skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s the difference between American view of prison as only punishment and deterrent and not rehabilitation.

If a criminal is violent and needs to isolated from society or needs rehabilitation programs skills training etc to live a moral /legal life then perhaps prison can offer those .

Even with traditional non white collar crimes , like say prostitution or small drug dealers offender are often victims as well , putting them in prison is counter productive.

The punishment philosophy is based on the premise that punishment is an deterrent and severe punishment will make people not break the law. This is outdated view.

Decision making when committing a crime is not driven by fear of imprisonment. People do not always make rational decisions , especially under the influence of a substance . our risk perception and tolerance is not statistically optimal plenty of games and tv shows revolve around this .

Logical reasoning arguments aside , on pure numbers rate of incarceration and convictions, recidivism per capita in the U.S. is by far the highest in developed economies and the difference is very stark compared to say Norway where rehabilitation is the focus, famously prisons are so empty they rent it out to other countries, a mass shooter complains about not having access to latest play station.

I am not even touching on the problems with the slavery , for profit incentives , the dis proportionate racial representation , racial /economic sentencing biases for similar crimes in the U.S.
Interesting, can pure money be treated as virtual goods? and reversing that crime must be easy, no? Like banks reversing those transactions, or invalidating the stolen records and re-allocating funds to affected clients?
It would be interesting to see how reliability changes based on the exact response you asked for.
Hey, thanks! I didn't grow up dreaming of becoming a label printer app expert, but here I am... at your service. I'm glad to be here for you. Please reach out (via Label LIVE support) if you have any questions/comments.
Agree. Covid has only given the surveillance state the justification it needs to grab more power.
actually they do have the ability to remotely wipe an app https://www.macworld.com/article/1134930/iphone_killswitch.h...
I'd bet he used some mechanism, e.g. Cook Islands Trust or similar in a defendant-friendly jurisdiction.

If you do shady business, you have to have plan B.
A similar system was planned for Chile until the CIA overthrew their government in 1973. Allende was really far sighted and imaginative.
There is no comparison to be made here. I know people who have been on the receiving end of a bank robbery and the trauma is long lasting. Is google traumatized by their experience? Do they tense up when someone walks into the office wearing a hat or a pair of sunglasses? These two crimes are very different things.

Edit: To those downvoting, do you honestly believe robbing a bank is a victimless crime? Someone has to be on the receiving end of that robbery and it is harmful to that person regardless of your feelings towards banks in general.
They were apparently interested because Nvidia is in the Nintendo Switch.
2 of the 4 situations were not Covid related. For the visa one, they had already lifted the restriction on visa students being able to attend online only courses and then rescinded that relief for no given reason, and backed down as soon as challenged.

They continually snipe at legal immigration and make it harder for people to legally immigrate when they get the chance. A claim was made that they were pro legal immigration. Here's the counter proof
Deuterium is measured in parts-per-million in the universe at large. Lithium is parts per billion, and in theory you can feed hydrogen into a white dwarf and harvest lithium from the novas. For a Kardashev III civilization just harvesting existing deuterium and lithium this is at least 1MJ/kg of specific energy over all the matter in the galaxy (if I did my math right). Not quite unlimited, but roughly as if 10% of the galaxy was made of hydrocarbon fuel.
> > Unfortunately, it doesn’t work like that. When a service enables SMS-2FA, an attacker can simply move to a different service.

Yeah I really don't understand their argument here, to the point that I feel like I must be missing something.
Right, all laws require enforcement. A local ordinance, such as ours (which, by the way, includes enforcement teeth), is the beginning of community control, not the end.
I wish Sony, Dreamworks, Pixar, Disney and other major CG studios would pitch in. They all probably pay 6 or 7 figures a year for licenses for various pro 3D software. I know Blender is not actually at the same level as much of that software but it could be if enough funds were there to support it. Either fund it directly or fund internal devs to contribute.
Not when you include the blotter paper in the weight, which is what police often do, in that case it'd likely be <10 doses.
My Top Design Principles
Roaming through contexts with Roam: Distinction
You get a range of options, and it definitely depends on the age of your child.

$700-800/mo is about what I'd call the middle of the road for childcare here. You can pay less and get a sketchy center that basically gets your kid a bare room and an oversized class for 8 hours, or pay more for really premium preschool with cooking classes and such, or montessori for closer to $1200-$1500.

Children to teacher ratios do seem to be lower in California, which is probably what is (partially) increasing those costs.
I do, but that's the point of the article, that Amazon/Audible exclusives are not available to libraries for electronic lending.

At that point, a prospective customer has two choices: Not buy (which is the choice I largely make), or buy from the sole source and remove the DRM.
I think the "Commoditize your complement" mantra is used by megacorps to justify their investment in open source. In this case, 3D modeling is probably complementary to their AI investments.
On the other hand I think it’s good for governments to face the consequences of their actions. If the Chinese government wants to treat technology as a surveillance mechanism, they shouldn’t be surprised when other countries want to avoid Chinese apps. Similarly, after revelations that the US government was messing with American companies, we lost business in places like Europe.

It is unfortunate that there’s less diversity of competition, but the loss of trust happened for a reason.
These schema are just applied uses of JSON and not modifications.

But XML was perverted due to its inherent extensibility, The JSON syntax hasn't changed: scalars, arrays, associative arrays. That's all! So it has remained "pure" so to speak.

Fortunately the only issue I've run into with JSON is lack of proper NAN and NULL support, but that is largely a limitation of the language's implementation (can't support NULL if you ain't got a NULL!).
This is exactly what I saw at Amazon. 6 teams working on the same thing, massive communication overhead/hoops to go through to get accesses, too many PMs bickering and trying to get buy in from other stakeholders which slowed down the whole process.
Props to the author for using the definite article with the ARPANET. I usually see it strangely written as “Arpanet” as if it were a thing that had a name. It was just the net, just as the local big town is referred to as “the city” wherever you happen to live.
Show HN: Linux sysadmin course – eight years on
Almost eight years ago I launched an online “Linux sysadmin course for newbies” here at HN.

It was a side-project that went well, but never generated enough money to allow me to fully commit to leaving the Day Job.
After surviving the Big C, and getting made redundant I thought I might improve and relaunch it commercially – but my doctors are a pessimistic bunch, so it looked like I didn’t have the time. Instead, I rejigged/relaunched it via a Reddit forum this February as free and open - and have now gathered a team of helpers to ensure that it keeps going each month even after I can’t be involved any longer.

it’s a month-long course which restarts each month, so “Day 1” of August is this coming Monday. It would be great if you could pass the word on to anyone you know who may be the target market of those who: “...aspire to get Linux-related jobs in industry - junior Linux sysadmin, devops-related work and similar”.

[0] http://www.linuxupskillchallenge.org/

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxupskillchallenge/

[2] http://snori74.blogspot.com/2020/04/health-status.html
How to find IT IRC servers
I heard the internet still lives in IRC servers. How to find servers where ppl talk about what is happening?
Russian Reflexive Control Theory and the U.S. Elections
Ultra-Precise Measurements Powered by Quantum Negativity
[Reposting a previous comment, with a few minor changes.]

The animations are nice, but the video has a lot of errors. For example:

> Surface-to-surface transmission of e-shell rotation between aligned shells of atoms constitutes electricity.

That is definitively not how electricity work in a wire. The electrons are moving inside the conductors. (There are some technical details, for example an electron in a crystal has a different effective mass than an isolated electron, but they are moving anyway, not rotating.)

> The reason that magnetic action extends beyond the current-carrying wire’s apparent surface is that while 99.999% of the electron exists within 430 pm of the nucleus, there is a small chance of finding that surface extended to incredible distances. In fact, under Quantum Mechanics, the radial distribution function for the electron has no limit on reach.

> We imagine the physical extensions of the atomic surface are responsible for the action-at-a-distance. Lateral magnetic motion of conductive rotating e-shells thus synergizes between current-aligned wires, pulling them together as shown in Figure 2 below (panels A and B).

This effect decays exponentially. A few nanometers away the wave function and probability density is completely negligible, and so is the effect of the orbital shape. On the other hand, the effect of magnetism of a wire decays like 1/r and can easily be measure a few cm away (or more if the magnet is strong enough). So this part of the explanation is wrong.
browserslist.dev
Wong actually explicitly says he is against secession in the book, but I doubt that detail is relevant for a motivated prosecutor.
Note: The title was changed from "How You Can Fight Russia's Plans to Troll Americans During Campaign 2020" because it was too long for HN.

Also I just find this an interesting short piece on disruptive techniques. Removing nuance and creating an us vs them scenario seems to be both effective and all too easy to do.
I have often thought that USPS has missed a great opportunity to provide a valuable service and make money while doing it.

I'm thinking about a webmail service with verified email addresses. You go the a local post office with a government issued picture ID, they give you an email address with a name based on you real name (with possibly some variation because of name collisions) with "usps" as part of the domain name. People receiving email from these addresses can have somewhat increased confidence that the email they're getting is, in fact, from someone they actually know.
Remote bricking of a device I own without my knowledge AND consent is legally actionable if I know where to send the certified letter from my lawyer. In this case, I do.
But do the judges also include the blotter paper?
Wikipedia too.
Suppose you have a 40Mbps vDSL setup, and you bought a $50 "router" to consume the 40Mbps vDSL signal and give you WiFi Internet access. You bought the router from your ISP outright, but it was supplied pre-configured with your username and password and so on because hey, they are your ISP.

A few years later you get fancy 10Gbps fibre Internet from a startup called say "Glass Everywhere" that thinks everybody should be doing live VR sessions. GE provides a new WiFi router, though it's unclear whether you actually own it or it's somehow rented with the service.

You sell the first WiFi router on Craigslist for $30.

The person who buys it does not get 40Mbps vDSL Internet service from your old ISP. Even though the router still has your old credentials for that ISP, you terminated the account weeks ago and it doesn't work.

Courts understand that the WiFi router, and the service it enabled access to, are not the same thing, and that you cannot possibly sell unlimited access to the Internet in the form of a WiFi router, you were just selling this object, and if the purchaser didn't understand what it's for Caveat Emptor because this is a private sale.

The glasses work fine. The "poor sap" got working glasses. The service went away. If you implied the service comes with the glasses, they might very well have a claim on you for it going away, and I'd recommend giving their $600 back, otherwise they got what they paid for, Caveat Emptor.

First Sale has been eroded to the point it's barely worth talking about, but it was never intended to apply to situations like this.
Yeah, I just checked and it appears to be a CUDA project, so neither the Intel nor AMD GPUs help here.

Still, that could have been clarified in the article.
If we consider p(him dying) = 1 if convicted to a death sentence. The point of the lawyer if that p(him getting covid in prison) * p(him dying of covid as a healthy 40 year old) ≈ 1.

If it's not a huge exaggeration, please run me through the numbers.
Because p(him dying of covid as a healthy 40 year old) < 0.015

I would love to pay those attorney's fee with few lottery tickets if that's how this guy plays with statistics.
Wow, well they got their money and don't care about developers.
If the games you play are single-player (mine are), then simply run steam in offline mode to play your games. That way anyone sharing your account is unaffected. You can also use shady steam_api.dll replacements to not tell Steam you're playing at all (I'm actually quite glad something like this exists, I've been locked out of shutdown activation servers and other dead platforms in the past)
One might say, spreading the IP so that it doesn't belong to a single monopoly is a good thing for the society in general - jail time for this sounds ridiculous.
Nano-5.0 Is Released
One day I noticed some wag in a youtube comment section opine that "embrace extend extinguish" should really be called "Control, Alt, Delete".
Yeah, Zoom works very well, and is so much better for video calls than most of the alternatives.

I do have sympathy for their team who were suddenly getting a wild amount more traffic, and scrutiny. They have scaled fast and kept the platform up and stable, which is impressive.
It may be useful to distinguish between Orson Welles, the man, and Harry Lime, the antagonist of the movie, played by Welles. I don't think it's terribly reasonable to make an assertion about what a person thinks by the lines of their character. Especially when their character is hardly to be considered a model of anything good or reasonable.
https://netsplit.de/networks/

https://netsplit.de/channels/popular.php
Is it possible to play around with the playground for this? I couldn't find a link when I searched for it.
There might be something subtly illegal here - but I assume Apple would just refuse to honor the refund if they thought it was fraudulent - so it wouldn't be up to Apple to collect damages - it'd be up to the other party to collect their refund (assuming they can legally compel Apple to pay up)
That was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23331287

The summary is Microsoft didn't copy anything; The app is trivial and the dev got a lot of free exposure for his startup. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23341302
>Quantum advantage in postselected metrology

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17559-w
People didn't buy the product from Google. They bought it from North -- which was later acquired by Google for less than they had raised as they were apparently running out of money [1]. If North had not been acquired and had simply gone out of business, the service also would have been shut down (and likely without a refund).

[1] https://9to5google.com/2020/06/25/alphabet-north-focals/
I am curious what measures did you put in place?
I don't know why your other post was flagged. I just want to say two things in reply.

You read too much into why I mentioned "foreigner". I actually wanted to ask whether people consider the video that I posted above, which is made by an actual foreigner (as a fact, not as an insinuation of anything more) can be considered an honest opinion.

I also used the word "valid" as a shorthand for "an opinion that deserves to be heard and considered, rather than downvoted or dismissed", for the lack of a better term.
We can and should fight back, this makes the job of the surveillance state harder. But my concern is, that I think the problem will eventually get much worse than it is today.

I believe that eventually this kind of surveillance will be run almost entirely by sophisticated Artificial Intelligence. It partially is already, but as the technology improves, the amount and quality of the automated surveillance will increase.

Masks, lasers, cones, they might be quite effective against current technology, but that is going to change as the technology improves and an AI can determine your identity from your gait, or a combination of other features such as the width of your shoulders, the length of various bones in your body, etc. China is almost certainly already working on this kind of software as a direct response to the Hong Kong protests.

Governments will continue to work towards innovating and improving their surveillance programs, specifically in a way that reduces the amount of actual humans that are involved (to reduce the probability of another like Snowden) as well as reduce the visibility of the program to not trigger and go against human's "desire to be free" the article mentions.
Yes: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/500/453/
My next experiment.
Why public education continues to use Zoom is beyond me

Some schools and states have banned Zoom. I think New York's educational system is one.
And Nuvia, Qualcomm, Huawei and whoever else decides to get TSMC to make some killer Arm-based SoCs. Seems like the playing field is about to get a lot bigger.
Well, those are both examples from fiction. "Idiot principal/genius agent" is a very funny fictional trope that has seen use in satiric works from Catch-22 to Yes Minister, and there's no debate that it's not effective. I'm just saying that setups like that tend to be very unstable, usually ending in tears with a manipulative agent under the idiot principal. (In fact, that happened in Catch-22 and Yes Minister - so the instability is even represented in fiction.)
Whenever I complain about any piece of OSS, I get told to submit a pull request or fork it on my own. If people are that concerned about MS having influence over Blender, why don’t they just fork it and maintain their own branch? That’s the point of OSS right?
Sorry for the late reply to your very interesting post.

I fully agree that ancient levantine figures, such as Noah, Job, and Abraham, predate the Persian era and were likely incorporated in Babylon.

Have to look into this Hebrew Samaritan Torah you mentioned. My understanding was that there were -no- extant torah of any kind at the time when the people came from Babylon claiming themselves to be the exiles. I know they presecuted the Samaritans to assert their own (version of) religion.
Huh? The alternative is the prosecutor is required to prosecute everything crime cops bring to them, no matter the evidence or likelihood of conviction.

Sounds worse than what we have now.
USSR invented "internet" in terms of internal military network, but it had nothing in common with public packet-switching networks like in the West.
Such networks were build in USSR only in late 80s - early 90s, some of them by western companies.

Even PSTN was unreliable, mostly analogue, SS7 was never implemented on 99% of intercity links.

Glushkov never produced any working model of his "network", they had no protocols, no software, no hardware.
I think you’re right about the distinction between wrongful and unfair dismissal, but if I understand Ontario common law correctly, even in cases where the dismissal during probation is not illegal, and even when you have it in writing that the candidate can be dismissed for any or no reason, you may find yourself on the wrong side of a wrongful dismissal judgment and forced to pony up money.

It’s probably easier to structure such a thing as contract-to-permanent, and I suspect this is why there are a lot of such contracts around. Or at least, I have seen a number of such things in Ontario.

And now the counter-example: My brother is the principal Tuba with the National Arts Centre Orchestra. He had to win multiple auditions, resulting in two finalists being selected. Each of them then went and rehearsed and played a concert with the orchestra, they spent some weeks on contract, expenses and compensation paid. They selected my brother.

Full-time job? Nope! He then went on probation, either for a full year or two, I can’t remember. I’m sure he’d laugh at my worrying about 90 day probationary periods.
How much does the preamble to the prompt matter? When you remove the word "nonsense" from the prompt, does it do worse at identifying when questions require a "yo be real" response?
gIMP isn't remotely at the same power as Photoshop. Photoshop's non destructive editing layers, layer effects, smart layers, and 100s of other features are no where to be seen in gIMP. It's almost like comparing Notepad to VSCode or MS Word. gIMP's FAQ says they are trying to add that stuff to gIMP in gIMP 3.2 but it's been part of Photoshop since like 2003

https://www.gimp.org/docs/userfaq.html#when-will-gimp-suppor...

I don't know what other analogy to make but it's a hugely powerful feature and arguably essential feature which basically puts Photoshop in a separate category from gIMP, at least until they add it to gIMP
Alright I guess I see what you’re saying, and this does seem like natural progress from address sanitization.
It seems like a kind of situation from this part:

"Since 2016, the New York Department of Labor has held that ride-hail drivers were employees for purposes of unemployment insurance. But Uber and Lyft have dragged their feet, failing to provide wage data that would enable the agency to calculate unemployment payments for each worker."

So they have to consider them employees for purposes of insurance but seem to not have fully complied in the first place.
I would like to think that pine and purism had some effect on the mainlining, but project treble for Google had been thought of separately.
I won't buy their hardware at this rate, but I hope they'll have a good mark on the Linux phone.
In October 1953, Paul Niquette coined the word ‘software'
There is an application process where you have to ask OpenAI to give you access.

There are also some people who are working on tricking the paid AI Dungeon product, which is based on GPT-3, into letting them interact with the model in ways other than telling a story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_Dungeon#Dragon_model_releas...
Intent matters in criminal prosecution. I don't think his intention was social good.
Literally everything CAN be legally actionable. Unless it was previously explicitly agreed upon, a company can turn off a costly service they are providing at their will. Did you have an explicit agreement arranged? Again though... this has nothing to do with first sale.
Nothing is obvious in geopolitics. See US-Cuba, India-Sri Lanka-LTTE, Iraq-Kuwait etc. Being larger just means you can make risky moves. But those moves can blow up in spectacular unpredictable ways.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1996/01/23/s...

SCOTUS says the medium weight counts. So I'm guessing 12 grams is a lot fewer doses according to the courts?