skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of the commenters here are saying they like homework assignments because it’s a test that’s similar to the job, more so than solving a problem on a white board with no resources and a group of people watching you. I agree with all of that. Here’s where homework assignments are abusive- when they reject you with no critique of your work whatsoever. That’s been my experience, and it’s total, disrespectful bullshit.

If I spend time on your made up assignment, you owe me a detailed response that shows that you actually looked at my work and can critique it credibly.
Sure I can make my own ISP. It just won't be an international network with billions of people on it. But I'll set up a server in my house with my new ebay on it and connect it to my neighbor running his new facebook. We could even do it wirelessly.

It won't be that great, because he wants to share pictures of his kids and I want to sell my funko pops, but it's definitely easy. Unless your definition of an ISP inherently includes a connection to millions of people, in which case I don't understand why your definition of an eBay doesn't as well?
I don’t disagree but just wanted to say something:

The whole point of money was to make it possible for 2+ good actors to do legal (and different) work/goods/services for each other while profiting.

Most people who end up in prison were “bad actors” by definition. The system was not benefiting from them. And thus I can’t help thinking that they don’t really deserve any of the system’s monetary medium of exchange.
Except there is over a century of precedent, and no court is going to overturn that now. The 13th amendment is not some new discovery that the courts are waiting for someone to make an argument based on
Agree 100% with this. 13Fs are not indicative of most HFs actual bets. Especially if they are running strategies where a bet consists of a bundle of securities (Eg convert arbitrage).

Also, Given delay in reporting, you’d just be getting in after they get in and likely they get out before you do. So the aggregate impact costs from this strategy becomes their alpha. Hence why some of these LS guys always talk up their positions.
You're totally right. What better way to show inmates the virtue of living an upright life than to treat them just like real people. If you pay them 85c/hr they'll resent The Man even harder and see a life of crime as the only way they'll ever succeed. Pay them for their hardwork and they'll learn they can succeed in life by hardwork, determination and honesty, all virtues that prison _should_ be about instilling.
> It’s worth noting that this is a voulenteer program and that for every day you work you get 1 day off your sentence. So you can effectively halve your time in prison.

The perverse incentive of increasing prison times to generate more cheap labor.
Completely agreed. It also psychologically devalues legitimate work in the minds of prisoners. After working 10, 20, 30 years at grueling jobs that pay you $1 or less, combined with inability to work almost anywhere after release due to having a conviction, it's not a big shock that theft or selling drugs will seem like a good option once they get out.
Per employee doing rework. To complete tasks which involve taking pieces off and putting them back on in ~30 minutes, you're probably looking at up to 10 people (for example, changing a bushing on a Mercedes that requires the complete disassembly of the rear of the car is around 6 hours of labor).

As a point of comparison, large car manufacturers get into the "how much would a lawsuit and recall cost" when discussing adding costs of $4-$5 per car.
You missed cause and consequence. Unprovoked expansion of NATO happened first. After years of warnings. Ukraine was in the line. That non-democratic coup was a step to NATO and inspired/supported by NATO members.

And after that Crimean people expressed that they don't like that by voting out of it.
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> the inefficence doesn't look so minor. it's also a logisticsl nightmare, just imagine parking all those cars while the rework stations free up.

To park a car every seven minutes? Maybe one extra full time employee?
If you need an SLA, you pay $$$ for service with an SLA. This is basic IT competency.
It sounds like a good time for the fire department to switch to Project Fi. Would be good publicity for Project Fi if that happens.

They're upfront about exactly what you're buying. No illusions.
That idea is oversimplified. One can write a traveling salesman solver, that will outperform most humans in several weeks of work: any decent RL algo like A2C will do. Even a simple genetic algorithm will probably perform better actually, and that can be written as an exercise during a CS school lesson.
Just because it is in the constitution doesn't make it right. That is a document designed to be changed, after all.

Women couldn't vote for quite some time. Some people weren't fully human. Only landowners could vote. And so on.

Furthermore, it being in the constitution still doesn't detract from it being slavery.
There is no such thing as 'free trading'.

As the saying goes - "if it's free, you are the product". Especially in trading.

If the broker / bank is getting charged by the exchange for executing your orders (aggressive orders in the US), then one way or another it will be charged on you (+broker's cut).
So much this. The wake call was Naval Ravikant on a podcast (Tim Ferriss I think?) that said something like "don't be afraid to stop reading a book if you're not enjoying it. If it's non-fiction it's okay to skip for the relevant chapters".
Except they're not really "bad actors"

Most people in prison today are there because of "drug offenses" which usually means they got caught doing drugs themselves (not dealing drugs or being involved in drug induced crimes).
I'm very impressed that we don't actually bill prisoners for rent, food, etc and if they can't pay, loan them money through a high interest loan that they can never pay off. Maybe they could do this and reduce interest on the loan if you work in prison. Whatever story works to keep people blind to the fact that the state abuses the shit out of its people.
"Side-work permit"? Is that actually a thing?
Haskell is hard, mainly because it's normally not a first language, and the first language people learn probably has Algol-like syntax (e.g. C, Java). I think Erlang is a bit easier to learn due to having fewer features, and for me was the gateway drug to Haskell. It let me learn to program with recursion instead of loops, and pattern matching instead of `if`s. The type system is the best part of Haskell, but unfortunately it makes it very easy to get stuck when starting out ("IO String" vs "String", "ByteString" vs "Text"). It's well worth the investment, though, to get a tool that lets you develop concise code like Python/Ruby but gives you strong guarantees of correctness. Also worth noting the incredible ecosystem of libraries and tooling, like stack and intero:

- https://docs.haskellstack.org

- https://commercialhaskell.github.io/intero/
There's no inherently intractable reason aircraft "need" human pilots when autopilots are faster, better and make fewer errors. At this stage, an aircraft guider would be able to instruct the aircraft as to what's needed. At some point in the future, AI/ML/DL will replace that role entirely such that the lineman communicates with the aircraft directly. Then, as a further iteration (40-100 years), the lineman is also replaced by robotics on a drone-like platform.
presumably you would want to restrict writing anyway. I thought that was implicit - any open-write platform is going to go to shit if it's immutable.
At $10 a gig, I don't see how that would be any better.
For reference, here is the linked list of demands by the national organizers [1]:

> 1. Immediate improvements to the conditions of prisons and prison policies that recognize the humanity of imprisoned men and women.

> 2. An immediate end to prison slavery. All persons imprisoned in any place of detention under United States jurisdiction must be paid the prevailing wage in their state or territory for their labor.

> 3. The Prison Litigation Reform Act must be rescinded, allowing imprisoned humans a proper channel to address grievances and violations of their rights.

> 4. The Truth in Sentencing Act and the Sentencing Reform Act must be rescinded so that imprisoned humans have a possibility of rehabilitation and parole. No human shall be sentenced to Death by Incarceration or serve any sentence without the possibility of parole.

> 5. An immediate end to the racial overcharging, over-sentencing, and parole denials of Black and brown humans. Black humans shall no longer be denied parole because the victim of the crime was white, which is a particular problem in southern states.

> 6. An immediate end to racist gang enhancement laws targeting Black and brown humans.

> 7. No imprisoned human shall be denied access to rehabilitation programs at their place of detention because of their label as a violent offender.

> 8. State prisons must be funded specifically to offer more rehabilitation services.

> 9. Pell grants must be reinstated in all US states and territories.

> 10. The voting rights of all confined citizens serving prison sentences, pretrial detainees, and so-called “ex-felons” must be counted. Representation is demanded. All voices count!

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/s/r5cr546jlscgkhj/Prison%20Strike.pd...
>Arguing that it’s good for them is paternalistic bullshit.

Sitting in a cage or a large room with other inmates with nothing productive to do can itself be considered a form of psychological torture, which is precisely what some proponents of prison industry have argued: https://sci-hub.tw/10.2307/1147470
Any evidence of these claims? From my view, people have plenty of trust in statistics, they just make sure the stats reinforce their pre-existing bias first.
Agreed, Hutton's book is really cool. I found LYAH just boring.
Sure you do have a choice; you can go live in the wilderness and live entirely self-sufficiently. Just because a choice is unreasonable to you doesn't make it less of a choice.

More importantly (and my entire point) is that you have a choice of exactly what kind of work you want to do. That self-determination differentiates you from a prisoner or slave.
From the article:
"M3, aboard the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, launched in 2008 by the Indian Space Research Organization, was uniquely equipped to confirm the presence of solid ice on the Moon. It collected data that not only picked up the reflective properties we'd expect from ice, but was able to directly measure the distinctive way its molecules absorb infrared light, so it can differentiate between liquid water or vapor and solid ice."

Another source:
"near the south pole of the Moon on 9 October 2009 showed the spectral signature of hydroxyl, a key indicator that water ice is present in the floor of the crater (1). Analysis of the results indicates concentrations of roughly 6% water in the impact area, including nearly pure ice crystals in some spots. "

https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/ice/ice_moon.html
Your argument assumes that the goal of prisons is to keep their customers from returning to prison.
What should the onboarding look like for the first engineer?
We do.

https://money.cnn.com/2015/09/18/news/economy/prison-fees-in...
Because it is.

If you can't have an open, honest and educated discussion about the problems at hand, comparing different approaches, then you took a really wrong turn somewhere.

Just hiding the problem away, by making certain topics taboo or through other mechanisms, doesn't solve it.

As a German, I can speak from experience because it's something we've been doing for a very long time across a whole variety of topics from neo-Nazis to online libel.

In Germany, you are liable for any comments somebody leaves on your website. Couple that with all the anti-Nazi law stuff, you have the situation where literally no German news outlet allows unmoderated comments on their site.

Did that help? Does that help? Are all neo-Nazis gone from Germany, and nobody writes anything nasty anymore? Far from it, but at the same time a lot of people can point at this stuff and go "Look how they are censoring us away, we are a persecuted minority!" reinforcing their own victim-narrative.
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Good fiction can teach you more about human nature than any non-fiction. Marginally more knowledge about human nature can get you further than marginally more technical knowledge.
Wordpress has so many plugins and extensions because people use it as a site builder for anything and everything. Want a shop? A contact form? A newsletter? Restaurant bookings? Hotel reservations? Whatever, do it in wordpress.

If you want a technical blog, Ghost also "just works" and is far, far better, cleaner, more beautiful out of the box imo. I use their Pro version for our company's blog (https://articles.hsreplay.net/) and it's just unbelievably good. I'm so glad to have found it and I'm a huge, huge fan of not just their product but also how they run their organization.
I never sat for the SAT and got myself a BA so it's apparently not a very good gatekeeper.
My argument for treating prisoners better than children (at least in regard to being paid for working) is that once you leave prison, you're likely in a really bad situation unless you have money to help with the transition.

Finding a job is tough as an ex-con. Your support network may well be gone, or it may be entirely composed of people who enabled you in the first place.

Most kids have years of supported, gradual transition from unpaid chores to fully-independent adults, although there are obviously exceptions to that. I feel really badly for kids who enter adulthood from foster care.
No engineer taking a role like this is going to expect an onboarding process. Many of them are specifically drawn by the idea they'll get to sit down and solve a problem on day 1.
Even if private messaging, which social platform has bank level privacy/PII controls in place? How often are they hacked/sold/oopsied?
I take your point, and I was mostly just pointing out the parallels with OP's description of the US (which also included "soil conservation").

For the CAP, my reading is that most of the payment really is just for "not farming" - the cross-compliance rules expect a bit more, yes, but the penalties for not doing so are pretty light - you only have a 1% chance of getting inspected per year, and even repeated and intentional noncompliance normally only knocks 20% off your payments.

I'm looking at page 12 of https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/... - I'm not involved with farming though, so take anything I say with a generous pinch of salt.
That doesn't count. You can't refuse service (or provide worse service) because someone doesn't consent to unrelated data collecting / processing.
Not even remotely accurate.

First off, they used 25GB of data - that's not what any rational person would consider "a lot" for an emergency service fighting a wildfire. It's not even "a lot" in the generic sense in 2018 in any country that isn't the US or Cuba.

Second, the new plan is $99 for the first 20GB, and $8/GB thereafter. In other words, just to get back to baseline they would be at $139 which they blew through in a day or two. So you're talking several thousand dollars vs. $39 for a resource that costs Verizon nearly nothing to provide during an emergency such as this.
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I relocated when I was poor, single, and in college. Literally the only reason I was able to do so was because I knew a person in the town I was moving to. Without a social network, it would have been impossible for me to relocate without also becoming homeless.

People with money can find apartments or stay in hotels. People in my situation needed money for a place to stay before they could get a job.
Have you been in the position to hire many folks for startups?

Could you share a bit more about why, in your experience, this is something to prioritize with your first engineer?
Just because torture might work as a deterrent is absolutely no excuse.

Sleep deprivation and malnourishment are forms of torture, and constitute human rights violations.

It's supposed to be a correctional system. How are we supposed to reduce recidivism when the system is designed to destroy lives?
> logisticsl

(and btw it's 3x that because full time still only means 8 hours a day)
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I think you are wrong about "the whole point of money" and do not believe that profit is a requirement for currency to function. Money has many simple purposes outside of profit.

Even taking your claim at face value, whether or not someone "deserves" to benefit from some profit-based exchange of labor for currency seems irrelevant. If work has a concrete value and someone is unable to receive fair compensation for that work, and all of the value is received by someone else who did not do the work, this is inherently unfair and unethical (and by definition, slavery).
Which is what Verizon promised, then went back on because "unlimited really means*"
>If you have a photograph of a child being raped

What a wonderful strawman.

>that child contacts you to ask for that photograph to be taken down, you should probably do a bit more than say "no",

How do you tell that a specific person is in a photo? How do you tell that said person is a child?

>you should probably try and see if you are hosting images of child sexual abuse

How would you propose they do that?

>Backpage didn't dispute the identity of the children.

>Please read the documents.

Did you read the chapter following the your quote?
The GPU takeover: AI screams for more cores in the data center
I wonder where they're getting those numbers from, as I didn't spend anywhere near that long preparing o_O If it was rephrased as "successful candidates will have spent an average of 10-15 hours writing code over the past week" (ie, just working your regular day job counts as "preparation", since you're flexing your coding muscles), that sounds more believable...
I felt the same about “Why’s poignant guide”
Sure, and it's a disincentive to work. The welfare program you describe taxes those $100 of earnings at a rate of 25%. Fewer people will be willing to do $100 of work for $75 than would do it for $100.

Or working in the other direction, that welfare program represents a standing offer to people working for $100 that it will pay them $25 to quit.
Russia has been active on social media to try to weaken NATO -- and one of their specific tactics has been stirring up anti-refugee sentiments.

While this has been well-documented, I think people have been hesitant to consider that as part of what's happening in Germany.
But it costs $59 dollars, and you don't have the option of buying a print book.

LYAH is more appealing for early learners, since it's free.
> Instead of just taking Haskell features and porting them
> into already adopted languages, I'd really like to see
> more companies just go directly with Haskell, [...]

Unfortunately there are some places where aspects of the standard infrastructure around Haskell block production application.

In particular, we have applications with very hard latency requirements and also with complex type/binding requirements (where a direct structural type system is needed):

https://github.com/Morgan-Stanley/hobbes
The insurance companies aren't stupid. It's not quite as easy as just paying some money for the insurance and being done. Normally title insurance is something you pay once and it's valid as long as you continue to own the property. When I bought my current place my real estate lawyer had to do a bunch of digging because there was some ambiguity in some documents 3-4 owners back. The title insurance company would only offer insurance for 1 year if this ambiguity wasn't resolved.
You should really consider either very detailed porting guides or compatibility libraries, at least from what I hear those required changes will keep some projects on first-gen otherwise (and thus Python 2, and thus requests to dependencies to please keep Python 2 supported and ...)
Because recidivism is a bad
Is it preferred to release two bad actors or to release two good actors? Being in prison is a punishment, but it is also rehabilitation (ideally).
Many public safety agencies go with Verizon because they’re the only carrier that has service out in the middle of nowhere. These fires aren’t in San Jose, they’re all over the state. California fire pulls from local agencies when the wildfires get massive and rely on exactly these kinds of mobile command trucks to coordinate the efforts.

Project Fi is a joke when it comes to coverage.

I truly don’t see why Verizon didn’t just waive the caps for this one SIM card. Ridiculous and it’s a huge PR shitstorm for them. (Not that I’m crying, they suck.)
> "Our understanding from Eric Prosser, our former Information Technology Officer, was that he had received approval from Verizon that public safety should never be gated down because of our critical infrastructure need for these devices."

Perhaps the ITO was wrong, but it seems they had reason to believe they would get this level of service per an agreement with Verizon (rather than forcing them as you say), and it was Verizon who messed up their end of the deal.
I assume that first bit is sarcastic? Seems like, given the rest, but hard to be sure....
Yes, this book is one I recommend to anyone who wants to really understand functional programming. Admittedly it's not Haskell, but it's the book I wished I'd had back when I first learn FP (and Scala).
I've been hired as Engineer #1 at two startups (both doing well). I wrote some thoughts recently about how I was recruited into that role:

https://twitter.com/philfreo/status/1012171080834969601

On the hiring side, I also incorporated some hard lessons learned about growing our Eng team from 2 to 14 here:

http://philfreo.com/blog/when-who-how-to-hire-an-engineering...
Previously Tesla manufactured low volume luxury models. People who buy those want the performance and style and just accept that the car needs more repair. Tesla also paid huge sum per car for repairs/recalls and recall insurance. I think the total was something like $2000 per car.

Model 3 is completely different beast. If they succeed manufacturing it 5000, then 10,000 per week, the quality must be up if they want to make money.
Awesome, glad to have you. It's very basic, so any feedback re: features and bugs would help make this better.
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