skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This circus of incompetence and dishonesty is the real issue with the death penalty.

First order thinking. There's a time to argue with first principles and there's a time to make arguments via "back door hacks" in the guise of amenability. Life and death may not be the best time to use "hacky" arguments because down the line there may be do more harm than good. Particularly, in common-law systems.

Also,

> When intellectuals talk about the death penalty,

I see that intellectuals has been well normalised into a pejorative these days. What a time to live in!
Okay, by that logic we should ban anything that comes out of Facebook
The death penalty is immoral and unethical. The state should not have the power over the life of a person.

However, the problem with removing the death penalty in the US is that it will not deal with the underlying systemic racism and the misaligned incentives of police and prosecution to "get a conviction".

So yes, if the death penalty is removed, there is one less barbarism.

However, for those who are not on death row, who are subject to the injustices, will there be the same pressure to investigate and exonorate the innocent?

How do we ensure that the incentives for conviction do not supersede the incentives for solving the crime accurately?
I would like to add to your comment that the stupid algorithm called "mathematical puzzle" is just a brute force loop in order to find the nonce => nonsense waste of energy
Even if there were no death penalty, spending 30+ years in prison while innocent does not seem like such a good deal either.
I found a couple that were a bit less positive, but most do seem to appear remorseful to some extent. None seemed to be particularly extreme, though–I wonder if those are sanitized to some extent.
Pretty amazing! Is there an option to display the articles in "year - title" instead of "author, year" format?

Imho this would give a much better overview over the topics and research itself.

With "author, year" format it feels like a tool to analyse citation networks and how people cite each other; more about the social aspect than about the content of the articles.
Thanks! I definitely think there are so many advantages of a 4 day week:

- Higher productivity (i.e. most Fridays are slow / inefficient)

- Reduced burnout / better mental health

- Better staff retention

- 4 day jobs get more applications

- 4 day jobs have less sick time

The list goes on!
I think saying "the real reason" is a mistake.
It's a big reason, but the others are also good reasons.

It is terrible that it affects innocents. It is also true that it is ineffective, counter-productive, and barbaric.

It's sad we're still having this discussion when "On Crimes and Punishments"[0] was published four centuries ago and not much has substantially changed since.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Crimes_and_Punishments
SHODAN from System Shock comes to mind.
Looks like the authors have Chinese names [1]. Should they ban anyone with Chinese names, too, for good measure? Or maybe collective punishment is not such a good idea?

[1]
https://github.com/QiushiWu/QiushiWu.github.io/blob/main/pap...
We have a system called BankID in Sweden where you can do exactly that. And sign stuff and it has the same legal status as a signature on paper.

> The problem with digital data is that it can be copied arbitrarily.

And NFTs aren't digital data? I don't understand the distinction.
> Really losing my faith in the accuracy of HN if such a huge thread is full of misinformation.

What is the point of dubbing yourself the arbiter of the moral high ground and spreading mis-information in the very next breath?

I am less puzzled by you spreading misinformation than I am by the fact you have this outrage at the very thing you are doing and don't hesitate to attack the character of people you disagree with.

> A number of these patches they submitted to the kernel were indeed successfully merged to the Linux kernel tree.

It turns out the researchers DID allow the bad faith commits to be merged and that is a big problem that is still being unwound.

https://fosspost.org/researchers-secretly-tried-to-add-vulne...
And if you only have a single instance to replace, you can use ^old^new^

$ echo "hello hello hello world"
hello hello hello world
$ ^hello^bonjour^
echo "bonjour hello hello world"
bonjour hello hello world
I think it's hard to get a straight answer to your question. People who are heavily invested in Elixir will tell you everything is fine and use esoteric metrics to prove their case.
Follow your hunch and common sense.
I changed job and suddenly started paying rent to mum even when I've had my own house for 2 years... payment for mortgage and to mum are right next to each other.

It would be nice if the houses showed the energy expenses and fees. And mortgages show the interest rate and the expected monthly payments.

Oh, and every property still shows the green "Purchase successful" message since I bought the first property.
Sooooo how does that equilibrium should look like which stops the energy race?

Everyone can calculate bitcoins with equal effort? Or is it still an arms race on who can gather more resources (energy/asics)?
Mtr.sh Looking Glass
I’m not trying to win an argument, just stating what I believe.
Amazon Mechnical Turk for your own team?
Yes yes, but you also seem to be missing the point. Here you are answering the question "How did Alpine appear and what came before it?" but again missing the original question which was "why are people obsessed with container size?"
Arrow functions have the same `this` as the scope where they are declared (in this case, an onclick attribute). Both would work in this case.
This, so much this. It's top 5 most read (#5) for me.
Why parallelized training might not work for your neural networks
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but it is possible that the sentence gets revised before you fo 30 years in prison.

If you've been killed already, that is not going to help you much.
Let's assume the "innocent people get killed" argument abolishes death penalty today. What are the second-order effects of that argument which can be detrimental to the society that you can think of?
> Imagine the same argument, for a hypothetical "reality annihilation" technology - justifying research in an area that is actively harmful and creates secondary, tertiary, and ... Nth order effects just because "others will do it" is not a useful baseline by which to decide what to do, IMO.

But why not? Long as we're talking about 'reality annihilation' technology, maybe the researches stumble upon unknown truths about reality. Perhaps they also touch upon 'reality creating' technology, giving them infinite cups of Earl Gray tea.

As long as someone is going to use AI to create immense wealth for themselves, and potentially destructive weapons, as a European, I think we'd be fools not to try and at least understand the developments, the risks, and have contingency plans (think Batman) for dealing with what might come out of it. Things we can't do without our own research and know how.
and every Joule that was used somewhere else wasn't used for bitcoin mining
Do demonetized channels get their share? A couple of channels I watch swear a lot, and are demonetized. It's a bliss to watch YouTube without ad interruptions. I don't mind product placement by the content creators. I would be happy to pay if I knew they are paid too.
This is fun. It's pretty buggy though.

I bought two properties so far (hindsight is awesome), but I'm still paying rent to mom, apparently I didn't move in.

Now I cannot sell or rent them out.

Also, not much happens? I just sit here watching numbers go up.
Yeah I as going to do that but never got round to it, definitely a desktop experience
This comment is both dogmatic and doesn't have to do anything with the question.

Are you a StackOverflow frequent?

— "How do I do Foo?"

— "You don't need Foo. Do Bar and Baz."

I don't disagree with your point, but this behavior is just annoying.
why would you like to control that, who do you think can establish what is a good use of energy?
You must have lived the good life.

My mum didn't charge me rent, she charged me a ... "contribution".
maybe this one: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/apr/22/russia-well-...
This "debate" has been over in all other nations that the US likes to be compared for years.

It is similar to the "tough on crime" incarceration "debate" in the US, where perverse incentives and political expediency has led to the US being the highest-per-capita incarcerator in the world.

Framing the death penalty debate around "innocent people get killed" will not change the partisan/class perceptions.

The US criminal justice system requires root-and-branch reform, starting with issues around policing, cash bail, school-to-prison pipelines, and unfair drug and "victimless" crimes.

Australia has been going through a similar debate and is at a similar point, without the death penalty, but dealing with the systemic racism and other class related issues.
Yes, it's still terrible. However, it's better than death (though I can imagine somebody arguing that "they'd rather die than rot in prison").
'oh my zsh' is fun, but they really throw the kitchen sink in there. I had to get rid of it because terminal startup speed and doing anything in large folders was incredibly slow

If all the components of 'oh my zsh' were compiled into the shell and shared data structures, I bet it would be as fast as bash and only limited by IO
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It's actually very disappointing that this whole monitoring system was deemed necessary to begin with. How screwed is the system that anyone one would believe this level of intrusion should be part of the education process.
I have very strong beliefs about the death penalty. I believe it is the only just punishment for murder; that ALL murderers should be executed; that anything less than execution is a
grave miscarriage of justice for a crime that is so horrible the mind cannot even wrap around it. I also think that pain should be part of the death penalty... that a murderer doesn’t deserve a quick and painless death but rather a healthy period of searing agony to experience the anguish that they themselves wrought on another.

However I believe that there is too big a gulf between “murderers” and “people convicted of murderer”; that the crime of killing is so severe that doing it to an innocent person is a miscarriage of justice far graver than any underpunishment of murderers; and so I oppose the death penalty in all forms as a matter of law.
That sounds the same setup as Nice Guy Eddie has in Reservoir Dogs. Probably you don't want to meet the people who had those cards as they might have a penchant for chopping people's ears off and setting them on fire.
Also, to be more realistic there should be some unexpected expenses and disasters, forcing people to have some emergency funds available.
Well, looks great...
> It’s as if nobody has ever read George Orwell’s 1984

no, they read it and think "how can we do even better"
The Hub and Spoke model of policy-based management for SQL Server
After having learned of Critical Theory these disingenuous cynical pieces are easier to spot.

She repeatedly calls female voices "disembodied" as if male ones aren't or the solution is to have the speakers encased in female puppets.
Show HN: I made an app for stories that you truly own
Here is the engine itself if you want to play a game of chess against 1KB of JavaScript! https://vole.wtf/kilobytes-gambit/
The ban seems rational, when viewed in the context of kernel development.

The benefit is twofold: (a) it's simpler to block a whole university than it is to figure out who the individuals are and (b) this sends a message that there is some responsibility at the institutional level.

The risk is that someone writing from that university address might have something that would be useful to the software.

Getting patches and pull-requests accepted is not a guaranteed. And it's asking a lot of kernel developers that they check not just bad code but also for badly-intended code.

I had a look at the research paper (https://github.com/QiushiWu/QiushiWu.github.io/blob/main/pap...) and it saddens me to see such a thing coming out of a university. It's like a medical researcher introducing a disease to see whether it spreads quickly.
check https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/death_row/dr_info/tignergeraldlas...

> Yes. My last statement. I was wrongfully convicted of this crime against Michael Watkins and James Williams on 10th Street on August 31, 1993. I got convicted on a false confession because I never admitted to it, but my lawyer did not put this out to the jury. I did not kill those drug dealers. I send love to my family and friends; my east side family and friends. I am being real with the real. That's all that counts in my heart. I will see you later. That's it.
> […] capital punishment means killing innocent people
That's a great suggestion, there isn't an option currently but that is reasonably easy to add. One issue is trying to fit enough labels on nodes to make it useful which we have grappled with.
What would be the security implications of these things:

* a black hat writes malware that proves to be capable of taking out a nation's electrical grid. We know that such malware is feasible.

* a group of teenagers is observed to drop heavy stones from a bridge onto a motorway.

* another teenager pointing a relatively powerful laser at the cockpit of a passenger jet which is about to land at night.

* an organic chemist is demonstrating that you can poison 100,000 people by throwing certain chemicals into a drinking water reservoir.

* a secret service subverting software of a big industrial automation company in order to destroy uranium enrichment plants in another country.

* somebody hacking a car's control software in order to kill its driver

What are the security implications of this? That more money should be spent on security? That we should stop to drive on motorways? That we should spent more money on war gear? Are you aware how vulnerable all modern infrastructure is?

And would demonstrating that any of these can practically be done be worth an academic paper? Aren't several of these really a kind of military research?

The Linux kernel community does spend a lot of effort on security and correctness of the kernel. They have a policy of maximum transparency which is good, and known to enhance security. But their project is neither a lab in order to experiment with humans, nor a computer war game. I guess if companies want to have even more security, for running things like nuclear power plants or trains on Linux, they should pay for the (legally required) audits by experts.
Texas has institutionalized a barbaric entertainment around death row prisoners, with things like "last meals" and "last words".

It's disgusting.
Haha yeah, I've been using KnockoutJS since 2015 and use it on all my projects. I should probably learn React or something but if it does the job I don't see any reason to change yet.

Yes unexpected "life events" is definitely something I want to add in the future. Still a very early stage MVP at the moment"
What Impact Can IoT Testing Create on Your Business?
I think you vastly overestimate consequences of not spending money on things beyond necessities.

One might argue that by spending money on concerts, nights out and dating you buy more damage to your health and well being than benefit.

You can have friends without money. And you can keep healthy for free.
I think there is a somewhat reasonable argument that a punishment should mirror the crime, and any less than inhuman and barbaric to the inhuman and barbaric lacks actual justice?

I’m not saying I agree, I don’t personally support the death sentence, but if you’re actually interested in changing peoples minds it’s good to know where they’re coming from, and why they may not find your argument compelling.

I personally find the posts argument far more compelling.
Hi HN,

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- Expo/ React Native
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> I believe it is the only just punishment for murder; that ALL murderers should be executed;

That's such a twisted mind you have there.
> divide pretty neatly along partisan and class lines

In America. The rest of the civilised world decided on this a long time ago.

It's not so much a "partisan and class" divide, it's "right-wing Americans vs the rest of Western Civilisation"

Even right-wingers in the UK and Europe do not want to bring back capital punishment [0]

[0] Obviously there are some wingnuts who do, but there's not to my knowledge a serious right-wing political party that has a policy of bringing back capital punishment. Corporal punishment, maybe.
Lockdowns _did_ have a non-technical interpretation. The main purpose was to avoid everyone getting sick at the same time so that hospitals wouldn't run out of beds.

I think the main problem with politicians was that they hesitated because they wanted to have two contradictory things: lockdowns to slow down the pandemic (until vaccines were ready) and keeping the economy going "as normal". IMO you can't square that circle.
Thanks, that's kind of my end goal. In the UK we really aren't taught how to manage our finances in school but it's an invaluable skill.
Sure, but death is worse, as evidenced by the vast majority of death row inmates who try to stall the process. Very few say “OK, just shoot me now.”
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I was just thinking this, as cool as having TouchID on a keyboard is, I'm not willing to keep a spare keyboard or ditch my GergoPlex for it.

Another user pointed out that a Watch can fill a similar void, but keeping one _just_ for authentication seems overkill.

Maybe binding the system password into the keyboard firmware is ok. Unless you need to worry about someone dumping FW or decamping chips or whatever.
I think that burden falls on you since you're the one trying to discredit the study.
I hate it. Imagine if the sentence was "When the poorly educated talk about the death penalty,"

Trump was right about how he attracted his support.
Apologies, misread your comment as "won't frustum cull by default".
Arguments against the death penalty downplay how barbaric incarceration is in the first place. But ostracism and exile have their limits, and justice is an essential function of government ... so ... we have our current situation.
> Even discussing other factors arguments and considerations dilutes the core point...

Fair enough, I understand that those are your beliefs (they are mine too) but you'd be surprised how poorly they hold up in the real world against the testimonies of victims of some truly horrific crimes.

But from the sound of it you would prefer to weaken the case for abolishing the death penalty for the sake of making a more general point around the sanctity of life that, in the long run, will achieve...what exactly?
> justifying research in an area that is actively harmful and creates secondary, tertiary, and ... Nth order effects just because "others will do it" is not a useful baseline by which to decide what to do

That's a false conclusion, I'm not suggesting they should develop their own, just that they will be in a the position where others have it and the EU will be knocking at their doors to get access. Whether it will be for legitimate interest or not is another topic.
Why does a murderer deserve another breath?
Yup, Signal just handed Apple's lawyers a loaded gun. Who knew I'd be enjoying Signal and Apple tag-teaming Cellebrite.
OK, so you'd get nickel-63(+positron and neutrino) which then decays into copper-63.
I love blog posts like these: they don't go after real-world problems directly but rather explore what's even possible.

paulfurtado in this comment section mentioned UPX[0] as a way to get binaries even smaller. Funnily enough UPX even managed to decrease the size of the asmttpd web server for me:

### build stage ###
FROM ubuntu:18.04 as builder
RUN apt update
RUN apt install -y make yasm as31 nasm binutils git
RUN git clone https://github.com/nemasu/asmttpd.git asmttpd
RUN mv asmttpd/* .
RUN rm -rd asmttpd
RUN make release

# i have the upx binary on my machine in this case
COPY ./upx-3.96-amd64_linux/upx upx
RUN ./upx --brute asmttpd

### run stage ###
FROM scratch
COPY --from=builder /asmttpd /asmttpd
COPY ./index.html /web_root/index.html
CMD ["/asmttpd", "/web_root", "8080"]

With a 4 byte index.html my total image size is now 5.3kB!

[0]: https://github.com/upx/upx
Rust Support in the Linux Kernel
An interesting point, but I would argue that I was following your dictum and playing within the boundaries.

I wasn't angry at my friend, and I wasn't personally seeking revenge. I was role-playing my cat army, which suddenly had its home city burned down. My cats certainly were seeking revenge.

In real life, facing an enemy who has nothing to lose can be highly dangerous, and creating such a situation is foolhardy. Why should a board game be different? Why play for second, when a more appealing alternate goal suggested itself?
I'm happy with the conclusion you have reached, but boy is your first paragraph terrifying. It seems that you're conflating justice and accountability with revenge.
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Is that true, though? If there's automotive traffic or construction work going on, possibly, but any public space with lots of women and (especially) children won't be quiet in the high frequencies. I nonscientifically believe the booming male voices were a lot more effective at being understood and commanding attention over the din at public swimming pools back when I used to spend summers there. They also sometimes have a grumpy old guy do announcements in public transports here in case of major incidents, and I find he's much easier to understand at times than the disembodied female voice they otherwise use. Seems like subway trains and trams produce a lot of high-pitched noise.

There's also this thing with having a "soft voice", that's something much more often attributed to women than men (IME – can't remember hearing that said about a man, like, ever). But in a relatively quiet environment, I pretty much never notice any difference in loudness, nor on recordings, and it's definitely not a shyness thing. But they still get drowned out much, much easier in public spaces than my own male voice, and it's visibly frustrating having to almost scream to just be understood while I can talk normally. That was a pretty regular thing during lunch break for a while when I worked in a team with several women who had that issue.

And finally, while I may be really weird in that regard and everyone else here just processes content and not the voice that's talking, but female and male voices really do have very different emotional coloring for me. I think my native country is still a bit behind when it comes to ubiquitous disembodied female voices, but I'll readily believe it works, and I don't have difficulty imagining the emotional part of the message hinges at least partly on its femininity.