skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Union rules are about making sure a management team does not subject employees to random jobs. It is a about adding a control over management.

In other words, in my office an employee is not allowed to hang a whiteboard on to a wall. Because building mandates only union employees can make such hardware modifications.

Fine you are protecting the job of the union but what you are really doing is prevent job creep or scope creep.

Another hypothetical example: no employee is allowed to work past 5 pm. Sure hardworking employees want to. But when they do, the put the pressure on other employees to do the same. This kind of culture is net negative.
"unaccountable armed guards"

Just like the police you love so much? What's the problem again?
I wonder what the numbers are like for these published blog posts?
>Their expansion in market share has occurred at a time when the US prison population has been shrinking, but that's a wildly inconvenient fact.

Are you making the claim that private prisons reduce total inmates? If not, this claim, truth or not, is irrelevant.
Is a "privately owned prison operated and staffed by the state corrections agency" just a rented building?
Everything the Internet Archive does is legally sketchy. The wayback machine making copies of web sites available without a prior agreement with the copyright owners? Their game and video archives?

Edit: I get it, it's an unpopular opinion. But as far as I can see, it's true: IA operates on a very broad definition of fair use that would be difficult to support legally. You can't have it both ways.

I just donated $100 to IA and refrained from making a $200 order for new books.
GIL might not block on I/O but the implementation that uses PyObject does need the GIL no?
> You think the protestors also don't benefit from chaos? Neither side is innocent here.

I don't see how your point is relevant here.

Protestors aren't paid with tax dollars.

Cops are getting paid massive amounts of overtime to prevent looting and damage during this crisis and instead they are contributing to it.
When you visit the article posted, the site manages to insert another item in your browser history, at least on mobile.

When I attempted to leave the article with my browser's back button, instead of seeing HN, I saw the "Before you leave..." message on top of more article teasers.
4GB is actually more usable than you'd think; most web browsers have performance settings that make the experience just fine with even a hundred tabs on low-end devices (Chromium gets more points than Firefox on this for its toaster mode), and outside of web browsers, there's not much else to worry about. If you set it up with one of the 'in-RAM compressed swap' solutions available like you should, you probably won't ever notice it, but even then it's still really fairly comfy.
Nah people who get hurt don’t benefit. One side is organized like a military with command stations and ranks like captain and lieutenant, while the other is just people marching because they feel like it.
I noticed your sarcasm there re: python being fast.

Many of my company's tools have been moved from python to go for both speed and size reasons, as well as because it's much easier to distribute. Even python exec bundles can have significant problems on random workstations, yet the go tools always just work.
Bochspwn Reloaded: Detecting Kernel Memory Disclosure with x86 Emulation (2017) [pdf]
Seems to me like increasing the use of house arrest is so much preferable to prison, for everyone involved. Just have it monitored properly. Maybe ankle bracelet, an GPS monitoring. With meal delivery, and health checkups, it could be cheaper too than housing someone in a prison. Have them take online classes and possibly let them work online to offset the costs of the monitoring. Or some sort of program to trade time served for working in nursing homes taking care of the elderly.
Stop with the wrongthinking, you may be reported to your employer
Wow, I find this amazing though im not into this kind of games at all. I gave it a run, took a while to load at first but the playing experience was quite nice. I killed a few people with a knife and got killed a few times and thats enough violence for me.

Nonetheless, having this run in the browser just like that, no downloads, no installs, no tweaks.. im wowoed. Good job peeps

Edit: my experienece was quite nice, I launched this in Firefox on Win 10 on my mediocre laptop (i7-7560u/8gb ram)
And it seems like a distinction without a difference. If the Internet Archive is lending out ten scanned copies of a book who knows whether they own one physical copy of the book or ten?

Are they scanning each (virtually identical) copy individually?
"Just use Postgres" may have become meme but for good reason and is well grounded IMO.

Many immature databases with not much wide use are better avoided though, we manage to break datomic three times during development, the first two bugs were fixed in a week, the third took a month, which they called in their changelog "Fix: Prevent a rare scenario where retracting non-existent entities could prevent future transactions from succeeding" so yeah, we went back to "just use postgres", who wants to go through the nightmare of hitting those bugs in production and who knows how many more?scary situation.
Authentication in Node JavaScript
Mengele was a doubly bad example for scientific ethics because the cruelties he committed weren't even remotely scientific. Bad ethics can lead one astray to that nonsense. There is no quandry there when there isn't anything to gain through depravity.

Compare that to the quandry of resurrectionists and doctors - a noble goal and duty to save lives, when the principles are already that life is more important than property. As far back as even Dante Alighieri smashing a baptismal font to rescue a boy from drowning. Such ghoulish behavior fully fit in with the underlying ethics as righteous even if society found it abhorrent.

The basement approach seems to be an unfortunate side effect of the illegality - disposal via even improper burials doubles the risk of being caught. Let alone transporting a coffin "from nowhere" with a skeleton, especially if it was to return where the bodies were "borrowed" from.
To clarify, I meant to say "a browser that supports a different language than Javascript".

It does seem like WebAssembly is the answer here, but would be cooler (I think) if that sort of thing was built from scratch.
Does anyone think this would not have been crushed without mercy if the protestors were 'white supremacists'? Serious question.

The irony is that if these AZs were permitted it could give said segregationists exactly what they had been after for decades.
Are you in a light room or a dark room?
If you're interested in this space, Hologram does the same thing (and appears to have had a head start compared to Twilio): https://hologram.io
In the past week SPD has lied about:

- "Incendiary devices" being thrown at officers: it was a candle - as can be seen by the sticker visible in SPD's own tweets

- Businesses being 'extorted': appears SPD leadership got a false report of this from a local alt-right personality and spread it in their press briefing.

- People checking IDs for entry: streamers have been trying to find anyone on the ground who can substantiate this claim and have been unable to. A small handful of people have been kicked out by being swarmed by a crowd and told to leave (and some more colorful language) without violence. These few instances have all either been counter-protestors or people trying to be senselessly destructive, as far as I've seen.

I'm skeptical of these most recent claims
Thanks for your feedback, I agree with you in that if you're not on Telegram it's hard to know what to expect. I'll try to improve that in the future.
I double checked and it's also the case in several US states. Sex during conjugal visits and prison nurseries. The rules vary, sometimes the mother must be pregnant when entering custody to be eligible, but not always. The duration of the child stay in the prison varies as well, between a month to 30 months.
Sequencing seismograms: Panoptic view of scattering in core-mantle boundary
Liberalism was originally the abolition of feudal restrictions on free trade and wage labor. Neoliberalism is the removal of various newer restrictions on that, including: social-democratic laws that protect workers and raise the standard of living, and protective trade laws that protect countries' local industries (large industry in poor manufacturing countries, for instance, or small farmers like in Mexico, who have been wiped out by US agriculture).

China and the US have recently taken an anti-neoliberal turn, in fact the neoliberal era is beginning to end. Both Trump and Jinping have been pretty protectionist.
>There seem to be plenty of comments that are OK with private prisons

Can anyone help me understand their stance? I can see being pro-prison in general, but why pro-private prison? It's not like this specific ask is for removing all prisons.
I think it's a bit much to expect their entire support staff to write in perfect English, since they are not based in an English-speaking country. I don't think it's a very big operation, either.

I have one of their boards and can only say I had a good experience buying from them. I think compared to some of the alternatives in the price range (ie., random, no-name eBay crap), their documentation and forums is very good.
It would still make a lot of sense to dynamically link the particular libstd used for the compilation—and ship it alongside the package—if one wanted to ship a package containing many executables, the way that e.g. ImageMagick works.
> I think it's also important to realize that survivor bias is also at play here.

Yup. The odds of winning three 1-in-1000 bets is 1:1e9, so we should expect to have a couple Elon Musks in the world out of dumb luck. =)
What could also make sense is paying the prison a lump sum for the convict instead of a per diem. This changes the incentive structure from keeping people locked up as long as possible to rehabilitating and releasing them as fast as possible.
Pretty cool, this looks to be the final step in the project to experiment on BEC's in microgravity: https://physicsworld.com/a/rocket-carries-bose-einstein-cond...

The abstract does a good job of describing why this is a usefull thing in more detail:

"""
Quantum mechanics governs the microscopic world, where low mass and momentum reveal a natural wave–particle duality. Magnifying quantum behaviour to macroscopic scales is a major strength of the technique of cooling and trapping atomic gases, in which low momentum is engineered through extremely low temperatures. Advances in this field have achieved such precise control over atomic systems that gravity, often negligible when considering individual atoms, has emerged as a substantial obstacle. In particular, although weaker trapping fields would allow access to lower temperatures, gravity empties atom traps that are too weak. Additionally, inertial sensors based on cold atoms could reach better sensitivities if the free-fall time of the atoms after release from the trap could be made longer. Planetary orbit, specifically the condition of perpetual free-fall, offers to lift cold-atom studies beyond such terrestrial limitations. Here we report production of rubidium Bose–Einstein condensates (BECs) in an Earth-orbiting research laboratory, the Cold Atom Lab. We observe subnanokelvin BECs in weak trapping potentials with free-expansion times extending beyond one second, providing an initial demonstration of the advantages offered by a microgravity environment for cold-atom experiments and verifying the successful operation of this facility. With routine BEC production, continuing operations will support long-term investigations of trap topologies unique to microgravity, atom-laser sources, few-body physics, and pathfinding techniques for atom-wave interferometry.
"""

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2346-1
Facial recognition AI products were already being sold to police departments and customs agencies. Large scale deployment is in the process of happening. Maybe not at your specific agency, but the ACLU is a national organization, and in their eyes one additional false positive caused by increased efficiency is one too many.
Hi paridso, we tackle the problem at a more foundational level.
AIops tools are designed to speed up resolution and reduce noise, but they act on a feed of alerts/incidents. So in a sense they are dependant on the quality of alerts generated by monitoring tools. And typically a human will end up drilling down into data like logs and metrics to determine root cause.
Our ML acts on the raw data, and has better coverage than typical log/metrics monitoring tools (including previously unknown failure modes). It also cuts time to root cause by generating complete incident summaries.
I think they are if they're a public company. It doesn't matter if the original founder of the company has great intentions. Sooner or later they'll be squeezed out in favour of someone who prioritise profits for the investors.
Money corrupts.
The issue is not "private prisons", it's incentive structures that are not aligned with what our goals should be.

Currently, private prisons are generally paid a flat rate per prisoner. Since they make profit per prisoner, that means they want more prisoners. They are incentivized to discourage positive outcomes and fewer prisoners, because that means less profit.

If instead private prisons were paid by some sort of rehabilitation metric, things would change very quickly. For example, if you paid more per prisoner to prisons with low recidivism rates post-release.

Capitalism works great for efficiency, you just need to make sure you have the right incentive structure in place, in order to make sure the thing you are optimizing is the thing you actually want to optimize.
This category of “niche job board” seems to be the new get-rich-fast (or rather, collect-emails-fast) scheme du jour.

Over the last few months there’s been remote jobs, jobs that don’t require a car degree, jobs for a specific tech... the space is quickly becoming inflated
Mainstay, the brand I mentioned, is a Walmart brand.
To me, "southwest" is sand and cactuses. San Francisco isn't the southwest because it doesn't have that sort of climate. Also because 37°N doesn't seem meaningfully "south" relative to the continental US as a whole.

I don't think it has much to do with Mexico. Nevada (well, Las Vegas anyway) seems the "southwest" to me, and Nevada has no border with Mexico.
>> It might be helpful to have the age of comments listed

> That's... currently the case

Is it currently the case? I'm not seeing it, though it I may be missing it.

I do see, at the bottom of comments, something like

:: edited Apr 23 '15 at 8:40 / answered Mar 11 '09 at 21:11

The date the question was /asked/ does have an age, though, which may be what you're referring to. For the problem at hand, it's the age of the answers that matters more than the age of the questions.

> I don't find age has a 1:1 correlation with it being outdated.

No, but there is a correlation.
Not if you change the way that prisons make money, with is what your parent is talking about...
Think cargo ship containers and other similar internationally transient use cases. Sounds like an exciting product/service. Looking forward to seeing how this is used.
> Anyone with a weapon is scary as hell. I avoid to come close to any military or police people if they seem to be armed.

I agree. But most people who have been claiming that "CHAZ is being ruled by warlords" (or some similar permutation) are the same people who were totally fine with armed anti–lockdown protests at government buildings a month or so ago. They're the same people who have sided with the police as they attack peaceful protestors in the name of "law and order".

My presumption was that the OP basically shares these views. So I'm simply trying to understand why this one guise of "person with a weapon" is especially scary but others are not.
One of my jobs, I was interviewing candidates on my last week. It was all fine, until the candidate asked "Why do you like to work on this team?" ... luckily we were at the end of time, so I could duck the question.
I'm trying to figure out how to run these benchmarks on my own machine and experiment with some tweaks to the implementation, but it's unclear how to run these benchmarks from start to finish. I don't see any instructions for running the benchmarks in the github repository.

@calpaterson can you provide guidance?

I'd like to try an alternative query pattern. The current pattern implemented in the benchmarks is select 1 row in 1 query. I'd like to try an implementation with 2 queries - select count() from table and select * from table limit 10, which is a very common pattern for a REST list view. I would hypothesize that the async apps would perform better in this case, but I'm curious what this benchmark with show.
I love the LRB, but I am looking for a science/tech focus.
A strawman is when you misrepresent an opposing position or argument to make it appear weaker than it is, and argue against the weak version. Fighting an opponent made of straw which was created in order to be defeated.

(Similarly, a weakman is when you seek out someone who genuinely holds a weak (easier to argue against) version of the position you wish to push against, argue against this weak version, and act as if you have argued against the stronger versions.

Neither of these appear to be what has been done here.
How does it make turns?
Shouldn't the date be included in the title? [October 11, 2019]
After thousands of online games of RISK, I concur.

Often you find yourself in a situation where nobody can win, but anyone can choose who wins if they commit to losing.

Unfortunately, it's rare all three participants realize the situation.
Private prisons have an obligation through shareholders and ownership to maximize earnings/profit. They also have inherently less oversight than an institution that is controlled by the state. Given statement #1 they have a perverse incentive to acquire more inmates and keep inmates longer confined due to receiving govt. funding for their operations every day an inmate is housed. This also includes serving the cheapest possible food and providing little to no benefits. That being said state prisons are no shining beacon of enlightenment and prisoner reform.
I think you're missing the economic aspect. People don't tell libertarian socialists/communists to move to Somalia. Only libertarian capitalists get told that, and it's because of the perceived notion that companies seeking profit without the regulation of a strongish government resort to some pretty awful things. And there is some great historical precedence for this.
Contrasting with jdlshore, concurrency can make programs much easier to reason about, when done well. This is a benefit of both Go and Erlang, though they use different approaches.

Concurrency can help you separate out logic that is often commingled in non-concurrent code, but doesn't need to be. As a real-world example, I used to do safety critical systems for aircraft. The linear, non-concurrent version, included a main loop that basically executed a couple dozen functions. Each function may or may not have dependencies on the other functions, so information was passed between them over multiple passes through this main loop (as their order was fixed) using shared memory.

A similar project had about a dozen processes, each running concurrently. There was no speed improvement, but the connection between each activity was handled via channels (equivalent in theory to Go's channels, less like Erlang's mailboxes as the channels could be shared). We knew it was correct because each process was a simple state machine, separated cleanly from all other state machines.

The second system's code was much simpler, there was no juggling (in our code) of the state of the system, compared to managing the non-concurrent logic. If a channel had data to be acted on, the process continued, otherwise it waited. Very simple. And it turns out that many systems can be modeled in a similar fashion (IME). Of course, we had a very straightforward communication mechanism (again, essentially the same as Go channels except it was a library written in, as I recall, Ada by whoever made the host OS).
In experiments measuring perceptual thresholds (say of motion, color, or size), it is common that subjects say they can’t see a difference anymore between movement speeds/colors/object sizes, but, when pressed to answer the question, ‘guess’ right way above chance level.

I think it’s likely this is similar: they know, but not consciously. To test that, one could ask them whether the drawing they made represents a bicycle. I would guess many of them could say there was something funny with their own drawing, even though they can’t make a better one.

(One can have a philosophical discussion about whether that means that they know what a bicycle looks like, but they sure can act as if they know)
I don't know the async Python specifics, but from what I understand, you don't necessarily need async to handle large number of IO requests, you can simply use non-blocking IO and check back on it synchronously either in some loop or at specific places in your program.

The use of async either as callbacks, or user threads, or coroutines, is a convenience layer for structuring your code. As I understand, that layer does add some overhead, because it captures an environment, and has to later restore it.
Is there a reason that HTML doesn't work for a job board?
What would you say is the fundamental issue with putting humans in cages?
I'm not that much into discussion of terms "hackers" vs "community", but maybe you can track updates in the first post in this tread: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=9942

Quoting from there:

> We're under constraints that we have no control over (e.g. border being closed between HK and mainland China), the shipping companies and carriers are under many constraints (self-imposed or imposed by regulators) and the logistic chain as a whole - including people - is under regulatory constraints. In short, current situation is not business as usual. I am getting many PMs and emails asking about status reports - as soon as I know something, I post it here, there is no need to PM or email me. Thank you for your continued patience!

Also, somewhere I've read that their shipping team is 4 people packing about 1000 items per day. Why increased demand doesn't cause increase in shipping team - that I don't know.

You can also connect to IRC/Telegram/Matrix channel and ask there - somebody with more knowledge might answer you.
I'd suggest building a sign up flow that captures info about candidates.

The thing that's valuable here isn't your curation or the jobs, it's the candidates.
git diff master..branch
Different git branches don't allow the features to be vetted by users. At least not by many users. It's going to be much harder to get users to use different builds of Chrome than it is to have different (or even the same) people using Chrome and Firefox.

Also, what management team is going to ask their developers to work on two conflicting features in parallel? It's a people matter as much as it is a technical one.
Forth implemented in Rust trait system
Sure, that's fair — my question is really "what makes this person with a gun scarier than the other people with guns that we've seen lately?"
Because they are protests against the police, and the police don't like that? Simplest answer I can see
Technically? But a prison is not just any old building. If the inmate population decreases, the owner's couldn't easily turn it into a strip mall, for example. It still means private investment in the continued growth of the prison population.