skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why should it be a right that we are bound to as modern citizens? I didn't sign off on the 2nd amendment, it was signed off on 250 years ago by a small group of pre-modern colonial elites. It originally was considered useful because colonists and local militias needed to be able to defend themselves from the British, and to not lose their means to hunt or protect themselves before police.

These days, we have autonomy in our own country, no British will invade us now. What is the purpose of keeping the full right to any gun ownership, if it's not a good thing for the nation? We didn't keep slavery when we realized it was wrong, how bad must it become before we say guns be restricted to use by qualified and safe individuals?

And the idea of "arms" as only guns is silly, there are restrictions on many sorts of weaponry, including guns, so there is not an absolute right for any citizen to have guns at any time already. There are already restrictions and they're neither enforced nor strong enough.
Raising the age minimum on digital services from 13 to 16 or 17 would probably fix a lot of the ills caused by it. And/or teach media literacy from a young age.

And anyone here who reduces teenage digital addictions to “bad parenting” can pound sand. Nothing about parenting is simply the result of “the parents” and their methods. Raising a child is an impossibly multi-variate occupation and you only have so many knobs to turn and hours in the day.
This is your brain on java.
https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/access-d...

We do lack trustful information.
I'm on mac and I put it under ~/Applications. But it told me:

> Please move Arctype into your Applications folder

What's the difference?
Haha- looks like it :)
Well sure, I understand the implication you're making (something like "the government is investigating a problem that's mostly, but not completely, caused by government policy and has determined that things are fine, and we should be skeptical of this conclusion because of the inherent conflict of interest").

But ... it's still useful to take what CBO says as another data point to calibrate how you think about these things on your own. It's not completely useless.
Yup this is a lot of the problem, we stopped being able to discipline kids and they can be really nasty when left unchecked.
Neural 3D Reconstruction in the Wild
I always want to bike-shed this problem so bad. Brushes, electrostatic cleaners, vibrators, vortex generators, reel-to-reel plastic film over the panels...

There are so many things that seem like they would work but I know it's only because I don't understand the tradeoffs. In space tech, everything comes with a catch.
Lol truly.

The short answer is that the Dependabot team can't support all the ecosystems people want without hiring a dozen engineers who have expertise in those ecosystems. The best choice IMO is to move to a model where the community (and ideally the package manager maintainers) can implement their own updaters (ideally using the package manager directly, so support for yarn whatever can just be "update the yarn Dependabot updater to use the newest version of the yarn updater" without the Dependabot team having to care). GitHub even has a platform for running untrusted code, so...

Disclosure: was once my problem, no longer :)
I really enjoyed that game. Tons of personality.
The title is accurate: they’re all being recalled, but they estimate only 1% have the defect.
I didn't know that. Not surprising, though.
Pretraining Is All You Need for Image-to-Image Translation
Elon fixes everything. He is looking for reasons to back out and if this was not disclosed before, he found one more reason.
Man I can't believe that was a thing like "alright let's play bounce the pixel" ooh ahh. Then of course the foresight to see what we have now (doubtful) but still, crazy.
Yes. This is common knowledge and should be a surprise to no one.

What is interesting however, is that despite the risks - which are known to riders - they still choose to ride them. As a rider of a very fast bike, I do wish more people drove them so it would give drivers more perspective on motorcycles and hopefully make them more careful and aware of them.
I know that there's automated title mangling going on, but changing 'unquestionably' to 'always' seems outside the automatic title mangling, and fairly useless semantically.
That sounds like a similar situation to the Abilene paradox.
It’s sad that so many have no comprehension of history. We should ban people who want to ban guns. It’s that simple.
Hat tip on the phone number. Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/867-5309/Jenny
I think that's an invalid comparison.

the NOAA generates data sets from well known and vetted methods, their methods result in datasets that coincide a huge percent of the time with weather datasets generated by similar but unrelated agencies all around the world.

have you looked at the data sources the CBO cites?[0]

and, aside from that -- is there a name for when it's the sources of data you mistrust rather than the aggregator? I trust the DHS and other related three-letter-agencies about as far as I can throw them -- and I most especially mistrust their submitted budgets.

[0]: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57325
Not parent, but my thoughts:

- Decline of religion/spirituality is more pronounced in usa.

- More dual working parent homes (due to free labor markets). I also suspect that while real incomes have risen, actual disposable income has decreased, which pressures households into dual working arrangements. This means less time invested by parents in kids.

- institutional rot of public education . As some poster said, school bureaucracy is now defacto enabler of bullying - by doing nothing when observed... and punishing teachers that actually try.

- the internet has cracked the authority of social groups, with more time spent online and people more fractured among niche interests. This means less oversight and more activities happening without a concerted response by the group
To be fair to Dependabot, Nix isn't supported, so I'm not sure how the PRs could be right?
In the US, copyright infects every work at conception. No one but the author has much of a right to do anything with a work without a license. The GPL is a license - it's a subset of big C Copyright. Without Copyright the GPL is unenforceable. The GPL can't infect anything that isn't infected with the notion of Copyright.

Every license, other than completely opting out of copyright and into the public domain, infects the derived work with some sort of terms. You'll see in a lot of proprietary licenses "No reverse engineering, etc." The GPL forbids you from forbidding anything except forbidding.

EDIT: nuance, "much of a right to do anything" should more specifically be "anything involving distributing to other people." There exist exemptions in copyright law for using copyrighted works for your own personal use. Giving that thing to other people is no longer personal use.
Good call out on the mental healthcare I think this often gets overlooked, but you have to wonder if it was available in this instance would we be here today
Apple's and Oranges; tails is designed for storing sensitive files amongst many other features whereas Whonix is a live CD that doesn't offer storage and is focused only on secure browsing.
>The number of automatic weapons dropped through the floor.

There are almost no automatic weapons in circulation in the US and most people have never seen one in real life. Perhaps you mean semi-automatic? If so, that describes most guns other than revolvers and most shotguns.

>There have been no mass killings without automatic weapons (they're kind of necessary).

The truth is literally the exact opposite of this. There hasn't been a mass shooting with an automatic weapon in decades. The closest we have seen was the Las Vegas shooter who basically modified his semi-auto's with a bump stock which is illegal to buy now.

Also, the deadliest school shooting in US history was done by a student at Virginia Tech named Seung-Hui Cho and all he had was two handguns.
Yes, regardless of Bolt's specific circumstances, this is on point. Nobody is giving startups money to sit on it. Especially for the really big raises, a big part of the motivation is that the company has made a case for how the large amount of money is going to be deployed very quickly (with the goal of generating returns). You don't take $900M of VC funding and stretch it out over 10 years, that's not what they gave it to you for.

Whether it's actually possible to usefully deploy all that money is another matter. Generally it's very hard. I only have an up-close perspective on one such large raise (that ultimately failed) but imo the reason they got the money was that they made themselves a credible way to spend so much so quickly.
As long as parents can deny their children digital devices, the ills of the use of same can be assigned to the choices of the parents.
It's an explantory/reasoning clause. I saw this somewhere and think it's a good example: If there were an amendment that said "A well educated electorate being necessary to the functioning of the democracy, the right of the people to keep and read books shall not be infringed", you'd have a very hard time convincing me (or I think most people) that said amendment limits the right to keep and read books only to those that are either well educated already, or by only the electorate (and not say, children or felons).

Likewise, if the first amendment said something along the lines of "A personal connection with his creator being necessary for a upstanding and moral citizen, Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of a religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." I think you'd also have a hard time arguing that athiests and agnostics don't have a right to free expression or to not have a religion forced upon them by the government.
You used to be able to go up the "mountain" and stand on the wall and look out over the water. Unfortunately, when they rebuilt it, they put gates at the road right off the highway.
I like TP-Link's Omada line of APs.
FYI windows update for business is now a thing

And it uses direct public access to microsofts cdn to push updates set via polices in intune or memcm. It could be the case here and it's usually used by msft customers to avoid clogging vpn with patching bandwidth

Source:

Msft employee

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/w...
With zero tolerance policies a punch will get you a two week suspension on your "permanent" school record while the bully will get a day or nothing.
Have a compelling product that generates profit. Any product is compelling when subsidized heavily enough by VCs.
Sigh.

What is a "mass shooting", and how do we fix it?

Four people getting shot? That seems to be an arbitrarily picked number. If two gangs are in a fight, and four people are shot, does that count? Because most people wouldn't consider that a "mass shooting".

Shooting spree? Spree killings? Those terms have concrete meaning, and can't be pushed around by disingenuous people who want to inflate statistics.

Until we can define the problem, we have no hope for a solution.
Battlezone came 4 years before...
I haven't heard this but wages must be so low it doesn't matter similiar to how Indian firms will over employ and pair developers because they can afford to.
Classic WoW but set in a new world. Same gameplay, just a totally new world/map
Yeah, I don't have all that. I have a few on prem services, and trouble is very rare. Yet they hired some guy that spent a year trying to move our shit into k8s (and failing). He's long gone, and everything is still working fine.
This does not address the argument. It merely also points out that beaches, etc are dangerous. Nobody is arguing the beach model is a _good_ model to follow.
Those same smart people are so prescient they predict 10 out of the next 2 recessions.
The sync server itself also acts as an online backup too - if you lose all of your devices you can login with the same account and re-download.
Why is that convincing? You'd have to have inside knowledge of Musk's day to day value add in a way you were certain wasn't created for PR purposes.

On top of that, you'd have to treat his Twitter account as anomalous and not indicative of his day to day work because of ...some reason?
Well two articles down the strippers say we’re in a recession. Who ya gonna believe? Not joking, I honestly think strippers might have a better handle on which way the wind is blowing.
Too many people lose their phone number.

TOTP at least is just a standard so you can either use a client that has backup options, write your own, or whatever. It's better.
Ramming a truck into a school isn't terribly effective. Competent bomb-making is quite rare, especially without taking the care to test and refine one's skill; such tests are rather attention-getting. Compare to a gun; a few hundred bucks and you get a point&click kill device that doesn't require any training.

Motive is an interesting question, but I think it's worthwhile to consider means as well.
I just bought a new Camry hybrid. Gives me 60+ total mpg without any fuss. I’m learning how to drive it to maximize electric use.

My first pick was a Prius prime but those were on a huge back order. Having a 25 mile electric range is perfect for us.
I've been a proponent of low-code in the past (and may well be in the future), but we've been a bit burned recently with one of our suppliers - and it's not really a technical problem.

Low-code platforms tend to come with complex licensing agreements, typically with variables for the size of the functionality developed, and the number of users - this left us in a sticky place when the supplier increased the cost for the functionality delivered without significantly increasing value delivered. Like all agreements, there are things you can do to increase value without exponential increase in cost, and we've done some of these.

So the real issue is that the application architecture becomes license-driven rather than best-practice driven, and we paint ourselves into corners and reduce the overall value of the solution because of this.

So my advice is not to avoid, but when you do proceed make sure that the cost increases are limited to CPI (or similar) for the same functionality (and don't factor an expiring discount into your ROI calculation - make sure it's worthwhile at the non-discount price).

We've also had issues with branching, merging and version control, but that's secondary to the license-driven architecture problem.
About wrongful termination: Does severance pay help to reduce risk for companies? I always assume the risk comes from insufficient severance pay. My point: Even if you have grotesque firing practices, enough money can pave over the problem.
This is my usual thinking also but in this case,
I don"t think the 18 years old shooter was victim of bullying from elementary school kid.
~$20M in revenue from ~50 employees, equating to $400k in revenue/employee is extremely impressive for an early stage company.

What company is that?
Neither the VCs nor the founders care about “sustainability” or profitability. They care about exiting and not being left holding the bag.
Related: "Probably the most complete python dependency database" - https://github.com/DavHau/pypi-deps-db

> This data allows deterministic dependency resolution which is required by mach-nix[1] to generate reproducible python environments.

[1]: https://github.com/DavHau/mach-nix/
Aside from the end, this seems kind of similar to Stuart Little 3 'Big photo adventure' for the Ps2. From what I remember, I really enjoyed the game.
Well yes, but my point here is that NPM's entire design is around not doing that - whereas Go's design isn't
> A knob provides a richer communication path between your brain and the device. With touchscreens, you can basically just poke and swipe, with some unintuitive nuances like long press or multi-fingered gestures. With a knob, you're using separate muscles and so can associate muscle memory based on the size, texture, and granularity of "click" feedback as you turn. We also have the ability to finely modulate the rate of twisting something—compare that to tapping frantically on a touchscreen left/right icon to control a quantity.

That gives me an idea, which I credit to you sfink. To make a product with knobs, buy knobs of slightly different makes with variations that feel slightly different, slightly different texture, different roughness, different give, despite being all of them supposedly the same jelly bean part. This helps muscle memory because despite appearing basically the same the muscles and spine know the difference right away, secretly.

What that means is for a 6-knob device you need 6 suppliers. What that means is there's room in the market for many companies, and less economies of scale, despite being formally a commodity. What that then means is there's more diversity in the marketplace, and more companies that can each stay afloat, competition is less cutthroat. The other thing that then means is American and Chinese companies can coexist in what is otherwise a bitter-fought market. In fact, one good way of getting subtly different knob feels is in fact making them in different countries with different regulatory environments dictating how not to make the knob.

And what that all means is we reduce the final stage of economies of scale--wars and empires.
Decades of brain drain have made many small towns rather unattractive prospects besides cost for many who work in skilled corporate jobs.
Might have once agreed in my young OOP days but after 20+ years of experience, totally disagree. Yagni. Don't add unnecessary code and abstractions. Minimize complexity wherever possible.
It depends on how you define "improve". I wouldn't call a runaway AI an improvement - from the users' perspective. E.g. if you think about the Chernobyl power plant accident, when they tried to stop the reactor by lowering the moderator rods, due to their design, it would transiently increase the power generated by the core. And this, in that case proved fatal, as it overheated and the moderator rods got stuck in a position where they continued to improve the efficiency of the core.

And you could say that it improved the efficiency of the system (it definitely improved the power output of the core) but as it was an unintended change, it really lead to a fatal degradation. And this is far from being the only example of a runaway process in the history of engineering.
The author hates on mysql with no reasons for their hate. Quite odd even if their examples of projects that would have benefitted more from more interfaces are good.
This screenshot was made from a browser that does not support this stuff, so it's not very helpful. Every pair of examples should show different colors, and on your screenshot they're all the same (except of the very last example).
Australia's gun laws more or less and don't sell them to 18 year olds.
I just archive emails. I no longer use labels.
Serbia is smaller in population than NYC and has a fairly recent history of war. NYC hasn't had school mass shootings either. Mass shootings have happened in Serbia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BDiti%C5%A1te_shooting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velika_Ivan%C4%8Da_shooting

Serbia's gun laws are much closer to those in NYC than to those in Texas.

It's not really much of a comparison or illustration that the problem isn't ready access to firearms.
It's a JavaScript engine bug and JS is disabled by default. Still important, but I question whether anyone who enables JS in Tor is worth compromising.
The Fathers of the Internet
Queries? Which queries? Please don’t let these sneaky vendors fool you with the forensics system boxed as “SIEM”.
My splunk Enterprise is not a substance, this is immune system. Carefully trained with ML guided by the group of seasoned cybersecurity practitioners.
Correlating and reporting to smart workflow system in the near-real time.
Case study example — ransomware like NotPetya/Wannacry being wiped out faster than its ability to replicate and penetrate to extra systems.
The thinking goes more like this:

I want to get a random point in a circle.

What parameters make up a point in a circle?

Radius and angle can be one, so let's randomise those.

This is something that's done a lot in game development.
A Camry is not an EV and I have no interest in burning fossils ever again.

Edit: I can't reply to comments under this, I don't know why, so let me just add here: Yes, I know that the manufacture of any vehicle produces unwanted byproducts. That doesn't mean they're all equally bad. My electricity comes from completely renewable sources, and none of my money goes to the oil industry. Those issues are important to me. I don't need lecturing on how I've got it all wrong.
I think you're being disingenuous with what you surfaced from your Wikipedia link.

We are literally the only country on there that has more guns than people (the 2nd highest is literally half our amount per capita!). Now look at the ratio of unregistered to registered in the US. We clearly have a problem compared to other countries.

392 times more unregistered guns than registered, good god.
A WW2 airplane mail delivery sim.

1. A random point on a random map is selected and populated with objects to make it a mail delivery objective.

2. The player flies there and faces random enemy aircraft or vehicles en-route or in the objective area.

3. The player needs to survive and land to deliver the mail, and is awarded points for hits on enemies and successful landing criteria like how many pieces are missing from the airplane.

4. Expanding this to cooperative missions, points are divided between players, and bonuses are applied when both survive and land successfully.

5. Daily custom missions are published (like Noita’s daily runs) that players can try once, and since games like IL-2 have excellent mission recording features, it would be entertaining to see the final 5-to-10 seconds automatically recorded with the option of sharing the way you lost one of your wheels on landing.

More info: https://hypertexthero.com/combat-air-mail/
Bullying doesn't even describe half of it. There are many people who feel abandoned by everyone. It's extremely lonely for some people, especially in today's age where the default is NOT to go hang out in person with friends. The default is staring down at your phone and getting hooked on messaging and media tunnels.