skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to have a very low opinion of the jury system. I can’t imagine how a system designed to be swayed by emotional or ignorant but opinionated people would look any different from what we already have.

After I served on a jury, I had to admit that, whatever its faults, there is some value to occasionally explaining the law to random citizens and asking them to apply it in a given case. It should put a limit on how weird or explicitly unfair the law can be. To be honest, it’s not much of a limit. Several words already have a different legal meaning than their everyday meaning (e.g., in copyright law, “to copy” includes activities that don’t end with an identical copy of the protected work). But there is some limit.
> Destroying the world because they use energy

Yes, and participating in blocking the Kyoto accord.

You can feel as good as you want that you save a few people after displacing millions and covering countries in spent Uranium.. Then your grandchildren will die from ecological mismanagement and/or water shortages..

The military writes its own studies on these facts of climate change, it just ignores it's giant size role in bringing them about.
It's probably a smallish power plant. Small nuclear power plants wouldn't be competitive even with oil, due to diseconomies of scale in staffing and operation.

If you want a baseload source in Alaska I'd look at geothermal. Even moderate temperature (below boiling) hot water there can be used, due to the moderate or low ambient temperature. And Alaska has many areas with good geothermal resources.
I am not taking about Parole or Probation. Time sentenced in certain jails or prisons would be counted as 2x or 3x more the time served. So cases are often delayed by the lawyers so that felons stay in these jails longer and can come out early. The podcast has more details. I am myself not well versed with the exact terminology.

Updated my original comment for clarity.
You cannot own a home if you must pay property tax.

You merely lease it from the government.
In the jury I sat on, we had a question about the the law and it's wording. The response we got was, "you have already received your instructions." Gee, thanks. Someone more well versed might have better understood the definition.
Access to security bugs is usually restricted.
Thanks for the feedback:

1. The backend is graphql/django/postgres and yes, the notes are currently being preserved indefinitely. At some point I might add a cron job to remove the empty ones

2. I'm thinking of adding a notebook option eventually, but still considering the best way of doing this in terms of not compromising the current look and feel, which I like the simplicity of

3. for these three points - the markdown editor itself is an open source solution () and not my own creation, so these issues are limitations of this library. I may fork it and make some fixes at a later date, although some of these issues may be fixable with simple css

4. good point, i'll try to implement some kind of a lock here
You can use whonix, which runs the browser in a VM that can only connect to the tor proxy in a second VM.

It’s not claiming to be truly secure, but it is several extra layers that an attacker would have to get through
The city wouldn’t tow from private property, and a towing company wanted to talk with the actual property owner, not some kids subletting from some other kids, and he was impossible to find.
I agree that "straight C" is not the best choice anymore... but C++ isn't great either. It inherits most of C's weaknesses and for libraries, it makes it very difficult to use the code from languages other than C++. By making a library in C++ you are basically limiting it to being used only in C++ projects. (Yes, wrapper generators for C++-to-whatever exist, but my experience with using e.g. Qt from other languages has always been pretty terrible).

Even in 2019, the C ABI is the one universally agreed-upon cross-language ABI for languages compiled to native code.
No, the backlash against nuclear long predates Chernobyl. And it was driven by economics, not safety. In the US, new nuclear construction collapsed after the first big nuclear building spree, when promises collided with reality. This was even before TMI.
This is just as bad as police seizures
I think you don't get it... Finland doesn't have much of an elite.

A CsomethingO who got posted to a scandinavian country by his multinational employer put it well in a newspaper interview. He was expected to wear suit and tie Monday-Friday, but if his home needed some work, then people expected him to drive to some bigbox store and afterwards get up on a ladder and do it, just like any of his subordinates.

Your electrician might drive a BMW or Mercedes, like any random suit. That's not "needlessly expensive", that's a country where the electrician is part of the "elite". A societal choice. The "elite" is the majority. The richest people's children go to the same school as everyone else, which produces a shared fate.
Toilet paper is only available if you scan the train station QR code
It’s Vice — it’s more of a culture outlet so most of their reporting is clickbaity — but the science stuff is particularly bad.
> With the advent of capable editors like Visual Studio Code, is Vim still a relevant skill to have?

That's such a weird dichotomy to present, what feature of Vim did other text editors lack that VS Code managed to replace? Vim is a "relevant skill" because it is a better editing paradigm. VS Code is no more competition to it than Nano or Emacs were.
Thanks for the feedback!

It uses the Ace Editor: https://ace.c9.io/

I couldn't find a more mobile friendly code editor, but I'm happy to test out other recommendations as I'd love for it to be enjoyable on mobile too.
The exact procedure and requirements vary from place to place. Search for ‘claim abandoned vehicle [your state]’
I don't know about VSC but most IDEs are rather difficult to extend. VIM makes it quite easy to create a plugin or prototype new ideas. If you don't need clever code completion etc., VIM is still very useful. Other than emacs, VIM also has some guidelines wrt to code organisation (pack, plugin, autoload, ftplugin, syntax etc.) that make things easier. vimscript is a simple language that has its warts but actually is quite useful in the context of this editor. To some extent, you can write (parts of) your plugins also in python, ruby, lua, mzscheme etc.

So, to some extent it's still useful and relevant. VIM also runs on your android phone, VSC, Idea, Eclipse etc. don't.

WRT to learning lisp, I'd recommend racket. It's scheme and unfortunately mzscheme lacks the libraries, e.g., common lisp has. It's very useful nevertheless.
Most likely you are _less safe_ using Tor than using a regular Firefox or Chrome with no VPN, because using Tor automatically means nation state attackers are going to target you. So you have to do extra work just to break even. Google EgotisticalGiraffe for details.
One of the juries I served, in the UK, had a similar question about a specific aspect of the law related to the trial. There was a 30 minute recess and judge, prosecution and defence discussed how best to explain - presumably without influencing in favour of either side - then we were brought back, told, and asked if that was enough. It was surprisingly involved for what we thought a simple clarification.

Having been on the inside of juries now, it restores some faith in some aspects, but you also realise far clearer where potential problems and limits are.
Thanks for the links. The relevant paragraph from the first article is:

> After the strand was eliminated from Pakistan five years ago, all P2 vaccines should have been collected from hospitals and clinics and not used. However, it appears a P2 vaccine was administered accidentally and a child became a carrier for the disease. Tests on the new cases allegedly show the children are all carrying a vaccine-derived form of the disease.

When they switched from the vaccine with all the variants to the oral vaccine without P2, did they continue using the inyectable version with all the variants as recommended by WHO?
I wouldn’t let a pedophile babysit my children (and I actually do know people who served time for pedophile-related crimes). But the question is “would you let a pedophile do any job?” I don’t see why I should object to a pedophile working as an accountant, stock broker, software tester, or juror.
It's usually not considered when talking about overpopulation, but this has basically already happened. The US population has quadrupled in the last 100 years. The populations of most countries have significantly increased, but the size of the administration that actually creates laws and tries to solve problems for the people has not increased much.
Boostnote – GPL-licensed cross-platform markdown editor
TOR Browser does not disable JavaScript. It would be pretty useless with disabled JavaScript to be honest, a lot of the websites nowadays require JavaScript to work.
Well, Google isn’t blameless here. Google was also either hubristic or incompetent and thought just because they were full of smart people, could “fix” anything.

Google Fiber and “shallow trenching”.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/02/googl...

It’s also not exactly unlike Google to abandon projects for the new ooh shiny.
The Unhealthy Truth Behind 'Wellness' and 'Clean Eating' (2016)
Difference is that EULAs are written by the corporation's they protect, whereas laws are written by the corporation's whom they contain loopholes for.
My limited experience with bare metal programming tells me they are not. This is just a different abstraction layer to learn. Often low level abstractions are much simpler and less broken than high level programming. Even if something goes wrong, you can plug in a logic recorder / oscilloscope / led (!) and in minutes you know what's wrong. But this doesn't work if you have 10 semi-broken layers below.

I have 15+ years of experience in hl programming and almost none in low level, yet I feel like at home with bare metal stuff. And it is a lot of fun as well.
you should check user s3nnyy's background and their articles...

>> https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=s3nnyy
Do you really want 10 different companies installing power lines, electrical wiring, etc? Also, without a government granted monopoly, private corporations would only compete in the most affluent areas. They wouldn’t offer services at an affordable rate if at all to less dense areas.
Fair enough! I did contribute to Slimv but if you see the commit history in the link you have shared, all commits except the first one were made in the last one month. That's because I contributed these commits while writing this blog post. As I wrote down the steps and commands to work with Slimv in this post and double-checked that they really work by trying them out in Vim, I found that a few things did not work correctly. So I kept fixing those issues in Slimv as I continued writing this post.

What I am trying to say is that I preferred Slimv even before I began writing this blog post or contributed those fixes. More than being a contributor of fixes to Slimv, I have been a happy user of it. Of course, my preference for Slimv and my contributions to it could be correlated.
Sounds like the proper reaction is to keep responsibility down at the lowest level that can handle it. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidiarity)

And, if necessary, break up political units (like counties and states, or even countries) into smaller pieces?
My vote would be for Medal of Honor: Allied Assault. https://youtube.com/watch?v=U3EnVrAquBA
It’s a whole different argument as to San Francisco productiveness. Is twitter productive? I’d call it a waste of time.
Sorry, I should clarify: I think the OP had a point about licensing being a big factor in LLVM's uptake and especially its adoption by the likes of Apple and Google. I don't agree with the OP that this implies that GCC will be abandoned.
What’s so special about this old vulnerability targeting the few people who turn on bigInt support (it’s disabled by default, I believe)...?
I absolutely agree. "Productivity" in my comment means that it creates/accrues capital.
LLVM developers are aware of this and they are working on a new inliner specifically to address this.
I didn't know this was possible, thanks!
Cool story. This essay is about FC2 though.
Lessons from the early Internet on why we need blockchain interoperability
. . . System1's "businesses generally do not involve building or maintaining user profiles and little user information is processed or stored within System1".

generally ?

I call Bullshit on this scheme . . . .
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Why is NoScript configured to allow JavaScript by default in Tor Browser? Isn't that unsafe?
We configure NoScript to allow JavaScript by default in Tor Browser because many websites will not work with JavaScript disabled."

https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#TBBJavaScriptEna...
'No Muslims': Why Is India's Citizenship Act Amendment Bill So Controversial
I haven’t played any of the others but I loved Far Cry: Primal. The Stone Age setting is (I think?) unique among video games. (I think there’s a Blood Dragon Easter egg in it too, incidentally.)
If you enjoyed video production could you use technology to keep working in video production?

Custom foot pedals, voice to text, mouse with left hand.

Here's a thread on setting up pedals for keyboard input.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS/comments/9q4rph/hea...

Glad to hear you are fine now. That's the important thing.
I like being judged by a professional with experience. Judges are great. And if one judge or panel of judges is bad you will notice everything they do will be overturned in appeals.

The problem is selecting good judges. In Germany this seems to work great, but what I see in recent times in the US terrifies me. Voting for judges leads to populists winning, appointing them leads to very questionable people being appointed for their stance on single issues. Maybe the real problem is that the US is so divided with all sides trying to score points against the other side (whether that's Democrats vs Republicans, Feminists vs everyone else, Black vs White, Pro-Life vs Pro-Choice etc). Everything else just follows from that.
We do have remnants of it. In all more severe criminal trials the number of lay judges is calibrated such that they alone without the votes of the professional judges can acquit.

Unfortunately, there are many, many problems with it.

Lay judges don't get to see the court record (or even the written indictment), they stumble into the trial unprepared, and since oftentimes the oral proceedings are referring to things in the record, they can easily be overwhelmed and confused.

Additionally, court secrecy is absolute, and they must not tell anyone how they voted or why, so the professional judge can always sabotage an acquittal by introducing an error in the written judgment, which is written without the lay judges, and the lay judges never even see the written judgment.
People mostly solve their own problems.

The number of laws and regulations seem to have increased quite a lot. I can dig up some statistics, if necessary. But just remember the reams of pages from the Patriot Act etc.

The number of civil servants (and other people employed by the government) seems to have increased a lot, too. (GDP increased a lot, and the size of government increased even faster.)

The number of people in your House of Representatives was basically flat. That's true. Though they only vote on the legislation, the actual law writing is outsourced. (Similar to how you still have only one president, but the executive has grown nonetheless.)

Not sure about the number of judges. Would be interesting to dig up some statistics about the number of judges per capita over time.
>Are you offline now? Don't worry - you can still use Boostnote. You can write/edit your markdown notes or snippet notes on your laptop even if you are offline.

I sure hope so.
Neoliberal economics — or really any economic theory — is not going to prevent an apocalypse.
Which is still not the same as having a spec or even a reference implementation.

It’s a bit weird how laser-focused the Rust community is on backwards compatibility, not seeming to believe that forward compatibility is also important.

e.g., if I write code targeting C++17, I can be reasonably sure it compiles with an older version of the compiler, as long as that version also claims to support C++17, modulo bugs. Not the case if I write code targeting Rust 2015 as they’re still adding features to that from time to time. Let alone Rust 2018 which changes every 6 weeks.

Will there ever be a version of Rust that the community agrees “OK, this language definition is not changing unless we find some major soundness bug” ?

This is a big blocker for mainstream adoption in Linux distributions since the maintainer wants to be able to land one specific version of rustc in the repositories, not rely on people downloading new versions with rustup continuously. But old versions of rustc are effectively useless due to the lack of forward compatibility guarantees.
Just a clarification: when used as a JIT, Graal does not compile languages defined with the Truffle framework into Java bytecode. Rather it compiles both Java bytecode and Truffle languages directly into machine code (in this case, the Truffle language is Smalltalk bytecode), which it then installs in Hotspot's code cache. The diagram places the Graal compiler above Hotspot when it would be more appropriate to place it as a component inside of Hotspot, where it replaces the C2 compiler (Java bytecode to machine code), as well as directly compiles Truffle languages into machine code.

Graal can also be used as an AOT compiler ("GraalVM Native Image") -- from Java bytecode (only!) to a native executable that runs independently of Hotspot. If the Java program so compiled is itself a Truffle interpreter, the result is a native interpreter for the Truffle language, that contains an optimizing JIT (for the Truffle language only).

To make things even more interesting, when Graal is used as a Hotspot JIT, because Graal itself is written in Java, it must either compile itself (bootstrapped by Hotspot's Java bytecode interpreter) -- in which case it is both a Java component run by Hotspot as well as a component of Hotspot -- or it could be AOT-compiled into a native shared library, which is then loaded by Hotspot like any other shared library.
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Except that only old timers, have the Objective-C++ documentation available, because Apple has removed it from their web site.
This is such a subjective thing. It surprises me time and time again. I can say the exact opposite for my experience of what you said. I found all those other FCs unengaging in the least, though some of them had fun mechanics that kept me playing, but never immersed. Gothic 2, haven't tried 1, I found horrid. Stories unengaging, world unrealistic, mechanics uncomfortable. The only thing that kept me playing Gothic 2 for more than 30 minutes was that combat was hard and supposedly required skill. Once that got old, there was hardly anything left.

I don't want to deride those who enjoyed Gothic. Like I started out saying, this is such a subjective thing. I didn't enjoy ~90% of popular RPGs either. Best exceptions: Planescape Torment, some of the GTA games, kind of, and Crusader Kings 2.
It looks like they took the old blog post updates offline, but they’re available on Wayback machine [0]. The comments on posts back in 07/08 were consistently critical of the project’s slow development speed and use of photoshopped mockups to drum up hype.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20090101024408/http://www.cairos...
Unrelated, but I’m perplexed by the use of “coöperative”–I’ve never come across this spelling.
Buzztify
Except if you go around the rear to TNMOC.
Nope they can't price this in; and would look and whistle the other way if they had too.
Did you read the article? This has nothing to do with 'high population' 'over population' or whatever feeling you get from the headline. He went to court multiple times and even though the courts agreed that he had been abused they couldn't correct the problem. This is a county that contains suburbs.
There are some people studying Rust with formal verification. For example in this paper https://plv.mpi-sws.org/rustbelt/rbrlx/paper.pdf However I do not know if the whole language is covered or only a core.
>For me i found Far Cry 2 spectacular, probably the best first-person shooter of all time, because it constantly makes you feel like shit about the fact you are playing a mass-murderer. That felt confronting and "real" to me.

I hate when games do this. Far Cry 2 and 3 were really bad about it, as well as Bioshock. The game puts you in a situation where you have to react a certain way to play the inherently limited game world that was designed by a person, and the designers think they're like crazy insightful for pointing out that your character is killing hundreds of people.

It's so tautological and annoying. "Oh my god, you just played this game the way we designed it and now your character is a mass murderer, how can you live with yourself?!" Eye roll.
As a fellow-Asian, I usually like your contrarian commentary which brings 'our' experiences to this forum.

But I've gotta say, this is starting to seem like some variant of the good ole' days fallacy.

I had brown parents who spent countless hours teaching me maths, and stressing me out quite thoroughly when I didn't get it and when I had less than stellar grades.

Now an adult, and under medication to manage ICD/ADHD, I realize how all for naught all that stress was. More than that, I attribute my issues of having intimate healthy relationships to my eager brown parents who were never afraid to hand it to me when I fell short.
Bummer. There was a Ubisoft sale on gog yesterday and I missed FC2 :(.
Yeah, it's hard to disaggregate causality here and this picture might change over time. Given the state of most western metropolises, though, it's worth considering whether we want to be highly paid sharecroppers forever.
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At least in regards to your last paragraph, I’ll take that over freedom
Pixar in a Box (2015)
The guys attending the Linux Kernel Security Summit seem to think otherwise, plenty of stuff there to entertain yourself.
Part of trial by jury is to prevent the government from pushing immoral, dictatorial laws on its citizens. I wouldn’t say that Germany has a great track record of avoiding that.
Tor Browser Bundle does not outright disable JS at the settings level— it comes bundled with NoScript installed (and enabled by default,) but it can purposefully be wholly or partially disabled by the user with a couple of toolbar clicks.

"Let’s not get carried away here please, there’s no need to stoke fears about TOR in this instance."

You seem to be jumping to the opposite conclusion with your comment, which I'd argue is an even worse idea with security software. Considering that TBB is based on the vulnerable software package and the vulnerability could directly circumvent what TBB is attempting to accomplish, assuming there isn't a reasonable attack vector seems imprudent, rather than an appropriately measured response.

If I had a serious privacy concern such as reporting on the activity of a government known for murdering its critics, I certainly would think twice if the only thing preventing remote attack code from executing in a vulnerable envrionment on my machine was a browser plugin.