skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another problem with offering higher risk to crossing guards as an argument against police having guns is that the exact same fact, crossing guards having a higher on the job death rate than police, works equally well or better as an argument for police having guns.

When a given fact supports both sides equally well in an argument that is pretty much the definition of an irrelevant fact.

Crossing guard death rates on the job appear to be around 19 per 100k. For police in the US the rate varies quite a bit year to year, ranging from around 14 per 100k to around double that. The average depends on over what time period you look, so it is not clear if it is actually higher or lower than that of crossing guards, but whichever it is it is not very far from that of crossing guards.

But that is the rate for police with guns. The comparison you want if you are arguing against police guns is the rate without guns.

Using the rate with guns to argue against guns is like arguing that golf tournaments should not shut down when a lightning storm passes over because the rate of people being killed at golf tournaments that shut down during lightning storms is so low.
Yes, one of those was group A
Yes, I was commenting on the distinction the above poster was trying to Walt Disney and Charles Schultz (of Peanuts) to move Schultz closer to Watterson.
He likely got you with that joke :D
proot needs it.
Re: Toll-Free calls, you can actually get paid for those too. Thanks to the 1996 telecommunications law, there's something called "dial-around compensation" which entitles payphone owners to about 50 cents for a toll free call. Here's one such clearinghouse that connects payphones operators and IXCs:
https://npc.cc/home.aspx.
Trust and you'll be trusted said the liar to the fool.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_stressing
It's great, but several times it does fall back to single threaded performance. I regularly use it to generate photos of hundreds of acres, and I end up needing a machine with more RAM and less CPU.
Isn't answering on questions providing free labor to StackOverflow too? Providing way more value to their company? Do you draw a line between answering and reviewing?
Really nice. Looking forward to it!

I went to the world’s oldest continuously operated library today, in Verona. Since 517. Wow.

Saw a copy of Ars Magna Sciendi, from Kirscher.
> If you grew up old money, you get tapped for the best projects and will make Staff by 25, Principal by 30. If you don't have the technical abilities, they'll make you a manager. On the other hand, if you come from the rabble, you stay in the rabble--you get assigned regular grunt work and performance reviews actually matter to your future.

I could not disagree with this more. I would say that tech, unlike legal, medical or other fields, is by far the most egalitarian. You can be a kid that comes from the "rabble" and make Staff/Principle if you are really good and committed.

Likewise I have seen many "old money" folks like you describe completely wash out. We had a few at my company get their foot in the door because the parents play golf with the owner. Sure they have the advantage in getting in, but once youre in if you aren't skilled technically, you're going to wash out very quick (both guys we hired were gone in ~3 months)
I think that in the area of system reliability, specifically, there's quite a lot of theory that's useful and often ignored by practitioners, though.
Saying you need to learn everything on the job is akin to cowboy system design. There's a lot of collective knowledge you should absolutely use when designing large systems, and ignoring that body of knowledge by assuming the only way is learning on the job is a mistake.

I believe not long ago, medicine was like that. Clearly, things can, and should, become more standardized and that will not in any way encumber the creativity that is also a big part of our field.
Smartphone motion sensors could be used to listen to your phone conversations
I know it originates in the US (where I'm not from, perhaps hence it grating) but like so many things it does seem to be catching.
Without any idea how to do anything, I was able to use the cheapest DJI drone (Mini 2) and ODM to stitch together a giant orthophoto of my parent's maple sugar bush. It overlays extremely nicely over Google Maps without any ground control points. The resolution is such that one can pick out individual buckets on each tree.

This is _very_ cool software and I've started making maps of my own property every ~month or so just to see how things change. I started by manually flying missions and eyeballing where to take photos, and everything worked great. I see other mentions here that say the "capture" part can be done for free by PIX4D, I ended up paying for Dronelink to do the same thing.

It's much nicer to have a consistent mission so things always come out the same, and way more efficient to have the software handle where to take the photos. Having the overlap in both directions taken care of is very nice. Now I just sit back and make sure nothing crazy happens (e.g. strong winds) and swap the battery out when it dies before resuming the mission. SO neat!
The point is that once you raise wages, the cost of living automatically goes up. You don't make everyone rich, you end up paying more for everything.
The code is part of a standard, used-almost-everywhere library, `date`. Code in these libraries, from what I undersand, have a ton of thought behind them. It might follow that there were good real-life use-cases ready to use the code that influenced its presence in that library?

Also: https://github.com/search?l=Ruby&q=Date.today.saturday%3F&ty...
Author here. Yes, I still can't wash the disgust off myself, but it does work!
This is a strawman argument. Air conditioning doesn't need to be used at the current levels it is being used to save exactly the same number of lives. So many people and businesses set the thermostat to the 60s. Even a setting in the 70s is totally unnecessary. Few people, if any, will die if the temperature is in the 80s or even 90s, and people could be honest about making such circumstantial choices.

If the first world population used air conditioning less, it would allow poor people, the third world, who tend to live in environments that are hotter and more subject to costs of climate change, to use air conditioning more without adding more to humanity's carbon footprint.

We as humans are quite greedy. We can live perfectly happy and comfortable lives with less plastic, less driving, less waste, but we have become addicted to all this consumption, all this convenience, and the ever greater convenience of consumption (couch shopping and to-your-door delivery, same day or hour even). We have tied our happiness to it. We have no qualms about being a small fraction of the Earth's population yet consuming and hoarding an extremely disproportionate amount of its resources, usually at the expense of poorer people, apparently because a meritocracy is at work.

The modern world's values are ever more driven by "me, me, me!" and less by "us".
>Compensation levels in tech vary extremely widely by company, location, etc.

And compensating for those variations through medians and averages shows tech still tends to pay better on average. Clear exceptions being fields one can't easily pivot into without many years of study.

>Depends on how much later in life.

Disregarding age discrimination, soft skills will only allow you to pivot so far. That makes age itself rather inconsequential compared to raw experience.

>One reason would be if tech favors men in hiring, compensation, and promotions.

Another reason is that women put far, far more importance on men's wealth and income than vice versa. Several cultures across the globe reflect this.
The article fails to mention what people did / do today once they get their degree. For the most part, history majors either go to teach history or attend law school after graduating.
Looks surprisingly laborious if this Twitter video is to trust: https://twitter.com/networkrail/status/1547986150723244032
That was the promise by Nokia (HMD). Unfortunately, the reality is something else: https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/nokia-9-pureview-will-not-get-...

Samsung is pretty good with security and even OS updates nowadays.
Doing this is the opposite of being a doomer. I love the concept of terraforming the desert and desert walls. This is positive, inexpensive and we should do much more of this.
Read-only offline is not a hard problem. Regardless, lots of things are hard problems _the first time it’s solved_ but become easy problems with the right tools and design.
In 2018 Trump warned Germany not to become dependent upon Russian Gas
Ask HN: How are young people getting rich these days?
How are young people getting rich these days?
I think you forgot to add your original point, there is an EU import fee for Apple to sell products in Europe, compared to the US, which is why tech is generally more expensive in the EU compared to the US.
Vice-versa, I believe: https://them0vieblog.com/2010/02/03/calvin-v-hobbes-an-inter...
> Everyone would get 213 dollars a year extra if just their CEO didn't receive any compensation.

Wow, then they can buy an extra starbucks coffee now and then. That would surely change their life.
If it weren't for your second paragraph I'd have assumed you were being sarcastic. :/
In a way they do…
It's a Wonderful Life in the Universe
I didn't get that implication from the OP.

The author has just given birth and is raising her kids is feeling social pressure to demonstrate her value to her peers. (Side note, this only occurs in more affluent circles. A working class mother talking to her friend would feel no such insecurities.) She seems to resolve this conflict in her head not by realizing that the premise is wrong, but by "giving herself some slack" until she can get back and make some career accomplishment to restore her sense of value.

Ultimately we all choose the yardstick we measure ourselves with, and for the most part if you have confidence in your choice, other people will actually accept whatever we've chosen most of the time.

This kind of unhappiness the author is experiences comes from being unable to break free from the perceived expectations placed on her. The solution is to form your own expectations of yourself and try to live up to them, but many people it seems do not have the courage to do this on their own, so instead they join in with whatever the current zeitgeist says the new set of expectations on everyone should be, as if simply changing them will be their solution as well. These new expectations once they take hold, however, will simply be tomorrow's tools of oppression of the individual, no different from those that exist today.

I think this ends up inevitably for many people being a very sad way to spend your life unless you happen to fit into and have the life circumstances to support fitting the model. Even if you do, you'll do so without ownership and agency in the choice of what you're going to do with your life.
I admire your attitude. Government knows these thing happen. If it is rare then it can be part time responsibility of some government employee. Appropriate authority can be given. When government wants something it always finds a way.

Your attitude is - they know it will happen, it is rare so fuck it and lets ruin few lives so some government fucker does not have to strain all 2 brain cells they have left.

Btw when bad things happen to "important people" suddenly it gets fixed in no time.
Working 3 full-time remote jobs
Thanks for the insight - I definitely wasn't trying to dump on the team or handling of the issue - really just understand better so I have more awareness and can hopefully help my team (as a young CTO) be more prepared for different types of challenges.

As mentioned, I'm looking forward to continuing to follow Deno's progress and all the best in hardening your devops!
So the answer to the original question was simply “yes”.
Pasting a couple of @GarethDennis tweets which answer this:

It is worth pointing out that jointed rather than welded track WILL NOT solve the buckling problem.

In fact, jointed track is at a MUCH HIGHER risk of buckling in heat than welded rails as gaps close and there are 160+ joints PER MILE to maintain...

...plus jointed track is generally lighter, weaker and thus at higher risk of buckling (most GB buckles are in jointed, not welded track).

Bolted joints also have a nasty habit of disintegrating under traffic and derailing trains (hence use of welded track to start with)
The Lorax, The Cat in the Hat, and The Grinch movies also were completely warped by Hollywood.
Well the point under discussion is that i/o from a floppy disk is slow. Most servers have much faster disks and it'd be absurd to consider this.

Also the page/buffer cache would probably cache the FAT direntries so probably not a huge issue here.
This brings up an interesting question: What happens to games sold on Steam today, 10 years later? Will I still be able to play them on the latest OS then? If so, how would Steam implement it?
Thank you for replying to give more context.

You have some courage to go to a Ruby project and try to upgrade Rails from 4 to 7. I hope it will go as smoothly as possible. Props to you!

I am not sure if it helps and maybe you know these, but just in case here are 3 URLs I keep at hand when I upgrade Rails:

1. https://railsdiff.org (where it shows diff from sources)

2. https://www.fastruby.io/blog/tags/upgrades (they have some great articles in cases of some upgrades)

3. https://guides.rubyonrails.org/v6.1/upgrading_ruby_on_rails.... (there is page for each version just replace v6.1 with the major version that you need)

And also if you have not already started may I suggest you don't go directly from Rails 4 to Rails 7 but just try to go to each major(ish) version:

Rails 4.0 -> 4.1.x
Rails 4.1 -> 5.0.x
Rails 5.0 -> 5.1.x
Rails 5.1 -> 5.2.x
Rails 5.2 -> 6.0.x
Rails 6.0 -> 6.1.6.1
Rails 6.1 -> 7.0.x

For each version there is an upgrade page. Eg:

- https://guides.rubyonrails.org/v4.1/upgrading_ruby_on_rails....

- https://guides.rubyonrails.org/v5.0/upgrading_ruby_on_rails....

- https://guides.rubyonrails.org/v5.1/upgrading_ruby_on_rails....

You might want to give a try to this gem: https://github.com/fastruby/next_rails. I did not used it so far but I would have a Rails 4 app I will probably try to use it.
A bright sunny summer day will be hotter, but there's nothing magical about clouds that makes the need for air conditioning disappear unless you live in a desert.
A fair complaint, but FYI it’s outdated as of Ruby 3.0 (released in 2020) which includes the `debug` gem [0]. So in Ruby 3.0 onwards it’s as easy as `require 'debug'; debugger` just like you want. Hopefully your build systems will upgrade to a newer Ruby before too long.

[0] https://stdgems.org/debug/
Thanks for championing ODM! :) It's true that proprietary systems have had a lead in development for a long time, but especially of late the software has gotten really good. If you haven't tried the software in a while, I'd recommend updating and giving it another try.

The quality issue is an interesting one; I remember having a discussion with a client that was considering transitioning away from Bentley's ContextCapture (CC) and they mentioned that CC was generating much denser point clouds compared to ODM. CC tends to generate very good looking point cloud models, except its algorithms extract points from a mesh interpolation approach, so sometimes you end up with points where geometrically there shouldn't be any. Sure they look good, but is that "good" quality?
I don’t personally write Python often, especially not in an enterprise context, but from my (admittedly narrow) understanding all these tools try to do what Nix already does. You could look into that.
What does labor have to do it? Are we sure less labor is a good thing? People need to work.
You are not following the old truism that the trend is your friend. That AC and capitalism has saved countless lives in the past indicates it likely will in the future. The trend for Malthusian moronicism is just death and suffering. You are arguing counter to both trends so it is you that is likely wrong and it is you that has a very stringent burden of proof for your thinking process.
I suppose the thesis that it’s a bad name is borne out by the fact that many technical people misunderstand it; it’s a contraction of “zero trust networking” and is a fine description of the technical approach: don’t trust anyone by virtue of their network location. (Trust is negotiated at the application layer.)

#NoVPN or Zero Perimeter could be better slogans.

On the other hand, the only people I have seen confused are technical people that (incorrectly) think they have identified an inconsistency; non-technical folks seem fine to just map name->feature-set.
Nothing is wrong. Same shit as in any other area. It is a usual trade-off between what you pay and what you get in return, some of it highly politicized.
Sometime this century, or early in the next, we will have artificial wombs
it kind of annoys me that a recession, in a reductionist view is basically Blackrock stock portfolio not going up for two quarters...and for this everyone has to suffer.
Cows may have larger brains, but they also have much bigger bodies. They aren't anywhere near as intelligent as dogs.

Now, with pigs, you have a point. They're indeed very smart.

I justify eating pigs by reasoning that pigs will happily eat humans if they get a chance (a few pig farmers lose their lives that way every year, plus there's the occasional serial killer...). Turnabout is fair play.
Hands-On with Mojo Augmented Reality Contact Lens
Amazon does similar, along with a generally crap description of the product that isn't necessary, you only need the 'dp...' ID.
Even if you don't think it's true that "spawning" is an achievement in and of itself, I think it benefits you that others do "spawn". If you society discouraged having children strongly enough, it would collapse. An aged population with no workers or innovators isn't a recipe for success.

This is a literal response to your question as to why it's good that people think reproducing is an achievement, I'm not talking about whether it actually is or isn't.
Never been to Rome but quite a few other tourist hot spots in Italy (because Venice, Pisa, Verona and the whole Toscany reguon are nice!), avoid restaurants with people in front of them / at the streets urging you to eat there. Taking a couple of side roads usually leads to better places!
> Here's a list of network conditions with values that you can plug into Comcast

Here's an idea: take this list and embed it into the program so that you can execute it like this:

comcast -use gprs
Slightly misleading part: In May, Deutsche Bahn, Germany’s national railway company, launched a ticket costing €9 that gives a full month of travel from June until the end of August. Any two stations within Germany can be connected with the deal, so passengers travelling more than 50 miles can save money with a single journey.

The ticket was not introduced by DB but by a broad coalition of public transport companies and the government that finances the whole thing. The truly revolutionary aspect is, apart from its price point of 0,20€ per day, that now you can buy a single ticket at the next ticket office or machine and use it to ride all of the buses, trams, ferries and trains (excepting night trains, ICs and ICEs) in all German regions and cities, in some cases even including the first stop in neighboring countries as the case may be.

The Verband Deutscher Verkehrsunternehmen (VDV) has recently proposed to continue offering a nationwide ticket with these rules for a price of 69,00€ per month. While that would be a gain over present practices and prices (especially since this "ÖPNV-Klimaticket" would include taking regional trains between places), I sure hope that given our present situation (climate, energy, war, inflation), there will be a ticket for more like 20 or 30€ per month (which has been dubbed the "1-Euro-Ticket" since that would be its price per day). We are continuing to pour billions each year into car-centric traffic and have done so for decades while closing thousands of kilometers of railway lines in the 1990s alone. Its high time to reverse this utterly misguided policy.
I agree completely with "comments in English, please". but despite not learning any German for over 50 years, I came up with "One think works", which is not too far off!
https://docs.opendronemap.org/flying/

We might need to put this page in a more visible place.
I am just going to nag that anti-social person is someone who runs the streets and punches random people.

If you don't care about convenances you are not anti-social.
Mostly one-man band MVP's, side-hustles, Apps, sites with or without revenue/profit that is looking for a 100% buyout.

We will be expanding to connect project owners with 2nd Founders looking to join, and not just do a buy out.

~ 2nd Founder of SF
I believe that deficiencies in Episodic Memory can be related to Aphantasia.

My hypothesis is that when people with high mental image visualization recall an event, they are re-experiencing it in a sense, and therefore reinforcing its details (or details as remembered, at least!). A person with aphantasia recalling that event does not re-experience it in a way that triggers this feedback loop, not as efficiently or completely at least.

I have very detailed memory about facts, places that I've been and seen, including spatial models; but how many times I've visited a place, who I was with on which trip, which events occurred on which visit, these details quickly become obscured and lost.
Qualitative Quantum Mechanics
In this example, the OP could reach out to everyone who has listed a project on Micro Acquire, Flippa, and similar businesses acquisition marketplaces.

"Hey, I saw your listing on X. I wanted to invite you to list your project on Second Founder. We have X,XXX views per month. You don't have to do anything except create an account, and I'll migrate this listing over."
Northern Japan has a much wider range of temperatures than the UK — -20C in winter to high 30s in summer would all be considered normal — and yet they can run high speed trains all year at 200+ km/h. How is that done?
How is this different from Auth0?
I doubt you’ve missed HN having a slightly higher standard of commentary than other social media sites, and non moderators’ parts in keeping it that way.

Being irrationally Americentric while simultaneously condescending to Europeans in characterizing the Libyan intervention as “US” gets both basic recent history wrong, and promulgates US > EU sentiment worryingly present on HN.

I’m doing my part, would you like to know more?
What if I told you that it has been making that much money for the past 8 years and likely to keep making money for the next 10, 20 years?
Great post, I will push back on this point though:

“There's no intrinsic reason why it should be considered usual for men in heterosexual relationships to earn more than women, but emasculating and odd for the reverse to be the case”

I think there is an intrinsic reason for this. Women choose partners, at least in part, based on their ability to provide resources. This makes higher earning men more attractive even too high earning women.
USDA crop predictions in the 1960s seemed to be less than 10% off 4 months in advance and less than 5% off two months in advance.

It possible that the made up numbers were discarded because they were bad predictors because they were made up.
How do engineers plan for thermal expansion when laying traintracks in deserts where the daytime and nighttime temperatures are vastly different? - https://old.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/8yxd21/how_do_e...
I'd like to point out that amazon is making ginormous profits, meaning increasing wages and ensuring safe working conditions would hardly make a dent in amazons revenue.