skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well technically, for a short amount of time...

https://youtu.be/O1TGRTuqDgU
Not arguing for it, but the scale of execution is insignificant in comparison to suicide.

Suicides in the US (where assisted suicide is illegal): 45,979 (with 1.2M attempts)

Executions in the US: 17
In Romania it varies, but you get a better deal (small discount or get a parking spot, better orientation etc.) when you pay down 20-40% of the price before construction starts so many buyers go for it.

Waiting until the construction is finished usually means many units are sold (the good ones).

It also depends on the builder’s reputation of course, if it’s a big name they can charge more in advance.

IMO it sucks a bit for the buyer as delays are quite often and hard to attack in court.
It also attracts speculators who sign the pre-contract just to sell for a profit when the units are delivered.
put the notes in the shredder then re-write them as quickly as you can
A new kind of gadget review: the exit review
> To protect the stealth of submarines, Mishra says, “There is a need for creative thinking. One possibility is exploring a code of conduct for the employment of emerging technologies for surveillance missions.”

I don't buy that. It would be way too tempting to be able to detect submarines for any nation not to use the technology.
We're deep into late stage capitalism now, so nobody gets to glean... expired (but perfectly fine food) doesn't even get donated lest the corporation get sued when someone chokes on a pretzel.
One of many benefits of posting "this should be illegal" is that it exposes what people think about the problem.

We think the problem is just the big corp circumventing moral, ethics and even law for make a profit, but how many people here support this behavior?

We are not only talking about people working there, but people from the outside, completely unrelated, telling they are right and that they should keep doing what they are doing.

Maybe we can not fight big corps because they have all the money and power, but people, we definitely can fight them.
I'm not sure I agree with "lengthy waiting period". For somebody with a terminal disease, maybe it's simply too much to force them to wait 6-12 months. On the other hand, nobody wants to be "assisted" by impatient relatives, so the system would need robust checks and balances. But, yes, in many cases having access to painless euthanisia would be far more humane that what many societies currently force people to experience.
I know literally not a single person who has had a severe reaction to any of the vaccines.

I find it fascinating that on HN anecdata that conforms with the vaccine being dangerous is totally accepted, but anecdata about people getting very sick from COVID are either considered lies or statistical outliers.
It is, but I think he is understandably upset because people are engaging with you in good faith but you aren’t reading or acknowledging what they write. Sometimes, it’s good to just take a step back and start with something like “Oops, I missed you are a professor and this is a teaching tool. Disregard that part. I do think, however…”

Otherwise, you’re bound to annoy someone even if you think you are technically contributing.
Counterfeit Wine, Spirits, and Cheese
You’re saying your HP envy got better battery life than your M1 MacBook Air? I highly, highly doubt that.
seriously he did tell you to read the original post and just a couple of click laters you can find out the OP is a professor not a student..
No the producers don't just recompress and resample between every track of the mixer, that would be foolish both quality and performance-wise. The source materials are, if even needed, decoded only once and inside the production software it's always raw sample data.
I acquired a couple of computers from my dad's old work with Forth ROMs in them (Acorn Atom, Epson HX20) so presumably they wrote a data logging and analysis app in Forth without actually implementing Forth themselves.
I assume you're giving numbers from one specific year?

I'm not asking to imply you've cherry picked numbers, just that giving stats like that (number of actions for a country with no defined time period) is only telling half the story, and even though that half was enough to make your point I think the other half is worth including for the sake of curiosity :)

edit: yes seems to be 2020, search of that suicides number pointed to e.g. https://afsp.org/suicide-statistics/
Obligatory Literary joke:

"Question: Who are the four greatest Portuguese poets of the 20th century?"

"Answer: Fernando Pessoa. "

"The Heteronymous Identities of Fernando Pessoa": https://lithub.com/the-heteronymous-identities-of-fernando-p...
check out https://www.quantstart.com/
Lynx-friendly should become a web design standard.
Scratch became part of teaching program for k-12 kids, here in Portugal
You'd argue that to be successful (whatever that means), you've to be good at both things.
Not really what the original article was talking about, but sure :)

I'm reminded of Behringer building entire factories on the back of a line of reissues of other people's analog synths. They worked out how to build that stuff in modern workflows without compromising the analog signal paths: I've taken apart their newer gear and saw how it was done. All you have to do is not build it like it's a cellphone, and give the audio paths quite a lot of extra signal handling capacity plus some fairly modern circuit board design knowledge.

I've got a couple MakeNoise synths that are likewise very modern designs but stand up to anything anyone's ever done, vintage or not. Designing analog circuitry is definitely in a renaissance.
The consensus on nuclear waste seems to be, largely: store it in dry casks on site.

One great thing about nuclear waste is that there really is fuck all of it.

Clean up those 20,000 barrels of DDT off the coast of California and dump all the nuclear dry casks of all nuclear waste there instead and the world would be much better place.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2021-04-30/barrels-leaki...
I could very well imagine that the random batching in stochastic gradient descent is great for regularizing and preventing local optima.
guess by 2085 he (or his estate?) will lose creative control anyhow though?

loss of creative control can be fan fiction/comic too?
Most people also eat more calories than they report. Eating garbage food leads us to eat more in general, usually due to feedback mechanisms that tell us we aren't getting essential nutrients
This is a bold opinion
More details : https://k-cloud.kominfo.go.id/index.php/s/RQtzXLQysTHWZkp?di...
Which parts of the world are these? I’ve used debit cards issued by various European and US banks for online payments all over the world since the ‘90s.
Pigeons of War
"No one wants it" is obviously a hyperbole. "It caused significant problems," "several design decisions were unfortunate," "a significant percentage of sysadmins were upset by it," and so on - all these are true statements, whereas "no one wants it" is not.
On-Site.com is a legitimate company (used to work there). They use a lot of integrations and third party services for credit/background checks. AFAIK, they were even using a vendor that would try to get court documents if records couldn’t be found for an individual.

It was subsequently acquired by Realpage. (also a legitimate company) Surprised to hear anything is still running at the On-Site domain name, but checking the WHOIS shows that the domain is pointing at RealPage servers, so it seemingly hasn’t been squatted on.

If it was legitimately the On-Site.com domain I think you’re fine. More likely just a kludgy bug.

If you have a link to the form, I can pass it along to the On-Site folks to verify.
Medium started off as a no-BS blog platform with a snappy reader experience and ended as the total opposite of that. Many digital products face the same fate once they're forced to monetize.
Outside of North America, hash has been the standard term for many decades; in that time period, the name pound was rarely used for it outside of the US. Number sign was adopted in international standards as a neutral compromise between US and UK usage; apparently, it is/was also the standard term in Canada, and saw regional usage in some northern parts of the US. I wonder whether the derived term hashtag is causing hash to make inroads into US usage?

Octothorpe has never been its “proper” name in any country; just a jocular nickname originating in the US telco industry, which spread from there to computing.
Why? For me at this point YOLO means a family of detectors that in a single pass propose a bounding box per pixel and filters them with some clustering algorithm. When I see YOLOfoo I know what kind of architecture to expect. A more descriptive name like YOLO-tricks instead of YOLOvX would be nice though.
He tried to hide the domain name, but leaked it mid thread. He bought binance.ca to squat and wait for a big payout. When he was unreasonable they sued in Canada because it’s .ca.
stackful coroutines break FFI
My favourite is the name: "Hong Kong Geography Warrior" ... that should be an album name :)
Yes, indeed.

The positioning of the mouse cursor over the rope end in order to pull the rope appears to be much more critical in Firefox than in Chromium/Chrome.

As mentioned, the mouse cursor must change into a double-pointed vertical arrow, to allow rope pulling, so the shape change identifies the right spot.
I work on the assumption that the half-life of knowledge gained from books, essays, and articles is about 2.5 years (I'm forgetful, but probably not more than average).

So I use a mechanical pencil to write small notes in the margins of books/essays. Then I write them up in a google doc (or if it's a coding book, on GitHub, usually in a public repo). My notes are always available and ~20-50x faster than if I were to re-read the book (and probably yield 90% of the value).

An unexpected bonus is the perspective gained from scanning notes I took years ago. It teaches me a lot about the person I was at that point in time, and my ideas then usually differ from how I think about things now. Very valuable for introspection and perspective!
> Keep in mind that something like 8% of Americans didn't have health insurance at any point last year.

Again, I cannot stress enough how insane this sounds to someone from most other first-world countries.
While I of course don't think this should be the deciding factor, and I wouldn't write the following paragraph outside the context of your comment...

Isn't it possible that letting suicidal people kill themselves might actually save more in "wasted" economic output trying to save people who are perhaps beyond saving (therapists could spend more time helping non-suicidal people which could make them more productive, or less therapists needed so they retrain; maybe state aided suicide leads to more deaths and therefore more time spent grieving by friends and family, or maybe it would work out pretty much the same number of deaths but years earlier, potentially with those years otherwise eating lots of economic output out of their family & friends who are both emotionally distracted and likely spending time trying to help; etc) than gained by the possibility of some economic output from the saved person, which might happen or maybe a decade of homelessness later they die before working another hour.

I'm not convinced that politicians are against allowing suicide because they know how the numbers stack up and there's a solid economic case saying to force people to live. They're doing it, rightly or wrongly, either because they believe it's the right way for society to act, or because they think that's what the voters they need believe.

But maybe you're right that, if those beliefs started to fade, the economics would be worked out, show that my thinking above is wrong and that it is most profitable to ban suicide, and it would be a motivation for some people to cynically push people back towards those beliefs? Or maybe you think that motivation already is secretly driving propaganda or political lobbying or similar?
there was a documentary about a person (in german) who survived without arms and legs and i beliefe no hip/parts missing of his hips.

The doctor in this documentary said that in these cases its prefered to give pain relieve medication instead of helping surviving further.

I was not able to find it thou.
> IE box model anyone

There used to be a (long) time where everybody ignored web standards, and each browser had their own extensions. But you are right: it was Microsoft who tried to introduce complete vendor lock-in with ActiveX controls - I couldn't use my private banking without it, for example. And it wasn't that long time ago.
https://github.com/anchore/syft is an easier to use alternative. Just point it at a container image, path or archive and it will generate the SBOM for you.

Salus seems to be more flexible - you can also feed the sources and the package manager files into it. I guess the results could be more accurate.
Oh, I think the articles theme is mostly bunkum armchair theory. Reads great, but is nonsense. The author’s premise is that:

* oil+gas are not complicated

* metallurgy is somewhat complicated

* a drilling machine has a very complicated dependency

Like, duhhhh, oil+gas is fiendishly complicated (drilling, transport, refining, organisational), with extremely complicated (and often single-source) dependencies; certainly more complicated than the CNC-machine-needed-to-make-a-mining-machine small business example. “Metallurgy” is complicated with complicated dependencies too (although plenty of Russian expertise available). Both of those are massive industries with very deep complexity.

The story also has a strong “geek inherit the earth” narrative - which always scores well with engineers here on HN.

The “mafia” metaphor didn’t work for me either.

It does make me wonder who the author(s) want to influence and why?

But still, I liked the links, I liked the story, and they wrote well (I am guessing English wasn’t their first language?).
https://archive.ph/KcSHY
> This was largely China moving away from a planned economy and toward a more market oriented economy.

Possibly, though they still retained much more control than the capitalist economies they outgrew.

> Also, you have to take care about how you measure “largest reduction in poverty” here as well because poverty was declining all over the world at the same time, largely driven by advancements from the capitalist west and globalization.

That is not true. The rest of the world outside China has remained at the same or worse poverty levels, largely.

> I’m sure economic planning can be credited with something, but the key element was “allowing western money to pour into the country” which looks a lot more like capitalism than central planning to my eyes.

If China had played by free market rules, Huawei, Alibaba and Xiaomi would not be competing with Samsung, Apple or Amazon right now. A large part of China's advantage came from the state using its negotiating power to force foreign companies to trade their IP for cheap manufacturing, thus propelling China's intellectual elite back from the dark age that it had been plunged into. Individual Chinese companies probably lost profits for a long time because of this, and much more US, Japanese or European money would have pourn in if they didn't enforce this policy; but, they would be much poorer today.

Edit: note that China is and has always been a capitalist country. They were centrally planned state capitalists, and have moved somewhat in the direction of free market capitalism. But there has never been a period in China's history when production or wealth were democratically controlled.
Found this link amusing (from the article):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_algorithm
Mongolia is an interesting case. Its independence is guaranteed by Russia, otherwise China would likely have swallowed it in the 1950s or so, much like Tibet.

But Mongolia, sitting between two authoritarian powers, is nowadays a stable democracy with regular transfers of power between opposing parties.

I wonder if this can last. Their best chance is actually the fact that they aren't very prominent on the international stage and probably not worth a conquest or hostile takeover right now.
They will never surpass this guy:

https://nypost.com/2020/08/26/most-of-scottish-wikipedia-is-...
You'd think the same thing if you looked at my professional Forth work, but that wouldn't make it true...

The key is that implementing Forth is so ridiculously simple that you may as well do it as a training exercise. I even wrote one in C, appropriately titled 'the ultimate insult'.
Has anybody ported Doom to Scratch yet?
I work on several legacy codebases which were:

- written by people who were not me

- written by people who have since left the company

- the original documentation has rotted away through wiki replacements, issue tracker replacements, or being lost via people turnover or system replacement.

The result in many cases is the code is the _only_ documentation of the system behaviour, so seeing what was introduced together is important context to understanding why it is the way it is. I probably run git blame more than git commit at this point and there's a real QoL difference between the good commit messages and the "changes for ticket12345" commit messages.
Cargo Plane Crashes in Greece on Flight to Jordan, State TV Says
For ML inference, the dynamic range and rounding noise of the 16-bit or 8-bit floating-point numbers preferred now for this application is well within the analog capabilities.

Analog processing cannot compete with 32-bit floating-point numbers, when their precision and/or dynamic range is required.
> "American Economic Liberties Project"

It's a name of which Orwell would be proud. The site hosts article after article advocating ending economic liberties.
Can such detection be countered with the same technology? Eg an ML system that controls emission of noise, light (optical and otherwise), and wiggles a magnetic field about in just the right way to make it look like natural noise, to an adversary's state-of-the-art AI-based detection system.
Of course, all innovation is built on copying and improving others' ideas. Calling this "theft" is as absurd as saying that the Greeks "stole" mathematics from Ancient Egypt, or that Renaissance Europe "stole" natural philosophy from the Islamic world (who in turn "stole" it from the Greeks etc).
I have some pre-teen children that have access to an iPad, Xbox, and an Apple TV.

My #1 recommendation is NO YOUTUBE, unless it's for education purposes. I don't have the App installed on any of my kids devices (they can access it via the website, but they don't do that). It's just a cesspool of garbage for kids. Even YouTube Kids is bad. Occasionally, they will complain about not having the YouTube app... but I never took it away, so they aren't missing it.

I've loaded up the iPad with fun age appropriate games and activities, that don't require any In-App purchases. If my kids want more apps, then Apple will ask my permission on my iPhone.

I use an Ubiquiti Dream Machine as my home router, so I have some basic content filtering and I have some categorisation of the traffic available, but nothing detailed.

In terms of video games, my recommendation is have a games console in the living room. They have access to video games, but they can play them where everyone can observe. They can have their own video games, this isn't a problem. Microsoft sends me a family report every week about what games were played, but I don't pay much attention to it. Purchases require parent approval on Xbox too.

With a 0.2 and 2 year old, you are somewhat lucky. The ages are close enough that they will play with each other a lot... and screen time won't be too much of an issue until they hit teenage years.

Good luck.
Time to recommend a great French movie: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7458762/
I don't know what to tell you, it's what the bill said. Like everyone has already mentioned, I'm sure my insurance didn't pay that much but that doesn't make the situation make any more real sense; and even at the minimum of $500 the unfavorable comparison to a worst-case situation in Canada remains.
What about conscientious people from the past, like 90% of historical figures we've heard of? Was Benjamin Franklin on stimulants?
I had a side project like this: the idea was to create a website where people could select the phonemes they want, the syllable structure, a base vocabulary (Latin, Chinese, etc.) on which certain transformations would me made, some grammatical property and the website would then generate a tutorial to learn the language and basic automated translation tool. For each step, there would have been some short explanations about the relevant linguistic concepts at hand.

I stopped at the phoneme selection page and didn't make any release but from time to time I'm thinking about actually finishing (and open-sourcing) that single page.
The genetic defect that explains why men have shorter lives than women
Even if you get that part right you still have to pick a number of discrete steps that isn’t annoying but offers a good enough granularity. Good luck making everybody happy with that choice.
Too bad the text becomes inaccurate and political towards the end.
Completely agree. Even with "fail fast", there are many levels where this makes sense - for example, you may not want to let an entire server application crash just because one request couldn't be successfully served; but you may still design it to crash and restart for other conditions, rather than trying to recover from more serious errors.
> This confused me because trains go "clack clack clack" - I guess that's foley now.

They still seem to go clack clack on some bits.

> When a track is made up from short rails bolted together, we leave small gaps between each one so that expansion doesn’t cause a problem. [0]

They seem to use both long welded pieces and short gapped pieces, i'm guessing they are just selective where they use each. Anecdotally, trains seem to go slower on the clackedy clack bits...

Speculation: I wonder if gapped sections are more resistant to failure IF they are used at slower speed? i.e long welded sections reduce maintenance at high speed; but gapped sections lack lateral temperature stresses, so IF they are used at a slow enough speed they could have very little stress. If so it's possible they use them on track close to stops, busy junctions, or track which is simply in a difficult area to carry out repairs on... essentially anywhere that track repair work will cause more problems than average and it's worth having slower trains on. Correction welcome.

[0] https://www.networkrail.co.uk/running-the-railway/looking-af...
Not disagreeing, but that's not what's happening in the article: those pictures of Mexican cartel army are precisely about Mexican cartel army and not random stand-ins. And I think the author is making a very interesting point. That point is not at all about armoured vehicles and guns, it's about extractive business as opposed to something more complex. The claim is not that Putin generation oligarchs use the same cars and guns Mexican cartel power uses, it's that oil and gas have a lot in common with avocados. And that's a really valuable observation.
Blockly is great. We were able to deploy it as an interface for managing complex business rule configuration files, for non-cs types.
Integer multiplication in time O(n log n): https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02070778/document
Look into the Nuclear Triad. States with this capability can strike at any time by missile, aircraft and subs. There's no chance to take out strike capabilities.