skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's why I mentioned G4S.

They run prisons, young offenders institutions and offer private security etc.

They are not known for good behaviour though.

They are known for cost-cutting, hiring people with questionable qualifications and experience, sexual assaults on minors and covering up evidence of their own incompetence and malice.

That's what I think of when people suggest privatising law enforcement and military. Greed, malice and power-mongering.

A genuine dystopia, because I don't have the same faith that you do that a profit motive will be anything other than destructive in these spheres.
> (5) Have the whole thing re-certified - by FAA, not by Boeing itself.

I don't think that the rest of the world will trust the FAA on this anymore.
doesn't seem that hard, launder it through mixers and then sell it on unregulated exchanges at a discount, maybe use localbitcoins too.
Unfortunately, Delta is expensive enough that flying them would mean flying less.

A large part of why I was able to start flying again last year was when I discovered Southwest. I loved flying with them, but once the MAX goes into service again, I'll be very hesitant to do so.

Are there any low-cost carriers in the US who use Airbus exclusively?
Does he keep his towel on hand?
I don't know. Seems like we are the ones in the trap. We make more money, but we generally don't get more for it. 20 years China couldn't produce cars, at least not as far I know. Now they bought Volvo. They bought KUKA robots. High speed trains. And can import almost anything if they want to.

Chances are if you look back at those societies it wasn't the liberalism. They were probably horrible by modern standards. It might just have been the trade of information and resources. Today you can do probably do that without the values. Or at least if the West doesn't do it that way, who is the competition?

If everyone in the US is worried about their mortgage, who is going to be more creative than Google to the point where Google can't just buy them? The same probably goes for society. If the West doesn't do democracy very well, who are the Chinese losing to?

Maybe you are right, but I still would trust the future to some idea. That is when you lose. When you think "well this can't happen" and then it does. Because the quote about astrophysics also goes for society, that "the universe has no obligation to make sense to you". Chances are it doesn't have to be certain way at all. Most of history certainly isn't fair.
Perhaps this is what art is at this point. Crafting a piece that can get people outraged, get them to invest time and finger activity over an opinion that perhaps the author doesn't even care about. It's just to cause a stir in people. I think there are a lot of people who just listen to podcasts to tune out the emptiness of their day. Why does it matter if the auditory input is a podcast, or terrible music, or the drone of daily life? I don't think the author does. I think like you said, it's just to stir the pot to get eyes on an ad. That seems like a fun job.
Many synthetic oils _are_ fine that long.

Very few oil filters are fine that long. I know Mobil 1 makes one rated for 15k miles, but I'm not aware of any OEM components with near that lifetime.

Hopefully that changes soon, but in the meantime I'll keep changing the oil at the rate my oil filter is rated for.
Analogies to bicycles or bank safes are silly.

Crypto is putting something in a magic box with a sign on it that says "contents property of the first person to utter the magic words". "Your" cryptocurrency is not yours. It's "owned by" the magic words, not you. You can assign new magic words, but you can never insert yourself between the crypto and magic words, until you cash out the crypto to some other form of currency.
>> Imagine there was a button you could press where each and every person would suddenly receive at least a nice house, a bit of land to call their own, and a pleasant good paying job. There's not a single person, regardless of ideology, that wouldn't press this button.

No I would not push that button. I think everyone should have a roof over their head, but only value-producing people should have a nice house.
Also, I think that the reward should be based purely on value production of the individual, without any regard for ownership of capital (the means of production).
Also, individuals should not be rewarded for capturing the value created by others (I.e. entrepreneurship).
There should be a clear distinction between activities which create value versus the ones which capture value.
We need a system which enables creators instead of entrepreneurs.
By the way, the word 'entrepreneur' is French and it literally means 'someone who takes what is between'; not someone who creates value.

>> Another button to get rid of all crime? Yip, gonna be pushed.

If we had a decent system, I would agree. But in the current system, I think that crime might as well just be legalized. The definition of crime is extremely unclear.
There are so many white-collar activities which are not considered crimes by the legal system but whose consequences are actually far worse for society than all the blue collar crimes added up together - In fact, you could argue that blue collar crime would not exist if it weren't for white collar operators rigging the game and effectively forcing poor people into a life of blue collar crime.

>> Another to get rid of all poverty?

Sure, but people need to be educated in order to be able to lead a socially conscientious life outside of poverty.
If you lifted everyone out of poverty with the push of a button, they'd eat the conscientious middle class for breakfast the next day.
I disagree that most podcasts sound bad. Even outside of the NPR/Gimlet style professional podcasts, most of the ones I listen to like ATP and Daring Fireball take their editing seriously. They have all of the speakers record their own side, and they have a backup recording of the audio conversation.

Then they align the two recordings to prevent cross talk.
I'm sure even podcasters like to be paid for their work—whether you agree with what they're saying or not.

I hear a large number of podcasters slide their commercials and sponsors in as if they're not being sponsored at all—and there are no communications regulations focusing on subversive use of advertisements in those contexts.

There is space for the good in the podcast world, but I wouldn't assume it's superior be default. Fool's errand, IMO.
Small amounts are somewhat easy to exchange, if you want to exchange millions it gets much, much more difficult since you have to explain the source of funds to the exchanges and banks involved. If you have hacked them they will use blockchain analysis etc.
Calling C# Natively from Rust
Market capitalization = share price * number of shares

As a first approximation, this is how much money it would cost to buy all the shares. You’d pay $SHARE_PRICE for each share and then own the entire company. Therefore the concept is a decent measure for what the market has decided the company as a whole is worth.

A company with 10x the market cap of a competitor is considered 10x bigger, because it would take about 10x as many dollars to acquire.

I say “first approximation” because if you actually tried to buy all the shares on the open market, then increased demand would drive the price up, and not everyone would want to sell right away. In an acquisition, the acquirer offers a deal where all shareholders get, say, 1.25x the current share price, but only if all shareholders sell all their stock. And the board of directors of the company being acquired can compel all shareholders to do so, if that’s in the best interest of the shareholders.
If only we could devise a system under which all voters wouldn't have to be informed about every topic. A system of, say, representatives to whom the citizens would delegate their power. These representatives would then use their proxy and be responsible for learning and implementing policy about whatever topic comes up.

A populace which is passionate about a topic is more likely to see legislation about it. But it's not the only way.
A series of functions in a ->> block can only have one function with side effects and can only be at the end.

Exception handling is included in the function of side effects, and the exception is handled as actively as possible. In management, if an exception is encountered, always throw it to the superior, who will be fired:-)

you can do it like ring, treat client and server as db, query each other.
> nationwide disarmament

should and will happen in most countries.

> CCTV

too many people per sq km to proper police.
I bet this won't be weird in the future. Kids are naturally rebellious and I could see a situation where it becomes fashionable to hide your face using these techniques.
Maybe they want to add experimental ideas as a testing ground? I'm sure anything worthwhile could later be upstreamed if necessary?
This is really interesting. Now it's ranked #20 with more than 500 points, and it now has 36 comments. But none is actually about the link. People are giving advice on database books they read, and arguing about which one is the best, but it looks like nobody read this particular one. Yet it's massively upvoted.
Let's be clear, when they say "everything possible" they actually mean "the absolute minimum necessary to appease". The reality is that "possible" is contextualized by business constraints of costs and profits, not the hypothetical money is no object "possible". The purposefully use ambiguous language with the intent to mislead most people into a pie-in-the-sky interpretation rather than one with constraints.

The English language is highly contextual, ambiguous, and open to interpretation which is why there are subsets (lexicons? dialects?) of the language used by difference disciples with clearly defined terms to avoid these ambiguities.
Protests mean Democracy is working. Look at protests in France and the US vs protests in the Middle East or even Turkey. How do protests fair in China? Ask the unknown number of citizens in education camps.
I mostly answered your question while answering the sibiling comment : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19738724
What are you working on now? If in industry, do you actively use what you learned in your PHD? Was it worth it?
Commute, plane rides, going for a walk, cleaning the house... pretty much any time I otherwise would listen to music or nothing, but instead I want to be entertained and learn a little something.
I'm super curious how this will integrate with Argo. Kind of smart for Ford to invest in an electric vehicle while their other subsidiary develops the self driving car capability.
Yeah, as much as London from New York.

The trite content is similar, just the audience changes (working class vs (upper) middle class). It's like Taco Bell vs Chipotle, both are hardly where those who know better go to eat.
Honest question, why would competent developers subject themselves to this kind of treatment? If a company ever "requested" that I work Saturday or Sunday I'd be gone later that same day.
Vandalism is a form of trespass.
"Just to verify, your assertion is that no major label musicians could make a living after 2000"

I missed a word there. I meant no independent artist I know could make a living on their music after 2000 (I'm not even talking about getting rich..just being able to make their rent). After Napster, many people either demanded that it was free or would just download it and not pay the artist. Since they aren't signed with a big label, making money at live shows was pretty much non-existent.

Piracy isn't about stealing a car. It's about destroying value in an entire product/piece of art. Far worse than stealing a physical item.

"Thank you very much in advance my friend."

Just look at things like Spotify: Most artists are getting fractions of pennies per/play and only the very famous ones are actually making anything. There have been many articles on HN about this. You can find them yourself.
better huawei + cia than just cia. level the playing field.
> Maybe there's a book here on the curative value of quiet walks and drinking plain water, it wouldn't be very long though.

I like the sound of that one. You should put it together.

Leave some blank pages for breathing room. Some nice binding, fine paper selection, and care in type choices.

Are we collaborating now?
What with the artwork thumbnails for the first row of the "CD-Rom era" (6.0 - 5.2) not matching the artwork shown at the top of the linked page when you click it? Some of those look really interesting, but you get something entirely different when you try to find a larger version.
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I love the fact that I can understand that even though I consider myself largely monolingual. The only word I had to look up was zwei though it is clear from context that it is a number.
> Good governance is crucial. Western democracy does not seem to.

Strange though that it seems necessary to keep your people in the dark about some of the disadvantages.

Perhaps democracy is indeed not a prerequisite for economic growth, but that would be a pretty one sided perspective, no?

And yes, the growth was only possible because of strong democracies fiancing it. That should certainly not be left out of that equation, faulty as it may be.
What's to say you didn't leave and return and your wheels are in roughly the same configuration?
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>The trite content is similar, just the audience changes (working class vs (upper) middle class). It's like Taco Bell vs Chipotle, both are hardly where those who know better go to eat.

I don't know what you're saying there.

This article doesn't seem "trite".
To me it mostly involves stability, both politically and economically, centralized organization and institutions, and medium and long term predictability.

You're certainly right that it doesn't seem complicated on a meta level, but I don't believe that educating people is enough to jump start it. It takes trust in your neighbors, the processes, institutions and the system, and trust needs to be earned and developed.
About this:

"You seem to be caught up in some hype around Kafka"

I hope you realize that when I mention Kafka I am merely offering it as an example, and the reason why I mention it is because it is the technology that Jay Kreps talks about in the essay that I linked to.

It is absolutely true that are many types of unified logs, and some successful companies have been built around different kinds of logs. For instance, at https://www.parse.ly/ (an analytics firm) their canonical source of truth is their Nginx logs. They have kept every Nginx log since the company was founded in 2009. Parsely also uses Kafka and Cassandra, but if someone accidentally deleted all of their Kakfa data, and all its backups, and all of their Cassandra data, all of its backups, they could regenerate all of their customers data simply by re-analyzing the Nginx logs, going back to 2009.

So there are different approaches to the notion of a unified log. And I mentioned Kafka only as an example. I apologize if that was unclear.
Humans can vastly outperform robots at research in space. The main advantage of robots is lower cost and risk. It's ok if a robot blows up.
> without realising that uninitialised memory is used for randomness

It was more subtle than that: there were two identical calls, one of which added uninitialized memory, while the other added real entropy. The developer mistakenly removed both, thinking both were equally useless, instead of only removing the one with undefined behavior. To make things worse, another call added the current PID, so the results weren't identical every time. See more detail at https://research.swtch.com/openssl
Academics have built models to assess the probability of a putsch
I just discovered The Mountain Goats via the weather segment of the latest Welcome to Night Vale so it is possible to discover music via podcasts.
Communist Death Star ?
If you haven't had one yet, one of my recent favourites is an Ontario-grown Red Prince apple. There should probably just be a whole thread for apples as that's a subject I could get into!
Running locally has nothing to do with GDPR. GDPR would also be applicable if you hire persons to recognize faces and put down notes on paper.

It's all about storing or working with data about other people. No matter how it's done.
Rivian is manufacturing in my home town, so this is great news.
I think if I were wanting to bang out a simple embedded design with a GUI, this is exactly the direction I'd go. It isn't like you usually need super complex behaviors and I'd hate to add in extra toolkits or a big framework just to get a few buttons on a screen.

I've never dealt with Raspberry Pi world, but I can see the value of stripping the software world on one to the bare minimum. I wonder if someone has put together a FreeRTOS tool chain for it.
I personally wouldn't jump at the chance to live in the US, but I still would. I absolutely would not ever live in a country that is not a democracy. That is the distinction I think you are kind of eliding. A puttering democracy is still better than a thriving authoritarian country.

In general, I agree with you. I would not use the current US as a stirling example, historically, though the US system has been largely successful. We probably disagree on the level of success though.

I can't speak from the US perspective, but in Canada many people come and they like it here. Not just because of status or money. Because people don't just need or want status or money. They like it here because here we actually work to balance security and opportunity. Not everyone is happy. But they're not unhappy and without rights, they're just unhappy. Liberal democracies have been trying to create [Rawlsian justice](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Theory_of_Justice#The_Two_Pr...) and some have been more successful than others.

I think the idea that economic success and liberal democratic values coincide has been too quickly conflated. I share your view of West - China trade. The West thought that liberalizing economic markets would naturally cause liberalized societies and democracies. Allowing China to enter the WTO without serious stipulations and controls to ensure democratic transition was a mistake. And now they flaunt their economic "success" as the sign of a successful counter to democracy. Western industries and governments that cozy up to China risk serious moral hazard and we are already seeing the effects of that.

We missed our chance to seriously allow a liberal China to take shape when it would have been best to.

But China still relies on the west for trade. And that is our leverage. Going alone against China is suicide. As a block of democracies, however, we could stand up to them quite easily. We just can't be greedy. That's a hard sell in 2019 apparently.
Simple, get an RTG a la The Martian...
Well that's false because I used it, and there was quite a vibrant community around it already.
The difference is how one uses the reasoning to apply to others.

Take freedom from discrimination. That isn't the argument used. Freedom from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is the argument used. While it works the same for those who were facing discrimination because of their sexual orientation, it doesn't protect those facing discrimination because of their gender identity, the conforming to gender norms, their sexual attraction, their age, their appearance, ect.

Now, the LGBT movement has been increasing what they want to include to be protected, but it has taken time and effort and even today you'll find some who support freedom from discrimination based on sexual orientation but do not support freedom from discrimination for gender identity. And in 10 years we will look back and other groups who were included which are currently not included (except for perhaps the most counter of counter cultures).

It also allows for some people to evolve a view of freedom from discrimination based on minority status. I think the better example of this is with freedom from discrimination based on gender minority, which has led to some people encouraging certain forms of discrimination if it is against the groups they think are okay to discriminate against.

For a very recent example of the legal impact of this, look at places that are currently passing laws to restrict the rights of adults based on them being 18-20 years old. Freedom from discrimination would cover discriminating against adults because of their age. But instead the law says that it is only freedom from discrimination based on being above a certain age and many people actively support discriminating and restrict the rights of adults because of their age being too young.
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And when your manager says don’t do that because it’s a waste of time?
This is on top of Amazon's $700M in February:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivian
I really enjoyed the Chuck Hoberman [1] show @ Le Laboratoire Cambridge [2].

Kenneth Snelson's Needle Tower [3] also shares some of the same design elements.

[1] http://www.hoberman.com/

[2] https://www.lelaboratoirecambridge.com/22-10-degrees

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needle_Tower
Sure, The Velvet Underground's influence on pop music exceeded their popularity, but they were relatively successful, just not compared to The Beatles or to Dylan (who influenced Lou Reed and The Beatles).

But who is The Velvet Underground of podcasts? Who is the punk of podcasts? It's not Ira Glass. I'm not saying you're wrong to celebrate the "democratization of long form audio" but the popular stuff seems milquetoast to me. And that's what's being criticized here, though maybe a bit too broadly.
On the iPhone, you just go to Safari settings, then Advanced and switch Javascript off.
Yea functional langs just get in the way during interviews. I can write same imperative code i write in java in scala but it just makes it harder( eg: remember to use var instead of val, mutable collections vs default mutable ect) at which point I am just better off practicing for interviews in java.
There's No Silver Bullet for IoT Security
I spent the last 3 years selling access-control/paywall-like software to large news agencies, and in the process, met with top executives in almost every major news organization/conglomerate in the US, Europe, and AUNZ.

This is absolutely the number 1 reason the major news organizations don't want to bundle up, and in the case of the top 5 (NYT, WaPo, FT, Guardian), works. Interestingly the second reason is brand. Nobody wants brand dilution from being considered in a "pool" with other publications, because it will reduce their power to charge more for their product in ads and subscription. While small publications actually do want solutions like this, generally the large publications with readership are even more upset to be lumped in with the small publications than they are to be lumped in with their competitors.

One solution which I saw but wasn't worth my company's time to explore was finding a bundle of niche publications willing to work together on a shared content-for-pay solution and had a loyal readership willing to pay, and growing outwards from that seed. But that's a very uphill battle.
My guess is the abundance of metrics. A manager sees a stat like "less than 5% of Windows users open Paint at least once a month" (I just made that up), and they see something that can be cut.
After a few DC 10s fell from the sky it quickly earned nick names like Daily Crash, Death Contraption and Death Cruiser.

Not long after that the DC 10 was relegated to flying nothing but cargo.
So many companies doing IPOs lately, seems to me we are reaching a top. Private money running out, lets go for public.