skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
20? Yeah, maybe. A bunch though? Not particularly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_attacks_in_China
They can make more profit if they don't need to pay artists
It depends on the business.

Amazon Go in Spain and the supermarket deliveries in the UK are hugely popular because a lot of people don't have cars in the larger cities - so it's very convenient to get everything delivered in one batch.
This is amazing !
Reddit was always terrible, it's most likely you who matured.
Think winter, rain, snow
Babies
Single parents
Not wanting to get dressed
Etc
There is a market but agree not large enough to sustain this much competition
My K&R C book agrees with you, but there when you know about cmov, it seems to map cleanly to ?:. It's just my opinion and what I feel. I can't back it up any better.
Millions of people have severe chronic depression and anxiety. Most of them don't have the resources to get treatment, they don't write memoirs that get republished, they don't end up getting an interview on Access Hollywood to talk about what a shit childhood they had, and they don't have a megaphone to throw their parents under the bus while enriching themselves from the legacy that was only possible because of their supposed trauma.

It's one thing to say "hey, this is my experience, many people didn't know, I thought it sucks, I want to warn people about it, and I struggle with the results."

It's another to say "I hated my childhood, I never got to do anything, here are ten thousand reasons why I hate my parents, and I'm gonna continue to throw them under the bus until people stop paying me to talk about it."

It's normal to dislike some people. Even your parents. It's flat out unproductive to be perpetually bitter about things that happened 30-40 years ago when you're about to be 50, and I'm a person who would know given my own childhood... and my own (which I thought was fairly traumatic emotionally) was a cakewalk compared to my SO's.

If those people care about him as little as he says, then the only person he's hurting by continuing to revisit it is himself. There's a difference between being upset that it happened and being so angry at the people who have long since either forgotten or forgiven themselves that you need to go on TV about it and then follow it up with a blog post. I don't think it helped him, he comes off as petulant, and it definitely didn't hurt anyone else if his narrative is accurate.
> Code is speech.

Not all code. From the linked article:

> However, the court cautioned that not all software could be considered expressive, and thus not all source code would necessarily be protected.
Think about applications, not one-off scripts. It should be easy to always stay on the latest language version, with good tooling to migrate your code, and importantly, the ability to do it piece by piece. (Python 3 was all-or-nothing for the entire ecosystem.) Also, many migrations are trivial in practice, like renaming an identifier to avoid the new keyword.

What this gives you is high confidence that when inserting a few lines somewhere, that fancy new for loop simply works. No need to scroll to the top if the file and remember which exact release of the 27 in the last year introduced the feature.
They had massive losses recently, I guess rising interest rates makes tough times even for loan sharks.
4 unicorns IPO
Because it's an single assignment expression dependent on a result that'll probably trivially be in a status flag.
Imagen vs. DALL-E: comparison of images for same prompts
So that's why my 1600X was not good enough
The only use case for it is to get beers when you run out at a party or baby diapers in the middle of the night when everything is closed.

I don't think this market would be enough for 1 of those startups, let alone the 10-ish we have.
Absolutely agree. I wrote the comment while thinking, why would a company need a proxy for revenue, when revenue is so easy to count? On reflection I now understand the GP’s point; when revenue is zero, you need something to use instead.

But of course revenue (and, having achieved that, then profit IMO) should be among the concrete goals. It’s so weird that this is missed so often.
Yep. Reminds me of when I was working for a remote sensing startup and we had conversations about being featured in an episode of a popular BBC magazine show. I could understand why they were interested: "space detectives" fighting environmental crime with satellites sounds very cool on a TV listing. It's just their concept of a TV proposal had us zooming in on live action they staged for us like a spy film, and the reality was a guy in a home office tweaking scripts to batch process low resolution static images from previous months followed by enforcement officers possibly taking some action months later (I figured out that beyond the pretty images we could theoretically visit an actual location with historic prosecutions and get just-for-TV drone footage as well as interviews for background context, but we never got close to the relevant stakeholder permissions)

And I say this having also watched Time Team so I know you can make good TV from an archaeological dig with the right experts and permissions and pretty good background knowledge of what was built there when!
If you like demo-in-a-tweet content, check out dwitter: https://www.dwitter.net/
Interesting that the slowdown seems to be hitting Europe first
Euro here. Closest supermarket is small with lame variety. And I hate big supermarkets in big malls. It also helps to stay away from impulsive purchases (= aka junk food).

Delivery will probably stop once investors no longer finance it (here it's mostly supermarket chains financing delivery). Hopefuully click-to-collect survives. Seems like a good compromise.
ID.1 probably going to be like that. The market for this is small and most people love smart features.
"Bloomberg News is laying off nearly 100 journalists as it restructures its newsroom"

Not really a tech layoff. Many more similar examples. Also counting companies rather than jobs doesn't make sense. And the job data is likely centrally collected on FRED.
For some reason this reminds me of maths at university - I initially hated it (and was dreadful at it) but had to do it because there was no flexibility in the course - you had to do 3 years of general engineering maths or fail the course. I eventually ended up really liking maths and focusing on more abstract and maths heavy elements of computer science.
Probably not.

> The 2010 complaint cited multiple instances in which Twitter’s actions – and inactions – led to unauthorized access of users’ personal information. To settle that case, the company agreed to an order that became final in 2011 that would impose substantial financial penalties if it further misrepresented “the extent to which [Twitter] maintains and protects the security, privacy, confidentiality, or integrity of any nonpublic consumer information.”

The $150m fine is because twitter violated that settlement agreement.
Yes i know, in fact i thought about it when writing that line but i thought it'd be obvious that the issue still remains, especially if said files are too big. It might be easier but you are not really solving the problem as well as opting in to the new functionality when and if needed.
I wonder why not. It seems like that's the cause of most of these.
Wow! Congrats, amazing work!
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This is an incredibly ignorant and dismissive comment that is demonstrably false.

My city has passed laws in direct response to local school shootings. The state of Idaho has enacted gun control laws that address specific shootings there. There are anti-gun demonstrations. The surviving Sandy Hook parents have made groundbreaking progress toward holding gunmakers liable for deaths caused by their products.

The examples are not hard to find.

This is a complex issue. We are trying. It is hard. Your dismissive comment isn't fair and it certainly isn't constructive or necessary.
Please stop changing the titles of the things you submit! I flagged this for that reason, although I'm in Australia and it seems an important case, for Australians at least.

"please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Also, the articles your article itself links to are much, much more informative about the case, the historical facts, and the man at the centre of it, than the one you posted, although from 2020:

https://www.afr.com/policy/foreign-affairs/the-secret-trial-...

https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/bernard-collaery-a-warr...
One of the least awful media treatments of the subject I’ve ever read.

There’s still a lot of confusion and misunderstanding about hypnosis, though. Among hypnotists as much as anyone, including the “medically credentialed” ones the article likes.

But not bad!
Supermarket deliveries are popular, but are third party delivery services for groceries? I don't have any stats, but anecdotally I'd say not.
Heads up that "diary" isn't used in the US ("calendar" is). In the US diary is something someone writes like "Dear Diary" or the "Diary of Anne Frank"
> Simple Outperformed Smart. As a self-admitted elitist, it pains me to say this, but it’s true: the startups we audited that are now doing the best usually had an almost brazenly ‘Keep It Simple’ approach to engineering.

I wrote about this before that as an industry, we have made writing software complex for complexity's sake.

> imagine, in a world where there wasn't a concept of clean code but to write code as simply as possible. not having thousands of classes with indirection.

what if your code logic was simple functions and a bunch of if statements. not clever right, but it would work.

what if your hiring process was not optimizing for algorithm efficiency but that something simply works reliably.

imagine a world where the tooling used by software engineers wasn't fragile but simple to use and learn. oh the world would be a wonderful place, but the thing is most people don't know how to craft software. but here we're building software on a house of cards [0]

:[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30166677
It's entirely likely that Australia's Covid rates had nothing to do with any particular action they took. Every Covid success story had exactly one thing in common: they're all in the same area of the globe, on the other side of the planet from Europe (where all the major outbreaks after Wuhan seem to have come from). It's about the only thing they had in common; there were vast differences in culture, political system, measures taken, and so on. Also, the main thing which seemed to determine whether a country or region was known for their "immediate knee jerk reactions" or their "inability to follow lock down procedures" was whether Covid remained under control or not, rather than the actual specific actions they took...
Europe was riding on cheap money with little actual innovation. Along with stricter and stricter regulations that makes it even harder to do something productive. It feels like we were just printing money whole decade.

Ukraine war is probably hitting Europe much harder than US or far east.
So part of the problem is the evaluation based upon low overhead …. What’s low overhead?

Everyone wants to donate to program work, but never to operations.

Even grants that carve out for operations aren’t always realistic.

Major gifts is one of the best ways to get unrestricted donor funds.

You can get a lot of information from the 990 filing of an organization.

In other comments, I agree that in many non profit organizations there are people who might not last in for profit.

Most of those people however are working in roles that are $30,000 , maybe $40,000 a year and there wouldn’t be someone in for profit who would take that role, for that amount of pay.

Overwork and burnout in the field is very real.

Unrelated to that staffing, I would again go back to operational expenses - rent, electricity, payroll etc. Depending on the nonprofit, this may be a huge percentage… but if you have an organization that has a $250,000 a year revenue, two staff to accomplish what their mission is…. What actually goes to program work might be very little.
On that reasoning, all of the "lockdowns" and "active shooter drills" and all the other bullshit that the US makes its children undertake in school are a complete waste of time.

Are you seriously trying to argue that school shootings don't happen often enough to try to stop them? Or that society can't do two things (reduce accidental deaths and reduce mass murder) at the same time?

The rationalization of an insane gun culture is incessant and foolish. Guns are a tool and the bullshit that somehow the civilian population would "defend" itself against military coups by the US military, or even more ridiculous, against invasion, is an excuse to allow the ongoing fetish of guns.

For 99.99% of the population, guns are dangerous to have, not because someone might attack you, but because guns are dangerous to have in the home. They are misused, mistakenly left unsecured, and accessed by people (children, those with mental illness) that shouldn't.

Hell, you can't even agree on background checks because of some stupidity regarding having a "register" in case the "government" comes after your weapons.

The US is an empire in decline, and your internal division around this "culture" is a large part of the dis/mis-information exercise that has infected the body politic.

The NRA is a lobby group for gun manufacturers that has bought numerous politicians, while lying to its members about its purpose. The fact that so many actually believe the bullshit is a prime example of dis/mis-information.
Civilians chose not to bring guns to that protest.

The only person shot was an unarmed civilian.

Even so, guns have been involved in protests before without a problem.
I think meh sums up this article pretty well.
>There is no effective means by which you could prevent an AR-15 from ending up in peoples' hands.

>a block of metal, a CNC machine

Try not to argue in bad faith as a gun owner challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

Half of your arguments are "regular men need to defend their houses" and "but black people shoot eachother in the ghetto too". Hint: these are in complete opposition to "Having enough time, money and access to a CNC Machine to make a homemade shitty AR15". Making guns less accessible means less shootings, period.
As a high school student many decades ago I read every library book I could find on hypnosis. The most compelling book did not believe hypnosis was a distinct state of consciousness, but rather a strong form of social persuasion. It detailed the factors one brings into play. My interest was self-hypnosis, which I explored for a while using techniques from the other books.

At summer camp, confined to cabins on stormy evenings, there was a great interest in the occult, in seances and such. I was encouraged to try hypnotizing someone in a dark room, with a dozen people watching. Right where (I'm thinking "Young Frankenstein" here) their arms should have started floating up, our concentration was shattered by a spectator falling over.

I now remembered the lessons from the skeptical book. You can't buy publicity like that. As word got out, I possessed a great power.

Back in high school I taught a few friends, discovering the "high", "low" susceptibility scale described in this article. A "low" made the best hypnotist, at least deploying the principles I taught.

At a party, a friend had hypnotized a classmate prone to drama, off in another room. She presented a psychotic break and wouldn't "wake up". Meanwhile there was a Freshman-Home-From-College who had taken intro psych, and was intoning for anyone who would listen how dangerous our activities were. Again, according to the principles of my favored book, you can't buy publicity like that.

I sensed that our drama queen needed a theatrical rescue, and made as big a show as I could of saving my apprentice, taking over the hypnosis. All was again well.

A "Rashomon" look back at this sees no contradiction in the idea that hypnosis could be real, and yet the principles are best learned from a skeptical book. They've also helped me in public speaking. Watch any motivational speaker; it's the same game.
I do agree, that it is very possible to reduce the number of guns around and that then it is also harder for criminals to get one.

But as far as I know, now it is also pretty much illegal to carry a knive around in the UK, as the crime with knives were and are very high (but still lower than the US).

But in general I do not agree to the idea to reduce the problem to the number of guns.
Germany for example has a quite high number of guns per capita (higher than one would expect) and so has switzerland, but both have lower homicide rates than the UK.

I would rather focus on the reasons, why someone goes homicidal.
Musikcube, a cross-platform, terminal-based library, player and server
A local garage still uses them for invoices, one is only a few years old.

Ribbons are cheap, and can be reinked.
Not sure if I’m cynical or what but just couldn’t muster the desire to finish the article. I agree the ability to write and communicate is important but also feel it’s oversold and trite.
I work with people who speak my native language as a second language - which is just to say life if generally more complicated than giving the advice of “focus on good communication”.
This is a heart wrenching read. I wish Wil all the best and I'm happy he did not harm himself.

I would also like to invite him to try and see the positive sides of his experience. It shaped him into a man that has been a role model for millions of young men via Star Trek. It may not have been what he wanted, but I'm glad he ended up doing it.

I don't know what depression feels like, but if can tell you that watching Wil Wheaton play tabletop games has always left me with a better mood than I had before.

So thank you, Wil, for bringing joy into my life. Don't let bad parts of your past define who you are.

To me, your tabletop games have been more inspirational than your Star Trek work. Lesser men would have cancelled the show when they found out they have a dice curse. You not only didn't cancel the show, you gracefully continued playing because to you it was just as important that the others have fun than that you yourself have fun. You, sir, are a legend and an inspiration, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
Yeah - Privateer 2, the darkening got me into the whole genre. Five CD-ROMS in a multi disc case, Clive Owen, Mathilda May, Jürgen Prochnow, John Hurt, Christopher Walken, Brian Blessed and Amanda Pays and Dani Behr playing in the cutscenes. If you could have walked around the space stations and planets in3D it would have been as close as it gets to this.
Absolutely. Nowhere else in the civilized world do people rely on having a gun to "protect themselves or their family".

Perhaps you need to look at why, in your society, there are so many "opportunities" for "defensive gun uses".
To 1000 Twitter followers, step by step with a free Notion table
It's per process like the file descriptor tables under most kernels. Knowing that some other process has a certain socket open as fd '5' on their fd table doesn't give you enough information to attach the same socket to your fd table at fd 5 or otherwise.
Elon Musk’s proposed Hyperloop is all smoke and mirrors
> ...just discovering what needs to be coded is 90% of the job,...

Absolutely. The tech part is relatively easy. Deciding what to build, that's where the friction and magic happens.
I could not disagree more. These were highly reliable and effective systems long after their expected design lifetime. The F14 CADC is one example, as well as earlier ADC's.
Users do not "want to keep getting new features"; they occasionally decide to make an effort to upgrade the Perl interpreters on their servers and personal machines because they want some new features.

A "use v5.36" directive is going to be very opaque for many users, but it doesn't need to be understood to serve the purpose of determining the minimum Perl version to install in order to run a certain script very effectively.
somehow this thread has become focused on piano / music lessons, from my reading of Will's post, his experience w.r.t. movie roles and his mother's part in that went way beyond "go practice your piano / violin / oboe" before you hang out with your friends" being discussed here
Not sure if the typo in the title is intentional irony.
It would be fun to have them generate images of each other.

I like how DALL-E puts a bottle of Sprite on the table for fine dining. It's got a little more of a sense of humor. Imagen looks like stock photography.
That's a good idea... One reason I mentioned piano is that as an adult I finally decided to learn piano and I guess at a young age seeing his dad try to also learn the same instrument might be more motivating...

I do love the sound of harpsichord though :) But getting one at home is much harder whereas electronic pianos with good weighted keys are cheap and don't take so much space.
Broadly this is what the downthread "Americans have chosen this" means. An armed, radicalized populace is one that's forever carrying out acts of lethal violence against strangers.

Disarm the populace and you get less lethal violence. (The UK has quite a lot of nonlethal violence, mostly alcohol related. We don't need to re-litigate what happened when trying to ban alcohol.)

If you rule out disarming, how about de-radicalizing? Many mass shooters leave behind helpful manifestoes detailing their reasoning.
>For instance, did you know that, in California, you cannot buy a new model of a pistol? The most recent model you can get, from a roster that diminishes every year, is from 2013. Why? By what mechanism is that effective?

Hint: it causes, over time, gun ownership to decrease. People will not be tempted by that brand new Sig Sauer ad they saw to buy a gun at Walmart for the fun of it. Keeping only older guns accessible means that these guns break over time, and lowers the amount of freely accessible guns. Roster diminishing means that fewer people buy fewer guns.

Is there something more effective ? Sure, complete bans. Unfortunately, that would go against gun nuts like you that argue that having a .50 antimaterial rifle at home is important because MUH FREEDOMS.
I feel the same about these electric scooter services like Bird, Lime, etc. Most European cities are very walkeable and so you’re not “getting another car off the road” as Bird will happily tell you. You’re paying for the luxury that you’re 2 minutes faster compared to walking.
From people I know who uses them, it seems to be mostly useful because you can get things delivered to you in like one hour instead of having to have it delivered next week, which the service the supermarkets themselves offer. Some companies even can deliver groceries in just 10-15 minutes.
I think I'd like to say to my son when he gets older, "You have to have at least one skill you're actively developing that takes several years to master. It can be piano or chess or language or baseball or StarCraft or juggling, but it has to be something that takes time to master, and you have to spend at least a few hours every week in deliberate practice."

I also plan on modeling that behavior by having skills I continue to develop for the rest of my life.
Indeed, and being able to invoke 'perl -ane ...' is sometimes a bliss.
> For all the buzz about python3 fiasco, we're pretty much migrated now and py2

Python 3.0 was released in 2008, the fact that 14 years later 2.7 is still widely available (and often the default python, e.g. in my openSUSE Tumbleweed system here) means that the "buzz" was more than warranted.

Also of course things would migrate, it isn't like there was any choice on that matter (and projects like Tauthon that tried to provide a choice had several "Pythonistas" attacking it).