skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most criminal defence attorneys will admit that the most of the people they work with are guilty. It’s just how the police and justice system works when you get caught and what cases go forward. But 99% will always be insane and a giant red flashing light indicator of something is wrong.

At least 5-10% of people get off on technical details the police or prosecutors messed up or just good lawyering of guilty people. The rest the cases fall apart before trial because of witnesses or other evidence and turns of events. (I’m pulling these numbers out of my ass just to make a point).

The problems in Japan are with the due process and a serious lack of rights of the accused. Even if we completely ignore the conviction rates.
I thought people use spring for that :)
The old internet died and we watched and did nothing
Conservative Perspective: WSJ, Economist, The Hill, Reason, and National Review
I don't know, probably not quite the same since you're trying to sleep, as opposed to being fully awake and intentionally ruminating. I don't know though, personally, I fall asleep in about 5-10 minutes once I close my eyes and let my thoughts drift away. At that point my thoughts more and more resemble random noise and nonsensical things pop into my mind and at that point I know I'm about to lose consciousness into sleep (I'm surprisingly aware of falling asleep). So, for me anyway, it's not at all like sitting in a room alone with my thoughts, completely awake.
You should take a look at the good faith exception: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/good_faith_exception_to_excl...

The Supreme Court only allows the exclusion of incriminating evidence only when it yields “appreciable deterrence”. In practice, this means that if police obtained a valid warrant (at the time), then the evidence is still admissible even if the warrant was later found to be illegal.

Case: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/564/229/
Lebanese TV says he entered Lebanon on a French passport. It sounds like Japan didn't confiscate all of his passports. It's likely he has three...France, Brazil, and Lebanon.
Ever heard of the october revolution? That was the starting point.
thanks, just fixed. classic absolute/relative issue.
Kinesis led to thumb strain for me. I ultimately settled on a traditional tenkeyless with mechanical switches.

Different strokes for different folks.
> shkval was faster underwater:

> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VA-111_Shkval

There exists a German design of rocket torpedo from the 40s of the 20th century [1][2]. Looks to me it relies on supercavitation as well? The information plaque claims the launch speed of well over 900 km/h (launched from an airplane though).

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Bombotor...

[2] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Bombotor...
Hopefully your site renders just fine without needing to throw servers at it. Unless you're getting into fancy webapp territory, just drop your page complexity.
I would consider CPR to be an invaluable thing to learn. Unfortunately, at least where I live (North Carolina, USA), there do not seem to be any free classes. Available classes range in price from $84 to $126 in price, depending on what's included in the class (basic CPR, basic plus pediatric CPR, CPR with other first aid instruction, etc.).
>what a weird statement by the article's author

I can never understand this reasoning.

The statement by the article's author covers 80% or more of kids, who mostly don't read (and 90% or more reads zero to one book a year).

It's like someone noting that "people have one nose" and somebody arguing, "This is such a weird statement to make, my neighbour, who was on a traffic accident, has none"!

Extreme Outliers (1-2%), or even smaller minorities (3-10%) don't make a general statement "weird", at worse they make it not exhaustive.

(...) Conducted by psychologist and professor Jean Twenge, the study finds that the reading decline among American teens is worse than expected. In 2016, only 16 percent of high school seniors reported daily reading of a book or magazine. Roughly 40 years ago, 60 percent of high school seniors did the same.

(...) About a third of 12th graders also said they had not read a book or e-book for pleasure in the last year — which is about triple the number who said so in the 1970s.

Not much better for adults:

(...) The share of men reading for pleasure on any given day fell from 25 percent in 2004 to 15 percent in 2017, a drop of nearly 40 percent. The decline among women was a more modest 29 percent, from 31 percent in 2003 to 22 percent in 2017. The survey data shows declines in leisure reading across all age levels.

(...) Between 2003 and 2016, the amount of time that the average American devoted to reading for personal interest on a daily basis dropped from 0.36 hours to 0.29 hours. (...) From a breakdown of reading by income quartile, it turns out that the rich read more—but they read less and less every year. Americans in the lowest income quartile did manage to read more in 2016 than they did in 2003—a rare trend—but that’s probably a dead-cat bounce; the 2003 number was so low that it was as likely to improve as not.

https://www.humanitiesindicators.org/content/indicatordoc.as...

Sources: New Yorker, WP, U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, etc.
It’s extremely slow for hiring over the holidays.

If you think grinding LeetCode would help, do it.

I would also suggest networking. Find whatever meetups are going on and attend and just talk to people. If there is a conference that is relevant volunteer and that gets your foot in the door. Also don’t be afraid to ask friends for help they might be able to get you introduced to people that are looking to hire.
>Greed is perceived in a good light in the USA.

Yeah! That's why Martin Shkrelli was so admired as a national hero in the U.S.

...right?

I can't think of a single place on this planet where greed is admired, unless you want to over-generalize and lump in general capitalism and entrepreneurship -- but I think that the effort to over-define greed into any and all wealth accumulation is missing the actual point behind the concept of greed itself.
> stories I can find are sourcing a tweet from an MTV producer in Lebanon

On one hand, Ghosn is in Lebanon. That’s where people with the full story are.

On the other hand, Ghosn is popular there. An MI6-style escape sounds better than the likelier reality of massive bribes having been paid.
But given that a company can choose to stop paying a dividend whenever they want, by your standard dividend-paying stocks also have nothing to do with compound interest.
I think that MOC is the problem only for people that don't do much Qt development at all.

MOC integrates into Qt build system so well that it's mostly invisible.

A bigger problem is the deployment step, at least on Linux. How to deploy Qt apps with Qt libraries bundled with the app, so that it uses system's look and feel is something I still don't know how to do.
Product-Led Onboarding (PLO): The Secret Behind Hubspot's PLG
The US Army also flies helicopters.

Specialization is inevitable in an organization as large and complicated as the US military, and it's worth considering whether the service level split is the better way to manage it, especially at the top where it would be better for the decision makers to have diversified experience than to be in-fighting.
At the beginning half of this year I finished up an mvp of an idea that I had, took me a bit of time to build, where I could make it a bit easier for product managers to get analytics, and saas app feedback (https://cruisedirector.io). I was hoping to diversify my income a bit, but I've been pretty busy this year at my day job and haven't done any marketing or improvements. I have also redirected any potential customers, that I chatted with while building the app, to my competition. The competition is absolutely killing it in this space. Hopefully I can find some time this year to chat with some customers, maybe diversify a bit, and be able to do a bit of marketing.
Home food prep takes a lot of time, quite a bit of skill, and a ton of knowledge, for the whole process, not just the cooking itself, especially if you want the supposed health benefits and savings it grants.

1) Shopping. What's a good price on X? Meal planning's a factor and takes time, and you've gotta already have some notion of what's cheap right now for that, or else much better cooking skills to be able to make something with whatever you happen to pick up, in which case you also need to be a good judge of how much of each thing to pick up to cover meals for a given period of time. All this also takes time.

2) The actual cooking. Obviously. Takes time, takes skill, takes schedule stability if you don't want to end up with a bunch of "well shit, I guess we're ordering delivery pizza again" days.

3) Cleaning. Even if you're great about clean-as-you-go while also trying to watch kids or whatever, is your spouse? Uh huh. And cleaning as you go is another skill in the cooking department, gotta know when you're done with things, when you have minute to wash a pot without ruining anything, how to prep your ingredients and space and in what order for maximum effect (being other-than-awesome at this adds quite a bit of time to your cooking process). How to clean various things requires a little knowledge and experience, too.

(Of course it can be super cheap and incredibly easy and low-time-commitment if you can convince your family to be OK with rice-cooker rice, beans, and steamed whatever-frozen-veggie-was-on-sale for every dinner. Good luck.)
Trump signs law to reduce robocalls, though they won't end
https://pastebin.com/EWKwdwXN
Me too, the rollover on cells makes a bit confusing because it suggests interactivity that is actually not there.
>"Kids these days" never really goes away huh?

And it's seldom wrong either.

Kids do have different behavior in different ages. Whether that's good or bad is another thing (in some things it's bad, in others are good). But culture, habits, etc, are not the same blob of sameness for centuries. Kids in 1950 are different than kids in 2020 or kids in 1900.

In this particular case, indeed, kids these days seldom read books, whether in print or eBook form.

Whether they still read social media pages, and online news, is beside the point when it comes to reading books.
Facebook has to be the least convenient way this could be hosted. Here's a mirror: https://pastebin.com/raw/Yq5khyQL
> This can be abused by bad actors to get obvious or difficult-to-refute falsehoods into the public memetic consciousness by repeating them.

This is exactly why I started the project also I know there are hit pieces that are coordinated between the news-sites. I wonder how much other news that is reported is also coordinated reporting. However I have no direct proof of this and I cannot start from trying to prove something that I suspect. First I need to collect and analyse data fairly.

So far I've just used newspaper to do the hard work of scraping for me (https://github.com/codelucas/newspaper) some basic filtering techniques e.g. I discard everything that has a question mark at the end of it (Betteridge's law of headlines and an MySQL to store articles etc. Then I run the second script to do some basic string analysis. I am going to be building a small web app to display the results.

So far it is early days (It about 4 or 5 python files and a config file) and I have got two other projects I am working on that probably need completing first.
Not sure why, but it seems like the script which appends the 'today' class to today's cell doesn't seem to be working.
This feels like IBM/RedHat are playing the "me too" game with Kata or Firecracker. Or maybe, at a higher level, IBM needs something in this space to compete with what AWS has in their Nitro architecture. But, as you say, I'm not sure that "unikernel" means anything specifically at this point other than to, maybe, generate buzz. I don't understand these fluff pieces that sound interesting but are currently vaporware.
The Silence Barrier: A Comic Strip About Hypersonic Flight with No Shockwaves [pdf]
Just increment the 20, 19 and second 18 and it should be correct.
>nationalinterest.org

The publisher of The National Interest is Dimitri K. Simes [1], who "went to Moscow and became a moderator of the political program Большая игра ("Big Game") on Channel One Russia, together with Vyacheslav Nikonov"[2].

Also: "While investigating Maria Butina for illegal foreign agent activities, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation reportedly explored her ties to Russian-American political expert and Center for the National Interest president Dimitri Simes"[3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_National_Interest

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitri_Simes

[3] https://meduza.io/en/news/2019/03/07/in-connection-with-mari...
If you have a laptop with a trackpoint, become proficient with it. You can switch between mouse and keyboard without moving your fingers away from the home row.
How does one change the year then?
I'm no fan of fatcat CEOs but by most accounts the charges against Ghosn are weak at best. See: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-01-31/inside-th...

Specifically he's accused of:

1) Concealing the true scale of his retirement package, none of which had been paid

2) During the '08 crisis he had Nissan temporarily take on hedging contracts (used to blunt the impact of currency fluctuations of the yen) since his bank was demanding collateral he didn't have; then later securing a line of credit from a Saudi businessman who was paid $14 million by Nissan (ostensibly for regional distribution)

I'm no forensic accountant but that's not a lot of smoke, much less fire. The retirement package was still theoretical and it's hard to believe a man being paid $20 million a year was really engaging in financial skullduggery for what amounted to peanuts of his net worth.

As others in this thread have pointed out, this seems to be a case of the Japanese looking down on greed, whereas it's the norm in America and some parts of Europe.

Also the Japanese were possibly reluctant to see a big Japanese company (Nissan) subsumed into a large international behemoth (Ghosn was trying to formally merge Renault and Nissan at the time of his arrest).

Ghosn is probably right that he can't get a fair trial in Japan's notoriously prosecutor-friendly justice system. Even the Businessweek article notes the conviction rate is at or near 100%.

Ghosn may have been arrogant and greedy but unless new details are presented the publicly available evidence suggests these charges are extremely flimsy.
how big of a temperature difference do thermoelectric materials usually require? is it like dozens or hundreds of degrees over a given period, or something that's likely to be encountered in a normal environment?
Yes, I read Crime and Punishment about one year after The Brothers Karamazov. I think The Brothers Karamazov is a great book.
Perhaps it's not 2020 yet.
Moore's law was always about transistor density increases, not performance, and definitely not about serial performance in a single core, no matter how much people want to reframe it. Transistor density is still improving, just not as quickly and CPU speed is still increasing, just not on a single core.
Malcolm Gladwell also cherry picks research findings and observations and uses them to support some narrative. He's an excellent writer. I'm just not sure how much credence I put in many of his conclusions.

I agree with your points about blogging generally though. I've sort of gotten away from doing short/casual stuff in favor of articles for pubs. This isn't entirely a bad thing as I get more reach that way but it means I've sort of dropped shorter and more eclectic writing which I should get back to.
That’s not a fair assessment of me nor the average biking commuter who does know what they are doing. There’s just always going to be a small minority who aren’t and are learning and I do not want to be forced into a tiny lane with them.

I’ve already said it’s probably the best compromise for tourist and casuals but I’m not using them unless as others mentioned they are wide enough for these people to be one side like a slow lane, others have mentioned Toronto has smaller ones than Copenhagen.
> celebrity CEO whose real expertise is looting the companies he runs, rather than turning them around

Why can’t it be both?

We have evidence he turned the companies around [1]. And we have evidence he paid personally-affiliated companies money for dubious services [2], a track record that has been probed by multiple countries [3].

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/276268.Turnaround

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-22/lebanese-...

[3] https://www.france24.com/en/20190703-france-police-raid-rena...
New industry develops around sucking carbon dioxide out of atmosphere
This is why AGPL exists. I think it is agreed that deploying your app to the cloud is not distribution and doesn’t run foul of plain GPL.
Pokemon is highly nondeterministic. To take just one example, there are many moves which probabalistically induce game-changing status effects on the enemy.
How? With a chargeback request that will get your account shut down?
2019’s Top Open Source Machine Learning Projects
I still can’t believe the amount of work Wolfgang Thaller puts into this project. I subscribed to the Github issues tracker and he constantly helping others with bugs, quirks and features.

I just wish I could put time and effort into learning to use the Macintosh Toolbox libraries and actually build something.
About 95% of the value of a degree for me has just been not ever having to explain why I don't have one. Maybe 99%.
In the cloud you usually don't distribute binaries, so you don't have to distribute sources either.
vim has its roots in a time when ed was widely used on teletype style user interfaces. The idea was that you didn't have a continuously-updating screen, so conservation of keystrokes and screen updates was very important.

It just so happens that this paradigm (which is a much-maligned word!) is still useful today.

You interact with text in a couple of different ways, which vim maps onto "modes". You type in text, you select text, and you transform text. Insert mode, where you type in text, is how most editors work these days.

Let's look at an example, I hope I can do this justice:

You've been asked to refactor and update some code. In vim, you open up the right file and you hit '}' a few times to jump down "paragraphs" to get to the right spot to add your code. You hit 'i' to enter insert mode, then type in the extra class methods or whatever you need. Once done typing, you hit escape to exit insert mode. Now you have to remove some methods, so you type '/' to search, followed by the method name, then hit enter until you find the right part of the code. You hit '^' to go to the beginning of the line, then you hit 'd}'. That's the combination of an action 'd' and movement '}'. That removes up to the next blank line. Now you need to update places within this file that reference that method, and update them to the new method you added. You type ':%s/productComponent/productExponent/gc' which is a search and replace, 'g'lobally with 'c'onfirmation. Once the changes are made, you type ':wq' to write the file and exit out of vim. Your consulting firm charge the client $50,000.

And your hands didn't leave the keyboard to mess with the mouse.

Think of vim like a computer game where you have to learn a bunch of moves, or a simulator where you have to learn a lot of key combos to control a spaceship or aeroplane.

I hope that helped, I don't advocate trying to jump in and replace vscode with vim immediately. But definitely install vim and try some tutorials and experiment with your normal workflows to see if you feel it is a good match to your keyboard usage/style.
Mitsubishi also manufacture money — on your behalf — as the recursively acronymed “MUFG Bank”[1,2,3,4].

// If you think it would be fascinating leading modern software engineering within this remarkable amalgamation, drop me a note.

1. MUFG Americas origin: https://mufgamericas.com/who-we-are/our-history

2. MUFG Bank origin: https://www.bk.mufg.jp/global/aboutus/origins/index.html

3. UnionBank reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUFG_Union_Bank

4. MUFG (M-UFJ-FG) reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_UFJ_Financial_Group
The term near miss follows a very recognizable English pattern. I’m not sure why you’re reading it as non-standard phrasing.

The word miss is a noun. It means something that did not collide. So if the incident was a “miss” it was a non collision.

The word near is an adjective modifying the noun miss. So what kind of miss was it? It was a miss where the objects were near to each other. It was a near miss.

An adjective before a noun is normal.

I bought a car. What kind of car? A green car.

The incident was a miss. What kind of miss? A near miss.
> The A-10 if perfect

The A-10 is a death trap in a modern air defense environment. The USAF hasn't gone against one of those since Kosovo, and even back then it was all high-altitude fast movers and stealth aircraft dropping ordinance because of the threat of Serbian AD.

What the A-10 is perfect for is counter-insurgency, which is pretty much all the shooting action the US has seen since Kosovo. There's an argument to be made that, considering US engagements, a dedicated COIN aircraft is a good thing to have in the US inventory. It's a niche, though, and the US military is currently resistant to fielding niche systems.
Thomas Piketty's new War and Peace-sized book published
Yeah, I've never personally used creator... with a decade of Qt usage
But how many person-millennia has it saved for all the people who don't need to be distracted by bad kerning now?
> that's not a lot of smoke, much less fire

The elephants in the room are the payments made to a Beirut-based entity affiliated with his son [1][2].

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-22/lebanese-...

[2] https://www.lesechos.fr/industrie-services/automobile/renaul...
One leg down, the long one to go...
Sony PS5 Rocks 9.2 Tflop Navi GPU with 36 CUs
I really doubt you could pull this off in Japan with bribes: there are way too many parties involved and way too much public scrunity. Sneaking out of the country seems much more plausible.
If you want to write an application for System 6, you might need this: http://www.weihenstephan.org/~michaste/pagetable/mac/Inside_...
Blogpost reposting content from 80 Micro Magazine (published sometime in 1982). I assume that the original issue is somewhere in the archive.org collection.
Ask HN: Which Non-Tech SubReddits Do You Recommend to this Virgin?
I'm embarrassed to say..but I've never been on Reddit.

Do I live under a rock? No. It's just that Reddit's UI/UX always confused me, to say the least.

However, I'm willing to look past these cosmetic transgressions and finally dive into the unique content and conversations which most HN folks here swear by.

Having said that, please list your top 3 subreddits ( the more off-the-grid the better ) which I should definitely check out. thanks!
I worked for years as a sysadmin grepping through history because I'm just learning this from you.

Thanks!
I don't think the for-Profit 24 hours news channels are helping Democracy.

With that much talk time they have to speculate about what's actually going on. When they speculate wrong it's labeled "Fake News".

Currently USA news media creates division to get eye balls.

Reading a summary of the news weekly keeps you just as informed at watching 24/7
Original poster here:

I am thrilled with the discussion up to this point. I cannot update the video any more but I will incorporate the suggestions into the article. Thanks for all the tips!
I think the scoring depends too much on word length. I consistently did better on longer words.
Why? We give oxygen to injured people because their lungs are impaired. But you can’t force more oxygen into the blood than it can carry, it just doesn’t work like that.