skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Comparing 3rd world countries to a 1st world country is ridiculous.

Look at Australia or Israel. Australia had shootings. Passed a gun control law and... No shootings.

In Israel we have draft law. Everyone knows how to use a gun. In the 90's with the Oslo peace accord gun legislation was reduced. Buying a gun became easy for "self defense".

Suddenly gun violence skyrocketed. Israel quickly changed direction and now even when a soldier goes back home from the army he often leaves his gun behind. Licenses are harder to get and are for a shorter period of time. There are many people with guns and a valid license but strict regulation when applied to the entire country worked.

The one exception is Arab cities which are riddled with crime. This is due to police incompetence and years of neglect. But that's a different subject altogether.

Now I agree that it's not a simple bit of regulation and the USA is a VERY different country. But when done right good legislation saves lives. In the USA you can't even have a computerized database of the gun licenses. You let people sell guns to one another. So many problems that I think most NRA members would agree need fixing. This is pretty toxic.
> Guns are just like hammers, an amoral tool

> that can be used for whatever ends the user intends to use it for.

You can usually survive a mistake with a hammer.

The difference is the cost of the errors.

With guns it can be fatal error.

With nuclear bombs -> it can be fatal for the humanity.
> The issue is more that literary scenes don't really exist any more, in the sense of groups of people who all know each other and have common values.

This is a very good point.
It's especially striking in visual arts; we used to have groups of more or less young people obsessed with certain ideas and aesthetics. They would meet up in old Parisian flats, write manifestos and plot against their rivals.
Nowadays it's all about individual genius. I'm not making a judgement here-- it simply seems we've lost a sense of community attached to this (which certainly relates to the broader social fabric too).

I guess you could say furries are an art movement in this regard. Though they meet up sometimes (I guess), when they do it's not really the same thing. They communicate through a Discord server; it's no longer a public forum, it has become an echo chamber.
Yes... So many memories of the 90's are coming back to me all of a sudden. I spent months on Soundtracker/Protracker, literally.
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The focus of the recent debate on estimating the number of Twitter bots oversimplifies the issue and misses the point of quantifying the harm of online abuse and manipulation by inauthentic accounts.
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This article is missing the point. The reason Musk wants to know how many bots there are is because a lot of the advertising revenue isn't "pay per click" ads, but just companies advertising for more eyes to see it. In that case, companies aren't going to pay if it's not real human eyes seeing it

bit of clickbait
Well, plant cellulose has been around for more than 2 billion years, and it still takes an impressively long time for microbes to break it down.
Does anybody have some insight into the performance and safety of this type of design?

Romanian media is mostly silent on the topic. When it does happen to come up, the conversation seems to get stuck either at "the Americans are finally coming to save us" or "the globalist elites are experimenting on us". Neither position is helpful or informative.
We thus internalize our oppression, and become our own abusers.
Somehow I am not very moved by people who have inherited houses having to go to the bother of sorting through yet more stuff they've inherited along with real-estate. For many younger people in the US (perhaps even most of them?) buying a house is either a pipe dream or a life-long debt-servicing endeavor.
Bakfietsen are even better.
Sure, it's a matter of preference, I just prefer to have less stuff, everything else being equal.
Seriously could not finish the opening story. I understand a small tinge of disdain for the effort required, but surely deep down a sense of gratitude and nostalgia should be mixed in no? Do people really not have no love for their parents they inherited the belongings of? The fact of the inheritance occuring is a hint that we're already filtering for kids who did not have an amiable relationship with their parents, so assuming that, i cannot understand how resentment can "slice through" your feelings of loss. Perhaps it can be mixed in, sure, but if it fills your heart so much as displace your sense of loss, I cannot imagine a more selfish and ungrateful attitude towards one's loving parents.
Good for portability, but what about efficiency, when compared to native?
> When not to use: ... You have a team of native android and ios developers who can build something with other frameworks like react native

So this will be even less native of an experience than React Native.
I’m a kiwi - never seen the series - awesome!

I loved Sarcastic Guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9vunDdxWLA

> or I Speak No English

In France a Mum with her ~8 year old daughter came up and asked me something. I replied “Je ne parle pas français”, and the daughter looked very confused and said to her mum (in French) “¡But mama, he’s speaking French!”.

As an aside: when going to a country it is really worthwhile learning some local comedy culture people your age learned as a child. It really helps connect with people. I will have to learn this when I travel to Canada. Knowing Monty Python is important for middle aged foreigners spending time in the UK (and can help in colonies too I guess).
The think that makes it great is that nothing is dryly in tune, and that gives the instrument its flavor. But yes, it works great.

Nothing bad to say about the analog part. The MIDI controller used to be not-so-good on early firmwares, but you can/should update it easily.
Ok, let us look at 8 years ago. Igor "Strelkov" Girkin with 51 soldiers started from Crimea and went to Sloviansk (Slavyansk) and captured the city with 140 000 citizen. That action started the Donbas war. OK, there was kind of anarchy because there was no President (Yanukovich has escaped to Russia before the war and it was before acting president Turchinov). But anyway what will happen with 52 armed men if they enter into any 100k+ USA city for the sake of separatism? I bet they will be killed in first hour before even entering the city and all separatism sympathisers will be punished as well.
> No amount of claimed benefits can make adopting the mainframe a sane decision.

I feel like engineering teams in payment and finance tech would like a word about this.

There are always extreme use cases that demand unconventional techniques. The stability of global financial networks is a fairly tough constraint to argue with.
This is a bit ridiculous (not the library, the situation)

Why do we have to reinvent the wheel every couple of years?

As much as this lib looks fine, I'd be sticking with requests if it still keeps getting fixes

And of course the beauty of open source is that I can fork the project and add a fix if I need.

It's great that HttpX uses the same API apparently, but you know, there's always some rough corner somewhere and of course your project hits it. Of course.

Software maintenance is already annoying without having to update libraries every now and then. Now having to replace a library is even more problematic
> Switzerland has the population of NYC, the city, not the metro area... and attracts the crème de la crème of a continent made of 740m people.

Switzerland has a native population with the traditional flaws and usual repartition of a normal population. Your rebuke is the usual one. People like to pretend direct democracy wouldn’t work for their usual pet peeve which generally boils down to them thinking they are much better than their neighbours and when you point to them that their argument is completely disproved by the fact that it already works in an actual rich country they just declare it doesn’t count out of intellectual laziness.

Also yes autocracy can work if you are fine with its main flaws: unequal treatment of the population. China is a better exemple than the countries you suggested looking at.
Having done both sides I'd say the kids are getting the better deal :-) Palliative care for a parent is draining and can take years but it utterly pales compared to how much effort raising kids is. Doing both at the same time is not recommended!
Sounds interesting, is it Mutant 59? If so, I will try find a copy.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2368220.Mutant_59
It's a book for data scientists.

Data scientists are not software engineers.

They analyze data, they don't produce applications.

Not everything in the world is written for the benefit of software engineers.
Just think of it: You start your lib, it becomes fairly popular; you think wow this deserves its own domain. Now it's more like a chore than a pet project, plus no one donates to your awesome lib - yes you believe in OSS, but BigBuckCorp who is using your lib could at least chip in. It is all a drag now, so you decide to move on, you owe them nothing, and they are giving you nothing. So years later your credit card expires, and you have to update it to update the domain, and you will definitely do it if you come to it but not now. And it's gone. Screw this...
A pretty massive amount I imagine. I attended a lecture on single image steganography and they were able to store almost 25% of the image's size and it was barely visible. Even 50% didn't look too bad.

Extending that into video files and it would likely be pretty massive, although you'd have some interesting time with youtube's compression algorithms
I agree that gangs and criminals will find ways to illegally acquire guns. However, a large majority of the mass shootings have happened with legally purchased guns.

In the Uvalde shooting today, everything was purchased completely legally.

In the Buffalo shooting, the gun was purchased legally. The high capacity magazine was illegal to possess in New York, but it is legal to purchase and possess in Pennsylvania. All you have to do is drive an hour south and you can buy one with no checks of any kind, and no one would ever know you had it.

In both cases, the police response was hindered by the shooter wearing body armor that could not be penetrated by the police officers' pistols. The body armor is completely legal to purchase with no checks whatsoever.
Yeah I agree that no one acts in a knowingly malicious way. But considering for example racists or eugenicists, it's important to note that no one is born a racist or eugenicist. Those mentalities are always either (1) something other people convince them is the right mentality or (2) a kind of coping mechanism, a way to maintain our belief that we are good or we are competent in the face of some negative signals that may say otherwise.

Thus, given the fact that people do change (otherwise they wouldn't have changed to such an unnatural state to begin with), we should rely on the agency of people calling other people out and people being able to increase their self-awareness and learn from their mistakes. I mean, if you disagree with someone, you don't have to convince them, you just have to convince others to join your side. People with different beliefs standing up for them is what creates balance in the world.

Of your above examples, I also agree with your point about it always being some group vs the 'others'. But again, none of those people were born with those desires to harm others. It was something developed and something unnatural, likely the response to some negative events. But I don't think we shouldn't distrust human agency altogether just because some people use theirs to cause harm. And we don't have to calculate precisely the total benefit or harm of our future actions in order to have permission to express our agency. I guess it's really about reaching a state of self-awareness to identify if we're acting in an authentic way.

Coming back to technology, I'd say with people that want to automate away or control people, they should reflect on why they've come to distrust other people in general. I mean they certainly trust themselves to try to automate away or control other people. Why not trust others similarly? What events or people in their life led them to that mindset?
There's also the chroma subsampling issue. With the standard 4:2:0 ratios, you'll get half the resolution for the two chroma channels, and if I'm not mistaken, they are more aggressively quantized.

It would be better to use YUV/YCbCr directly instead of RGB.
>I can see the future as being devoid of any humanity.

I can see a past where this already happened, to paraphrase Douglas Adams ;)
If 'bugs are evolving to eat plastic' does that not mean that the bacteria that can metabolize plastic are outcompeting wildtype strains, not the other way around?
Great site for finding the shows outside the norm (haven't we all seen Les Miserables at least twice by now?)
Also the best way to find show dates and times without going through 16 pages of adverts offering me seat upgrades before they even tell me the time.
Payment provider Paddle acquires ProfitWell
> various regions won’t see similar perf

How’s the latency of ddg redirects depends on the region?

> given the number of times I use ddg in a day

What’s you estimation? A hundred? It’s something like a minute or two of accumulated time. It’s not even worth mentioning.

Also I doubt that the redirect delay should be taken in account at all. The workflow may vary (obviously) but I normally open a link in a separate tab. By the time you click on this tab all the redirect work has finished. What’s your workflow and how does the redirect delay impact it?
Romantic partner embraces reduce cortisol release after stress in women, not men
To support the author of FabGL you can buy his own boards:

https://www.tindie.com/products/fabgl/fabgl-esp32-33v-board-...
Where did you find Space Debris? Unlike Stardust Memories, I can’t see Space Debris under File -> Load
Thanks for the detailed answer! You've clearly put a lot of thought into that.

My point was just that sometimes, it's worth it to just ignore the gatekeepers and go straight to the public, esp. when you're an expert and you have a good offering. But it's certainly complicated.
May I ask how something like this is built in the browser? what tech is behind it?
That's one of the big differences: the only thing a normal person in France, Germany or the rest of western Europe* could do that involves a 1200/month repayment is buy property (or an absolutely ridiculous car). A lot of the younger employees I work with got paid while doing their bachelor's degrees because they did dual degree programs, where they're employed by a big industrial company and alternate terms having internships within the company and taking courses at the university the company partners with.

* I say "western Europe" because I know that university fees in the UK are higher, and this is the region I currently know enough to say this about, but I imagine university fees are similarly low in eastern and southern Europe.
Right, I was wondering about this too. There are mentions of instances vs machines, so I'm hoping it's possible to spin up multiple instances of the same machine to run tasks concurrently, but I haven't found this explicitly confirmed anywhere yet.
On the locations of the bullet holes on bombers that land successfully
So you are saying an algorithm which says always go left unless you start at 1, is physically impossible (apart from using superdeterminism), because the A function would be non-continuous?

I am glad that paper got rejected.
Or, if it is a system based on many components that can be independantly updated, some bugs may be introduced because a mismatch caused one variable to corrupt and then that one just keeps being propagated to newer versions until it triggers a bug because you assumed it can never have that specific value.

Which, it actually can't in the current state, but only because of the system itself changin, or evolving, over time.
You are right [0]! I haven't really used any of these in the past years. Whoever came up with that should be banned from language design for life! Every language becomes Java given sufficient time - just like every data format becomes XML.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
The normal results are going to be global (though I do sometimes see local results), but the map view and list of places are both geolocated by default.

In any case, searching instead for "best burger near $CITY" doesn't seem terribly difficult (and that's in fact how I generally write my queries).
This is really interesting to me.
At my job I maintain a very similar iOS render. Our app is built on the exact same principles, we have 3 native renderers (iOS, web app and Android) that consume the same JSON and generate native UI at runtime.

The schema even looks similar and as far as I know no one was aware of this project when this was built.

There are major disadvantages to this approach of course but there are also many many advantages.
> those who will procure guns for illegal use will always have access

That's true for criminals, but what about distressed students? I could imagine that increasing friction would at least result in less deadly weapons being used. School massacres in Europe tend to be less deadly because the attackers are using knifes or self-made explosives that seldom work.
Absolutely. No amount of lipstick can transform a pig into a prince[ss], but sadly GIGO still holds and the trash in the ether distracts and stupefies. That is, you can make a potentially smart person into a dumb one.
Musk said the large number of bots was why he was buying twitter in the first place. If they can prove that the number of bots is less than the 40-90% that Musk claims will he pay extra because it is a better asset than he thought?
But to your original comment, shouldn't BTC go to 500 USDT but stay at a constant USD price (assuming no contagion to the rest of the crypto market which I mentioned above)?

Basically if you buy BTC using USD going through a random currency RC (USD -> RC -> BTC), the exchange rates BTC:RC and USD:RC shouldn't matter as long as they're constant. If they become volatile, I'd expect exchanges to stop trading these pairs, making these rates undefined. But if Tether ends up being stable at say $0.1, I don't see why the BTC:USD rate (going through Tether) would change.

There are also other stablecoins, I'm assuming that USDT is not the only one in use, so why would it impact the BTC:USD rate (again, forgetting about the contagion)? E.g. on https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/markets/ there are several pairs defined, some directly with USD, some with DAI.

Edit: maybe you mean that as long as they pretend the peg still holds, people would just buy BTC with USDT, making the run worse?
It is worrying how deep the political pockets of some of these rich cryptocurrency “elites” are and, ironically, how integrated they are becoming with traditional finance. A big downturn in the crypto space will have ripple effects that could affect the larger economy. Combine that with an actual looming recession.
The whole point is that most of Twitter isn't cost per action ads like facebook, but brand advertisers who probably are just looking at impressions.

If those impressions are off by X% due to bots, that's a problem. Especially if as a public company you've declared that issue at 5%, and it's more.
> To be fair, the traditional inflation hedge of gold is largely flat over the last year and has underperformed BTC over longer time periods. However, the US dollar index is at 20 year highs!

The USD index is defined in terms of other fiat currencies. It is meaningless; only shows how fast currencies are debasing against each other.

> And many commodities are at 20 year highs to the dollar!

This means the dollar is at its least worth in the past 20 years, so inflation HAS occurred.
Yeah, "Fake it till you make it", and they made it.

They are the only stablecoin I would ever consider buying, because they by now have enough resources to fake it long term.

I've read that the main reasons that people invest in a stablecoin (from least to most) is to:
a) buy/sell other crypto easily,
b) store illegal gains without drawing attention to yourself
c) move your money out of the country.

Reason C is especially pertinent to China, and the environment there (from what I read on U.S. media, which is HIGHLY unreliable) is not pushing them to run the bank.

IMO, the biggest risk for Tether is that the AG suddenly announces that they won't be able to trade in the States, as that will cause a run, and that is definitely possible.
Paddle Acquires ProfitWell for $200m
I find this is a really bad precedent. Not far from now they'll achieve "super human" level general AI, and be like "yeah it's too powerful for you, we'll keep it internal".
I've recently launched a project (https://domainy.io) which lets you monitor for domain names's availability, expiration, purchased etc etc. It's been interesting to see the type of domains that do get expired, though I haven't had a chance to snap up some of them.
In most EU countries that is not a good wage
Yeah I “de-thatched” my parents basement by filling up an enormous dumpster of shit. Literally things like “oh here are 9 CRT monitors that will never be used” etc. objectively it improved the basement and usability at zero opportunity cost. But it didn’t make them happier at all. My conclusion was better to let them do as they wish. I fortunately don’t have to live amidst the debris. (The basement has since then swelled to full capacity and spilled into two disgusting permanent tents outside).
US Taxpayers Paid for Starlink's “Donation” to Ukraine
It's practical. We have 3 client apps serving tens of thousands of daily users based on a very similar engine (built in-house).
I've often seen that when old houses get torn down, everything inside gets dumped into a skip that later goes to a magical place that does magical things with it.

I'm quite sure similar services can also be used by the average person. You simply google for these magical words '産廃業者 $CITY'. Most* things can and will be handled by your local 'industrial waste' disposal person. Industrial here stands for non-consumer, not stuff-in-factories.

* Except hazardous materials like asbestos, used paint and assorted chemicals which require another kind of disposal service that the city council can point one to.
In that case it's a good argument for you to buy a smaller house, but if you accept that it's a matter of preference and not something that can be generalized then it's not a valid argument for other people.
ISO has shift slashes, but no in all variants. Here's the G915 in UK International layout:

https://resource.logitechg.com/w_692,c_limit,q_auto,f_auto,d...

And here it is in the US International layout:

https://resource.logitechg.com/w_692,c_limit,q_auto,f_auto,d...

As you can see, in the US variant, it does not have the shift slashes, so it's 104 keys instead of 105. They're not reversed, it's just that the left shift is full size and the slash is near the Enter. From what I've seen, though, it's not merely a US/UK difference, as some manufacturers will keep the left Shift slash button as a double, just to respect the 105-key standard. To me, and apparently @saiya-jin, this is very annoying.

Before I decided on this keyboard, I shopped around found WASD. They do customizable prebuilt mechanical keyboards. Pretty nice. They also have the ISO layout variant, as well as the ANSI variant. Even nicer. But check out these comparison shots I took from their configurator:

https://imgur.com/a/JUZBJwB

See how they just keep the left Shift slash as a double, despite it already being next to Enter on the US variant? That would have driven me crazy.