skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your fear, or lack there of, may or may not reflect reality. It's not really a good basis for an argument.

The right to bear arms is based on the idea that a person has the right to defend themselves, their life, loved ones and property.

This basis is plenty sensible. Plenty of history is filled with violent criminals, governments, invaders, marauders, rioters, pirates. And it is sensible to suppose that, even if not present now, the future will have them too.
Sort of.

Nothing in the constitution grants the supreme court this power.

Judicial review was a power seized by the courts in Marbury vs Madison.

Theoretically, congress could act to limit the purview of the supreme court at any time.
Only a fraction of software engineers work for VC backed companies.
This isn't so much a game as a very inconveniently structured blog post.
There are barely 350 million people in the US, and most do not own guns.
They’re notorious for freezing peoples accounts for no reason or recourse and generally being terrible to deal with.
> I’m familiar with how the constitution is amended.

It didn’t sound like you were.

Let’s start with one state or 1 member of congress saying they want to amend the constitution. Then get a 2nd and perhaps a 3rd. You can probably see where this is going.

It is absolutely not impossible for 2/3 of Congress to agree on a controversial topic. Believing that is very defeatist.

We can also just sit around and wait for the next school to get shot up and act confused again.
As an American I care about this. As a human I care about this. I'm surprised I have to say that.

I'm not asking you to care about anything. I don't actually care what you think or care about to be honest. But I would hope that jonp888 or you or anyone aren't told their tragedy doesn't matter or that it happens because they don't care themselves.
In general I find that people restrict the idea of "interface" too much. If it has a downstream user / client, it is an interface despite not being `interface X`. This becomes very obvious in a language like Rust where you are encouraged to use concrete types as your 'interface' to downstream clients / consumers / library users.
Right, I was just pointing out that we don't strictly need a new law. Reinterpretation of existing laws works just fine. Settled law is clearly not settled for good.
Maybe from a finance perspective
Monkeypox cases are rising – Should we be worried?
Ohhhhh you must mean that military defeated by the Taliban using AK-47s, RPGs and tacticals, right? The same one defeated by the Viet Cong? Your argument is trash.

How's Saudi Arabia doing against those shoeless Houthis (i.e. 8 years later)?
This takes me down memory lane. Anybody remember Karnaugh maps?
This would explain why the contractors I work with have such awful code and low output.
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> 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.

Not saying you're wrong about that being the thesis, but the thesis makes no sense to me. It assumes that consumers are selecting shopping sites based on which payment service the sites use rather than on, say, price or selection.

The target market this investment thesis depends on is people who say, "I found a site with just the thing I wanted, but to buy it, I would have to enter my payment information! Guess it's back to Google to see if someone else has it at a similar price, and if not, I just won't buy it at all." Because the moment you give in and enter your payment and shipping details into a second checkout provider, that provider becomes just as convenient for future purchases as your first one.
Ouch! Good luck tho!
Kosmik may also be an alternative:

https://www.kosmik.app/

It’s a “visual tool for thought”. The screenshots look very similar to Muse, but I can attest that in use, the actual experience is much less polished.

Also, not really sure it supports any other platform, but definitely looks like an app that would be on Win/Linux before something like Muse will.
Your code might need to be: usable, fast to market, readable, maintainable etc. You have to optimize for whatever conditions you need.
I think the US had less authoritarian measures than Australia — I didn’t say “better”.

But yes, I personally think the difference in rates isn’t due to Australia being more authoritarian and that leading to success.
That article is from On Managing Yourself (2 vols) which is part of the HBR 10 Must Reads series. You will also find On Managing People (2 vols) and On Communication (2 vols) from the same series pretty useful.
You don’t have to actually rewrite it, amendments to the constitution don’t have the be consistent with those that come before it. Prohibition and repealing prohibition for example. If you somehow had enough political will you literally dissolve the US then you have enough to amend the constitution many times over.
Guns, not rifles. Most are committed using pistols.
Sure it does. All it takes is consensus.
My perspective is quite the opposite, people travel to see each other way more, video chat way more, and we talk about more diverse and interesting stuff.

They have more hobbies and more interesting hobbies (the internet has really exploded the ability to learn about and try things, and new tech like kite surfing is popular with my friends). My wife learned how to sew during the pandemic using just YouTube.
Confiscation is one option, yes. Voluntary buy backs another. Making essentially everyone who owns a gun feel embarrassed and like a social pariah is another. Choosing to buy a gun should be thought of as one of the stupidest decisions the average person can make.

It’s called changing our culture and it doesn’t happen overnight.

Like I said in another comment, another good option is to just say, “Welp, this won’t work.” Then acted surprised when the next school gets shot up.
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In my opinion, Windows Update is essentially malware. Ive been running without updates for years, even since Windows 7. Works fine.
Have you tried using k3s? How do the two compare?
Right now it is hard to look at our kids faces and not feel the impact of this tragedy. I don’t know about everyone but for most people their kids lives are way more important than their right to bear military grade guns. If there is no perfect solution we have to live with a less than perfect solution. If the solution is to legally make it harder for people to access such guns then so be it.
Really you should have those tests upfront. After that noone should be scared of changing any part of the codebase. Let alone 'never' changing stuff.

Releasing rewrites / redesigns behind a feature flag, with a couple of strategic if statements is usually good enough. Noone cares that you had to change code outside of your interface for a release or two.
I do not understand why the issue is not discussing DeVault's straightforward robots.txt suggestion:

> Have you considered the robots.txt approach, which would simply allow the sysadmin to tune the rate at which you will scrape their service? The best option puts the controls in the hands of the sysadmins you're affecting. This is what the rest of the internet does.

The only explanation I see later in the thread is:

> For boring technical reasons, it would be a fair bit of extra work for us to read robots.txt, so rather than going to a bunch of work to do that, we implemented a trivial list and offered to add sr.ht to it.

This is...not a satisfactory technical explanation. Perhaps the Go team should consider providing more openness and transparency about why it's "a fair bit of extra work" to implement an internet standard like DeVault suggests.

Honestly, DeVault is an abrasive person and not necessarily someone I would go out of my way to work with, but I don't see how the Golang team isn't at least somewhat at fault here for brushing off a community member with "Eh, it's too complicated for you to understand". That's not how you build a thriving community around a language.
That's quite impressive; I wonder why it's not mentioned more often. The gameplay looks like Asteroids with just the saucers (not the rocks).
This has literally nothing to do with hackers, computers, or engineering.
Didn't expect I would spend time playing here, but you got me. It was good.
> 2014 Sydney hostage crisis

A mass shooting in which, by the sound of it, a gunman killed one hostage? Then when "police...stormed the café ...[a hostage] was killed by a police bullet ricochet. ..[The gunman] was also killed. Three other hostages and a police officer were injured by police gunfire"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindt_Cafe_siege

In the 2002 Monash shooting, 2 people died. Seems like there hasn't been a mass shooting of >5 people in Australia since Port Arthur (1996), except in 2018 when a grandfather in WA killed his whole family including himself (7 people).
No, every business optimizes yield.

Smart businesses optimize UX for conversion. FREE with no revenue is loss.

What's next? Suing vegas for the lights? You don't want to gamble? Don't go to Vegas.

They already have "How much time have I spent in here?" features.

You may not optimize yield because the children are compulsive addictive and it's the internet's fault.

What's next? Suing the bar for allowing you to spend time there? You'll have to make it more unbearable.

Just do a little more censorship for me too, mmkay?
I think we'd need to be honest about it and compare individual European countries to individual US states. New York and California are NOT like Alabama, Texas and Florida.

California, Illinois and New York have different populations and different issues than Ohio, Texas, and Alabama for example.
It's not necessarily rewriting the constitution, and could take decades, but ensuring liberal judges get a majority on the supreme court is all it really takes in order to reverse the 5-4 D.C. v. Heller (2008) decision that first affirmed the 2nd amendment grants individuals the right to handguns for private use outside a militia. It's congressional legislation from there. Roe v. Wade already showed it's possible to overturn an opinion that grants individual rights.
I don't see how holding the third parties responsible would prevent the acts themselves. That's a retroactive measure. Reducing the availability of guns is proactive.

>With the Sandy Hook shooting, was the owner of the gun prosecuted for allowing the shooter to have it?

No, because she was the first person killed by the very weapon.
See, generally speaking I don't think this is a bad deal.

I mean, I don't know the exact numbers / company profile. But I was in a similar situation 8 years ago. I could early exercise and I did. Estimating taxes was a pain (but a fun challenge too, lol). A couple of years ago they finally had a liquidity event and doing all these exercise shenanigans saved me a ton of money, so I'm glad I did that.

The business was doing well and I knew exactly what the risks were and I knew I could afford to lose that money. I joined early so it wasn't that much money to begin with.

I guess my point is that I wouldn't be too dismissive of early exercise / RSAs / etc — for the right kind of person / company it could be a great tool.
> The Bill of Rights feels intense today, but try reading it in the mindset of someone in 1791. A few years removed from Louis XVI selling Divine Right of Kings. Then suddenly “Hell no, also we’re gonna say and print whatever we want, you can’t search us, and everyone gets guns.”

Source: https://twitter.com/Austen/status/1525640468129673216

Right to bear arms is one of the most profound ideas of the American constitution.
Because the "downstream systems" you mention are just all local git commands. It is necessary to branch from these points, so creating branches and checking state requires them. So e.g. `git diff lsb/master` becomes `git diff lsb/master/built-YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS` or at least `git diff $(git merge-base master)`. That doesn't seem better than the occasional --force.
>Full auto is the default behavior. It's the trigger disconnector that makes a handgun semi-auto.

This isn't true for any modern rifle or pistol design- the absence of the disconnector just means the gun stop working (hammer follow). You need additional parts to ensure that the gun works properly in full-auto; this is accomplished by a secondary trigger (the 'auto sear') that trips the hammer/striker after the bolt closes.

>There's really no way to make a semi-auto firearm that impedes full auto modification.

The only designs that work this way are all already classified as machine guns in the US, so they aren't made/sold there any more.
Uber also was wasting a huge amount of time and energy and most of the engineers didn’t have anything productive to do. At least that’s what I gathered from some ex Uber folks.
Defensive uses:

500,000-3,000,000

Suicides:

24,000

Murders:

14,000

- - - - -

Defensive gun uses:

https://datavisualizations.heritage.org/firearms/defensive-g...

Suicide and murder:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_S...
24th birthday doesn't make a person wise automatically. Psychological tests are needed for gun buyers.
> You can probably see where this is going.

Yeah, I can. It will get to about 49 or 50 senators (at the absolute maximum) and then stall out. Many of those senators, especially in marginal states like Arizona, will then become subject to difficult primary and general election challenges, dissuading anyone from trying again anytime soon.

> It is absolutely not impossible for 2/3 of Congress to agree on a controversial topic.

Provide even one counterexample, then.

> Believing that is very defeatist.

Yes it is. I’m a defeatist on this subject. Things don’t magically become possible because you really wish they were. Sometimes defeatism is the factually correct position. But you’re making moral/emotional arguments, not factual/logical ones.

I’m also a defeatist on such subjects as whether I’ll live forever, or whether I can win the lottery and stop working, or whether Iran or Hong Kong will become a democracy anytime soon.
And that code corresponds to the contents of the submitted article.

MAME also simulated hardware (connect this resistor to that transistor etc). This is all hardware and no CPU.
This tool has reminded me a few years ago I created a helper web utility that let me search Python libraries and get a tree view of their dependencies, and some license info. I had to do a lot of manual Python library compliance before we had tools like Blackduck.

It accepts dependencies in requirements.txt format (e.g. Django==3.1 or tensorflow)
https://pydepchecker.z33.web.core.windows.net/

It's got a few shortcomings. Dependency resolution in Python is pretty difficult to work out when you've got a lot of libraries with common dependencies. And the license info on Pypi isn't always correct. But it's always been a quick useful tool for me.
>I see no mechanism by which those laws would reduce mass shootings. A mass shooter would simply ignore them.

On virtue of how many shootings have begun "without warning", the cultural context in canada versus the us is quite different. The expectation of actions when you see a firearm is very different in these two countries!

- in the US, someone with an openly carried firearm may be transporting it or any number of innocent use cases

- in Canada, someone with an openly carried firearm is already committing a crime. And, that crime is generally of no personal benefit to them^, which is a huge warning sign. They are likely not considering the law in their actions.

If I saw a person with a gun in the US, I would quickly walk away. If I saw a person with a gun in Canada, I would run.

>gun owners would be much more receptive to regulation if they felt people were genuinely trying to separate narrow and effective laws from broad infringements that annoy many and accomplish little

Gun owners consistently misrepresent and come up with inconsistent interpretations of any gun control. The bar is never high enough, the logic never sound enough. The "broad infringements" proposed are never, and will never be, good enough. I find your statement to be a bit disingenuous in that regard.

^ while protest is a valid case imo, protesting by (for example) carrying a gun onto a school campus, grocery store, or movie theater is quite different than in a park with other protestors. Context matters, even here!
It depends on what your future income stream looks like. If you're a 22-24 year old software developer, getting to take on low-interest debt in an inflationary environment is a great deal. It's losing money on the stock that is the problem here.
Maybe instead of suing for money and that whole circus, they could sue to modify the machine learning neural nets or models to prevent their tragedy in the future for someone else's kid? For most social networks, that is.

I don't know I'm fairly particular to this social network, Hacker News, the social network for essays. The opposite of Twitter.

So in fact I'm rate-limited because my posts are controversial, but I accept this and deliberately did not ask for full free access again. It is a better version of the no-procast (meaning no procrastination, I think it's from 2007 or 2008) feature, which can easily be worked around on short notice without talking to a human. No shame factor. Doesn't work for that reason.

And that's it! No social media addiction! And I have quite the addictive personality, been to rehab after all!

Solve my own problem in a clever way, like a hacker, hack my own Hacker News addiction! Just like it says on the box!

And I volunteer to give testimony in favor of this social network, Hacker News, in court, if it's still like it is now. Which includes suing without trying to actually solve the problem by talking to the mods, or making a post.

Note that on May 12, 2012, at 11 AM, I was declared to be a hero in terms of the Roman Law definition, at the corner of Kearney and Bush, in San Francisco California. This means victims (it can be a single victim too in other cases) call you a hero for saving them from a criminal, in the spur of the moment, right then and there, of their own accord. They had asked me to defend them and I really did defend them, the cops ended up catching the perp at the scene of the crime, it was beautiful. According to me it was beautiful, actually the victims said "That was perfect!"

I might enjoy a little more credibility because of it. That's the point of that Roman law. Apparently that law fell off the books because it flat-out never came up, not because it was a bad law. And any court can make a declaration backing this, any court, that law isn't even necessary.

Including the social addiction media court, I suppose. If you wanted to sue Hacker News you might need more ammo for that judge and jury. More expensive lawyer perhaps. More prestigious expert witnesses.

If on the other hand you want help with addiction, write me, and look at my comments where I talk about it, at https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=daniel-cussen
Rifles with detachable magazines, or internal magazines with more than 5 rounds, should be as hard to purchase as machine guns. That's narrow enough for me.
Most children aren’t able to do that. Also parents can routinely verify. The responsibility for parenting should remain with parents and not the government.
There was a lot of consolidation in the space. Lots of mom-and-pop shops, IBM, HP, Compaq, Packard Bell, Dell, and many, many more (my first computer was an AST). They all did the same thing, and there wasn't space for that many players. The most telling bit was that IBM, the company that defined what all the others would clone, sold off that business to Lenovo.
I don’t think the problem is it’s untreatable so much as it’s ego-syntonic (ie they don’t feel anything is wrong) and so they’re not going to ask for help. But most personality disorders are like that.

IIRC mass killers do have some prior behaviors in common, but it’s not that they like wearing trenchcoats and violent video games, more like they often start with domestic violence or hit women.
It’s a question of governance. If they couldn’t manage it before… why can they now?

GM has a debt ratio of 1.7 compared with Tesla (the high growth new comer) of 0.9.

You put ANY metric between Tesla and GM that could justify GM having a higher credit rating. It’s ridiculous.
And here in Australia you can legally own a gun. Not sure about a tank. Though if I had a whole bunch of $$$ I'd find out... :-)
You do realize web scraping has gotten very cheap at scale and easy now too. It's an after thought for me, I'm more concerned with the economics of training, it can't be cheap
See also:

I’m Glad My Mom Died, by child actor Jennette McCurdy
That doesn't really make sense, though. The entire point of the 2nd amendment is to allow the rapid formation of a militia to protect against tyranny, oppression, foreign aggression, etc. So "military grade" is exactly what you want citizen weaponry to be... I.e., civilians don't need those functions until they really do.
Neither of those would stand much chance of being more effective than a firearm.
Maybe not a proxy per se, but more like a leading indicator, right? Those big enterprise customers might not ask about revenue, but the sales unit can certainly brag about headcount.
" I am sure he must wish Twitter had blocked his "Pedo" tweet about the divers who saved the Thai children."

Regardless of the current culture, you may reject the worldview in which a few mean Tweets are a reason to destroy/forever despise a person, regardless what that person has achieved otherwise.

In fact, the more people reject this judgmental, fire-and-brimstone attitude, the better place the social networks will be.

The current standard where gangs of people try to make other people permanent social outcasts based on one or several short quips somewhere on Twitter is psychotic, North Korea style. You do not have to accept it as normal.
"Sir, please return to a two mile radius of your home for you own safety or else we will arrest and imprison you, for your safety"
I guess we disagree on “totalitarian” — or if the BBC is a “tabloid”.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-59486285.amp
Well, from a different programmer's perspective, ideal scenarios ("ending" or "eliminating" bad things) are rarely a reality.

We can reduce car related deaths by regulating automotive vehicles and driving behavior. Speed limits, seatbelts, max BAC...

We can reduce sexual diseases by educating people on safe practice.

We can reduce homelessness through welfare systems.

And based on the experiences in virtually every other first world country, the US can probably reduce gun-related deaths with tighter regulations on gun ownership.
> “I see no mechanism by which those laws would reduce mass shootings. A mass shooter would simply ignore them.”

And yet, there does seem to be a strong correlation between “countries with stricter gun control laws” and “countries that have low rates of gun-related deaths and homicides”.

Canada has between 6-8X fewer gun fatalities per capita compared to the United States - both homicides and unintentional/accidental gun death rates are much lower. [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm...
"this" probably referred to the concept of using giant water reservoirs for energy storage, not the specific location
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What's the difference between addictive and fun?