skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you look to Bernie's wonderworld, Norway (where I'm from), all that is taken care of privately. However the credit and debt registry companies are obliged by law to inform customers when a check-up is done on them. It's quite painless, and it's a service completely paid for by the finance industry, instead of being a poorly run and corruption prone state owned and agency financed by tax money. The debt registry can perhaps become a nuiscance to a small subset of bank customers, but only those who take on added risk by loading up on big loans and credit lines at many different institutions.
I think people would somewhat rightfully make comparisons to China’s social credit rating system.

I like the idea of killing off the existing credit rating industry, though. I would prefer it just be heavily regulated as a utility and run by an entity outside the gov.
Oh, be serious!

No manager has "absolute power" over you. At a maximum they have the power to fire you. As a software developer in this economy there are far more important things to worry about.

And yeah, I'm a manager!
Remember that half the population loves the government, half hates it, and they think both one another are evil incarnate. Logic breaks down a bit when that kind of irrational vitriol enters the equation.
You guys have no sense of humour. Methane, on the other hand...
It is a numbers game (no puns intended).

Let's say we have 100k people that live in a few poor counties where not everyone has government ID and they can't afford to spend time / money to go very far. Now, if 40k of those people need an ID to vote, reducing the hours that the nearest DMV operates will reduce the number of people that get an ID.

Now, you might say, "but why can't they just go to the DMV in the next county?" or "why can't they get their IDs well ahead of time?", and you'd have a valid question! But when you have 100k people.. creating what looks like a minor inconvenience will definitely translate to fewer voters in the end. Now, lets create a bunch of minor inconveniences and the numbers really start to shrink.
SIMD / intrinsics?
This was almost exactly my experience when I wrote a network simulator in Go and tried to improve the performance. The gc pauses reached tens of seconds haha, I made a lot of garbage.

I'm not completely sure if this is true but I think that doing things in an "OO" style where for example, every different event was it's own type which satisfies the Event interface basically means that different events can't occupy an array together and that I think that each one may hold a pointer to some heap allocated memory, so you really can't optimise this away without ripping up the entire program.

Rather than do so, I ended up running my Sim on a server with >100 cores, it was single threaded but they would all spin up and chomp the GC, a beautiful sight.

Another factor is just the general lack of transparency or knowability of where and how objects occupy memory in these languages.

If memory management is likely to be a concern it is absolutely much easier in an environment where it is prioritized than one where it is ignored.
Because you lose deterministic behavior, and there are cases where that is non-negotiable, regardless of performance cost.
Pay criminals not to work? Somehow I don't think this is good PR...

I don't disagree, but I don't know know if this is how the case needs to be made...
Vela Incident
https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox

http://archive.is/145aA
Why aren't private corporations corruption prone? They're the ones DOING the corrupting! But somehow we feel they're better than government? Every 'appropriately funded' govt service I've used has been miles away better than the equivalent private service. Schools, hospitals, research facilities, police, student loan management company etc etc
From 1 to 2€?
Maybe...
Nuclear makes a great "base load" handler actually. It's complementary to solar/wind.
In capitalism, agreement or disagreement with someone doesn’t lead you to death.
I cannot wait for the fad of "less ports, less buttons, less options" to end.
Chromium's got "LOG" as well in it's debugging mode.
Absolutely incorrect. There have been a ton of ip68 phones on the market for 7+ years
As long as the individual event happens seldom enough few of these actually are a big problem. Soft real-time being allowed to blow deadlines doesn't mean it can't be expected to have a very high rate of success (at least that's the definitions I've learned), and clearly a sufficiently low rate of failure is tolerated. There's a vast difference between "there's an audio stutter every day/week/month/..." and "noticeably stuttering audio". The production side is obviously a lot more sensitive about this than playback, but will still run parts e.g. on relatively normal desktop systems because the failure rate is low enough.
HA! I've never seen the ISS before. Went out to the front of the house to watch with my kid. Lo and behold, a light appears right where the site said it would, following the trajectory. I start recording. Watching it, I start to notice blinking colored lights and comment that I didn't think we'd be able to see blinking lights. They start getting clearer (you already know where this is going), I start to get suspicious and stop recording. It's moving pretty fast so we follow it to the backyard at which point we're both pretty sure we can hear it. I'm already positive what we just watched was a plane but, just as it fades away, I look just a little higher up and see a much smaller white, non-blikning dot moving almost just as fast. So we watched that. Instead of losing it over the horizon of our fence, it sort of fades out of view in the middle of the sky, which I've never witnessed, and was damn cool to see, but exactly what I would expect to see watching a space station and not a plane :)

Went back and watched the short video I did shoot and, even at low quality, the ISS was visible right above the plane the entire time, we just didn't notice. What are the chances a close, but not so close to be immediately obvious (which happens a lot here), plane would be flying almost the same trajectory as the ISS the first time I try to view it?
“Once past a threshold, most meditators use Insight Timer”

What is this threshold?

I’ve been meditating regularly for this whole year and I just use the standard iOS timer with one of the gentler alarms.
Next step is microservices you :P
OS in tweet...
I wonder if AWS is prepping for a pricing hike but someone was trigger happy with the big red button :D
I'm surprised there's nothing like that in the US already. Here in Mexico, the national ID is a voter ID card (IFE) and is carried by everyone.
> I think it's important to note here that "bad for management" doesn't necessarily mean "good for employees"

What is “good for employees” or “bad for employees” may not be the same for all employees. A policy which favours the interests of one group of employees may disadvantage another. Which group of employees’ interests will a union prioritise?

For example, suppose management has budgeted enough for a 2% across the board pay rise. Management has two basic choices about how to distribute this:

Option 1) Everyone gets 2%

Option 2) Above-average performers get more than 2%, every one else gets 0%

If you are an above-average performer, Option 2 is best for you, whereas if you are not, then you will be better off with Option 1. Which of those two options will the union advocate for?
> I've also been trained to distrust any time that doesn't specify a time zone

My pet peeve is status pages that only show times in some US timezone. I'm supposed to know what the conversion from that timezone to my timezone is, and then the timezone to my servers (which are in UTC)...
Credit reports are not the same as credit scores. They are typically provided by different companies.
Google is Skynet.
I believe the inability of North America to complete the construction of new nuclear plants that have been approved or maintain the existing ones is a symptom of a shortage of competent labor and know how. We can’t organize ourselves to complete a large project. The people with the ability to build or maintain a nuclear plant are pursuing more lucrative careers at FAANG.
By definition

wealthy, adj.
having a great deal of money, resources, or assets; rich

most people are not wealthy.

Health is not wealth.

You deserve access to life-saving health care you can't afford, even if you don't "deserve" to be rich.
Oh, fascinating. My intuition re: size was that you'd look at worth per byte for something like query results, a whole different kind of thing from the CDN use case that's been studied.

Makes me wish I could justify adding instrumentation to our 'memoize' wrappers at work, although our caching doesn't really match the use case for something like Ristretto or Caffeine. (Little enough stuff and the latency of a networked cache is fine for us, so "just set aside lots of RAM on some cache servers" works well enough.)
Reverse Engineering – The Golden Age of Computer Hacking (2018)
Go's GC has latencies that would be good enough for a great many games, but its throughput might become problematic, and in general, as a language it is problematic for the kinds of games that would worry about GC pauses, since FFI with c libraries is very expensive. If that could be solved Go might be very appealing for many many games.
These “voices” are not literal voices.

Sit for a while. Try to think about nothing at all. Unless you are actually Buddha already then you will probably find yourself thinking: What do I need to do today? What do I need to do tomorrow? Oh hey I just had a cool idea for a thing to make. I just put two and two together about some stuff in that show I watched yesterday. Damn I’m horny. Etc, etc.

Eventually you can learn to watch these trains of thought start, wander around your brain, and fade out. At which point you will surely find yourself thinking about how delighted you are to have stopped thinking and how cool it feels and..l whoops! There you go. Thinking again.
How do people learn C without knowing about manual memory management? They learn about it as they learn the language. This can be done in any language that allows for manual memory management (and most have much better safeguards and documentation than C, which has a million ways to shoot yourself in the foot)
That would require a truly absurd distortion of the definition of "elementary particle". In particular, you'd need elementary particles to be able to contain enormous numbers of other elementary particles (which makes the term pretty meaningless).

Why do you think such a thing?
It is very nice to say that, in theory, a GC could work very well for performance demanding games. But until someone builds that GC, in an environment where everything else is suitable for games also, it is academic. We can't actually build a game with a theoretical ecosystem.
I think a big difference is that in sports, although you are aware of internal processes, a large amount of your attention is on external things, as it must be so you don't run off a cliff, for example. When meditating you turn your attention inwards, perhaps at first observing bodily sensations, but continuing inward until the body fades away and only mental processes are observed and there is no attention given to the external senses.
Is this a trolling comment?

Just one quick example for company we are talking about.

https://www.levels.fyi/salary/Google/

You go from level 3 at $150K to level 6 at $500K.

Bonuses for top performers where I am are very high (40% of salary) vs 5% of salary avg.
This has caused nothing but issues for us when we're using miniconda or anything that used python 3 by default.

Sure I could fix it except py2 goes EOL in 3 months? What's the point?
I opened a service ticket. My ec2 instances have somehow been running for over 950 hours in one month. I can go back and see my instances run for 744 hours (what i'd expect in a month) in previous months. Amazon invented more hours than actually exist in a month for billing purposes. Bezos is a genius! I should have thought of that!
Wow, this is really great! The street view feature is a revelation man. Excellent project!
Chelsea M. imprisoned for 6 months for refusing to testify against Julian A
Re: the link to outsourcing - is it not clear? Without scapegoating the cheaper external workers - as the business gets commodified, management sees less and less of the value in the internal expertise and institutional memory.

You start to see a 50-year-old engineer not as a battle-hardened mentor who can be a leader for your teams and instead as a highly-paid shambling pile with less "productivity" than a fresh grad.
Nobody? I write my games in C as well :P The only other reasonable choice would be Rust, but never got past "have to write bindings to my framework" stage with it so far.

Pretty much the only things I miss in C for gamedev are sensible string manipulation and lambdas/closures. Otherwise it works really well - I don't think I would be able to make my games so multiplatform (at the moment GNU/Linux, macOS, Windows, Android, Emscripten, Librem 5, Nokia N900, Pocket CHIP, Raspberry Pi, Steam Link, Nintendo Switch w/ devkitPro; more to come...) so easily with any other language.
Time and again it has been shown: it doesn't matter if you pay, corporations will abuse any amount of control that you give them.
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The existence of a GC, even when it can be turned off, does preclude a great many other possibilities, in practice. One issue which is nearly universe, and extra bad in Go, is the extra cost of FFI with C libs, which is necessary in games to talk to opengl, or sdl2, or similar.

If you aren't going to use the GC, then you open up a lot of other performance opportunities by just using a language that didn't have one in the first place.
You do have an internal clock, should you choose to "turn it on". Source: have not owned or used an alarm clock in ~20 years.
Oh, they are, of course, like anyone else. But they have directly paying clients to please, and thus they have a much more important reputation to keep. If any foul play is caught, they stand to lose business, and thus money, while political slights might only cause the odd head or two to roll. And so, barring the bad apple or two, it tends to happen less often as long as the conditions for competition are fair.

On the other hand, a state-owned agency is often very bureaucratic, and thus it has built-in deficiensies and resource hungry regulatives that slow things down to a crawl. All that does is to incentivice paying for speed, which would of course be corruption.

On top of that, private companies aren't subject to change every time Government changes, and leadership change within the private sector tend to be efficiency / profit centered, while Government change is much more complex, and often based on quaint special interests that need to be politically pleased. Or the bar is set higher for it to happen, because politically changing the policies of private companies would involves actual laws that need to be voted in, rather than departmentally set regulatives.
I did one of these for C(or at least gcc/llvm c) but it's a lot harder to abstract over types in c so it's a bit more limited

https://github.com/rtaycher/debug_print
This is an interesting fact related to the discussion, yet downvoted. Weird.
> But as a distance runner, I have always wondered if that is a form of meditation.

The way I think about this is that there's an important difference between meditation (as a noun) vs. meditative (as an adjective).

Meditation, when you're doing it, is the only thing you're doing, or at least attempting to do.

I've gone on multiple-day camping trips on my motorcycle, when it's just me and my bike out in the middle of nowhere. I find that very meditative, in what I imagine is similar to what you feel with long-distance running. There's a part of my brain engaged with controlling my body and four limbs, but also a part of my brain that's not really engaged at all and is free to wander.

That's meditative, but that's not meditation. If I closed my eyes for a few minutes while riding my motorcycle, my happiness would decrease significantly.

This isn't to say that one is better than the other. You could meditate and never do any meditative activities, or you could do meditative activities without ever once meditating. The best option, as usual, is probably a moderate mix of both of them.
What are better suggestions to prevent voter fraud? We know from history that voting fraud is a thing, in the 1800s it was known that political parties would pay fresh immigrants to vote (like the scene in Upton Sinclaire's "The Jungle"), or to even kidnap people and force them into voting [1]. So we can't rely on good faith.

I'm under the impression that to vote you must register in a voting district, surely that registration requires something like a birth certificate or a SSN, which I believe is the only requirement for a government issued ID... Operating on the idea that the requirement for government IDs may in fact be a good faith measure to prevent voter fraud, would perhaps an optimal solution be to bring a web camera to that voting registration area and simultaneously issue IDs there?

To be honest, I thought it was a non-issue since my voter registration is also my draft registration, so I assume I provided some form of citizenship proof when I registered. It was a while ago though so I don't recall the details.

[1] https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/election-fraud-in-the-...
The performance of the IRS is a strong counterargument to this.
This story is not about Google. It's about Google's contractors. Please reread the story and the article title.
Or we could do neither...q
You need to add og:image to this site so facebook sharing is more effective.
It sounds great, but needs WebGL. So not for me.

I wonder if it really needed WegGL. Sigh.

Edit: With WebGL enabled, sites can fingerprint VMs. So multiple Debian-family VMs on the same host will have the same fingerprint. VMs with different virtual graphics stacks do have different fingerprints, however. Or Debian-family VMs on different host machines. That's why no WebGL for me.
False.

There are contractors to google making a killing - seriously - if you own your own business or provide a service to google you can make bank.

One example -> some of the employee / teambuilding / staff appreciation stuff. If the google FTE's like doing your teambuilding program google is absolutely happy to pay for it.

I know some other direct contract work with google - generally don't fight on price but their focus was on quality.

I'd like to hear some firsthand experiences of direct contractors working for google (ie, google 1099's) getting badly treated because that wasn't what I saw.
Forced advertisements are such a terrible trend. I can stomach it a bit when it's to support an otherwise unfunded service, like a website that is funded only through ads, but from a device manufacturer?

> even those with a lifetime subscription plan.

That's not cool at all.
Most professional recording studios are using consumer computer hardware that can't do hard realtime with software that doesn't support hard realtime.

People like deadmau5, Daft Punk, Lady Gaga all perform with Ableton Live and a laptop or desktop behind their rig. If it were anything more than a minor inconvenience, these people wouldn't use this.

It's very unlikely to have audio drop outs, a proper setup will basically never have them. But still if you have one audio dropout in your life, you're not dead, your audience isn't dead, a fire doesn't start, a medical device doesn't fail to pump, and so on.

And yes you can badly configure and system, but the point is you can't configure these to be 100% guaranteed, 99.99% is perfectly fine.

Edit: Sometimes people call these "firm" realtime systems. Implying the deadline cannot be missed for it to operate, but also that failure to meet deadlines doesn't result in something serious like death (e.g in a video game you can display frames slower than realtime and it kind of works but feels laggy, however you cannot also slow down the audio processing because you'll a lowered pitch, so you have to drop the audio.)
I found a picture of the filaments with some related information: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-astronomy/chapter/the...
Google Quantum Supremacy
I didn't expect to watch the whole thing but wow was that entertaining.
A look back on OCaml since 2011
Ask HN: Should I forgoe health insurance in US?
My wife and I take no medications and are healthy. Our combined premium is now nearing $1000/mo. I am self employed. I would much rather save the $12,000 a year.

The argument I hear for having health insurance is that they pay for unexpected expenses. But that doesn't make sense to me. If some unexpected health event happened and we ended up in the hospital, and then ended up with $100k bill, wouldn't we be able to just pay that down over time like any other debt? Why is it necessary that insurance pays the debt?

The fact that we currently spend 20% of our after-tax income on health insurance is starting to seem absurd, when we don't actually foresee needing anything but emergency hospital treatment for unexpected accidents.
>Originally, Homer was to learn that he was a Native American, and would try to exploit it to not have to pay taxes. The idea had been going well for a few days, but the staff did not actually know whether Native Americans had to pay taxes.

wow
That's part of what such compilation can do, yes.
I think what he's asking to do is to make it a linker failure by not adding it to the standard lib at all. Compile fails are nicer than runtime fails.
Traditional yurts were built in areas with high winds and snowy winters, how is this different?
> you can't be; since you're obviously capable of observing them from the outside while they go on with their business

I think that's the wrong way to put it.

You can observe those thoughts much like you can observe your hand with your eyes. That does not make your hand any less part of you than those thoughts.

IMO the vast majority of the chatter in our minds are like any other involuntary process of our bodies. The difference is that we are culturally conditioned to identify with our minds and not our intestinal processes.
The examples are literally in the article we're discussing, complete with salary information and reason why they're unionizing.

>HCL employee and union organizer Ben Gwin says HCL workers make between $30,000-60,000 a year, and it varies widely. According to Glassdoor, a site that collected salary information from 73 people, Google software engineers in Pittsburgh earn on average $121,000 a year, ranging from $88,000-171,000 a year.

If you're going to make claims like that, please read the actual article we're discussing before jumping into the conversation. I've been a contractor before (albeit in different circumstances and not for google), I am very familiar with how the system can work and how contractors can be generally treated.
When was the last time the OPM and it’s data corpus was weaponized politically (data breach incompetence aside)?
Yeah because anti semitism has long and violent history. White people have not been on the receiving end of systemic violence because of their whiteness -- they have perpetrated in and benefited from it.

Yours is a bizarre liberal conception of racism that totally ignores historical and material context, where you can just replace words in a sentence to prove it's racist. If you replace the word white in that sentence with another race, it has a totally different meaning, because the context is totally different.

White men DO have disproportionate access to money and power in the US, are you disputing that?