skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't understand how a bail is more motivating for someone to show up to trial than the threat of arrest with no bail.

As I understand it, bail on bond is an old concept. Imagine rich landlord from movie universe Wild West. Their power comes from wealth (which comes from land) and being free. If they are detained for the period of trial, then someone will take over the land and they lose the power. If they are bailed on bond and fail to show up for trial, the land is seized by government and they again lose the power. Being free (getting bailed) and keeping the wealth (showing up for trial) is the winning move for the landlord, therefore they are strongly incentivised to appear for trial.

Of course the person in question must have a lot to lose (social status, wealth, etc.) for bail on bond to work. For the outcast beggar jail is arguably a better place than open streets. The rich™ have their wealth diversified so much, that it would be difficult to seize significant portion of their wealth.

> We don't have people pre-pay to not commit other crimes, why does specifically this one get it?

As I understand it, bail on bond is not about committing other crimes (while this is a nice side effect) but about appearing for trial.

> Seems to me like it just privatized part of the justice system - instead of cops chasing down delinquent criminals, it's bail bondsmen.

As others have noted, bail bondsmen essentially operate "risk management" business and offloading the risk assessment from court to bail bondsmen is one of the points.
This is no surprise to people who have lived in Salt Lake City. During the winter, as a consequence of inversion (pollutants being trapped in the mountain basin), it becomes the most polluted city in North America. During this time, resident IQs also drop. [0]

[0] http://health.utah.gov/enviroepi/healthyhomes/epht/AirPollut...
It's funny you should say it like this. I've never had a smartphone and am an American who recently moved to Paris. For the first few months I wonder why old people were so aggressive with their looks. Then I realized it was because they were the only other people on the metro not on their phones. It's an interesting social dynamic.
Fortnite's battle royale with Android security problems is just getting started
Yeah. Same here. 24 h 37 m 22.663 s more precisely.
The only explanation I have is that we come from Mars.
I love this, but I wonder if cycling in The Netherlands is similar to my experience in Germany.

I would classify myself as a "wielrenner". In Berlin for example, whilst the cycling infrastructure is also generally good as a cyclist you're practically forced to use these really thin cycle paths full of "fietser"s (to continue the Dutch terminology). That, in combination with generally very bumpy paths, can make getting from A-B quickly highly frustrating. However, cycling on the road is a nightmare. In some situations its forbidden altogether, and generally drivers are really aggressive about your mere presence even when they're perfectly capable of driving around you. Coming from the UK, I'd actually rather drive on the road with the knowledge that I'm a first-class citizen of said road, and be able to cycle at my own pace.
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I'd like 20cc of study with that statement, given that brain plasticity can change radically the way your brain works all your life. Also, accidents can alter the brain and lower your IQ, so are you saying you can go down but not up ?
Relevant

https://www.monkeyuser.com/assets/images/2018/79-focus.png
> dangerous misinformation

Oh come on, making a V sign is not dangerous. Most likely, someone shouts an original insult to you.
> being taught about it

How do you teach something like this? In a classroom, or is it only good incase it comes from experienced parents?
I don't understand why it has to be an exclusive OR. Both printf-style logging and debuggers have their use. As I mentioned in my previous comment deploying some tracing solutions can be a complicated and expensive process, writing to an UART is however very cheap. Breaking or slowing down the execution of tasks interacting with other threads and resources can be impractical or simply hide the bug altogether if it's race-condition related, sometimes toggling a GPIO and putting an oscilloscope on the PIN beats any trace framework in terms of practicality. It will also work regardless of programing language, developing environment software and hardware used.

Saying that debuggers are for noobs and that they shouldn't be used is idiotic but arguing that not using them is doing it wrong and being stuck at the age of 80x25 terminals isn't much better. Wisdom is to use the right tool for the right job.
I don't disagree with that but you gotta' realise that some people only use Instagram and Facebook for their communications, so I can't get them to WhatsApp, SMS, or email me.
> I've often wondered if this contributes to bad driving around cyclists, e.g., "punishment passes".

Of course it does, just like the few drivers who cavalierly pass a cyclist then make a right hand turn in front of them causing a collision or near collision contributes to cyclist animosity towards all drivers. The only thing unforgivable to most people is the proof that the people around us are humans and not robots: they make mistakes, they change their mind, they break the rules.

The point of these articles is to point out that creating the infrastructure properly eases most of the tension. Treating a bicycle as a separate form of transportation is better than treating them like a vehicle in most scenarios and making some limited exceptions for passing or driving on the sidewalk.
I've evaluated both CodeMirror and Monaco in a project that had to show a dozen or so small code editors (highlighting, intellisense) on the screen; CodeMirror was a lot more lightweight and faster, whereas Monaco is a lot heavier and more aimed at having just a single instance per page.
> Your personal political views are a reflection of your core values, ethics and morals.

That's a pretty bad way to view politics, IMO. It not might be what you mean (in which case, sorry!), but the phrasing you used makes it seem like anyone who disagrees with your politics has different morals (or values/ethics).

That might sometimes be true, but you're leaving no room for differences of opinion that have nothing to do with morality! When Galileo said the Earth goes around the Sun, he wasn't saying it because he had different morals/values, he was saying it because he had a different belief about the world.

When the left and right disagree (in America), it's sometimes about morals/values, but it's also sometimes an honest disagreement about how the world works!
Why do they bother to write (D-Van Nuys) after state senator names? (Van Nuys) would suffice. California is a one party socialist state.
Clashes Over Ethics at Major Tech Companies Are Causing Problems for Recruiters
Her talking with her son;

>This is why reading is over. None of my friends like it. Nobody wants to do it anymore

Yeah, when I was a kid I felt that way too... Mainly because 99% of what was available to me and my friends was boring and none of my friends like them either...

Fast forward 20 years, and I read between 50 and 80 books a year in either paper, my Kindle or some form of audiobook and I get them in topics that I want to read, not just the small selection of books my small town library had...

Like when I was a kid my library had no books on anything related to computing except one which basically was a guide for 4 year olds in how to type... They had little on history and most of it was Irish history, given that it was Ireland and there's nothing wrong with that, but when your interest is elsewhere in history and with more technical elements of history like weapons development, you're not going to be satisfied.

I grow up, I get access to all the technical books I could imagine on computers, I get access to esoteric books tank design and novels about things that are interesting to me and I'm reading at a fair rate.

Give me what I want and I'll read and I bet it the same with her son. Give him books him and his friends will like and I bet they'll read too! Try something like comic books, that's what my brother got into as a kid when we visited the US and he went from not reading to lots of reading really fast.

The problem isn't literature, the problem is access to it
There was a recent large scale study that claims PM2.5 levels present in cities have a significant effect on healthy children's lung capacity, that by the age of eight children who live within 100 meters of a busy street have a 6% reduction in lung capacity compared to those who don't. Now this study. Jeesh.

I am particular interested in these studies because my family lives in a very clean rural mountainous area in Thailand and my son is attending a pretty good international school here. But I am considering moving him to a bigger and better school in Bangkok - a dirty, polluted, congested city. If this study is true then am I really gaining anything? The difficult tradeoff was health impact for improved educational opportunity. But if the pollution equates to a one year loss of education then maybe there is little to no gain.
Commence VS Code comparison.
You say competing with Microsoft, but, CodeMirror is being used as the editor in Chrome, Firefox and Safari's dev tools, as well as Light Table, Brackets and Bitbucket - according to the blurb on their own home page.

I have no doubt that if those parties get more involved in CodeMirror, things could move very fast.
I agree we need restrictions at the society level and parents can override as they do today.

Calling it censorship makes it sound bad. But if you think about it, we have these restrictions of behaviours outside the digital world already, sometimes with options for parents to override it.

Where I live, alcohol can be consumed by children if given by their parents, but child pornography is illegal regardless of consent.

Predatory digital apps have a certain level of danger, and we need to figure out how much society should protect us from it.
Terra gets $32M
It might help you to know that you're in good company. For many people, the natural circadian rhythm is slightly longer than the standard 24 hours, so without conscious effort the daily cycle actually would shift back by 10-30 minutes vs clock time, e.g. https://www.howsleepworks.com/how_circadian.html
I guess the world used to have less facts, and now they have to choose which ones to publish?

Jk. Money talks, and outrage sells better than dry facts.
> I'm also not quite sure how often large chains are importing their opening hours into OSM

Very rarely, to almost not at all. Most OSM imports are still either roads, address points or buildings. PoI imports are very rare (to be almost non-existant)
There are examples of aliases e.g.

type VectorInt = Vector(int)
As far as I know (which is not much), opinion on gay rights has shifted drastically in the last 10-20 years, both among democrats and republicans.

And I really don't think that Alex jones is the #1 most popular media personality today, not by a long shot (where did you get that statistic?). And him specifically being censored is not why many people are concerned, except insofar as it is indicative of how other people are treated. Most people that I listen, on both the left and the right, absolutely abhor him.
I feel like this is hugely glamourising the rote business of extracting value from data.

I liked the story and did feel that it covered well the human aspect, but it was vastly more sympathetic towards our, uh, “digital children” than i think is really warranted.

The algorithms will do surprising things, partly because the world is surprising, but mostly as long as that is sufficiently valuable. Otherwise they’ll get replaced by the next person with a jupityr notebook who can optimise better for $objective_function. Or maybe they have enough political control to redefine the objective.

The outputs of these things are superficially mysterious but for all practical purposes are dictated by the values of the people who create them.

It’s not legal to lobotomise your child but that’s exactly what will happen to any “algorithm” which hurts the bottom line.
Summers and Damore exercised their first amendment right to free speech.

Their employers decided they did not want to deal with the entirely predictable controversy both caused and exercised their first amendment right to freedom of association.

Seems like the first amendment is intact to me.
It turns out that actual throughput on nominal "gigabit" consumer ISP connections ranges from 0-95% of the branding. It is only safe to consider them as "may burst as high as 980 Mb/s" and to actually test your connections to any given destination. Oversubscription and the resulting congestion are assumed into the consumer ISP model.
The Ghostscript Vulnerability – Find Your Affected Machines
Intel's new laptop CPUs focus on gigabit Wi-Fi and voice commands
Have a look at https://prosemirror.net/examples/codemirror/ :)
> During this time

Do they perform on the normal level after the pollution? That would be a hint that the results of the IQ tests just temporarily drop (I would be careful to say that the intelligence dropped).
You sure it's not because of cold weather and slowed metabolism?
The best schools are at full capacity with the middle class and up families that you’ve mentioned. No one is going to move their student to a mediocre school. Now what? Students are still in mediocre schools and can’t go anywhere else. Vouchers solved nothing.

The current system is not hiding or maintaining the problem. The problem is pretty blatant and well known.
Deep Dive into Math Behind Deep Networks
> I love this, but I wonder if cycling in The Netherlands is similar to my experience in Germany.

It's likely a better experience, and at any rate it's significantly safer: https://twitter.com/greenpeace_de/status/1034350589696716800

(I don't speak german but using google translate it looks like yellow is accident risk, light green is proportion of cyclists and dark green is cycling-related spending)
The last of the good Samaritans
Yes, they get all their organic results from Bing, Yahoo and Yandex.
I must admit that from perspective of the someone from the UK I've never really understood the US obsession with the desire to represent intelligence as a single number.
That's great to hear! CodeMirror 5 has complex code for supporting bidirectional documents, but it's not perfect and lot of work. We hope to let the browser do most of this work for us in the new architecture.
I struggle with feeling like I never know enough. The more I learn the more it feels there is to know. As a result even as I learn more and more, I feel dumber and dumber :D
There's probably been orders of magnitude more time spent analyzing rodent brains, simply because there is an effectively unlimited quantity available and an extremely limited quantity of human brains available. Essentially all invasive human brain studies are preceded by animal model studies (usually starting with rodents before proceeding to "higher" animals if that's called for), but conversely not all animal model studies result in a human follow up. Meaning a hell of a lot more rodent brains get put under the microscope. So in general you would expect to find them in rodents first, if the probability of serendipitous discovery is purely a function of time spent conducting unrelated analyses.
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> My son was born in 2001.

> But he doesn't obsess over social media like perhaps a generation before his does.

Back in my days, "a generation" was roughly 20-25 years. :)

Generation X did not have social media when they grew up.
It’s Q3: Time to build your cyber budget for 2019
Major AMD chip supplier will no longer make next-gen chips
It's also based on the (mis?)conception that the taxes you pay are for your own children's education, rather than being for everyone's.
Not really! This is actually normal and documented, most people's circadian rhythms are on a slightly longer than 24 hour clock: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/284/5423/2177
Facebook employees create a group to complain about 'political monoculture'
Yet the administrative costs of Medicare or the French healthcare system are much lower than private insurances. I'm not sure the government is that inefficient...
This argument ignores that social media is not socialmedia.com, but several different networks. If you're on Snapchat, it doesn't matter if your parents are on Facebook.
The .NET Profiling API gives you a way to modify IL code before it's JITted, so that could be one way to do this. See http://mattwarren.org/2018/08/21/Monitoring-and-Observabilit... for a bit more info ('SetILFunctionBody() API')
Hiya,

I wasn't able to find that support, but I am no expert.

Can you explain your use case?
I also wrote my thesis in LyX! About 20 years ago :)
Yes, as a young kid I had an older sibling who was studying educational psychology so I spent a lot of time doing "intelligence" tests - I just thought they were interesting puzzles and didn't realise I was being continually tested.
Endangered species matter. I've never seen an animal rights activist dispute the fact that endangered species matter more than the rest. What is the charter of "All lives matter"? What is the objective output of that movement other than negating the fact that endangered lives matter more?
They used to run a Matrix bridge, but from my understanding the administrators had no interest in maintaining it.
WhatsApp warns that Google Drive backups are not encrypted
Most psychologists wouldn't operationalize intelligence as years of schooling but its common practice in economics and some other fields.

In social science research there is often a tradeoff between measurement quality and sampling quality. Do you want to measure your variables really well in a small sample, or measure them crudely in a large sample.
Nice, that's a pretty cool approach! (random user input)
We would need some rules for how to resolve collisions. If I change a record in two different ways, which one wins?
Ask HN: Anyone running production systems on a dedicated server?
I’m lookkng at dedicated servers from HostGator, Vultr, 1&1, Hostwinds... companies like that.

The dedicated servers seem very powerful and cheap compared to cloud hosting. Anyone got experience running produ running production systems on dedicated hosts? What has your experience been like? Pros/cons?

Recommend for or against?
> so are you saying you can go down but not up

You have a specific amount of neurons and a lot of them die every day. The body doesn't produce them like other cells after a certain age threshold (age 21 IIRC, also depends on the individual). - Although this theory is currently on the edge of being disproved, it's clear that adult brains are not producing many of them.

Training and experience can compensate this loss, but the general cognitive capacity gets reduced each day.

Pretty depressive to think about it, but maybe we'll be able to use stem cell research to change this in the future.

edit: I don't want to state this as definitive facts. The field of neurogenesis is currently heavily researched and there are some hints that adult brains might be able to produce new neurons. See https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/does-the-adult-br... for a discussion.

What I think is most likely is that we lose 10x times the amount of neurons that we create each day, so even if it's producing new ones, the rate of death is higher.
Another happy DDG user here. But I always wonder - DDG is basically an aggregator, it doesn't have its own general index. Isn't there a danger that Google and Bing will just close the faucet to it one day?
Does this change at all when the clocks go back / forward? How long does it take you to adjust then?

In my opinion the 2am is just a conceptual thing and there is nothing concrete about it - we change it twice a year and most people adjust fairly quickly.
Funny how people around here are usually rather skeptical about any results in psychology apart from intelligence tests!
> tough to live in the moment

That is exactly it.

If you're constantly scrolling through social sites, you're either mostly living in the past by hoping someone engaged with whatever you posted or living in the future by thinking "I wonder what XYZ posted, or what's trending on HN".

Stopping to live in the moment sounds like the biggest cliche ever, but it really is one of the "secrets" to really enjoy what you're doing with no forms of procrastination or other bullshit.
that's is way I started with a dog house before even building a shed.
I'm uprading my current storage capabilities so I can make a few backups of some sites as well (HN might be a good first test)
A bunch of pioneer project like docker, kubernetes, etcd, prometheus etc. has been built with go and I don't believe that the maintainers suffered lack of generics and error handlers. On the other hand, as a new go programmer, I can really dive into their code base and understand each line of code without thinking twice. This comes from simplicity.

But these possible nested error handlers and generics will lead developers to think more than twice during writing or reading a code base. These ideas is not belong to go era but Java, C++ etc which go doesn't wanted to be like.

Someone here has mentioned that internal support of generics for slices, maps and other primitives. I think this can be the best solution for generics in go. For the error handling I think more elegant way could be found.

Please do not rush.
Hey there, I run Philly Mesh and am friendly with the MetaMesh folks in Pittsburgh. You might want to give them a shout if you’re interested in this stuff, https://www.metamesh.org
2003 was a wake up call. The heat wave this year was the second hottest since 2003 and there have been a lot fewer deaths (at least in France). People are better informed and the health professionals are better prepared.
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They have the discretion, but it’s relatively rare. I guess I should have said that the system should be adjusted such that judges should be encouraged to do this far more often than they actually do, without the giving them additional power to arbitrarily hold people.
Start by looking up an exploit that has details published, and recreate it. Do that a few times, and you will begin to understand how it works without the frustration of not finding anything. As you get better you'll both get better at finding things and at dealing with the long periods of not feeling like you're making progress. I suspect there's sites that help you walk through this, and I know I've seen ones that walk you through prepared exploits.

You really just have to start putting in legwork consistently.
You can use it for "what if" analysis.
- Take a fork of the database
- Transform data in the fork. i.e. costs+5%
- Point your current queries to run on the fork

You can see how with just the effort repointing queries a reporting app could show the real world and the world you are modelling.
Why Airbnb shouldn't IPO before solving the problems It has helped create
Neglecting the air quality etc., is there any specific reason to believe you would gain anything by moving your son to another school at this age?

Personally, I think that a much better move is to stay where you are and instead save up to fund a one-year exchange to a prestigious international university when he's been at some national university for a couple of years. AFAIK many prestigious universities accept almost an unlimited number of international exchange students, as long as they can pay the tuition fees.
Detecting visibility bugs in concurrent Java
I’m 40 and I can count the actual books I’ve read in the last five years on two hands probably. I read voraciously, but I just don’t read books.