skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's disingenuous as hell to clump "cities" together, as if going to Anacostia in DC is the same as going to Georgetown.

I don't understand what you're arguing. Cities unequivocally see more crime than rural areas, even in nicer areas within a city (which may only be 1 mile from the "bad parts").

> Getting robbed is exceedingly rare anywhere in the US, and trying to stop a robbery with a gun is among the stupidest things a person can do.

> Further, robbing someone doesn't mean you should die, and killing someone over property is evil beyond comprehension. No society should support it, and very few do (nearly nowhere in the US, for example).

1. Not everywhere is the same. Just because you feel comfortable in your bubble doesn't mean that owning a firearm is a ridiculous proposition for all. In my past 10 years of living in Atlanta, I've witnessed or been a victim of enough crime to fully understand why some folks here choose to own a gun.

2. The second part is totally ridiculous. Nobody is arguing that all thieves should die.
I think this is reasonable, but it's also problematic when the subject of the protests invokes emergency powers to deal with his critics. That's not a precedent you want to set over people blocking streets, never mind the functionally weak position the government was attempting to defend (vaccine mandates).
Congrats on your launch. I do have one concern though:

> a Chromium instance that you embed inside your own web app

Have you considered the accessibility ramifications of this, e.g. for blind people using screen readers? It will certainly be possible to make this accessible; indeed, that's an advantage of your approach over screen sharing. It won't be easy, but of course I believe it's still important and worth doing. My email address is in my profile if you want to discuss this further.
Also see: text.npr.org and lite.cnn.com
I don't think regulating access to online accounts has to include anything about video hosting specifically. We need more of an "online bill of rights", which includes a right to download any data you've created before an account is closed. We could also throw in a right to privacy.

The bill of rights in the Constitution doesn't prohibit people from opening businesses - I don't see why an online bill of rights would do so
And yet, it could have gone to a court victory for him. Glad it didn’t.
This is a difficult one because, like the other person that replied to you, I can't agree that cash payment is the only legitimate form of bargain that might be struck for services. I feel like it's an elitist take, because while I can thankfully afford to pay for these services with cash, a lot of people out there can't and that doesn't mean they should be shut out of basic internet services (like email, for example). And once you agree that non-cash payment is legitimate in principle, we're arguing over matters of degree and what is "reasonable".

Although I've become more privacy conscious in recent years, I'm not even sure I can agree that the bargain offered by the ad tech companies is objectively unreasonable. What I can conclude is that it is highly opaque, many people are sleepwalking into it without fully considering its ramifications, and I personally am not comfortable with it.

Samsung's practice of taking your money, offering you a product and then taking your data as well is a particularly dark pattern because it strays even more from the reasonable expectations of consumers.
A lot of these things do exist. Desktop/server Linux systems (used to at least) save some output from the PRNG to disk on shutdown and load it back on boot.

But of course snapshots, cloning, etc. can foil that badly, causing the same seed to be used multiple times. And on initial install you're not going to have any of that (but initial install is also when you may need to generate long-lived random numbers like ssh host keys).

Embedded devices it can be a real challenge. You must not re-use the seed data, so you effectively have to erase it from NVRAM/flash before use. But then if you lose power before you can generate a new one, you won't have one next boot. And you're adding flash writes, which decreases longevity and increases the chance of power failure in the middle of a write.

Qemu/KVM has a virtual RNG so you can feed host randomness into the guests if you want. So there are hypervisor calls available.
Why is a launcher even needed? Isn't it better to provide downloads and payments from their website rather than paying 25% of transactions to Valve?
Good thing printf returns something, otherwise it might wrong or useless!
I've found that I quite enjoy reading Wikipedia for a really big news event.

It's the only unbiased, non-sensational, and informative source I have come across.

It's basically impossible to get the facts of what's going on by reading a CBC article about the Freedom Convoy, but Wikipedia does an incredible job of breaking it all down. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_convoy_protest
I don't understand what many have problems with running their own mail server?

I run mine now for over 20 years. Started off with sendmail at the time. Then there was decision between postfix and qmail. I was going with postfix and I am with it since then. Today managed from/by LDAP so make it easy to at domians and users. Thats over 150 domains, while most of them just forwarding to few mail boxes.

For a long time I resisted to use any external ressources to decide what is spam or not. But lately I adopted the use of some RBLs. Now I managed to be down to 0 external spam, except when Spam is sent from/via GMail.

None of my sent email is detected as spam. I never had problems with bounced mail at all.
Where did you find ‘First Open’ rates? I don’t think Apple tracks this?
I agree. I'm not sure breaking the ABI to fix the unwinder serialization issue should be a show-stopper, considering that there still isn't a C++ ABI.
I've commented on HN, mainly on controversial threads, for years. This is establishing status quo. When we are discussing an unprecedented ability to freeze users out of the financial system -- which the article accurately describes as a threat to constitutional democracy -- and someone claims that their PM isn't a dictator, their other dictatorial actions become relevant.
All of the access audit information exists, afaik, albeit in non-standardized form. Because the law distinguishes between wilful and inadvertent releases, and assesses penalties on the basis of count and type, covered entities darn well better be able to produce an audit trail when asked.
You’re being ridiculous. Nobody is going to look at you twice for selling 1000x$5000 cryptocurrency trading courses a year, or even double that.

I’ve dealt with AML/KYC for cryptocurrency businesses with much higher volumes, nobody ever asked for anything crazy. Just basic accounting, website urls, linkedin profiles.

> You live in some fantasy land if you think you can just say "oh, I just received 100 dollars worth of Monero from 1 million unknown entities, my $100 million is totally legit, fuck off"

I think the only takeaway here is that “323” is too stupid and greedy to survive as a money launderer. Don’t try to cash out $100M in monero at once, live a wonderful life with $5-10M a year.
> rule by opinion poll

Democracy doesn't have to be 51% majority rule. That would be quite unfair to the loosing minority. Consensus democracy is one alternative, preventing a majority from imposing on a minority. There's things like super majorities, also. Not just winner-take-all majority voting.

Switzerland is a great example of a more direct democracy. Local canton governments control taxes, health care, etc. The people can petition for a referendum vote to overrule the politicians, adding or deleting laws. It's been working well for a while.
Pop an email address in your bio, would you?

Would love to pick your brain a bit!

Thanks!
I friggin love the Atlantic even though most of the time they have a way different political view than me. They don't hide their view but instead of assuming it's universal they give details and context for their views, where as the Economist seems to hide their agenda and present the underlying story to lead you to their point of view based on the facts and details they choose to report. The Atlantic has discourse and discussion, which is what I want. And they are not afraid to challenge their own core ideas. They are like my liberal hippie parents raising me with critical thinking skills, "you are free to have your opinion, here's ours and here's how we came to them". It's hard to explain the difference, especially as I agree (or I should say want to agree) more often with the Economist's politics.
I live in Ottawa. This was not a protest, it was an 21 day occupation, blocking the city core and removing citizen's ability to sleep in their own homes due to the constant excessive noise, (often at ear-damaging levels) or leave without harassment. Businesses in the area could not open.

So to compare these occupiers with typical protestors does not make sense. Talking with other locals, the last time someone could remember a non-peaceful protest in Ottawa was around the beginning of the Iraq war, aside from when about a dozen BLM protestors occupied a single intersection overnight and were all arrested on day 2 of their attempt to keep the intersection shut down.
Thank you! Never heard of this!
Keyboards and wifi are one thing (both already modular) but the CPU is integrated into the mainboard and an AMD-based board would presumably need different AMD chipsets and so on beyond simply the CPU itself. That's "modular" in the sense that the chassis is designed for swappable mainboards, but it's much more involved to support.
OSC Flags Emergencies Act Tweets by Kraken, Coinbase CEOs to RCMP
That's pretty crazy. I wonder if it will stall the engine for extra realism if you let off the clutch pedal too fast starting off. Perhaps also a "money shift" option that burns up the electric motor if you shift from 5th to 2nd at speed.

This reminds me of how manufacturers started adding fake shift points to their CVTs, kind of defeating the whole purpose of the transmission being continuously variable.
I think the above commenter is more critiquing the notion of relying on intuition all together.
If you read the act itself, it's a measured approach to give the government limited powers for a limited time specifically because regular powers failed.

We as Canadians don't want to give the government these powers all the time, so that's why we have an escape hatch here to maintain our democracy. It is a great approach and many of us are proud of it.
> but judging by the comments of any article that still allows them it's not the majority of politically engaged canadians.

Do you believe comments section on poll and news websites are an accurate representation of the wider populace?
One might as well write an article claiming that "UI design is still too hard for software engineers" or "controlling a nuclear power plant is still too hard for software engineers" -- which are true (and it is equally true that software engineering is hard for UI designers and nuclear power plant operators).

Who came up with this silly idea that something that is a valid knowledge domain of its own is suddenly going to become "easy"?
"The rebel-held regions which were backed by Russia have been in constant conflict for 8 years. There's nothing new here on this map. Putin's decision yesterday to make it officially Russian-protected instead of shadow-backed actually de-escalates tensions and finally ends the 8-year long conflict."

How so? Doesn't it just turn a pro-Russian insurgency into a pro-Ukrainian insurgency? In other words, the "insurgents" and the "legitimate local militias" just switch places.

"Now that Donetsk and Luhansk are officially Russian-backed, the Ukrainian army will no longer attempt to keep recapturing it (confirmed by President Zelensky today -- said we will not be fighting Russia head-on). Therefore no more Ukrainian body bags, which is great news, though not the ending we wanted."

As long as Putin stops at the borders of Donetsk and Luhansk.

And, by the way, it's good there are no Ukrainians in Donetsk and Luhansk.
There's a difference between 'after' and 'during'.
Do you still have any notes from your profiling?
All news consumption could instead be replaced by reading this page a few times a week to stay informed about what is happening in the world:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
IIRC, Trump offered to send in help, but his offers were declined. Any law enforcement failures back then should rightfully be placed on local and state authorities.
I see plenty of conservative speech on every social media platform I use (Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and HN.) I don't know where people get this idea that all social media platforms globally ban all conservative speech, and that it can only exist on Trump's platform. It's ridiculous, and demonstrably untrue.

Trump himself wasn't even banned until he crossed a line that had nothing to do with his conservative beliefs.
Probably not that rare to use exceptions but I imagine it is very rare to use exceptions for normal flow control - that is, to continue execution after an exception. It's a common pattern in Python but not C++.

I've done it exactly once and I ended up removing it because it makes debugging exceptions that you care about really annoying.
This bill has a time limit built in. It is literally temporary powers, especially so in a minority parliamentary government.
Ask HN: Do couples avoid having children because they will fear their own death?
To clarify, I mean that you might feel bad about having a child since that child will eventually suffer through the fear of their own death.
> The US is basically doing the same thing as Russia and China

I don't understand or really get what you're referencing.

The whole issue here is the USA claims global jurisdiction over US companies forcing them to obey the USA legal system even for data located in the EU. On the other hand EU law makes it illegal for anyone globally to turn over data for EU customers without a court order from the EU.
I'm certainly not an expert but as far as I understand, fixing the exception global lock need not break the ABI on gcc/glibc.
See https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=71744
There's no escape as long as the entire world relies on fiat currency. There has been a loud contingent of people pointing this out for decades now. Except in typical fashion, most people need something to actually happen before acting on it. Well, now that something has happened.
This is the biggest benefit.
This moves the conversation in many ways. Noting who is partipating and who is refusing helps map what services to use. The importance of avoiding exchanges/banks that require identifying information is on the back of everyone's mind.
If you want to avoid a global process lock, multiple processes will have less orchestration and communication overhead than multiple VMs (though still a lot more than necessary with threads within a process).
Even if Steam will be going away at some point, I bed an archival effort will start similar to what we've seen for Geocities etc.
The journal article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-021-01195-w

The valuable chemicals are acetone and isopropanol. (Not being snarky--they are indeed of value so if we can make their production an affordable carbon-negative process, that's pretty nifty.)
I microwave my kitchen sponges about once a week. I don't actually know if that does anything, but it makes me feel better. Get them wet, put them on a plate, 2 minutes on high, hopefully a lot of steamed dead bacteria.
Among other things, Steam Workshop, seamless multiplayer, and automatic cloud syncing are substantial value-adds for many, many games.
I see this as is something that legislation could fix: digital licenses should be transferable between digital stores.

If I buy a game in store X, and it’s available on store/platform Y, I should be able to play it on both.

Unfortunately, I don’t think that’s the case.

I recently bought a Nintendo Switch, and although I’m happy overall, some games have very heavy limits built in (think: max number of units in games), and they’re also available on PC/steam, but I would have to buy the games twice. I just can’t get over myself to do that, I shouldn’t have to do it. At the very least make the license transferable! :)
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> people who demand the entire government be thrown out

That's not their demand? They want the government to stop imposing vax mandates and lockdowns. I'm sure a lot of people also want Trudeau out, but I doubt if they lifted the restrictions like the UK did that the truckers would still stick around.
As a user of Timescale, one of the things I find most lacking with Timescale (and postgres also to be honest) is good educational content on par with MongoDB University; structured courses that teach you database design concepts from first principles and then what problems postgres/timescale solve on top of them. Hands on experience working with datasets and an interactive way of learning more about the types of things you can do.

I realize Timescale and Mongo are very different things, but when I got professionally started with software 10 years ago, the MongoDB courses (and the stanford online Intro to DB course) were immensely helpful. Working with Timescale professionally now I'm often unsure whether I'm doing things suboptimally, e.g. making tables hypertables when a regular table might be better, flexibility and capabilities of indexes with hypertables, and application-facing tooling.
when you dream, all the characters in your dream are actually just you. your mind gives rise to them, so they're just you. what gave rise to your mind?
> They provide no benefit that couldn't be done a better way.

Centralized software install/update, with a good CDN behind it, is a pretty huge advantage. Even if you don't care about any of the other features of the Steam launcher, that one alone is worth it. Having every publisher run their own download servers means they're much more subject to getting overloaded under heavy demand, or becoming permanently unavailable if the publisher goes out of business.
Nah, that is like using Linux without package manager. Sure you can do that, but manual work is considerable.

And generally I think Steam staying alive is much more likely than random places serving stuff. Even if it were DRM free. Just looking at history quite many services have come and gone on PC.
> Do you mean choking, as in gasping for air?

Yes and would lean towards apnea, though when it is triggered and identified as triggered by sudden loud noises in the night. The worry of it being addressed as a symptom and not the cause is an easy avenue to slip down with doctors. No instances of it without such prior sudden loud thud sound. Things that go bang in the night, well they ain't ghosts in this case.

But making progress, and yes quality sleep and with that as you say getting enough deep sleep is important and is certainly a factor in many aspects, though not a case of it prevents it, though may make me more able to endure the level perhaps.
Far more horrifying to me is the thought that this millisecond of a dream is actually a process occurring in great abundance throughout the universe, with oscillating arrangements of particles facilitating whatever property of matter it is that embodies the phenomena of subjective experience. If it happened to "me" once, I don't see any reason why it should not happen again, or be happening everywhere at once in parallel, yet simply lacking awareness of this fact because the individual nodes don't share memory.
This thinking is the basis for the Independent voter. The myth is that they're some type of deliberate, open-minded voting demographic, in their wisdom they like to keep the door open to all possibility. The reality is that they just don't follow the news and instead base their opinions on sound bites and article ledes. The sad consequence is that, as pockets of our society work to unravel the institutions that make this nation great using just the weakest veneer of misinformation, those of us who take the time to read what's happening begin to realize that human-made ruin is largely avoidable. Only if more of us would pay attention.
I’m talking about how some simple majority to strip citizens of basic rights it’s not what you expect of a country that pretends to be Democratic state. 50% + 1 vote is not a mandate for anything much less unlawful violations of your citizens human rights.
I imagine this probably means the eventual death of Battle.net as well. Honestly though, it's time. Battle.net was incredible back in the day, but now it's just another annoying launcher that segments my friends lists.
The sanctions won't let them bring that money back at all -- they will likely prevent large transactions full stop, so oligarch money can't return.

It will stop them exfiltrating further wealth, and that ought to scare them enough when the walls start closing in, as they will.

There will come a time when Putin threatens an escalating global conflict and that is when they will finish him. Perhaps literally.
There are platform specific ABIs and there have been for many years. Many platforms want to preserve the ABI at all costs.

In any case this doesn't seem to be an ABI issue
Missing in these advertisements-disguised-as-blogs is an estimate of effort or time. Let's say ML is critical to a new product or internal tool, how many man-years is it reasonable to invest? If your expectation is using ML like a drag-and-drop app builder then you're probably best off using a canned tool but then you won't really have any competitive advantage.
Just big trucks!
You will undoubtedly be told to not believe your lying eyes. You will hear people describing protesters who didn't so much as throw a pebble at police or anyone else called terrorists, white supremacists, insurrectionists, etc. This is a calculated effort to change the meaning of words (again) in service of eliminating the basis of law in the West: individual freedom.
Great report, but I am new B-Trees alone will not enough. The simplest common solution is to switch to LSM Trees for higher write throughput. Thats exactly what Yugabute does, by putting Postgres over RocksDB. Same way as Facebook uses MyRocks = MySQL + RocksDB.
> The secret to not feeling cold is that when you're cold, just let yourself be cold through and through. Don't fight it.

This is exactly what I do too, and I've talked to people who approach the cold in the same way. However, I've also found it completely impossible to teach, and a statement like the above just makes people angry unless they already understand what it feels like to do it. (Especially if you try to tell them while you're already out in the cold.)
From where to get this data for android or ios platform? Interested to find out about other apps and their open rates.
I sometimes rename bookmarks when the name is too verbose and not to the point. It may be good to have an option for not updating the names.

And in case of dead links maybe prepend the name with "[404]" or similar instead of moving?
I haven't experienced updates making the phone unusably slow, but I do find that they don't hold up as well as you might expect a high-end phone to. The main problem is that the battery goes to shit; not sure if that's a hardware or a software problem. I also find I tend to have trouble with the charging port after a while.
Welcome back! You might find these better uses of your news time.

* The Conversation - https://theconversation.com/us

* Ground News - https://ground.news

* sumi.news - https://sumi.news

* Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

If you find yourself reading too much this can help too

* LeechBlock - https://www.proginosko.com/leechblock