skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 35 minutes may seem like a long time when looking at this in hindsight

Because it is a long time? What are the police for if not to be the ones rushing in? There was an active gunman, what reason could there possibly be to wait? They had time to setup police tape and pin down parents who were begging to be allowed to do what the police refused to do. How many kids are we supposed to allow to be slaughtered while the police wait for the odds of multiple of them against 1 gunman to increase even higher?

> Because if we take a hypothetical rush in immediately situation. Not only could the police be rushing into the building parents may be rushing in as well attempting to save their children.

Or, you know, since the police were there first they could have done their jobs instead of waiting until parents started to arrive? According to reports they were on the scene when the gunman crashed his car and entered the school.

I'm so sick and tired of hearing the police talk about how heroic they are and how they would rush in to a situation like this. Instead we have reports the some police DID rush in, to save their own kids, and then they left. They don't get to have it both ways, they can't be cowards who wait until there is little to no chance they could be hurt and also constantly talk about how they put their lives on the line.
Modelling armed conflict risk under climate change with ML and time-series data
So… you want the government to interfere with the operation of private companies so they are forced to give a platform to people they don’t want to do business with…

Last I checked, political beliefs are not a protected class.
Paddle as a lot of restrictions on what to sell and what not.
AWS_security_group egress rules are not removed
I wonder what the minimum wage is for their Chinese child labor force?
Even this scheme is subject to the risk that the "issuer" of the stablecurrrency stays solvent enough to pay the operating costs of those trades (or at least that there is a sufficient supply of replacement issuers and the legal system and government where the issuer is located appropriately recognise segregation of those assets on a bankruptcy and that it has a low cost and efficient bankruptcy regime), or if it's the US treasury the risk of expropriation of a change to the system which could be different from the risk with traditional currency. Ultimately you're taking credit and/or performance risk on someone.
35 minutes IS A LONG time. Maps for schools are available to the police. They should be able to quickly line up vantage points / windows and start entering the building.
I see this theme a lot when this topic comes up, and I feel it misses the point.

Does the CEO provide 700x the value (based on $21.2M / 2000 hrs = $10600 "hourly rate") of a warehouse worker earning $15/hr? They absolutely provide critical input and decisions at the helm of a large ship, but if you break down their input versus the input of everyone under them...is it actually such a huge disparity of mental and physical effort to warrant a 700x difference in pay?

Secondly, if the company wasn't spending that much on CEO compensation, the money could go plenty of places beyond sprinkling pennies at warehouse workers. Infrastructure investment, product development, or other ways to grow the business. Employee wellness programs, crisis/hardship assistance, etc to support the workforce.

Looking at it as only CEO salary divided by employee count is a very limiting perspective that ignores a lot of potential ways that pile of money can be used besides making a very rich person a bit richer.
That is not news. That is how most of the industry works.
I should clarify. It's voting in the style of a representative democracy.
Over 15 yrs, US diets have gradually shifted away from beef
Or to better visualise it, it is a 10x10x10 centimetre (cm) cube. (Or just a bit less than a 4x4x4 inch cube for the unmetrical )
Every single police officer involved should be charged and tried for felony homicide as accessories of the shooter. And if the courts don't punish them, the people should.
Openup.org.za and civic tech in general. I work there.

See code for all and code for america.
Shareholders are not the only stakeholders who should be considered in a company.

"The purpose of a corporation is to ... create value over the long-term, which requires consideration of the stakeholders ... (shareholders, employees, customers, suppliers, creditors and communities) ..."

https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2020/05/27/on-the-purpose-of...
There's also an argument to be made about bias - the younger you are the less you 'know,' which can lead to more experimentation and creative solutions to problems.

There's also the 'hunger' argument that dovetails with yours - are younger people just more incented to 'prove' themselves? (since, as you imply, most older people realize a supportive family makes them happier than a well-regarded publication does)

An interesting question to address is 'Is the status quo just fine? Will any solutions to this just make more academics die as virgins or can we actually improve the output of older academics?'

(cue: a joke about Newton)
He isn't being paid for his work (which I assume you are conflating with labor); he is being paid for the perceived value he can bring to the company.

His decision-making can absolutely influence the bottom line far more than any single Amazon warehouse worker could.

Now, I'm not saying that warehouse workers are worthless or should be treated like shit, far from it, but if Amazon doesn't pay him this much, some other corporation will. That's the free market.
I think a lot of the reason .NET isn't yet used that broadly beyond Windows is as much leftover distrust/paranoia at Microsoft than anything technical.

I tried to get involved in Mono-based Open Source back in the day and it left a lot of lasting sourness at the "Linux community" and how distrustful/paranoid it could be. Despite Mono being open source. Despite however many open patent agreements Microsoft signed. There was so much ugliness and so many people I encountered had a lot of passion for "Never .NET".

I hope that changes for the community. .NET doesn't get any more Open Source today. There's no longer a .NET/Mono split, they've merged. The open patent agreements with the .NET Foundation and other stewardship orgs are about as rock solid as they can possibly get.

I cynically saw so much "Never .NET" hate in that community that I can't imagine it won't linger for long past its expiration date.
Please, yes. At a previous job, a department used a Windows accounting app that had a machine-level ODBC connection with the database credentials saved in it. A user figured out you could use Microsoft Query to pull data from the ODBC connection into Excel. This worked well until she accidentally deleted 90% of the vendor records from the database while trying to filter some data. I couldn't even really be upset at the user, a bunch of dumb product design decisions had to align like swiss cheese for this to happen.
I think the 'what is being done for the old parents' is them not having to confront and part with their stuff while they're old but alive. By doing this after they have passed, they get to bypass this possibly mentally taxing task. The value add is debatable. I personally love to get rid of stuff, so it's hard for me to imagine how much of a burden it is. But the point makes sense.
https://info.publicintelligence.net/LAactiveshootertactics.p...
Source? Citation?
Beyond Walls: Reassessing Iron Age and Roman Encounters in Northern Britain
Why should it, though? It's still just another cryptocurrency at the end of the day. The government shouldn't be looking for their vig until you exchange for legal tender, and I don't see how a third-party organization promising a specific exchange rate for the token changes that.
Because the strike was high? Traditionally, it’s what you do at a startup if you’re early stage.
Most of the archeological and historical evidence on civilizations are quite frail, and the cards are regularly re-shuffled every now and then when a toe or a necklace or some ancient tools, are discovered (which is roughly every 10 years).

Gobekli Teppe recently also demonstrated that we really don't know much, and that the "official" theories are mere speculations which are very likely to be replaced by another theory in the future.
Every failed startup I've been a part of (2 of 3) went under because the founders didn't have a valid business model or weren't able to market the product, or both.
My parents come from a developing country which was underdeveloped in the '90s and we did not "follow" the news. Relevant bits of news were hawked by anyone and everyone (if there were any general strikes, curfews, etc) but otherwise we were just blissfully unaware. My family came from an urban area and it was probably a different situation in rural areas, but rural areas never had any of the events you needed to steer around from the news anyway, so I don't know if it was any different practically speaking.
> It makes some sense to prevent parents from getting in. I'd expect some parents to be armed, and armed parents roaming around looking for the shooter and finding other armed parents is not a healthy situation.

So you leave 1-2 officers outside. Why do we have videos of many more than that milling around? Also the police were on the scene when it started, they should have been able to go after the gunman before parents started to show up.

> But if I'm a police officer outside the school, and I don't go in now, and a bunch of kids get killed, I'm going to have to live with myself for the rest of my life, knowing that I was there and didn't go in.

While you enjoy your paid-suspension until you eventually get shuffled back into the deck without any real repercussions until you retire on your tax-payer-funded retirement.
Perhaps because some of the semantics of a spliced pipe aren't exactly the same as read() followed by write()?
Microsoft Money.

Whilst other products do similar things in terms of tracking accounts, I miss the forecast graph that would model how your money would perform over time.

Google Reader. I can't stand video or audio, and strongly prefer written materials so email subscriptions and RSS are how I keept up.
+1 sourcetree
I think it is way too common to look at studies of the median person and then generalize to older.

Major discoveries are made by top, top people - it seems not unlikely that past a certain age most people cannot remain top. The same is true with chess, which does not have the same administrative duties problem.
Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silurian_hypothesis
Who's Tim?
I also wasn't seeing anything, until I used "⌘ A" to select all text, and noticed that the list of animals or plants for the city I selected was displayed at the top left, in white text over a white background. Selecting all made it slightly more visible, enough for me to read the text.

Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/VQjfvQZ.png
> As much as people bitch about dealerships, and some of them truly do suck, the business model is well established and clearly successful.

So the Lindy effect sort of suggests the dealerships will be around for a while - but the real revenue model of a dealership is the return customer for services.

The main change with EVs is unpredictable on that side - one, they don't need a lot of periodic maintenance (like regen cuts brake wear for highway driving), but on the other hand there are almost no user-serviceable EVs & I doubt there will be any in the near future.

So I wish the dealership model goes the way of the travel agent one. It's not that travel agents weren't useful or successful, but that without one more people bought tickets and flew to places.

From that PoV, I think the model might converge closer to Carvana or Shift rather than a traditional dealership with loaned inventory (or Roadster.com). Especially when the car I want to buy is actually in Sacramento and only needs to be on a truck to a city when I want it.
This is an inspiring read, and somehow it makes me think, without looking at the author's name, that the author is very likely male. I imagine solo backpacking was/is a very different adventure for a young woman.
Thank for the interesting book suggestion. You made my day.
Header Hygiene
Yeah, you are not going to fix resistance losses by moving into wireless power transmission.

But keep in mind that the transmission losses are at ~5% because that's a level that people consider economical. They could be higher, or lower. The losses also tend to be around that value for any power grid you look, it doesn't matter if it's a minuscule country or a continental one, people just improve their grid until it gets there.
Yes, you do not live in a place with rampant corruption and/or capital controls.
Nice writeup, just wanted to comment in case you hadn't thought of it, that you can achieve a nix-shebang with flakes by adding a wrapper script. e.g. foo_wrapper.sh:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

readonly gitsha="..."
nix shell nixpkgs/${gitsha}#bash nixpkgs/${gitsha}#{foo-pkg} nixpkgs/${gitsha}#{bar-pkg} -c bash foo.sh $@
The argument was that Serbia - a tiny, war-traumatized country -tells you something about current or potential US gun regulation. My response is that even if you allow for that degree of cherrypicking, the comparison doesn't you get you anything that supports the GP's position, in fact, it gets you the opposite.
It's a CAP theorem problem!

Consistency = everyone knows who the suspect is and where he's at, and by extension, who he isn't.

Availability = Willing body to engage in ruining suspect's day and preventing tragedy.

Partitioning = Who is where, and technical capability to reliably partition the physical search space, and who knows what at what time in order to keep things from getting messy.

All everybody involved wanted: one pissed off teacher/school employee with a weapon/will and a jump on the suspect.

Network and signaling theory as applied to School Shootings.

Give me shoutout if you decide to go down the free PhD route.

"Some Literal Who" will suffice.
No, he's saying literally they did reach X market cap in a public market. He was correcting facts of the previous poster.
Still all unverifiable, but what seems likely if you put aside your breakdown as monstrous and look for a rational explanation and relate to police procedure

The shooter makes it into the school under pursuit and enters a classroom with two adjoining classes.

Officers are reported as shot in the process.

At that point, there is an armed gunmen in a classroom barricaded in.

It's now a hostage situation.

The rest of the school is occupied by police and evacuation/threat plans are being followed.

Storming a classroom filled with hostages is not procedure.

Parents and others running into the school when they already know where the shooter is and what the situation does not help anyone.

Although the timeline is 90 minutes or so from entry until he was neutralized that doesn't mean he didn't just shoot everyone in the first minutes.

The idea that they just gave up or were all cowards is a bit irrational.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.02.11.479922v2....
"Intercontinental movement of H5 2.3.4.4 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) to the United States, 2021"

Bits I found interesting:

> The initial US detection was from a sample collected on December 30, 2021 from a wigeon in Colleton County, South Carolina (A/American_wigeon/South_Carolina/AH0195145/2021(H5N1), GISAID [https://www.gisaid.org] accession no. EPI_ISL_9869760). Immediately following this initial detection, there was an additional wild bird detection in South Carolina (A/bluewinged_teal/South_Carolina/AH0195150/2021(H5N1), GISAID accession no. EPI_ISL_9876777) and detections in neighboring North Carolina (Figure 1). Within six weeks there were 137 additional detections in wild birds, indicating high susceptibility to a novel virus and continued dispersal. All birds were apparently healthy hunter harvested dabbling ducks. There was no detection of North American lineage IAV in any of these samples.

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State - Wild bird species - Number of Clade 2.3.4.4. HP IAV Detections

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South Carolina - American wigeon - 7

South Carolina - Blue-winged teal - 9

South Carolina - Gadwall - 7

South Carolina - Northern shoveler - 1

North Carolina - American green-winged teal - 9

North Carolina - Northern shoveler - 3

North Carolina - American wigeon - 51

North Carolina - Gadwall 15

North Carolina - Mallard 4

North Carolina - Northern pintail 3

North Carolina - Wood duck 1

Virginia - American green-winged teal - 2

Virginia - Mallard - 1

Florida - Blue-winged teal - 2

Delaware - American wigeon - 1

Delaware - Northern shoveler - 2

New Hampshire - Mallard - 20

----------------------

Total Detections: 138
> The kernel is an extremely complex piece of code,

With no regression tests, nearly no unit tests, and lots of bits of supported hardware that nobody on the Dev team uses day to day...

It's a miracle that quality is as high as it is.
Criminal sentences for the cops involved. But that's a pipe dream. Cops love nothing more than closing ranks to protect their own, no matter how dirty.
Couldn't the same be said for any major area that attracts millions of visitors each year? Before covid ~30 million people were visiting Paris each year from all over the world.
Once you save a drawing as an SVG, there's no way to load it back in without creating an account, is that correct?
Human Origins (Carta)
Hahahahahahaha. This can't be serious.
Not to mention that there is already a small industry which does this electronically (LME warehouses) and in a way which is trusted by the largest traders in the business. Why wouldn't you just use that instead?
This is what I did too. And my point is that it took me throughout the entirety of Caelid and liurnia which was stupid as shit. Because the rate of progression was extremely slow, especially when you’re just running past things, and the only area that’s particularly appropriate up front is castle Morne which is not advertised.

I don’t think the game is unfair. It’s boss design is great. It’s the pacing that’s shit. Margit was an awesome fight.
Another person already shared that link collection and it's just utterly garbage. Pls see my other answer regarding that page.

Btw. I actually read now even more articles from that page than before and they all ignore fundamental issues.

To you: did you actually read them?

And no I'm not advocating for a new PoS system. I advocate for our current existing PoS system. That system we currently have. The system which works across our planet, has been grown naturally, is still evolving and actually fixes a ton of issues which have not even be mentioned by Bitcoin bros.

Alone the fact that I can go to a bank with my passport and get money is not solved.

Not one person describes how Bitcoin makes everyone who invests in Bitcoin early rich and everyone else poorer is not mentioned.

Problems like 51% attacks get ignored.

Antidemocratic issues are ignored like sanctions (Russian oligars anyone?)

And I'm not advertising something. I'm only talking against Bitcoin because it's bullshit and it doesn't solve problems. We need to put every non sustainable resource we extract from our earth into renewable energy and not create an additional system which competes with this...
Upvoted for the title image.
Man, that title could use some work. On the one hand, maybe an Apple purchase could reform a few of EA’s less redeeming qualities of late. OTOH, sounds like nothing more than a big ol’ bag of rumors to me. I mean, let me quote the entirety of non-filler content:

Apple has reportedly been in talks with the company about buying EA out according to Puck.

You can follow that link, but it won’t say a damned thing about Apple or EA.
Cut the fat, I think you mean.

Not sure if that was a typo, eggcorn, or pun on truth and fiction post-acquisition...
> Bloomberg LP is essentially a revenue generating arm for Bloomberg Philanthropies with >80% of revenue getting donated.

is there somewhere i can read more about this specifically?
> But I don’t think I’m over-romanticising to suggest that just as there is something psychologically corrosive about the fact that the lawyer can always bill another six minutes, there is something psychologically healthy about the fact that the farmer can sometimes rest assured that there is nothing useful to be done until the morning.

This sense of a “forced” break from work, reminds me of the Jewish concept of the Sabbath.

You were literally forbidden from productive work, 1 day a week.

So this forced time for reflection, spiritual care, and time with family.
“C Isn’t a Programming Language Anymore”
What can be asserted without proof can be denied without proof.
Yeah that would work, but how will I be able to put it on my resume?
> The safety of Protonmail has been discussed many times on HN.

Lol what are you talking about specifically?
They definitely do not back with 100% paper. They hold bonds and potentially corporate paper as well.
I'm the co-founder and CTO at U.S. Digital Response (https://usdigitalresponse.org/) - we're a non-partisan non-profit that started 2 years ago to help state and local governments and non-profits around the US address the challenges from COVID.

We've expanded our work beyond COVID to support these organizations addressing the critical needs of the public and bring the best technology has to offer to these problems. We've partnered with more than 230 government and nonprofit partners on 300+ projects, impacting more than 42 million people across 36 states and territories. As one example, we helped the city of Memphis and Shelby County distribute almost $14M in rental assistance (https://www.usdigitalresponse.org/case-studies/keeping-famil...) in a matter of weeks at very low cost.

One of the things I like about this work is that we are tied directly in with local experts who understand the problems very well, and we can bring the lens of understanding how modern tech can be helpful, rather than trying to lead with solutions.

In doing this work, we've discovered a number of common problems that have scalable solutions that we're working on in both access to benefits and election administration (e.g. our poll worker management tool - https://www.usdigitalresponse.org/projects/poll-worker-manag...) and are starting to scale our team to tackle these challenges.

In addition to our full time roles (https://us-digital-response.breezy.hr/), we are always looking for more volunteers to join projects (https://usdigitalresponse.org/volunteer).
For the people who thought what we did this time was "lockdowns" or "shutdowns" and that many folks' reactions were "hysterical", the day when we have a pandemic that hits young kids half as hard as Covid hit the elderly is gonna be quite a surprise to them.
Criticizing is small, not entirely healthy subset of Critical Thinking. CT is much much more than criticism. Contextualization, path dependence, understanding motivations, not allowing someone else to decide the dimensionality of the problem or the weight of those dimensions.

Most critics I see just make snide remarks about Chesterton's Fence.

And to OP, this isn't a snide remark, but due to your typos, which I often make, you might have ADHD, if you do and is undiagnosed, CT is all the more difficult.

Another aspect in embracing CT, you need to be emotionally and intellectually honest with yourself, this is by the hardest aspect. If you try and expand your CT while not growing emotionally, you will be constrained in many ways.