skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that we shouldn't accept a lower standard of proof. However, life in prison isn't absolute in the same the death penalty is. There's always a small chance of the evidence changing and the justice system being able to rectify the mistake. There have been several convictions overturned because witnesses changed their story or were later found to be not credible, sometimes decades later. Once the death penalty is carried out, there's no going back.
Trump's appeal is precisely that he's the worst candidate apart from all the others, and the opposition keeps proving his point. Plenty of people would have preferred a non-dumpster-fire conservative, but didn't get to pick. Meanwhile, Biden was nominated purely to be an easy mouthpiece for the DNC, (certainly not on his record for race and crime issues,) but had every corporate and media voice possible behind him.
> The (not very deadly) virus would have run its course and we’d be back to normal faster than now.

1) I’m sure family members of those that died from
the virus are reassured to hear it isn’t very deadly

2) The amount of hubris required to make a statement that the virus would be gone if we had taken a different path is entertaining to watch. Hindsight is 20/20.
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I too am pro-life
Anders Breivik.

Simply not true that he will be walking free in 9 years time.

> A sentence of permanent detention can be imposed if there is considerable danger of repetition. Permanent detention is not subject to any timeframe. However, the court always fixes a timeframe that may not exceed 21 years. When the timeframe expires the offender may be re-assessed. If the court concludes that there is still a danger of repetition the timeframe may be extended by up to five years at a time. There is no upper limit to the number of times that the court may extend the timeframe.
my grandparents both were classical workers (so apprenticeship for men, nothing for women) and bought their houses, paid off 'til their 50ies (middle income bracket I guess). My parents were academics (probably upper third income bracket), paid off their house 'til their 50ies (my mother converted to housewife after buying the house!). Now, if I were to buy the house my parents live in, I'd have to pay around ~1.5M€ I guess. Not sure how I should do that (with a partner and kids) 'til 50, even being a tad higher in income than my parents.

That being said: after the war, housing was destroyed and had to be rebuilt, nowadays it's there already (and more than enough if I look at my family and others around us). The only problem is that now one doesn't need the lower third of incomes to build it and so it has become a playground for financialization games which basically make sure that wealth will steadily be reallocated one family with too many kids at a time...
It seems like this should be the job of the FBI, DHS or some other agency like that. The Post Office should deliver mail and packages not investigate material on the internet.
The Fed has also never attempted anything even approaching the QE and stimulus of the past year. It's really completely uncharted territory.
I saw this video[1] on Youtube that goes a bit more in depth into the situation. Apparently after he became the legal guardian of the ship, the Egyptian govt took his passport to prevent him from leaving.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zD-KjuGuiM
I mean, okay. I never said "keep navigation elements on screen"; I said web sites need navigation elements. As for "menus aren't discoverable in web sites," well, again: I mean, okay. They've been around in web sites for about two decades and maybe they've made you mad for about two decades, but I am going to go out on a limb and say that a lot of folks, when confronted with a list of items across the top of a web site that read like Categories of Things much the same as the menus that they have been using in GUIs in many many many other places, can intuit what's going on.

Maybe we're talking past each other. It feels to me like you're imagining the way these things that can be designed that you find absolutely the most annoying and deciding that's what I'm describing, and that you also have super strong opinions.

Also, thanks for suggesting the documentation web sites that I work on that have left-hand navigation columns are "trashy web sites" because I need to include tables of contents that are always visible, but I respectfully decline your demand to turn them into apps, because that's stupid.
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Cash is also a kind of property or more technically a "security", and a tax on it would be a "wealth" tax. The progressive vs regressive tax question can be reworded into asking how much freedom or our own wealth should we give up to the government to provide "security"?
>World Justice Project ranks it 125 of 128 surveyed countries

Man considering the scale here that's horrific.

But I guess that would explain a process here where they seem to punish someone... 'just because', and with no value coming from the process at all.

It's just injustice for no reason at all.... I can understand corruption to some extent. They get something, but punish this guy for no value, I don't get it.
$1000+ price tag O-o -- Hopefully there will be enough demand to eventually make e-ink monitors mainstream so we can see the prices come down
that never dawned on me, you know it could be a way to start producing fuel for a return trip home too.
Economies of scale in the cloud have one thing going for them: massive reliability.

As someone responsible for my company's data, I cannot make a sound argument to convince management (or myself) to use anything but Amazon S3 (or Google or Microsoft) cloud. The data is simply too important to trust to a smaller entity.

Maybe coin storage can boost Storj's reputation. And I certainly favor decentralization for Crypto.
A project I work on has a `RELEASING.rst` in the repo, which I include in the docs [1]. It contains a checklist of steps with the code. The actual deployment is automated with a GitHub Action to deploy to PyPI.

The checklist makes sure I hit all the things I need to do. There's still places to screw up the manual steps, replacing the right versions, etc. It's not perfect and there's a bunch of things I want to improve still. I try to write it clearly enough so that someone who's never released a project ever just needs to follow the steps.

[1] https://espei.org/en/latest/releasing.html
Doing things that upend the system by fraud, force, or perfidity rather than working with people to craft laws and make things better by agreement and good faith efforts. I'd agree gerrymandering would fit the perfidity part. A majority party trying to pass legislation is what majority parties do and is totally fine. Trying to split a city into over a hundred states so that the system can be rewritten unilaterally is more of the perfidity part.
I want to be able to run and switch between iPad OS, MacOS, and alternatives like Linux. We need to legislate open hardware requirements.
> the guy will be walking free in another 9 years time.

This is not true. He was sentenced to 21 years in prison, but his prison stay can be extended, indefinitely, as long as he is deemed a danger to society.

I would be extremely surprised if Breivik walks at the end of the 21 years.
This is basically how decentralized storage works except you can't really ban anyone so a storage provider will lose their deposit if they fail verification. As the article says, this forces storage providers to lock up capital and even that is no guarantee since there may be situations where losing the deposit is actually cheaper than staying in business.
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dang has given an explanation on the merge https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26907466
It's not knowingly false, so the warrant would remain valid.
Yes. The scaling problem with Second Life is that it scales in size, but not in density. The number of regions you can have is limited only by the available funding for servers. But the number of players per region is limited by how much work the single thread that does most of the sim work can do. Right now, this is 20 to 60 per region. The architecture could probably get to 100-500 per region if multi-threaded, a bug in the dispatcher for the Mono engine used for scripting was fixed, and the viewer was modernized to avoid choking when displaying that many avatars. Beyond that, a different architecture would be needed.

Improvement means more CPU cores per region, though, which increases cost. Especially since Linden Lab moved the sim servers to AWS, where you pay by CPU. Server cost is a big problem with this approach. Server cost scales with land area, not usage. Second Life land costs about US$175 per month for a 256 x 256 meter square.

I thought Improbable was going to crack this, but after the first three Spatial OS games shut down due to high hosting costs at Google, it looks like that's not it.
Sominium Space is on Spatial OS, but their world isn't very big. If it was big, the NFT land scheme, which depends on scarcity, wouldn't work.

I want to see a Metaverse that looks like an AAA title. This is probably possible now but may not yet be cost-effective to operate. Linden Lab lacks the will, the staff, the management, the money, and enough understanding of their legacy code base. The really good people who built the thing all left years ago.

Linden Lab has a job opening for a VP of Engineering. The old one retired. If someone competent wants to go over there and kick them into forward motion, please go for it. Really. There's probably someone reading this who's qualified for the job.

Starting a new world of user-created content is hard because it takes years to acquire the creator base and for the culture to settle. So far, Roblox, Minecraft, and Second Life have achieved that. In each case it took over a decade. That's the hard problem. Upgrading the technology is easier than the decade of building a world.

(I'm looking at this from the outside, not as a Linden Lab employee. The Second Life client is open source, and after a few months of writing a replacement client in Rust, I have a reasonably good idea of what's required. There's a third party replacement for the server code, written in C#, so that's relatively well understood by others. The C++ code Linden Lab uses for their servers is still proprietary, but the protocols are not. Nor are the bug reports.)
I think you're sadly mistaken that there's any intent to rehabilitate people "who mess up a little bit." Our criminal justice system is an emotional retributive system. Rehabilitation gets perhaps 1% of the attention it should, and is far outweighed by the inherent brutality of the entire system.
As much as I dislike the idea of a government killing someone for a crime, the cost and potential elimination of future trouble with an individual is tempting.

Assuming that we absolutely know that someone is guilt (ignoring how that would happen), it doesn't need to take years and millions of dollars to simply shoot someone.

Then there are the people who are not only a financial burden on society, they are actively making it worse, much worse. Sometimes we just sit back an wonder why even spend resources keep this person terrible person imprisoned for decades. People who have killed, raped or tortured and been in and out of jail multiple times, no we really need to keep them around?

Regardless of how much we may hate the idea of the death penalty, there is some cold, brutal logic to simply shooting someone.
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honestly types are overrated. if you still what's now known as data oriented programming or passing values then Python isn't a pain.

However in the wild, yeah Python code can be an abomination due to people doing OOP then heavy classes without types and that is a pain. This is the main reason, I avoid Django most times even though I like Django because maintenance can be a pain.
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How do we choose to pretend free will exists?
I could believe that there is a minority that is strongly opposed and a majority that weakly supports it. So that if you weigh it by passion, net sentiment is against it.
Given that public clouds are ruthlessly optimized for efficiency and they don't have to perform trustless proof of anything, it's virtually certain that decentralized storage is less efficient in every way than centralized.
Ideally though, I've worked very hard to get certain knowledge. Diploma is a nice side-effect that's supposed to be a shorthand proof of it, but most companies in eg. software engineering would test candidates anyway, which is where knowledge helps, a degree, not so much.
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I'm not sure what definition of "vindicate" you're working with, but when I use that word (in this specific context), it doesn't refer to anything like a complete restitution as if nothing had happened, which is obviously impossible.
It's very difficult to calculate the sum of externalities introduced by long-term imprisonment. Crimes will be reduced at the public level as could _potentially_ be engaged in by the convicted, however:

1) The criminal is free to commit crimes against others in prison, which may further criminality in those individuals when they are released.

2) There is a burden on families, especially children of those incarcerated. The fostering system seems to result in a lot of future criminals.

3) The economic cost of a 20 year incarceration is probably about $50-100k per annum per prisoner in most first world countries. It's possible that this money being spent on programs to enable to impoverished to escape poverty or investment into programs or drugs to treat criminals would result in greater net reductions in crime to the public as compared to incarcerating a single individual.
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Millions more have been denied unemployment. If you look at labor participation rates like 5% of people who need unemployment get it around the other 25% get no help at all. These jobs pay so little with today's gas prices nobody can afford transportation to reach the job. They have denied me unemployment to the point i have gone 5 weeks at a time without food.
> My mother had a fun story about a professor

I've heard that story many decades ago in the form of a joke. It may have started from a professor who genuinely didn't care about failing students but did care about identifying the best.
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Those two were on the other side of the world, and they're talking about US honey.
Standardized IDEs are incredibly important for productivity in complex software projects. Large applications can get to the point where the build system and IDE kind of meld together, and custom IDE plugins are required to navigate or build the code base.

I've worked at a place where developers didn't do any IDE configuration. The IDE (Visual Studio) was customized by another department then was pushed out to developer machines. This meant that developers could focus on building software and not messing around with configuration and plugins. It also ensured that everyone's code compiled the same, ensured library compatibility, etc.

IDEs may not matter so much on small web apps, but one cannot extend that fact to all of software development.
Skepticism is often warranted, but frequently the vaccine skeptics pair skepticism with denial of accepted facts.

So for example in this case, the skeptic asserts that the virus is not much worse than the flu. This, despite evidence that basically everyone on earth has seen that this is not the case. (Many people personally know someone who has died of Covid in the last year, despite not ever having known anyone who has died of the flu over the prior decades of their lives.)

Even prominent Covid denialist Trump a) took an experimental antibody treatment and then b) got an early dose of the vaccine after c) spending trillions of taxpayer dollars on Covid relief efforts. If someone like Trump who actually thinks it's the flu also behaves as if it's a serious disease, it makes skeptics like OP here seem much less credible.

What's interesting about the vaccine skepticism on HN is that in any biotech thread, the discussion is around how the FDA is too strict (skeptical) about approving new therapies. But now people suddenly think the FDA is too loose in approving new therapies? The irony is that the FDA is already the skeptic here (see the J&J pause, for example). Occam, again.
Related past threads:

Students of color are getting flagged because testing software can’t see them - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26745582 - April 2021 (21 comments)

Student Surveillance Vendor Proctorio Files SLAPP Lawsuit to Silence a Critic - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26250800 - Feb 2021 (40 comments)

Parents demand academic publisher drop Proctorio surveillance tech - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25506007 - Dec 2020 (106 comments)

Proctorio used DMCA to take down a student’s critical tweets - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25002730 - Nov 2020 (116 comments)

An ed-tech specialist spoke out about proctoring software. Now he’s being sued - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24872084 - Oct 2020 (6 comments)

EduTech Spyware Is Still Spyware: Proctorio Edition - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24450248 - Sept 2020 (9 comments)
It's fine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_a_spade_a_spade

Any concern over it is very recent and ahistorical. Like the false etymologies of "rule of thumb", but far less well-established (and hopefully it remains poorly-established—there's plenty of justified language-policing, we don't need to make up reasons to do more of it)
The original problem wasn't lack of fuel, it was inspection issues. They only ran out of fuel after being trapped and running the generators for electricity. In fact the ship probably still has a usable supply of bunker fuel on board so it wouldn't be that hard to get it to port, except that it is still trapped in the original legal limbo.

After 4 years of deferred maintenance the engines are going to need some TLC before they can be fired up again. The longer the ship sits idle the worse the situation becomes. Left long enough and some fitting somewhere will corrode through or be damaged in a storm and without power to run the pumps the ship will start slowly sinking.
I read all of it, as well as some more of your writings that I found, and I very much appreciate your thoughtfulness. I don't agree with everything you've said here, but you raise some very good points. Thanks, friend. :)
Most of them are in my neighbourhood. One is only a 2 minute walk away but I barely recognise it from the stylisation. I’ll never cease to be amazed at how the camera can create a narrative.
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Oh! Titanic Turgid tumblr beastie,

Is it rhyme on which you feastie?

Of doggerel have you had your fill?

Or do you wait for McGonagall?
This is great, I actually had fun solving this one and I learned something too.
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As the loved one of a murdered person, I can speak to this. Nothing will bring back my loved one. Nothing. Gone forever. A hole left unfilled for eternity. Executing her killer won't bring her back. It won't help anyone "heal" or "find solace" or any other words that politicians use.
We've finally (!) gotten around to updating this page, thanks to your gentle nudge ;)
Oh, yes, I've spent enough time in the PM world to get tired of people justifying their procedures by claiming the PMBOK says it's the correct set of them (the PMBOK explicitly says it's not prescriptive, but it misleads people new people into thinking it is).
Not if you're from Syria.
Sure, but are there others who did not get caught? Others who might be better at obscuring their changes? And who might first develop a history of good, secure work, and then slip something sketchy into one -- and only one -- patch?

Seems like the UMN "researcher" was doing this over and over; the more times you do it, the more likely you are to get caught.
Big discussion of original source yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26887670
Likewise with ScPrime (https://scpri.me) which is like Sia but focused on B2B data storage and is changing to PoS instead of PoW to be more environmentally friendly.
> The purpose is simply to define a minimum baseline of knowledge that every professional software engineer should memorize.

That may be a bit much. It covers a lot (300+ pages just to identify and describe each area of study), and many people can and will go entire careers without needing to know about certain things, and be very effective software engineers (knowing more about compilers is useful in many ways, but by no means required to be an effective programmer in many areas).

I would say it's good for finding gaps in your knowledge in areas that you have contact with, and as a good syllabus if you are branching into something unfamiliar. Would a person be served well by reading through this entirely and at least having been exposed to certain topics once? Yes. Should they necessarily have studied every topic? No. The field is to wide to expect everyone to know everything. This helps with that though, since it lets people identify gaps in knowledge that are currently important that they can then research more.
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In fact, Bret Barker has published an open source (Apache License) SNAP store on GitHub. We’re already looking at how to flesh out his proof-of-concept and bring it into snapcore itself.

https://github.com/noise/snapstore/
The use of DALs to cross eTLD+1 lines is interesting, I wonder if we’ll see it more in the future to link websites.
"There was a killer in Norway that murdered something close to 70 people 8 or 9 years ago."

Assuming you're talking about Breivik and the Utøya-massacre, that happened in 2011. And he is unlikely to ever "go free". He was sentenced to "containment" (sikring), which can extended indefinitely (and almost certainly will be).
I used to use SAST-SCAN but that seems abandonware. I like that this exists. Everyone should go from nothing to something in the SAST space. A free/freemium tool/service for that is pretty great. The first couple runs have found useful results.
Not to compare bad vs worse, but when I get bored for ten minutes I tend to remember that at least I'm not in Otokichi's crew:

> The ship, without a mast or a rudder, was carried across the northern Pacific Ocean by currents. It drifted for 14 months, during which the crew lived on desalinated seawater and on the rice of their cargo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otokichi (from a recent-ish HN thread).