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> Are gun barrels unregulated in most US states?

I’ve very familiar with US firearms law, and to my knowledge no US state regulates barrels.

> So no one is printing guns in Slovakia yet (AFAIK :-))

Check out the FGC-9. The plans include instructions for creating a rifled barrel using electrochemical machining (ECM), using 3D printed tools.
There's always Paul Krugman, who's always wrong about everything. But you don't need to go very far. Just turn on CNN and watch them say it on air. Alternatively, read WaPo or NyTimes. The official position of the White House, voiced from the podium by Jen Psaki is that inflation is pretty great, and indicates you're "buying more stuff". I wish I was joking, but I'm not. Enjoy that 6% yearly pay cut, folks. And pray to god it doesn't turn into 6% _monthly_ pay cut, like it did in Russia in the 90s.
Not the radioactive waste and meltdown chance though
Oh, what I'd give for a dislike button. I tend to use Spotify to listen to nursery rhymes in the car while traveling with our toddler. This doesn't mean I need to have a daily mix full of nursery rhymes and there is no way to tell Spotify that.
It would improve any social network. Leaving dislike out is like voting without a Ney button
Can't you simply salt the output of your simple hash function with a randomly-pregenerated salt value? (can be unique for each hashtable, a simple integer to be xored) That way the attacker can't predict the collision and you have same performance as before.
Thanks. Do you have any good sources on the topic that I can read? I would love to cut through all the politicized BS.
Not sure why you are getting downvoted but the GP comment had a very specific request, link to the data source. You've no doubt got those links somewhere right? Adding a post of links to all the public filings would be a real asset here.
Steve Jobs and John Lasseter on Charlie Rose (1996)
Spotify has an incognito mode.

https://support.spotify.com/us/article/private-listening/
>Imagine what happens to the economy when you can no longer import twice as much goods as you export.

Jobs would come back. Wealth inequality would stop growing. Right wing extremism would die a quick death. All of this wouldn't be a big issue if your government used the cheap money to build long lasting infrastructure that will be of use long after the cheap money is gone. Oh, right. Trump did massive income tax cuts and burned a hole into the budget and now it's Biden with his infrastructure bill who is irresponsible.
These OSes don't run on top of Android or AOSP. Some of them don't even have emulation for Android.
Yet somehow we have all these people calling themselves "engineers" who couldn't code themselves out of anything more complex than a CRUD app.
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Which I was referencing with ‘depending on the bar’, though it’s a well understood enough process that those variables are generally well understood.

Yet they aren’t, correct?
Fwiw, I was shocked how much better YouTube music was than Spotify. I turned on the trial on a whim, and now I actually miss it (it expired a few days ago).

It was so nice that I’m seriously considering just turning off Spotify. It’s sort of interesting to analyze why we don’t —- for me, it’s become unconscious habit to reach for Spotify and not anything else. Plus a lot of other stuff integrates well with it.

(What if… what if we can use both? Mind asplode, it’s not a decision.)
Because the rocket is so huge, they need to build it either next to a waterway for barge transport, or right next to the launch pad which has to be on the coast
FYI, Google gives you some decent tools for managing your YouTube watch history. You can search by date or title, and you can also turn on auto-delete.
On the other hand, distributed, statewide maintenance (vegetation, gas pipelines) is very different than centralized maintenance (nuclear power plant).

It doesn't speak well to their competence, but "inspect and maintain 1,000s of miles of line" is different than "inspect and maintain 1,000 items in one place."
Weird, I always viewed praying hands as praying hands.

but then, for a decade I thought <3 is kissing lips seen from the side, rather than apparently a heart.
If you're buying a home and living in it (which is what it sounds like the boomers are doing), I can't really find room for criticism. I think having a chance to build equity in a home you live in is a great thing.

If they're snatching these houses to rent out, deny others a chance at equity, and profit off of (overcharge) the less fortunate, especially during a housing shortage with no end in sight, I have a problem.

Building more housing will always be the primary solution to the housing crisis, but not letting the greedy steal homes would be a nice short-term bandaid.
In some ways we bring it on ourselves by being such cheapskates. People post reviews in the app stores because they think $2 is expensive for an app then wonder why they end up with free software that sells their private data to the highest bidder.
> It's bulky and the battery's not what it used to be, but it's fast and the keyboard is great but after 8 years of hard use, a couple keys are wonky.

I think the 2013 model's entered Apple's vintage list [1], but if you can find an Apple Store willing to do battery service for it, the battery replacement comes with a full keyboard and trackpad replacement for $199 USD [2].

Hurry, though, because the 2013 model's likely to enter the obsolete list next year.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201624

[2] https://support.apple.com/mac/repair/service
> you can very much write aliasing-safe systems code (or even kernel code, for that matter)

Yeah, sometimes it's possible. Usually by making a mess of everything with unions. If I remember correctly, type punning with unions is still illegal C code but in practice every compiler understands the idiom.

The simple and intuitive solution to many problems is to cast the data to the new pointer and work directly with it. This should always produce correct code no matter what. People think like this and they write code with these assumptions in mind. In practice, nobody really cares too much what the C standard says. What matters is whether the compilers produce the desired code.
I agree. Spotify acknowledged the request to remove podcasts from the home screen in June of this year: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/All-Platforms-Po... Keep adding votes and pressuring them.
> I am surprised (as I am usually) at the emotional content of these sorts of things.

You're surprised by emotional content of politicized issues, such as the environment and anything Elon Musk?
That already exists.

Profile > Private Session
Weird, I switched to Spotify once Google Play Music (or whatever silly name it had when Google ate songza) became YouTube Music because I found it such a poor experience.

Perhaps I was missing something but the change def did not improve the recommendations - it made them drastically worse.
> You know how stupid the other side is, yeah you probably look around that stupid yourself

Any other techniques for dealing with this?

To get a better measurement of my own intelligence I think about my “dumb friend”, and then try to realize that that’s probably actually about how smart I am.
Haha same. I couldn't believe how much better YT Music was. There's no going back
chars can be two octets on some DSP platforms that lack byte addressability.
Well my cancer cure is subsidized by federal dollars, and our headquarters is right next to the post office. Can't we just start drilling already?
This looks really nice, thanks for sharing!
I have seen this article before. The author are so close to understanding why Spotify does NOT need a dislike button

>To dislike a song is easy – to like one, you have to actually invest time in it.

Likewise, to detect if a user dislikes a song is easy since the user will not invest time listening to it: the skip button is the dislike button.

In contrast, detecting if a user likes a song is more difficult: there needs to be a way to distinguish between a user enjoying a song and the user not paying attention (in that case the user will provide no input whether they like the song or not.)
> Pretty sure that would require something like a 5x cost increase in carbon

5x over what? The US doesn't have a carbon tax does it?
I was about to link Atmel QTouch, they do the same thing with plain vanilla GPIO, but annoyingly do not provide the exact sequence of operations as ST presentation does. But they seem to be equivalent.

This chip on the diagram is ATTiny in disguise - just rearrange the cap and no special hardware needed: https://eu.mouser.com/new/microchip/atmel_qtouch/
Self-Host without port forwarding – Cloudflare Argo Tunnel
> makes me in line with most of the people on earth.

But why is your text grey?
What is virtuous and what is moral for the atheist? Is it more than the bits of the religious morality his ancestors believed that doesn't contradict his present desires?

That question seriously troubled me for some time. Ethics cannot be deduced from logic and aesthetics. To give an example, why exactly is rape wrong? Logically, evolutionary science lets us conclude that it increases individual fitness by increasing mating opportunities and group fitness by spreading alleles that are good at reproducing themselves. Judging by the popularity of the subject in fine art, aesthetics can't condemn it either. So what makes it wrong? Is it anything more than a bald assertion? On what basis and by whose authority? Is ethics merely the science of discerning whatever it is that the strongest secular power one is subject to will permit? I find that proposition philosophically unsatisfying.

Meanwhile, while there is plenty of room for elaboration, a theist can rest on the moral foundation that Mankind was created with inherent dignity in the image of the Creator and thus rape, murder, theft, and various other offenses against that dignity are objectively immoral, regardless of what whoever holds the local monopoly on violence thinks. Additionally, to aid those who may not be capable of drawing those inferences, the sacred scriptures literally spell out the most obvious dos and don'ts.
If you scramble the output of the hash function, it has to be in a way that does not commute with the mapping from hash to bucket index. Xor won’t cut it for power of two sized hash tables.

Should probably just use a keyed hash function like siphash - the security analysis is straightforward and these hash functions are quite well developed.
My experience is the algorithm is a bit different. I have not been on the platform for long, but my recommendations have been great. I've also been listening to music on the same youtube account for 10+ years, so I assume they have alot of data.
I'm not even saying you're wrong, I'm saying your argument for not including it for (at the very least) a sizeable minority is weak and somewhat silly.
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"In honor of the revolution, it's half-off at the Gap"
Yeah sure but this is old news.

>Keynes was able to make his proposal the official British proposal at the Bretton Woods Conference but it was not accepted.[4] Rather than a supranational currency, the conference adopted a system of pegged exchange rates ultimately tied to physical gold in a system managed by the World Bank and IMF. In practice, the system implicitly established the United States dollar as a reserve currency convertible to gold at a fixed price on demand by other governments. The dollar was implicitly established as the reserve by the large trade surplus and gold reserves held by the US at the time of the conference.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bancor
Musk says a lot of dumb things. I'm about as far as a Musk fan as you can be. But acting like rockets are going to be powered by clean energy in the foreseeable future is just wishful thinking.
I have 10 years of experience. I can say with authority that I know very little. The only thing I learned is to recognise faster when my code sucks (I still struggle to write a good code)
First you didn't beleive I read it, then you tell me I'm confusing myself! I would suggest removing the 'phd' on your username and replace it with something more your speed, like 'sh!t'

EDIT: ok maybe that was a bit harsh but the only way dystopian anything can be a good thing is to people who like dystopia which is then actually utopia and it reverts back to my original answer which is - dystopia = negative.
Great point. You can see CA public employee salaries here. [1] The numbers are shocking, not only because they are all overpaid (the effect of public employee unions owning California's Democrat government, a downward-spiral effect predicted by people as varied as right-wing economists and Franklin D. Roosevelt [2]), but because in many cases these people get $500K - $700K per year for life in retirement. A private sector person would need a $10-$20 million post-tax trust fund in order to have that.

[1] https://transparentcalifornia.com

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/02/18/the-first-b...
Among all the printers in our household the Canon model broke in the least amount of time, only fixable with a spare part which was "coincidentally" the same price as the whole printer. And the official scanning tool was just named "ij utility", which meant it was impossible to find with related search terms.

It was entertaining, but not in a good way.

Honestly I've never been satisfied with any printer, inkjet or laser. I eagerly await the day I just don't need one.
I just got my 3rd Brother Laser (color with scanner). Everything (iPad, Mac, iPhone, Linux, android) prints perfectly with it.
I feel like I'm the only one that doesn't really care about recommendation engines because I still don't use them. I get music recommendations from friends or music journalism the way I did pre-Pandora and it still works for me. Maybe I'm missing out on some sick bands though.
It's only a matter of time comment like this will decrease your social score...
Metal fans who listen to things beyond the mainstream hits tend to listen to a lot of music in languages they don't speak due to how much of the best metal out there isn't in English. If you listen to a lot of bands whose fans listen to music in other languages then I'd expect you to get a lot of recommendations in other languages.
Its funny how much better Googles side show product is. Shows that the internal technology is truly advanced and capable of swiping away another company at the drop of a hat.
Are you suggesting that articles published in the Wall Street Journal don't go through the editorial process?
I had built a system that worked very well for me while I was using Outlook and of course I blogged about it:
https://www.rockoder.com/2013/10/19/how-to-manage-emails-in-...
Radio functionality is still there but it’s a shell of what it used to be. I find it absolutely useless now actually because all it ever seems to do is play music I’ve already added to my library.
Not-so-green deal re: the most power-hungry scam on the planet! Bitcoins Futures are no future for the planet (pun intended).
> I want a service where I can upload my own files and easily access them from a player interface in the browser, mobile, etc.

Amazon used to provide this service, but they shut it down.
Home Workout App
It's more responsible not to use natural gas, including by reducing energy usage. It's also more responsible to respect the rules made democratically by your fellow citizens then to try to cheat them.
High school me would have been very offended to be labeled “vanishingly small.”

But you’re not wrong.

By the way, I believe Spotify does have a private mode, which at least blocks your plays from showing up in the social pane and on your profile. But I’m not sure if it cuts them out of your recommendations.

Please, dear God, Spotify: just because I listened to the Hamilton soundtrack once does not mean that I want to hear it every week in Discover Weekly and multiple times per Duo playlist, because Lin-Manuel Miranda is apparently a genre of himself.
Matching is optional. If a song cannot be matched, your own copy gets uploaded instead to your private iCloud library.

Edit: well, it's a bit nuanced of course, you can not match and not sync or match and sync but you can't mix and match that configuration. So it's either sync with matching when possible or no syncing.
Ask HN: What’s your current dev laptop?
I’ve been holding out for the new 16” MacBook Pro with Apple Silicon, however recently the new Dell XPS 15 (9510) reviews have caught my attention. WSl2 has made a pretty compelling case for Windows (So I’m happy to make the jump to Windows). While I’d love to run Linux on my daily driver I can’t go without the Adobe CC Suite or Outlook. With a bit of discount stacking I’ve managed to get the price down on a pretty well specced 9510. I’m also having my doubts about the current state of Apple Silicon when it comes to being suitable as a primary dev machine.

So, I’m curious to know what you are all currently daily driving as a development laptop? Are there any other business style laptops that fall within the same XPS 15’s tier that you’d recommend? I’ve had a look at Lenovo’s and HP’s offerings and honestly I’ve found their current product suite lacking when it comes to features and price.
Seriously. I listen to podcasts, but I'm not going to do it through Spotify, who's working to build a walled garden around a traditionally open media. I'm also not interested in Joe Rogan, which they _constantly_ plaster my front page with.

I did try a Spotify podcast once. It was on my recommended list and was called daily dad jokes or something. Figured it was worth a quick laugh. Well it turned out to be a bot podcast. They set up a bot to rip jokes from Reddit, push them through TTS, and dump it into a Spotify podcast.

No thanks.

Meanwhile, Apple Podcasts, my go to, works great, doesn't spam me, and even added a feature where you can pay for a no-ads version of a podcast. Worked seemlessly.
Why a teacher's pay have to depend on their degree? aren't they supposed to be paid based on their achievements? Most teachers don't need a masters degree to teach the basic stuff that they teach, they need to know how to make kids do their assignments and succeed in tests.
Yeah, I'm confused too. I bet they assume iOS emojis are what everyone sees. With Chrome under Windows, I see blood syringe, but also see a water gun.
This is bogus. Every week I'm interviewing a handful of people for internships and junior roles.

This is also simply not true:

> top companies (big tech, high growth startups) figure out that they don't really need to hire a lot of junior developers, they'll just hire the best seniors from other companies

Not only it is insanely hard to hire senior devs, but also this doesn't make sense. We have plenty of work to go around and not all of it is at the senior scope. There is always room in big tech to hire and train juniors.
Doesn't that just hide your activity from other people?
Supposing the EPA is gutted as you suggest (my sibling comment suggests otherwise), it surely still has more capability and expertise when it comes to environmental regulation than the FAA. I think expecting the FAA to act as a surrogate EPA is expecting too much.
> The world doesn't owe you a maximally convenient well integrated instant messaging ecosystem!

The world also doesn't owe Facebook monopoly power over people's social graphs either, and yet Facebook is able to wield that to some extent. In case you think that this is something that Facebook achieved on its own merits, rather than being granted by society/government, it's worth considering the extent to which copyright and hacking laws are used to prevent interoperability.[0]

More generally, though, I believe that profit-seeking corporations should only exist to serve society, and therefore corporations do owe us minimally inconvenient products, however we decide to define "inconvenient" (and taking into account society's other goals, such as employment).

> it has never been easier to get the word out about something.

I think that is a reasonable assumption, but I think it's also true that it's never been easier to travel anywhere in the world, and yet local monopolies of railroads are still bad for society and should be regulated against.

[0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interopera...
Sure, you can train all you want, but showing off something that is inferior to other things that can already be done is just embarassing. At least it should be. There's a difference of showing off progress to your parents or investors or whatever, but making a public post of something clearly inferior in a way that screams "look what I did" is sad really.
> A private social-media platform like Raya can certainly be safer. It is also by nature less open and more stratified than we’ve come to expect social networks to be.

This matches well with lots of the smaller social networks that have enthusiastic memberships, SSB[1] is one of the first that comes to mind. With a small membership, you get a community of like-minded people--but to keep membership small you either need to be a niche (like SSB) that doesn't (yet?) have broad interest from the greater population, or you need to create imposed exclusivity like Raya does.

However- the game could change if you're not trying to provide a layer of discovery. If "discovery" means going out into the world and meeting new people out-of-band, then your existing group of friends and family can provide the same experience of an exclusive network. That's the tack I propose with open-source Haven[2]: self-host, and grant access to others instead of letting them search and request access.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Scuttlebutt

[2]: https://havenweb.org
AWS C++ SDK uses it to access AWS. Probably some other AWS SDKs as well. That amount should have been at least 10x and recurring.
I wonder if it's just a random manager who approved the donation.

For those who don't have experience of big orgs 5k is often in the region where you don't need to go higher for approval or involve procurement
>as was done in the 80s.

as is done to this day. FTFY
I don't know what "antinuclear othodoxy" is but it seems reasonable to oppose a technology that creates waste products that cause mutations in the genetic code for thousands of years, and for which we have two cases where reactors have made land uninhabitable. Even worse, companies have a tendency to under-invest in maintenance and over-estimate resilience. When the consequences are uninhabitable land for decades, centuries, or possibly millenia, this is a dangerous technology to use.
…so?
The Fairchild Channel F: First and Finest?
I'm sure the authors of curl are reeling about getting a $5000 donation for their free bit of code.
What's the advantage compared to Airsonic?

I use Airsonic right now, it is basically Jellyfin for a music collection. I use both of these as reliable alternative to Netflix/.../Spotify (where ... is a plethora of other video services such as Disney+).
Setting us up for a house price crash in ten to fifteen years, as the Boomers age into their years of disability and want to sell their houses so they can move into "assisted living" / "sheltered" housing.

It's really worth having a look at the charts in [1]. People are living longer (age at death is compressing to a peak around 90 years old), but there are still about 15 years of ill health before death.

Since we know the age of the baby boomers, we can predict this crash.

1.Robine, Jean-Marie, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, September 2021. Ageing Populations: We are living longer lives, but are we healthier? UN Ref: UN DESA/POP/2021/TP/NO.2. Downloaded from https://www.un.org/development/desa/pd/ on 11 Oct 2021.
I think it used a Canon print engine.
Yeah, that's fair. Admittedly I posted that comment because it amused me.
Hahaha, that's their creative touch so they can claim copyright on this for the next 70 years