skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regardless of the gun issue, there’s a glaring issue that seems more obvious to me: mental health. The solution seems to be a much better mental health system and safety net. If we got rid of all the guns in the world, psychopaths would make pipe bombs, etc. Getting rid of guns would help, no doubt. It would add friction to the process of pulling off massacres. But the real, root problem seems to me that we have completely gutted our mental healthcare system.
No, it doesn't work. Picking one place an outcome happened after a law was passed, while ignoring all places similar laws were passed, is not how you evaluate evidence.

For example, New Zealand didn't pass such a law, but had the same reduction. The first world actually saw a massive homicide reduction during the same period. Some hypotheses include reduction of lead in the environment for ~prev 15-20 years, resulting in less violent people. Econ lit is full of references on all this stuff.

If you do stuff like try to correlate overall homicide rate among OECD countries (or even US states, or all countries) with gun ownership rates, you get a slightly negative correlation. If you expect less guns means less homicides, this should surprise you.

Lots of other countries also have passed similar laws - some saw increases in violence, some didn't. Picking one where violence went up and concluding laws don't work is as incorrect as picking Australia.
I'm not familiar, so I searched him up. Is this what you're referring to?

> Then, in March 2018, Schneider's time at Nickelodeon suddenly ended amid allegations of verbal abuse and questionable treatment of the young stars who appeared on his shows

Source: https://www.looper.com/618303/the-dan-schneider-controversy-...
The way of compared cities with knowledge is new but not clearly clarified in the article I think.

The highway is more like extracting knowledge directly from our minds. While the streets are more like wandering from thoughts to thoughts.

Extracting knowledge directly is suitable for solving a problem with one answer, but wandering from thoughts to thoughts is more comfortable for creative things.
Just yesterday I read "In Praise of Mathematics" [0]. It is written as an interview / dialogue, but a very pleasant read. I think the main difference is that here the pieces are large enough to convey fully formed thoughts and ideas, not ideas hacked into very small pieces as in The Little XXX.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/30084187-in-praise-of...
Should this be surprising or even upsetting? The Netherlands isn't like the US, it's an old nation with a very racially homogeneous population.
No, code will be deemed whatever fits the idealogy of the judiciary. Legal reasoning is secondary except for show nowadays given the partisan majority of the supreme court. Specious and convenient reasoning abound.
>What's next? Suing the bar for allowing you to spend time there?

Well, actually: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dram_shop
I suspect we're encountering a planning vs logging fork here. If you primarily use a daily page to log or track what you did, then terms like journal or diary seem most natural to you. If you primarily use it to plan or list what you need to do in the future, then you're more likely to call it a day planner.

HN seems more highly populated with loggers and trackers compared to the general public. A quick search on Amazon US for "day planner", "journal", and "diary" suggests most people associate journal and diary with free-form pages and day planner with date-based pages (implying most people who use date-based pages are more planners than loggers)
The title is misleading. Sure, it's technically true in the sense that employees with loans were fired, but the wording suggests they were targeted for having the loans. For instance, consider the following statements:

"Bolt fires employees that have children"

"Bolt fires employees that worked from home"

"Bolt fires employees that had reddit accounts"

A far less misleading title would be something like "Fired Bolt employees on the hook for stock option loans"
There isn’t one. Branch prediction allows speculative execution, but cmov just blocks.

Reordering may allow executing independent instructions which follow the cmov, but anything depending on the cmov will have to wait.

It’s one of the reasons compilers avoid cmov relatively aggressively, they can cause pipeline stalls which don’t affect branches.
Wouldn't this be an "auto mute"? I haven't tried it, but maybe it unmutes when it sees your face again.
Holy crap! Look at these acquisitions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware#Acquisitions
I mean .. yes? Crime is committed by people. To control crime is necessarily to control people, to coerce them into not performing certain acts. Laws, courts, police: all systems of control.
Their argument is gonna be that people will find other ways to kill. Maybe invest in a system that makes people less likely to murder an innocent croud? Wonder what could do that... Better education? Better mental health facilities? Lesser access to the easy people kill machine?
Michael Dell will get $24bn! from this acquisition...It's fascinating how he turned around a struggling PC company (Dell Inc) into a financial engineering machine that made him tens of billions.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoinegara/2021/04/18/how-wall...
Because they want something that’s not affected by the chip shortage.
Yep, that's Broadcom's business model ... buy a business (VMWare), ignore its smaller customers, upsell the Fortune 500 on the product (VMWare) to push out competing solutions, and keep the line items on those Fortune 500 bills growing. It's worked for them I guess. I left a Broadcom acquisition before the takeover.
Why wouldn't you just post to the article directly, and bypass the horrible Reddit web site for the redirect?
Because corporate capitalism and investors expect ever higher returns. So a company that does good at what it does needs to look at new revenue sources to please investors which after a while just does mediocre at everything.
I watched the Dutch head honcho of the IRS trying to bullshit himself out of this. The man was sweating.

"Allen die zich in Nederland bevinden, worden in gelijke gevallen gelijk behandeld".
I believe that algorithms reconstructing your face or part if it (ie facial expressions) are already in use, it's just not advertised.
Reminds me (on a different scale of course) of the “Teach your kids bridge/poker/chess” series of articles that went around on HN a few weeks ago.

Help your kids be kids and learn what they want to learn.
> Should this be surprising or even upsetting?

While it doesn’t have to surprise /you/, the victims are used to racism so they aren’t surprised either.

However, it definitely upsets them because they’re discriminated against and negatively affected, while you are not.
This is probably even true today on very small architectures like a retro-computing Commodore 64.

But it's about scale in two distinct ways. Obviously these programs are smaller, meaning any clever trick has disproportionate impact on real performance, but also there's less need for abstraction because that's less global complexity to handle. A C64 has 65536 bytes of RAM, you can literally write down what each byte is used for, and your program is likewise smaller so you can write down what every instruction does exactly.

This sort of global view is something a compiler takes advantage of, but is normally not practical for humans. At the scale of a Commodore 64 it is practical.

People scale too. In Linux they can get into trouble if a function X() also happens to do Y 'cos that's not what the function said and nobody keeps all of this in their head. But if your entire software is the work of one guy, he remembers that the X routine also does Y so it's fine.
ah so the ruling class with be armed, while the rest are not. sounds great
Or Walmart. Or churches. Or music festivals. Or your workplace, so all workplaces. Or your grandma's house.
You only need to test with 5 users [2000]
I wanted to try your site, but after clicking on the link in the email, it tries to send me through some redirectingat.com link which is blocked by my ad blocker.

What does that link do?
I wouldn't worry much... the reports of Perl's death have been greatly exaggerated!

The blog post seems to indicate that the steering council simply wants to to avoid being bitten by Zawinski's "CADT" model.

And who could blame them after seeing the kind of stunts pulled in other language communities?
The current thing is truth. Arguments against current thing are misinformation
Seeing any content from the original site requires JS to click on a page made to look like Cloudflare's with Google's recaptcha. Later there's mail.ru tracking among others.

curl this link and tell me that you see any text from the original website.
it was meant to facilitate another American revolution (against our own government should it turn tyrannical).

"Was" is the key word now. People have become so indoctrinated and addicted to 24/7 news cycle that they'll more readily use them against their own neighbor than the real source of the problem (government/corporation collusion).
If you can be controlled through access to alcohol, I'd say you have a problem.
I gather they own Symantec as well, how did that go for them? $61bn is a full price to be paying at this stage of the market.
Feels like a lot of websites could do with switching their H1 and H2s around..

> A kidnapping deemed a hoax, the newbie detective who cracked the case, and the Harvard-trained lawyer whose mental unraveling set the whole story in motion.

Much more intriguing.
The stories surrounding Dan Schneider are mostly just rumors and allegations from children / parents of children who auditioned for his shows, so there's nothing definitive to be said.

However, something that's very clear to everybody is that Dan Schneider is an obvious foot fetishist (which is normal) and on multiple occasion has tried to fulfill that fetish through children. Pretty much all of his shows (iCarly in particular has many instances of this) have scenes that include children doing "wacky" and "random" things with their feet on camera. This could probably be shrugged off if it wasn't for the time when he literally asked for fans of the show (children) on Twitter to post pictures of their feet as some kind of challenge or something. Just very creepy behavior overall.
So what you want is the ability to kill large numbers of people quickly and efficiently, correct?
Would guess they’re high-fiving at Parallels right now.
I've found my game stutters when game files become invalid. Revalidating through steam (apologies, don't remember the specific term) fixes the issue.

EDIT: I stand corrected, the more common stutter issue the article describes is different altogether.
> Estimates over the past two decades suggest that
200,000 to 500,000 guns are stolen each year in the
United States.

https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/32630640/5385318...
South Africa has a pretty heterogeneous population from an ethnicity perspective and they are very protective of locals when it comes to jobs (including some frequent rioting against foreigners)

If you’re from up north, i.e. not southern Africa then you will most likely suffer discrimination.

So yes, it’s not a particularly Dutch disease, it happens everywhere, including for example Mexico where Mexicans are preferred over foreigners in the great majority of jobs.

The US is more an exception to this where we’re welcoming of foreigners by and large —with exceptions of course.
> But institutional racism is not the same as racial hatred, Van Rij (CDA) emphasized before the Council of Ministers. There were also concerns about the legal consequences of such a confession.

The mental gymnastics displayed by the government in this scandal, is both hilarious and disgusting.

They want to explicitly differentiate that institutional racism and everyday racism are “different” as if it makes things better - though the former is arguably equally or more harmful as the state has all the power.

Further, they acknowledge there has been discrimination, but do not want to “admit” there was racism - just because it has legal implications. This is exactly like immoral companies settling lawsuits with no admission of guilt, to avoid consequences.

Despicable!
> It is excellent at parsing text.

"Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister" was one acronym I remember.
> I have some PSI Audio studio monitors

Ouch, those are expensive. Any small studio monitors (4 or 5 inch woofer) you'd recommend in $500-$600 range (per speaker)? I can't really try many out where I live, unfortunately.
Some points of interest:

-60 percent or more US states have no gun registration, I know as I live in Indiana which changed to a no gun registration state despite objections from their own citizens and cops.

-Among religious right guns are seen as a male status symbols

-Can we cure this economically by requiring liability insurance in addition to gun registration? It work by, if you have a past history of danger signs then you would be accessed via insurance companies the largest liability insurance price of owning a gun. Similar to vehicle registration and liability insurance
They may require something called "plug-in" power, which is different from phantom power. If you're using a recording device, there may be an option to turn this on. This is common for lav mics, so it may be true for yours too. As an example,if you have something like a zoom h5 recorder it's available through the menu system. It's also possible that you need an adapter that converts the plug from TRS to TRRS or vice versa. (Simplified: Count the number of "stripes" on the plug, if there are 2 you may need an adapter to convert it to 3, or the reverse)
> They can't be "used generate branchless code" because it's completely the wrong layer.

I guess precision in language is valuable, and I did make a typo by neglecting to type the word "to". I should've said, "Do you think they can't be used as part of an expression which may possibly be optimized into branchless code?".

Thank you for the metaphors about keeping the CPU cool, but I really just wanted to know what the other guy meant by what he said.
I'm IOS-less is there a video demo?
I blame the media. Everything is just another storyline for reactions. Don't romanticise it. In any way. Because you dont know what glory looks like to a school shooter.
Do these type of transactions ever end up well for either the acquirer or the acquired company?
There’s a sqrt-free “is this point in the circle?” algorithm as well: sum the squares of each coordinate and compare to the square of the radius.
Interesting stuff.

Before controlling alcohol (which is largely a symptom of the real problem, imo) what about evidence and strategies for income inequality control as crime control? https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/06/07/the-star...
What do you consider a test to vote? having never been incarcerated? lots of states already have that implemented.
In most of these conditions you can usually plan ahead and use the delivery function of any of the major supermarkets - at half the price and ten times the selection. Their delivery window might be a one-hour slot tomorrow, but for anything but impulse purchases or shopping for the 1%ers that's mighty fine.
The story on a GPU is much different though, thanks to branch divergence.
It wasn't all fine and dandy here too, but at least buildings and land were mostly returned (corporations were mostly robbed by the communists so there wasn't much to return). Has Polish land not been returned at all to the rightful owners?
Is this surprising? Not if you've been following the case or know many Dutch people. It should be upsetting if you're Dutch. It means that your supposedly egalitarian and democratic society isn't open to everyone. Judging and discriminating based upon skin color and ethnicity is morally reprehensible. Especially in a negative fashion. Full stop.

A majority ethnicity does not excuse racism. If anything it makes it worse.
Which streamer? I totally dig content by amateur musicians.
The irony is that many I know don't have time for their children because they are hopelessly addicted to social media themselves.
Unfortunately, it's not the law of the land --- it's a judicial opinion, written in water and subject to change without notice. (Which is how judicial opinion should be; this is just a good opinion that ought to be codified by the legislature.)
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> empirical evidence instead of lofty ideals

The problem with a lot of anti-gun measures is that the proponents readily admit that they would not have stopped any particular shooter. For instance, people talk about background checks, but this shooter and many others did not have a history and were not known to police. They would have passes a background check.

Often times the person acquiring the gun already broke a number of gun laws. Either straw purchase, borrowed someones gun, carrying across state lines, etc. So throwing more laws at it won't necessarily help. Enforcement of existing laws could help but is obviously difficult. Not to mention that gun violence is much higher in cities/counties/states with the most gun control measures. You can say that they just get the guns from elsewhere and national restrictions need to be imposed, but we should see SOME effect. Wyoming should have a higher murder rate than Michigan.

So the conversation from anti-gun people basically amounts to less guns everywhere, but that genie might be out of the bottle already. There are already hundreds of millions of guns in the US and it would be impractical to seize even a tiny percent of them.

But note that there were always guns in America. In fact, guns were often brought to high schools. In 1969, most public high schools in NYC had a shooting club. And yet there were no school shootings.

https://nypost.com/2018/03/31/when-toting-guns-in-high-schoo...
I think the core issue is that:

- Calendars are good at appointments but bad at everything else.

- Day planners are good for jotting down what you're working on and for revisiting what you did last week/month, but if you put anything with a deadline in your day planner you're bound to forget it. And if you have a ton of notes that relate to a single project, where do you put them?

- To-do lists tend to accumulate tasks and then you declare TODO bankruptcy, delete everything, and start over.

I'm convinced it's possible to merge these concepts intelligently, in a way that hasn't been done before. An app that has a free-form day planner, but you can still tag items with a due date, tags, etc so you can still see which deadlines are approaching.

You want to be able to zoom-in and zoom-out in your "tree" so you can do high level planning but you also want to be able to indent and add as many notes/ideas as you want without losing track of the bigger picture. With real-time multiuser editing and end-to-end encryption. That's what we're building with https://www.thymer.com
"1,675 children removed from parents' custody in benefits scandal"

https://nltimes.nl/2022/05/11/1675-children-removed-parents-...
How would that work? lol. There are thousands of weirdos and anti-social kids for every one school shooter. Plus if a disproportionate number of black kids are investigated it would be legally challenged.
A cool new way of finding interesting websites by search topics. 267 million front pages to choose from.
> Ok, but why is this even a point worth making?

Because it's a core component of the topic of this discussion thread. I think we're coming in at different angles to each other, but given what you've said here:

> law-abiding citizens who own guns are overwhelmingly in favor of requiring people to show some evidence of being responsible law-abiding citizens before they can buy a gun, just as we require people to show evidence of being responsible drivers before we let them drive cars on public roads.

I don't think we're in disagreement over some fundamental logical pathway to improvement. However, back to my original point: On this topic logic don't play, because history.

(and a powerful, entrenched lobby that leverages this emotional topic using slippery-slope, fear-of-loss-of-identity arguments).
I really don't think we should count on such an outcome and idk what it would even look like. A change like this should come from congress, which honestly feels a little more likely than shifting the court to be liberal enough to do whatever it is you're hoping for.
Inline assembly is notorious for being nontrivial and is a big source of invalid compiler bug reports.

Make sure you understand all of the subtle rules about how to use it. If you can, use intrinsics instead.

One particularly tricky/subtle item is the early-clobbers indication.
> I think the appeal of something like this is that it is at the most minimal practical form

True, but computer for computer, I'd say the Apple II was much more interesting a machine than the PC. Even the last 8-bit II's could be implemented in generic TTL chips and it offered a nicer bus, and some clever graphics (do you remember any other computer of the time you could shift something half a pixel to the side?).

I'll give you that the CPU timing critical Disk II is a pain, but you can always incorporate a pretend SCSI card that maps to an SDcard and host all the software and all the data that was ever used and generated on every Apple II on the planet on a single card.
It's not too bad in 2d, but the efficiency of the rejection method gets very bad in higher dimensions.
This is true, the hard truth is that many people do have a problem with alcohol.
Brits to get £400 energy bill help and £650 payments for millions on benefits
Ha, I tried, but no dice. Too much competition (and people cheating with multiple accounts). Best I got was Assault Commander, but I kinda liked to stay Defense Commander, the buffs could make a good party unkillable :D.

Probably could've when the game started dying, but I lost interest by then. The mass PVP was really fun with hundreds of people, though often laggy.

The combat system (still haven't seen anything like it, the initial devs were brilliant), the scenery (Seeliewoods was fantastic), the decently balanced, prolonged PVP at the time, all the crafting stuff and absolutely free market, plus the early playerbase made the game great even if it did have a repetitive endgame. Oh and there was no region lock so people from all over the world could play, like Guild Wars.

Spent most money on that MMO, ever. But I guess milking people is overall more profitable.

I lost my account when Enmasse migrated them to Gameforge or something, I just didn't bother. They're shutting it down for good next month.

Kinda why I hate MMOs nowadays, I'd rather have it all on my computer even if I won't play it :D
In that case you'd still have full access to your documents.

In keeping with local-first values the complete and canonical dataset resides on your devices (Macs/iPads). Sync service outage or total shutdown would result in your no longer being able to sync between devices, but all the devices would have whatever data they had at time the service went offline, and you can continue to make local edits until the end of time.

You can test this out: just put some stuff into Muse, then turn off your wifi / go into airplane mode / shut off the network in some other way. Keep working with your data and watch the sync indicator; it will show that you have a lot of unsynced changes, but never will your ability to work be interrupted.
I wish there was an arena defense game with multiple classes. It would be a co op game where you fight a waves of enemies as a team and then a boss each round. You can purchase items and upgrades inbetween rounds
I've been on the unfortunate end of compiler bugs on multiple occasions - ICEs, invalid codegen and invalid optimisations. It still takes a lot to convince me it's a compiler bug it they seem to be like pringles - once you start you can't stop.
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