skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And putting them in prison for multiple years, or even decades, is better ? Hardly.

I think the point should be more: the justice system sucks and we should work very hard to make it better, instead of complaining about a particular consequence of it, that is ultimately irrelevant.
This just seems like a worse version of Mint Mobile's unlimited plan. Same T-Mobile network coverage and less high speed data (22GB vs 35GB). Also Google is going to try to block your hotspot from using high-speed data but I don't know how successful they are at that. Also the Mint pricing is the same $30 regardless of how many lines you have, if you buy a year of service at a time.
The original Mac really had something with the type and creator codes.

Applications could register to open a type, I think it would default to the creator.

Of course, that wound up with things like resource forks, and that didn't really play well with anyone else's file system.
They do make it extremely easy to switch plans, pretty sure you can do what you're suggesting with granularity down to a single month.
> You seem to be excluding a large middle. You seem to be saying that either COVID is a fraud perpetrated on us by hospitals, or else I must be arguing there is no such thing as corruption.

I didn't leave the middle out at all... in fact, I was claiming that it was you who was leaving out the middle by asserting that a non-zero amount of corruption by multiple separate hospitals would be a "conspiracy theory."

my goal in the posts in this thread is not any specific worldview that I may or may not subscribe to, but instead to point out that skepticism is healthy and shouldn't be shouted down with cries of "conspiracy theory." especially for a situation fraught with other such discrepancies, if one is willing to look for them, and, again, not assume honesty and altruism for 100% of humans in positions of power who are involved.

your comparison example is a poor analogy, because the voter fraud theory is that there was a conspiracy of multiple state/local actors acting in concert to obtain a desired electoral result. this specific aspect of the larger "covid situation" requires no such conspiracy, only human greed and corruption on the individual scale.

you state that you still require evidence to "believe or even seriously consider" my hypothetical scenario. why is that the case? again, do you think it's more likely that everyone at every hospital in the US acted 100% honestly & altruistically in this regard? when it comes to the individual, it's "innocent until proven guilty," of course. but when looking at large numbers of unconnected individuals making discrete decisions, from positions of power, with billions of dollars on the line... why do you assume "uncorrupt until proven corrupt?"
Tethering becomes capped very quickly on Google Fi given the 22GB limit. After you've used 22GB of data for the month (mobile and tethering), you're down to 256kbps.
I helped with this! :D

Happy to answer any questions people have. With the industry as crazy as it is, hiring is becoming difficult again. We hope this will help businesses find good candidates that understand the technology and, more importantly, know how to use it safely.
Curious to hear more about this
Public vs Private:

Public: I can think of an example. If the USPS finds out that in a certain area of a certain city, there is a big chance to have riots "tomorrow after 10am" (protests because of X-Y-Z resason), they can alert their local teams to e.g. deliver the post at 7am instead of 11am. Yes, some operations would be impacted (e.g. noon delivery won't happen), but this will protect the staff, protect the items (letters, parcels), the vehicles, etc.

If they just hoard data to feed a bigger best (e.g. NSA) then, the data is still out there (my public blog, your public blog, HN comments, etc.) and they are up for the taking. In which case it doesn't matter if it is a federal agent carrying a NSA or a USPS badge.
Making yourself seen and heard is the whole point of a demonstration.
I think 1,200 investigators for the entirety of the USPS's operations isn't out of line.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these.
He was staying in the hope he'd get back pay. (Either from the shipping company, or from proceeds of selling the ship to pay fines)
This is in no way related to their financial struggles.

The USPS was breaking even regularly (phenomenal considering what they do) until they were forced to save up funding for 75 years of pensions within a 10 year span. Not only that, but they have to exclusively rely on the US Treasuries to fund the retiree medial fund, so it's more expensive out of the gate.

So they're doing more for their employees, paying more for it, and are required to do so in a shorter amount of time than just about any private company out there.

I'd be surprised if this covert program cost more than 1% of what the pension fund does.
The internet's implementation of name resolving is wrong.

If you type "apple.com" you should get a disambiguation page saying "Did you mean the grocery store, the record company, or the computer company?" and from there you can reach the desired website. Somewhat like how it works in Wikipedia.

Unlike land, names are not a scarcity and can be shared. So why pretend they are like land?
A champion of the open floor plan envisions a more diverse post-pandem
Yes, many people suggested doing this for people with expensive travel plans on their main lines, just keep a google fi compatible phone for travel and enable fi when you go for the trip that month. Works great, just use the app to toggle the plan on and off, very simple.
I don't know for sure but the general problem is that while certainty is almost nearly more effective it's also way less enforceable, meaning, it's much more difficult to enact laws that create more certainty of punishment:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterrence_(penology)#Certaint...
Thanks - will look into that.
That sounds like a great way to get your entire Google Account permanently banned with no appeal.
It's not weird, you simply don't have to prove, pretend nor preserve anything.
Somehow Haskell ended up on _both_ the top 15 Loved and Dreaded lists...
iPad Pro: How Apple Made Its New Tablet
Not to derail to an unrelated complaint about Fi, but it's absolutely wild that if you want to do a 3-way call from your Google Pixel phone using Google Fi service, you can't do it from WiFi (or rather, if you don't turn off WiFi before you start the call, then you'll be muted).

Apparently it's a sort-of-known issue, the workaround is to turn off WiFi before starting your call (wtf?) or use another carrier.

Google, wyd?
I feel the same as you. I grew up as a kid with parents in the Foreign Service, so we country-hopped every year or so until I was a teen, when we moved back to the US.

That was (by far) the most difficult move, because there was no longer an obvious indicator that I wasn't from wherever there was. Acculturation was difficult.

Honestly, I never felt bad about being a foreigner anywhere else. Most people didn't care, and of those who did, most were honestly curious, and it was a fun way to start a conversation and potentially make a new friend. Negative attention was present, too, but the friendly outweighed the suspicious by a large margin.
Ask HN: Rolemodels, Who Are Yours?
Is it common to have them as a professional? If so are they in your industry or outside it?
How about that it's significantly more expensive on average to execute a prisoner (due to the extensive appeal processes) than to imprison him for life? I would assume that should be a very compelling argument in favour of abolishing the death penalty for somebody who is "right of center".
From what I've seen working on an e-reader, a big problem for any open source e ink product is the things EIH wants to keep secret about their displays. If you want to use the nice partial refresh waveform, the open source aspect of this is going to run face first into secrecy requirements. The company selling you the display controller may be willing to build you an out of tree kernel module, and you can totally figure out what it does, but it won't be open source at that point.
In other news, here’s to not having to use the phrase “Texas ice storm” anytime soon...
Do you think they care? Do they have rules around residency?
I did a bit of searching and found people saying you can sign up and use it in Canada without issues as long as you can provide a US address which shouldn't be a problem, especially that you don't need a physical SIM anymore if your phone supports that.

However I was wondering if this is actually a good deal for us Canadians. I'm with Fido and pay CAD65 for unlimited calling, text and 10GB of data which is less than the USD60 that I saw online. That includes roaming between US/Canada/Mexico but at least right now and for the coming months, that's of little value.
Oh, good point, the UK programs I know of are notably ligher in this regard (and PhD shorter) though they do generally require a 1st class honors (honours, i guess!) degree in subject, which includes "tripos" which is roughly equivalent. So in some ways a higher bar for undergrad matched with a lower bar for grad.

At least that's the theory - I don't know if in practice it holds up; most of the grad students and later I knew from that system came from oxbridge which has a number of quirks.
He was convicted of 2nd degree unintentional murder. Which, in Minnesota, one of the definitions is that you killed someone while committing a felony.

So even if fully an accident, if you kill someone while robbing a store, that's going to be 2nd degree murder.

And in the case of this trial, I assume the jury was simply convinced that kneeling on someone's neck for nearly 10 minutes while they beg for mercy and then continuing to apply pressure for minutes after they pass out is a crime in and of itself, even if he had not died.
Illo Juan
Sounds interesting. Got a link?
The problem with eating octopuses is they're smart enough to get revenge. As soon as they figure out how to not die of old age in a year, anyway.
For me, it would depend on how stabby the ship is.

(I don't want to get injured by a ship in disrepair)
Understanding Fargate Pricing
> But if some one you encounter is consistently playing tricks on you, why associate with them?

Do you mean that when a small minority commit an abuse (edit: questionable here), the whole group should be condemned ? Me-think HN is as hypocrite as can be on this subject...
Deno is the likely final, last stop and resting place for most anything web related to this type of tooling. It includes about anything that is the kitchen sink and swiss army knife of the space. For anyone who wants to simplify their life, this is about it. I even bought one of the Deno stuffed animals from IKEA. https://deno.land/
Wow, very interesting read (not finished yet though), thank you. To me, this seems like it should be considered as part of UNM's trustworthiness as a whole and completely validates GKH's decision (not that any was needed).
Ask HN: What screen resolution is enough for most humans?
Given that higher resolution screens cost more electricity (ceteris paribus), and that we have accuity and process-rate limitations (across a distribution throughout humans), what resolution is a reasonable “soft-stop” beyond which few people will benefit (acknowledging aphakia and other eyesight conditions) and we can spend those resources on greater gains?

I’m comfortable with the pixel density of my 21” 1920 x 1080 monitor, though I’m not staring at it for more than two hours at a time. An upgrade costs money and resources. Perhaps I’m misplacing my concern and The Market will sort it out, but it feels like part of a broader question of “what degree of improvement is too far?” with regards to reducing our collective influence on earth’s climate.
Somewhere I read recently that the reason it's always controversial how many people show up to a demonstration in DC is because of the flight restrictions preventing aircraft from being overhead.

So some people want a big number and others want a small one, and either way it's hard to prove. I'd assume drones are a way around that.
Yep, came here to say the same thing. Perhaps, there is some difference in the way the states are conducting vaccination campaigns?
By bursting you mean humanity will never create artificial intelligence? Or you mean that there will be a cool off period as for example what happened with quantum physics at some point? Because it sure looks to me that there is no future without AI regardless of cool off periods. That makes my statement true. If you think humanity will never progress from where we are now then we pretty much are on very opposite schools of thought.
Maybe the gibberish GPT-3 spits out is actually true, and our puny monke brains are just too weak to understand it.
> because so many of the people sentenced to death are actually innocent.

He puts a vague number to it in my reading.

The government regularly lets people die. The government regularly lets innocent people die. The government regularly changes things that then changes who dies. A human life is only worth around $2,000,000 in the rich west like the US. People, inflate that number a lot, but it's actually low millions.

If the argument is it has to be 0.00 for direct action by the government that deliberately kills a person then say it. That's the end. It's not possible to get 0, don't bring in the fact it's 4% or x% or bring in case studies because that's just a changing goal post.

The reason for the 'changing goal post' is because no one can ask why is the direct killing of innocent people different to allowing innocent people to die.

[edit] Here's a 150 year old 'against' blog post that innocent people will die - https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/128491969 Back then it was all about the innocent witches (which still happens today sadly)
After some more digging it looks like prices are set up by some "registry" that the registrar has no control over, so it'll be the same price everywhere. I don't think what you wrote is correct.
The evidence that salt is bad for you is actually quite weak and many people probably don't get enough.

What is lean about salmon though…? If it was lean it would taste like tilapia.
Man, I don't know. I like and have used both. It sounds like you kind of want a language with parts of both, but that doesn't seem like it would be possible. What is possible is calling Rust packages from Ruby, and I think you can run ruby stuff in Rust too. I've done it with Helix, and there's a few other options too.
Credit cards expire or are cancelled all the time.
If only some other kind of mail had become popular to replace the lost letter volume...
The flipside of being screwed if you get locked out of your Google account is that, AFAICT, you're a lot less likely to get sim-swapped by some social-engineered carrier grunt.

I have a Google account specifically for Fi, as uncorrelated as possible with any other Google accounts, enrolled in advanced protection, the idea being that I'm unlikely enough to lose access to the account that the additional security of _not_having a "come show us your ID in the shop" backdoor is a feature.
Have been overseeing some exams being run at a well regarded university. No remote proctoring software (i.e. spyware) is in use. Students are taking their exams in the web browser of their choosing, on the platform of their choosing. They aren't sat dialled into a video call or anything else (but they have a link for a backup one in case they have issues or need clarifications on a typo etc.)

It's straightforward - a well-designed examination should allow for adequate distinction between students, allowing everyone (who studied the course and learned) to show basic knowledge, and those who have more advanced understanding to demonstrate this.

In designing assessments, questions were peer-reviewed to ensure they are not "easily googleable". They were designed to focus not on asking "what is X?" but on "tell us a way that Y could be achieved" or "give an example of how you would do Z". These questions are pretty hard to google, and time pressure makes it harder still.

Focusing on understanding, and applying knowledge really seems to be the right way to design an exam. I can say from what I've seen and heard from colleagues so far, this approach is giving equal (if not more) differentiation among students than usual - the good students still perform well, and the poor students still perform poorly. And personally (from experience), I find it a more enjoyable to sit an exam that asks you to answer meaningful questions, than one that simply expects you to memorise and recite facts back. We're not bothered if you memorise the name - just describe how you'd solve the problem.

From the number of people doing poorly even on fairly straightforward questions, I'm not hugely concerned that giving the exam online made any significant difference. A non-trivial number of students didn't even complete a mandatory question (which was clearly marked), so I assume they found it suitably challenging, even with access to the world's knowledge at their fingertips. I'd say that's a good exam.
Then you'll love the poem there on the front page entitled "Editorial Comments"
The Finnish soldier who took his entire troop's meth supply
According to Anandtech, an arm + leg. Also known as several million.
It's basically impossible to overdose on the drugs I listed. Alcohol and tobacco are not on the list, as they are known to be quite dangerous.
Chrome 91: Handwriting Recognition, WebXR Plane Detection and More
Could have just done two demonstrations/tests...
> You aren't. Why should you assume that a mobile browser window is any different than a desktop window?

Because it quite obviously is. It would be absolutely bananas if the default view for the New York Times’ homepage was a super zoomed-out full width desktop site like it was in the original iPhone demo.
Yeah, I remember being excited at the beginning thinking we finally had one cable to rule them all.

Now we're a few years in and seeing a USB-C port just fills me with dread cause I know I'm gonna have to do research. And I yearn for the days where if I'm hooking up a monitor or something, I see an HDMI port and know exactly what that port is for and what kind of cable plugs into it. Seeing a USB-C port in something could mean any number of things.
Windows runners consume 2x minutes, Mac runners consume 10x minutes [0].

Free projects only get 2,000 minutes per month so running on all three platforms means you only get 1/13th of the minutes of only using Linux.

I rarely use anything but Linux runners even on my paid projects. I like saving money, so unless I really need integration testing on Windows or Mac, I don’t do it.

[0] https://docs.github.com/en/github/setting-up-and-managing-bi...
Ah ok. So we are looking at pretty large inaccuracies then. Typically you only want to draw in the county boundaries if you have reliable county level data. I’d call that a flaw.
Yes, T-Mobile/Sprint. However, given that they've merged and T-Mobile is actively integrating the Sprint network, it will realistically just be T-Mobile soon.

T-Mobile has announced that it will be decommissioning 7,000-8,000 Sprint cell sites by the end of 2021 and 35,000 by the end of 2022. Around 10,000 Sprint cell sites will also be removed from the Sprint network and added to the T-Mobile network during this time.

Google Fi phones tended to camp on the T-Mobile network most of the time and any advantage of being able to also use the Sprint network will be gone soon. Even before Sprint towers are decommissioned, many will have most of their spectrum/capacity moved to T-Mobile towers. T-Mobile has been aggressively moving Sprint's 2.5GHz spectrum to T-Mobile's network to provide Ultra Capacity 5G and they've moved some of Sprint's PCS spectrum as well. I wouldn't expect much of a Sprint network left a year from now.
This seems like pretty important information if correct. A huge portion of the HN discussion is moot if the Mr. Aisha chose to remain. Seems like he could have continued his fight for the outstanding wages elsewhere.
I saw this headline and pictured him as a hobbit terminator, with BASIC code scrolling down one side of his field of view.
Downvote me all you want it's not not true. Rich people don't exist without exploiting the poor; so too with countries. I'm not sorry if you're wealthy and this is hurting too close to home, better live with it if you also want to be so wealthy.
Lol I was frustrated by this with my xfce4, where I could not setup the "Browser" options correctly (had to tweak DPI/scale options for chrome, and this was only doable through command-line). Then I've found out about "exo-open" apart from "xdg-open" and seems like more - https://twitter.com/__malkia__/status/1383898991864147974
That isnt the point, the point was that capital gains taxes are lower than general income taxes. For example in Germany its 25% capital gains vs 42% general income (the latter is a progressive rate, but 42% starts at 58k/116k eur single/married).

Yes, those rates are higher than the US, but capital gains taxes are lower than wage income taxes.

https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/germany/individual/income-deter...
"Every one works for every one else. We can't do without any one. Even Epsilons are useful. We couldn't do without Epsilons."
"To match your data needs, you can switch plans once a month, as many times as you want." -- from the linked site.
This is much better alternative to codeQL used by google and does not use a shameless registration-only model! Thanks for sharing
This thing needs a GraphBLAS[1] implementation yesterday. 100 billion edge graphs and up are the new norm. This monster could smoke the competition if the implementation was tuned right!

[1] http://graphblas.org
Yeah, MarkMonitor is not going to have a good time on this one (they're the company Google, and a bunch of other high-profile companies) use for domain management and tracking. They're supposed to prevent this kind of thing from happening.
This made me chuckle!
> For some weird reason strangers don't bother me that much compared to people I have some actual relation with

Less is at stake usually.
appears to be a capsized boat in the same area

https://www.google.com/maps/@29.9322048,32.5328029,607m/data...
52% of americans say they have tried marijuana

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/half-american-adults-marijuana...
It is interesting to read stuff like this. We never had it bad in Australia so when you read something like this it makes you thankful for how we have handled it. Amazing that we will have 80,000 people at a football game on Sunday.
Writing a lambda like that would require documentation. I wish Excel had a mode to look kinda like Jupyter except reactive (or observablehq except a desktop app), so I could easily add documentation for any cell and fold/unfold as I wish.
Threat Matrix for Storage Services
This is how I feel about Svelte! If you haven’t tried Svelte with Vite yet, treat yourself to their interactive tutorial[1] and bask in its glory!

[1] https://svelte.dev/tutorial
Land can be shared just like names, and the reality is there's only so many disambiguations one can learn. Even with that ability, consumers are only going to remember one apple.com.
Well, they did offer to pay me $30 for limited data a couple of times.

They once offered to send me a Google Home Mini (retailed for ~$30 at the time) in exchange for my Spotify playlists. This was when YouTube Music launched.

Recently, they offered me $30 if I collect all the stamps in Google Pay's Spring Challenge. To get one of the rare stamps, I have to enroll my credit card in their cash back program, which I'm assuming is going to profile my purchase history.
Is wildcaught salmon popular and available? I literally cannot find any - anywhere. Then again I'm in Denver, which is not well known for its seafood.
> they still wonder if it was the right decision to stay here

May I ask, what are the main reasons why they wonder that? Thanks.