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It's not only the US with this "every court ruling becomes quasi-law" approach. (I have a hard time not to call it madness to be honest). It's inherited form the Anglo-Saxon law tradition so this system can be found across the whole British commonwealth as well.

Most EU countries on the other hands side come from a law tradition inherited form the Roman Empire. The Romans didn't had case law but a very structured and principled law system. (It likely wouldn't had worked otherwise for them given all the different traditions in the provinces; you wouldn't have gotten any comparable court rulings in different parts of the empire without a strict systematic and strong governing principles).

But EU law as a whole (compared to the law in the countries) isn't that "pure" as the Brits brought of course their views to the table and some more case-law like parts sneaked into EU law by now. Just look at who the European Court of Justice works for example.
At this point, what is the difference between a hardcore criminal and the intel agencies?

I would trust an everyday criminal before one of these organizations, and I'm being totally serious. The ordinary criminal does not harm me.

What value, other than terrible things like deception, do we get out of these agencies in a free society?
This may not be a popular opinion.

I'm not sure why US is so against getting more of the best and the brightest, meanwhile we are pushing to get more refugees instead.

H1B/greencard often acquires the very best mind of foreign countries. More is good.

At the current state, we try hard to get less the best and the brightest and more refugees.

I understand there's a humanity reason for the refugees. But why can't we do both?
With remote work are we really in need of GCs anymore?
That depends on how much energy is required. It does mean that settlements in places like the Yukon and Northern Alaska are now much more interesting.
The thing is that we're not going to get there if we disallow anything in between 2 and 5 just because it can be a danger when used incorrectly. Level 3 by definition[0] is where the driver can look at their phone until the car/beeps at taps them to start driving again, and we know that system won't be able to tell when it needs to request human intervention perfectly 100% of the time, yet we need to get level 3 systems before anything above it.

0: https://www.nhtsa.gov/technology-innovation/automated-vehicl...
Intersection of law and internet speech is an HN perennial, and this story has some novel aspects. Note that the Stossel/Facebook thread from two days ago wasn't any kind of flamewar, and that one had a similar topic range (law, social media, covid, censorship). I think because the "interesting" questions outcompete the "overheated" ones.

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The entire situation is a shitshow. I know multiple families who immigrated to the US on H-1B for tech jobs 20 years ago but are still waiting for residency. Green cards are legally available but USCIS just won't process their applications, citing lack of resources. Now as their kids – who were as young as one year old when they came here – turn 21 they are being deported to their "home country", that they have zero connection with.

There is no DACA/DREAM equivalent for these people even though they did everything 100% legally and have greatly contributed to the US economy. There are estimated to be >960,000 people currently stuck in this limbo, mostly Asian and mostly in tech (https://www.fwd.us/news/per-country-cap-reform-priority-bill...).
This point of view assumes women have the same interests as men but were held back by society. What if women are just less interested in politics?

Edit:
I should have worded it better. I meant political careers.
I think you misunderstood me a bit. I was not agreeing with that quote, or disagreeing for that matter. I was commenting on the phenomenon.

I understood you as "entertaining the possibility" of your original quote. I don't think that you can take such a statement in terms of "big if true" without looking at a larger context.

On religion and social health I do have to ask which way the arrow of causation goes. Is Europe healthier in many ways because people are less religious, or are people less religious because they experience less crises and dysfunctions that drive them toward religion?

I don't think there's a strong arrow of causation either way. The US is very religious (for a developed nation) for it's historical/social and economic reasons and Europe less-so similarly. The one thing I'd say is that, statistically, there's little plausible evidence that "turning to religion" helps the US' problems.

When someone's father just died of an overdose or their marriage is failing and their family is breaking apart, which secular philosopher would you recommend that they read?

It seems half this thread has been riding the strawman of "secular philosophers". I could mention a variety of secular sources that make an effort to provide hope or reconciliation or whatever from the Sartre and Camus to the latest self-help, non-religious stuff claims to provide a lot.

But the real way these argument are faulty is that they assume religious approaches are somehow the tried and true approach for dealing with tragedy and that assumption is just unjustified. If we throw the gates open to discussion of how to deal with all of life's difficulties it's a big topic and one I'm going to claim I have all the answers to. But I don't want let the assumption "religious is well known for dealing well this stuff" just slip in. That's not my experience. I've seen religious people spend a lot of time blaming the people who've experienced these tragedies. I've seen people turn away from religion and not find it useful and I've with a variety of personal tragedies without religion and done just fine. That's anecdotal but it's mostly refusing to accept your presupposition.

Religion may be the opium of the masses but opium isn't usually isn't a cure for what ails it's average user.
Unequal representation doesn't automatically imply something non-meritocratic is happening.

There could be self-selection due to preferences, which explains why almost all nurses are women and why almost all garbage truck drivers are men. There could also be selection based on differences in behavior or competence: almost all prisoners are men because almost all of the most aggressive people in society are men. The justice system isn't sexist, the lopsided gender balance is a consequence of group-level differences in criminality due to genes and culture.

In the case of societal leadership, sexism has clearly played a role in shaping representation historically, but that conclusion definitely doesn't follow from the mere observation of unequal distribution, it follows from an understanding of the details of why that distribution is lopsided.
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> At the current state, we try hard to get less the best and the brightest and more refugees.

You are biased because you are Indian. It’s apparent in the way you type.
Yeah, I don't see how the colours are helping. It does make it look friendly and inviting, but switching back and forth between coloured balls and the usual symbolic mathematics (algebra notation) is jarring and confusing to me. Using colours instead of letters is a superficial trick and basically a step backwards. It's like those algebra memes where they use fruit instead of x, y, z etc. What's the point? But anyway I don't want to sound too dismissive because the mathematics literature definitely needs more of this kind of creativity!
If you can't read the text of a poll, or if you can read it and it asks binary questions, disregard the poll.
Right, it should be "men and women were equally likely to seek political office and ..." to account for the sexes seeming to prefer different occupations.
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One major issue with Assange is prosecuting him. Honesty most of the 17 charges are quite week and it remains to be seen how they even apply to a foreign national.

Assange received classified material and published it. This has been done countless times by journalist and it’s a pretty far stretch to somehow apply criminal charges just because he published it.

Honestly from the CIA perspective it would probably have been better to assassinate him. This sends a message to other journalists on what the US will do to protect its interest. A trial just further embarrasses the US since everyone knows the outcome and that it is largely a farce
It'll probably be best to stick to U.S. statistics because it'll show the statistical difference between manual driving in a modern car and automated driving in a modern car, versus 'globally' which includes cars in countries that aren't designed with the same safety we have and will lag at least a decade behind the US in receiving level 3+ ADAS when it becomes available.
I'm from south east asia. So, nah.
If you were in the UK at the time you would've seen much worse than pasta shortage, eg. people were getting stabbed in London over toilet paper. There are times when it's completely acceptable to panic. This is not one of those times. A shortage of anything in this country is a self-fulfilling prophecy. What these panic-buying idiots don't understand is that their stockpiling of fuel will have negative consequences for the entire economy. Entities who really depend on fuel, such as delivery drivers, will have to stop working which will actually cause a shortage of goods and services, which will fuel the panic even further. This madness is created by the people, brainless morons who read The Sun like Muslims read Koran.
Tangentially related are there any hobbyist operating systems built on top of the linux kernel, that work radically different from your standard run of the mill OSes like Ubuntu?
Forgotten protocols are a thing until today. AFAIK we have problems deciphering the recorded transmissions of Lunokhod, the Soviet probe that landed on the Moon. Everyone who knew the code is dead.
I actually need drugs. But yeah, I'm not expecting any help, I'll just always mention how fucked up I am and shit on garbage healthcare anytime I can.

If it makes someone uncomfortable, even better. Mental healthcare is important. If LGBT+ can get visibility and equality, so can minorities with health problems.
Sounds interesting. I know no C++, can I still enjoy the book? I have no interest in learning it.
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Most influential - Clean Code and The Joy of C (the first programming book I've read)

Most informative - Effective Java

Funniest - Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!

Best written - Eloquent Ruby

Most useful - Data Modeling Essentials
> You can't win king vs king+pawn ever

Pawns can get promoted, so there are are many king vs king + pawn positions that are a win for the player having the pawn.
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Here you could sue them to process the application; is this not viable in the US?
Completely agree. Let's just learn.
>>We're feeding these industries with lots of talent that is born here

Are we though? I am not seeing it. The education system, even universities are still often behind the times, and getting a CS degree or CIT degree is not going to help you much in a modern company (or even a legacy company)

the skills gap for recent graduates is huge, though personally I am somewhat glad for this because we need to get away from the system of credentials, at least university credentials.
There’s this scene in Rollerball (1975) where James Caan visits the most powerful supercomputer on Earth. The lead scientist candidly admits that they lost all the computers with XIII century data. I never forgot that scene.

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The design is dumb but you’re really stretching. I don’t need to see the entire rear of the car to know which way the blinker is indicating. If I did then that would mean 99% of the cars on the road, which have no arrow at all, would suffer from this ambiguity.
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I don’t think this particular comment deserves any downvotes (and I didn’t downvote either it or its parent), but remarking on a comment’s vote status on HN is a general faux pas.
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The key innovation of Scryer Prolog in this respect is that the system internally, i.e., within Rust, represents each string as a sequence of raw bytes (UTF-8 encoded, 0-terminated), and to Prolog programs, the string appears as if it were a list of characters (i.e., atoms of length 1). So, no conversion is necessary at all: The compact internal representation is used whenever possible, and Prolog programs only see lists of characters all of the time, making common predicates such as append/3 and length/2, and most importantly DCGs, automatically usable for reasoning about strings.

For example, the string "abc" takes only 4 bytes in this representation, and the unification "abc" = [a,b,c] succeeds. Indeed, we have:

?- write_canonical("abc").
'.'(a,'.'(b,'.'(c,[]))) true.

On 64-bit systems, a conventional internal representation of "abc" as the compound term .(a, .(b, .(c, []))) takes 8 bytes per functor (each '.'/2 takes 8 bytes, i.e., 1 cell in the WAM), 8 bytes per character (as a pointer to the atom table, again 1 cell in the WAM), and 8 bytes for each tail. All Prolog systems before Scryer Prolog use 16 to 24 times as much memory to represent a list of characters. As of recent, Trealla Prolog also uses the efficient representation, at least for fully instantiated strings. Scryer Prolog can also represent partial strings such as [a,b,c|Ls] with the efficient encoding.
Why are people in such a rush to get their cars? I understand if your old one broke down and you absolutely need one for a job ASAP, but if you can afford to buy a new car, surely you could afford to wait a bit to get exactly the car you want?
The power consumption is a fundamental part of how phased array antennas work.

You have hundreds of tiny antennas using constructive and destructive interference to steer the signal in software.

This digital aiming is awesome for targeting fast moving objects in low earth orbit. But you lose the huge amplification factor possible with a simple metal dish.

Combine this with the the desire to use higher attenuation frequencies in order to increase throughput and I don't really see Starlink's power consumption going down.

That power budget already represents a pretty big victory, and any gains will probably go to lower unit cost or higher data rates.
The Internet has trained us to take out-of-context citations to an art form. People scan the text looking for matches to their pre-existing convictions and largely ignore everything else.
Implementing the numerical tower is not too difficult. There may be some problems to ensure fixnums are singletons and bignums are efficient, but it looks possible.

Tail calls and continuations are more difficult if you want them to be efficient.
https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/14420488811650170... - see the final column of the graph
Depends, some libraries work, some need special parameters, some don't work at all
To clarify, I wasn't saying that it literally just goes in a straight line without any additional collision avoidance logic, just that from the drivers perspective all they have to do is make sure it continues in it's lane, as opposed to FSD where there is an order of magnitude more decisions the driver has to monitor. There is a huge difference between the focus required to make sure your car driving on the highway stays in it's lane and doesn't run into stopped vehicles, vs the focus required to make sure your car doesn't turn in front of other cars or take a turn to wide and hit something.

I wasn't including Navigate on Autopilot as a part of that but even with Navigate on Autopilot, the driver has far less to monitor than with FSD, since it just changes lanes on the highway occasionally rather than having to turn across traffic, frequently switch lanes in the city, or manage stop signs and lights.
On a similar note, there is a branch in the guile git repo that aims at compiling to JS. It does a pretty nifty compilation pass that constructs a kind of minimal CPS where all calls are tail calls, giving instant support for delimited continuations and very simple (yet not fantastically fast) tail calls even in hosts that doesnt support it (using a trampoline).

Meaning, hopefully, full guile in the browser.
> However, let's not forget that 50/80 years were dominated by a two-headed fight for world hegemony under the threat of nuclear war and potential apocalypse.

Nuclear war? And in that 50/80 years, only one side has ever nuked a city full of civilians. Twice.

> This remains true today with China. CPC apologists are all too happy to point out (factually correct) gaps in US integrity and freedom.

"CPC apologists". Did we have any integrity and freedom when we were colonizing china? You do realize that we colonized china for nearly 100 years. It was the "CPC" and the communists who liberated china. You do realize that right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangtze_Patrol

How anyone can claim a nation brutally ( and partly motivated by racism ) colonizing another nation is the one with integrity and freedom is beyond me.

> And the primary counterargument from the Communists was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

"Whataboutism" is a well-worn social media propaganda term used a few years ago. Nobody uses it anymore because it exposes the person who uses it.

> The most recent Chinese return of the 2 incarcerated Canadians in return for the Huawei executive is the most blatant current example that China will do absolutely whatever it wants.

China arrested two canadian spies/operatives in retaliation for canada kidnapping one of their spies/operatives? Shocking. What do you expect. It's statecraft. Tit for tat. Like when we kick out chinese or russian diplomats. They do the same. Or are you still pretending china arbitrarily locked up two innocent canadian tourists?

Strangely you aren't worked up about canada kidnapping a chinese national. Kidnapping chinese is fine but kidnapping canadians is wrong?

> For all of the US's evils, Russia and China would not have hesitated to kidnap or execute Assange in identical circumstances if he was hiding in an Ecuadorian embassy on their soil. He would have been disappeared a decade ago.

But two canadian spies were arrested and not "disappeared". Using your logic, china should be shipping two body bags right? China hasn't disappeared the dalai lama. How many chinese traitors hiding all over the west has china "disappeared"? Absolutely none.

You are just stating the same propaganda we've heard over and over again. It gets stale and boring. China bad. Russia bad. US good. Right. At least you didn't bring up anything about genocide.

At the end of the day, everyone has done good and everyone has done bad. But one has done far more evil than good while hypocritely pretending to be the world's beacon of good. This hypocrite not only colonized one of the "bad", it also invaded the other "bad".

It's the hypocrisy that's just unbearable. I don't remember china claiming to be the world's beacon of good. Don't remember russia claiming to be the epitome of freedom and democracy.
> I'm not sure why US is so against getting more of the best and the brightest

Because it's being used to drive wages down and American workers are getting fired from their jobs.

> H1B/greencard often acquires the very best mind of foreign countries.

Fine, change the H1-B rules so emigrants get full resident status immediately, and can work for any company without any setbacks to their status. Right now H1-B visas are modern indentured servitude, and makes non-residents far more appealing to companies.

It's also responsible for the lack of job training by companies. Why have an employee learn new skills on your dime when you can find a foreigner who got experience at some other company, or perhaps just with the good sense to exaggerate their resumes...
> It’s like claiming autopilot in airplanes is significantly safer than ape-controlled aircraft. It’s partly true because apes control the hard parts (takeoff and landing) and leave the more easy parts to software

That's because the term "autopilot" is badly named, both in cars and in aircraft. People just thing autopilot in aircraft means "plane flies itself" because they get on a jetliner and never see the pilot actually control it, leaving the impression that some combination of magic and electricity-infused rocks got them there instead of a human with assistive software.
Software close to the user have this need for adaption.

However, my experience is that the building blocks for making even large software systems are increasingly more stable and Debian GNU/Linux is a prime example of this.
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I use a statistical model, where each task gets a "best case" and "worst case" estimate; those estimates are used to create a log normal distribution, and the project is simulated as the sum of those distributions plus sick days, social loafing, etc.

I use that method for all my consulting estimates, and it has been very reliable for me; no crunch time, and I often come in under time. I've also made a tool that does the math so my clients and other people can continue to use the same process without me.

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We're dancing around a lot of the real reasons APIs change though. It might work if it's a completely self-contained system, but many real-world systems are dealing with externally-imposed changes. You're talking to another API downstream, or a piece of hardware that gets replaced, or a database which no longer offers the same information.

Imagine, for example, you provide a payments API that said "You need account and routing number." One day, the banking regulator says "we also need the date of birth for validation." You have to break the API signature, and you can't really offer a backwards-compatible version. Anyone building a product on top of your API has to make similar adjustments, ether internally or by forcing the upstream user to supply the date of birth.
Bart Jacobs is working on a book that uses the language of category theory to develop probability theory:

https://www.cs.ru.nl/B.Jacobs/PAPERS/ProbabilisticReasoning....
The 3 times rule is good, I also apply it quite often, although it's not always an easy sell.
H1B visa is an abusive system that lowers the wages for high skilled positions, while allowing employers to hold an employee's immigration status over their head as an extortion tactic to abuse said employee.

Many people myself included fully support increased immigration but oppose the H1B visa program unless serious reforms are made to it.
I agree with a lot of your points, but I think a good education system would be able to train huge amounts of Americans to do whatever work was needed. Along with the parenting incentives you mention. We don't need more immigrants, we don't need a much larger population. There's a lot of room in this country, and that's a good thing. Some people want to densify everything.
Driving a tanker carrying fuel requires additional qualifications over your standard HGV licence so the pool is likely even smaller - this seems to have been glossed over by ministers in the press over the weekend.