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>Are police different from other people, that is do they have an innate propensity to act the way they do, or are they conditioned to act this way by their experiences?

In discussion on the subject I've had multiple people who do not know each other say things like "everyone I knew who was a bully growing up became a cop" (and that's a near direct quote). The current state of policing where they can use force to get people to do anything they want and get off scot free even if they're in the wrong definitely attracts a certain personality type.
Thanks for your comment! Don't have enough time to fully respond to it right now but will get back to you in the morning.
Interesting, I haven't tried that. Apparently it uses either MPI or GASNet for the between-node communication, depending on configuration? I don't know anything about the latter, but apparently it's an LBL product [1].

[1] https://gasnet.lbl.gov/
One thing that's going to attract non-programmer to this idea is good user experience.

I'd suggest you team up with a UX designer because at the moment it's looking a little like programmer art, and you're trying to appeal to non-programmers :)

It's always good to see someone give a crack to such a hard problem!
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Hard to do if your job workload is elastic and/or has on-call. Unfortunately these days, most employers are looking to squeeze 110% of your time and energy.
Or we do not hear about low-profile ones. Being high profile (Navalny, Khodorkovsky) might be even an insurance policy to keep one at least alive.
Spin those questions around to ones that are more familiar to Westerners.

"Why has Jack Ma joined the Freemasons? What benefit does it convey, and what constraints does it induce?"

The reasons are very likely in both situations that having an 'in' with some particular powerful group is very good for your cash-flow.
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The most interesting part for me:
"Furthermore, the defendants leased more than 650,000 Internet Protocol (“IP”) addresses, assigned multiple IP addresses to each datacenter server, and then fraudulently registered those IP addresses to make it appear that that the datacenter servers were residential computers belonging to individual human internet users who were subscribed to various residential internet service providers."

That's... really smart. A lot of companies use services like MaxMind to do this. I wonder how difficult it is to get a GeoIP data correction request approved:
https://support.maxmind.com/geoip-data-correction-request/
Sorry but Jenkins doesn't achieve anything related to my question.
This is such an Economics 101-style response, I'm not even sure how to address it.

I keep seeing this response pop up.

"Sure, my position fails to demonstrate even the most basic understanding of economics, but your argument reeks of being built on the fundamentals of the field!"
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Nobody said anything about feeling productive. They're talking about being productive.
Has anyone a meditation retreat? Sounds a bit similar to escape and take a break without the prison life.
It is being pointed out, but it's not solely pointing out the symptom.

The goal of Helsinki here is to make the hiring decision independent of direct factors they blind themselves to (name, sex, etc.). However, the factors they condition on (education, experience) are impacted by these factors, so the hiring decision won't be independent of the factors.

The "best" thing to do is to correct the inherent bias, as you're pointing out as the real problem. We agree. This isn't something Helsinki can do in a vacuum, so if they want to achieve their goal of true "blindness" to the above factors, they have to take into account their impact on their "seen" factors somehow.

I put the formalized model I have in mind in another comment on this thread, which walks through my thought process here.[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18548270
No. An action can be (civilly) illegal without being a crime (i.e. criminally illegal), but it's still illegal nonetheless.
Now mastery of emacs can stroke more than your ego. I just hope it's not in a minor mode or the author may end up in jail...

I'll show myself out.
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For some people, government is the only tool in their toolbox, leading literally every problem to look like a nail...
My spot checks indicate it was 10/10 on the money, not that this has anything to do with the subject on this thread. Just because some anon on the internet is giving me 'friendly advice' to not take any of the information as factual because Putin might like it (or because it makes Browder sad).... Why are you even bringing this up?
If you can get yourself to Thailand and dont have an aversion to Buddhism there are Buddhist temples where you can go stay. Frequently you make a donation at the end of your stay with the amount being at your discretion.

An example near Chiang Mai in north west Thailand https://www.fivethousandyears.org/
>This results in some states and cities having well trained professional police, whereas others receive minimum training and are then expected to learn "on the job." For example California police officers are now receiving better training on handling the mentally ill, something a rural police officer in another state is unlikely to receive.

Funny you mention that. I think that if anything the rural cops are less likely to have an "us vs them" mentality. I think the fact that there's so few cops means they are forced to extend their social circles beyond just other cops where city cops do not have to do that.
> Worker's unions helped win the majority of our rights in modern democracies. I wish this fact was more widely appreciated.

The problem with modern unions, particularly in tech, is that the legacy structure is inapt for current problems. Tech workers don't need a union to negotiate compensation, they're compensated fine already. They don't need a huge bureaucratic structure for engaging in long-term detailed negotiations. They don't need a contract at all.

What they need is a no-dues no-fulltime-union-reps union that operates through direct democracy. It does nothing unless the employer is doing something bad wrong. Then if the majority of the union members vote to refuse, either the employer concedes or they strike.

Because it's not about a thousand little things here, it's about a small number of big things. It needs to be able to address those and then go back to being invisible instead of succumbing to feature creep and destroying the host with overhead and principal-agent problems as we've seen with the auto makers.
run of the mill sjw rhetoric. mostly a piece aimed at mocking, devoid of any real sense or shedding new insights.

it tries to handle material like a freshman handles a last minute term paper push.

does not belong here.
While threats from the Chinese government may be valid, it's more likely that they don't want to / cannot risk their H-1B status or green card priority date. So their immediate threat is more likely (indirectly) coming from USG.
> (2) that they and prosecutors cover up malfeasance (the blue line);

What's needed is something more systemic: abolish prosecutorial discretion. Prosecutors will then have no choice but to pursue these cases or face prosecution themselves.

It also creates incentives to repeal old or broken laws that are used only as leverage against otherwise law abiding citizens.

It's a dramatic change, no doubt, but there's a lot to be said for it.
Thanks for the example. Let's break that down.

"It's a very rare woman who at the age of 30 doesn't consider having a child her primary desire."

Evidence shows this to be the case. It is rare.

"And the ones that don't consider that, generally in my observation there's something that isn't quite right in the way that they're constituted or looking at the world."

I see how that sounds sexist, but he says the same thing about men that don't want kids. It's also important to note that he qualifies the statement as "generally", not as a rule. Acknowledging there are exceptions. It's not the case for everyone.

He says that men are misguided for prioritizing work or money over kids. He actually makes the point that women are better at recognizing what leads to happiness, fulfillment and meaning. Which is family. That's his understanding based on decades of observation and research. But again generally speaking and there are exceptions.
So what you're saying is, "in an ecological sense" you're fine with it if my children die of starvation? Well good for you.
Re (2): I think those are separate issues. You can only cover up so much. The departments need to start seeing the bad cops as a ticking monetary time bomb. Eventually if you abuse enough people someone will get it on camera and that becomes a slam dunk lawsuit.

Re (1): This is a big problem. We need to get rid of the double standard. Whatever rules for use of force the police are playing by they should be at least as restrictive as the rules of engagement that 18yo marines in Afghanistan have to play by. A bad shoot by Joe Average should be a bad shoot when Officer Hotdead does it.
Here is what I see happening today: we have a bunch of hype inducted by cloud companies and their marketing departments around their solutions. Which makes their solutions look desirable and inevitable. Also makes them seem cutting-edge.

We also have another bunch of actors in the industry: devops and sysadmins who because their old cushy position was kind of unnecessitated by the emergence of these new services (after all ANYONE can create an AWS account) realized that they have to come up with new smokes and mirrors to rationalize why are their role is so important.

I am very very much against this stance and proposition and I will fight this thinking in every possible forum.

The possibility is real and the risk/cost is very low to empower dev teams in today's cloud landscape so there is really no need to prevent this happening.

And this discussion also reminds me of an old Uncle Bob article [0] where Uncle Bob summarizes the (back then situation) as follows:

> I witnessed the rise of a new job function. The DBA! Mere programmers could not be entrusted with the data – so the marketing hype told us. The data is too precious, too fragile, too easily corrupted by those undisciplined louts. We need special people to manage the data. People trained by the database companies. People who would safeguard and promulgate the giant database companies’ marketing message: that the database belongs in the center. The center of the system, the enterprise, the world, the very universe. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Now replace data in the above excerpt with infrastructure and you will arrive to the same conclusion as I did. Q.E.D.

[0] https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2012/05/15/NODB.html
If you are paying, you are more likely to successfully resist the urge to plug your internet back in, check your phone, or leave the "prison".
I wont fully elaborate on what a job is but I'll give you a couple examples:

Updating anywhere from 500-5M items over APIs that are rate limited.

Dumping datasets that have to be normalized and massaged into files/ and dropped off at third party servers anywhere from every 15 minutes to once a month. These files could contain anywhere from 500 lines to 5M lines.

Injesting datasets just as large as described above but massaged and saved into our caches and DB.
How are they better off again?
I've been building some fairly sophisticated systems with and without Docker, and it is always easier to build such systems without Docker. See here:

http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/one-write-point-one-r...

At the end of that essay I go into detail about a recent Docker/AWS/ECR/ECS system I worked on, much of which seemed like a whole lot of useless work that slowed the project and offered no benefits.

So I'm wondering, what is the biggest project success that people can point to regarding Docker? In the above post I link to an article where a developer talks about coming in under budget on a project where they used microservices and Clojure. Where are similar articles regarding Docker? I'd like to read an article where an individual software developer, preferably someone who already has a good reputation with the tech scene, writes an essay where the theme is "We thought this was going to take 6 months, but once we switched to Docker we were able to get everything done in 3 months." I find it stunning that there are basically no such articles. Meanwhile, it is very, very easy to link to all of the articles where developers have written about the problems they had when trying to use Docker or Kubernetes.
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Yes. Relational databases are very fast and using them as key/value stores is a great use-case. Using a scale-out system like Aurora makes it even better. It's slower because of SQL parsing and generally the SQL clients are not as fast, but you can get close to single-digit millisecond latency these days.

We use Aurora or Postgres for key/value unless we need something specific, like multi-regional capacity or really high-end performance. For that we run ScyllaDB.
If you have one cubesat, you'll probably use Starlink (once operational) instead of your own ground station.
I don't know why anyone would be surprised by this. Of course he's a member of the party. He very likely wouldn't have been able to build Alibaba had he not been a member.
I deleted Youtube, maps, chrome, hangouts, sheets, docs, drive, Authenticator and nearly every other G app from my phone, fuck this shit.... working on migrating gmail. That’s a hassle tbh, but I’ve only raised my Google alert status from “Don’t be evil”

To “Experimenting with Evil”, so we’re not full blown Orwell yet.
I'm not sure I follow. Once the UK is out, it's out. In that case, to rejoin it would have to follow the process to join, no?

I mean, if it was 3 weeks later and no laws had changed maybe not, but past a certain point regulations would have diverged etc
> almost always fail

Almost always? What would you cite as a success?
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> All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

-- Frank Lloyd Wright, "The Living City" (1958)
They're definitely NOT exactly the same thing.

In no way is "here's billions of dollars, hopefully that'll save you!" the same thing as "move here and we'll cut your taxes by 20% per year for the next 25 years, up to a maximum of $x, as long as you hire this many people and pay them at least this much, and also x, y, and z."

One is highly speculative, one is essentially guaranteed.

It's remarkable that you can say they're the same with a straight face.
Can you clarify? I think this is actually a pretty good explanation of what's literally inside of a Docker image.
You’d definitely get better care in the US by going on Medicaid. If you’ve worked enough to qualify for SSI (10 years), you’d be covered by Medicare!
The rich will always have advantages. Technology just gives them more. But it's up to the state to level the field if and where appropriate. Currently the US is dead last among developed nations in doing this.
>For that matter, I think you can find people in all of those categories in any large organization.

I challenge anyone who says government is inefficient to find me a single large corporation that ISN'T inefficient.

It has nothing to do with government and everything to do with size.
> I do think that wirless headphones is the future and that headphones with a cable will cease to exist in a few years.

This is completely ridiculous. Latency issues are not cheap to solve without cable, and watching movies or any video / playing games just can't handle latency. Congestion problems in public transport are frequently mentioned in these HN threads already, and we are nowhere close to "fully wireless world".

I hope phone makers are not this delusional ... They already jumped the shark with phone sizes, it will be getting ridiculous trying to keep alive 6y ild phone just to not downgrade :/
As we start to understand neurology sufficiently to simulate it, the two fields are converging. Eventually (soon?) they'll be seen as sub-fields of the study of intelligence.

(As for your fusing neural organoids to computers, there was a sci-fi story I read years ago that used this theme. There were human-level AIs that needed some integrated organic grey matter to perform some of their higher level functions. Wish I could remember what it was - although that description probably covers half a dozen stories by now.)
Yes, and they can be. It's really about what certifications you get regarding weapons, weight and noise, but it completely possible.
If you think that's bad I'd like to introduce you to the hell of pairing garage remote receivers to your car's honelink enabled rearview mirror.

Don't get me started on the cryptic pairing manual in the glove compartment.
Yeah, despite everything you read, Google doesn't "want your data". Google is one of only a handful of companies that have matured beyond the point of thinking that personal data is, in and of itself, valuable if the user doesn't want them to have it. Sure, there are a lot of companies who profit in keeping data without your knowledge, but they're in a different kind of business, where "delighting your users" is not really an objective.

Google stores your personal data in order to serve it back to you in one form or another. If you no longer want Google to serve that data back to you, if you're no longer happy with Google having a copy of that data, then it immediately becomes a liability rather than an asset. It's like poison in the sugar bowl, nothing good comes from it. Google does not want that kind of data, and there are lots of people whose job is to ensure that no data of that category is ever collected or retained.

You probably want to tell me that advertising targeting is just as effective if data is unwanted, or something similar about hypothetical incentives. But no, the costs outweigh the returns in the long game. This is a dead end.

In this particular case, there is a feature called Location History. It collects and allows you to query you location history. You can turn the feature on or off. But because of its clever name, some privacy wathdog organizations felt like turning this feature off should be expected cause all information relating to locations to be scrubbed from all the history from all the other products and features. That sounds absurd when you say it like that. But when you're dying for a reason to sue Google, you take what you can get.

The irony is that this level of scrutiny is only possible because Google is exceptionally careful about making available to users all the information that they have relating to those users, and allowing users to delete or edit it. They've been doing it long before the GDPR was even a concept, in fact for the most part the GDPR was just a codification of Google's existing (and often unique) practices as law.
They're evidently capable of doing advanced mathematics and of producing microprocessors among many other things, so whatever we think about them managing the globe, their intellectual equipment goes well beyond "small group interactions".
Sure, I'll look for your recent work in your twitter.
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I found the same when I was learning French through Duolingo.

I could read French fairly well, I could write a bit too, although it was very formulaic. Sometimes I'd be able to speak a bit of French to someone and they might understand me through my thick New Zealand accent (which is apparently incredibly cute to French people), but I could barely understand a word of French spoken to me.

The big problem with Duolingo in my opinion is the computer generated French audio sounds nothing like actual French.
According to the Julia benchmarks (and I assume Julia folks are relatively unbiased re: C vs Fortran), it depends on the algorithm [1], but less than an order of magnitude in either direction. I'm kinda surprised Fortran doesn't do better there actually -- but at this level it probably also depends on compiler and architecture.

[1] https://julialang.org/benchmarks/
forgiveness seconded.

the chances to experience what some call an awakening increase. small or big, major or minor, you eventually start forgiving and focussing on minimizing suffering.

its easier in a way, but only in that ignorance of suffering maximizes suffering. so knowing is, ideomatically, half the battle there.

the task itself is much harder than it sounds.

but its a start.
A1 is launched under ARM's new "Neoverse" branding that might help to distinguish this class of products from Raspberry Pi expectations: https://www.arm.com/company/news/2018/10/announcing-arm-neov...
I'm not sure it would have the same effect. My parents have a vacation home near where I live. Sometimes I go there for the weekend and I still use the internet, but it's so much more relaxing because I'm physically separated from my home and normal life where I have a lot of responsibilities. To declutter your mind you have to remove yourself from all of your physical clutter, and I don't think you can do that at home. But, getting a room at a local motel would probably work. Maybe even leave your phone at home.
Yep. Title should say cat, not “a pet”. Cats are quite different from other pets.
Yes, I think she'd be an obvious candidate. I'd be interested to know if she was nominated, and if so, what the discussion was.

My guess (as an outsider but with some small insight into the group making these awards) is that Elbakyan would have generally strong support for her direct work on Scihub, but would be unsupportable to some because of her political beliefs. That is, I think her anti-capitalist ideology and less-than-full-fledged support for modern liberal beliefs may more of a problem for the committee than her anti-copyright stance.

Here's a presentation where Elbakyan talks more about her political beliefs: https://openaccess.unt.edu/symposium/2016/info/transcript-an...
True, but my point is that banning genetic engineering will seem as silly as banning tutoring. You don't ban the ability to improve yourself because some people might use it to be better than others.
What, you don't want to wipe out half the planet's ability to procreate in a single generation? (the genocidal maniacs and overpopulation buffs are going to be all over this, maybe, if one of them has the guts and the brains)
Sure, it’s very similar to American football with situations regarding late punts or 4th down attempts. If you make it, you’re a genius, if you don’t then everyone cannot believe the risk you foolishly took, and if you punt and the other team scores late, then you’re also foolish for trusting your defense.

After the fact, the media will reinterpret the choices to fit the most compelling narrative regarding what gets clicks or views, which is often an intentionally antagonistic or divisive interpretation to stir up controversy.

When you consider that Carlsen was in the last classical match and that a blunder would mean no chance to recover, it makes even more sense. If the same position occurred in Game 5, he probably plays another 30 minutes before deciding if there’s winning potential. If he really blunders, he’s got 7 games to possibly recover.

You’re always going to be way more conservative than that in game 12.