skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there are different reasons:

- Mandatory military service makes people know how to use guns

- People have mandatory health insurance and social security, means there is no need to shoot people for money

- Less racist police, means minorities dont solve problems by themselves with violence

- high minimum wage, so nobody has to starve

- Gun owners do not use guns to defend against burglars, so burglars also dont have to use guns

- Proper handling of drug addiction (including addicts)

- better mental health because of mandatory holidays, parental leaves, and a lot of chocolate

- Prostitution is legal, so no pimping
mass shootings are a very small fraction of gun homicides that receive disproportionate coverage. if mass shootings stopped overnight, you would barely notice a change in the US homicide rate.
Yeah, the whole idea of holding data "reverse-ransomed" (pay to have it removed) is a bit unpalatable. Can't see any wholesome uses for it.
The same thought crossed my mind. Then I thought - could they have done this now to gauge feedback, stick with it if it works, and write it off as an April fools joke if there's too much backlash? That feels like the next level of chess here :)
bc pgmrs r lazy af.

Seriously though... when I'm in debugging mode, speed and efficiency in completing the task is paramount. So, every character I save typing, the better!
what's the "real long-term value" of a NFT? At least with ICOs you can say that the tokens could be used for something.
As someone who help teaches intro level CS class, debuggers can be too OP.
Heck, why not bring back Oldsmobile while we're at it?
Well, I'd sure hate if I was walking out with a low-powered rifle--I'd feel like I hadn't got my money's worth if the bullets just sorta dripped out the end of the barrel.

So if they have forced conscription, where does the vetting come in? Do they exempt, not conscript, the people who look particularly killy? Or does it come during their short military service? "19 year old Private Hans, we think you might murder someone in 20 years, we're banning you from ever owning a gun hereafter."

If Switzerland has less murder, it's because people feel less inclined to murder there. Why that is may be up for debate, but I certainly don't think a couple years of conscripted service right out of high school plays a role--or else you'd never hear about American vets killing anyone.
I didn't say your comment "wasn't wrong, but disagreeable", I said your viewpoint was simply disagreeable (read, not necessarily correct and people obviously disagree with what you have stated (read, they think your incorrect)).
Remember how i said "unrealistic" and not "lower"? WLTP is a rather unrealistic way to determine fuel consumption or energy usage on cars. If you look at sites which collect fuel usage for cars you often times see fuel usages considerably higher than what WLTP defines. Especially if it's a PHEV since WLTP expects a full battery all the time. Under 2L/100km for a 2 ton SUV is not realistic by any stretch of the imagination. The numbers on https://www.spritmonitor.de/ for example seem to allign more with EPA in my experience.
Is back in that format? When did it leave it?
US gun culture isnt just about defending one's self from the government. It gets darker than that. It is about retaining the ability to aggressively destroy and replace that government. Many gun nuts really do believe in revolution. Luckily they remain a minority, but they are out there.
SpaceX loses another Starship prototype as landing sequence fails
Oh please tell me about those tools.
Uno Takes Microsoft WinUI3-Reunion to Linux,macOS,Web,iOS, Android
Ah. And Pexels is in fact owned by Canva, as is Pixabay. (What is it with Germany and picture-sharing sites?)
Probably for it to blow up on the ground like previous failures... But yes they definitely knew of and accepted this risk.
Site seems to be broken, gives me an Access Denied. Here's Google cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:AVUICl...
NBA Topshot is a centralized as it gets.

The only reason they use NFTs to track clip ownership rather than a normal DB is to ride the hype wave to pump their initial value.
I think it might be more difficult than it would seem... everything I’ve seen so far in telecom has the assumption that the gNB (the base station) has a fixed location relative to neighboring gNBs. That’s what would facilitate handoffs. You would have to reconfigure parts of the core network as the train moves, so that you could smoothly handle the instance where someone takes a call on the train, disembarks, and the train pulls away. I don’t think the topology is that malleable.
From [0] and[1], in 2018 Norway had a murder rate of about 0.5/100k. South Dakota (the least murder-y state) had a rate of 1.4.

The worst in Europe are the Baltic states. Latvia and Lithuania would be equivalent to middle of the pack US states. Outside the Baltic states, the rest of the EU and UK would be, at worst, just nudging the bottom of the states' rankings or, at best, quite some way below.

Once you get to Turkey and the Balkan states, you are again nudging lowish US numbers.
BTW the reason Liechtenstein is an outlier is because it has a population of 38k. So this suggest that one person was murdered there in 2018.

[0] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...
Maybe the most brilliant time to rebrand; always have that "it was really just a joke" line to fall back on.
Funny enough in my native language (portuguese), the h have no meaning on both cases.
A few days ago I was discussing the stock market with my mother, who used to be the financial manager for several large companies before she retired. She stated that she's come to believe the speculation of company value is nothing but a pyramid scheme divorced from any actual value of said company. It's an opinion I've heard often from amateur speculators or self-proclaimed experts. It was interesting hearing it from someone I know and trust with serious experience managing the finances of large publicly traded companies.
If this isn't a joke, it actually does make sense. Easier to pronounce in english. Means electric car... the growth category. Why not?

"Volkswagen" is big enough that the name just means the company/product. But, it isn't really good brand name for an anglo market. You either can't pronounce it, or the literal connotation makes you a little uncomfortable.
I was proposing another factor to add to his thesis. Israel is a pretty rich country.
Are you aware of the fact that most companies cheated with emissions?
Volkswagen was just a scapegoat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_emissions_scandal#/medi...
Do you pronounce "Volvo" as "Fuhao" since it is Chinese owned now and that's their name for it there?
RIP Unsplash
> we'll always need shitty job to keep people busy.

That's a pretty darned condescending attitude to harbor there. I know a lot of people who have what you'd call s#### jobs, and they're happy, fulfilled, and proud of the work they do.
reduce the energy barrier to debugging
It was vutile effort from the start.
The US also produces (and trades in, and refines, and goes to war for) oil
The Svalbard archipelago is governed by Norway, and does have very open borders.
I feel like, for a long while, you'd still need people to clean the place, to maintain the robots, install new equipment. There's also going to be occasional messes. Box was badly taped, falls apart, shampoo bottles get crushed on the floor, etc. Also, if you have a robot that puts things in boxes, you need someone to restock the boxes, unless you have another special-purpose robot just for that too.

I'm sure we can eventually have truly general-purpose robots, but in the mean time, I'm kind of skeptical about how much cost and labor these things are going to save. Not to say this isn't impressive or cool, just saying that a completely fully automated warehouse is still pretty far away.
...why do you think it's easier for people to apply this stuff? Who do you think builds and maintains tools like umap-learn, sklearn etc.?
>[Anyone] can walk into a gun show and walk out with a high powered rifle in under an hour

I don't think people who believe this have ever actually been to a gun show. Anyone who commercially sells guns is required to have an federal firearms dealer's license (FFL), not having one will get you in big legal trouble with the ATF. If you have a table with 100s of guns for sale there is a 100% chance you are an FFL gun seller in which case you are required to do background checks on all gun purchases.
Looking at the other comments here, there should really be a pithy "law" like Godwin's for the act of comparing the USA to small, wealthy, homogenous countries with harsh immigration policies. I'm not saying it's bad, but boy is it common.
Confusingly i dont think its that simple. If you equate wealth to work, then with increased automatization, you can grow wealth without stealing it from someone else. Not saying that you can't increase wealth through exploitation though.
If they ran a campaign of donating to environmental protection charities, carbon capture, or some other means of protecting the planet, with a value equal to that of the money of the revenue of their diesel cheating vehicles sales, I would say they have changed.

Until then, I still think they are doing what they do for the sake of profit.
> they bore the brunt of media attention for something that nearly every auto manufacturer was later found to be doing

I find the same happens with performance enhancing drugs in sports. Everyone in the game knows that everyone is doing it. But someone gets caught, and people go full offense on them as though they're pure evil.

Ben Johnson and later Lance Armstrong come to mind.
> German cars have a bad rap in the US for being unreliable and expensive to fix.

Which is totally accurate...
Definitely someone I'd like to have a drink with. I originally came across his article about flying his PC-12 into Burning Man.
Underground “zombie” peat fires release 100 times the carbon of wildfires
If you're interested in this, you should definitely check out Songhai [1]

They try to recycle everything, from biogas and then aquaculture off of the sewage and agricultural run-off, to harvesting the maggots off of the food waste to feed the fish and poultry. Farm to Table to Farm.

[1] http://songhai.org/
> Hiring a lawyer to fight a DMCA claim is not the same as hiring one to defend you in a lawsuit or a criminal matter.

It's still expensive. Two hours of time can cost you into the thousands of dollars; more if you are unlucky enough to get a scumbag of a lawyer.

And there's nothing resembling a guarantee that the letter alone will work. Fair use is a positive defense, which means that you're admitting that you are infringing on their copyright, only you believe that you're within the allowed limitations.

Large corporations can and do easily push the discussion into the court system, since the court is the only entity who can ultimately judge whether something is fair use or not. Suddenly you're up to much more than a couple of hours with your lawyer, only to have the corporation drop the suit at a late hour and leave you with nothing - no judgement in your favor, no recompense for your costs.
Sometimes I play with giving some false positive to my capacha results, it's fun to see the AI accept or not my responses...

As for parking meters, in France, I never saw parking meters like this. We have different kind of ticket distributing machines.
Not HN-worthy.
No, it's not a joke. https://electrek.co/2021/03/29/its-not-april-fools-yet-vw-wi...
Can anyone recommend some quality, somewhat neutral books that analyze the economical, political and military developments over the last and future decades?

We are obviously seeing shifts in the global economy and power balance, with the US losing it's complete dominance, China becoming more confident and aggressive, countries like Turkey showing increasing aggression against the EU, and a more multi-polar balance in general.

I'd love to learn some more, but most of the books I find are too "pop-sci", have a strong "US good/China scary & evil" tint, or a too narrow focus.
The defense against government makes guns commonplace, availible for use in other types of violence. The link is more practical than ideological.
It's gluten-free this year.
So the approach is to write a bot, do zero human checks and then say "well, see, yes, we sent this complaint, but we didn't actually send it ourselves, the bot did, so we didn't know that it was wrong, because we've decided to never check these things before sending them out"?

It's weird, when you can write a program to do something in your name and as your agent, and then claim "it totally wasn't me, lol".
Their brand is so tainted in the US that they're renaming it.

I don't think most Americans know about or remember the emissions scandal.

That said, there's plenty of precedent for a product being so tainted that it got renamed.

Comcast becoming Xfinity comes to mind.
If you make 35k a year, what would you sacrifice to save up to become a millionaire? What if you need a car to get to work because public transit has been gutted in your community? What if you have kids?

The whole "personal responsibility" myth is designed to fool comfortably middle-class people who still do labour all day into not resenting the elites who live solely off the surplus value of their labour. It tells you to aspire to "passive income", which is ascension from the worker class into the capital class, instead of redistributive policies that would harm the capital class. You're not poor, you're a temporarily embarassed millionaire.
> Performance is shit because it’s using text to encode everything so that it’s human readable. Similarly parsing is extra complicated and slow for that reason. [...] Finally the data representation itself is extremely bloated vs the binary data.

A weird criticism considering the encoding rules usually used for ASN.1 are all binary and some of them are bit-packed (like PER), which is very uncommon in newer protocols (for good reason).

Oh and there is OER now, which is actually a very reasonable binary encoding.
Blackmail as a service. Well done, internet. But you're 25+ years behind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bell

Not completely sure what the impact of revenge porn is, but I would posit it could reduce your chances of having and raising a kid in a two parent household. Making lists like this have as bad an impact on society than they do on the individuals involved. It's difficult to articulate what someone could reasonably see as the proportionate response to this would be, but it doesn't seem to have a top. I'd recommend to the authors to think these things through, but really, they should just try to be better people.
> Unless we get something like UBI we'll always need shitty job to keep people busy

I find myself often making this assumption too, but I wonder if it's warranted? A "shit" job is often shorthand for a job you can grab someone off the street and more or less have them start working, an "unskilled" job. But the fact that pretty much anyone can do a job isn't the same as saying that someone doing a "shit" job is only capable of that kind of work.

What if we did get to a point where nearly all the tedious, unskilled jobs were done by machines -- what exactly is the barrier to taking all the humans previously doing those jobs and leveling them up to do jobs machines can't do as well? I don't think it's human capability -- I'm quite skeptical of the idea that there's whole classes of people actually _unable_ to learn skills needed for better work. It seems the barrier is that generally it's not economically beneficial to do so -- training takes time and money. But if that's actually the problem, then its not an overall lack of money, it's a distribution question.

Perhaps it's because I'm watching The Expanse now and remember the books, but I'm not completely sold on UBI. I think it gives up on the idea that masses of people can work better jobs. As a supplementary income program I can see it working, but as a replacement for having any job at all I'm not sure I'm on board.
For a lot of casual photographers, the version on their phone is the original and the version in the cloud is the backup. And if they run out of space on their phone, they delete the original.

Of course, to professional and semi-professional photographers, such a haphazard approach would be unimaginable :)
The majority of long guns in the US are pretty likely bought for hunting. There's a pretty loud home defense community, but it isn't that big.

And of course most pistols are not purchased for hunting.
On the downvotes, (and flagging, while at it ...

... might I bring attention to "rule" 42a.1 ...

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26590231

... as elucidated by @tomrod? :)

Not as much on account of deserving upvotes, but at least on account of not deserving the flak.-
This is literally what TFA is about
Mann sagt:

Der Fahrer eines Voltswagen

aber nicht:

Der Führer von Volkswagen
Which spelling system? English is notorious for not having any spelling consistency.
Same reason Tesla talks a big game but has skipped their 401(k) match for three straight years. If they can get the people they need for less $$$, they will.
Using generics anywhere only a single type is ever used. The ambiguity really just hurts readability and creates a landmine for future engineers that think other types can be used willy-nilly and things will behave as they should. Especially if some optimizations get done underneath that assume or asserts some set of types, but doesn't enforce them at the API level.
yeah - that is a pain in the beginning.

Personally (this is completely anecdotal, and not backed by any serious data), I have found it drives people to do multiple small commits, as they rebase a lot easier.

using something like git review means that the entire chain is rebased by default when you summit a new patch on top, and I have the `git commit --am -a --no-edit && git fetch && git rebase` in muscle memory at this point.

(the lack of ability to have PRs based off other open PRs is one of the biggest issues I have with the current github / pull request model, so I probably over compensate for that type of situation)
I have been to many and there are always people who are unlicensed walking the show advertising that they want to trade or sell their gun. This is literally the "Gun Show Loophole"
I'm fairly certain that if China did to the US what they did to India last year[0], we would strike back, and strike back hard. If China/Russia got to the point where they're causing power outages and rioting/looting, Chinese/Russian cities wouldn't be left unscathed. In a future conflict with a peer enemy I assume all Internet services will cease to exist and we'll be back to WWII era of technology.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/28/us/politics/china-india-h...
AlmaLinux OS Stable Release is live
Not $188 million rich.
General Motors will follow-suit with Electric Motors.

General Electric will follow-suit by doing nothing.
Yep, you have bureaucrats at the EPA pulling numbers out of their asses that become impossible to meet and still have a car that people would want or can afford. So they find a way to meet the "letter of the law" and pass the tests. Sort of like what CPAs do when they prepare your tax return.
> I later learned that the more accurate story is that they bore the brunt of media attention for something that nearly every auto manufacturer was later found to be doing
According to our experience from 2 weeks to 2 month depending from the technology stack
> Another problem is people don't know any better. It's not like the average person has owned cars from all the major brands for enough time for things to go wrong with them. Most people own only a few cars over their entire life. I think this is particularly true with brands like VW. People just don't know any better and think it's normal for a car to be a money pit.

This is odd coming from a person who is making a sweeping judgment based on owning one car. My family and I have owned mk4, mk5, and mk6 VWs. Never had to bring any of them in for anything other than standard maintenance. I have a newish BMW now and my folks have a lightly used Mercedes. So far everyone's happy there too.

VWs also have a pretty corporate, standard chassis of parts that's reused across almost all of VW's and much of Audi's cars. There should always be cheap parts available from third parties given the number of models interchanging the same parts under the hood. BMWs (and probably Mercedes too) definitely are more expensive to repair and maintain. IMO they tend to over-engineer, and that comes with both good and bad consequences.
The article simply uses the term in the title so it can discuss it.

Historians prefer the Middle Ages or the Medieval Period. Since this is relatively Europe-centric, historians are trying to go in the direction of "global Medieval studies", to form connections among various regions of the world.

Our periodization is largely Eurocentric. The very long lineage of metallic/tool-based terms like the Bronze Age run into the obvious problem that bronze arrived in different regions at different times.
I bet there's a ton of Go code out there with methods that assume the pointer receiver cannot be nil without actually checking. The need for the nil checks along with != err everywhere makes for some incredibly verbose code.
> They're the opposite of the rugged, self-reliant American farmers

To be a farmer you must have money, land, equipment, likely history of family farmers, technical agricultural know how, a government that protects and promotes your farm. Oh also old farming lobbies to twist the legislatures arm and a Government that uses their trade/military clout to push your products into developing countries - which the WTO seems not to care about.

If Polish people dont have these things readily available, I guess yiur statement about them might be a tad harsh.
A FAANG-ish company hires almost every female in my Alma-mater every year. For a male-female ratio of 250-50, they somehow end up hiring 5 men and 45 women.

Sure, these women are talented, but behind their back everyone does say that they get in due to their gender, and not because of skills.
My dad used to joke that if you wanted sneakers that were not made by child labor, your best bet was whichever manufacturer last got into trouble for it because of all the extra scrutiny.

That this level of fatalism about immoral acts exists is a failure of society as a whole. I suspect that all of those who got rich either knowingly or being willfully ignorant about emissions cheating walked away completely unpunished. Maybe less rich than if they hadn't gotten caught, but still richer than if they hadn't cheated in the first place.
VS Code and Firefox Developer Tools are the two I'm aware of with actual support. Also some tools you can adhoc it as a conditional breakpoint by basically putting "print(whatever); return false" as the condition
Maxmind do APIs for a bunch of language. I've used the python one and it works well (with Lite), but see here their list:

https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/web-services/
Grassroots Motorsports and SCCAs magazine whatever it’s called, but it’s part of the membership
Except that we all share the same goal - bring some little green men home.
Exactly. Most other manufacturers were/are cheating as well.

I've owned a few recent VWs and have found they're fine vehicles. The current gen Tiguan was underpowered, but my MK7 GTI and MK7.5 Golf R are amazing cars. I have a feeling I'll be driving the R for a long time.