skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Some of the most violent criminals can't ever be re-integrated into society, so the only alternative is life imprisonment.

I have to question this. Determining whether someone can be reintegrated into society cannot be determined during the sentencing process. I would rather prefer a Norway-like system where the max imprisonment time at the start is 21 years. At the end of that initial time, 5 more years can be added on if the prisoner has not reformed. The process repeats until the prisoner is released or dies. A small percentage of people will still die in prison, but I wager that that percentage will be less than the percentage of life imprisonment sentences currently.
Someone who violates an innocent persons inalienable right to life, thereby forfeits their own right to life.
Another anecdotal data point:

I received full dental replacement implants (the all-on-four style) a couple of years ago. During the procedure, I came out of it enough to remember trying to get "something" out of my mouth that was bothering me, and a nurse literally shouting at me to stop.

My wife was waiting for me and could see down the hallway where my room was. She said that at one point the doctor came out of my room gagging and holding his throat. After a few minutes, he went back in.

Later, we discovered that I fought everyone in the room. I had punched the doctor in the throat, tried to rip my IVs out, etc. The incident I remember (the yelling) was just a part of it all.

I've since read up on anesthesia and the subject is both fascinating and scary ("science with a lot of art mixed in").
I am probably not the audience for this blog. I do not understand why being a bum is failing in life. Except for 1 reason (you put others down), I do not see anything wrong with being lazy, waking up late and going with the flow.
> to inject themselves into the industrial surveillance complex.

Haven't they been de-facto participating for decades?
There's an expression, "people don't quit jobs, they quit managers". Sounds like the guy had a dick supervisor.
> Sometimes people and ideas and practices are simply wrong.

Of course, and I agree with you on this particular issue. All I mean is that if we can act today to chip away at the problem rather than just talking about the ideals, that's good, and in a democracy, that's what we accept as we work towards the ideal.

> 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.

Life's too short, I'm happy to celebrate progress. I'm proud to see the end of it in my home state of Virginia this year, even if it's not nationally outlawed.
I would never recommend users save their passwords in their Browser password manager.
I'm not an expert on WildType's specific process, but I've read that while mammalian cells need to be grown at ~37 C 5% CO2, fish cells can be grown at lower temps due to differences in biology. I just read a paper where salmon cells were incubated at 13 C and 3% CO2. Could be that they're expecting energy cost savings with no need to pre-warm media, heat bioreactor, etc., but it's also possible that cooling will be necessary (depending on the location of the plant) or that mammalian metabolism will produce enough heat that bioreactor heating may not be an issue. I think the jury is still out on that. So maybe they just looked at where they could find their niche in a market with lots of pork, beef, and poultry companies already? Or maybe the founders really cared about marine ecosystems?
If prisoners are able to lead criminal organizations whillst inside, that's very obviously a rather trivial-to-fix bug in the design of the jail, not a reason to murder someone for vengeance.

We have more than adequate technology to keep such hopeless cases from harming themselves or others.
I struggle with arguments that criminals are calculating people who make decisions in their best interests. There are surely exceptions (say pickpockets or confidence tricksters) but I don’t believe that things like typical sentencing have an effect on the impulsive decision making of a typical criminal (and I think policy should be targeted much more towards the typical criminal than the atypical one)
That’s a huge liability/red flag.
Builds should be deterministic, and reproducible. An IDE should have no say in that, that’s what build tools are for. That’s just all around terrible. Also, a sane IDE should be able to make use of the config files of the build tool.
On the other hand, I'm not in the least convinced that there is a way for a teapot to determine how many pieces a (specified, in-general-different) dropped teapot will break into given an arbitrarily detailed description of it's structure.
> The dominant local power in most of that landmass is more likely to be a warlord/crime boss than the government.

I would argue this is a false statement. There are pockets of instability there, especially near Goma and Virunga or very rural areas. The last few years especially have been unstable. But if you look at the country as a whole (which is the size of all Western Europe) over the last 15 years, the size of the territory not controlled by the internationally recognized legitimate government has been very small.
I don't see how this addresses the reliability claim. There's a big difference between explaining that the data is stored in a Google cloud with certified 11-nines reliability, versus stored on a N number of machines in multiple clouds with unknown specs.

How do I communicate the reliability of a distributed cloud that is essentially a collection of random servers? Is there a way that each of these server's reliability is accounted for by the high-level service?
Products like these are often sold as part of a contract to deliver complete solutions + support + maintenance over some number of years.

It's hard to estimate a per-unit cost. But suffice to say it would cost similar to other datacenter compute solutions on a performance/$ level.
> two blades that counter-rotate around the same axis

Which would make it a coaxial helicopter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coaxial_rotors
No, I'm talking about confirmed COVID deaths.

Ioandis' original study was in Santa Clara County, CA, where they estimated 0.17%. I don't see how New Jersey, for example, materially differs in a relevant way in terms of population statistics from Santa Clara.

I would also note that New Jersey STILL has a high COVID case rate, even with 47% of the population vaccinated. They did not achieve herd immunity with their 0.3% death rate, because far less than 100% of the population has gotten COVID, so the IFR is very obviously significantly higher than 0.3%.

They made a prediction, the prediction was wrong. It's clearly motivated reasoning, because the authors on these studies have had policy prescriptions since the very beginning that depend on COVID not being very dangerous.

Unfortunately reality is not required to adhere to a particular set of political views, and arguing with a virus is not effective.
For some people prison is 3 meals a day and a place to sleep, paid with your tax dollars.
This is a virtual mirror of my history with Japan: three years (except I was in the rural 'burbs for 2/3 of it), have returned to visit friends a couple times, but it's always bittersweet. In fact, almost everyone I know who was there for two-plus years have told me they experience this.

The one good thing about being an outsider there is people who would be guarded towards other Japanese really seem to open up if one is warm and receptive. I've had friends confide things in my they wouldn't tell their families, and I've had more than one sit-down drink with gangsters that saw me, presumably, as a novelty. It's like, "he's an outsider who's leaving soon, so why not?"
It’s not ideal. But if we don’t have a working criminal justice system, victims will take the law into their own hands and their error rate will most likely be much worse.
Those are the tortured bodies of creatures who's soul has already moved on. Or something like that, see also the Gollum arc.

Tolkien fought in WW1 and it's easy to tell from his writing he was a very sensitive individual. There's not much in LOTR about killing but his notes and the Silmarillion do shed some light on his moral view on the matter of ending a life.
The problem was that this man >>signed<< a document where he agreed to be "legally bound to this ship"... So be careful before you are signing something...
That forced three column layout with only content in the middle column is worse. Two thirds of my screen is empty white but I have to scroll vertically to read things like sample code.
I have to agree - although I'm surprised the registrant actually used common sense here, it was the fair thing to do.
How do they do heat management and dissipation on such a big wafer? I can imagine some different parts heats up differently, putting a mechanical strain on wafer, and leading to cracks.
Google Announces the First Cohort of Its Climate Change Accelerator
Well, the Stackoverflow thing is what I do.

Except for I post a genuine question - it stays unanswered - I scratch my head for hours - come up with a solution - post an answer.

Happened countless times.
I would disagree. To me its allure is what it could be. At this point it is a device for consumption (alabit a great device for that) and for the 0.001% who are artists.

A touch-screen Mac osX with an optional keyboard would a genually new thing from Apple.
As a user, I encounter three kinds of sites:

1) Sites with multi-column or table design that can show more information when the browser window is wide. I tend to widen the browser window to get the most out of these pages.

2) Sites like Daring Fireball that have a fixed width, so I can still read the content just fine whether or not the window is wide.

3) Sites that expand the line length to wrap at whatever width the browser is at. I find these impossible to read unless I narrow the browser window because I lose track of which line of text I’m reading.

Types (1) and (2) are compatible and make up the large majority of sites I visit. Type (3) isn’t compatible for me, so I find it inconvenient. It’s not the end of the world, but it slightly inhibits my desire to visit such pages. I’d rather not maintain a multi-level navigation hierarchy with multiple windows and multiple tabs in a window.
Sure, and I'm in no way doubting that developers make more in US than EU. I'm just saying that it would be better if we had a comparison that was more realistic in terms of what you can actually get with your money - and also other things like healthcare, overtime, vacations, work culture.
There is a qualitative difference between "people reading things you make public on the web" and "a government-funded agency uses extensive technological means to read, categorize and threat-assess your statements on the net, and have the power to throw you into jail for an indeterminate length of time - or worse."
If they really wanted it, presumably they could setup a shell company in Gibraltar using a local agent?
For someone acting alone, deciding who and what is evil, it could well be. That's why the state and its courts need to control that instrument.
By far this is my favorite part of working in the fire & safety industry. Open book exams for certifications just show that you know how to apply the knowledge within the code books. All it requires is that I remember a handful of section numbers relevant to areas of the code.
I think probably there shouldn't be a car available to the public that both can't drive safely without close monitoring and also tempts drivers to try this.

Nothing between basic driver's assist and L4. You can argue whether Tesla is in that range but that's definitely what their messaging is.
Even more funny, what about google financing a competiting browser ? wait ...
I seriously think the ability to end one's life "if sentenced to life in prison" is the ethical, humane, and moral thing to allow for everyone. We're starting to allow euthanasia for intolerable suffering from medical conditions. Well, I assert that people being isolated from society for a severe crime because of their "ill mindset" is identical to severe illnesses and where they may suffer intolerable psychological pain from the isolation of a life sentence. I seriously see no downsides to allowing euthanasia as a choice for persons with life sentences. Only thing it possibly takes away is a feeling of vengeance the victims may have and if they personally dislike the idea of a person that harmed them being able to die early.
Just from the headline you can see the irrelevance of this chip. Who talks about transistor count as a proxy of performance?
His ship has been sitting still for so long that you can see it on Google Maps:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/%D8%B3%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86%D...

Edit: a few more story details here: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/19/ever-giv... When he rows to shore to get supplies he can only stay for two hours at most as the area is a restricted military zone. Other crew members were repatriated in September 2019, so Mohammad was not alone for 2 years but only for 7 months (which is no less unacceptable). The only reason Mohammad was allowed to leave was thanks to a local union representative who agreed to take his place as the ship’s guardian.
You should try to re-word your comment so that it reads less like an "I'm just asking questions" conspiracy theory.
Well by that logic, if you pre-emptively lock up both alice and bob you can avoid crime altogether.

But we don't lock people up because we suspect they will commit a crime, we lock them up as a punishment for the crimes we can show beyond a reasonable doubt that they did commit.
> One could easily imagine a program where [...]

One doesn't have to imagine.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/03/cisco_shippin...
I used bash for maybe 7 years before trying fish. I was productive in bash, and never really had any complaints. But fish made life so much easier once I got used to it and learned how to customize it to my liking.

It get critiqued a lot, but I'd suggest others try it out before dismissing it and see if it works for them.
There's no evidence of that. It appears to be purely a rumor being spread around there with no facts to back it up.
I know it was meant as a bit of a goof, but i always thought that the "look up the file in pi!" idea was a clever way of doing compression[1], exploiting the fact that pi is normal and thus any given sequence of numbers will happen eventually, meaning that any given file that could possibly exist will show up eventually. Using this, you could theoretically just store two numbers to compress anything, a beginning point and an end point for its position in pi.

I'm aware this would be unbearably slow and the numbers to store really big files might end up taking more memory than LZMA, so I don't need a lecture about it, I just thought it was an interesting idea.

[1] https://github.com/philipl/pifs
The article says the ship had no fuel.
I'm familiar with this essay, and agree with most of its conclusions.

However, I am not convinced it is exactly applicable to the situation I have in mind. Freeman's point pertains to extreme decentralization of organizational policy, i.e. the flat hierarchy. These are arguably not even organizations; the essence of organization is precisely hierarchy!

I'm more interested in organizations that do have some degree of centralization. My hypothetical freelancers are certainly not disorganized. What I'm trying to grasp is the conditions under which any group -- especially one with centralized policymaking -- may seek decentralized infrastructure.

In other words: when does decentralized infrastructure serve the goals of a well-organized group?
Really nice article and demos, very informative.

Maybe unsurprisingly, noise is a really important aspect of audio and music as well. A lot of synthesizers have a parameter for adding white or pink noise to sounds. What's interesting is in a lot of music, my ears would never pick out the noise without actively listening very closely, but if you take the noise away the music sounds way more plain and empty in a very subtle way.
Ants in the Nest: A Possible Emerging Pressure on Sea Turtles
This read as sarcastic to me but FYI what you said is actually, unironically, true
Thanks.

I use BROWSER environment variable for that.

It seems to even override XDG settings.

% xdg-settings set default-web-browser firefox.sh.desktop
xdg-settings: $BROWSER is set and can't be changed with xdg-settings

% echo ${BROWSER}
firefox

Hope that helps.

EDIT: You also got me nice idea - to add http(s):// and ftp:// support for mine see.sh opener :)
did your instructor also allow a desktop microscope?
You do realize that AI crossed human expert performance in NLP / Vision tasks ?
I would not categorize the movie as a documentary. There's no narration. The audio is all from the Apollo communications system, except for the music by Brian Eno.
How does this fusing work? I assume there are a bunch of wires than are either hot or ground and that determines if part of a chip gets run?
Personally I prefer the office setting. It’s tuned to how I work, I have 3 screens, I can sit and stand at my leisure, I can solve problems at the water cooler instead of in another 30 minute meeting. But most importantly I will get my boundaries between work and my life back.

Some coworkers are are already back but have to put up with some fairly absurd required behaviors (like remaining masked at your desk). These will go away eventually, I’m sure, and then I’ll be back in no matter what broader trend in WFH patterns emerges.
> Most people plead out because they’re ridiculously guilty.

Most people plead out because they can't afford expensive trials.

It's also a rational choice when prosecutors promise that they'll throw the book at you if you go to trial, and it's often your word against the word of cops, prosecutors and the expensive expert witnesses they can afford to hire but you can't. Juries and judges tend to side with law enforcement because they're authority figures and valued members of the justice system, after all.
> Are you 99% certain of that?

Chauvin's case was unique because the narrative of him being a murderer had already been broadcast across the entire country. While I'm not personally 99% sure of his guilt to second-degree murder, the jurors most likely were.
Yeah, the lack of a consistent interpretive hermeneutic for biblical texts is a big cause of this kind of confusion.

Incidentally, there is a lot of scholarly support for the hypothesis that, in context, the forward-looking statements in the book of Revelation (and other New Testament texts) are largely or completely about first-century events (see topics such as preterism, covenant eschatology, full preterism, etc.).

Understanding documents that were written thousands of years ago, in a cultural and linguistic milieu far different than that of western civilization, is difficult for modern westerners. People ought to study more before jumping to outlandish conclusions about the meaning of such texts.
Prosecutors and police get promotions based on convictions. We need to change that.
Ah, that'd make sense. I would just think that they wouldn't mention it if they planned on cheating lol.
That's a relief, but the guy should be put to death. It does no one any favors to keep stringing them along on an arbitrary indefinite attention. The victims have to be worried that he'll get let loose and strike again. The perpetrator is meanwhile tortured through indefinite extensions. Rarely, but sometimes the case such as Breivik presents itself for which, death is mercy to all involved.
>I come here for intelligent discussion

“How corrupt and two-faced is one who claims, 'I intend to be fair and honest in my dealings with you.' What are you up to, my friend? There is really no need for this preamble. The matter will soon become plain. It should be written on your face, it should ring out immediately in your voice, and shine out at once in your eyes, as the loved one at once knows everything about his lovers from the manner of their glance. In short, a good and honest person should resemble one who smells like a goat in this respect, that anyone who comes near him is immediately aware of it whether he wishes it or not. But the mere pretence of simplicity is like an open blade. There is nothing more odious than the friendship of the wolf for the lamb; avoid this above all. A good, straightforward, and kindly person reveals these qualities in his eyes, and they will not escape you.” —Marcus Aurelius

>snide comments expressing nothing but dislike

That's because people who know a thing or two about economics ánd computer science know that all you're doing is pumping your bags. The only thing bitcon incentivizes is greed, making the rich even richer. Crypto“currencies” are pyramid slash Ponzi schemes hiding behind a veneer of sophistication. https://cynicusrex.com/file/cryptocultscience.html.
Is Raymond Chen a kernel engineer? Seems like he mainly works on the win32 API.
> it's a grep that can search code snippets based on language-aware syntax matching instead of regular expressions.

Hey, I'm a maintainer of Semgrep, and this sounds like a pretty good description of what the CLI can do, see this example for finding all function/class/method calls:

$ semgrep -e '$NAME(...)' -l python
flask_todomvc/extensions.py
4:db = SQLAlchemy()
------------------------------------------------------------
5:security = Security()

flask_todomvc/factory.py
15: app = Flask(__name__)
------------------------------------------------------------
17: app.config.from_object(settings)
------------------------------------------------------------
18: app.config.from_envvar('TODO_SETTINGS', silent=True)
To be fair, look at it from totally the opposite direction to see their point of view.

Your workers are under threat from poorly made postal bombs that could easily blow up during processing, killing your workers. Due to the vast volume of post you process, the threat is real and non-trivial.

Do you do nothing?

I think you obviously have to do something, whether you go as far as they did is what's up for debate.
> I never said certificates are "useless". I am commenting only on this one IP address and one specific use of it, downloading zone files.

I meant useless in this scenario. So same.

> All I am saying is that a "bare IP address" in this case is still useful, even without a domain name and certificate.

What? Then we don't disagree at all. You need to reread my earlier comments. I said a certificate with a name is better than a certificate with an IP. I never said anything about the value of the IP address itself, only what's validated.
I think, the authenticity thing is true for me.

I rarely do smalltalk, I talk about what interests me, usually the people I'm currently talking with.
Everyone has their tin foil hat with stuff on like this, but unless they are paying a 100 - 1000 engineers 250k-500k a year, I doubt theyve built anything useful with uptime. Maybe they could just scan a massive dataset of everyones posts, with some string searching, but still. I just dont see any entity like this being able to accomplish this task effectively.
I agree. Mistakes are going to happen at some rate, 4% seems realistic. At least if the wrongfully-convicted person is still alive in prison, they can be released and compensated. They may be able to bring a civil suit if there was sufficient malfeasance or incompetence. Some redress can happen.

As well, once someone has been executed, interest in finding the truth goes away, and any chance to correct and improve the system based on that case's specifics is gone.
I think ctrl r is used frequent enough to warrant a single keychord instead of having to chain though.
Tmdoc: Markdown/LaTeX literate programming tool in Tcl
Will they? Doesn’t seem to be the case in Europe. At least people there don’t equal death penalty with a working justice system
I have created aliases to the new tools, so I get to use the new tool and most flags are the same.