skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't actually need a driver's license to buy a motor vehicle I don't think.
So how should we investigate what _is_ a potential for causation
If that observation is true, the reason is that when "demography is destiny" favors Republicans, the demography consists of one category of person; when it favors Democrats, the demography supposedly includes everyone.
No problem! I've been in a sort of similar situation myself and I know it can be hard; this is one of many "do as I say not as I do" situations that you'll probably find yourself in.

If people are aware that you're often up at odd hours hammering away at stuff, maybe just communicate that you don't have this expectation of them, and that you would strongly prefer they didn't follow suit (or whatever messaging would be appropriate for your situation). I'm sure folks would understand and hopefully get the message and if not at least it's a starting point.

Either way, good luck and thank you for thinking of your employee's wellbeing!
Hang on... you think the US handled COVID better than Australia?
yes. the whole "freedom of the seas" thing has rather invited some response like the recent sail-by in the AU EEZ. And in like sense, every time Australia implies "we should take this to an international court" I wince because of what we did with East Timor and the international court of arbitration. Its like the anti-set of whataboutery: when you actually do something which invites the "what about... you" case.

so if this was ONLY about freedom of the seas, I have no particular concern with China sending its INT ship past the WA coastline in our EEZ. or anywhere else. But when China signs bilats with island nations which go to internal policing and defence, I'd have to say thats a step unlike any taken by Australia inside China. On the other hand, we did use five-eyes to lock Huawei out of trade, and that did rather invite China locking Australia out of some strategic issues.

None of this really relates to the attempt to weaponise the chinese language, mainland-china related voting community in a general election: it backfired. They will be more cautious next time.
The idea is that a central 1-click checkout provider will store your payment information, shipping address, and other details after the first time you use a site with their checkout.

The next time you checkout on any website that uses the same 1-click checkout provider, they already have your information for “1-click” checkout.

The investment thesis is that if 1-click checkout were to take off, it would become a winner-take-all market where every shop wants to use the 1-click provider with the largest customer base. This is the magical “network effect” that investors want to see. If it works and becomes ubiquitous, the network effects would be massive.

So far, none of the providers have managed to get much traffic at all. The common theme is that integrating 1-click checkout into everyone’s different web store has been a much bigger engineering challenge than they expected. They’re burning cash at shocking rates to do all of these custom integrations but not getting enough return on investment.

It’s also entirely unclear why Shopify or Stripe or another provider wouldn’t just step in and use their scale to make this happen themselves. I kind of suspect few people actually want 1-click checkout to begin with.
Solve it? So you think everyone should just drive with no training, and you believe that would improve the magnitude of gory car deaths?

I suppose you are against seat belts too?
>Yeah, but (pardon my French) who the fuck cares?

Well, the people suffering from it who haven't figured out that it doesn't matter. And the school certainly won't tell you that because of moral hazard; suffering ensues.

>With crap middle school administration, the bullied are ending up in detention (or worse) while the provocateurs are getting away without repercussion.

Working as intended.
I’m familiar with how the constitution is amended.

Given the structure of the political system in the US, it is impossible for a two-thirds majority of both houses of Congress to agree on any even mildly controversial topic. You’ll note that the 1992 amendment was about a boring and uncontroversial topic. The last one that had anything to do with a cultural hot-button issue was the repeal of alcohol prohibition, in 1933, when the political system operated completely different to how it does now.

So, yes there’s a mechanism. But getting together enough votes to activate that mechanism is impossible in the actually existing reality of the United States. So, now what?
Someone makes a (good) point about semantics, and your reaction is to swear at them and then bring up a completely unrelated issue?

Are you on the right site?
some people in tech have always been pretentious.
If you can’t afford to buy your options, but take out a personal loan to buy them, that must have been a riskier approach than just buying them if you had the cash, no? The leverage increases the personal risk at least as I understand how that works.

Unless there was an agreement to forgive the loans if the options go underwater, which I haven’t seen reported here.
Another case of "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"...
Kids getting murdered is absolutely horrible, we should all be mortified by that and looking for ways to help solve the problem.

But at some point it is worth acknowledging that prolonged anguish or anxiety about something bad isn't useful unless it leads to action (see sphere of influence). We can't stop all bad things from happening and they are happening continuously to people around the world -- we can't let that get in the way of improving the lives of ourselves and the people around us.
This a consistent trend on threads that are critical of Google and Apple.
PoS vs. PoW
Why are you comparing something made for transportation with one made to harm living things (humans or otherwise)?
GL.iNet Cirrus (GL-AP1300). Runs forked OpenWRT out of the box but you can flash it with a clean upstream as well.

(Some other of their devices have issues when running vanilla OpenWRT - this particular model seems fine so far)

If you want even more "dumb" and DIY you could look at something like a PCEngines APU or similar, but it sounds like you want to spend less time and effort on your APs, not more.

I am surprised about everyone recommending TP-Link. They used to be decent but I have recently helped people set up some of their more recent models and they're atrocious- especially but not only Deco. All kinds of issues and weird behavior (I recall one with dozens of pages over multiple years in their support forum, with no fix in sight)

In particular, across the range they go more towards "intelligent"/"smart"/cloud+app for management, which is the opposite of what parent is asking for. TP-Link is one of the worst offenders here - going the Ubiquiti direction but poorly executed. Any OpenWRT/DD-WRT/Linux compatibility is accidental.

Ubiquiti Unifi AC Pro is also nice on its own. IIRC it works without using any of their software and can be managed through web. I guess it may not classify as cheap, though.I don't have any experience with their AP Lite,maybe it's worth a look as well?
Search PBS Space Time
There is a dataset of 5 billion image-text pairs (laion-5b) scraped by various parties. This can then be filtered and used to train these models. Cost is a bit of an issue but there are orgs that have provided compute for open model training. And Imagen is nice because the text encoder part is already available and doesn't need more training, so it would just be the diffusion model components being trained. I'd guess we'll see a biggish training run starting in a few weeks.
I don't think "an excuse" is needed, say that you were ill, if someone can't/won't accept that as a valid reason, I wouldn't want to work there anyway
What does the Rancher Desktop give you that you don't get with just plain KinD?
It's not just out of place, it belies a fundamental ignorance as to gun related technology.

There is pretty much one single feature that we've decided should be reserved for military use: selective fire, aka automatic weapons. A "military-grade semi-automatic rifle" is a contradiction in terms. I believe all standard issue military rifles are selective fire, and no civilian rifles can be outside of extremely rare and tightly regulated situations.

The AR-15 is a counterpart to the M16. It is specifically not a military gun and the major difference is that it does not have selective fire.
I still wouldn't go for HF tools (or any store brand... Tool Shop, Master Mechanic, take your pick) for anything I want to keep forever. You just can't get parts for most of that stuff. I only get HF or MM if I'm buying the tool for one job and need to fit in the budget, otherwise pretty much everything else I've got is pre-owned DeWalt et al. (The warranty-period breakdown is no joke, but a lot of times if they survive much past that they can be good for a while.)

I'm also still not totally sold on cordless tools. I've found corded tools generally much easier to repair. Extension cords are cheaper than batteries, and for my typical applications they're essentially interchangable.
OpenTelemtry has such a bright future ahead. We've had runtimes... now it's finally starting that we can see/log time running.
> you are actually safer not owning a gun

No, you are actually safer not having an irresponsible person in your home. If everyone in your home is a responsible person, you might well be safer owning a gun. At worst it will be neutral as far as your safety goes (if you live in an area that is safe anyway). The fact that irresponsible people will use guns to do irresponsible things is not a valid reason to blame the guns. The blame lies with the irresponsible people.
> Guns in the US are fetishized

I see this thrown around all the time, right before the term "ammosexual" comes out and right along with the allegations of compensating for dick size.

My counter-ancedote is that I haven't seen it, honestly. Guns are a hobby for some people, and I imagine that's been the same forever, right? Maybe a growing hobby, but to call it fetishization dismisses the vast vast majority of people who just like to peacefully enjoy their interests.

Also... what's changed with guns in that time frame? I wasn't trying to be dishonest in saying that. Modern ARs don't have any significant difference from the original Armalite model. Same with AK variants. Non-autoloaders haven't changed in well over 100 years.
Ffmpeg can work with aalib
> Apps like VSCode and Discord have shown that it’s possible to achieve decent performance so we’re confident that over time the advantages of developing on Electron will outweigh the slight performance hit compared to native apps.

I wonder if this is really true. As I understand, Discord had to start using rust to overcome the slowness of electron, VSCode had to add some really complex code to render the text fast enough. At what point is it easier to just use native code over trying to optimize the electron beast?
FWIW lite-xl[0] has a better approach. A core app built with C and SDL and then high level parts made in Lua.

[0] https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl
> You also see an increase in totalitarian behavior, eg, the Australian lockdowns compared to the US lockdowns.

Don't believe tabloid media. No it wasn't 'totalitarian'. I can't take you seriously now.
All of the really fun sandbox games (Rust, Minecraft, Space Engineers, Dual Universe etc) tend to be clunky and lack features I expect from AAA games. A game made in this genre by a massive studio could dominate the gaming market and captivate my attention forever if done right.

Give me:
- Proven game engine... I'm looking at you UE5
- Player made 3d models (complex in game system...? Blender already exists)
- Exciting, educational and realistic physics (e.g. orbital mechanics)
- Exciting multiplayer without physics simulation glitches ("CLANG")
- More varied biomes, terrain and open worlds that don't fall apart if you explore to much... looking at you Minecraft
- Various shopfronts, stores and integrations that are accessible for all

That's not to rip on the games which pioneered the genre (Teraria, Minecraft and Space engineers stand out to me), but I'm ready for the next evolution.
"just"

All the complexity wrapped up into one word.
The news and social media can cause tons of anxiety and stress when they consistently report on the many terrible things happening all of the time.

It doesn’t mean they’re not important, it’s just that it’s ok to take a break.

Sometimes people need that break from the eternal flow of news and social media so that their mental health isn’t impacted and so there is time to process what’s going on.
I live in California, where it's illegal to have a magazine that can hold more than 10 bullets (a standard Glock 17 holds 15+1). It's also de-facto illegal to own an AR-15, since you have to neuter the gun in all sorts of crazy ways for it to be "California legal". You also can't buy any recent (recent meaning, in the last several YEARS) handguns due to the also-obviously-illegal-yet-still-a-thing CA handgun roster.

You're right that nobody is seriously talking about rewriting the constitution; rather, states and other actors are just outright passing laws that blatantly disregard the second amendment. So it's actually worse than that. It'd be better if they were honestly just trying to remove the second amendment from the constitution rather than just de-facto abolish it through ridiculous measures.
> Maybe next time we're facing a crisis of "facts" (ie. during covid), we should be able to repeal free speech by simple majority?

> "in many places and in ordinary times, the defendants, in saying all that was said in the circular, would have been within their constitutional rights. But the character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States
Yes, in most countries I think we are well past that point. What makes you think it is still a prominent threat that should be defended against?
Instead of assuming that the team gets only 70% of the fee, why not assume that they charge 100% of what they want, and then tack on the 30% that Apple is demanding? That way, the team is getting paid reasonably.
I don't want gun violence, but I 100% want the 1986 National Firearm Act repealed.

I believe fully automatic assault weapons and machine guns should be available for purchase, new, just like any other weapon. (Fully automatic weapons are legal to buy and own right now in the US, if you pay a $200 stamp tax and wait 9 months for the ATF to process the paperwork, but you can only buy "NFA" regulated machine guns that were registered in 1986 or before ... which means they're all collectors items now, and the cheapest machine guns are $15-20k and up).

Most people I know would like to see the existing laws enforced, and don't want anything new passed or put in place.
Using minikube will be a complete waste of time for this IMHO. I am working on doing the same thing and minikube really doesn't work outside of the narrow happy path of kubernetes-on-a-vm. You can probably do multi-node but only on one host.

Best to just bite the bullet and install kubernetes itself I think. Currently I'm at the point of figuring out how to customize a Fedora CoreOS image to boot from PXE or USB and auto-install itself on bare metal with kubernetes already installed in the image.

The current environment for that is a Fedora Server install on one of those old PCs with enough environment manually bootstrapped to have the tools to customize Fedora CoreOS in a VM.
I love the rule of three. I know I've heard it on the Go Time podcast, but I'd heard it before then.

Copy your code once. If you find you've copied it again later, that's the right time to think about whether you'll continue to, and therefore whether it's worth making something reusable.

So yeah, wrappers are nice. But I'm also a really big fan of lazy wrappers. Wrap the thing barely enough to get the job done so you can upgrade in one place, but don't get fancy because you will probably hate yourself for it down the road.
Do you guys have the little varieties of cherry tomatoes they are growing now? Here in North America we have had all these little tomatoes for the past few years. They honestly taste great. Bit more sour than homegrown and not close to as big. But very tasty all the same.
Your examples are not arguments for restricting gun ownership per se. They are arguments for holding people responsible for giving guns to irresponsible people.

In the Columbine case, was the school mate prosecuted for, at the very least, negligently contributing to homicide?

With the Sandy Hook shooting, was the owner of the gun prosecuted for allowing the shooter to have it?
I'm butting in here because this struck a chord.

There are lots of people of people out there running highly profitable (and globally well-known) businesses off of Excel sheets. They have identified that they don't want to do this anymore as these sheets have grown so monstrously complex over the years that the employees who have to use them are miserable. Basically there is lots of opportunity to start a tech company whose sole purpose is to get much bigger businesses off of Excel. However, for reasons, this is much harder than it sounds.
>"... is unquestionably right"

To the author's credit the post is at least categorized as both fluff and a hot-take. :)
I would be impressed to see readable, non-trivial TypeScript code that does not use Interface.

Unless you are referring to interface as a concept, and not the keyword in TS.
Can you use the “class MyClass implements MyType” keyword with types?? That might be the only reason if you can’t
> What you are suggesting is illegal.

Unless the law is changed, which is what many are trying to do.

The constitution and bill of rights weren't handed down by God himself to the founding fathers. There's always room for improvement, e.g. allowing women to vote, or outlawing slavery.

I'm not saying that this is or isn't the right move -- merely that "it's in the constitution" isn't a very good argument any more than "this is the way it's always been done".
People drop of of school to find incredible independence,

People take medication to adapt their specific brain chemistry to their environment.

People necessarily perform crimes to adapt to rigid and inefficient systems, often historically founded on unforgivable humanitarian disasters.

But I feel like that's obvious.
You're not really following this through to it's logical conclusion.

If you want to get rid of the 2nd Amendment, yes there is a process for this. So let's fast forward and imagine that, somehow, you've gotten enough people and States on board with changing the Bill of Rights, and to keep it simple the 28th Amendment simply says "the 2nd Amendment is hereby REPEALED".

But then what? Pass laws that do, what, exactly? Confiscation?

>It’s not like Steve grabs a pitchfork and YOLOs his way to no second amendment.

Well ... the original founders of this country did, in fact, YOLO their way to a new one. They did it with guns though, not pitchforks.
Ah so you have experience breaking the law? We have a number of projects where your skills would be useful.
It goes much faster (acceleration and confidence at high speeds), using half as much gas, at least 2x safety, while able to be more way productive while I drive, if I choose to (I mean I can call video call anyone at any time - show that to someone in the 90s and their mind would be blown). The car stops for me if I forget to stop behind cars, and it auto drives even in traffic, even to a stand-still in bumper-to-bumper.

Having just done two 12+ hour road trips, each, in both cars, I can say that it's not the same. The 4Runner I arrive tired, angry, back hurting, and dizzy from focusing on the road every second, having spent way more on gas. With the new car, I basically enjoy podcasts and movies on my dash while keeping an eye on the road and it does the rest.

We literally have mostly automated driving while turning cabins into ultra-premium dens filled to the brim with every comfort from massage to heat, and people claim it's not tangibly different. It's so, so different.

Even lives saved due to all the safety features and hardware is like hundreds of thousands of human-years of productivity. Reducing it down to "technically they go the same speed" is a silly game to play, I can reduce any opposing argument down in a very narrow and specific way and "win", but that's not the game.

I stand by cars being a great example of progress, and again we're talking velocity of change - compare 1968 car to 1995 cars to today, and it's not really debatable which one is a bigger leap.

Finally, this bits vs atoms is stupid. It's another arbitrary way of slicing things to win an argument. But even if we did want to cut out computers, phones, AI, high speed internet, etc - which we totally shouldn't - you only have to look to SpaceX, or all the crazy new manufacturing tech like industrial 3D printers and AI-powered robotic arms that are actually driving all the innovation in things like cars.
If you load your Sendgrid Authy 2FA on a rooted android phone, you can extract the TOTP secret that powers it under the hood and put it in Bitwarden like you prefer.
We only have more anti-gun-violence activists because we have more gun violence. I forget where we are on the murders per capita scene, but I think we rank somewhere around Uruguay and Cameroon.

Great company while pretending to be "the leader of the free world."
Ok swap in a 22 Tacoma. You're arguing the specific when you should argue the general.

Your second point is shifting the entire conversation to something else entirely.
Maybe a hot take, but as others have identified, these violent outbreaks are at least in part due to social isolation, which may have something to do with lifestyle, city layout, and ease of access to public parks/things to do. Cities in the US have been set up to support cars, creating widely spread out and large landscapes, inconvenient for those who don't drive. Finding niche groups to fit in with on the internet has become easier, but irl in the US, much harder. This is independent of age group, but obviously impacts kids in a huge way. IMO, we need more places for people in communities to get together and just talk about things, engage in continued education, and have fun. Would be interesting to see if there's a correlation between after school programs, or proximity of public spaces and violence.
do you know what a calendar is
> For example, we cannot make any long-term plans for our lives any more, because we do not know what is going to happen to us even five years down the road.

I'd be interested in more context on this one. Is this a recent development in China? Is it related to bad outcomes coming from past government policy change, or more a forward-facing generational problem admitted by the government?
Well, comparing the stats:

The US seems to have higher murder, but less per capita crimes against people (eg, rape and burglary).

https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Australia/...
The "true conservatives" conceit is... Sad. I think it is safe to say that nobody wants kids getting shot. Despite that, most of the conservative voting block has routinely pushed measures that lead us here.

So this, "bad people will find a way" is such a "let's ignore the evidence of literally every other nation" to give up and clutch pearls before swine.

Directly, though, my point is that most of these extreme conservative views are self consuming and on the way out. I thought it was Carlin that said it, but I can't find a direct quote. Basically the world gets more liberal as old views literally die off.
Firearm homicide was 8X. It's in the same article.
Thoughts and prayers, man. Thoughts and prayers.
Bad restaurant