skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gates has put a lot of money into TerraPower to develop their traveling wave reactor tech:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TerraPower

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveling_wave_reactor

And routinely works eg with China:

[Nov 2017] "Bill Gates' nuclear firm TerraPower and the China National Nuclear Corporation have signed an agreement to develop a world-first nuclear reactor, using other nuclear reactors' waste"

https://www.smh.com.au/business/bill-gates-and-china-partner...
"The wise man trusts the trustworthy

And he also trusts the untrustworthy

In this way, he makes them trustworthy."

-taoist proverb

If you write prisoners off as "bad actors", if you add nebulous financial punishment to the explicit punishment of confinement that they already undergo, one of the main consequences of that extra punishment for "bad actors" you're supporting is that you make it a lot harder for "bad actors" to become "good actors." Is that really what you want?

The price prisoners pay to society as penance for their crimes is confinement. We shouldn't also punish them with automatic demotion to a lower economic class like we currently do. The stigma around hiring prisoners amounts to "shadowbanning" prisoners from the economy because while technically they can participate, they're at a huge disadvantage.

The only way for a "bad actor" to become a "good actor" is if we make it possible in the first place.

That's why sometimes it makes sense to "Trust the untrustworthy."
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What you're talking about would typically be considered illegal in the United States under FDCPA (Fair Debt Collection Practices Act) so I'd imagine it would have to be a private message.

(For more information about debt collection, I'd recommend https://www.consumerfinance.gov/consumer-tools/debt-collecti... )

Even if you improve collection practices a tenth of one percent, however, you're still talking big money so I see the appeal of the market size and any potential improvement.
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That is neither a sound logical argument, nor is it evidence towards your point.

And to answer your question, Yes. Do you have much familiarity with the various systems in which child sex trafficking happens in the US? If not, that ignorance may be a huge factor towards the dissonance you're displaying.
From a health perspective I can see eating fish 1-2x a week, but from a sustainability perspective with the decline of our fish stocks, I've chosen to rarely eat fish at all.
Ask HN: So, what the heck do VPs do?
I have experience working in a FANG and multiple other tech companies.

In a deep sense, I believe I understand the role of most positions, from the C-level down to junior employees.

However, I don't understand what VPs do, or rather, what goes on at upper management. This is odd, considering I believe what goes on at the CEO level. So, what do VPs do? To help give context, here is a bestiary with a description of the roles:

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Worker (SWE, Developers, and the many other kinds of white collared staff, HR, sales, CSR, etc.)

- Do the work.

- Although "lowest" in the hierarchy, workers do not necessarily have low status. Star employees (i.e. Senior Staff Engineers at Google) can have comp and influence greater than directors.

Line Managers (Manager, Senior Manager, Project Manager, Product Manager):
- The conventional manager who supervises, reviews employees.

- Importantly, they do not determine strategic direction (even though they often desire to or represent themselves as such).

- Their value is making sure workers are productive, providing a smooth interface from upper decisions to worker day to day.

- Sometimes have considerable value as ICs.

Senior Manager (Director):

- Handling execution and related politics from above.

- Has sense of actual business but performs no IC work. Furthermore, work that is performed done is managed by line managers.

- Vice President:
???

CEO or equivalent top officer(s):

- Set vision and goals for the company. Instill these goals in senior management.

- Often the CEO's value is far removed from the ostensible company operations. For example, some companies have 'charismatic' CEOs or CEOs whose value is in bizdev or raising money.

Honorary mention (CTO/CFO/other C officers):
Basically senior managers under the CEO with domain specialties.
Not all of us are slaves. Those with enough wealth get to buy their way out of rules that apply to ordinary people. Do you really think Jeff Bezos is a slave?
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There would need to be an equivalent or greater effort to help them obtain jobs and nice living spaces outside of prison, otherwise: "Can't find a job out here! I'm gonna go back to prison and get me that sweet $30/hr prison job, where I can afford nice food and place to live. Also if I don't feel like working they'll take care of me."

Not to mention, prisons now incentivized to soak up that larger cashflow and get more prisoners
Verizon already pays for these services through taxes, and the government is not liable for damage to Verizon's property resulting from a wildfire, so why would extra money change hands upon such damage?

Your comment is glib and cute, but it really is a baseless fantasy when confronted with facts.
Personally, I found LYAH to be a great book.
If there are places where the book is incorrect, I didn't have the background knowledge to notice. I felt the book did a good job explaining applicatives and monads by starting at the very basics and very slowly ramping up the complexity to a complete understanding. I know with many math books I have had a problem where some transformation morphs equation A into equation B and the reader is left wondering how exactly B was obtained. I never felt that way reading LYAH. I could see where somebody already knowledgeable with Haskell would find the micro steps overkill, but it went at the pacing I needed.
The fact that a company is cutting costs doesn't mean it is "making money". Nothing is being offloaded, it is just a process that doesn't require one of their employees to be present.

I think it is better for everyone this way. It is more accurate, it is less pressure and less demanding on the candidate, and it doesn't require an engineer sitting there asking intro-CS questions to a stranger instead of working.
I'm not sure how you could improve on blogrolls here, but I'm curious to see what you try.
Verizon's billing practices aside, I'm surprised they're not using FirstNet (firstnet.gov / firstnet.com), since I thought the whole point of that project is to create a cellular network specifically for emergency services.

It also looks like FirstNet has a slightly more generous data overage policy for their "unlimited" plan:

> "Unlimited Plan may not exceed 22GB a month for three consecutive months; AT&T reserves
the right to require Customer to move to a FirstNet Mobile—Pooled Plan if usage exceeds this limitation."

Does anybody know how widely FirstNet has actually been adopted?
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The argument I am making is quite literally "tracking by using the labeling isn't tracking", but not for the reasons you're stating.

What I'm saying is that if you eat a serving of something, the package says x calories per package (and x servings per package, for those packages that are clearly one serving but say 2), and you write down all of those values you ate, and you arrive at a number... that number is entirely fictional.

When I say I ate around 2000 calories a day on the SAD (standard American diet), I have no clue. That is the problem with processed food, you have to trust the numbers on the box are correct because you have no clue what the recipe is, if the food could even be expressible in terms of normal ingredients.

Once you cook everything yourself, which also came with the diet change (because everything is contaminated with grains, refined sugars, and just weird strange shit), which makes it much easier to track calories (as USDA values for generic foods seem to actually be in the realm of reality).
Huh. I was gonna say it's weird that they'll throttle you a second time, because I don't imagine you could download much at 256kbps even in a whole month of continuous traffic, but I did the math and it turns out you could get about 85GB in 30 days. So I guess that makes sense.
You can try googling "Chinese TMSR Strategic Pioneer Science and Technology Project site:sinap.ac.cn" and "TMSR site:sinap.ac.cn". Or even just "thorium site:sinap.ac.cn".
While we are on the subject, what are the plans now for the admin interface ? Community provided translation files ? Can the admin interface be translated ?
A Reason article made it to HN's frontpage?

Amazing ... today must be bizarro Dienstag, but I'm not complaining.
The problem is not so much about child prostitution but rather that them promoting illegal stuff on their web site and knowing it at the time
As far as I’m aware, community labor is generally sentenced as an alternative to prison time.
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Hawaii has _too much_ sun, because of the isolated nature of its electric grid, meaning they have nowhere to shift power to or from. If we had a good storage option, or if one was deployed in Hawaii, the situation would change dramatically.
> Prisoners should not be getting paid to cook, clean, do laundry, etc. to help operate the prison, for example.

Why not?
The last few digits are sequential within a model. Combination of this and knowing when the transports arrive might give you an estimate.

I’m telling you what I remember him telling me. How accurate he actually was, I don’t know. But Detroit earned their horrible reputation, and the Japanese manufactures are them alive.
If what they meant, then they’re not saying anything meaningful. Anyone working full time as a software engineer who isn’t slacking off to an unimaginable extent is spending 10-15 hours writing code in the course of a week.
The rust library interfacing with python is https://github.com/dgrunwald/rust-cpython This library understand things like python arrays, objects, etc. and provides nice rust interfaces to them. Basically I just have to write a macro that specifies what functions I'm exposing to python, and other then that I'm writing normal rust. On the python side I'm importing them and calling them like any other python library.

The build system is https://github.com/PyO3/setuptools-rust (which is linked at the bottom of the above readme).
> Anyone who's taking grade 10 physics can tell you exactly why the difference between calorie input and calorie output equals your change in weight.

This is one of those places where you can be entirely correct but entirely unhelpful. The problem is that calorie output is both a) non-constant (even your base metabolic rate changes over the course of your life, much less any lifestyle changes) and b) influenced by environment and physical condition (your calorie burn will change in response to environmental pressures, including caloric restriction and changing body fat content).
That isn't actually the tu quoque fallacy, although it does look quite similar at first glance.

A = [commit murders on foreign soil, invade other countries and other nasty things]
B = [made this relationship a lot less attractive]
C = [it is wise to improve our relationship]

The original claim is A -> B, A(Russia) -> True.

The response is that A -> B, A(US) -> True. Therefore, if C(US), C(Russia) is also not ruled out. Logically sound.

This isn't claiming that rbanffy's argument is wrong because A(rbanffy). I suspect rbanffy is probably not even committing murders on foregin soil, le alone the other stuff, so it isn't a tu quoque fallacy. It is just pointing out that A isn't an international norm for cutting off productive relationships.
The selling of the loan is an often time consuming and disconcerting process. How many people would even open a letter from a bank they've never done business with? How many have automatic payments setup that would just stop when the loan is sold? How many blindly write a check to the same bank every month as their mortgage book tells them to? Answer: almost everyone that's ever taken out a mortgage or any other loan for that matter.

I think, from a consumer perspective, the answer here is the originating bank of the loan should be responsible for the lifetime of the loan for servicing it, even if they sell the debt itself to another party. This simple act would simplify immensely the process for the consumer and probably put a bit more pressure on the banks to get the paperwork right.
I too am a little mystified by why they chose to do what they did because I agree with you that there just can't be that much money in child trafficking. But the indictment has a lot of details, some of it supported by quotes in emails; it seems pretty likely that they did do stuff. Why? Maybe just ideology?

There's a lot in the indictment to suggest that they don't take child sex trafficking seriously as a problem. They joke about it ("entrapment.com"). They take meetings and disregard the information they're given. They're on the record declining to adopt things they say are "good ideas" because they don't have enough "P.R. value". I think the balance of information we have strongly suggests that Lacey and Larking just DGAF.

This is the problem I have with the Standard Internet Discussion on Backpage.com. It invariably focuses on the harm reduction argument. I'm prepared to buy the harm reduction argument! But someone responsible needs to run that site; the people who actually ran it belong in prison.
I think the loneliness and isolation aspect of this report is projection by a possibly urban author.

Most rural farmers I know are at least third generation and grew up in the sticks. They get anxious when they go to the city, itching to get back to the of rural life of 'isolation'.

Folks in these small communities are physically far apart but closer than most communities I've experience in cities and even suburbs.

That said, if you get sideways with your rural community, you can be ostracized by the whole and it's nearly impossible to overcome that stigma - it can last a lifetime. That may have involvement in the mental illness issues for sure.
You sound like a horrible person
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(c) and (d) are sensible suggestions, but I've got to question your (a) and (b).

It sounds like you don't think much of testing, if you're expecting tests to be handed to you. Testing is hard! Writing good test cases can be as hard as writing the code itself. If your tests are inane, then you're going to catch the easy bugs and miss all the hard ones.

And when on Earth do you get clear and detailed instructions on what is expected? At least in my current job, I feel like half of what I do is turn vague expectations into crisp technical requirements. If part of the assignment is for you to write a function, I can't include test cases for you because I don't know what type signature you're going to pick for the function. This isn't an inane detail. In some ways the signature of the function is more important than the implementation: the implementation is local to the function, but the signature is going to effect the structure of all of the code that uses it.
> Look at the websites of almost any well designed news outlet

Is it possible that some of this is news-site-specific, due to their heritage as print media, and an online design aesthetic that references (or harkens back to) that?
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I don't think most people here arguing for a more rehabilitation-based prison system think it works perfectly or even good in the US. But on the other hand the US prison system has more inmates per capita than any other, so clearly something in either the legal system or the prison system has gone wrong.

Reform is needed, and IMO more punishment and less opportunity after exit will probably not help.
FYI: Steve Jobs' widow, alum of Merrill Lynch and Goldman, plans to own the majority of The Atlantic c. 2020-2021.
1. It's hard to understand these conclusions without knowing what they used to measure the effectiveness. Clicks? Skips?

2. From the headline, I assumed that they used a fake brand to track the number of searches for it later. Perhaps to see how paid ads could influence organic search. It seems like that would have been a more interesting result.
Exactly, they solved a bunch of problems that weren't really related to cron and overall, IMO, made the situation worse.

High resource usage so they moved the actual jobs off-server. Not cron related. Crontab is hard to edit so we'll create an arbitrary data structure that'll be both hard to edit and non-standard. Good job. Our jobs are failing so instead of better error handling we'll just run them again manually. Great. And apparently they've never heard of cron logging to syslog.
Well if it's just the slippery slope argument then I get that but I don't agree it's a problem until we actually do hit fake HIV med ads.

Furthermore, it's been pretty normal for startups to try gauging customers interest by setting up pages with products that don't exist yet. Maybe it's different because of the size of google but I am personally waiting until the slippery slope hits things like fake HIV cure ads.
The point of a medium of exchange (money) is to make it easy for there to be a coincidence of wants between people who might transact. It has nothing to do with whether you're a "good" or "bad" actor.
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The only rule I think I have is I won't do any test or assignment off an email invite.

Qualify me a little, then a personal invitation for a test/homework can be considered.

But sometimes it seems like you send in a resumes and the response to a resume submission (even if a human looks at it) is to send you to a test.

To that, "no".
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If there really is a developer shortage that we're always hearing about, then why don't more developers say "f. you" and walk away from homework assignments, 5-round interviews, cubicle farms instead of offices, etc. It would be a self-correcting problem -- companies that wanted good candidates would stop doing this shit. The only explanation I can come up with is that the developer shortage doesn't exist. Maybe it's a developer glut but we don't realize it yet?
I used this book to get introduced to Haskell and think it worked great, it’s also used as the course material in the first programming course for the CS-Program at Chalmers University of Technology (CTH) and have worked as a introduction to programming for hundreds of students every year.
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I think the OP point is about e.g. you and me most likely knowing about Kim Kardashian though never having an intention to so to speak :D
It's very Bookerian.

I think we can all agree that the secret algorithm is going to be in the social signalling - job status, who you know, where you live.

Make everyone's rating public and you're there, or worse make it available to whoever pays.
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Calorie output may be hard to measure, but that doesn't mean you can say "calories in/calories out is untrue!" like the author does.

But you're right, this is a "technically correct" yet unhelpful answer.
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Nice. I've been using Ghost for our development blog for a few years now [0]. Every time I have to maintain our main company blog, which is Wordpress, I am astounded by the incredibly messy and cluttered admin interface. Ghost just keeps it simple and easy enough for me to publish quick dev updates on our SaaS in seconds without having to wade through a ton of crud.

I wonder if the 1.x -> 2.0 upgrade will be a simple ghost-cli command, or whether it will entail a complete reinstall on our Digital Ocean droplet?

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It says, "two out of three suicides in Montana are by firearm". What do 1/3 of the other people use?
Paying shows you have skin in the game, value the candidates time, and you are not just handing out a ton of take home projects to every one who applied. I am sure some companies have the money to do so, but generally I think that is not the norm.

Off topic/curious: Is the take home project expected to be honor system 'closed book/closed internet'?
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Why is that relevant here?
In Syria, ISIS, war against Assad and mass exodus is due entirely to the regime not helping farmers get water during a time drought and famine. No doubt many farmers also killed themselves, but the gamut of hardships fell on deaf Western ears.
Ah ok :) That went whooshing by over my head – I've been spending too long in YouTube comment sections recently and have grown unaccustomed to the subtle wit of HNers.

As regards FB, is it a utility or a medium? If it is a medium then they exercise editorial control over the content on their platform and are liable for said content; if it is a utility then they should not censor any content (which they totally do – be it timeline manipulation or shadow-banning or deplatforming). Tech companies want it every which way – they want to behave like a utility but also censor (and monetize) content. Whatever they (FB, Twitter, YouTube, et. al.) are, they're leading an ad-fueled muddled existence. I really think we need anti-trust legislation to chop them into pieces and reboot with some much needed global competition. What we need is effectively an ITU‡ (which was founded in 1865 btw) for the 21st century.

‡ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Telecommunicatio...
Probably because it's unlikely the other poster is talking about a private prison.

"Jail" often means a county operated facility and then at the state and federal level most prisoners are still held in publicly administered facilities.
The Jon Oliver episode on prison:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pz3syET3DY

See also Shane Bauer's undercover report "My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard":

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/cca-private-pri...
> The reasonable thing here would be to simply require companies to be honest and state the actual bandwidth they provide.

It wouldn't surprise me to find out that Verizon wants this too. Or maybe not, I don't know the landscape. But I don't expect them to altruistically abide by more reasonable definitions of these terms while their competitors don't (unless being honest is part of their selling point).
Really appreciate the openness here on the part of the founders. Insightful to see what early-stage founders are thinking and hoping for from their hires, and it feels candid.
Everything should be much worse on the inside than the outside. You can use your job to get yourself a single cell rather than a shared cell, etc. and since prisoners are largely able bodied men they should be able to make enough money to defeat the cost of their room and board (probably not their guarding).
It is not that, it is mostly informed test subjects. The slippery slope argument is the most extreme case let's say. The thing is this is not black or white, there are grays in between, who decides what shade of gray? Do we wait like we did with social media and until we see another CEO in front of Congress saying 'I'm sorry we helped misguide people'? Or should we be more proactive? Moving fast and breaking stuff works when you are small company with no liability not when you are responsible for a bunch of data of the whole world.
> Most people who end up in prison were “bad actors” by definition.

Disagree. Majority of the offenders are there for non-violent drug offenses. It is also possible some of them are serving sentences for crimes that are no more crimes. California has liberalized marijuana but the prisoners are still in jail for the crimes that no more crimes.
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