skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was not "the CDC" that said that. The CDC does not do research on gun violence and hasn't since the passage of the Dickey Amendment in 1996. The cited page references "Priorities for Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-Related Violence", which is a report summarizing existing published, not a study. The range is from various studies cited there, including the widely-discredited work of Gary Kleck and John Lott. The latter, in particular, is an economist, not an expert in crime or health, and has been credibly accused of academic fraud.[1]

"A majority of the reported self defense gun uses were rated as probably illegal by a majority of judges. This was so even under the assumption that the respondent had a permit to own and carry the gun, and that the respondent had described the event honestly. Guns are used to threaten and intimidate far more often than they are used in self defense. Most self reported self defense gun uses may well be illegal and against the interests of society."[2]

"The canard of the armed civilian mass-shooting hero is perpetuated by exaggerations and half-truths" [3]

The study that gun-rights activists keep citing but completely misunderstand [4]

1. https://archive.thinkprogress.org/debunking-john-lott-5456e8...

2. https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/injuryprev/6/4/263....

3. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/10/oregon-shoot...

4. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/01/16/the-s...
I'm for not giving SS to those that don't need it.

Your 65 and wealthy. Why do you need a that piddley SS check? The USA has reniged on promises before. Oh yea, everyone would still have to contribute to SS.

I imagine the money saved might go to a Basic Income? A Basic Income that would help out the poorest of Americans.
This was answered in the article you're commenting on. But what wasn't addressed was that the charging cable costs FIFTY QUID (I don't know what that is in BUCKS) but ... that's a lot for a stupid cable.
This is what I always point to when people say capitalism is unsustainable because it supposedly "requires infinite growth in a closed system."

It doesn't require that, it only requires endless incremental improvements in efficiency, which is perfectly possible, given that even just the tiniest incremental improvement on a massive problem can result in huge productivity gains. A great example is farming. We produce more crop output than ever before all while using less land, labor, and energy.
MacOS major version release are so underwhelming to me. They're not so much OS updates as they're updates to built-in apps I don't use or use at a very surface level: Safari, Facetime, Apple Maps, Messages, etc.

I'm not really sure what I'd want out of a new MacOS, though. It's been stable and (for my purposes) feature-complete for many years now. I don't remember the last time a MacOS upgrade added a feature I wanted but didn't yet have, nor the last time they added a feature I didn't realize I wanted because I'd never imagined it. The latter used to be what made Apple products stand out to me.
Well, out of the box, it really only supports JavaScript and TypeScript - and those two are at the level I'd consider to be an IDE (i.e. with debugging etc). Any other language requires an extension. But most major language extensions also provide a full suite of IDE services. Although sometimes that is spread across several different extensions - as with e.g. Java - but in that case, there's usually also an extension pack that gives you the unified experience.
What problem is being solved here? All I see are buzzwords. \o/
the metric i was mostly thinking was inspired by the parent to my post, which seemed to me to imagine that Rust+microkernel => widescale deployment.
Can you link to info about that?
OK, but an officer being struck on the head by a fire extinguisher (not hydrant, IIRC) could be classified as "accidentally not murdered"; that is, the only reason it wasn't murder is because he survived an attack that easily could have killed him. "He wasn't murdered" doesn't exonerate the rioters; it merely says that they were unlucky or unskilled.
The whatever you refer to is natural ability. Two people from a bootcamp turning out to be immediately useful developers says more about the people than the bootcamp which is what the original point was about.
We self-host OpenMapTiles, but are super lazy about replacing them with updated tiles (and we don’t love the watermark). I’m really glad that there are options for generating them ourselves! Starred, and will give it a try soon.
Overlay OS is a strategy (worked well for the web), long term it'd be nice to run directly on the metal but that's obviously a ways off.

You can have simplicity with the proper abstractions and design to get there over time then you can fix it bit by bit. This is the only way a massive rewrite of the stack like this has any hope of success.

Mastodon is mostly a twitter clone - with a lot of effort you could probably tie server creation to eth IDs and resolve that bit at least (make it easier to spin up servers), but you don't solve the issue with updating servers to match versions and the fall out from all of that other stuff. You also don't solve application creation or distribution. Urbit's OS is designed as a deterministic function of its inputs - this is necessary to make it trivial to run/update the nodes. It's more than there being no distinction between users and nodes (though that's a big part).

I'd bet against any other federated system long term. Urbit is still a long shot, but if it wins - it wins big.
Derp! By the end of the article, I had forgotten that intro >_<
The boy with the magic flute. And the only adult present, witchy-poo, wants to get the flute. The psychedelic design was fabulous but something always bothered me about the show.
This is the same government that have been about to ban pornography for 5+ years. They're going to do nothing. They just want a different subject to discuss since right now the UK has shortages of everything from natural gas and electricity to doctors to computer chips to kids toys.
Python seems to be the goto for intro programming courses at a lot of universities today. I assume that bootcamps are more focused on Javascript because front-end wbdev is probably more marketable than Python in isolation.
Right, I agree. I think that's the problem. Misattributing initial successes to the program, and not the people you filtered in, meant it became progressively harder to achieve the same placement rates year over year.

I imagine the above coupled with investor pressure and your own hype / marketing makes for a situation like Lambda School.
Your first paragraph contradicts the next two paragraphs.
That's something which can be done at build time, such as through a linter.
What I observe often happening in the public debate is that the unknowns related to long-COVID are the backup argument that the case for restrictions falls back on when the risks of short-COVID are presented and seen to be insufficient to justify such a severe government response.
> the buffer is read-only in the Magit-Blame minor mode.

Use `m` instead of `b`.
I remember from my college days - one of the features was "fit on one floppy". Back then it was pretty cool, you wouldn't have to install anything and there was no booting from USB feature in the BIOS back then. How is it relevant now ? Is the size of OS of any concern to anyone ?
Wifi's still pretty bad, but it was really bad then. Especially on consumer wifi routers, but most business set-ups sucked then, too. Dropped packets galore, signal-loss hiccups, and not enough bandwidth to make up for that by transferring large buffers really fast. Terrible for streaming. Probably way more battery-draining then than now, as well, since that kind of hardware has generally gotten a lot more efficient. Wouldn't be surprised if that efficiency has outpaced increasingly demanding standards.

[EDIT] I don't mean to be dismissive of a feature you'd have liked, I just think that, given the context of the time, I can totally understand why they'd not include that.
Your point? Most customers in the marketplace are averse to change across any service. It’s not uncommon for users to stay with single providers due to momentum.
Looks very cool, I just wish they’d ditch x86 for better portability and ventilation.

I feel like outside of performance, x86 is kinda burden
Would you care to explain that?
Wait. Is this normal cross platform FaceTime? Or is this like a different FaceTime because FaceTime is awesome.
Sr Front End Developer
Would the old Electric Company be received the same way if it was released today?

There was so much "mature" comedy and comedians in it that it defies disbelief in what was a children's show:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Electric_Company
Spend even just a couple hours researching dark pools and naked shorts and it becomes blindingly obvious the SEC exists to do anything but protect consumers.

The twitter outrage over elon's comments are nothing more than a woefully uninformed public hoping to remove the tip without addressing the iceburg underneath.

If every one of your competition doesn't have to play by the rules, you'll find it hard to beat them playing honestly and you'll find that over time the only winners left are the cheaters.
The problem is that you don't know the instruction length until you've decoded it so where is the size cache getting the size?
In C++, if I use unsigned variables whenever possible, the users get an invariant for free that these indexes are never negative (though C++ has no overflow checking to catch "negative" overflowing values at time of creation). Would a language with signed sizes and indexing lose out on this property, and require data structure and algorithmic/business logic to compulsively check all outside input to ensure these values are non-negative (because negative values are in the type's domain, but invalid for many algorithms)? What about compulsively checking internal state (which may/not have the intended and/or enforced invariant that internal state values are non-negative)?
I don't know how Monterey differs from iOS, but while I initially dismissed the new focus features as irrelevant, I quickly realized how useful they can be. Specifically I blocked all work-related notifications when I was on vacation.

Allowing for one-time customizations doesn't add to my ongoing "useless information to process" queue.
I do see the problem. But you see it as a binary. Government has no control, or all control. Government does something, or no one does something. Like my above post states, I'm not willing to entirely jettison the idea that there are limited steps that either private organizations or the government could take, transparently.

Throttle, by the way, would be something like Facebook not quite banning a topic, but limiting how many times it can be shared per unit time, or by how many people, or how much a particular account can share things, and so on. Not a ban, but a limit on speech via its velocity.

Just to hammer it home: I get the danger. What if the former president, or what if the head of some far-left student group at Yale, got to determine what is legitimate speech or not? Yes, I get it.

But there is a lot of options on the slider between "let all broadcasts continue without challenge" and "have the central committee delete all non-approved govthink".
> The original model of Instagram--and Facebook! and (mostly, but not entirely) Twitter--is that you have an account, and people who follow you can see what you post, in time order. There is absolutely no reason why they need centralized moderation for this: the moderation comes from people deciding to unfollow you if they don't like your content for absolutely any personal reason.

Not quite - what about _actual_ calls to violence and such? (Very hyperbolically) should a platform allow the local KKK chapter to use it plan lynches?
It depends a lot on how you define “their”. In both those cases you could also argue that the president was still establishing the supremacy of a democratically elected republican government as the process for achieving change rather than perpetual revolution. It’s different then having elected officials undermined by permanent bureaucracies.

I’m not defending the sedition act, but it’s quite important that it was implemented during a quasi-war and was still barely passed. There’s also a reason that two hundred years later it’s constantly held up as a paragon of bad law and there’s no way it would pass judicial review at any point since then (it didn’t at the time either, because it expired 2 years after it was passed and before judicial review was established).
If they used an XPS people might accidentally realize that you don't need a notch to put a camera at the top of your screen.
Sr Full Stack Developer
Take Scala collections. These are written using builders and if-else checks of emptiness which are definitely not idiomatic. Authors of the std-lib did them for you so you do not have to. That is not a red flag.
I’m now officially at “that point” where I was late to Snapchat and now I haven’t even bothered with TikTok.

Was a very early user on FB (the week it launched at my college), but now I can’t be bothered to keep up.

My kids are probably young enough to be maybe 2-3 cycles removed from whatever the Next Big App is, but I can’t even really fathom what those might be and I can assure you I won’t understand them.

I sound like my dad 15 years ago…
What has this got to do with Hackers or News?
It's the same move people usually do spontaneously when they're walking out in the cold and/or rain.
Good to know. Thank you very much for the response. I'll probably do some more research on VSCode in 6 months or so and see if this has changed at all.
Sounds like the media player I just bought that errors out with "too many songs to shuffle". And you're hosed.
I'm a founder of Appsmith, mentioned here a couple of times. It is a good open source project for building anything from simple CRUD apps to complex internal applications quickly. Drag and drop UI to avoid writing HTML/CSS, connect with any datasource, and use JS to write custom logic when you need to.
Isn't a livable homeless camp a shanty town? Is that really something to aim for as the long term solution? Personally, I like the freedom it gives residents but it also gives them health and safety problems and people are generally awful at protecting themselves from that.
I've been beating myself up trying to understand why cheap 11" laptops aren't more common.

Ten years ago the atom based "netbooks" were ~$200-300. Yes, they had almost no RAM, eMMC storage, and archaic wifi chips, but it's been 10 years, and I'm surprised they can't still put out a Pentium Silver system with even slightly modern internals for around the same price now.

My best guess is volume. The netbook experiment failed and nobody is going to invest in a large enough volume of devices to make the costs worthwhile. Also, tablets and phones can do what you'd probably do on this device anyways, except for the form factor.

Still, it bugs me. This device has nice specs, but as others have pointed out, it looks like it's probably just been thrown together from a reference which also makes me worry about whether this company will be around long enough to service it if something goes wrong a year from now.

I guess I should just suck it up and buy a used 11" MacBook - there is one with an NVIDIA dgpu that my wife had at one point and it was quite a little power house.
Is there a better source on this? Daily Mail is terrible:

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/daily-mail/
It’s ok it doesn’t work for you. But for some of us it provides isolation between various aspects of our life.
All the best to you, winternett.
The article in question shows that a mere 8 big cores and 2 little ones can use 243gb/s.

I'm guessing Apple will go with HBM3/4 before too long due to the lower power consumption and great performance.
This isn't just a US thing. For example, even though healthcare is nominally free at the point of use here in the UK, that doesn't cover long-term care for the elderly - you will have to pay privately for that out of your wealth to companies of varying degress of sleaziness until you have no more left, at which point the government will hopefully consider picking up the bill. Our current conservative goverment is planning on capping this and it seems fairly controversial.
So your prediction is that long covid slashes decades off of life expectancy?
The "theoretically possible" case of voters having cyclic preferences is actually quite reasonable! A rock-paper-scissors situation among the top 3 candidates doesn't require irrational voters or anything of the sort: all you need is for there to be at least 2 issues.

This is the rational response to Arrow's theorem - not to cynically conclude all voting systems are "bad", or that "dictatorship" makes some sort of sense, but rather just to say that if there's a rock-paper-scissors situation among the top candidates, one of them should win.
Cue patio11 link:

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
None of these problems, including COVID, could be permanently fixed with the COVID restrictions. COVID is endemic.

The reduction in quality of life for the 99.95% as a result of the restrictions is far too high a price to pay even if it saved the entire 0.05% of this demographic who die from COVID.

The costs to mental health, economic well-being, education, as a result of the restrictions, are also staggering.

Any rational person would trade a 0.05% increase in chance of premature death, which is only 1/2,000, to live without the COVID-motivated restrictions for the remainder of their 80 year lifespan. Basic math tells you that. 0.05% of an 80 year lifespan is only 14 days. Would you endure all the COVID-related restrictions, for your entire life, just to add 14 days to your life?

And this thought experiment is under the absolute best case scenario for the restrictions which is that they completely eliminate the risk of dying from covid which they do not in reality.

I would bet for most people, the COVID restrictions reduce quality of life by at least 5%. Meaning people would be willing to shorten their lifespan by 5% in order to not live with them. A 0.05% risk of death doesn't even come close to justifying the restrictions.

The simplistic narrative that supports these restrictions is simply wrong. It's unscientific and irrational and only supported due to the inertia of public opinion.
The FDA is not mandating the vaccine, instead just approving it.
I have no idea how your point connects to mine. We're talking about consumers choices here.
Did you read the comment I replied to, Their exact statement was that the government has a compelling interest in curbing obesity because they pay for health care..

jeez, context matter....

Further it is completely logical conclusion that if the US government became in insurer, the next step in that would be to attempt mandate health food choices in order to curb runways costs that would result from such a program
I've been coding since I was a wee bairn (well, 21, really). I was introduced to programming, in 1982-3, during a tech school course. I don't really consider the Heathkit calculator I built and programmed in the 1970s to be "real" programming.

Mostly self-taught. I'm smarter than the average bear, and pick things up, fairly well, but I've also taken somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 bootcamps, seminars, and college classes.

Not one single one of them (after my tech school, which was actually quite vocationally-based) was particularly useful for immediate use in the real world. I think one or two of the project management ones were in the same zip code, and the Apple DU (dating myself) courses were relatively practical, but they were all "training wheels" classes.

What has been my real education, has been writing code to ship. Everything I write, I write as "ship" code. Even my "throwaway" projects and experiments.

Having a clear end goal, and becoming habituated to finishing all my work, has been incredibly valuable. Solving my own problems, doing my own research, not "kicking the can down the road," and releasing with full tests, documentation, and support, have been great teachers.

People seem to like the work I do.

Bootcamps are nice, but they only light the fuse.

I don't think I was ever qualified to write ship code after any one of my classes. In many cases, I already knew how to ship, and just wanted to learn about different directions. In the last year or so, I've taken a whole bunch of short courses on new Apple tech. I probably won't use what I learned for months, but I like to keep the axle greased.
I almost wonder if the schlep through the parking lot, into the amusement park and to the food stand, and back to the car every day offsets the bad diet. And if not, how many steps would do the trick?
If you need to handle translations, users, permissions, revisions... and want to provide a good editor experience for building landing pages, (web)forms, etc. Drupal can be a good CMS. It won't be easy to start though.

Is Drupal a generic "no-code" solution? I don't think so. Drupal is a CMS and makes sense to use it if you want a website and manage its content.
I don't see any download button. Does it have a desktop client that works offline ?

It's a requirement for me.
Been better than Big Sur so far for me, on 16". Have had temperature issues with Big Sur, resulting in decreased perf due to clocking down (even with TG Pro). Now consistently 5-10 degrees cooler and less fan noise. Using "Intel Power gadget" to see the CPU frequency.

EDIT: I did not install it until the RC.
Yeah… the H100 is one I’d love to play with.
The Electric Company and Sesame Street taught me to read as a kid. My parents were both in school, very busy, but I was reading and writing before I started talking in sentences.

Sadly that accelerated learning curve didn't last very long.
Many popular Windows laptops e.g. Thinkpad look like that.

And since they are targeting younger people for Facetime maybe not surprising they didn't choose the most expensive, flagship phone.
I don't know. HN seems like the gold standard in that regard though you might be able to find some reddits that suit you that do a fair job for the topic in question.
Sorry I meant the internet’s “royal you” - the one that assumes everyone is American.
> will be the first that isn’t centered on SF/SV/California.

I've heard this every 5 years for the last... 25 I think?

Still hasn't happened.
I don't think it's a good look to try to justify police shooting unarmed civilians. Being a QAnon conspiracy theorist shouldn't be reason enough to shoot her in cold blood.
Might be that the cybernetics was only a meme (even so it certainly was misapplied to computers by communists, there is plenty of evidence), but for example in the case of Prof. Svoboda the environment was so problematic and for so long time that it led to emigration.

https://www.root.cz/clanky/prichod-hackeru-pribeh-profesora-...
https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonín_Svoboda
Researchers and doctors don't have a simple method to make people lose weight. They can make recommendations for diet and exercise but at the end of the day, most people won't follow them. And forcing millions to stick to a diet and exercise program would require extreme, authoritarian logistics, much more so than requiring vaccines for employees. Coordinating millions of people to get a shot in the arm is way simpler.
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Don't let them loot, they said, as their streets became rivers
Maybe it doesn't apply at the bootcamp level. But there are certainly things I could be very motivated to learn but I'm pretty sure I'd really struggle with serious math/physics even if I put a lot effort in.
Real case: the default installer for GNUradio is called "pybombs". Last time I searched for it, google tried to auto-correct to one of those bad terms:

https://github.com/gnuradio/pybombs