skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Okay... that doesn't change a thing though. People still have the right to defend themselves.

The numbers seem to indicate that having a gun is actually more detrimental, on a 'net' basis, to one's well-being than not having a gun. Having a gun is more dangerous for you and yours:

> But about 30 careful studies show more guns are linked to more crimes: murders, rapes, and others. Far less research shows that guns help.

* https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/more-guns-do-not-...

> We use epidemiological theory to explain why the “false positive” problem for rare events can lead to large overestimates of the incidence of rare diseases or rare phenomena such as self-defense gun use. We then try to validate the claims of many millions of annual self-defense uses against available evidence. We find that the claim of many millions of annual self-defense gun uses by American citizens is invalid.

* https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/gun-thr...

> Results. We found no robust, statistically significant correlation between gun ownership and stranger firearm homicide rates. However, we found a positive and significant association between gun ownership and nonstranger firearm homicide rates. The incidence rate ratio for nonstranger firearm homicide rate associated with gun ownership was 1.014 (95% confidence interval = 1.009, 1.019).

* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC4167105/
As far as I understand gas heating hasn’t been electrified so it’s difficult to replace it with renewables or nuclear quickly. Keeping the plants on might take some pressure off existing gas supplies though they’re very old and the process has been going on for years.
I agree that there is room for productive discussion around what should be patentable, but you are greatly over simplifying the process.

Take a biologic developed for cancer treatment for example.
A tremendous amount of work goes into determining what gene does useful work, and Much more work goes into showing that it is safe and effective for treating disease.

I generally agree that simply reproducing a gene found in nature should not be patentable. However, most genetic patents are more specific and take a different form. Instead of "put X gene into Y", they are use "X gene, to make Y protein, to treat Z".

Figuring out what protein can treat Z, is an invention, takes hard work, and should be rewarded.

Legally speaking, just putting X gene into Y, isn't patentable because it fails the non-obviousness test. Doing something new with known methods to yield predictable results is not valid.
Do you have a spare nuclear power plant? Because Germany does not. The three still running have been run down over the last 10 years (as shut down was plannend long term), those will not be run any longer. If you want to kill two bird with one stone, you better have a stone. Without one, you are screwed.
Many industrial processes need heat that is NOT generated with electricity.

Natural gas has many use in the energy sector but is also needed in the manufacturing sector (making glass for example?)
If anyone else who hasn't yet abandoned ruby wants to suppress ruby-language-level warnings, this gem is super helpful: https://github.com/jeremyevans/ruby-warning

Personally, I'm really happy that 2.7/3.0 is the biggest backwards change ruby has had in years, and still wasn't really that bad, was pretty easy to update codebases for. I'm happy that ruby committers are taking avoiding breaking changes pretty seriously.

(the deprecation warnings are part of a standard of making what breaking changes do occur easier to handle, I don't think I'd agree with removing them. In this case, gitlab would have had to change their code for 3.0 with or without the warnings in 2.7; the warnings helped them do so reliably. There may be ways to make them less annoying without being less useful. I do think the breaking changes themselves should be kept as infrequent as feasible. )
Only the future is now and we already live in it. Nuclear power is already the most superior source of energy.

Just keep the comrades away from it and we'll be safe and sound.
Note, however, that you can still write a JavaScript interpreter in Haskell, and then shoot yourself in the foot by having side-effects.
Yeah. With a message which literally says "use Telegram to overthrow Putin"...
Americans are free to publicly protest the government, but not businesses.
I hope that you're trolling, but since that's pretty uncharacteristic on this site, I'll answer you seriously.

Individual privacy, to start. The concept of probable cause to search someone is a concept found in most modern governments. Your communications to other parties privately are none of the government's business. It's an authoritarian measure that assumes guilt without suspicion. As others say, it will often have a racial or cultural component too, and at the very least a class one. People that look and act like the police would tend to be less subject to searches.
Ironically, the plan to finally shutting them down was made by the pro-nuclear conservative party.

Now, when the green party is in power, it's considered to stop the shut down again.

One of the founding premisses of the green party was to get rid of those power plants. They worked for decades to that goal.
Show HN: Perspective
>” The original Lego Movie (2014) has a wonderful, cheerful, catchy, and quite literally and deliberately fascist theme song (Everything is Awesome)”

I’m sorry, what? I know the label “fascist” gets thrown around with reckless abandon these days, but in what way is the everting is awesome song fascistic? To me it’s just a catchy children's song.
Ah yes Haskell, the language that everybody loves and nobody uses.
> Riding a car will greatly increase the odds of your death. So what?

If you don't want you or a family member to become a firearms statistic don't own a gun, especially since owning one doesn't seem to be useful against strangers:

> Results. We found no robust, statistically significant correlation between gun ownership and stranger firearm homicide rates. However, we found a positive and significant association between gun ownership and nonstranger firearm homicide rates. The incidence rate ratio for nonstranger firearm homicide rate associated with gun ownership was 1.014 (95% confidence interval = 1.009, 1.019).

* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC4167105/
I don't believe Go belongs in that category at all, mind you. And I'm not convinced that the fairly major internet presences using it heavily would put it in that bracket either.

I concede (having a fair amount of past experience of functional programming languages, including Orwell, which influenced Haskell) that choosing a functional programming language for development helps you pre-select people who are well-educated in CS concepts. But I am far from convinced that it's an approach that is particularly likely to lead to a crack team of business-focussed developers. It's just as likely to lead to a herd of cats.
Yeah, that sounds like a bad idea in this context.

- But I got spammed by some idiot in Ohio.

- Unlikely. To the gulag. Next!
Buying two (smart) phones and running simcards on both sounds complex and expensive.

Simpler would be a 2nd way to unlock the phone into a fake user account...
the general idea was to install a Yanukovych 2.0 to disallow exfiltration of black money percentages to liberals, and not to the Russian oligarchs and connected presidency where it historically belongs to. democracy and free markets are a major disruption to their extortion business model.

plus they need Mariupol and the protected black sea harbors.
I was asked this in London in 2016 outside Embankment tube. I declined and impolitely suggested that the officer should piss off or arrest me. He didn’t take the matter any further after eyeing up the probability that I’d sue them.

The point is really that a lot of people are intimidated and compliant and will hand a device over when requested. This is never a good thing. Even if you’re legitimately a victim, you shouldn’t even let them at your stuff.
> Without this expansionist step from our side the situation would have never escalated.

Where do you put the annexation of Crimea in this timeline?
It has nothing to do with consciousness, but the event must matter, or it doesn't happen. Even your consciousness only exist if it matters and will be observed.
Rubber hose cryptanalysis in action.
The phasing out of nuclear power has been in progress for almost a quarter of a century by now, and it's a slow process that is almost complete and cannot realistically be rolled back at this point. Furthermore, nuclear energy has only ever been a very small part of energy supply in Germany. Lastly, electricity from nuclear power plants wouldn't even be useful for replacing gas that is needed by the industry or for heating purposes. In short, it's neither feasible, nor would it be useful.
I just came across this site on Friday when looking for a possible replacement for some Digispark (ATTiny85 board) clones at work to connect to some 5v relay modules. I'm not too invested in the Arduino ecosystem at this point and am still looking into other options, haven't finished reading through the whole list yet.
Related self-reply:

> Newborns can recognize the voices they’ve been hearing for the last trimester in the womb, especially the sounds that come from their mothers, and prefer those voices to the voices of strangers. They also prefer other languages with similar rhythms, rather than languages with very different rhythms. (Newborns indicated their preferences by how long they sucked on specially rigged pacifiers that enabled them to hear one speaker versus another, or one language versus another.)

* https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/21/well/family/language-less...

* https://archive.ph/xLDrz
Given that the only TSA reference in that article also mentions the Bush administration, I would hope there is more up to date information now. I wonder why EFF has not updated a top level issue page in so long.
> even one of the top officials said that it’s not illegal when people cooperate and hand over their phones.

Would this not be the case in the US?
So a big part of the SPD is "pro Russia"

They even asked to remove sanctions: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/how-german-climate-f...
So Germany would rather inflict itself tens of billions of euros of economical damage, instead of figuring out how to stop a planned process?

Has it got that inflexible? That's a scary thought.
To be fair, it's the only pure soap you can buy, for some weird reason.
In the US, it's the fourth item in the Bill of Rights, but that's just a piece of paper, nothing worth fighting for...
I think "back door and they read every message covertly" that the parent post was referring to SMS messages only. In that respect I think he's correct. I do agree that the wording is a bit strange/misleading, because it kind of suggests that your Signal messages could be read as well.

> In late 2001, the NSA was authorized to monitor, without obtaining a FISA warrant, the phone calls, Internet activity, text messages and other communication involving any party believed by the NSA to be outside the U.S., even if the other end of the communication lay within the U.S.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_(...
I don't have a spare plant no.

So if nuclear is the answer, Germany will need to see what it takes to reverse a long term shut down or build new.
He didn’t start that way (well, I mean he was, but it wasn’t obvious!), he’s just made it so everyone is actually ok (and near as I can tell, he has wide domestic support even very recently) with him obviously being that way.

Part of this is the psychology of the abused spouse frankly - yeah he’s scary and terrible, but he’s on ‘my side’
I am looking at it for the first time but the built in mqtt integration (which extends to browsers) [1] and support for live templates [2] is interesting. It is also interesting that the support for live templates and realtime client server integration predates phoenix liveviews by a long margin.

[1] http://docs.zotonic.com/en/latest/ref/modules/mod_mqtt.html#...

[2] http://docs.zotonic.com/en/latest/ref/scomps/scomp_live.html...
I assume they're referring to Fourier expansion.

In general you can use a pretty wide set of functions to approximate an arbitrary function. You can do it with polynomials (Taylor expansion), and many others as long as they form a Hilbert space.

Producing a given function from a linear combination of other functions isn't groundbreaking in the least.
But its not cheap, given that nuclear waste disposal will take for so long and companies do not factor the true price of securing nuclear waste for thousands of years. We could see what happened in Germany after the nuclear exit was put into place: Energy companies tried to split up, moving their nuclear business into one company, and their renewables into another - a very apparent move to let the nuclear company (with all the burdens of waste disposal management) go bankrupt into a couple of decades, knowing that the government will take over the burden for free. The german government prevented this through a buy-out deal, where the companies would put a sum of roughly 50bn € into a fund, and the responsibility ownership would go over to the government once and for all.

The issue is, no one can put a real price tag on nuclear waste management that will take thousands of year. It's all some made up number that is used to show that nuclear energy is cheap. But it is not, we are just boworring money from the future. Even if you think from an engineering standpoint that we can secure nuclear waste for generations to come, I don't believe we have the economic system to achive that. Companies don't exist long enough to be responsible for thousand-year long commitments - only society does.
Throwaway account, but this is very much like the "member of the Nazi party" question: of no practical value (border guards don't know the entire Nazi membership archive by heart, of course) unless they need to throw the book at you for some other perceived slight (i.e. involved in some political protest that is not an actual crime? HE LIED ON ENTRY FORM, IMMEDIATE EXPULSION!).

So if you don't plan to commit crimes or otherwise confront the authorities, you can leave that blank, or use throwaways. Just don't give your real info, because they will use it to analyse you for real.
This is quite effective to create an atmosphere of mass fear.
So wouldn't it be a good idea then to stop burning gas for generating electricity by using nuclear instead?
I’d expect it’s mostly a financial and personnel issue.

People have been laid off, refueling operations haven’t been planned, multi billion dollar contracts for cleanup are set to start with the associated workers/staffing already underway.

In short, nothing that can’t be changed with an injection of capital and assistance from the French/international nuclear industry.
Because when people start throwing out hate speech and stuff, you have to manage and moderate it.

Let someone else do it, and focus on your key business.
Sure, but let's not go overboard the other way: we do need educated people. We do need to educate people that can benefit from it, because if we don't we'd be (A) wasting human capital (B) not getting the innovation from people that we could and (C) boredom is corrosive - if we don't educate people who can benefit from it, we have a lot of bored people. That's not a good thing.
Hook Toil
And they’re likely paying a premium for the “smart” functionality. Pretty sure this is the version without Wi-Fi. https://www.homedepot.com/p/GE-30-in-6-7-cu-ft-Slide-In-Doub...
> ... generate the private key off-device and store it somewhere securely.

Doesn't even have to stored securely if it is protected with a strong passphrase. You can keep it anywhere. ... and with contemporary versions of GPG that might only have to be 4 diceware words.

For PGP stuff, the advantage of something like a Yubikey is that the unencrypted private key is never exposed to a possibly insecure end device. The actual cryptography is done on the Yubikey. This is a somewhat different situation than with other uses where the Yubikey only protects the secret information.
I2P: The Censorship Resistant Anonymous P2P Network Is 20 Years Old
Well the first sentence is the problem, not the second.
It's SO task dependent.

I'm happy to work this way when I'm doing UI/UX or end-user touching work; so much of that boils down to 'predicting the ways in which the chaos apes will behave' that having another perspective is useful.

When I'm doing database design, don't talk to me unless I ask you to: All it does is make me want to choke you and take me out of the flow.
That's an observation.
Schrodinger cat isn't both dead and alive. Nothing happens in the box while it's closed.
Really think about how this is an elegant solution that makes it completely un-paradoxical, excluding that events happen out of order compared to our intuition.
Nah, he’s a US citizen that understands the TSA is the entity that handles security for flight boarding, and has no relationship with ICE handling security at the border. Some other people in this thread seem to be okay conflating the two, but I’m not sure that’s very helpful —- everyone knows that border controls for all countries are massively more strict that controls for domestic travel.
He didn't back then, and he wasn't the driving force behind the decision either, the Greens were. Stop trying to spin this into some sort of conspiracy.
Yes. But you can't replace manufacturing processes that need gas with electricity lol

Germany import like 60/65% of the gas from Russia. Not all of that is used to generate electricity, I don't have the breakdown but I'm pretty sure that a big part goes to manufacturing
Was that drug related? What was officer’s motivation/aim if you know by any chance?
What would you want me to say?

1) In response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, you think that action A should be prefered to action B if the latter will be perceived by Russia as more aggressive - increasing the probability of a of a declaration of war by Russia.

2) If Russia was to invade Sweden - for example - I imagine that you'll find that action A2 should be prefered to action B2 if the latter will be perceived by Russia as more aggressive - increasing the probability of a declaration of war by Russia.

3) If there is Russian attack on a NATO country you see war as a consequence.

Some people think that taking action B now may actually decrease the probability of finding ourselves in scenarios 2 or 3 later. Maybe you don't, or you think that it increase the total risk.

But at least we may all agree that to minimize the probablility of war you have to consider the whole sequence of potential events.
I went through ESTA last winter and it was optional.
War torn Russia, India?! In 2021 I was stopped by criminal police in Germany and they demanded to unlock all my smartphones, then dedicated personnel arriving in separate car browsed each of them. Once they discovered that I have multiple smartphones on me they went nuts and were certain I'm their target. Apparently transiting through Germany by car and stopping during the night in center of one major city associated me with some criminal group active nearby. I knew that had I refused, they'd virtually confiscate all devices. After all they refused to identify themselves. Screw you Kriminalpolizei Dummkopfs, you wasted your useless time and resources on me.
A series of revolutions were fought to prevent this kind of abuse.
Or evidence of its war crimes and torture against its own citizens, contradicting its own constitutional requirements.

We already have despots running the country.
It is not unreasonable to assume whatever the US is doing abroad, they are doing domestically - and that such activity just has not come to light as of now.
>The point is really that a lot of people are intimidated and compliant and will hand a device over when requested. This is never a good thing. Even if you’re legitimately a victim, you shouldn’t even let them at your stuff.

That's addressed by the OP

>People spoiled by western TV shows may talk about probably cause, privacy, rights etc. (which may exist on paper in these places too), but you’d be in a lot of trouble if you’re not very rich and know powerful people. These checks can also take an ethnic or other angle where only certain people are stopped.

There's a strong legal system (eg. due process, habeas corpus) that protects you in uk. No such system exists in Russia. Similarly, if you tried pulling this in china, and you're a Uyghur, that's just going to end up with you in a reeducation camp.
Well if the alternative is keeping gas and coal online, we also have no idea what our planet will look like in 10k yrs if we callously keep dumping CO2 into the atmosphere
Searching for those who steal from kleptocrats?
While I'm not a fan of closed-source firmware, there's something nice about the firmware being indelible.
Aesthetic and quiet 240 TB backup server
> Another great "feature" of discord: blocking someone, unlike every other platform save IRC, does not hide your content from them. It hides them from you.

Not sure what point you're making here. The equivalent of a "block" that goes the other way is kicking or banning the user. That works the same on IRC.
Then hopefully police won't charge it up a few percent for you.
Also, most people prefer keeping their phones charged so they can use it...
Everyone is a warrior at their keyboard. In real life, a quick mention of the metaphorical wrench and everyone complies.
Yes. What people don't understand is that much (maybe most) of the world is like this.
The fact that you asked rather than shared a link or something, combined with the fact that most of the replies seem to not even comprehend the differences between the TSA and CBP/ICE makes me suspect this is a bunch of bs.
Possibility for strong high-latitude cooling under negative emissions
This is not entirely true. The plan was made by the left and green in the beginning of the millennium, then canceled by the conservatives and after some years reapply by the conservatives, sold as their idea. Nice trick, though. :D
It literally says it there, in big capital letters in the Apache used on the Racoon software:

> software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.

Or the very common MIT license:

> THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED

Is that not enough? Developers providing support is a nice touch on top of what the license says, and I'd argue that even if it's normalized it should not be assumed, and we should do a better job to make sure that users of open source software know that any support provided is indeed an extra, super nice plus, not something to expect/demand.
Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla agree on something: Make web dev lives easier
So you'd rather see -- worst case -- the CO2 concentration explode and biomes altered radically, than having some local hotspots of radiation?
Here's an example from 2018 of someone trying to extract secrets from a Yubikey. https://duo.com/labs/research/microcontroller-firmware-recov.... Seems they don't get very far. Or it's at least very laborious. But as you say, who knows what a cutting edge lab can do. Skimming the web, it seems like people have had more success with things like Google Titan keys.
> open source means free support, in the sense that independent and libre support can form around such a product.

"Means" and "can" are incompatible. Either free software may mean free support, or independent and libre support always forms around free software projects.
Also one final point, if 10 mutually independent devs share an NFT blockchain so the moonlight sword can be transferred between games... what stops me from minting my own moonlight sword? Or super moonlight sword? Or unauthorized micky mouse hats?