skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At face value I agree, but any time the answer seems easy or obvious, its worth pondering complexities. The following questions are not meant to prove a point or be answered, the purpose is to showcase complexity:

What if corrections costs are not due to malfeasance or inefficiency, but due to it being a jobs program for relatively unskilled labor? If we applied skilled labor to the problem, how would we deal with the displaced unskilled labor? What is the opportunity cost of training people for rehabilitating criminals rather than improving our professionals mental health/productivity or STEM training? Is the rehabilitation cost worth more than paying teachers more?

It doesn't take long living in San Francisco to have your window bashed in or bike stolen. What would you do with those people? What would you do with unrepentant murderers and rapists? What would you do for people who derive social standing through violence? Clearly police and prison is useful to society. Clearly it would be ideal to turn criminals into tax paying, law abiding citizens.

There is a cold blooded cost/benefit analysis that can be made. There is probably a rehabilitation cost that can be measured. If cost_of_rehabilitation > total_estimated_future_tax_revenues is it worth it? If we added several more factors to the equation, maybe good_will_cost, cost_of_incarceration, opportunity_cost, etc, I think everyone will agree there is a potential model that can be applied to the problem, even if it doesn't feel good to be so objective.

I don't think we have a recipe for what rehabilitation looks like. Is it ethical to perform "rehabilitation" experiments on prisoners? What is the plan for training and the labor cost increase for skilled labor? What is the plan for creating a rehabilitation program?

> Now you see what abolish prisons and police is.

This phrase is meant to be provocative and energize a certain set of ideals (specifically being anti-authority). It doesn't appeal to moderates at all. The fact NPR and every other news source had to break it down for begrudging acceptance really hurts it's message. The message is justice for all, and if police are above the law, then there is no justice. If the color of your skin puts you at a higher chance of persecution, then there is no justice. If the culture someone grows up in is too poor or disadvantaged to meet basic needs for money or respect, and crime is the only or easiest way to fulfill them, then there is no justice.

Our implementations of prison and police are poor. There is a very clear cultural problem. They need reform, not abolition. This phrase hinders reform because it's literal meaning is far from what it means when someone says it.
My 12-year son found several glitches in the last 5-6 years:

- created a Gmail account w/o having to enter birthday;

- somehow goes around Windows Family Safety;

- when I pause his computers with Google Home, he just uses the data on his phone and re-enables it;

- when I restricted his sites via NextDNS.io, he started to use some VPN;

- he used sites that download YouTube videos (remotely) to go around the YouTube restrictions on the school network;

- he used OBS virtualcam with a recording on Zoom to pretend he's online when he was sleeping in this bed;

- he created an HTML page to mimic Windows Secure Desktop to steal my admin password (I didn't fall for it, of course);

and many others I can't quickly recall.

Restrictions create hackers.
Not so different to the deceased, though.
The Story of Better
Prostate cancer. No, I have limited faith in medical science and none whatsoever in alternatives.
Like I said, I'm quite happy and don't cling to life. I'll enjoy whatever time I have left to the max, but there's no need for me to maximize my time on earth (i.e. quality over quantity).
>I am comfortable excluding people who

Could this be an opportunity for your focused effort? Exclusion is dramatically unkind.
they can’t do that. they don’t have the original data (it is owned by fb) to create the lookalike audience. methinks you don’t understand how these tracking doohickeys work
I've been having pretty good luck generating all sorts of stuff.
There's a large chunk of text generated with the default unicorns prompt here: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/823393531305525288/82...

It seems really good at generating code too

prompt:

class ConvBlock(nn.Module):

def __init__(self, channels, stride=1):

super(ConvBlock, self).__init__()
self.convolution = nn.Conv2d(channels//stride, channels, 3, stride=stride, padding=1)
self.normalization = nn.BatchNorm2d(channels)
#self.activation = nn.LeakyReLU()

def forward(self, x):

output:

x =
# x = self.convolution(x)
# x = self.normalization(x)
# x = self.activation(x)

x = self.convolution(x)
x = self.normalization(x)
x = self.activation(x)

return x

class Resblock(nn.Module):

def __init__(self, stride=1):

super(Resblock, self).__init__()
self.res = nn.Sequential(
nn.Conv2d(9, 9, 3, stride=stride, padding=1),
nn.BatchNorm2d(9),
nn.LeakyReLU(0.2)
)
self.output = nn.MaxPool2d(2)

def forward(self, x):

return self.res(x)

Also, some "tongue twisters":

Big ugly stick.

Bowl full of chicken peas.

New York is universally inadvisable.

Long-eared seagull.

This morning I have a tumor in me.

A dog bark.

Invisible dog hides.

A crow blind.

A cat can’t see if it had a billion eyes.

Bumblebee.

Sheep herder, sheep herder.

A fawns abducts.

Two black birds are trapped.

Bottle on her finger.

Elephant sees another elephant.

Bull.

Mice in a box in the library.

A church swelter.

The door of a hotel opens.

Bosnian honey melons.

Grapes in excess.

Cat is on the loose.

Soil is shoveled into a glass jar
Almost everyone in the world who provides anything for us already lives in terrible conditions and makes a few dollars a day. The people nearby are even less deserving since they’re so much less cost efficient to help.
On the other hand, following that logic, in times of peace the soldiers of yesteryear are out of work.

I'm not a fan of cancel culture, but it might be just a sign that priorities have changed for people. Maybe the basic software liberties are enough for most, and it's no longer enough to fight for OSS, but instead time to consider "how" to fight for it. In a sense, it could be seen as a victory.
> The fallout of all of this will take years to unravel, and it all likely points to overkill.

No, the biggest problem was the vast underkill at the start. After that, everybody was screwed.

For starters, a whole bunch of things needed funding. Mask manufacturers should have been given contracts so they would switch to 24/7 production--didn't happen. Unemployment needed to be funded so people could stay home when states burned through their funds--didn't happen. Schools needed money for A/V equipment, training, and internet connections for students--didn't happen.

Things needed to shut down fast at the beginning. Mardi Gras happened because the feds buried information. SXSW went down to the wire before being cancelled. International flights took forever before even they were finally cancelled.

I can go on and on and on ... this ain't what "overkill" looks like. This is what "malicious incompetence" looks like, and I won't let you rewrite that history.
This has nothing to do with the good work, awesome intentions, nor the fact that they have no financial incentives behind this.

Claiming something that is not true is in itself wrong.
I guess I just don't know any places that have free beer.
Admittedly I have a bias prompting these two questions, and I'm going to be upfront: I think incarceration in the US is intentionally punitive for profit and control, not responsive to any particular crime problem. That said...

I'm not good at finance, and I mean these questions sincerely:

1. What do you think would be an appropriate per-inmate budget?

2. What parts of the existing budget do you think are corrupt and could be reformed?

- - -

Third question, because well, I already laid my bias cards on the table:

Why is cost the concern? If there's rampant corruption in incarceration, why are you focused on the money spent and not the human toll of a corrupt prison system housing millions of human beings?
The law literally is about age of consent.

As a society we deem young people too immature to make important decisions for themselves.

Nothing about calling him on his ridiculous views is related to "wokeness". One guy saying "hey maybe fucking kids isn't bad" is not in any way related to social injustice - society in general says that fucking kids is bad. Edit: unless you agree with his claims - then I guess you might see it as "social injustice".

This is just a weirdo saying weird shit, and then other people (you) trying to latch onto the new version of "don't blame me, back in my day it was OK".
The conditions? America has great conditions. The standard of living is high, life expectancy has gone up over time, we have numerous safety nets like SNAP, and our innovations have vastly improved quality of life for all income levels.

The conditions are not good enough for those who are grossly irresponsible, or desire luxuries they can’t afford. That includes people wanting to live in expensive and desirable locations that don’t match their ability to generate income. But people aren’t entitled to every luxury they desire. I feel like this basic personal responsibility has been ignored in our recent political discourse.

Because a substantial portion of crimes aren’t desperate attempts at survival, I’m not convinced that abolishing prisons or police will do anything except expose the rest of us to a chaotic and unsafe life. If we want to explore that direction we have to vote to fund small contained experiments that we can expand if they work, without jumping straight to defunding or abolishing services that keep us safe.

As an aside - we may disagree about the effectiveness or level of safety nets, and that’s a fair conversation to hold on its own. However immigrants from humble beginnings regularly manage to make it here without resorting to criminality. I feel like it’s not the conditions at play, but other factors, such as individual choices and behaviors and culture.
But a significant fraction would lock themselves in their homes for a year to save people they've never met. It goes both ways.
Fontemon – How I did it
Yeah, pretty sure that's the tracking pixel. What the hell is it doing there?
I would agree with such an interpretation, perhaps doing good is more than just creating existentialism around anybody being able to transition into anything. The people who're into these kinds of identity politics, seem to have priorities revolving around their identities, and the rest of their beliefs are skewed by their not particularly intellectual identities
It is unkind, but sometimes one has to be unkind to prevent greater harms from happening. Such is life.
By "leadership class" you mean the professional front group that serves the ruling class.
We need to demand a publicly accessible audit. The fact prisons don't even have to accurately report the number of inmate deaths they have to anyone with decision making power highlights how crazy the situation currently is.

Federal prisons are starting the process of leaving private contracts which is great. We need to force all states to do the same. Personal freedom needs to be free from market pressures and money. In az there was recently an inmate management software update which was rushed for financial reasons. A whistleblower recently revealed the software is unable to handle certain laws causing people to stay imprisoned possibly 2x longer than the law requires.
Take it to the extreme - murder is illegal; if you kill someone because you're a bad bad person, we jail you. If you kill someone because you're "insane"...we still remove you from society, but you just get treatment instead of punishment. We still consider the act of killing someone unacceptable.

If swearing at the beach is unacceptable, full stop, then it's unacceptable for a person with or without TS. (Personally, that sounds like a dumb law, but what do I know)
>We can and do make chip fabs in the US.

But just barely, and not state of the art...
Why don’t these cheating services ever get investigated by the police? They are obvious, organised, profitable frauds. How is this any different to selling fake IDs or stolen usernames and passwords?
GitUI – 1 year in open source
From http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html

4. Naughtiness

Though the most successful founders are usually good people, they tend to have a piratical gleam in their eye. They're not Goody Two-Shoes type good. Morally, they care about getting the big questions right, but not about observing proprieties. That's why I'd use the word naughty rather than evil. They delight in breaking rules, but not rules that matter. This quality may be redundant though; it may be implied by imagination.

Sam Altman of Loopt is one of the most successful alumni, so we asked him what question we could put on the Y Combinator application that would help us discover more people like him. He said to ask about a time when they'd hacked something to their advantage—hacked in the sense of beating the system, not breaking into computers. It has become one of the questions we pay most attention to when judging applications.

I believe they took that question off the application in the last few years. Perhaps “rules that matter” versus “rules that do not” turned out to be not so cut and dried.
Glad you enjoyed the article! Is there a reference somewhere for how scoring should behave with respect to hard drop? I'm interested in fixing it.
For most topics, English Wikipedia is more accurate than any other article you are likely to find on Google without looking too hard.
The PRC could survive a nuclear exchange with anyone except the USA or Russia, as both went completely overboard during the cold war arms race. Both superpowers have been constantly disarming since the 90s and there's still an order of magnitude difference in number of nukes between them and the rest of the world.
I think it depends on whether you're talking about the transaction containing the NFT metadata (on chain) or the actual data the NFT references in that metadata (ipfs, etc.)
NYC has no for profit prisons
Ada is 2.7B, Babbage is 6.7B, Curie is 13.0B, and DaVinci is 175B. The new one they announced last month is in the 20-50B range I think, not totally sure though.
Thanks for the link, I didn't know that was a thing.

Having said that, this sounds like "Hey guess what? We are gonna snoop on you, and profile the hell out of you and leak all of your sensitive data all over the place (filenames can be) all because you are a paying customer"

That's about the worst way to disrespect a paying customer. Is there a way to easily identify companies that does this, I can avoid them?
But you have absolutely no way of knowing for certain.
please elaborate. are you a taxpayer or a beneficiary of the overall program as an employee or sub contractor....
Tag manager is used for managing all of the various tracking and analytics snippets for a site in a central location, so if your ad blocker stops tag manager itself, you often preempt many other things that would run. In this case I’d assume the facebook pixel was installed using tag manager.
epic comment :)
Adshares: Building a Decentralized Advertising Ecosystem
This reminds me a first perceptron tutorial. An author described that to match a digit 9, ideally one layer matches a circle, another sees a lower curve and a result is then combined into output “neurons”. In reality, after you train a network, it has no circle-matching or curve-matching parts. Every part of it is just a random noise that you couldn’t reverse-engineer without pushing various data to that blackbox. We could’t even tell if matching F to 1 was a learning error or an intended behavior.
Backblaze lost me now
fair enough, but would you care to comment on the reality of the program's overall schedule slippage???
Antimatter rockets could reach the speed of 72M miles per hour
> those who could help the most

Wouldn't complete confiscation of the wealth of billionaires finance something like Medicare for All for around 3 years?

I don't think people understand how utopian and ultimately ill-conceived their plans are.
I'm mainly thinking about whether we can get the pendulum to swing the other way now, after ~50 years of increasing isolation.
So, looking at some potential things to switch to...

OVH has two interesting products here:

OVH cloud archive works with rsync, costs roughly half as much for storage as blackblaze, roughly the same for egress, but charges for ingress (at the same rate as egress).

OVH object store is s3 compatible (like blackblaze), charges roughly the same for bandwidth, 2x for storage.

https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/prices/#439

Digitalocean has a blob store with the same pricing on bandwidth, 4x the pricing on storage, a minimum spend of $5/month on storage, but the first tb ($10) of bandwidth free.

https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing#spaces-object-storage
> hired techies to make amazing stuff that printed money.

you are agreeing with me
You also should not tell racist jokes, sexist or other off color jokes etc at work. However everyone is able to discuss how they loved the new Chappelle skit.

How does that make sense? Context maybe, but I'm not sure.
Wow it's cool that Alibaba shared this. This is 300k lines and ten years of work. It has unit tests documenting optimizations it's able to do that LLVM can't. It looks like ARM support has been open sourced but not x86 yet. It'd be nice to see this included on clang.godbolt.org.
IMO if you are browsing your B2 buckets with an open browser running arbitrary JavaScript you already lost.

If file names are truly sensitive you have to actually be pragmatic in how you choose to render them.
Easy. Put your estate into a terminally settled, non-transferable, future-callable, sale-leaseback with a partial-repo feature, with a European or Japanese bank.

Impossible to tax (aside from the income stream), no downside except for some additional tax headaches. But I assume a few tax headaches are worth it in order to keep billions of dollars in your family.
Somewhat. It's not really hard just a bit harder.

Mainly on your desktop system you can easily use a hardware security key (like a yubikey) to get a good level of signing security.

But your CI server has a good chance to not be your own hardware so you can't plug in a yubikey so to have good key security you either need to find a CI server where you have a HSM or you need to have some form of signing server/service to keep your private key save.

You also should at least consider things like "could the artifact be changed in between your CI creating it and your build signing server/IP-based HSM signing it".

There are ways to handle it, with different benefits and drawbacks. And considering and understanding this things is maybe the biggest additional amount of work.

Or you use a schema-F solution which seems reasonable without understanding it and be okey with it.
So that won't harm the environment, but bitcoin proof of work will?
I actually have Edifier speakers for my TV and they are really ok. For the computer I use audioengine speakers, because they look great and I mean it's what I'm looking at all day.
The lead horrifying story is truly "quite gross":

I recall being told early in my freshman year “If RMS hits on you, just say ‘I’m a vi user’ even if it’s not true.”
He's doing exactly what the big tech liberal contingent told him to do.

"It's not censorship - you can create your own."
Upgrade Your FreeNAS Mini Gen 2 Firmware
I had a hard time upgrading my FreeNAS Mini firmware. So I'm posting the instructions here, hoping someone else finds it useful.

The page at [1] is now dead, so I rescued it from Google Cache [2],
saved it as HTML and added it to my website [3] [4], for posterity.

Apparently this page is not archived by the Wayback Machine, either. So
this will be the only copy of it after Google chooses to get rid of the
cached version.

It'd be nice if FreeNAS/TrueNAS folks resurrected it, though. These
instructions are valuable, and important, for their customers like me
who visit their FreeNAS Mini's web interface infrequently, or don't pay
attention to the FreeNAS UI closely.

To connect to the IPMI interface from your web browser, use the IP address shown in your FreeNAS Dashboard > Network > IPMI > Channel 1 > "IPv4 Address" field.

When it comes to uploading the firmware using the IPMI interface, the webpage has some bug so the button/interface to upload the firmware file does not show. Use the instructions at [5] to make the interface visible. Essentially:

0. Use Google Chrome
1. Log in to BMC
2. Open Chrome Dev Tools
3. Switch to Application tab. Expand "Cookies" and click the appropriate domain name for your server.
4. At the end of the existing cookie list, double click the empty spot. Enter "WebServer" under name.

[1]: https://www.truenas.com/docs/hardware/legacy/mini-gen2/fn-bm...

[2]: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:o8wEib...

[3]: https://gurjeet.singh.im/files/ASRock%20Rack%20C2750D4I%20BM...

[4]: https://github.com/gurjeet/gurjeet.singh.im/commit/d8e735c8a...

[5]: http://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=9577&PID=67985&t...
Okay. I think your statements indicate you are a jerk.

Do I now suddenly get to punish you? Do I get to go to your boss and try to get him to fire you?

See the problem?
Working with the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education is definitely not a “PC allocade”. They are the main organization that tries, from a legal perspective, to protect people from being canceled for their speech at colleges in the US.
I'd like to see similar test on modern 3D NAND SSD. Possibly 3D is not good for many 4K writes due to larger page size?
You're even more confused. Please reread: "I'll generally excuse people who are trying to do the right thing. Richard is trying to do the right thing."

I understand within your cultural frame and value system, ethical behavior is defined with regards to other people's comfort. That's not true for Richard (not for the culture I was born in, for that matter; I don't much care if people around me feel comfortable, nor if they make me feel comfortable, although I do know how to code switch, and do so in professional settings so as to be successful in the US).

Cross-cultural fluency involves being able to interact with people with different value systems. People in the Middle East, China, or Russia will have very different views of what the right thing is from yourself.

I've almost never met a person who tried as hard to do what *they* (not you, not me) believed was right as Richard.
Because everyone realized that compliance beyond lockdowns is piss poor. Mask wearing is political and people can't preform simple hygiene to avoid spreading. Once the curve was flattened it was abundantly clear that any reopening was going to follow with an explosion of cases, which it did.
The reason for that is I'm the CTO, responsible for building out the tech / engineering team.

Hiring people is difficult as there is lack of supply of talented people. We hire InfoSec on contract basis not full-time and they don't join such meetings due to the nature of the contract. So all the responsibility fell on me to defend our technical decisions at that point in time.

I'm working on building out the engineering culture / awareness within management now, to ensure these things do not happen, and I don't have to be questioned as to why we cannot install "google tag manager" in our front-end.

It all comes down to creating awareness, and making people understand. Fortunately for me our CEO gets it, he ended up siding with me.
Covid-19 Vaccine Ethics
XHumanity: Building a Trustworthy Social Media Platform
The total wealth of all American billionaires is $4 trillion, the same amount Bernie Sanders estimates M4A would cost on an annual basis.

So if you took all those assets, somehow found $4 trillion of buyers (lots of Chinese, Russians, and Saudis would line up, I'm sure) we'd get 1 year, not 3.