skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"safe gun owners who just enjoy them"

Exactly, this is most important point that people forget. It's all about freedom.

Personally I'm a safe cruise-missile owner who just enjoys it. Who are you to tell me what to do. If I wanna fire my cruise missiles in my own backyard I'm gonna do it. It's my God-given right. Sure, some people use their cruise missiles to blow up schools, but cruise missiles don't kill people, people kill people. We should just get every school to have a cruise-missile shield, and accompanying cruise-missile bunker. Discount coupons included free in the biology literature package.
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Yes, a lot of learning is by doing. But it is not always enough. Just playing an instrument doesn't make you a great musician. It helps to have the right talents. And those talents are not easy described. Programming languages always have come to me rather natural. I learned Algol 60, Fortran and Lisp primarily about reading a book and writing programs on paper. (I had to travel to another city and convert the programs to punch cards before I could run them.) It was only when I was a sophomore, when I learned something new about programming languages: lazy evaluation and currying. Just as with music, you need instructors, more seasoned software developers, that help you show to solve problems in different ways. It also helps to work at hobby projects or open source projects, to just experiment at programming things in a different way. Furthermore, I think it requires a lot of deep thinking. Spending away from the keyboard and just ponder about a problem, looking at the problem from a distance, is also very important. Last Friday, I spend the whole day at the office looking at some strange behaviour that I could not explain. It was only in the evening, while I was brushing my teeth, when I suddenly realized the cause.
Yes, that is exactly the case. I am involved in the effort to port Clozure Common Lisp to the M1 and it has a lot of bespoke assembly code.

(The x86_64 version of CCL actually works under Rosetta (more or less) which absolutely blows my mind since it's a compiler that emits x86 code at run-time!)
Groceries are pretty expensive in Sweden, just came back from the shop and spent the equivalent of 20€ and got: 500g of coffee, 12 eggs, 2L of oat milk and bread.
Check out Master Password: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_Password

It’s a deterministic password manager that already has a ‘system’ prebuilt. There are caveats to using however like when you changed a password and you no longer can use MP.
I'll believe it when I see it, but it looks like it's been in the pipeline for almost 6 years[1], so I'd be very surprised if we see it before the crypto bubble bursts.

[1] https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/12/04/ethereum-research-updat...
By "gun lobby", are you referring to organizations like the NRA, which get most of their funding from concerned private citizens with no financial interest in weapons manufacturers, who simply care a lot about defending their fundamental rights?
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BNPL is a debt trap. It's targeted towards low income people with poor liquidity who are in a desperate situation for funds. It's very surprising that Apple is providing this given they target the upmarket demographic. It's even more surprising they would want to associate their brand with something like BNPL especially given the questionable ethics in usual implementations.
Have you put out an RFP to established design firms?
> As for the retailation, a simple question: did they ruin anyone's life? If no, the system shouldn't ruin their lives either

Following that logic, you shouldn't go to prison for tax dodging, it's not like one person not paying taxes is going to change anyone's life.
> The food is trash, yes. So famously trash that it’s commonplace to joke about someone having gastrointestinal issues after eating it.

I've never understood who buys this stuff other than stoners as they are one of the few to remain open 24/7 when options are limited. The food, if you can call it that, seems aimed at those who are so intoxicated that the thought of Dorito flavoured whatever seems appealing.

Chipotle, while a healthier step up, is equally as bland as it is expensive and yet during COVID people flocked to these places. We used to get the bowls for working on weekends when I worked in the Auto Industry and it was what most people in the office would request for some odd reason--we often went over budget, too.

The conclusion I came to: White people in the US really love white-washed Mexican food, and business is good if you can make it into that segment with decent financial backing to fight the war of attrition. Having a Megacorp like Pepsi backing Taco Bell is why I think they are still in business, I can't recall eating there other than that one time I took a school trip and didn't pack a lunch in the 8th grade: this one had both menus from Pizza hut and Taco Bell so I ordered a pizza and some of those cinnamon twisty things and felt totally ripped off as the quality was so bad and this was in the late 90s: I have a thing for food trauma and tend to remember it vividly.

Being from SoCal we have Mexican options everywhere that are on par with Mexico itself since we are so close, but I've never been a fan of the food until Kogi entered the game and switched things up with using Korean based ingredients. I like that it forces people to get in line and share a meal with other patrons since it's an incredibly communal experience.
> This is actually quite easy to check and to claim otherwise is FUD

It's only easy to check if you have a small number of dependent services that mostly go one way. On the general case it absolutely isn't easy to check. If I had a dime every time I've seen non-trivial chains of serial operations implemented through a systemd target that just runs a shell script, I could erect an ice statue for Stephen Bourne and it would be made out of the frozen tears of everyone who's had to deal with both systemd and shell scripts.
That's the point though, there is no more 30 pin connector. And if there is a change, the government ensures consumers won't be wasting money because their old 30-pin chargers are now paperweights or their old phone has no more chargers available.

Also I don't see how this connects to PS2 or ISA, since back then such regulation wasn't in huge demand yet. The charger issue however is a demand and it seems to be backed by the general population. Having one charger for all devices is a big plus for everyone involved.

And if you somehow develop a new charger port that is much much better, then yes, it should have to go through the process of being approved, so that we don't start hopping into new charging ports every 10 years. That would make the entire regulation worthless. And yes that might mean your port has to be interoperable or you need to have both ports (USB AB is an example, which fit both A and B plugs, for micro and mini variants) or easily allow an adapter you can leave plugged into the phone (in-plug adapter).

We're much further into the development into computers and the future of USB-C is less uncertain as PS/2 and ISA. USB-C is a good-enough compromise that can most likely handle the next 30 years of computer needs. The market isn't as quickly evolving in that direction anymore, IMO.
It seems intuitive that the jail time for rape or murder should always be more than the jail time for crimes that just involve illegally obtaining money or goods, and that within a given type of crime the more severe a particular case is the longer the sentence should be.

The problem with that is (1) human lifespan places an upper limit on jail time, and (2) the possible severity of money crimes has a very very very large range.

Even if we made murder and rape always result in life sentences, and put the most severe money crimes at just under that, because of the range of severity possible with money crimes I think we'd end up with a fairly large value for money crimes required to get enough jail time to actually discourage doing that crime.

Another way to look at it is from the bottom instead of the top. How big should a money crime be to earn you a year in jail? That threshold should be a small enough that people don't find it worthwhile to just alternate doing that crime and then spending a year in jail over and over.

As the amount of money made in the crime goes up, so too does the necessary jail time to make alternating doing the crime and serving your jail time less lucrative than earning an honest living. Because of the large range of possible financial crimes you necessarily end up with it possible to get long sentences.
It is an interesting situation because an honest opinion - "the benefits outweigh the costs" - is going to make the people saying it look like monsters (dons flak jacket).

There is a reason that the US has anomalously high HDI, income and wealth stats for a country that large. It is because they are all in on freedom, letting individuals better themselves if they can think of a way and putting lots of roadblocks in the way of government (one of which is allowing ordinary people to arm up to the teeth). Trading away that freedom will probably a regression to the mean and worsting circumstance. Out of control governments are much more likely to leave trails of corpses behind them then rogue gunners.
StrictYAML throws out too much for my taste — tags, flow state, and anchors are all useful non-footgun features.
I imagine those figures fail to exclude spending by the rich on private schools for rich kids. That spending obviously doesn't do anything to help 99% of students.

Anyway, we should be 1st. Not 4th. We're the richest country.
Some statistics here to back your claims would be nice. I'll consider over 20% of mass shootings done with legally bought weapons as sufficient to cover "lots of mass shootings". And how you count what a mass shooting is is relevant as well. If you include all the gang violence, like many sources do to boost the numbers, that will wildly skew the results on how many illegally obtained weapons were used.
I know, I know. And the Amstrad I had with Locomotive Basic only had 128k of RAM and (as I read now) 48kb of ROM -- yet it fit the whole language in there, which was more complete than what EndBASIC currently offers. But things have changed, and I still think that 700kb nowadays is reasonably small all other things considered.
Lincoln Park High doesn't get more funding than those south side schools.
Never thought I would see "overwhelmingly" and "60%" used as synonyms.
> Don't aircraft have more or less standardized controls and displays?

No, not really. There are similarities in avionics, bare minimum instrumentation and historical conventions but there are type ratings for commercial pilots - they train on each one specifically. Some aircraft are similar enough that they have “common type ratings”. But an Airbus and a Boeing look very different.
For one you wouldn't have to deal with credit card companies who are massive cludges for society.
yucktastic.com - wonder what would be on such a site ha
> My friends and I have all made a pact that we will vote Republican until the Dems come more to the center, no matter how horrible the Republicans candidate is.

I would recommend making an exception for Republicans who deny Biden won the 2020 election. The #1 rule for voting in a democracy is: never vote for somebody who doesn't believe in democracy, because chances are you will never get to vote him out.
Agreed, but making your own redundant backups is difficult and with plenty of pitfalls.

Do you keep your backup at home? It would be destroyed in the fire. Do you sync to some offsite which isn't the cloud? Who maintains it? How often do you do test your backups?
We don't even know what all the factors are, and we don't have a practical or affordable way to gather and record all that data in a high-quality, consistent manner.
You would think that red flag laws would be a common sense compromise and was even supported and passed by Republicans in Florida. Even that went too far for the NRA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_flag_law
That could be 95% spent on extending 80+ year olds lives for 6 months. But pay for mental healthcare workers is bottom tier, especially since the government does not have an incentive to properly reimburse work done for poor people.

Certainly, there are huge issues with laws around involuntary commitment to mental institutions also and the legal costs there, but I figure the first step is creating the quality mental health institutions in the first place.

It is also possible this is simply an intractable problem (I think the needed expenditures are far too big to be politically palatable), so we will just trend towards a situation where those that can afford to, erect walls and security and whatnot around their lives, like other countries with large gaps in poor and rich.
We did something similar a couple of times, but ended up selling it all and giving away what was left on a local Facebook group. The sales all went to expats or travellers with the same problem we had; the giveaways went to locals. (We didn't plan it that way.)

The biggest problem we had was buying the stuff to begin with, as we needed a car rental to carry it all and a day trip to the nearest city with an Ikea and a big box store to source it. (And we couldn't find a UK keyboard anywhere!) Most of those we sold it all to didn't have a car to begin with.

I think Covid and WFH have changed the need here, as what might once have been a week's working holiday has now morphed into a 4 month working break.

I don't see a contender popping up anytime soon, as the business would probably thrive best in a location that doesn't attract startups. Costa del Sol rather than Silicon Valley.
It's worth mentioning here in the US this would not be possible. Federal sentencing guidelines require 85% of time served. Someone with a 7 year sentence would have to serve at least 6 years of it under normal circumstances.

If they qualified for a drug rehabilitation program (RDAP) they could get that down to 5 years assuming they documented their addiction and how it influenced their crimes early in their legal case.

With some of the new First Step Act and similar changes it's theoretically possible to reduce the sentence by more if they participated in qualifying rehabilitative programs, but many of the federal prisons don't actually offer the programs yet despite lying and saying they do to meet legislative due dates.
>we won't get as much money

We didn't get as much money as we estimated to have. We blame that one person on losing £963k that we never had, but we imaged being entitled to having it and it felt nice to our shareholders.

It's crazy that gang members who stab people by tesco for £20 will get less than 1 year in prison.
Wouldn’t the bullet proof glass also protect from things other than just guns? Also, is it possible to make guns disappear in the U.S.? I’m extremely skeptical. Seems like whatever happens with guns, people should be allowed to protect themselves in whatever way seems necessary as long as it isn’t harming others. If it is so obnoxious that customers stop coming then I’m sure stores will respond appropriately. One thing I’ve heard is that people rarely install bullet proof glass unless there was an incident that got them to be more prepared the next time. I always took this as a fact but I’m starting to realize that might not be true at all. However, I can only imagine the litigation that follows a robbery at gunpoint (or heck, even at knife or sword) after being forced to remove the barrier. Seems like a losing proposition for both parties.
168 months is 14 years. 14 years for pirating a stream?

I get putting away those guilty of violent crime, but for what amounts to a crime with no real victims (yes there are technically victims, but not victims like there are in a rape/murder case). I wonder if he will have the case heard by a higher court and have the sentence reduced, because 7-14 years is bananas.
No, it’s strictly a Utica expression.
1. You're comparing 400mg on GoodRx vs 100mg on CostPlus. Changing to 400mg takes CostPlus to $40

2. Scroll down on GoodRx. $787 is the price from CVS; other pharmacies like Rite Aid offer it at ~$114.

Obviously still a jump! Just not a $700 one.
There's a web app too...
Best way to prevent that is to set an account billing alert that will SMS you if your bill goes over $X dollars.

I doubt this feature will ever be implemented, as trying to provide some kind of real-time spend is extremely hard, especially when there are 100+ service bills that need to be aggregated, which usually is a batch process where these things get resolved.
> arc-shaped silverware drawer just beneath the sink, swings out hinged

Having trouble visualizing this. Do you have an image?
Is this a serious question? Yes of course, the murder clearance rate in those cities is sickening.
I believe "wary" is the work you're looking for. This means the are guarded and maybe suspicious.

Weary means tired.
I believe this is a big part of it. Anecdotal as well, but my grandmother had a new leadless pacemaker installed for dubious reasons by a doctor that specialized in this particular type of leadless pacemaker. The pacemaker migrated at one point and it resulted in her chest filling with fluid, the removal procedure was very tough on her (leading to other complications on an already frail body) and marked the beginning of the end for her.
And used to execute for almost everything, and would publicly execute dogs and pigs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Harding_(forger)

Hanged in 1805 for forging the tax stamp on the decks of cards he sold.
Liblab.com announced on TechCrunch (SDK as a service)
Zellij 0.30.0: use your $EDITOR to search and save your scrollback
I hope whoever replaces him doesn't end some of the more fundamental reforms like not charging minors as adults.

Pretty hard to prosecute petty theft with Prop 47 in power, and it sounds like there was also a pretty major decrease in policing of petty crime over the last few years - that's not a DA fault, that's the mayor.
Oh whoops, you're completely right! Both just happen to be browsers I recently came across. Sorry!
There's no way one can look at the existing situation and realistically think that gun owners are some sort of persecuted minority, that voting bloc is the golden sheep of the republican party. There's a bit of a distortion field here where we as a country have not been able to pass any sort of meaningful gun control measures in decades, have some of the loosest gun control regulations outside of third world countries, and have significant repeated issues with gun violence. Yet somehow a small but significant group of people have become locked into this messaging as if there's any validity to it and have become single issue voters.

Really the two groups who benefit and perpetuate this are from this are the gun industry, who has spent lots of money propagating this messaging over decades, and politicians on the right, who are able to with one hand to fill their election coffers with industry funds and with the other have a reliable bloc of voters that will never vote democrat.
What I find twisty about both parts of what you said are:

1. Ronald Reagan was the Repub who defunded and shuttered mental health facilities in California, so I'm not sure how Repubs will manage to solve mental illness issues without tripping over this inconsistency and that it reeks of big government/state funding/social support.

2. One of the things that supposedly impacts African American families is the loss of father's to incarceration, so even if you pump in education and money, you've got a family life missing a second parent and the negative outcomes associated with that.
I looked at Amica for car and renters insurance. They were 4x the price of everyone else.

They wanted me to pay $3000/6 months for car insurance whereas progressive was $650.
This has bugged me forever. You are expected to uphold integrity with them (all the thems) while they don't with you. They expect you to treat them like your neighborhood baker, while to them you aren't even a customer but the flour.
Yes of course there is a dollar amount where it stops becoming worth it, but the primary rule is simply whether the amount is sufficiently negligible. It is not whether the amortized return on investment beats the specific dollar amount.

As a thought experiment, would you pay $500,000 a month if the payoff was $5B?
Hmmm

‘Defund the police’ is what you see on the signs at democrat protests.

When you get in a discussion, it’s not quite what they mean, but that just means it’s a stupid slogan where you have to redefine every word to get at what you mean.

Human politics and all…
IIUC, Russian oil is roughly the same price as it was before the invasion: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1112243/urals-crude-oil-...

Other oil has gone up so much because everyone is switching off Russian oil. Russian oil is not going up. So it's actually not a bad time to be a Russian oil consumer...
Don't take my word for it indeed - I saw an article with a nice graph about that like a year ago but 10 minutes of Googling didn't turn up anything at the moment.

So here's an anecdote instead :)
Sweden. Average salary 36100SEK, average "Software- and system developers" salary 46500SEK. So a software dev earns ~30% more than the average salary. [1]

Estonia. Average salary 1576EUR. average "Software developer" salary 3753EUR. So a software dev earns ~140% more than the average salary [2]

Now I didn't find an official source for "% of people employed in the startup sector" for both countries but my guess is that it's much bigger in Estonia than in Sweden (based on [3]) and that's the reason for my overall pessimistic view that the startup scene here in Estonia is one of the biggest causes of income inequality in the EU (and I'm saying this as a person living in the startup bubble in Estonia myself)

[1] https://www.statistikdatabasen.scb.se/pxweb/en/ssd/START__AM...

[2] https://palgad.stat.ee/en#

[3] https://2020.stateofeuropeantech.com/chart/746-3309
> why do you say setup and loop are the worst imaginable way to write embedded software?

Because there's neither abstraction nor ways to combine things. Say you have a device that needs to do two things, and you look up some examples of how to do each thing. Each example is going to have its own loop() function--but how do you combine them? There's no notion of tasks or threads. There's no abstraction for device drivers. Arduino is a system that paints you straight into a corner.

[edit to add] Any reasonable software environment needs to provide three things, quoting "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" here [1]:

* primitive expressions, which represent the simplest entities the language is concerned with,

* means of combination, by which compound elements are built from simpler ones, and

* means of abstraction, by which compound elements can be named and manipulated as units.

Arduino only provides the first.

[1]: https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/...
Nnno, Chrome is the new IE5 of this era: putting stuff in unilaterally without regard to standardization and pushing webdevs to see Chrome as "the standard".