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Is there a difference between "standing trial" and managing your defense? If so, people could fall into the cracks. I think that's what the article is getting at. If not, then either you're able to stand trial or you aren't. If so, you should be able to make whatever decisions you'd like.

(I'm a big lover of freedom, so I'm in the second camp. If you're able to stand trial you're able to plea anything you'd like. But I guess there's some question here because of the public's desire not to let anybody be put to death by the courts that might have avoided it with a better defense?)

If they decide this lawyer did the right thing then it seems to me like we've created three tiers where there used to be two: competent and incompetent. Now there's competent to stand trial, competent to stand trial yet incompetent to defend themselves, and completely incompetent to stand trial. Things would get a lot more complicated.
Twitter, Facebook, YouTube Support Bid to Restore Net Neutrality
I love and totally agree with this article.

Anecdotally at least, I can see an objective drop in the amount of songs I listen to now on my Spotify account versus eight years ago on my iPod. When I had to download individual mp3s and transfer them with a cable to my iPod I would probably have made a playlist of new songs every few weeks or so. Now the only time I ever 'make a playlist' is perhaps once a year. In fact, if there isn't a long trip I'm going on sometimes I don't make a new playlist for an entire year. Part of the problem in this is that there are simply too many songs to add to a new playlist. If I go back through just my spotify likes there could easily be three hundred+ I would need to collate and that's not including Soundcloud or YouTube. This means that when I've finally gathered together a playlist of songs I want listen to it can be 300/400 songs long, meaning I can listen to it for an entire year and some songs will only have been listened to once and others not at all.

This, like the author, strikes me as being so much worse than when I was deeply listening to, if not albums, playlists over and over again for a couple of weeks. They might have only had a dozen or so songs but I knew each of them well and enjoyed them too. Now I can't think of one song in my last mega-playlist that I could recall offhand.

What's even worse is that this clearly applies to more than music. I have an enormous goodreads list that I will almost certainly never finish. A year of Netflix shows that I am perpetually behind on, and a Pocket list that still has articles from the 2016 election.

I don't know what the solution to this is, but there is definitely something weirdly limiting to having an unlimited number of x.
Ha. That quote in the parent literally triggered in my brain "Tom Sawyer".

At this point, I totally don't like any "prog rock" other than Rush (unless you want to count Primus).

What you write is super relatable.

I grew up listening to a lot of punk rock and older stuff including a lot of Zep, Beatles, Rush, Yes and all kinds of stuff.

I just turned 40 and I'd much rather play and listen to old jazz or country. Most of my guitar and piano playing ends up being blues, though it's fun to cover Hendrix on a piano. Hell, I'd rather listen to my kid's vaporwave stuff or, say, Neon Indian, than make another pass through Zep IV.

I play a lot of bluegrass (guitar, upright bass, banjo, dobro, etc) but can't hardly stand to listen to it. About the only stuff I can stand to listen to and work on playing at the same time is the Dead and related groups. Maybe that's like jazz but for late 20th century rock... I dunno.
Thanks for the comment, and I am glad I'm talking to someone else here who draws, because I feel like we may be able to share common mental paradigms.
I too dabble in drawing [0] (I'm sharing mine, please, if you have any artwork, I'd love to see it).

But to your point, I think it's probably both, in that there is an enhancement due to a compensation and the enhancing of what one part of the brain is already good at.

But along with that are also reductions in inhibitions (some of which may be natural, as people tend to favor what they're good at, mixed with the novel curiosity of discovering a new talent), with probably a reduction in certain strengths that were competing with other strengths.

I know for me, some of my lack of artistic prowess comes from wanting to pursue too many fields of interest.
So I could see that the reduction of interest in some things would enhance my ability.

I guess what I'm saying is that it's like asking which side of the scissors is doing the most cutting :)

[0] https://www.instagram.com/natecavanaugh/
Hmm .net core is not stable since a long time, and there is a lot of work to be done tbh.
Better end-of-life care isn't a technological problem.

When people have terminal cancer they are still usually advised or persuaded to take chemo and/or radiation, which royally destroy their bodies, as anyone who had a loved one go through treatment knows.

In the case of many late stage cancer cases it's generally known that the person is at the end of their life, yet the medical establishment still tends to focus on treatment rather than actual care. How does machine learning help the cultural problem?
I don't think we can call it at the moment. But one more bull run and 50 million more across the world will definitely get Bitcoin there.

There's a lot of venture money coming in and new hedge funds popping up.
You must not live in the north then. With 6 months of winter every year, and several feet of snow, the practice I've had in racing/driving simulators has given me a markedly improved understanding of how cars and tires can react in traction-limited situations. I'm not saying it's the difference between life or death, but I feel more "connected" to the machine that is my car.

This of course ignores the fact that 98% of cars made after the early 2000s have electric throttles and other controls, and often non-direct responses to control inputs
I wonder what happens to clothes donated to Goodwill that aren't fit to be resold in their stores. You've got to figure they have to do something with that leftover 5 or 6%.

/s
Universal Vue.js Application Framework Nuxt.js Reaches 1.0Like
Rethinking front-end error reporting
part of the "magic" of Lambda is making it easy to use from your programming language of choice. If they made a lower-level model, like, for example, "we start up your binary, and it needs to bind to port X, then we'll send HTTP requests to it and it should respond appropriately using the following JSON specification," it would take a lot more work to set up your Lambda function and get it working correctly than it does now. It's certainly possible for them to do it, but I don't think it fits in with their style.

Worst case, you can implement this interface yourself now easier than ever. Since golang is statically linked and has super fast startup times, you can build an interface where Lambda launches your golang process, and that process binds to a port and spawns a sub-process that implements the actual Lambda function. The golang process would implement the "socket" based interface for you.

People have been doing the above already, but all the existing runtimes, including Node.js, Java, Python, and .NET, have non-trivial startup times and memory usage compared to a golang binary, which should be able to start up in 10s of milliseconds and use less than 1 MB of memory while acting as a proxy.
Remember, biofuel costs significantly more. Pump prices include taxes, so difference in pre-tax vs pre-subsidies of 1.80 $ is huge.

The value of biofuels is simply cushion in case of poor harvests.
Solving a Puzzle by Proving It Solvable
A program is wrong if it doesn't meet its explicit requirements, plus certain common implicit requirements for good engineering (unless they are explicitly waived by the former).

An example of an unwritten requirement might be, say, that the word processing program doesn't violate the user's privacy or security. That might not be on the list of functional requirements for a word processor, but would be implicit.

The problem is that requirements can be deficient in some ways. The program is the most visible deliverable related to the requirements and so it takes the blame for requirement problems.

Requirements can be outright wrong and that's when they are 1) contradictory in some way (there exists a subset of the requirements which cannot all be simultaneously implemented) or 2) unclear: they have multiple different interpretations (unintentionally) and such.

When requirements are clear consistent, then they are subject to opinion: someone would like the requirements to be more complete. Or for some of them to be something else entirely. This turns into a criticism of the program: why isn't it that way, rather than this way. People blur the boundary between this kind of criticism and a criticism of correctness. "How can this be a correct word processor; it has only three levels of undo?". (But the requirement specification was written such that it calls for three levels of undo; how can the program not be correct on grounds of that requirement?)
Apple to pay $38B in U.S. taxes on foreign cash, open new campus
I can't find the article right now, but there was one on HN recently were the number, at least for chinese miners, was in the high 6k range.
It's already at the point where you have to spend lots on money on hardware and have cheap power to make it work.
I have read an article that $6500 is the point where the chinese miners with custom ASIC's will not be able to mine anymore.
When you run DNS requests over VPN, you are sharing your "browsing history" with (at least) 1 other third party: whoever runs the VPN server, and whoever runs the (public) DNS server.

Your ISP can see the IPs you connect to regardless of whether you use your ISPs DNS server or not (unless of course you tunnel ALL traffic of all clients through the vpn as well.)
Frankly, it's because their acceptance criteria are less stringent. When I donate there, they're fine with no-longer-wearable clothes (rag grade) and even tube TVs, both of which are pay-to-dispose at the local dump. Goodwill, on the other hand, refuses many donations that VV doesn't blink an eye at.

Sending me home with half a trunk still full of stuff that VV is happy to accept doesn't encourage bothering to go to the Goodwill. I just want to drop my old stuff, easily, at one location reasonably near my house, where it won't completely exit the value chain like it would in a landfill.

And Goodwill is even worse to its employees. Many of their workers are paid well under minimum wage, under the FLSA exemption for disabled workers. Their CEO makes over $400k though.. (The Salvation Army is quite good on a costs ratio, but has political positions I can't support.)
When the price of producing bitcoin > the cost of bitcoin, it will stop. It's like all other forms of mining. For many miners, that's probably the cost of electricity, which could be free in some parts of the world, or very, very cheap.
Must everything be over HTTPS? Must all diversity really be killed like this? It saddens me.
> This is an unenviable position, to be innocent but everybody else assumes you're guilty

A lawyer advising you to plea guilty is not necessarily assuming you are guilty any more than a lawyer saying that you have a solid basis for a not guilty plea necessarily assumes you are factually not guilty.

The lawyer is advising you on their opinion of where you will get the best (which may merely be “least terrible”) result from the legal system.

Now, they may or may not be doing a decent job of that, but that's a different issue.
Bitcoin Can Drop 50% and China Miners Will Still Make Money https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-10/bitcoin-c...

discussed 6 days ago in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16120062

Money quote from the top comment: "The break even is 1 BTC = $922". Personally I have my doubts, but even at the $6,925 the bloomberg article claims is still very profitable.
Streaming compilation is the way it was always historically done. One reason is that computers used to not have enough RAM to store whole non-trivial programs in it in AST or another intermediate form.

Second reason is that this approach matches how the underlying theory of languages and automatons works. One can view modern AST producing compiler frontend as compiler that compiles it's input into program that builds the resulting AST.

On the other hand many modern optimalization passes simply cannot be done in streaming manner or even by any pushdown automaton.
From their blog post, the majority of the smaller creators that are affected by this change are earning less than $100 per year. There's three types of creators that are impacted by this:

- people who will never earn more than this off youtube, but aren't motivated by earning money.

- people who are currently earning less than this, and are motivated by money but are on a trajectory to quickly exceed 1000 subscribers. they'll be minimally affected.

- people who are currently earning less than $100/yr, but are motivated by money and are unlikely to exceed 1000 subscribers anytime soon. If they're actively working to grow their channel but can't break 1000 subscribers, losing them is probably for the best.

I don't see how this is going to really harm youtube's content pool.
> SPAs are not harder, they never were.

Yes, they are harder

1) instead of using browsers based on standards with hundreds of millions invested in developing them for things like routing, caching, history, etc, you are using ad-hoc amateur implementations of all those things that are full of bugs and unimplemented corner cases.

2) Instead of executing your code in a safe environment you control you are executing it in an unsafe environment on an unknown runtime that you have no control of.

3) Instead of processing stateless requests with large chunks of synchronous code backed by a database that imposes some sane limits on state manipulation you are maintaining all of your app state yourself, continually updating it asynchronously, in an insecure environment, with dropped requests, and layers of hacked together client/server data synchronization and caching.

Sure sounds harder to me :)
Silicon Valley Is Ready to Spend Millions More on Its Anti-Aging Obsession
Sometimes people lie to protect other people, or to conceal a secret that they might feel to be more devastating.
This is true of corn but I'm not so sure on soybeans. Do you have a source on the total conversion rate for soy?

According to the source below, the partial conversion rate is about 57 gallons per acre (at 39 bushels/acre). It takes WAY less than 57 gallons of biodiesel to farm one acre of soy. Modern practices are really only going to have 3-4 passes (no till plant, early spray, maybe a later spray and harvest). After that is is mostly bulk trucking which shouldn't be much per acre.

Remember that unlike corn, soy requires very little/no fertilizer due to it being able to fix its own nitrogen. It is mostly the fertilizer the kills corn.

Source: https://www.uaex.edu/publications/PDF/FSA-1050.pdf
Just learned from a neighbor that unwanted meat scraps is used to create diesel or biodiesel. Can't recall which; either way, he said they're not selling drums above plant costs but have to keep the machines running for environmental compliance. Specifically, Crude Oil plants with less demand are switching to this.
I was clarifying in case the author of the comment was unsure what "carbon neutral" means. It's not a comparative term, so it confuses the discussion to use it as such, just as unfunny comments derail discussion.
I'm not quite sure that doctors need AI to see the state of a terminally ill patient for what it is, but if the authority of a mystical-sounding blackbox helps them accept and act on that tough reality, that's fine by me.
Who the Hell Uses Onion Juice?
What are you using for the "word carousel" animations?
I think deforestation isn't going to be solved by going after a single industry/product. Humans will eventually find a reason to destroy any forest we can find. We can target soybeans and cattle, but that'll be replaced by gold prospecting, logging, housing, parking lots, nuclear weapons testing, spaceports, or anything else humans can think of to make a dollar.

For large swaths of the Earth, we need to say "You can't touch this area for any reason. Don't even step foot here. Go away."
That's as it should be. Nobody should expect every person in the country to individually solve the problem of how best to allocate that resource. The donation bin is the correct solution, so that the resource can be graded, sorted, sold locally, or compressed into bales and sold internationally.
They’re adding gc and dom support to wasm
https://danluu.com/anon-benchmark/ - "That time Larry Ellison allegedly tried to have a professor fired for benchmarking Oracle" - Looks like other database vendors do the thing. That doesn't excuse the behavior though.
I will sometimes hear voices distinct from my own thoughts. It is a different experience than thoughts that are verbalized in the head. I can clearly tell the difference between those two experiences.

I will sometimes experience an in-between state where my consciousness knows it is generating the voice at the same time it is experiencing it as a distinct voice. Sometimes I have access to the tuning knob, and I can turn it to modify how distinct I am experiencing it.

Both the experience of distinct voices and verbalized thoughts are also distinct from thoughts that have no verbal components. They might be in visual or tactile form. Sometimes they are in purely conceptual form with no sensory expression.

So not everyone experiences thoughts the same way.

"Is it a lack of agency or the voice sounding different or something? It feels poorly defined."

If you experience it, it is pretty obvious, though hard to describe.

"Thoughts seem to be happening all the time and are not always super directed (isn't the goal of mindfulness to get a better handle on this?)."

Goal of mindfulness is not to get a better handle on thoughts. That's a side-benefit of mindfulness meditation. The main "goal" of mindfulness meditation is awakening to true nature of being, and along the way, there are many useful and practical side benefits such as being better able to clearly distinguish how thoughts and mind works.
The attorney could believe that his client is a pathological liar, among a near infinite array of other possibilities.
The Subtext of Digital Conversations
I like the plan in theory but what's the justification for charging these huge sums of money except to be punitive? Why does a work have to somehow perpetually make more money?

Why not have the lawyers show up in court and show that the company they represent is still actively using and making money on their copyright? If they are they get a, say 5 year, extension. Judges can use common sense to avoid shady behavior like manufacturing demand or trying to pass of a small number of sales as evidence and copyright holders aren't left with a huge bill.
I think while I probably understand the underlying concepts better (cryptography-wise), there isn't much _practical_ infromation about GPG in the wild.

Just as much as knowing how git works under the hood doesn't necessarily make you great at managing branches in git. More often than not it's way easier to just go with a sort of ready-made recipe, so that your workflow would be easily accepted by the industry; rather than read the doc.
This provided me a similar thrill. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdTa2kYJMEM

But, I didn't "get it" until about the 3rd listen. Part of what made Rush so great to me, was that I felt like I got more out of it the more I listened to it.
...or they could support FastCGI or CGI which would then have the "low barrier to entry" and "broad support" already handled..
YouTube raises subscriber, view threshold for Partner Program monetization
I'm no expert, but that doesn't sound right. Specifically, it contradicts my model of Anglo-American jurisprudence, where I expect:

1) Defendants have the right to a trial, regardless of how "obviously guilty" they are in anyone's eyes.

2) Trials are, in part, about whether the state has met its burden to prove the elements of the case, regardless of the lay truth of the accused's guilt. [A]

3) Given the above, the work of a lawyer (in a trial) does not inherently involve the representation that "this defendant is innocent", but only that "there is insufficient evidence of that element of the case", which needn't be a fraud on the court, even if the prosecution's claim is true.

(With that said, more specific lies can be off limits.)

[A] A Man for All Seasons: "The world must judge according to its wits; this court must judge according to the law."
The world's worst airports
Sure, people in their 30s will continue to grapple with their relationship with music. I know people of all ages who had some kind of revelatory experience putting on some particular songs or albums in high school. I can still remember what I was doing, where I was, and who I was with when I first listened to Led Zeppelin I, Tommy, or Hotel (by Moby). Hotel isn't even that good an album! But the same is true of other media like movies and video games. And it's true of people. Your first friends and your first loves change your life. Those experiences get farther and farther apart as you get older, and it has nothing to do with technology.

The author seems to have taken up some kind of impossible geas as a countermeasure. Imagine if you thought you talked too much in conversations and so you took a vow of silence. It's a bit extreme. I take a different approach: my music library is sorted by purchase date, and anything at the top will only get pushed out after a few listens. I don't have to force myself to do anything, I'm just too lazy to look past the first page very often. This works equally well with iTunes and with physical media, and it gives me a chance to really fall in love with new albums, even if I don't get the same feeling I got when I was 15.

Technology may have radically changed the way we consume music but our relationship to music is largely the same. The only difference is that you're older. Loving someone feels different at 15 and 30, and loving music is the same way.

Edit: The part about novels is a bit weird. Remember that Brothers Karamazov was published as a serial. Moby Dick was a flop and didn't sell well until it was republished 40 years later, after Melville's death. So if anything, those examples illustrate the point that literary fiction doorstops have never been that popular. However, these days we have monstrous epics dominating genre fiction. Rowling proved that young children will pay good money to read a 3,400 story across seven books, the same way you'd binge Netflix, and I've known a few people who as children had to replace their hardbound Harry Potter books just from ordinary use. Page counts are, if anything, ballooning in genre fiction and the shelves are dominated by trilogies and longer series.