skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's statistically less rare than airline flight disasters, and yet those rightfully get plastered all over the news.

https://policeviolencereport.org/

1,127 people killed by police in the US in 2020.

https://www.airfleets.net/crash/fatalities_year.htm

https://www.statista.com/statistics/263443/worldwide-air-tra...

Somewhere between 422 and 561 people killed in 2018, a year I specifically anti-cherry-picked as being particularly high within the last few years.

At what point is cops killing people "statistically significant" for you? Because many people think that should be pretty close to zero. Especially when, as indicated in the first link I have below:

* Only 16 cases, 1.42%, resulted in any kind of judicial action.

* 601 of those cases were "police responding to suspected non-violent offenses or cases where no crime was reported."

* "121 people were killed after police stopped them for a traffic violation."
According to Wikipedia, Switzerland is 19th [1] (the list includes some territories that are not independent countries, though) in terms of civilian-owned guns. With the US having twice as many per capita as number 2.

If you go by households with a gun the numbers are more reasonable, however. The US is driven up by a small proportion of gun owners that own a large number of guns.

I don't think that contradicts your argument that it's a difference in gun culture, though. On the contrary - I think it's a demonstration of one aspect of the difference.

It's not that more people have guns in the US, but that more people have guns for self-defence. And a subset of those hoard large number of guns.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_g...
3D printers -- both resin and filament-- are everywhere and cheap today.

And there are many great affordable devices with e-Ink--I have several Amazon ebook readers that I use every day.

I'm not sure I was harmed by any patent.

Many of the things we talk about on Hacker News are covered by patents. Why do you want to shred a piece of the U.S. Constitution (assuming you're talking about U.S. patents) over eInk?
Not to say it's a much less certain route.

Canada has an upper hand because you can get papers in just 1-2 years, unlike other countries where you have to bet your everything on being in the mercy of immigration system, and country's politics for 6-7 years.
Why should anyone be subjected to RMS’ opinion on the age of consent? Or the Epstein case? RMS created this situation by injecting his unwanted opinions into to public sphere and now he’s rightfully paying the price for that.
It’s hard to remember what order to put things in, because the two methods follow opposite conventions. And that’s because this type of OO design has no obvious method of organization.

In the first case, I want to do something to a list: join it into a string. So, clearly, I need a list method? But no, I need to engage in some form of indirection; for some reason, I need to reach for a string method. Even if there is no string that I want to use as a delimiter. In that case, I need to use a string method on an empty string.

OK, I’ll play along. Now I want to take the string and split it into an array. Now that I’ve been educated, I know better than to try the sensible thing. Pre-enlightenment, I would have reached for a method applied to the thing that I wanted to transform. But now I know I should think backwards, and use a method applied to the delimiter. OOPs.
That was my point that apparently nobody got. Cops in the USA are often trained to deploy more violence than is necessary.
Never thought that animation would help the readability of sequence diagrams, but it totally makes sense. I love this.
Of course! Many person-hours will be spent on inclusive language tooling and services that will carefully keep track of your word offenses, with automated reminders of any infractions!
Check out Revise.jl, it enables this workflow, and it’s awesome.

https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/workflow-tips/#Revis...
Exactly. Some acronyms are more commonly known than their "expanded" form making the former the better name to use. For example I don't see many people spelling out Hyper-Text Transport Protocol.
AI is increasingly being used to identify emotions – here’s what’s at stake
> Poor vaccination drive: Nothing can be father from the truth. India is one of the countries which has superb last mile vaccine delivery ...

It is true that India has done a fantastic job at producing and distributing vaccines. The problem is that the Indian population is absolutely vast, so the fraction of the population that has been successfully inoculated so far is disappointingly small. There is hope that continued robust progress with vaccination could turn the situation around but that is likely to take several more months.
Me? Offended? By a lowly computer no less?? No way! You're the one that responded to my original post with accusations of strawmen bud :-)

I guess we cemented that sucker in pretty good now though eh?
Can't handle your finance – go and die
Due to increasing load to ICU Ontario is preparing to introduce triage protocols - https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1887030339766. What really gets me that among the criteria for selection are: ability to handle finances, go shopping. Check video at 1:38 time point for this. And the doctor explaining things says that those factors do not make major contribution to the decision (notice the magic "major" word).
That's... Weird. How are you accomplishing a redirect with just DNS? I always thought you needed some sort of web server for that.
> Yeah, good point. Can't trust those damn yankees.

Trump did a brilliant job :)
In the 1980s in a free rag in DC, someone posted this one in the classifieds: Nymphs vex, beg quick fjord waltz. Just 27 letters <3
Me: Mom can we have Dropbox?

Mom: We have Dropbox at home

Dropbox at home: ftp + curlftpfs + svn
> Maybe they should not install agents on your machine

But, is it possible or practical to do network management without "agents" ?
Automated reasoning improves the Prime Video experience
If a prison was built next to a building like that it could be a part of the punishment to see this building from the prison cell.
Many times press agents will wear vests or badges on a lanyard indicating that they're press.

Maybe they could assume everyone is press and not use force or chemical agents at all.
I have some similar notes here: https://calebmadrigal.com/music-theory-notes/. It's all about the ratios.
3500 year-old honeypot: Oldest direct evidence for honey collecting in Africa
If you believe the us has a more violent population than anywhere else in the world, have you ever bothered to interrogate as to why that is?

Or could it be the us has an issue with whay and for
How long we allow police and our court systems to punish people? Could it be the us is simply over policed?

No shortage of research on this. I ask you take the time to look into this
Fun fact: as long as it was a necessary condition, it's still murder. It's no different than if you shoot someone with stage 4 cancer.
Its amazing how the brain works...

I am very cross-eyed at the moment (surgery resulted in both my eyeballs moving) and require a little plastic "stickon" that goes on the left lens of my glasses; which has prisms to redirect the light so that both eyes are looking in the same direction (prisms are fairly normal; it's the _amount_ of correction I need that is abnormal).

The correction on the left lens is so bad that looking through it is completely blurry (with lots of rainbows if I'm looking towards a light). However, when looking through my glasses with both eyes, everything appears normal. I can see in stereo (which I cannot do w/o the correction) and everything is in focus. There is still _some_ rainbow effect.

So, my brain is taking the "clear image" from my right eye and overlaying it with the distance information that the left eye adds to that... but ignoring the blurry image from the left eye completely.

Honestly, I find it mind boggling.
I think going out of equal temperament into other modes of tuning/intonation would definitely be considered outside of "basic music theory".

It feels like grumping about some inaccuracies/glossing over in elementary school mathematics because of the existence of imaginary numbers.
https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech
Interesting, many coaches Ive worked with utilize Google Docs or password protected spreadsheets. Ive always wanted to see TrainingPeaks but for non-endurance athletes.
Good data! Nice how martian gravity makes things lighter. If I'm doing the math correctly I get to to be an exposure time of around 0.1-0.5 ms. Fast!, but not unheard of fast :)
> My take on chromatic scales (in the context of this post) is that the very existence of a(n equally tempered 12 tone) chromatic scale is the axiom the OP is using but not stated - hence a comment further up/down about P5s not necessarily being equivalent to d6 in other tunings.

Ooh, good catch-- I completely left out tuning systems!

But again-- the point of "basic" music theory is to simplify the practice of discussing music. In that context, the fundamental purpose of the chromatic scale is to introduce the complete set of note names, as well as the range of the piano pitches. This gives the student a full set from which to derive all other concepts like scales, keys, triads, and all the other fundaments of the common practice period.

So again, if you start with a chromatic scale and then start talking about the differences in half-step intervals along it-- boom. Huge conceptual warp.

Honestly, I don't know much about the intersection between symmetric scales and alternate tuning systems. Personally, it seems like it would be an incredibly esoteric niche, although I can imagine some funny musical jokes with the idea. :)
Taxes are a lot more complex in Germany - you need to in add in social security charges (e.g., health insurance, nursing contribution, pension contribution, etc, etc), and you'll generally pay more in tax in Germany than you would for an equivalent number of pounds in the UK. I know, because that's what happened to me (I received a large enough pay rise to balance it out, so net income was the same either way).

The exception is once you go over £100,000 and hit the brief 62% tax bracket (remember to include NI) - then it starts to equal out again.
Chromium support for hardware decode on the Pi was only added very recently (in the last month or two, I think).
I found it more amusing that he listed 8 languages that he has experience with and then went out of his way to exclude JavaScript.
I'm vegetarian and this is ridiculous. Naming food with meat in it isn't a microaggression.
Maybe that is what the issue is? Some, well many, DNS providers provide value add transparent additional features like redirect and email. If their web infrastructure is down then that might not work even though the core DNS shit does.
Here it is in Julia:

julia> join([1 2 3], ", ")
"1, 2, 3"

julia> split("1, 2, 3", ", ")
3-element Vector{SubString{String}}:
"1"
"2"
"3"

Note how they are both functions. The data that they operate on is the first argument, in both cases. The optional second argument is the obvious next most important thing, the delimiter. Other optional arguments come after that. There is nothing to remember, because it makes sense.
Nassim Taleb on Bitcoin: A Twitter span unveils a fragile thinker
No, sorry. Ever since I blew through the Github size limits, I haven't found a good static Hakyll-compatible way to present history, especially histories with lots of tiny edits. (As I keep experimenting with new approaches, I have to do lots of mass edits to old pages to update them.)
CNAME is aliasing, not redirecting. If www.$domain.com is CNAME for $domain.com, loading www.$domain.com will make you remain on www.$domain.com, not redirect you.
How would you say this differentiates from existing platforms like Salesforce/Zoho? Currently using Zoho. Curious what would make a company want to switch. A video of the shiniest features would be nice, like others have said.
I always considered the middle word something slightly different...
I would not be too worried about possible cultural impact of accepting too many immigrants who do AI research.
And that video is over 13 years old! Too bad this idea didn't catch on more widely.
I like the second option (&int(3)) the most personally, as I find myself occasionally defining a bunch of variables before I can use them as pointers in structs. It looks and feels a lot cleaner to use this vs having new everywhere.
A good example why current currencies are not digital, like Bitcoin, is the settlement process of a public trade stock which takes 2 days because of the current financial system.

A digital currency would make possible to settle a trade stock in minutes or even seconds.

A digital currency would remove a lot of transactions costs associated with buying/selling stocks.
> There is a department that decides on the gender of new words

TIL. Fascinating.

> covid (or some variant on that) to be feminine.

And here I was hoping that I was being too pessamistic.
https://github.com/synestematic/kord

I don’t think this has “execution”/synthesis features, but it could at least provide the basis for this environment.
As a TrackIR user, it feels to me like it should be possible to do something like this with the 6dof headtracking data from TrackIR, but basically nobody uses a 1-1 mapping that would produce a camera trick like this.
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking too, so the original point of edvinasbartkus still stands, because actual networking is not affected, only hosting.
> How are you accomplishing a redirect with just DNS?

Perhaps it's an HTTP-based redirect, and that's why it's down whereas DNS is up?
Sure, and so are developers, but surely the business side gets passed down and percolates through management. Not to mention I made no assumptions about HOW the business side percolates, but noted that there is observational evidence of journalists acting in ways one could interpret as fomenting. Stuff like: running headlines about a shooters race then being wrong later, running stories from an “anonymous source” with devastating consequences or getting the info seriously wrong like the Steele Dossier, the Covington kids, the George-Trump “find the votes” call. And so on. I don’t purport to know why or how the financial interest and the observed actions are physically connected, just that they almost look like a motive and a lack of alibi
"If you change words because some might feel offended, it will never stop. "

Well, since we are evolving our culture our changing of words hopefully never stops. Languge is an ongoing process and much of our language was shaped in a patriarchal, racist and sexist environment, that existed for centuries if not millenias.

Now I might say, we advanced from that, so there are necessary language changes happening.

That much energy is wasted in that regard, I very much agree. And I'd like some sanity back in the debate.

I am also not sure about the black/white thing.

(ah btw. some racist indeed favor the blond over black haired people, which gave ways to a antinazi joke:

The Arier: Blond like Hitler, thin like Göring and tall like Himmler.)

But I am "white", so I am not sure if I can judge about about a black skinned persons feelings about the matter or just ignore them.

But that the very color linked to race scheme is stupid in the first place and that this should be the thing fighting against, I would agree.

There was a south park episode about that, Cartman hit the black kid (just out of being an asshole with anger problems). And the school was about to punish him as usual, but no, because he was black it was a hate crime and the higher institutions got involved, with big fuss and lots of saying black.

So I think Stan in the end said: if you treat people different because of their skin color, it means they are different. So it reinforces the race thinking.

So I do agree: when I see a blacklist, I never would associate that with a person.
I just try to be a bit sensitive of people who do. Which yes, it is hard to draw the line.
You're saying that the US, which is also number one on incarcerated population per capita, doesn't put enough people in jail?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_ra...

If recidivism is the issue, then the way the US treats prisons, prisoners, and especially ex-convicts is the source. The entire system is built around punishing people for the rest of their lives, after having placed them in facilities with a social structure that encourages repeated issues.
What I personally don’t understand is why most ARM alternatives (odroid, raspberry, banana pi, beagleboard etc) always think in such small dimensions.

I mean, a 128 core ARM with 1TB of RAM would crush any x86_64 alternative easily. ARM has no limits in parallelization, why is there nobody using that advantage?
China: Crimes Against Humanity in Xinjian
> On top of that wasn't America made by immigrants so allowing them in is actually a more conservative choice than not?

There were relatively many immigrants in America at times, and relatively few at other times. However, overall, there were too few immigrants to say that the America was “made” by them, as opposed to being made by people who were born here. At best, you could argue that it was made by people who were descendants of immigrants, but then this is true about most nations of the world, as most nations comprise of people who are descendants to immigrants.
I bought a 50*70cm "60"-watt unit online for about €2000 shipped. It is the size of a chest freezer. It works reliably, except that if you don't power it up with the laser armed, and instead flip the safety switch after power up, it will not fire the laser. I had one Hall effect endstop fail, but everything apart from the enclosure itself is COTS commodity stuff, so I just got a pack of new endstops on eBay and fixed it. Cooling with an Ikea tub full of water, vent with a hose out the window.
Then they must have be doing something wrong?
Obviously people would not be foregoing free money if it was easy to get.
You are arguing that people would not spend "free" 100 usd on their rent if the money/voucher was directed towards rent.
FWIW Telegram deletes your account if you are away for a year, and you cannot disable it.
That would make sense, but then tym0's reply to edvinasbartkus doesn't make any sense. It would be like saying: "It seems that DNS is not affected, only hosting." and the reply being: "Yeah, but it seems that hosting is affected as well"
Why Flying a Helicopter on Mars Is a Big Deal
Hoe many of those old in house scripts that aren't maintained or updated are keeping curl up to date?
The Story Behind a Baseline
Not everyone wants their controversial opionions on record under their pseudo-"real life" identity.
Or in this case, flighty things.
"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute."
I would need to see an example to say for sure, but it does sound like you might be able to replace the Excel document, yes. Each line item in the estimate would be the weekly hour numbers. Once you create the estimate, you can download it as a PDF, and include it in your proposal document as an addendum (this is what we do for larger projects — for smaller ones we send the estimate directly from within PriceTable to the customer, and they just click a link to open it).

Once the customer accepts the proposal, you can create a project in PriceTable directly from the estimate, which carries over the title and description and automatically links it to the estimate. Then you plug in the total hours you quoted, and assign a cost code (your fixed rate). Then, as you log time against the project (similar to Clockify, which we used previously!), it counts those hours against the total, which is really nice because you can easily see how much billable time is remaining.

At any point in time, your admin assistant can run a report and pull up the billable time associated with any project or customer within a time range and generate an invoice from it. We currently do the invoicing outside PriceTable, but there is a "generate invoice from time entries" feature coming soon.
The Dark Forest Explanation for Why Aliens Haven't Made Contact
It's not DNS alone. In the Gandi UI you can set up a so called "web redirect" which results in an A record pointing to one of their http servers that does the actual 301 redirecting. If that http server is down, the redirect won't work.
Is that a problem with how we write, or with how we speak? It's kind of interesting how we all have very complicated writing, yet we speak in a very simple way.
Anyone with a good investor storytime and the right faces.
His first attempt was vector based, the blobs of pixels / signed distance fields were his second attempt that worked better.
You have to pick something as your starting point.

The sharps and flats diatonic system is way easier to read because you just mentally parse "key of D" instead of "start on D but also sharp the F and C". It takes time but your brain just starts to grok shapes.

"Piano roll" notation, like in DAWs/midi editors, is actually in certain ways a lot hard to read than staff notation, due to the lower density and lack of reference frame. It _is_ easier to see chord shapes transposed up and down as the same. But I'd argue that's an anti-feature, because of said lack of reference points. The symmetry /sameness makes it a lot easier to start on the wrong note.
What Makes a Great Maintainer of Open Source Projects? [pdf]
Yeah, but the delivery fee is a doozy.
> Thats fine as long as you're in C Major. As soon as you depart from C Major it all starts going wonky. Why is C Major baked into the notation as if you'd never want to use anything else?

Actually, it works for every major scale and natural minor scale!

What are the notes in E major? E F# G# A B C# D# E.

It's still the same letters, E F G A B C D. Now, you may think that this is CHEATING because I've added sharps. But when you write it out on staff paper, the sharps get shoved off to the side on the far left in the key signature, and you basically forget that they are there. You really still just care about seven notes, so you still have seven letters, and seven spaces on the staff, they're just a different seven notes from the C major scale.

You have to know which key the song is in... but you have to do that anyway.

When I say that you basically forget that they are there... I mean it. This does not even require an especially advanced level of musical skill. People with even a passing interest in music theory should be able to breeze past it.
Using template literals to create a binding engine
Is JavaScript a language? <grin>
The latest trick for plastic items is for companies to say they are reusable. So instead of a box of plastic straws, it is now a box with "reusable plastic straws" written on it. Same exact product, but now marketed to get around any single-use bans.
Incarceration is a total failure to address root causes. To say we should incarcerate more people, as the country that already incarcerates many more people than any other, seems absurd. It’s additionally absurd considering we’re also a total failure at maintaining humane prison conditions... the majority of federal prisoners are non-violent offenders... we imprison disproportionately more people of minority races...

It’s incredibly obvious that we’re screwing many things up here.
While papers are easy, good jobs are hard to come by in Canada. Plenty of highly educated immigrants are delivering food nowadays