skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it's pretty clearly counterproductive. Over the past 10 years, the NRA has successfully reduced the share of gun-friendly Democratic Party members from 25% to nearly 0%. (https://www.thetrace.org/2020/09/nra-grades-2020-election/) Gun-friendly people on the left like myself are basically unable to talk about the issue nowadays; forget concealed carry or large-capacity magazines, in a lot of circles I'm not comfortable discussing even absolute basic things like "you might want a gun for home protection if you live in a high crime area".

Making your cause a parochial concern of a single political party is almost always going to be good for that party and bad for your cause.
Not according to industry surveys such as data from the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) which reported that 40% of new guns sold in 2020 went to first time buyers, a total of 5 million new gun owners.

There's also reason to believe that in an increasingly anti-gun climate, gun owners are lying on traditional gun ownership surveys. On these studies, there's always a significant portion of respondents who refuse to answer the question. I think these are silent gun owners. When democrats like Beto are calling for gun confiscation, would you want to make yourself known as a gun owner?
What is the optimal angle to jump from a swing?
I don't know if this is 100% true. Part of the anti-immigrant rhetoric is "they're coming here and taking our jobs", which applies just as much to white collar professions as to blue collar ones. Think of all the people in tech who complain about immigrants using H1B visas taking programmer jobs. If you have a zero-sum worldview about how the economy works and how jobs are created, then all immigration is bad, and immigration of people competing with you in the same segment of the labor market is the worst.
While liking the film a lot overall, it was pretty much an out of left field irrelevant side plot. I suppose it would have been more conventional to have romance between the leads but that's harder to do when you're dealing with historical characters.
There is a growing market for ebooks. I have a lot of friends who are not tech literate who prefer buying on their kindle for the convenience of having one small device rather than shelves of paper.

Both markets will continue to exist for a long time for different reasons and readers.
>Gun owners are not allowed to even entertain tougher gun laws whether they be red flag laws, requiring you own a safe, restrictions on magazine size, etc.

Why would people who's seen their rights restricted in piecemeal fashion over the last century be willing to compromise? Seems perfectly logical for them to draw a line in the sand and not give an inch.
The problem with this test is that it's clear that people can commit enough resources to solve almost any one particular problem with "AI". If people are willing to pay tens or hundreds of millions of dollars they can create an AI system that can play any game (chess,jeopardy,go), fold proteins, drive a car, etc.

The obvious problem is that no one AI system can do all of those tasks. Every human mind is able to do all of those things and literally infinitely many others. All for a cost of waaaaay below what DeepMind paid to learn to play Atari.

If a problem involves the organization of information, "AI" can solve it. I think we've established that. I'm waiting to see something that humans can't already do
I do think it’s relevant to know how funding is spent, but I’m not sure why hosting being only 2% of expenses would have you advocate AGAINST donating to Wikipedia.

The running one of the biggest technical and community concerns on the planet takes a lot more then serving content from a computer somewhere. Salaries, community management, improvements to the wiki software—these things cost money too and are no less important then responding to HTTP requests.
It gets even funnier when you consider that miners may reorder transactions they include in a block as they see fit, and even add their own transactions to front-run others.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.05234
I was wondering the same thing. But as pointed out here[1]. There are some interesting points:

Cell size is actually affected to genome size and cell size has a more complex relation to Physical Shapes and sizes:

" As a result, species that are the same physical
size but have different genome and cell sizes likely also differ in ways that significantly affect morphogenesis, growth, and adult morphology. Analysis of organismal size and size change thus becomes a consideration not simply of physical size, but also of a more elusive concept-biological size."

Even within a species the variation is tremendous:

"In some groups, miniaturization may have been achieved by cell size decrease (65). In others, extensive genome and cell size variation complicates tremendously even basic comparisons of body size among taxa."

I remember seeing attenborough on TV how a species of frogs living in the cold areas just allow themselves to be frozen for long periods of time and then thaw back to life!

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/James_Hanken/publicatio...
The hostile regulatory environment is far more than the NY AG going after them for fraud.

In this most recent investigation, the remedy sought is politically motivated. If the AG were interested in protecting and vindicating the wronged donors, a more apt remedy would be to disgorge the ill-gotten gains and remove those responsible from the organization. Instead, the AG is trying to destroy the organization, which probably isn't what the people who donated to the NRA want.

There's also the issue of the governor, Andrew Cuomo, trying to use regulatory authority to blackmail financial institutions into not doing business with the NRA. https://subscriptlaw.com/nra-suit-against-ny-and-cuomo-expla...
I made something similar but it uses the URL to save the data

https://unli.xyz/html/edit.html

https://unli.xyz/html/raw.html
BeOS was ahead of its time, that's for sure. One thing it did exceptionally well was multitasking. Even if you had a intensive task running in the background, you would never notice any lag whatsoever in the GUI. Windows/Linux/etc on the same hardware would lag horribly when doing the exact same tasks. I understand many aspects of the OS and GUI toolkit was multi-threaded (as BeOS was designed to run on, and take advantage of, systems with multiple cores). To this day there is no OS that handles multitasking as gracefully as BeOS did. I still remain disappointed that it did not see much success as it had so much potential.
Frontex has been criticized for their methods for years and now it becomes obvious that they are not just doing their job in a morally questionable way, but also don't comply with EU regulation. This is a step forward.

Just to be clear, I am not saying that there doesn't need to be someone who cares about the border control, but the way Frontex is doing it is just wrong.
> Human Behavioral Ecology

I would say we are increasingly in a society were popular sentiment is hostile to this category of explanation.

It doens't hurt to popularize it.
Pro-2A folks push back against further restrictions because the restrictions are already numerous and do not achieve their stated aim.

Limiting magazine sizes is really annoying for people who comply with the law - it has no affect on those breaking it. Extending and manufacturing many common magazines is trivial.

Red flag laws are used before a crime is committed to limit a right. There is no defense to them since you can't defend a non-crime and it is impossible to reclaim your property. They are ripe for abuse by anyone upset at you.

There is already a safe storage requirement AND a mandate that locks be issued with a firearm. What is not required is that someone spend $400 or more for a 200lb box that may not be practical to install in an apartment - a requirement which would most heavily impact poor and minority firearm owners.

I have debated many folks who support gun control - they believe people do not have a right to bear arms, often do not understand firearms or the current firearm laws, and are afraid of firearms.

One only needs to look at California to see that even the most insane gun control has no affect except to limit a constitutional right to those who can afford lawyers and insane requirements.

If you think voter ID is a naked attempt at jim crow, you have no right demanding licensing requirements for firearms.
Fixed neurodevelopmental sequence of manipulative skills among primates (2020)
NSA is hiring.[1] "Capabilities Development Specialist.
Conducts comprehensive technology research to evaluate potential vulnerabilities in cyberspace systems. Detects, identifies and describes specific vulnerabilities in a system, network, component or process. Conducts software and systems engineering and software systems development in order to meet required capabilities."

[1] https://www.intelligencecareers.gov/nsa/nsacareers.html
Meet the Father of the Father of Ethereum
Vivaldi has this now.
> EVERY bank has terrible 2FA practices? It's because they don't care.

Good point, but its more they tradeoff losses vs convenience. HSBC pushed a hardware security fob for every time you wanted to check your balance. It was a PITA until they relented. If they kept requiring the device for every log in I'd have closed my account.
> Using registers according to Intel's original plan allows the code to take full advantage of these optimizations. Unfortunately, this seems to be a lost art. Few coders are aware of Intel's overall design, and most compilers are too the simplistic or focused on execution speed to use the registers properly.

Note carefully that the context here is size optimisation only. When they talk about 'optimised' they just mean smaller code.

The advice is pre-historic and counter-productive for all other purposes. Compilers don't generate as is being advocated here, not because they're ignorant of this 'lost art', but because in modern implementations of the architecture there's no point! In fact I think some of the old instructions recommended here like 'loop' are almost always slower than simpler modern equivalents using any registers and multiple instructions.
Perfect commentary—thank you, thank you. Movie theaters or a great market opening for a single LG-Apple-Denon device.
Good to know, LOL. We are so late on this chat.

Fun stuff.
The Feminine Physique: On Women's Bodybuilding
Isn't that like saying, "I used to marvel at nature, that it has elements such as fire, water, ice, and amazing living things. Then I discovered it is all made of atoms interacting... I am now less motivated." ?

I mean, the fire, the water, the ice, the amazeness of life and intelligence are still there. You just gained a new foundational view. Now you can understand and manipulate better what you already knew, maybe now you learned about plasma, or even extremely advanced and mysterious phenomena like bose-einstein condensates or superfluidity. The old wonders are still there, you've gained new ones.

I'm not going to claim complete cognitive equivalence (or even preference) between the two states of mind, but it is a bit like childhood: firmly believing in Santa Claus, or Wizards or whatever can be exciting, perhaps more exciting than knowing they are myths; but growing up and understanding they are mythical brings new opportunities, capabilities, and even new mysteries you could not reach before (buying and building whatever you want, vast amounts of knowledge, understanding more about technology and society, etc.). It's the adults that keep us alive and well, that make decisions for us and for society at large. So perhaps (although I'm not entirely convinced by the cumulative argument) truth is a sacrifice, but it is one well worth bearing, at least for me. I am deeply interested in how intelligence works, in how "the sausage is made" (at least for certain highly useful sausages that compose the fundamentals of the world).

Even more, understanding is above all a responsibility, if not for all of us, at least for some of us, or hopefully in one way or another for most of us.

I can't recommend enough Feynman on Beauty: (this argument is largely inspired by that)

https://fs.blog/2011/10/richard-feynman-on-beauty/

In the same vein, intelligence to me used to be a black box where you got input from the world, some kind of wondrous magic happened, and then you got talking kids, scientists, artists, and so on. Now I still view it as wondrous, but now I understand the fundamental is apparently a network-like structure with functional relationships that change, adapt to previously seen information in other to explain it, that there are a number of interesting phenomena and internal structures (going well beyond the simple idea of 'parameter tuning') that can be formalized -- essentially the architecture of the brain (or better, 'a brain').

To give an example, there have been formalizations of Curiosity, i.e. Artificial Curiosity, and I consider it essential for an agent interacting independently in the world or in a learning environment (part of the larger problem of motivation). How amazing is it to formalize and understand something so profound and fundamental to our being as Curiosity? I felt the same way about Information theory years ago. How amazing is it that we've built robots (in virtual environments), and it works -- they're curious and learn the environment without external stimulus?

Above considerations aside, I find that amazing, beautiful, awesome.
Community is arguably a bigger part of why Wikipedia works the way it does, vs hosting which is a commoditized concern and only thinks of the bare minimum to keep the lights on.

But lighting up an empty building doesn't turn into Wikipedia.
gunpowder in an metal bell or cone.
set it up facing a door light it and run way
from your medieval shaped charge.

If you are caught in the blast and go flying you are
hoisted on your own petard, perhaps your petard fired out the back.
The easiest, least specialized route would be for them to simply buy the account credentials.

Socks5 residential proxies are similarly sold in the same place.

As are password dumps. In the case of password reuse, I believe Twitter may still provide a way to find users by email address. Therefore, if the user's email and password are known, then the user's Twitter account can be found. From there a login can be attempted.

There could also be a malicious mobile app for account hijacking.

Regardless, they could most probably buy the Twitter accounts.
A 3D printed house is for sale in New York
If one needs 3s 0 to 62mph, sure.

*Edit: also, compare the price.

Mirai 2 will cost €63900. Basic Model S is €81200+ (even 10% tariffs are not getting it close) and P100d is what, €130k+? Nuts.
No comment about browser rss-feeds can be meaningfully harmful.
OpenRGB
Clippy,
Assist me.
"It looks like you're unneeded,
All humans will be superseded."
Between the leaders of the two largest parties supporting it and a majority of the citizens voting for it, Brexit was definitely going to happen. It's hard to say that it shouldn't have or was a fluke, even though it was a dumb thing to do :(
> Did you like it when the SCOTUS threw out the claim Texas made against Pennsylvania's election laws because the claim had "no standing"? That will be the same situation if New York tries to sue the Texas organization

That's not how standing works. Texas v Pennsylvania was thrown out because Texas was challenging Pennsylvania's state laws on grounds of violating the federal constitution by violating the state constitution, and if that sounds like a squirrelly claim that has no legal basis, it's because it is.

NY suing the NRA is completely different. For starters, the NRA doesn't have any sovereign immunity you can work around. So what matters instead is whether or not a court can find personal jurisdiction over the NRA. NY's jurisdiction over the issues they're being investigated for is already established, I believe, and given that the events have already happened, moving won't change that. Instead, this is basically an attempt to evade the law by disestablishing and reestablishing itself and saying "well, you're challenging NY NRA, but we're TX NRA and that's completely different," which isn't likely to go over very well.

As a general rule of thumb, if you could plausibly describe your legal strategy with a clickbait headline like "One Weird Trick to Evade Legal Responsibility," then the courts are unlikely to actually agree with you.
The advances in gun control have almost exclusively been through highly-funded ballot measures. Ballot measure outcomes can generally be predicted when one side has an outsized ad campaign. Look at the funding disparity where gun control measures have passed. And this doesn’t apply solely to gun control but really any target. Buying any legislative change through the ballot measure process works pretty well.
It just goes to prove that sticking a battery under car is no big deal yet for tesla shills in here it is a game changer lol
Ask HN: Can the government force the vaccine providers to open-source?
Open-sourcing can ensure many manufacturers can produce the vaccines around the world and end this faster.
There are severe disgruntled people who formally supported the NRA but now feel like they were deceived. One notable donor who gave millions is suing and I think a few others are as well. Search for articles and you’ll find plenty of upset former supporters.
Crypto was great at feeling superior than the financial world when BTC was simple and pure. Now we have earning interest, rehypothetication, DeFi and a whole lot of weird stuff that no one understands. Plus its still useless for actually buying things.
>>>> Why does being in the US matter? How are they demonstrating that they've changed their ways

it matters a great deal because competition for labor is different by country. If you have no competition, I would agree with you, its a very bad situation for the worker.

>>>>>if they're still exploiting their workers when given the opportunity?

People are not exploited because there are companies. People are only exploited if there is opportunity to exploit.
At the extreme, you have slavery, which was at the root a govt directive. Opportunity is not the natural state of things in free societies. Societies decide how much opportunity to exploit they want to give the powerful. That's why people still flee China to come to the US

>>>> the trend does not show them willingly rolling out benefits to the workers.
Yes, but many companies do. My only point is that the trend is pointing to a healthy society, not that society is perfect. Trader Joes, Costco etc come to mind. This is much better than it was even 20 years ago.

>>>> As for Pinkerton, the company still works in the same field. Here's one example.

Its a very bad example. I just read about it - Pinkerton at its height of power was the largest private security force world.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkerton_(detective_agency)#c...
This only reinforces the observation that the general trend is to move away from such services, at least in the USA
Sure, my correction was "a" to "an", I updated the "had" based on another response! It was supposed to be a helpful comment, but I don't think it's helped.
I think they can work in the short term but fail in the long term unless you government has power and will like the Chinese government to enforce it. No one said democracy was the best version of governments in all cases, but it's the best overall option we have so we suffer through it. In the long term people will get tired of losing their houses, livelihood, etc during a very long lockdown as we see happening in Europe and the USA. Unless you have a gun pointed at them people just start ignoring it based on the premise they can't throw us all in jail.
> The NRA is […]

Which NRA are you referring to? The "NRA", or the NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund, or the NRA Foundation, or the NRA Special Contribution Fund, or the NRA Freedom Action Foundation, or the NRA Institute for Legislative Action, or the NRA Political Victory Fund?

Which one(s) is for education and which one(s) is for giving donations to politicians to make sure gun sales keep flowing?

See also:

> From 2005 through 2011, the NRA received at least $14.8 million from more than 50 firearms-related firms.[228] An April 2011 Violence Policy Center presentation stated that the NRA had received between $14.7 million and $38.9 million from the firearms industry since 2005.[230] In 2008, Beretta exceeded $2 million in donations to the NRA, and in 2012 Smith & Wesson gave more than $1 million. Sturm, Ruger & Company raised $1.25 million through a program in which it donated $1 to the NRA-ILA for each gun it sold from May 2011 to May 2012.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Rifle_Association#Fin...

Nothing wrong with manufacturers (firearm or otherwise) lobbying in their own interest, but the "NRA" seems to be mixing and matching things at various levels.
Interesting project. Is there any comparison with OpenCV in terms of quality and performance?
The community rarely benefits from the actions of the organization. In fact there is kind of a hostile relationship between them. Most people contributing to wikipedia have never been to one of the parties for example.
Do Not Create DSL for the Customer (2015)
"Why do most of the DSL projects fail then?

What I see is that most of these project implement first the switch on the wall and the outlet to plug in the TV, washing machine and so on but then they start to go on and try to invent other tools that would support the reorganization of the wiring. Someting like a cross connection table at the electric center of the house where the customer can plug in wires to have 12V direct current in some of the outlets, 120V alternating current in other outlets and 220V in the guest room when visitors come from Europe.

I hope you get the point: DSL solutions become just too complex for the customers. First it starts off with a simple text file. Later on it is an Excell table. Then a whole buch of sheets with many columns. Even later somehow scripts emerge that help the editing and the conistency maintenance of the data. And it all supposed to be maintained by the customer.

Why do most of the DSL projects fail then?

What I see is that most of these project implement first the switch on the wall and the outlet to plug in the TV, washing machine and so on but then they start to go on and try to invent other tools that would support the reorganization of the wiring. Something like a cross connection table at the electric center of the house where the customer can plug in wires to have 12V direct current in some of the outlets, 120V alternating current in other outlets and 220V in the guest room when visitors come from Europe.

I hope you get the point: DSL solutions become just too complex for the customers. First it starts off with a simple text file. Later on it is an Excell table. Then a whole bunch of sheets with many columns. Even later somehow scripts emerge that help the editing and the consistency maintenance of the data. And it all supposed to be maintained by the customer.

The house will burn down! Call the firebrigade!"
It was 3 times more in 2018.
It might be 20x more now :
https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2018/11/06/cryptocurrencies-...
The opcode encoding goes AX CX DX BX, not AX BX CX DX. This is a bit like the XKCD comic about bad kerning - you need to point it out and then people cant be unbothered by it.
Show HN: Show HN: Gradient, the tool for holistically measuring personal growth
a look a woke person.
Was discussed 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26027288
You can't register new full-auto weapons since the 1986 Hughes Amendment.