skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> no gun required.

Suffice to say that gun owners still performed these shootings. I grew up as a marksman and got my hunting license before I could drive, but I'm never going to daily concealed carry. It's even more ridiculous to assume that more people carrying more weapons saves anything but your own skin.

I'm not going to turn this into a 'take away their guns' shtick (mostly because I don't believe in it), but firearm regulation is just getting started. The barriers to buying and legally carrying a firearm are comically low, and enables people with "malignant intentions" to be even more dangerous than they would otherwise. In an information age where mass shootings are felt so personally and frequently, it's hard to imagine concealed carry being more popular than gun reform.
The internet hasn't changed that much, only the scale of it. You could "watch videos downloaded off the internet" for a long time, but now we can access a massive library of 1080p video with zero buffer time. People don't appreciate how amazing YouTube really is.
Knowledge is one of those vague words like conciousness that has people arguing past one another. However, yes, an interactive thesaurus has "knowledge" of a very limited sort. And LLMs have much more "knowledge", and are able to synthesize novel things from that knowledge.

You can argue "it's only seemingly got knowledge!" all you want, as everyone else enjoys increasingly capable AI.
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What does this add to the conversation? You didn’t even put in enough effort to complain about actual things…
Ya can't keep'em down on the farm once they've seen the city lights.
Tight tolerances and good quality control cost money.

I remember trying to play with my friends megablocks as a kid and they just wouldn’t stay together well

There are also some Chinese companies making decent compatible bricks now
Sites are delisted from Bing & DDG as a result of negative SEO attacks. I've experienced this multiple times and responded to a couple of threads on HN about it.

The attacker doesn't care about your Bing listing, it's an unintended coincidence of an attempt to get your site deindexed from Google search that doesn't work.

Google ignore bad links to your site, Bing don't.

After two years I can confidently conclude that MS have done a great job of hiding this 'defect' and virtually nothing regarding the root cause.

In my experience, the sites come back on their own eventually but with a lot of really weird URLs being indexed first (a sure sign of the original attack).
We decided to not support DNT because it's deprecated (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/DN...) and often used for more tracking. We're looking to support Global Privacy Control when it's more mature.
To be fair, Scala.js is a relatively new project, and I had avoided it for a while due to library compatibility issues and stability concerns. It now seems pretty freaking awesome. There is a concerted effort in the Scala community to break the dependency on the JVM, via Scala.js and Scala Native. This however requires porting the Java standard library to each platform.
The Forgotten Drug Trips of the Nineteenth Century
There are, lots of em, but they aren't as good. LEGO charges a premium, but their manufacturing precision really is phenomenal. Also, LEGO's premium isn't that extreme. Their sets have worked out to about 0.10 USD per piece for decades, they've just gotten bigger and more elaborate.

The other brands also don't have the same brand deals, I can't get an X-Wing set from Mega Bloks, for example. Though notably you can only get Pokemon sets from Nanoblock, and the experience of assembling one will make you appreciate the work LEGO puts into their instructions and manufacturing precision.
Some people, who are not me, say that it's still two because they have to have the device but also have to be able to unlock the device.
Apart from what the others said is the licensing too. They have exclusives from Star Wars to Doctor Who to Mercedes trucks. Hard to compete against that from 0.

Btw Aliexpress has countless chinese fakes.
In UK, I did not get it and 20 friends all are laughing none of them got it either.
Machine Translation, by Thierry Poibeau, 2017.
Because they are the best quality, in every dimension, and when something is almost purely a hobby then many people are willing to pay a premium for a friction-free experience.

There are other brands that are just fine, but you will occasionally get missing pieces, poor fitment, poor/strange construction etc... With LEGO you'll not get any of those (except the occasional strange construction).

I used to buy ~50/50 LEGO/Clone, and despite improvements in clones, it's 95/5 now. The LEGO experience is simply disproportionately better relative to the cost.

It's simply worth it.

signed,
Owner of A LOT of of LEGO kits/bricks _and_ clones.
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I am the guy, who thinks, that Lego is heavily overpriced. But then I bought some competition products. No one of them had nice Lego experience where parts just fit. Earlier the parts used to fall off and now they are still enough different to cause frustration while building. So yeah, only Lego knows how to make it right and can get away with premium pricing.
Heii On-Call https://heiioncall.com/ has flat pricing regardless of team size.

To be pedantic, it's free for individuals / teams-of-one, so I guess you could write:

def price_per_month(team_size)
if team_size == 1
0
else
32
end
end

Disclosure: I helped build it :)

EDIT: thanks to those of you signing up to try Heii On-Call! Let me know if you have any questions.
Depending on your use case and configuration complexity, it can be used instead of OneTrust.
If I was in a situation where I needed emergency blood, the level of microplastics in it is the least of my concerns.
DB upgrades are a pain. Triggers must be deployed with “UPDATE” instructions, it’s not as easy as keeping code in git.
I have stepped on 1 LEGO brick in my life, and it truly is enough for my lifetime.
Engineered antibodies or possibly mRNA vaccine, maybe. Monoclonal antibodies would likely be too expensive for use as a purely ameliorative measure. But if we figure out how to fold proteins on demand, then we can express a sequence and make it like other biologics. That's still a very expensive proposition, but at least it would have economies of scale. Avoidance is the best medicine for sure.
It's not cheap plastic, that's why it's a premium. They have plenty of competitors that actually do sell cheap plastic, they all suck to play with.
I believe "buy" means the same thing as in the sentence "I bought a fork". I can use the forks for as long as I want, I can sell it, I can give it away, I don't have to tell anyone how or when I use it, and if someone doesn't want me to use it any more, they can go fork themselves.
Talking to my peers I get the impression it's worse for consumer oriented software.
It felt like a tool that was sold to CTOs, not users.

As a recipient of pages, I abhorred PagerDuty more than Slack, Teams, email or even phone calls.

At least my phone notifications & do not disturb mode can be tuned around some of those other apps. And if a support guy or teammate calls me on holiday, I can berate them such that they remember to check the holiday calendar / out-of-office status next time. No such luck with PagerDuty.

If your org is not mature enough to put in the time to have a single pane of glass / view of the world / alert state.. you shouldn't be buying any of these tools.
I did this with robust DB constraints and selective use of triggers and stored functions. It can feel like a strait jacket long term. Though it did help protect against less competent DBAs breaking things and avoid some footguns.
Eh - I don't think that the mice force fed plastic has a pretty decent life, does it? While all the things you write are claims, I doubt you will be very convinced of them if you do any research on the subject. All undercover investigation in labs showed blatant mistreatment in every single case, which I am comfortable with generalising to most other labs, unless proven otherwise.

As for having my brain biopsied - I'm not the one arguing that we have microplastics in the brain. The scientists had this hypothesis, and killed some mice to prove it. I'm saying that they shouldn'y have been allowed to, since the result does not further anything about plastics in human brains, and other options seemed both to provide better human data and be more ethical.
Which is how we end up with people like Neil Tyson - a planetarium administrator who switched out of research science very shortly after his PhD.
And honestly the pieces aren’t even that easily reproduced. Our son got a knock off brand as a gift and it was horrible to build compared to a LEGO set.
If you look on Amazon or Aliexpress there is definitely competition, just not in stores. I have a few not lego kits that are fantastic.
For instance at Google, taking vacation in workday puts an OOO event on your Google calendar. Then the oncall scheduler takes that into account along with your oncall history when it schedules new rotations. You only have to get someone to cover if you are taking time off in the near future, and any surplus or deficit will be fixed by the scheduler going forward.

It's kind of wild that an expensive product with tons of funding and employees is worse than some scripts cooked up by some SREs.
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I would recommend running through your docs with a native english speaker.

Congratulations on the launch! Be proud of what you've put together here, and looks to be all by yourself too? The infra for a site, backend, and polished mobile apps for both platforms on your own.

From another "I'm doing it all myself" dude, very well done!
Whether he died or not is irrelevant. He GOT cancer and I think OP’s suggestion that it was environmental is plausible. That he was rich is only significant because he DIED from the cancer, but he died because he refused modern medicine and thought he could diet the cancer away.
Because DNT barely existed when ePrivacy was last amended, back in 2009.
Triggers are DDL, unless you've implemented them in the app layer.
>Why is there not more competition?

I didn't downvote your comment but there does seem to be competitors unless I'm misunderstanding this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_clone#Brands

It's just that the LEGO is the most well-known. Probably due to the quality plastics, licensing deals (Star Wars, Marvel movies themed kits, etc), famous advertising campaigns, and so on.
The title is somewhat misleading. The story might be about LEGO's first directly built and branded factory. But it wont be the first LEGO factory in the US.

Back in the 60s/70s the company Samsonite had a license from LEGO to make (or at least package up) LEGO sets right here in US facilities. I know this for a fact because when I was a kid my father worked for Samsonite. He would often bring home bags of loose LEGO that he got free at work. Excess, floor spilled, perhaps flawed beyond tolerances, test batches, or simply perks for employees, etc.

We did buy a few sets here and there, retail. But the vast majority of my childhood LEGO collection was built up from these endless bags of loose unsorted LEGO my father brought home at the end of his work shifts.

Proof:
https://www.google.com/search?q=did+Samsonite+make+LEGO%3F&o...
https://www.lego.com/en-us/history/articles/e-production-of-....
scripts begin with a line like

#!/usr/bin/env bash

which works regardless of the executing shell
Agreed with this general notion however, I'd argue that unlike a standards body, a big driver for JSON's ascent to defacto standard were the legions of javascript developers working at every layer of a tech stack using it as a low-friction means to an end.
I also think part because he wasn’t thinking “computer” , he was thinking “appliance” , with the skeuomorphic interface to match. I would love to see more of that instead of the flat designs we see now.
We can do that as well, and I am confident some studies are in the works. But we still need to understand what is happening, which require controlled environments and simplified situations where we can study the effect of each parameter one after another.

One does not prevent the other.
> For me the most important metric is to what extent a person has made use of the opportunities available to them.

We aren't all entrepreneurs, social butterflies keyed into what others are doing, or undecided and thus open to any whims of life made available to us. Some of us had plans and ideas, but lacked the feedback or mentoring to pursue those plans and dropped out, became depressed, or whatever for large chunks of our young adulthood. That doesn't mean we aren't now great at what we do.
As someone who has many thousands of dollars in lego, and one who, in the course of my life has owned many many hundreds of pounds of lego....

Where the FUCK are they all? microplastic in the environment, no. it wast towed outside the environment to another environment where there are just fish, birds, sea and lego...

anyway... as much as I love lego, they need to curb their roll on the plastics they put into the environment. No, not that one. The one where the lego doesnt fall off.
I think providing a steady frame rate, fast loading times, short transitions, makes the user experience a lot better when it comes to games.
look at where their focus lies - exclusive tie-ins to every possible mass-market cultural event. Sure, they make the best bricks, but they make their money with Star Wars, Super Mario, Jurassic Park, etc.
Because markets sometimes fail so it pays to be sure if that would or wouldn't happen. How many Android customers choose an app based on its API? What is the quality of the Android store? Why would it work differently for an Apple Store?
They're definitely available on mobile. There's a textbook icon next to each unit. I just opened my course, I'm at unit 19. The guidebook explains how to ask someone not to do something in japanese: verb nai de kudasai. There's also key phrases for shopping at convenience stores and talking about classes.
Is this clean-room development process the cover story or honest-to-god truth? How does anyone verify that outside of the individuals who worked on it directly?
France’s struggle to deliver a second nuclear era
Sounds like a NP problem.
> from that moment you have to check every DML statement

If that's the case, you have a documentation problem. It should be easy to decide if there are side effects or not just by looking at the DML and the metadata you need for it.

In fact, the case here is that the trigger on the article is an incredibly bad one. It's not a natural consequence of the table, or the database structure. It's probably not even always true to the business rules, what is the one property triggers must have no matter what.
> The second macro is optional, but it allows you to define the correct ELF symbol types outside of Apple’s toolchain:

If portability is your goal, you should not rely on "defined(__clang__)" to imply that you can't use .type assembly directives. Earlier in the article, the author suggests that .type is an ELF-ism and isn't supported by mach-o. clang will define __ELF__ for targets that use ELF object files.
You can get knock-off or "compatible" bricks much cheaper from other companies but they suck. Lego bricks have incredibly good tolerances which allows you to build large structures without them going all banana on you, not to mention consistent holding power and material quality.

Get some Alibaba bricks and you'll see right away.
Most of social platforms are nothing but feature AOL back in the day. They got a different look and feel.
Some are cross over of ICQ and AOL (WhatsApp)
AOL messenger
Chat rooms (discord, telegram)
Twitter is nothing but public chat room.
bad pipes
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Hmm, not often I see the country I live in on the front page of HN.

There's a long history here of slave trade, but it's largely glossed over in the national origin myth context.

> The team then used machine learning to combine the strontium isotope data from those samples with information about elevation, soil characteristics, climate, and geological variables across Angola.

Is it machine learning or statistical inference? Or are these the same thing these days? For a country as large as Angola (twice the size of Texas for Americans), 101 botanical samples is not that many.
There's a lot of weird APIs out there. I've seen some where a file is uploaded by base64 encoding it and putting it into JSON: { "file": base64blob }
What does that have to do with "choosing an advantageous degree"? We are a land of (misappropriated) abundance and can absolutely support those who wish to engage in higher learning and push the boundaries of philosophy and science.

I don't want to counter your strawman with another, but not everyone needs to get an engineering degree.
It could be related to tides?
Why do CPUs cost $400 when they only have about $1 worth of sand, aluminum, and other elements in them?

Raw material cost is not a good proxy for end user value of finished goods.
This is already being done, but not on a wide scale basis.

You can actually, legally hunt the hogs from the air with automatic weapons. People have done it.

But it's really expensive, and not particularly efficient, nor is it methodical.

Hawaii has this problem as well, not the scope that Texas has, they have teams of professional hunters that go out at night to hunt them.

Folks want them gone, but at the same time they don't just want anyone running around on their land either. Some places in Texas have a bounty on them, $5-10, but you I don't know if you can just leave them to rot in place. With price of ammunition and gas, plus all the rest, $5 isn't necessarily a profit making enterprise.

I don't think anyone would want be around an area where 100 hogs were slaughtered and left to nature for composting. The ecosystem may well be able to reclaim only so much.
The FSI estimate is still just classroom hours. They say this.
Author here. Fair question!

They get access to the internet via the Garmin Connect companion app. But if you're asking to know if they can be exploited from the internet, that's not what we showed yeah.

The vulnerabilities we've disclosed require a malicious app to be installed (e.g. from the CIQ app store) so let's not cry wolf.

What I think this project highlights and what we should remember is the current level of security of Garmin devices.

GarminOS deploys none of the security mitigations one would expect in modern devices (let's exclude crappy IoT devices flooding the market). No stack canaries, no W^X, etc. It does not implement isolation between user-supplied code and the rest of the OS either. And their C code base does not appear to receive much scrutiny in terms of security review.

It would be much easier to exploit the watch (e.g. sending a malicious message to the user's phone that sends it to the watch to show the notification) than exploit the user's smartphone. And this could be performed from the internet.
Triggers can also be significantly more performant depending on what you are doing.

But yeah having the business logic split like this is a hard sell. There needs to be an extremely good reason to do it. It adds developer overhead because not only do you have to maintain another test harness and deal with an entirely separate system encapsulating yours, every time you touch business logic you’re now wasting some brainpower deciding where it should live.
this is good timing, as we're witnessing in real time how reddit is ending right now :)
The opposite. It's a barrier because most users don't have one.
"these two groups have fundamentally different visions of Israel's future, with the First Israel seeking to be a 'normal state' like the United States or France, while the Second Israel seeks to embrace its 'sharia law' * over cosmopolitanism... this divide has concrete implications for policy and governance in Israel, with issues such as gender segregation at prayer events"

* it's not sharia law obviously, it's Jewish vs Islamic but still, lots of similar stuff?
One can get the Apple-style NEON assembly output by using the LLVM flag "--aarch64-neon-syntax=apple" with llc, opt or the like (or any tool that uses LLVM as a backend for code generation).

This can also be used with Clang by using the "-mllvm --aarch64-neon-syntax=apple" flag too.
This is actually a trade secret of lego. They build to such tight tolerances that others cant compete in the interlocking... it is a known thing of theirs, and honestly - we should be building that into actual construction mediums
Do you remember any of the brand names that was of good quality?
Minivans do have more utility in the hardware store since they open up more, but modern "SUV"s are dressed up minivans and get similar millage as an SUV.

So I really don't understand minivan love paired with SUV hate (mid sized ones anyway)
That paper comes from the same group as the original MM paper (one of the authors studied under Mann even), has some of the same problems and was itself rebutted:

https://climateaudit.org/2006/08/30/wahl-and-ammann-again-1/

WA reported that reconstructions without bristlecones (their Scenario 6) lack “skill” in reconstruction and “climatological meaning”, a finding with which we concur. The NAS Panel says that bristlecones should be avoided in temperature reconstructions. Thus, MBH-type reconstructions (with PC networks) with or without bristlecones are both eliminated. So much for the “refutation” of our criticisms.
There was an interesting Fresh Air about this recently, too: https://www.npr.org/2023/04/03/1167733332/living-with-suicid...
Also, the "cheap plastic" thing is clearly said by someone who don't know plastic. NASA included a bunch of pieces on one of their Mars crafts to check the cameras since they knew the parameters of the LEGO pieces losing their color better than the cameras. LEGOs are durable.

Also, even if the unit cost of injection molding plastic might not be super high, the cost of making the molds is. I've heard discarded molds are used in the concrete for new buildings as a way to know where they are and ensure they're not suddenly in the wrong hands (although that might be a rumor)
Saudi company draws unlimited Arizona ground water amid drought
It is not Gold that is the problem, but human greed and consumption