skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> McGirt, 71, has served more than two decades in prison after being convicted in 1997 in Wagoner County in eastern Oklahoma of rape, lewd molestation and forcible sodomy of a 4-year-old girl. McGirt, who did not contest his guilt in the case before the justices, had appealed a 2019 ruling by a state appeals court in favor of Oklahoma.

The crime part seems largely insignificant to this ruling. It was mostly just a proxy for a larger question at hand of who should have handled his case.

It's unlikely this guy will suddenly go free given his admission of guilt.
If you really want to paint SSC in a negative light the optimal tool isn't the posts-- it's the comments.

Some of the posts were pretty cringe worthy but the comments were far more reliably cringe worthy.
In this case, the United States made a promise, to which two parties agreed.

At issue in this case is whether or not the United States are still bound by this promise. The majority's conclusion is that they are.
Ask HN: Why does Gmail tab on Firefox takes over 150MB memory?
Hi HN,

I use firefox and have two gmail tabs open (for different gmail ids). today, I restarted my laptop. And started firefox. firefox often loads slowly when it tries to restart previous session. and after waiting for 5+min for firefox to respond, I decided to do some investigation. alas I am no BruceDawson, nor do I have experience in this domain. so I googled a bit and checked performance tab of firefox (about:performance)

and one thing stood out, One of the GMail tab is using 160MB of memory, other is taking 50MB of memory which is a lot higher than other tabs. in fact all other tabs combined.

This happens in gmail's standard mode only. Gmail simplified view takes < 10MB of space. this has me wondering why is gmail taking so much memory and if I can do something about it?
Scott Alexander wasn't worried about readers of Slate Star Codex finding out his real name, he was worried about patients who knew his real name finding Slate Star Codex. Using a pseudonym on the blog was a reasonably effective trapdoor function.
I'm using React Widgets[0] and I prefer moment over Globalize (been through so much pain with this). Maybe it's time to either write a localizer for Luxor or find a new date time picker

[0]: https://jquense.github.io/react-widgets/localization/
Yeah, that's why now I want to know what NYT had to write about SSC that "required doxxing the source against their will".
Part of the reason is because the Chinese Students and Scholars Associations (CSSA) on most campuses, who work tightly with the local consular offices (read: CCP), dissuade Chinese students from mingling with foreigners lest they become "brainwashed".

See https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/07/chinas-long-arm-reaches....
FWIW, the Internet Archive is willing to remove content if you can prove you are the owner and request it using the proper methods.
I’ve never tried it, but always kind of assumed such basic keystrokes just worked as expected. Now I know I shouldn’t bother with it.
> Banksy's identity is right on his Wikipedia page

Maybe, but it's not confirmed.

"Banksy's name and identity remain unconfirmed and the subject of speculation."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksy#Personal_life_and_dis...
Have they? The real name of anyone posting anonymously or under a pseudonym has always been the gold standard of doxxing.

It's usually easy to go from full real name to business and private addresses, emails and phone numbers, especially when the person has a web presence, but also for anyone with a few bucks to spare who's happy to pay a data broker.
Most reservations are not great places to live. A google search shows there's lots of crime, depression, and poverty. I think these people should realize its difficult to live in relative isolation these days and move forward. Let them keep this land but don't attempt autonomous independence. Pick your source. An oversimplification: white-guilt. You're being downvoted because people assume this comment is racist when I think you're just asking for information.
Well that entirely depended on Intel's so-called process advantages, didn't it?
I was going to say the same. Ours finally work with Chrome and Firefox, not just IE (didn't even work with Edge previously). You could run the training, but it wouldn't record the results unless you used IE. But most of the training is still flash and for no good reason (the content could easily be presented with HTML and JS, only one or two of the trainings contain anything complicated enough to justify Flash, and most of it is in what could become video cutscenes between question prompts).
https://sourcehut.org/ the owner is a frequent hacker news poster.
> Not that the NYT has any business printing somebody's name who doesn't want it to be printed,

I'm not sure it's as simple as that. Surely newspapers should be able to name Brock Turner or Donald Trump no matter how much they'd dislike that?

At the very least, we'd have to be able to articulate some line that Scott Alexander was on the other side of.
I'm fairly sure that #ghostnyt was a reaction to the NYTimes airing of the Tom Cotton op-ed. I don't doubt that some SSC fans latched onto it, but I'd be surprised if even a third of those using #ghostnyt were from SSC aligned people.
I can't believe all the crypto hype has led us to bogus "defi" ponzis instead of a widely adopted protocol for transport and delivery that cuts out these middlemen idiots.

Oh and ticketing too, venues and artists pay an absurd amount to Ticketmaster etc. Needs to stop.
> Southeast Asia, where bats/pangolins are originally from,

Bats been all over the world much longer than humans have [1]. Pangolins are widespread across Asia and Africa, and have been for 10s of millions of years [2]

> also might have been exposed to milder coronaviruses in the past (common cold, etc).

The whole planet has been exposed to milder coronaviruses in the past and present - that's the "common" part. They are so common that they are a confounding factor in the current COVID19 antibody tests, thus reducing the confidence of a positive test result in areas that don't have a known outbreak.

1. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10914-005-6945-2#....

2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangolin
> The ruling voided McGirt’s sentence of 1,000 years in prison but he could face a new trial in federal court rather than state court.

Not changed by this ruling, but it strikes me as really odd that you can sentence someone to prison for that long, or that you would bother. Why not just say life in prison? If your state is 103 years old, saying anything about the next 1000 years seems ... lacking in credibility.
People with a terrible idiot stress response should learn to not interject in unusual situations.
>>This article seems alarmingly misinformed.

I hate appeals to authority as much as anybody else on HN, but I'm not sure that we could say Rich Sutton[1] is "misinformed". He's an established expert in the field, and if we discount his academic credentials then at least consider he's understandably biased towards this line of thinking as one of the early pioneers of reinforcement learning techniques[2] and currently a research scientist at DeepMind leading their office in Alberta, Canada.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_S._Sutton

[2] http://incompleteideas.net/papers/sutton-88-with-erratum.pdf
The real problem was that they aren’t good at platforms: the editor, debugger, runtime, etc. desperately needed a QA team but Adobe was not interested in spending money on anything that wasn’t a keynote demo. For an expensive commercial product you have to do better than that, especially since their paid “support” was basically just a reminder to email you at the next major release to speculate that the problem might be fixed and you could test to find out.
You are confusing Europeans with Brits here I believe. And while you'll need to speak other languages to capture most of it, us mainlanders have our opinions of them as well.

And of course about each other. It's plural place after all, one of the many things that appears to be lost amongst anglosaxons.
Ruffle works great in modern browsers and is open source: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle
> This plea ... in this case, it seemed to lend plausible deniability to what he surely knew would be taken as incitement.

That's unfair given that the alternative was supine acceptance. He made a good faith attempt to amplify his reasonable criticism while leashing the inevitable jerks. Can the author of this article say as much?

This is a formula to silence any popular speaker by association. Here's a dangerous person who listens to you, therefore you lose the right to complain in public.
Better "will have to" .. "if the law is passed".
> Why not everyone assimilate?

Recognized Native American tribes are sovereign nations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribal_sovereignty_in_the_Unit...

You might as well ask why European settlers aren't forced to assimilate into them.
It's definitely a bit ugly (perhaps most clearly so wrt. SA's broadly sensible defense of Scott Aaronson being described as an angry "screed" against feminism) but overall, it's as fair a treatment of SSC as could appear in the elite media at this point.
"It’s not like he went to the greatest of lengths to hide his identity, Bay Area psychiatrists named Scott is a pretty small pool of people."

This is a misunderstanding. He was not trying to prevent "Scott Alexander" -> real name inferences. He was only trying to limit the rate of incidental inferences in the other direction; the primary effect of greatly increasing that rate is to harm his professional life.
I wouldn’t personally look at someone’s work on github and take this as an indication of they type of code they would write for a production system. Not unless they provided their profile as a showcase specifically. I play around with ideas and experiment with stuff on github. If I thought someone was going to use that to judge the quality of the code I would write at work I would delete it as it’s not what I would produce professionally.
This story reminds me of the stories that were common on my country of origin in South America. We had free high level education, but there was a system rigged to preserve nepotism. I was in Russia for the World Cup in 2018 and heard the same crap.
Agree. Trump seems to live enough in the open that anything you 'discover' may be inconvenient but no worse than the things he: a) has hand waved in the past, b) is happy to maintain a lie about.

Love him or hate him I think his time in office has kicked off a much needed moment of self reflection and course correction.
Bodybuilding hard seems to conflate 2 types of hard tasks: move-a-mountain-with-a-shovel hard, where something is time consuming, such as having to hand-label millions of images for machine learning datasets, and quit-heroin hard, where something is against human desires, such as convincing people to abandon their current way of doing something for something else that is a short-term loss but a long-term gain, for example switching to a more performant but incompatible CPU architecture.

Math hard, as the article says, is not really defensible, since copying is easy. Move-a-mountain hard is more defensible along the time/money axes, competitors need to throw time/money at the problem to catch up. Quit-heroin hard is the most defensible, since customers will loath to pay the switching price regularly.

Of course, it's not as black-and-white as this. All products have a mix of the three, and its where the product lands in the mix that determines the promotion strategies that the company should take.
Here’s the 5 year old HN story about the release of FB’s spam tool in Haskell:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9784247

“The Haskell-powered Sigma now runs in production, serving more than one million requests per second.”
Do you store test data in the template?

My team uses a migration framework (in our case Flyway) such that we can easily create completely fresh DBs on a factory fresh(+ user roles) instance of Postgres. We do this for our testing as well. This means the schema tools are always tested as well. Is there a benefit to using templates? They're faster perhaps?
The most important part of a product is actually the text
What do you mean "them"? You do realize that there were many different tribes who had very drastically different interactions with the US, right?
> It is no longer "United States"

Yes, the first nations are not the United States.
It doesn't seem like Alexander tried that hard to stay pseudonymous anyway. He has published under his full name.

It seems that his major issue was his full name becoming NYT-level famous, which is reasonable. I think that happens to lots of private citizens who get covered by mainstream news, like a IRL "hug of death".

If my premises are correct, then it doesn't seem like NYT's responsibility to keep his name private when he himself didn't do it.
>I've been training ML models with millions of data points and millions of features on CPUs for a decade now

That is why it is taking a decade to train your models. If you upgraded to a GPU, you could train them much faster :)
No, it supports it. Why not use the excuse to shut it down, killing “SSC” forever. He’s no longer tied to those posts or opinions. And then he can create a new blog not linked to it at all, and start fresh.
I have wondered the exact same thing. Hiding and fragmenting the comments like they do is such an incredibly awful UX that it seems incomprehensible to me that it's intentional. And yet, it sounds like we aren't missing anything, the design really is that bad.

I guess it's supposed to increase engagement/addiction, but it does the complete opposite for me. Having to click through 5+ links just to try to read 15 short comments is extremely aggravating. I know about old.reddit but its days are probably numbered so why keep fighting with a site that hates me and my time? I just avoid Reddit whenever possible these days.
Super cool! This is a great idea and very useful for those of us who use CSS widgets as standins for graphical assets.

I will say that I also have trouble resizing the elements using Firefox, thought it all looks good in Chrome.
"Personally I feel the Gray Tribe is just as annoying as the Gray Lady"/ "Well the important thing is that you've found a way to feel superior to both".

https://xkcd.com/774/
Not all tribes calculate blood quantum at all.
Personally, I self-host Gitea. It works extremely well.

It has webhooks that tie nicely into my (also self-hosted) Drone (CI) and Mattermost (f/oss self-hosted Slack replacement) and CapRover (self-hosted Heroku) setups.
We tried the "assimilation" thing for awhile. It ended up as a system of child abuse, kidnapping, forced sterilizations, and theft. There's a pretty decent case to be made for it also having been cultural genocide.

I'd personally prefer that we not go back to that.
Very excited about the timezone improvements here! Their cookbook has great examples https://tc39.es/proposal-temporal/docs/cookbook.html#preserv...
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Didn't Ford build like, a lot of tanks and airplane stuff for WWII for the USA?

Even if the old man was a facist, think we can all be grateful for all the machines they built to help the Allies win the war.

http://michiganhistory.leadr.msu.edu/wwii-and-ford-motor-com...

Dunno, maybe the evidence is more mixed

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/nov98/n...

By the end of the war, Ford had built 86,865 complete aircraft, 57,851 airplane engines, 4,291 military gliders, and thousands of engine superchargers and generators. In addition to aircraft, Ford plants built 277,896 of the versatile vehicles (tanks, armored cars, and jeeps).
Yes. Learning the addresses and phone numbers Is interesting mostly to a few people who want to actively harass the person.

Everyone is hunting for the real name of an anonymous person.
The government does 'reposess' the land to some extent through property taxes.

Also, the verb you wanted is "reneging" from "renege" - to go back on a promise, as in when playing cards to go back on a promise to follow suit.
Plenty of cringe worthy comments on HN, too. I mean, usually they're greyed out but still.
Dark is just a placeholder until we find out exactly what's causing it.
And this is useful when writing code how?

I'd use such a feature if I had to fill a table, and wanted to move to the same column on a different row. But with proportional fonts, the columns don't line up. So yes, it can move to the same x coordinate, but why is this useful?
Where is the outrage for doxxing when it happens to people at way more risk than scott alexander?
Go tooling actually works surprisingly well in Acme, because the tools tend to print out files with line numbers for errors, then when you click on that line number Acme will take you directly to the line in question.

Here's a sample workflow: I'm hacking on some code in /home/john/foo. I have a directory window open in /home/john/foo, plus the files foo.go and foo_test.go open. I make some changes in foo.go, then in the directory window I type `go test`, select it with the mouse, and middle-click. This runs `go test`, creating an "Errors" output frame in the rightmost column. If the tests pass, this frame just says "PASS". If the tests fail, it'll say something like `./foo.go:27:10: undefined: xyz`. I right-click on `./foo.go:27:10` and Acme immediately takes me to that like in the appropriate file. I make a change, execute "Put", and then middle-click `go test` again to try the tests once more.

The delve debugger also prints line numbers that work with Acme. I run delve in an Acme terminal, and when I e.g. print a backtrace, I can simply right-click any of the line numbers to jump immediately to that code (Acme will open the file in question if it's not already open).

acmego will run gofmt and automatically add/remove imports as necessary every time you save the file, which is a huge convenience.

There's no syntax highlighting, which is a huge dealbreaker for some people. Personally, I find it distracting to watch huge swathes of my file change colors because I typed ", then change back as soon as I close with another ", so the lack of highlighting is great for me.

Edit: in my sample workflow above, I mentioned typing `go test` right in the directory window, but that's just ephemeral... you'll lose the commands if you refresh the file list, etc. A more permanent thing is to drop useful commands into a "guide" file in that directory; that way you can keep a whole suite of commands to run tests, run benchmarks, build & deploy, etc. right at your fingertips.

Edit 2: There's also a number of Language Server Protocol clients for Acme (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23782439 and https://github.com/fhs/acme-lsp) but I don't use them... I'm old-fashioned.
Teams main competitor is Zoom, not Slack. Take a look at the new features they just announced for it: https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/8/21317526/microsoft-teams-t...

It's all video call related.
I am not from US, so i am not very clued in to this, but a State or mini-state would sound a lot better than a 'reservation'
Why publish something you wouldn't want your patients to read?
> They cared about making sure that the brand’s values were enhancing the experience.

What does this even mean?
For what it’s worth, I’ve never once been asked to provide a link to my github profile during a job application. If I was asked I’d think they company were being pretty short sighted if using this as a way to filter applicants.
Ask HN: What (if any) analytics provider do you use on your websites?
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That this link should currently be showing only a huge '500' with a raw error message as subhead strikes me as apropos, in a sidewise kind of way.

The Internet Archive caught it before it broke: http://web.archive.org/web/20200709170526/https://blog.codel...
> Here is a comment from 9 years ago. It sounds like parody to me

It is a parody, isn't it?
> Why not everyone assimilate?

Yes, exactly, why not the USians assimilate into the many Native nations they occupy? They've had literal centuries...
You will still need libraries to do nicely formatted time strings like "next week" or "3 hours ago"
Keep one? Aren't there hundreds of reservations across the US?
Here is Washington state, sometimes tribal land is leased to non-natives for 99 years. Will definitely be interesting to see what happens, but it is quite possible that "property tax" could be moved over into a land leasing fee.
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. You are free to speak. You are not free to speak in my house, as I have not invited you there. If I did invite you, I could attach conditions.
My belief is that paywalled sources (NYT included) should not be allowed as HN links. It basically just clutters the front page with stuff I can't actually read.
I've been using acme for ~6 years now and it's still my daily editor. I wrote a LSP client for it (https://github.com/mjibson/acre). acme is so weird because when you start out it's like "wait so I have to write little shell scripts to do everything?". But then it slowly dawns that larger programs (like acre) are possible that are much more interactive, like modern IDEs.
Spoiler alert; The answer currently appears to be 500.
> You can continue using the old design, where avatars don't show.

If I go to the old design and hover over somebody's username, a popover with their avatar appears. Tested on desktop safari. I find it very annoying.
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Forced assimilation is cultural genocide. The US tried it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_boarding_sch...
It's contracts between nations (the US federal government and the the tribes). Native American tribes are numerous (the federal government recognized 550 distinct tribes when I last checked) and have agreements with the government that were to guarantee their sovereignty.
I didn't read this article as saying that he had admitted guilt. I read it as saying that for purposes of this case, he didn't contest his guilt. That is, the basis of this case is not a claim that he is innocent; it's a claim that the wrong court convicted him.

If I missed something, feel free to point it out...
I've used this in the past for testing depending on how much seeding was required prior to the test, and how much parallelism was required. Other than that I haven't been able to find any useful real world scenarios to exploit this functionality. I suppose if you wanted to have a source database and a bunch of children and could prevent connections to the source it might be helpful... somehow?
Psychiatrists want perfect isolation, so that they can treat everyone from far right nuts to far left nuts to plain unsalted nuts. The only way to do that would be to publish nothing, and surely you must agree that at least some psychiatrists must be cursed with good writing skills and something to say.
Isn't the SV way to just thumb your nose at local authorities? AirBNB and Uber seem to have done well doing it... I wonder how well Portland will do with enforcing this.
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Another consideration here is that you can use languages that offer control over data layout as a natural feature, which can matter a lot for good cache utilization etc. In many cases the data layout matters a lot for performance.

You can do this in JS too with TypedArray and whatnot but the key word here is 'natural.'

I've been working on a game engine as a side project with C++ and WASM -- and there are already many improvements over what I was getting with JS due to less GC, better data layout (the data layout thing is also esp. helpful for managing buffers that you drop into the GPU). I don't think it was about 'pure compute' as much as these things. C++ and Rust give you tools to manage deterministic resource utilization automatically which really helps.

A bonus is that the game runs with the same code on native desktop and mobile.