skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This model shows that the cumulative number of death sentences previously imposed in the same county is a strong predictor of the number imposed in a given year.

Sorry to be dismissive, but this is obvious. People who ate a lot of steak last year are likely to eat a lot of steak this year. People who did X a lot last year are more likely to do X a lot this year than people who did X less last year.

Some district attorneys' offices are more interested in pursuing the death penalty than others. How often to pursue the death penalty is a political question. Liberal district attorneys are much less interested in it than conservative district attorneys. And because the last 40 years of case law have made it very difficult to correctly prosecute a death penalty case without getting overturned for some reason on appeal, it is a significant financial investment for a prosecutor's office to pursue the death penalty. And the expense is not just the prosecution but the decades of appeals and other legal actions that will follow. So it makes sense that death penalty prosecutions are centered in places committed to pursuing the death penalty.
Not just that but some judges are elected and research (I know, no cites) shows that elected judges get tougher in election years.

Now you're making me wonder if they controlled for elected judges.
It’s not that it’s hyped, it’s the large scale and empty essence of the hype. The essence is “it’ll go to 500k”. It’s an echo chamber of get rich for nothing excitement.
If you actually understand a "momentum" asset, you will definitely not be left holding the bag.
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Play counter strike on wireless? Hahaha no way man. CS is a highly latency sensitive game (as is any competitive fps). Wifi is much too prone to disturbances and packet loss, so you will experience lag/jitter/loss.
It would be interesting to see a breakdown of whether male vs female judges have more or less death penalty sentences.
What level of Fully Self Writing are we at right now? Maybe L1 with L2 on the horizon?

I like the idea of text generation as a writing aid, even a flawed network can help a stuck brain. But say writers really do hate writing, I still come back to the big question: Who's going to read it all? Cheap writing is bad enough already (think stock market news, recipe blogs, or any of my HN comments), I can't begin to fathom how much text I'll be scrolling through once GPT-7 is released. I suppose the automated writing will be consumed by automated readers then, and my involvement starts to feel kind of unnecessary.
Mosquitoes do play a role in the environment. This particular one doesn't really though. No need to take the word of some stranger on the internet, there's plenty of very knowledgeable, very environmentally minded people who agree and have explained why.
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I had a similar experience with a side project. I used an .app tld since it was available and, hey, it seemed kind of cool. Then I told my friends and they were totally confused- “your apps not on the App Store?”

Ugh. Lesson learned.
Why is everyone getting triggered by the story of divorce? A lot of unhappy relationships out there? This is highly relevant article. this power couple Microsoft founder I mean his actions and life trajectory are deeply intetlinked with the history and future of technology on Earth this is extremely relevant article, and historical moment. As much as some naive commenters here would seem to like to assume a divorce does not just affect the people involved especially in this case massive flows of capital are going to alter as a result.
Carnegie Mellon had a rule (mid-2000s) that you could only host .orgs from the static IPs you could register on your dorm Ethernet. I launched openpodcast.org & bibme.org as a result of that. I always thought it was a senseless rule.
At my work they have already drawn the hard line come back in July or be replaced. Profits are up, government research funding was increased not cut, but we are facing a second year of no raises and a "hiring freeze" (tons of jobs get posted but always entry level). The Drumph Recession is sticking.
It’s a useful metric in this age where failing to plan for growth is endemic in American cities. What’s an alternative? A city that is highly desirable but does not grow is a playground for the rich.
The article paints him as sympathetic but naive and foolish. Based on the facts here alone I reluctantly support the decision to fire him. He seems like a good person with questionable— at times bad— judgment who does not fully understand the realpolitik of the world he inhabits.
This was long enough ago that I believe it was over the phone, and I don't remember.

I wonder if I squeaked.
I really wish WFH sticks. Mainly because it reduces a lot of pollution and energy use.
There are very few well known tlds that have real restrictions on applicants, so why not just generalize and say “the internet doesn’t mean credible”? I guess it’s hard for me to empathize since I’ve lived through the 90s and own a dot org myself.
Well, that could have been a fun spree. They must have asked my date of birth, though.
Indeed. To complete the picture, Apple gave asylum. And Google denounced the employee as a traitor and recalled their ambassador to Apple. /s
There is 0 information on the landing page that tells what this is. The 4/18 “in a nutshell” link doesn’t count. That info needs to be up front and center.
And nothing changed. Probably even worse. In most modern software companies you are blocked by a lack of permission at some point. Hard- and software became more and more hardened and complex. Thus, tinkering with it to work-around rather requires luck or a very very deep knowledge.

I wonder what the alternatives are. I think systems that provide fully-enabled sandboxes are they way to go. Also, self-service instead of tickets (are the humans approving your tickets and better in detecting unauthorized requests?). I think that's why containerization is so popular.
Honestly it's not like these stats are always present on the watch face, unless you choose for things like your heart rate to be present. For ECG for example, you have to specifically go into the ECG app and hold your finger on the crown for 30 seconds just to get a scan.
I am not saying categorically that we should not manipulate nature. But that it is extremely common especially for European descended cultures (colonizers) to be over confident in the correctness of their priorities and their understanding of the effects.

Anti science has nothing to do with this. I’d advocate for more scientific study generally. We thought we had a great thing with glyphosate and we released it in farms all over the world and now the monarch butterflies are endangered and farm workers are getting cancer.

If we are willing to learn about the problems these “quick solutions” will cause it forces us to look to alternative means. There are no quick fixes when it comes to the environment. That entire mode of thinking is what has caused so many of our environmental problems in the first place.
70 years ago (roughly, may be inexact), everyone who also "knows anything about it" said it was a fantastic idea to spray our kids with DDT.

I wish I could pin down the reasoning to explain why I feel this is wrong, but intuition is the only thing I have to go on, even as heavily discounted that is in this day and age.

Mosquitos are horrible little devils, and we swat every one we can and destroy their habitats when we find them. Glad to see you at least have a seed of skepticism in you. Humans are notoriously bad at playing god.
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Personally I don't think HN should discourage or censor blog posts for being verbose, airing relevant recent personal drama, or taking a roundabout path to their point
Its basically abusing the the 3rd party doctrine to get around legal requirements.

Its definitely against the spirit of the law.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine
This comment is correct.

The most interesting question that it raises is whether the comment was written by GPT-3. How would we ever know for certain?
Yeah it would suck if a freak viral accident transferred this to humans, we then get to live through Frank Herbert’s ‘The White Plague’ (where men are carriers for a disease that kills only women)

Inheritable fertility manipulation and gene drives should be applied very, very carefully
Chess and go are both constrained games with no hidden information. Literature is anything but.
Maybe the advice from the future was to stay away from it?
Thanks for digging this up. Honestly I was doing more for SpiderMonkey than for Rust at code level, but at exec sponsor level, it was me and only me. HTH
>pretty much everyone who knows anything about it ... agrees it can be eradicated with no meaningful impact on the ecosystem.

Any citations for this? Seems like a very bold claim considering this has never been done before.
> do you really think ... is a good takeaway from ...

Sure, I've seen that sort of response many times from technical communities with newbies who demand too much of someone's time. It's the only specific example in that entire section, and the author continues throughout the post to point out how valuable they believe contributors' time is. It seems to me like one of the core issues motivating this post is a mismatch in expectations about how valuable that time is, thus my conclusion

The rest of the post isn't really substantial otherwise. The code of conduct section has no tangible or even hinted examples of selective enforcement, just the author stating they know any reports are going to Andrew, and that they don't trust Andrew to actually be fair. The section about inclusion of women is actually about a single provocative thread getting locked (new member doesn't see the "swells of women" they expected to see in the forum roster, assumes all the members are guys who are "bro-ing it up", then tells them to police themselves), with the author somehow concluding that as a sign women aren't welcome in the community. I'm not sure how the name re-registration policy is evidence of a toxic culture, but even if it was on-topic the author doesn't really seem too understanding of the problem it's intended to solve, and that the ethics policy they link indicates that the intent is for legitimate cases of theft to be dealt with on a case-by-case basis. The hostility to forking section seemed fishy, but by the time I got to that section honestly I felt like it was another case of the author crying wolf and didn't bother looking for the details the author should have included.
I think this study is orthogonal to whether or not the death penalty is a good thing.

There are a lot of things that are self-reinforcing. Take for examples, unions. Whether or not you think unions are a good thing or bad thing, likely you will be more successful unionizing a company that is located where there already are a lot of unions. For example, one of the big disadvantages of the Alabama Amazon union organizers was that they were in a part of the country where there was a strong anti-union sentiment in general.

To get to something more related to law enforcement, likely certain areas of the country will have more success in convicting police officers of murders.

For example, the Chauvin trial, instead of being held in Hennepin County, was held in a small rural county in norther Minnesota would most probably been harder to convince the jury to convict on all three counts and probably would have had a higher chance of a hung jury(which is why the defense asked to moved the venue).

Yes different parts of the country, and even the state will have likely different outcomes. This will be true for a lot of things. This observation is orthogonal to whether what you want is right or wrong.

After all, no one would argue that Chauvin’s conviction should be thrown out since a different jury in a different part of the country might have reached a different conclusion?
I always think about The Forever War[0] whenever the topic of extending life spans comes up.

While we don't have the jumps due to time dilation, I contemplate how the human mind would adapt to the changes of society over an even longer period of time. The societal and technological advances of the 20th century were immense. I'm assuming even more changes for the 21st (if we don't blow ourselves up). How much longer can we go before our brains revert to the "mean" and stagnate somewhere in the middle?

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A lot of people don't get it, but this is Texas urban culture in general (that is, the majority of the state). The low cost of living meant lots of immigration. We're nearly majority minority. If you had an ego or resources, you'd probably go somewhere else. People live and build here because of practicality above all.

It's a great and unique culture and it makes me very sad to see how misunderstood and disparaged it often is various places.

So many of these snide remarks are from people that have never actually lived here. Value them accordingly. We'll still take the future.
LVT in Singapore? Most of Singapore is 99-year lease. At the end you give the land back to the government. Property taxes are quite low.
Doesn’t matter. This mosquito is not native to the area that they’re testing in, and even if it was native only makes up 2% of total mosquito population in the test area. This is all upside.
Then and now: When silence descended over Victoria Falls
I feel like you are are ignoring the fact DDT is still commonly used around the world as it does more good then harm.
Yes, landing page needs a lot of work. Been busy building the app. Will get there. Thanks for checking out.
I think you're right in that for many people, life is directionless without work and a schedule handed to them. I find it incredible that there are politicians in their 70s and 80s - especially considering the demands that job would have in terms of travel and public events. Buy a caravan and go on an extended holiday like the stereotypical retiree!

And that there are exceptionally wealthy people still with their nose to the grindstone.
You forgot speed - both when launching the app and general responsiveness. Launching chrome was shockingly fast - clicking the launcher and having the browser chrome show immediately without the crutch of a loading window was downright revolutionary. Once loaded, Chrome was really snappy (e.g. switching between tabs).
there is more than this over simplification.
My home power bill went up, i all of a sudden had to heat/cool my house in time when i normally didn't. I know for a fact that the office continued to heat/cool the office because there was a skeleton crew there.

I think there are going to need to be a lot more research into this.
On the other hand, people who bought a house last year are far less likely than the general population to buy a house this year.

The non-obvious part is that the death penalty follows the first model and not the second. You could reason from first principles that the death penalty's intended effect is to prevent crime by executing a criminal, which is a long-term action like buying a house and not a short-term one like buying a steak. Or you could reason that its intended effect is to deter crime by presenting a deeply undesirable outcome for criminals. The surprise is that it's neither, and the counties so often have more people to execute.
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What applications are Markov chains used in now?
I might be duct taping two buzzwords but could GMO mosquitoes carry mrna packages???
I didn’t realize gratitude was a fungible commodity.
Apple reports 2 iOS 0-days that let hackers compromise fully patched devices
The ipster cheat sheet was actually more clear for me than the "in a nutshell" page: https://ipster.io/cheat-sheet/. I thought it was some kind of server queue monitoring tool until I read that.
Wow, loved this! Beautiful mystery, Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid.
The objection is that this is basically as benign as an experiment gets. Small population of invasive species - we brought them here, and they are only a small (2%) portion of total mosquito population, but cause most of the disease.
I've been working from home for a better part 15 years and I second this. I bought Nest thermostats when we built our home a few years ago...In hindsight - I'm not entirely sure why: someone is almost always home (working or otherwise)!
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The YAS-207 CEC is is pretty flaky I'm afraid.
It may also be a different shared group culture, different lessons learned and previous screwups passed down to the next generations. I also saw this in aerospace.
Many of the same things affecting lifespan are the same things that cause age-related degeneration. Any medical improvement to lifespan will almost certainly be an improvement to health. (There are non-medical things that could improve average lifespan without substantially improving average health, such as reducing causes of fatal accidents, but those wouldn't improve maximum lifespan, only average lifespan.)

And yes, of course it's a gain. You could always choose not to take those extra years, if you really don't want them. It's good to have that possibility available.
Yes it is a common tactic to back away from an initial claim and pivot after people call you out, but he already let the genie out the bottle.
Looks like a more mature mobile solution to a desktop application I have written. It looks very nice.
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This looks pretty straight-forward and makes me wonder if im doing too much work creating and juggling two RTCPeerConnection connections. I will try your approach
Personal drama aired out in comments is very much not allowed. Why should we allow it in posts?
> You could reason from first principles that the death penalty's intended effect is to prevent crime by executing a criminal, which is a long-term action like buying a house and not a short-term one like buying a steak. Or you could reason that its intended effect is to deter crime by presenting a deeply undesirable outcome for criminals. The surprise is that it's neither

This doesn’t say anything about the intended effect.

It says a lot about the actual dynamics, but there is no necessary relationship between those two things.
I am not against this, but I will play devil's advocate on behalf of the mosquitos.

In 1958 the Four Pests Campaign called for the elimination of four pests, one of which was the sparrow. Sparrows were accused of consuming grain and as a result were targeted for elimination. A popular sparrow hunting campaign led to the near extinction of the Eurasian tree sparrow in China.

Shortly afterwards locust populations boomed, now missing one of their principle predators. The "smash sparrows campaign" is credited with worsening the Great Chinese Famine, which saw somewhere between 15 and 55 million people die.

The people who smashed sparrows believed it was correct just as surely as we believe anything today.
>People act like suburbanism was forced on people when the reality is it’s preferred by many.

That some people prefer suburbanism does not imply suburbanism is not being forced on a large proportion of the population that prefers affordable housing in cities dense enough to support efficient public transit. When people moved to the suburbs, large corporations followed and built sprawling offices, often in areas with poor public transportation and without sidewalks. When the choice is between an apartment with a hellish commute and a house close to work, of course many opt for the suburbs, but that does not imply that this is their preference. A suburban home and a car are nice to have if it's an option, but too frequently it's a requirement to own a car, and painful to not live near your suburban office.