skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a couple reasons not to treat the problem as solved:

First,

> Law enforcement groups and prosecutors opposed the bill saying the former inmates pose a danger to the public.

The culture that creates these restrictions is still there, it's still the predominant view from law enforcement and prosecutors that prison labor should be punitive, not rehabilitative. None of the people who created and supported that system are gone, and they still have an outsized degree of control over how that system works.

Second,

> The bill, sponsored by Democratic Assemblywoman Eloise Reyes, lets prisoners who received "valuable training and [placed] themselves in danger assisting firefighters to defend the life and property of Californians" to petition the courts to dismiss their convictions after completing their sentences.

A right to petition is not a guarantee that your petition will succeed.

Third,

When you dig into the details, the bill only allows removing the specific convictions that the prisoner was serving time for while they were a firefighter. If they had previous convictions or served time in the past, they'll still be restricted from getting EMT certification.

Fourth,

When you dig into the details, this bill actually doesn't get rid of restrictions on felons. It provides prisoners with a very narrow path to remove their felon status. That's not really the same thing as getting rid of the restrictions, and it's only available to prisoners who have "[placed] themselves in danger assisting firefighters".

Think of it this way: if it's illegal for women to vote, and instead of letting women vote I instead say, "here's a pathway to get the courts to declare you a man", then I haven't really gotten rid of the restriction on voting, and it would be inaccurate to say that my system provided women with the right to vote.

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It's good that prisoners have at least some recourse that they can use to try and benefit from the life threatening work they did in prison, but it's a far cry from solving the overall problem, and it arguably doesn't even fully solve this specific problem.
The goal was to design and develop a game alone. And then publish it.

It's no 100% mine. But anything that isn't I paid for it. So it "came from me" anyways.

You can see the assets I bought in the credits section. And I even hired a designer to help with UI/UX.

I have a dev blog, but as development went on I kinda skimped on it. Here it is: https://vaskivodev.gitlab.io/onewaydungeon/
So Bertrand Russell wasn't always right, either. Fortunately, the actual politicians in charge were a bit more reasonable.
It's quite concerning given the amount of people who will be trying to sell right now. Even a short period of being locked out of trading could cost people thousands of dollars. I'm sure they're protected in their terms of use but I wouldn't use an exchange that can't keep live with high volumes.
Why does it matter? Matrix is no IRC. Fewer clients, way more complex protocol, the identity server is centralized, only one complete server implementation exists (and it seems like that's the only one that will ever exist, other attempts appear dead, despite the list on matrix.org) and worse than Freenode being owned by private capital, all of Matrix is controlled by New Vector LLC -- the protocol, the clients, and the biggest servers, and they operate the main identity server so they can keep track of your phone number or email address and map it to your Matrix ID. (I wonder when they'll start selling that data?) If this situation with Freenode makes you move to Matrix you're choosing to move to a network with all the same problems you're fleeing, but magnified

Oh but there's one more thing about Matrix

If you don't like it, the CEO of the company will come argue with you about it here

I don't check for replies to my comments on HN because this community is too toxic but I'll bet Arathorn eventually comments to tell me I'm wrong. Maybe he'll promise that they don't sell the vector.im identity data. I don't trust him, anyway.
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Hey, thanks for this super useful breakdown. I loved Elixir looking at it a few years ago but never got productive enough in it to do more than a few smaller toy projects. I'm going to dig into it again.
It says partial outage for web and api for me.
You think someone with generational wealth would stop to even consider the cost of advil or a lunch in FiDi? They don't. This little bit of mythology has always been amusing to me. They may make their own lunch out of habit or simply because they have a preference or whatever--but cost isn't a reason for people of that much wealth.

They don't like wasting money, but what they consider "waste" is not the same thing as what someone who isn't wealthy would consider waste.
Bitstamp (https://www.bitstamp.net/) has been having intermittent downtime as well.
> In fact, von Neumann claimed to do some of his best work in noisy, chaotic environments such as in the living room of his house with the television blaring.

I often think of this when people claim it is impossible to conceive of any advanced thought in an open office or noisy environment. In fact, it is just a personal preference and one environment isn't necessarily any better than another.
So interesting it seems he's going all in on the royalty branding using Korea's former royal house's seal. I saw a news article of him being named 'crown prince' of Korea by one of the pretenders to the throne despite not being closely related.
i keep CLRS as a reference book and i regularly read a chapter on something i find interesting, it's been a great book in my collection. For lectures, i recommend the algorithms course by Robert Sedgewick on Coursera, his way of presenting the material is extremely clear. Here are some key things i think you should know : 1)analyzing time + space complexity - omega (lower bound), theta, and big o notation 2) quick sort, merge sort (study quick sort more extensively because the partitioning idea is used in other algorithms), radix sort (what does it mean when a sort is stable? why is this idea important) - radix sort is used in some string sorting algorithms 2)binary search 3)Binary Search Trees, maybe a little bit about B-Trees (this is more for personal knowledge than interviews) 4)dictionary implementation 5)Graph representation (adj-list-matrix) and graph processing algorithms (mainly DFS and BFS and what properties do they have? can you detect a cycle in a graph?) You could also study minimum spanning tree algorithms and shortest path algorithms 6)Backtracking 7)Dynamic programming 8)Greedy algorithms

finally get a leetcode account. In many leetcode problems you don't need to know alot of these things i mentioned but studying those topics will allow you to learn different ways of thinking about problems solving.
"Intermittent downtime on Coinbase platforms"

"Investigating - We are currently investigating this issue.
May 19, 06:12 PDT"
a popular IRC network has been taken over by a private owner. The users don't like that and are leaving. It was around for a long time so for many of those users it's effecting them negatively. I would imagine that these users could start a new network? If you were not part of the community you are likely not impacted.
Exchanges going down is the circuit breaker of cryptos.
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Ah yes, I really hate it when we have to put people in jail to protect ourselves from checks notes them smoking a joint.
Meanwhile, the prisoners eat this, or worse.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/05/11/ewwwww-what-is...

Also note the "Lunch - NONE" entry for every Saturday and Sunday. Texas figures 2 meals on the weekends is fine.
Lol, idk if that’s true? I’ve been poor working with poor people and we did not all say hello on a regular basis
Definitely worth 2x Nasdaq!
More info from Fuchs: https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-community/2021q2/006888.h... :( It's bad news.
According to Binance, Bitcoin just went down from $42k to $30k in 2 hours. Elon Musk selling his cryptocurrencies??
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Well yeah, we’re in the middle of the dump phase of pump and dump in an unregulated marketplace.
You're right. Matrix is no IRC. But it's an order of magnitude better than Facebook Messenger.
Modern livery: belittling and dehumanizing.
Crypto crash deepens, stocks slip
I'd venture to say directly -- current lvl2 data shows about 1-10% of previous order depth available.

Which also asks the next question, how much of the price action and volume is automated trading in these platforms?

Not that automated is necessarily good or bad - but how much is a retail interest
> For example, one of the reasons that soccer/football is popular worldwide is because it's very cheap. Is it not so in the US?

It is relatively cheap in the US as far as I know, but it's not nearly as common as basketball for pickup sports. I think the racial / class connections here are fascinating (and too lengthy to dissect here), but my general sense in the US is that soccer is actually perceived as more "other" / "foreign" than other sports.

> Also the assumption that everyone takes painkillers?

People who come up from lower-class backgrounds often have chronic pain - being overweight is one reason (as alluded to in this article), which is strongly correlated with income/class levels in the US. But also the work that one might do as a lower-class person in the US is different, and tends to be more physically stressful. That can add up to back/knee/neck injuries that never quite heal correctly and cause pain.
So the article resounded with me, because being raised by my grandparents on a family citrus farm during the transition thru the NAFTA years and watching my family loose what little land wealth they had. It left an indelible mark, a mark of insecurity and fear and it lead to behavior like this.

I remember one time, when I just started out in tech, I went to an interview for a group that was contracting for NASA, the interview went very well, they loved me, the team loved me. I pretty much had the job. The team liked me so much that they invited me to lunch. I declined, you could tell the temperature changed at that very moment that I did. I did not get the job, and in retrospect I should have just told them I am not in the position to pay for a meal out at this time. I had literally put my last pennies into the tank of my car to get to that interview.

Anyways, I back story that, to say this; I did well in the industry, I have exited a few companies and I have held some pretty impressive titles at some pretty big orgs but I never got rich. Some of that had to do with dragging my family out of poverty but some of it had to do with something else. I helped build a startup and we sold that startup for a good deal of money. I received a pittance because I did not know my value. It was enough to take off some of life's stresses but it was not FU money. I went to work for one of the companies that we had a B2B relationship with that was a downstream provider to the company we sold. Anyways it was here that things changed for me, and it was not because of me or my work. It was because the CEO of that company became my personal friend. Her name was Sheila and she told me something that I had never heard before and that was this.

She told me that I was what she calls institutionally poor. That I had been conditioned thru my childhood to think like a poor person and in doing so you send out unconscious signals to others. She told me this because she came up similar. She told me that it causes you to over analyze and over estimate risk and therefore you will not take the bold moves that people that don't have to worry do. That while you can change the world and everyone see it. If you hold onto the fear on needing your safety net under you, that you will never extract your true value from other. So I said, so you are going to pay me my fair value, she laughed and said no, I got you for a very good deal. 3 Days latter I walked into her office, with my resignation letter and told her I had an offer from another company. She said, now you get it, how much did they offer. I told her, and she said I will double that if you stay. That was when I learned a tangential lesson, and that is sometimes hard ass, ball busters are the best people.

Point being there is a piece of this, that the person that grew up poor has to break themselves free of and many times they don't even know what they need to free themselves of and that is thinking like a poor person.
$600B wiped out from Crypto market in 24 hours
Explanation at the exact level of detail I wanted - thank you :)
Burning coal literally dumps arsenic into the environment.

And to do so for speculative fun is ridiculous.
you can write whatever restrictions you want to apply to the company into its founding articles of association/memorandum, which are the legal documents which state what the company is allowed to do and how it is to be operated

however most of the off-the-shelf Articles tend to be completely unrestricted (for obvious reasons)
In a lot of cases, they aren't left with much of a choice. Many chips aren't in production any longer, either due to them being custom chips or due to them serving a need that the market no longer has. Stuffing everything into an FPGA isn't really a solution in this case since it effectively makes it a hands-off machine.

What do I mean by hands off? In terms of software, it doesn't make much of a difference. You can still develop for the machine and it will appear to be the genuine article. In terms of hardware, it is a different ballgame. At best, slots and ports may be exposed so stuff can be added to the machine. It will be a bit like using a modern desktop, albeit with the opportunity to develop your own expansion cards since the expansion bus can be more accessible than PCI-e. On the other hand, most modifications to the hardware itself must be made through the FPGA. The FPGA route will be more flexible, but it requires an entirely different skill set. Relatively few people have the skill or interest to deal with FPGAs, particularly if they are seeking something more comforting than modern hardware.

How is replicating something like the video chip with an FPGA somehow acceptable? Presumably it is because it has to interface with the rest of the system in a conventional way and since people were unable to modify the video chip in vintage computers anyhow. Since it is interfacing with the system in a conventional way, you can also mess around with the video circuitry surrounding the chip.
People who love IRC will still use IRC and not move to Matrix. It will just be a pain to reconfigure all the bridging between Matrix and libera.chat.
>By comparison, many other European countries (Germany, France, Sweden, Belgium, …) have specific types of legal entities for associations that have appropriate restrictions on what can be done with them. For example, they can generally not be sold, are required to be internally democratic with fixed statutes, usually (but not always) have open membership and an elected board. I think that would go a long way to fixing these recurrent issues.

As I understand it you can set all those things up in an American non-profit and many do in fact have that setup. So it's not a shortcoming of the legal system but of the people who created the entity. They chose not to do those things and no one objected strongly enough.
wow what's going on with all the crypto prices today?
I highly recommend using the hexpm docker images, which you specify with elixir, erlang, and distro versions, e.g. hexpm/elixir1.12-erlang24.0-debian-buster.

Since the official Elixir versions aren't pinned to a version of Erlang, we had issues where either Erlang or the distro should change out from under us. But not with the hexpm ones.
If google employees actually care about any number of the issues that email someone about they would actually withhold their labor. This is just a bunch of cowardly tech workers ensuring their woke cress with their friends who aren’t taking blood money day and day out.
When you have a hard life and can't afford comparatively costly luxuries like a vacation or air conditioning, you find cheaper pleasures.
> must simply "lower their standards" to act working class.

You make that sound easy, but I see the situation as symmetric. For example, my wife grew up wealthier than I did - and when it came time for us to buy a car, her first question was "how big a car would we need to comfortably move our family around" while mine was "what's the most affordable?"

it's a completely different mindset - she is frustrated that I default to a poor mindset and I am frustrated that she defaults to a rich one. Neither one is easy to switch.
Unit tests should flag that.
Prisoners need cash for commissary and prisons get less heat if they can say they payprisoners for work.

Just don't look into how much prison shit costs.

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/commissary.html

https://www.prisonerresource.com/interview/how-much-money-sh...

https://www.prisonphonejustice.org/#:~:text=Currently%2C%20i....

https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2020/dec/1/cost-communi...
>PWA for ChromeOS, Flutter for Fuchsia (but yes it is multi-platform), JetPack Compose for Android (but does have some multi-platform stuff coming out). So really it's three.

I don't think the parents point is that all those are frameworks.

Rather that they have two many frameworks and platforms, with no coherent unified platform strategy (Apple's iOS, macOS, ipadOS, watchOS are all the same under the hood, and their UI frameworks are also unified or getting there fast).
The resignation letter says there was a hostile takeover and bad faith actions by the new owner. Most of the staff has resigned in protest. Thus, the reputation that freenode built is likely not any indication for how it will perform and behave going forward.
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Wow, I didn't know this. This is staggering.

Especially given that the guidance on their website is deliberately misleading (see my comment above).

How can people be ending up with criminal records when their website incorrectly implies that you need a TV licence for Apple TV and Netflix (which is 100% wrong)...

Absolutely unacceptable.
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Watching the absolute freefall of the crypto market on coinmarketcap is rather entertaining. Glad I cashed out ~10 days ago, even if I missed out on some gains.
> Fewer clients

It does work decently on my phone though.

> the identity server is centralized

Is that really a downside? I don't know a single newcomer who found authenticating with "Nickserv" was a natural thing to do.
https://ariadne.space/about - she's pretty cool
I'm not so sure. I bought my car mostly to minimize total-cost-of-ownership. I assume I'll resell my car when the TCO of maintenance exceeds the TCO of a new car.

I know a lot of other folks who do something similar to that too.

TCO includes my time, so if I need to take a car to the shop, or miss meetings because things break down, that raises TCO by that opportunity cost. Selling a car is a hassle, and by the time I'm ready to give it up, it's not worth too much (and the buyers will probably be poor, since TCO exceeds a new car) so I don't feel the need to maximize resale value.

While this is an overly rationalist way of phrasing things, but most people I know take a similarly pragmatic approach. Teachers. (Real, not software) engineers. Etc.

I don't buy used cars, since some people sell to upgrade, and some sell because there's some issue. The headache adds a lot to the TCO.
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If one exchange goes down and you have enough money to move the price on another one, that's a great opportunity for some arbitrage. That would cause at least some players to try for higher volatility. (No idea what the overall effect will be though)
> For the people who understand Elixir/OTP's strengths it's excellent.

Is there any place to read about this on a more or less basic level? I bet many people will just ask what benefits they may get from this instead of apps build using Go (for example) + rabbitmq
I wonder if their opinions would have changed if they had been aware of the possibility this would result in nuclear winter.
Thanks, I'll look into it.

edit: so far so good.
I am in a third group, I don't care.
The kind of math that they are talking about (anything having to do with extreme values) is particularly hard, exotic and (in my mind) still pre-paradigmatic.

It is 2021 and physicists still bin events by magnitude, draw a line through the points, announce they discovered a power law. It's like nobody ever taught them there was such as thing as an "estimator"; actually in the 1990s I was doing that too, knew it was half-baked, and found the stats literature wasn't useful to outsiders at all.
How did you get the cloak?
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And also surprising the author did not experience it at Uni where even well off middle class people, suddenly are mixing with much wealthier people.

I remeber my cousin who went to UMIST saying this and that side of the family was well off.

Its even more noticeable if you went to oxbridge and bumped into some one like Borris Johnson and his Bullingdon mates.
It is possible on HN to hide certain posts. I really like this feature. I wonder whether it is possible to hide some websites like paulgraham.com altogether. That would be great.
Much racism in America is actually classism. That's why something like Henry Louis Gates being profiled by a neighbor and a policeman as he was trying to get back to his Harvard home makes the news: Gates is an educated upper-class black man, and in this case he was treated as the latter rather than the former.
In many places around the world, poor people don't have "old car problems".
It's also a circuit breaker for regular brokerages too :)
This is an example of why a well organized governance and legal standing matters for projects like this. If that were the case this situation would not have happened.
The volume of Bitcoin is over $100B sometimes. It's over $75B in the last 24 hours.

There are several days in the last month, according to Tether, with AT LEAST $500M of inflows.

A single $1B of outflows shouldn't tank a market like this by 40%...
No, I don't think it's much of an open question.

We have seen historically what happens in that kind of situation. That didn't happen in 2008. Also in 2008, we had an unprecedented government intervention. Now, you can claim that "this time would have been different", but the burden of proof is on you for that claim. Without that proof, the observations are "it didn't crash when it usually did, and the government intervention is what was different". Not quite proof, but very suggestive.

You observe that some countries did not bail out their banks. But which countries? The US and big European banks are systemically important worldwide in a way that the banks of, say, Croatia or Egypt are not. (Not saying those are the countries you have in mind - I don't know which ones you're talking about.) If country X didn't have a real estate boom, and let some banks go under without bailout, it shouldn't have caused much damage.
"they can keep track of your phone number or email address and map it to your Matrix ID"

Damn. Fuck that.

My phone number and email is none of their business.

It's so dispiriting to see every form of communication on the internet moving to ever more spying on their users.