skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They provide data from all over the world.
Seems to make a good case for getting vaccinated. If this guy got vaccinated like he’s supposed to he would be alive and wouldn’t have cost the tax payer >400k.

I understand medical freedom for the non-incarcerated, but come on!
Now imagine giving homeless people a home. Do you think it might actually be cheaper than jailing them for various crimes later?

Utah has done just that and proven it can be, indeed:
https://www.cc.com/video/lntv3q/the-daily-show-with-jon-stew...
That's been my general observation. I see the following hypocrisy: Murderers and violent crimes should require rehabilitation, better lives in the prison and discussion here tends to be more around pro-forgiveness ideology; whilst I also see liberals suggesting that politicians and corporate leaders should be punished by prison terms.

Apart from my own observation, non-punishment of non-violent crimes is a cornerstone of liberal criminal justice reform (Prop 57, 20, etc.).
Running an actual WinSAT benchmark since it has already been mentioned Windows 10/11 top out at 9.9:

System: 9.6
Memory: 9.6
CPU: 9.6
CPU Sub Agg: 9.3
Video Encode: 9.9
Graphics Score: 9.9
Dx9 Sub Score: 9.9
Dx10 Sub Score: 9.9
Disk Score: 9.7

So it looks like CPU (5950X) and memory (2x16 GB 4000 Mhz) was the limiter for me, closely followed by disk (MP600 Pro XT). GPU didn't seem to run fully and it noted some tests were skipped by default nowadays but for whatever it does check a 2080 Ti is good enough for a 9.9.
> Brain-cleaning sleeping cap gets US Army funding

I was lead to believe a "brain-cleaning sleeping cap" already exists. It does not. Add "research" after "cap" (or prefix with "Research into" and I would not be lead to believe it already exists.
Yes, if you are driving responsibly then using the brakes is always an option. All cars have brakes; they're required to by law. If using the brakes is not an option then you already fucked up (e.g. you were going too fast on a slippery road.)
Gotta love sheriff arpio he was a genius!
So, Google is judge, jury, and executioner. How can such an approach justified in this day and age?
Afghanistan has a long history of clans based on warlords working for whomever seemed to be winning. “The Taliban” in this regard seems to me to be the group under which the warlords decided to congeal, rather than somehow being the same people hiding for two decades. It’s a simple matter of the way the wind is blowing.

The same people who were there ruling under US occupation are now ruling as Taliban - same
game with a different name.

Highly recommend Steve Coll’s work on this topic.
Speaking of good relay datasheets, some will also show contact resistance vs current. I recall one which noted that for small signals the resistance was very low, but if higher current was applied, the contact coating would burn off and the resistance rises permanently.
It will be interesting to see how the paint for this holds up. One thing you'll notice is as companies try to switch from oil to water based paints the bases just don't last. There is also this trend to find ways to put less coats of base and clear down for cost savings. That obviously doesn't last as long either. So whatever they need to run this through the head I have to question if people will be happy with it over time compared to something simple like a sticker.
In all fairness homicide is increasing at a pretty good clip. Now is not the time to decrease incarceration.

We should get serious in preventing crime, but the current administration is going in the opposite direction hence the trend in homicide.
I agree that this is actually a much bigger deal than it would initially seem.

Any kind of friction is a huge problem when it comes to a task that people are already sort of reluctant to do; just the thought of "ah, fuck, I gotta get two reviews just to add a couple lines of setup instructions?" makes people way less likely to update repo docs as frequently as they need to.
I've been in WV for a month, not encountering deers when the night falls is what's surprising. Also, a herd looking at your slow-driving car when the moon is hiding makes for a surreal vision (for some reasons, their eyes are _bright_ in the dark)
From 2019.

> Developers! Developers! Developers!

Yikes.
Great, now can they make an EV that doesn't suck?
The idea that some people will not use their knowledge to game the system is absurd. I know there's ways of tracking down people via trading patterns but what's to stop an insider selling information to someone completely untied to them and profiting that way? As long as it isn't made obvious by the trader, that would be an untraceable form of insider trading.
Maybe we should just demand all information be open.
3 additional man hours daily either reduces Manpower needs by 15-20% or makes them more productive. A marginal hour of a soldiers time is free.
Might apply to vinegar, too, another insecticide, although I don’t know if consuming huge quantities of vinegar is bad for you. I’m guessing not as bad as the same quantity of Round-up or a variety of other synthetics.
The purpose of ABS is its ability to safely brake AND swerve. Saved my ass many times, especially on icy conditions. ESC is also magical.
70% does not come close to beating every well known investor, including her investor husband. She had a good year. When that happens 100-200% returns are not unheard of. Once you annualise the numbers it becomes far more pedestrian.
Algeria recalls ambassador to France as tensions rise
Do you seriously think that most people in jail are there for homicide?
In fact, the law requires those behind you to be able to brake to avoid you regardless of what you do in front of them. If the car in front of you skids to avoid a family of ducklings, you're going to be the responsible individual if you rear-end them.

With large farm animals such as horses and cows, or with larger wildlife like moose and elk, your life is at stake - there are plenty of drivers killed just hitting moose (look at the size of the mother in the embedded video and you can easily imagine her sliding up the hood and through the windshield: https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=livewith.drivingm.... This video also shows something that's true of elk and deer as well - they have very little traction on pavement.
I've had fleeting interests in this area for a while now, but for a number of reasons have never managed to do much in it.

The standards are all open right, for modern mobile networks. Every time I see this topic come up there seems to be something about patents and entrenched oligopolies (i.e with Qualcomm). Is there any legal or IP issues raised from making open source modems for LTE/4G/5G/whatever networks.
Non-approved print medium detected. Please only use BMW approved cars purcharsed through authorized retailers.
Since the Senate is not even theoretically a proportional house (like the House of Reps is supposed to be but can't be due to the cap on members), demanding a 60% member threshold to pass every single bill means the number of voters it takes to pass a bill gets into ridiculous 70-80% territory.

It does not make any sense in any universe to take a legislative body that is already counter-majoritarian and then add on even more counter-majoritarian rules and procedures on top.

The thing about 'real' filibusters vs. the pretend one in the US Senate isn't just that they cost something, it's that they are generally doomed to fail if that's all you have.

Even endless talking has historically been rarely enough on its own to prevent a bill from passing in most legislatures. It can be an opportunity to bring attention to the issue and make legislators have to listen to their voters, or to convince other legislators to reconsider. But something else has to happen or eventually the bill will have to be tabled anyways.

But I think people fail to recognize this, because the concept of filibuster in the US has been so thoroughly distorted by this broken rule. Even if the filibuster required actually doing an endless talk, it would still not be sufficiently democratic if they could simply run out a clock and the bill was defeated -- in fact, that would perhaps be even worse since it would allow any given member to exercise an unreasonable amount of control over the body as a whole that currently at least requires some degree of unity among the minority party.
Are. You. Fucking. Kidding me?
exactly. cancer is a scourge that must be eradicated, but on the way, we may discover the solution to other health issues.
This is without doubt the greatest achievement of his governorship.
Small correction: you should brake until just before impact if it is going to happen because you want your car's nose to be up as high as you can in this case because otherwise you might get a double helping of windshield+deer into your car.
>The saddest part is that, if presented with this information (cost), a substantial portion of the U.S. populace would declare that we are treating prisoners too well

Do people actually believe this? AFAIK most of the cost isn't because of amnesties (ie. "treating prisoners too well"), it's because of the various staff/services/equipment to deal with the prisoners.
> Meanwhile, the rest of us slave away at our jobs like cattle

Dehumanizing, isn't it? Working hard to contribute to society while these people accumulate 10, 100, 1000 times our yearly salaries in seconds by playing some market. The world we live in is so absurd, it's such a joke.
Whistle-Blower to Accuse Facebook of Contributing to Jan. 6 Riot, Memo Says
Industrial inkjet designs can print from a very large distance, what I think is new on this one is using a robot arm to be able to print on different contoured surfaces.
The argument that social media companies are more powerful than governments is fundamentally undermined if social media companies don't actually have any of the powers traditionally ascribed to governments (such as a monopoly on violence) and are, themselves, subject to the authority of governments.

Twitter banning Donald Trump's account doesn't make them more powerful than the US government, for instance. MacDonald's serves billions every day, but no one calls them a superpower.
The spike in homicide rates 100% began during the previous administration. I think that’s more happenstance than due to any particular policy decisions, but murder rates starting spiking in the summer of 2020.
Bitcoin is using up all the energy in China.
Can I have a house to prevent me from committing crimes later too?
I'm trying to think of a company that provides the customer an extra personalization service that did not charge more for it... I got nothing.
> Once there get a leg up they will start adding patented operation to their stuff. And then we'll end up with a fragmented CPU field driven by corporate greed.

Why would they go out of their way to make it harder for devs to target their ecosystems?

Here's what I see happening: the majority of application development now takes place within architecture-agnostic languages/frameworks/platforms. The platforms solve the problem of multi-architecture once, and then everyone else can get on with their business without thinking about it. Fragmenting the hardware itself mainly serves to open the door for more finely-grained optimizations by these platforms (interpreters, browsers, LLVM, etc).

Look to graphics APIs for comparison: OpenGL was a relatively high-level API because that's what game devs and others were usually writing directly. Now that most game dev happens in engines like Unity and Unreal, or even on platforms like the Web, only the platform/engine developers have to write actual graphics code a lot of the time (excluding shaders). And they want more fine-grained control, so we're switching to lower-level graphics APIs like Metal and Vulcan because the needs for the baseline API have shifted.

So what I see is not a difference in the total fragmentation from the average dev's perspective, just a shifting of where the abstraction happens.
Nearly no one would use a language incompatible with Chrome or Safari. Just how would Evil Corp solve that?

JavaScript spread beyond the browser because it was the only choice in the browser. Want to use the same code in the browser and anywhere else? Want maximally fungible employees? I think those choices don't pay off many times. But JavaScript is the only choice if you do.

Languages have few security vulnerabilities. JavaScript libraries and implementations have had their share.
Yes, you don't swerve to avoid an animal, that can turn a major problem into a fatal one, for you and the other occupants of the vehicle.
What it doesn't say is whether the "DNA circles" or "double minutes" have any role in normal cell activity

Except, they seem to have that in yeast, which are distinguished by a need to reproduce fast like tumor cells. If they have been ignored all this time, maybe they are just a normal part of eukaryote biology?
Mega bills happen in Canada too. Lots of random stuff is snuck into budget bills, often for similar reasons -- especially in minority parliaments. It allows a kind of brinksmanship; approve the budget or we have an election you'll lose seats in. Harper was particularly fond of them, since most of his term was in a very confrontational minority government.
Lot of discussion around here is knee jerk and not nuanced. Criminal law is complex and there are areas where it should be reformed and other areas where we need better enforcement.

We've seen the criminal justice reform as they have instituted in San Francisco city: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27216343
I would be _shocked_ if less than 30% believe that or worse.
I've hit several deer but only killed one animal precisely because I slow down when I see them walking. I've NOT hit dozens that have wandered into my lane so I'd say I have a pretty good track record.
Is there evidence that avoiding a decrease in incarceration reduces homicide rates?
This paragraph is just incredible:

> The misery at Rikers is not for lack of resources. The jail’s population fell by half between 2012 and 2020, yet its budget grew by 24%. It costs $438,000 to jail one person there for one year. Of this $379,216 goes to personnel costs; less than 5% goes to services like substance-abuse treatment. The average salary for guards, after five and half years on the job, is $92,073. In 2012, the ratio of inmates to officers in the city was 7:5. In 2020 it was 1.6 officers per inmate.
Rikers is mostly pretrial defendants. There are no convicted murderers there.
That is their own description. If reading their own description of themselves seems like an attack . . .
Every time I look at this I'm absolutely baffled by the quality of little games, although many being clones.

I just wasted 30' in 1 click. Something I can't say about my steam library. I think it has to do with the instant-ON aspect of the games. <click> -> start, immersed. As opposed to many screens, "oh that needs an update"...
Washington takes aim at the booming crypto industry
You may like CloudReady: https://www.neverware.com/freedownload#intro-text

It's basically a ChromiumOS distro you can install on normal PC hardware. The company that runs it was acquired by Google some time back too.
Doesn't have to be a house. Could be a small room. Like the old Odd Fellows society that used to offer housing to folks.
It was a message to Microsoft in 2017. The patents for x86-64 and SSE2 should have all expired since then. I don't think most software needs SSE3/4/AVX.
Cost aside, the U.S. have the largest government in history, and it's created the largest prison population in history. There's either something specially criminal about Americans, or else that huge government is occupying its excess capacity unjustly criminalizing its most vulnerable people.
Farmer born in 1842 talks about life and change (1929) [video]
From the article referenced in that earliser discussion: https://www.safetyresearch.net/toyota-unintended-acceleratio...

> Other egregious deviations from standard practice were the number of global variables in the system. (A variable is a location in memory that has a number in it. A global variable is any piece of software anywhere in the system can get to that number and read it or write it.)

However, that was from the article author explaining the testimony, and not the testimony itself. It's not totally clear whether the variables were writable.

I would have guessed they were statically allocated rather than heap allocated, but what really matters is whether they were `const` — and they probably weren't `const` because otherwise this testimony wouldn't have rung true:

> "And in practice, five, ten, okay, fine. 10,000, no, we’re done. It is not safe, and I don’t need to see all 10,000 global variables to know that that is a problem," Koopman testified.
About 5 years ago I made a little app as a side project when I was learning to program. My play developer account was terminated without warning for breaking intellectual copyright rules.

I appealed and received an (automated?) response that my account would not be reinstated because I violated the publisher rules. The rule they said I broke? I integrated Spotify's API, which has a login page with the Spotify logo in it, and you're not allowed to use another company's logo inside your app.

Ridiculous, yes but it was more of a bummer than anything. This wasn't a startup, I didn't have investors or a lot at stake. I lost about $50 and a few hours time (and a Google Play Developer account).

The silliest thing was that if I could just get on the phone with a real human at a Google for five minutes they would have seen how ridiculous my ban was and the issue would have been resolved, no big deal. But alas, no human to be had, only an algorithm with too much power. I did some research on dev forums and found that several people had successfully sued Google and got their account back over wrongful terminations, (Didn't sound too expensive or difficult, most of the time Google didn't even show up in court) but according to the ToS you agree to, you have sue them in Mountain View if you bring legal action over anything.

I get why app stores ban publishers, I get why they don't just let everyone publish whatever they want. I bet for every false positive ban like mine, they ban 1000 Russian bot accounts spamming malware. We don't see the mountains of avoided malware, just the auto-banhammer going rogue from time to time. But if Apple and Google just had the slightest bit of customer support this would be much less of an issue.
Couldn't read past the pay wall, but if the above the fold bit tells the story the headline misses saying that this isn't the (implied) average cost per person, but the actuarial cost of a single person's medical care. Glad to be corrected by anyone with the full thing.
I agree with you, but Tesla are very clear that the person in the driver's seat is 100% responsible for the vehicle when Autopilot is active. Until the law catches up with innovation, that will continue to be the case.

Most planes today can land themselves, yet pilots still often land manually to keep their attention and skills sharp. Tesla drivers which make use of Autopilot should consider doing the same -- since ultimately it's their ass on the line for now.
I have been using "cancer", but "carcinoma" and "tumor" are common.
Maybe if their prices weren’t so capitalistic people wouldn’t need to steal. Maybe time for more coops to move in and arbitrage the situation.
I've lived in deer country for five years. It's quite literally impossible to brake every time a deer hits the road in front of you because they have the ability to teleport into and out of the space in front of you with a speed that is frankly unbelievable until you have it happen to you. I managed to avoid all but one of these encounters and I chalk it up to luck rather than reaction speed or driving skill and that was at fairly low (< 40 mph) speeds.

Deer standing safely by the road side will happily panic and jump in front of your car at the last possible moment. In theory there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is.
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You're still not addressing the underlying problem.

People switch to new messengers sometimes, true. But the next one isn't going to be yours unless you have a surplus of luck in addition to skill. The next one is with high probability going to be someone else's.

The real problem is that when it happens, you need the new one to support the new platform. Which it doesn't have any incentive to do when nobody uses the new platform. Convincing the next one to be on your platform is the same problem as convincing the existing one. The transition has nothing to do with it.
This may shock you, but a lot of people aren't in jail for violent crimes - much less homicide. Drug offenses account for nearly half, according to <a href="https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_offen....

By all means, let's keep putting convicted murderers in prison. Arsonists, kidnappers, and a bunch of others. But we can probably forego a lot of drug offenses entirely.
wtf is a confuzer? I can find nothing via Google.
Apple was involved in the founding of ARM, but their licensing isn't special. Many companies, including Samsung, have ARM architecture licenses which allow them to use the ARM instruction set with whatever custom design they want.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arm_Ltd.#Arm_architectural_lic...
If housing weren’t so expensive, there wouldn’t need to be prisons.
Here's a fascinating talk by Václav Smil at the Driva Climate Investment Meeting in 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkj_91IJVBk

Bill Gates calls him "one of my favorite thinkers" and reviews his recent book "Growth":

> Vaclav Smil ... reaches the ... conclusion: Earth is fragile and “before it is too late, we should embark in earnest on the most fundamental existential [task] of making any future growth compatible with the long-term preservation of the only biosphere we have.”

https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Growth
Poor time management, there's a lot of "hurry up and wait" and "if you're not 15 mins early, you're not on time" in the military.
Yeah but how much money (and harm) is society saved by having criminals off the street?
I think they did get it wrong. The current role of what we might (Just about) call "agents" could have been described without the 90s terminologies and conceptions. But that period's agents were supposed to be something quite different from RPC (and really, even from AJAX when it eventually arrived). It turns out that we mostly just got a slightly fancier version of RPC that has allowed us to build some cool services, but the 90s part of it has mostly dropped away.

I was working at UWashington CS&E during that period, and the air was buzzing with the idea of "code objects" that would actually "go out on the internet and book your next trip for you". Sure, we ended up with Expedia which is pretty great, but it's not at all what was being imagined back then.
Prisons are a racket. I strongly suspect that regulatory and legislative capture are at play, and that this explains why the US has the (frankly, crazy) incarceration rates it has.
For the tabbed file explorer, just use Directory Opus. It's way better in every way and you can customize it until the cows come home. Friends don't let friends use (File) Explorer.

No offline accounts on the Home version is vile, however.