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> This is false. Handguns and other small arms, for example, cause a reduction in violence as they proliferate through society, due to the fact that the use of force is not the exclusive purview of the physically strong.

[Citation needed]

> There's a reason police in most places carry guns, and it's not to shoot people; it's to keep people from punching the cops in the face.

By the threat of getting shot – a threat which the cops sometimes follow through on. Handguns “make the world a safer place” for those who have the handguns... By making it a less safe place for those who don't.

> Nuclear weapons have vastly (and I do mean vastly) reduced mass deaths in world wars since their invention.

[Citation needed]
My high school physics teacher collected barf bags from students who would bring them back from vacation.

It was a neat addition to the classroom, and especially fun whenever a former student would stop by with one from an exotic airline.

He was well liked :)
I hadn't heard that, but looking it up this is what I see from cnbc:

' “Oh, they’ll [vcr's] be replaced by a disc player within four or five years,” Gates says. “I’m talking about access to media across the network.”

In other words, Gates is describing our ability to watch movies, TV shows and other streaming videos online. '

I'm not entirely sure he means the Internet by "the network"? In the same interview he refers to the Internet as "the Net".
That can happen after a heavy head trauma. You should seek medical help.
Speed limits in California are capped at 65 mph by state law (or 55 mph for undivided roads). Any agency wanting to set a lower speed limit has to conduct a speed study and cannot set the limit lower than the 85th percentile of measured traffic speeds.

Of course they can skip the speed study, or not repeat it every 5 years as required, but then tickets are effectively unenforceable on that road.
According to the US, an US citizen just have to open a bank account anywhere in the world and the law applies, regardless of where the bank is hosted.
Oh this appeal to the public, pithy empty words about openness and shit.

Here's the plain truth: IA ran a gigantic book piracy site during covid. They should've known they won't get away with it. I remember several authors begging them not to do this because it affected their income. I personally thought it monumentally stupid to put the Wayback Machine at risk.

They said, there are enough physical books in closed libraries to cover their lending. That's not how this works. They should've asked the publishers for permission first if necessary putting pressure on them via public. This is not a case of it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission because they must have known they won't be forgiven for this. I can't even.

I am not saying this is by any means moral or right. I am saying: this is the law. They actually got relatively lucky for not being fined to oblivion for this.
You don't necessarily get them at high pay grades, either. I know people making fat salaries who truly can't manage to write anything decent, it's all a big JS monstrosity with 500 MB of broken dependencies and six build tools that all jump major versions every eight weeks.

Salary has long since been disconnected from skill, ever since cheap money flooded the industry, and easier abstractions made it seem like "everyone can code". Perhaps "fog a mirror" shouldn't be the only programmer criterion.
Did you have a pretty static download section? Or were you constantly burning new CDs? I vaguely remember Sysops mentioning CD changers in their advertisements.
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Trying to normalize a DRM system is not advancing the betterment of society. If IA wanted to be pro-social scofflaws, they should have published DRM-free epubs/PDFs/etc for download, copyright law be damned. If they wanted to be law-abiding, they should have declined to offer this service, and informed users of the existence of shadow libraries.
Update: I shared this link with my family and my story is being latently corrected. The whale was a fin wale. There are other corrections as well, but they diminish the tale. I prefer my childhood understanding to my corrected adult understanding. I'll leave you with the better story.
Do you have sources of Symantec working for russian military?
perl + Template Toolkit (using the underdocumented support for the fragment pattern with EXPOSE_BLOCKS), before finding htmx we used Jemplate, which let you compile Template Toolkit templates into Javascript functions
Is there any modern hardware that doesn't have privacy issues?
I stopped watching at the point where the amount of bacteria on the dishes is the concern. I am not convinced that it is important to sanitize dishes for family use. Maybe, maybe with guests and if someone is sick.

My understanding is that our immune systems need something to do or they start to stir up trouble. It's important to walk barefoot outside, to dig in the dirt, to eat foraged greens, to hunt, kill, and butcher your own meat (etc), and I don't insist on sanitizing any of these activities.

I do get all the available vaccines and I do use hand sanitizer at medical facilities, both because there are people who are more vulnerable than me and I'm willing to help reduce transmission risk.

House dishes, though? I lean towards using fewer dishes, often I use the same bowl for my meal every day (and some prep bowls, which are easily rinsed) and wash it after using it, while it's still wet.
Not being the only one in my house, though, we have a modern, ~efficient, quiet dishwasher despite my protestations about embodied energy and the space it takes up.
The question was:

> > > Do any country histories remain pure with such a long timeline?

(Emphasis added.)

And not, you will notice, “Does any country’s politics remain pure with such a long timeline?”.

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You bring up a good point but through some market research I noticed that landlords don't always like doing this and we also will include sublets too. They would not be accredited. It would be like a friend visiting for you
Who wrote that (sorry - EDIT) errr am I holding it upright .... bollocks? 8)

"Library genesis exists but necessarily must hide and create some friction in the discovery process."

Really!

Personally speaking, I'm fucking incensed that ... <fill in usual argument here>
Not really gonna cry for somebody that owns two houses.
This is very true, and we need these moments. Lately I've been struggling to figure out where my place is, how to maybe get back into freelancing, what I'm technically good at etc... lots of ruminating since I've been out of work for a year.

But.. I met someone at the gym who's been struggling with an esoteric problem on an ancient piece of software for over a decade, and they approached me to ask if I could solve it. I said "maybe", sat on it for a few days, and then replicated the issue on my machine and solved their problem in about an hour. I asked for $50 and they gave me double, which was wildly more rewarding than being paid $100k to write react all year, not that that salary is on the table any longer.
In a sense, this will never be solved for outliers. I’ve been the guy the packing guys hate, ordering a few anvils. Is there any reasonable way to package such a thing in cardboard with any amount of duct tape? And that’s when I realized I’m the coyote, but Amazon isn’t acme level yet.
I just tested it with OpenJDK 22, and it actually still works.
How AI Large Language Models Work, Explained Without Math
GitHub uses the committee date, and the committee date changes with rebase. So I almost always --committer-date-is-author-date. Most people don't and it kind of makes their rebases ugly in GitHub, appear to all have happened at time of rebase, which is obviously no good & useless.

Rebasing is excellent. It's a whole suite of tools, unlike merge, which is just merge, for managing history. Rebasing is how I build a sensible history.

I should see if there's some way to set --committer-date-is-author-date by default. Also haven't found a way to make git pull --rebase do c-d-i-a-d.
Toxicity of Wildfire Smoke Could Be Ten Times Greater Than That of Ambient PM
Just to be clear, the daylight computer does not use e-ink. They call it an e-paper display, and it's basically a reflective LCD.
That is pretty incredible, thanks!
The display is a (reflective) LCD, so the display latency should be low.
I, personally, believe that if, and when, there's a visible potential of the aforementioned discontent extending further in scale and duration, you prolly should switch to anything more appealing ASAP since you wouldn't want to disrupt your professional connections and experience. Unless the former is the case, you're gonna either overcome the angst and succeed in the job (maybe) or continue afloat where you currently are without any dynamics. Choose whatever suits your brightest future best, and good luck with navigating through your troubled waters most successfully.
Oh, as someone from the rainbow community I didn't even know we'd progressed to that yet. I was still taking a big blue pill when I needed to, then sticking to the number of days after as well. If it's every two months I'm so gonna look into it.
doctrine of first sale, it's a really interesting concept in the United States at least.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
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Yes - if the only penalty is having to remove the books, then this should be considered a win for IA.

This dumb move was an existential risk putting all their other work in danger.
The specific phrase used was "everything you see and hear" (emphasis mine). You weren't arguing this would be an optional tool that could be used in the creation of art. You were arguing that this will replace all other art. That isn't an argument that photography is an art equal to painting, it is an argument for it to replace painting.
My father said the same for me. To this day, sleeping in the car is the easiest sleep i get. It's so soothing. Which is problematic considering i'm the sole driver for my household hah.
Maybe for one of the key reasons the SX existed in the first place? Because its 16-bit data bus allows it to be used on simpler, smaller, cheaper, mainboard designs (though it wasn't a directly compatible drop-in replacement for 286 chips – there were still extra pins, one or two tens of them IIRC).
That wasn't my comment, AFAICS. I think the one you replied to was my first in this sub-thread.
MACH.2 Multi-Actuator Hard Drives
Apparently both Seagate and Western Digital sell dual-actuator disks (double the IOPS and throughput up to 448 IOPS and 524 MB/s per drive)
Apparently both Seagate and Western Digital sell dual-actuator disks (double the IOPS and throughput up to 448 IOPS and 524 MB/s per drive)
Maybe they have the same friend of a friend
I've been playing it in the background for about 2 days now, so I think I'll use it in the long term. Hence making these following 2 requests, in case you're still following up.

1. The music stops when the computer screen locks, or turns off, or if I swipe to a different workspace/desktop. Can you make it so that it continues to play music even with display turned off. Just a note that I'm using this on Firefox on a macOS, if that matters.

2. Can you please allow users to save/export/download a configuration (number and positions of circles, number of bouncing spheres), so that they can later upload the same configuration to get their favorite setup back.
Also fun fact: the F-104 Starfighter also had dart in the nick name here in Europe. It was called the lawn dart because so many of them crashed. This was due to the lesser pilot experience but also the change in role from interceptor to multirole fighter + ground support for which it was uniquely unsuited with its tiny wings. So low and slow was not a good role for it.
Why did they not take the DMA into consideration when designing Apple Intelligence?
> For legal reasons, the thesis supervisor has to be a professor in most unis

you're wrong - eg in my uni (a "top tier" uni) thesis advisor could be a RAP (research associate professor) which was not a full nor tenure track prof and thus not much more than a postdoc.
I disagree that it's the low risk, low reward path. The risk and reward isn't in the type of work but in the companies you choose. You can do boring low risk backend work, but at a startup with the opportunity to 100x your RSU's or lose your job.
Concur. It's an unfortunate race to the bottom which is just indicative of the dilution of ability in this godforsaken industry. Why can't a team of grunts manage a basic CRUD web app? That's what's so frustrating: most of these problems aren't even _hard_, and yet devs screw them up anyway.

Signed, a greybeard sick of cleaning up messes.
If you don't hold people accountable for dangerous driving, 1)more people will drive dangerously while doing lyft/uber and 2)you are indirectly endangering vulnerable road users (people on foot and on bike, motorcycles, etc.)

Trust me, you'd feel very differently if you were on a bike regularly in the city. The lyft/uber drivers are the most dangerous drivers in the city. Have been since almost the very beginning of this ride "share" app crap.

Any time a driver did something dangerous with me in the car, they got reported and a one star rating with a comment explaining exactly why. If they did something particularly dangerous around a pedestrian or cyclist, I'd tell them the ride was over and to let me off immediately, and then call uber/lyft to report it to an agent instead of just clicking the "unsafe" button in the app.

You don't have a right to drive for a living.

If you do, you damn well should act like it is your living and be safe about it.

The whole fucking reason we have a massive problem with traffic safety in the US is because police and courts and legislators act like it's so necessary that we must endlessly tolerate people endangering others with their cars, and people get "hardship" exceptions where they're allowed to keep driving even after proving themselves to be a complete fucking menace, because "they need to get to their job" instead of "you knew you needed to be able to drive to get to your job and you still drove the wrong way down that street and hit someone? Sucks to be you."
The software development world was so clean back when it all started. Nowadays its just picking libraries and whatever they do, they do. A lot of the time it's just some kind of react library that uses local storage automatically, and because you use it in your login script it just happily stores your password. Sure it's only on your laptop, but at some point someone is going to pull in a third party script tag that pulls in a live hosted library that at some point could be compromised.
I've no idea what you're trying to say.
ime it consistently overestimates ride time by 50+% or so. usually like 10-20% slower than google maps, but the estimate is often 2x what google maps says.
"Try to be a bit more self reflective" is definitely crossing into personal attack and not ok on HN. If you had stuck to facts and made your substantive point respectfully, that would have been fine.
Good point. And something similar occurred to me today: all that progress of science and relative safety of modern life made people stop feeling fear of the cosmos. Yes, Cthulhu isn't real - but cancer is. Along with millions other things that will maim or kill you in horrible ways, or just destroy your mind - all of which were here before us. The true cosmic horror, the dread of uncaring universe beyond our comprehension - it isn't out there, it's right here. It's called nature.
Interesting, my wife was still on waitlist in SF last week.
TBH that's how I feel trying to intuitively understand and remember the various colors of quarks and their interactions.
It seems like all of these eink devices are designed that way. I really soured on the Kindle experience when I bought a second one years after my first and discovered you still had to jailbreak it just to set a wallpaper. I think they might finally have fixed that, 10 years later, but not before losing one customer of the devices who still buys books but now reads them painfully on a phone screen instead.

Nowadays the hip devices for eink nerds seem to be the Hisense range, which are no longer supported by the manufacturer, and you need to root them, and install your own ROM, just to get a recent Android. It's hopeless.

All that said, recently I've been tempted to try again by picking up the cheapy Inkpalm device, which is stuck on Android 8 but it's cheap enough that perhaps the antiquity won't annoy me?

I don't understand why eink has never taken off. I just want a small, cheap, light device that I can use to read novels - sure - but also mostly-text online content like HN, newspapers, blogs and email newsletters. Hey, let's do my Anki flash cards on it at the same time. I spend at least a couple hours doing all that stuff every single day and surely doing it on eink would be better for my eyesight than a phone screen. Much better battery usage too. I can't be the only one?
Indeed, extrapolating the current trend indicates they'll have more than one murder per person per year in the mid 22nd century!
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> why $nation in particular are so butthurt about it

With this you did again exactly what I just asked you to stop doing. That's not cool.

The historical details you're bringing up are irrelevant to whether you're breaking HN's rules or not—for moderation purposes none of that matters. What matters is that making provocative, pejorative, or scornful references to other countries or their people is nationalistic flamebait which leads to hellthreads, which we don't want on HN. I don't think this is at all hard to understand, so no more of this please.

In addition to the above: having just taken a look at your commenting history, it's clear that you've been using HN primarily for political and nationalistic battle. Just as I said to the other user, that's not allowed on HN and we ban accounts that do it, regardless of which side you're battling for or against. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules from now on, we'd appreciate it.
Sad to see the apparent decline it's been in for a long time but glad I got to enjoy it and Ontario Place in their prime years. I haven't been back to Toronto since the late 80s but from time to time look up many of the tourist sites we visited in the 70s and 80s. Too bad, for whatever reasons, they didn't keep up with the times.

If anyone else went in the 80s and remembers the fire-fighting computer game and knows somewhere it can be played now, I'd love to hear about it. The graphics were quite primitive but it gave a really good basic understanding of wildland fire fighting.
Much more realistically:

Individual A reports a unique or rare problem. Everyone knows it is reported by person A.

Nothing is done.

Person A reports the problem "anonymously" to some third party, which raises a stink about the problem.

Now everyone knows that person A reported the problem to the third party.

This is why I (almost) never blow the whistle. It's an automatic career-ending move, and any protections are make-believe at best.
> while the US is at the forefront of lobotomizing its population with social media

I have to point out that China is, too.

No country is "just looking for ROI", and even if they are, that's not necessarily a good thing.
Any discussion of evolved circuits would be incomplete without mentioning Dr. Adrian Thompson's pioneering work in the 90's:

https://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/
> I’m saying claiming that nature is always pretty and naturally balanced without massive die offs and imbalances is just ignorant.

More than that. Nature balances itself through the massive die-offs. I'm not sure how people imagine this, that animals sit around round tables and negotiate a balanced use of resources? No, everything tries to murder and/or consume everything else, and the equilibrium of death is what we call "natural balance".
Redbox missed a multimillion-dollar payment it couldn't afford to miss
[dupe]

Actual article:
https://blog.archive.org/2024/06/17/let-readers-read/

Some more discussion, including some IA folks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40707084
No, the proper speed limit is one that is decided based on traffic engineering safety factors such as sight distances, and who else uses that road.

Cities aren't dropping their speed limits to 25 mph for shits and giggles. They're doing it because the odds of a person on foot or bike surviving being hit by a car goes up dramatically when speed drops from 30 to 25. Fatalities drop to nearly zero at 20mph, which is why many dense residential side-streets are 20mph. It also has the nice side effect of discouraging people Waze-slaloming their way through neighborhoods instead of using major routes.

https://nacto.org/publication/city-limits/the-need/designed-...

The whole "make the speed limit what most people are doing" was just auto industry bullshit that helped make our roads even more dangerous to people not in a car or truck.
Something similar to the CBOR diagnostics format but formalized would be nice... since being able to tag semantics would make consistent interpretation of data content easier.
Literally never said that.
I miss actually owning software that couldn't be rewritten or revoked at any given time.
This post is factually incorrect.

Eating carbohydrates cannot cause Diabetic Ketoacidosis.

Ketoacidosis is caused by not having enough insulin which means glucose can't exit your bloodstream and enter your cells, Your body starts breaking down fat into ketones to provide an energy pathway for your cells that doesn't require insulin. Ketones are acidic and at high enough levels will cause DKA. This can be fatal.

Eating potatoes without corresponding insulin will raise the level of glucose in your bloodstream to high levels. This is not immediately fatal. Having a high average blood glucose level over a long time span (years) will lead to lots of complications including nerve damage, kidney damage, blindness, etc. Obviously this assumes you have the appropriate basal rate of insulin which is separate from eating.

A more accurate way of making your point is that it is difficult to match insulin response times (even with modern fast acting insulin) to certain foods that are absorbed quickly, so eating potatoes may cause a time period may cause a higher post prandial glucose level. The goal of type 1 diabetic therapy is to keep your average glucose levels as close to a normal person's level as possible. So avoiding certain foods (or eating along with protein/fat/fiber) can help achieve lower average blood glucose levels.
Thanks, saved me writing the exact same thing.
Is there a lighter weight solution that abstracts the interfaces so I can swap GPT4 with Claude, including function calling?
>It's fields all the way down.

But what even IS a field, other than a thing through which scalar, tensor, or vector values can be expressed over some dimensionality? Also gravity.

It seems at some point we have to just accept there's this currently irreducible thing permeating all of the thing we call everywhere.
80 Days is perfect. take your favorite artist recording 400 songs and you only get to listen to 40 of them and you just want more

Meg Jayanth++

Choose Your Own Adventure++
Thank you for explaining this so succinctly!

People just don't seem to understand that to do SSO properly and securely for your app it costs decent money and support time. Regardless of if you roll your own or buy 3rd party (recommended). We do include SSO by default but we really only sell to enterprises and the price is baked in. A lot startups won't have that luxury.
No the males don't get pregnant or give birth. They brood, ie they look after the little ones.

See the Reproduction section of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seahorse for details