skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, probably, but the article is explicitly only looking at states with the death penalty:

> In the analyses below, we include only states allowing the death penalty in the year of analysis. Because we focus on the geographical variability in the use of the death penalty, we exclude the US military (which has sentenced 15 individuals to death since reestablishment in 1984, but carried out no executions) and the federal government (which has issued 79 death sentences since reinstatement in 1988, and carried out three executions).

And with this in mind, they still found that death sentences didn't correlate well with the homicide rate:

> The table also lists the rate of death sentences per 100 homicides and the rate of homicides per 100,000 population. If there was a direct link among these variables, we would expect some consistency here. But we see very little. In fact, the correlations are surprisingly low; in fact, the rate of death sentences per 100 homicides and the rate of homicides per 100,000 population correlate at -0.12. The counties with the highest raw numbers of death sentences listed in the table include not a single county that ranks in the top 100 with regards to death sentences per 100 homicides.

First, even the death penalty rate isn't approximately equal across the sample, so it's not just population. And second, they are saying that the death penalty rate doesn't even correlate well with the crime rate. And yet there are still a few outlier counties that have an abnormally high death penalty rate! That is what is unintuitive. I mean, sure, it makes some sense that some counties are more likely to issue the death penalty than others, even where it's legal, but it's a huge skew, and it's very different from saying "Texas has a lot of people."
> A problem with modern psychology is the diagnostic criteria aren't very much based on underlying causes as on being able to reliably diagnose patients based on symptoms regardless of physician.

That’s generally true of diagnosis when we don’t understand the mechanism, and since where we do understand the mechanism we treat that as a reason to move the thing-with-behavioral-symptoms out of psychology and into some other medical domain, so its essentially an irreducible problem with psychology.
My counterpoint whenever a teacher said this in school: 4chan.org
This is an indie open-source blockchain game, running on-chain, led by the community.

The game is coded in Rust, compiled to Wasm. Both the blockchain and its web frontend use that.

Most "blockchain games" use closed-source centralized servers. They just change some in-game assets into NFTs, and that's all. On the other hand, this open-source project fully runs in the standalone blockchain and is led by the community.
Curious why your comment got collapsed, it's very interesting.

Genuine question: why archive?

While I don't really have a substantive list, I very often come across archived threads on here and elsewhere that I'd like to respond to. "Wow this is awes--" "oh it's from 2016".

I guess I just don't understand the hate against necroposting. If there's a thread out there that has exactly the context and disposition I was looking for, _let me respond to it_. In a lot of cases I don't actually care if any reply(s) take 4 years to come through!
Problems solved with Monte Carlo methods are often ones where you need to draw random values from oddly-shaped multidimensional distributions.

The naive method of doing this is just to cover the space evenly and weight each value by its probability. This is often computationally inefficient because you spend lots of time generating samples that don't actually contribute much to the result.

This is why we have methods like Metropolis--Hastings or Gibbs: these take an appropriately encoded description of the desired distribution and, through clever means, generate samples from it relatively cheaply, in proportion to how likely they are.

This part of the problem is likely what the GP alluded to.
AI is pretty far away from those, too. The "window" mechanism that GPT-3 and similar methods use basically prevents it from staying on-topic over the course of a few paragraphs.
Luxemberg and Ireland are both part of the European Union. Maybe allowing individual member states to operate as tax havens is not benefitting the Union as a whole?
Do you remember why the CM was so frustrating? That's a very ironic story right there.
I'm sorry you do not like it. Actually is borderline for me too. But I didn't resisted...
Browser extensions work well here too.
I usually set it to grayscale and DnD when I want to go to sleep... if you set it all day it might help
>"My favorite was the question of what technique will empty a jug of water fastest. Should you simply turn it upside down and let the air rush in (as it must, to replace the water) in that halting, glug-glug-glug fashion, or hold it at a gentler angle so the pour is unbroken?

Answer: turn the jug upside down and swirl it vigorously to set up a whirlpool effect. This creates a hollow space at the centre of the flow, where air is free to enter. The jug will empty very quickly."
> I have a bunch of friends who're worried about paying -1% interest while they've held cash at 2-3% inflation for years.

I agree with you very much on inflation being a hidden interest on all our money.
The turmoil of the early to mid 20th century produced many such fascinating stories. People seem as if they lived 2 or 3 lives. Life after I'm sure felt surreal at times for people who lived through it.

Chaos and conflict in the world is still minting such people today. I imagine quite a few such stories will be revealed when we have time to collect them from people who have emigrated due to the conflicts in Iraq and Syria.
Not the same thing, but have a look at the Gemini [0] protocol. It uses a markup format called Gemtext which is similar to, although less featureful than Markdown. All pages are written in and served as gemtext. There's almost no rendering done, unless your client is configured to use custom stylesheets.

[0]: http://gemini.circumlunar.space/
Just echoing the other comments on this tree; hits very close to home. I admit I might have some other triggers, but it's just been so persistent from growing up until now, and it's getting worse the moment I switched my work to mostly developing/programming instead of talking to people.
I think they both have potential performance issues in the compiler though, and both can be compared with textual code generation.

I think of one as metaprogramming with the parser and the other as metaprogramming with an interpreter. (And the C preprocessor is metaprogramming with only a lexer. Code generation is the kind of metaprogramming that every language supports :) )

Although maybe you're saying Zig doesn't have the functionality of Rust macros, and that could be true; I haven't played with it enough.

However I do think there is overlap as Zig implements printf with compile-time evaluation and Rust does it with macros:

https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#Case-Study-printf-...

https://andrewkelley.me/post/zig-programming-language-blurs-...
At the end of the day our software is going to run on real machines, sending data across real networks. I feel like we'll always be leaving performance on the table if we don't understand the characteristics of the hardware we're developing on.

I can build a cubby house in the backyard (low performance system) without understanding the the physical characteristics on the materials I'm using, but if I want to build a sky-scraper (high performance system) I need to understand the actual physical materials and how to use them effectively.
Plenty apparently. Like I said, the public transportation is great here but owning a car is very popular. No more waiting for transit. No more trips that take 30 min that you can drive in 15 min. Easier to cart your kids around.

And it’s not cheap at all (import tax of 100%), yet people are more than willing to pay it.
This is of course why garbage collected languages exist. If you don't need the performance or efficiency gained from having full control of memory, then GC'd languages will offer less cognitive load.

IMHO, programming in Rust is no harder than C++ or C. It just forces one to be explicit about lifetimes and ownership, concepts one should be carefully thinking about in other systems programming languages.
If the goal was to eradicate all mosquitos, I would see the ecological risks. But here it's about just one specific species of mosquitos which only represents 4% of the local population, and the widely used alternative is insecticides, which are damaging to so many different insects. Reducing the need fir insecticides looks like a worthy goal.
It is extraordinary rare to ear money by writing. It may be hard, but people dont reward it with cash.
India has very reliable Post Office banks. Although the interest rate is low, the money there is safe. It serves a huge amount of people, especially in rural areas and underprivileged people. Speed Post is very reliable as well.

> India has the largest Postal Network in the world with 154,965 Post Offices (as on 31.03.2017) of which 139,067 are in the rural areas. At the time of independence, there were 23,344 Post Offices, which were primarily in urban areas. Thus, the network has registered a seven-fold growth since Independence, with the focus of this expansion primarily in rural areas. On an average, a Post Office serves an area of 21.56 Sq. Km and population of 7753 people.

It also provides safe, steady jobs to a lot of people.
Larger FFT window has undesired side effects because the estimated frequencies are averaged over the entire window. Moreover, the FFT output always spans from 0 Hz to 24 kHz (with 48 kHz sample rate), so to zoom into the 0..6 kHz region we'll need a window with 8192 bins or about 150 ms. With such window it would be impossible to capture rapid volume oscillations.
It is fascinating that the article does not mention this, if it is true.
Yeah. But the thing is, after you have own baby, you may find yourself with like 5 pairs of never worn baby shoes.

So while it somewhat suggest death, it is only because of the literally context, which makes you expect something deep. If you seen that in an ad, you would not feel the same.
Humans have been pretty good at improving their lives, but not so good at doing it sustainably. I'm not very impressed until we get the climate change under control and build an economy that isn't dependent on fossil fuels.
Sorry, full-time only at the moment.
Good comment and I picked up on similar things, including pulling up at the "professor didn't find me interesting enough to talk to after they asked me what I did" anecdote. She seems quite status-minded, which yes, is a fairly widely held obsession. Ppl who judge you from how you answer "What do you do?" are exactly the people you want to avoid / turn away, so giving as bland an answer to this question is only a good thing, whether what you're currently doing would be considered 'interesting' or not.
https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/node/6423

"A new study reports continued climate-altering carbon emissions and intensive land use have inadvertently greened half of the Earth’s vegetated lands. Green leaves convert sunlight to sugars, thus providing food, fiber and fuel, while replacing carbon dioxide (CO2) in the air with water. The removal of heat-trapping CO2 and wetting of air cools the Earth’s surface. Global greening since the early 1980s may have thus reduced global warming, possibly by as much as 0.25oC, reports the study “Characteristics, drivers and feedbacks of global greening” published in the inaugural issue of the journal Nature Reviews Earth and Environment. Two of the authors, Dr. Jarle W. Bjerke and Dr. Hans Tømmervik works at Norwegian Institute for Nature Research at the Fram Centre in Tromsø, Norway."
I think the point was that 'the community' noticed the imbalance, and then spoke about it (refer the link in TFA [0]) and then ... nothing (useful) happened.

It's slightly tangential to the seemingly quite hostile environment over there, but certainly not unrelated given the context, and the author's gender.

[0] https://archive.is/vh3Ye
> our current population level is already unsustainable.

[Citation needed].

People have been saying this since the 18th Century, and yet we continue to find ways to support our growing population. There’s enormous swathes of the Earth that remain untouched and unused—the carrying capacity of the planet is much higher than our current population level.
Infrastructure. Fuel cell cars need hydrogen filling stations, which don't exist. Heck, EV charging in the US is still lousy, and that's after a decade of consumer use.
I think real-time lookup in a corpus would be enough if it's implemented well.

I'm a non-native speaker (reasonably fluent) in two non-English languages, and when I'm writing, if anything strikes me as sounding "off" then I google the phrase and see how common it is.

In my less-fluent of the two languages, I end up doing this a lot, often just to check my work. As a result I write e-mails and such very slowly, but at a fluency level exceeding my actual fluency in that language. Which seems like a good tradeoff for written communication.

It would obviously be useful to have that done for me while I type.
Would an android emulator work?
> It means we can express concepts in English with structures and flows that, if grammatically correct, have the advantage of sounding original, different, sometimes exotic.

Yeah, that happens all the time. It always strikes me as unfair when someone comes out with an ostensibly perfect sentence and the result is "well, you didn't make any mistakes; all the words mean what you want them to mean and all the grammar is used correctly. But the sentence is still wrong; that's just not how we say that."
IIRC, back in the day the idea was that .org's couldn't host commercial services, or run ads. Never really enforced though, so yeah, pointless.

Also, I own a .org , and I'm not sure I'm credible at all, so quod erat demonstrandum, I guess.
At which point you should break out KnightOS [0]

[0] https://knightos.org/
this is how to use and set up rr on redhat, with a simple example.

the rr project itself focusses on rr proper and delegates the os specifics to the "install" section.

https://rr-project.org/

rr is supported by all mature binary distros, rh, suse, ubuntu, ... out of the box these days.
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The Bible a as a whole is making a lot of claims, not just that one. You claim one example of being (close to) right (given a chalcolithic lifestyle and medicine) is “interesting” in isolation — but that ignores that it’s surrounded by nonsense.

It isn’t interesting or surprising that a collection of nonsense might be occasionally (and even then vaguely) correct.

Lottery players are occasionally correct about the numbers, even if they chose them by superstition. But even they don’t get to claim the jackpot when they choose and the drawn numbers are merely “close”. Yet being close is the first step in how superstitions get generated.

Likewise, the Bible: no more or less interesting than any other collection of Just So stories, fitting a narrative to an existing observation.
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If these blood tests do end up being good predictors of depression, it will be very interesting to see how they apply to people who are suffering from similar symptoms that are not clinically depressed - for example, people who have just experienced the death of a loved one.
TeXmacs is as extensible as Emacs, being based on the same principles: having a full-fledged scheme interpreter to modify the behaviour of the UI and to programmatically edit the documents. You can even have Emacs-like keybindings :). What Emacs lacks and TeXmacs has is a sophisticate typesetting engine (i.e. something like TeX) to render complex documents. What Emacs has and TeXmacs lacks is a large user base and dedicated people which develop extensions, but it has a small number of core developers which maintain and use it everyday. It has ~20 years of development history.
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There are certainly bright people who remain in Canada, but they usually have clear reasons that convince them to stay rather than double their salaries.
I don’t know, but that’s what the usgs doc said, and another list said Houston and New Orleans are tied for first place (in NA presumably). I saw a video the other day about subsidence in some valley in California that’s almost as nuts. Bridges that are now underwater during every rain because they’ve sunk, things of that sort.
Come on people. We've all seen Jurassic park. This kind of thing never ends well .. what are they thinking?

Edit: bioengineering projects released into live ecologies have unforeseen consequences.
And now also supports Ryzen CPUs (to some extent)
It's not even close. Bot spam is > half of my logs sometimes.
sudo sh -c 'echo 1 >/proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid'

Here’s another way of doing this:

echo 1 | sudo tee /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid

You can’t use > redirection to a different user, because that’s just a file descriptor and they don’t have a user associated with them; but pipes can run between different users like this (well, I guess it’s sudo handling the plumbing there), and so tee can run as root, receiving input from an unprivileged user and then doing what it does, writing the contents of stdin both to a file and to stdout.

This leads to a particularly useful trick in Vim if you edit a file you don’t have permission to write (most likely because you forgot to run `sudo vim` but now you’ve made the changes and you just want to save it, not quit and do it again as root):

:w !sudo tee %

That is: “write the contents of this buffer to the stdin of a `sudo tee ‹buffer filename›` invocation”. (See also https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2600783/how-does-the-vim... for more detailed explanation.)
A similar alternative would be to place it somewhere where a notable effort would be required to fetch it, like traveling half an hour to a weekend house.

All these things could give just the right amount of challenge and time so that the urge to scroll could transition into rational thinking.
Maybe Rats Aren't to Blame for the Black Death
Return-to-office fears: Remote workers worry about falling behind in careers
I used to read a lot of junk paperbacks - mostly horrors, but also stories about truck drivers, detectives and western stories. They were schematic to the extreme. Looking back, it was the same story over and over and over. I liked them back then. I used to read also a lot of repetitive sci-fi: those small start trek books.

I never read Harlequin, but it being repetitive is not something special. Back when people read a lot of books, we did not read James Joyce and Charles Dickens exclusively. I mean, spiderman comics, ninja turtles comics, they were all the same story repeated again and again too.

We read easy for fun books.
"More than half of workers (52%) expect those at their company who work in-person to have better career opportunities in the future than those who work remotely."

"Younger workers get a huge benefit from being in the office — they may get pulled into projects that will allow them to learn new skills, or they may strike up a conversation with the CEO in the elevator /../"

But this would not be a problem when almost everyone works (mostly) remotely, including the CEO.
Google engineer calls out Apple for holding back the web
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Couldn't help but notice that 'Xanadu' uses a lot of rhymes ... GPT apparently didn't notice that constraint.

And then there's: "While all the stars that round her burn’d, Bow’d to the ground and based their fires. To the one ever-branching cloud" When 'base' is used as a past-tense verb, we expect a prepositional phrase ... before the next period. The preposition is never 'to'. Doesn't matter; the period stopped the English part.

"That blew and drifted—blow and drift;" What?

"If you told me that Coleridge wrote it, I would believe you."

NExt.
A diagnostician which crosses all specialties would be really nice. I imagine this is an area where an easily replicated computing tool might be the best advancement in the field. Initial symptoms and the low hanging easy tests (as well as any others 'that may as well also be run' for any labs or test types indicated given a moderate extra effort) would drive a root cause diagnosis and recommendation for a specialist who can best treat any of the possibly multiple issues.
It sounds like you essentially invented the spreadsheet. Nice work!

> Part of the calculation involved sorting. I didn't know anything about sorting, so I implemented what I later learned was bubble sort. Because that's obviously how you'd do that.

I would like to politely contest the authenticity of this specific detail. In my fairly strong collection of evidence, people just do not bubble sort without being told how to do that.

People's natural mental sorting algorithm is most often insertion sort. That's what you use when you hold a hand of playing cards, for example. Sometimes something else (radix sort with monopoly money, for example), but I've never seen anyone invent bubble sort without first being told about it one way or another.

(Which is a good thing because bubble sort is just such a stupid idea I don't know why we teach it. In my life, I've only ever been notified of one single good use case for it: you need to slowly converge on an order but the minimum amount of computation is necessary for each step of the convergence.)
See https://github.com/rr-debugger/rr/wiki/Zen for details.

(And since https://github.com/rr-debugger/rr/pull/2847, I think all 5000-series CPUs and APUs should be supported.)
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I guess I can see that, do potential partners and sponsors not just accept a website counter? I guess an outside company is sort of an auditor on that kind of things. Language localization stuff is about the only reason I could think of, and even then like... don't open source projects almost always rely on passionate users for translations?

Thanks for the explanation in any case, I at least can picture the first working with bigcorp that doesn't know any other way of measuring the impact of what they fund.
Since it's show 'n tell, you can't get a .bank without a bank charter. https, dnssec, tls > 1.2, and dmarc are all mandatory and the registrar does scan everything in your dns zones for violations.
TLDR: work life balance is difficult even as a retired billionaire