skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea that a seller/gifter of a gun should be responsible for doing a full background check on a recipient seems preposterous.

As far as I know, in Massachusetts anybody who has a license to carry has already passed a background check. If the recipient has an LTC, then you know they're okay. And as the transferer, you most likely want to be entering the transaction into the state's database of ownership ^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h transfers so that if something nefarious is done with the gun, they don't come looking at you.

Of course the waiting time (and possible hoops, depending on city/town/class/race/etc) to originally get your license to carry dovetails right into your (hyperbolic) point. And I don't particularly enjoy having to register personal property with the state, nor needing a license to possess personal property. And overall Massachusetts is known as one of the most restrictive firearm regimes in the nation. Still I just feel its worth looking at how existing regimes tackle the problem, to see where their pain points and loopholes are. I feel electronic databases would be a lot less onerous in general if they were built with foundational cryptographic privacy, with a public audit log for every access.

Overall I feel like we'd be better off focusing on fixing our society's pervasive mental health problem rather than turning the whole country into a padded room by myopically focusing on inanimate objects. Mentally healthy people don't want to shoot up schools/trains/churches.

(I'm aware my comment is full of non-partisan nuance. Downvote away)
Unsurprisingly if you force students to read the same crap for 200+ years some of it sticks. Is it because it's good or because we've subjected generations of students and future English authors to it?
While a kid throwing a tantrum isn't making a rational choice to do so, they do understand the effects. If tantrums get results, then they won't have an incentive to suppress them as they mature. So don't reward them. You can still give them what they're throwing the tantrum for, if they can bring themselves back into control and ask in the right way (this works better as they get older).

A lot of time, a kid throwing a tantrum has just lost control, and the best bet is to distract and divert, not try to resolve what they're tantruming about. Being able to bring their energy back down, instead of mirroring and escalating their tantrum, is key.
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Subreddits moderate themselves, it has nothing to do with Reddit. If a Reddit Admin bans you then you lose your entire account.
I didn't have a problem reading it.
Ja, let's put all the Hitlers in charge of the militaries. What could go wrong ?
I agree, you can't end chargebacks on this category. You could maybe require a chargeback for 'i didn't buy this' to disable that card for that category (maybe that's a feature you want anyway?). You could maybe require enhanced authentication for this category (3D-secure??). You could charge merchants a higher fee and/or hold payments for a much longer time to avoid the need to pull the money back from the merchant. I think most chargebacks need to be started within 120 days of the initial charge, and it's fairly annoying to need to wait 4 months to get paid, but it's better than not being able to access payment methods.
We built a spreadsheet engine from scratch. Here’s what we learned
Progressive Canary with Armory Continuous Deployment-as-a-Service
> It's just an art project, a means for public servants to redistribute excess public cash to their artsy friends instead of improving the common good.

Improving the common good is one of the direct effects of publicly funded art, As the swedish example shows. The cia psyops are more of a nod to how powerful it can be in ways that can’t be measured via GDP. Not always for good, but impactful either way.

You may not like this piece, but just like in tech startups, you have to fund some failures to find the good.
It builds on the technology behind laser microphones. According to the paper, visual vibrometry has historically required expensive cameras, and their method removes this need and appears to have other advantages over using a high-speed camera. They say they contribute “a novel method for sensing vibrations at high speeds (up to 63kHz), for multiple scene sources at once, using sensors rated for only 130Hz operation. Our method relies on simultaneously capturing the scene with two cameras equipped with rolling and global shutter sensors, respectively.“
I've played through CMI many, many times, but I have no idea why you would say this is a similar art style. CMI is normal-looking illustrations. This is heavily stylized.
Sorry, she no longer makes pieces for sale, but concentrates her energy on teaching.
I don't understand how that follows. It would seem that "having a good answer to these questions" is the key, not knowing how to ask the question?
I am not sure if you merely wish politics could be like that or if you actually consider a move towards formal verification in society to be actually possible but probably daunting.

If the latter you are one of the very few people I have communicated with who can also see the myriad advantages of formal verification in democracy, daily life, or perhaps even courts.

Consider things like due process, it may seem like a pedantic thing and overly paranoid to demand we have formally verifiable due process, so that anyone verify due process at home. But its much more than that. Institutional buildings are heavily protected assets, which cost a lot of money to protect. When a fraction of the populace storms such an asset, it costs lives and limbs, it costs a lot of money to permanently guard it, it will cost a lot of money and attention in processing the consequences etc... If the capitol was entirely virtual there would be nothing to storm and all these costs in life, limb, taxpayer dollars and time and attention of both the legal system and the population as audience would have avoided.
Databases facilitate planned crimes. Stickers prevent crimes of opportunity.

Apples and oranges.
The lesson I took from it is that marketing matters more than technical merit. Don't get me wrong, Java is fine, there are far worse languages out there. But at the same time very little of the USPs it was supposed to have really panned out.
“Express this as X for better performance” doesn't make people cry. So either

A) Your co-worker is more sensitive than anyone I've ever met
B) You are expressing yourself much harsher than you think you are

Again, I don't know you but pattern-matching based on my experiences it's almost always B.
Huh, super interesting! Do you know some good resources where I can learn more about the (pre) history of money?
Yeah, the key issue is energy. If we have unlimited energy we can deal with climate change in so many ways. Unless there is a full energy accounting it is just useless at this point.
As a property owner in another state, I don't care specifically about CA but I do very much for my own locality. IMO a CC permit holder and owner who is not a member of a regulated entity is more dangerous than a sex offender.
The plays aren't written like poems, they are poems, like most plays of the era, and the language was also the literary language of the day. This is the way plays were written in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Makes you wonder how many jobs out there are already being done by deepfakes.
Tor Project – Arti 0.5.0 is released: Robustness and API improvements
Lots of useful stuff came out of military research too e.g. internet, GPS, synthetic rubber, etc.
> Speaking of naive realism, what evidence? I'm not even asking what evidence was provided, but what could be provided at all.

The onus is on the accuser to come up with evidence. Until then, the countless observers, the sheer number of people involved in coordinating their local election infrastructure, the voting machines audit trails, the numerous recounts, the actual cases of fraud which pointed to republican voters, all are evidence that the election was not 'stolen'.

But it doesn't matter when you're dealing with 'crony beliefs'. Unless Jesus Christ himself appears, walks on water, does the whole water/wine thing again, calls Trump a moron and tells everyone the holy spirit handled the election, it's not going to change anyone's mind. And even then, the mental gymnastics of the rightwing propaganda machine will figure out a way to spin this.

If you want examples of actual stolen election, look no further than https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_v._Gore. Actually, I would say that any election in which a president does not win by popular vote is by definition stolen, even if the voting process is 100% ironclad.
What if 73% of statistics get made up on the spot?
> What reasons do you mean?

There has been some easy to find coverage of all the recent controversies. This video [0] is a decent starting point, but it's really easy to find relevant information by plugging in a few keywords into any search engine.

Overall, he's not a good fit in a leadership position given what others have been seeing. I don't care enough to call for him to be cancelled, but I would support removal from any public speaking position at the FSF. If they can find someone equally hardline on software freedoms but more acceptable in interpersonal interactions, he should go immediately.

> What made you feel this way, exactly?

There wasn't any single thing that threw me off (except maybe personal hygiene habits), but the sum of everything that's going on, crossed my "this is OK" threshold.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2SKenHRhMg
Think of prostitution what you will but over there it's legal work and they pay their taxes.

I don't know if this has any impact on V & MC payment processing, but the trafficking of women is still a problem in countries with legal prostitution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trafficking_in_the_Nethe...
> Payment providers are companies. They should be able to decide what they'll cover or not

Companies exist to provide people with goods and services. They have no inalienable rights beyond that. If a company does so in a way we see as unacceptable (in this case discriminatory), we have the right to force it and the only rights it has are to comply or cease operation.

> In this case the bigger issue is that you essentially have a duopoly that allows 2 companies to affect the market with those decisions.

Yes, everyone know that's an issue. The solution, obviously, is to limit their ability to manipulate. We can achieve a big part pf this this by forcing them to serve everyone equally.
great work to you and the team. I absolutely adore the FT website. the subscription is worth every penny and a large part is the user experience for me
Well everyone's taking that wayyyyy too seriously.

Put the assholes together and let them fight it out uselessly. They probably won't be able to agree whose name goes at the top of the table, let alone figure out to rocketry.

Pardon me if burning a good propertion of the brainpower of the species on killing each other seems wasteful.

Obviously you can't actually do that because that's basically a prisoners' dilemma with bombs.
There should be something like a safe harbour / common carrier provision. We recognised that this was vital for postal and telephone networks, that the benefits of a neutral network outweighed the costs of carrying crime sometimes. It should be the same for money transmission.
Use the computer you've been given for the tasks you need to do, but track the time it takes.

Then do some back-of-the-napkin maths and figure out how much less time it would take with a more modern machine.

Then calculate
[yearly needless processing time in hours] x [the cost to employ you per hour] = [wasted company money].

Give this to your manager/employer and tell them this is the cost of you having a useless computer. Unless they are terrible at business and accounting this will get their attention.
The volatility is the elephant in the room. In my opinion, vol slowly smooths out as adoption increases, happens with most currencies. But this slowly might be a long time.

You are one of the few comments ITT that bring this up though. On one hand, it shows how the tech’s real purpose hasn’t really permeated the general or tech public yet. On the other, it is literally the only digitally native payment solution that offers cash-but-online and solves the specific risk of payment censorship . There might be other innovations down the road though, but for now caring about these events means caring about cryptocurrency, if you care about solving the problem with today’s tech vs what’s still to come.
> Alternatively, we can continue to have mass killings, single killings, and lots of crime by guns bought by people that should have been blocked.

Sounds possible in theory, but not so much in practice. Let's say I live my whole life as a model citizen, then one day buy a gun with the intent to kill a bunch of people. No background check in the world would deny my purchase. What now?
True, glocks are an exception bc the frames are plastic so they can't serialize them easily other ways. I seen other plastic guns (like hipoints and polymer80s) do the same. There's safeguards against this though, I know there's a place you can cut on a hipoint to find a hidden serial even if they remove the plate. Smith & Wesson actually got sued to add an extra hidden serial to their guns. A bunch of plastiguns have this kind of stuff for exactly this reason.
> For every person you cherry picked getting raped that would have stopped the assailant with a gun, many more are killed under the current system.

The CDC disagrees with you. In the study that is fairly well known at this point, the CDC estimates 500k defensive gun uses every year in the US. Note that I am giving you the lowest number in their range. However there are about 40k deaths due to gun usage every year. 75% of all deaths due to gun usage are suicides. In actuality, there are 10k deaths due to gun usage we need to look at during discussion of gun regulation in the United States.
I was surprised that this was a real thing when I stumbled upon the r/overemployed subreddit. Not sure how many of the folks who self-report their success in doing this are LARPers, but it's remarkable that anyone gets away with this.

I have a hard enough time attending all the meetings and completing my work in my actual job, I couldn't imagine taking on another and balancing the two somehow.
This isn't what this Hackernews post is about. You complained about people not understanding nuance but you want to dive right into argument about the police and minorities?
In the process of archiving every document on that page, thank you! I'd love to have a full collection of Apollo documents; any other resources/websites I should know about?
To expand your point, the impact can be international.

Weed is legal in Uruguay (restrictions apply, but you can do some paperwork and you'll then be able to buy it) yet the Central Bank suggested pharmacies to only sell it in cash, out of fear that it would have negative consequences for other CC transactions in the country, or for the country as a whole I suppose.

I can understand CC companies not wanting to accept payment for weed in another country if the card was issued in the US, but for local cards, that's basically enforcing one country's laws over another. And you could have local CC companies, which we do, but then those are only accepted here. So if someone local wants to have a CC that can be used abroad, they need to accept the fact that the CC company will enforce the laws of the US even if they do a transaction outside of that country.
Because this isn't the same as what you were writing in 2007. This is an improvement on that. There is some degree of chasing what is new, but I think it is more so that all of this is a process of learning which causes the focus to oscillate between different extremes.
“that otherwise would have not”
You’re leaving out the other parts, most importantly the training and the concept that you were working in a group rather than acting as a lone wolf. Any remotely historical reading does not preclude safety standards and, indeed, American history is full of those and they were not considered controversial prior to 2008.
AG Bonta's office statement:

"We are investigating an exposure of individuals’ personal information connected to the DOJ Firearms Dashboard," his office said via email. "Any unauthorized release of personal information is unacceptable.We are working swiftly to address this situation and will provide additional information as soon as possible."
Their definition seems fairly reasonable to me.
Sure, but it took a few trillion dollars literally going up in smoke for that to happen.

I'm not disputing that things come out of war, it's just not an especially great ROI.
It was never unclear. The Administration knew the same day that it was Al-Quaeda.

One of the stewardesses on the first plane to hit the tower called and told the control tower the seats the hijackers were in (2A & B), which led to their identification and connections to al-quaeda - same DAY.
That's how criminals get guns they actually intend to use. You're forgetting though that guns, like espresso machines and other machinery involving high pressures and tight tolerances, tend to be quite expensive, and their handheld nature makes them an extremely lucrative items to fence.
If we knew the altitude, wouldn't we have a pretty good estimate? And vice verca? I think amateurs have probably observed this already. Here's a claim[1]:

> The spaceplane is orbiting at an altitude of about 320 kilometers (a little under 200 miles)

320 km gives an orbital period of ~91 minutes.

[1]: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/spaceplane...
That's a strange dichotomy to make. How is accent elimination different from an accent change from a nonstandard accent to a standard accent?
Oh wow, interesting. That’s much less expensive than I would have guessed.
They mentioned Z80 but do not have the examples of Z80; maybe in future might be added.

I have used some assembly language stuff, including 6502, Knuth's MIX and MMIX, and virtual codes such as Z-code and Glulx.

I have written small amounts of old x86 assembly code (for the older 16-bit PC), too. (I think that the new x86 is too messy and too complicated, compared with the old x86 which is not bad.)

I have been trying to learn TRON assembly code too, although I cannot find enough information. I found some documents, but they are in Japanese and some important diagrams seem to be missing. There is some English documentation too but it does not explain much.
Why did you let it talk to the public facing internet?
That is an amazing feeling!

Then it hits: that crash, bug, unexpected behavior is definitely my fault!

Lol, good times when one works on a routine that executes, crashes and burns long before that finger loses contact with the "return" key!
The fact that your comment doesn't include the word Iran anywhere tells me something.
This is all fine and dandy, and I'm sure everyone means well, but it still doesn't explain why I'm the one left without money, or why I'm expected to be blaming "Rusty" instead of "Amanda" who actually took the money he left me.

It's more like "Dear George, thank you for donating this money to our cause that I'm sure you agree with or else. Sincerely Amanda."

Not sure how I'd feel about that, regardless of how I feel about Ursula, Suzy, Natalie, Faye, Denise, Izzie, Romina, Molly, Trudy, or any of the girls in my class.
Anecdote: I know many gun owners who are fine with universal background checks if they can be performed at home for free in a reasonable amount of time. I don't understand why people who want gun regulation aren't pushing for this. Free, easy, and fast background checks.
Perhaps so, but perhaps not. The weapons that "will hopefully never be used" are the best kind - a war deterrent - and contribute the most towards peace, since the alternative is so unthinkable that nobody would ever go for it. Laws (or in this case international agreements) are only a thing if they're enforced by consequences, otherwise people ignore them the first chance they get... as it's become painfully obvious these past few months.

It's pretty clear that without those brilliant minds that invented nukes we'd be at WW4 or 5 by now.
Satellites like this can be observed from Earth, so those details aren't really as secret as the government may wish. But yes, about 90 minutes; it's generally around 300-400 km up.
The best publicly available evidence suggests that X-37B is practically useless, but storing it in orbit looks better than leaving it parked in a hangar on the ground. They can pretend it is on "a mission".

Whatever instruments it is "testing" clearly could as well have been lofted without the X-37B attached, for less money, as for STS payloads. I.e., instead of X-37B, wrap in a fairing and disposable insertion-burn rocket atop rather smaller booster.
Can't say I've ever seen a non techy person do that
Look at open requests. Obviously it has a lot to do with your expertise, as it will filter based on your profile.
This is just as it should be. Let the markets decide!
I'm responding to the claim that Twitter and Facebook ban points of view they don't want people to see and I'm pointing out Reddit does the exact same thing.
Facebook has a news tab too. https://www.facebook.com/news/learn-more
This is an interesting thought experiment. Take open source vs closed source software for example. Usually closed source with strong financial backing tends to fare better stability wise it doesn't always performance wise. Usually features can be pretty on par. For example LibreOffice and Microsoft office products. I guess where I was going with that train of thought, was this: are there any public domain knowledge repositories of what's possible now? Such as higher education research / publications or news site which aggregates advancements which happen outside the government sector? I'm guessing such info might be highly regulated, I don't know. And possibly not much use to the average civilian, so that niche of information is highly guarded / commercialized.
> the only reason they might is good PR/karma from yc posting

not really, they've been known to do it before, I personally got a much smaller charge (~$12) waived by just asking nicely.
I've had "it needs the RAM" while staring at a 15% memory usage plot on a very expensive CI VM. Choosing a 20x cheaper machine had no effect on build time and stability, but this was the PR comment. This overprovisioned machine was possibly $20k.

The truth is that developers sometimes require expensive things to get their job done efficiently. The other truth is that we often vastly overestimate the SKU. And we also leave things running.
There was only one security camera on at the time with only a few frames of the plane before impact - but it's not good footage. I saw it a long time ago.

Remember that this is in the time before cell phone cameras.
While a funny joke, the point isn't really applicable here.

Parent poster, as I understood their comment, wasn't asserting that electronic voter machines are impossible to defraud. They were pointing out that you cannot reasonably make a comparison between elections 70 years apart because way too much has changed (one large change being electronic voting machines) for them to be comparable anymore.
I was very excited about Solana Pay[0] when it dropped last year, but it doesn't seem to have gotten much traction.

0. https://solanapay.com/
The ATF is a horribly corrupt organization. They should be disbanded for their roles at Ruby Ridge and Waco.

What does a firearm have to do with alcohol and tobacco?
I remember reading an article a long time ago about a passenger finding a (mock)weapon in his luggage. Turns out it was put in there by a government organization to test the process through security, except that they forgot to take it out again. I cannot find the link unfortunately.