skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just don't see something like that working. If child pornographers can find each other online I don't see why lonely men who want guns wouldn't be able to do the same. Then they could just sponsor each other no?

That, as well as the fact that in many of these cases, the guns came from friends and family, and weren't even owned by the shooter.
If the records no longer contain PII, then they've arguably satisfied their duties under the law, haven't they? Has a court held otherwise?
Conscience, Authenticity, and True Freedom
Opinion: utter nonsense
"I know very little about actual physics, but generally speaking the more grandiose headlines sound the less I pay attention…"
You've managed to find the words that I couldn't find to explain how I feel. Thank you.
Probably everyone who can write code should write something to trigger the auto ban functions of all the big tech companies.

Maybe if we trigger that stuff enough they'll realise what a terrible idea auto banning is.

Or probably not, no they won't.
> not underground-dungeon-scandal "Broadcom Corporation"

TIL: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/11/nicholas200811
Why are we calling it crypto? Just call them private coins
I'll weigh in, since my current and previous 2 jobs were "billable" in the sense you had to fill out a time sheet every day.

There's good ways of implementing billable time and bad. What makes it good:

1. When you have a billable target, only calculating it based off the available pool of working hours (i.e. minus holidays and your PTO time). My first billable job was billable in the sense I had an hourly rate, and when I didn't have billable work, I'd use up my vacation days and my boss thanked me for it because it made hitting his numbers easier as well as mine. It was nice.

2. Not micromanaging your employee's time sheets. I only ever put in 15 minute increments, but sometimes I put in blocks of 1 hour. My boss doesn't bug me on it because she trusts me. In turn, she trusts me because I deliver.

3. Having NBUE time allotted for some things (like self-study, hiring people, etc.).

When you don't have 1, you start seeing people work 80 hour weeks just before they take a week off. When you don't have 2, bosses spend a lot more energy reviewing time sheets, and employees spend a lot more time submitting them. When you don't have 3, you have people avoiding important, but non-billable activities and the company is loses out.
Maybe our goal as a society shouldn’t be to decide who gets rich, but rather to do what it takes to ensure fair distribution of resources such that everyone’s basic needs for food, housing, healthcare, and education are met.

That’s difficult to do when wealth is concentrated among a very small group of people.
> A lot of the pathologies involved in metered billing, time tracking, and perverse incentives vanish when you bill days instead of hours.

Billing daily and not tracking time doesn't make lazy contractors less likely to be inefficient. If anything, it gives them more opportunity to obscure what they're doing.

The only model that really eliminates the perverse incentive to be inefficient is project-based billing.
Mathologer: Power sum master class: How to sum quadrillions of powers (2019)
Does this project have any kind of corporate sponsor?
Remembers be this great book, unfortunately not printed in english, about how at the same period if time, Philippe Gloaguen started his traveling book adventure.

https://calmann-levy.fr/livre/une-vie-de-routard-97827021368...
People don't realize how massive cyberspace is. It dwarfs RL by orders of magnitude. People spend over 3 hours a day in that space and are barely maybe aware of it.
Perhaps they could rebrand as Waitliner? A nice place for your goods to take a rest.
Dismissing what people living in Oakland, southeast D.C., and the north side of Milwaukee know from frequent painful experience to be true as "white nationalist talking points" says more about your views than it does mine. Try following crime reporters on Twitter for a few weeks, like D.C. Realtime News. It's a constant march of death in these troubled communities, almost entirely bubbled up and separate from the rest of America. You won't get it until you really dive into it. Then you'll wonder why the people who purport to care for black lives never say a word about it. The victims of this violence wonder that too, out loud and on social media, but not in places most HN users or policymakers try to see.

Backing up, there are two issues here which you're conflating, and which I didn't do a good job of separating: total gun homicides and mass shootings. They intersect but also have differences. I already went deep on total gun homicides. The weird thing about mass shootings is that 70 years ago, gun ownership was more widespread than it is now, yet mass shootings were an extremely rare occurence... until Columbine. Semiautomatic and even fully-automatic weapons were commonly available beginning in the 1920s (remember Al Capone's mob and their Thompson submachine guns? Bonny and Clyde with their BARs?), yet we didn't see this rash of mass shootings until just the last few decades. What happened in the 90s, and how to we fix it?

Side note, and I'm sure it's been covered elsewhere, but 99% of gun deaths in the US do not involve AR-15s or "assault weapons." 97% of all gun deaths are from handguns. Many mass shootings were carried out with handguns; they are deadly, concealable, and potentially also very high-capacity. Personally I support much stricter controls on handgun sales and ownership. I think that would be a reasonable starting point to approach both total gun homicides and mass shootings.
Qualified? In what? He is not very articulate.

A firearms expert is not the same as a physical security specialist who can do a full threat model on the pros/cons of arming teachers. The assumptions are “bad” primarily because they are overly optimistic. I have yet to read an pro gun analysis that states any downsides to this method proposed. They do not state any downsides at all. That gives me pause, it demonstrates lack of real physical security expertise.

Do these schools even have basic security reviews, district level security practices, crisis training, surveillance, lock down procedures, egress planning?

That all requires funding from tax payers. Is Gov. Abott going to fund that across Texas?

The strategy seems to be arm teachers (conceal carry)and shooter will either get killed or avoid the situation entirely. It is hard to know what a enraged psycho will do. You have to plan for it.

Read the play by play for the Ulvade shooting. The shooter entered from an unsecured backdoor and barricaded himself in the classroom. It was a surprise attack in an enclosed space with tens of children. Total chaos. The teacher(s) most likely would not have time to respond even with training. Even safety officers (with training and arms) have been known to flee (see Parkland shooting). This has to factor into the analysis.

Once you are in a hostage situation the stakes are extreme and school teachers are not really prepared to deal with that. Two trained police officers were shot in the situation, there is no real hope for a teacher with a few hours on the shooting range. What are the ages of these random teachers, capabilities, fitness, etc? It is a total tossup. The assailant was just one 18 year old, what if there are two or more (see Columbine).

These simplistic solutions fall apart on quick review.
Please rethink using "bad apples" in this context in the future. The saying about bad apples is a warning about the corrupting influence of a single corrupt person on a group.

It's always confused me, too. You don't leave rotten apples in your fruit bowl.
Nice work, but IIUC it's made by a different research group.
I don't really follow your examples, but I think there's a part of startup comp structures that's worth calling out in general. Equity distribution ratios are way different than salary ones.

Your boss in a mature company may make 20% more than you, give or take. Your boss in a early stage startup may have 10x (or more!) more equity than you. Even if they don't have 10x to lose.
My point is that anyone can learn what they want to do on YouTube.

I served with an Electronics Technician in the Navy who started watching YouTube videos on commercial HVAC and now he does that as a living, servicing mostly restaurants in the Fort Worth-Dallas Metroplex, and not just making a "living", but last year his one-man operation made $300,000.

Not too shabby for just watching YouTube and going to get the necessary certifications.

Do you want to make the best pizza on the planet? There are YouTube videos out there from chefs all over the world, freely giving away their recipes. All you gotta do is pick up the ingredients and get started.

If someone wants it bad enough, they'll go get it, they won't wait for it to be handed to them.
I think so also. We should bypass this
I was viewing the archive in Firefox with JS off and saw the text just fine. With curl I get the text of the original website (no CAPTCHA), with the archive.is wrapper layout wrapper stuff, but that is only because I had "-" as the user-agent, with my normal config of not sending the user-agent header, I get a CAPTCHA. Sounds like other user-agents work too.
It was a good explanation.

How good is "the man tried to think of a name no one ever thought of before?"
Working for a client of Broadcom, I can say that no, they don't understand how opensource works.
Have a problem with one of their products which they blame on an upstream bug.
They don't allocate an engineer to fix said upstream bug, supplied an workaround that didn't solve the problem just reduced number of occurrences and that's it.
Opinion: All of Mathologer's videos are great; this one is (again, in my opinion) the best one so far... worth watching and re-watching in the future...
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/wp-content/uploads/site...

Most of the rest of the world live in pretty restrictive societies on a large number of axis.
Didn't think of that angle, but perhaps!

Pretty much everything in transportation is being pushed in the direction of centralized control; hence, the focus on EVs and the push against biofuels.

The marketing is all "climate change", but the reality is that biofuel-based vehicles can, in theory, be manufactured locally with machine tools, and the fuel can be grown locally as well. I'd bet money that they're better for the environment, too. And no, not interested in some "study" from Harvard funded by people that have a deeply-vested interest in EVs.

Modern battery tech is complicated. Manufacturing has to be much more centralized. And has plenty of places to insert remotely-operated control mechanisms linking to cellular networks.
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6156383?hl=en
PS. How do you generate the inset distinct font?
I think the harder you scrutinize the distinction between a tech problem and a business problem, the harder it becomes to find it.

When there appears to be such a distinction, that's usually a manifestation of something like Conway's law, a symptom that there exists an unhealthy organizational divide between business and technology.
> seems a little like cheating,

Yeah, IMO more like actually cheating. Otherwise any other two stations could be connected with you just walking really slowly.

I can walk Heathrow to Clapham Common - entirely underground (except the parts where the underground is actually above ground)
> Databricks has a product called Delta Lake that covers the infinitely scalable storage part

I think it is just API layer on top of existing storage systems like s3 and hdfs: https://docs.delta.io/latest/delta-storage.html#amazon-s3
VPN is decent (not as good as Mullvad). I haven't tried "Drive", but am not willing to shift from Dropbox. Email and Calendar from Proton are "perpetually in beta", but I prefer Fastmail (over a decade with them).
They are trying to spin debate around "privacy" and overselling the "Swiss experience". Nothing prevents them from changing the privacy policy tomorrow (to "conform" to the rules and regulations). As it is, Proton VPN's credentials are shrouded in controversy.
The Dawn of Everything - A new history of humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow is a fascinating book that challenges the dominant western narrative and re-examines the archeological record giving credit to the contributions and achievements of ingenious peoples.
I'd say Nix is 95% wonderful, 5% very painful.

If you're trying to do something with Nix and it works, neat.

If you're trying to do something and can't get it to work, you'll have a very difficult time. (It demands a depth of understanding, and Nix is a bit weird).

Hopefully in future, "documentation", "blogposts from randoms", etc. help alleviate that pain as more people use it.
Is/was "solid rot" slang for something somewhere?
When you claim something like "real democracy" leads to better freedoms and the expansion of liberty, how can someone come along and claim "real socialism" leads to better freedoms and the expansion of liberty, and one is immediately rejected while the other is expected to just be accepted as true?
This sounds interesting, but are you aware of anyone who has used this strategy with a major social network/content distribution platform and had success?

Reading, I wonder if it's the sort of thing where Google’s lawyers could brush you off because companies that large are effectively immune.
The claim is that the NRA was "radicalized". However, the same time the NRA was "radicalized", new more restrictive gun control law was pursued.

Why would anyone be surprised the NRA went from "all about recreational shooting" to "aggressive gun rights organization" at the same time restrictive guns laws were introduced? They had no reason to aggressively oppose gun control laws because none were being discussed.

It's like saying a homeowner "suddenly became violent" when someone tried to break into his home. There was nothing "sudden" about it, it was a response to an external trigger.
From other reports they waited AN HOUR before going in... this is just nuts
It's been hypothesized that glucosamine creates a similar response as calorie restriction. This effect was observed in rats in 2020 [0].

[0]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33478352/
Huma – REST/GraphQL API Framework for Golang with OpenAPI 3
Mind sharing the books list? thanks
> and likewise with any compute task that can be scaled out instead of up. So move as much as possible out of the scale-up instance to scale-out storage and compute.

This was very much the main lesson I got reading up on DataDog's third-gen event storage system Husky[1]. Great read.

[1] https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/introducing-husky... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31416843 (185 points, 9d ago, 15 comments)
On other hand every idea that has traction started out as idea without traction. If we assume that traction-less ideas are not worth of protection we're placing a landmine under every single productive idea that is yet to be had.
It is. Customers dont want to advertise on risky pages and videos, Google automagically pre-filters those out minimizing potential future issues.

Google cattl^^product might not like it, but customers are being kept happy.
Another tool in the same vein is Exalidraw - https://excalidraw.com/

Started out as a COVID side project (not mine, just a fan) and seems to be turning into a solid business.
This is just straight-up incorrect information.

First off it's not "pseudo-logic" to state that gun owners are more likely to be killed or injured in gun-related deaths or injuries. How are you going to kill or injure yourself with a gun if you don't own one? 66% of gun deaths are suicides. There is a causal relationship between owning a gun and committing suicide with a gun.

As for the stats, the only source I can find on that "millions" comment is from a conservative think tank citing a single 1995 study. The actual number of reported cases in the article is 67,000-- of which, most are actually not true self-defense cases.

"4. Most purported self-defense gun uses are gun uses in escalating arguments, and are both socially undesirable and illegal

We analyzed data from two national random-digit-dial surveys conducted under the auspices of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center. Criminal court judges who read the self-reported accounts of the purported self-defense gun use rated a majority as being illegal, even assuming that the respondent had a permit to own and to carry a gun, and that the respondent had described the event honestly from his own perspective." -- https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/gun-thr...

The 1995 study is such an insane outlier that it's safe to say that the methodology was likely flawed. If any news source is using that as a legitimate number it's not because they're actually interested in the truth. It's because they have an agenda to peddle to you.

Link to the think tank article:
https://fee.org/articles/more-people-use-a-gun-in-self-defen...

Finally, to claim that the number of homicides is "hardly more than 5" is hyperbolic and dishonest. Especially considering the fact that just the MOST RECENT mass shooting event has left 18 dead. If you think guns are cool just say that, don't be intellectually dishonest.
> creators decided to make themselves ever more dependent

Historically some people have decided to sell themselves into slavery, should we respect their freedom of choice?
Alibaba executive draws scorn for proposed individual carbon tracker
I realise it's maybe clear from the context of the thread, but it's worth reiterating that this is only true for unicorn-scale. There is plenty of startup capital available for good ideas in both Paris and Munich as well as many other European cities, they are just unlikely to breed unicorns.
Delta is a fairly recent entrant, and when some of my coworkers evaluated it, it didn't really seem as compelling as Snowflake or BigQuery. Databricks was something our data science department liked, but it didn't have a compelling sell to our (much larger) analytics org.
if you enjoy the article please upvote! :)
Thank you very much. I've noticed that a number of different YN posts are duplicates of previous entries[1]. Metadat makes a reference to 2019 and 2020. Is this typical? Are we looking at the same post again and again?

[1] “WTF Happened in 1971? | Hacker News.” Accessed May 26, 2022. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31471602.
The prophet John Zebedee said in his writing that upon the 2nd seal of history being broken people will kill each other. He did not say this was a war. He did not say what casualties would develop. But immediately after this time will be a historically severe depression that then leads to a quarter of the earth's population dying. The people witnessing truth will die as victims of violence. And then immediately after that the sky will be darkened, the moon and sun will not give out its light and the stars will fall from heaven. The reality we take for granted will be unraveled completely. In the panic people will seek shelter underground. You can expect these events to unfold rapidly to preserve the flesh of the very elect, whoever they are.
I think for the same reason that you're asexual but most folks aren't. I didn't have too many issues being single for large portions of my teens and early 20s, but I knew friends who would structure their weeks around finding a sexual partner at the end and would get intensely emotional about failing. Age is probably a factor as most people become less sexually and emotionally motivated with age.
Seems like this could have potential for recovering water that you intentionally evaporate such as evaporative cooling towers
succinct: Extortion is when someone threatens to hurt you by doing something like getting your account banned. Blackmail is when someone threatens to tell your secret. Blackmail is a specific type of extortion.
Pat Buchanan.
What happened to you as a kid? It's always interesting to learn about childhood traumas like this so that as a parent I can recognize the signs.
On HN, reposts are fine after a year or so. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
> This is where US feels like a dysfunctional society when viewed from outside. If US views occasional mass-shootings as a non-issue, sure. But if it does see it as a problem and it's not able to deal with it because for whatever reason (culture, freedom, constitution etc.), I think that's a problem.

My interpretation isn't that some people don't see a problem, its just that different people believe in different solutions because the 'cost' of proposed policies is different to them. The cost of new guns laws is huge for some, and non-existent to others.

Honestly I think the national gun debate is kind of a joke. Most of the farthest left states don't even enforce or do a good job implementing the laws they have already. What difference would it make if the policy in DC changed when the cops on the street and the capital at home don't care. Buying a gun in California is just as easy as it is in Florida, it's just a bad idea because you can be thrown in jail the rest of your life if you use it even in self defense, so people don't buy them as often.
> So, no terraform for a setup we only create once; in 20 minutes.

While this may be right.
If you do not have a way to "bootstrap" from scratch in a small enough unit of time (minute, hour, day -> whatever you find as acceptable disruption) then you are gonna get screwed badly.

You dont have to have infrastructure up/down everyday. Just this one time will freak you enough to not just have it in the docs. Now this doesnt mean you have to have crazy infra, I just have 3 docker hosts, running a compose.yml each -> but if I lose docker/compose files its gonna take 2 weeks for me to get back.
Space dominance will be as critical to 21st century conflicts as air superiority was to 20th century conflicts. The superpowers recognize this, and will build thousands of anti-satellite weapons if that's what it takes. Welcome to the new arms race.

Individual satellites aren't survivable, at least not in LEO. They follow predictable orbits, can't maneuver much, and won't be able to carry significant defensive systems. The best that SpaceX (or any satellite operator) can do is keep some spares in orbit for redundancy, plus have a replacement inventory on the ground that can be launched within days.
How does something like Starlink fair in these scenarios? How do governments turn off the internet when it comes from space?
No, if you are paid by a client hourly for travel, you cannot bill that same hour to another client. That's bog standard for every profession.

If you bill two clients for the same hour, that's "double billing," and it's fraud, and a number of accountants and lawyers have had their licenses suspended or (more commonly) terminated over this. Most of them usually plea bargain to avoid time behind bars, and this is generally acceptable because the true punishment is that their professional career is dead.

Very few (basically no) client will agree to pay you for travel time while also permitting you to work on another client's case for that same time. (Note however that if invoicing client for expenses like tickets but not for travel time, it is generally acceptable to work on another client's matter during the time spent traveling.)
Customers as a Service.

CaaS
Only if that option is not exposed. If I had a tickbox to "search local" vs "search planet" (search planet should get the same results anywhere on the planet) then I'd know exactly what is happening.

I dislike that google hides what is being done.
The theft of manhole covers always makes me think what has civilization come to.
Interesting, but why use this over peertube?
> a tertiary use case of paying for illegal goods and services?

This is the use case mentioned. The OP is saying that everything else about it is useless.

Having the option to do something illegal should the need arise is a benefit to some people, and government control of the financial sector is not beloved by everyone.