.
Researchers at UC Berkeley disagree

https://voxeu.org/article/stable-coins-dont-inflate-crypto-m...
I wonder how much of a role transportation, safety, and schooling play into it. I've heard that Japan does all three quite well. I know some high rent areas in the U.S. that have relatively cheap rental prices not too far away, but many people won't even consider them because they're lacking in the three things mentioned above.
Not necessarily. In Europe we don't really use iMessage much. I would have no need for it personally.
Hi, author of the post here. I tried to include some info on temperature requirements and how cold chain distribution works, but it's hard to capture that comprehensively because it varies a lot geographically.

While I do appreciate how difficult it is to distribute the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at -70 C, I am still puzzled by how deep into the distribution this temperature gets maintained. As far as I know, the spec is that the vaccine can be stored (and transported) at regular fridge temperatures for up to 5 days. It seems like everyone (in the US anyway) is focused on maintaining -70C all the way to the point of use. What about the alternative of thawing it at some distribution center and focusing efforts on getting it into a person within five days after that?
The way it's going I would not be surprised if it happened sooner rather then later... I wish I had the money to buy my own country... Lol
Care to prove? Here is the link to the relevant data:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm

Homicide rate in EU is 1.7, US is 5.8 or 4.3 (Firearms only).
Shootings are up 100% in NYC but murders were only up 40%.

Any idea why the difference?
Bloomberg only has this excerpt:

> The tweet, which said Uighur women were no longer “baby-making machines,” was originally shared on Jan. 7, but wasn’t removed by Twitter until more than 24 hours later.

The complete tweet was archived on https://archive.is/nxC3r#selection-3959.0-3959.255

Chinese Embassy in US
‏Verified account
@ChineseEmbinUS
· 5h5 hours ago

"Study shows that in the process of eradicating extremism, the minds of Uygur women in Xinjiang were emancipated and gender equality and reproductive health were promoted, making them no longer baby-making machines. They are more confident and independent."
Google takes action against another outspoken A.I. ethics researcher
That's exactly what it does!
what about the muscles around the kneecap :-(
Unfortunately, every one of the cities here had significantly more than just one one or two murders.

At a glance at the linked source data, it looks like Seattle came in with the lowest values on this list, at 47 murders for 2020 vs 27 in 2019.

One thing of note is that some of the values appear to be for not quite the entirety of 2020.

The first sentence of the story's second paragraph includes a link to a Twitter post [1] from the person who compiled the data, which contains a second link [2] to the Google Doc that he created.

1 - https://twitter.com/Crimealytics/status/1343950694672379905

2 - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Z9b5mIwztAwmEHJW7Q5D...
Same as a comedienne that did a picture of a beheaded president and mockingly said, blood coming out of his eyes... his whatever.

If someone did something similar for the now president I imagine some people would have issue with it.
I think the more crucial part of the japanese example is

> housing is generally a depreciating asset

Housing cannot simultaneously be affordable and a good investment. In America, policymakers tend to prioritize real estate value over the ability of housing to actually house people. Homebuyers expect and demand that the values of their properties, including the rents that they generate, be constantly increasing. Supply and demand doesn't push prices down, because housing is inelastic: when you hike prices outside of people's means, they don't stop buying, they find more means, either by taking on more roommates, more jobs, or by making big cuts elsewhere in their budgets.

Before the housing market was commodified and public housing looted by private interests in the 70s and 80s, spending 20% of your income on housing was considered absurdly high. Now 50% is the norm, because landlords and speculators keep raising prices and you can't not live in a house.
That's not a decision you make and then train staff + switch in a short time. At least not beyond trivial deployments. People used CentOS so they don't have to deal with this and they will have other less-extreme options before CentOS EOL.
HN is a strong 2A supporting community, so this comment is not going to go over well.
So... This is Juiceroo is saying you needs its expensive juicer to get juice?
We have this at home, salads are amazing.
China’s Beyond Meat Defied Covid-19 and Raised Millions in 2020
No, but I can enter an infix formula, e.g.

F,v,x,m,b,k

(F - b v - k x) / m

For Lisp, I have to define a function using defun and make it available to the system.

I'll add some new tutorials and a FAQ once I've got the new type system working, which is taking me longer than I expected.
I live in a city with rent control. Rent here is around half of comparable cities in my area. Issues that economists have with rent control in theory basically don't exist because the rent control system minimizes them.

I think it's absurd to say that rent control doesn't work. Badly implemented rent control is just a useful mitigation. Correctly implemented rent control, with a healthy dose of public housing and private supply increase, actually is a solution - but the rent control and public housing part is a lot more important than the private supply increase and is also the part that YIMBYs such as the author never get implemented in practice.
Perhaps worth considering is the rate of sexual assaults alongside the rate of violent crime.

It's a culture problem. America has a violent culture.

It's weird to me that we so often discuss firearm violence without also considering the prevalence of other forms of violence; these are symptoms of an underlaying concern.
That association is scientifically inverse. More guns, less crime.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B081QFZDM8
Thinking out loud...

The problem with XML is mostly syntactical: it's not always clear if something should be a node or an attribute, and it doesn't have actual lists, maps, or scalar types.

JSON has more structural issues: it can be too terse, so if you're not careful with naming fields, it can be really hard to tell what type of object something is, and for polymorphic lists, you're out of luck.
My read is that the 1-2% effect is an average effect of each instance where a parcel was replaced with denser market rate housing.

Imagine what the effect size would be if we had enough market rate housing built to increase supply by 100% within 500m. I imagine it's more than 1-2%.
> If a developer is given free reign as to what they can build, they will naturally build the most profitable thing they can on the land they have available. I doubt anyone would dispute that?

There is no such thing as luxury housing[1], and developers in the US are given nothing like free reign, so this doesn't happen - they don't build special gold-plated apartments for rich people. The most profitable building for the landowner would typically have more units, because that means more people will buy/rent units from them.

And of course, the developer is not necessarily the landowner, and so they might be paid a flat rate anyway.

[1] What actually happens is developers call their buildings "luxury" because it sounds good, but they're lying.