skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kevin Strickland has been in prison for 43 years for a crime he didn’t commit. Our justice system is simply broken.

https://nypost.com/2021/05/11/man-imprisoned-43-years-for-tr...
I have faith in a situation like this being far less likely to occur in Australia.
Ad hominem is an idiom: you cannot infer the meaning of an idiom from the composition of its words.

A counterargument is ad hominem if it rests on what it says about the arguer, not the content of the argument. It's not always a fallacy, but it is a danger sign for bad argument.
Look, if the following is true

>only 3 of Moderna's projects had made it past Phase 1 testing, and only one of these was a vaccine

Is it too much if one wonder how these vaccines got past of the trials that were blocking it, by additional funding. Your answer does not make sense because clinical trials are not evaluated based on whether the technology is essential or not.

I don't think I am being unfair when I say your answer is not very convincing. On the other hand it is not really fair that I ll have to accept what ever that is supposed to be an answer. It might work in television debates, but not in an online forum.
I got my second vaccine shot the first week of January so it looks like I am at increased risk for getting the Delta variant compared to those who got the vaccine later this year. Bummer.
Fun Fact, it's referenced as KiddoPaint behind-the-scenes :p

https://kidpix.app/js/app.js
I wonder if there's an age component. I'm mid-40s. There's zero expectation that people make late-breaking plans to go party downtown (as would have been the case in my 20s). And some friends have kids, which just complicates things more. At the end of the day "nah, I have [life] going on" is a completely normal response.
No "we" don't need politics to decide anything! Politics is only needed to decide for other people, without their consent. A market works by voluntary interaction of individuals.

And please stop trying to explain my own motivations to me, it's really grating. It's not "bits of the current system that I don't like", it's the whole inhumane, extortionary and murderous shebang that I don't like!

It's politics all the way down only until you hit what's been buried beneath, the bedrock and basis of a true society worthy of the name, as opposed to enslavement light: the individual's freedom to make their own choices!
The problem with this thought experiment is that the chances of having an outcome that would be less preferable to what I have right now are extremely high regardless of my answer. There'd be a chance I'd turn into Bezos, but there's a higher chance I'd turn into a poor kid in some third world country that spends their day dumping circuit boards into vats of acid without protective equipment to make a living.

You're also completely sidestepping the original point. Defining all scientific and technological accomplishments as the products of capitalism because capitalism is the dominant system is begging the question. We know that scientific and technological accomplishments and improvements to the general quality of life were also made before capitalism existed. We don't know that capitalism has had a positive effect on these trends.

Plus if you want to take the primitivist route you could argue that if you believe the data on climate change, the status quo is literally built on killing us over the next few decades and "benefits" like getting a thousand new smartphone models each year or being able to choose between twenty nearly identical brands of bottled water are entirely offset by the externalities that are rapidly becoming tangible problems even to the wealthier among us.
So you're talking about back in March of 2020 - when we did think ventilators would help. And at that point the federal government had sent a grand total of 400 ventilators to New York. But somehow managed to find 200 to send to Russia in May. And you can't figure out why he was complaining?

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/489214-cuomo-says-n...

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/20/us-sends-200-ventilators-to-...
> They are not flat-earthers nor alt-right or whatever.

Are they religious?
So we are down the rabbit hole of the credentials fallacy, no one can be creditable or have valid concerns / issues unless they have a MD or PhD?
It's super common for embedded devices, and kernel development. Yeah compilers can mostly figure it out, but if you're really looking at the bits of a value, like in the example, you should operate on them bitwise, it's more clear, and definitely leaves no room for the compiler to leave it in an inefficient state.
Do you ever travel in the US? Do you hold a US passport?
I could get payed a decent bit more and have decent benefits elsewhere but how nice and flexible my boss is makes it worth staying. I don't see how that's a "scam", I like it here.
And I think that this is very much a result of a market failure. In a lot of metro areas, the health care networks have been consolidating, so that a single company dominates the market. That creates a double problem. It's not just that they don't have to pay a reasonable market rate for staff. It's also that they don't have to maintain a reasonable staffing level, because dissatisfied and poorly-treated patients don't necessarily have anywhere else to go.
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make with that statement.

I think justice should be considered the entire purpose of a legal system. And if it isn't working, it should be fixed.

Accountability sounds like a good place to start. If an official causes harm to another person through negligence or otherwise they should be held accountable to the same standards as anyone else.
My Walmart is begging people to come get vaccinated for free in my 40% fully vaccinated state. I say send the vaccines where they will be used and cherished.
Clubhouse, Grind Culture, and the One New Trick You Didn’t Need to Know
It seems like no one actually knows what the list represents.

> Gibbons expected that the list would include only "a handful of the wealthiest of the wealthy" motivated solely by taxes; however, the people named in the list turned out to have a wide variety of motivations for emigrating from the U.S. and later giving up citizenship, and few were publicly known to be wealthy.[7]

> ...In contrast, Andrew Mitchel, a Connecticut tax lawyer interviewed by The Wall Street Journal for its reports on Americans giving up citizenship, states that the list is required to include all former citizens. [15]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarterly_Publication_of_Indiv...
maybe in tech companies but in more traditional roles like manufacturing and maintenance, its paid in respect for your time. Mandatory overtime is a real thing in the US and less of it means a stronger relationship with your employees. all the money in the world wont replace your weekends.
That doesn't surprise me at all. I have politely requested that the project considers renaming to avoid this.

https://github.com/datafuselabs/datafuse/issues/654
It's certainly nice in the summer. Long but not too long sunlight, warm but not oppressive. I guess if you just spend summers there it wouldn't be hard to arrange.
We forget so quickly. We used to burn the forests out of indifference and perceived abundance.

> By the act of March 3, 1875, all land-grant and right-of-way railroads are authorized to take timber from the public lands adjacent to their lines for construction purposes; and they have taken it with a vengeance, destroying a hundred times more than they have used, mostly by allowing fires to run into the woods.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1897/08/the-ame...
Can't you still cite finances as a reason for not going? As in, "sorry I don't want to spend that much on this experience"
Show HN: Collaborative Online Sticky Notes
As a heavy user of the built-in mac and windows sticky notes applications, I wanted something similar that would persist between all of my devices. Another feature I wanted was the ability to share notes with other people and edit them together. That's why I built Cloud Stickiez, a web application that lets you create sticky notes online, organize them in boards, and share your boards with other people. I started this project a few years ago but I didn't get a chance to add the collaboration features until recently. I built this using Angular and Firebase because they were technologies that I wanted to try out at the time.
Yes. I'm halfway through it now, and while I do have a degree in CS, all that's really needed is knowledge of Java and C. If anything, it's less formal than a compiler / PL course one would normally take during undergrad.
The comments here suggest very few on HN have run a public service that allows arbitrary upload of photo and video content.
We have this whole additional trillion-dollar industry that other countries don't .. nearly every dollar of our healthcare spending flows through insurance companies who add zero value to actual health care but have hundreds of thousands of employees and hundreds of billions in salary to pay.

Health insurers know their time in the crosshairs is coming which is why they're buying up pharmacy groups and providers, to give their offerings a sheen of actual care.
It’s a reciprocal relationship with rights and obligations on both sides not ownership. For example the FBI doesn’t invoice victims or their families when it gets involved in kidnapping cases.

Capital gains are deferred without interest until an asset it sold, that doesn’t mean there wasn’t an obligation for those years.
> The US passports is one of the worst when it comes to travel

100% wrong! US passport is ranked 7th best in the world. You need very few visas and get waved through customs faster than visitors from most other countries.

* https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/2021/07/07/where-does-...

* https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/2021/07/07/the-worl...
a reaaaaaaaalllllllyyy long wire :P

pro audio equipment sometimes used 'bucket brigade' chips to implement a delay line (shame that you can't get them anymore)
Calvin, of Calvin and Hobbes:

"I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a litte practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!"

https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/02/11
If you take the benefit of the doubt on the part of the author of the verbose sentence, then it could be that each of the abstractions in it is relevant. In that case, beginning with "People read" means you have to bring the reader around to the idea that it's relevant for contrasting individuals with collectives, social communities with non-social communities (?), and visual or symbolic types of learning with other types of learning.

Basically what I'm saying is that starting point of "people read" actually might end up verbose enough that it's equally distracting. If those generalities are relevant to the study then the error of the original writer wasn't that she was too wordy, it's that she was too terse. Essentially it would have all these relevant concepts jammed into one sentence and it takes for granted that the reader is already comfortable working with these concepts.

Of course this is not necessarily an error from the perspective of people in the field--this is all from the perspective of the author of the note.
Dissecting the performance of production QUIC [pdf]
Could you try to be less sarcastic? How else to start thinking about a possible unity? And, I'm talking about a unity of science and humanity. (Please, have a look at the page again, I added some examples!) That reflection is an important phaenomenon as proven in physics by double-slit-experiment, ok what could that mean for science if reflection can be seen as our mind's thinking, too? (humanities vs. nat. science)
That one data store (this "book") is useful for making complex applications work ... many examples of this in programming: facebook's react/redux immutable data flow.

I am really asking about the logical beginning of perfect education/management of the world. No more superstition, and other errors...
Genomic analysis identifies variants that can predict the timing of menopause
Nestle 'to act over child labour in cocoa industry' (2011)
Wrong. -1 >> 1 produces an implementation-defined value in C.

-1/2 used to also be implementation-defined; C99 started to require truncation toward zero.

That actually makes division unsuitable for simulating bit shifting; you generally want a right shift of a negative quantity to have predictable behavior: either extend the sign, or bring in a zero. Truncating division toward zero doesn't do either; it propagates the sign, until zero is hit.

If you can, avoid signed types if you're working with bit fields.
> There is no business sense to enabling the current trial mechanism

Apple doesn't take their 30% cut on subscriptions?
As a follow up question, I know I’ve read a lot about the handover issue in the general sense. Does anyone know of any research that has been done to see if the long shifts exacerbate the issue? It wouldn’t surprise me if handover would go more smoothly if the people weren’t at the end of such massive shifts, but it’s equally possible that intuition is wrong. What I don’t know is if there exist places where they tried shorter shifts in recent memory for us to even have the data on.
I'm going to presume that you are not American. In the systems used by almost all other democracies around the world (either Westminster or Party List), where his office was dependent on maintaining support from Parliament, he probably would be gone by now. The US presidential/bicameral system (replicated in all of its flaws in almost every state) where the President/Governor is directly elected by the people does not have an effective means of removing someone, as we all learned by watching two impeachments of the previous President.

The executive can resign if they choose, but forcing a independently elected official out of office basically takes a lot of work and effort. He would need to be impeached by majority vote in the lower house, then convicted by a 2/3 vote in the upper house (plus, in an unusual NY quirk, the highest court, the Court of Appeals, joins the upper house as jurors) after a trial, where the governor has his own lawyers making his case for the defense, there are sworn witnesses and testimony, etc.

Impeachment has never removed a president. It has only ever removed one governor of New York. Cuomo has made enough enemies- and done enough heinous stuff- that he might lose, but it will be time consuming and painful, baring a resignation.
Obviously HN community is down on crypto. This exemption is a sign that Bitcoin is getting closer to the mainstream of finance. Like most flanker-moves, Governments should be incorporating it in to their tax policies rather than shunning it. Cannabis is a good proxy, states can keep it illegal and not make tax revenue or they can legalize it, control it and tax it. The feds should do the same. Same for crypto, keeping it on the fringes will only help illegal enterprises and rogue nations use it to bypass sanctions. As to whether it has a use or is a store of value, these are largely irrelevant questions. It is pure speculation, allowing one person to bet against another, much like playing poker in a casino.
Mathematicians solve decades-old classification problem
Yes, Cyprus is in the Mediterranean Sea close to Turkey, Israel and Lebanon but it is the EU.
Well I read the article and watched the video and the point is, many of the people coming into the hospitals now are unvaccinated by choice. They're quitting because the rate of admissions should be slowing and they should be getting a break after dealing with it for 12+ months, but they're not.
tbh, if they released a linux version I'd happily buy it again, and drop MacOS.
>at least those megafires will decrease the likelihood of fires in the comming years.

I wouldn't be so sure. It looks like a lot of the fires don't wipe out the fuel load, a lot of burnable stuff grows back quickly, it doesn't take all that many years for everything to grow back.

Living in one of the uber-flammable areas, it's funny how fast all of the plants grow. This entire locality is (2nd (or 3rd (or 4th))) generation trees.
Been scanning the answers for a solution, I am 100% on Apple ecosystem and I am all for protecting little children but as others have pointed out nothing is stopping them from colluding with the government in future to say scan for political dissent:
- weaponizing memes against politicians as “hate speech”
- memes against government suppressing dissent
- and we can look what happened to Uighurs

Can Samsung phones that are de-googled work ? I am specifically interested in a new phone that Samsung launches, can it be degoogled ?
So in other words we provide data for free to Mozilla, and Mozilla turns around and sells it for millions to Nvidia to fund ... not open source, they killed that so umm ee, to fund ceo salary?
All of them. Even if the breakthrough infections are the same as an unvaccinated person (still being studied, but I've heard everything from one third to same for the first six days), there are fewer infections overall. This causes a sharp average reduction in R0.
If it was just getting taxed up to a point I think you'd have a reasonable argument, but looking at the torturous nonsense they have to go through to the point where even US banks think the costs of having them as clients isn't worth the hassle, it's clearly way beyond that. Also, many of these people don't actually owe any tax at all, or relatively small amounts, but it's ridiculously difficult and costly to prove it.

I mean what is the objective? Raise tax revenue from ex-pats, or drive them out of US citizenship? What's actually happening seems to be the latter, not so much the former. Surely that's a serious policy failure.
This fetishizing of the rich is exactly the problem. How dare these socialists take this wealth and give it to the unthankful moochers!

No one is talking about "punishing" the ultra-rich, but I would like to see them pay around my percentage tax rate, which is 28% - that's just Federal. I challenge you to find a wealthy person paying anywhere near that.

The top tax rate in the US, decades ago, was 90%. It effectively capped the wealth, preventing entities from becoming more powerful than the government (good luck with that anti-trust action), which had the added benefit of forcing them to reinvest the money into the business and wages.

What are the incentives now? The IRS is gutted. White collar crime, outright fraud. Profit, ruin a company, walk away with untaxed riches. No one is looking.
Are you kidding? After getting a taste of the revenue-potential of software in the App Store, it is inevitable that Apple wants more of it.

In fact, I predict that Apple will at one point start selling software as a subscription, like SaaS. Other OSes don't fit in that model.
Computing power is just a proxy for capital/resources. Why not be more efficient and use the capital directly and save power in the meanwhile.

Current market cap of ETH is ~$324B, thus getting 50.1% of ETH would require $162.3B in capital. However, as soon as you start acquiring ETH the price will increase, especially at those large volumes.

It would be insanely hard to come up with enough resources to buy enough ETH in a POS world to take over the network. Never mind the fact that as soon as it's become evident you've taken over the network the value of the network is essentially worthless and you've just destroyed billions of dollars worth of capital in the process.
Just ask for a signing bonus at the next job. Definitely heard of signing bonuses that size with agencies for nursing.
Does this mean if they all walk off the job there won't be anymore TikTok videos of all the dancing nurses?

If that's the case we have to vaccinate the unvaccinated because a vaccinated person might get sick from the virus they were vaccinated against because of those who refuse to be vaccinated.
I don't think individual cases like these prove anything about the American justice system at large. In any system run by humans that is large enough, there will be mistakes or abuses committed by individuals or small groups, but this doesn't make any strong implications about the design of the system overall.

(Of course, it may really be broken like you're saying, it's just that I don't think a few cases like these prove it.)
Climate change definitely contributes to the crisis, but ignoring other factors does not help us improve the situation. For example, Spanish settlers in California planted invasive trees not adapted to the climate and specifically the wildfires. When the fire seasons came, the invasive trees burned hotter than native trees, causing the death of more of the flora than was typical.
Somehow I doubt that. What country are you in?
React Children with TypeScript
Because those conditions are more complex; there is some choice, but it's not the full picture. Those conditions don't overflow the hospitals either. In the United States, any adult could get the vaccine for free for months now, and these patients chose not to. I fully understand why a healthcare worker would be struggling with empathy at a time like this.
As someone who has used KDE 3, 4 5 I would say the only really big change was 3 -> 4 and many aspects of it have been refined/improved. I think if you plunked someone down who had only used KDE 4, released in 2008, in front of the current version in 2021 they would require minimal learning to catch up.

Growth requires change and if you don't have a billion dollars up front you do this iteratively in small pieces by necessity.
The joy's of Government Healthcare.

No one wants to pay more taxes, No one wants healthcare workers get less money, No One wants substandard care..

You can not have All 3, More Care, and More Pay requires more Taxes... Canadian's however do not want to pay more Taxes.
So, the Chinese government could force Apple to add the hash for the Tienanmen Square tank man picture and find it on all iPhones?
Apple plans to scan US iPhones for child abuse imagery
"Shadowy super-coders", as Elizabeth Warren famously said.
Live cleaner, healthier and save the planet all while shopping on Amazon
Sam Bankman-Fried and Matt Levine on How the Crypto Market Works
You know, I was going to go and link the comments that made me post that in the first place but they seem to have been eaten or buried while I was asleep (or seemed worse because it was 3 in the morning)

But! For less extreme examples, check out the discussion of the occupation of Tibet that spontaneously generated under my first comment and:

> Meanwhile the BBC pushes anti-China propaganda in plain sight.

> I wonder how it stacks up to the fake network pushing anti-China propaganda.

> Brought to you by the 5 eyes propaganda machine: Bullshit Broadcasting Corporation

> I find using the term “concentration camp” for something that resembles a youth correctional facility somewhat dishonest.
> More than half the nearly 8,000 ventilators the federal stockpile sent to states to fight the coronavirus pandemic went to New York, while the rest were split among 14 other states and territories, a report from the federal government shows.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2020/04/1...
Thread Reader.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1423078973064441858.html
I mean we had the Amazonians, Boudica, Cleopatra, Jean D'Arc, Mulan, Wu Zetian...

It's not like if you have a large enough sample size you won't discover alpha females in even the human world when it was dominated by physical violence prior to the invention of the gun.
Then you move non-infected folks out of hospitals or nursing homes onto the ship, then use the empty space for the covid patients. There were still ways to utilize the resources available in a much better and safer way.
I am enthusiastic about this new turn of events.

Downvotes help remind you of leftist demands for uniformity of thought and conformity. Fuck that milieu.