skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> First, hosts have no visibility on how memory is being managed within a guest. Want to diagnose memory leaks? Good luck with that.

Is that really true? I think we can implement a memory allocator done by hosts. By using "import" feature of WASM, a guest could implement a memory allocator that imports functions from the host that ask the host to look through the gest's memory directly (it is possible in JS code) and then allocate one. Maybe it will be slower but it is certainly possible that hosts can know what is happening to the memory in this way.
Bezos was still fairly well off considering his parents were able to give him a 100k+ loan for Amazon. I'm not saying that it diminishes any of his accomplishments, just that I think it's pretty pointless to try and normalize privilege since everyone has had some "privilege" in their life dependent on perspective.
Good point. Although if they're required to be bonded as part of the job requirements, that means they still don't feel the full effect of the cost of their mistakes which is what I think was being proposed. That said, it's a lot closer along that spectrum because I assume their ability to be bonded/insured will be affected by subsequent claims against the bond.

I'm also not sure exactly how bonding would work in jobs where blame is hard to determine, or not attributable to a single individual (ie systemic issue). Perhaps that's one of the reasons it's not done more commonly.
I wonder how useful it might be to try sketching cartoon technical explanations of the type that Julia Evans or Lin Clark do. Then again, how long does it take to develop the manual skill to produce these?

http://jvns.ca/zines/

https://code-cartoons.com/
Why do you work for Google for no pay? OpenStreetMap always needs work. Help the community.
Not true, nothing ever goes to the Supreme court without a lower court considering and rendering a decision on the same question. Otherwise the court would be swamped and unable to function.
If I were exposed to corporate strategy without having any business experience whatsoever that usually accompanies an MBA, the subject would go in one ear and out the other without registering one bit.

What really ought to be taught is personal finance and basic investing - those subjects can be molded into information for any age group.
I have a SDC nanodegree too but not as lucky as you...I also have a masters in MechEng with 5+ engineering experience. Haven't had much success pivoting into the industry.
I would use them if they existed. I usually spend the first couple months of my tenure with a new team documenting the product after I ask a few questions and inevitably people start giving me answers that are rarely consistent.

After those diagrams are created, usually everyone is SHOCKED that discussing the system becomes so much easier.

Unfortunately, modern software teams don't value documentation and that's the source of a lot of miscommunication, slowdowns and frustration.
The article notes that Glyphosate is a 'non-contact' herbicide, which means it doesn't kill on contact. It is absorbed into the plant. So in theory your fruit can also contain it, especially if its a Glyphosate-resistant variety.
The justice system is hardly automated.

It's one of the least automated systems (ie, employing technology to reduce inefficiencies) of all industry 'niches' in the western world.

Law enforcement might be using technology to dole out punishment/fines more efficiently, but the actual justice system that civilians have to deal with after getting fined or charged (ie, the world of lawyers, judges, and courts) is extremely backwards in their use of humans, paper, fax machines, etc. Not using even basic technology. The justice system is famous for the extreme slowness for the amount of human-time required in processing of even the most basic small details.

By eliminating the amount of human-time (by a hired lawyer or oneself) that each person has to engage the systems (for example by missing work or paying with money instead of time) would do a lot of help the poor better deal with the justice system - and get better and fairer treatment by the system.
TeamLab Borderless – a world made up of interactive artworks
What do you think of this paper?

Nuclear Spin Attenuates the Anesthetic Potency of Xenon Isotopes in Mice: Implications for the Mechanisms of Anesthesia and Consciousness.

Xenon is an elemental anesthetic with nine stable isotopes. Nuclear spin is a quantum property which may differ among isotopes. Xenon 131 (Xe) has nuclear spin of 3/2, xenon 129 (Xe) a nuclear spin of 1/2, and the other seven isotopes have no nuclear spin. This study was aimed to explore the effect of nuclear spin on xenon anesthetic potency.

CONCLUSIONS: Xenon isotopes with nuclear spin are less potent than those without, and polarizability cannot account for the difference. The lower anesthetic potency of Xe may be the result of it participating in conscious processing and therefore partially antagonizing its own anesthetic potency. Nuclear spin is a quantum property, and our results are consistent with theories that implicate quantum mechanisms in consciousness.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29642079
> No reviewers are ever paid either

That's almost true. Elsevier once surprised me with a $100 Amazon gift card, which they said was in recognition for a particularly good job of peer review that year.

I'd laugh at the prospect of Elsevier rewarding me with "recognition" -- certainly something I would not put on my CV -- although I did take their money.

Another time, the American Mathematical Society (which is non-profit, and perfectly ethical) asked me to do a book review, and then gave me $150 in bookstore credit afterwards -- again by surprise.

My understanding is that book authors can make a reasonable amount in royalties (a few thousand, anyway). For journal papers, as you say I've never heard of any author getting a royalty.
As with most things in the law, it is complicated. The District legislative process shares many similarities to the federal government's. They pass laws, which are the official representation of the will of the Council. These laws are kinda like hand-crafted change sets. Change sets that can change other change sets.

These change sets are almost impossible to use as they are, so the Council creates an official compilation of all the change sets as applied and organized by subject. This is the Code of the District of Columbia. Usually, when people think about "the law" they are thinking about the code, because that is how people interact with it.

The laws as passed by the Council cannot (and should not) be changed via pull request. Here, the useful representation of those laws, the representation used by everybody who actually interacts with the law, has been updated via PR to more perfectly reflect the underlying laws.
While you can build it that way it is not at all a good way to do it. You lose all the benefits of paging when handling fragmentation - you basically will never be able to shrink the data segment on most practical programs - and therefore never be able to return memory to the operating system.

brk is an ancient holdover from when memory protection was done via segmentation. Paging eliminates the need for this historical misfeature. I'm a bit sad WASM propagated it further into modern systems.
a couple of weeks ago i heard that people who move to the us lose ~30% of their gut bacteria diversity - here's one paper https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(1831382-5.pdf . most sources claiming a monotonic diet lacking in fibre. could the influence of glyphosat also play a role in this?
> - Photosynthesis is shown to be quantum mechanical. I'm not sure quantum mechanical behavior in plants is the best argument that quantum mechanics are responsible for consciousness.

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"Something Really Fascinating Happens When You Give Plants Anaesthetic"

> While there's a range of chemicals that can induce anaesthesia in humans, just how these unrelated compounds trigger a lack of consciousness remains somewhat unclear.

> And the mystery deepens when you consider it isn't only animals that are affected by anaesthetics – plants are, too.

...

> "That animals/humans and also plants are animated via action potentials is of great importance for our ultimate understanding of the elusive nature of plant movements and plant-specific cognition/intelligence based plant behaviour."

> Ultimately, the team thinks these similarities between plant and animal reactions to anaesthetic compounds could lead to future research where plants might function as a substitute model or test system to explore human anaesthesia – something scientists are still pretty uncertain about.

Source: https://www.sciencealert.com/plants-respond-anaesthetics-wei...

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Now if I had to add a philosophical icing to the cake, I'd guess once something gets to complicated to be explained from the ground up as a consistent whole, the only way to get at it is to study what causes this whole to cease.
> I stated... somewhere, that the magnitude of your crime does not scale with your income, so scaling the fine that way does not seem logical.

My favourite way of arguing in favour of fines proportional to wealth/ income is this: wealth is something that gives you the power to buy things: say better food, better houses, better cars, or even things that most people cannot afford, for example a big yacht. Depending on how wealthy you are, some products or services become affordable. However, there is one thing that nobody should consider affordable, and that is breaking the law, which should be equally binding for everybody. But if you set a fixed price for breaking the law, that itself becomes a product, and the price defines a set of people for whom the product is affordable and even worth the price. Is that right or desirable?
Huge fines for the rich are amusing but scaling that part of the cost doesn't address the core problem very well.

Actually, a fee of 14 days of income sounds crippling to someone who's poor, so that's an example of it not helping at all.
What would be a good alternative to peer-review though? Genuinely interested.
Okay, well I apologize if I misinterpreted what you're saying.

When you say
> Designing laws around statistical outliers seem idiotic. The Dubai prince case is certainly not the norm.

I take you to be implying that outside of outliers, wealth is largely a matter of hard work, and poverty is largely a matter of laziness.

But that's the claim that I'm not aware of any evidence for. The Earth is full of extremely poor people who work nearly every waking hour.

There is no doubt some portion of the variance in wealth that's explained by hours worked after you control for other variables, but if your claim is that hours worked is a strong predictor of wealth, then that requires empirical support. It seems unlikely to me, but I'm not ruling it out.
Check out https://www.metaculus.com/
No. The argument holds irrespective of whether there is 1 store or a million stores.

Spotify wants to use Apple's distribution channel without paying for it.

That's unfair and doesn't reflect what happens in the real world. If I sell my software through a retail store they still take a cut.
Paper -> Git. I don't think anyone has any problem with using Git as a medium.

The only bookstore chain where you can find the trusted, canonical copy of the book -> GitHub.

The government should host the canonical copy itself. Then, and only then, it can be replicated to any other commercial service willing to host a mirror. Be it GitHub, BitBucket, GitLab, sr.ht or anything else. Git architecture is so well suited for it that it's particularly striking to not see it done there.
Right but that seems to be the ultimate thing at question here not? Whether the ninth circuit's decision is correct.

I'll have to wait for this week in law to cover the case from a legal perspective, they're lawyers so they tend to have a more lawyery view of things and bring on experts in the field. There tends to be more nuance than most engineers tend to bring in "apple charging 30% is immoral" arguments.
Does BART have unlimited liability for the actions of others? Probably not.

Should BART have more security at problem stations? Sure.

Most of this sounds like a failure of the local police though, transit security is generally not going to handle reporting assault and theft, as those are the jurisdiction of the municipality where the crime occured.
10% lower than the next competitor, and less than half overall.

Not a monopoly.
This is true, though I suspect success also comes from knowing which lessons to take from other companies and when to apply them to your project/business. A lot of design decisions that work for Amazon won't work for a company with about 1000 times less customers, resources and manpower. An awful lot of startups also fail because they copy the big guys without realising that they're nowhere near as successful just yet and that what works for a large site/business and what works for a small one aren't necessarily the same thing.

It's certainly the cause for a lot of overengineering and early complexity.
I sometimes like to call that actionable arrogance rather than inexhaustible self-confidence. I knew a lot of people who had the initiative you're referring to, but most of them ended up failing at miserably at their ventures (which makes sense if you look at the number of startups that turn into successful businesses). There's also the aspect of luck which I hear commonly defined as "where preparation meets opportunity."
I'm thinking about my grandma, who I see everyday, whose parents came from Ukraine in the beginning of the last century; their 3 month old daughter along with them in a cargo ship.
the question is, though, whether the slow mass poisoning isn't already happening since a couple of years and the symptoms are just misattributed to other factors?
Yes, my point exactly. It’s a complex with calcium.
Pong: or, how I learned to love getting paddled
I actually really like the idea of a set of code branches like the Linux kernel has. Different groups would have their own branches and when they reach something worthy of actually considering 'outside of comity' (their still published but clearly development branch) submit a patch to a staging (discussion) branch which will then hammer things out and get feedback / analysis that leads to a version that is actually voted on.
Just for comparison, back then a one-room apartment in a 1960's Khrushchev plattenbau offered 30 m^2 of living space. This is what progress in the US look like?!
> When a lighter touch is all that is required, they'll use social credit points to allow someone to live their lives or not:

The only saving grace is their incompetence, as they are trialing facial recognition everywhere, the machines are unreliable enough that there's a good chance they still don't know where you are. I highly recommend escaping while they are still incompetent, because as soon as the system is functioning well (which may take less than two years), you may not be allowed to leave, at least not on a plane; and if you're allowed, you may not be able to afford it.

It's amazing that people can "#NotAllCommunism" away the wanton deaths of about a hundred million people, because they don't like that it contradicts their political fad.
Yeah, Rust doesn't have built-in range types, but it's fairly straightforward to write a macro to generate them. I've done this for array indices being passed over the network, in order to automate validation and minimize their bit-size on the wire.
And is not only the walnut, a lot of common trees do this in fact. Pines for example.
>waffels

Your German-ness is showing in this misspelling here.
This is over-the-top trolling on an inflammatory topic. If you do that again, we will ban you. We've already had to give you several similar warnings. That's not cool.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There's no real regulation of the organic label, at least in the US. So buying organic just means a larger price tag for dubious quality of produce. You may be getting something totally organic or something using 60 year old pesticides. There's no way to know based on the label.
How long have you been using the iOS app store for? IMO App prices now are lower than they were when the app store first opened in iPhoneOS 2, and way lower than they were before the iPhone. I remember simple games for Palm OS costing at about $20 [0] . Nowadays that game would either be <=$5, or free to play.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20040418012411/http://astraware....
Make no mistake, anyone born into an advanced country is privileged. We are very privileged and lucky compared to someone born in the Congo.

Beyond that it seems rather meaningless to attribute success to privilege over a multitude of other factors. It helps, but it's not the main component. Indeed those with the most privilege tend not to do so well. Consider rich kids who turn into generally unsuccessful adults. Clogs to clogs in 3 generations. The opposite of success.

Meanwhile you have people like JayZ who started among the least privileged (relative to the country) becoming one of the most privileged.

As for Gates, he had the drive and interest to spend his time learning how to program and explore business while he was a kid. While most of his peers were likely using that time to watch TV or party. That's an essential difference and no amount of privilege is going to bridge that.
All: please spare us the generic tangents about communism. Such discussions are all the same, therefore repetitive, therefore uninteresting, therefore off topic here.

If you believe you have discovered something new to say about this or some other grand ideological theme, you should probably write a book. Internet comments as a genre are not able to communicate that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15367489

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
The editors of a prestigious linguistics journal actually gave Elsevier the middle finger a while back. Here's a good summary: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=22162.

Economics and linguistics also publish their own journals which costs some money but significantly less than Elsevier's subscriptions (I believe linguistics' is 300 USD per year). There's probably enough momentum behind middlemen-run journals that prevents this from happening more en masse.
> Retired with a massive fortune.

Things of extreme value create income streams property > rent, companies > dividends, apreceation, and buybacks. Bonds > interest etc.

Even cold hard cash in a savings account generates significant income when you start talking about 100,000,000+$ just sitting there.
fair enough. But that's a pretty adversarial way to think about the state (as an opponent of the citizen). I'd prefer to think that in most democracies, laws are usually designed or at least intended to protect citizens from abuses like that. That said, I think the U.S. has a less-than-stellar reputation for citizen-friendly laws. :(
There’s probably some effect on the vibrational or Raman spectrum, sounds like the sort of thing this guy would study

http://www.cce.caltech.edu/people/daniel-p-dan-weitekamp
Non sequitur? It's like writing: I ate a salty sandwich, hence I behave like a NaCl crystal.
Or when I roll the dice careful enough, it gets deterministic. Hence the hole world is deterministic.

I think you can politely call it nonsense.
There's a concept I learned in an Ethics class years ago that basically outlined a thought experiment where some thinkers had to decide the solution to a problem with immediacy but because they were too busy thinking about their decision, they were no longer able to decide. I feel like it describes these types of scenarios perfectly.
Yeah, BART police is a joke. I don’t remember ever seeing a BART police officer riding a train with me. I rarely see them in stations. Getting in and out without paying almost seems easier than paying. SF and Oakland officers never stroll through stations, which is so obviously wrong from a public safety standpoint, yet it seems to be policy. Then again I rarely see SF police officers walking the streets as it is.

Yet we just kind of let it happen. Not sure what to do to fix it.
"WORKING PRODUCT, over comprehensive documentation"

Software changes too fast to make a static snapshot of it. Its the same with comments in the code, few months later what was there is no longer valid and only creates confusion.

But i can understand managers dont like that because it makes it harder to replace ppl.
This reminds me of an idea I had: building service maps from logs.

If your logs have:

1) common format

2) service application names

3) tracer bullets

Then in theory it should be possible to create a crude visualization of a service mesh across your apps. It'd be a lightweight version (or extension) of Zipkin, I think. Although I'm sure there's a bunch of edge cases I'm not thinking of.
This paper describes the effect of Xenon on plants:

"Anaesthetics stop diverse plant organ movements, affect endocytic vesicle recycling and ROS homeostasis, and block action potentials in Venus flytraps"

> Xenon was effective at different levels of responses, such as seed germination, chlorophyll accumulation, ROS production and vesicle recycling.

> Plant sensitivity to anaesthetics might help to reveal
elusive mechanisms of their actions. It is puzzling how
such chemically and physically diverse compounds, including
the chemically inert gas xenon, the volatile organic solvent
ether and water-soluble molecule such as lidocaine, can induce
very similar impacts in both plants and animals.

Source: https://flore.unifi.it/retrieve/handle/2158/1111827/295556/m...
I don't think a minor clerical error demonstrates that "the justice system is screwed." Mistakes will happen and they operate at pretty high volume.

I was on the receiving end of one of these years ago. Pulled over and arrested for missing payments on a few tickets. The tickets were paid prior and they eventually realized their mistake, but I still had to pay the jail processing fee.

It sucks, and things could certainly be better, but saying that the entire justice system is "screwed" is a pretty harsh indictment.
Stanislav Grof talks about this in a recent interview he did with Tim Ferriss. Very interesting. https://tim.blog/2018/11/20/stan-grof/
Good tool!
AFAIK bart police are actual peace officers: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_Area_Rapid_Transit_Polic...
I remember i used to see ads of theirs years ago, prominently displaying their 150K starting salary.

Anecdotally, i agree that riding bart has felt sketchier the past few years. I generally ride from SF to Lake Merritt or 12th St Oakland.
Sometimes we miss the year of an article and need users to point it out to us. I've added it now.

Historical material is always welcome on Hacker News. Dig away!
It strikes me that the challenge of peer review is that it is non-transparent, and gate-keeping. It is impossible for one to read the peer review feedback related to a published paper, and it's similarly difficult to publish controversial pieces that break established norms.

Contrast this to the peer review culture of popular open source projects - major pull requests have extensive and transparent dialogue, and disagreements known. Meanwhile there is no barrier to releasing anything new.
Madara, the Okuri-Inu – Cataloging Japanese Youkai
Open publishing and commenting would be a good start---having a dialog, like is done at conferences. Older academic journal articles (pre 1900) read much more like discussions than like the hundred dollar word vomits of modern academic publishing. The broken incentives are at the core of this rotten fruit, though. Just making journals open isn't enough.
> If I get asked to peer-review a paper that looks uninteresting to me, or something outside my interests and expertise, ... or write a quick report recommending that the paper not be accepted.

That seems kind of harsh?