skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Germany, they use the inquisitorial system. There is no jury, only judges. In smaller matters, it's one professional judge and two lay judges. In bigger matters it's 3 professional judges and five lay judges. The professional judges hold the ultimate decision, and the lay judges advise (but they do have a lot of influence). And of course one can appeal.

There is no such thing as plea bargaining (which is considered a perversion of justice) or bail (which is considered to be jailing the poor). People are rarely jailed pending trial (unless their place of residence cannot be established, or they're considered a flight risk - a very high bar to pass). There's no "perp walk" or handcuffs or any of that humiliation stuff (unless you actually ARE being a pain). After the verdict, you're usually given a month or two to tie up your affairs outside before being ordered by mail to report to prison.

The relationship between lawyers is one of cooperation (albeit with the agenda of pushing towards their point of view). The purpose of the court proceedings is to get to the truth of the matter. There are no theatrics, no grand speeches, no "chewbacca" defense. Withholding evidence or deliberately hampering the other side is severely frowned upon. "Winning" the case is not the point; representing your side well is. Lawyers have no election aspirations, and thus no public to impress with their prosecutorial prowess. One cannot become a judge without years of training and a degree (there's no such thing as elected judges).

The result is a very calm, organized court proceeding, because everyone involved knows the law and is committed to it. You can't bamboozle with doublespeak, shady arguments or unproven methods because there's no "man on the street" juror to deceive; only the judges, who are trained to know better.

Anyone can sit in on a proceeding (I've done so). There's very little ceremony, and often it's just a bunch of people sitting around conference tables in a small room.
Apple is already in the gaming industry with a proven platform. If Apple leverages their iDevice marketspace dominance, I don't see how they could end in failure.

Imagine an eGPU that is compatible with any Mac/iDevice, just plug and play.

About a week ago I predicted that Apple would release a console, and that the Activision/Microsoft merger was not as much as a move to counter Sony's dominance, but as a moat against Apple.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29985974
Very kind of Mattias to share his process in such detail. I'm doing similar experiments at the moment with a wristwatch-focused newsletter, which is still tiny but requires minimal effort from me - usually just running a command once a week. My flow is:

1. A python script checks the RSS feeds of a handful of relevant blogs and pulls in any new posts.

2. The script checks a couple of relevant subreddits and pulls in the top discussions.

3. The script combines the posts/discussions and sends them to a handlebars template.

4. The result is then sent to the SendGrid API to send out to subscribers (although I send a test version to myself first, just in case).

There's no commentary in the newsletter which would be nice to have, but my priority is on establishing a quick and simple process that works – fancy stuff can be added later if I feel like it. SendGrid allows me to disable link-click tracking within the newsletter, and also handles subscribing/unsubscribing through an embedded iframe[0] so that's another thing I don't have to worry about.

[0] https://mizeni.com/newsletter
I struggle with this too. The best boost to my mood is when I go for a walk with my wife. Try to get some exercise and sun (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YV_iKnzDRg). Watch your sleep hygiene. Talk to your doctor. When I was younger I rarely even considered going to a doctor. Perhaps you should get some lab work done to make sure you're not vitamin deficient.

I got so depressed that my wife had to make appointments for me and tell my doctor how down I was because I was too embarrassed to admit it.

On a lighter note. You might try pomodoro techniques. Sometimes I do a couple of sessions to get started working until I'm "in to it" enough that I don't need that motivation hack. Also I abstain from social media and all entertainment other than music when I'm at my workstation. Same for when I'm in bed.
> It occurs to me that there are several measures of biggest. Raw size, number of rows, etc. which did you mean?

Hm good point. I guess my cop-out answer is "the most informative one." Maybe "the largest description of some aspect of the world." If you've heard of the saying "the map is not the territory" then I guess I am asking, in a general sense, what is the "biggest map"?
Here in Austria we still have building codes from the Nazis that dictate a parking space for every new unit built. This is absolutely ridiculous in cities where car ownership is going down but underground parking is built. A sad result is that many of those expensive underground parking spaces are empty because house owners are not forced to rent out units and parking spaces separately while at the same time the overground parking (for 50 Euros a year in Linz' Blue parking zone) are overcrowded.
The people who work at sweatshops do so because it's a better option than any other in their society.
I think when there is a prevailing narrative about a shortage of labor is a really good time to push a narrative about the benefits of importing labor.
I couldn’t disagree more. Everyone deserves the same level of care.
Baumoll’s cost disease doesn’t explain though why some things like healthcare or education rise more in price than wages.
My hypothesis is that self-checkout created a new way to shop for groceries, that is, less more frequently. I'm certainly guilty of doing this, picking up odds and ends, but I still use a human to check me out if I need to use a cart to shop that day.
The bulk of the heavy lifting for any scholarly journal is done by unpaid volunteers. JOSS calculates their cost of publishing a paper at around $100. What additional expenses does Nature incur that justify charging two orders of magnitude more?

https://blog.joss.theoj.org/2019/06/cost-models-for-running-...
Not sure if it was a bad thing or not. If you look at the things of which the prices have increased, they are all essential things. The things of which the prices have decreased are mostly luxury (and bad for the environment). And cars, but with good enough public transport you really shouldn't need a car.
Normalise vitamin content to calories and you will find that full grains are a great source of many vitamins.

Anecdote: Back when I tried a whole foods vegan diet I found that my main problem was eating enough calories. I simply had to eat a lot more food.
Damn, literary criticism is hard. You can’t really tell people anything without the shared context. I totally get the characterization they’re getting at and the distinction between (say) Diamond Age and The Martian and I can’t think of any words more than what they’ve come up with, but clearly that infuriates some Andy Weir fans (I’m a fan but not in the infuriated-by-this category).

Ah well, I guess you can only broadcast your message as best as you can, and hope it lands among the receivers it does.
Bounded Distrust
As an academic (unrelated to this journal and field), I’ve more or less stopped accepting to review papers because of the low reward… that is, there are virtually no incentives to me as a professor to do this and it takes a lot of time to do proper reviews. I have better things to do with my time.

I attended an ACM webinar some years ago on the topic of open access, and while the OA fees weren’t as high as this one, I asked how they could defend these fees… the answers weren’t entirely satisfactory to me — in general they claimed obviously admin costs, but also that such funds were used to support other well-meaning things ACM deals with such as scholarships/workshops etc for young and female researchers among other things… Personally, while these are good things for ACM to support, I dislike the somewhat arbitrary connection to OA publishing… PS: I’m not sure if this is still their policy.
There's a plan to make this information available to clients in the future: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-aaron-acme-ari/
I do not want to sound like a person who would deny ex-prisoners medical care (I wouldn't), but legal disabilities even today do not end with your release from prison.

For example, felons in the US are banned from owning guns even after they served their time.

Do you consider that good or bad?
There needs to be nonprofit co-op publisher(s) for the scalable benefit of many institutions. Pack-up and form equivalent new journals.
You don’t. Just let it run its course.

The idea that there’s something wrong with you for not wanting to do anything is artificial. There’s nothing wrong with being a person. And people have flaws.

I spent a few years playing dota competitively. It eventually led to getting a job working on HoN, a dota clone. But at the time, the trajectory looked a lot like “do nothing but play games for a year.”

You can’t know where your path will take you. Relaxing is the first step toward happiness, which is the real goal.

Alternatively, adderall helps too.
Yeah, further, I doubt many certificates were issued from an account key belonging to a email address that people monitor often, if not at all.
Or people fully understand that the bulk of the work that goes into a journal is done by unpaid volunteers and are appalled at the sticker price.
You just described the smuggling industry, and it does already exist
Absolutely not, that's not how it works.

You won't be denied tramua treatment for a gunshot because your doc told you to stop playing with guns.

You won't be refused heart medicine because you didn't stop eating bacon when your doctor told you to 5 years earlier.

You won't be denied ER treatment because you were drunk when you crashed your car.

There is no rule where we have to treat all patients equally (including mass murderers) except those who didn't accept n earlier-offered treatment or who did something that caused their own medical condition (i.e which probably includes most medical conditions).

Medical care is not an exploding offer.

Honestly - shame on you for trying to sneak in an absurd exception just so you can abuse the medical system to hurt people you don't like. That's not what hospitals are for.
That's pretty nifty...

It also doesn't require you to modify/extend the operands' classes. As always, be responsible with such magic. Tools (and the compiler for error messages) won't recognize that |add| is supposed to be one unit. Autoformatting may extend it to | add | or even break it up into two lines...
I worked on an a service that did this to prevent unauthorised distribution of something we sold in zip files. You can add a lot of identifiable data to pretty much any file format if you try hard enough.
The adage "use the whole buffalo" has never really died out in terms of meat processing. There's a lot of good product in an animal and you can find buyers for all of it. There's the obvious stuff like hotdogs, sure, but even stuff like the blood is also important. Fetal bovine serum, a supplement for cell culture media, for example comes from the slaughterhouse and is extremely important for biomedical research.
Fascinating way to make a puzzle for people, post a digital message for someone to stumble upon, or make a tribute. This was from 2014, I wonder if someone has posted a follow up.
Yes, if you have them or can recycle. It would be great to find ways to build everything with materials that are plentiful but sometimes it's not possible. Perfect automation is like biology, it can work and replicate on its own but sill needs to compete for limited resources in the ecosystem.
If you agree it's okay to breed animals for nourishment ("not a vegan") then why would it not be okay to breed them for organs?
I think if we really ran out of health care capacity, it might make sense to prioritize people who took preventative measures over those who didn't.

Especially with COVID: if you're at the point of triage and rationing resources, you need to consider likely outcomes, and people with the vaccine presenting at hospital are more likely to survive than those presenting without.

It seems like we're not going to bump into those limits, though, so it's moot.
What happened to the SciHub seeding efforts? Do they still need help with torrents?
> I pretty much can't walk into the same store and purchase the same item but be quoted a different price than anyone else.

The USA only does this for trivial unnecessary frivolities like medical care.
I also have an initiative to boycott reviewing for closed-access journals with currently >350 signers. If you agree, consider signing it :) https://nofreeviewnoreview.org/

Indeed, for-profit publishing only works because researchers are willing to do free reviewing work for such publishers.
I wouldn't put node.js and performance on the same sentence.

Better than other dynamic languages, definitely. That is about it.

Plenty of languages that offer AOT compilation and automatically managed memory to chose from.
What kind of tyranny is it that a reason is even required? An employer should just be allowed to say "because I say so, and if you don't like it you can go work for someone else".
There are certainly much worse bugs than $100k. Think of if Apple itself had been hacked due to a bug. The remediation costs would be very high.

A bug in Knight Capital's stock trader lost $460M in 45 minutes.

A bug in the Ariane 5 rocket caused it to crash, a loss of $370M.

A bug in the Therac-25 radiation machine killed 3 people.

> secret features left open from the beginning?

Are you saying Apple engineers are inserting backdoors? What's the motivation? Security bugs are very easy to accidentally introduce when you have complex interacting systems (in this case a browser, a complicated URL parsing syntax, some ancient barely-known file types, and a file sharing application). Occam's razor (and Hanlon's) says it's an accident.
The pay is terrible, but the path to my own workshop is much easier than running a programming company, who knows. To be brutally honest, programming was a love for 20 years but I've burnt out and looking back, maybe the pay was unreasonable high in the first place and like for many: at the end of the month the money was all gone.
This is the second security issue with a TLS-based challenge [1]. This was a good reminder to switch to the HTTP challenge for the one remaining server I had that was affected.

[1] https://letsencrypt.org/docs/challenge-types/#tls-sni-01
... and yet when we object to "everything depends on systemd" (which drags in dbus+polkit) the peanut gallery still screams "conspiracy theorist!"

This architecture was a bad idea when Windows adopted it. Then it got transplanted to Linux and got even worse.
I can see how it could be useful in actually increasing readability. Just as always, use with caution.
huge levels of inequality necessarily means that a small group of people are consuming vastly more of the available resources than everyone else.

Are Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk consuming vastly more available resources?

I mean most of their wealth is invested, in companies, that provide a livelihood for tens of thousands of individuals.

Let’s say we stopped Elon and Jeff from accumulating such wealth (i.e. stopped their companies from growing and/or forced them to divest their investments and captured it via taxes).

I think we can all agree that both companies would likely be much smaller. So how many jobs not created? How many consumers paying higher prices? How much was technology advances delayed?

I don’t have answers but they are questions worth asking.
Well, better update sci hub to download twice and then normalize any differences!
A programmer at Interplay, Rebecca Heineman, ported Out of This World to Super Nintendo around ... 1992 or so?

It was an amazing accomplishment because the SNES only had a 3.58 MHz (yes, you read that right) processor, and wasn't afforded the luxury of drawing into a traditional pixel-oriented bitmap (e.g. one byte per pixel).

The code that Rebecca wrote rendered triangles into SNES "chunky planar" format on the fly. The chunks are 8x8 pixel tiles, where the bits of each pixel are spread out across four planes (https://sneslab.net/wiki/Graphics_Format). And all this at 20 FPS, a feat which still boggles me, 30 years on.
The unvaccinated are harmless, full stop.
Until we have a more robust conception of what human wellbeing is and what contributes to it other than ("well not being dirt poor and on the verge of death helps, and at some point there are diminishing returns") data like this just strikes me as barking up the wrong tree.

Humans, so far, have been pretty good at improving shit within the current boundaries of their awareness of improvement, and often at the expense of "other people that don't deserve it". Capitalism has been particularly effective at unleashing energy, productive and destructive - though there's also fossil fuels in there. But it could perhaps be a product of that energy release, not it's cause.

By and far, they've been shit at understanding the meta effects of what they are doing or the long term effects of that. Which is hard. Our brain is not built for long time horizons or non-linear causation or even very much meta.

It's a good thing less humans are super poor. Still some questions about whether this world is the only world in which that would happen.
I must admit, I enjoy using intravenous drugs vicariously through others.
It's difficult to do repeat surgeries in the chest.
I think you're confused on what the word 'actively' means.
What's the deal with these wiki sites that seem to consist entirely of user generated content, but absolutely bury it under mountains of ads? How do these places exist, and why do people continue to contribute to them?
Getting to Know the Armed, the Most Unknowable Band in Hardcore
See 'https://github.com/machow/siuba'.
Same here. Fixed by deleting the traefik pods. The underlying Deployment regenerated them and a new cert was obtained.
At some point the whole state of academic research/papers and publishing should be overhauled. My SO left Academic work and started in the industry because of the mess that exist in the academic research industry. The funding and keeping yourself funded as a researcher is a depressing subject to think about.
I just created a query language that searches abbreviations of technical modeling and query languages for a collision and posts the result in a comment on hacker news without formatting.
The previous sentence was a simple statement using the built in grammar. Memory limit is defined by the size of the comment boxes, and output is stored in other user's history enabling redundancy.
You wouldn't use it in any situation where performance is important...
Home farming can make use of small spaces to farm some part of our diets. No need to transport the final product, o need to use a blanket of insecticides and herbicides because the manual labour of caring for each plant is very distributed. Regenerative farming is also trivial at this scale. Large scale farming is often as efficient as it is destructive.
If you could store Pi (3.14159..) with all its digits on your computer, it would contain all past and future revenge porn. I wouldn’t really make anything of it but I wonder what a judge might want to do.
Being Microsoft, they would rather make use of their Typescript compiler for IoT, yet they haven't.

https://makecode.com/language
Well, France is not wrong in acting the way they're acting.

Those who prefer to act in a non-secular way should find better places for it.
Yes, that's true. Although there is an option to run it in a loop over a smaller dataset as a seed.
> The unvaccinated are literally causing people to die besides themselves. There is nothing hate-filled about that.

As a soon to be triple vaccinated healthy adult I wish we could soon admit that we do this for our own good and to not be away from work.

By now it is very clear that about the only thing the current vaccine does against Omicron is lessen the consequences for the individuals who take the vaccine.

I still recommend it but it won't save anyones life except those who take the vaccine.
A synthesis of this mindset plus trying (without unrealistic expectations) to develop good habits as other sibling posts point out is well worth a try. The key phrase I've heard is "committed yet detached". There are some good tools in the box, but no one-size-fits all solution to mental health.
Hahaha this was my family of 4, 20 years ago. I still remember it vividly for some reason, thanks for the reminder.
I would add to this: (1) make sure you're getting enough/regular sleep, (2) work on your mental state (there are many ways to do this, but meditation is one way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3XUee3-meA )
Saved you a click: because someone can take a picture of them and then later duplicate them from the picture.
I would say it’s physically impossible to restrict what an individual can do, regarding basically anything, without severe restrictions in freedom. However you can make fierce penalties for entities and organizations that promote, advertise, profit, etc. from actions which has a tendency to reduce it happening.

For example it is trivially easy to film the TV at a bar, then tweet out the video of a sports game - millions do it every day. But if a company did that without the rights and earned money from it - an easy lawsuit.
The practical/empirical argument would essentially be to extrapolate out what the world will become like if we spread X or Y normative belief/practice.

You can argue that one will lead to a preferable world than the other.

Of course, we may have different preferences, so we may not agree even if we agree on that extrapolation. But often basic human preferences like not wanting to be the victim of unprovoked public violence do align.
Name your desktop user `user` and now your logs will be less identifying
Routing is a pretty deep problem. I don't know whether Google actually puts all that much effort into it. For example I prefer to use bbbike.de for cycling routes in my area because it usually provides better routes than Google, even though it's maintained by just one person.
I'm surprised to hear that it is impolite to not have a housekeeper if you are an expat. To which places are you referring?
> But you haven't explained how this (obviously true) statement is relevant to the original discussion, about the morality of providing life-saving medical treatment to perpetrators of serious crimes.

My original point was in response to the claim that “the key principle in medicine is to treat anyone who is sick, regardless of who they are”. I took this to be an ought and wanted to point out that its truth isn’t established anymore than the ought indicated by Ed’s family, and that in fact there would be serious difficulties with establishing either one for the reason given by your last post:

> a valid deductive argument with a normative conclusion must either have a normative premise, or else rely on a logic whose inference rules permit normative statements to be inferred from non-normative ones.

But also I think that this poster makes a good point that the doctors are actually making a positive claim.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30081152

> To call an argument "valid" is to make a normative claim; it is to claim that a rational agent ought to accept it.

I think I had in mind a textbook definition I had read.

An argument is called valid if it is impossible for the premises to be true and the conclusion false. And then we say that an argument is sound if it is both valid and has true premises.

Which seems like a useful pair of definitions, and in that context I was confused about the terms.

I actually haven’t ever thought about or heard of this idea of ‘when is a rational actor committed to accepting claims’. But yeah, seems interesting to me.