skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Instead of taking Byrd home, the three men took Byrd to a remote county road out of town, beat him severely, spray-painted his face, urinated and defecated on him, and chained him by his ankles to their pickup truck before dragging him for about three miles (five kilometers) on Huff Creek Road (County Road 278).

...

In a jailhouse letter to Brewer that was intercepted by jail officials, King expressed pride in the crime and said that he realized while committing the murder that he might have to die. "Regardless of the outcome of this, we have made history. Death before dishonor. Sieg Heil!" King wrote.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Byrd_Jr.

I am against capital punishment, but John William King was a terrible person, and I am glad that he is dead.
I think roles in LON are considered probationary for the first 6 months... so technically I suppose they are not considered equivalent to FTE roles in the States. You normally go through a probation review in which they will decide to terminate, extend probation, or convert to full time employee.

This question was also raised when layoffs were first announced as it was noted there is difficulty doing layoffs in certain European countries and particularly challenging if you're actively on-boarding people at the same tie. Not sure how much this applies to the UK.
From my experience, you get them with your first salary.
I wonder I've never heard anyone say anything about "Big", directed by Penny Marshall and released in 1987. The main narrative thread in that film is unambiguously about a corporate executive who grooms and repeatedly rapes a pre-adolescent boy. It was hit with audiences and critics alike.
You start a marketing or data aggregation company, do enough business so you have enough income to be a credible source of revenue for Verizon, and then contact Verizon with a lucrative contract for access to the data.

All of these companies regularly sell the data, including to law enforcement agencies without a warrant, but that doesn't mean ANYONE can buy it. It's identical to "The law prohibits both politicians and beggars from sleeping under a bridge" and "All citizens have the ability to defray their taxes with complex legal fictions and businesses"
Related ongoing thread:

I measured the pollution from my gas stove - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34316613 - Jan 2023 (69 comments)

Also:

Gas stoves are more hazardous than we’ve been led to believe (2020) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31630946 - June 2022 (122 comments)

What a gas stove ban means for restaurants - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31603850 - June 2022 (592 comments)

My best estimate is gas stoves decrease life expectancy by 53 days on average - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30275953 - Feb 2022 (117 comments)

How bad is my gas stove? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29935939 - Jan 2022 (520 comments)

Cities try to phase out gas stoves but cooks are pushing back - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27874912 - July 2021 (481 comments)

Experts are sounding the alarm about the hidden dangers of gas stoves - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25332332 - Dec 2020 (343 comments)
It’s not a “mystery.” California makes it expensive and difficult to build infrastructure. That’s why Google Fiber started out in places like Kansas City. I live in a historically red county in the Verizon footprint. I have two fiber lines into my house, one from Verizon and one from Comcast. I get 6 gbps service from Comcast. It’s expensive ($300/month, compared to 10 gig for $300 in Chattanooga). But it’s not even an option in most of Silicon Valley.
I still haven't figure out how to get IPv6 with hyperoptic with my own router. Other than that, I second, good service.
A good story, and likely untrue although still possible.

I've helped clients save huge chunks of cash over the years from AWS because the previous developer/team paid little attention to costs.

Reserved instances, alternative routing of data, cheaper S3 tiers, etc. soon add up significant savings.
No, common sense means we're using metaphors from a limited range of Earth-based everyday experience on a fairly cold planet where everything moves slowly to make predictions about physical phenomena.

In science, common sense has been wrong so consistently its wrongness is practically empirical.

QM, relativity, thermodynamics, gravity, astrophysics, electromagnetism, and math itself are profoundly and consistently unintuitive - to the extent that if someone starts a claim about reality with "Well, obviously..." you can pretty much bet they're wrong.
> I don't want to pay to keep murderers alive for decades

According to the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice[0], “The additional cost of confining an inmate to death row, as compared to the maximum security prisons where those sentenced to life without possibility of parole ordinarily serve their sentences, is $90,000 per year per inmate. With California’s current death row population of 670, that accounts for $63.3 million annually.”

[0, pdf warning]: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/76th2011/ExhibitDo...
I wonder if security of the payroll data lookup is even worse than the credit report website. A 'freeze' may be worthless if the data leaks are large. And a person making $18/hour to do child support case management may interested in making extra cash by looking up other people for a fee.
"looks at my income - expenses then checks if I've defaulted on any debts" - This is basically what we do in the US as well. But HOW do they do this in your country?

In the US, the loan originators look at year-end tax forms or recent pay stubs to verify income. They look at credit reports from e.g. Experian to verify defaults and other debt information.
Orwellian doublespeak of an Exchange that goes broke when everyone uses it like an Exchange instead of a Broker or Bank?

Perhaps there's a commodities market or something that requires traders to pump assets into accounts that sit on the exchange itself and would somehow have direct fluidity problems if they stopped, but it seems like the wrong term to me.
I wonder if anyone ever tried to make a lawsuit out of the claim that a book was not actually written by the states author. It’s a dubious if common method that means many bestsellers and big advances go to falsely authored books
it looks like the opening credit sequence to some movie i've seen. maybe a tv show, but the point is that i saw it, it's recognizable, but did not make me remember the name of the show. so will using something like this make people remember your presentation content or just the fact you used some gimmicky effect
Charts for the Pacific and West Coast of the US from NWS Point Reyes:

https://www.weather.gov/marine/ptreyes
> I looked pretty thoroughly through the site and the product pages

> trouble telling if it even has any dedicated I/O or if you can exclusively interact with it through USB.

All the product pages say: "I have four contact pads that can easily be used to make two buttons. And I have an RGB LED, because everyone loves blinky things!"
If you need to show a flowchart that doesn't fit in a URL, the idea that you should be able to do this with a URL is kinda bonkers. The solution there would be www.example.com/?data=url_for_the_flowchart_definition, because what you're talking about isn't page state, it's a secondary resource.
I'll put in another vote for just using the 10ml (2 tsp) baking soda and 10ml citric acid (I actually bought dedicated measuring spoons after weighing the two different sachets they sell to see how much was in each: https://www.amazon.com/Adjustable-Measuring-Ingredients-Mete... )

If one wishes to set aside Sparkel saying "don't use generic" out of their financial interests, the counterargument I can see is that if one just uses a careless method for loading the baking soda and citric acid into the chute it actually is pretty easy to have it crystalize in the actual latch, or gunk up the rubber seal on the top-latch. I found that the $0.99 funnel from Ikea is the correct length to fit into their chute but under the top latch: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/uppfylld-funnel-bright-yellow-8... I'm, of course, positive there are hundreds of other funnels, but if you're already in Ikea, can't beat it.

As a frame of reference, I was in the kickstarter for the Sparkel, and thus this is the 3rd or 4th year of making my own charges with no ill effects. I've even recently upgraded to storing them in some of those lidded sampling cups so I can mix up 30 charges at a time versus having to get out the spoons for each bottle
I believe they updated the EULA long before that, but Reforged got a lot of press about it since it represents such a contrast between yesterday's games and today's.
Everyone is buying the data sure. But not everyone is buying the data about a specific vulnerable and demonized group and that does make it a different thing. The fact that a right wing organization is doing it is relevant in this specific case.

The wider case you can make about the dangers of data collection and selling is certainly valid. But there are specifics here that should not be ignored.
The Ultima series itself didn't bother to license D&D, so you're fine. Basic ideas of mechanics can't be copyrighted, and no one ever got a patent on "hit points" et. al.
Related:

Tomu – An ARM microprocessor which fits in your USB port - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28395169 - Sept 2021 (53 comments)

Tomu, a tiny ARM microprocessor which fits in your USB port - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17719848 - Aug 2018 (86 comments)

Tomu: An ARM board which fits inside your USB connector - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16114778 - Jan 2018 (4 comments)
Murder.

I hope you enjoyed the word cloud. I'll send you my bill.
Yeah it's certainly not without issue, the network is full of blockages, collapsed ducts etc.

Traffic management and road closures can be hard work, we've had to wait over a year before for a road closure as it would affect multiple bus routes. (And as an aside, lockdown was extremely productive for network build like this!)
Absent real life threats, first-world people increasingly busy themselves with inventing surrogate problems.

Everywhere Nazis are trying to overthrow democracy, climate change is going to destroy us all in the next 5 years, viruses go rampage and we need to lock everyone up, now your gas stove is trying to kill you.

While in reality western world has never been so safe and prosperous.
It doesn't and it tags nearly everything not written by an 8th grader as written by AI... even this exact article.
And for a lot of "low-value" targets, this is still a completely reasonable suggestion. It _is_ demonstrably better than shared passwords or easy-to-guess passwords.
I'm just getting a 414 Error
At my alma mater (MIT), the bright and lazy people actually went into finance also. Not sure what it's like now, but 10 years ago, many hedge funds basically just gave IQ tests as their interview.
I don't know enough to confirm it, but one potential explanation from a forum thread [0]:

> As a native Chinese speaker, "brick nogging" is gibberish and completely incomprehensible to me. :-DD I was curious and just looked it up, apparently it was a mistranslation of "立贴".

> "立" means "standing" or "vertical", and "贴" is the short-hand for "贴片", which means "pick-and-place" or "SMD", so it just means "vertical SMD".

> One thing to know about Chinese is that one can create almost entirely arbitrary abbreviations and short-hands by combining characters from different words, a bit similar to Soviet and Russian government agency names like GosPlan, RosCosmos, or RosKomNadzor.

> The result is often not found in the dictionary, or by coincidence, they may clash with another existing but obscure word in the dictionary. In both cases, machine translation would produce incomprehensible results. For example, in this case it happens to form a word from architectural history.

[0] https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/where-does-all-the-weird-...
Wolfram Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT
This is the same sensor used by others who have reported high NO2 levels correlated with their gas stove burning, though, so it's got to be measuring something relevant.
I was taking that to help with poor sleep but was getting crazy bad dry mouth throughout the night which would wake me up it was so painful. So it didn’t help my sleep. What dosage are you using?
It is some of the most spectacular terrain I've seen in the world. But you have to put in some work to get to it.
There's no M in FAANG ...
It's not news that there is evil, but it continues to surprise me that people are proud to engage in it.
> by default the reader can't tell what's it about without clicking.

Most chat apps like Discord will automatically include an embed generated from a URL's metadata when present in a message.
> I can't wait until the myth that you need linear algebra and calculus to do ML finally dies.

This is such a dangerously absurd claim.. but then, it speaks volumes about the abysmal state the non-research heavy AI/ML field has fallen into.
Of course the only reasons I own a cell phone aren't just emergency calls and "surveillance capitalism services", but they could also effectively geofence with a pager, could they not? It's still a phone number that's being connected to cell towers.
Are you describing something different than the overhead fan equipped above the gas range in most new homes?
Thanks for this! I just ordered one for OctoPi to monitor printer progress. I decided to try the wide version.
Thanks for these reminders! #3 is especially important.
8 deaths due to "Wildlife/Animal" vs 17 deaths due to "Homicide." In other words, you're twice as likely to be killed by your own species as another. But that pales in comparison to other categories such as "Natural Death" (285), "Motor Vehicle Crash" (475), and Drowning (668).
the article doesn't know how the government obtained the data in question

The Heritage Foundation is not an arm of the government, and I'm not sure why you though the government was involved in the collection of this data. The original report (linked within TFA) doesn't specify its methodology in any meaningful way, but it's well known that data brokers resell anonymized device location data and it seems rational to presume that it was purchased commercially.
That's it! Thanks.
Well, let me put it this way: I never use a tool that isn’t bundled with the OS or the runtime I’m developing for, because I don’t want my environment to be a special snowflake (and I develop stuff on Linux and macOS, with essentially the same CLI tools).
Yah, thanks. Brain fart.
Maybe the ranges are cheap. But the price of natural gas has soared over the past year. Right now, it's cheap again, but it seems that prices are a lot more volatile than electricity, which will benefit from alternative sources of production and storage.
Some years ago, I was assisting at an Organ recital on new year's eve at my city's main church, the last piece was supposed to be Elgar's pomp & circumstance march no.1, arranged for two organs.
We programmed all the combinations for that one and all the other pieces on the day before(there were lots and lots).
Fast forward to the end of the recital, I take away the sheet music for the penultimate piece and activate the first combination for the march. The organist raises his hands and starts playing -- and all we hear is a principal 8' only, completely wrong sound. Somehow, all prepared combinations had disappeared! He managed to perform the piece somehow, but the recital's supposed climax ended a bit underwhelming.
Sadly, we never found out, why the combinations vanished (most likely, they were saved to another bank and we didn't notice, or somebody else switched banks/erased them accidentally, before the recital started).
Nerve-wracking indeed :(
Don’t bother. Their IPv6 setup is notoriously broken. They have a number of IPv6 misconfiguration in their core switches which makes using IPv6 with your own hardware almost impossible.

Unfortunately it seems they’ve also let go of all their good network admin. It used to be possible to find someone at Hyperoptic capable of investigating and fixing these issues, but no more.
For context, this speaker was convicted of raping, beating, and murdering a pregnant woman and a teenage girl.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosendo_Rodriguez
summary to circumvent the clickbait headline: author measured 291 ppb nitrogen dioxide from his gas stove and gas furnace, and gas stoves increase the risk of childhood asthma by 42% (relative to an unspecified baseline but I bet it doesn't include cooking with wood or coal) due to the nitrogen dioxide exposure

article does not mention particulates produced by food being cooked
Which emissions, exactly?

With a proper hood, they aren’t an issue inside.

When working properly, they are also quite minor.
whole lot of Jesus in here
Aeropress is really peak coffee simplicity, especially if you use metal filter. Couple simple parts, stupidly easy to disassemble, stupidly easy to clean, stupidly easy to make at least decent coffee - beans dependent of course.
.. three words: 'fuck texas. again."
Wow, I'm not used to thinking of batteries in those terms. If you hit 3 months, you deserve to crack a bottle of champagne, that's a really impressive bit of engineering. Although now that I think about it, smoke detectors have been lasting a year on a 9-volt for all my life, so maybe I'm just short-sighted. :-)
The cheapest induction range at Costco is $1,150. I would not bother with anything that is so low quality so as to be able to be sold at half of Costco’s cheapest model.

Also, hiring an electrician to install a power outlet for the induction stovetop could be at least $500, if not $1,000+.
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Use Chat-GPT to generate gibberish responses to keywords recognized by a microphone and spoken through a Furby voice changer. Use 3+ 18650 Li-ion batteries to power this omnipotent all-knowing Furby oracle for days before recharging.
Passive optical networks are usually assymetric at hardware level
Sorry, why are we believing this story? The technical details make little sense; e.g. moving a ml processing pipeline to a different cloud just by "editing a Chrome extension" doesn't seem very plausible.

It isn't even internally consistent, the hallmark of a sloppy fabrication. At first the accounts were sourced from the darknet, then they were created by the Chrome extension.

Creating a million Google accounts is pretty hard. And buying so many accounts from the markets would probably cost his whole $50k price.

Also, it was a million accounts and the savings were about 500k. Each account spent 50 cents worth of compute out of the $300 free trial? I assume you need to give a credit card number for the free trial. I wonder how many of those were needed for this to work...
> There was a good thread recently where a lawyer helps distinguish "perpetual" and "irrevocable", which us laypeople tend to confuse.

Gosh, why does it have to be this way? It's even harder for non-native speakers to read legal documents "correctly", i.e. the way courts would interpret them. I understand that contracts and laws need precise language, but, in contrast to, say, mathematics, reading legal documents is such an important activity that we cannot ignore the needs of laypeople – they have to follow contracts and laws, too, after all. And I don't think it's plausible that clashes between general use of words and legalese are unavoidable, especially as contracts don't seem to be optimized for brevity.

And in general, us laypeople should vehemently demand contracts and laws to be optimized for easy reading. Imagine what good a precedent could do, where a complete EULAs was judged void, because they were to hard to read/understand/interpret.
The question is, do you blame the monster for being a monster? Or do you blame the people that made them one?

There are valid points both ways. IMO I think the idea is that if you can explain the crime then maybe the monster was created by society and thus can be redeemed by society. If you can't explain the crime, maybe the monster is just a monster.
If your doctor was right 99% of the time, you would listen to them without much critical pushback. If your bar for trusted anyone else in this world is 100% accuracy, you can't ever trust anyone.
I was using a Uniquiti EdgeRouter and it was fairly trivial, then I switched to a pfSense box and it was a little harder but not much.

The hard part is that you have to clone the UDID (I think that was the value, sorry don't quite remember now), they used to allow any hardware to join the network but that's no longer the case; so you have the clone the value from the hardware they provide you with.
I always liked the Boston Bombing example.

Should the Boston bombers [1] receive the death penalty? A lot of arguments against the death penalty are that for many cases you can't actually be sure the person who committed the crime is actually the one convicted. So in those situations I don't think its appropriate it (i.e almost every death penalty case). However, something like the Boston bombing it's really beyond any reasonable doubt.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Marathon_bombing
Not yet, all NanoPi images use the same not upstreamed 5.10.110 kernel.

However progress has been made, various reports of it working, some progress, some accepted patches, some rejected. More info at:

https://forum.radxa.com/t/any-progress-with-mainline-linux-k...

Also:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/5bec43fe-ff81-bc68-...
Looks like North Cascades' huge lead (in deaths per visitor) is sort of a statistical anomaly due to having pretty low total visits and no buffer of a large number of safe casual visitors. Searching around, can't find any other details on deaths except this article https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/man-found-sobbing-...

But North Cascades is an overlooked national park and I recommend a visit if you get the chance. It doesn't help that Mt Rainier and Olympic are also close to Seattle.
The "R" in ORM means relational, so whatever is working with non-relational DBs is not an ORM. Document store DBs can make sense for some use cases, like very hierarchical data as you said, but it really is a niche use case.

You don't often benefit from basing your DB around tall object hierarchies, and you can instead mix in jsonb columns sparingly when they make sense (I'm not a purist about these things). I've been through that ride a few times in different jobs: They start with a relational DB, then someone realizes you could shove everything into a graph where each node can be just about anything, then they do it, then eventually they feel the pain from using what is essentially a weakly-typed DB. Eventually someone whacks everything and goes back to a regular relational schema design, which turns out was a fine way to do it.

To put it another way, you could start with the relational way of doing things and probably never encounter enough pain to warrant going to an ORM.

The web went through something vaguely similar with HTTP methods. It was cool at some point to conform to a standardized CRUD interface of GET/PUT/PATCH/DELETE on objects, but it's never that simple. Nowadays, plenty of APIs just use POST for everything with freeform requests/responses. I see DELETE sometimes, can't remember the last time I saw PATCH or PUT though.
Most places in the US are at-will employment, so in that sense most US employees are constantly in the “probationary” state.