skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Violent crime is generally very rare in Japan, but particularly gun violence is near nonexistent. There have been years in recent history where firearm offenses number in the single digits.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/07/a-...
On GNOME?
School shootings are an extremely tiny minority among shootings in the US. They just get a lot of attention.
Before joining my current job, I was interviewing for a position at one of Toyota's R&D spin-offs. While they made a stellar job at selling the company (and ensuring all immigration support, from language classes and professional assistance for the process of moving and finding a home), in the end I opted for a lower-risk, lower-friction option because I have a pre-teen daughter and moving countries is a bit stressful, especially crossing such a cultural chasm.

It's still something I would contemplate at a later stage - I actually enjoy jumping cultures.
The bank gunfight in Heat (1995) is still the apex of gunfight sound design
> mankind's second worst nuclear disaster killed about as many people as vehicle emission kills in the US every month.

In fact the tsunami killed 20,000 people - and would have done so regardless of whether there was a power plant accident. The nuclear accident killed one person.
they did already: https://github.com/coder/code-server

works great, even on small server machines!

edit: as pointed out by others, this is not actually by MS, but works just fine anyway. TIL!
I'm not surveillance but ...

> here I could be visited by the police to "check my thinking", or worse I could prosecuted.

Good luck getting the police to do or investigate anything in the UK, nevermind turning up proactively.

The reason the state is so keen on surveillance is belief it helps the chronically underfunded police service.
I think Linux Desktop has to go a long way before some BIOS settings become "scary".
I would like to develop from my phone while I’m watching my kid. Can’t really use a laptop around him yet. Phones are fine though. Would suck inputting but I still want it.
The places in the US with the tightest gun regulations have the most gun deaths because it's the people, not the guns, that cause the problem.
You're looking for medical reasons where there aren't any. Other countries have removed such restrictions and nothing happened, because Omicron doesn't make unvaccinated people seriously ill - it has the same severity as a common cold - and people need health insurance anyway. The CDC doesn't provide medical care to anyone in any case, that's not their job.

The real reason they keep the mandates is because they can, and because it is ideologically pleasing to them to punish people who reject the intellectual authority of the state.
I think it's great that you're tinkering with a compiler. But a language is more than a compiler; good language design requires a lot of programming experience, good taste and intuition, an ability to absorb programming language theory, and, yes, good programming skills. Araq has proven that he is a very capable language designer.

It sounds like you're taking Araq to task for trying out new things. And indeed, Nim is certainly a fairly expansive language. But a lot of the things he's trying are really cool, and I want to see the person with the _actual vision_ get a chance to try those things out without being encumbered by the need to write laborious commit message, because "democracy" and "best practices". Between Araq spending a marginal x minutes doing more on value types, and writing "clearer" commit messages, I'll choose the former, any day. I also trust him to jettison ideas that don't work.

I really think it's red flag when someone proposes to fork a language without being able to offer single reason that's actually related to language design. Sorry, I do realize this may come across as a bit aggressive, but I'm inclined to view you as a presumptious ingrate.

And really: when you come up with an original language that captures the imagination of scores of developers, I'll pay you the same respect.
Honestly onus is on you to prove that current hardware that disables the 3rd Party UEFI CA doesn't also enable TPM-backed Bitlocker by default, because all examples I've seen do.
> Comparing LGBT activism in rural Poland and ultra liberal parts of London, is not valid. Go to Luton or Yorkshire and see what happens...

Oh, you mean like Pride in Luton (https://prideinluton.org/) or Yorkshire Pride? (https://www.yorkshire.com/inspiration/features/yorkshire-pri...)
Sure. Knowledge is actually relatively cheap. You are unlikely to be the most knowledgeable person in the given niche in which you want to operate, anyway. It is relatively easier to pay somebody who has the knowledge but not the appetite for risk, than to acquire that level of knowledge yourself. It is unfortunately a trend for engineers to start failed business enterprises based on the mistaken belief that their edge is their unique knowledge.

Entrepreneurship is mostly about being able to manage your resources well, strategizing, risk taking, forming connections and hiring the right people.

> And how can I leverage my wealth of knowledge to become a successful entrepreneur?

This is the wrong mindset. You just cannot, unless your knowledge is entrepreneurial experience. You have to become an entrepreneur and stop being an employee, if you indeed want to be an entrepreneur.
So I can write, test, compile a NIM script on my x64 machine, copy it over to an ARM device and it'll work? Right...? And even if that worked, what if I need to edit one line because reasons? Can't really do that for compiled stuff, generally.

Now if it got transpiled to bash for example, that might be actually practical. Cuts dev time, still enables multiplatform usage and random edits.
We obviously put margins on stuff, but never at the body element for many reasons. Padding would be better for example. The margin only makes sense if you don’t apply any further styling.
What is the difference between the $131 plan the the lifetime access for $29 I found here:

https://checkout.stripe.com/pay/cs_live_b1WrHao6Sw3In1xSCzhG...
Sometimes I feel that Microsoft thinks it owns the hardware and is doing me, the customer, a favour letting me install my operating system of choice.
I'm trying to understand Lamdera, but I dont really get it.

How does it persist data? Does it use WebSockets (and thus push from server)?
Why do you need to "stop" it? Why not just "lower" it? Like lower it with 90%.

And the fanatic, practice shows that a lot of times they take the easy road by using a knife, axe or bow.
They're adding internet censorship to the mix: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/07/04/new-law-woul...

"Nadine Dorries ‘will have power to censor the internet’"

("Party of law and order" always means more surveillance and authoritarianism, whichever country you're in)
Pretty easy to dunk on this kind of thing as architectural wankery, but it can be useful for companies that need to build opinionated platforms on which business applications run.

I recently left a role at a company with ~4,000 AWS accounts and they will likely have ~20,000 within a couple of years. It's extremely helpful to see a nicely abstracted architecture that you can cherry pick from when building your platform.
I completely agree with what the EU have done so far on a mostly positive front. But at the same time all governments and unions seem to regress to measures which lead to worse consumer protection and a worse security and privacy outcome in the long term.

I can't possibly support a union that wants technical censorship measures introduced while crowing that they are privacy focused.

And then there's the removal of the control point on the Apple App Store, which is admittedly bad for business but the best outcome for consumers as it allows them to control over billing in once place. The proposed outcome of opening the billing is corporate interest focused rather than customer focused and will only harm the latter.

And of course there's what they didn't bother to do. No one is perfect but some of the recent shifts are stupid and force an EU centric view on technology. This is the region that sold out all of its technical capacity (Philips, Nokia etc) without even blinking an eye on the regulation front and is now complaining when US tech companies step into the gap in the market they created. Hypocrisy is what it is.

I can't support a singular organisation which does so much good and so much stupid at the same time. It needs to be broken down into separate bodies as it's a monopoly itself.
Books That Changed How I Hear Music
Gavrilo Princip wasn't a foreign national, he was Bosnian which was then (at his birth and in 1914) ruled by Austria-Hungary, one of the many ethnic groups that composed the empire. He was part of a Bosnian revolutionary group that was helped/sponsored/trained by Serbia, so there's a foreign connection, but he wasn't a foreigner.
I have the exact same problem. Wow, I could have written almost the same post about myself (including the part about the panicking wife!) Thank you for the music suggestions. One thing I find a bit strange is that the music of Liquid Mind both helps me to sleep AND helps me to code. I find it odd that sleep-inducing music also helps my easily distracted brain to focus. But there is no doubt I have written some of my best code and have achieved a greater level of focus while listening to Liquid Mind playing (softly) in the background.
Can you benchmark this against a nvidia rtx 3090, must be close
OK, is that because you have in mind a Windows 10 laptop which does not enable Bitlocker by default ?
Getting people to maintain documentation is hard.

For me there's two distinct areas of documentation, code level and business level.

Business level documentation is about the higher level logic and processes, and something that I don't regularly see being done well. You'll quite often find that decisions were made in meetings and, while it was minuted, no one can find the minutes when they're needed (or worse they can find conflicting decisions made at different meetings).

Code level documentation is about the actual code base and certainly takes a bit of work and commitment from a team to keep up to date. It's very easy for code to slowly slip away from the documentation, which will cause confusion when working with the code in the future. Worst case you can always look at the code to figure out what it's doing, comments may attempt to tell you why it's doing something, but you can't trust them 100%.

One thing I like about OpenAPI/Swagger is that you can actually get your microservices to use them so it knows what APIs it has, what parameters they require and what the criteria is for those parameters. By actually using the API definition in that way you can make sure that your APIs and their parameters have to be documented and up to date (at least to from the point of view of methods, endpoints and parameters and their validation criteria).
I know this is a joke, but if you want to get close to the target of assassination, you want to blend in with the crowd.
You’re looking at nominal GDP measured in USD over a period when the value of the yen fell significantly relative to the USD.

If you look at the trend you can clearly see the nominal GDP fell back down to trend after a massive spike during the high yen period post-GFC.

I lived in Japan most of that period and no one thought of it as a recession. Unemployment fell to essentially zero, the stock market boomed, the lower yen was welcomed and ultimately “real” (PPP) GDP rose.

There’s a reason Abe was able to serve as PM for so long in a country otherwise notorious for cycling switching leaders.
This is the right answer. Always decline the conversion and let your bank do it. Even the worst US bank will have a better rate. If you travel a lot, it pays to use a bank that gives current market rate, has no foreign tx fees, and refunds all additional ATM fees.
If you think so, it's been way too much since you used a Linux desktop.
RIP Abe. This is pure shock to me.

Reading through history books I had thought, wow what crazy times - A Global pandemic (Spanish Flu), revolutionary technology (Aeroplane, etc.), Killing of influential people and then war.

We are halfway there and signs don't look good. Am I being too pessimistic?
how are you defining targeted?
The usual problem is of course, whether that plausible deniability will result in everyone being given equal benefit of doubt, or if will be (ab)used for selective enforcement.
You might have used the same EFI partition for both, which is always unsafe.
In the future, better make own EFI partition for every OS unless you manually define directory hierarchy.
What we know about the China Leak
Interesting that in the last photo the man (Abe’s security guard?) apprehending the gunman is clearly armed but hasn’t drawn his weapon.
the years of lead
Because the technology is not ready yet
Perhaps you can now use an iPad to do development, if you didn't like the SSH + terminal based editor combo.
Price is way, way, way too high.
https://twitter.com/kumashirokeishi/status/15452542838508298...
Cool! I had one of those hanged in the lab
It’s true that in one case there’s no elections and in the other case the elections are most likely rigged, so it’s hard to know for sure.

I base this on discussions I had with people from both countries (numerous in real life, as well as some online, including here), there are enough anecdata points for me to form this opinion.
Who they would support. But yeah, it stinks anyway.
hah, I like that (:
I've spent a lot of time in life around all sorts of explosions, gun fire (everything from modern to old, including machine guns, cannons, etc.).

(My dad was Kent Lomont - google him for stories - he was one of the world's largest machine gun and destructive device dealers, and he/we shot everything from all of history all the time).

There is a distinct difference between gun shots and fireworks. There is a distinct difference between all sorts of guns (I can tell the difference between many, and certain guns, even full auto, have distinct patterns and noises).

For example, a Thompson machine gun (old Tommy guns from gangster movies) have a lower rate, "bup-bup-bup" sound of a certain frequency (.45 ACP caliber, Cutts compensator on the barrel, somewhat short). A Ma Deuce (.50 BMG large machine gun, very common) is a more rapid, lower, really impressive bang. A 22 pistol is a smaller pop. An A4 machine gun has a different rate, different (.308 or similar). Someone shooting a non-machine gun of the same caliber, trying to go at the same rate, never has the same mechanical precision at the rate. A mini-gun is just a constant buzz, like a saw, and terrifying once you see what it can do and associate that noise with that level of destruction. A .44 magnum is different than .357 magnum. Each is very distinct once you've heard/shot them enough.

But no good way to describe :)

I'm not sure how to explain it. But there is a place you can get some glimpse - video games and accurate war movies used to come to my dad's place to record all day, requesting this or that gun, which he would have and know how to work, with whatever rare or weird ammo was needed. Their sound guys would know how to record the noises well.

So many video games, especially ones that are trying to be historically accurate, will give you a taste, but none really capture the loudness.

It used to be you could go to the Knob Creek machine gun shoot twice a year and hear them, but even then you'd not learn different ones well since they all fire at once.

Or, if you're really interested, there are many places you can rent different guns, including machine guns, and hear the differences.
By good fortune the custom PC I had at the time was 100% compatible with 10.6 Snow Leopard, including WiFi and Bluetooth, by learning about tonymacx86. I've been on Apple ever since, both personal and professional.
Agree, but brexit won the referendum even though both sides agreed it would be bad for the economy.
It's a very interesting recollection. Thanks for sharing it here.

I'm always interested in what motivates some people in our line of work. There are so many with such strong drives to work hard in ways that don't make any sense to me.
Ask HN: Writing tools like CoPilot but for prose?
So GitHub CoPilot is all the rage these days. Sure there are annoying rough edges but there’s no denying it’s useful. (I won’t wade into the licensing issues here).

I’m a bit surprised similar tools for writing normal prose haven’t become popular, or maybe I just missed hearing about them.

Are there any similar (cheap/free) tools for writing normal prose?
>Far more so than almost any other country

Source for this assertion? Just Japan's page alone has more assassinated politicians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Assassinated_Japanese...
"But resigning without being forced on the grounds of a self-identified moral lapse is astonishingly rare."

It just happened en-masse, and has been happening to Johnson regularly this year. The ministers resigned because they didn't want to continue supporting Johnson and doing the things he wanted them to do. So how can you say it's rare?

"Everyone currently leaving Johnson's cabinet knew of his objectionable character before signing on, for example"

Ah, I see. Mind reading skills. Because you personally don't like Johnson, nobody who is now resigning and explicitly stating it is for honor reasons can possibly be telling the truth. That isn't a charitable or fair reading of what's happened.

"The modern Conservative party mostly has a reputation for corruption ... I teach political communication in a British university"

If that's meant to increase your credibility it has the opposite effect. An anti-conservative academic, what a shock. And one who teaches politics no less, whilst claiming (presumably to students) that none of the many ministers resigning for clearly communicated honor reasons are actually doing so, thanks to aforementioned mind reading skills.
This is the only thing I wish emacs would do for me, I love the idea of having a collection of dev vms on my big homeserver that I could connect to from whatever.

While tramp exists and is cool, it doesnt make for an overly great developer experience -- lsp isnt super pleasant over tramp and it sometimes causes crashes for me.
a few more examples on ssh tunnels : https://cloudbase.200013.net/doc/linux/ssh/ssh_tunelling.htm...
My commit messages:

Fixes

Fixes

Fixes

Fix the fix

Frstegdghdsgsffff

More work

Fixes

Fixes
My favorite Konami code level of cheat: ssh escape sequences. On a new line: ~. to terminate a connection that’s stuck. Or ~? for more help.
It says my mobile device is not supported. Given I use what is perhaps the most popular mobile device on the planet, that seems like an oversight.
demography is a problem in todays day and age, japan is a small island, and it is over populated, it just is a correction

the dude probably just was against the American military base that is being built

their government also said they'd ignore the result of a referendum vote, wich emphasis the idea that japan is no longer a sovereign country and instead is an American vassal that's getting used in preparation of the great pacific war

that dude was a military guy, he wasn't a trader
I set my self timers on my smart phone or Google Assistant device. Just like you do in JavaScript.
Notepad++ v8.4.3: Unhappy Users' Edition
The illusion of peace the world has enjoyed since WW2 is slowly wearing thin.
Potentially resulting in even more division and radicalisation. The human tendency is to judge evidence strongly subjected to priors. Does the evidence allow me to keep my beliefs, or does it force me to change them. Evidence of questionable authenticity will be believed if it reinforces the priors, and disbelieved if it contradicts them, thereby increasing the divergence of held beliefs.
"accidentally wiping my Windows partition. If it can be done for only $40, very cool!"

I'm sure it can be done for a lot less.
It's always interesting how you can tell people's political alignment by which examples they cherry pick to call "authoritarianism", and who they find a sympathetic victim.

The UK does have a really nasty tradition of anti-democratic violence and literal political prisoners, but that's all in Northern Ireland and supposedly in the past. There's also a very long list of police abuses by the Met aimed at the black community as well as violent public order policing in general. And the infiltration of environmentalist groups (the "spycops" scandal).

I don't see too many other HN commentators picking up those examples for some reason.
You aren't competing against in person therapy though, you're an app. This is an insane leap of logic.

I wish you luck but I don't see it happening for your at these rates.
Ask HN: What is currently – in your opinion – the best ToDo List App?
> “Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.” — Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer

> Just the same, over the last few years, Microsoft has invested heavily in obtaining control over key portions of the Linux (and, to some degree, open source) ecosystem.

This seems incredibly disingenuous.

The article is implying there's a smooth continuity between these two sentences, and basically pretending Satya Nadella doesn't exist.

This is like saying "For years, Microsoft has completely ignored accessibility in video games. And now they're investing in the adaptive controller and forcing developers to implement accessibility features? Why? Why are trying to control accessibility?" without mentioning Phil Spencer.

> Well. If we’re simply being practical and objective… Microsoft seems to have achieved the “Embrace” and “Extend” portion of the old “Embrace. Extend. Extinguish.” business plan.

How? How have they done that? Leaving aside that Microsoft hasn't done EEE in a while, the article doesn't mention anything that could count as the "Extend" part of EEE. They haven't released an extended version of Linux with Microsoft-exclusive features, they haven't created special Github plans that only work if you're using Microsoft Office, they haven't released a special version of Git that only works with Visual Studio or VsCode, etc.

There's reasonable distrust, which Microsoft certainly has earned, and then there's paranoia.
Compared to keeping it on earth, or putting it in the ocean, where there are also many things that can go wrong? Yes, launches can explode, but it's very rare, getting rarer and presumably these rockets could be launched from small islands where if there's an explosion the fallout would mostly be over the ocean.
The picture also clearly shows that the security person apprehending him has a gun holster strapped to his belt, but he doesn't seem to be wielding it (it could be in his left hand, which is behind the gunman's back, but the holster is on his right-hand side and his right hand is visibly empty). And it seems he's only trying to grab him, possibly to tackle him to the ground so he can't attack anyone else.
Things do not look good. The absence of fear is terrifying.

We are in the denial phase. Next comes panic, and then desperation.
I’m still learning about a lot of this stuff so apologies if this is wrong.

Isn’t part of the motivation for using deep learning that it can actually generalize over that many parameters? My understanding is that classical statistical models are prone to overfitting on data as you add more parameters to the model. Deep learning tries to learn the underlying distribution of data, enabling predictions not found in the dataset that still match the underlying positional statistics of the dataset.

In that context I’d say the comparison is apt. It’s not just throwing more compute at the problem - it’s doing so in a way that actually achieves scalable accuracy gains. With pre training and self-supervised learning, you can (feasibly) train such a model without even needing to understand statistics.