skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect that the very high percentage from Romania has much less to do with Vlad the Impaler than with the fact that there are still a large number of people alive who remember the unusual circumstances in which the death penalty was abolished in Romania.

In Romania, the death penalty was not abolished by any democratic institution and that action was not preceded by any public debate.

The gang who seized power in 1989 in Romania abolished the death penalty immediately after killing the dictator Ceausescu to remove the competition, because absolutely everybody expected that many other people who had important positions in the Communist must be also executed immediately, because only that would have been consistent with the messages spread by the new power in the previous days.

However, the people who had seized the power could not kill any other from the Communist leadership, because those were their friends, family or accomplices, so they used the surprise trick of promptly abolishing the death penalty.

This unexpected action was the moment when many people woke up from the euphoria after the supposed fall of the Communism and they began to suspect that the people composing the new power might not be who they claim to be, but it was already too late.

The immediate abolition of the death penalty in Romania had its desired effect, of transforming the former powerful communists into rich capitalists owning what had previously been called "the wealth belonging to all the people", so it is still strongly resented by many who remember those events.

So Romania is a very special case, which explains the unusually high percentage of support for the death penalty.
Maybe I'll consider Canada then. I have a bunch of relatives there and immigration would be relatively easy (especially compared to the US).
> Is the implication here that seeing that they have a degree is better than what "lots and lots of places" do?

Testing whether they can remember a specific leetcode question is worse than checking for a degree.

Is that controversial?
It’s atypically sloppy of Graham to throw out the 4% number without mentioning that it’s just one estimate of a hard to ascertain number. One survey puts it much lower: https://dc.law.utah.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1130&con...

> This Article challenges the seemingly developing conventional wisdom that the error rate in America’s criminal justice system is 1% or even higher. In fact, looking at the best available and current data, a conservative estimate of the error rate is somewhere close to the 0.027% posited by Justice Scalia.
>By far, the largest factor of deterrence was the likelihood of getting caught.

Does that mean it prevents people capable (mentally and morally) from committing a planned crime or is it in general? Because everything I've seen says most people who for instance attack others almost never consider the consequences.
There was discussion about it here yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26892135
My parents were taken in as refugees by the US when they were in their early twenties and now, over forty years later, they still wonder if it was the right decision to stay here. They've made it to the middle-class and that's a pretty amazing thing, but they know this isn't their home. To go back, even for a visit, is too painful. So much time has past that it's hard to say what there is to even return to.
> When they find a suspect, they want to believe he's guilty, and ignore or even destroy evidence suggesting otherwise...This circus of incompetence and dishonesty is the real issue with the death penalty.

There's a more charitable way to reach the same conclusion. Experienced cops must see dozens or hundreds of cases over their careers, where guys who "obviously did it" get off on technicalities or random chance. (This is an official TV Trope for a reason.) Even if we grant that that instinct is actually unreliable and often wrong, that's still a huge number of real cases where the "system didn't work". From an outsider perspective, of course, we tolerate that as a tradeoff to avoid convicting innocent people. But from an insider perspective, it's natural to come to see The System as an adversary, and to see your job as working around and compensating for that Failed System.

This is a problem, and it absolutely ruins a lot of innocent people's lives, and there are clearly ways we could address it on the margins. But at the same time, it might not be a central problem that we solve directly and completely. Rather, we could acknowledge that, to some extent, it's an expected component of a deliberately adversarial system. A lot of legal mechanisms work this way. My defense attorney's job isn't to be a perfectly objective arbiter of whether I should be in jail. Rather, their job is to make the best (most overwhelmingly biased) argument possible that I shouldn't be, and we leave it to the prosecutor (and their presumably opposite biases) to argue that I should. There are reasonable limits to this, and you can get disbarred for violating them, but for the most part everyone's biases are acknowledged and expected. That's not entirely true of policing, but it's part of the truth. Juries of our peers exist because we know it's not realistic to make the police or the judiciary solely responsible for fairness and justice. We can understand this as a normal part of human nature and system design, without necessarily taking a position on whether it represents "incompetence" or "dishonesty".

So...why nitpick these words to death like this? Because there's a symmetry here. When one group is calling another incompetent, it's a sure bet that the second group is calling the first clueless. And it goes without saying that both groups consider the other dishonest. Each side retreats to its bubble, and progress is impossible. The rhetorical habits that break this cycle are super important.
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I'm grateful for this article, and hope I will one day figure out how to change my URL opener for xdg-open :)
I reported this in the GitHub issue as well, but the issue became immediately apparent because I've had this same issue running local servers - HyperV reserves (what I consider) large amounts of ports to do its business. You can run

netsh int ip show excludedportrange protocol=tcp

to see which ones, and in my case the port DbGate was having issues reserving was in one of the ranges
Further reading: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wzj6WkudtrXQFqL8e/inverse-p-...
I agree with the premise of this article, but there is a deeper issue at hand, how we decide who is guilty. Simply abolishing the death penalty isn't enough, there is a greater reform needed to reduce wrongful convictions.

At the end of the day if a man is wrongfully convicted, spending life in prison is hardly much better than the death penalty.
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I'm not commenting on your third paragraph because calling Trump a "covid denialist" is too ridiculous and unrelated to what is being discussed to even begin to explore.

in your second paragraph, you use anecdotes as a means of persuasion, despite referring to "accepted facts" two sentences prior.

none of this addresses my point which is that well-reasoned skepticism is usually met with seemingly dogmatic opposition. for example, elsewhere in the threads here, it was posited that perhaps not every death that was reported as being due to covid was accurately reported as such, given that a.) it's possible to die with covid in your system without it being the thing that killed you (especially assuming the popular "asymptomatic carrier" assertion is true) and b.) that there are demonstrable profit motives for hospitals (many of which, including my local one, have been condensed into mega-corporations in the past couple of decades). this is a reasoned, reasonable cause for skepticism. yet again, to express things like this is to be deemed a "conspiracy theorist," and to have one's reputation diminished and one's statements nullified as a result.

e: re: 4th paragraph, how is one supposed to experience cognitive dissonance from holding both of the following ideas in their mind at the same time?

- the FDA is too strict when it comes to approving experimental, elective procedures and medications

- the FDA isn't strict enough when it comes to allowing several competing drugs to be emergency-use-authorized without sufficient testing, especially when for many people the choice is between taking an experimental drug and losing employment (or worse...?)
> DisplayPort 1.4 can deliver 4K 60Hz video using only two lanes, with a new high-bit-rate mode called HBR3 with a compression mode called DSC. This makes it possible to get 4K60 video and USB 3.1 ports in the same hub, but only if the computer, hub, and monitor all support DisplayPort 1.4 and HBR3.

You don't need DSC to display 4K60 over two lanes, only to go above that or add HDR too.

Also displayport 1.4 support doesn't guarantee DSC for some reason.
A less flexible, but _much_ more performant option, is <a href="https://holzschu.github.io/a-Shell_iOS/">ashell.app</a>
Addendum:

I think I could get excited about FileCoin if it allowed me to pool storage with friends and colleagues. I've been wanting to have a distributed hacker-garage for a while [0].

Importantly, I want it to be independent of any cloud provider because (1) it's hard to freely experiment/prototype when you have to keep track of billing and (2) functional centralization makes the AWS/GCE admin de facto responsible for everything running under the account. This is great for large enterprises that want to virtualize their IT department, but it really goes against the grain for hackers, freelancers, and -- IMHO -- startup founders.

Returning to Filecoin, I feel like all the *coin ventures make the same fundamental mistake of over-estimating how much we care about money. I really don't care about pimping out my hard-drive for a couple of cents. I'm motivated by gains on the order of several hundred to a couple of thousand dollars. The counter-argument I usually hear is that there will be more interest in developing nations, but then I don't want to store my data in e.g. Pakistan. I want data for pet projects in my own hacker-garage, and I want production data close to the end-user.

/rant

[0] Incidentally, I'm working on a project to do exactly this. It's a way of clustering a set of computers over the internet to produce a virtual cloud. It would be super cool to use FileCoin as a block storage layer in this context, but restricted to the hardware we own.
For instance this way I have discovered: Marvin Minsky,Richard Feynman, Ray Kurzweil, Alan Kay and so on You can argue that I was incorrect but then I would not argue.

>What makes you right and them wrong?

Nothing makes me right. I am just satisfied with the results of this experimental technique so far .
>Rotorcraft require more computing power than is available from typical rad-hardened processors.

Ingenuity uses a three-level control system for avionics[0] - the Linux part that runs on the Snapdragon 801 is at the top tier and does more the mission computer functions like navigation, computer-vision, telemetry, command processing and interfacing to the radio.

The middle tier is a dual-path redundant microcontroller system based on the TMS570 architecture. This is an automotive-grade part qualified for safety-critical usage. This an ARM Cortex R5 design, so not exactly a speed demon.

The bottom tier is a radiation tolerant, mil-spec FPGA (Microsemi ProASIC 3L) that actually runs the control loops at up to 500Hz, handles communication with the IMU, motor control interfaces etc; this part is actually supposed to be functionally identical to the space-qualified version.

The "Linux running on a smartphone processor" aspect gets a lot of play but the stack as a whole uses a lot more traditional high-integrity design approaches. Most of the heavy-lifting of "fly the rotorcraft" is done away from the Snapdragon, and I'm not sure where the idea that "rotorcraft need a lot of CPU power" comes from.

[0] https://rotorcraft.arc.nasa.gov/Publications/files/Balaram_A...
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Different decades have different applications, hardware and trade-offs. So popular languages could be just overfit to the current epoch. It doesn't mean there is always progress, could be just change.
What does “beyond a reasonable doubt” mean in probability terms? Most people say 90-95%, which suggests even Graham’s 4% number (which is on the high end of such estimates, see: https://dc.law.utah.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1130&con...) is actually consistent with the system working as designed.

Also, while you’re thinking about that, what’s your estimate of the probability that Derek Chauvin’s negligence was the but for cause of George Floyd’s death (and not some other factor mentioned by the defense expert in the case such as his health or drugs). Note that’s a scientific question—but for causation is an element of the crime. It’s not enough that what Chauvin did was reckless as to human life. His recklessness had to be the cause. Are you 99% certain of that?
https://assets.ctfassets.net/2d5q1td6cyxq/5mRjc9X5LTXFFihIlT...
AFAIK NASA is already experimenting with Stirling engines + Plutonium for future missions. It’s called ASRG https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Stirling_radioisoto...
Reducing the number of innocent deaths is an improvement. It doesn't feel like it's worth patting yourself on the back over reducing the number of unnecessary deaths cause when the process itself should be eliminated. I reject the idea that "politics" means negotiating over how much completely unnecessary human suffering is acceptable because we have to compromise with the people who want humans to suffer for one reason or another. Not every issue has two sides. Sometimes people and ideas and practices are simply wrong.
He was on a ship, alone, with no power/sanitation etc.

How is this not inhumane and cruel? I can understand confiscating someone's passport if that person is a criminal, but this? This is like Saudi Arabia taking the passports of its laborers.

It is insane that things like this happen, in 2021
Heck, I prefer surimi to crab!
Preventing unmooring probably requires to repaint/reoil the moor every few months to prevent rust. I wonder whether 1 person is enough to take care of the remaining maintenance of a wreck: electrical boards, meals, rats... Crews are also constantly repainting the hull while at sea, this is why it still takes 20 crew on top of a captain to man a ship.
Caltech has a strong culture of academic honesty and take-home exams.

Maybe some institutions are simply selecting their students wrong?
> This movement towards synthetic meat seems very antithetical to the natural foods heuristic.

I can't take that heuristic seriously while eating any kind of fruit or vegetable, given how selective breeding has turned them all into utterly unnatural creations, even the so-called non-GMO varieties. At that point, "natural" just means "not using any technology developed after an arbitrary cutoff date" and it's meaningless.
If you think this is bad, I've been sent online coding tests that do the same thing after applying for positions. They require you to keep your camera on and record you as you complete the tests.

Thankfully, it's a good filter for deciding which employers I don't want to work for. I can only imagine what it's like working for a company that trusts their employees that little.
IPFS is mostly fine technology for storing data in a content-addressable way.

FileCoin is, at best, an inefficient way to incentivize people to store your data in an imaginary trustless world. (At worst, it's an obvious scam.)

You can imagine any hosting provider offering regular IPFS hosting.
Sign up on our website, send us a list of data to store, pay us money, and we'll guarantee you can get it back or you can sue us - same as the guarantees by any conventional hosting provider. This works fine and well without gluing Filecoin to it.
What does "virtually certain" mean here anyway? And on what scale are you imagining things?

Let's say the entirety of YouTube was decentralized in a way that every internet connected device plugged in to the wall starts sharing watched content to other viewers who want to watch that content. If it's your neighbor, they'll download it straight from you, via the closest router/hub. Suddenly the company's hosting is more providing a "core archive" of data, and every user becomes a edge node of that content. Internet providers can, if they chose, pre-share content they think will be popular, in order to speed up their own infrastructure, and so on.

I'm not saying this is bullet proof or anything, I just think you're too quick to dismiss it without really saying why you think it's impossible (or "virtually certain").
iOS has a pretty good Trackpad too.
That would be great! the site & my email are in my profile
Here's a practitioner with a better elaborated variant of what I'm trying to argue, so I'll defer to this: https://davisjam.medium.com/ethical-conduct-in-cybersecurity... IMHO worth a read
As a person who just spent a year looking for a job: it's not you, it's the job market. Not only companies (incl. in Russia) not hiring as much as they used to, they have a larger pool of applicants because of all the people laid off during the pandemic. You are competing, directly or indirectly, with a large number of people, some of whom are very motivated senior professionals (they need to be able to provide for their families and are willing to agree to lower salaries and lower positions, so there's less need for interns).
Even if you're not able to get the internship, it's not the end of the world, spend time researching current and emerging technologies and their applications, working on open source projects, maybe even pick up some projects on UpWork etc.

A few other notes:

- IQ tests are complete sh$t. I can't believe how many people take them seriously. How can you measure something if you can't even define what it is??? Also, if you see someone bragging about their MENSA membership, he/she's a self-important idiot with inferiority complex (and I speak from experience).

- A lot of interviews the way they're done right now at likes of Google/FB/etc are HORRIBLE. I can't believe they expect anybody to be able to solve any of these problems in a reasonable amount of time. I really feel sorry for the guys/gals entering the industry right now, since you don't have experience to back you up. A lot of companies right now are really outdoing themselves in terms of complexity of these problems hoping to find another Kulybin or Lomonosov. Hint: that's not how it works, you hire a reasonably smart and motivated person, invest time and money in their growth, and you might get your gem eventually.

- I can't believe the person who can express themselves so eloquently in a foreign language in their 20s is "not smart enough" (I started learning English at 20 and at your age I could barely put a sentence together).

- Stories about people of "high intelligence" who coast through life without doing any hard work are overblown, to say the least. Some people think fast, some are slower. I've known more than a few people who tend to make decisions in a rush and it regularly caused them a lot of problems because they act before they think. Your ability to think things through and consistently put the effort in to achieve the desired result is extremely valuable at any job (and in life in general).

Good luck, you'll get through this, kinda sucks for a lot of people right now, but better days are coming!
Depends -- there are so-called "body shops" that only care about billable hours, and these are the worst.

But in general as a consultant your time is the product that the co. is selling. Never forget that.
Not very interesting. There are ways to solve all of these concerns--no fees are paid during the first X months, nodes periodically tested for bandwidth, etc. etc. Just because the author didn't bother to think it through doesn't mean it's not straightforward.

The whole idea of a blockchain is reputation CAN be built up over time, because every transaction is recorded and there might even be incentives to associate nodes to show X nines of pool reliability.

Is it a bad idea to use this as your only source of storage? Of course. Is it less useful than AWS if you do large local burst queries? Of course.

But none of the concerns mentioned in the post are relevant. This can be cheaper than AWS because they charge an enormous markup, and this automatically provides worldwide replication and accessibility.

Amazon already erases books from Kindles, Google scans your Docs for blasphemy against Fauci, and both have been known to throw businesses off their services. In a few years it will seem crazy not to have an extra copy of your data on here.
> Here we show that vegetation thousands of kilometers from testing sites continues to cycle 137Cs because it mimics potassium, and consequently, bees magnify this radionuclide in honey. There were no atmospheric weapons tests in the eastern United States, but most honey here has detectable 137Cs at >0.03 Bq kg−1, and in the southeastern U.S., activities can be >500 times higher.
Single-Access Key
Unicode: Coded Hashes of Arbitrary Images [pdf]
I'll do the psychological evaluation for you, free of charge: he killed 70 people, admitted to it, and admitted to premeditating it. He's a psychopath.
Right the US has rule of law for businesses. What about poor people? Not so much. See: civil asset forfeiture, being jailed for petty fines you can’t afford to pay, insane fees used by low-tax jurisdictions to fund their courts.
I meant where I live.
There is significant tradition in the criminal justice system for the error bias to be in the other direction (in theory, if not in practice):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_ratio

I believe that to be "working as designed" we would see a lot more guilty people going free than innocent people being convicted.
I've been playing around with the tool FZF recently. It's speeding up my command line workflow quite a lot.
I made a small script that allows me to open a fuzzy search for any command, so I can write the command f followed by something like vim, evince, cd, mpv... I can optionally give a starting directory and a first query but I rarely do it.
I have it in my .bashrc, but should work in any posix compliant shell. It needs fzf and fd:

# fuzzy search any command
f(){
ROOT_DIR="."
[ -n "$2" ] && ROOT_DIR="$2"
FZF_OUT=`fd . -H --color=always "$ROOT_DIR" --exclude "Software/"| fzf --query="$3"`
[ -n "$FZF_OUT" ] && "$1" "$FZF_OUT"
}

in my case Software/ is a directory with lots of files I don't need so I exclude it from my searches. I also like using ranger, it has very nice bookmarking and launcher features.
They don't fear prison at all? It's not like the options are limited to killing them or letting them go.
(Said shortly before Gandalf and the gang slaughtered a gazillion orcs, goblins, ‘wild-men’, and the like... still, though... it was a good line.)
"GPOs is the worst form of policy management, except for all the others."

I've yet to see something as comprehensive, navigable, and flexible. Sure, it can be horrendously complicated, especially if you chose not to clean up the old mess, but it's still... basically better than everything else.
Fair enough, good for you. I'm not sure if you're a Googler, but nevertheless, my point was that this luxury isn't afforded to the vast majority of people in tech. I highly doubt it's even afforded to the majority of Google engineers either (based on my acquaintances), but that is beside the point. Somehow whenever you mention Google in any context, a bunch of people come forward to defend Google culture -- so, my mistake that I sort of pulled Google into it.
I feel like this stuff should be posted in a Rust-specific site, not on HN.
All of the shortcuts are configurable: https://zellij.dev/documentation/keybindings.html
try to tell the family of people in the 4% that the system is working as designed.