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> Convictions are in the high 90%. Juries are very weak and at the mercy of powerful prosecutors.

If that were true then defendants would waive their right to a jury trial. They don't.

The conviction rate is high because prosecutors don't bring weak cases.
The paper is saying that attempting to simulate the device in code is a valuable lesson to students for precisely the reason that it cannot be done (correctly), thereby illustrating the limits of classical computation.

> In the current paper, we make use of the recently published work in quantum information theory by Candela to have students write code to simulate the operation of the device in that article. Analysis of the device has significant pedagogical value—a fact recognized by Feynman—and simulation of its operation provides students a unique window into quantum mechanics without prior knowledge of the theory.
Usually even technical terms are interesting since you have to wait anyway. Makes your imagination go.

Unfortunately it is much rarer nowadays and everything is hidden away.
> I could tell similar stories for other languages that I don’t like programming in. These languages include JavaScript, Go, Java, and C++.

...

> The thing I hate about all of the languages I listed is their emphasis on mutation. When I call a function and pass it a list or object or whatever, I have no guarantees about that thing’s value when the function returns.

This is not true for C++, where the 'const' keyword allows you to disallow mutation. Perhaps the author would complain that this behavior isn't the default, but the functionality exists.
> Good. If it were easy to bring charges against a President, then Presidents wouldn't be able to do anything they were elected to do.

Leaving aside the difference between "bringing charges" and "successfully bringing charges," there's a big gap between "easy" and "impossible." Nobody wants presidents to be criminally liable for the things they do in good faith. But this ruling makes good faith irrelevant; it doesn't matter why they do an official act, it's immune.

The fact is that a former president exerted pressure on government officials in a way that would halt a lawful election and coordinated to subvert its true results by presenting fake results. In determining whether that was an official act, we cannot reference his motivations according to the SC's ruling.

Allow the motivation for official acts to be taken into consideration for prosecution, and a lot of the problems go away.
the constitution loves presidents like Trump, because he actually acted as a constitutional president while in office instead of being a figurehead for manufacturing consent on behalf of the global hegemony
Has finally the committee come to reflection after decades of standard revisions and footguns? /j
Wow, This is Awesome. I think this'll help me and my peers a lot in getting a lot of confidence before sitting in for actual interviews. I'm working on something similar, Can we connect please ?
Space rocket crashes in flames after accidental launch
This sounds like a great initiative. One of those projects trying to make the world a better place.
> But [the strcmp] is there, and a string comparison will usually (but not always) require comparing each of the characters in the string with the ones in the other string

This is not true in anything except for toy interpreters, for a number of reasons.

One, internally strings are stored alongside the length. For 'TOP' and 'BOTTOM' the lengths don't match which means the strings can't be equal. That means inequality testing requires only a single integer comparison.

Two, strcmp is used for ordering strings, that's why it returns -1, 0, 1. That additional work isn't needed for testing equality. JS engines are not going to call strcmp unnecessarily.

Three, modern Javascript engines don't treat all strings the same. There are fast paths for ASCII strings, for interned strings, for concatenated strings, for strings that are slices of other strings, and more. From the perspective of the programmer a Javascript string is just a string. In reality a string in Javascript is nothing like C's char*.

I suspect -- but don't actually know -- that the string compare in the benchmark of example 1 is slower because the JS engine has to do a type check on the internal string representation. That's an extra branch the integer path doesn't need.
Federal justices still have lifetime appointments - and what the OP is describing wouldn’t change that.
That's not quite it. There's absolute ('blanket') immunity for acts that exclusively reserved for the president (vetos, pardons, etc.). There's presumptive immunity for other 'official acts', but that doesn't preclude the possibility that some official acts could be deemed or made illegal. There's no immunity for unofficial acts, but there's a pretty fine needle to thread in to determine an action is unofficial (if it's not 'palpably' so).
Whenever the President and Vice President discuss their official re- sponsibilities, they engage in official conduct.

This is a misleading partial quotation. In the context of what they were saying, the president has the presumption of immunity, but it is not guaranteed. They specifically remanded the issue of Trump trying to get Pence to break the law to the lower courts to decide whether there was immunity. They did not say there was blanket immunity.

The question then becomes whether that presumption of immunity
is rebutted under the circumstances. It is the Government’s burden to
rebut the presumption of immunity. The Court therefore remands to
the District Court to assess in the first instance whether a prosecution
involving Trump’s alleged attempts to influence the Vice President’s
oversight of the certification proceeding would pose any dangers of in-
trusion on the authority and functions of the Executive Branch.
Again, for the reasons noted above, a brief clarification would be helpful.

Example below my 20 comments dupe threshold: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29403605>

And above: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36879793>
ENETUNREACH: The Chinorussese Solar Federation is blockading platinum rich asteroids until they get back war criminal and musician Vladimir the handyman, accused of using a wrench to knock a satellite of out orbit back onto Earth
I'm guessing 0Patch doesn't have access to source - does anyone know what method they're using to provide said patches?
They usually do not mix decimal seperators in the same sentence however, and as leading zeros are generally avoided on integers, "0.046" is pretty clearly using a period as the decimal seperator.
Hard drive, SSD puncher of physical media with 12 tons of pressure
Well written article. I was surprised by the lengths the author went to avoiding the use of the word Hindu. Those "Indic" deities are Hindu gods. The "undeniably Buddhist" reference to universal happiness is also likely the Hindu Upanishad chant of "सर्वे भवन्तु सुखिनः".

Anyone have insights on what would motivate an otherwise well informed author to do that?
> I wonder if Mexican executives are also cheaper

The cream of the crop (UNAM, ISTEM, Ibero) end up earning roughly comparable to Canada or work in the US.

For example, Associate Consultants (entry level w/ MBA or MS/PhD) at McKinsey CDMX earn around US$108,000-US$163,000 [0], which is similar to McKinsey Toronto for the same role (US$120,000-US$185,000) [1]

Mexicans working white collar jobs are TN Visa eligible as well, so there is upwards salary pressure because someone who's good enough to be a Consultant at McK CDMX or a PM at IBM Guadalajara can land a job at McK Dallas or IBM Austin.

That said, even mid-level management roles are moving abroad now that R&D and Product teams are getting offshored as well (speaking from personal experience)

[0] - https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/McKinsey-and-Company-Mexico...

[1] - https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/McKinsey-and-Company-Associ...
Or, you know, allow remote work, which is inexcusable not to allow for a pure software company in 2024.
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See, the difference is politically-motivated investigations YIELD NO CRIMES WHEN NO CRIME WAS COMMITTED.

Today's ruling is a solution to a problem that no one has actually had for the last 250 years, and which no one currently has.
A related article from NASA Earth Observatory has a slider to compare satellite images of the glacier.

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/152893/humboldt-gla...
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This is the biggest impact of this opinion IMO. The president can do basically any supervisory action within the executive branch for any reason without risk of criminal liability. His ability to direct federal agencies is only limited by the supply of palatable lackeys.
https://archive.is/9jUJJ

My opinion is he should have learned what enough is. He made enough money for many lifetimes. Coming back for more, like his livestream, was intensely stupid.

Then he recently moved to Chewy. A larger target could not be painted on his back for an example to be made of.
The President's authority to command the armed forces comes directly from the Constitution, Congress can't pass a law to take that away.
Right - constitutional interpretation is the one area where the court can overrule congressional law.

But even then, with enough agreement from the states, Congress can amend the Constitution.
I’d rather “waste” 5% of that space than have ugly bulge at the top of my screen. But I don’t use Macs so I don’t have to deal with this problem.
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Japanese deal for AI champion Graphcore faces national security review
Is a shelter a treatment program? Or a place where someone can get some rest for a night or few, hopefully some food as well?
No, it isn't. It is up for debate and will be debated, in court.
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This is cool. I've wanted to do something similar except write the CPU in a real HDL and then run it on the web via SystemVerilog compiled to C++ with Verilator compiled to WASM. Just haven't found the time.
Does anyone ever hire from these threads?

Has anyone ever been hired from these threads?

Has anyone been posting to these threads regularly and having no luck?

If you've had any experience, good or bad, specifically with the "Who wants to be hired?" thread, I'd like to hear it.
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Guarantee that's going to void your support contract with MS if you have one (or worse).

I also cant imagine any win 10 software not working on 11. It's not that different under the hood. You've also had plenty of time to test with your vendors. And yes, legacy niche software blah blah, been there done that, but win 10 -> 11 isn't like XP -> vista. It's like win 10 to 10.5.

Terrible idea on a number of levels. Best of luck to anyone who tries it.
Idea is pretty interesting. Definitely solving a problem however I'd really share it with my friends if they can get to see suggestions on their photo itself. Vouching for your cool project :)
We are at our most creative just before we fall asleep, scientists say (2022)
Is the Scientific Method Valuable in Engineering?
Yes, that's a clever way of demonstrating viability (and with more than one compiler implementation).

I do like the examples that I see there.

This seems like the kind of language feature that I might not make much use of directly in general application code, but would wrap up in utility functions or use via lower-level libraries that the application code builds on. E.g., they showed command-line parsing, but I could also see this for benchmarking and testing frameworks to automatically find the workloads and tests in a non-hacky way.

I also wonder about how this feature interacts with translation units or modules and linkage, though. I'm reminded of the static initialization order fiasco; this seems like it might open up issues that make that look tame by comparison. (Not a complaint; I'm actually looking forward to this.)
It has been already dismissed https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1dt22iq/dfv_law...
I would argue the functional approach is (copying your data structures):

def winning_team(game_log: GameLog) -> Team:
return max(
get_teams(game_log),
key=lambda t: get_points(game_log, t)
)
Yep, it's not very useful to people outside the US really. I'm beginning to wonder if there is a niche for a latin american Hackernews (•̀ - •́ )
>The Constitution simply didn't envision a situation where the criminal justice system is more likley to hold someone accountable than an election or Congress

The constitution didn’t envision a sprawling legal services market to secure the freedom of criminals despite overwhelming evidence while poor people are enslaved like cattle in a nakedly classist and racist exercise of state power to maintain class divisions that afford the empowered unearned wealth power and privilege by virtue of birth.

Speaking of trends here-exceptions occur and get held up as some gotcha that only further betrays ignorance of the system and actually represents the calculated tokenization of the oppressed to act as a shield to scrutiny.
I think it's questionable whether they really have.

Especially the openness and bottom-up character of the W3C. They wanted closed source DRM running on people's computers despite presumably strong opposition from the bulk of the ordinary members, and then it got pushed through, and who knows what's in that software.

It's better than Chat Control I suppose, but it's the same sort of thing, i.e. foreign software doing who-knows-what running on a user device.
> I imagine that one could also prove that √−1 is not rational

I feel like this was a marvellous joke but I can’t prove it.
That and juries are not informed they have a right to judge not just the defendant but also the fairness of the laws involved. Indeed anyone that mentions or admits this is removed from juries.
(2005) Discussion (17 points, 19 hours ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40842408
The Numitron: An Obvious Idea That Wasn't Bright [video]
Ah I tend to not use those kinds of modes at all. They're generally just preconfigured lists of settings that you can adjust yourself too. But I just tried them. My own "Custom" mode is darker than the dark room picture modes already :')

And that is what I use during the day - lol. This screen really is bad at low light performance. For the price (I think I paid 220 euro for it) I can forgive that because it's pretty decent in other ways.
For what it's worth, conviction rates are not in the high 90%s.

The DOJ has a high conviction rate, at 93%, but Federal cases are the minority of cases in the USA. Most cases are state-level, and the conviction rates vary pretty significantly (E.g., California has a conviction rate of ~65% for property crime: Table 6 of https://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/lr-2019-JC-disposition-o... )
There is also a two-man musical.

It is explicit.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrill_Me
"accidental launch" - I am no rocket scientist, but that sounds bad.
Only tangentially related, when my kids were younger, I used "changing table in the men's bathroom" as a useful measure of company health. It a) costs little, and b) required little care to make the decision, but a company or building that couldn't manage those two things was either broke or stagnant.
Absolute Immunity
The point: if those things happen, this decision matters not.

If you think all those things are in place, this really is the least of your worries.
Indeed. One can put a Koala Care change station right next to a Diaper Depot change station, and this is fine.

They might have different features, functions, and/or prices, and that's OK too.

It can even be OK for people like architects to freely (but consistently) specify one particular brand in deference to other brands. This is fine, too.

An architect stating something like "We always specify Hubbell wiring devices, Sherwin Williams paint, and Koala Care changing stations wherever applicable because they've so-far proven to offer a consistently excellent combination of performance, service, and value" is not, on its face, an improper thing to do.

It can be quite OK and perfectly-legal to have a natural monopoly. Selling a very, very popular widget is not an act that is somehow automatically worthy of damnation.

However, it can be very not OK (and often very illegal) for a company to abuse their status as a natural monopoly, especially in anticompetitive ways.

But I don't see anyone accusing Koala Care of any specific wrongdoing, so.....
So you also kind of taking away jobs from other people. Also, name checks out.
The problem with Windows 11 is that you have to run Windows 11.
Email hn@ycombinator.com. Iirc they've taken over whoishiring from whichever anonymous user originally ran it for several years now.
And if they'd had the vote? The result would have been no. Same result.
A combination of meaningful threat to life, assets, family or freedom is what the duel accomplished. With the courts packed by unqualified partisan hacks it seems we’re facing an unprecedented danger to democracy and the American experiment.
Go is produces (mostly) statically compiled binaries by default. No runtime, no interpreter, no dependencies.

Python, Java, JavaScript, C#, etc. can't say the same.
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I am a luddite as well, and didn't used to be.

On the one hand, "working in tech" became so accessible that titles like "prompt engineer" don't sound completely ridiculous. Those people don't seem interested in understanding how technology works, but rather in making profit with whatever low-hanging fruit they find.

On the other hand, actually competent engineers get paid a ton to ignore any kind of ethics. They just get rich while having fun building tech that the first group will use.

The combination of both (unethical tech and not-so-competent "engineers" building on top of it) is destroying the world.

> The biggest differences are the increased probability that someone else will now be using your code and that you won't be accredited or your GPL license will be violated, but I consider those pretty ethereal issues.

Because you don't care about Free Software. I do.
Most of the commodity Ag Machinery market in the US is already been taken over by a multitude of American, Japanese, European, and Indian vendors already (and as I previously listed)
Supreme Court Says Trump Has Some Immunity in Election Case
Overall, the productivity numbers in US have been pretty robustly growing - but there is a multi-decade tendency for this to be achieved by raising the prod/employee. In other words, it's achieved either by reducing headcount to do the same thing, or increasing the output per person. The "low hanging fruit" was all done decades ago, jobs where you cant really automate your way out and need cheap labor. It's inevitably climbing into more and more technical employees, and as you not the relative strength in the dollar makes this pretty compelling.
I think jakt it's far from dead; the last commit took place 4 days ago and to be honest with you, since I have it locally as a fork, I fetch updates daily and I can see they work on it quite extensively, almost on a daily basis sometimes, which is very impressive.
Tempo? or Tissue? I'm very confused now.

Am I missing it too or do you sneeze in funk?
Nice, is it headless or headful?
Given your example, under this decision, the President could be charged, and the courts would have to decide whether it was an official act. Was it the murder of their mistress? Then obviously not official. Was it the murder of a terrorist planning an attack? Probably official. Is there some grey area in the middle that will really hard to decide? Probably. This was a moderate decision that defers making broad rules and lets courts decide on a case by case basis.
Discussion (607 points, 5 hours ago, 1215 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40847963
But now that doesn't matter. The president is immune as long as there's the defense of it being an official act
If this ruling would have been in force back then, Nixon could have argued that the conversations were done in his official role as president. For example, a conversation with his chief of staff about ordering the CIA perform a coverup could be considered “official business” since he was talking to a top executive branch official and directing an executive branch agency to take an action.

The distinction between “official” and “unofficial” becomes meaningless when a president can use their official powers to do illegal things that benefit themselves in an unofficial capacity. Hence the absurd conclusion that, apparently, a president cannot be prosecuted for assassinating their opponent using Seal Team 6.
>The fact that it's inconvenient for one party right now is irrelevant. It'll be inconvenient for the other party soon enough.

I hate to dive into conspiratorial thought; but with a ruling so brazen, they might think this, and a few other steps, will bid them enough time to not worry about the other party having a slice of their same cake for the foreseeable future.