skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're wrong.

https://www.quora.com/How-hard-is-it-to-get-a-gun-in-Switzer... is a good discussion of Swiss law.

TL,DR: Swiss law is different than U.S. law, and it's hard to generalize as each is more or less permissive given different areas (and the U.S. is really 51 or 52 little countries in most senses, as Switzerland is divided into Cantons).

Concerning ammo specifically: https://www.reddit.com/r/askswitzerland/comments/7xug8k/ques...

TL,DR: One can buy ammo freely at ranges and with minimal permitting to take home. It sounds like maybe the Army wanted ammo stored centrally such that it would be in controlled environmental conditions, and not lost or accidentally used up at a Schützenfest.
As mentioned in the article, pharma is high-risk high-reward long term investment. Many companies tried and failed to produce an effective COVID vaccine (CureVac, Merck). Those companies invested R&D dollars well before the pandemic and further invested in recent trials. When a pharma company finds a winner, of course the margin will be great, the raw materials for most medicines are cheap relative to the value they bring. But the margin doesn't account for the 10+ years of R&D spend that put Moderna into the position it is in today.
Lol terrible article. Cant wait until the rest of the plebs are forced into 11. 10 can die in the hell hole it came from. 11 feels more akin to the Linux realm I'm used to. Not to mention sweet sweet TPM. Can finally get rid of all the cheating dogs in gaming.

Tldr 11 rocks, it's built for business and has mad benefits for gamers.
Thanks! I didn’t expect to be retracting my claims, but I retract my claims.

I wouldn’t trust my life to it, and I still think it would be crazy to. But if I ever need a VPN, I’ll go with mullvad.
A lot of people started programming thanks to the ZX Spectrum, and I'm one of them too:

https://blog.steve.fi/how_i_started_programming.html

It was easily the most popular home computer in the UK at that time, though I imagine a large number of people started with the BBC - via the school integration.

I still have my manuals, and recently paid for a print of the keyboard to hang on my wall. (I almost bought a dead 48K model, and framed it, but getting a poster/print was slightly cheaper.)
I think this would allow anyone with enough information on an account to claim it to be their own and have it removed which puts GitHub in a tough spot, DMCA claims on the other hand have legal ramifications so this route is more difficult to abuse so easily, although as seen with youtube-dl it's still abused sometimes.
Yet US Suicide rates are comparable to those of Sweden, Finland, Norway, Canada. A big higher but very very close. So I don't see how guns matter in that case. If they did matter to the actual decision of killing yourself or not, you'd see an actual correlation worldwide. Also, I'm not sure if the stats account for people buying guns just to kill themselves. Like is it only including long time owners? Otherwise I again don't see the difference between buying a gun to commit suicide vs doing it via hanging.

The message it sends is that having a gun in your house makes it more likely for you to commit suicide. But causation can just as easily be reversed, i.e. if you are suicidal you're probably more a lot more likely to acquire a gun. Would it be surprising that someone who wants to die is more likely to have something that can help him do just that?
California’s population is about one quarter foreign-born, but it’s been at that ratio for 30+ years. Mass foreign migration isn’t a plausible explanation for the shortage of housing when the foreign-born percentage of the population is relatively stable over long time scales.
People make the same 2 claims every release yet it never actually happens at any measurable scale. The second the old version everyone die hard loves (that was also widely trashed on at launch) stops being supported for the latest features and security updates the vast majority of gamers just move on.
Tangentially related. Facebook doesn't care if people use your photo as their profile photos. I once used DMCA like this to get fake Facebook accounts to stop using my face. I bought the photograph from the original photographer for a tiny fee and used the agreement (a digitally signed PDF) as a proof of ownership to send a DMCA.
Startup perfects Matt Damon's farming in The Martian
Keeping up with Snapchat: Everything you need to know
why is this website always shilled here
UI is so bad that moving to terraform and the cli improved my productivity; TF in particular lowered my billing due to being able to clean up e.g. shutting down EC2 instances.

S3 is the only halfway usable service in the web - but only i you are doing something trivial like moving or copying files, not changing mime-type.

I really like DKIM setup for SES when using Route53
Pixelfed[1] is a free, federated and brilliant instagram alternative for photographers!

You could spend those 5usd/month on hosting your own managed instance or just donating/supporting free, meaningful communities.

1 - https://pixelfed.org/
A desktop client for f-chat, an adult furry roleplaying chat.

Yes, really.
Maybe I'm reading too much into it but "I absolutely do not want this activity linked to my main account." gave me the impression they didn't want it known to be connected to them and now there's a HN thread about the connection and a GitHub DMCA post about the connection.
I’d like to hear more about Minikin’s optimal line breaker: I’ve been told it’s very similar to Knuth-Plass, but all I’ve ever seen of it is its source code <https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/minikin...>; no prosy or diagrammatic description like Breaking Paragraphs into Lines, no demonstration, no review of its performance or comparison… nothing but the source code. I’d really like a comparative review, but I haven’t reached the point of doing it myself.
Put the innocent and the defenseless at life risk for the enjoyment of the others.

Probably reasonable if R<1 since it's only going to affect a limited number of people, but this is absurd for countries where the R is still >1. This is effectively putting everyone at life risk.
Your stance is clear. Thank you. So, it appears we have two scenarios:

In the first scenario, the government is doing exactly what it says and taking the public health measures it feels are necessary to save lives and end a pandemic.

In scenario two, the government is deliberately overreaching and applying unnecessary measures, purely designed to deceive the public and curtail freedoms (or to condition people to accept such limitations in the future) in order to set us on the path to authoritarianism.

This raises a number of earnest questions:

>they won't hesitate to do it again in the future in response to something far less serious

The concern about it being done for some "future far less serious thing" seems to be a tacit acknowledgment that the current thing warrants these measures to some degree:

1. Given that these things aren't very frequent (i.e. the last pandemic of this scale was ~100 years ago and we've already rivaled that death toll), would it be more prudent to worry about hypothetical future abuses if/when they come to pass, versus resisting the current measures?

2. If we were currently dealing with, say, an equally virulent airborne strain of Ebola, would current measures seem more justified, thus significantly allaying your current concerns?

>we all really hope we're wrong

Me too!

1. What do you think the odds are that you're right (roughly speaking)?

2. What if the people actively resisting and interfering with government efforts to contain the pandemic are wrong? What is the cost?

3. How (or perhaps more accurately, when) will you know whether you are wrong?
I feel like this has the most value for highly state full services. If your primitives are declarative, then this feels like a step backwards compared to CDK (I don’t have experience with terraform). As it turns out, composition and abstraction are really powerful tools for building complex infrastructures. For reading infrastructure state though, this sounds amazing.
https://web.archive.org/web/20201216200839/https://github.co...
> You are comparing the USA, a developed country, purely to developing countries. I mean, ya, the USA does better than much poorer countries, but can’t compare to any other developed ones.

Almost every country in the world is much poorer than the USA. Most European countries have a smaller per-capita GDP than Mississippi, the poorest US state.
Mathematically, you should not invest in crypto
Yeah, from East Texas and having lived in Estonia, American fascination and glorification of violence is insane looking from the outside.
This is weird semantics. GTK supports themes. The CSS classes are stable and will not change. Only libadwaita disables loading system themes.
Thank you for the detailed response.

I guess my dreamed up scenarios were more vague "shooter/assailant in the area" whereby I figured I'd want to "make myself less desirable to bother with while I exit the area". Hence small caliber, lots of noise/attempts and if - god forbid - anything connected it would still hurt/slow them.

I never really contemplated a "someone intent on killing you" scenario. It isn't something I think of much and I appreciate that clearly people have.
Also he did a bunch of ventures and one succeeded, and some bombed. Isn't that a celebrated rite of passage in SV?
The war wasn't lost until the US unilaterally withdrew.
Some of the free software community have long been suspicious of QT. Their recent decision to only provide closed LTS releases seems to justify that. Unless a community with more resources than KDE and less conflicting financial motivation than The QT Company takes it on. I'm sure there are also technical reasons. It's a c++ framework that doesn't bind as well to other languages as GTK.
Since my PC is on wifi, what I do is set my wifi as a metered connection. Windows won't download updates on metered connections. I have to trigger the updates manually, which allows me to review them first. Like how it used to be.
Somewhat related: the saga between Hoefler and former partner Frere-Jones, who Hoefler almost certainly attempted to (and perhaps successfully) screwed over.

https://www.fastcompany.com/3036423/type-stars-jonathan-hoef...
I have used/owned old HP Tablet PCs that ran Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, and one of the bigger Surfaces. The HP with XP was a better experience. Windows 10 on the surface closes the on-screen keyboard after every change of focus from one input field to another. It doesn't open the keyboard automatically. And the Surface's battery swelled up and popped the case open.

I'd actually like a modern pen-enabled PC, but they seem to be getting worse at software (and batteries!) over time. And when I'm at a desk with a keyboard, mouse, and large monitor, nothing else from MS beats the classic 2K/XP (7's okay too) UI.
the whole argument is “biometrics are harder than you think to fake, better than nothing, and in a scenario where you’re being physically assaulted a password isn’t much safer”

what’s the issue? he’s not advocating for you to stop using a strong password if you already are, he’s saying people who use nothing should be encouraged to use something… perfect is the enemy of good
Maybe just like js-heavy sites also punish non-conforming-encoding sites.
Do you mean that is in the From envelope or it is in FCrDNS of the connecting servers (cloudflare)? Can you post an example of the email headers? Be sure to redact any personally identifiable information.
Gitlab, too
One thing Windows does well is support lifecycles. You can still get security updates to the original launch version of Windows 10 until 2025. The current LTSC branch will last until at least 2029.

If you want to play by the rules on home edition you still have at least through the end of 2025 to say no and remain supported.
This is really cool! So retro!

Here is the second result when you search for “cat food”. It takes you to some old dudes entire family tree with full history and biographies… it even uses sub domains and everything! Crazy!

http://www.torrens.org/
Confused. Monotype is PE-owned. Buying companies on the cheap and selling is classic PE logic. Monotype annual revenues were less than 1/10th the acquisition cost. Hoefler&Co had 5 employees and gross revenue was just over 625. Even if they sold for 10 times revenue, that's only $6M for 32 years of work.

Purportedly:
1. Hoefler started the company in 1989.
2. After 10 years, in 1999, Frere-Jones joined—as an employee. No way someone puts in 10 years and makes someone else 50/50 unless they put up capital.
3. After 13 years, in 2002, Hoefler's wife became CEO. Likely that Hoefler and her were the largest shareholders.
4. After 16 years, in 2005, rebranded to include Frere-Jones. Pretty generous!
5. After 9 years rebranded and 15 years working together, in 2014, Frere-Jones sues Hoefler for $20M, claiming the fonts were worth $3M each. They settle after nine months. Frere-Jones immediately starts his own company.
6. After 32 years, in 2021, Hoefler sells and decides he wants to do something different.

How can you say he made out like a bandit? I would understand saying that if he started the company with Frere-Jones, sold for hundreds of millions in four years, and managed to keep all of it for himself.
> And by the way the cost is not just economical but also social, pedagogical (remote learning is still in a joke stage), psychological, sentimental (like marrying without proper event) and those are hard to quantify yet are the salt of human life.

I think you've misunderstood my comment. All of these costs are significantly greater if you do not enact a fast and strict lockdown.

If you lock down at a single digit case count, you can be out and free with no restrictions by the end of the week, as the virus can be quickly eradicated in those conditions. The costs of that are very minor, and mostly amount to annoyances in rescheduling things. I've gone through this twice. It's not ideal, but it's pretty easy to cope with.

If you wait for cases to balloon to the tens of thousands, you will have to outright cancel events instead of rescheduling them, lest you want your wedding guests to die from preventable illnesses. Those are the kind of extremely heavy social costs you're describing, and I 100% agree that avoiding them is extremely important.
Why would they need to do that, when a model S costs $60k less? you could get a free Model 3 thrown in for that
I am not sure why you are getting downvoted as this is an astute analysis of the situation. I had the same thought: if the person you are relying to is helping promote say a cigarette company advertising to tweens and the brigading group is mothers against child smoking then I would be inclined to support what that group is doing to stop the marketing campaign. Similarly if the advertiser is trying to advertise something like The Big Lie which is actively harmful to the US democracy, and well, a lie, then I would also want to support the group trying to report the campaign.

This doesn’t cast a value judgement on whether any of this is good or bad, just that you’ll never get an objective measure of the situation based on just what the person you are replying to have us.
The Shunting-yard algorithm converts infix notation to RPN
I don't fully understand what going on here.

I assume by "I have no means of logging into the alt account" they meant they lost the login info?

"I absolutely do not want this activity linked to my main account."

What does this mean? How would it link to their main account in anyway, regardless of this request?
The problem is that unlimited PTO is a loophole that companies use to avoid paying earned benefits. California’s regulations on this are poor because they don’t account for this, not because they’re a bad idea.
Personally, I wish they'd a) move to USB C, and b) work on fast charging.

Longer battery life is good and all, but we've all forgot to plug in and went to work or wherever at 10%.

I have a Oneplus now that charges at 65w, and it's game changing. It could get you from 0 to 90 in the time it takes to drink a cup of coffee.

Once Iphone does those two things, I'm thinking of jumping ship. It doesn't seem so overpriced anymore.
My kids don’t go through metal detectors. The mistake here is to presume large urban centers define the US.
Is there any good/better way to derisk this process? It's always seemed quite inefficient to me
>Unless it's a NAMBLA flag, I am not going to let a bumper sticker or slogan override my personal experience of a person. Most people are like this.

If you have lots of personal experiences with a person, that's great. But many people don't have real relationships with their neighbors. Bumper stickers and slogans absolutely will impact such relations, they make first impressions. I certainly wouldn't trust almost-strangers with tons of flat-earth stuff to tutor my kids, would you?
You ran/run modern macos in QEMU under linux? I didn't know that was doable...
They may not have changed their git email when committing from the looks of it.

Which could be associated with them.
It's a legitimately hard problem. It's also something that they would rather not deal with and don't make any money from. Plus, it's basically unregulated and platforms mostly don't disclose any stats on how they're doing, so there's no real accountability.

One way to think about it is guilt vs shame. Guilt is where you feel bad because you've violated your own standards. Shame is where you feel bad because somebody of standing has called you out. Platforms generally feel shame but not guilt, so most of their actual improvements in anti-abuse and TOS enforcement come from PR messes and other things that trigger shame. But when the heat is off and it's just you reporting something, they're not going to be particularly bothered.
"A company that made a massive, risky investment that was successful has very high margins"

Is this really earth shattering?
...except if you want to leave, lol.

UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

Article 13

Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.
It is not a trivial change to make the application DPI ware as it is a coding exercise (starting with that manifest change).

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/d...

Marking the app DPI aware just stops Windows doing any application scaling as it leaves that scaling up to the application.

But the real issue is most legacy apps were written before DPI scaling was an issue so they don't have this built in scaling.

To fix this Windows will do a 'one size fits all' scaling on their behalf.

It is this default Windows scaling that makes these legacy apps look so bad at higher DPI settings.
Sounds sensible. Makes sense for the state to essentially insuranize this so small businesses with say 5 people aren't in a pickle.
> the enemy may be the US military itself.

with tanks, nukes, helicopters, and actual soldiers with automatic weapons and grenades.

It's delusional to think that you will do anything other than piss yourself if the US military "knocks" on your door. At best you will die by grenade, at worst - turned into a pancake by some tank.

How do you picture yourself winning against the strongest military in the world, with your rifle at home? Do you really think you'll join a militia, shoot at US soldiers and survive to tell the story of how you bravely defended your freedoms against a tyrannical government?

This isn't a movie where you die a hero. The ship where citizens can defend themselves with weapons against a tyrannical government has sailed a very long time ago.
When I went to college in Canada, my hosts where I rented a room had a ZX81 that they weren't using and I was allowed to put it in my room. What a fun world to come home to explore the inner workings. It had a printer and I figured out how to print graphics. I was overjoyed with my success. What a fun machine to hack around on! RIP
Ask HN: Where are the Matchmaking-as-a-Service?
Our startup is looking for matchmaking between two sets of data. However, I have been unable to find any meaningful API-as-a-service from startups or mature companies. Are you aware of companies offering such a service?
It's sort of fascinating that Australians believe that we didn't take measures to stop community spread in the U.S similar to what was done in their home country.

For months we were confined to our homes. The lockdowns began in March, just like they did in Australia.

We wore masks (after our health agencies recommended them in late March/early April), we didn't go outside, we didn't go to work. At least those that were lucky enough to not be in one of the essential groups I mentioned above.

Your international border was completely shut to non-citizens (correct?). You live in one of the most remote places on Earth, surrounded by the South Pacific and Indian oceans. You control your entire continent.

In the U.S., we are unable to prevent millions of people from entering the country via our southern border, that stretches many thousands of miles, in any year. Many who are otherwise very serious about the pandemic are indifferent to this issue. Even if we had been able to eradicate the virus in the lower 48 states, it would have been instantly reintroduced into the country.

I'm only discussing closed borders because, from what I can gather, that's the only meaningful, discernable policy difference.

I'm curious which restrictions you believe were implemented in Australia, aimed at reducing community spread, that were not in the U.S.? What did you do that "eradicated" the virus that we were unable or unwilling to do? This is an honest question.

I've never been to Adelaide but judging by the map, and your response, it's a more remote area of the country. Those that lived in mega-cities like Sydney had much more community spread, before the seriousness of the issue was known, due to their global interconnectedness. Those of us who live in such places might wish they had the type of advanced warning that others did. But we didn't. Once the virus was widespread within the community, it was not possible to stop it. I say this as someone who spent the pandemic in New York City.

So maybe you are right that "fast and strict" is the way to go (if you define fast by meaning, before uncontrollable community spread). But if that's the case, can't you understand how that was never an option for many places? While Adelaide/Australia as a whole was dealing with its 10 cases, NYC alone likely had many more than 10,000. This is why many Americans were furious at the endless, largely pointless restrictions that occurred after the initial 2-3 month lockdown.
One of the big drivers in Los Alamos is working from home. I think that StarLink's latency would be a problem there.
Taliban is an interesting case, considering that (1) it's unpopular among many (maybe the majority of) Afghans, (2) it would have been better for almost everybody, even most Taliban recruits, if they fizzled out, and (3) you can trace its birth to foreign powers (US, Pakistan, maybe others) arming and training Afghans to fight their own geopolitical games.

Taken together, my take is that an armed and disenfranchised populace can be exploited by demagogues (and foreign powers) to destabilize the society, eventually overthrowing it, to the detriment of everyone in it.

Not exactly an argument for more guns in society.
China (and everyone else) would know where each barge is all the time. They'd be ready to sink them—possibly with their own stealthy subs—within seconds of the order being given. Someone might even do "something dumb" and try to sneakily disable or steal one—you need a better way to respond to that than just "launch a few nukes at China and start World War Three".