skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that really such a common case? Obviously it depends what you’re configuring, but I definitely would not expect that it’s typically OK to jump in and modify the configuration of an object that’s already in use. What if it does do some expensive one-off setup using the supplied config at object creation time?

If you really need a general scoped override, it could be done in the config struct approach just by copying and restoring the entire config. This might be expensive if the struct is big, but on the other hand, you could change multiple properties at once which doesn’t look possible in the function-based approach.
Your argument is disingenuous.

You say guns can be used by weaker people to defend themselves (not sure if you consider children weak), and the argue that rifles kill less people than hammers. Yes rifles, handguns on the other hand kill >30 times more (and there is a large unspecified firearm category which kills ~10 times more than hammers). So are you suggesting weaker woman should take a rifle to their date in case they need to defend themselves.

The bigger issue is however that I'm very certain there are more events of a fun being used to attack a weaker person, than od a weaker person defendinf themselves with one.
150M just seems too low of a fine. The expected value of being fined is less than rewards and this encourages future abuse by other players.
Often child actors are sexually abused, too.
I'd say there are a number of angles from which to tackle the gun violence problem, but this would surely be one of them. Plus, worth dealing with independent of guns anyway. I wonder if there are links (including inverse relationships) between depression/isolation and classroom sizes or intensity of curriculum or single-sex schools. High school puts hormonal teenagers in a competitive environment every week day for hours; not everyone will cope well with that crucible.

Is there a stronger element of the individual and individual glory/success/achievement in the US than other countries that might explain the narcissism?
Sure — I’m willing to believe a lower number; that was just what I found.
So 18 U.S. Code § 832 is unconstitutional?
They can’t consent to anything by your logic we should cut a hole in a cardboard box and put them in it until they’re 18. You have to be practical, that opportunity could generate millions for his future and build a career. I mean you can’t punish them for being unable to see the future. Judge them from the information available at the junction.
At its peak during the 1980s and 1990s this is exactly what Inc magazine focused on, businesses making between $10 million and $100 million, the vast middle section of American business, the tens of thousands of medium sized businesses that make up the bulk of the economy. And Inc was very popular, because at that time it was a very popular idea for an entrepreneur to build a business on that scale.

After 2000 that particular ideal faded away, and also the market for what Inc magazine offered faded away. Slowly, but increasingly, the focus shifted to "unicorns." There were a few contributing factors:

1. In the 1950s and 1960s and 1970s it was still possible to start a business and grow it to $20 million, and then remain relatively stable at that level. However, the creation of new businesses has been in decline since the 1970s, a trend partly offset by the explosion of software startups, but still the trend is downwards.

2. Consolidation. In 1999 there were 8,000 businesses listed on all of the USA's stock markets (NYSE, Nasdaq, etc). In 2022, there are only 3,400 businesses listed. These last 20 years have seen the fastest consolidation in the history of the USA.

As such, the middle zone of American business is under pressure. Much more now than before 2000, a business has to get big, or get bought, or go under. So the dream that Inc magazine was selling in the 1980s and 1990s simply isn't realistic any more.
Finland have similar number of weapons, Swiss is not that distant, the issue are not weapons but society: any ruling class in pseudo-democracies (i.e. our formal but not substantial democracies) need something to pasture people avoiding revolts, the USA have built a false-free and competing ideology that's essentially push people to blame themself for their suffering and that's easily push fragile people toward nihilism, Swiss is not that different, only it's able to test people (mandatory conscription between 18 and 28 years of age, one paid month per year) and to offer not so bad overall living conditions. Other dictatorships choose different ways to pasture people.

The actual crusade against weapons, and I say that as an European left-wing Citizen is just because unrest was predicted due to neoliberal ruling [1] and they dislike the idea of an armed population that a day might shoot against them. In Italy fascists have done the same erasing military conscription NOT because it produce bad results (it do, but that's another story) but because they choose to even remove such hyper-basic training to form generations who shoot every days in videogames and in reality they'll probably follow what they have seen in movies, like run to the root trying "to escape", lock themselves in bathrooms, protect themselves with sofa or fridge door etc and I'm pretty sure most movies have done such absurd choices exactly to mentally push people toward such absurd behaviors.

Consider a thing: if you are satisfied you do not want war nor violence. If you are not your dissatisfaction might be weaponized to push you do things you do not want (including hard work, war etc) for the sake of the élite of the moment, if you are pushed toward illegality is even better: they can let you go and if needed trap you with legit reasons. That's how our societies are ruled and our subjects, not Citizens, allow that.

Weapons are common in USA just because they support the infinite-war economic model of USA rulers, but people need to be kept in a sorry state to obey, that's is.

[1] for USA just see https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/Global%20Trends_Mapping%... along it's publication date (not 2020 but 2004 FOR 2020)
That's not true. I never pushed my kids and now that they are adults they are angry with my for not pushing them. For example, "Why didn't you make us play sports?" Well, if you had told me you wanted to play sports I would have supported you, but you never said anything. It turns out that kids don't really know have the maturity to do things unless pushed or encouraged by parents. Who knew?
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Thank you so very much. This is what I've been searching for.
How about mobile game devs?
google is an app with 1 screen
For even more impact, this might have been a better play to roll out a bit earlier before Google started announcing/clarifying their free tier Workspaces arrangements for all the users that were freaking out and didn't already jump ship to protonmail to save their custom domain email setup. A bit earlier and this would have drawn attention of alot more of those users who now will just be staying with Google's offering.
If you did a pure analog copy (dual tape deck), you had generation loss. Eventually copies of copies would have too much noise and thus persistent load errors. Additionally, in-band signals were included in the gaps between blocks that would mess with the auto gain control, causing an unreadable copy as the tape deck tried to compensate. The loader would skip over these sections during the regular load process.

All copy protection relies on asymmetries between the production/mastering environment and the consumer equipment.
Thanks! Insightful. I wonder if you could get what you needed via unsafe but I agree: that's fighting the system in Java.
to control the releases of patches with a windows server update services (wsus)

so the you can test the patches and make sure it does not break user network connectivity

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/12/micro...

but yeah, I agree from the bandwidth perspective
> and graphics people are so insane about perf, they arent going to just start doing sqrt over and over. they are going to rejection sample anyway because it just 2 fmas

If you can re-jig the rest of your algorithm to consume the square of the radius (instead of the radius itself), you don't need to take a square-root here.
This guide seems to have reasonable guidelines for developers who want to use push notifications without being annoying, which is creditable; but IMO it's too little, too late.

The preponderance of random sites asking me to allow almost certainly spammy notifications has led to me instinctively disallowing all notification requests, and I will mentally penalize a site for showing me prompts popups about notifications as well.

The only suggestion I might possibly have around this is to explicitly show the user a preview of all the possible types of notifications they might get at the point you ask them to sign up for it. If there are so many that it might get confusing, guess what, you should probably not send them in the first place.
It's exceptionally rare to shoot at criminals or even to use a gun in self defense. When a person in the United States purchases a gun, the three most likely occurrences where that gun will be used to shoot a human are:

1. suicide

2. murdering a romantic partner

3. murdering a stranger after an argument or while the owner is committing a crime

Harvard has a good site that summarizes current research on how guns are used in the United States.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/gun-own...
Thanks for a small flashback into digital circuit design courses. Those two-dimensional truth tables, almost forgot 'em.
> That would be nice. It could even run on top of the GH Actions infrastructure now.

https://github.com/thepwagner/action-update being an example of this (and showing go, docker)

> it seems like part of the overhead in maintaining dependabot is that there is ruby code reimplementing yarn logic

The entire maintenance burden of dependabot is "reimplement logic that package managers already do to determine the update strategy." Using package managers functionality for this would indeed make this a lot easier, though even then package manager support for specific things might not be universal.

That said, it's possibly easier to go to the package manager and say "we'd like to implement/for you to implement feature X that will enable Dependabot as well as the underlying functionality Dependabot was missing, that your users probably already want" than the opposite problem of people asking Dependabot to write a bunch of ruby to re-implement something that already exists.
Let me add:

* Don't re-enable notifications every time your app updates

* Don't hide the opt-out options or I'll just opt out at the OS level.

* Don't mis-categorize push notifications. If you're receiving Breaking News notifications (but nothing else), suddenly the NYTimes will decide Championship Game is "Breaking News" and spoil a sporting result for you for a sport you've never gotten notifications for before. (because 'sports' is turned off!)

I'm also confused how both iOS and Android opt-in are both 35-40% but Android is default-opt-in.
Accepting the limitations of a site doesn't mean they don't exist.
Amazing that any mention of D&I issues is a "political agenda" (p.s. this was funded by a think tank that doesn't really focus on D&I at all)
What’re you referencing? I have not heard of any such thing.
The only issue is: you need water an mountains... They are not that rare, but definitively not enough for a full scale usage, we can and should use them when possible, but it does not suffice...
Many CEOs and even investors care less about profits as long as the valuation is sky high. I think Yahoo was never profitable.
Also good for society. Less evil, more nice people. Respect Google for these traits.
Those numbers are (roughly) in line with FBI statistics, from 500,000 to 1,500,000 depending on if you include assaults.

https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/crime/ucr.asp?table_in=2
According to wikipedia, Mexico, Belgium, Czech Republic, Afghanistan and Somalia have basically the same amount of guns per person. Yet some of these are among the safest countries in the world and in some of these you are very likely to get shot basically any time.

Just looking at the number of guns is very shortsighted and makes it sound you're focusing on "punishing sinful people" instead of making reasoned policy decision.
California is expensive
Hey how about tests to allow people to vote and have children. Sounds like a great idea.
Doesn't sound like you want to talk in good faith about ways to improve the country, so I guess go back to listening to whatever wacko conservative rustles your jimmies about the "radical left" and "crt".
They specifically mention in the Images documentation that one reason they haven't publicized this yet is due to porn or deep fakes risk. Assuming this works very well already.
Interesting how this idea resurfaces every few years again. I dabbled in it 12 years ago: https://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2010-02/13-creating_art_by_d...
On the other hand the US has the highest incarnation rate of any western country by a large margin. So I guess the guns don't help against the totalitarian tendencies of their government.
What about Colonization?

I probably spent more time playing it (and Alpha Centauri) than Civ.
Same argument can be made for federal government. Why are local governments more likely to take away human rights than a federal one?
And it _is_ a random point in a circle. Just not a uniformly distributed one.

Btw, here's a way to sample a uniform random point on the edge of a circle without trigonometric functions:

Sample x and y coordinates from a standard normal distribution. Then project the result on the circle, by normalising the distance.

(You can approximate normal distributions fairly easily. Or your favourite computing environment might have specialised optimized machinery built-in.)
I never said outlaw, I said compromise. Are school speed zones not a thing in America? Child seats? Speed limits? Cross walks? School crossing guards? All the other steps taken to make cars and the roads around schools and playgrounds safer?

We all recognize cars are dangerous and there are laws and regulations to combat that.
I think the game you're looking for is BitBurner: https://danielyxie.github.io/bitburner/
Amazon Drone Crashes Hit Jeff Bezos’ Delivery Dreams
https://archive.ph/vF2Bn
I was writing up a whole explanation for how that couldn't possibly work, but tbh you aren't really wrong with that, after all captchas these days do similar work.

I guess the primary concern with a porn model would be the ethics of it, which might turn off any company from helping out on training resources (for example, Google's TPU Research Cloud requires you to follow their code of ethics on AI, which would be very difficult to do with a topic as sensitive to people as porn).
What way? As an update to the least important possible device, that all users hate since it “crashes daily now”? Big way indeed.
There was an article in recent months about the loss of communal spaces for adolescents. Put a group of teenagers in a park just hanging out, and a suspicious local will dob them in as loitering. Play a noisy game of football and someone reports it. Other places are pay-to-play. Or have alcohol and designed for adults.

This isn't the one I was thinking about, but is on the same topic: https://www.jstor.org/stable/43323577
As long as you keep your kids away from addictive things, like social media, cell phones, heavily processed foods, drugs, sex, etc, they'll probably figure things out all right. But it seems easier than ever to fall into cycles of addiction in this era, no matter where you live on earth.

So I'd say pushing kids away from those things is necessary. Beyond that, I'm not so sure.
Ha I'm glad you said Kotlin! That's actually the language I had in mind when I submitted this question. I've also really enjoyed working with it and find the code to just be super expressive yet very readable. The syntax, built-ins, and JDK library extensions all just make it feel like everything is available exactly the way I would have wished it was.

Despite an interest in learning other programming languages, I've tended to stick with the most popular ones - Java/Kotlin and JS/TS - to benefit from the larger ecosystem of tooling and libraries as well as to have better odds at finding solutions to problems when looking online. I was wondering if Kotlin was just good as far as popular languages go or if it also stacks up against other languages which may be great to work with but have much less adoption. Glad to hear at least one strong opinion suggesting the latter possibility :)
No, she should use a handgun.

The rifle point was that while most murders are by handgun, most gun laws restrict rifles — which was a specific, second thing I was calling out.

> The bigger issue is however that I'm very certain there are more events of a fun being used to attack a weaker person, than od a weaker person defendinf themselves with one.

My point is that is more equal than when violence relies on knives and bats and fists.
What leads you do believe "the institutions" in the USA are are failing children at a substantially higher rate than any other country? And what specifically are you even talking about?
Finland is 3rd or 4th in gun ownership per capita after the US and Yemen - depending on whether you count the assault rifles the Swiss people store in their homes for military purposes.

We have had 3 school shootings ever. Total number of dead: 6. Last one was in 2008.

All guns in Finland are semi-automatic at most and clip/magazine size is limited for rifles and shotguns. Nobody _needs_ a full-auto weapon.

Over here can't get a gun unless you are a member of a gun club that'll vouch for you. You need to get a license from the police and a doctor's note. Until then you can use a clubs weapons on their premises under their supervision.

And when you finally get your gun, it MUST be stored in a regulated, locked, cabinet. Ammo in a separate, locked, fireproof cabinet. If someone finds out you're storing them on your mantle with the ammo right next to it you can wave your licenses and guns good bye.

"The Elite and Powerful" don't own guns, it's mostly just regular people who hunt or have a gun-related hobby like IPSC.

It's really easy to kill a dozen people with a full-auto assault rifle, much harder with a bolt-lock hunting rifle with a 4 round magazine. It's even harder to do it with a knife. And even harder to have the pre-planning to start building reliable bombs out of raw materials.

Oh and for the "crazy people", we have healthcare, people are actually taken care of. Prisons are for rehabilitation, not for punishment.
This is my point - people are dying. Lots of people. Children. And your response is “we’ve made enough compromises NO MORE! Let them continue to die” because your gun is more important then 100s of children's lives each year.
At MIT in 1973 I had to use RTL logic (lower density, speed, and fan-out than TTL) for my digital design lab. I decided to design a circuit that played perfect Nim on a board of one to four piles of up to 15 stones in each pile. It took around 20 JK Flip-flops to manage the game state and do the calculations plus more latches and muxes and demuxes for I/O.

My biggest problem was that I hadn’t yet learned to pick minimum viable projects that would still result in a good grade.
Only the github connect was broken, automatic deploy.
Just push to heroku also, when you push to github.

I just re-enabled the Github connect, re-enabled Automatic Deploy, and removed the `git push heroku` line. 1min.
I was considered 10x despite trying my best to explain that i am not. I discovered templating and i generated lot of code using templates this did increased productivity as lot of things that had to be done manually by developers were automated. I tried to educate other developers and management about templating but they just overlooked it and were hellbent to make me look as if i am genius! sometimes i feel it was a conspiracy so that others don't have to deal with templates ;-) sigh.
> If enough people actually cared about this, then you’d have people marching on the capitol, like after a certain president was not re-elected.

THANK YOU! Say what you will about those supporters but the fact they went that far to support something they believed in (albeit dumb honestly) is admirable.

Meanwhile the people with actual good values are just sharing senators' edgy tweets thinking that makes a difference.
It "works fine" insofar as you don't know if your machine is brimming with malware silently chugging away

Which is what "good" malware does
I think the thing with guns is that they tip the power balance too far in favor of the shooter. They are hard to defend against. They can do damage at range. Not a lot of skill is required to cause a lot of damage. You don't need a lot of creativity or even the ability to think clearly enough to execute a plan. You just have a gun laying around, decide "today's the day", and go live stream the next national tragedy. Not great.

You're right that we'll never ban guns in the US, but if we did, I think we'd see a lot less mass casualty events. People will still kill each other, of course, but it moves that breakpoint farther away from the average person's means, and moving that breakpoint means less innocent dead people. Seems fair to me.

Basically, I agree that people are creative, and a person who wants to kill someone (or many people) will find a way to do it. But if you make it harder, people will give up. Doing stuff is hard! Let's make it harder.
What makes a word a "real" word? All words were made up at some point or another. Latinx is in the OED which, if there is a way to decide whether a word is real, seems to be a strong signal.
VC money is there until it isn’t. See the YC message from last week.

Packaged dreams and hopes as a product ceases to be investible with high interest rate / high inflation.
Can only prop up the scam for so long.

Here are some good reads:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/10/business/bolt-start-up-ry...

and ICYMI the infamous "Stripe and YCombinator, the Mob Bosses of Silicon Valley" thread from the soon-to-be-former CEO:

https://twitter.com/theryanking/status/1485784823641755648

if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck...
You mean like trying to get your kid into programming, which is a bit more common around here?
The great thing about being able to dismiss anything just for being “political” is that you can label anything that way. Instant heckler’s veto!
Yeah, not sure how this would work over HTTPS without proxy or rogue cert.

With proxy, you can use HTTP CONNECT proxy : computer provides domain (SNI) and proxy can make allow/deny decision. If allowed, establishes a blind tunnel where packets flow without further inspection.
NCommander is a scarily smart guy and crushingly under-appreciated as a retro tech youtube person

I love watching their streams while working on my own projects over the weekend
The "makes sense" idea is for low effort purchases.

Simple example is itch.io. Games on there are a couple of bucks. I have my payment information saved. People link a game to me, and I'll maybe impulse buy cuz I don't have to deal with making an account or setting up payment info.

It's silly, but I think it works in a certain sweet spot! But honestly I think the bigger thing than payment details is actual account creation. I'll go over to Amazon to buy a thing just to not deal with some product's bespoke checkout page, unless I really want to support the product's creator.