skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The death penalty as a deterrent does not work

Agreed, this has been studied over and over, generally punishment doesn't work. The reason it doesn't work is because most crimes are not planned or deliberate, especially not something like murder.

However, in cases like this, with 3M, it is deliberate. Sure they try to hide it, but they also know that the chances of anyone in management getting personally punished is practically zero. The company might get a fine and some executive will take an early retirement, if he hasn't already once the information comes to light. This is not a crime made in desperation, this is a cold blood calculation where the costs are weighed against potential profit. I don't know, but I could imagine a deterrence would work differently in these scenarios.
A lot of super evil people are just casually suicidal. They had deep unsatisfaction with their life, and they don’t really care if they die because of it. So they don’t care about committing crimes and hurting others, and if you put a loaded gun in their face and threaten to pull the trigger, they won’t grovel and beg. They have nothing to lose, their life was shit and their evil crimes gave them some sort of satisfaction, but if it’s over, it’s over.
This is a much more effective design that the one I watched a few weeks ago: “Building a DIY submarine” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUba126uzvU

I was thinking that they must have built others before to get this result, and sure enough in the linked blog post it says that it was the 4th, like the swamp castle in the Monty Python movie.

It even has a frikkin’ laser [range finder] attached to its head.
I assume that in Europe and America the prohibition of divorce comes from Christianity, deriving from Matthew 19.
Cats get out, I know plenty of people who's cats escaped and they spend a day or two looking for them.
If one was to replace "cats/dogs/animals/horses" in your statements with "humans", one could get another informed opinion. A bit cynical perhaps, but informed nonetheless.
A lot of the "pivot away from ... cash ... towards store of value" was legislated into place by AML/KYC idiocy. And IRS policies.

If you're referring to the blocksize wars, you aren't looking at a long enough time horizon. No system can afford to keep settlement records of every transaction processed by VISA/Mastercard for the rest of eternity. In order for bitcoin to finish displacing existing payment systems some sort of off-chain settlement is unavoidable.

Refusing to increase the blocksize forced people to start working on this instead of just kicking the can yet again. And hey, guess what, five years later I can use Lightning to upvote posts on https://stacker.news (without even waiting for the next block to be mined!).
Canberra requires cats born from 1 July 2022 to be kept indoors.

https://www.cityservices.act.gov.au/pets-and-wildlife/domest...
"Turbofans stop working, and you start needing to deal with plasma from air resistance" are the specific points here.
Moreover, if you can handle these issues, you can probably use similar tech to go even faster.
I certainly do not support eugenics applied to humans but let's note that we are absolutely apply it to all other life forms on Earth to produce advantageous variants for our various purposes. It works to the extent allowed by genetics and is in effect settled fact for plants and animals. Highly respected public intellectuals in the 1920s and 30s thought it was a good idea to apply it to humans. We all know the results.

https://nordics.info/show/artikel/eugenics-in-the-nordic-cou...
https://www.aier.org/article/j-m-keyness-dreams-of-a-eugenic...
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-forgotten-le...
> So the early 19th-century world contained 128 random strangers going about their lives, each of whose genes makes up 1/128th of who you are today.

That sounds completely wrong to me. Aren't most genes the same across all human beings?
If companies are people, companies should be able to get the death penalty.

We used to do this. Companies getting their charters revoked used to be something that wasn't uncommon.

Unless you make the punishments for this an existential threat, it's just a cost of doing business.
I read once about a corporate death penalty that I think should really be made into law: where a corporate entity commits something so heinous that a fine or what have you is simply not enough. I cannot find the link but the process would go about such as:

- The entire entity would be taken on ownership by the government agency at play. No existing stakeholders would be paid anything for this and operations would continue, assuming the operation is worth salvaging of course, with the corrections made needed.

- The entity would then be either sold in-whole or carved up into pieces to other large businesses. Shareholders, stakeholders, or investors are not made whole: instead, the revenue from these sales is used to repay or remediate the damage caused by the company.

- Top level leadership is, if it's felt is required, charged for neglecting their duties as leaders and fined, jailed, or otherwise punished.

- In the end the original entity is dissolved entirely, any remaining assets are sold in a process similar to the above, and the name is added to a "dead corporation" list and cannot be used at any time in the future.
7 Months in a Scam Labor Camp
Outside of work hours, try doing challenging algo problems or work on a personal programming / CS project. Spend your short breaks at work on solving these problems or creating new features (in your head or in a paper notebook).
I feel sorry for the people who have to use Windows.
It's because engineers will build what engineers want rather than what the customer wants. Engineers are more likely to appreciate highly technical details that average customers don't even understand, let alone want to pay for. There is also likely a disconnect between what it should be able to do versus how easy it is to use.

Engineers are likely to solve problems that the customer doesn't care about. If you know engineers that say things like "the customer is an idiot" then you understand what I'm talking about. Even if the customer really is an idiot that is the person who needs to use the product.
> the consumer cards don't do compute?

Typically, software developers only support a single GPGPU API, and that API is nVidia CUDA.

Technically, consumer AMD cards are awesome at compute. For example, UE5 renders triangle meshes with compute instead of graphics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMorJX3Nj6U Moreover, AMD cards often outperform nVidia equivalents because nVidia prioritized ray tracing and DLSS over compute power and memory bandwidth.

The issue is, no tech company is interested in adding D3D or Vulkan backend to AI libraries like PyTorch. nVidia is not doing that because they are happy with the status quo. Intel and AMD are not doing that because both hope to replace CUDA with their proprietary equivalents, instead of an open GPU API.
I get the joke, but what we need is a constitutional amendment overriding Citizens United, reigning in the absurdity of "corporations have free speech rights and thus they can spend whatever they want on political campaigns and PACs, and without even reporting it."
Whilst I don't disagree with your conclusion, the sibling comments cover:

- The subgenre this all happened in has a very different makeup than western publishing broadly, and

- The authors targeted were not all 'people of colour'.

I agree she was likely secondarily racially motivated in some way - maybe due to trust in that subgenre, or the view in some area of the internet that 'people of colour' cannot be questioned. Or maybe she's just a racist killing two birds with one stone. She seems a serial liar, so I doubt we'll ever know for sure.
It is clearly useful, as it makes impossible to write portable code, across compilers and operating systems.
Let me rephrase then: What is wrong in the brain of these people? They have to live on the planet too, they have friend and family, people they care... No?

Normal people can't get away with things like this, because the decisions would haunt our dreams.
What is Haar measure in this case?
Death sentence is absolutely not too much. It's an extraordinarily effective deterrent (see Singapore), and I don't know where the narrative comes from that it's not. Some people simply need to die.
Which encoding eliminates symbols that can be confused ljke O vs 0? Or I vs l
Running watts through transistors produces heat. Flat transistors are cooled by various heat dispersal mechanisms today. Thicker 3D stacked transistors will possibly provide impetus for a different cooling paradigm.
>uses his media empire to convince people to go against their own interests

Well, yes, that’s his job. Do you think that news media exists to inform you?
For me, the death penalty contains traces of mercy and life-long incarceration does not. You take away someone’s freedom for the rest of their life instead of putting them out of their misery.
It is clearly useful, as it makes impossible to write portable code, across compilers and operating systems.

This kind of landmines is what keeps many code bases still using C++11 and C89.
https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/sdxl-turbo/blob/main/LICE...

Huh, TIL: "STABILITY AI NON-COMMERCIAL RESEARCH COMMUNITY LICENSE AGREEMENT"
Boycott Xorg. It breaks everything
Google is a company that, over the years, employed over a million unique human beings. In such a population you’re bound to find some that would sell their own mother for a promo.

WEI is following Apple’s lead isn’t it? But unlike Apple, Google got pushback and abandoned it.

When it comes to GDPR, that’s even funnier. Most companies woke up in 2018 and looked for a way to brush this off. My org in Google was investing serious development (we’re talking engineer-years, don’t know how many) into GDPR compliance in 2015. And that’s not some superficial fronted tweak. I’m talking about adding data removal to analytical storage, something where first design assumption was that it has immutable append-only history.

Manifest v3… I don’t understand what are they trying to achieve.
That's exactly that yes.

Also, duplication. I want laptops and hard drives in different bags in case of water, fire, mugging, etc

The big hunting knife is not mandatory. As I said, I use it rarely.

But I'd hate to be in a situation where I need it and not have it.

Maybe it's also good luck charm at this point :)
This is not the question I expected based on the title. My answer was going to be "get elevated to management, and work on learning to delegate in a way that returns maximum results with minimum input/output massaging from you" (meaning: get very good at expressing clearly and unambiguously what it is that you want.)

But you want to make the most of the free time you have. This is trickier: you need to work on breaking down your desired study into snippets that can be fully and meaningfully digested in short periods of time. Context-switching bigger tasks to make way for meetings will prime you to fail.

Nearly two decades ago I had a job that essentially allowed me to do whatever the fuck I wanted within the constraints of a locked-down corporate WinXP image until the headset I was wearing went "beep SERVER!" and I had to start talking to a support customer. I chose generally improving my knowledge of geography by staring at maps. Google Earth had just been released, much to my benefit.
The nostalgia for Borders, B&N etc. is amusing considering they were blamed for the demise of independent bookstores before Amazon showed up.
Well, they're encrypting with a statically-built-in key shared across all of their devices (and even with others). I hardly think they care about properly implementing padding!
*so nice
Every ideology appeals to emotions...

I can't find the source right now, but someone said that believing in democracy is like believing in the metric system.

And there's another (Churchill's?) one saying that it's the worst government system, except all the others. Not very exciting definitions, more like cynics' choice.
Thank god for the comms problem. Without it, hypersonic missles probably aren't far from being able to take out any aircraft carrier.

That would be bad for Taiwan.
China uses the death penalty this way. North Korea has an even stricter system. I don’t think the number of cases have rapidly gone to zero. It seems to breed endogenous corruption and a mafioso approach to internal affairs. You have to deal with lack of proportionality—no matter where you draw the line, once you’ve crossed it there’s no reason not to keep going.
I don’t know why it happened in your neighbourhood but when I lived in Monschau, I had a Freiganger and there were at least five other cats outdoor all the time. We had plenty of birds. But we took care of our gardens so there were so many insects. Bees, wasps, hornets, flies, mosquitoes of various kinds, ants, spiders, occasional hummingbird, everything. Not many rats. Some mice. Those cats kill a ton of mice.

Now I live in the city. No cats but rats and people walking dogs dumping on the sidewalk.

I take a suburb with cats.

Edit: of course, I don’t deny that cats kill a staggering number of birds.
That’s not what happened though, is it? Execs got away relatively lightly.

No executives were actually executed. Only two people were executed, a farmer producing the protein powder with melamine and the manager of a workshop processing it. Sanlu executives got away with prison sentences.
it's like bottlerocket, but more advanced.
It's not about expense, it's about the fact that they do not deserve to live. Plenty of countries can economically work with the death sentence today, simply because it is part of their societies and law.
Easy as in "competent C++ programmers do this every day"?

If the copy constructor can fail and you don't want that, then delete it?
What works for me:

- Write out bad ideas on spare paper to get them out of your head.

- Write out good/private ideas into a diary, like a conversation or journal you have with yourself.

Any non-practical information you want to keep in your head should be organized. Opinions, theories, and whatever should be threads that are tied down to some mental storage device, (a mental map) or a software solution (excel doc).

After a while you start to see patterns in the media you're receiving and it becomes less mentally taxing to watch.

The desire to self improve is not a goal. It is a desire. Overheating with desire, cannot help you to move forward.

I'd focus on conserving one meaning or something you can see, and dodge the idea that you're going to mentally generate a good direction out of the infinite slew of media inputs to your life.

I don't think you (or anyone) can outsmart the problem of self improvement.
The fact that you would even make this joke shows how absurdly far we have fallen.

Obviously they exist for that purpose, studying the foundations of news media and journalism... for even a day... shows concisely that it was painfully created for this reason.
I think the network issues you mentioned are relatively simple engineering issue, you can easily hire and delegate.

Banks have the issue with delegating power to give you money. From a distance I'd guess there is a real advantage to businesses of local banks and being able to work on personal relationships.

You never have a relationship with a big company, you are just an entry in a database interacting with an algorithm.
In the photography community, taking street photos of people without their permission is a source of controversy. Some people on the extremes feel it’s never acceptable, but most photographers agree that being respectful is the key, as well as always deleting photos if someone asks.

One of my personal stances is that I’ll never photograph someone who is in a compromised position, e.g. a drunk person stumbling out of a bar, or a homeless person sleeping on the street. This seems like the bare minimum in terms of respect and human decency.

It’s pretty disheartening to see these kinds of TikTok trends just blow through these kinds of ethical concerns and norms. I’ve already worried at times that poorly behaving street photographers are going to make it harder for most photographers to continue their work. I don’t even know what to say about trends like this one. It’s one of the many reasons that I’m convinced humans are not capable of using certain forms of social media in a healthy way. Our brains are not equipped for it.
I think the article misses the point on the whole spectrum soft skills really are.

Becoming a technical domain expert doesn't automatically make you helpful to others. You might not have the ability to communicate knowledge, or the ability to foresee how being helpful is ley to moving ahead the corporate chess board.

There are unspoken rules of corporate ladder advancement, which are not discussed in OP's article.
Cats also devour New Zealand’s indigenous ground bats.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_lesser_short-tai...

> The bat roosts are very vulnerable, as they contain more potential prey within a single area. If these roosts were found by a predator, they could experience mass mortality events; in one incident, 102 lesser short-tailed bat deaths were caused by a single house cat in central North Island.
The promises and pitfalls of specialized ribosomes (2022)
The thing about the "unimportant politicians" is a thing in every industry.

As a relatively small YouTuber (50K subs), I have never really spoken to giant YouTubers with millions of subscribers.

But I have spoken to many medium sized YouTubers (100K-1M subs), who are speaking to those giant YouTubers as well as to me.

I don't know MrBeast, but I know a guy who has personally worked with him on videos.

One person can speak to a lot of imporant people throughout their career. You just have to meet them.
The Académie nowadays is (mostly) a bunch of old politically influent people with zero or little linguistic knowledge. They stopped reforming the language almost two hundred years ago and now they can only hope that people will keep paying them attention. But the language will keep evolving and drifting, and they will keep resisting, until the divergence will be so large that they will just disappear into nothingness, and people will ask: "why did people bother with them for so long?..."

Or, as the young ones do nowadays, they'll just say "Cheh!" to the Académie.
Just out of curiosity, assuming someone is sitting in literal Purgatory and is presented with this choice, can you imagine any conceivable reason why they would reject it? I have zero belief in any of this myself, but if I died and was proven wrong, I certainly wouldn't suffer for eternity rather than chance my proven-wrong belief...
Amazon !== AWS, I think what's being referred to is smaller retailers, not other FAANGs.

My brother's store is slowly folding, largely due specifically to Amazon selling cheaper than he can purchase wholesale.
Last time I tried C++17 parallel STL algorithms, I wasn't so lucky.

Then there is the whole issue that many libraries authors cannot set in stone just one compiler / OS.
Google is in the middle of a scandal of faking advertising numbers, this is just a game of shifting the blame to somebody else.

It's never been about ad blockers and the alternative frontends, they are covering up their own failures.
Use something like Anki for spaced repetition during these short times and use other time to do more in depth work and add cards.
I suppose it depends on how you interpret the intent of the test ban. If the intent was to stop detonations because they are bad in themselves, then it's not subversive. If the intent was to stop detonations in order to curtail further weapons development, then it is.
> I think if you threaten someone who is well off already with death ... number of cases will rapidly go to zero.

You can think that, but you'd be wrong. Everyone who commits a crime thinks they're gonna be the one to get away with it.

It's a very popular opinion among certain kinds of people, but history and even present day has shown, time and again - You can't slaughter your way to a peaceful law-abiding society.
Murder can also be premeditated. In many cases, proof of premeditation is required for "Murder One".
No, he's saying that the people who were executed were not company executives.
You're find this out now? After four centuries of Spanish in the Americas, Spanish speakers there have developed an enormous culture and diversity and innovation in the language. I remind my Spanish friends that there are three times the number of Spanish speakers in Mexico than in Spain. In fact, there are more Spanish speakers in the United States there are more Spanish speakers than in Spain. Ditto for Portuguese, where Brazil and the Portuguese in Africa have developed delightful versions of Portuguese -and an enormous and diverse culture. France and the French should be proud that their language and culture are being spread and transformed by the French speaking nations in Africa; I especially love the music coming out of Mali, Senegal and Algeria (Rai, anyone?).
Cats kill wildlife in the UK

They also shit in people gardens and veg patches, and spread toxic parasites
Exactly. This blog post is really about the difference between “Responsible” and “Accountable“ in a RACI. I jokingly define RACI’s R and A as the person who “Really does the work” and the person whose “Ass in on the line” when the project fails.
Crypto doesn't add anything to this situation a normal business can do it. PayPal, Venmo etc
You do realize there's people who want to be homeless?
> Members of the French Academy, the 17th-century institution that publishes an official dictionary of the French language, have been working on the same edition for the past 40 years.

This is nonsense. The French Academy is adding new words to the dictionary every year.

The whole article is weak to say the least. Of course, the French spoken abroad is changed by the local influences. This is the sam case as with any language that crosses countries boundaries. There are major differences within France as well.

In everyday discussions, I do not see any special influence from Africa on our language. The influence of instant messaging is orders of magnitude larger and I have to decipher phrases such as "vzy cr". Or monstrosities such as "sa va koi" which are shaping our language deep down because it is how many young people express themselves.

French is complicated and mostly masochist (we are the champions of how to write something easy most difficultly, and crank weirdness of pronunciation to 100). It is not helping that we are rigid in how the language evolves (and sometimes straight ridiculous). But the changes to French French come from inside France, the ones from Mali French - from within Mali etc.
This reminds me of an old comic from The Oatmeal:
https://theoatmeal.com/comics/cats_actually_kill
The death penalty works extraordinarily well in plenty of countries. Singapore, for example, has a marked decrease in drug crime post-death-penalty - interviews with dealers, mules, and criminals cite the death penalty as the reason they avoid Singapore.

Most studies citing the inefficacy of the death penalty are flawed and simply at odds with reality, in which evidence points to the opposite of what the studies theorize.