skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most inmates have computer access which uses a specialized access control program that allows them to email approved contacts for .05 cents a minute.

Oh not this again
https://slashdot.org/story/76748
Local deterministic system is compatible too. Only Newtonian system is incompatible.
Not at all. There are way better solutions out there.
>Capitalism isn't really a political system, even though people seem to elevate it to one.

It is you need a giant violent state to create a culture of sophisticated property rights. AKA capitalism requires a state and legal system, it doesn't exist without one. Things like copyright and Intellectual property are pure man made cultural political fictions, they do not exist in the natural animal kingdom.

How is it possible to own large tracts of land the size of small cities or entire provinces without a state/army to enforce it? AKA before populations got big there was plenty of "common" land that wasn't anyones. Property rights are a cultural invention.
Low blow friend, don't think I'm not reminded of this many times a day ;)
> and for what it's worth their punishment has provided nothing for me.

That is why it is "The people vs. ..." and not "designdesign vs. ..."

> Punishment compounds loss and has provided nothing to me or society.

I think you need to convince society of that, rather than speaking for them.

I look at a guy like Bernie Madoff, who poses no threat to the public now and is probably not likely to be rehabilitated in any traditional sense. But is simply offends for him to live out the rest of his live having hurt so many without some kind of punishment.
Right. I just wanted to point out there is no direct proportionality between votes and amount of representatives in Congress, so it makes no sense to talk about EC violating any principle.

"One person, one vote" never meant "one vote, one equal share of representation" would be a better way of saying it perhaps.
Totally agree. Quite a bit of the OP’s sentiment resonates with me. I’ve been at VMware the past 3 years and can honestly say, engineers regularly make most of the product decisions. Managers are basically just people managers and become tie breakers in debates. I also spent some time at a startup that had a very similar culture.

Find the right team for you, there are many good and bad fits.
It could be, but in order to sign a provisional ballot you have to sign a form that tells you you can't vote as a convicted felon. So even if she honestly didn't read the form (which wouldn't surprise me!) it severely undercuts her argument.
Nothing make me feel more like a wizard while programming that rattling off some complex statements on the command line. Normally I don't use the cli a whole lot day-to-day but recently started on a project that has me using it a great deal. Overall the project has been pretty miserable but one of the bright spots has been getting much more competent with Linux commands.
FWIW, my take away from the recent US riots is that funding a class of idle people is a really bad idea.

Edit: Just to clarify, the class of idle people I’m talking about are all the people on (relatively) generous unemployment as a result of Coronavirus shutdowns.
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You might think you're being facetious, but many wealthy people don't want their children's lives to be wasted on consumption, and so limit their inheritance: enough to do anything, but not enough to do nothing.

The most meaning in life comes from doing things for other people - not necessarily for money, but for other people.

I'd love if we could try and figure out a social, institutional, structural technology which doesn't require taxes (and thus politics and government) for this. Government slowly but surely gets captured by people with the biggest pockets, until populists take over and everything falls apart with simple wrong answers, or worse, kleptocracy.
Government Surveillance of Protestors
It would be interesting to know the middleman involved in hiring BellTroX; surely Exxon didn’t hire them directly but were working with a “public relations” company that took initiative to hire this shady firm. Knowing the middleman might help connect the loose threads
I reverse engineered Monzo's content marketing: here's what marketers can learn
Depending on cloud vs on-prem.
PHP has unreasonably good backwards comparability, even between v4 and v7.
To your last question, Godel's incompleteness theorem prevents use from proving everything about linear algebra. So there might be surprising statements that are true but can never be proved to be true given the axioms.
I don't know if this was intended to dissuade me or other readers, but you've only piqued my interest even further! If it is cynical and "toxic", is that only because it reflects the true nature of the thing it discusses?
Catching of the Dog
The instant place to look for graphviz issues is a distance between arrow head/tail to node. But yes your diagrams are very clean indeed!
Thank you for your answer. Since non-clocked designs are hard to
model and clocked designs at high rates are also hard to model, is
there ever a crossover point in hardness (e.g., when they exceed a
a certain number of components or physical size) or are clocked designs always considered asymptotically easier? On a related note, does the competitive advantage of one hardware manufacturer over another reduce primarily to a matter of which one has better circuit simulation and routing software?
I mean I'd say it's pretty rare. I've only seen a handful of people do it personally, and I've never seen anyone exclusively use a portrait screen.
> people like you who claim that free will doesn't exist

Where did I claim that free will doesn't exist?
While I am not a fan of (but don't hate) skeumorphic design, I really learned to appreciate skeumorphism in my many failed efforts to get my father (who was in his mid 70s the first time I tried) to learn how to use a smartphone.

He doesn't want to read stuff on the screen, and a lot of concepts just didn't click with him. Would I be able to get him to learn a smartphone with a fully skeumorphic design? Probably not, but he might have understood more concepts than I could teach him with a flat design.
We should certainly provide all of those things. But even homeless people, ill people, people with no direction in life can and should avoid committing crimes.
Is State Protection a Threat to Liberal Democracy?
It's very interesting people would want prisons to punish people.

It is known that justice systems are fallible.

To demand explicit punishment as part of prison service is equivalent of saying "It's ok if lot of innocent people are punished as long as it is made sure all guilty are punished as well".
Yes, not only I am fine with it, I am trying really hard to find a place where the amount of votes linearly translates to the amount of power a representative has.

Every parliamentary system with barrier clauses are out. Every district-based election is out, etc, etc. Swiss' cantons, maybe?
And how could an ardent cinephile enter such torrent communities may I ask?
What's the advantage? While a common protocol at first glance sounds nice, I'd imagine the devil and validity of any test is in the actual implementation. So TAP, as far as I can tell is just a BDD spec.. which basically just amounts to some lines of text for someone to write BDD against.

Am I missing something? I was actually recently looking into BDD-like tools recently, so I feel like I'm a potential user for TAP, but I just can't grok the value add in it offhand.

edit: oh, maybe TAP is the inverse of what I was thinking. It's about output of test suites, for common post-test tooling? Aka to give statuses about the state of tests?
How do we decarbonize? (2019)
I love generating DOT from my Java programs. I recently implemented a query explainer that would output the query plan as DOT.

Btw. For those working with DOT I've always found it great to be able to copy-paste it right onto a webpage and see the results. My current favourite tool: https://dreampuf.github.io/GraphvizOnline/
That's only because you were there while the chances happened. You also didn't lose a good portion of your cognitive abilities due to spending 13 months in complete isolation.

It's basically impossible to imagine skipping a decade and noticing the changes. Same way you cannot detect yourself or close friends and family ageing from day to day.
I used Rhizome[1]. (It looks like it is no longer being maintained, but I didn't run into any issues.)

1. https://github.com/ztellman/rhizome
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Oh for sure I'm sure many Europeans refrigerate their eggs. I'm just saying they don't necessarily have to, nor do the stores have to sell them in a refrigerated area. In North America this is mandatory, because the eggs will spoil.
>The real privacy dashboard for Windows

>not open source

nope.avi
You can sub to one streaming service and never run out of great films to watch (in part because titles rotate, not in spite of, but that's beside the point). Justifying piracy because, for example, you're disappointed that Netflix is missing one great film, is disingenuous.
4-5 hours of quality thinking time sounds about the right limit to me. if anything, it's impressive. I can churn out 10 hour days but about 7 hours will be mostly "operational" stuff i don't need to think deeply about.
From my perspective, I've found that many against promoting rehabilitation (at least for less heinous crimes) tend to see prison as a day at the park.

Essentially, they're trapped in a prison in the form of low income or poverty where significant portions of their time must be spent working. They don't understand how a prisoner could potentially or at least perceptually be better off than them: consistent housing provided, guaranteed food, medical treatment, time for education and growth. When you have such gaps with economic inequality in a society where for those on the lower end of the spectrum combined with some misconception of prison life, prison can actually seem better, you have many who tend to promote punishment over rehabilitation.

"Someone did something society deemed as negative and they're rewarded, I did what society said was positive and seem to be punished relative to those acted negatively. I struggle to survive and work constantly while this person leisures (albeit with limited freedom) and studies."

So as you coined it, probably spite.
The approach you’re proposing is illogical that’s why. Although everything is destined, that doesn’t negate the majority desire to treat a person who becomes ill and potentially very sick. Similar as someone that becomes mentally deranged by his/her order of events resulting in being mentally ill.

I used to have a colleague that shared your rhetoric and he very much made a big leap in his assumption that people adopting determinism will all of a sudden become metaphorically motionless by thinking the majority will not try to fix people that become ill.
Yeah but they arent coming out of China. Those are chinnese researchers based out of the united states.
For any feature this bird and other birds have in common to have come later, they would have to have evolved twice. This could be the case for some features, but is highly unlikely to be responsible for large part of the similarities.
> GrepWin!

I have tried GrepWin many times and I can NEVER get it to give the results I want - or expect- when I use it.

Something about the UI and me, they don't click.
I wish people would stop thinking of open-source like it's some sort of panacea. The Ken Thompson Hack should be enough proof that what really matters is what gets run, not what the source code says.

For decades, the Windows community thrived with mods and such, all without source code.

If you have an unobfuscated .NET binary you pretty much have the source, and it will be honestly what it says it does.
So Chrome OS team's explicit ambition is to provide a full-fledged alternative to Windows and Linux distributions?
Don't try to keep them all in mind. You have to approach each problem/project holistically and include existing environment, maturity, etc in your evaluation process. Having too many uncurated choices can seem overwhelming, but it's a valuable skill to be able to recognize the difference between your needs/challenges and the ones of people toying around and/or solving very specialized problems. Admire the edge of the ecosystem with interest and intrigue, but apply practically.
Emotional responses shouldn't trump your sense of justice and fairness to human life. I have someone that was close to me murdered and I don't think that a harsher punishment only for my enjoyment is the answer to "what is justice?".
When Python classes meet magic methods
We’ve often had to relearn or learn. That’s what the author needs to do as well. When faced with a totally new system, they’d have poked about and grokked it.

Come to think of it, they have a massive advantage over many of us - the absence of a distracted mind, the absence of short attention spans.

If they applied themselves to it, they can learn new stuff again.

Per society norms and laws, they did the crime and paid the time. I wish them all the best with a fresh start.
It makes land more important than people, which shows the heritage of power in landowners. I personally think that is a bad thing now - landowners get enough power from the value of their land. However, landowners, ie the ones with the power advantage, see differently. Funny how that works.
Here is a write-up by Terry Tao. This doesn't disprove the premise that linear algebra is more or less solved. Although the result was unknown and a little surprising, once formulated the proof was relatively straightforward, and does not imply any major or minor upsets in the field.

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2019/08/13/eigenvectors-from-...
Mens rea is more intention to do the act, not knowledge of criminality. For example intentionally killing someone is murder even if you didn't know murder is a crime (because the act or killing was intended). The mens rea is intention to kill (if you lack the mens rea you end up with manslaughter or something equivalent).
It has been over a decade since I did this regularly, but I would import my Graphviz files into the excellent OmniGraffle (macOS) to provide what ever styling I wanted, and use a variety of highly configurable layout engines. Almost certain that the "straight arrows and 90 degree turns" layout is in there.

OmniGraffle is one of the best commercial software packages every developed. Well worth a look if you are on macOS
Nope.. Was looking into flex search today.. is all client side
Thank you both for replies (hasura and prisma).

Regarding prisma, I see my impression was off a bit from talking with our team that used prisma in a green field project with migrations quite happily. And I somehow forgot that migrations are still marked experimental and are kind of new.

https://www.prisma.io/docs/reference/tools-and-interfaces/pr...
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23072333

Extremely disillusioned with technology. Please help (gist.github.com)

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I'm having a hard time coming up with the data to confirm this theory but 1986/1987 seems to me to be the peak of both VHS sales and the bottom of VCR prices.

I assume from that many studios had to come up with their first licensing schemes for movies "for home use" (contrary to movie theater and broadcast use), which could potentially still apply to (and restrict) streaming.

Once again, this is my personal hypothesis (and I'd be happy to see some data to support or contradict it).
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There are a few odd commits from developers now and again, but nobody is working on it seriously. PC hardware is mostly x86, and we actually use that, so that's where our limited time mostly goes.
FWIW, the rest of the world considers prison sentences in the US to be absurdly long. This guy apparently got 10 years for hacking; in much of Europe, you'd get less than that for murder.
I have heard—and I do not recall the source for this, so it may be incorrect—that when PHP was originally being written, the hashing algorithm for function calls used the length of the function name as its primary key. Thus, making each function name a slightly different length made the code run faster.

Of course it would've been nice if, at any time in the past 20 years, they'd gone back and standardized those function names (possibly also adding some kind of backwards-compatibility shim for people who absolutely cannot update their ancient codebase with global search-and-replace), regardless of whether the story is true.
Assigning blame requires only the impulse to assign blame, which is derived from a very primitive impulse to neutralize a threat, be it a tiger, or a thief, or whatever.

The whole notion of free will is a cultural construct. There are societies that have no perception of it, they believe that their actions are guided by spirits.

Western concepts of justice are founded on the idea of free will, so of course you need it for western rationalizations of how to apply justice, but arguing that we need free will for justice to work is putting the cart before the horse. We just need it for our version of justice. My cat doesn't need it to take a swipe at the dog when it goes for the cat's food.

It is in my interest to argue that life has intrinsic value because if I don't I risk being considered a threat by people who happen to value their own lives quite a bit. It's just simple game theory. I don't see how free will, either real or imagined, is necessary to value the lives of others.

And of course, there are no consequences for killing a chicken, so there are no strong moral impulses against it. By our own rationalizations, life doesn't have any intrinsic value unless it is a life that serves us, or has power over us, and the value of a chicken's life extends only as far as it is tasty to us.
They do tend to start looking for easy targets to justify getting their paycheck, zeroing in on minorities and the poor.
https://github.com/mingrammer/diagrams - uses graphviz under the hood, and it's super easy to extend the list of available nodes. Also you can tweak it with node/edge/graph attributes to fit in your style/needs.
This company is helping coastal companies choose cities for new offices
I used xdot in Ubuntu earlier this week and it crashed my Gnome session. Beware!
I see the need for systems like the electoral college, but I think it needs some tweaks. Between both the Senate and the Presidency tilting quite hard towards rural state concerns, it seems unbalanced to me.

I am not pro abolishment of the EC, I think the system has some merit but that we could tweak it in any number of ways to let urban states have a bit more say. I'm a bit sick of feeling unheard by politicians 30 odd years into my life.
I agree there can exist a tyranny of the slight majority. But we’re talking about the EC, which is used to choose the President. Given the enormous power of the executive branch (relative to most parliamentary democracies, for example), this actually causes a minority to gain positive power over the majority. Positive power here meaning power to direct action through executive orders and (most importantly) military action, not merely to veto law. But the executive also enjoys some veto power!

The EC and 2 senators per state system that the US uses seems to lead to a tyranny of the minority, especially if you consider that senate “rules” regarding filibustering, simple, absolute majorities are almost all conventions rather than laws or immutable procedures.

However, I do agree with your line of argument as it relates to constitutional amendments.

Edit: I said the executive could create law, when I meant to say they can direct action.
I think this is pretty common in all professions teachers, doctors, even unskilled workers its like WTF.

Its worse for tech though because you salary probably wont be going up from here.
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Nowhere in the article does he ask for empathy, just describes what he is experiencing.
> more _your_ sense of justice than a general rule of human nature.

It's interesting -- I'm a very forgiving person. And I truly believe that hate consumes and destroys the hater not the hated. But something I believe we all should do individually, that is forgive, is not something I believe we should do collectively. Maybe it's irrational, maybe it's that doing it collectively requires some to forgive, quite possibly against their will.
We're reluctant to be exposed to too much anger about misfeatures in 20 year old code that was basically a prototype that escaped from the lab, but go ahead, ask us anything.

We've gotten a lot of help lately from Magnus Jacobsson, Matthew Fernandez and Mark Hansen on cleaning up the website and the code base, even some persistent bugs we could never find ourselves.

Improvements that would benefit the community the most?

- better default styles that don't look like troff from 1985

- better default layout parameters in neato than statistical multidimensional scaling based on shortest path

- more expressive graph language with classes or templates

- more robust handling of error conditions like out of memory

- better documentation to help people find useful tools or just know what they should be looking for

- find someone to donate a generic orthogonal routing algorithm based on a modern algorithm since people want this

- it would be a big effort, but move the core algorithms to a framework that supports interaction with layout generation

Hope this makes sense.
Buddhist Economics (1966)
Has it really changed that much in 10 years, or is part of it just the sense of alienation everyone experiences getting out of jail after a long time?

I mean, 10 years ago people lamented over the exact same thing; and before that, and before the before.

I can't prove it of course, but I'd bet you might feel that "human interaction" is not quite what you remember it to be if you had only just spent 10 years behind the bars.

And that's even if the technological progress on the outside had stood perfectly still for some reason.
I bet it was “Eigenvectors from Eigenvalues”

* https://www.quantamagazine.org/neutrinos-lead-to-unexpected-...

* https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2019/08/13/eigenvectors-from-...

* https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.03795
> genetic research

How did they get the genetic code of the specific dinosaur branch? I recall a previous discussion here that we have very little genetic source code from dinosaurs because it's degraded in the fossils over time
Great tutorial! Is there a way to extract the bounding box of nodes, and the endpoints of lines? This would be useful to generate ML models to automatically parse graphs!
a rule that comes to mind is that a bunch of 8/10 scores make a 10/10 bottom line. it comes from Santa Monica Studio, developers of God of War series, where their strategy to achieving a "perfect" game is to have a minimum of 8/10 scoring on any single aspect of the game. Put together, you get a masterpiece. I guess this may apply to life as well - it's extremely hard to get a 10/10 in any one particular thing, but with discipline most can manage 8/10 in all aspects of life.
OTOH, sometime you need state, then you feel stuck with a half-finished language.
Yeah, mind philosophers should learn to code. Lots of mistakes can be prevented with just that.
It was until I realized I actually enjoy my current life a lot better:

- no commute, I haven't used an alarm clock in months

- I don't have to deal with stupid office chit chat

- I spend a lot of time with my wife

- I do yoga

- I've been studying a lot more