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In the US, the insanity defense is almost never used because it is so rarely successful and because the statutes are so high (especially since laws were passed in 1984 in response to the acquittal of John Hinckley, the man that shot President Reagan. He was committed to a psychiatric hospital instead and was released in 2016 (though there are strict rules around his release)).

The Andrea Yates case [1], was the last time I can remember it being argued in a high profile case. This was the woman that drowned her five children. She was convicted in her first trial (though the jury refused to give her the death penalty) and that was overturned a few years later, after one of the prosecution’s psychiatrist admitted to giving materially false testimony. She was found not-guilty by reason of insanity in the retrial and confined to a state mental health facility.

The Yates case is a good example of how high the burden of proof of an insanity defense is in a murder case. No one on either side disputed that she was severely mentally ill at the time of the killings. The state’s argument was that despite that, she knew the difference between and wrong enough to be legally responsible.

There was a whole bunch of stuff in that case too — and it is truly tragic situation for everyone involved (there were reports that after Yates was properly medicated in prison awaiting trial and found out/remembered what she did, she became highly suicidal/went into shock), and there is an argument to be made that she was not given the proper care by her doctors leading up to the murders - but my point is more to say, in what as an outsider, appears to be a textbook case for successfully using the insanity defense, it was still unsuccessful until appeal and retrial, in part because of the question of comprehension.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Yates
I did not say anything about grammar or even punctuation (in general). I have voiced a specific concern of a complete disregard of a proper capitalization. If you call it a "self-expressive style", well, it is your opinion and, of course, you are as entitled to one as everyone else. However, I highly doubt that most people would agree with your characterization of this as a "style". I welcome diversity of self-expression, but I would expect it to be in the form of writing itself (content and/or writing style) and/or visual aids (images), but not in ignoring expected traditional punctuation. BTW, the issue here includes lack of capitalization not only for the first word in a sentence, but also for the pronoun "I".
Open Source turn-based strategy game inspired by civilization
You also get an email if your cert is about to expire.
Screw equity, pay me in cash and 401k matching.

I’d love to find a company that actually goes above and beyond on 401k and uses it as a piece of salary rather than just a paltry little matching contribution. A company can legally contribute so much more money than an individual can, the overall limit is $57,000 but my individual limit is less than half that.
> fills the void of HTC leaving

Huh? I'm out of the loop here. HTC is still selling the Vive Cosmos. What are you referring to?
I've always liked the good old Perlism

[$a => $b]->[$b <= $a]

for the minimum. (I think this is from Effective Perl Programming, but I couldn't find it at a glance.)
you know the public defender legally has to do what you say right. you can insist on this psychological defense and they have no choice but to put it forward even if they think you're an idiot
I grew up in a rural area around some sketchy people too, but this stuff seems a little extreme.

I grew up around kids who drank and did stupid stuff, but driving blackout drunk down a freeway blindfolded and shooting at pedestrians with airsoft guns?

I don't think that's a rite of passage. Growing up, even the kids whose brothers were on meth weren't doing stuff that extreme, usually they caught a charge on something way before they got to that point.

Breaking your wrist on a dirtbike? Sure. Catching a juvenile possession charge? Sure. Shooting out windows with a BB gun? Sure. Ghostriding in a parking lot? Sure. Yelling obscenities at people out of a passing car window? Sure.
With great effort, sometimes simple solutions are discovered.
If you’re going to do that, why not just co-found something? Your position will likely be higher percentage than the amount of de-risking that’s happened in the company you’ll join. “First [non-founder] employee” is a very poor position to take on from an expected-value perspective.
Thanks for the little trip down memory lane.

Despite the much greater scale that modern tech gives us in almost every way, there is still something special about the early PC era, when an enthusiastic geek really could know every command that DOS provided (because your PC came with a manual that described them all and you could read it cover to cover in a few hours) and understand how the OS worked all the way down and what all the DOS and BIOS APIs (as we’d call them today) were for.

In those days, you could write your own toy programs by running your debugger, manually entering assembly language into some memory, and then writing the memory from that address verbatim to a .com file, which DOS would happily load and run similarly verbatim (so make sure you remembered to exit at the end, or you’d end up executing whatever was randomly in the memory just after your program).

Given luxuries like a higher level programming language, a real compiler and an interactive text editor, a single programmer could even write a useful application like a compiler or word processor or game to a professional standard within a reasonable amount of time. Though, as this article reminds us, sometimes you had to jump through some hoops that seem quite eccentric by modern standards to do it.

For the record, I have never been a fan of pink shirts on book covers, though as defining moments in your life go, getting that book as a curious and very nerdy teenager was probably one of mine. I guess today the equivalent would be finding some tutorial videos on YT or copying and pasting lots of code from SO, but somehow I doubt any of the kids learning to program like that ever enjoys the same feeling of truly understanding your PC and how you can use it that we had back then. Or maybe there are secretly clubs of 13-year-olds making a ground-up Linux distribution that will take over the world running on Raspberry Pi supercomputers and open hardware smartphones in 10 years and I’m just too out of touch to know about it. ;-)
Speaking from experience working on large golang projects, it's just a baseless claim repeated by people over and over. In practice, golang is worse than languages and systems like Java and C#.
3. Realize that making a good general purpose config language that works well for a variety of different use cases is actually quite difficult.
When you hire the best lawyers money can buy or when your case is high-profile enough that the best lawyers money can buy will do it for free for exposure.

The sad reality is that not every American will ever get legal representation like this. Even well-off Americans won’t get a defense like this.
I don't see much difference in the distinction between the client software (written by Mimestream, probably with regular updates) having access to your account, which it obviously has to has, and Mimestream having direct access. But IANA security researcher, so salt liberally.
Sad truth that kinda hit home a little: the part about not being able to have more than a one percent impact unless you are a c-level.
Well, with this new system every battery cell becomes another device that needs to be secured from remote attack and receive periodic security updates until the manufacturer decides they can't be bothered anymore. From that standpoint, it's worse than the hard-wired systems they replace which worked fine.
Neat! I would definitely like a .NET Core version, though. I was disappointed to discover netmodules were deprecated
Then you skip AliExpress and go to AliBaba.
Towards a Content-Addressed Model for Nix
Tangentially related: I often get super pissed when my employer, or a friend's employer internally announces that employees should suggest ways to improve the bottomline of the company, think outside the box, be proactive etc, etc.

Like, I just work here. I know jacksh-t about how _you_ are running the company, how many stupid internal decisions _you_ are making everyday that's screwing all of us over like slow poison, what financial info _you_ have access to about the company that you would never share with me in a million years.

And then you want me to magically solve your problems, and I'm the one who's not thinking outside the box?
what do you do when your public defender doesn't do what you tell them to do and you have no money?
I've seen line-mode apps before provide fill-in forms by giving each field a number, and then you type in the number of the field you want to edit, and then you type in a new value. You want to supply an option to redisplay the whole form on demand. (For an actual hardcopy terminal, you only want to redisplay the whole form when asked, to avoid wasting paper and print time; for a softcopy terminal in line-mode, you can redisplay the whole form much more often.)
Yes, I know :). Did you try add all the numbers up on opencollective?
Founder is a very different skills set and risk profile than executive/director/etc. Some people like that and others don't.
There certainly are iOS apps that allow full manual control and raw capture. I'm a happy user of Halide when I need the extra control. [0]

What I haven't seen yet in this conversation is that back in the film days you changed your white balance setting by changing... your film.

[0] https://halide.cam
I think that's a fair comment. The unfortunate thing is the majority of shouty over-sensitive parent-types have been given media attention to their "holier than thou" and generally in-theory-only opinions about what makes good and bad parenting.

It's actually interesting the effect this has had in society shows how lacking in confidence many parents are, such that they will actually change their parenting behaviours based on such media-guilt-shame fluff. This highlights to me a woefully under-served market in "parenting instruction".

I've smacked my kids when they deserved it, when verbal doesn't work. It was a rare occurrence, but undeniably effective. My kids are great. Flipside: They're still a long way from adulthood and "proving me right", and they're also a single data point in both parenting choices and genetics.
We took a reliable wired connection between two pieces that never move relative to each other, and replaced it with a wireless one!

What could go wrong?
Ask HN: How to Build an iPhone App in 2020?
I am a product person at a B2B startup and have been toying around with getting down to building a few side projects. While I understand the basic components of Ops, Backend, Frontend -- I have very little idea about Mobile app dev. The most that I have done a few years ago is basic JS/CSS for frontend.

If I am looking to build an app like Breaker (https://www.breaker.audio/) in 2020, what are the best practices and starting points that could be helpful?
> They are also far too hot. I want to replace them with LEDs.

You probably really don't.

I have hot hot QH globes in my desk lamps, my bedside lamps, my workbench lamps, and my dinner table lighting.

While I have lots of highly efficient LED lighting all round the house, the "radiating across the spectrum in warm colors with stable light" is _so_ much better for my eyes for so many of the things I do using those lamps. A ~5W LED replacement in any/all of those lamps would without doubt be "brighter" and cooler, but I really don't want to read by LED light or decode resistor values by LED light. Not even expensive "brand spectrum" LED light. I'm totally happy with using an extra ~25W and needing suitably heat shielded lamp fixtures to have those QH globes burning there...
They have a big operation south of Denver.
Always refreshing to see race baiting on HN. Keep up the good work.
Of course. But how successful is that argument going to be when the public defender is juggling a dozen cases or more at once, meets with the defendant a handful of times before trial (if you’re lucky you can talk to a paralegal), and doesn’t have the resources of either time or money to dedicate to your case?

Putting forward the defense is one thing. Crafting a compelling argument, writing an amazing brief that cites past case law and/or is persuasive enough to argue how something fits the required statues, and obtaining the best expert witnesses to bolster the argument is something else entirely.
> “You can have one central warehouse monitoring all these devices,” says Fiona Meyer-Teruel, GM’s lead engineer for battery system electronics

How could this possibly go wrong?
The article claims the specific benefits at the end. I'm assuming the main benefit is that eliminating the wiring simplifies manufacturing.

They do appear to be taking BEVs seriously. I just wish we could get more detailed information on what they're doing exactly without having to tease it out of a puff piece that bizarrely conflates the vehicle talking to servers over mobile internet with bluetooth like communication between internal parts.

"The eco-friendly approach eliminates about a kilogram per vehicle, as well as three meters of wiring. Jettisoning nearly 90 percent of pack wiring ekes out another advantage: Throughout the industry, wired battery connectors demand enough physical clearance for human techs to squeeze two fingers inside. Eliminating the wiring and touchpoints carves out room to stuff more batteries into a given space, with a lower-profile design. Which leaves plenty of room for a thumbs-up. "
It's probably just an unrelated research project. The "reason" you'd want it is to save money on wire harness construction and installation. The reason you don't do foolish things like this is poor reliability. How many five year old BMWs and Mercs don't have something wrong with their CAN bus peripheral lighting.
What, and eat into the revenue???
Honestly that's a red flag for the company itself if senior management is not willing to buy more shares whenever possible.

Reducing your exposure in the company is an employee mindset, not an entrepreneur one.

One of the very first question potential clients ask us, is "how much is the management committed?", and by that they mean, how much of their own money did they have invested in the company.
See if your company permits after-tax contributions and in-service rollovers to Roth 401(k).

https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/investing/mega-backdoor-roth...

I think you should expect income taxes to go up (likely substantially) over the next 40 years, making Roth attractive to those who will retire with substantial income streams in retirement.
What they install now is Chinese solar roof. What they Elon showed during presentation was 100% fake.

"Still, the company does acknowledge that the demos Musk unveiled at Universal Studios were not functional"

(https://www.fastcompany.com/40422084/inside-steel-pulse-the-...)
The derisking value is greater than you estimate, imo. Getting from zero to that stage is very difficult for even the most capable and experienced people.

(Also you save several years of getting the company to that stage, which means you'll get many more rolls of the dice for the same number of years)
But did their parents consistently love them and have a stable relationship with each other? It's well known that lack of those factors causes lifelong psychological problems in children which manifests as criminal behavior, teen pregnancy, drug abuse, and suicide, as well as perpetuating the problem to the next generation.
I would say that plenty of kids break windows, even good kids from good homes.

Kids just have a thing for breaking windows. Sounds like somebody needs to give these kids some dirtbikes to burn off that energy.

Driving blackout on the freeway with a blindfold, shooting airsoft guns at pedestrians, a 17 year-old with a handgun in his room? That is some broken home stuff.
I can see a split of using large hexes for cities and strategic deployment but having 7 child hexes inside each strategic one for precise unit movement working out. Effectively limiting stacks to 7 units for combat, and also potentially letting a few groups of units move around each other with multiple turns of micromanagement.

The corp/army mechanic could also be tied into that.
then you file a grievance with the court and you get a new trial
Great Classical Books by Legendary Scientists and Mathematicians
The making of Turbo Esprit, the Spectrum game set in Romford that predated GTA
Don DeLillo: The Word, the Image, and the Gun (2013)
I think WordPerfect 8 was where Corel rewrote it. It didn't work nearly as well. I vaguely recall they switched from native to some kind of compatibility layer (maybe Wine?) which just wasn't very good.
I know what you're getting at, but anything you're passionate about doesn't feel as hard as it does to people who are not.

There are so many things in life that I think are nonsensically complicated and I have a hard time grasping why anyone would ever want to waste time on them, while I know how to do a lot of things that "normal people" consider outlandish - just because I spent tons of time researching and learning about a topic because I was interested in it.

So yeah, if you're meh about VR headsets and "it would be kind of cool to have", just buy a Daydream - don't try to learn how to solder SMD's. :)

If you want it enough you'll figure it out.
Sounds like Loveland CO where my aunt said they remail valentine's postcards.
It's pretty crazy how rich people get to argue they have mental health issues, but poor people can't. If she were a poor person that robbed a convenience store it would be straight to jail and no one would care about any past trauma.

I also think it's kind of BS to be honest. To me it feels like one step away from "the defendant is a psychopath that feels no remorse, so never developed the ethics needed to understand that murder is wrong, so they shouldn't be culpable."

It's rich people paying "experts" to skew the perception of what's right and what's wrong.
> I think you're implying that somehow one has comprehension only before, and empathy only after.

No, I'm just saying that to establish legal comprehension, you can't look at empathy, because they're two different things. They might go together--in normal, sane people they almost always will go together, both before and after--but you can't rely on it, since the people you are going to ask the question about in the first place--the people for whom you might have to evaluate a possible insanity defense--are precisely the people in whom you can't rely on them going together.
Being a high functioning sociopath is not a valid defense.
I think the deal has changed quite a bit in terms of how long it takes to figure that out.

It used to be that a company's fate was pretty clear within a few years. You joined a startup and it either IPOed in a few years or you guessed your stock was worthless (and that was usually right).

Today some of these "pre-IPO" companies are being kept alive on private capital life support for a decade-plus. Palantir is finally going public after 17 years. 17! Waiting a generation for a liquidity event is ridiculous.
Senior Management may not have the liquidity.

The institutionals passing on their ROFR would smell bad, but may still happen due to their Capital constraints.
I'm trying to think about which use cases would really be bottlenecked by parsing floats and they basically fall into two categories:

1) You're writing a JSON/some other human-readable serialization library
2) You need to interact with some API that you can't change that sends floats over the wire as strings (a subset of which will fall into the case of (1)).

For something like currencies you'd need a custom parsing engine anyways since you'll typically represent monetary values as fixed-width integer multiples of the smallest unit (eg; cents or basis points) except for trading engines where proper accounting isn't required. In fact, a lookup table may even be faster if the valid values are bounded.

My guess is most of the things in (2) are going to be reading telemetry from embedded devices with firmware that simply won't be changed anymore and values are sent as text.
I actually think it's almost the opposite for me.

In a tiny yaml file it's pretty easy to understand what everything is; it's huge files where toml's forcing you to full qualify nested tables becomes useful.

Too many huge yaml files where I'm just scrolled somewhere in the middle and have no clue what part of the tree I'm actually looking at.
SQLite is lovely to work with, but I don't think it is entirely appropriate as a configuration format for server software considering that all of the existing tooling for configuration management (Ansible, Puppet, CFEngine) is based on template text files.
The US never had any such principles. Whenever any country competes with American cash-cows, the US "discovers" a reason to ban them. TikTok is not the first one, see what happened with Bombardier for an example closer to home.

Or, when Canada was threatening the US superiority in engine tech, after which the US government threatened to embargo Canada from avionics if they proceeded with the Arrow program. They do the same with the Swedish Gripen, they put an embargo on their avionics if Sweden sells them to a country which is also considering the F-35.

American tech compamies are banned from China unless they store data on Chinese servers and comply with Chinese law; there is no need to transfer IP. Do you think Google would have transfered Search IP under Project Dragonfly? Do you think Facebook has given their Ad IP?. Why wouldn't the US use the same standard of requiring full compliance with US law as enforced by a liaison and data being on US soil?

Because the question isn't of reciprocity, it is of dominance. That's why TikTok was banned under the Joker of "National Security", not under any other standard. The US is simply scared of losing it's advantage in tech to China. Which of course will likely happen anyways.

In any case, the average person isn't harmed by TikTok anymore and indeed less so than Facebook.
Yeah, oddly enough all the recommendations are videos I have already watched, even liked. I remember when recommendations on the right side were "similar" music to the one I was listening to, this way I could find music. I cannot do this anymore. :/
I value my equity grant (in my privately held company) at $0. If it turns out to be worth something someday, great. But until then, I just don't consider it a part of my compensation.

My company has a policy (that HR has made very, very clear can be changed at any time) where for RSUs that are vesting, the company will pay the income taxes for the employee in exchange for withholding/essentially buying back a portion of the vested shares (the exact mechanism by which this is done isn't something I really looked into).

This policy opens up a backdoor way of essentially liquidating my vesting shares: I can simply file a new withholding form just before the vesting date, claim way fewer tax exemptions, and the company will withhold a higher portion of the vesting shares/remit more cash to the tax authorities. Upon filing my tax returns at the end of the year, I can receive the excess cash remitted as a refund.
Do you really think that justice is blind?
Linux Kernel Performance Regression from v5.0 to v5.9
> you could argue that the coastline problem is limited to at most the Planck length

Only if the Planck length were really a minimum possible length. But it might not be; even in a theory of quantum gravity, it might not be, since what is quantized in quantum gravity does not have to be lengths and times.