skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
also, given the collective (non-)evidence, we should expect that the number of people who are irredeemably and imminently threatening, and therefore truly deserving of the death penalty, to be extraordinarily small, like 5 sigma, rather than 2-3 sigma, which seems to be the mental model implicit in our justice system.

with such extraordinarily tiny incidence rates and an erroneous implicit mental model, it's no surprise that we misidentify the truly irredeemable so often. our implicit expectations simply get in the way of being impartial and objective.
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This perspective would seem more reasonable if it weren't based on headlines alone. The sort of headlines it's based on, when you dig into how they conclude to those headlines, often are fairly detached. There are cases of wild stories, but nothing consistent. We don't go in a panic over this sort of possibility with flu strains, when the same possibility does exist. Don't compare COVID to HIV, there isn't a good reason to. COVID is mildly more deadly then the flu, if you wouldn't be scared of dying from the flu, its unreasonable to be afraid of COVID.
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Yeah, you have to get into all of these details to have a productive conversation. Likewise, I don't actually think a lot of this inherently has to do with performance, basically, I could make a similarly lengthy comment about how

> I kind of think no, primarily that it is a performance consideration that infects the API and spreads everywhere; it's a distraction.

is something I fundamentally disagree with; unfortunately, I don't really have the time at this moment to even get it into the level that you have here, but it's a good conversation to have, and a needed level of details to even have a good conversation.
> The following year, the two researchers issued a refinement, LZ78. That algorithm became the basis for the Unix compress program used in the early ’80s; WinZip and Gzip, born in the early ’90s; and the GIF and TIFF image formats.

I don't understand the inclusion of WinZip and gzip here. Those are based on DEFLATE, which I thought was deliberately derived from LZ77 and LZSS rather than anything particular to the LZ78/LZW lineage (for patent reasons). Am I confused about something?
I would just add that in many subjects, the split between the dominant and secondary policy/idea/candidate is small, like 45% to 40%. That's not a lot of difference and leaves a fairly large minority feeling disenfranchised when the media paints whatever the subject is as closed/absolute/etc.
The site, I wanted to try,

but I browsed there and wanted to cry,

and ended up asking why

they broke the Back button, Oh my!
It's not LTS, so you need to scroll down a bit.
Is there any sensible study on those system's energy consumption?
For me? Honestly, no. I've been avoiding J&J products as much as possible (it's impossible to fully do it) for years.

I won't even say that the issues with the J&J vaccine are indicative or related to their past actions. But who knows? It definitely doesn't look good or assuage anyone's fears.
Also, private insurance isn't as crazy as in the US.

I pay half of what I would pay to public health-care and still get better service.
Didn't his "reign" by definition end on December, 31st 1996?
> a pair of apps for iOS and android that can identify the symbols

Sounds like a failure of the point of those symbols. How about using words instead? Then you don't need an app to decode them. You can use google translate if you must.
get ready for another article in four years…
>Semgrep does look at an AST; but that counterexample is not something you can "fix" solely by looking at an AST

Perhaps I worded it poorly. Dumping the python AST for builtins.print() makes it pretty clear that it's "print" though. So I'm curious why that skirts the rule.

>I mean, nobody seems to be suggesting this though

Not specificially, but the context is using it for security purposes with phrases like "every use of a potentially injectable function such as exec,system,etc. in PHP". Felt like that was worth commenting on.
Deterrence is best accomplished by rapid, swift punishment of wrongdoing. So, enable victims to resist their criminal abusers with force. Allow police officers to beat thieves caught in the act. Make criminals pay immediately for their actions.
and obliterate an entire product line?

too many people have been saying "I will stop buying Macbooks once the iPad runs macOS" too loudly for that to be a reality anymore :(
i'm sorry, my error.
I still show up as a parishioner at my old church. I haven't been in over 6 years.
I’ve got a similar feeling. I’ve been friends with many people from different from different social categories but I’ve never felt I belonged to any particular group or place. At the time, somehow, I feel like a citizen belinging everywhere as I find joy in authenticity and have no trouble finding it in the most deserted or dilapidated places. Did you also feel like a wanderer? I think this is directly related to our personalities and no matter what you run into you’ll never get the feeling you you belong.
For me bigger problem is that Egypt left dead ship near Suez Canal in Red Sea for 4 years. If it would crash into tanker...
I have two thoughts.

First, yes, PG is right that we need to do something about wrongful convictions. If we do away with the death penalty and these people live the rest of their life in prison, but we don't kill them, that's... better, I guess? But it's still horrible, and it's still a problem that we need to fix. Just eliminating the death penalty doesn't fix the problem. If you make eliminating the death penalty a side effect of the campaign against wrongful convictions, that's fine. But if you make eliminating the death penalty the fix, that's hopelessly inadequate.

Second, the moral calculus gets awful. The usual question is, how many guilty people would you let go free to avoid putting one innocent person in prison? That shows the problem - false positives and false negatives are inversely related. But there's another issue, which is that some people who murder do so more than once. So, to avoid putting one innocent person in prison, how many innocent people are you willing to see die because of not-convicted murderers who repeat the crime? (If anyone has recidivism statistics on released murderers, I would welcome them.)
Yeah I don't understand what value there is here in assigning it to the crew member who apparently can't decline?

Even if he could manage the ship, a random crew member is highly unlikely to have resources to care for a ship like that... what value is there in assigning him this responsibility? They just punishing someone for the sake of it?
Life imprisonment/confinement is arguably identical to the death penalty (since you are dead to society, the government kills you by outliving you, etc.).

Since innocent people also get life imprisonment, one could argue that any punishment like this that could potentially harm innocent people should be outlawed.
What I learned from Criminology 101 in college was this:

By far, the largest factor of deterrence was the likelihood of getting caught.

So, people, do in fact rationalize "I'm definitely going to get caught and the consequences are bad, I won't do it".

So, to your point, the punishment itself is largely a deterrence. I think because a rational human being simply cannot grok the differences in long term effects. This is already essentially proven in how people behave with money - i.e. people suck at long term saving without external forces nudging them to do so.
I remember a few years ago, there was a lot of concern that much of the honey sold in American supermarkets was of unknown origin, and possibly from Asia where safety regulations are more lax.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2011/11/25/142659547/re...

Well, I guess there's now there's an easy way to tell if your honey is really from America or not: grab a Geiger counter.
> with a system of private prisons (another fantasy, given the current trend of increasing the government size, instead of reducing it), maybe someone would be able to turn a profit and make it work.

Both prison labor and private prisons are absolutely a thing in the United States today. As I understand, prison labor is illegal in privately operated prisons. However, state-run prisons are allowed to use prison labor to manufacture goods and sell them to private entities for profit it many US jurisdictions.

Many people find this practice objectionable because it creates a profit-based incentive for states to issue more prison sentences and to make them longer.
It seems that when a set of beliefs becomes contentious enough, a certain set of people start trying to win by altering the political meta-system itself.

I’m unclear on which you’re alluding to. Do you mean the majority party trying to move past the obstruction of the minority party? Or do you mean partisan gerrymandering by the minority party?
I'm unclear why one cannot do all these tests with a fork.
People vs. Tech
Even in the US, "left vs right" on the death penalty is an oversimplification. A pretty good summary can be found here: https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/facts-and-research/religious-st... ... Anecdotally, as a religious person, I'd say that most Catholics I know either oppose the death penalty or would want it to be much more limited than it is now.
No, parent poster is evidently a dualist and believes our true home is spiritual and not material.
Go to the article they cite and you will see two things. 1. They claim that longer sentences do in fact work (but are subject to diminishing returns). 2. The evidence is weak and full of caveats. Like it's not like we have RCT running for generations. We have observational studies rife with problems. They understandably try to make the best of what they have, but frankly it's just not good enough.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/j.1745-9133...
Is it correct that the mortgage keeps on billing me even though it is in negative balance = paid off, and the 1 year I have set it to has also expired?
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I wasn't aware that residing in SV was a prerequisite for posting to HN? especially after a year of increased remote work? I have little doubt that the vast majority of HN readers/posters who reside in SV are going to be vaccinated within a few months and will have zero qualms about it.
I agree. Some of the most violent criminals can't ever be re-integrated into society, so the only alternative is life imprisonment. I've seen many arguments that this is preferable to the death penalty because "We will accidentally execute some innocents", as Paul Graham's here, as well as "It costs more to execute someone due to the higher standard of proof required".

In all such cases the corollary is "We can accept a lower standard of proof because we're not actually killing them. We're just locking them in a room forever and waiting until they die." I don't honestly see much difference between these outcomes. Why is one so morally superior to the other?

There are much better arguments against the death penalty. One is that if the death penalty exists, it's much easier for the state to execute political dissidents. If the death penalty is abolished (and there are strong controls on extra-judicial killings, like police murdering civilians during arrests), it's much more difficult for the state to silence critics. Even if they are locked away in jail forever, they will still have a voice.

Another good argument is that if the death penalty is a possibility it gives criminals nothing to lose which makes it more dangerous to apprehend them. If you want your police to be able to more peacefully arrest criminals, it makes sense to abolish the death penalty.
I found the last line almost unbelievable

"It's enough, you might imagine, to make him think twice about going back to sea.

But he is determined. He says he is good at his job and wants nothing more than to pick up where he left off."
This position is, from my viewpoint, indistinguishable from that of a mass murderer, as that is literally what you are calling for.

By a strict logical interpretation, you might consider executing yourself as you have met your own stated criterion for being eligible for execution.
Founders and early investors cash out billions in capital gains at a time every year. The brackets should reflect that.
> The wrong type of super-long-tenured engineer is just going to be defensive and full of excuses about why something was built one way, even when the pain of using what they built is dragging down the whole organization.

I'm pretty guilty of this. The way I see it, I can either tell someone now why things are, or I can let them waste time figuring it out for themselves.

If you stick around long enough, eventually you become partially responsible for a collection of projects built by people who came, did a passable job, then left. I'm not keen on spending months rewriting a system just because the current one has some issues. And if it needs a new feature/update, I have no problem tossing a turd on the pile of crap.

Granted, I see the appeal of rewriting things. You get to spend 12-18 months building a new project the way that you want it, then leave once it is built and the maintenance responsibilities kick in. These people have never had to actually maintain software before, so they have no idea how to even write maintainable software.
There are also very little requirements to running a registrar...
According to wikipedia the population of Bentonville when the first WM store was built was 2,949.

It's now 54,909, but maybe it's 70k as you say.

Either way it sounds precisely like a situation where a giant corporation moved in to a small town. Or more accurately the tiny store grew into a giant corporation and so did the small town.

My point was merely that many small rural town mayors would love it if a giant corporation would move an HQ with tens of thousands of high paying jobs into their tiny communities! This is why the are willing to give giant incentives to them.

You make great points otherwise, thanks for sharing your perspective!
Sure, but one wouldn't imagine them to be so sharp. It's probably an artifact of the aggregation up to county level.
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Well, typically first there is a policy and then scientists have to come up with theories to support it. Only if it is not possible, policy changes to meet science somewhere in the middle.
> if you wouldn't be scared of dying from the flu, its unreasonable to be afraid of COVID.

I'm actually more worried that (as in the fall), my city will have to convert our convention center to a field hospital because the local ICUs are full. And then I'm worried that I (or someone I care about) will experience one of the normal things that send people to hospitals, only there won't be capacity to see them in a timely fashion.

And honestly I'm damn sick of the necessary curbs that keep this thing from killing even more people. (It's possible to prefer society arrange itself in such a fashion that we try not to make it actively hostile to the vulnerable.)

This isn't hyperbole, it was 5 months ago. My governor is GOP and doesn't consider Covid to be real. Yet he still authorized giant field hospitals. He still won't open the governor's mansion for tours, in spite of saying all restrictions are lifted (he's not an idiot, he just plays one on TV. Nobody is really stupid enough to want unvaccinated people coming through their house all day.) He has never done any of this for the flu.

Consider yourself fortunate that this did not happen in your area. But don't pretend it didn't happen or is just the media.

And then the main thrust of what I said is this. Nobody knows what a Covid infection today will mean in 20 years. It obviously has neurological impact in some patients. Does that carry long-term import? Nobody knows. Easier to not get it, since vaccines are available and free.
Thanks for the kind words. very much alive more exciting news coming with the v4 as introduced during the StrapiConf today
who said "Insort Geront"?
> So on this Earth day, to summarize where we are at succinctly, we cannot build any more machines that use fossil fuels, and we need to purchase non CO2 producing machinery at every purchasing decision from now into the future. [...] Your next car should be electric. Your next heating system in your house an electric heat pump. Your next stove an electric induction stove.
To me, tmux is unbeatable. Except for 2 things:
- session-in-session is not built-in (but running a tmux from inside tmux does work)
- resurrect (I.e rebuilding a complete multiplexing session out of nowhere, with running pieces of software, history, etc).
I've been encouraging HN to merge comments on duplicate posts for a long time. If that's what happened here, I applaud it.
Highly recommend the book "The Sun Does Shine", by Anthony Ray Hinton. He was wrongfully convicted and spent 30 years on death row.

One of the crazy parts of his story was how the state dug in its heels and did everything possible to prevent him from being acquitted, long after the new evidence was introduced.
Sounds like these commits aren't related to that paper, they're related to the next paper he's working on, and the next one is making the same category error about human subjects in his study.
It seems to me that multi-decade prison terms are at least as severe as death. It doesn't seem terrible as long as prisoners are able to kill themselves. But a life sentence in a prison with effective suicide prevention seems far harsher than a lethal injection next week.
You clearly don't work in the midwest...
The next generation of children will have to suffer through learning thousands of icons rather than 26 letters.
ctlr+r is a very heavily used shortcut for some people. Perhaps that can be configurable?
GNOME crashes a lot probably because of how people are forced to patch the DE with extensions or maybe even the bad quality of their code, but I have crashes of KWin or Plasma hangs sometimes on X , so KDE is not perfect and if I would use wayland on my NVIDIA system I would be hit with work losing crashes. KWin and Plasma are pretty complex so there will always be bugs , this is why I am wondering if there can be soem kind of refactoring to a safer architecture.
Why stop there? Is 39 years behind bars for an innocent less ridiculous than killing them?
This is a cool company that started out of QB3. One of the co-founders was a postdoc at UCSF working in regenerative medicine before starting wildtype. I think these wetlab incubator spaces near universities is really key to getting more biotech startups.
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The US frequently merges the masters and PhD programs into a single 4-7 year program, rather than a 2-year masters followed by 2-5 year PhD program. The comprehensive exams for PhDs are typically at the end of the first two years, and cover material similar to that of a masters.

The two are pretty much equivalent, but with different names.
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Just to confirm, this does work with LG 5k monitors? The resolution there is 5120x2880, which is significantly more (the vertical resolution alone is doubled, and then some for the horizontal), but I don't know the refresh rate, so the bandwidth could still be similar maybe.

EDIT: I'm also wondering, the only switch I know to be working uses two display port cables to the monitor (which I'd have to adapt to one Thunderbolt 3 instead), while your device only uses one. That doesn't bode well...
I wouldn't do pardoned. That's a whole other bag of things. A guy could be completely guilty and get a posthumous pardon because of reasons.
Creating diagrams is now not supported, I have plan to add it, but not with biggest priority

I am also looking forward to SQLite
The uncomfortable truth is that these arguments assume that there is free will (which is a supernatural entity).

If society converges on spontaneously destroying some human entities it deems a threat, it seems that this behavior arises from the chaos and can not be stopped (since it is found in every human society in past history).

The alternative is to treat murders equivalent to the Bernie Madoffs of the world, which some people might find unjust.
What I found in recent times is people that want to automate things that have no idea how they work :)
I'd rather have free time and enjoy a modest life than have little time and have all the money in the world but can buy anything I want.
> Heck, even if it were for everyone, I've yet to see a solid reason why earning a dollar from investing money is somehow better for society than earning a dollar for investing your labor

The reason is caring about the seniors/elderly and a pro-home ownership policy.

As you age, your ability to earn a living from labor goes down, for a number of reasons (ageism, family obligations, less energy), but your costs go up (healthcare, family obligations).

Having investments and being able to sell off capital, taxed at a lower rate than income is an insurance policy against reduced earning potential in senior years.

Is that in and of itself enough to say the tax rate should be half? Maybe not. But the argument is solid. It just doesn't determine the exact percentages.
I'm surprised not to see any consideration of second-order effects. For example, if getting rid of the death penalty even slightly decreases the disincentive for committing crime, it's quite possible that more lives would be lost than saved.

In any given year, there are relatively few executions in the US — in recent years it has been around 25. [1] If we assume the 4% figure as correct, then every four years there is one innocent person who is executed.

That is a terrible outcome. But it's quite possible that eliminating the death penalty completely would cause at least 2 more deaths every four years.

I'm not advocating for or against the death penalty — just pointing out that if the goal is to minimize the death of innocent people, we might want to consider second-order effects. I will admit that state-sanctioned killing of innocent people seems worse than general killing of innocent people. At the same time, if the government makes a decision that it knows will result in a net increase in the number of innocent people killed, the fact that they're not sticking a needle into the arm of the innocent people who will die is somewhat less of a salient distinction.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_Unit...
Just like that? A court order $4 dollar refund and have a nice day? That's a bit anticlimatic.
Sure, but so does doing a whois or an NS check. Plenty of registrars and registries are known to have abused such data in the past.
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>As a society, the choice is crystal clear: vaccines that do not kill people today

The vaccines are killing an alarming number of people today.

>versus a virus that demonstrably overwhelms health systems,

This is not true. Hospitals were and have been fairly empty. Small hospitals at times have been overloaded and imagery from those exaggerated as though its a general pattern when it's not.

>killing lots of people now. This is as close to an IQ test as it gets in public policy.

The death numbers are slightly higher than that of the flu.

Take a look at historical deaths and those this year attributed to COVID. It doesn't add up to any sort of justification of the handling over the last year, nor the push for vaccination.

The IQ test is if you assume headlines are honest condensation of information or not. Every single day I see tens of articles claiming things about COVID that sound terrifying, only to turn out to be the most fearful bad-faith interpretation of the actual information brought up in the article.
Exactly. Also if you decided to go on a boat and catch one yourself that easily could end up in thousands...