skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If someone is let out on bail, and commits another crime, then their bail should be posted higher.

I'd say that if someone gets rearrested after being out on bail, they should get no bail at all. I'm also not willing to count the time spent in prison as a result of this as time served for any later sentence in this circumstance.

But I may be biased. There's a person in prison right now for murder, who was literally caught with blood on his hands, who had grandma's name on his list of people to kill.

So I take the notion that prison disables criminals a bit more seriously than some do (and grandma is still alive).
> If someone is let out on bail, and commits another crime, then their bail should be posted higher.

If someone is out on bail, they are presumed innocent of the first alleged crime, and will still presumed innocent of the second alleged crime if they are charged with another one when bail for the second charge is set.

Bail is not a pre-conviction punishment, and using it as such violates the due process clause of the 14th Amendment (or the 5th, if was the federal government doing it), the confrontation clause, and the right to jury trial.

> The constitution only prohibits "excessive" bail

No, the Constitution prohibits a lot more than that; it's true that the prohibition on excessive bail is the only prohibition specific to bail, but it contains lots of other prohibitions that you can't just use “we’re calling it bail” to evade.
Good question— I assume global seismometer networks can give us a pretty good idea.
Yes, saw this too, it's in the official documentation.
Normally it wouldn’t. But Steve Jobs very publicly threw a camera at someone who crossed him. He had a reputation for long held grudges that fundamentally fractured business relationships (eg IIRC Nvidia being permanently banned from Apple platforms for early announcing something, and similar reaction to integrating ZFS being announced early). Guy was an asshole, but he was an extraordinarily powerful asshole.
China no interest in world number 1 economy spot, global hegemony: vice minister
2002 was the start of the glory days of java web monoliths, like big monstrosities with spring, Rails, Django, etc. came a couple years later and monolith app servers really started to take off.
An AI system will consistently beat an opposing AI system if it has been trained to beat the opposing AI system, as it will only engage if it can predict a favorable outcome. Fully autonomous systems are going to have to be very, very secret because one leak will destroy their utility. This alone might be a good reason to keep them as pilot assist systems rather than pilot replacement.
The natural next step is adding ELIZA-like chat responses to your bots
Yes, this a good source of information. +1
Just goes to show you how greedy the IRS (and federal government is), they'll go after your 14 year old baby sitter and try to jail them because they earned and worked hard enough to buy a cheap clunker car to drive for when they turn 15/16. Require them to file taxes and keep detailed paperwork for exactly how long you babysat little timothy on March 15.
No one by surprise. But what can you do? There are many places people 'shouldn't live' but the odds are in your favor given a short enough timescale.
Yes!

Additionally, it hurts users when the data is changing beneath them. Rows can appear twice or disappear as you move between pages.
That does sound near-trivial to automate, but then I've got to wonder how frequently "regular" is? Saving someone 15 minutes a day is gonna be hard to justify spending programmer time on - or paying for a 3rd party solution? Are there people moving those spreadsheets for like 20+hrs a week?
I really don't understand the hate on MongoDB. There are plenty of failures on PostgreSQL or any other database you care to name, especially if you go back far enough in time. Any installed database with less than 10 years of prod deployments is going to have problems sooner or later. I can't think of any significant exceptions.
First of all safe deposit box, despite impressive security measures shown in movies, aren't all that secure. Google "safe deposit box news" for extra details

The fact that it's news shows that it's rare, not common. The whole point of the news is to show things that don't happen every day.

I've never understood how people got to a state where they think "I saw it on the news, so it must happen all the time."
Bitmasking in MySQL
Or maybe it is. Didn't some big name physicists "prove" that if humans have free will then so do electrons? Not sure why it has to be an inherent property rather than an emergent property, but I just read the summary.
> one of the things social media does is force us to simplify our discourse

In this case it's not because of social media, since the author cites a 10 min constraint to present to the Danish parliament.
I moved upstate and another was in MA. So on both occasions I moved from NYC area.
Not more powerful than the Tsar Bomb: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba
thanks you saved me from having to go look that up. Notice the person who posted that didn't also post how much of the wealth and revenue went to the upper 39% lol.
I think it's a lot more likely that the culture gets overhauled under MS than without an acquisition.

This is likely good for current employees who might otherwise be likely future victims.
Hardware has the advantage of tactility and stability(both in terms of "boots the same every time, no software install or licensing" and "built to not crash"), and the disadvantages of physical maintenance, connectivity(a real studio setup needs physical cables and patch bays, so recalling a config is not so simple) and inflexible interfaces(some hardware is actually just bad to program because it's too complex to fit in a front panel). It's very personal and philosophical to decide on one or the other approach.

For me the right compromise has been to get a MIDI knob controller like the Korg Nanokontrol, use plugins to build up sounds, but bounce to samples frequently. When I want really fresh sounds, I go look for new presets or sample packs.

Working in samples using a powerful sampler/sequencer like Renoise, you've got a ton of flexibility to add production, since you can send it back through the synthesis path as many times as you want. The loss is primarily on the end of expressive performance in the raw source, which is where using a knob controller comes in to build up an expressive part when and where it's called for. Keyboarding skills can also do some of this, albeit in a different way: knob sweeps over an existing sequence is like conducting an orchestra, while little shifts in rhythm and velocity add individuality to a part.

And although extensive modulation is technically appealing, most uses of it will make a sound effect that doesn't seat itself well in an arrangement. The big stuff for performance is usually the same tried-and-true - sweep the filter, bend the pitch, vary amplitude. And this is stuff that is more satisfying to do with real time controls, for sure. But I am also a bit disillusioned of the idea that my synth noises will sound so much different from preset synth noises as to define my sound: it's like how digital artists will get overly focused on brushes, or journeyman programmers will have big ideas to solve localized code problems without really integrating the solution into the big picture. There's faster feedback when you tweak synth knobs or mess with brush styles or do a lot of edit-test-debug, and that's very engaging, fun to toy with, but the feedback won't drive you in a particular creative direction unless you already know the goal.
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> Phil Spencer & Microsoft had to be well into discussions at this point; and it didn't phase them. They didn't stipulate that he would have to leave; they instead leave him in charge of the company post-acquisition.

You're getting worked up for no reason. Maybe wait until Kotick actually sticks around before the outage?
Another point is the packaging and documentation, got a Linux Server in the mid 2000s came with Red Hat with a lot of nice install disks, support line, etc. Not just the distro dicks in RH's packaging, so that does add to the cost.

I'm sure they might have done a bunch of testing and tweaking to ensure compatibility upon first boot as well.

Though from my standpoint I'd rather know of a distro's quirks with a particular computer than be surprised when I decide to use something different down the line.
Ask HN: Are Smartphones Too Clunky?
I saw this comment on a thread and it resonanted with me

personally i
tihnk modern cellphones are
remarkably clunky devices for anything other than reading books
and gps. they aren't even very
ergonomic as phones, they're
annoying for web browsing
compared to laptops, and they are
definitely not satisfying to use as controls for physical devices.

This sums up what i feel. What do you think about it? Are smartphones inherently wrong?
Don't get your hopes up with this kind of approach.

The gotcha is right there in the Abstract: "solid carbon and gallium oxide are the final reaction products of this process."

This is the thermodynamic equivalent of rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic. It achieves literally nothing except for shifting the oxygens around. They're still around, still bonded, but even harder. That's what this process doing -- reducing the carbon using a liquid metal. Reducing the gallium oxide back to the metal takes even more energy than was released by burning the C to CO2 in the first place! If you have an energy source that exceeds the world total carbon usage... then you don't need to burn carbon any more![1]

At best, this could be used to convert some magical future energy source like unlimited fusion power into pure carbon, eliminating the need for coal mining. But that's it.

This -- and any approach like this -- can never be practically used to counter the effects of CO2.

The finance equivalent would be: "We found this new way of producing $100 that only requires $110 in expenses!"

Actually not $110 at all. A sibling comment mentioned that "Gallium is cheap (~$300/kg)".

For comparison, coal is on the order of $150/ton. Not kilograms. Tons. Literally 2,000x cheaper than Gallium per unit weight!

So this paper proposes reducing $100 of carbon by using $200,000 of gallium.

Sure, you have gallium oxide left behind that can be recycled for a bit less than $300/kg, but certainly not for $150/ton!

[1] The few direct uses such as using coke to produce iron from its ore can be replaced by hydrogen gas. Similarly, groups are working on processes for iron similar to the one used for aluminium that requires only electricity as the input.
Well, once you get more comfortable in a codebase, you will start to get a broader view of where it needs to improve. That's the point where you can start being the architect behind new creations.
20% on average seems a bit low and within the range expected for psychosomatic
What is the lens here? If it's Danish lens, then I'm concerned it doesn't fully capture what's happening in other markets.

> Myth 1: A lot of misinfo on social media... No, research suggests there is little, shared by few & having small effects.

The U.S. anti-vax group is quite vocal and quite large. At times this includes elected officials, but sometimes elected officials simply resist mandates which emboldens vaccination resistant groups.
Dinosaur food: 100M year old foods we still eat today
Twitter and Facebook are what you make of it.

Reddit popular is a total echo chamber. Almost every sub, outside of focused hobby subs, turn into echo chambers eventually.

The dynamics of reddit, with downvotes totally squelching dissenting opinions and upvotes promoting popular ones, is naturally going to turn into a total echo chamber.
> I might get to add a new feature, but there's not true creation happening. None of those features are challenging or novel. I feel like I'm filling in a coloring book rather than painting on a canvas.

> … how I could pivot early in my career so that I can get in at projects inception and be a founding developer?

You’d like to skip the years of experience and knowledge and jump right into the fun parts of owning large projects and making the fun decisions.

Start an open source project and perhaps not look for your job to provide this outlet, especially this early in your new career.
You can already do HLS live streaming in a browser with MPEGTS and a simple .m3u8 playlist file that auto-refreshes to get the new segments.
Under regular circumstances, you can't just walk in and change another team's header files, nor force them to make a particular change you want to make happen, so normally, it would be very difficult to make changes affecting so many different projects.
> Prioritizing tools to shield against of hateful content is not in the best interest of social media platforms

It's well understood that hateful content is harmful to retention. Off the top of my head I can think of at least 3 long term projects at IG that were premised on this.

All major social networks prioritize tools to reduce hate because they know that consuming and sharing of hateful content is bad for their bottom line.

The problem is that people are hateful and they express hate online. It's no longer the case that social networks are amplifying this pattern in any way.
>the most desirable option would be a reliably "benevolent" mega-corp that could be trusted to prioritize the user experience while also horizontally integrating across product segments to create a unified service.

Why is that desirable? Its not to me. The most desirable outcome is open data exchange standards that allow data exchange so that ANYONE can build such a service.

Google locks-up publicly available data and they subsidize/price dump to offer services at no-cost so other players die out leaving them to manipulate the market as they see fit. Its the worst possible outcome for everyone involved.
I see your definition of "legitimate" is "in their own best interest regardless of legal or moral legitimacy"
How quickly was the energy released? Was it a sudden impulse or was it over a period of time?
Yeah, the biggest bomb ever detonated for eg, Tsar Bomba[0], was 50-58 megatons. It's chilling to remember militaries have had the tech for some time now to direct a blast bigger than Tonga right overhead a city.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba
Or, you can buy a ClearPlay DVD player (and, I guess they make Bluray players now too). RCA had a similar device as well, but I think it vanished from the market.

It's a DVD player with a service that downloads timecodes to skip all the naughty bits in movies that you play on it.
If the copyright holder has lost the source-code, wouldn't they just say no anyway ?
Because if the copyright holder has lost the original source-code, how can they prove that there is a copyright infringement ?
A lawyer would probably advise to just say no to stay on the safe side :/
There's two possibilities here. One is that the code is very efficient for what it does, and the design is there as a form of bureaucracy to prevent further problems or make certain processes easy to do and bug free. Then try to learn from and understand why it's that way.

The other option is it could just be overengineered and inefficient. This is more often the case. The main symptoms are people are just creating hacks to get around it and everyone dreads coming to work. Good code feels like the programming language was designed

Often overengineering happens for a good reason. Ask why it's that way. The worst code I've seen uses "clean architecture". So I worked to understand what clean architecture was really about. Don't just say that it's bad - look at what it's trying to do and understand why that's not working or what is being implemented poorly.

In our case, the business logic was done entirely on back end, but the front architecture was designed for extensive logic, so it just led to weird situations like most functions executing only one line of code. Some things were also on the wrong layers - business logic should be below the repository layer, but a lot of it snuck in above it. Again the symptom of people writing hacks because the code was too hard to work with.

Even though you might not enjoy this, it's a good opportunity to learn why you don't like it.
That person would not win the lawsuit.
I consider refactoring as part of the job and submit it on the timesheet. However, be careful because as a junior you might be approaching it the wrong way.
The Strangest Strange Cartoon: 'Wow, a Talking Fish '
I actually didn't think it was that amazing. Visually stunning, some good scenes, and pretty memorable. But regardless I think it doesn't deserve the insanely high praise it gets. In my opinion..
Instagrammers are genetically replicating their pets
LineageOS is even less secure than stock because it does not support verified boot.
You could if the object was a known structure, but I needed a function that could be a utility for any object (some were quite large), something like:

const newobj = insertIntoObject( obj, ["name:John", "hobby:*"], newdata )
Maybe H.G. Wells loaned his time machine to Verne for a bit?
Have a look at https://github.com/dev-sec/ansible-collection-hardening
Almost as big as the 1954 Bikini A-test - about 9 degrees N of it. Which may be what they're using to calibrate the size.
I noticed my colleagues that started the PhD with industry experience were often more focused with their goals.
Can they vote in their own local government (Hamas and Fatah)? If no (it is) does that make them apartheid?

Double standards or ignorance.
Me: just casually reading HN.

Also me, to myself: hold our beer we’re going to nerd snipe ourselves and write this as a regex that can’t be flagged as ReDoS.

/G(N)(U) is \1ot \2nix/
BCHS: OpenBSD, C, httpd and SQLite web stack
this is why i always add "thanks"||"it worked" in my queries
In bigcorps, marketing can freely make false claims, and engineering is on the hook for delivery.

You are technically correct that this was a sales fuckup, but the shit storm would 100% be directed towards the “underperforming, delivery-target missing” programmers.
Which part of Manna does this remind you of?
That's pretty cool in some ways. In other ways it's interesting as a reflection of the author's obvious preference for subjective ethics.

For example, what is good? A lot of people share concepts of what is good, but a lot of people really don't. Not because they're bad people, but because life circumstances typically go way deeper than good and evil, for instance. So--what is the author saying, really?

Subjective stuff like this isn't bad, but it does really lead directly into the deeper questions.

Also, how does one determine whether they've taken more than they've given? A lot of people are going to bring subjective past impressions into this determination, which, like good & bad above, are complex enough that you can make that take-or-give-o-meter read just about anything--and again, justify--just about anything.

So on the one hand, it's nice that it's framed as a generous blessing, and good lord does it cut right through all that stupid legal bull! And on the other hand, people who place boring, obtuse, business law terminology where this project has placed a blessing have really good reasons for doing so, as such efforts, which get at objective use cases and expectations, have helped to remediate a lot of damage done by a bit too much subjectivity and projection of expectations in our communications.

(Bless me father, for I have clause'd)
Quite possibly - it really was a bad product and the interface to connect your local storage to a cloud front end was bad and super slow (which is why i didn't use it).
This is a tragedy!

Check out https://github.com/curv3d/curv
Related, for comparison: apparently planting 20B trees/year requires only $80M/year (!) and would pull down a trillion tons of carbon over 50 years (!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyQvfaW54NU&t=14m53s
If you make it to the psychology section, that's where the explanatory power becomes apparent (or at least is speculated on). Though, yes, it is a lot of text to get there (I'm relieved that some people made it that far).

If you do make it that far, there is a payoff, though. This "trivial kind of system" isn't merely an analogy but the actual algorithm that we use, and the "implementation details" of this algorithm manifest in unintuitive ways that have a lot to say about how psychology is understood in general. Though, given your skepticism, more research will likely have to be done before this is satisfactorily proven to you.

This breakthrough (which I'd say is primarily K&A's breakthrough that I merely am speculating on top of), is actually a great example of theoretical progress. I typically consider myself an anti-reductionist, but this is a lesson in how studying simple systems (in this case, chemotaxis), can lead to better understanding of complex systems (because, well, it turns out at least in this case that these complex systems are actually the same simple systems at the top level—the complexity gets added in "layers" much like the evolution of brains).
It's been said that week number rollover occupies a "sweet spot of awfulness" where it happens infrequently enough that it doesn't get much testing, but often enough to impact equipment deployed in the real world.

The designers of GPS either should've made it use like 64 weeks so WNRO would happen constantly and we'd have to get good at handling it, or 32768 weeks so we could ignore it for the entire life of the system and any successors.
I do agree that we shouldn't censor, and continue to call out the quackery.

My point in bringing up Dr. Oz was to give an example of a medical professional who should not be trusted when it comes to the way they give credence to bad ideas and methodology. Just because Joe Rogan's guests have credentials doesn't mean that the ideas they bring to the table are automatically good.
Yes, absolutely. Java has had a competent implementation of generics since 2004 (Java 5) and really embraced functional programming in 2014 (Java 8). Any application of significance will require more LoC in Go than Java, hands down.

Just compare Java streams with Go container classes. Go's aren't typesafe (though that will hopefully change when generics are officially released) and almost every operation requires imperative code. And endless `if err != nil return err` every time you want to call a function - which actually destroys useful stack information.

I won't apologize for the crap Java code out there - but you can write crap in any language. Modern Java is capable of producing pretty, svelte code.
“Igor has chosen to step back from NGINX and F5 in order to spend more time with his friends and family”

I wonder what this is really about.

Either way Nginx is the reason myself and many others were able to survive without raising venture capital because we didn’t need a massive horizontal cluster of Apache servers consuming 20 to 100Mb per concurrent connection. Personally I scaled above 100k current connections on a single front end nginx box with 6 Apache application servers on the back end in 2007 thanks to Igor’s incredible work. He really has made a massive contribution to the fundamental plumbing of the Web and should be recognized for it.
Can someone explain the significance of this to me? I'm not caught up on this topic.
Libor, long the most important number in finance, dies at 52
I am being dead serious.
Here's a seismogram of the event[1]. I don't know if there's a correlation between the results and the rate of energy release, but I feel like there might be.

[1] https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2022/01/to...
What you're reading here is quite literally a joint press release between Pinkertons and the LA and LA County cops, together an axis of vile mendacity. I would read this as dispassionately and skeptically as possible.