skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's common in admiralty law everywhere. If you have a ship that hasn't paid its docking fees, what can you do? The owner is an ocean away and won't come to court even if you find a way to inform them. If you let the ship sail the port will never be paid. It can be arrested and, if necessary, auctioned to pay the debt. But you can't do that without a court order. So there is an in rem action against the ship itself. It makes perfect sense in that context (and in the one that other commentators have mentioned, which is unaccompanied packages of contraband). Also prize and salvage actions, which are also admiralty proceedings.

The difficulty comes when you stretch the concept like with civil forfeiture. It's not even necessary: England and Wales has the Proceeds of Crime Act to allow seizure and forfeiture of criminal property and all the cases under that are ordinary in personam actions between the state and the putative criminal.
There's no modern attachment to eugenics or the draft though. A person full of bad ideas can still have a good one, and it's noticeable that his others do not persist
> Over the past few years I've met people who are really good programmers when it comes to putting together a full back end system , creating a very nice front end or creating any kind of app for that matter. Many of these people are fresh out of college and the "industry" puts them through leetcode/hackerrank style rounds that are needlessly hard

I'll get downvoted for this but... There's no such thing as "leetcode/hackerrank" interviews. It's simply using questions that will be familiar to any candidate who took a serious algorithm and data structure class [0]. Any serious engineering/computer science degree should have at least one. If you can figure out algorithms, you should be ok figuring out how we built our back-end in whatever language, as the fundamentals (the underlying algorithms and data structures) will be evident.

If you're just hiring programmers, don't expect them to be familiar with those concepts. But any serious engineer will and should.

[0] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-006-introduction-to-algorithms...
> There tend to be immense legal restrictions on movement

There were extreme legal restrictions on movement in Ancient Greece, too. You couldn't just pack up your bags and move to Spara or Athens and become part of the citizen class.

And as a non-citizen, there were a lot of different ways that you could be abused by citizens, with little recourse.

Just because despotism and abuse was decentralized, doesn't mean that it wasn't despotism and abuse.
You can go read reports from the OG sociologists and they're talking about how people in the projects have all sorts of cash income so they don't lose their bennies and the gangs tax the cash. That was 60yr ago.
A 2016 study of a sample of academic journals that set out to test Betteridge's law and Hinchliffe's rule (see below) found that few titles were posed as questions and of those, few were yes/no questions and they were more often answered "yes" in the body of the article rather than "no".[12]
This time, the answer seems to be yes. It's really quite impressive if these were created by hunter-gatherers before the invention of written language.
US to keep 100k troops in Europe for foreseeable future facing Russian threat
Well, he was director of R&D for a medical imaging company and worked directly with academia. So I think its appropriate to contextualise the "amateur" because his work looked much more amateur than it really was.
At some point, we will have enough solar/hydro/wind etc that they won't be built using coal power... Right now it's a necessary yes, in the future no.

In a way, that last (...) is also a very black and white way of viewing things.
We want to help people who don’t make a lot of money. Governments are imperfect institutions yes, but what alternative is there to send money to people who need it ?
While peer review isn’t perfect - it’s helpful. Arxiv isn’t peer reviewed. Most things in ACM journals and conferences are. That process costs money because it takes people and time to do it well. Journal subscriptions are often not enough to recover those costs.

As for sci-hub? They’re just taking the finished work. It’s like saying software shouldn’t cost much because The Pirate Bay can deliver software for free.
I literally clarified my statement since you came to an incorrect conclusion.

"direct financial" is correct when you're giving examples that are not direct.
This is the thing. I've been solving abstract problems for a living well over 20 years by now. Can I have some time off?

I know I can solve many leetcode problems (fizzbuzz? roman to arab numerals?) given some time, but I hate doing it.

As software developers, we constantly have to proof ourselves. At dailies, in leetcode.

This is fun when you are 25, much less so when you are 50.
My advice? Start memorizing the riddles.

Consulting jobs require case interviews - they're pale imitations of actual projects that translate loosely at best. And every company uses them.

Trading jobs ask probability questions - they're idealized versions of what traders do all day, requiring tangential (at best) skills like mental math and memorizing niche formulae. And (almost) every trading firm will ask them.

Tech jobs ask leetcode questions - they're vaguely correlated with tech skills (you can't learn leetcode without learning to program, I guess?). And (nearly) every company asks them.

All of these industries put up somewhat-arbitrary filters just to get a manageable signal, however imprecise, on the endless morass of new grads trying to break in. They ask them because they work: the pool of candidates who pass them are of a higher average quality than the pool who fail.

They're biased, arbitrary, and often quite silly. And they've persisted for a half century. Get used to 'em.
I live in Germany and I also have to pay for the construction of toll free highways and other very expensive car infrastructure. The tax on gas was reduced for the same months in the sommer which is on its own totally ridiculous, but it will also cost over a billion a month. I don't drive so I have nothing to gain from any of that -- but you don't get help from others if you don't help others, so you don't pick and choose what you pay with your taxes.
Very snarky response. I think the poster you replied to was trying to point out that the reason this happens is because the government prints money and if they don't take the money out of circulation via taxes then inflation becomes an issue.
Oh, I thought I was kind of dumb for doing that :) happy to see that it's normal haha. I always find myself trying to remember: is it one dash? is it "name" or "iname" or whatnot.. pipe grep is way easier.
Ian (I used to work with him) is sort of the opposite of an asshole. If he did this (and made it public) it meant that he had already talked to everybody up to the SVP of his division

he's the sort of person any major org would want, but he makes a better fit in an org that does academic research (google research, deepmind, microsoft, amazo, not apple).
Why do you say this, are you implying there is some danger?
How does C# manage to handle without the turbo fish syntax? What’s different in Rust?
I am very creative in naming!
> a case study for AI ethics classes

What is unethical about this citizen science project? What is ethical about keeping it only for yourself, and not sharing it with the world?

You are saying you have the expertise to build a similar product, but releasing it would mean the worst fear of your community?

> people will recklessly apply ML

What are the indications that this is a reckless application of ML?

> How many people went to this website, uploaded images, were told were ok and didn't follow up?

Common sense dictates exactly zero. Their follow up was taking their images and getting an automated second opinion. Either a doctor already deemed them OK, or a doctor deemed them not OK, in which case, they would not rely on a second opinion, to think they are suddenly OK.

> How many were told they have cancer and insisted on procedures they didn't need?

Again, exactly zero. The app returns probabilities not binary diagnostics. No hospital would do anti-cancer procedures on a patient without cancer, even when they insist, because some website, friend, or religious leader told them so.

> The website is totally unaccountable.

Good. Or make the good-faith open-source project accountable and liable? That would simply mean shutting it down. No more diagnostics help for low-expertise hospitals: not good at all.

> Totally without any of the most basic ethical standards in medicine.

List a basic ethical standard in medicine which this project runs afoul of.

> basic human rights for patients

What right is that? The right not to upload your images to a site of your choosing? I thought human rights include self-determination, and keeping possession of your imaging to do however you see fit.

> In the US this would have been shut down by the FDA immediately.

But is that a good, ethical thing? Or simply that red tape and authority in US does not allow for such projects?

> We should not be celebrating this unethical "science" that doesn't meet even the most basic of scientific standards or ethical standards.

You should not talk about ethics or science, when you did not do even a proper evaluation of the work of a fellow scientist.

> I can't believe this is getting upvoted here.

Awaiting your work on cancer research and ML. Post it here. If devoid of ethical issues, and strongly scientific, it will also be upvoted and celebrated. Or is your major contribution going to be a snipe at someone who actually contributed?
Is there a link to your book?
The NHS has finite resources. They have to decide if implementing a screening program is worthwhile or not, versus spending the money elsewhere. You can still go to your doctor and get a mammogram (or even a more useful test) if you have other reasons why this might be justified in your situation. They aren’t ‘banning’ mammograms for young women.
Thanks for the different perspective. What did you mean by "unnecessary treatment" though? If you have cancer, doesn't it need to be treated? Doesn't cancer anywhere always cause harm to the body?
Like that is helping me with heating oil. And mind you, not only me. Everyone renting places, owning places, offices heated with oil will get hit by that. I do not see how a discount on transport for three months is going to help those people.

I also have a mother in Germany who I pay the rent for. She's a pensioner with a minimal amount of money. I am very much looking to Nebenkostenabrechnung next year for heating.
It’s hard to understand how much more available capital is in the states. Getting 100 million together is drastically easier there than anywhere else.

Similar to silicon valley’s tech scene, you get migration of people who want to work at a level where that sort of capital is required.
They can get a warrant based on probable cause signed by a judge.
But proc macros are limited by requiring another crate (unless things have changed in the last year). Sure, it’s just one extra crate in the project, but why must I be forced to?
It's been shocking the amount of "emergency" funding for Ukraine that has been passed in the past 2 months. If it were for anything else other than the military, Republicans would have a gargantuan hissy fit over it and probably filibuster it to death.
But every specialized model like this is getting us closer to "doing a zillion other things." By logic it is exactly one step closer. The general AI agent will be composed of many such models.
A Merkle tree is not a bad data structure to have in your toolbox. That's learning the tech behind source control as much as learning the tech behind crypto I guess.
"More accurate" is a condensed version of a longer (disclaimer-attached) statement about how I think they're more useful for typical profiling.

If you want to know the exact ratios of how hot code is, then yes instrumentation can be a godsend, however in my experience most people are simply mislead by them because a naive instrumenting profiler usually does not have enough information to capture the right context (i.e. the call stack).

For most applications profiling is basically just an exercise in proving your own mental model of execution correct, not fine-tuning (initially at least).

https://youtu.be/6TDZa5LUBzY I gave a talk on this in November.
I hope that means you can retire at 40? Because otherwise I'm not sure if you're aware you're going to die one day and you can't bring your money.
If you pay back your loans responsibly, and another doesn't and gets their balance forgiven, who's the fool?

> all bs moralistic about the responsibility of paying debts back

It's dishonorable to not pay back money you borrowed. I'm sure if you loaned someone money, and they said "bs" when you expected repayment, you'd be very put out.

P.S. I've had people who've stolen money from me contact me years later wanting to do business together. I don't understand modern morality, or how they'd imagine I'd ever work with them again.
I am most proud of still being married for 20+ years with 2 kids all the while being a full-time software manager and/or engineer.

On the technology front, I am very proud of many of the technologies that I worked on as a team member: evangelizing Java 2 Enterprise Edition and writing software for the Philips P100 Screen Phone.

I can't say that I changed the world or had any significant impact on technology. I gave it one hell of a try and met some amazing people along the way. One highlight: Larry Page gave me a tour of Stanford before he became famous and scolded me for suggesting that google.stanford.edu should be made into a business. I still have his student business card.
In fairness, I think people thought the Eastern and Southern armies fought in a "civilized" manner.

It's just that the Western armies and Western generals came in, and they fought in a significantly different fashion. You can call the West of the Union more "modern". Or "pragmatic". Or maybe "barbaric" is the right word.

No one wanted to be seen as being "Barbaric". Except Western armies, who really didn't care what people thought about them. (At least, not as much as they cared about their orders.)
CERN Physicists Observe Phenomenon in QCD
I think there are additional levels of human potential that express not at the individual level but at aggregates. Perhaps a MOP* for human potential?

* meta-object protocol
The Bombe doesn't decrypt Enigma encrypted messages.

What it does is figure out which keys (initial rotor positions and plugboard settings) are logically consistent with the information you have, eliminating the bulk of possibilities and leaving humans to do the remaining work. In an actual Bombe (or the replica at Bletchley today) this results in a "stop" - the machine trying every possibility halts because the combination it's trying now isn't logically impossible. Humans then take the result of the "stop" and check whether they can decrypt the message, the Bombe can continue searching for other possibilities.

The logical inconsistency results from the fact that Enigma guarantees that any symbol X will encrypt to some different symbol. It will never encrypt to X. If that seems to happen it's an inconsistency and this can't be the correct key, try again.

This is a grave problem with designs like Enigma, and it's one reason why Enigma is the dying gasp of this approach, if you've got something like Lorenz you can't rule out any of the keys by logical contradiction like the Bombes, just as you can't with modern ciphers.
Does anybody know if something like this could be implemented using a library like Jax?

It's a bit outside my area, but I've seen a few encryption, or maybe signature breaking tools that somehow managed to apply some very cool linear algebra to guess at the bits directly using the gradient of the encryption function (can't find a nice link now)
But per Carnot, maintaining a fixed temperature differential against a fixed thermal resistance is cheaper (requires less work) at a higher temperature (1/(1-(Tcold/Thot)) is the carnot-limited "coefficient of performance" for a heat pump).
So theoretically they should be able to maintain the design differential even at higher outdoor temperatures, causing indoor temperatures to raise from ~21°C to 26°C comparing the "still works at 35°C" and "40°C happens regular in $current_year".
I like learning about the latest and greatest developments in these compact, fanless router boxes. But, so many are only available through seemingly random AliExpress sellers. Maybe this is being overly cautious, but I would never trust my home and small business networking duties to off-brand hardware like this. I worry about poor QC, nonexistent customer support and nonstandard/undocumented gotchas. This is not even considering outright malicious behavior by one of these storefronts.

I've used Protectli and PC Engines boxes before, which have been great. I'm definitely leaving some value/performance on the table compared to the hardware described in this article. I also know that Protectli hardware in particular is supposed to be identical to some of the Aliexpress boxes, at a higher price. But at least I have some assurance that the company behind the hardware has a reputation at stake and will hopefully stand behind their products.
> 7/ 'So when you trot out "you can't shout fire in a theater" in response to a First Amendment question, you're using the catchphrase a eugenicist used to support jailing people for criticizing the draft in a case that hasn't been good law for a half century.' [1]

That's true, but it's also true to criticize anyone citing the constitution by pointing out that it was written by slaveowners and perpetrators of genocide.

For some reason, though, that argument never goes over well. Maybe it's because the character of the person who made an argument hundreds of years ago is only relevant when you disagree with the argument.
If it's not interesting learn something else. Not everyone wants to work on payment systems or swap / stake web pages.
My impression is not simply defined and hard to provide evidence for, I admit.

> Trump killed that kind of journalism

How did he possibly kill that kind of journalism?

Maybe that attitude explains it, in some way.
Nope, not really, some people mentioned L-Systems maybe in the future I will implement them in Plantarium. For me, they always seemed a bit too mathematically and structured and not so natural...
I've had similar experiences with part suppliers like this, especially in the display assembly area. Not on the scale of what Apple does, but enough to shut us down. One great example was the assembly supplier changing the entire captouch chip because the last one ran out and the new one was "close enough". Not close enough for our kernel to recognize it and work correctly.

Every time some "RPi alternate part?" thread pops up and everyone starts fawning over the $1 Linux app cores like AllWinner and RockChip and MediaTek all I can think is "yeah, they're going to burn you too if you try to put these into a 3 or 5-year design, because they will fuck you over without thinking twice.
Same here, I stopped watching because I tend to get lost after a while.

History Of The Universe is more consumable at my level
> Vangelis brought the synthesizer from an experimental novelty to an instrument for composition.

Along with Wendy Carlos and Jean-Michel Jarre, of course.
Gary Marcus 2d free online workshop: The Challenge of Compositionality for AI
Free two-day online workshop on compositionality and artificial intelligence organized by Gary Marcus and Raphaël Millière.
America's allies would probably not support a side unless there was going to be a clear winner OR it was in that nation's interest to do so.

America's enemies maybe would pick a side in an attempt to destabilize the country more... But I think a splintered America would be extremely reluctant to accept help from Russia/China.
>> I am staring at about a dozen, stiff, eight-foot high, orange-red penises, carved from living bedrock, and semi-enclosed in an open chamber. A strange carved head (of a man, a demon, a priest, a God?), also hewn from the living rock, gazes at the phallic totems – like a primitivist gargoyle.

[x] Earliest known example

[x] Giant penises

Second Life will one day become a digital archeologist's incredible discovery
I’ve been searching for Rust development jobs and most things I find are related to web3, which im not interested to get involved in.
I guess I’ll keep looking.
their HQ was already in prague ~IIRC
>circular economy for PET bottles

except recycling plastic doesnt happen, its a huge scam
>You’re dreaming about a time that never existed, or where it did exist was completely incapable of scaling and weathering economic downturns.

You can leave off "it never existed" if you immediately acknowledge that it did exist, but with constraints.

If the constraints/scaling are what you care about, then make the case that everyone is better off with an inefficient system of coercion and perverse incentives, versus a system where people are giving their time and money willingly out of the goodness inside them.
This is similar to:

- Look before you leap
- He who hesitates is lost

Studies and adages aren't all that different, it seems.
I skimmed the article but didn't see how they determined its age.
> Nah.

What is that in response to? You're saying VDI isn't slow and underresourced for many people? Perhaps that's not your experience, but does that mean it's not the experience of others? Are you saying that VDIs aren't sold that way to CEOs? I've seen it and the underresourced results multiple times.
BrowserStack is amazing for this, I just used the free tier, where you have like one minute with a remote safari session.

And can just open DevTools and look at the error. But it's a bit stressful because of the time limit
>as you make more money and become more self-sufficient, you lose some of those gains to government policy

Not quite. With a progressive income bracket and a simple tax scenario (1040EZ kind of thing), there is never a time where an increase in salary implies a net decrease in take-home pay. Going "into the next bracket" means your marginal dollars (the new ones you are making) get taxed at a higher rate, not your entire income.

This SSI situation does punish people, however, and it is clearly not the only assistance system with an all-or-nothing cutoff. The solution should either be to have a more intelligent system for measuring income, allowing people to put "excess" income into a focused-use bank account, or to scrap asset restrictions altogether. This sounds like the kind of requirement put in by politicians who have to pander to people who don't want to give money to "freeloaders".
Without a constitutional amendment there’s no guarantee of anything, future congress being bound by past congress is a fundamentally terrible idea. Imagine what the slaveholders in the early 1800s would have tried to do if they could have passed a “slaves forever and nobody can ever change this law” bill (which indeed was what the confederacy tried to do with its constitution).

Even then you are subject to future amendments and future courts that interpret that what you really meant by “universal” was only that the government had to pay at least $0.01 to everyone so actually policy X is still universal. There are no “forever guarantees” and indeed that would be awful, the living should never be irrevocably bound by the hand of the dead.
What's the joke, is it an allusion?