skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is, well, sadly quite a lacking declaration.

1) While the Dickey amendment may have made gun research more difficult, it was still done, and there have been numerous studies and analyses that have placed the number of defensive gun uses somewhere between 500,000 to 1.5 million or more (Things like the 2013 CDC study, the 2019 National Crimes Victimization Survey, the 2021 National Firearms Survey, etc. have all produced relative consistent results. There was an outlier NCVS survey from earlier in the 2010's that placed it around 70k to 105k but that survey never actually asked if the gun was used in one's defense while they were victimized. That information was only recorded if it was volunteered unprompted).

2) To say that most gun-related deaths are homicide related is untrue. Consistently, the gun death tally in the US has been majority suicide, with suicide by firearm ranging anywhere from around 54% to 75% depending on things like the year and where the numbers are coming from. However, firearm related homicide has not been the majority cause of firearm related death in the US for many years.

3) I am a gun owner but I am not a fan of the NRA. It has more than a few skeletons in it's closet. That being said, there are plenty of quite reasonable (and could be argued, onerous and over-reaching) restrictions on purchasing a firearm. Maybe we should consider a) blaming the person and not the tool, and b) having a serious discussion about the degradation of community values, responsible parenting, and mental health concerns that would seem to play a far larger motivator in these young men who decide to commit crimes than the tool with which they choose to commit them. I don't see people rallying to completely ban cigarettes despite smoking being the cause of 1 in 5 deaths in the US or the fact that the average person starts smoking at the age of 15 despite needing to be 18 to buy them.
100 Prisoners, 100 lines of code (2010)
My buddy is a freight conductor. It’s generally him and an engineer on the train.

It’s a shit job that breaks marriages and encourages bad behaviors. You’re basically on call for 24 shifts, and can get called or not anytime from hour 1 to hour 24. You have to chase work, so many guys get “dead headed” having to take jobs hours away. It’s common for guys to have crash apartments or pooled cars to drive 4-5 hours home.
Unfortunately we haven't tapped into these topics. We used to have a mechanic based on worker skill level, universities, etc, but that was just not working well for us. The game is already quite hard and we didn't want to add more layers of complexity.

However, we are hoping to polish our modding APIs and allow players to add more layers to the simulation like what you described :)
> why would an animal risk their life and waste energy to protect something they don't need?

To displace its competition and further secure its dominance of the local area. Too much is always better than not enough. Even animals who occupy enormous territories will seek to expand them further at any opportunity. Bands of chimps will murder neighbouring bands over territory, despite neither group being remotely close to starving. Coalitions of male lions will seek to take possession of a pride of females by killing the existing males and all of their juvenile offspring. Many groups of human hunter-gatherers, ignorant of the modern world, will kill strangers in their territories on sight.

Nature evolves these behaviours simply because animals who display them have a greater chance of passing on their genes. Anything but hostility to direct competition is usually suboptimal.

Human dominance evolved through cooperation in small familial groups numbering less than 100. That is what our social biology is equipped to handle. There are many examples of company culture fragmenting past ~150 headcount. Past that group size, we're no longer able to cooperate based on shared in-group status and mutual trust. The mechanism of civilization is bureaucracy, but the interactions are still between small tribes of people each competing for their own interests, and in practice totally apathetic to outcomes outside their group.

We've managed to put some rails around the process, but legal and corporate interactions are the civilized equivalent to war. The same language is even used. We're still the same apes, with the same limitations regarding, frankly, how many other people we are capable of giving a damn about.

> It takes a lot less energy to kill the farmers and take their crop than it does to actually grow the crop.

Not really sustainable over a generation though, is it? Your strategy has function long enough for your offspring to reach maturity, and their offspring, etc. The winning strategy is to take as much from the farmers as they will tolerate and funnel it into extravagant displays of power and social status that further cement your position. All we've done is put some rules around the taking, mandating (in civil society) that it be voluntary and not under the threat of violence. This way, you invent iPhones, sell them at huge margins to all the farmers, become absurdly wealthy, and no one need die. It's a winning system.

> It is dramatically cheaper and easier to prevent that by just preventing starvation.

I'm not actually sure that's true. Shocking escalation of violence is also effective, and very cheap. In places where amputation is a common punishment for theft, wouldn't you know it, people don't steal as much. In places where punishment for crimes is severe, and police are effective, crime rates are low. Japan being a great example.
Just imagine your crypto wonder land. You move there. Air away all that smug smog everywhere. Move past the underage exploited people no one gives a shit about because line going up is what matters. Promptly get killed or lose everything.
> But given the massive amounts of energy hurricanes release, it would seem that a similarly massive amount of energy ...

Cooling-- moving heat from one place to another-- doesn't need to be so energy intensive. And it doesn't necessarily require active energy input. Anything that just improves vertical mixing will cool the surface water.

E.g. the Salter Sink is a clever passive tube and valve arrangement that uses wave action to defeat thermoclines that otherwise prevent mixing.
My experience matches yours. When I was using DDG, it was mostly sufficient. I'd fall back on Google a few times a month.

I haven't yet done that with Kagi.

I just entered my CC details into Kagi (using Orion, natch). I hope more people follow suit. I really want this model to succeed.
The rebrand was mostly PR. Sure they are working on Metaverse, but they are still trillions to be made under the current model. If there’s one thing I’ve learned is to never count Zuck out
I remember when Kagi.com was a payment platform, one of the earliest ones and the first one I used back in the day. Great guys, too bad they've been shafted hard by a dishonest customer. Feels a bit weird to see the name used by a search engine now.
Been in the beta for quite a while now and have been thoroughly impressed. Very, very rarely do I have to fall back to Google search (mostly for image search, which can occasionally be a little lacking in Kagi).

$10 isn't a small hurdle to get people over, but I really hope you can make it work; I'd love for Kagi to succeed.
I switched to Kagi, mostly to experiment. Had used Google for years, DDG for a while, Brave more recently.

Now I miss Kagi whenever I don't have it. It's boring in the best possible way. Looking forward to paying for it so it'll stick around.

Congratulations Kagi team!
The complexity difference between bog-standard ECS+Fargate and EKS+Fargate deployments rounds down pretty small. Biggest I've seen: ALB integration, IAM integration, and maybe certificate management. Most of that stuff is out-of-box on ECS, but on EKS you need some extra containers or configuration to watch the K8s API and provision stuff for you (if you want to use it; you can also just go pure-k8s) (edit: just to be clear, they provide all this for you; its not out-of-box, but its easy-to-add-box e.g. [1]).

An argument could be made for something like CodeDeploy being better integrated on ECS, but that's more of a "k8s doesn't need CodeDeploy but ECS might" kind of thing. And even then, I wouldn't touch it.

An argument could also be made that upgrading ECS clusters is a bit easier, as the cluster itself, uh, doesn't have a "version". But on Fargate, its pretty painless on EKS, and Fargate ECS tasks do have a "platform version" that generally doesn't have to be worried about (version: LATEST), but is nonzero nonetheless.

Which is really to say that both ECS and EKS puke complexity, because its AWS, but the volume is pretty similar.

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/aws-load-ba...
Thanks! I have heard that it works on Proton just fine, but your mileage may vary.

We just didn't have time to test things. We need to get Linux and Mac machines and test things thoroughly before claiming official support.
I haven't logged into Facebook in the past 4 years and I don't know why I should. Most people I deal with (a decade younger) never had an account at all.
Bandmuffon: Desktop music streaming browser (ft. last.fm, Spotify, YouTube)
I think wave for the most part has been realized in products like Notion and the upcoming Microsoft Loop
The fact that automakers don't capture them is the key and was exactly my point. Current or past generation cars are comparatively "open" with lots of repair and maintenance options, which gives owners the benefit of choice and competition. Closed business models that rely on lock-in will be able to pump more money out of the consumer while removing options from them.
honestly with how much heat the ground plane can soak up on modern electronics, desoldering a beefy through hole ground connector is such a pain in the ass I might rather they be SMD if I have to do something with them in general.
I'm confused what "full color" here means? As I understand James Web has a range of 0.6 μm – 28.5 μm across all it's instruments (specifically NIRcam has range 0.6 μm - 5 μm), that's less than half the visible spectrum!

Would this work by mapping the infrared to visible spectrum (and then appropriately calculating how our eyes would perceive that) for a far red shifted galaxy, to get a view of what it would look like if were say "close" to it? has that been done before?
Thanks for your support! I hope you will enjoy the game!
MonoSDF: Exploring Monocular Cues for Neural Implicit Surface Reconstruction
Adding Protection for Future Down-Rounds
Actually, it's not a mistake. This same method taught me that 50% of computer systems worldwide think '+' is an invalid character in an email address. Which was the final proof I needed that software development is an inherently stupid process.
What’s weird is I’ve noticed some sites and apps don’t like their name in the account name and won’t validate.

For example, I tried signing up for the Chronometer app using chronometer@prepend.com and can’t make it through their sign up process.

I’ve always wondered what kind of programmer makes their domain name as email not work. I’m guessing it’s some testing or debug shortcut but won’t have closure.

I’ve probably noticed 6 sites over the years like this.
There's that one guy who built a bot that automatically sends the typing signal back whenever it detects someone typing. Very funny prank.
>manufacturing platforms (much of this is now outsourced to India, Mexico, etc. for drugs being sold in the USA)

This completely trivializes and misses the fact that the manufacturing process itself can be patented.

>As a practical example, look how the best Covid vaccines (mRNA types) have been monopolized, leading to low rates of vaccination in Africa etc., even though that was technology developed with taxpayer funding at public universities.

That's just patently false, Moderna for example, has been waived patent infringement related to covid vaccines. The reason the developing world does not have high rates of vaccination is not because of patents but primarily because of their infrastructure.
The loophole is regulatory capture. The laws are written strongly, then watered down by self-interested companies throwing money at the legislative pipeline.

I don't know the answer to this, but it would probably be a crisis of some sort, like cambridge analytica.

It's sort of amazing how far out of hand things have gotten, with phones, cars, televisions, and more collecting data and matching it with your "dossier(s) in the cloud"
This is fascinating, can you tell me more about it?
Any plans to revisit the pricing? I've in the Kagi beta for months and it's way better than DDG, but it's hard to justify US$120/year when Google is free.
Is there a reason to assume we will be born as a human being? In this hypothetical, I'm already asked to discard everything that makes me who I am. It seems like the logical extension would be to apply it to all life.
Seems like everything has to go through a sales call so I'd assume not.
Agreed. I had the displeasure of doing CodeDeploy to ECS Fargate a few weeks ago for a side project and IMO it was overly complex.
If you're referring to the days of when systems engineers would run named fleets, then yeah, those days were nightmarish but for different reasons. Instead of debugging the Linux networking stack, I had to defer everything out to a team that ran a help desk to try to find time to investigate because I was locked out of access and tooling. I don't miss those days one bit, though, it was fun to name components of my fleet.

A lot of companies moved to the cloud because their old data centers (or hosts) were driven by ticket systems instead of API's and access management. What took three weeks was now solved in seconds; the beginning was fascinating without a doubt. Then companies realized they owned none of this virtualized infrastructure and were at the behest of a very large corporation who could make sweeping changes with little to no notice. Although Kubernetes was pitched as providing extra grease to the gears of the enterprise, and they weren't wrong, that is not its total value to the enterprise.

The real value in Kubernetes running your own platform on someone elses hardware, especially to the degree where you can eventually free yourself from cloud provider lock-in that the above incurred. An example, if a company can spin up a team to create a database-as-a-service in Kubernetes clusters, then your RDS costs can shift dramatically down, and it develops a new level of capability and understanding that your company never had before.

I'm a SRE-SE, but I mostly use the title "Distributed Systems Software Engineer" because I feel that really fits what I do. DevOps is just a catch-all title for non-application-software tasks and roles at this point because it consumed so many things like "release manager", "QA", "application operations", etc... Personally, I do not trust companies or teams that use this as some sort of distinguishable title.

To answer the last part of your question, "Why are DevOps everywhere", because companies have diverse needs in terms of supporting software and software development, and DevOps is basically the catch all email of software engineering.
>As far as Covid-19 vaccines, there are actually many companies ready to go right to production if those patents are released to the public at this moment, and that would greatly increase supply, and that would benefit the whole world, instead of a handful of pharma CEOs and affiliated shareholders.

That's just conspiracy. Many companies have not been enforcing any patents related to covid vaccines. The reason why the developing world does not have high vaccine adoption is because of their infrastructure, not because of patent blocking.
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Finishes like stain or paint as well as adhesives in the manufacturing industry are often called out in mils or thousandths of an inch. We use something called a thin film test to ensure paint is the correct thickness so that really tight tolerances can be maintained. We also using tiny glass beads of a consistent diameter that are mixed in with certain types of adhesives to create a controlled bondline thickness. We have a part that requires a really tightly controlled thermal interface to a circuit board. The solution is to use a specific amount of epoxy mixed with a specific amount of boron nitride powder and a specific amount of glass beads to have a consistent thermal conductivity for every squirt of the glue.
Here's why:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac-Mégantic_rail_disaster

RIP to all 47 victims.
This is such a bummer! He seemed like a genuine guy who had a lot of cool ideas and wanted to share them with the world. He really helped change music in a serious way in the late 70s and into the 80s. Everyone remembers the Prophet 5, but even later synths like the Prophet VS had some really cool ideas. The envelopes on that thing were nuts! He will be missed.
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Bringing the Power of Google Meet to Google Duo Users
Instant does mean synchronous, as in instantly, immediately. And that is because when it was invented asynchronous communication is by default, as users cannot afford to be online all the time. So instant is the feature. You may argue it has changed, but it is false to dispute the original intent.
Companies that aren’t WFH flexible will simply be less competitive in the jobs market. Good developers have choices and are less likely to pick inflexible companies to work for. It’s that simple.
Using a domain hack for my personal emails has caused me annoyance when dealing with any real people, similar to the .red tld for you.
Oh yes please, I love economy game, big fan of Capitalism II way back when.

Will be giving this a spin for sure.

Great work getting this out to a steam release.
> This can probably be chalked up to youre-doing-it-wrong

Yes, and the unforgiving part of k8s is that there is a right way documented somewhere, you might have just spent 3 days sifting through docs and posts and community forums to find it.

It's sometimes worth it, sometimes not, my main gripe with k8s would just be that there is no "simple things" and it shouldn't be pitched as making it easier for small shops. Even if a small use case can be done elegantly, it will probably require a pretty comprehensive and up to date knowledge of the whole system to keep that elegance.
Even when you can access and modify the source in-place, it may be tricky when closure is involved
> But, it’s not. Great literature, great music, and great art connects at an emotional level, which doesn’t involve logic, reason, or thought.

The comment you're replying to is not discrediting that. They are just saying that it needs to be more than *just* creating an emotional connection.
There was a recent discussion[0] about a newly released Mac app called Bike[1] which is from an expert designing functional text-based apps[2]. Hope this applies to you.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31409077
[1]https://www.hogbaysoftware.com/bike/
[2]https://www.taskpaper.com
Canadian Tire should be next. I don't trust their rewards app one bit. I refused to get it when it came out.

Reading their terms to cancel your subscription to the virtual coupons for dollars spent (aka Canadian Tire money) you need call their phone support line. No web-based cancellation but you can sign up for it using their web-based service.
Curious how you ran 36k node cluster. Did it involve elastic scaling, etc? What are the alternatives for k8s?
Multiplayer is a big topic and it is obviously on our minds. The big questions is what type of multiplayer would be the best for this kind of game?

Would it be coop where each player would start on their corner of the map? Or would it be shared factory? Of maybe each player with its own island + trading?

Also, it is technically very challenging, since the entire simulation must be perfectly deterministic. We actually have most of the things deterministic, maybe like 95%, fixing the last 5% is a lot of work.
Yeah the pacing on this one is a bit slow, especially if you already know these things.
Sigh. Another reboot? Why can't we write anything original anymore?
Same, I prefer games like this on my laptop so I can play casually. Still just install it on my gaming PC and use Parsec.
I suppose it depends on how you define monopoly. A patent protects a (theoretically, non obvious) solution to a problem that you came up with. Other people can still work on that problem, they just need to come up with their own solutions.

You wouldn't say copyright gives an artist a monopoly on any particular type of creativity and - if patents worked properly, which they don't - I like to picture a similar outcome.
AWS was able to increase my quota after escalating. GCP was not.
> i'll take it one further and say that having a messenger app that shows "online" or "active" status is not something I like.

That's actually something we don't do in Cardinal, but there are a couple of places where you can see online status because we do show live edits in our docs, but that's for (hopefully) obvious reasons.
"In the coming weeks, we’re adding all the Google Meet features to the Duo app, so users can easily schedule a video meeting at a time that works for everyone, or continue using video calling to instantly connect with a person or group. Later this year, we’ll rename the Duo app to Google Meet, our single video communications service across Google that is available to everyone at no-cost."

It seems like Zoom and Microsoft Teams already dominate this space: https://www.emailtooltester.com/en/blog/video-conferencing-m...

Hopefully these changes will help to untangle Google's messaging app mess that has existed for several years.
The Eye Pupil Adjusts to Illusorily Expanding Holes
This is not a generic discussion, we are discussing web search IR in particular, but if you want to be pedantic, the TB sized dataset could be the PageRank values and "scoring" could be the ordering of these values.