skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Guns are built with a purpose. The purpose is to kill someone.
So it is not difficult to comprehend why Government needs to make it difficult to buy a gun more than it is difficult to buy medicine.
But there are people who propose to remove all restrictions instead to acquire guns. To take it to its logical conclusion that is how wild Wild West used to be. No police no governance no authority.

Now question is this. Which option seems more sane to you? You decide.
Bitcoin breaks from stocks in continued slide
One nitpick-- for inline SVGs your ids and refs will be in the global namespace. So this won't work well if you want to have multiple inline SVGs, as multiply-defined ids aren't allowed in the DOM.

Luckily XML has namespaces. Contact your local XML specialist for details on how to use them to solve this problem...

hides behind bush, snickers as confused XML specialist tells you that XML namespaces cannot solve this problem
Thanks for doing this! The only things I noticed is that in this image (https://architecturenotes.co/content/images/2022/05/Datasett...) the word "acquire" is misspelled and near the end GitHub is written as "Github" with incorrect casing, despite it being correct earlier on.
Looks interesting. From that page I couldn't see what 'graph' field relates to. Is it the identifier for a distinct named graph? It was blank in the examples.

Do you use it? What for?
I use this website all the time:

https://www.animatedknots.com/

Someday I'll buy the Ashley Book of Knots, and on that day I'll truly begin my journey into middle age.
I think it's worth noting that while it was definitely statistically less safe in the gang wars era, it was also less obvious. You didn't have to step over someone shooting up on the sidewalk (or the turd they left behind). You wouldn't see a broad daylight theft. If it wasn't your car stereo that was stolen the problems felt a lot farther away.
The situation is so much more complex than this, and involves a mix of legal agreements, corporate philosophy, and consumer psychology.

You might benefit from reading this article on Price Anchoring:

https://www.priceintelligently.com/blog/bid/181199/price-anc...
Yeah, talking bad about Tesla anywhere is going to draw the fanboys and fanatics out of the woodwork. I've rarely had more negative vocal backlash than when I mention the issues other people have faced dealing with their Tesla vehicles.

I get it that the early birds had to deal with a lot of criticism when there was a chance that they were betting their life savings on a company that could disappear overnight, or during the growing pains when they were getting vehicles that were 85% complete as compared to today. That doesn't justify the backlash I get for mentioning that some Teslas will not charge at their normal rate when the temperature drops below 26 degrees, and will take days to recharge unless connected to a supercharger. I've met people who had that happen to them. But mention that online and you'll get called bad names and receive 5 articles explaining how wrong you are when you yourself have seen the vehicle stuck in the driveway because it was too chilly outside for the tesla to charge itself with the charger.
Sony needs people to buy it, and if the scalpers do it and resell, then Sony doesn't pay the reputational cost.
'your freedoms must be protected by restricting you from exercising those freedoms' bill
I don’t know all the details about digital yuan but USA has enjoyed an exorbitant luxury by being the world’s reserve currency. I can see how senators with more political and macro economic experience than I would favor this ban.

I’m curious to learn what the realpolitik behind this really is.
What I meant by redirect was using robots.txt or some other mechanism to encourage the bots to crawl the current versions in favor of updating the search engine's data. Leave the existing links to prevent link rot, but make the current versions more enticing for the bot to traverse
We actually have had major patent reform! Look into IPR review, the Alice Supreme Court decision, and the patent reform act of ... was it 2012? 2013?

The IP landscape is wildly different than it was when these patents were first filed. That they've held up under scrutiny implies they're not _total_ junk.

Also, it probably still needs reform. But my understanding from talking to lawyers (who I was paying, to be fair), it's better than it was.
This is not a strategy for everyone, but I definitely pay less in SF than I would in most cities because I know people willing to live with me long-term (and split rent) here. Generally it's easier in SF to find a roommate who is high-earning and willing to split an apartment or house compared to other cities, where similar people would just pay a little more to get their own place.
What if they're the rational ones are you are being irrational? Wouldn't you have the same perception?
> The second server hosts one subhuman, and has a specific cert for it.

Would Firefox try to send a request for that seperate subhuman to my big wildcard server? That sounds very wrong!

You might want to clear your autocorrect cache.
This seems like a great candidate for an AR app.
I'm looking myself after my last role turned out to be a bait and switch from a very toxic founder who was chasing everybody who reported to them away; Anybody who is unemployed can ping me on twitter using this username (I have open DM's) and based on your resume, I might be able to refer you to roles I have to turn down. If not, at least you wont feel so alone.
a couple other comments have touched on something ive thought about alot recently;

as ev adoption continues we are going to observe more asymmetry between older cars which are lightweight and relatively lower to the ground, and massive EVs with giant battery packs and high hood lines [0][1]

a hummer EV's battery weighs 3000 lbs and the entire vehicle weighs 9,000 lbs. a 2005 Honda Civic coupe, which is generally very reliable and likely to still be in operation 17 years later, is 2,600 lbs. the civic doesn't stand a chance in a collision with the Hummer.

of course the hummer might be a relatively lower volume vehicle but the f-150 and silverado are #1 and #3 respectively in volume; their ev counterparts are going to be all over the roads in short time. and they have similar increases in weight over their ice counterparts, 6000-7000 lbs each.

i hope i'm wrong but i don't see how the number and severity of traffic fatalities go anywhere but up for the next 5-10 years.

[0] - https://twitter.com/ajlatrace/status/1495124630868213764
[1] - https://twitter.com/DrTCombs/status/1528853211582455814
But they are collecting royalties from Apple and others...
Yes, you must be a DC resident to register a vehicle in DC.

https://dmv.dc.gov/node/1118861

Even if you didn't, nobody would want to register a vehicle in DC unless you absolutely have to. It is not cheap or convenient.
Not really, there will be small innovation on obvious matters but any R&D that actual takes capital to validate or does not have immediate result will simply be dropped.

Or kept purely secret
>they have every right to claim the profit that currently the bots are taking

Consumers don't see it this way. They often latch on to completely "irrational" cues in forming opinions of a brand. See: "Apple Tax." Note: I put "irrational" in quotes to indicate that consumers exhibit un-intuitive behavior. It's not actually a value judgement about the behavior itself, only indicating that in a purely supply-and-demand driven market environment, these behaviors would not be exhibited.
I assume it's a global thing but in London there is a category of beggar that doesn't really look like a beggar. They usually have a story about their car running out of petrol or losing their train ticket. I've been approached by the same guy two days running telling me that he just lost his train ticket a few minutes before (what an unlucky guy).

My point is that in cities you evolve an attitude that pretty much anyone who walks up to you with a sob story is likely to be at best a beggar and at worst a thief/scammer. I think you could get someone to make a call on your behalf but actually handing you their phone (even for a moment) - that might be less common than you think.
> Over the past 20 years, more people per capita have died in school shootings in Germany than in the US.

Any stats to back that up? Seems completely counter-factual.
‘Elon Musk’s Crash Course’
SF has its problems to be sure. California has its problems too though whether or not those problems are better or worse than problems in any other place is unclear - the media treats SF and California as though they are one and the same.

( I'm old enough to remember when the media treated LA and California as one and the same and the SFers would snottily gripe that they're not 'that' California )

Still I don't know of any SF problems that will be made worse by the population going down. Seems to me that the couch surfers, renters, etc. benefit from the lower population.
The U.S. encourages carpet-bombing with trivial patents claiming to be bonafide inventions, because it gives opportunities for market protectionism.
> sudden drop in rents

Curious, Why aren't properly prices droping to reflect the loss in population.
I'm sure it is. But lots of people buy smaller cars because they're at least slightly better for the environment, or they just realize people generally don't need bigger cars.
Your reasoning contradicts its self.

I agree that remote work allows more workers to live where they want.

You claim that workers left SF not because of any attribute of the city, but because they wanted a change.

You imply that SF is desirable place to live, however it's population declined only because of a desire for change.

However, there are more remote workers outside of SF than in it. If SF was in-fact desirable, and remote workers simply want 'change', then SF's population would increase. Because a greater number of remote workers would move to desirable SF for their change, than would leave it.

Reality is this: Remote work allows workers choose desirable places to live regardless of office location.

Without the advantage of office location, SF stops being desirable. It stops being desirable because the benefits it supplies (culture, etc) are less than the costs it demands (crime, rent, etc).

One might argue that MANY cities are going to experience similar declines and that SF isn't unique. So this can't be seen as people voting with their feet against SF.

That's fine. Then people are voting with their feet against MANY cities and cities are simply not desirable.
Yep. Even better, if they flood the market with additional units and sell them at the same price, it's the resellers (scalpers) take the hit, and not them. Sony is probably selling them at a loss and intending to make it up on the software (game) sales. This means doing anything to decrease the demand, even a little, reduces their ability to make money on the part of the business that is intended to make the money.
Tails 5.0 Linux users warned against using it “for sensitive information”
We'll have the benefits of servers hosted locally but all staff will remote in from overseas.
Ooh, thanks for the link!

I think the researcher I had in mind was funded by Microsoft, or worked for Microsoft? They sounded like little robotic bird calls or something.

It's like Chirp.io took a single example from that paper and used it exclusively.
It should be noted that it's possible for electric (~heavy) vehicles to emit less brake dust than conventional vehicles due to regenerative braking
Potentially - the truly rational response is to incorporate the additional fees into your operating costs and if you're running a plumbing business those costs are going to be amortized across a whole lot of clients and might end up being pretty negligible.

You'd likely see more stratification between the DC and adjacent markets though - some proportion of the plumbers based in Arlington might refuse to serve DC proper to avoid the fee (if it were somehow enforced on them, which seems difficult given they're relying on registration) - but that'd lower supply and possibly give plumbers who do remain in the DC market more command over their price.

Either way, when you're talking about running a business, if a 500$ expense is going to break the bank you're probably teetering on the edge of insolvency anyways.
> road damage is approximately proportional to the fourth power of axle weight

It sounds like there must be some good and interesting physical reason for this. Do you have an intuitive explanation for it?
I've never put it on a resume and I've never been asked. After the 1st job, (at least in the tech world) it seems to be 95% experience and the accomplishments you can point to. Ymmv.
More important than price is control - when the vendor can change or disable software I've grown reliant on at their whim, and there's little I can do about it. Most complaints about Windows 11 are not about the price..
No, I've been on the receiving end of proctoring software. They do some basic screening, like looking around the room and using a mirror to make sure the web cam is authentic and connected to the screen, but there are still ways to work around it. Even something as simple as running the software from a virtual machine would be enough to bypass it, and then you could get assistance from another person searching the answers up for you.
Yes, a lot of "simple CRUD apps" can push an industry forward. A lot of simple stuff can also devolve into downright predatory practices which, despite making money, are anything but progress in the grander scheme of things. There's also the argument tons of "simple CRUD apps" exist because of a focus on the short term, rather than the long term. Or they exist to fill a "perceived hole" which is really just bureaucracy being bureaucracy.

To name a different example, management has absolutely exploded. It's arguable whether this explosion has freed up brains more, or instead sucked up brain power. Meanwhile, most management jobs do pay well, to the point it's hard to consider a manager living in poverty. Personally, I believe we could easily slash management in half, permanently destroying those jobs and the accompanied bureaucracy to free up the brains, but that would result in those individuals having to compete for different jobs, maybe even less desirable jobs which put them back into poverty.

Regardless, the point is poverty and freeing up brains for innovation aren't necessarily correlated or even causal. They can even be negatively correlated. Solving poverty isn't the only requirement to free up brains, if that is a societal goal. That's all.
I used limit as an example. It could be other concepts, simple or sophisticated.

I don’t think it’s about how professors teach, but about that people simply can’t get some abstractions. Have you seen kids in high school who can’t do algebra even if you find the best teachers for them?
Given the Russian shitshow, we can't take any more dependencies on China, and honestly need to start unwinding the ones we have. So I'm all for this.
It may be a bit misleading to say that CRISPR babies are "already happening in China". Yes, there was a researcher who genetically modified a few babies. (Specifically, to give them HIV resistance.) But he received a prison sentence for his actions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Jiankui_affair
Oh leave I did! I left after 11 months or so. Went out to Portland but it's not much better there nowadays. Still a fun city, at least. Might try Chicago now. I hadn't realized how relatively cheap some of the areas are. Boston might be fun, too!
Paramiko is licensed under the LGPL, though, so that doesn't apply here.
To be fair, part of my post was getting it off my chest. There's definitely a backlash to when these things happen that attempts to rationalize them i.e. "They don't happen that often!" and "The media seizes on these grandiose events to fear-monger!" Every school in America has devoted thought to this after Sandy Hook. Robb Elementary in Uvalde did too. Metal doors and barricading may have limited the loss of life to one or two classrooms.
iPhones are a hot commodity, I wonder why I never have to play "beat the scalper" when I want to buy one? I don't wonder at all, of course, because when I order a iPhone that is in short supply I simply get placed in a queue. It might be three months before I get a phone, but at least I know I don't have to spend my days refreshing a web page. I order, I'm done with that task until it shows up.

But, yeah, blame the players and not those that could shut down the game any time they like.
Red joins the ever-growing horde of U.S. American patent trolls. It's a real shame.
I guess we'll see more announcements like this in coming months.
There's a big difference between "lab leak makes some sense given it was the same city and lab leaks are known to have spread respiratory viruses before" which is a reasonable starting point for an investigation and "clearly engineered".
What would be the consequences of throwing out all patents that are purely an information theory thing?

These seem to have the biggest impact on our ability to interoperate with complex technologies at scale.
Thx will have a look into dynamobim
The application to images may have been novel, but this is just a trivial application of a rule that has been well known since the first uses of compression methods.

Whenever there is some data which passes through several conversion stages, there is a certain point in the chain of transformations where compression is more efficient than in the other points, so it is always necessary to choose carefully where to insert a compression transformation.

For example, if you aggregate some files into an archive file and then you encrypt the archive file, a compression step must be inserted between the concatenation of the input files and the encryption step.

Inserting the compression before concatenation or after encryption will give much worse compression ratios.

The same is true for any chain of transformations. It is always necessary to identify the point where the compression must be inserted, which for image processing in a camera happens to be before debayering.

Absolutely anyone who would receive the task to add compression to an image processing chain of algorithms would start by making tests to determine where to insert the compression.

Discovering the claim of the patent does not require any kind of creativity or any other special skill in the domain. It would have happened automatically to the first one who happened to work at this problem.
> they care whether a particular TLS session says it's for this.example or that.example and the transactions will accordingly go to the correct place. This Mozilla behaviour doesn't cause any problems.

Indeed they do - via the SNI header, which is set once per TLS connection, not once per HTTP request. I would think initializing a connection for one domain and then reusing it for a different domain could absolutely cause problems.
The west has learned how easy it is for China to take advantage of price arbitrage. This is especially true when they block access to their market for the thing being competed.

For example, some of my colleagues used to work at US solar companies before they all collapsed due to the market being flooded by below cost Chinese panels.

If a country‘s government is willing to back technology below cost (or by blocking their market only for competitors), that is an appropriate place for tariffs or banning.
I checked what you said about the 967 patent. I'm afraid it's just wrong. You quoted some of the initial part and missed out the bit which actually describes what's happening:

"an image processing system configured to perform a pre-emphasis function on the digital raw image data, to compress the digital raw image data after performing the pre-emphasis function such that the digital raw image data remains substantially visually lossless upon decompression, and to store the compressed digital raw image data in the memory device at a rate of at least about 23 frames per second, wherein the pre-emphasis function comprises a curve defined by the function y=(x+c)^g, where 0.01 <g<1 and c is an offset."
Nobody is choosing whether they live in DC or not based on a $500/year fee to register a 6000lb vehicle.
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Do DKMS drivers have to include headers as redistributed? I was under the impression they didn't have to, but I have very little expertise with DKMS and could definitely be wrong.
Curious why you continue to live there if you feel it's gotten so much more dangerous? Perhaps rent control? There are so many nice and safer parts of SF.
Yes, 2 hours from Sac. Quite rough to do every day, but I'd think pleasant to do twice a week; there's WiFi and a café on board, for what it's worth. That said, if you just want cheaper housing, Fairfield is only an hour away in the same direction, so there are plenty of intermediate options.
This is a thread about "how do you feel". GGP's comment started with metal doors, not with "we're freaked out about shootings". I might have been reading their tone wrong, but to me, the comment reads as if metal doors are a staple ingredient of any decent school, and not having them is a source for stress. That very much suggests that in the author's circles, such talk is commonplace.

For context, I've never seen a school with metal doors in my life and my only association with metal doors (until today) is prisons.
That's a great recommendation. I'll have to give Effective Altruism a look.

Well, yes, helping one's community instead of helping individuals in less well-of areas seems selfish to the point of evil, but at the same time, it's easy to feel like https://xkcd.com/871/. If I volunteer or donate in my community, I can personally verify that something has changed, in a way that I can't on another continent.

Also, I don't personally value the years of my own life that highly. There are plenty of things that I'd happily sacrifice my own life for or rather die than endure, so it makes sense to dedicate some of my donations to helping others avoid those fates.

So yes, rationally, I think GiveWell is an amazing organization and I'm a terrible person for not donating all of my philanthropic work to malaria eradication, but realistically I'm likely to donate more in total if I also find other organizations helping with causes I'm personally invested in.
commonjs to ESM is the first truly breaking change that the JS ecosystem has experienced, everything else was a lot smoother
> who would research anything or spend anything on R&D if it was not protected?

Most people that do real R&D do it because they want to, not because they're rewarded with patents. They want to make a better camera, a better camera format, and sell it. And nobody learns how to make something by reading the patents, in the past 50+ years they're practically unreadable legalese. Once upon a time they had diagrams for mechanical devices or chemical processes, but now they're just ideas that many people faced with similar challenges and available technologies would have considered, except the first to bother to patent a general idea like "compress raw sensor data before debayering" now gets to be a massive pain in the ass to people actually doing R&D to make things.
“I am not alone, and part of an ever increasing amount of people, that seriously question the anti-consumerism (hence, anti-capitalist, if you're very patriotic) practices employed by the status quo.”

this is one of the most bizarre sentences ever written
The division and inevitable inefficiencies are unfortunate, but Elastic.co are the ones who changed ES to use a nasty license. Doesn't this make Elastic.co the jerks?

It sucks it became necessary to fork, but now we have it. Long live FOSS OpenSearch.