skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one of the most disturbing things I’ve read in a long time.

> Well either it's achievable, or your minimum wage is so grossly low that you have much bigger problems than the costs of incarceration.

This is pretty widely recognized as the case for anyone not ideologically predisposed to reject the basic arithmetic involved.

> You have people (mostly) locked in a building and you feed them 3 times a day. The biggest costs should be food, electricity, and labour (guards).

Even by the actual reality of prison standards, that’s abusive. What about medical and mental health costs? What about even meager efforts of rehabilitation? Are the guards actual professionals trained to keep the inmates safe (from one another, other guards)?

> Economies of scale bring the per-prisoner cost all the way down.

This is bonkers!!! Why are we talking about economies of scale at all? Our goal should be to eliminate the need to house people in bondage against their will, not to reap the economic benefits of increasing their numbers.
> work provided a venue to solve interesting problems with interesting people

I wish there was a way to find a more balanced work culture (in the USA, other countries may have this already) to be able to continue solving interesting problems with interesting people, as you say, but also live life outside work.

I'd give anything to be able to work maybe 15-20 hours a week at half or a even a third of my salary. But employers will only take 60 hours a week of full-steam burnout, or zero.
"Follow the money"

When people's income depends on not being displaced by a new technology, you can bet that they will be dyed-in-the-wool Luddites.

When Cold Fusion was first announced way back in the 90s (IIRC) it was felt that the whole of the energy industries would be immediately affected by being replaced by small, clean, efficient fusion technology. Strange, that an immediate clamp down occurred on all Cold Fusion information, experimentation, etc.

Personally, I don't know whether Cold Fusion exists or not. But the absolute denigration of anything to do with it seems a bit suspicious to me.

Several researchers have reported energy production, but everybody else can't seem to replicate it, whether that's by accident or design.
The fact that they didn't find an intermediate host after more than a year of search should tell you something.
What country you're in when you make a comment doesn't affect whether it's a good HN comment or not.

Your comment wasn't a good comment for HN because it used name-calling ("yellow journalism", "hating on", "FUD"), and because it was clearly a step further toward conflict between countries in the thread, which is what I mean by nationalistic flamewar.

I'm sure it felt like you were just being defensive and I completely get that, but comments here need to be more substantive and less flamebaity, no matter how wrong or unfair other commenters are, or you feel they are. That's not easy, but it's something we all need to work on, regardless of which side we're on.

Also, I don't think it's accurate to describe this specific article, or most of the comments in this thread (with some bad exceptions) as attacking China. We try to watch out for that and have scolded and moderated many commenters who have crossed that line (including some in this thread). HN's Chinese users, and users with Chinese family backgrounds, are absolutely welcome here, just as welcome as anybody else, and we don't tolerate slurs. You can see some of the long history of this here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....
It is not an emulator. It is a compatibility layer for ELF binaries that implements Linux system calls on Windows, among other things. It uses the same approach WINE ("WINE is not an emulator") uses.
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Mine too! I loved how incredibly light it was. I never had to think twice about taking it somewhere with me. I rarely used the port for anything other than charging, so it wasn’t too much of a hassle. Definitely disliked the keyboard though (I had the first generation).
Wow, this is def the next level of what you have been getting at with posting and moderation. Making me think deeply about my consumption and interaction here on yet another axis; my best posts are my most highly edited so why not edit first?

You always make me think, dang. Criticisms by me and others aside, thanks for doing your job.
http://archive.is/UGJYZ
Yikes. I love my password manager, but I decided when I got it that I was never going to use the browser extensions. Putting your password manager anywhere near your web browser just seems like insanity to me (all the exploit write-ups I recall about password managers were related to browser extensions and sandbox escapes).

This seems like another reason. It's not worth it. Keep the password manager in its own app and apply the tiny extra effort of pasting the password from there.
I once auto filled my way to enrolling a child that wasn't mine into school.
> Does that mean Amazon was invited to the conversation? Should you as a visitor to the home expect that every logo you see in the house means that you agree to have that company present in your conversations during the visit

In short. Yes. Some states only require the _owner_ of the device to consent to being recorded. PDF download below

[1] https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
Im curios what the average verbal IQ is of people that browse this site
It's on psychology today so you don't have to worry about being scammed

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/tests/iq/verbal-linguistic-intelligence-test

edit: I found a non-sketchy grammar test, which the PsychToday test neglected to address.
That's magnificent.

I sometimes have to force an alternative perspective when things feel like they're getting on top of me:

"this is just an unfamiliar challenge, which should be treasured, because the unfamiliar becomes less frequent throughout life"
My impression was that "lab escape" was conflated with "deliberate release" by conspiracy types early on, and once that took hold it became impossible to talk rationally about the accidental escape hypothesis.
Today I was working on an old project and I had to create a tfsignore file. I only got links to gitignore, even if I added 'TFS' as a keyword. In finally ended up directly searching SO and found the Microsoft documentation.
> Why not just outright reject issues on outdated version of the software?

Because that still requires time to deal with, especially if you have free-form support avenues, like a Slack channel. If someone comes in and pastes a stack trace, I still have to take time to ask them what version they are using, and tell them to try on the latest version. And no amount of bot autoresponses will ensure you don't have to get personally involved.

Yeah, if it's something like GitHub Issues, you can set up an issue template that requires the version number, and a bot that checks all submissions and auto-closes if the version number is missing or not the latest. But at least for one project I work on, it's rare that someone goes to the issue tracker first before asking for help in Slack.
Well you probably have a very high IQ. The less gifted need to work harder as is true in every discipline.
It's not a partition between the things you said, it's a partition between beliefs that would be held absent any reward vs beliefs that are only held due to a reward. RMS doesn't gain anything from arguing that the age of consent should be lower, since it just makes everyone call him a paedophile, therefore he's probably making it in good faith, therefore he's making a genuine attempt to do the right thing and should be engaged in good faith. His autism is only relevant insofar as it makes him more likely to say things without understanding the social consequences.

Additionally, nobody in this thread has been removed from any boards, fired, barred from attending conferences, or in any way cancelled, to the best of my knowledge. If that happens it will be bad. It hasn't happened. Donglegate got both parties fired, and that was also bad. I don't think cancel culture is used only in one direction, it's just that tech industry workers don't cancel the left very often. Steve Klabnik is allowed to go around calling himself a communist without getting removed from anything, for example.
That's very true, yes.

I'd say materialism, achievement, and social standing are the de-facto defaults for what we mean by status in the broader sense.

We are tribal social creatures by nature, but we also play silly games like who can get the most cars or the biggest house.
1) Embrace

2) Extend <- You are here

3) Extinguish
Yeah, and it makes me wonder if spears changed other things. Maybe they had to spend less time hunting since spears were more efficient. And that might have influenced human society and development in other ways.
> Here is a suggestion: US is stockpiling tens of millions of AstraZeneca vaccine doses.

The U.S. is stockpiling them because AstraZeneca might get approval and then they can use them. They are hedging their bets. It's a sensible policy.

> Not a measly 4 million doses.

Sure, maybe we should just take them back then?

> What could have EU done to be in a better position that would not have screwed over almost the entire rest of the world.

The E.U. has shipped like 34 million vaccines [1]. Why are people abroad more important than its own citizens?

But let's not sit here and pretend that the E.U. is saving the world here with this number of vaccines. For every elderly person they vaccinate in some other country, it's one elderly or at-risk person in the E.U. who isn't getting vaccinated.

At the end of the day it'll be the U.S. and U.K. (and maybe Israel) who will be vaccinating much of the world.

"Italy was able to block the shipment to Australia last week under a new emergency rule that allows any E.U. member to halt exports of the vaccines produced in the bloc." [2]

As I said - the E.U. is going to be in hot water over this and it's going to severely test the resolve of the union to stay together. Sending those 34 million doses out instead of vaccinating E.U. citizens is ammo for nationalists and far-right sympathizers.

> But here we are now, blaming the only one who is keeping Canadians (and other non-superpower nations) alive.

I'm not blaming anyone. You're blaming the U.S. and U.K. for protecting their citizens first and foremost.

> What could have EU done to be in a better position that would not have screwed over almost the entire rest of the world.

Beats me. The U.S. is going to wind up shipping more vaccines to other countries than any other country. Watch and see.

[1] [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/10/world/europe/eu-exports-c...
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>it filled the wrong field

I agree, this is awful (I'd really like to know how on earth it decided that this field is where the expiration year belongs. It sounds like some extremely aggressive assumptions are being made).

>The user also had a chance to see how it filled the form and didn't bother checking.

It's impossible to overstate how wrongheaded, unproductive, and, frankly, lazy this sentiment is.
Often security cameras can be set up to have 'alarms'. You can put in virtual tripwires/zone that alert you of motion is detected.

Also police love cameras as it makes charging/proving cases much simpler and in turn should help reduce criminals around.
One of my online accounts has my city name as my first name because of autofill.
> And yes, web providers should give their web forms better names and better semantic information (e.g. `<input type="email">`), but even in 2021 it's just not always the case.

Well, there's no semantic input for "year" or "currency", so there's nothing the form designer could do to stop 1Password from picking the wrong field. This does kinda get to the root of the issue, which is that 1Password has to do a lot of "cognitive" analysis of the page to find the forms it wants which is simultaneously why it does better than most autofillers, and has worse false positives than most autofillers.

I am also a happy 1Password user, and I'll happily let it prefill a complex form for me, but I've caught enough of its mistakes in the past that I will always manually double check before submitting. I could also see myself making a similar mistake as this user on this form though (since it's so simple I might not manually double check).
You're thinking of WSL 1 (which behaves as you describe). WSL 2 actually uses virtualization and a linux kernel.

Source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/compare-version...
And if it's too cheap, waste heat from all the electricity we'll be using will heat up the earth again.
> Notably, the scientists pictured standing next to it weren't dead.

That’s clever and snarky and not at all helpful.

And if I’m to believe the comments about table top fusors below, it’s not even true.
> I'm pretty sure if I did my favorite hobby full time for a year I'd start resenting it.

There are some ways around it:

- Have several hobbies and just do whichever depending on your mood and desire at the time. They are hobbies, not jobs; you don't HAVE to do them if you currently don't want to. It's OK to abandon some of your hobbies for years. (There is a good amount of stories about book authors who start seriously writing -- and become famous and financially successful -- at 50+ years old).

- Don't do anything "meaningful" for a while. I have found huge inner peace and improved mental health by just being completely useless for 3 months between contracts. Ironically, during these "useless" times of mine I've progressed hugely on numerous personal interests (some of which overlap with me being a programmer but are relating to things that aren't popular there).

- [Re-]Discover true leisure time: walks in nature and admiring the scenery, boat trips, lying on the beach, traveling to exotic locations (OK, this one is almost impossible at the moment), and many others. We don't live to only work.
I agree — the 12" is still Apple's best ever form factor. I even considered buying another one as the line was winding down. (Though was glad I didn't after the M1 came out.)

But to be fair, the comment you're replying to is talking specifically about the 12" MacBook's keyboard, which is indeed awful. I'm typing on one right now, and even after years on the thing, it's a perpetual reminder of how they're slower to type on, and kind of make your fingers hurt.

Remove the butterfly keyboard, add a second port, and the 12" MacBook gets unequivocally better.
Also Stroustrup thinks that is the way to use cpp, his talks are all about 'do not use all of cpp, pick your features'. Makes senses in a way but it does lead to various notion of what cpp is.
The “power” you are exerting is the one killing innocent American citizens. The CCP doesn’t give a flying fuck that you are calling it China virus. That you would put American lives at risk for some superficial insult at the CCP says you care more about your perceived superiority than actually solving problems pertaining to the virus.

Again it is Americans who are dying, not the Chinese.
Unfortunately I couldn‘t find a source for how many doses have been delivered to the UK so it‘s hard to draw a comparison.

While the UK is vaccination their population at 3.5x the rate of Germany, the majority of that is due to the lack of supplies. If Germany was vaccinating at a rate of 750k/day, ever dose would be applied in 5 days. Considering big deliveries only happen ~1/week this is neither feasible nor desirable.
No, because there are a lot of people of Chinese descent in the US and they have historically been targeted and oppressed by the government and the public. If South Africans in the US started getting attacked (I've met two or three over the years) then we would all want to stop using that phrase as well.

Maybe if the US didn't have a very large number of people who are willing to harass people of visibly different races we wouldn't have to have these discussions and worry so much about our language. But we do, and we have a track record of specific races being attacked when nations that have a majority of that race become embroiled in international issues.
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Probably not fair to pin it fully on 1pw or substack.

1PW autofills based on common cc form names, year, credit_card[year] etc etc. Substack clearly named the field a name that could hit that, probably amount_per_year.

1PW can't account for every form on every website, just not realistic.

How's the headline not true? It's a UI/UX issue that caused him to be charged that amount?
I see replies blaming 1password being downvoted, so I'll ask a question instead. Why would 1password decide to fill out that particular input with the expiration date?
The poor design and implementation of 1Password, you mean.
What's the point of hidden input there ? A bug ? A feature ?
Same here. I've got the M1 Air and while it's good, it's definitely bigger and heavier than the 12-inch, which is a bit of an inconvenience once you're used to the former.

It's a sad coincidence they decided to discontinue it before their M1 CPU was ready because the M1 would've been right at home in the power & thermal envelope of the 12-inch Macbook.
The AI research paper was real. The 'Coauthor' wasn't
A book that goes deeper into this conversation is The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

Well worth the read, the story had a lot of nuances

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34758210
> "The fair price is the one that god paid, uh.”

This is literally the definition of price discovery in a free market. If the price was not worth the service the company was to receive, they would not have paid it.

The fact that they did pay it clearly indicates that the first price was far below what the "market" would bear.
Just mentioning this for posterity. Some solutions I've had are:

1. Using Cygwin, Cygwin's X12 server and ssh X forwarding to run Linux apps on Windows that were actually running in VirtualBox.

2. Same thing with Cygwin X server but running everything in WSL1.

3. Trying to natively compile things for Cygwin.

4. Using Docker for Windows to run specific apps, although this is fairly similar to #1.

5. Straight Hyper V Debian... Networking was such a pain I went back to VirtualBox.

I haven't messed with WSL2 yet but I imagine it'll be some cross of #1 and #2.

Compiling stuff in Cygwin was a pain somewhat, still took hours to compile seemingly every dependency if the thing you wanted wasn't in the Cygwin package managers. The X server is rock solid though.

The WSL1 sure is a neat idea but I can understand that being a dead end street so they hopped to virtualization.

Another commenter mentioned ChromeOS and I really dig how they made that work. Even better than OSX. Recently I got a Pinebook Pro and running arch it seems I have to run a Debian container and forward X for so much stuff I'm thinking about just going to Debian straight away, but I may lose some support for some things I'm not sure.

Edit: I forgot there is I think a closed source X server for Windows that is still free that supports some of OpenGL. I managed to get Kitty (terminal) running on that.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26545845 was flagged correctly, as I explained there.

The issue isn't how long an account has been on HN or the good posts it makes—it's the bad posts. This shouldn't be hard to understand; it's the same principle by which people who always stop at red lights and are nice to supermarket cashiers still don't get to rob banks.
Thanks for covering these aspects of different software in automotive industry. It makes me more curious as you mentioned the multi-disciplinary nature in the domain: How can they tune so many metrics and be able to optimize the whole car? Are racing events a huge part of the optimization journey, or small part?
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Surprisingly enough I quite like the keyboard. Its reliability is shit (though better in the 2017 model - haven't had to replace mine yet) but the feeling of it is fine; it took some time to get used to but after that I don't mind it at all!
1Pass can choose not to put CC information into hidden fields.
> This is why (some) European countries took on millions of refugees in the last ten years.

I don't really view this as much in the way of compassion. It's more like that the E.U. is getting old and not having babies and they need more people to pay taxes. It's also counter-productive from a global perspective. You have to fix the reasons these people migrate in the first place.

> China and Russia are playing this particularly well right now, supplying other nations faster than their own population.

Are they? Do you have a link? I saw from the New York Times tracker that China has vaccinated 74 million of their own citizens. Are you saying they've sent more vaccines to the rest of the world than the 74 million they've used on their own? If so color me impressed.

Your point about the vaccine being supplied to other countries is certainly well taken - but the idea that the U.S. and U.K. won't be supplying vaccines (Vaccine Diplomacy) to buy influence as well or in counter moves to Russian and Chinese influence would be naive.

I think a lot of people are suffering from Trump hangover. The U.S. is quickly getting things back together.
It can be pride over shame of incompetence maybe ? the wuhan labs are said to be lacking in standard safety biohazard practices.. so investigating may reveal that.
The only condescension I felt was towards his partner's supposed thinking, which if you read on (spoilers) is presumably due to a nasty breakup + cheating episode leading to an inability to view her position objectively anymore.
I didn't mind the keyboard so much. I'll admit that when I switch back to that machine that I don't like it as much as on the MBA, but it was fine. Granted, I've always had weird keyboard preferences in terms of tactile feel, travel distance, and the like.

Once in a while I'd wind up with the sticky keys, but was lucky enough to avoid anything permanent.
I believe this is almost deliberate misdirection of the authors, but maybe they believe what they write.

I'm fairly sure if you looked at a slightly longer timeframe, you'd see prices for all go up, and even more for the expensive units.

Just looking at the latest 12 months really does not paint a useful picture.

I expected the WaPo to do a better job, esp since I believe their point that low income renters are being unfairly squeezed is probably a valid one.
Nominet runs .uk and associated internets stuff. This is quite important stuff for a quite important economy. It is a monopoly for that function and has minimal oversight by stakeholders other than "members" - ISPs, not you and me. You and me seem to have a minimal importance despite being the actual end subjects. My .co.uk website is a subject but I have no say in my country's internet governance. I won't dwell on monarchical parallels here!

Over the last few years Nominet (a non profit in the UK sense) have been accused of inflating Director's salaries and attempting projects outside their remit (which have lost money) - vanity projects.

The governance rules look ridiculous: GoDaddy (large US firm) has more say than many UK ISPs by being a big fat thingie. GD did of course stand up for their customers by abstaining (I may be wrong here by being a day or two out of date)

Thankfully the campaign run on https://publicbenefit.uk/ actually worked.
I've updated my blog post to include 1Password in the title as it contributed to the issue (I can't update the title here). That said, I've never experienced this before, having used 1Password on 100s of other payment forms so something is up.

I do think there are design issues with people being able to set subscription amounts manually without having a confirmation step when doing so.
Replace word IIT with College.
Most of your statement would feel correct nonetheless.