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> In schools in the US, children are punished for defending themselves in a fight.

Not only in the US. In France, I had troubles in middle school because I reacted physically to bullying.
If you were an officer of the law pressed to go door-to-door to say, purely hypothetically, take the oldest child by force to inscribe them in some dystopian military program, you'd probably be a lot more hesitant if you knew that there was a chance you'd get shot in the process right?

I believe that's the security that us Americans (I imagine your sneer with that) feel by being armed.

Isn't it that the Swiss are all armed as well? They seem to have fared rather well in a 20th century Europe fraught with conflict. Tell me that's a coincidence with absolutely no correlation to their pro-gun culture.
So your point is that it is not that bad because it really only happen once every couple days? I mean, let's say it happens once a month or once a year. Is it worth it? Are guns preventing more deaths than they are causing?
I think that's a fair response! It's worth clarifying a few things. In general, I think people tend to have that reaction because there's a growing assumption that "technology" = "the cloud"--i.e. a Google or Alexa kind of smart speaker that is very clearly vacuuming all kinds of data:

- Home Assistant runs locally, in my house. None of this data is uploaded anywhere outside of my control

- I live alone. And really, the vast majority of my automation really uses/needs that assumption (computer activity turning off other rooms, etc)

- I don't have any interior-facing cameras, because yeah--even with those also purely-local, it's very odd to know they're there. Years ago, when I did leave the house every day for work, I had a living room camera to keep an eye on my cats. I completely de-powered its PoE port based on whether my automation knew I was home or not--it was only on if I was gone. There are a couple of ways to do person tracking, but I just used my phone and Home Assistant's app

- I do have a global override for a "guest" mode, mostly so lights don't inexplicably turn off. That mode turns on automatically when my girlfriend uses her keypad to unlock my door

That said, I do occasionally browse the wider HASS forums and communities. I don't have kids, but I see people use some automation pretty effectively for things like chore management/reminders. People do stuff like put cheap tablets somewhere central with status updates of who is supposed to take out the trash, reminders if any perimeter doors are open, etc
When they determine the choices I have to live my life. Yes. That is the definition of freedom.
In french, "je suis charrette" can be slang for "I am overloaded (with work)", in the same way as "I am on charrette" that the article mentions.
Nonsense. A monopoly does not conform to the rules a "normal" company does. Rumble does not compete with YouTube, because a generation of uploaders have put essentially every piece of TV, music, movies, conference proceedings, and every other form of media on YouTube.

If you're wondering if something unusual is online, you would always look on YouTube first. And then stay there.
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You could actually store the tweet contents yourself and render them to look like the Twitter UI. That would help to not get rate limited.
They can still track the device by IMEI, because the radio connects to the base station. SIM is only necessary to register on a network. You can still call emergency services even without a SIM.
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> The app to check if you're ready for Windows 11 is a "preview" less than 30 days before the FULL retail release of Windows 11

Unless something has changed recently, I believe the release of Windows 11 will only be for newly purchased devices. The update from Windows 10 to 11 won't be until sometime next year.
Yeah, I can corroborate this. I've looked into the reporting details here and there, and reconciling even the U.S. and the U.K. is basically impossible.

There's also politicization of reporting, at least in the U.S. I recall some states (Maryland?) have laws that mandate reporting of any injury related to a gun (could be a minor burn or a cut finger web that needed stitches) as a firearm-related injury. The intent, of course, being that people wrongly infer that these were injuries inflicted by bullets traveling at high rates of speed.

Dead's dead, though. We don't lose track many of bodies in the developed world.
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> there are still grave ethical considerations that go into producing this research

I would like to know which ones. If you do something to not harm, why do you have to be blamed because other misuse it? I do not think this is the right line of thinking if you mean that we should not do it just on the basis that "someone evil could misuse it". Of course, as an individual you can refuse to research if you think it can yield those results, but never blame it on a researcher that someone else misused their invention.

Social media is a fight because there is an obsession for censorship from some interested parties, in part. That is why.

I do not believe in those super powers as much in the sense that you can always stay away from it as much as you wish. It is a matter of self-discipline also, even if it is indeed a "powerful weapon".
I wonder if we're headed for a future in which knowledge is far less accessible than it was in previous years. With communities moving to these closed/proprietary platforms (Discord, Slack) which aren't fit for purpose (making knowledge accessible and easily searchable), I suspect it'll have a negative affect on the ability of individuals to learn, collaborate, and share knowledge.
CT is almost designed to just wrap up "ugly" details in cute proofs after the fact. I think theres a real danger of students getting a false sense of understanding if they dont know how to contextualize this kind of stuff.
Which authoritarian policies are the right wing in the US increasingly leaning towards again?

As far as I can tell, most "right wing" individuals mostly want liberty from government interfering in their lives.
I will watch it. I went through about a 2 year stint when, due to a series of injuries, I was in pain just about constantly. I broke my tailbone, had a stress fracture in my ankle, and suffered a lower back injury at the same time. No posture was painless for me -- lying down was OK, but sitting hurt my tailbone, standing hurt my back, walking hurt my ankles, biking hurt my tailbone. It was a very difficult thing to deal with. I'm better now (still have the back pain) but I understand what it's like to wake up every morning and just be in pain.
None of these factors explain why they closed the large gap between offline and online video playback
Axiom 1: Knowledgeable and mature people are repulsed by windbags and vicious people.

Axiom 2: There are vastly more windbags and vicious people than there are knowledgeable and mature people.

Axiom 3: Online moderation / gatekeeping is imperfect.

Axiom 4: Successful moderation depends on a few keystone people.

Lemma 1: A community of knowledgeable, mature people will be under perpetual assault by entropy. The internet baseline of know-nothing gasbags and vicious, damaged people will be pounding on the gates of any community.

Lemma 2: Some of the horde will bypass any gatekeeping and moderation to land blows on the knowledgeable and mature people. They'll be repulsed, and some will leave the community.

Lemma 3: The keystone moderators are inevitably among the people subjected to these blows. After a serious blow or one blow too many, some will get fed up and leave, and moderation will get worse, increasing the rate of knowledgeable and mature people getting repulsed by their own community and leaving. A hole will form in the fortifications, and the barbarians will flood in, driving out everyone mature and knowledgeable.

Thereom: A knowledgeable, mature online community that is open to new users will eventually collapse into the internet baseline.

Corollary 1: If you're knowledgeable and mature and currently part of an open online community you love, you too will eventually get repulsed by it and leave. Enjoy it while it lasts.

Corollary 2: There are several knowledgeable and mature people here on Hacker News. They're here entirely because of dang. He is our keystone, weathering the assault of the barbarians for all of our sake. When he throws in the towel, we're done.
You basically stated one argument split into two bullet points, and then listed 'etc etc etc'. It's not even an argument I disagree with as someone who writes software for money, most of our infrastructure requires constant maintenance. However, you know as well as I do that nobody is really 'disrupting' anything in the business space anymore. I've seen entire companies built around the idea that someone has a hard-to-get CSV file with vehicle/networking/government/personal info, and they provision it to you piecemeal. That's an insult to my intelligence, and they know what they're doing. Same thing goes for any other company that's exclusively providing a fancy frontend to some worthless database, it's just a different permutation of the same scam.

> you really should try to build your own product and make it successful

I have no desire to make a product. I'm a programmer and a server technician, not a product manager. The tools of my trade are free and openly developed, no amount of CI Pipeline startups will change that.
That's the reason for the quotes around "criminal" above. Mitnick turning "white hat" just happened to be the first (roughly) analogous example that popped to mind.
In California PTO is considered part of salary. You either take the vacation or else company will pay you the vacation days or all your days will be rolled over to next year.

Thats why most of the companies in Bay Area have unlimited PTO to bypass this law.
I'm a contractor, and I do pretty well.

I bill by the day or by the hour. Client's choice. I even round down to the nearest even hour each day so I don't ever have to have that icky feeling of "did I really bill them right this week?" which would just distract me.

When I work 14 hours in a row, that's what I bill. If I'm in the zone I push it till I fall over. It's worth it for the client. If I'm having an off day, I go home early and bill 4 or 6 hours.

If I'm billing by the day, I just bill by the day. Whether it's 14 hours of working or 4, it evens out and if I'm unsure, I'll bill half a day. The important part is that the work gets done. And if I work a Saturday, you bet it's billed.

Now, why do I say all of this? Because when it comes to time off I vastly prefer my situation. Sick for months? I'm not worrying about whether my PTO qualifies or whatever. I just don't get paid. This has happened recently and when I was healthy again my clients were happy I was able to help again.

This weird sorta dance around time off (sick days, PTO, government holidays, dealing with a manager under pressure for the quarter, etc) makes a bit of sense for the working poor, but I don't understand why so many software developers bother. Just bill what you work and if you want a day, week, or month off take it. I'm sure if more developers asked to work this way large corps would be happy to accommodate them.
No...because no matter what the reality is, you will be painted as a criminal, and charged/convicted as such. It's more likely there is no charge/conviction step, and instead you will be murdered by another police officer under a false pretext of a "firefight". The story that we all hear will not reflect reality; you will take the truth to your grave.
Yeah if they gave me a high DPI Windows 11 classic theme without telemetry and some actual quality control I’d be all over it.

My mother also agrees with me on this. She’s been progressively hating Windows more every release too.
Christiana is very different from the areas the person you replied to described.
barely related:

https://github.com/da2x/EdgeDeflector

https://gist.github.com/GeeLaw/782d1ff3cf4f990c61ba1cc20ddf4...
Very sad. For American readers it may be difficult to explain quite how much Sir Clive and his products shaped tech and a large number of British engineers. So many of us found a love of programming from Sir Clive's computers.

The beautiful thing about Sir Clive's products (particularly the ZX Spectrum) was that they were cheap. Basically a Zilog Z80, a ROM, RAM, membrane keyboard, and a single asic. No sound chip, no video chip, no disk drive, bring your own tape deck (connected directly to Z80 IO pins).

By designing for cost Sinclair Research were able to make a home computer that working class families could afford. Rather than being an enthusiast purchase, kids could bug their parents for one - and millions did. Thousands of these kids turned their programming experiments into businesses and careers.
> and UI elements that haven't been updated since Windows 2K.

I use WindowBlinds to skin my Windows 10 to look like Windows 98. >.>

It doesn't work for programs that create their own title bars or remove them entirely (like Chrome, Firefox, and Discord), but I love having 3D buttons on my task bar and windows.
> but yes, there's is roughly a 0% chance that using a gun defensively in a hostile situation will result in successful self-defense

I and the dozen other people I've met who have all done so, me without firing a single shot, would all disagree with that bold and ignorant claim.
i wish i could envision us doing this responsibly somehow.

if we could find a way to help re-oxygenate the ocean while we do it, or de-acidify it, i might almost be sympathetic.
I once explained the premise of Stardew Valley* to my partner and they just looked at me and said, "that's a little on the nose isn't it?"

* You play as a character who quits their software engineering job to fix up a run down farm you inherited from your grandpa.
> > after few months I can't update to a new version

> forum owners often won't upgrade their website ... plugins that likely will break

Maybe then it'd make sense if I mentioned Talkyard https://github.com/debiki/talkyard — it's forum software with automatic upgrades. I'm developing it. There's not yet any plugin system, instead currently "everything" is built-in, and there are (unfortunately) fewer features.
> There is no scenario in which any citizen with a gun in any country defeats their government

Imagine writing this not one month after the Taliban wins its war against the US.
Do you want to put a bunch of data on a hard drive, tape, DVD, whatever, and leave it for 10 to 100 years and come back hoping it works?

I think this is a horrible strategy. Data needs to be verified periodically and migrated to new formats.

I have files that started on floppy disk in 1991. Over the years they migrated to hard drives, QIC tape, PD phase change optical discs, CD-RW, DVD+RW, and back to hard drives. The file systems have changed from FAT16, ext2, ISO9660, UDF, ext3, ext4.

I strongly suggest creating a list of checksums. A simple for loop on every file running md5sum, sha256sum, or similar and storing along with the filenames. You can then run again, compare, and see if all of the data is still intact.

Some filesystems like btrfs and zfs will do the checksum calculation every time you read the file.

Personally I use ext4 and run cshatag on all files every 6 months. This stores a timestamp and sha256 checksum as ext4 extended attribute metadata. If the file contents have changed but the timestamp has not then it will report corruption.

https://github.com/rfjakob/cshatag

You can also create parity info with Parchive. These are basically "sidecar" files with the same file name as the main file with a suffix. If there are errors in the file you can use parchive with the parity data to reconstruct the file. You can also adjust how much parity data to create (more parity takes more space)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive
Haha, that's really wholesome.

I remember how I destroyed my first PC on the first day by flipping a switch on the PSU before turning it on. Good times.
Everyone that works is at mercy of some employers healthcare policy. Simple universal healthcare.
Yes; it usually doesn't end well, and as
NoImmatureAdHom notes the rights violation has to rise to the level at which lethal force is justified in self-defense, but it does happen and people get cleared of the inevitable charges, that's happened in my home town although the shooting did not kill the officer. And
armenarmen's link doesn't include the case where black grandmother was killed in her dwelling, that didn't end well for the police.
I'd actually argue that guns don't enable these egregious acts, they're just a popular tool. If someone wants to kill a bunch of people there are lots of ways of doing it. Guns are fixed in the imagination because we've evolved to be specifically good at modeling intentional, face-to-face interpersonal violence. See action movies.
Why stop with the factory town? Why not simply have workers live in a dormitory that's part of the "fulfillment center"?

https://www.amazon.com/Warehouse-Novel-Rob-Hart/dp/198482380...
I don't think tagging people as ex 8200 is very helpful. Israel has mandatory military service and at this point if you have aptitude or are in a high school computer club in Tel Aviv or a few other places, you probably end up in 8200 for your service. For that matter, half the people who say there were in 8200 were either 1) listening to telephone calls 2) relegated to writing memos about the data people did hack and get. Of course, there are things one could have done that would raise serious questions. See, e.g., the issues raised for the people we know who worked on DualEC_DRBG.

On the other hand, there are other sketchy things about express VPN.
The US murder rate isn't normally distributed. It's highly concentrated in a few hotspots, with most of the country living in areas with European murder rates.

The news is national though, so you wind up in this weird situation with suburbanites buying guns and worried about urban Chicago a thousand miles away.
Potentially world-ending crises everywhere - be scared, very scared. And don't trust well-known sources, pay me, so I can keep you scared.

Super-volcanoes, tsunamis, asteroids - they all happen and can be catastrophic. And La Palma is a major concern - a recent bout of activity certainly should be on the agenda for countries that would be directly affected.

But I would recommend following other sources to remain informed. Perhaps check what your local government has to offer in the way of tsunami alerts, if you think you would be affected, because checking conspiracy mongers' websites around the clock isn't a viable alternative.
Next.js is cool, but afaik takes a server, right? Gatsby is nice because you get React for component re-use + styling, but it builds into regular HTML+JS files and can live on (abundant, free) static site hosts.
If they ever collaborated with sparknotes on a product they could have had their vision and made money hand over fist. No clue if sparknotes is nearly so popular among students today, but in my time 10 years ago it was one of the most used websites right behind wikipedia for students.
Again it's a one man hobby project, I don't have a team of people to go through every formulation and every error message to ensure nobody can read them in a way that offends them. It's just me, writing code on an unfinished project that HN discovered.

In this case, the code doesn't match the word regexp, like it may be a @TwitterHandle or a "comp.lang.c" with periods in it, or an unsupported Unicode range. It doesn't know why it is not matching, just that it doesn't.
You said, "the U.S. murder rate is not all that remarkable". Someone pointed out that claim is demonstrably false. So your response is, "is getting murdered a real concern?" You established a metric, and when it was shown not to support your world view, you try to discredit your own metric. That's called moving the goal post. It is not something a "rational person" does.

An irrational person uses irrelevant data as justification to ignore preventable deaths. We're not talking about how many car wrecks, or heart attacks, or rabid vending machines are out there, we're talking about gun-related homicide and suicide. Preventable deaths that we can prevent just like every other first world country does, but we just choose not to.
I've not seen that reaction at all. Everyone gets really excited when I show them.
> Playing it conservatively with storage and handling as a someone new to firearms seems like the reasonable path.

More than reasonable. Highly recommended. Just like driving a car, it takes some practice to routinely handle guns in a safe way. Even if you eventually become an expert who is comfortable with having a loaded gun available at all times, it’s a great idea to respect your own level of knowledge, and to take time to develop practices that make sure nobody else can gain access to your gun.
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This is correct, guns are a last resort. They come out when your life is directly in danger, and you shoot to kill, not wound. Most scenarios, like the one I was in, are resolved without a shot being fired.

Edit: I don't believe this warrants downvoting. I'm sharing useful information that would be covered in any Concealed Carry class.
There’s a difference between “appeals to their masculine tendencies”, which suggests they’re baseline masculine and owning a gun matches it; versus “makes them feel masculine”, which suggests they are baseline not masculine and are buying it to compensate.
man I totally remember that, literally the biggest douchebags I have ever seen in my life.

All they did was make a website with comments lmao
It's very optimistic to say the least...maybe the OP was assuming the shooter is just a really poor marksman, or using a BB gun?

That said...I'd take being shot by a bullet any day compared to being shot by a modern bow/crossbow. Definitely a better chance of surviving the bullet.
Yes. I use it with my whole family. You can create a tracking session and have everyone join in. From the app and the website you can see everyone on the map.

The only trouble Iǘe had is that the Android app sometimes crashes and I have to manually launch it again. There are other compatible apps that I haven tried, though.
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Keep in mind that a lot of the military are your neighbors: reserves, national guard, and the like.
It's specifically used for "working till the last second of a deadline" whether you succeed or not
I was fired from a small dev shop in Boston six years ago while grieving a miscarriage. The founder had his favorite employee fire me while he conveniently ducked out.

I don’t wish harm on most people and I definitely would not wish the experience of miscarriage on anyone, but I’d like to punch him in the mouth.

I have a healthy 5-y.o. boy now but that memory still stings.
Do you really trust that? With your life?

This is precisely the point that the threat model bares its fangs. You can ignore it, but you should be aware that you're putting all your faith in that service.

A hypothetical Good VPN doesn't exist in China, for example, because they're legally not allowed to do what you suggest. Many of us don't live in China, but some do. Even outside of China, is it really true that a VPN service will simply give LEO the finger when they ask "Who was downloading child porn off your servers?" I'm skeptical they can.
I would expect them to be a large portion of those that do move, but as you can see, their mobility has collapsed, even during years of overall economic growth. I assume it has continued to go down beyond 2016.

I think population differences and pretty much all land having been settled/allocated now compared to the Dust Bowl period make them incomparable.
I hear you. At least it's not free. Free is a red flag these days.