skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, here's a Harvard analysis of peer-reviewed studies: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/gun-thr.... Some highlights:

> We find that the claim of many millions of annual self-defense gun uses by American citizens is invalid.

> Criminal court judges who read the self-reported accounts of the purported self-defense gun use rated a majority as being illegal

> Most purported self-defense gun uses are gun uses in escalating arguments, and are both socially undesirable and illegal

> We found that firearms are used far more often to frighten and intimidate than they are used in self-defense.

> We found that guns in the home are used more often to frighten intimates than to thwart crime

> most of the reported self-defense gun uses were hostile interactions between armed adolescents

> We found that one in four of these detainees had been wounded, in events that appear unrelated to their incarceration. Most were shot when they were victims of robberies, assaults and crossfires. Virtually none report being wounded by a “law-abiding citizen.”

> little evidence that self-defense gun use is uniquely beneficial in reducing the likelihood of injury or property loss

Overall, it seems that:

* Many publicized statistics about self-defense usage are inaccurate (millions of self-defensive usages appears to be completely impossible, for example).

* Even legal guns are used more often illegally than for self-defense, generally for intimidation or during escalating arguments.

* When used for legal self-defense, guns do not appear to be any more effective than other defensive alternatives for protecting either you or your property.

These are high-profile peer-reviewed studies from a variety of research organizations, backed by varied selection of sources, and they come to consistent conclusions. I'd be interested to see any similar analysis that points towards any other conclusion.
I'm still enraged at the fact a company can afford dropping entire fleet of devices at once and not being obligated to perform at least the minimal steps to retain their usefulness.

You're leaving the field for good, have no competing product in your own roster and you can't even provide a bootloader unlock? How is this reasonable? Where aren't anyone boycotting MS for this anti-ecofriendly move?

Windows phones had a nice hardware and would be useful still at least in some capacity if the software stack could be fiddled with. Now they are just trash.
Wrong:

> Since 2017, it says, at least 695 Uyghurs have been detained or deported to China from 15 countries.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/jun/25/b...
As the other poster replied, server side is one of the most important parts of shelving.
While watching an acrobat show, I came to the realization that there is probably a better way to develop skills.

These acrobats were realizing dangerous performances, where mistakes must not happen even when doing the show thousands of times. And also it must have been possible to practice it right on the first time.

My answer to that is imagination, search for the proper mindset, and switching to it.

You have to try to imagine the thinking of someone who can do things naturally.

It's kinda like in "the pretender" TV-show. It's one layer of indirection added to the more traditional "imitate the master" practicing technique.

Some tasks are best handled when you have a specific internal representation.

Often when you start from scratch, you don't have the right one, and through experience, blood and sweat, you refine it until you discover the representation that works well for the task.

But when you have a representation that kind of work but is missing something, you get stuck in plateau which practice (both "scrimmage" and "drill") only reinforce.

For example, with our acrobats, are they visualizing the actions in their head they are about to do ? Do they see themselves in 3D as a first person character, or in third player view ? Are they feeling the movements in their head ? Can they do the movements without doing them ? Can they create mental variations of the movements ? How do they handle the motion blur that our novice eye experience ? How do they evaluate the risks ?

Acrobats often are born into; and people do things without knowing exactly how they do them. So you'll have to practice observation to understand (how, why, when,...) they do what they do.

While practice is still necessary, it becomes a mere reality check for the performances you have mentally imagined doing a thousand times.
As best I can tell, people on Hacker News largely think of machine learning as some sort of statistical trick that they don't actually need to apply any further understanding towards. They see it repeat Doom code verbatim and assume it is capable of repeating any and all code it's ever seen verbatim - hence "laundering".

What they maybe aren't considering is that specific snippet is famous. It has likely been pasted thousands of times with and without attribution on public GitHub repositories.

Yes, it has seen code before. No, it didn't memorize the entirety of the dataset it was trained on. If it did - it has explicitly overfit, won't generalize to downstream tasks and ultimately failed at being useful in the general case.

Unfortunately, "we don't know" still, but what may have happened is that their transformer architecture creates a more efficient representation of the byte pair encoding representing the code. In doing so, it is able to learn about context, structure, and logic of the language it is trained on.

Anyways, I think this whole thing is absurd. So far - every "atrocity" I have seen committed by copilot is easily achievable with GitHub advanced search using "code contains text".
OP's story sounds a bit like my grandfathers, he jumped around many jobs over his lifetime. According to my aunt he would 'work in a job and learn about it until he got bored, then moved on to something else he was vaguely interested in'.

I suspected he might have had ADHD, and I certainly do have ADHD, and ADHD is hereditary!

If I didn't accidentally fall into software I probably would have been the same. I agree with your idea that they should talk to a professional (ideally psychiatrist in my opinion) and check for any conditions.
> or Blizzard,

This so much. 10 years ago, I would have bought every single Blizzard game. Back then, I explained to my parents that Blizzard was like Mercedes ("The best or nothing") for video games. Now all known talents have already left Blizzard and none of their games interest me any longer...
Hopefully nothing.

I only understand these systems about as well as you can without actually fighting them in production, so ymmv ;)

There are things that Firebolt are doing regards SSD caching that its easy to see are going to massively help performance but also hinder one nice aspect of Snowflake which is that one Snowflake region can read-only access the storage of another. I'm guessing that this is via direct S3 access, but the moment there is tiered storage, inter-cluster and inter-region access would have to be inter-compute-cluster instead etc.
In the UK PTO is usually between 25-27 days. This doesn't include bank holidays.
> But more relevant to the parent's comment; would your bank prevent your from trying to spend that pound?

Yes, because I stole it.
There's something about org-mode markup syntax that's really nice.
There is one for go which is my favorite language. And there is also one for python and javascript. Did you check ?
> and I’ve found recently that I’ve been appending “site:reddit.com” to all of my text search queries to actually get useful results.

This is a problem with the web, not with Google. The web has become littered with trash content
Samsung almost had it when they supported Linux on DeX, which ran Ubuntu. Unfortunately, they've removed that feature now.
When you copy-paste, you first 'copy' and the password is in the global clipboard.
Some other app may be able to read the clipboard and get your password.
What is the exact scenario you're against? If GPL changes are added to a BSD codebase, it's still possible to use the BSD part of the code under the terms of that license. The GPL doesn't "infect" the rest of the work, either in the present or historically. You aren't "forced" to re-distribute the source code unless you want to use the GPL changes - which is just how copyright works in the first place.
The Lab Leak Hypothesis itself is not criticism of China, and it’s very important that we get to the bottom of it! If it turns out to be true we need to learn from it before we leak something much deadlier.

You’re advocating for self-censorship of an important topic, based on the assumption that in 10 years a new global superpower will arise and start punishing those that discussed the hypothesis. It makes no sense to me. Unscientific and overly cautious!
I can summarize my path. Ages 12-20, wrote code every day. Took a QA job at a small software company. Moved to development team. Spent 6 years there. Used that experience to get into Microsoft. 5 years there. At that point, there were almost no companies that wouldn’t interview me, and it was just on me to do well in the interviews. I have practiced white boarding all through my career.

So the idea is to get your foot in whatever door you can at that time, and climb when you can.
It didn't solve it. We could have anonymous payment intermediaries today if we wanted. We don't want them because of the massive amounts of money that would be laundered through them.
How many robots does it take to run a grocery store? [video]
Do they also insure against reputation damage? How would that work and could they measure it?
Linux Rust Support
Is it dismissing empirical evidence or do they just value their philosophical ideas above your utility function? The very statement that it was net negative is not an objective one, really.
I feel like this isn't really framing the issue fairly. The issue isn't that Sony couldn't use GPL code, there is no law preventing them from doing so, they just choose not to (for a variety of reasons, I'd imagine). Just as the could contribute to FreeBSD but choose not to.
And OS developers have the choice to prevent Sony (or some other company) from essentially using free labor to make money without any obligation on their side.
> the sense of purpose and mission died when Emerald Sea started and good projects (reader, google talk, code search) were being canabalized to prop up a pipe dream that was never going to work.

Interesting way of putting it. And it also jives with the fact that Google+ always looked half-baked even from a pure UX perspective, and is now dead altogether. Perhaps with the benefit of hindsight, we can speculate that Google leadership should have tried to move in that direction while still meshing with the existing "sense of mission and purpose", not just suppressing it.
Simple: move to New York, get tech job, rent and live frugally for a decade, save everything and go back to your country. You've effectively drained a fraction of the US economy to enrich your own country's, nothing wrong with that.

Also new York is fun, even when frugal. Even with kids I'd wager it's a great experience to have in ones life. Staying in the same house or city all your life is overrated.
Airplane! is another movie that "wouldn't be allowed to be made today"

The line "Have you ever seen a grown man naked?" would be a scandal today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfgO90yGusI
Aren't anecdotes pieces of empirical evidence?
Piezoelectric microelectromechanical system-based optical metasurfaces
This happens all the time with hardware, and software (abandonware, old games ...) Yeah it's quite infuriating that large corporations have so much power and ordinary people don't. That's why movements like FSF and the right to repair movement are so important. We have to take back some basic rights.
Thanks for your input. Highly appreciate
I have multiple degrees in history yet I’m completely detached from the academic community because I don’t do research and don’t publish anything. So if I follow your logic it means I (and many thousands like me) have no degree at all?
> Is there a word for that? Dismissing empirical evidence by clinging to philosophical assertions?

That word, I claim, is 'ideology'.
Agreed, the conclusions about mind control or altered behaviour are unsupported by the observations. For example, hyena cubs with the parasite getting closer to lions might simply be due to worsened sense of smell or vision, or less attention due to pain etc. ... We unfortunately live in a time where science profits from sensationalist speculation.
You could probably separate those with tooling.
Geospatial data and the future of indoor mapping
> I'm not sure what the sibling post is trying to imply with recursive calls though.

I think that is based on a misunderstanding of what it being passed in at the point listcopy() is called in the body of listcopy(). The pointer passed in there can't be NULL due to how it is obtained, so no further checks is necessary.
99% invisible has a nice article / podcast on the subject, mainly focused on what happens if sailors get stuck onboard because of politics and their employers being shit: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/abandoned-ships/
The UK, Ireland and loads of other places are having housing affordability issues. It's quite serious, but nobody wants property prices to fall.

Investment funds are buying up new housing estates by outbidding normal buyers. Even John Lewis, a retailer, is getting into the housing business [0]. The whole system is broken. Personally, I'm half-seriously considering buying a boat.

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57712618
One of the reasons MS can't do this, even if they wanted to (ha ha!) is the patent encumbrance. There are so many patents in this field, it's kinda crazy.
how would one even sort search results without bias?
Didn’t Google pull it off in the beginning? If I remember correctly, some major successes like Google Earth came out of Google’s famous 20% policy. I’m not sure what changed since then. Maybe it’s not something that scales easily?
And the one about sailors stuck on a ship, sometimes for years: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/abandoned-ships/
Brain-computer interface for generating personally attractive images
Librem 5 is significantly more powerful and also capable to provide convergence. The greatest thing is that you don't just get mobile apps on a big screen but actual desktop apps.
I also prefer .org files for anything. It does almost everything Markdown does with just as simple syntax, but then can be used for any more comprehensive purpose by being fully LaTeX compatible. Although I think this strong coupling with Emacs has unfortunately caused it to stay in that niche, even though most of those scripted interactions aren't really important for the common use-cases.

It also doesn't help that Emacs seems to be the only complete and correct parser; I tried org files as Readme in git repos, and for example Gitlab really struggles. Pandoc isn't fully compatible either.
Do you read the source of every setup.py you run before running pip install? Also, if you are untrusting of the source enough to verify their install script is safe, why would you install their template to run on your machine without verifying all of that too? Finally, 10 line bash script might (as tbis example does) just call out to another curl | bash, or to a pip install/npm install.
Without GPL Oracle could make closed source improvements which RedHat could not use, giving Oracle an edge over RedHat. If RedHat then went under because of that we were stuck with a closed source Linux.

The Audacity drama is solved by GPL, you can compile your own version without telemetry. Forks will pop up and the Audacity developers will backtrack and remove the offending parts of the code.
Yup, tech like this won't get wasted, there's ALWAYS a market for them. And older ones, refurbished, broken, etc.
The book Simulacra and Simulation, published by Baudrillard in 1981, shows this process of gamification as ongoing even without software.[1]

> Baudrillard claims that our current society has replaced all reality and meaning with symbols and signs, and that human experience is a simulation of reality. Moreover, these simulacra are not merely mediations of reality, nor even deceptive mediations of reality; they are not based in a reality nor do they hide a reality, they simply hide that nothing like reality is relevant to our current understanding of our lives.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation
This represents the current research interest in the UK nicely. There is currently a wide gap between lifespan and 'healthspan'- the duration in which someone is independent and healthy. This leads to high care costs, and combined with an ageing population is a recipe for economic disaster. If we can e.g. prevent decline in muscle strength (sarcopenia) we can potentially help people to live independently for longer (this is my own research focus)
Isn't this what inevitably happens to all companies eventually?

You have a group of enthusiastic founders who make it big through smarts, passion and dedication and after a couple of decades, they retire, and the company is now mostly formed of people who are in just to cash in on the money and fame from having that brand name on their resume as people who are as smart, passionate and dedicated as the original founders were would most likely work on their own idea rather than said famous company.

On the tech circles online Google is known for being the place where you grind leet-code to get in so you can make big $ and coast (rest and vest), not break your back working on fancy world changing ideas. The latter is for start-ups.

Apple was ahead of the game too as they had the visionary Steve Jobs at the helm, while now, sure their stock is as high as ever and their M1 macs are great but you don't really see people queuing up for days in front of their shops anymore since their post-Jobs strategy has been less about disruptive innovation and more about entrenching and expanding their existing positions by leveraging their supply chain prowess.
Check this free markdown WYSIWYG editor https://marktext.app/. I guess it is inspired by Typora which is the first I saw. It is very impressive. Not sure about the image drag and drop. That is app specific.

I wished we had that for ASCIIDoc because it looks more powerful than the half backed Markdown.
quake 3 :p
Simply divide by sqrt(Capita) if you want an average between these stances.

Good point btw.
Code elements like conditionals, loops, arithmetic or Boolean expressions, assignment statements, etc. are not copyrightable, but not because they’re insignificant (like individual words in a novel), but because they’re useful articles. Copyright protects expression, not utility, which is the domain of patent law.
Not necessarily. For example, it suffices that one's in-group celebrates trolling opinions not accepted by the in-group. Then trolling is an easy way to prove to oneself, if not their in-group, that one belongs to their in-group.
I was referring to the rule of seconds. For example, below 40mph it's recommended to leave 2 seconds between you and the car in front. Above 40mph, it's recommended to leave 3 to 4 seconds between you and the car in front.

The car length in this context is just the length the car travels per second.
I apologize for misunderstanding you. I read you writing of commanding less respect as a developer and being "the second class in this picture" as feeling attacked.

If I am honest, I did not understand your point, then. Your start-off was that the GPL segments between users and developers and disagreeing with that.

What I tried to offer as a counterpoint, is that the GPL does not actually segment between the two, it just mandates that this non-segmentation be conferred at every new iteration of distribution.

What you call "permissive" then is only permissive in the short term, because it precisely introduces this segmentation between users and developers in the long term. If you look at this as a tree structure, it's permissive only to your immediate children, because you are granting them the right to take away this precise freedom from your grandchildren,
thus introducing the separation between users and developers.

Or in GNU speak: you are allowing your user/developes to take away their users's freedom 1 and 3, so since there are four freedoms, I will claim that this is at least half the point of the GPL.
Google Earth was acquired. Formerly Keyhole, IIRC.
In programming, coding is a tool for discovering the under-specified parts of the specification.
On the first point, they're just saying that 3 people seeing a doctor about flu symptoms at that time of year is not unusual (most Chinese routinely go to hospitals for any medical treatment), and that even if they did have Covid instead of flu they might have got it outside the lab. There were people in Wuhan with Covid back then, but there were a lot more people with flu. The odds that any given three people with flu symptoms in Wuhan at that time actually had covid was still very small.

On the route into humans, I'm no expert but as I understand it while these viruses are found in bats the most likely route to humans is via another mammal intermediate such as a pangolin or cat. The reasons for this seems to be that bats are just too small and the virus load too thin to pose a threat to humans. So bat to human is very unlikely, but bat to cat is more plausible, and then cat (etc) to human also more plausible. I've no way to validate if that's accurate.

It really is all numbers games though. All we can say is what is more or less likely, and I think that's all the article is trying to explain.
According to the article this is actually a really good way for kids to learn and improve. The point being that just practicing the lines is hugely important.
Mine also sitting in the drawer next to me. It is utterly useless now but it was/is great phone. Smooth & minimalist UI, consistent UI/X between different apps.
this.

While it is important to separate concerns where applicable (might be user related functionality and caching) generalization most of the time just adds complexity.
This is called relativism and it’s a natural position to take if you think there are no useful prescriptive standards, only descriptions of how people act.

I guess that might be appealing for some people, but for others the ideas of quality and correctness are important. Unfortunately this has been mixed up with discussions about race which makes it basically impossible to publicly support any sort of language standards.
You need a payment gateway to collect money for your services. What is to think about it?
I got into movies way back and I'm clocking over 1600 watched according to IMDB.

I agree that movies get trite the more you watch. The secret is to watch less mainstream movies.

I disagree with the article. Lately I've been watching less movies, but only because lack of time. In fact I've been wishing I spent a bit more watching movies and catching up with my endless TODO list.

So yes, movies (or any for of media) can become less surprising the more you consume it, but I believe there is always venue for novelty.

By the way if you feel like the author I recommend this list of weird movies [1]. I don't promise they will be good, but at least they will be different.

[1] https://366weirdmovies.com/the-weird-movie-list/
So much for the blind users
Just to be pedantic, ScummVM is a re-implementation of the original SCUMM, which totally was an instance of this approach. There is a (crazy long) Youtube video [1] where they take a peek at the SCUMM code for the first Monkey Island, and hack it almost on the fly. Pretty good for a 1990 game.

Of course, Infocom's Z-machine may be an even earlier example.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikaqus5_QIg (the relevant bit starts at around 3:09:30)