skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As long as prisons are separate from the judicial system, I don't see the connection. They can't actually send more people to prison.
Huh, not sure why the original link changed. It's still on my blog here: https://chris-granger.com/2012/04/12/light-table-a-new-ide-c...
Well Vitalant gives me enough loyalty points for a t-shirt once a year, but I give blood because I think it's a civic duty.
This period is well recorded. Cortes made it to Tenochtitlan the first time before small pox. Cortes and company were driven from the city and nearly killed. The Spaniards regrouped and were reinforced while small pox devastated the Aztec population - including Tenochtitlan.
The privatized internet has failed us
Equating people criticizing folks like Milo Yiannopoulos and Richard Spencer as people criticizing "US conservatives" says more about you and the Republican Party then the people doing the criticizing. These are not mainstream conservative people. They do not have mainstream conservative values. These are people who support extreme right wing policies including at times fascist policies. Basically every mainstream platform has kicked these people off for their abhorrent behavior. Holding them up as a representative of "US conservatives" is an insult to any reasonable-minded conservative.
> The GP is trying to say that the whole notion of incarceration is barbaric, and that future generations will look back on it just like we look at, say, stokades.

What is the alternative? If someone kills someone in cold blood do you just let them roam free? You could argue that certain crimes don't warrant certain levels of punishment but incarceration /generally/ seems necessary.
Yes and it has always been like this.

Why would companies truly "value" Engineering? The majority of execs thinks we are just interchangeable drones and the only reason the salaries are so high in SV is because they literally can't get away with less. If they could, US salaries would be comparable to Canada or EU which are embarrassingly low for the amount of work they require.

They will fire you in an instant to save cost, never increase your salary and come up with elaborate schemes to basically screw you.

I have seen executives try it all: Replace senior engineering with students or interns (I'm not kidding), hire from third world companies and pay the peanuts, bring in cheap labor on visa restrictions and abuse them, low ball you in salary negotiations, attempt to pay with "stocks" (I'm talking about penny stock companies here..)

To management, Engineering is nothing but an annoying expense that gets in their way of profit.

All the free foods, foosball tables, "family" mantra and cool hats are designed to distract you from the fact that you are being paid in pittance. This is why there is so much discrimination against older engineers, because they are more likely to catch up to this and demand a fair wage and good working conditions. When you are young, naive and hungry, you don't think about it much because burning the midnight oil with pizza is exciting.
so people rich enough could prosecute just about anyone they want, and people who are poor could likely never get any justice if they are a victim - and you think that is an improvement over the current system?
And specifically certain prose issues in technical writing.

It's like writing is a complex activity, and just one of its sub-tasks is editing prose.
Well, an Amazon recruiter contacted me, so they must be desperate.
This is not a hypothetical problem. Former slave-owning states passed Black Codes that made it easy to convict blacks of things..where they wound up in prisons where they were leased out as workers. Since it mostly happened to blacks, nobody cared much if there was much fairness in the process. And given the economic incentives, it was done fairly liberally.

https://innocenceproject.org/13th-amendment-slavery-prison-l... documents that it still happens in places like Louisiana.
The caveat is that I've never actually spent time in a prison, my understanding of the setup is that the base level experience is that you stay in your cell / rec room, and can go outside to the yard like an hour a day. Beyond that, you can volunteer (or get paid some small amount) to help out in various ways, like working laundry, barber shop, kitchen, library, etc. I don't think any of these pays minimum wage. Adding another thing that prisoners can opt into doesn't seem crazy or exploitive, if it is truly just another choice that they can make.
Garbage article. The only sources mentioned were authored by Susan J Crawford, who has conducted no primary research and whose means of sustaining herself appears to be misinterpreting other researchers' work and blogging about it. Here are responses from the primary researchers who wrote the papers she references: https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/financial-post-publis...
> Further questions: is the work mandatory?

This is addressed in the (short) article.
You need a third state to know that user has not made a choice. If you don't want to make a choice for the user, for instance, you don't want to default to F or T, then third state tells exactly that user has to make a choice.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal
Search for “Bernard van Dijk” on LinkedIn. He is a professor on an Aviation University. He has a very solid story about why hydrogen will never work in airplanes.
I’m addition, a well explained video about it:
https://youtu.be/nrCE9duCej0
I'll pay you $150k to watch over 10 children for 7 hours a day or one violent and mentally ill murderer 24/7. What do choose?
There’s also David Harvey’s Anti-Capitalist Chronicles http://davidharvey.org/2022/01/new-podcast-david-harveys-ant...

There are of course many Marxist podcasts, but i find it interesting that Harvey’s always attempting to wrestle with AI and other technologies in the context of thinking through Marxism in our time.
> I don't think it's possible.

It is manifestly possible. The Germans do it.

https://www.gallup.com/workplace/236165/german-workers-satis...

The reason it doesn't happen in the U.S. is that workers have been systematically stripped of all of their power, so corporate management now answers exclusively to shareholders. Trying to make life better for your workers puts you at a competitive disadvantage.

But it does not have to be that way. All we have to do to change it is to decide that it needs to change.
Many work farm labor, tip work, or gig work.

Edit: why disagree?
hi! the author here.
you're right, there's some telemetry being transferred, it could be turned off in the preferences. I think it also checks for the new version exactly five minutes after launch, that call goes to https://shottr.cc/api/version.json
My previous house had resistive electrical heating, and I seriously considered building a mining rig to only run in the winter.
I don't disagree with some of the principle.

I think what you are saying can be perceived (and maybe it inherently is) partisan, in the sense that it focuses on one aspect entirely to prove a larger point - I think we are missing out on many of the things that the right restricted - good ol' Fifties' McArthyism of course comes quickly to mind, but I think through much of the history (but not all!), and certainly throughout the global geography, it was the conservative / establishment voices that had the power to restrict progressive speech. If instead, in your post you made a point that going against the cultural zeitgest of the times is always inherently risky and with consequences, you'd have been far more engaging and accepted rather than focusing on one side and attaching a ranty YouTube about "wokeness". It especially doesn't sound non-conspiratorial and non-partisan once you talk about "evil influences" and "this war will be won" - that means we're not having a discussion, you're preaching a specific point of view.

(FWIW, I don't like either side overzealously restricting what's permissible to discuss - I'm in my own world of no mental or verbal taboos and a marketplace of ideas, which is the rarest side of all it turns out -- neutral simply means all sides can gang up on you :D )
This, the financial focused papers have to at least be somewhat honest in their reporting as investors and other business folks depend on their reporting. Vs advocacy of whichever social/political/etc issue is currently in vogue.
So yet another example of the state subsidizing corporations - pay 150k/year for an inmate, and force them to work for a company who gets to keep the profits.
Wait a minute I thought that one was illegal too!
I think the downfall of Amazon will begin from the inside…
A few times I've been looking at nim, always thinking of looks nice. Then I consider what libraries I need (most recently (rpc over) websockets, html parsing/manipulating), and can't seem to find them. The language nim is great, unfortunately the ecosystem seems rather in its infancy.
> What should we do instead? Pay them the minimum/reasonable wage while they are incarcerated, and then charge them a full rate for the economic and societal damage that they caused, so that they and their families would be in financial debt for the rest of their natural lives?

There are plenty of alternatives, and it doesn't take much cogitation to come up with much more reasonable ones than the one you propose.
Well, if work isn't a popularity contest, then who gives a damn what you imagine people at SpaceX think of "woke pests"? All it does it make you sound angry.
There has been rumours of engineers "bouncing back" recently (they had a better term for it, but I forgot)
Isn't that kind of what Shopify, Fast, and some other company that I only heard off because they laid off half their staff doing?

I haven't researched the industry extensively, but I'm guessing that companies like to keep customer data to themselves and curate what they think is the ideal checkout experience. (Everyone should copy McMaster, though.) That's why you see companies happy to delegate the financing involved in buying their products to credit card companies, but still make their own website/checkout/fulfillment rather than letting, say, Amazon do that for them. (Shopify does seem to have quite a lot of traction, however.)
I think that prisoners wronged society and owe society a debt. If their sentence includes work that benefits society in some way, that should be fair? I haven't thought about it too much, but it doesn't seem unreasonable on the surface.
That's one of them. There's a few more with really dark screens floating around that go into a bit more detail.
It does, but the rustc frontend is capable of supporting several backends, and different backends offer different features (e.g. compilation speed, code quality, platform support).
That's really the issue with calling incarceration wrong generally. I'd understand someone opposing it for all crimes and proposing alternative punishments depending on the situation but it seems that there are going to be situations where it's immoral /not/ to lock someone in prison.
Yes, that is a good explainer on the horrors of single value lookups to a database. It isn't the only way to do that though, as explained in my other post.

I absolutely agree that a DB (even an extremely efficient one) is going to use many more clock cycles to return results there than a local data structure + application. No questions asked.

But how is that list kept up to date? If a user wants to be placed on the list, do you do that in real time to your local data structure? Do you wait for a batch process to sync that data structure with your source of truth?

I'm just saying that a simple program like that will be faster because it lacks a lot of the features that people would consider necessary in today's world.

The database is an amazing general tool that can be used to tackle whole classes of problems that used to require specialized solutions.
Yes, I was just trying to pass on something helpful based on my own ignorance.
If you want something very British, Private Eye is an absolute blast. It's only available in dead-tree form and has a lot of real, high quality investigative journalism sprinkled in amongst the cartoons and satire. You can get a fairly good idea if you'll like it from their website [1].

The podcast, Page 94, is also excellent [2] and is sparsely updated, but they do good things when it is. For an example of the "WTFBBQ" stories they cover, have a look at "The Snooty Fox" episode [3], which covers the rather horrid tale of a pub landlord who pissed off a council member by accidentally overcharging her, and ended up punitively investigated by the food standards people, bankrupted and quite literally imprisoned for several years. He finally secured justice after more than 20 years when the council authority ceased to exist (and its successor apologised hugely and unreservedly – his convictions were quashed and later counter-sued for £14m [4]).

One other thing – cancelling the subscription is trivial.

[1] https://www.private-eye.co.uk/
[2] https://www.private-eye.co.uk/podcast
[3] https://www.private-eye.co.uk/podcast/68
[4] https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1547675/pub-landlord-the-s...
False equivalence.

Whatever crime you were committed of did not carry a penalty where you had to pay for your housing in prison. So your room in board is covered in the case where you work and where you don't and can't be deducted from wages. Now, the crime you were convicted of may have required you to pay some form of victim compensation. This is often deducted from any prison wages.
If you can physically set up those boundary conditions, the atmosphere will in fact perform the computation.

(I don't agree with the argument either, by the way. The atmosphere is not solving the Navier-Stokes equation; the atmosphere is doing what the Navier-Stokes equation models. And computation includes things that we have no physical analog "computer" for.)
Neither?

If the user responses are in a table of (field_id, value_selected, ...) then you just use an outer join vs the available field_id for the form and get back NULLs automatically for the unpopulated selections.

That way if you (say) add new selections to forms that are partially complete, reasonable things happen without any further logic.

Why record data to say you don't have data?
Why should they? The state utility regulators approved it, so it's going into the rate base. That's not a competitive electricity market down there in the Southeast.
wow that I did not know - what other products are typically made with prison labour?
You can quit if you get tired of being an RA. What a specious argument.
Yes, that was exactly it. I didn’t know the word and figured others might not.
No, the disgusting euphemism is still live on the original site and was allowed to stay up on HN. The submission correcting the disgusting euphemism was flagged off the front page before this submission that we're on with was submitted.
I felt kind of lost when Gnome 3 landed, but I discovered MATE, which forked off of Gnome 2. Gnome 2, IMHO, was the peak Unix desktop experience, and I felt so relieved to discover it does live on.

Gnome 3 confused (and continues to confuse) me to no end every time I tried it (which admittedly was not all that often. KDE 2 was cool, but I did not like KDE 3, although I do not remember why. I stopped paying much attention to KDE at that point. Xfce is nice, but not as nice as Gnome2/Mate.
This you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31783510?

Seriously, Hacker News is not the site for you to engage in this kind of low-quality culture war. Stop doing it.
The fossil fuel companies like nuclear, because they know that nuclear takes a really long time to build. So it's a great distraction from wind and solar: "Hey, stop building this thing that can be done right now, and instead start on a different project that will take decades to complete, while we continue to sell fossil fuels."

Nuclear plants are often delayed because of the open questions, like what they're going to do with spent fuel, and how they're going to pay for the entire lifecycle of the plant (which contains a lot of hazardous materials), as well as high-profile accidents. So they make a perfect target for fossil fuel industry whataboutism, to spread FUD about wind and solar.
Isn't Samsung a more likely competitor to TSMC than Intel at this point?

Both of them offer foundries to outside companies. Samsung even made chips for Apple. Samsung is suppose to hit 3nm this year, and they plan to beat TSMC by 2030 as the world largest foundry.
Said employee with the calculator might have been smarter than you think: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/troubleshoot/excel/f...
The "Natural"/"Artificial" divide is tenious and arbitrary even in normal contexts. It really seems to just mean "things we intended" vs "things we feel like we don't intend"
“Smart men go broke three ways - liquor, ladies and leverage.” - Charlie Munger
I found PressReader's offer pretty interesting and would probably be using its premium plan if I were seriously going to read 1-2 papers on an average day to be able to regularly try out different sources. Buying individual papers on it seemed a bit expensive but is better than going a-la-carte on individual sites and needing to avoid the resulting spam, etc.
And that, right there, is the argument of the standard sociopathic capitalist.

Just because there is a benefit, does not mean that there is not also a greater harm that more than offsets the benefit on a societal scale.

Privatizing the profits from the benefits while socializing the harms, and justifying any harm based on a profitable benefit, is far too often the business model - take the money while poisoning the well.

This is neither sustainable, nor a good argument for something to exist.

EDIT: insert missing "not also"
I'll add that the basis of the wording of the 13th amendment was to sweeten the deal for southern states. They had a lot of black people in prison already (and then some), and did not like the idea of undergoing reconstruction without some source of free labor.
The Financial Times is really good. It's not just about finance, don't worry. It's the most balanced and informative news source I've ever read. It's a little expensive but it's worth it. Been a subscriber for about 3 years now.
If we reduced immigration, businesses would have to compete for the smaller low-skill work force.

One of the "levers" in this article [0] is that Amazon could increase the wages to capture more of the labor market.

[0] - https://www.vox.com/recode/23170900/leaked-amazon-memo-wareh...
You put your effort into furthering your definition of progress. I'll put my effort furthering mine, and Patrick will work on his.
Firebase did an amazing job at this when they launched. Not a surprise to see their massive growth and quick acquisition.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3832877
>>Free “room and board” is a form of compensation.

and don't forget healthcare.
This is slightly different and a funny, but you reminded me of https://thedailywtf.com/articles/What_Is_Truth_0x3f_
When analysing data you try to compare like to like. Similar positions at similar career levels & experience in similar economic sectors.

If you want to explorer gender pay gaps while including prison inmates then the proper way to do that would be male inmate pay for similar jobs compared to female inmate pay.
It may also incentivize people to avoid going to prison. What is the incentive to avoid prison? How does society recoup losses from crime?

Does the 13th amendment exist to disincentivize crime? I don't know the history behind the specific language with the exclusion for criminals.
> When you hit one of these problems you can just look at what other implementations do in practice. Rust doesn't even have anything resembling a spec.

But it does have a reference implementation. The first quoted sentence is what alternative implementations are already doing: looking at what `rustc` does and ask for clarification upstream when necessary. I can envision cases where `rustc`'s behavior isn't what was intended being uncovered when trying to reach parity, and changing `rustc` to conform to an explicit intent, however unlikely this might be in practice.
Why do you think legal immigrants are being paid less than minimum wage?
> you just don't like what he has to say, which in the real world, means absolutely nothing to 99.999% of the planet.

Yes, but could mean a lot to the talent pool discussed in the open letter, in the face of growing competition to SpaceX and Tesla, which ultimately will impact the product, revenues and value. Seems shortsighted or almost as if he’s done working on hard problems.
Yeah but it creates an societal incentive to categorize people as criminals and send them to prison.

I think there’s a lot of things on the fence today where view it as not immoral, but for some reason are still crimes. For example, non violent marijuana cases. Incentives like free prison labor sometimes adds to that in an unhealthy way
Yes- this is real. There used to be “subclasses” to the Principal Engineer role and you could pick if you wanted to be a Depth Principal or a Breadth Principal, and that no longer exists now.
RA's are not forced by the state to spend all of their time in the dormitory.

The state has chosen to imprison these people, it is forcing them to live inside the prison. The costs the state incurs in maintaining the prison are not "paid room and board" for the inmates.
Was he being sarcastic? I'm not sure. He may have been trying to sarcastically say that our political climate doesn't realistically allow this to change?
Many pensions are based on a percentage of the persons salary at a point in time, so no, it’s not always “20k a year”
Not sure what you mean by “alternate between various positions”.
> time crystals, which are strange quantum systems that are stuck in an endless loop to which the normal laws of thermodynamics do not apply

And here I was thinking they were talking about crystal oscillators.
> But I guess I'm wondering how to best manage this person. Do I just sit back and let them do their thing?

I think the best way to think of this is not "how to I manage this person?" but rather how to I manage effectively the team with this person's contributions? Where things are working well, let them run, and where ever possible make sure everyone is aware of what's happening and keep people on the same page.

> Try harder to meet them at their level and challenge them?

I think the thing to do is make sure that what they're doing is comprehensible to you, the team, and to a wider audience. Be the 'straight guy' in the middle of a sitcom where everything happening around them gets illustrated to the audience.

> How would you all like to be managed if you were in their position?

I often am. A balance is best, sometimes stay out of the way and let creativity fly, other times make sure that other members of the team get a chance to flex their brains. Having them work together on things (e.g. pair programming) with various teammates could have good attributes rub off and other social benefits 'rub on?'.

I've also appreciated feedback to work more 'in the open' so that folks can see what leads up to these ideas/solutions. I use that to now write-up detailed descriptions in issues or code changes for review including some of the ideation history and perhaps a discarded or pre-optimized simple-case design evolution to the proposed one.
The most satisfying checkbox is one that visibly registers my input in less than 100ms and never forgets.
Increase wage. Problem solved.
I use GNOME only because my favorite OS right now is Pop OS and it's what they ship by default. Otherwise, I'd still probably be laboring to get KDE, XFCE, or MATE to be a satisfactory experience.

The only thing that makes GNOME bearable for me are a handful of extensions and post-install tweaks. Specifically Dash-to-Panel and ArcMenu.

The biggest thing that still annoys me is the GNOME folks have this fetish about stuffing as many widgets as they can into the titlebars of windows.