skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> people being able to make legal choices that result in the death of other people? ... gun ownership (*30k/year*)

As must be frequently pointed out, well over half the deaths by firearm in the US are not the killing of other people, but suicides.

Of the killing of "other people", I'd wager a minority of those are associated with legal ownership - prior surveys of inmates in the US in prison for gun related offenses (not just homicide) show a great portion (40+%) obtained the gun used for the offense from an illegal source.

I'm guessing this representation of illegal ownership goes up when you filter for just homicide offenses (the killing of other people) and when you consider whether the possession itself was legal, even if obtained from a legal source.

Manslaughter or the killing of other people outside of homicides/suicides are in the low single percentage digits of the total figure.
I have to admit, I did not know this was a thing. Now I am looking for recipes on allrecipes.
SR&ED is just a nice-to-have break on taxes, no?
Popular languages that went for strict 1:1 mapping between modules and filesystem, like Java and Python, often end up moving away from it, or at least adding various hacks (e.g. the way you can split submodules across packages in Python).
I don't have a good answer for you but I believe that we are transitioning to a new form of society where content creation is very hard to make money from. However, as a society we are richer than ever because of this new technology so I propose the following:

* People should receive grants to create things. The grants should come from the value we create as a society with new technology

* The money should be taken from those who benefit from the internet traffic, i.e. large tech companies. Money should be taken from Google and Apple and given to content creators. That is because without content, Google and Apple would not exist

* We can already say that ads do this a little, but it's not enough. And ads are annoying and unsustainable and they also encourage slimy practises such as extreme SEO optimization

* Therefore, I propose a heavy tax on the largest tech companies, especially CEO salaries. That money should go to a government trust and content creators will get an income whenever they produce something people like

* For example, it could be made available for free but yet the author will be compensated. How much and how to measure its worth still needs to be figured out.
It gives clues, but it doesn't tell the whole story. It certainly isn't enough to do anything other than make a pure guess at what the application actually does and more importantly how it does it.
So they made a bet and if it doesn’t pay off the devs get fired but the execs making the bet get to stay?

Its not like shopify is even that good of a job for developers, they pay well below FAANG. Checking levels, Senior SWEs are only getting like 15k/year in grants which means you are taking on the start up risk without the potential 10x or 100x payoff.
Visit your local library.

I grew up with libraries, then the internet came, and I thought libraries were dumb.

Now, marketing droids own the internet, and I think libraries are miraculous.
That's a weird claim to make; what makes you think that?

Though I suppose https is a prerequisite for that pipe to maybe be safe. Piping curl to bash varies from stupid to just fine depending on context.
All of the other posts are wonderful advice, but confronting the reality of a situation but with deep belief and understanding that "this too will pass" has always held true for me

(I never knew the name of it until recently, but it's called "The Stockade Paradox" https://bigthink.com/health/stockdale-paradox-confronting-re...
I think the article has a number of good points, though suffers a bit from arguing against strawmen as other commenters point out.

I also disagree with the claim that "A system dynamics model, properly considered, is just an analogy dressed up in a bit of formalism." The main reason I use a system dynamics modeling tool is to reveal aspects of interactions in the system I was not aware of, and to provide some predictive power regarding how the system may change over time. This is not something a (mere) analogy is able to provide. You could counter-argue that a good system model is just a _really good analogy_ but an analogy nonetheless, but I think that is taking the concept of analogy too far. Why not just say that physical equations are also "just" analogies?
It's really a thing they sell. https://www.mcmaster.com/tricycles/ The why, though, no idea. Warehouse schlepping, probably?

On the other hand, I take one look at this mostly-prefabricated building and I'm like "...I could use one of those." https://www.mcmaster.com/6704T998/
Can you get around this by setting an App Specific password on your Google account?
Misumi has stock in Germany, although a few times I have ordered stuff to Europe that is “in stock” that is in fact not.
Can't wait til google owns your DNS and you can't do shit about it
Maybe everyone saying that lowering rates well over a year ago was ridiculous at the time were right?

Yea it’s hard but that’s the job.
I've written a fair amount of C++ in my day, and this seems totally unacceptable to me.

Also my opinion seems unpopular on this topic, so I suspect some group of people that really want to get behind C++ don't like that kind of talk.

Whatever though. Rust and other newer languages are kind of giving the spaces C++ works well in a run for its money and in other ways just completely blowing it out of the water in my opinion.

It might be time to look at D again too.
Why would a bow even be a challenge at a shorter range? The whole line of reasoning makes no sense to me.
Europe is big. Maybe not everybody needs to pass this winter in Swedden. Maybe the governments should start programs to help some vulnerable groups of people, elders for example, to pass the winter in the South. Elders and remote workers living for a two or three months in a warmer place would save energy. Not necessarily at 50m of a beach or in a five stars hotel; the Mediterranean is full of empty houses in November. They even have some Russian palaces that are casually empty now.

As long as is a voluntary program, promoting "migration" of a percentage of people between Mediterranean and Northern European countries, in the worst months of winter could be part of the solution.
And also zero counterfeit products that will burn down your house.
Segunda-feria supposedly comes from Church Latin where it means 'second weekday'.
Yeah there's definitely some interesting stuff in the other blog posts, but oh boy, am I left begging for a narrative
I use those methods as well, but nothing seems to beat printing. One thing I like is the ability to write notes directly on the paper using a pen.

I have a Wacom Cintiq, so I could conceivably do the same tHing digitaly, but it isn’t the same. Something about the materiality of paper?
I used to have a friend who was obsessed with 'one-liners'. It's cute at first, chaining a couple methods together into one clean coke-line, but the problems don't ever crop up until someone else tries reading it...

So, my opinion is that 'readable code' organizes pragmatic sections together, and uses line comments and blank lines to annotate and separate. It's also perfectly fair to expand sections of your code if you're confident that your compiler will optimize it properly; I've seen people complain about C/C++ code doing this, but I think it does wonders for readability. Taking 20 seconds to make a readable version of your function could save hours of debugging time down the line, you never know.
Professor explains why math and humanities are not “useless”
Sure, but RISC vs CISC is at heart just a design trade off. Once you've decided (or been forced by pragmatisim) to go with a "simple but fast" instruction set then design choices like large register set and load-store architecture (to keep instruction set small and orthogonal) are all obvious choices, and don't need to have come from some rulebook of RISC design principles.

All I'm saying is that I heard at the time that the well-liked 6502 was a source of inspiration for the design (and someone else has noted Hermann also remembering something similar), notwithstanding that there was no doubt much borrowing from the contemporary (UC Berkeley, Stanford) RISC designs as well.

As a 6502 programmer the utility of zero page variables is pretty obvious and there is a parallel there to a large register bank.. Maybe the 6502 wasn't "RISC like" in sense of incorporating what would become RISC design principles (it was too primitive for that), but it certainly validated a KISS design approach, just as contemporary next-gen CISC designs did nothing in Acorn's eyes to sell that approach. Back at that time we were all just seeing/discovering what was possible, and I'd have to guess that the ARM instruction set was more pragmatic than dogmatic - a combination of what seemed desireable, appeared reasonable to implement, and performed well in simulation.
You just need a digikey approved monitor to fit the table[1].

[1] https://displaysolutions.samsung.com/monitor/detail/1264/C49...
Scenario A is impossible and has been impossible for as long as https has been a thing.

The only way it would be possible is if you installed a root cert from your ISP onto your computer so that it would trust a cert issued by them. Otherwise, they would not have a valid cert for example.com and you would be presented with a cert error.

This is literally the exact thing https was designed to prevent. It is and always has been impossible (again, unless the client machine is administered by the ISP or whoever the middleman is, and they can install a cert on the machine)
The mechanism you describe is strictly voluntary - and much less repressive than what’s considered normal in American workplaces - but of course it doesn’t prevent you from fantasizing about making it mandatory. But of course it’s not cultural racism, not at all.

(Quick look at your comment history shows you’re also a religious fundamentalist; what an unusual coincidence.)
I have been thinking of this D non-feature when reading up on the Carbon approach. Do you have any takes on how Carbon could be successful on mapping to C++ when D considers it too much of a reach?
At the beginning of this video, though, he makes the argument (one which I think is quite common these days) that all the news around QEII, and all of the tributes to her, are imposed from on high by media-elite overlords.

My argument is that it's just as probable that the media is feeding into a desire that a large portion of the population holds. The line to see QEII's coffin was 5 miles long, with a wait time of 13 hours. Clearly some people really were interested in the queen.

My point is that I see the attitude professed by the author of that video a lot "Why would anyone be interested in the monarchy? It's just stupid propaganda, I should be about as interested in them in the Kardashians." There is always a subtext of that opinion along the lines of "If you're interested in the monarchy, you're just a stupid sheeple." And the weird thing for me is that, while I kinda agree with that assessment, I think I would be the stupid one if I were so clearly dismissive of an institution that is held in such regard by a huge portion of the populace.
You sure make a lot of Ask HN posts with indirect plugs to your website.
> Months have other gods's names: Janus, Phoebe, Mars, Aphrodite, Maya, Juno...

January, March, and June are named for Janus, Mars, and Juno. February, April, and May are not known to be named for any god, nor is there any particular reason to believe they are.
>despite being long form, fits Twitter format very well

It actually reminded me of, and made me sad for the days of the old internet. I don't think this should be on twitter but it's own site
I still use one. It took me getting a HP color laser that did double-sided printing, with good network support - to enjoy printing. No "your yellow has run out, you can't print black" bullshit. I actually get a large number of pages per toner. The toners aren't joined.

It just works, and is reasonably fast enough for home use.

I find its really useful for organizing home things, printing off the odd invoice to mail a check in, role playing games, printing off sheet music, etc.

I don't use it daily or weekly, but when I use it I'm glad I have it. I like that my friends can connect easily on the network now without too much weird driver stuff. If they are on my wifi they can even print from their phone in general easily.
As I understand it, it won't protect you. What will protect is actually setting the value (and most sites do that, at least for those few commonly changed ones with bad defaults).
Unless you're part of whatever groups form "them" - the people they criticize and wish to marginalize. We'll see how things turn out and how this affects Italy's standing in the EU. How is IExit pronounced?
My wife's Macbook can't even go to sleep when it's plugged into a Dell monitor via USB-C. The act of sleeping wakes it up, sounds a ding, then it goes idle and soon will sleep again.

My older Mac Mini can't do the HDMI handshake after booting. If the AV receiver isn't on when the computer boots, it will never use full display resolution or play audio over HDMI.

The idea that Apple products do anything "absolutely" is silly fanboyism.
Agreed on all points and to add for people who use inkjet style printers: stop. Switch to a low cost black and white laser printer. Unbelievably fast printing, toner never dries out like ink does, printer doesn’t have to dance for 30 seconds before it can print, toner last forever compared to ink.
Completely agree. My point is only that it isn’t necessary. And frankly it should be up to governments to provide leadership when there is a stark ethical choice that’s so many steps removed from consumer choice.
The counterpoint to this is that a site like Amazon can still succeed to dominate the industry despite being a horrendous mess with nonfunctional search, a horrendous counterfeiting problem, and widespread review fraud. Does take the wind out of the sails of IA/UX purists somewhat.
> I feel like this word is borderline synonymous with “I like this thing”.

Yeah.

"Readable" code for me doesn't waste vertical real estate. If it's off the screen, it's out of my head. This doesn't mean writing 200 char lines; I usually limit myself to 80. It means picking better languages, or at the very least not enforcing obnoxious linting like

f(
x,
y,
z
);

the moment a line goes over a limit.
I think everyone knows what the "mistakes" are, it's just that its en vogue to "hate your customers" the way amazon and similar companies do, racing to the bottom to squeeze money out of them with dark patterns instead of just charging more for good service
> If we don’t know why a particular model emerged, all changes are “turn back to chaos, see results”.

Well, yes. You don't design complex systems.

You can guide their evolution, but absolutely not design.
We had piles of their yellow books laying around the house when I was a grad student. Definitely good toilet-book material.
> I have no way of knowing

tcpdump (or maybe a web search) can show which domain/IP is being used for printer firmware checks, then you can whitelist that target+DNS and block other traffic.

Wi-Fi, however, is a dumpster fire. There are printers with USB, ethernet and zero wireless radios.
Theyre made out of meat.

https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...
Honesty with my own limitations and then planning accordingly.

I also have an inbuilt system where I just stop doing things when the bucket is full. It renders me temporarily unreliable but it’s a reliable way of shedding unnecessary load.
That's exactly the narrative I want to address. Because I have seen this first hand. When the stocks were booming. Old people left. They didn't took another job. They left. Some cashed out $x millions.

Lot of indiscriminate hiring happened to puff up the leak. Companies were flushed with money. But that was a failing strategy. Companies can continue to go down that path, it will have further diminishing returns
This is a fact that hasn't changed since the launch of the PS5, so your point is nonsense.

Earlier poster has a very good point, and I'll add to it: Demand, years in, outstrips supply. The most sensible thing for ANY company to do is to increase the MSRP. In a supply constricted world, this slightly improves availability while improving the margins for Sony.

Don't get me wrong, I hate capitalism with a burning passion, and the names I want to call Sony are...inappropriate. However, they are playing by the 'rules' of capitalism.
> And all of that adds to maybe 100k customers.

Those 100k customers are not like the others. Commercial, government, and military customers will pay FAR more per connection than an everyday customer.
I also have a brother laser printer. I bought it used in 2011. Brother laser printers from that era are alright. It got used this morning.
So, e.g. Germany has 19% VAT on most things.

550/1.19=462.19

462.19EUR=450.82USD
I for example just wouldn't like anyone to be able to see what data I exchange with any server, be it small profile blog or a login page.

Note: It's really, "see and modify undetected" what data you are exchanging with any server.
At least here in Cambridge social services literally rent hotel rooms for homeless folks when it gets dangerously cold.
Boeing, other large industrial plants.
just think if he had to explain how the date for easter is calculated
I am already salivating over a 7950X. I finally broke down and upgraded my development machine to a 5950X about a year ago. Of course, I knew that no matter when you get the 'latest and greatest' it will soon be eclipsed by the next generation of hardware; but I am having a bit of buyer's remorse anyway.

I am building a multi-threaded platform that will do a bunch of data management functions in parallel. Things like queries against relational tables can be broken down into smaller pieces and executed simultaneously on multi-core CPUs.

Here is a video that shows how it can run queries in parallel better than Postgres:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVICKCkWMZE

I am just glad AMD didn't bump up the core count in the 7950X or I would really have buyer's remorse.
There's one in the house, centrally located. Could be done, but would make it dependent on one computer. Our desks are small as well. :-(
Modern pirates are economically disenfranchised people (usually sustinance fishermen) that have had their livelihoods stolen by international conglomerates.

Even with the the murders, etc, they are multiple steps up the ethical food chain from slaver fishing ships, which are apparently totally legit businesses (TM) in the global economy.

I really don't see the problem with the term "piracy". I guess if you are a vegan and also 100% boycott Asia you might be able to cast a stone against 21st century pirates.
In C-lang the algorithm is more mysterious:

dow(m,d,y) { y-=m<3; return(y+y/4-y/100+y/400+"-bed=pen+mad."[m]+d)%7; }
It's generally true for ML and data science, regardless of the language.
> You're lucky if you even get to pull up HN reliably

Funny how you say that, HN seems to be one of those sites that works well even on a really terrible WiFi (i.e. UK train WiFi - LNER/Avanti, looking at you)/data connection - mainly due to how basic it is. Shame it's only a link aggregator so the actual 'content' (other than comments) is hit/miss.
Well, the Covid years have proven/confirmed to my satisfaction that software development occurs just fine outside of a shared office. However, I've done what boomers were asked to do and gave up my position... If I was still in the market, I would be looking to avoid moving.

When younger, we moved, but not always to places we wanted to stay. This put a time limit on the job which was frustrating, resulting in later moves. We were unable to find a place in N America where we could remain while switching jobs. The risk of specialization I guess.

I would think people should think hard on where they want to live (for themselves, for their partner and any family). Depending on the answer to this, remote work or mixed work should suggest itself. A lot depends on your personal ethics and politics and what you think of hot/cold weather. Some, I have heard, actually like big cities :-).
There's never any need for conspiracies or cabals when the interests of a given group are naturally aligned, and they are not large in numbers. Corporations can behave in their "own interest" and most times, they will find themselves acting in concert, without coordination.

> Or maybe the supply chain problems bubbled out to affect more and more things?

Shrinkflation is not explained by supply chain problems. My razor is that corporations will generally do whatever they believe they can get away with; "supply chain problems" gave them something approaching carte blanche to reprice anything they wanted.
For those of us less familiar with the British rail network: why would Denton to Manchester Piccadilly be a challenge to book a ticket for?
That is a purely monetary filter. The court is not able to determine which experts are credible and which aren't.
> being able to buy a custom “off the shelf” part without making a special internal part number

How does that work? I have been searching the internet for stainless steel M8 x 20 set screws with a torx socket, maybe uncommon but straightforward. I have yet to find these anywhere outside of having them manufactured in china by truckload - I need maybe 100.
I wonder if they actually would. It would be more obvious that prices are high because there is more demand than supply rather than because some third party is trying to make a profit of the shortage. If course some percentage of the population would likely start subscribing to some conspiracy theory about Sony keeping supply low on purpose...
Yeah, it has all been downhill from Gutenberg. Why did I learn to write?
Apple won't do it because it believes Russia is bluffing.

If the US did not have nuclear missiles and Russia had nuked countries before for not running outside and dancing naked then yes I would call you a prude if you were willing to risk the lives of 300+ million people to not dance outside naked.

I have no idea what that question has to do with climate change advocacy.
I feel like the part everyone is ignoring is that McMaster sells a very small breadth of things with incredible depth in its selection. The features people are raving about in this article and thread only make sense in the context of selling bolts for industrial use, and could never be implemented at a place like Amazon.
I was thinking the same. Digikey, Mouser, etc. are great, but their websites don’t give me the same confidence that McMaster does. There’s always a fear in the back of my mind when browsing these electronics sites, wondering if the part I’m looking for slipped through the cracks of my filters.

When filtering McMaster on the other hand, I have absolute confidence that I will find the part I’m looking for, assuming it is stocked. It’s really intuitive and robust. I’m sure much of this can be chalked up to the fact that McMaster has a much smaller and more specific catalog, but still.

EVERY online retailer should take notes on how McMaster is able to create psychological safety when browsing. It’s a real peace of mind, as strange as that may sound.
I legit had a dream recently that I had enrolled in a graduate degree and then forgotten I was enrolled for months and now it was a week before exam time I had just had a realisation of "Oh hey, didn't I enrol in a degree?"

I have no idea where that dream came from or why I had it. I have never had a "didn't study" dream before, university was a relatively stress free time for me compared to my earlier years
Looks like they would be very useful on large industrial site with multiple buildings. Provide staff with bikes to get around, and cargo tricycles if they need to move small to medium loads.