skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is not saying orgs have reduced hiring MBAs is it? That would be a sign of not having value. It's saying people are not applying because they have better opportunities and don't want to deal with immigration headaches.
Meanwhile the NSA records and analyzes every communication (that they can see, at least) you make over the Internet, and has probably megabytes worth of per-person profile information on a large chunk of the world population.
It should be noted that the Central Bank doesn't select the laureates; they're selected by the same entity that Nobel himself chose to select the Physics and Chemistry awards, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
The word may be a recent(-ish) coinage, but the principle certainly has cropped up in various societies throughout history[1], probably the Chinese system of examinations to appoint bureaucrats being the most famous.

It strikes me as interesting that lots of measures seem to be "IQ plus effort" - practically speaking, though I generally want people to be more intelligent, I primarily want them to be good at what they do. So for me a system that rewards people for performance makes the most sense - smart but ineffectual, lazy, or crooked are all possible (even common), but hardly meritorious...

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy#Definitions
No, that doesn't follow that 200k "should have been purged." It just means that 200k MIGHT have been correctly purged. People move all the time and don't always remember to update their voter registration until too late; people do die, yet previous voter purges have incorrectly matched up death records resulting in registered voters being denied their right to vote at the polls.

Well, we don't actually have the Constitutional right to vote. The only vote that matters is that of the members of the Electoral College, which is tilted in favor of the Republicans in close elections. That's how we got Bush II and Trump.
> Why can't they issue free IDs and track every voter in a database and call it a day?

Because the goal of the Republican Party is explicitly to use these laws to suppress the votes of certain demographics, not to actually secure the vote.

For an example direct quote from a court case: https://twitter.com/haroldpollack/status/1051657219899617280
I think you're right that it is a misconception that there is a legal obligation to put shareholder value (profit) first. It seems that it's more of a doctrine.

I was wrong to state it as a claim without any backing to my claim.

From what I am reading online (I am not a lawyer), it stems from a court case "eBay v. Newmark"

"The Delaware court's decision in eBay v. Newmark has been viewed by many commentators as a decisive affirmation of shareholder wealth maximization as the only legally permissible objective of a for‐profit corporation."

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/basr.12108

"A 2010 decision, for example, eBay Domestic Holdings Inc. v. Newmark, held that corporate directors are bound by "fiduciary duties and standards" which include "acting to promote the value of the corporation for the benefit of its stockholders.""

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-co...
Have the ability to build containers on demand from source as well as host your own repo.
Firefighters get both salary and overtime. So do cops. Benefit of having a union.
Beating Decades of Optimized C with 80 Lines of Haskell
Does anyone know what law governs ISAs? Like why would a Lambda school be able to forcibly collect income if a student tried to vanish without paying if they found a job?
Isn’t that a federal law (the voter motor law)? See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Voter_Registration_...
We had plenty of good content (more, frankly) a decade or two ago when people just ran their own websites / blogs.
But not as weird as Dogtooth.
Yeah, my bad. I don’t have a strong position either way. It just is a very good way to illustrate the hypocrisy of holding one position but not the other.
Elections are de-federalized in the US; they are run by each state or, really, each county. That explains a lot of the mess.

The other problem is there's never been a real effort to establish a universal ID in the US. Which means you can't fairly do voter ID, since a lot of people don't have ID for various reasons. The lack of voter ID doesn't turn out to be a big problem; there's basically no voter fraud in the US. But it means there's no proper role of eligible voters, either.

The politics of this can't be ignored. The Republicans have a deliberate strategy of making it difficult for people to vote, and employ that strategy every time cleaning up voter roles or enacting voter ID comes up. They do not operate in good faith.
> The “Statute of Limitations” for credit card debt is a law limiting the amount of time lenders and collection agencies have to sue consumers for nonpayment.

This makes it sound like the limitation is on how long you have before you can't sue. But if you have already sued and won then the statute of limitations wouldn't apply. I think instead there is a time limitation for collecting on the judgment from the suit.
Everyone's traffic is different. Meetup shows up on google for us, sure, but so does our website (above meetup), and our website sells it far better than meetup does.

When we get new people from meetup, it's because they were on meetup surfing through events near them. I usually see they've joined a dozen other meetup groups in the area. We pay the organizer fee because of the network.
Depends heavily on the district.
> Why can't they issue free IDs and track every voter in a database and call it a day?

In a very real sense: because that would make it easy to vote.

Free IDs are directly inimical to the effort to prevent people from voting. That prevention is a major effort of one major American political party because it's seen as the only way they can win in an increasingly diverse country.

The folks who are against free IDs--who want it to be hard to vote--also get very weird about "databases of people", even though they already exist and corporate entities compile them right alongside governmental ones every day.

I get the desire to assume good faith in this, but we literally have the receipts.
All users were given equal weight. From the dashboards at telemetry.mozilla.org you can't even tell which users are more socially influential. And to be precise, with many of the metrics that I've used, they tend to be per-pageload or per-action rather than per-user.

Edited to add: my comment makes it sound like there is some other way to tell from telemetry data which users are more socially influential. That's not the case as far as I know.
More confidence for the folks at Docker Inc.
Feel like for trading you either have it or don't, and no pedigree will save you on a bad trade.
Ogodei did a fine job, as did Chagatai. It's just Kublai and Batu, Genghis' grandsons, were more memorable.
> The US is strange: It will wring its hands over low voter turnout while also actively making it more difficult to vote.

This all varies by state, too. Here in Oregon all voting is done by mail, and registration is automatic. It's meant to increase turnout and make it easy to vote.
https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/335509
There are Oracle AWS offerings - https://aws.amazon.com/oracle/
It is grossly unethical to purge valid voters in secret, but how is limiting voter rolls to those with a legal right to vote unethical? Should people be allowed to vote and have a say in the government of places they don't live? The reductio ad absurdum of this is allowing the whole world to vote for your local school board.

Transparency and community engagement (through advocacy groups) helps ensure that valid voters are kept on the voter rolls. Don't knock Ohio for trying to take steps in the right direction.
The one comment on the article on the page I think is spot on - I think every programmer language designer underestimates the importance of good IDE support.
Oh well you know, stuff like this also happens:

https://wahlen.sachsen.de/LW_19.php?wahlkreis=51&_cp=%7B%22t...

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State elections in saxony this year. Look at the table underneath the map:

Wahlberechtigte -- eligible to vote -- 1 722

Wähler -- voters -- 2 083 -- 121,0 %
Damn, I live in Graz and work in the embedded field and never get any contracting offers in my inbox.

Would you mind sharing some, maybe in private?
Fair enough, Zurich is a nice city and its worth it. But recommending it for affordable rent...
1) You can run your own pull-through cache[0]

2) You can use a different registry

3) Run something like kraken[1] so machines can share already-downloaded images with eachother

4) If you need an emergency response, you can docker save[2] an image on a box that has it cached and manually distribute it/load it into other boxes

0: https://docs.docker.com/registry/recipes/mirror/

1: https://github.com/uber/kraken

2: https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/save/
Amazing! Strapi has come a long way since it's early alpha builds.

We use Strapi in combination with a complete MERN stack. And are always suprised by it's innovative community.
http://archive.is/wFqbD
Yummy Masala Butter Mustard Macroni
> My company for technical reasons can't switch to OpenJVM

The OpenJDK (not 'OpenJVM', that's not a thing) is literally 100% the same build as Oracle JDK now. There can't be any technical reason.
pull-through mirror with tons of disk
I don't see how it's inflammatory. I don't see how it's unsubstantiated (except for the "trying to cash in on the name recognition", as if the Swedish central bank needed Nobel's name for PR).

Unsubstantial? Yeah, it's definitely that. Who cares what the technical name of the prize is? It is commonly referred to as the Nobel Prize in Economics.

This is like the person who keeps going on about "There is no country named America". Maybe not, but there's one called that. We're probably going to keep calling it that, since it's more convenient than the official name, and everyone knows which country we're talking about.

But that person (or those people) claim that there are people in the Americas who take offense to only one country being called "America". scottlocklin, on the other hand... why does he keep beating this particular horse?
Not everyone is eligible to vote. Heck, I had to correct my wife’s driver license application because she definitely isn’t a citizen, and the question was phrased to be very confusing....
Miyazaki films, and the fact that my 2.5 year old daughter has never seen one, is my one and only regret for not having an optical drive anywhere in my house. Everything else I just haven't needed or don't care about, but I want my daughter to experience those movies.

But there is simply no way she will sit still in a movie theater for 2 hours.
> No special pleading. No whining. No excuses.
> No buts and no exceptions. No "middle ground".

This sounds strong to me. Not to be provocative since I am not familiar with the mailing list, I would like to ask is it common to communicate this way in this Debian community? Is it effective to push things moving forward?
Pretty sure the answer is no. US insider trading law is very much concerned not just with whether you traded on material nonpublic information, but also on whether your trading based on this information was a breach of trust between you and the person giving you the information.

As far as I understand, overhearing a stranger discussing a deal at the local Starbucks and trading on that, is perfectly legal. But overhearing your wife discuss a deal and trading on that is illegal, as it is a breach of trust.

Edit: I managed to find the article I remember reading on this. Turns out it was Matt Levine in Dec. 2018. To quote him:

> Famously, in American insider trading law, it’s legal to trade on inside information that you randomly overhear in a train station.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-12-03/inside...
Perl creator blesses new name for version 6 of text-wrangling lingo
When working in a kitchen in California, I had to take the ServSafe Food Handler course online, which consisted of long, patronizing, unskippable videos explaining basic food safety concepts (which I already knew from previous experience) and little "check your knowledge" multiple-choice questions peppered throughout. The only thing that actually affected whether you got the certification was a quiz at the end.

I just poked at the main JS file for a couple of minutes until I found the statement I needed:

mainController.loadNextScreen()

This turned what would have been a 3+-hour slog into 5 minutes, and I passed the quiz just fine.
I think spending money on your children shouldn't be culled. There's a good amount of benefit to society in entrepreneurs investing fiscally in their families. Sure, it might not be fair from a cosmic level, but creating new businesses and expanding the private sector is better than feeding the bloated government bureaucracies.

This is especially true because the social bonds and exchange of values and information that happen between someone who is successful and their family is more likely to be successful than the average person. In other words, while it might seem like nepotism from an outward perspective, it could be merit in actuality.

Instead, I'd support very high luxury taxes. Tax heavily lavish private jets, yachts, and mansions. These are the types of goods that will rapidly drain the funds of a rich trust fund kid who offers little to society. Don't take their startup investment.
So this generation, the upper middle class and higher will be affected, and next generation everyone above the extreme poor will be affected.
Yet another company and community trainwreck caused by toxic individuals pushing agenda at the expense of everything else. Companies haven't yet learned to nip this in the bud, but they have learned to move on(GitHub). I expect some people will be leaving SE before long here..
If you're vegetarian, you don't need much land to grow your own food.
That's a extreme. Unless you want the government to track every citizen's whereabouts using activity to figure out if you actually still live here isn't unreasonable at all.
Lol all you have to do is vote by mail like all other sane States...
Good example of what I'm asking for. Does AMZN use any Oracle RDS, or other Oracle offerings, aside from what they just retired?
I am from the US but lived and worked in both Austria and Switzerland for years. There are a lot of contrasts between Europe and SV, the social benefits certainly help offset the extremely high wages of SV. Quality of life is certainly much better in Vienna and Zurich than SF/SV, but the opportunities in certain fields are limited.

that said... if i could get a job paying 80% of what i make now, in either city. i would move back and take it in a heartbeat, considering it was something remotely interesting.
tell me about it. looks absolutely horrible
Maintaining your own registry as a cache.
Purging is a legal requirement in all 50 states. Dead voters, those who've moved, and those who are ineligible (felons) must be removed. Red states like Ohio are criminally over-zealous and remove poor people. Blue states like Michigan are criminally under-zealous and have more voters on the rolls than people living in the state.
Them being on Twitter is bad, but being on their own platform is arguably worse.

I fully agree with this. It will end up being a self-fulfilling prophecy for those arguing against true freedom of speech. When you deplatform a viewpoint entirely, then the people with that viewpoint are going to coalesce onto a much smaller platform, which will end up being an echo chamber for the viewpoints that the rest of the world desires to quash. Then, it will end up becoming an argument to prevent such echo chambers from even forming in the first place, which would effectively make it impossible for smaller players to get an inroad, as they'll just be preemptively accused of being inherently alt-right.

These people don't understand that, when you centralize control over avenues of speech like that, then one day that centralized control can do a 180 and start banning any type of speech, and not just "harmful" or "problematic" speech.

It's literally the same type of tactic that China uses to suppress dissent, just on a different scale (and with a different culture behind it). It's so transparent, yet the prevailing "public narrative" is still highly supportive of deplatforming.
My Ferrari is on HN.
We completely agree about that, the problem is that people pretend its already the case, when its so obviously, clearly not.
What I was doing wrong was putting a 6 foot (2 meter) pipe on the wrench trying to get enough leverage. Either the bolt came out, or the wrench broke. When the bolt has been in there for > 10 years - through MN road salt each winter - the proper torque won't get the bolt out.
should i be worried?
Amazon Polly works well! First time I’ve used it ~ hit play and let it read the article whilst I did a few other things!
> which they don't own

They do own it. They own the copyright on the source code (all of it - even if Google or Intel wrote it). They own the trademarks. They own the specifications.
>False dichotomy. There is no possibility of a system between totalitarian child rearing by the state and a system rigged entirely and completely for the wealthy? Spare me.

The claim is that any such system would still have biases.

Though I would claim even The Giver is not truly equal as parents are still individuals with unique roles in society and thus what they impart on their children is still unequal.

So I would make a stronger claim. That level of equality is not physically possible.

We can make things more equal, but you get into the messy politics of who do we do it on behalf of (for example, why favor people living in the US over people not).
backblaze.com and wasabi.com are currently my favorites.
Votes are definitely registered at the time they are cast.
Maybe voter fraud is "vanishingly rare", but that statement in the wikipedia article only links to a NYT article which says:

> Academic studies have repeatedly concluded that fraud at the ballot box — the sort that photo identification requirements might reduce — is already vanishingly rare.

With no citation.

Anyway, "vanishingly rare" could mean that fewer than 1% of votes are fraudulent, but those fraudulent votes could be concentrated in a handful of key counties thereby having a big impact. I'm not arguing in favor of tougher voter ID restrictions but rather in favor of educated discourse.
Hopefully not as weird as "Dogtooth"...blech.
I'd strongly suggest watching "What is C++" [0] from this year's cppcon. There's a lot of good content, but the relevant bit is that c especially (remember, c++98 is younger than python2!) values backwards compatibility very highly. This is sometimes useful, but it has costs. Performance costs, safety costs, and especially ergonomic/complexity costs for future development (the kitchen-sink-ness of modern cpp).

People aren't wrong to make different tradeoffs than you. Especially given that strict backwards compatibility is impossible (especially in a language like c/++, people will rely on things that aren't intentionally public, because they can introspect your bytes).

Compiler changes break code all the time, it's just almost always semantic and not syntactic. I find this amusing, since the syntactic changes are usually easier to detect and fix.

And python2 still works, it just won't get new features.

[0]: https://youtu.be/LJh5QCV4wDg
Realistically, it's probably a cache/mirror.

If you can't build a deploy a new version of your app, you can probably live with it and grab a cup of coffee.

If you server fails over and your new server can't pull the current image, your app is potentially down, and that's a lot worse.

The math you do here is the cost of wasted time versus the cost for you to run your own registry with better uptime.
College != upward mobility.
I always tell my kids: If you aren't failing, you aren't trying hard enough.
DockerHub Full Service Disruption
With day rates you then have to start looking at VAT requirements though for inside and outside IR35 and given I haven't lived in the UK for 20 years, I'm not familiar with all the nuances this adds. I'd definitely need someone to coach me through that before I could speak with any authority on the subject.
Because no-one on the Debian project wants to. If you'd like Debian to, feel free to volunteer, or pay someone to do it.
I’ve been writing C++ COM objects for use in .NET for years now. Some are for performance-critical parts, like manually vectorized SIMD code. Another use case is interop heavy code, using Direct3D, media foundation, Eigen, other C and C++ libraries.

It works even on Linux https://github.com/Const-me/ComLightInterop I also have these parts, especially about the interop. Libraries like drm, kms, gles, udev, and many other kernel APIs are only usable from C or C++.

Had very few issues with IUnknown-based interop. On Linux, my interop library retains .NET objects with GCHandle while they are referenced by C++ code. On Windows, it’s done automatically by the runtime. C++ implemented objects are automatically retained on both OSes.

What exactly do you think is a hard problem about such interop? Leaks due to ref.count cycles are possible, but I’m not sure it’s such a huge deal. There’re many good reasons to keep interop API surface small, with obvious “who owns what” relations.
People tend to like others similar to themselves. In this case, the upper-class people responsible for hiring presumably saw themselves in the upper-class resumes, and felt they had a better sense of who they would hire.

It's like golf: in business, playing golf made you more relatable to those able to advance your career, and so golf clubs proliferated. Whether you actually liked the sport itself was often a secondary concern.
But note that the 4-force is parallel to the 4-acceleration. However, its spatial component only agrees with classical acceleration in the comoving frame. In general, there's an additional contribution that's however smaller by a factor of (v/c)^2.
Backstage 7: The John Wick Trilogy
My 30 year old refrigerator uses about $9 worth of electricity per month. If I bought one which was twice as efficient, I’d save about $55 a year. That’s a 20 year payback (neglecting lost investment opportunity) for a $1100 model, plus the replacement hassle. So, I expect to run it until it breaks.
You can use Task Scheduler to stop/start your PC at specific times.
80% of 235,000 is 188,000. Your argument is that it is okay to keep 188,000 invalid voters on the books because otherwise the republicans might win? Don't you see how fraudulent or no-longer-active voter registrations may bring about questions of legitimacy? 188,000 is no small number of people. Trump won Ohio with a smaller margin.
>> Last year it even got recalled (12 years after production)

>Toyota is great about that.

after you sue them https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-01/toyota-faces-class-ac... https://www.caradvice.com.au/780759/class-action-filed-over-... https://autoweek.com/article/recalls/toyota-will-settle-truc...