skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blocking access to a former convicts records isn't enough. In a world of social media and google, a black hole in your resume of time while you were inside stands out.

An alternate solution might to give prisoners the ability to open access to their records. Yes, you committed crime X, but the records at the prison show that you kept your head down and did X qualifications.

The reason people don't hire prisoners is that it comes with risk. If we open up information, you can lower that risk.
Not allowed to? How does that work? Boeing thinks they control what people do on their vacation time?
That's just what it is: some guy channeling some injury to his ego into an attack on institutions and people he is envious of, masquerading as some sort of heroic political fight.

Plus, of course, a sympathetic slice of very online personae who relentlessly complain about "identity politics" and can-we-focus-on-technology-please (case in point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21307367) but consider this guy some sort of model for even-keeled disinterested rationalism.
If you don't do that you're on the other end of that slippery slope.

Should a chain smoker and someone with no elective risk factors have equal eligibility for a lung transplant? They're otherwise comparable patients. One's going to die, and there's only one lung to go around.

We seem to survive as a society by using systems like that for insurance that isn't health insurance. If your house burns down it matters if it was because of foreseeable and reckless behavior on your part.
Wow, I'd never heard of this. Going to look more into this thanks!
Tell me you covered the bed in processed cheese product, rather than rose petals...
Imo this should be illegal. Taking a loss undercutting smaller competitors in a way that's only possible because you have piles of money unrelated to your actual business is going to distort the market in a way that's really bad for consumers in the long run.

Anecdotally I noticed this with Pita Pit in New Zealand. There used to be lots of independent pita places that had decent pricing, then pita pit started buying them out and replacing them with pita pit chains, while still competing on price relatively well. But as soon as they'd bought out all the competitors in the area they immediately almost doubled their prices.
New York City plans to fortify itself against climate change
That’s kind of why you do want people who know the stack. If you as the manager or you expect the developer to move on with three years. Why waste a year getting a developer up to speed without having anything to show for it?
Android depends on the hardware, but generally speaking Western devices support Widevine Level 1 and its implemented in hardware. Desktop Linux will only ever support Level 3.

But Chrome on Windows also supports Level 3, and Disney+ works in Chrome, there, so the article isn't correct.
Tell yourself whatever you like
> the Independentist that were a minority at the time,(In Catalunia a 6-12%)

How are these numbers known?
Society - with myriad complex and resource-involving arrangements and institutions - predates the very existence of the human individual's consciousness. Your very ability to express your thoughts to yourself is the result of the activity of other members of society.

It is only quite recently in history that people (who aren't hermits going into the wilderness) have been making the "but I want to be left alone" argument. It is an unfortunate result of the concentration of property and means of production in recent centuries and the ideology it engendered and disseminated.
> no one thinks that the straightforward action of chore-doing is also, secretly, emotional labor.

The article leads with examples of people doing just that, most notably the one from Gemma Hartley, so your axiom is false.
This explains a lot. But even the apps which can’t be, are truly awful.
Management is still normal labor. The emotional part would be putting on a meaner or nicer face than you otherwise would to get a result for the job. It's acting.
It's really not. Christianity is a rather uniquely vulnerable religion to getting rationalist holes poked in it because of its insistence on factual historicality of a particular set of events[1], and megachurch Christianity is a deeply weird, heretical offshoot that barely follows mainline Christianity, and it looks like you could blow barn-sized holes in it with a peashooter, because it's held together with ignorance and baling wire. You will note though, exactly how much historical impact this kind of attack has had, namely none.

Basically what you've got here is a cultural phenomenon dressed up as a religious one, borrowing some religious functions, taking over the public role of religion. But its foundations have a lot more to do with ingroup identity, shibboleths and the peculiar American take on the protestant work ethic. Trying to understand it theologically just hits a blank wall. You have to understand it as sociology.

([1] Other religions not of the same lineage shrug off this class of attacks. Disprove Shinto? Disprove what? It makes no historical claims.)
Yes, I'm using it as the author did, not as you've defined.

Introvert vs Extrovert is where you draw your energy or what recharges you, not what you enjoy though those things often overlap.

It's not a switch, it's a slider. People operate at different points along it and can even shift or operate within a range depending on a variety of things.
> Individually yes, but all of these things would take more than a few weeks - possibly months. With onboarding on an average software project also taking months,

So, let's say that is the case. The lesson is that hiring is expensive and risky, even if you find a candidate whose experience exactly matches your stack. Like you mention, just onboarding for the internal technology and project itself takes months.

You're already sinking a big investment into a new hire. So most times you should choose the best engineer even if it means additional O(project onboarding) time. From a business standpoint a great engineer who takes 6 months to get up to speed is a much better investment than a mediocre one who takes 3 months. Not always (maybe you're an ultra-high growth startup who needs bodies on the floor ASAP). But usually.

And the reality is that dropping stack requirements drastically improves the candidate pool. For one you have way way more candidates to select from. Two, most times when a company is hiring for [tech X] it usually means that the market for engineers who know [tech X] is super-tight. It's just the nature of the business cycle. If [X] is in demand at your company, it's probably in-demand everywhere, and therefore in short supply.

All of which means that if you insist on [X] experience, most of the time you're scraping the bottom of the labor market barrel and getting mediocre engineers. If you're willing to hire from anywhere, then usually there's some sub-sector that's in a downturn. That's a huge opportunity to poach talented engineers, who are being mostly overlooked because their stack experience doesn't align with the hot growth sectors.
This is correct, and normal behavior actually. That's already accomodated for in modern designs.

What isn't is the extra lift at high-AoA and longer lever arm for the lift force to operate through. MCAS was meant to counter that, and arguably would have been a perfectly reasonable fix if they'd have designed it to the proper degree of redundancy, and actually told pilots how it worked and that it existed.
Yeah ChromeOS is Linux under the hood. Probably the most mainstream desktop class OS based on Linux. A family member's Windows laptop quit booting up, and wanted a new one. Talked them into a Chromebook since they mostly just use the web, and didn't want to spend a lot of money. Figured ChromeOS would be less bloated than the other traditional desktop OSes too, especially if not wanting to spend a lot on hardware as I feel a similarly priced Windows laptop would be slow probably due to the lower hardware.

Wouldn't surprise me if a lot of kids have Chromebooks too, which would be Disney's target. There's some decent models that are cheap and probably more secure than just giving them a Windows Laptop.

Also recently they added official support for Linux apps themselves, that's in beta called Crostini. They run inside of a container. But before then no Linux apps could be installed even though it's Linux under the hood, but I know there was some unofficial ways.

I was apart of the CR-48 beta where they sent out free laptops to test with. Surprised they did that in the first place, but it just sits in the closet now and very slow, no longer gets updates but used to use it alot more when it was new and feeling special since part of the beta program. So with Linux support, part of me wants to buy a newer one. Could run Node and VSCode on a Chromebook!
> I’m not really ok with other people’s code running on my Secure Enclave.

All the code that runs on your secure enclave is other people's code.
Give Pop_OS[1] a shot, it lets you switch between iGPU and dGPU.

Been using it on my Thinkpad P1 works well for my workflow, I almost always use the iGPU and for tasks that need dGPU

I am usually plugged into power. I get good battery life this way.

But I agree, MX250 option isn't worth it for the amount of GPU power it gives and the complications it brings under Linux.

>I hope the next generation fixes this and/or we finally get good nvidia drivers.

GPU offloading is being worked on by nvidia[2] so there is indeed hope.

[1] https://system76.com/pop

[2] https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/08/nvidia-43517-linux-bet...

[3] https://github.com/pop-os/system76-power/pull/111
Companies react in strange ways. I recall a forum post a few years back about an issue with a backup solution. The poster ran into a problem and shared it in response to a question.

Someone from the storage company went apeshit, figured out who the poster was, and met with the CIO of the guys employee to get him to remove the post.
Without calling setup, you cannot import anything that touches Django models, like constants defined in a file that transitively imports a Django model.

In practice, this means that any script that depends indirectly on Django code will incur a lengthy startup cost (from having to call setup()), and will fail to run if there's no database connection, even if the script itself doesn't need the db.
It's not clear what is financial security. Many things can go wrong (financial crisis, health problems). If we can earn some money now, maybe we should take it because our skills may not be worth much in a few years.

Money is also used to measure success, and this can have a huge impact on our self-esteem and happiness. It's very common that people choose a lucrative career simply to please their parents, and this makes them happy in return, even though their aren't materialistic.
I like the idea of WeWork but my god it's not worth anywhere near what they were trying to IPO for, also their CEO is an idiot. Good riddance.
Ask HN: Advice for building my own blog engine
I'm a software engineer and because of a lot of time traveling, have written a lot over the last six months. I'm wondering if building my own blog engine is a worthwhile project. All of the writing I have done so far is private "posts" in markdown that are sitting around on my laptop.

My primary motivation to build my own blog engine is to have some fun reinventing the wheel (isn't that what we do best :)), and being able to customize it completely to my workflow. I think an application with a relatively small codebase that's easy to understand and is built for a specific way of working has its own intrinsic benefits.

The main requirements are
1. Automatic formatting of files written in markdown to posts
2. Navigation and tagging generated from the files
3. Small surface area for attack. I might go towards static site generation so there is no admin API or dealing with HTTP input.
4. Maybe - nice code syntax highlighting and formatting

With all that said, does anyone have thoughts or advice about building their own blog engine?
Many times, that question is because of insurance companies doing stupid shit (i.e. they factor in the chance a former convict may reoffend and do so at your workplace). Shit, my company didn't even have a drug & alcohol "testing if you are suspected" policy until a few years ago when we switched insurance companies. And companies really have no choice but to do what the insurer says because the options are slim.
Just thinking. If Hillary won the electoral college would we be hearing all the relentless outrage about Facebook ?
Many people don't. So why do you?

Also Apple is the same doesn't mean they don't have better quality than others, just that it's still not perfect. And plus there's a hefty premium too on top of the already high cost of high quality. (Though since they are doing very high on the economies of scale, the inherent cost of an MBP is probably not much more than a comparable Dell, so most people really pay the premium ... because Apple is seen as high-status.)
*in business class on a controlled flight only for human testers and media members.

This just reads like an ad to me.
Obviously, the point is to screw up the customers - every DRM can and will be broken at some point
Not to cast any kind of aspersions on this man's character, but you don't have to be scrupulous or skilled to make a lot of money. Plenty of companies are run for and by criminals, and some of them would doubtlessly not have a problem with and maybe even desire to hire people with a criminal past (though perhaps not with a record).

Arguably, plenty of corporations are engaging in behavior that's unethical (like spying on their users, trying to manipulate them through advertising, or selling products that harm or even kill people) and that if it isn't illegal already should be. Many such organizations and the people that work for them are very successful, are rewarded handsomely for their work, and are lauded by society at large.

Many criminals would feel right at home in such organizations, which do whatever they need (sometimes within the bounds of the law and sometimes beyond it) to make money.

On the other hand, just because you've been convicted of a crime doesn't mean you've done anything wrong. Plenty of people are or have been on jail for victimless crimes (like marijuana possession) or crimes that should never have been crimes at all (like sitting in the front of a bus or drinking from the wrong water fountain at certain times in American history, having a stigmatized sexual orientation in certain parts of the world, protesting abuses, or trying to shelter innocent people who would have been killed had they been turned over to the authorities), or been the victim of judicial injustice (like being convicted by a biased jury or based on falsified evidence of a crime you didn't commit). So yes, you could technically be "a criminal", but either be innocent or even justifiably proud of what you did, and any decent company should be glad to have you.
Why do say that Linux will only ever support Level 3? Is there some fundamental limitation?
When a Ferrari's in a Fender-Bender
When Mavericks is nothing, it's literally nothing. I've sailed right through it on the OYRA Half Moon Bay Race which is in late June. Dead flat water. Jellyfish schools. Light air sailing. The zephyr of a breeze shut down as we crept in and it was a parking lot of boats behind us. Like Point Conception, you can sail around it even when it's going off. In June, you're thinking about the Montara wind hole. Mavericks doesn't exist in June.
We do know the probability life appears is non-zero though, because it has happened. I don't know why all 9 steps to colonization can't be considered improbable, and therefore the filter be behind us and in front of us.

We don't even know all the steps between "Step 8: Where we are" and "Step 9: Colonization." Maybe a moon is required for it. Maybe materials not found on this earth are required for it.

I think we as a species have decided that colonizing Mars is possible. It might not be probable, but we can do it. We know how, we just haven't yet.

Humans just might be the first intelligent life. If the Milky Way was already colonized, some civilization made the first leap to another planet.

It's manifest destiny. We have to colonize the universe. It's our moral duty as an intelligent species to maintain awareness of the universe.
Countless companies, huge and small -- from Apple and Amazon, to Google and your friendly local startup, plus all the enterprise world that's not a .NET shop...

In what parallel universe is not Java immensely popular or not used for green projects?
Jimmy Sham, Leader of Hong Kong Democracy Group Civil Human RightsFront,Attacked
Electric car startups – once seen as threat – now struggle to survive
Is it relevant to bring up that time major tech companies stole ~$8B from their programmers, more-or-less because they could?

https://pando.com/2014/01/23/the-techtopus-how-silicon-valle...

Oh my, I just now saw this follow up: https://pando.com/2014/03/22/revealed-apple-and-googles-wage...

> Confidential internal Google and Apple memos, buried within piles of court dockets and reviewed by PandoDaily, clearly show that what began as a secret cartel agreement between Apple’s Steve Jobs and Google’s Eric Schmidt to illegally fix the labor market for hi-tech workers, expanded within a few years to include companies ranging from Dell, IBM, eBay and Microsoft, to Comcast, Clear Channel, Dreamworks, and London-based public relations behemoth WPP.

So, anyway, yeah, don't be a chicken, be a fox. But better than being a fox, be a human being.
For programmatic ads you should be happy to earn $6 eCPM with 6+ ads on the page, so about $3180/mo. With that you would want to be prepared for seasonal changes, like great earnings in the 4th quarter, then rates falling in half in January.

I admire your effort to avoid tracking. Most traditional sources of ad spend are somewhat incompatible with that model, so I wouldn't waste time worrying about ad networks and agencies. Try to discover the organizations that would gain the most value from exposure on your site, then sell them fixed placements with annual contracts. You can also sell bundles of impressions, but honestly its not likely that you could do so with much scale based on self-reported impressions. That is to say, advertisers have no reason to trust publisher metrics; they only trust trackers they can control or audit. Bot traffic, from 3rd parties to your own testing/RUM tools, make impression counts almost irrelevant, even if you are acting 100% in good faith.

Ideally, with fixed fee ad contracts you'll have advertisers you and your audience generally likes, and those advertisers have some motivation to support your community and showcase their sponsorship of it, since more traffic for you means more value for them.

Your advertising page would do well to contain a web form, and not put all of the terms up front. You can be very candid with your potential ad customers, but there is no reason to scare them off on your landing page. Maybe a separate URL for the ad terms?

In this context, I think referring to the program as a sponsorship vs advertising makes sense. Ad buyers have not been keen on doing individual site ad deals since the early 2000's, but there is always money for sponsorships- with less expectations of metrics and more warm and fuzzy feelings.

I wouldn't expect you'd receive a lot of traffic from inbound traffic. Your users would make for a good source of insight about who might make a good sponsor, and may become a sponsor themselves.

If you depend on ad revenue, you're either in the business of programmatic ads, or your in the relationship business. If that don't come naturally to you, find somebody with existing relationships with check-writers and pay them something like 25% of sales.

I like your site. I would suggest looking into your analytics for ideas about potential sponsorship partners- at first blush (thanks you your awesome public analytics) it looks like productivity, development, and music are decently popular categories. Based on that Todoist, Zapier, & Spotify could be good sponsors, or maybe startups in those categories that align with your values.

Best of luck!
No, velveeta is not a specific named food--it's not the food which is named cheese.
Alternatively we could just make it a protected class like we do with age/sex/race.

That has its own issues but at least it'd be consistent.
“ More than half of the debt in collections stems from medical care, which, unlike most other debt, is often taken on without a choice or an understanding of the costs. Since the Affordable Care Act of 2010, prices for medical services have ballooned; insurers have nearly tripled deductibles — the amount a person pays before their coverage kicks in — and raised premiums and copays, as well. As a result, tens of millions of people without adequate coverage are expected to pay larger portions of their rising bills.”

ACA has been yet another screwup on top of the cluster-Fsck that is the US health care healthcare system. Medicare can’t even force payment restrIctions or transparency. It’s not in politicians interest to fix it - they raise all their money by either running on medical reform(fixing it would take that issue and revenue stream off the money) or protecting it. Why else do you think that a supermajority under Obama made the problem worse?

It’s time to form a separate states controlled mechanism for doing this. The federal government has proven to be either completely and totally inept, or corrupt beyond all imagination.
Famous Memos
So I guess my question is why will Desktop Linux only ever support Level 3? If its the equivalent hardware that a Windows device would support L1 (or does that not exist?), then wouldn't, say, an Android device in para-virtualization be able to show you the content in HD? Wouldn't the right pieces extracted from Android and loaded into Desktop Linux allow you to watch L1? Just hypothetically. I guess my question is: is Desktop Linux actually incapable of doing it for some reason, or is it just that no one will ever distribute a distro that can do it out of the box, but you could theoretically assemble it yourself.
And it's a black box sometimes, people who tuned neural networks won't even understand what the NN is optimizing it for.
The security guarantee here isn't for the user, though. It's more of a placebo effect for the content producers.
Australian Media launches “Your right to know” regarding secrecy laws
This may very well be true, I’d like to note I don’t claim to know anything about how Widevine works. Of course, this is a very different criticism of the post.
This is a nice proposal, but there's no actual mention of total proposed cost to build and test a complete unit. I have a strong suspicion it is massively more than an equivalent-cost renewable installation given that Indonesia is literally on the equator.
A better way to encapsulate islet cells for diabetes treatment
That seems like a perfect recipe for disaster. We had those, and simply started to say no, that's bullshit. Eventually reality won :)
Libre RISC-V Open-Source Effort Now Looking at POWER Instead of RISC-V
You'd be surprised how deep some of the AAA studio go in developing complex systems for physics, rocks or grass!
Do they actually rip the videos from display controllers? I though they just used those shady HDMI splitters that actually strip the HDCP: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17463105