skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for the citation. I was not familiar with the Burke quote, or any other support for the view that common law judges have an "independent duty to pursue the truth." I still think this proposition goes too far, as you seem to recognise in footnote 13 of your paper, but I accept that in exceptional cases common law judges can call witnesses.

McCormick § 8 (cited in the notes [1] to the FRE) observes that "it is sometimes said that the judge may have a duty to question witnesses, although the exercise of such a duty does not appear to have been enforced by any appellate court decisions." I am not sure there is any support for a duty to call witnesses, except as a device to permit cross-examination by both parties. Even in 1904, Wigmore [2] noted the "strong but subtle tendency to force" judicial questioning "into the background" and referred to Burke's 1794 speech as a "defensive utterance."

In the UK and Canada, the courts have explicitly rejected the view of a trial as "a scientific exploration with the presiding Judge assuming the role of a research director," urging a cautious approach to the calling and questioning of witnesses which Wigmore regarded as unduly restrictive [3]. I still think that the absence of a judicial duty to pursue the truth is a key feature of the adversary system, but the justice system as a whole does have a truth-seeking purpose, and exceptional cases may call for exceptional judicial powers.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/fre/rule_614

[2] https://archive.org/details/cihm_73411/page/n963

[3] https://www.albertalawreview.com/index.php/ALR/article/downl...
It's a bit unclear. So does OS/2 run on the turnstiles?

Also my mom loved OS/2 Mahjong so it had a long life in my house growing up.
I don't think you actually want that though--that would require a return to points for ignition and either carburetor or mechanical fuel injection.

Also likely a generator instead of an alternator, most alternators use ICs for regulation. Having dealt with these systems, I actively convert older vehicles to alternator & electronic ignition to improve the reliability. No ICs would mean the need for a tuneup multiple times per year, vs. modern cars that only require oil changes for regular maintenance.
I have been reading kids books aloud for maybe 2 hours per day for the past 2 years (to an almost-3 year old), and at this point I can do a pretty decent read-aloud including voices etc. while also considering some unrelated technical problem in my head.

The catch is that if I am thinking about something else simultaneously then what I am reading aloud doesn’t make it into memory; I can read for 20 minutes and then suddenly realize that I have no idea what happened in the story. The reading is on autopilot.
Yeah. They punted. Put the problem in the spec and make it someone else’s problem.
See, when a daddy loves a mommy very much, they usually get married. However, sometimes the daddy meets another woman, who is faster, uses less memory, with a significantly less complicated code base, and then the daddy decides to compile his Linux with her instead.

Does that help?
Same for me, except also the incredibly obtuse set of ~20 compiler pragmas you need in Haskell. If you ask for help to do some simple programming concept, like multiple dispatch based on type at runtime, then from the Haskell community you first get a bunch of tone deaf “you shouldn’t want to ever do that” responses, followed by a huge tome of all the language extensions (fundamentally changing or adding syntax) that you need.
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To me engineer is anyone that counts before the implementation. Even if it is back of the envelope calculations.

Two developers came requesting a Kafka partition topic scale-up. One of them knew how many jobs per second his workers consume, how many messages per second were going thorough the cluster, etc. The other did not. One acts as an engineer the one does not.

You wanna be an engineer? Easy, learn how to count. And to give a pass to those who don’t, counting is not easy. Most likely you will get it wrong, you might be counting the wrong metrics, etc. But counting makes all the difference in the world.
Based on what I've read on the topic, this isn't actual hunger but appetite. You can't ignore hunger, and it doesn't go away until you've found food.
I would love to hear an argument about why this is necessarily a bad or negative thing that they have strict controls over their immigration? Japan acts similarly and is none the worse for it.

The Quebec independence movement is still alive and strong even if it isn't so overt, and I think there is nothing wrong with that. If they want to maintain as much autonomy as they are able to, with their limited set of options, that is great.
I had to do a mockup of a gui recently for traders, and excel did the job. Not a nice programming language, but fast to get something working. It won't be used in prod, thank god!
Well, in theory there's no difference between theory and practice...
It is not that simple
Why does Quebec have it’s own immigration policy? I mean, why can’t I just emigrate to Canada in BC and then move to Quebec?
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What exactly is the "sync to today's clock" thing doing - the same day of the month and time of day but in July 1969?
Yeah I'm aware. 100% garbage science IMO. I'm not going formulate a long-form takedown of the entirety of tDCS literature, here in the comment section of a hn post. And so just take this fwiw-

About a year ago I was quite surprised to find out that a colleague, dear friend, and brilliant neuroscientist took a job as research director of haloneuro.com

I was not surprised at all when he told me a few weeks ago that he had resigned, and that tDCS was total BS. The CEO of the company had him running dozens of clinical tests in parallel; they would publish the few that supported tdcs and would file drawer the rest.

But by all means, feel free to run an electric current through your brain if you think it will help X.
Ah interesting, so it's not a federal (central) system. Is there anything to prevent someone immigrating to Alberta and then moving to Quebec?
Apple does though design its own GPUs. So it is not a far stretched idea that they might someday ship a GPU with dedicated RT hardware.
> causing trains to be halted and failures with traffic signalling. It came as people in parts of Argentina were preparing to go to the polls for local elections.

According to this: https://www.as-coa.org/articles/argentinas-2019-electoral-ca...

... there are only a couple Gubernatorial elections, so likely unrelated.

With all the talk of the USA ramping up efforts to disrupt Russia's power grid, could it be that some out-in-the-wild exploit hit an unintended target? I couldn't find any info on who provided Argentina with their equipment.
It seems to be nothing more than an interesting observation, and nothing about it seems belittling or denigrating. An old system is still running a platform well. Story at 11.
It is interesting how the United States ranks lower than some African countries in the midst of war. Something to consider.
Meal planning has done this for me. I spend three to five hours per week doing all of this and it solves the problem of being too tired to cook a healty meal.
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What difference does that make for an end user? You have two copies of the same OS on the 2 PCs (same hardware) but one compiled on gcc, the other on LLVM/clang. How will this affect me? What differences I will notice? Better performance? Like real world performance
> you’re mostly agreeing with the facts of what i’m saying,

No, not really. For example, you claimed above that "Latino" was a genetically identifiable subgroup.

As to the motivations you suggest, go back and look at my original comment in this thread. There's nothing in it that anyone with those motivations would object to. In fact, that very comment made reference to the medical significance of differences in the distribution of genes between different "races".
Duplicate, but without the press hype: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20157291
Relevant to the article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1857
What were the biggest benefits that people got from switching? Where does VB6 most show it’s age? No modern looking controls? Harder to use Unicode?
This seems needlessly argumentative and unwilling to allow for any editorial leeway. A subway is composed of many parts that all need to operate for the system to work.

But if we want to get pedantic, the subway wouldn't exist without revenue, and that revenue is indirectly managed through an OS/2 system. Ergo, the subway runs on OS/2.
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it's so grating too to consistently see that same comment/sentiment upvoted. if it's not for you then don't comment! it's like people go out of their way around here to criticize and have their hypercritical nature validated.
Offense is the best defense. And simulations are not the same as the real world, especially for security.
> Where do I sign?

On the dotted line, after having read the fine print and a big disclaimer.
The Oberlin dean didn’t just say the bakery was “racist,” she said they had a “long history of racial profiling.” That’s a critical distinction. The first amendment doesn’t directly protect falsehoods. But to give wide berth for free expression, we have carved out all these situations where even a false assertion will be protected: parody, hyperbole, opinions, assertions made based on good faith investigation, etc. If the Oberlin dean had, for example, said the bakery was racist, based on the fact that the bakery failed to consider that calling the police on a black student would subject the student to far graver consequences than under identical circumstances where the student was white, that would arguably be a non-falsifiable opinion, or a statement about someone’s “general character.”

But she went beyond expressing an arguable opinion. Saying that someone has “a long history racial profiling” is an assertion that a pattern of concrete events have taken place. It’s not an assertion about someone’s “general character.” It’s falsifiable. Moreover, the dean couldn’t even construct a fig leaf, some post hoc rationalization, to defend that assertion. She all but admitted she had tried to destroy someone’s business based on the equivalent of a “fake news” Facebook post.
The electric scooter wars won’t end
They want to get rid of Stallmann's GNU concepts
Show HN: PGReloaded – restore PostgreSQL databases periodically
It's not just being in a first world country but the specific country you are in. I used to wonder why Americans had such an obesity problem but after visiting various states it became clear that culture and the environment around you makes all the difference.
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I was trying to just state the facts, and pointed out ways to interpret this current piece as over-hyped. I also tried to not paint a graphic picture of what the "MAX controversies" even were, in order to avoid appeals to emotion.

Let me try and reframe my original comment for you. I do currently think that Boeing should be regulated more, but I'm not convinced enough of my own reasons. So I'm wondering whether my perspective would change if I heard compelling alternate ones?
You mean criminals tried, found guilty, lost all appeals, and sentenced to death? This is not the same thing as countries killing their own innocent citizens.
Edit: nevermind, it seems that “state broadcaster” implies more than I thought.
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Well, I did say ELI5. So, thanks, um, I guess.
Classic ASP for me still, although I believe I'm reaching the sunset here with IIS 6 on a Windows 2003 server still being feasible.

Why not change? I know the language so well, and have so many things I can reuse...ok...fear of change.

You can get pretty much anything done with classic ASP still though. Here are a few of my sites both done with only classic ASP server side.

http://www.dudeiwantthat.com/
https://stockdaddy.io/

Now, Jquery has moved some things I would previously do server side to client side, but these are basically classic ASP, SQL Server driven sites.
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There appear to be several components of the methodology that are not adjusted for country size.
Using Smartphones to Pay? That’s So Yesterday in China
Someday a method/implant will be invented to trigger the orgasmic response in the brain. Will be interesting to see how humanity handles that drug.

Reminds me of Star Trek DS9, where the Cardassian tailor had the brain implant to make him resistant to torture. He had turned it on, and left it on for 20 years, then it failed.
I assume glibc is built with gcc still? Is there a listing anywhere of the packages that aren't build with Clang?
Love the animation style and character design. I already conceptualized depressive feelings as a black dog, but a red fox for anxiety seems appropriate as well.

However, I wonder if projecting the unhelpful parts of yourself as a different being actually works as intended. Especially if you automatically consider the helpful parts of yourself as not separate.
State broadcaster implies the state controls the content, in particular has editorial control, over the content, and that's not the case with ABC.

The wikipedia page says this, which highlights that ABC isn't a state broadcaster.

> but is expressly independent of government
Alison Gopnik changed how I think about parenting, marriage and schooling
Now I want to hear more about insane official horse names... DDGing it didn't get me anywhere.
Electrical power issues are very common in Buenos Aires (blackouts in blocks of the city, as well as very poor quality of the delivered power, resulting in damages to power supply units). I'd rather bet on the general dysfunction of the state rather than a concerted external effort.
No, complete opposite. I lose weight (muscle glycogen probably) when I miss workouts, because my appetite decreases significantly.
Jillette was an indirect catalyst of my "come to weight-loss-jesus" moment last year, since he triggered the process on someone else I follow who in turn triggered me. His methods (which he mostly got from Ray Cronise, iirc) are super-radical and undoubtedly effective, but also hard to follow for regular people. He has a zealot attitude to this particular topic, which can be very off-putting, and some of his approach is probably wrong (sure, in old age you can go vegan and eat once a day, but if you are 25 and moderately active, that's probably not the best idea).

On one point he is correct though: half the battle is realizing that, in advanced societies, you are sold food. You are under constant bombardment from sources telling you to eat this or that, and kept on the leash by sugar and other addictives. In that sense, it's much easier to eat properly in a less-industrial society, where you're not pursued by food advertisement, people are mostly forced to cook raw natural food (although this is changing), and things like "eating out with friends" are rare events rather than expected social routine.
people still spot check bridges with physical tests because we can’t perfectly simulate material properties or fluid flow
Ah... thx. Found this article by Stallman that gives some context to that:

https://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.en.html
I really miss OS/2. It would be such a great os even today.
> It should be very clear by this point in the thought experiment that "objectivity" is not really possible under those conditions. You need some theory to deal with this issue, but honestly it's manageable for the most part.

Tbh, That sounds like a lame excuse. The logical conclusion is that science done that way will never produce truth[1]. In consequence we should stop listening to such "scientists".

[1] As in "can be reproduced and likely gives the same result"
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Arch Linux was able to achieve this years ago.
I'm also pretty sure that if these incentives were in place we would see a lot of engineers switch to these really interesting tasks. No one wants to shovel http requests back and forth, they want to build things. I think a lot of internet, and software, infrastructure is more compelling work than what most high level engineers work on.
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Quite possible. It's been 10 years since I last used it.
My most productive time as a non-professional programmer was when I used REALBasic. That was when it was affordable shareware, before it became insanely expensive and got the totally silly name "Xojo".

REALBasic was better than any other language in terms of productivity and no language/framework combination has matched that for me so far. I used to be very active in the REALBasic community and was able to make fully working applications within a few hours. That meant that I had time to spent on details that no current applications have. For example, my application used to give visual feedback to any action, including blinking menu items, blinking selections when text was copied, and so on. Contrary to what people claimed even then, carefully-planned applications also had way less bugs than they have in any language I use nowadays. REALBasic was also way better as a language than what C++ people used to say about it, it was fully structured, had OOP, and was overall pleasant to use. It definitely gave better results faster than other frameworks, and RB's OOP was a perfect fit for end-consumer, GUI-oriented applications.

Nowadays, I do own Purebasic, but since it's not structured and has no genuine cross-platform support for rich text in edit fields, I barely use it. I currently use Go with GTK3, but the combo is way worse and not even comparable to REALBasic (no RAD). The only viable alternative seems to be Python with Qt, but the results are horribly slow and the language is just ugly. I've also been using Racket for many years and the latest version of my (very outdated, long-term maintenance) shareware application is still written in it, but there are too many GUI limitations and performance problems to recommend it.

Bottom line is that I miss the good old "an unhandled NIL object exception has occurred" days. Lazarus is not a good substitute either.
They're also likely to kiss and make up with nVidia again at some point, too.
I suppose you could say it's similar with AKC dogs.

Spot III the Chihuahua
vs
Spot III the Beagle
The new Mac Pro only ships with AMD GPUs which do not yet support raytracing.
I don't think they're holding back so much as the Pax Americana system is the most profitable for them. They aren't powerful enough to choke the whole world, nor would they even want to.
Why is so much of the US under water?
>I'm willing to read a good citation here if you have one, but the "overwhelming evidence" lies on the other side where docile and submissive specimens of fighting breeds

Who eviscerate their owner after being docile and submissive for many years. The fact is self-evident. How many sheep dogs point? How many pointers herd? Behaviour is massively inheritable, and pointing to exceptions shows that you know this. The fact that they are exceptions shows that the majority of individuals in a breed behave as their breed behaves.

>and dominant specimens of family-friendly breeds can be easily observed

There is no such thing as a "dominant specimen". The dog whisperer was not real, it was a phony show just like all reality TV shows.

>Inbreeding increases the number of recessive genes floating around in the gene pool, increasing the number of carriers.

You are conflating purebred with inbred. This is simply dishonest. Are the children of a Japanese couple inbred because both their parents are Japanese? Inbreeding means close relations, not anyone in the same breed or ethnic group.

>If you cross a breed that is prone to hip dysplasia with one that isn't, none of the offspring will suffer from hip dysplasia

That's not true at all. You are conflating "prone to" with 100% has the gene for, and "not prone to" with 100% doesn't have the gene for. And hip dysplasia is not a simple single recessive gene, and is very common in all large dogs, including mutts.

>Now understand that a lot of genetic diseases are the result of the interactions of many genes of which the exact mechanism is unclear, and it should become clear there is no solid way to prevent a disease from expressing itself through careful monitoring.

Careful monitoring is not 100%, but it is more effective than just random chance, which is what you are advocating.

>For now, the best way to guarantee a healthy dog is to mix in new genes and keep the gene pool healthy

That is simply a lie. Well bred bloodlines of purebred dogs have far lower rates of congenital health problems than mutts do. Consider the shiba inu for example. They are a pure breed. Yet they have lower rates of congenital health problems than mixed breed dogs do. Same with working lines of lots of breeds, from rat terriers to malinois.
You know what they call an "alternative" therapy that works?

Therapy.
I can confirm that it works well.
Twitter won't even try to distinguish hate speech from the efforts to oppose it
Stop worshipping this douchebag.
It's very disappointing that Apple hasn't adopted Vulkan. It's not like they are completely against standards either. I believe they even joined the FIDO Alliance recently.

With Apple adopting Vulkan, it may actually stand a chance against DirectX and the majority of game developers might start developing for Vulkan first. And Apple would benefit greatly from that, just like every other Vulkan supporter would.
I wonder if this affects my machine (x200) since it's from 2008 and according to this site rowhammer affects DRAM modules manufactured from 2010 to preset.
https://brica.de/alerts/alert/public/1238748/rowhammer-the-e...
> Where is your line for where a culture starts and stops?

In my view, culture is pretty fundamental, and when we run across a culture alien to us, it's quite disconcerting. And so a monoculture is one where you never run across any truly "alien" ideas.

You can have kebab shops and Thai restaurants, and churches and mosques and synagogues, and people speaking different languages, but as long as everyone agrees on the fundamental underpinnings of society, it's still a monoculture.

Australian culture is very open to everyone, so long as they are fundamentally Western in terms of their views on democracy, criminal justice, religious tolerance, women's rights, corruption, LGBT rights. That's so ingrained that when you point this out, there's usually a pause, and then an incredulous "well, yeah, both those are the only correct opinions!", or sometimes even a confused query as to whether any other ideas even exist in the modern world. I have the same gut reaction (I mean, obviously democracy is good, right?), but I also know that there are cultures out there with different views.

If Oakleigh has a lot of Greek people in it, you can probably get some rocking moussaka, but that doesn't mean it shares the same culture as modern Greece does. Consider, for example, the large difference in corruption between Greece (and much of the rest of southern Europe) and Australia (and much of northern Europe): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index If that survey was done on Melbourne suburbs, do you think they'd be fairly uniform, or would it look more like the map of Europe?