skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To everyone responding, unless you live in a large, coastal city, your family budget is not germane to this discussion. This article is talking about middle class in large, coastal cities.

I live in NYC. Try eating less than $3/meal for a month here. Groceries cost more here. I eat at home for most meals, too.
Why should any of those answers be different than for a person under normal circumstances?
I did find the experiment a bit more eerie than 'killing for food'. But that aside, some of the ethical problems they discussed in the article were regarding whether the possible revival of ones brain would mean that the person and his juridical status as a person would also follow, as well as his thoughts etc.

As opposed to if we experiment on some dead persons liver, if we experiment on his revived brain we might actually be experimenting on a conscious being (human), is what I believe is the main thing here.
Yes, they are. We can split hairs over what qualifies as torture, but I invite you to familiarize yourself with how commodity pigs are raised and slaughtered.
That's absolutely it.

One of my observations living in SF. And having watched northern California sprawl for 50 years is this.

There are real downsides to living in a dense city. Probably 20,000 people per square mile. That is made far far worse by the surrounding sprawl. And the people living in the low density suburbs aren't having it that much better. Oh you can go from place to place fast, but the places are farther away. And it it cancels unless you're on the edge.
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Two comments:

1.

"...the move would affect 542 people who have weed
convictions on their records..."

542 (people) /30 (years) / 12 (months) = 1.5 (convictions per month).

This is very low number for a metropolis at the scale of Seattle.

2. Why is that "people of color" thing has to be mentioned here. If it's right, it is right. Leave the skin color aside Mr. City Attorney.
>>If I were Microsoft or any business needing to protect my IP rights

And this is the main disconnect, I do not accept the concept of "intellectual property" or believe it is a right.

Microsoft should not be given a "right" by the government to control in what order I instruct my hard drive or cd burner to arrange a series of 1's and 0's. Doing so is an actual violation of my physical property rights as the owner of said hard drive
Seconded and proud that fellow HNers are ethically conscious of their food.
This one has more numbers in it:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/04/27/seattle-seeks...
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> I'm not sure where you got that information?

From the very official spec? https://golang.org/ref/mem

Goroutines do not map to OS threads 1:1. Whether the scheduler decides to spawn a thread or not is its own, entirely private decision. No action is guaranteed to be taken until scheduling occurs.
I don't see anything wrong with rose trees:

datatype 'a tree = T of 'a * 'a tree list

Do you?
Haha, funny because the first time I made it I did something a novice should never try and made it with 40% whole wheat (because i bought the wrong flour by accident...).

It's certainly a great bread to make in terms of timing, this conversation is going to make me get one started tonight!
Ask HN: Is it worth paying for a professional resume writing service?
I am currently thinking about making a really good resume which would properly highlight my strongest sides and experience.

The problem is that I am not a native English speaker nor am I good at marketing/copywriting.

A "good" (read: high in Google search results) resume writing service costs up to $500 which sounds really a lot to me and so I am wondering if it is really worth it's money.

Has anyone here paid for such a service? Did it make a difference?

Thank you.
cool. but that's a lousy article just playing up the ick factor for clicks. I'd guess that this makes studying the living brain much easier - but they don't get into any detail.
People eating pork don't think their meat as coming from such conditions and/or want/expect that to happen. So it's not fair to say "people" are okay with that and not the brain experiment. Producers might be okay but that's a different argument to which the one you're replying in this thread.
I am quite aware of that and it's a good reason why I consume very little meat. But it is as nothing compared to keeping a brain alive outside of the body. If we did that to a human without their consent there would be blood in the streets.

Keep in mind that the whole reason pigs were used for this experiment is because they are biologically similar to humans.
A race condition is a situation where the result depends on the ordering/interweaving of threads. And that example isn't actually one.

It's a deadlock which are also bad but much more deterministic and easier to debug.
in the whole article, i read only a couple sentences that explicitly talk about how any of these different approaches would actually benefit students, and what little there was was quite vague.

on the other hand, they all seem to directly lower the burden faced by the schools themselves. in particular, knowing what other schools a student has applied to helps the college a lot (are we a reach? a safety? etc) but seems like it could only hurt an individual student.

i vividly remember the stress of college applications, but i can't say it seems unnecessarily brutal to me. it is a very important process that will affect the rest of your life, and there is an inherent level of stress in these sorts of things. at the same time, there are a lot of tradeoffs that can be made depending on your tolerance for risk. i applied early decision to a school that was likely to accept me. i filled out one brief application and received my acceptance letter in early december. if your college admissions process is/was hell it is probably because of the expectations you (or your parents) set for yourself.
They haven't figured out how to interact with the nerves to create any kind of sensory input (vision, hearing, taste, smell, touch, balance, ...), so no Altered Carbon-like virtual reality where you can be tortured to death over and over again.

Well, not yet, anyway.
There is plenty wrong with the bio-industry but to compare that and this experiment is not helping the discussion.

It's the same as saying that what was happening at Guantanamo bay was no worse than what was happening elsewhere so why all the fuss?
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We haven’t done it that much before — but might try to do that more now! You really need a strong foundation of senior engineers to help mentor and support junior engineers so most smaller organizations will generally tend to not hire junior engineers until later.
Low interest rates, growing economy and young families wanting to stay in the city are the biggest drivers.
Chinese money in Montreal may affect condos however I am not exposed to that. Definitely not affecting house prices.
At least it introduces a new operator, to avoid the classic C mistake of typing "=" when you meant "==", and various ugly workarounds like Yoda conditions.

This would be a huge boon for many list/dict/set comprehensions, as currently there's no way to filter on the result of a function call in the same comprehension (map + filter in one):

results = [b for b in input_data if (b := f(a))]

I think it's slightly unpythonic as it has the potential to be abused and make debugging harder (as noted in the post/email), but otherwise I can't think of a reason not to do it.
He was making discs designed to intentionally deceive customers into thinking they were genuine discs from Dell and Microsoft, and doing it for profit. Isn't that classic criminal fraud?
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"Altered Carbon" also poses this problem.
> would you _really_ otherwise be going outside to spend time with people, and in such a capacity that cell phone use could replace it?

I spent quite a healthy childhood being outdoors. That mostly stopped when I became addicted to computers and electronics.

Without them I'd be outdoors again.
If I say how nasty Oracle and Ellison have been in general, people will require me to provide references. I don't feel like researching it. But you can, if you want to answer your own question.
Your articles are incorrect and your journalistic standards are awful. Like, the one you link here, written on 4/25:

> Lundgren, by the way, is not some scammer looking to fleece a few people and make a quick buck. He has been a major figure on the e-waste scene, working to minimize the toxic wages of planned obsolescence and running a company of 100 to responsibly refurbish or recycle old computers and other devices.

From Microsoft:

> Part of Mr. Lundgren’s defense also involved claims that he was trying to provide the community with something that was freely available anyway. This claim was rejected by the district court and the Court of Appeals. This is because Microsoft itself sells genuine versions of these CDs to refurbishers (hence the market for selling counterfeit copies). In addition, Mr. Lundgren took great pains to disguise the counterfeit software he imported, including arranging for fake Microsoft and Dell labels to be applied to the discs.

> In an email sent in December of 2011, Mr. Lundgren said to his co-defendant,

> “You would have to be an expert with a magnifying glass to know and/or see such differences.” “You must have been trying to supply these units to Amazon directly or someone who is expert.”

> He went on to say,

> “C’mon Bob, you should be able to sell these units to anyone whom is not trying to sell them back to Bill Gates.”

> And,

> “Please sell some of these units. You MUST have some other buyers for this product – and if you do not, then find some. It has been months and I have not seen the return I was expecting to use for my India project buddy.”

> He concluded,

> “No normal company or buyer will notice such issues.” “Make me proud so that our business can grow and we can keep winning.”

> Mr. Lundgren also tried to evade U.S. Customs and coached his codefendant how to handle questions from federal agents. In 2011 he wrote:

> “There are tricks for bypassing customs with container’s & LTL but currently this is how I get these products without invoices past customs.”

> And, referring to customs officers:

> “If they call you just play stupid and tell them you ordered from an asset management broker overseas.”

> Mr. Lundgren and co-defendant Bob Wolff explicitly discussed deceiving people with the counterfeit software. In one email to Mr. Lundgren about the software he’s arranging to manufacture, Mr. Wolff writes:

> “If the software will be 98% accurate I believe I can get away with that.”

He was urging people to sell these discs as genuine and coaching them on how to lie if they got caught.
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> If we did that to a human without their consent there would be blood in the streets

The same could be said for almost anything we do with pigs
It could store even more years' worth if we decrease our emissions.

I don't mean a general "we." I mean you, reading these words, and me. You can decrease your emissions, plastic pollution, etc. No technology needed. No loss in quality of life.
One group of concerns is probably around unintentional harms -- for instance, only discovering much later that the process causes the brain to experience unimaginable pain or fear and without any way to communicate it or take action against it or even escape it by dying. It would be a form of hell that should terrify even the most stalwart of us.

The other would be intentional harm. Imagining the technology developing into the hopefully-far future, it's fair to also imagine interest from organizations like the CIA, who are so very fond of finding new ways to cruelly torture people while pretending they get good intelligence from it.
In case this interests you, then this is also neat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt2zubHcER4

Bernstein, The greatest 5 min. in music education
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That's a better use case, but this just seems like something that's adding complexity to the language for little gain. Writing a generator to do the more complex thing is probably a much better (and more readable) alternative, if a list comprehension isn't cutting it.
Did you already have a majority of the engineering prerequisites before deciding to switch into EECS after two years?
I always thought it was because all of the "far away" stuff is outside and a person who spends 90% of their time indoors never has to look at anything far away.

What are the rates of shortsightedness among people living in dense forests (or some other cramped outdoor environment)?
Price fixing is not the same as "businesses are held guilty of overcharging if they price their products as high as the market will bear". The fact that lawyers will make exorbitant profit is more palatable to me than 3 mega corporation's that collude to make X times the lawyers exorbitant profit.
> but it's not possible to safely slow or stop on English motorways.

Bullshit. Never broken down? It's perfectly possibly in the worst possible circumstances to safely pull over to the hard-shoulder.

Smart motorway? The left lane becomes hard shoulder with several miles of lane-closed warnings for other motorists.

Random dual-carriageway with no hard shoulder? Limp-home speed under control is far safe than inattentive driver at motorway speeds. Worst case, stopped in the left (or any!) lane is better than having the driver in the passenger seat.

Jeez!

Feel free to check back in when you pass the driving test.
Given that there are people walking around living perfectly normal lives who have only a small fraction of normal brain mass, I'm always skeptical of definitive pronouncements regarding conciousness.
Rounding issues in the quadratic formula have bitten me several times: in particular, the inverse of a 2D bilinear mapping requires solving a quadratic equation which (if things are skewed) can be very badly conditioned. On the other hand, if one uses a bilinear map on a parallelogram then the quadratic term is gone and one root is zero: also annoying.

In practice I just check the coefficients and then use appropriate versions of the quadratic formula. I guess that I am luckier than Mr. Cook here since I only need one root.

code (some of it was written by me, some improvements are by other people):
https://github.com/dealii/dealii/blob/master/source/fe/mappi...

This set of cases (which can probably be further improved) is equivalent to his first answer. I don't think its possible to do better in this test case due to the catastrophic cancelation in subtracting the discriminant from b.
https://singularityhub.com/2010/10/06/videos-of-robot-contro...
The people talking about ethics here are not necessarily people who would have no problem torturing and killing pigs for food.
I've come around to the idea of just banning any firearm that has a barrel less than 32 inches. And any firearm with a detachable magazine. Requiring a license ($$$)for ownership of more than three firearms.
I suppose we could pack hundreds of non consenting humans so they are always touching each other on a metal grates for flooring and no sunshine, no access to bathrooms, and no ability to move around.

No one would complain about that. /s
Arguably you can create a stack that does this and exports the DB identifier to be used in other stacks. It doesn't sound as convenient though, and child stacks have some annoying limitations.
What the is that "people of color" thing
has to be mentioned here. If it's right, it
is right. Leave the skin color aside Mr. City
Attorney.

It’s mentioned because it’s relevant! Maybe the background here isn’t obvious, but marijuana convictions have been systemically used against people of color in a way they haven’t generally been used against others. So understanding the disproportionate impact here, of which acknowledging it as true is the first step of many, is part of making this right.
There is a big difference between the way pigs are treated for consumption and what is happening in this experiment. For all we know the rest of the pig was discarded.

To me there is a huge difference between killing animals for food and conducting ethically questionable experiments on them. Another bothersome element here is that pigs are super smart and even though they state they are sure the pig(s) never regained consciousness you have to wonder what kind of extreme stress they would have cause if that had not worked out.

Animal research is something that I hope we can do without in the near future. And if we all ate less meat (or none at all) then that would be for the better as well, though ironically that would likely mean that there would be no more domesticated animals kept for food at all except for cows (for milk) and chickens (for eggs).
The statute requires that the copies exceed $2,500 in value.

https://www.justice.gov/usam/criminal-resource-manual-1847-c...

Hypothetically, if Microsoft had conceded that the value of the CDs was only the value of the optical media[1], then what if Lundgren had only imported $2,500 worth of CDs? How many blank CDs can one purchase for $2,500?

If the prosecutor lacks evidence that the value of the goods exceeds $2,500 then will she still pursue the case? Would it be dismissed? What if she loses? Will that affect her career? Who can she use as an expert to provide evidence that the goods exceed $2,500 in value? Does she have to ask Microsoft for evidence? Why or why not?

1. For example, one argument might be that there was no value to the software stored on the media because it would not run without purchasing a license, e.g. by buying a computer with Windows pre-instealled by an OEM
> there's no need to create interfaces for dependencies

I think in this context you're using `interface` in the way that C# uses it: a point of abstraction and indirection.

I think you aren't using it in the API sense: the external surface of a thing.

If that's correct, you may want to clarify your wording. Perhaps "abstract interface".
I tried getting into western classical music several times, but always aborted. I find it really difficult, as it is so diverse and complex, yet beautiful and satisfying at the same time.

Its vastness is astonishing and is the main reason why I always stopped. Where to start? Why? How does it all connect? There are so many more angles to western classical music than one would think.

So thank you for this! I will try again.
> Bezos also emphasizes that disagree-and-commit is a hard requirement: "Leaders are obligated to respectfully challenge decisions when they disagree, even when doing so is uncomfortable or exhausting."

I agree on both terms. If you plan and test everything to death, you are wasting and in fact atrophying our ability to think on your feet. This is an important skill, especially during incident and emergency handling. It's a fine line to learn, and it changes with the team, and the company, and the projects, but it's important.

Challenging decisions is the best way to keep unproductive work away from the team, and unproductive work is one of the best ways to waste time and motivation of a team. Even if it exhausts me at the end of a week, it's a good thing to see 2-3 guys getting excited about a project they should do, because it doesn't contradict our values and it furthers our infrastructure.
I bet you can find literary or sociological texts that y’all about those as sacrifices to some modern diety concept.
Humans have done worse than that to other humans. And are doing so as we are having this conversation.
Yeah, that is a common trap. When I was taking language classes in college, I noticed that some people were definitely reading text as though it were just “funny English”. However, the problem still happened (albeit less often) with different writing systems, including Russian, so I think the root of the problem was that they hadn’t practiced the skill of listening to sounds and reproducing them—instead, they made the mistake of mapping them onto the closest sound in their native language.

Fortunately that was a minority—maybe 5–10% of students had that difficulty and couldn’t grow out of it. Part of the issue is also that people seem to hold back and don’t try to really imitate the accent of a language, which they may not get is really an essential part of the pronunciation. You’ve got to put on your best “French accent” if you want to properly speak French!

Speaking of “closest sound in your native language”, my Polish coworkers and I a couple of jobs ago had a lot of fun one day when I transcribed their English speech using Polish spelling—lo and behold, it gave quite an accurate representation of their accents. (E.g., “It would be funny” = “it łód bi fany”.)
Having 40% of your take-home pay after covering essentials is not living paycheck-to-paycheck.

But it's also true that if you're starting with nothing, saving for a down payment in such a housing market is unattainable.
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Oracle vs Google over Android having the same interfaces comes to mind. [0]

[0] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180327/10431439512/insan...
The way Apple iMessages does this is to have the user opt-in to each preview (it shows a grey box with a button to build a preview).
This sort of proves that there is no such thing as "Wisdom of the Crowds". There seems to be a bit of a cult myth [1][2] about groups being able to "on average" outperform even the best individuals but that seems to be based on some rather flimsy studies whose methodology has not been published. It seems more likely that in reality, data is cherry picked, where it correlates with the "Wisdom of the Crowds" myth nit gets published, if not it gets discarded.

The most rigorous experiment I've seen performed, tested a group of reddit users on estimating lines in an image [3]. Some expert individuals were far more accurate than the group average.

[1] http://feiss.be/blog/post/169

[2] https://www.cfapubs.org/doi/abs/10.2469/faj.v43.n3.50

[3] http://feiss.be/blog/post/169
I'm working on an IDE for music. IDE: Windows notepad = my thing : normal DAWs. Sign up here if you want to be notified when it's ready

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It uses novel models of tonality that will make you productive. Write 10 albums in the time of 1. It doesn’t dumb anything down, it actually let’s you explore the entirety of the musical space. (Goes beyond tonality).

Right now writing music in a DAW is surprisingly time consuming. Too much clicking, not enought exploring. I’m trying to change that.
Because, from the article: "A few months later after legal sales began, an angry Holmes threw out nearly 90 marijuana tickets written by a single officer who appeared upset at legalization and began targeting homeless and minority men with public consumption and possession tickets. At the time, Holmes called the officer's actions 'abhorrent.'"
"in constant pain and unable to act in the world in any meaningful way"

This is how many factory farmed animals already live.

Where is the outrage?
I agree - my main point is that an OS is ‘just a program’ as well

I suspect we’re both making a similar point in a roundabout way - the operating system is both another layer of abstraction on top of the Instruction Set, while also making the programming process for that chipset somewhat easier (providing software interrupts etc. at the expense of bare metal understanding).

My argument is loosely that modern (x64) assembly is not so much targeting hardware as it is programming into a software abstraction (the operating system).