skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see any way around the enormous hatred and desire to inflict suffering that many Americans have for anybody convicted of any crime that carries any prison term. As you said, to them it's all about what people "deserve", and that ideology is one of the most fundamental and powerful poisons in societies - a part of the id that civilized nations seek to keep out of the government's decisions. It's something straight out of the dark ages. I would never blame a person who wanted to inflict suffering on somebody who personally wronged them gravely enough, but to want that emotion enshrined in the system is immoral in the most extreme way. On this topic, I don't think it's unnecessarily dramatic or ad hominem to say that the viewpoint of many Americans is evil.
The Corbett Report Podcasts
It's less about what is spent on incarceration, and more about how state funds are spent in such away that people don't need to commit crime as much.
Lyn Alden has become my favorite macroeconomist through the Covid crisis. I bought a bunch of puts in February 2020, they went way up in March till the Fed stepped in and then went down. I went looking for answers on how to understand macroeconomics and Alden has had a lot of interesting takes on it.
I know. And the guy actually looks like the one they cast in the movie too.
It's true that gold and silver have industrial uses, but you don't see people hoarding bars of chromium as a store if value. I doubt that gold's price is entirely due to industrial demand...
Prince of Persia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Persia_(1989_video_g...
Short would be, 'and' implies, coincidence, not causality. 'Or' implies choice. If-then implies causality ("If my pants are dirty, then they need to be cleaned")

The big difference I see is with 'OR' in programing the options are exclusive. Ex: "Are you tired or hungry" The answer is yes if you are tired. Yes if you are hungry, Yes if you are both. No if you are neither. This is natural English. In programming if you are both. The answer is No.(False)
> More troublesome, the inherent flaw of having the global reserve currency, in a theme that goes back to economist Robert Triffin from over half a century ago, is that in order to maintain the global reserve currency, the country must supply the world with its currency via structural deficits in one form or another.

That "structural deficit" means allowing manufacturing to move overseas.

The trade war is a distraction. Trade imbalances with the rest of the world could be solved very quickly by making it clear the the dollar is going down in flames and that policies will be put in place to make that happen:

1. massive federal budget deficit spending

2. purchase of all the debt by the Federal Reserve (yield curve control)

Holders of bonds would be absolutely wrecked. That's a lot of institutions and wealthy individuals.

The only question is whether the political will to do this can be mustered. So far it hasn't.
right, but the question is whether speeding is actually that dangerous in the first place. it's not at all clear that absolute speed is a major contributor to the rate of accidents. we do know from physics that relative speed is a major factor in the severity of accidents, and this is supported by the empirical data. in particular, the probability of death when a pedestrian is struck increases sharply past ~20 mph.

I think we could have a much better discussion (and perhaps policy) if we distinguished more clearly between driving near pedestrians and driving on limited-access roads. I'm actually a big fan of speed cameras in cities and other dense areas, since they allow me to drive at what I consider a safe speed (at or below the posted limit) without worrying about cars flying past me at a high relative speed. on US highways, the situation is kind of absurd. I can exceed the posted limit by 50% without coming close to the limit of my car's mechanical grip. if I have a good line of sight and there's minimal traffic, why shouldn't I?
Isn’t that what all the big tech acquisitions have been in the last few decades?

Buy it so no one else can have it or buy it so you can shut it down.
Of course! I forgot about that option. Makes sense.
If you are curious, I've used Manim from 3Blue1Brown for the code animations in the video version of the article.
That's grading on a curve. Ten years to one year is pointless if it doesn't save enough lives.

> And of course, if the govt (leaders) was competent there wouldn't have been 300k lives lost, and arguably economic damage could have been minimized as well. I'd argue that's a goal post that moves independent of delivery time.

Pure whataboutism. We are stuck with the world we live in now and need to optimize for that.
So basically the answer is that government is completely incapable to give money with no strings attached. There are always strings and they always slow things down.
But that doesn't answer the question. If I buy shares in a business, I am helping that business to grow, and I am rewarded if it does. If I buy Bitcoin, nothing changes except that the price of Bitcoin goes up.
For me, Flickr has always just been about copies of local files. At some point though, I do need to look at what all I've uploaded there. At one point, my Lightroom database got corrupted. I was able to recover it but I lost the local service mirror of what I had uploaded. (And a fair bit of stuff pre-dated using Flickr in any case.)
I have an economics degree from that university. Before that I got a mechanical enginerring degree from a conventional university and must say that for me the Distance learning University totally sucked compared to the "real" university. Social life is IMHO very important for studying. At the converntional university we had a great group of people who helped and motivated each other. And we had a lot of parties and fun. Not so at the distance learning university, which was dull and boring. There was nobody who motivated you, nobody you could have a good time with. I think there was one meeting in person, which was quite horrible, and of course you do not make real friends within a week.

On the other hand I heard from a friend, who is very introverted, that he liked studying at the distance learning university quite a lot. So it looks like it depends what kind of person you are.
It's not. You must declare and pay tax on BTC "gains" even if you haven't gained anything counted in BTC.
The human language leaves the decision to the executor, dependency injecting an if/else framework into the entity making the decision.
It's important to realize, in today's (Western) world, young is not longer synonymous with healthy. Obesity, diabetes, addiction, vaping, etc. are all close to the broader population.

That said, young + healthy generally mitigates the risk of Covid 19.
> [Re: gdb -tui] Unfortunately, it's pretty buggy

I feel like this article gave up way too fast on gdb's tui mode, especially given that gdb works and tui didn't crash like half the debuggers in the list, other than "the command tui disable crashes gdb." which I can't reproduce.

The complaints about rendering and arrow keys are very easy to overlook with just a few tui mode hotkeys. ctrl-x-a toggles tui, ctrl-x-o toggles arrow-key focus between code and the gdb command line, and ctrl-l repaints whenever the rendering gets borked. Those three things cover all the concerns listed here.

The single most important thing about gdb, however, is the .gdbinit file. Being able to script your debug session is hands down the best thing about gdb. Bugs that require several steps to repro can be completely automated in gdb. You have conditionals and looping available in the debug script, this is very powerful. I suspect a bunch of the debuggers listed don't really support such a workflow.

Since I work in a CUDA environment often, it's also nice that cuda-gdb mirrors gdb, I can have scripting & tui mode for both.
Graphing calculators solve a couple of problems: they are fairly standardized, equally capable, have a known cost, run a long while on AA batteries and probably most import they don't get on the internet.

Phones, while more than computationally capable, aren't equally capable, have a battery life measured in hours, have access to the internet, and require software of an unknown cost and quality.
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The blood and memory of people who have already paid for that arrogance in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, hopefully.
> Anyway, PayPal didn't allow changing account country through the UI, and there didn't seem to any other way of doing it either.

I believe the "proper" way is to close your old account, and reopen a new one from that country's site. Most people I know just have multiple accounts. I don't know if PayPal warns or shuts people down for doing so.

It makes sense legally, since a user would have to agree to a different set of terms in a different jurisdiction.
What's not to like about current RNA-based Covid-19 vaccines?
The Norwegian system is actually much cheaper than the American system when you account for lower recidivism rates and reduced prison sentences.
Which country would benefit from a weaker dollar? Germany wants to sell their cars. China their phones. If Americans can't afford them any more, then a big market would disappear.
That's a real disappointment. I've gotten back into reading in the past few years, I've been tracking everything in goodreads, and I was just thinking about building something to display what I've been reading recently on my website that would pull from the goodreads API. There goes that idea...
Oh yeah my mistake.
This is what I was referring to:

> If you end up in a position where you need a criminal lawyer, it’s rather likely you did something really foolish to attract enforcement attention. And if you can’t afford an attorney, you can always take your chances with a public defender. But I wouldn’t recommend it.

> If you think the punishments the US imposes are severe, that’s an even greater incentive not to commit crimes you can’t afford to defend yourself against.

Those come across to my eyes as “you’re the idiot who got yourself here, shoulda thought of consequences sooner.” But given

1) unequal policing that targets the poor,

2) police corruption that goes uncorrected,

3) overworked therefore often inadequate public defenders,

4) the practice of throwing the book at anyone who dares go to trial among other ways of coercing a plea deal,

it is way too easy to be innocent and poor, with your only real options being “plead guilty for 3-5 years” or “go to trial with the deck severely stacked against you and risk 30+ years.” With 95% of cases pleading out, there’s simply no way that innocents caught in the system are anywhere near “cosmic ray” levels of rare. Which brings us back to this statement from ‘harimau777 way upthread:

> A system where you are only protected if you pay isn't justice, it's a protection racket.

You disagreed with the second half of that statement, and that’s fair. Maybe a better way to state the main sentiment there is: A system where you are not protected unless you can pay isn’t justice.
It's impossible to demonstrate that - to what extent the population drives policy and practice in all matters in which the state has a hand is just too socially complex.
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TL;DNR "we should start with people in their 40’s" say Joel Gross, who did a BA 2002-2006, so I guess that would make him ... around 40?
> Would you have sold after Bitcoin has crashed from $30 to $2?

That's exactly it. Let's say you bought at $0.01. What are the odds you would have held on until the price per coin hit $10,000? Or $1,000? Or even $100?
How would you distribute "Jack and Jill play together."? If you start introducing prepositions, then your theory of "and"-expansion is going to get quite complex as it covers more and more cases.
Also tuya hardware is generally quite nice compared to other cheap alternatives.
We pretty much have DNA/RNA printers that can make anything from data.

And turning RNA into "mRNA vaccine" is just putting in in a little ball of fat (I think) which they know how to do because they worked on this technology for years.
Are you sure the amounts overlap?
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I remember TotalView releasing a product years and years ago called Memscape - Like Netscape, but for Memory. It looked like a browser, but was a sort of graphical heap profiler/leak detector.

I think it wasn't as powerful as Valgrind, but you've got to give them credit for an interesting UX concept.
Depends. In my experience, I've never regretted a rewrite and always ended up with a better and simpler code.

It can be very frustrating to modify low quality and ugly code so I feel much better after a rewrite.
And if I go to that website it encourages me to "try it for free" which makes me think I am supposed to pay for it. But ok, let's give it a try. Then I need to enable a bunch of Javascript. Eh, ok. It was recommended on HN, probably not too malicious. And than it complains:
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Ok, close tab. I will keep using other tool for HPC debugging... (Yes, I actually do HPC and I of course have heard of totalview. Last I heard it is also a total pain to install.)
Openlibrary looks pretty awesome. Thank you for sharing!

Would anyone be interested in having an instant search experience for this books dataset, like the one I built for the 2M recipes database posted on HN earlier this week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25365397
Look I’ve had conversations like this a lot, it comes down to exactly what you said. Two parties ends up being the lesser of two evils, and trump to most conservatives absolutely was the lesser of two evils. As other commentators said, he fulfilled many of his campaign promises. He pushed foreign policy in a direction the whole world needed but didn’t want. He’s been drawing down foreign troops since his first day in office, so much so that apparently his generals were lying to him about how many ppl they had out there.

It’s perplexing to me that if what you say you believe is what you believe why a politician being a liar is a problem for you.

All politicians lie, none as brazenly as Trump sure; but every single one of them has been caught lying in the last 9 months, many have been pretty brazen in their hypocrisy.

My many conservative friends will point to 1000s of small white lies and 100s of big ones that Biden told, as proof that the other side is just as complicit.
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It’s not just the Nordic countries. In many European countries, such as Germany and Italy, someone serving a life sentence for murder is eligible to apply for parole after 15 years.
> Even you ignored my letters from my lawyer.

Isn't the next stage, to actually take legal action?
They are making people slow down to the legal limit, thus resulting in a net increase of lawfullness on the road.

Also, around here, it's incredibly common to flash your lights to remind oncoming traffic to turn off their high-beams. It's a form of communication, and not all communication is distraction.
I think there's been a long-term trend away from open APIs toward ever-more-proprietary treatment of data. Data that wasn't created by the companies; they just happen to have control of it. Another example is the recent FB lawsuit threat against researchers. [1] Facebook will squawk about user privacy to justify this, but I have a hard time thinking Mark "privacy is dead" Zuckerberg is particularly worried about that.

What I think all off these large companies are doing is pulling up the open-web ladder after they've climbed it to dominant positions. The problem with anti-trust action is that it's reactive; we wait until a company has gotten too big, and then hope we can cut it down to size. I'd love to see moves toward proactive open-data and open-algorithm requirements, so that we guarantee a level playing field. That won't be easy, but neither is trying to rein in companies with annual profits in the tens of billions.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/24/tech/facebook-nyu-political-a...
The best use case I've had for partitioning tables is when there is a lot of churn that would otherwise result in significant vacuuming. For example, a table holding the past 7 days of data would require deleting 1/7 of its rows every day.

Swapping out a child table and dropping the old one is free in that sense, but does require an exclusive lock which can cause issues if you have long running queries.
> If your hands are shaking you might be doing yourself harm by being so invested.

Reading WSB and using that to direct funds is not investing. It's pure gambling based on the odds of getting out of a pump and dump before it turns the corner. The parent is not an investor, and will with certainty lose all their money.
It is about some information that everyone should know about
I think that the major problem is that gdb was never designed/suitable for graphical debugging. I use Visual Studio on C projects at work, and found it very interesting to find that Windbg actually has similar terrible usability as gdb. Gdb and Windbg were both command line interfaces originally, whereas Visual Studio has it's own debugger backend which was visual-first (afaik).

Really, VS is exceptional even in Windows land. I've tried RemedyDB, an attempted rewrite of debugging on windows, and found it useless. It had similar bugs to this article - no symbols, failure to attach, failed to bind breakpoints at all, failed to display variables.

I think it would be a huge project to replace GDB with a graphical-oriented debugger, but it would be worthwhile. If I were in charge, I'd make it a C lib that didn't come with a frontend. That way, the user can stay in their familiar editor and link the lib. (most programs should be able to use C libraries).
Have you ever looked at a fresh Windows 10 home install? It's full of ads. [1]

The argument says "the more you spend the more you are worth to advertisers, thus eventually you will see ads". It doesn't add, "there are some categories of products for which ads aren't tolerated but for all the others this holds"

There's more than enough examples anyway where cheaper options have ads and more expensive ones don't, like airplanes or restaurants and bars.

[1] https://www.windowscentral.com/how-remove-advertising-window...
"Not a bug, but a feature"
The story of development is interesting, but I doubt that the concept itself needed invention. Even in machine language using nothing but conditional branching the pattern would have appeared enough to be an idiom perhaps without a name:

...
b? addr1
...else stuff
jmp addr2
addr1:
...then stuff
addr2:
...always stuff

What's more interesting is the generalization to any boolean expression, not the naming/placement of the else/always parts.
Copy of the thesis which is the primary source: https://www.gwern.net/docs/history/1994-wilton.pdf
Agreed that Diesel isn't great. I think it trie to be too ambitious with the type safety and shot itself in the foot. SQLx is decent, although I'm sure someone will come up with a better "Full ORM" in time.
>If TikTok ads were being seen by quite a lot of 35 year old men, then this was part of TikTok's strategy.

I don't think the article disputes that. The impression I got from the article is that this was indeed working as intended. The question people were raising is whether or not this was moral for Facebook to allow.
This feels like classic blaming the user. :)

You can also have better behavior between multiple defaults if you know whether someone gave a value or not.

Basically, it is another tool compared to overloading. It should be no surprise that there can be preference on how to use between them.
And chrome books barely cost more than these stupid calculators!
Seems like the typical strategy of arbitraging a brand’s reputation by cutting quality and therefore costs, but still charging the same price.

Again this is the MBA mindset, a company’s assets, of which the goodwill of its customers is one, are to be stripmined for personal gain, then they move onto the next company like locusts.
What money is spent on what, and where did the money come from? You seem to be in the know.

How much does it cost society when one percent of the population is incarcerated? But I digress; the US is not exactly a place which has been blessed in terms of access to natural resources so it’s an unfair comparison.
Exactly. Amazon wasn't forced to do anything. Other companies like having a healthy vendor ecosystem. E.g., Toyota is famous for that.
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yeah but it increases government's control. Which, depending on how you see it, may be a good thing.
Hypercore / Hyperswarm seems super interesting... But last time I tried it few months ago it was ... Hyperslow
Isn’t this happening now to a significant degree?
You filter by block's AS. It's not always 100% correct, but with enough people you can collect your own list of most common VPS / hosting companies.
> need to hold some BTC

Do they? Why can’t they drop-ship it?
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Sounds like an effect system. But I haven't used them either.
Savers desire to not lose value. This is why people who save naturally tend towards "harder" money, or money that doesn't lose value. So there is nothing that requires savings not to lose value, other than savers who desire this property and park their savings in assets that are closest to this ideal.
Appreciate it!

I can confirm it works with at least my import.

Edit: Alas, some errors regarding "Book not in collection" and "No ISBN". But I think I can probably see if there is a way to contribute those books to the repository.