skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometiems I wonder how much debt is the right amount of dept. Looks like we now live in a dept based society where getting into ultra leveraged dept (mortgage) is the most sentible thing to do for a family. Governaments do exactly the same with bond issuance. When did this become acceptable? Is it good? How much dept do we want to carry forward? Does dept matter anymore?

Unfortunately the author doesn't talk about any of these points.
Are you sure you’ve researched all that you are alleging?

Coz if I remember the guy with the umbrella who smashed the windows was an agent provocateur and eventually identified as a cop or something?
Can confirm, didn't know and glad I do. Won't be donating again in the future.
GOA and SAF have gotten much more of my money and time for the last few years. I still think there is a large gap to fill if the NRA were to go away. Mostly around outreach, training, and insurance. The other guys are getting there, but the NRA is big for a reason.
Why is intel comparing i7 to m1?
Isn't m1 replacing an i3/i5 in low end devices?

Expect an m2 or other variant to challenge i7 in middle and high end devices.
> reversing the National Firearms Act that restricts ownership of fully automatic weapons, legalizing silencers, etc.

That's wrong. IIRC, the NFA only requires that machine guns and silencers be registered and taxed. See this Forgotten Weapons episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po715YGEzTY. It's for a fully automatic M-16 with a device that makes it sound like an AK-47 that's regulated as a silencer. It was up for auction, but the winner would have to pay double the tax because it's a "two stamp" gun.
Plantgram – Hashnode/Vercel Hackathon Project
The Why of Technology
Security matters much more for companies in a few business domains: fintech, medical, crypto currency, and cyber security companies. Choose the right domain if you really want to learn stuff.
And let’s not forget that to make hydrogen peroxide we need hydrogen. How do we make hydrogen at scale? Hydrocarbons (e.g. natural gas)
A broad and fuzzy point is that most people don't actually know very much at all about the financial industry. Very many have strong opinions about it nonetheless.

One particular point that i think gets lost is that the industry is highly heterogeneous. There are retail banks, commercial banks, investment banks (bulge bracket and boutique), building societies, savings and loans, insurance firms, reinsurance firms, hedge funds, open-ended investment companies, investment trusts, mutual funds, mutual fund managers, private equity firms, proprietary trading firms, exchanges, multilateral trading facilities, brokers, dealers, broker-dealers, payment networks, depositories, fintechs, service providers, and god knows what else. There are (usually) many of each. And every organisation has different interests and incentives.

The organisations which get the most attention are usually the ones which have gone bust or done crime (or both). But most organisations have not gone bust or done crime. So most people's impressions are formed from an unrepresentative sample. For every hedge fund that has manipulated a market, or bank that has funded arms shipments to a sanction country, there are dozens more that are just doing their job and complying with the law. You never hear about them.
Because lobbying is currently a solution, not a problem. While we see that it causes problems, formal lobbying structures were set up specifically so that we can see what is happening. Without the framework we have today, it happens anyways but more in backrooms with less oversight. For example, if instead of formal meetings where FOI requests can get access to documents like listed on the website, this was all done at someones home at a private dinner would we the general public be better off?

To be clear, I agree that we need to improve the situation, however ignoring that lobbying is better than what came before it isn't particularly helpful. Influence is a core component of social power structures. You can't legislate it away.
I know, that's why I used "restricted".
NYT reporter falsely accuses tech investor of using a slur
You can also fetch:

https://static01.nyt.com/images/<year>/<month>/<day>/nytfrontpage/scan.pdf

seems to go back about 10 years
> Restricting access to guns is popular in this country.

I would argue that it is popular in some parts of the country, and extremely unpopular in others.
This article sets up a straw man argument. The finance industry does provide value, but he we elides over the issue that most people have with the industry, which is that losses and risk of the systems are incurred (e.g. bailouts) by the broader public while the gains are realized by the select few who have been granted a government monopoly on creating money (fractional reserve banking). If banking does something good for the public, and if it should be government-backed, then shouldn’t bankers operate (and be compensated) like public servants?

The entire piece just reads like motivated reasoning TBH.
Yes this open source repo:

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/architecture_decision...

See the `examples` directory for real ADRs, such as for CSS frameworks (e.g. Bulma), secrets storage (e.g. Bitwarden, Vault), programming language stack (e.g. Typescript, Rust), etc.
The NFA is an outdated, obsolete and unconstitutional.

You need a $200 tax stamp with a 9+ month waiting period to buy a short barrel rifle, but not for a .556 AR or AK "Pistol", even though they are almost identical.

You can't put a vertical forward grip on your AR "Pistol" because then it would become an illegal AOW (any other weapon). But if you put a bipod or some other substitute on it, then it's still a handgun.

You need a $200 stamp with a 9+ month waiting period to buy a suppressor, even though in other countries with supposedly stricter gun laws, suppressors are over the counter items.

You can't modify your gun to shoot full-auto, but you can put a binary trigger on it, which fires 1 shot when you pull the trigger, and another when you release it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eol8fvMfENc
> A quick search turns up reporting Lego as a close second for highest revenue of a toy company worldwide.

Yes. And? How is that in any way a response?

They're making money because they're using their brand/trademark to sell inferior products for twice the price of their competition.

You can take any LEGO product and compare it to what the competition is offering, typically it'll look like this:

The LEGO product has half the parts or costs twice the money and when you actually have both of them next to other you'll think LEGO must be joking.

Example: CADA Master C61042W vs. LEGO Technic 42125

So because they can't compete on the product front, they go with lawyers after reviewers.

For example after this German channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_EZd3lsmxudu3IQzpTzOgw
What has libreoffice become? This is going on all over the FOSS world.
I mean... this did happen in lots of places. Did they play it up? maybe. Did it happen in a _lot_ of places? yes.
The Kindle store doesn't make it obvious if something is DRM free anymore. The most obvious way is that DRM free books will usually list the number of simultaneous devices as unlimited while DRM books will not. Happy to be corrected if there is a nicer way of telling.
I’m a Benefactor Life member of the NRA, have been for years.

I interact daily with one of the Board of Directors[0].

I agree with the people that are grayed out on the bottom of this page. Wayne and Marion have soaked the membership for decades.

The NRA is distinct from the NRA-ILA. Money for politics doesn’t directly come NRA dues.

[0]: http://nraontherecord.org/knight-timothy-board-member/
Comparing covid and pre-covid figures and being surprised is... surprising...
Let's compare the figures in 10 years.

For Swiss people old like me, we still remember the exact same misleading articles when Switzerland said NO to Europe in 1992.

Switzerland had to adapt and is going fine today (minus covid). Hopefully UK will do the same.
There's 5 open PRs. Two seem to be boot related, which probably wouldn't apply to the M1. The Xorg one and the drm one are related to an Intel integrated GPU.

That leaves just the firewire one as possibly an issue.

Though I get the general point that hardware drivers could be an issue. Perhaps, though, the upside of the M1 is sufficient incentive for people to figure it out.
With Jekyll hosted on Github pages you can have search and RSS. I never tried comments but a quick Google search shows several results, I'm sure you can find the best one.

For search, I have this example [1] (source code: [2]). This is docs instead of a blog, but it's really just the theme... I didn't have to do anything for search to work.

Hope this helps.

[1] https://docs.saasform.dev

[2] https://github.com/saasform/saasform/tree/main/docs
Sure, we'll probably never know, but his actions speak louder than his words and he has dedicated his life to public service and doing his best to serve it unlike the right wing media, Trump, and others that try to villainize him. They split illegal immigrant families up for months (some to never reconnect again), have no issue with allegations of multiple rapes by their presidential candidate, "pro life" but kick the kids to the curb after birth, constantly in bed with Russian troll theories, and it goes on. Why can't anyone look at the bigger picture at their "whataboutism" when the picture was a not-too-smart grifter became President tried to take over our country with an insurrection while they try to turn Fauci into evil incarnate.
The numbers suggest that a minority of gun owners are buying more and more guns, not that we are seeing more and more gun owners as a percentage — just gun hoarding.
Minimal and "no one hospitalized regardless of age" may be simultaneously true, but I personally value the latter more. I'm not trying to exterminate covid, personally, just not be permanently harmed by it.
I generally am against snark, but I think that in this case it communicated something quite useful about how we can go through the same thought process that resulted in a tool that has existed forever, and not realize we have just reinvented it.
Yes, living in Slovakia can be as bad as living in a refugee camp even for Slovak citizens. It's rather obvious that people want to have better life, not the same they had - especially given Slovakian attitude towards non-white people.
We use a combination of Heap.io + Redash for writing queries/building custom dashboards of events from our database.

We use Heap for the auto-tracking and the retroactive analysis. It's miles ahead of its competitors (Mixpanel, Amplitude, etc).
A couple of problems:

A) different animals produce different amounts of methane. Even among cattle animals, there are efforts to decrease the amount of methane they produce[0]. And nobody is laughing at those scientists and saying, "this is silly, they're still going to eat the same amount of feed so this can't possibly work." It's not just what's digested, it's how it gets digested.

B) if we have fewer cows, we don't need to replace them with the same number of another animal -- the point is we could have fewer grazing animals entirely, because our agricultural industry does not exist in order to feed wolves. We don't need to increase the number of deer by however many thousand times to sustain that ecosystem.

That was kind of my point. If you are planning on keeping the total number of grazing animals constant by massively scaling up the amount of deer, then maybe we have a problem. But why are you doing that?

If you're proposing that the current volume of cows/biomass consumption we have is a natural constant, and that other animals would just move in and take their place -- that's just not the case, we are artificially boosting the number of edible animals in the world, and by extension, we are also artificially boosting the amount of feed produced and consumed. Before the agriculture industry scaled up, we didn't have the volume of corn we currently produce lying around and being mass-consumed by deer. We started producing a lot more corn/grain and then breeding a lot more herding animals that we then fed it to.

[0]: https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/livestock-ghg-emissions-s...
Avid book readers might make a similar statement about writing code :-)

To be more clear, when a database (with multiple fields, and better workflows) is clearly the right tool, why would you try to implement it one ad-hoc in a simplistic text file/editor!?

And if someone says Emacs+orgmode, that’s basically a nice framework for implementing applications backed by structured data stored in our format :-)
Gun stores cannot keep inventory on their shelves. In 2020 America gained five million new gun owners. Restrictions have done nothing to curb demand. History tells us gun demand is proportional to threats of new restrictions...so oddly enough if you wanted to reduce demand, you would be better off reducing restrictions
It's not exactly the same as a personal budget though. The Fed can print money to pay back debt. Of course this just becomes an indirect tax as it leads to inflation since the amount of resources in the country/world doesn't change when printing.
I think the point is we gained the scifi UX, and lost most of the interesting plot devices. We got the talking computer without enough self awareness or reliability or uniqueness compared with other forms of data interrogation to be a particularly interesting plot point.

Alexa and Siri and Google Home aren't going to take over the world or try to become human, and aren't infallible or even particularly smart. They're a speech input interfaces over a search engine with some jokes hardcoded in. From a technical standpoint, very impressive; from a fiction standpoint a dead end
No handwringing, I do not give a fuck what people spend their time on, it is their life. Just saying I think people are wholly absorbed in fictions these days in ways rivals anything in the past. Today fictions permeates everything, and most seem unable to separate it from reality. Half the US population even believes outlandish conspiracy theories.
Are you saying the same thing is happening at non-British chains, or is there some other reason?
Yeah, it looks like the WFI handler was removed in the v3 patch series, then put back in for v6. WFI appears to be one of the cpu sleep related instructions that don't work well on the M1 (or maybe just don't work in QEMU?).
Nah, they’re not there yet. ICE has two separate parts, deportations, and a mini FBI [0]. All federal agents, but not dependent on the border.

This is like a federal CBP x Coast Guard that also works with the Texas Border Patrol & Texas Coast Guard, the California Border Patrol & Florida Coast Guard, etc

[0] - Homeland Security Investigations (small, quiet, transnational), deals with e.g. cartels, movie piracy, the FBI, child porn, while Enforcement and Removal Operations (big, loud, domestic) deports. There is some tension.
If you're interested in becoming proficient text editing in the shell, I highly recommend just biting the bullet and learning the basics with vim. It's significantly less of a "cliff" than you'd expect. Just spend a few minutes running through the built-in tutorial (vimtutor), learn how to save and open files and move around the document, and set a few defaults in your config.

Only about 30 minutes of effort will be enough to make it much easier to use than nano, in my opinion. Then over time you can learn what makes it powerful, play with mouse control, check out neovim, etc...
I read the page, and I'm still not clear what they want me to do. Do they want me to buy something from one of their partners? If so, what do they want me to buy, and why is it better (either for me or the developers) than just using the free LibreOffice?

I actually _do_ need a document and spreadsheet suite which works on Linux, and I would pay for one which works well. At the moment I kind of get by between Google Docs (generally reliable, functionality often not quite there) and LibreOffice (lots of functionality, UI feels clunky, sometimes crashes). If LibreOffice are offering me something that makes my life better, I will likely buy it.
Computer Science Is Security
No. Five million gun purchase background checks were done last year for new gun owners.

https://www.nssf.org/first-time-gun-buyers-grow-to-nearly-5-...

At no time in history have more Americans owned guns per-capita
Rare Pepes were some of the first, years ago: https://www.vice.com/en/article/ev57p4/i-went-to-the-first-l...
"Ms. Abramovich and her husband, Mikhail, retired business owners who worked in the oil and gas business" sounds like one of those phrases that legal has spent a couple of days working over.
Did your media worship at the foot of Trump's altar? Because I don't recall there being much choice between which version you're going to believe.
The headlines for this small study have evolved throughout the day. As seems usual they increasingly focus on worst case interpretation.

There is absolutely not enough data to come to any conclusion here.

The protein spike tested on more common variants in wider studies shows pretty good efficacy with several of the vaccines and there is little reason to believe this will be any different.

The SA variant has existed in the UK for 4 months and represents 0.05% of all sequenced samples. Despite almost no restrictions SA deaths are dropping dramatically.

I'm really getting tired of the desire to use a lack of information to assume worst case scenarios. That philosophically disingenuous behaviour has gone someway to being more destructive than anything wrought by any virus.
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For anyone north of the Murray River who is a bit confused about Aussie Rules, the game is quite aerobic.

The field is a cricket oval at ~200 yards by ~150 yards (~15x the area of a US Football field). There are 18 players on the field per team, for a total of 36. The game is broken up into 20 minute quarters with ~7 min of stoppage time per quarter. With all the breaks, it's about 2.5 hours long. Though it varies by match, you basically are doing windsprints the entire time while the other team is trying to climb on you and knee you in the head. Those guys are in very good shape even for professional athletes.

Here's a good video on some Aussie Rules highlights from 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaUoDPEyohE
> It would be very entertaining if someone bought the rights to the name and ran the NRA as a campaign group for safety and education...

That’s the NRA’s purpose. See the “Eddie Eagle” program and firearms training and certification.

Lobbying is done by the NRA-ILA.
Archive.org and Eff.org are my two do not question donations.

Well said, agreed! I should add Wikipedia.
Lisp always uses prefix operator symbols. something like { ... } would be (progn ...) . Thus when one reads Lisp, one doesn't look that much for character syntax, but for operator names and list structure layout.

Parentheses are there, because s-expression syntax is not only used for syntax for nested lists, but also for representing code as s-expressions. C / C++ does not have that feature.

These s-expressions in Lisp are data. This means one can also write programs which create programs as data - not as text, but as list structures.
The Drakensberg in South Africa (yes, the name does translate as "Dragon Mountains") are sometimes cited as an inspiration to Tolkien.

If this is accurate or not is another question, but a google of "Tolkien Drakensberg" certainly shows that it is widely known.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
taken for a leg-puller,
spake the truth we ignore:
1 + 1 = 4.

cf. p.61, https://fullerfuture.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/buckminster...
I think your argument would be stronger if you unpacked "controlled and stewarded" a bit. What capital are you talking about, and in what sense do banks control it? How can and do banks use that capital to exert power?
These emergent properties that you mention (temperature, intelligence) can in principle be described by the individual components (particles) along with the fundamental laws of physics that govern their interactions. The emergent property that we observe is just a cognitive abstraction designed to strip away the complexity and describe the aggregate behaviour of the group of individual components.

Our mind was designed to work this way. The most advantageous way to perceive a rock is as a single object with properties pertaining to utility (hardness, potential weapon, etc). This takes the least cognitive load and is the most beneficial way to perceive the world from a fitness perspective.

There's nothing epiphenomenal above and beyond the individual components (and the laws governing their interactions) except in our minds. In that specific sense, emergent properties are an invention.
Computer Science is Security... Bruce Schneier agrees with your view: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/06/computer_scie...
I actually think it's you that has misunderstood.

when you say this: "they perform the valuable service of making risky investments that other people can't"

What do you mean by risky investments? If you mean the bank risks losing money on them, that's countered by the point the person you are responding to made here: "in this day and age we hardly ever let large companies suffer the consequences of a bad investment "

What that means is, if you loan money and the business or person you loan to fails to repay, and the government bails you out by paying you the amount you were owed, did you actually risk anything at all?

Mortgages are indeed the canonical example - it's why the bank bailout that paid the banks that took the risks and failed is a perfect example of just this kind of risk mitigation.

It's worse, though, because on an individual level the banker has extremely minimal risk with their investments and loans. JP Morgan may or may not be at risk if they invest tons of money foolishly, but Jack the banker at JP Morgan has risked exactly $0 of their personal capital on the same bet. If the bet succeeds, Jack makes a million dollars. If the bet fails, MAYBE Jack gets fired. More often, he gets another crack at it because things don't always go well and the company has an appetite for this kind of risk.
LMMS – Produce music with your computer
If only 10% of americans hoarded masks it would have ruined the supply, no give than 30% of America followed Trump blindly, you actually think only 10% of Americans would have went out and gotten masks for themselves and their families when a plague of uncertain lethality was on the rise? I don't have much faith in that here or any other country that didn't just flat out enforce it.
Archaeologists Unearth 600-Year-Old Golden Eagle Sculpture at Aztec Temple
Queen's property manager banks windfarm bonanza
IT security does remain fascinated with certifications. You might consider the AWS security related certifications also.
You think that it is unhelpful and this is fine, you are free to ignore my comment and donate to wikipedia if you want. My post is meant to inform people so that they can make an informed decision and not feel like they have been scammed.

As for whether parties are important for wikipedia, anyone interested in this topic can read the links that I posted earlier. There was a debate whether they are helpful or not if I remember correctly.
Normal server logging is going to be covered under legitimate interests. Apply a reasonable retention period to it (5 year old logs are not necessary for any legitimate business purpose). Disclose it to users. Done.
True. There is a reason that ~400-500B$ is spent on interest each year by our wonderful government. That comes out of our taxes. Enough to pay for 40% of social security or medicare. 70% of the military budget. The expense we have from debt is no joke.
I believe that this is the scientific consensus, since we harbor Neanderthal DNA resulting from intermixing.