skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here’s why the ‘death penalty’ is not what you may think it is.

There’s an interesting dialectic between notions of justice and the realities of common good. From the justice perspective, a criminal is likely to face the death penalty if it can be shown that they planned, committed homicide, and then attempted evasion, all in sound mind. Whereas, if the criminal was not of sound mind, lacked the ability to understand consequence, and this condition is permanent, then sentencing is likely to be quite lax. Unfortunately, the likelihood of recidivism is the opposite of what compassion drives us to believe.

In animal shelters, this is well-understood. The goal is always safety and reform, never punishment. An animal of sound mind is reformable. Rarely, an animal has been drugged, diseased, or abused beyond hope of sanity, and must be destroyed. A human criminal in such a condition would be likely to receive clemency. Occasionally, I have known people to destroy their own dog out of a sense of justice for non-threatening bites such as on the hand when receiving food. I personally regard these people as absolutely horrendous, and they’ll never understand why. They think they are executing justice, like some form of discipline, and I really wonder who they are trying to teach.

Likewise, I believe that we, as a society, are massively deluded about the idea of justice. Everything today is about ‘justice’: social, economic, criminal. Just because it makes you feel good, doesn’t mean that it does you or anybody else any good. I am not saying that we should be lenient or rule out all use of necessary lethal force in peacekeeping, but it seems that the moral reasoning that leads to any act of unthreatened aggression ought to be questioned.

tl;dr: The ‘death penalty’ is bullshit precisely because it doesn’t function at all as a penalty. A penalty is a device for behavior modification. I don’t know exactly what ‘justice’ is either, but all I see is chaos and violence from people demanding it.
> * To store 10+TB of data.

> * You need 15 TB of storage (running at 66% capacity)

> * You need 30 TB of raw disks (twice for redundancy).

Did you mean PB?
I've just recently had a trooper make 4 "mistakes" in court and in official reports. One of which I believe was an outright lie. The system doesn't care. If this were any other witness they would be discredited, but because they are law enforcement, they get a free pass. The agencies won't even handle the complaints correctly or file this information as Guglio data for when future cases request it (if found to be unreliable they can lose thier job). The system actors (law enforcement and judicial) in most states have special privileges in keeping information private - so special in many cases that if a complaint against a judge turns up exculpatory evidence that you have no right to it. The reason they state is to uphold the integrity of, and the public trust in, the system. I would think transparency would do that better. The only way that transparency would hurt those objectives is when wrongdoing is ignored or the punishments are so lenient to offend the public sense of justice.

But hey, I'm just a stupid peon, so what do I know.
That is true, but I made it to reassure my mum, who got the AZ vaccine.
> I think you'd need to decide whether the game is the equivalent of art, or if it's a product designed to reach as many people as possible.

Is Citizen Kane with subtitles not art?
As someone developing essentially a competitor to Excel-and-PowerQuery/M, I find all this very interesting.

My language is strict and statically typed. However, after arrays (tables are arrays of records conceptually) exceed a certain length, rather than processing them in-memory as arrays, they will be offloaded to storage and processed (transparently) in a streaming fashion.

I’m surprised that this doesn’t work well in PowerQuery. I would have thought that 100K would be peanuts for it.

Mine is a SaaS however, so the user’s laptop isn’t a constraint, and I can transparently throw a million records in BigQuery or some other data warehouse and use its aggregates if needed. Although at the 100K scale you can use SQLite and it can handle that scale of data trivially on commodity laptops.

So your experience is interesting indeed.
In the case of text books, if you can't afford it then pirating it can actually be a net-benefit to society. You weren't going to contribute to the economy through purchasing it, but by learning from a pirated copy you increase your knowledge & potential value to society.
The board is called "politically incorrect" so of course that's what you'll find here. /pol/ is often referred as a "containement board", which means a board made so that people stop discussing certain topics in other boards while using the excuse that they don't have anywhere else to go. This way, other boards aren't polluted by things that people are fed up with. In some way it's a bit like a trashcan, once trash has a designated place to go, you can stop having trash laying around for no reasons.

I honestly don't know the answer to complex questions such as "should this be allowed" or things like that, I'm just glad I can discuss other things in peace and know that political discussion elsewhere can be reported and will be deleted, or even have the user banned.
It's not that some of those are not affected by the shortage.
Having the supplier store them still uses the same distribution network as if they were shipped directly. If Toyota stored them, they'd need to develop an equally robust network from their warehouses to their factories. It's more expensive to maintain your own distribution network and warehouses than to just pay the supplier to store stuff
> All countries that did well during the pandemic did a few steps:

- be an island.

I seriously don't see how masks helped, aside from the psychological effect of "doing something."
"Big Pharma" has been providing antimalarials pretty much at cost through negotiations with the WHO and other international funders for quite some time now. But cheap drugs - especially since Artemisinin needs to be used as part of a combination therapy - aren't an easy solution to the malaria belt's woes.
The difference is, even the poorer countries in Europe have a better bus and train system than the majority of America. Now, granted, America is much larger so I hate these comparisons. Many European countries are the size of an American state, but compare any US state and the bus and train system will almost certainly pale in comparison.

I'm all for a fuel tax, but I'm also a huge proponent for a decent alternative to the single car transport system that America is so very reliant upon. People talk about biking, but being able to bike to a decent and available transit station would be a dream come true to a huge swath of the American population.

/end rant
Just makes sense. The benefits far outweigh the risks at six cases of blood clots out of over 6.8 million doses, especially when there's a high risk of blood clots following COVID-19 hospitalization. Not to mention rates of blood clots caused by the pill are more like 1 in 3000.

Hopefully if anything the pause has shown anti-vax folks that the safety of these vaccines is being taken seriously.
4chan is obviously not repræsentative for the public at large, no forum is, and that different subboards have very different overall views there highlights this.

Most of the other boards hate /pol/ by the way and “Go back to /pol/.” is commonly heard elsewhere, which shows the differing views.
That's like reducing the oxygen level for lab rats to see how they would adapt. These people have 500 bucks in savings and no health insurance.
Sounds like you should report it in Feedback Assistant since you have an unusual workload.
Indeed. Ecological systems are complicated and remarkably resilient.
11-inch 2011 MacBook Air here. It's my main machine.

I'll turn it into a media server once Apple comes out with an Mx machine with a screen of at least 15 inches.
That isn't my intention no.

This isn't about suffering really. The chances are that no suffering will take place from having a vaccine.

What I'm trying to do is remind people that their lives are not currently risk free, so comparing their perceived current zero risk of suffering to the now-real risk of suffering from getting vaccinated is an incorrect comparison. We are all, every day, at risk of something bad happening to us, and it's this amount of current risk we should be comparing any new risk to, not our perceived zero risk.

The increase in risk from being vaccinated is very small compared to that, but more importantly compared to the benefits of us all getting vaccinated.
That goes to a deeper philosophical question on social contract theory. There are laws that I may not agree with. I may chose to break them out of protest or civil-disobedience - but then I can't also claim immunity from the state's action when they uphold the laws.
1) For hardware you want cheap, expendable, bare metal.
Look up posts about how Google built their own servers
for reference.
2) For RAID, go with software only RAID. You will sidestep
problems caused by hardware RAID controllers having
custom data format each (i.e. non-swapable for different model/make).
3) For filesystem, look for OpenAFS. CERN is using OpenAFS
to store petabytes of data from LHC.
4) For operating system, look at Debian. Coupled with FAI (fully automated installation), it will enable you to deploy
multiple servers in an automated way, to host your files.
>Hopefully if anything the pause has shown anti-vax folks that the safety of these vaccines is being taken seriously.

The vast majority of skeptics will not be convinced by this, because their skepticism is not rooted in the science.
Correct:

- `cargo install probe-run`

- `rustup add `thumbv8m.main-none-eabihf`

- `git clone some-template`

- `cargo run`
> Except for the age difference of the victims

Right. Let's all just ignore that the majority of those killed by covid are around the average age of life expectancy, so that we can try and make the unprecedentedly panicked, massively-damaging and downright stupid multi-trillion dollar response to covid appear slightly less irrational and racist.

Starving kills 9 million/year. They're mainly children of colour too, but don't worry - systemic racism is just fine with pretty much everyone when it comes to allocating funds and resources to save those most at risk from preventable death.
I guess if you personally don't like lots of things about a language, that's fine, but to call it objectively 'bad' is missing the boat. Lots of money has been made with python and continues to be made. So... shrug.

This op-ed piece feels a lot like troll bait, so I'm not going to respond to the litany of complaints in the article. "X-language sucks" articles have been done to death and I will leave it to the author to chase those down if they are looking for legitimate criticism.
This was pretty much my point. If you have some spending money, and almost never are willing to spend it on things like this, then you shouldn't be surprised about significantly reduced social activity. Anyone who thinks hiking is free probably hasn't gone further or higher than their neighbourhood park.
Power Query falls over with thousands of items?

That's not my experience. At work, the data usually isn't very large, but I have experimented on my own time with, for instance, a public covid data file that I think was several GB.

I also thought lazy semantics is a good thing, not a fundamental flaw.

Rather than debate, I would be interested enough to spend some time on a sample problem, if you could provide one, where you believe Power Query inadequate, and at the same time have an alternate solution to provide a benchmark of what is adequate.
> although computers themselves are mostly infallible

What do you mean? Hardware is fallible too, just less often than software. This may cause problem on its own e. g. bit flips in non-ECC memory, HDD which lie (reply to flush cache before data is actually written) or HW can trigger software errors, e. g. HW can crash at random moment and SW can be not designed to handle this properly.
I think we're already over the edge of that, it's more urgent than you think.

A couple of insensitive Facebook posts gets you dropped from consideration for a job... no matter how long ago and how much you may have matured in the meantime.

Google implements FLoC and cohorts start identifying political leanings, medical conditions, mental health issues, anything that's legally potentially discrimination territory... how do you know that someone deduced a cohort topic and denied you <something> based on that...

Tip of the iceberg. Data aggregators already have opaque records on probably everybody alive, just find the one with data about your person of interest.

This needs to be a complete change of awareness and ethics and global law... otherwise we're going to have the movie "The Circle" come completely true as opposed to being just around the corner.
The title is not clickbait, the reason the Warhol Foundation is using is what I think the parent is arguing is "clickbait".
> DRM is killing the planet.

Agreed. Thanks for the link. I think I could've stated my point clearer. I am against DRMed streaming/video, and I'm against DVDs. I still want people to be able to make movies and get paid, yet the above two options are unsustainable e.g. when considering the use of plastic for DVD's, and the high energy costs of streaming movies from a data center.
There's a generic word for facial tissues, too. Language doesn't care about the semantics.
I'm skeptical. I want an example, because my experience differs.
That sounds like an S-curve, not an exponential improvement. You can make any monotonically increasing function look exponential if you only have two points (f(n+x)/f(n)) and you get to pick both n and X. "It doubled over the past fifty years!"

If looking at all the points shows the time it takes to double is way longer than it used to be you're probably on the top of the S.

Which, ok, we know we're headed to an S-curve instead. There are limitations on what we can do on silicon, right?

It's just that the CISC/Intel S-curve is way lower than the ARM/M1 S-curve. Intel got used to leaving a margin of performance sitting on the table because it'll be faster next year. They got lazy. As chip gains have slowed those margins have started to add up.
Most boards on 4chan are designated safe for work and racism free, and will quickly earn one a global three day ban for posting pornography and gore.

This is very strictly enforced in practice, one doesn't see any nudity or gore remain up on those boards for more than ten minutes before a janitor catches it.

Pornography is allowed on all boards that aren't designated “safe for work”, but gore is only allowed on a very select few.
baby jumbo frames.
TCO/month has been 200€ for me for a cheap ICE. This includes car purchase, yearly servicing, random repairs and gasoline. There is no way for me to spend less money without buying used.

The Dacia Spring would cost me 200€ TCO/month. A Kia Soul EV with 60kWH could cost me 250€ TCO/month for a slightly bigger car and more range+max speed. I wouldn't save money, but I also wouldn't break the bank.

Right now it's a wash. I haven't calculated CO2 tax increases into the TCO though. Give it another 5 years and you would have to be stupid to buy ICEs.
Malaria used to be common in the US until the 1950s or so. It was eradicated through extensive mosquito control and engineering efforts. Rich countries can cope; it's the developing world that's thoroughly boned, at least until industrial capabilities catch up.
I feel your pain, exactly as you describe it. It's all horrible and wrong. And I'm 22.
I mean, the title on the snowmobile page says:

> Migrate or transport exabyte-scale data sets into and out of AWS
Ahh yes, the medical organization NFL and leading, unbiased experts who never openly lie about things for months, the New York Times
What's the deal with Belgium? It's lit up like a stadium.
Much more need to be solved for the other two options, so the choice seems logical. Whether the best option is a good enough option, is a different question.
Blender is mostly developed by paid devs I think.
F150 was the minimum truck when I worked in landfill construction in the Northeast and NY. They’re decent on the site dirt roads. But they ride hard and I found the handling on the road pretty bad.

They’re not popular here. Except for those that need them.
(Maybe RWD and light tail and snow.. ). SUVs are it here.

I was surprised how much of the rest of the rural US uses trucks as a day to day vehicle.
I believe that we had a mental health crisis that predated the pandemic.
> like all the old farts buying Harley's and pretending they are some kind of bikers...shame they destroyed the brand

Actually, they kept the brand alive by buying the product.

Without those people they'd have died long ago.
"Back in Kent, Ohio, local business owners ran an ad thanking the National Guard. Mail poured in to the mayor's office, blaming "dirty hippies," "longhairs" and "outside
agitators" for the violence. Some Kent residents raised four fingers when they passed each other in the street, a silent signal that meant, "At least we got four of them."
Nixon issued a statement saying that the students' actions had invited the tragedy. Privately, he called them "bums." And a Gallup poll found that 58 percent of Americans
blamed the students for their own deaths; only 11 percent blamed the National Guard."

"Back in Opa-locka, Mary Ann couldn't go to Royal Castle for a burger without reporters and hecklers following her. Death threats filled the Vecchio family mailbox. "It's
too bad it wasn't you that was shot." "What you need is a good beating until you bleed red." "I hope you enjoyed sleeping with all those Negroes and dope fiends." "The
deaths of the Kent State four lies on the conscience of yourself."

When I read things like this I wonder: what the fuck is wrong with people that they are so vicious and lacking the smallest shred of empathy for a mere child who did nothing to deserve any of this, nor for the victims of a mass murder by people who's duty it was to protect them?
Exactly. OP very blatantly deserved the ban. They detail exactly what they did in their blog post.

I'm not saying this to attack the OP's character or anything. This behavior is just clearly in the wrong and would and should be banned by any platform. It would have to be banned in order for a provider to retain their DMCA safe harbor protection, but even if it wasn't a legal requirement, there's no doubt it still needed to be and would be banned.
I an in a fortunate position to earn much more than a average salary. Yet our family car is a 2005 10k infinity fx35. Car is reliable and modern enough. A perfect fit for my family of 4. I considered buying a 80k Tesla model X, but went for a 15 year old Ferrari f430 (same price). Still have the practically and a lot of extra fun.
I never understood why people would buy a car younger than 15 years old.
This is something that has confused me for a long time. America definitely has mosquitoes (I’m from Washington, DC). How are there mosquitoes but no malaria?
I am not an accountant per se, but I work for an accounting organization. Could you give an example of what you mean by "structured differently"?
I think a mask mandate on the federal level would have required using more emergency presidential powers than most people would have been comfortable with. A president exercising martial law or something similar that would allow increased power over the states during a presidential election might not be helpful for people's view of the procedures and result.
They're not rips. They are reformatted clips with proper attribution and links to the parties channel.

Most of us on twitch want our clips to be seen in hopes it drives traffic back to our content. There are many shameless channels ripping content and promoting it as their own but mine where never like that and many smaller streamers commented on the videos allowing me to promo them even more.

Once some of the channels took off I even had submissions I was able to add.

Sorry for the ramble but I really don't want people I was just out stealing content...

Also I am in California but unsure how to exercise that right with youtube.
And the article says that the decision is not just about "the API" but about "the part of a copyrighted work that is recognizable to a wide public".
Move to Oracle Cloud and before everybody starts hammering me look at this: https://www.oracle.com/cloud/economics/

I am not from Oracle and I am also running startup with growing pains. Oracle is a bit late to the Cloud game so they are loading up customer's base now and squeezing ears will come in 3-5 years down the road. Maybe you can take advantage of this.
Why is it racism, though?
It's probably possible in most jurisdictions to implement voluntarily by holding the copyright with an incorporated cooperative or partnership, of which the original authors are the owners. Corporate bylaws would determine licensing, allocation of the revenue, transfer and other such questions. Some jurisdictions do not allow either waivable or transferable moral rights, which could make this either complicated or infeasible.

In some jurisdictions, the copyright law has a mechanism for professional associations to be responsible for collecting the copyright within a certain area. Now that I think about it, the model seems like it might be adaptable to software.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_collective
That's not a good comparison in the context of games. It would be more akin to have a subtitle or commentator that explains the meaning of the movie or the purpose of certain shots. If you lack the intellectual acumen or knowledge to grasp these things you will miss out on them.
Zainjutt5551 on Substack
I didn't log in for 4 years.
full tin-foil hat time:
knowing that state-level actors work with manufacturers to include 'backdoors' into hardware (thinking of RDRAND) is this an auditable source of randomness, or just as opaque?
Used car price charts are going vertical all over the world.
> In this sense what Warhol has done is transformative.

Where is the line between blatant copying and transformation? If I take some photograph and just change colors can I claim I changed the photo's perception and thus sent a unique message? Maybe, but it's all about ideas in my head, not the changed photo itself. Same goes about many Warhol's works. They are just slightly changed copies of someone else copyrighted works and must be accompanied by art critiques explanations to be appreciated in full.
The US is far richer than Europe, with an average GDP per capita of over 10000$ higher than most western European countries. Alabama is about as rich as Germany, for instance. So if Europe can do it, then the US could easily do it.
When you write plugins (which VFX studios write a lot of for various DCCs like Maya, Nuke, Katana, Houdini) for GPL software, are the plugins then derived works? Does Blender's License have an opt-out clause for that?

Sometimes (but not often) these plugins do need to be shared with other studios (or even the vendor - Netflix is starting to get fairly aggressive in asking for copies of the source work, but that doesn't really work well with every studio having a custom pipeline and different ways of doing rigging / deforming), but it looks like it's going that way. In this scenario, is "sharing" "distributing" from the license point-of-view?

Large VFX/Animation studios are not going to open source critical plugins that given them potential edges. They want them to be totally private and their IP.

The large studios have a lot of research / IP stuff going on as well, they are basically tech houses (hundreds of software devs), and they really care about IP (both software and the client's material).
Isn’t DDT resistance a result of so-called “responsible” usage like DDT coated netting instead of overwhelming application such as in the USA? It’s the same principle as antibiotic resistance: under-dosing selects for resistance.